MJF Talks Insults, Wrestling Psychology, and Being Better Than You

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• 0:01Speaker 00

  What you're asking me to do right now is the equivalent to, okay, you're out at a bar, and you tell this girl, you're a comedian, and what is the first thing the dumb annoying girl asks you to do?

• 0:13Adam Friedland?

  Have sex with her?

• 0:15Speaker 00

  No, tell me a joke.

• 0:17Adam Friedland?

  [BLEEP] dog.

• 0:18Speaker 00

  No.

• 0:19Adam Friedland?

  She says, "Tell me a joke."

• 0:20Speaker 00

  She says, "Tell me a joke." Alright, well, when it comes to Adam Friedland, this dumb, disgusting, sniveling [BLEEP] with a [BLEEP] mustache and warts all over his face. A little self-hating. Four-eyed piece of [BLEEP] is going to go down.

• 0:31Adam Friedland?

  [BLEEP] mustache, okay. Adam Friedland, what do you have to say? Okay, so then I'm like, dude, I hate you, like, so much.

• 0:39Speaker 00

  Hell, yeah.

• 0:40Adam Friedland?

  You just [BLEEP] suck.

• 0:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 0:42Adam Friedland?

  Alright, like...

• 0:43Speaker 00

  No, dude, you're [BLEEP] killing it.

• 0:44Adam Friedland?

  I'm gonna punch you so hard.

• 0:45Speaker 00

  Right in the face?

• 0:46Adam Friedland?

  Um, your mom had [BLEEP] with every single guy.

• 0:50Speaker 00

  Everyone.

• 0:51Adam Friedland?

  At the company. Even the guys that cleaned the bathrooms.

• 0:53Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 0:54Adam Friedland?

  And not only them, just guys that live, like, near the building. Second of all...

• 0:58Speaker 00

  She's... (laughing)

• 1:30Adam Friedland?

  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Adam Friedland Show. I'm the host, Adam Friedland. I'm host, Adam Friedland? It's a new... It's a new thing. I'm host, Adam Friedland. End of next week, the 17th, 18th, Tampa, Florida, SideSplitters Comedy Club, please come. It's a really fun club. I forgot to mention, pretty much for two months, that I'm gonna be in Tampa, Florida, end of next week, the 17th and 18th Fri... It's gonna be a blast. Los Angeles, California, San Francisco, California, Portland, Oregon, more dates to be added. Go to adamfriedlandshow. My guest this week is reigning AEW Heavyweight Champion of the World, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, or MJF for short. He's a wrestler, folks, but bef... Before prepping for this interview, I didn't know anything about the world of wrestling.

• 2:13Adam Friedland?

  Violence and gore has never been my thing. If you've asked me to name a professional wrestler, I suppose I would have said Jesse "The Body" Ventura, who I of course know as the former governor of the 32nd state Minasota. Remember he used to say it? "The people of Minasota." Always eager to learn, I dove headfirst into the world of professional wrestling and what I found shocked me. Now, I'm not sure if AEW is aware of this, but MJF is a potty mouth. He says foul things. And I was under the impression that wrestlers are like superheroes or firefighters.

• 2:50Adam Friedland?

  Figures who exist for little boys to look up to, to aspire to. In that regard, MJF is a massive failure. He insults people, he's rude, and he seems to have little to no respect for his opponents in the ring. And this is why, in preparation, my employees have prepared a list of insults. Is that correct, boys?

• 3:09Adam Friedland?

  Crafted, especially to hurt me, in an effort to harden my heart before I sit down to face off with one of the meanest guys that's ever been on TV.

• 3:22Adam Friedland?

  Alright, go ahead.

• 3:22Speaker 02

  Yo mama's so ugly, your dad takes her to work with him every day so he doesn't have to kiss her goodbye.

• 3:31Speaker 02

  Used to be called a jumppeline before yo mama got on it.

• 3:35Speaker 03

  Yo mama is so poor, she eats cereal with a fork to save milk.

• 3:42Speaker 03

  Yo mama is so old-

• 3:43Adam Friedland?

  To save milk?

• 3:44Speaker 03

  To save milk.

• 3:45Adam Friedland?

  So she listens?

• 3:46Speaker 03

  She reuses the milk bowl.

• 3:47Adam Friedland?

  She just has soggy, yeah.

• 3:49Speaker 03

  She has soggy. Did you hear about the gay Polish guy? He slept with women.

• 3:57Adam Friedland?

  Why? Because he's so sick?

• 3:59Speaker 03

  He's the opposite. He likes opposites.

• 4:02Adam Friedland?

  Okay, I think I'm ready for this episode. Please enjoy Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Let's do the ads. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my distinct honor to welcome the champion of all elite wrestling. He's also an actor, he's also Jewish, MJF!

• 4:25Speaker 00

  Here we go, baby. Two Jews about to chop it up. Can you believe this? This is fantastic. Right here, buddy. Right here. This is gonna be great. This, you, you, well, yeah, let's rock out a little bit.

• 4:39Adam Friedland?

  Wow.

• 4:40Speaker 00

  Best theme song in wrestling.

• 4:41Adam Friedland?

  That's the best theme song in wrestling?

• 4:42Speaker 00

  Oh, hands down. It's not even close.

• 4:44Adam Friedland?

  Of all time, you think?

• 4:45Speaker 00

  Probably of all time, yeah. You know, that and...

• 4:48Adam Friedland?

  It's not the glass breaking.

• 4:50Speaker 00

  I mean, great, what, you want me to sit here and pretend that's not great? Yeah, I mean, it's fantastic.

• 4:56Adam Friedland?

  That's iconic, but like...

• 4:57Speaker 00

  But that has become iconic of this generation.

• 4:59Adam Friedland?

  You're, you're still, you know, you know, you're a young man, still...

• 5:03Speaker 00

  I'm a young man, but Hall of Fame career already.

• 5:06Adam Friedland?

  Your career, like, you will have an iconic, like, when you hit, whose music is that?

• 5:11Speaker 00

  When that bass drops...

• 5:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, and they will know that, like, the fart sounding kinda guy. It's Mr. Fart.

• 5:19Speaker 00

  It's Mr. Fart Sounding Man, MJF.

• 5:21Adam Friedland?

  It's the Howard Stern character fart man, yeah.

• 5:23Speaker 00

  There you go.

• 5:24Adam Friedland?

  No, yeah, well, thank you so much for coming, happy Passover.

• 5:28Speaker 00

  Hogs a man.

• 5:29Adam Friedland?

  Congratulations, now two-time champion.

• 5:31Speaker 00

  Absolutely. This is in a way, I'm gonna move it. You guys wanna see this belt? Beautiful. Look at this thing.

• 5:36Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah, actually, that was great. So, who makes these things? Have, like, uh...

• 5:40Speaker 00

  I have no, some, some, you know, poor, schlucky looking guy.

• 5:44Adam Friedland?

  And are these real diamonds?

• 5:46Speaker 00

  Real diamonds, real gold, platinum gold.

• 5:49Adam Friedland?

  Have you had someone with the, like, you know that tester thing?

• 5:51Speaker 00

  I have not done the tester, but my, my company, like, the company itself, All Elite Wrestling, has done the tester because they paid a wide margin of money for this world championship.

• 6:00Adam Friedland?

  Did they go to the diamond district?

• 6:02Speaker 00

  That I don't know. I can't speak on that.

• 6:04Adam Friedland?

  There's some uncut gems, kind of like, we have your belt ready.

• 6:07Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I can tell you this, the person who made this belt, not a Jew. You know, this is, this is probably a guy from, like, Arkansas or Alabama that does, like, leather work. But then as far as the jewels go...

• 6:19Adam Friedland?

  Okay, thank you.

• 6:20Speaker 00

  That is where we came in. Yeah, no, no, no, this is not a gentile belt.

• 6:24Adam Friedland?

  You got diamonds from a guy from Arkansas?

• 6:26Speaker 00

  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

• 6:27Adam Friedland?

  What, diamonds from Arkansas?

• 6:29Speaker 00

  No, these aren't Fakkaqda diamonds. These are real diamonds. No Fugazi, no Fucaccia.

• 6:34Adam Friedland?

  Um, yeah, I've had a great time researching for this, cause like I obviously was, I was super into wrestling growing up and then kind of like it ended maybe the Attitude Era. You're, you're younger than me, you're 30, correct?

• 6:47Speaker 00

  30 on the nose, yes sir.

• 6:48Adam Friedland?

  So I'm 38, so you missed kind of everything gray.

• 6:50Speaker 00

  I missed a lot of the cool shit and then when I came into the play, it was called the Ruthless Aggression Era. So you're talking about your John Cena's, your Kurt Angles, you know, Randy Orton, these were the, the guys, Brock Lesnar.

• 7:04Adam Friedland?

  Was that also known as the PG Era?

• 7:06Speaker 00

  It was also a part of the PG Era, which is why I ended up-

• 7:09Adam Friedland?

  They woke it.

• 7:10Speaker 00

  What's that?

• 7:11Adam Friedland?

  They woke it. They tried to woke-

• 7:12Speaker 00

  They, they woke it up. It got, it got woke-y.

• 7:14Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 7:15Speaker 00

  And uh, it's still a little PG now. Um, but like for me, that's why when I was a kid, I gravitated towards a lot of the old school, traditional stuff, like your Ric Flairs of the world, your Roddy Pipers of the world. And I fell into just a rabbit hole of old school 80's territory wrestling, cause I was like, oh, this is cool. Why can't it be cool? And then AEW came along and I was like, I can make, I can make the thing. Like what I, what my vision is for pro wrestling, I'm given the leash to try to, you know, throw that out there. And that's, that's what I'm doing now.

• 7:46Adam Friedland?

  So that was your thought process in choosing AEW?

• 7:49Speaker 00

  Absolutely. I mean WWE-

• 7:50Adam Friedland?

  You had like the, the freedom and the agency.

• 7:53Speaker 00

  Yes, absolutely. And, and you know, WWE was very interested in me when I was, gosh, I think 21 or 22 at the time. Uh, and AEW was just starting out. It was, it wasn't even a, a thing yet. But after talking to Tony Khan, my boss, I was like, I think this place is going to understand me and understand like what my, what I think professional wrestling can and should be.

• 8:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 8:19Speaker 00

  You know?

• 8:19Adam Friedland?

  They called that what? The 203 call, right? Like getting the 203 call?

• 8:24Speaker 00

  What's the 203 call?

• 8:25Adam Friedland?

  From Connecticut.

• 8:25Speaker 00

  From Connecticut? Ah, that's cute, that's cute. Yeah, some people say Connecticut, some people say the New York call.

• 8:30Adam Friedland?

  The New York call, yeah. That's not New York.

• 8:32Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah. It's not in New York at all.

• 8:36Adam Friedland?

  Oh, sorry.

• 8:37Speaker 00

  Rut row.

• 8:37Adam Friedland?

  Fuck, okay. Alright, um, give me a second. Sorry. Okay, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Okay.

• 8:43Speaker 00

  What's, what?

• 8:45Adam Friedland?

  What's going on? My mic?

• 8:50Speaker 00

  Can we keep this on the blooper reel?

• 8:52Adam Friedland?

  Just give me a second.

• 8:53Speaker 04

  Don't cut.

• 8:57Speaker 00

  The thing about poor people from Vegas is, you know, it's gonna take time for them to adapt when they make it big. This is a big deal for him. He's interviewing the world champion. The lights don't work anymore.

• 9:16Speaker 00

  Very nice, very nice.

• 9:19Adam Friedland?

  Wow.

• 9:22Speaker 00

  The problem is you look more like a ranch hand. With the hat on!

• 9:26Adam Friedland?

  I'm looking at a rabbi.

• 9:27Speaker 00

  A rabbi, yeah, that's another one. You're just missing the pace off.

• 9:33Adam Friedland?

  I, okay, guys, I gotta tell you something. I got, like, literally, I'm not lying. That was a, that was a, for effort, I would say, a C minus.

• 9:46Speaker 00

  You gave it your all.

• 9:47Adam Friedland?

  But, in my stomach, the butterflies.

• 9:50Speaker 00

  Yeah?

• 9:51Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I felt it.

• 9:52Speaker 00

  You ascended.

• 9:53Adam Friedland?

  The lights cut, the bell.

• 9:57Speaker 00

  How do you feel right now?

• 9:58Adam Friedland?

  I wanna choke slam you so bad.

• 10:02Adam Friedland?

  I wanna tombstone pile drive you. I just want combat! No, okay. So cool, you get to do that?

• 10:09Speaker 00

  It's fun. It's a really good time.

• 10:11Adam Friedland?

  And they scream?

• 10:12Speaker 00

  They, for me, they boo quite loudly for some reason. Because I think I'm a great guy.

• 10:17Adam Friedland?

  No, you've crossed that threshold.

• 10:19Speaker 00

  A little bit.

• 10:19Adam Friedland?

  You've got that thing, you've got that thing The Rock had, where he was like...

• 10:23Speaker 00

  You said it, not me.

• 10:24Adam Friedland?

  Where it's like, you're so good at it, that they love, they love you being a dick.

• 10:29Speaker 00

  You know.

• 10:30Adam Friedland?

  I gotta say, like, the first time I became aware of you is, I have a group of friends who all live in, outside the city. And they're all like, those guys that like, they all went to like rehab together, so they've been like...

• 10:42Speaker 00

  So clearly they're wrestling fans.

• 10:43Adam Friedland?

  So, yes, exactly. They've been sober, they've been sober since they were like, you know, like, 20. So they have to like get into baby stuff, so they can't, so they can't do drugs in it? To stop them from doing drugs? And so it was like Thursday, and they're like, "Oh, SmackDown's on it." I was like, "I haven't watched this in so long," and I watched. And I guess, I just didn't...

• 11:04Adam Friedland?

  I'm gonna be a boomer for a second, but I feel like in my generation, we just had the we've had Stone Cold and we had The Rock. And we had just like, it was exhilarating. I was like, who are the new guys like that? And I just didn't connect, right? I saw that there was like Roman Reigns and a bunch of Samoan guys were like they're they had a frat and then some guy, Sammy, they were like being mean to him.

• 11:27Speaker 00

  Sammy Zane.

• 11:28Adam Friedland?

  And I was like, I'm just not connecting with this. And then we switched to AEW afterwards and I saw you and I was like, this is the only, this guy is a fucking star.

• 11:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 11:38Adam Friedland?

  And you're looking at the schmucks in the audience and you're like, you're poor.

• 11:43Speaker 00

  Yeah, and they are, that's the sad truth.

• 11:46Adam Friedland?

  And you're like, look at me, I'm a fancy man, you're poor and I'm stronger than you. The catchphrase, let's go through that. What is your catchphrase?

• 11:56Speaker 00

  My name is Maxwell Jacob Friedman, I'm better than you and you know it.

• 11:58Adam Friedland?

  I'm better than you and you know it.

• 12:00Speaker 00

  And it's effective.

• 12:01Adam Friedland?

  Can I give you a couple of notes?

• 12:03Speaker 00

  Please.

• 12:03Adam Friedland?

  Okay. You need something that enters the cultural zeitgeist.

• 12:08Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 12:09Adam Friedland?

  When DX did two words, suck it.

• 12:12Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 12:12Adam Friedland?

  It caused an epidemic in middle school.

• 12:15Speaker 00

  Of children just pointing out your crotches, absolutely.

• 12:17Adam Friedland?

  We were just, to teachers, I mean, there were parent meetings about it. Suck it is still in the cultural vernacular. People don't even realize.

• 12:26Speaker 00

  Yeah, they don't even know what it's from.

• 12:27Adam Friedland?

  That it's from DX.

• 12:28Speaker 00

  What I'll say is, we have a guy in our company, his name's Brian Danielson. And he would do this yes chant. And now you see it all the time at the Islanders game. And people don't even realize it's a wrestling thing.

• 12:39Adam Friedland?

  Can of whoop ass? That's everywhere. Right? Jabroni, I don't know, did you come up with jabroni?

• 12:46Speaker 00

  Jabroni is, originally the Iron Sheik said jabroni. The Rock heard him say it. He loved it and then he started doing it on television.

• 12:53Adam Friedland?

  Is he still with us, the Iron Sheik?

• 12:55Speaker 00

  The Iron Sheik, I believe, passed away unfortunately. Yeah, great guy, great guy.

• 13:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, that's him, Pete. Also, the other guy, I see a lot of, obviously with the promos, like you have to connect it to the, like, probably the best I've ever seen at promos. I see you up there, but like, it's The Rock. I mean like

• 13:14Speaker 00

  Of all time?

• 13:15Adam Friedland?

  That I ever watched.

• 13:16Speaker 00

  In your opinion, sure.

• 13:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, in my opinion.

• 13:18Speaker 00

  I would put Steve Austin up there as well.

• 13:19Adam Friedland?

  And that's the bottom line.

• 13:21Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 13:21Adam Friedland?

  But bottom line is just that's, no one said, you know. I just think I'm better than you is a thing that rich girls in high school say.

• 13:29Speaker 00

  So what I will say is it's, and it, it does mean a lot to me just because as a kid you would, you would throw around those catchphrases that you hear on TV.

• 13:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 13:37Speaker 00

  I do a lot. When I'm in the airport, people are screaming it. Um, I hear stories, especially on the island where parents feel the need to run up to me to let me know that their child got in trouble because they just pointed at the teacher and said it.

• 13:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:51Speaker 00

  So it's cool, it's catching on.

• 13:52Adam Friedland?

  How bad has a kid, uh, a kid may have died trying to do one of your moves, do you think?

• 13:57Speaker 00

  Oh, there's probably plenty of kids that are paralyzed and I think that's funny because.

• 14:01Adam Friedland?

  You probably have like a body count on you.

• 14:03Speaker 00

  Yeah, for sure. But the thing is, is you know, before all the AEW shows, we tell people, hey, don't try this at home. So if you do it, you know.

• 14:10Adam Friedland?

  Don't, if you say that, then.

• 14:12Speaker 00

  We literally tell, hey, don't do this.

• 14:13Adam Friedland?

  If you're 11 years old.

• 14:15Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 14:15Adam Friedland?

  What, you're gonna not do it at home?

• 14:17Speaker 00

  Oh, for, I mean, I know I did. That's why I do it now for a living professionally. It's just I did it better than everybody else.

• 14:21Adam Friedland?

  At the pool, do you remember? Just doing a, like a rock bottom with your friend into the pool?

• 14:26Speaker 00

  You mentioned a tombstone.

• 14:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:28Speaker 00

  That was my go-to move is I would sling someone over my shoulder and I'd do a running tombstone off the diving board into the pool.

• 14:34Adam Friedland?

  We would, we would paralyze children.

• 14:36Speaker 00

  For sure. The fact that, the fact that all wrestling fans are still breathing is, is a testament, you know, to the human race and our toughness because I don't know anyone who grew up watching pro wrestling that didn't just beat the shit out of somebody trying to perform what they were watching, you know, on TV. I think everyone attempted a figure four leg lock, I feel like, at least once in their life.

• 14:56Adam Friedland?

  And then our moms would be just such a bitch.

• 14:59Speaker 00

  Especially Jewish mothers.

• 15:00Adam Friedland?

  When your cousin is crying and he's just being such a fucking bitch.

• 15:04Speaker 00

  It's my fault he's a pussy.

• 15:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:05Speaker 00

  You know?

• 15:06Adam Friedland?

  And it's like, what, he shouldn't have fucking erased my memory card from my Playstation.

• 15:10Speaker 00

  It's a mess.

• 15:10Adam Friedland?

  I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have fucking, I wouldn't have.

• 15:13Speaker 00

  So Playstation before my time. So Xbox was the, the console. Although, I will say when I was five, I remember GameCube. I have a memory of GameCube.

• 15:23Adam Friedland?

  Do you remember Crazy Taxi?

• 15:24Speaker 00

  I do remember Crazy Taxi.

• 15:26Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it was about a drunk guy driving people.

• 15:28Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah. Well, no, no, there was, cause there was different, timeout. It was, there was different Crazy Taxi like characters that you could be when you drove the car, I believe.

• 15:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:35Speaker 00

  At least the version that I played.

• 15:36Adam Friedland?

  I did the, I did the, oh, I don't wanna do it.

• 15:40Speaker 00

  What? I see, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't.

• 15:45Adam Friedland?

  Come on, I would never, I would never, we'll cut that.

• 15:48Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:48Adam Friedland?

  I did the Asian woman.

• 15:49Speaker 00

  We'll fix it in post.

• 15:50Adam Friedland?

  Okay, we'll fix that.

• 15:51Speaker 00

  We'll fix your racism in post.

• 15:53Adam Friedland?

  Okay, fine. Actually, can I get my iPad? I left it.

• 15:56Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

• 15:57Adam Friedland?

  I have my question. Okay, so no, it's right behind you, it's right behind you.

• 15:59Speaker 00

  Well, all right, fantastic.

• 16:00Adam Friedland?

  This will be cut too. Cut at any point, okay.

• 16:04Speaker 00

  What I will say, and I'm gonna cut you off for two seconds.

• 16:06Adam Friedland?

  Go ahead.

• 16:07Speaker 00

  Because I'm a lot bigger than you and I can't.

• 16:08Adam Friedland?

  You're not a lot bigger than me, yeah. Go ahead.

• 16:10Speaker 00

  Okay, so you had mentioned something about the difference between WWE and AEW, and I think that's why, right now, my company has so much momentum, is it feels like the shit that people grew up on. And it's exciting. No, please take the phone call.

• 16:23Adam Friedland?

  My dad's calling it.

• 16:24Speaker 00

  Is it okay if I take it?

• 16:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, because you have to say, wait, look at his name, look at his name.

• 16:28Speaker 00

  Let me talk to Max.

• 16:29Adam Friedland?

  Wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah, but I gotta, okay.

• 16:31Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 16:33Adam Friedland?

  Dad, Dad.

• 16:34Speaker 00

  Max.

• 16:35Adam Friedland?

  I'm in the middle of an interview, right now. Yeah, yeah, but guess what the guy's name is?

• 16:40Speaker 00

  My name is also Max, you're talking to the AEW World Champion.

• 16:42Adam Friedland?

  No, no, Max Friedman, and your name is Max Friedland.

• 16:45Speaker 00

  So, uh, Max, I got a question for you. On a scale of 1 to 10, how Jewish are you?

• 16:50Speaker 05

  Uh, I'm an 11.

• 16:52Speaker 00

  11? I love that answer. Am I detecting an accent, my friend?

• 16:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, he's from Cape Town.

• 16:57Speaker 05

  Yes, I am, I'm Kurdish.

• 17:00Speaker 00

  Oh, exciting. You know, so we just...

• 17:03Speaker 05

  We're the Kurdish Friedland.

• 17:05Speaker 00

  Yes, yes. We actually just had a show in Australia, around your neck of the woods, sir.

• 17:10Adam Friedland?

  That's not, no, that's nowhere near...

• 17:11Speaker 00

  What are you talking about?

• 17:15Adam Friedland?

  You should have got a call.

• 17:17Speaker 00

  I thought you said Australia.

• 17:18Adam Friedland?

  No, he's from South Africa.

• 17:19Speaker 00

  South Africa. That's very far away from Australia. Kurdistan.

• 17:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 17:25Speaker 00

  I'm a pro wrestler, not a fucking geographer. All right, okay, okay. How many Jews are there in Cape Town? I feel like...

• 17:32Adam Friedland?

  A lot, then we all left.

• 17:34Speaker 00

  Really? Don't count, Dad, don't count Jews. It's okay.

• 17:40Adam Friedland?

  No, if you count, it's dicey.

• 17:44Adam Friedland?

  Uh, yeah, that's what they did, they like to count us.

• 17:47Speaker 00

  Well, at least he's not writing the numbers down on them, right?

• 17:51Speaker 00

  All right, Pop, I have... Max, it's been lovely talking to you.

• 17:54Speaker 05

  It's been absolutely gorgeous talking to you too, sir.

• 17:59Speaker 00

  Kike to kike, this has been so much fun, Max, and I thank you.

• 18:03Adam Friedland?

  And I'm better than you, and you know it.

• 18:06Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 18:10Speaker 00

  He's a great guy.

• 18:11Adam Friedland?

  Okay, yeah, yeah. I just hurt his feelings.

• 18:14Speaker 00

  But as, but as-

• 18:14Adam Friedland?

  I gotta call him back and tell him that that's a thing from you.

• 18:17Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But as I was saying, I think that's, that's what makes my company stand out is we, we feel like the wrestling that you grew up on.

• 18:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 18:24Speaker 00

  And it's not all squeaky clean and PG and bullshit and cinema. It's real. It's good.

• 18:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. And that, that, that was, again, that was a WCW moment.

• 18:34Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 18:34Adam Friedland?

  Right? Which was, that was the new kid on the block as well.

• 18:37Speaker 00

  For sure. And we're on the same, we're Warner, we're in that Warner umbrella.

• 18:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. Um, so when, what, what, do you, I, like, apropos of that, like, Goldberg moment, which is so funny.

• 18:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 18:49Adam Friedland?

  I mean, you, it's so, you kind of are carrying the torch. Max Friedman.

• 18:54Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 18:55Adam Friedland?

  But like, Bill Goldberg.

• 18:56Speaker 00

  But, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 18:57Adam Friedland?

  Bill Goldberg.

• 19:00Adam Friedland?

  Everyone was like, "Grrrr."

• 19:02Speaker 00

  The way you're saying it somehow makes it sound more Jewish.

• 19:05Adam Friedland?

  Bill Goldberg just won the championship.

• 19:08Speaker 00

  God, Bill Goldberg with the spear.

• 19:10Adam Friedland?

  There's nothing, there's nothing they can do to stop it.

• 19:13Speaker 00

  I mean, this guy's out of his mind.

• 19:14Adam Friedland?

  I said, "They never let us. They never let us." Okay. But like, um, what was the moment that you had like that? Like, what was the moment when you fell in love? Because you were, you, at five, you were on Rosie O'Donnell, correct? You said you wanted to be a wrestler.

• 19:26Speaker 00

  At five years old, I told the world, yeah.

• 19:28Adam Friedland?

  So, so what was the moment you, you decided, like, I, you fell in love with that, with, with it? And you, like, knew, "I wanna, this is what I wanna fucking do."

• 19:36Speaker 00

  This is such a lame answer, but the first time I, I saw it, I knew.

• 19:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 19:39Speaker 00

  And, and what had happened was, I was at my uncle's house, Uncle Alan Weissman, if, if you're curious, not a question.

• 19:46Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 19:46Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 19:46Adam Friedland?

  He was the, he was the, uh, super lightweight, uh, they made a new division, the lightest.

• 19:52Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 19:52Adam Friedland?

  One of the lightest. He only fought women.

• 19:55Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 19:55Adam Friedland?

  They couldn't find the man in his weight class.

• 19:57Speaker 00

  Well, Andy Kaufman, another Jew, used to fight women all the time.

• 20:00Adam Friedland?

  That was so good of him.

• 20:01Speaker 00

  It was tremendous.

• 20:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, he really, he stuck it to them.

• 20:03Speaker 00

  So I was at my uncle's house. He was showing me the wrestling. I immediately was engrossed with it. And I made my father take me to, at the time, what was called Hollywood Video.

• 20:12Adam Friedland?

  I used to, we used to go to Hollywood Video, too.

• 20:14Speaker 00

  Yeah, there you go. I wasn't a Blockbuster guy. I was Hollywood Video guy.

• 20:17Adam Friedland?

  We was closer to the house.

• 20:18Speaker 00

  Yeah. And, uh, I went with my dad and I didn't get to see the matches in full when I was at my uncle's house. Because it was like a family party going on. It was a Friday night. It might have been past Hollywood. Chavis. Good Chavis. Good Chavis. Good young time, good Chavis.

• 20:32Adam Friedland?

  Cut that.

• 20:35Adam Friedland?

  In this day and age.

• 20:36Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, this, we can't be too Jewish. We'll offend somebody.

• 20:40Adam Friedland?

  We're gonna start, President Fuentes is gonna start Auschwitz 2 after this. Okay, stop, we'll cut that.

• 20:49Adam Friedland?

  It's just the straight face of the PR division.

• 20:55Adam Friedland?

  Okay, continue.

• 20:56Speaker 00

  So, so yeah, I made my dad take me and I just saw one disc, and this is why it's so funny to me that you came out to his music. I saw, it was a VHS and on the cover was this zombie looking guy. And I put it in and I fast forwarded to what was called the Hell in a Cell match because it sounded the most interesting. The first match I ever watched in full was Mick Foley, Mankind versus The Undertaker in the Hell in a Cell match, which is probably one of the greatest matches of all time. And I was, I was like heroin addict level hooked after that, it was over.

• 21:26Adam Friedland?

  He was cool because he, he had different personas, like simultaneously. He would do Dude Love and Mankind, and there was a third one if I remember, I don't.

• 21:37Speaker 00

  Dude Love, Mankind, Cactus Jack.

• 21:42Adam Friedland?

  Cactus Jack.

• 21:43Speaker 00

  There you go. And the cool factoid, Mick Foley wanted, wanted me to retire him. He had, he had reached out to my boss and asked if he could do a program with me. And I was like, he's a little fat and old, but I, you know, I'd consider it.

• 21:59Adam Friedland?

  So you beat his ass or no?

• 22:00Speaker 00

  And I was ready to, he got hurt in training.

• 22:03Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 22:03Speaker 00

  And so he never got to do it, and he recently, after one of my matches, he posted that, you know, like, I wanted to wrestle MJF. I still want to wrestle MJF.

• 22:12Adam Friedland?

  He gave you your flowers.

• 22:13Speaker 00

  Yeah, he gave me my flowers, God bless him, God bless him, another Long Islander.

• 22:16Adam Friedland?

  What does it feel like when, when a guy like that, like, shows love, like, or like gives you your, I mean, The Undertaker did as well. I saw something of him talking about it.

• 22:24Speaker 00

  I mean, The Undertaker has, John Cena, The Rock has, it's, you know, it's a...

• 22:30Speaker 00

  I don't want to say I see it coming because that seems egotistical and anyone who knows me knows I'm a really humble guy. But what I will say is-

• 22:36Adam Friedland?

  You know you're good, though.

• 22:37Speaker 00

  That's the thing. I know, I know how great I am and I know I'm gonna go down as an all-time great, but- When you hear other all-time greats say it, and I think you'll understand this because I, I know you're a comedian-

• 22:48Adam Friedland?

  If a good comic says a good set-

• 22:50Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 22:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it feels good.

• 22:51Speaker 00

  It feels good. Even if you know deep down, like, "God damn fucking right, it was a good set, I'm me." But still, "Oh shit, the guy that I grew up watching do this thing that I love is telling me that I'm good at this thing." It's, it's special, for sure. It's absolutely special.

• 23:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, Alonso Hamburger Jones one, one time told-

• 23:10Speaker 00

  Did he really?

• 23:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 23:11Speaker 00

  What was that moment like?

• 23:13Adam Friedland?

  Well, then he asked me to put on this dress and then I had to go to a party in the-

• 23:18Speaker 00

  Was it not an island?

• 23:19Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 23:19Speaker 00

  No island. You didn't go to the island?

• 23:21Adam Friedland?

  No island. No island.

• 23:23Speaker 00

  No island.

• 23:24Adam Friedland?

  Youtube was around when you were in high school? So that's how you like did your-

• 23:28Speaker 00

  My research fully was Youtube.

• 23:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 23:31Speaker 00

  Youtube was around essentially my entire childhood. I know that for you, what, were you like a Vimeo guy?

• 23:37Adam Friedland?

  Youtube came out in, kind of in college more.

• 23:39Speaker 00

  Don't laugh at him being old.

• 23:41Adam Friedland?

  Youtube, Youtube was, and like, yeah, Youtube more so was like a real thing in college.

• 23:46Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 23:47Adam Friedland?

  But like, so that's how you could access like all the-

• 23:49Speaker 00

  Everything. I was able to watch like-

• 23:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 23:52Speaker 00

  The full canon of old-school wrestlers and all the territories that were like- Cut off, so like, most of the world didn't get to watch what was going on in, in a Portland territory- Or in a Texas territory, in Amarillo, Texas, and like, you just get to- In my opinion, if you're not incredible this day and age, you're just lazy. Because like, there's so much to study.

• 24:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 24:13Speaker 00

  And I study rigorously, you know?

• 24:16Adam Friedland?

  So, going back to like when I first saw you on AEW, like- One thing that I, I think that you kind of grasp that I think is, to me, what's more important is not the actual technical aspects of a fight. It's, it's that it means something. It's the fact that I, Bill Goldberg, I prayed, you know?

• 24:37Speaker 00

  Creating an emotional investment.

• 24:38Adam Friedland?

  And there's this guy that doesn't even talk and he's just, is strong, and he's on this, he comes out of nowhere, he's on a streak. I mean, you're like, narratively, you're attached to it.

• 24:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 24:49Adam Friedland?

  So like, when you- The fact that you, do you feel like other wrestlers in this day and age take promos like as seriously as you do?

• 24:58Speaker 00

  No, these guys are stupid idiotic scrawny little fucking dorks. And the only thing they're concerned with is hitting cool moves so they get, you know, a round of applause. It's not something I can relate to at all. I'm here to be a star, I'm here to make the most money, I'm here to be world champion, I'm here to be a draw. I'm here to start doing big movies, which I'm already starting to do. I'm here to make a name for myself and build my brand up to such a point that I become synonymous with not just all elite wrestling, but with professional wrestling as a whole. So in 20 years from now, you know, someone's sitting down and going, "Holy fucking shit." So you're a wrestler like MJF. Because right now when people say, "Oh, you're a wrestler like The Rock," or "You're a wrestler like Stone Cold." That's my goal.

• 25:38Speaker 00

  There's an argument to be made that all elite wrestling, for the most part, is where only the most real wrestling is happening, so...

• 25:45Adam Friedland?

  Tell me about the company, like you guys are exploding.

• 25:48Speaker 00

  Yeah, we're fucking killing it right now.

• 25:50Adam Friedland?

  How fast are you growing?

• 25:51Speaker 00

  So the company's only six years old. We had a show already with 81,000 people there at Wembley Stadium. I main evented it and won, shocker.

• 26:01Speaker 00

  Now, we're up, oh yeah, oh yeah, we're killing it. Metrically, we're up year over year in literally every single important key demo, like ticket sales, ratings, pay-per-view buys. I wonder if it's because I'm world champion. Who's to say?

• 26:15Adam Friedland?

  Who's to say? Anti-Semitism is also big now.

• 26:20Speaker 00

  Well, they have to tune in to it, hopefully the Jew gets his. Come on, stake this guy.

• 26:24Adam Friedland?

  This is great for us, this anti-Semitism. It's my business!

• 26:31Speaker 00

  More, please. And no, we're absolutely killing it. And the thing is, is as much as I'd like to take complete credit, which realistically, I could if I wanted to. But I'm not going to, because I'm a mensch. Mensch of the sench, some say, salt of the earth. You know, we've got guys like me, we've got Hangman Adam Page, we've got Swerve Strickland, we've got Samoa Joe, Chris Jericho's back, we got Jon Moxley, we got Darby Allen, we've got Kenny Omega. The list goes on and on of people, like you said, that make people feel like kids again. They're all in my company. You tune into the other company, they've got great stuff going on. But all their top acts are in their 40s. They just are. And a lot of our top acts are young, hungry men, you know?

• 27:12Adam Friedland?

  Pause.

• 27:13Speaker 00

  No, no pause. We're starving. We're starving for success.

• 27:17Adam Friedland?

  But, but, like, in the, from what I understand, over in-

• 27:19Speaker 00

  My belly's full.

• 27:20Adam Friedland?

  In Connecticut, I, from what I understand, in order to like, drive engagement, they're bringing back like, 75-year-olds.

• 27:26Speaker 00

  Yes, they're bringing back like, they're, okay.

• 27:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 27:29Speaker 00

  You hit the music of The Undertaker, which is, which is understandable, because The Undertaker was, when everybody was, you know, growing up, in your age demographic.

• 27:38Adam Friedland?

  Yes.

• 27:38Speaker 00

  And also honestly in mine. Star, stud, like, top draw, right?

• 27:43Adam Friedland?

  Scary.

• 27:43Speaker 00

  Right? So, what do you do if you need to get general people who don't really watch your product anymore, or kind of bored by your product? Bring John Cena back. Bring The Undertaker back. And that's not me shitting on WWE. I get it, it's a smart business practice. But what we're doing, and the way we're bringing thousands of people in to these pay-per-views and these television shows, you know? Wednesdays, TBS, 8pm. Saturdays, TNT, 8pm. You can also watch us streaming on HBO Max, no big deal. What we're doing is we're giving you fresh, we're giving you new, we are not resting on, you know, the, the past.

• 28:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. And you don't need to like, kind of like, adhere-

• 28:25Speaker 00

  I like, what, what is this, what is this?

• 28:27Adam Friedland?

  This is-

• 28:27Speaker 00

  I like the sensation of it.

• 28:28Adam Friedland?

  I mean, this, I mean, this is kind of just like a plethora, I think.

• 28:32Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:32Adam Friedland?

  This is a recreation of the Dick Cavett Show set.

• 28:35Speaker 00

  Dick Cavett?

• 28:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, from the 70s. Have you ever watched it?

• 28:38Speaker 00

  Can I ask you a question?

• 28:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 28:39Speaker 00

  What was it like growing up with a dad that sounded like that?

• 28:42Adam Friedland?

  That sounded like that?

• 28:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:43Adam Friedland?

  Um, it was-

• 28:45Speaker 00

  Did it throw people off? Like, when you'd have play, like, play, like, kids would come over to play at your house, where they'd be like, "What the fuck?"

• 28:51Adam Friedland?

  It was hard.

• 28:52Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:52Adam Friedland?

  It was hard growing up with a dad that sounded like that.

• 28:55Speaker 00

  Yeah, I bet.

• 28:55Adam Friedland?

  In fact, and-

• 28:57Speaker 00

  Let's edit this part out. I didn't know he was gonna get emotional.

• 29:00Adam Friedland?

  All my friends just wanted to hang out with him, not me.

• 29:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and like-

• 29:05Speaker 00

  I had a cool mom growing up, it was a problem.

• 29:06Adam Friedland?

  My dad.

• 29:07Speaker 00

  I had the same issue.

• 29:08Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, really?

• 29:09Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah. Yeah.

• 29:11Adam Friedland?

  She hung out with-

• 29:11Speaker 00

  It's not because she was hot. It was because she had like, a really great personality.

• 29:14Adam Friedland?

  You got pics?

• 29:17Speaker 00

  You got pics of your mom?

• 29:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, well, she passed away, but yeah, she was really hot.

• 29:20Speaker 00

  Was she hot before she died?

• 29:22Adam Friedland?

  She was beautiful. I don't know the day she died. I don't think she was probably pretty sick.

• 29:25Speaker 00

  How old were you when she passed?

• 29:27Adam Friedland?

  Uh, it was six years ago.

• 29:28Speaker 00

  So I have a question.

• 29:29Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 29:29Speaker 00

  You prayed that Bill Goldberg would win?

• 29:31Adam Friedland?

  I prayed to God.

• 29:32Speaker 00

  Did you pray to God that your mom would be okay, or did you only pray when Bill Goldberg?

• 29:37Adam Friedland?

  No, I did. God's not...

• 29:38Speaker 00

  So you would say that you were more invested in Bill Goldberg winning the belt?

• 29:43Adam Friedland?

  I was a little kid that I felt bad that I didn't believe in God, and I was like, this one time, God. I also prayed, I prayed before, um...

• 29:53Speaker 00

  This interview?

• 29:54Adam Friedland?

  No, before, uh, Stone Cold versus, uh, Shawn Michaels.

• 30:02Speaker 00

  Okay, that Steve would win?

• 30:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 30:04Speaker 00

  Hell, yeah.

• 30:05Adam Friedland?

  I was just like, please, like, he has to.

• 30:08Speaker 00

  So every prayer you've ever done was for pro wrestling?

• 30:10Adam Friedland?

  It just, no, and maybe, maybe like, sports, like, yeah, but it, yeah, it's just like, well, that's the thing about the promo, right? The promo creates context and narrative and story, and that's like why sports matters to us, is because we create meaning behind it, even though we're just watching like, strong, good, good body guys.

• 30:30Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 30:30Adam Friedland?

  That are good at a game, you know? And, I mean, it's the same thing to me, right? Like, um, and so, yeah, I remember, I was like, the, Mike Tyson and the Generation X are up to no good, God. And Stone Cold Steve Austin is just one of the most badass, coolest guys of all time that met me. If he met me, he would, he would like me.

• 30:59Adam Friedland?

  Wait, can, you say that like, every time you're on an interview, they, an interviewer tries to cut a promo?

• 31:06Speaker 00

  They make the mistake of trying to like, outwit me, and then it gets really uncomfortable.

• 31:10Adam Friedland?

  Well, can I?

• 31:11Speaker 00

  And sometimes physical.

• 31:12Adam Friedland?

  Can we just do?

• 31:13Speaker 00

  I'm gonna let you do your thing.

• 31:15Adam Friedland?

  I, no, no, no, okay, me and Gene's here right now. He's got the mic and he's like, you know.

• 31:19Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 31:20Adam Friedland?

  WrestleMania is next week, and you know.

• 31:24Speaker 00

  I have a feeling this is gonna go great.

• 31:25Adam Friedland?

  And, uh, he's, we're fighting each other for the championship.

• 31:28Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 31:29Adam Friedland?

  Just, just show me the magic. Show me your magic, and then I'll come back to you, and I'll see what I can do.

• 31:35Speaker 00

  What you're asking me to do right now is the equivalent to, okay, you're at a bar, and you tell this girl. You're a comedian. And what is the first thing the dumb annoying girl asks you to do?

• 31:47Adam Friedland?

  Have sex with her.

• 31:48Speaker 00

  No. Tell me a joke.

• 31:50Adam Friedland?

  Raw dog.

• 31:51Speaker 00

  No.

• 31:52Adam Friedland?

  She says, "Tell me a joke."

• 31:53Speaker 00

  She says, "Tell me a joke." And then you get frustrated. Cause it's like, well, it doesn't work like that, cause it's a whole bit.

• 31:59Adam Friedland?

  So just do a, do a bridge version, cause I have to do this bit that I've prepared. It's gonna bomb probably.

• 32:04Speaker 00

  Alright, so...

• 32:05Adam Friedland?

  So, next week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

• 32:10Speaker 00

  Adam Friedland.

• 32:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, so MJF, like, you hate this man.

• 32:14Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 32:14Adam Friedland?

  The first all-Jewish heavyweight championship. Yeah, like, what can we be expecting in Winston-Salem, North, I don't know why I'm saying that, North Carolina, yeah.

• 32:25Speaker 00

  Why are we in North Carolina?

• 32:26Adam Friedland?

  I don't know why, it just sounds like a place they do wrestling.

• 32:29Speaker 00

  Alright, that's good, that's good. Alright, well, when it comes to Adam Friedland, this dumb, disgusting, sniveling heeb with a rape mustache and warts all over his face.

• 32:38Adam Friedland?

  A little self-hating.

• 32:39Speaker 00

  Four-eyed piece of shit is going to go down.

• 32:41Adam Friedland?

  Rape mustache, okay. Okay, so, alright. Alright, and then, Adam Friedland, what do you have to say? Okay, so then I'm like, dude, I hate you, like, so much.

• 32:52Speaker 00

  Hell yeah, dude.

• 32:53Adam Friedland?

  You just fucking suck.

• 32:54Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 32:54Adam Friedland?

  Alright, like...

• 32:56Speaker 00

  No, dude, you're fucking killing it.

• 32:57Adam Friedland?

  I'm gonna punch you so hard.

• 32:59Speaker 00

  Right in the face?

• 33:00Adam Friedland?

  When I punch you, it's gonna be two hits, alright? It's gonna be the hit of me punching you. And then the recording, audio recording of everyone laughing in the stadium. Which is gonna become a number one hit single and sell more copies than Candle in the Wind, okay? I do feel bad a little bit. And I wanna just, no one's telling you something, and I, this is what makes me feel bad about how bad I'm gonna beat you in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

• 33:32Adam Friedland?

  So like, I don't know if you know this, but the only reason you work-

• 33:34Speaker 00

  You've got a secret.

• 33:36Adam Friedland?

  The work that you work here at this company-

• 33:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 33:39Adam Friedland?

  Is because your parents, okay?

• 33:40Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 33:42Adam Friedland?

  Your mom had sex with every single guy-

• 33:45Speaker 00

  Everyone.

• 33:46Adam Friedland?

  At the company. Even the guys that clean the bathrooms.

• 33:49Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 33:49Adam Friedland?

  And not only them, just guys that live like near the building.

• 33:54Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 33:54Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 33:55Adam Friedland?

  All of the fights you've had so far, oh god, this is embarrassing.

• 33:59Speaker 00

  Can I just cut you off really quick?

• 34:00Adam Friedland?

  You need to know this-

• 34:01Speaker 00

  I have a question.

• 34:01Adam Friedland?

  But I have a question. All the fights you've had so far-

• 34:03Speaker 00

  I have a question!

• 34:04Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no, no.

• 34:05Speaker 00

  Okay, go ahead, go ahead.

• 34:06Adam Friedland?

  All the fights you've had so far have been fake, because your mom, they feel bad for you, so they let you win.

• 34:10Speaker 00

  Yeah, they let me win because they had sex with my mom.

• 34:12Adam Friedland?

  And then your mom, your mom also has sex with them, and your dad writes them a check for a million dollars.

• 34:17Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 34:17Adam Friedland?

  And, all the fights, including even when you were a kid, because your mom had sex with those kids.

• 34:22Speaker 00

  With those kids too.

• 34:23Adam Friedland?

  And your dad wrote them a check for a million dollars.

• 34:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 34:25Adam Friedland?

  Also, I gotta say, the only reason they hired you is because it's free, because your dad writes AEW a check-

• 34:33Speaker 00

  Check, and then they give it to me?

• 34:34Adam Friedland?

  And then they give it to you to make you feel like you have a job. And then also, this is unrelated, but could you like, I have a favor.

• 34:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 34:42Adam Friedland?

  Could you, this is weird, could you ask your wife to stop trying to have sex with me so much?

• 34:49Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 34:49Adam Friedland?

  Okay, because the text messages she's been sending have been, I mean, quite frankly, disturbing.

• 34:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 34:55Adam Friedland?

  And she knows that my girlfriend is 10 times hotter than her.

• 34:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 35:00Adam Friedland?

  And finally, here comes my catchphrase, okay? I just, listen, you fucking crap, okay? Listen, crap.

• 35:08Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 35:09Adam Friedland?

  I have one question for you, and it's a simple yes or no answer.

• 35:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 35:14Adam Friedland?

  Do you recognize Israel's right to exist?

• 35:16Speaker 00

  Okay. I'm going to respond to everything you just said. Firstly, I didn't know we were gonna go here.

• 35:23Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 35:24Speaker 00

  And I, and, because I feel bad.

• 35:26Adam Friedland?

  Ooh, brother.

• 35:27Speaker 00

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 35:28Adam Friedland?

  Ooh, I'm mad at you.

• 35:29Speaker 00

  No, no, no, no, no, no, I really do feel bad. I need you to know something. I had someone tell you that my mom sleeps with everybody. On the road. No, no, it's my turn. That my mom sleeps with everybody, and that's why they let me win the matches. I had somebody tell you that my father pays the boss to pay me, okay? And I had some, I had my wife contact you to tell you that she wanted to have sex with you.

• 35:54Adam Friedland?

  She said sushi dude.

• 35:56Speaker 00

  Let me, let me explain why. I'm gonna explain why. I'm gonna explain why. I wanted you to feel very confident going into the match.

• 36:03Adam Friedland?

  Okay, oh.

• 36:04Speaker 00

  Okay? I want you to feel confident going into this. I want you to go into this match thinking this is gonna be easy pickings for you. And there's another part of the story I need you to know.

• 36:13Adam Friedland?

  It's gonna be easy.

• 36:14Speaker 00

  Listen, your mom's dead.

• 36:17Adam Friedland?

  She is.

• 36:18Speaker 00

  But you don't know why.

• 36:20Adam Friedland?

  Brain cancer.

• 36:21Speaker 00

  Nope. That's what they told you. I killed your mom dude.

• 36:25Adam Friedland?

  Okay, well, okay, let me respond in kind, okay, to these allegations.

• 36:30Speaker 00

  I murdered her in cold blood.

• 36:31Adam Friedland?

  Why did your mom have sex with me last night? She's... Second of all,

• 36:37Adam Friedland?

  why did your dad give me a million dollars last night?

• 36:39Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 36:40Adam Friedland?

  Third of all,

• 36:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:42Adam Friedland?

  You're gay. And, um, but the saddest part is that gay guys, you can't, don't wanna have sex with you.

• 36:48Speaker 00

  Is it because I'm closeted?

• 36:49Adam Friedland?

  And they love having sex with guys, so that's just depressing to me. Third of all, uh, probably...

• 36:55Speaker 00

  How many things did you write down?

• 36:57Adam Friedland?

  Five, six. You're probably five, six, but max. You're wearing lifts, you're five, six. Um, your mom gave me pussy last night.

• 37:06Speaker 00

  You're doing great. Okay, lifts, pussy.

• 37:09Adam Friedland?

  Oh, and I have one...

• 37:11Speaker 00

  I'm gay.

• 37:11Adam Friedland?

  And I have one last catchphrase that I wanted to say to you.

• 37:15Speaker 00

  Yeah?

• 37:16Adam Friedland?

  In response to everything you've just said, all the lies, all the gaslighting of the AEW audience, the craziest audience, the most loyal fanbase in the fucking world, um, uh, said no one ever...

• 37:30Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 37:31Adam Friedland?

  That's my catchphrase.

• 37:32Speaker 00

  That was sick. Here's, can I, can I tell you the funniest part of this whole thing?

• 37:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 37:36Speaker 00

  So what you just did, when I do like signings,

• 37:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 37:39Speaker 00

  People do this, like, like earnestly.

• 37:42Adam Friedland?

  They do it like, like they think, they think it's-

• 37:44Speaker 00

  Yes, yes. So like, but they come way more prepared than what you just did.

• 37:49Adam Friedland?

  Someone's with his kid.

• 37:50Speaker 00

  Yes, yes. Like, they have a six-year-old child with them, and they're like, "Brother, they've been in front of the mirror all week. They're like, 'I'm gonna fucking get MJF, dude, he has no idea.'" And they fucking wait in line for six hours, and they pay me a lot of money, and then they stand there and they do exactly what you just did. And, but somehow, it's better.

• 38:12Adam Friedland?

  Than what I just did?

• 38:13Speaker 00

  Yeah! That was fucking horrible!

• 38:15Adam Friedland?

  You heard the cra- you heard the craziest fans in the world, AEW fans, they were loving it. By round of applause, PR guy from AEW, you shut the hell up. By round of applause, you won.

• 38:27Speaker 00

  People that he pays, get loud.

• 38:29Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I don't pay any of these guys.

• 38:33Adam Friedland?

  Non-union interns. And by round of silence, everyone, okay, thank you.

• 38:40Speaker 00

  You got me, dude. You got me.

• 38:41Adam Friedland?

  You won because it was absolutely silent. Um, alright, I-

• 38:45Speaker 00

  But people do what you just did, and it's, it makes me uncomfortable.

• 38:48Adam Friedland?

  They do it because they're mad at you for wrestling from-

• 38:50Speaker 00

  I think-

• 38:51Adam Friedland?

  From TV.

• 38:52Speaker 00

  I, honest, so it's- I'm like one of the last people, I think, that invokes that.

• 38:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 38:58Speaker 00

  Like in humans.

• 38:58Adam Friedland?

  But that means you're good.

• 38:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 39:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, that means you got the sauce.

• 39:01Speaker 00

  What I will say is, I've, I don't know if I've ever told this story on, on a podcast, so...

• 39:09Speaker 00

  Someone hated me so much, and Hop might have been in the company for this. Adam Hopkins is our PR guy for anybody that doesn't know, he's incredible.

• 39:17Adam Friedland?

  Give it up for him, give it up for him. Doing a hell of a job, writing down all the things he wants to cut. Okay, yeah.

• 39:23Speaker 00

  This, this, this might have been pre-Adam, but-

• 39:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 39:26Speaker 00

  So I'm at a show in Chicago, my father had just had a heart attack. Don't fucking worry.

• 39:30Adam Friedland?

  I gave him that.

• 39:31Speaker 00

  He survived. And I gave him that heart attack after I fucked his wife.

• 39:35Adam Friedland?

  I had sex with his wife, and then he, he said it was so great that he had a heart attack.

• 39:39Speaker 00

  Yeah, and I killed your mom.

• 39:40Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 39:41Speaker 00

  Um, so, I'm in Chicago, my, my, my mother told me like, don't worry, like, because this was one of the first pay-per-views in the history of our company. She was like, you don't want to miss this thing. So, I'm there, I'm pretty distraught, I'm worried about my dad, he ended up being okay. And, a pilot walks up to me, and he goes, uh, Mr. Friedman, I'm gonna be flying you out back home after the show's proceedings. Which, to be fair, I've flown on the jet a couple times with my boss up to that point, anyway.

• 40:07Adam Friedland?

  To the island?

• 40:08Speaker 00

  Not to the island.

• 40:09Adam Friedland?

  Okay, sorry.

• 40:09Speaker 00

  To, to, well, to the island, as in Long Island, the only island that matters.

• 40:14Adam Friedland?

  Okay, yeah.

• 40:15Speaker 00

  So, yeah, and there's no pedophilia going on.

• 40:18Adam Friedland?

  Little say Long Island.

• 40:19Speaker 00

  So, Long Geyland.

• 40:20Adam Friedland?

  Long Geyland.

• 40:21Speaker 00

  There you go, perfect. So, I'm, I find my boss after this pilot says this to me, and I knock on his door, he opens the door, he goes, Max. I go, that's me, uh, I want you to know how much this means to me, the fact that you're trying to fly me back home to my dad as soon as possible after he had the heart attack. Because he, he did know, my boss Tony did know. And he goes, what the fuck are you talking about? And I go, the pilot just told, he goes, I didn't fucking book you a jet to go back home tonight.

• 40:50Speaker 00

  So now I go back over, with one of my bosses, like, one of the EVPs in the company, QT Marshall. And QT goes, so who he say hired you again? He goes, Tony Khan, Tony Khan's my boss. We go, okay, um, are you sure about that? And then security comes, and they grab this guy, and, and QT goes, before the guy leaves, he goes, wait a minute, wait a minute. We'll let you say if you show us your pilot's license. And the guy, I shit you not, does this.

• 41:23Speaker 00

  Ah, I left it at home, get the fuck out of here! So, so then they fucking throw, like, I guess they like throw the guy in, whatever you call it, the brig or whatever, they take him fucking downtown.

• 41:32Adam Friedland?

  Now, how did he get access to you?

• 41:34Speaker 00

  We still don't know how he got back there. We still don't know how he got backstage. So, um, to be fair though, our security change, team has changed since then. But, and it probably was the building security, not even AEW security fault, but, they asked this guy, what were you planning on doing? And, he, he was honest, he said he was gonna fucking abduct me.

• 41:55Adam Friedland?

  An adult man?

• 41:56Speaker 00

  An adult man was gonna abduct MJF.

• 41:58Adam Friedland?

  Can you imagine his wife just be like, "What are you talking about?"

• 42:00Speaker 00

  You think he has a wife, you fucking lunatic? No way! No way. I mean, fuck, if he does, Jesus, that's crazy. But yeah, so that's, that's the craziest, like, a fan wanting me dead scenario I've ever been in, for sure.

• 42:13Adam Friedland?

  Jesus Christ.

• 42:14Speaker 00

  Yeah. It was in Chicago.

• 42:16Adam Friedland?

  Was he prosecuted?

• 42:18Speaker 00

  To this day, I don't know what happened after that.

• 42:20Adam Friedland?

  Do you know?

• 42:22Speaker 00

  Before Adam's time.

• 42:23Adam Friedland?

  Oh, your hands are clean.

• 42:24Speaker 00

  His hands are clean.

• 42:25Adam Friedland?

  Classic, classic, classic, the suits over there in the seat in the corner of the office is looking down on, on the blue collar guys like us!

• 42:32Speaker 00

  I, I don't know if I'm blue collar.

• 42:34Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. What, you, you take your clothes off and...

• 42:38Speaker 00

  For millions of dollars.

• 42:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but you have to be strong and...

• 42:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, I'm pretty jacked, that's true.

• 42:42Adam Friedland?

  It's a blue, it's a blue collar.

• 42:43Speaker 00

  It's a blue collar thing, how jacked I am.

• 42:45Adam Friedland?

  How much do you have to work out every day?

• 42:46Speaker 00

  I work out six times a week. Um, I don't work out more than once a day, though. And I do a different body part every time I'm in the gym.

• 42:53Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh.

• 42:54Speaker 00

  Every morning when I wake up, I do fasted cardio for an hour on the Stairmaster, hop in the cold plunge, put my, you know, clothes on, and then I go to the gym. I go to Bed Francis Powerhouse Gym on Long Island. It's the best gym in the world.

• 43:06Adam Friedland?

  Oh, of course, give it up for that.

• 43:07Speaker 00

  Please, Bed Francis Powerhouse Gym. It's a great gym.

• 43:10Adam Friedland?

  Uh, do you ever worry that wrestling will ever have an issue of performance-enhancing drugs?

• 43:16Speaker 00

  No.

• 43:17Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 43:18Speaker 00

  You know, it's probably the most natural sport in the world.

• 43:20Adam Friedland?

  Is it?

• 43:21Speaker 00

  I'd say so.

• 43:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 43:22Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 43:23Adam Friedland?

  Cause I'm, I've been, I've been juicing too.

• 43:25Speaker 00

  Yeah?

• 43:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, recently.

• 43:26Speaker 00

  I can tell.

• 43:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I, I use BlueChew.

• 43:29Speaker 00

  BlueChew?

• 43:30Adam Friedland?

  Uh, do you remember that one of my favorite, uh, little moments was, uh, on Monday Night Raw, um, the announcement of the death of, uh...

• 43:40Speaker 00

  It was one of your favorite moments?

• 43:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it's one of the funniest things ever. The announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden by John Cena.

• 43:47Speaker 00

  Yeah, Osama bin Laden has been terminated, or compromised and terminated to a permanent end, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 43:52Adam Friedland?

  I feel goddamn proud to be an American.

• 43:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 43:55Adam Friedland?

  Cause you, like...

• 43:58Adam Friedland?

  Do you ever see yourself announcing something like a historic like that to a crowd?

• 44:02Speaker 00

  I would say no. I'm not really a political guy.

• 44:06Adam Friedland?

  No, but I'm saying it's a historic moment. It's not political to not like Osama bin Laden.

• 44:10Speaker 00

  No.

• 44:11Adam Friedland?

  You're like, oh, I don't have a take on Osama bin Laden.

• 44:15Speaker 00

  Osama bin Laden's bad. I think that's an easy take to have.

• 44:18Adam Friedland?

  You could have that.

• 44:18Speaker 00

  But there's a lot of stuff going on that's like, not great right now.

• 44:21Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm just saying like, if there's a historic moment, something historic like that happens, like, you're the face of the company.

• 44:28Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 44:28Adam Friedland?

  So they'd have you go out there and announce it.

• 44:31Speaker 00

  I don't know if I'm the right guy for that.

• 44:32Adam Friedland?

  You're the best at promos.

• 44:34Speaker 00

  I'm definitely the best at talking.

• 44:35Adam Friedland?

  You would be composed and erudite.

• 44:38Speaker 00

  And there's like a serious announcement to make about the state of the world, don't know if MJ is the guy to send out.

• 44:43Adam Friedland?

  It's a happy thing, though.

• 44:44Speaker 00

  I'm not the happy delivery guy.

• 44:47Adam Friedland?

  Alright, do you want to try to announce the death of President Donald Trump?

• 44:56Adam Friedland?

  We're here in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, there's a big announcement.

• 45:02Speaker 00

  You know what I can say that's really interesting about? I can actually segue this into my company, because I'm so good at my job. We had a fuck ICE chant.

• 45:10Adam Friedland?

  I know.

• 45:11Speaker 00

  So you saw this?

• 45:13Adam Friedland?

  It kind of went viral.

• 45:14Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah. And I think what's so cool about that is in our company, like, our fans have a voice. And in the other company, a lot of the times when fans curse, or they say something that they don't want them to say, they just bleep it. They just bleep the crowd out entirely, and they edit it out of the show. You know, where they'll create fake crowd noise over it, so you can't hear the chants that they're making. And I'll also say, you know, they've made a choice to be a little bit more right-leaning. You know, Triple H has done a couple speeches in the White House and...

• 45:49Speaker 00

  Linda McMahon, I believe, is in the cabinet?

• 45:52Adam Friedland?

  She's the Secretary of Education.

• 45:53Speaker 00

  Yeah, so, and I think what's cool is-

• 45:55Adam Friedland?

  Does that feel like representation for you? Is that like Wakanda for you?

• 45:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, for sure, for sure.

• 46:01Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you're like, "One day I can be the Secretary of Education."

• 46:05Speaker 00

  Can't wait.

• 46:05Adam Friedland?

  If I learn what the difference is between South Africa and Australia.

• 46:10Speaker 00

  I gotta be so honest with you, I still don't know.

• 46:12Adam Friedland?

  Dude, you're such a fucking Long Island piece of shit.

• 46:15Speaker 00

  Oh yeah, that's me too.

• 46:16Adam Friedland?

  His entire education is Snapple facts.

• 46:19Speaker 00

  Pretty much. Well, I was more of a Nantucket apple, apple juice kinda guy.

• 46:23Adam Friedland?

  You're a Long Island guy that doesn't drink Snapple?

• 46:25Speaker 00

  I'm not a Snapple guy.

• 46:26Adam Friedland?

  That is your fucking, that's the one thing you have going for you.

• 46:29Speaker 00

  Do you know Arizona Iced Tea?

• 46:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 46:31Speaker 00

  Do you know where Arizona Iced Tea is actually produced and made? And like, where their offices are?

• 46:35Adam Friedland?

  Israel.

• 46:37Speaker 00

  Which is close.

• 46:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 46:39Speaker 00

  About as many Jews as Long Island as there are in Israel, for sure.

• 46:41Adam Friedland?

  It's the same thing. Uh, wait, you were saying something before that. You were saying that something before that. You were talking about AEW.

• 46:46Speaker 00

  I was just saying-

• 46:47Adam Friedland?

  The Ice Incident.

• 46:47Speaker 00

  I was just saying, we're, we are not affiliated to any party, so anybody can feel comfortable going to our shows.

• 46:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like it should be like, you know, it shouldn't, it shouldn't be like that. It should be, I mean, listen, I'm a-

• 47:00Speaker 00

  I don't want politics involved in my sports.

• 47:02Adam Friedland?

  I'm a progressive, but the entire stadium needs to be just like, "If you don't like it, you get the hell out."

• 47:09Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's the magic, that's where the magic's at.

• 47:11Adam Friedland?

  That's what wrestling should be.

• 47:12Speaker 00

  I agree.

• 47:13Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm just-

• 47:13Speaker 00

  No, no, no, I agree.

• 47:16Adam Friedland?

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• 48:01Adam Friedland?

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• 48:06Adam Friedland?

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• 48:51Adam Friedland?

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• 50:08Adam Friedland?

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• 52:09Adam Friedland?

  Like, are there any, like, let's go into your early days, because I think we're bouncing around, but it's such a fun conversation, it doesn't matter.

• 52:20Speaker 00

  I'm a great, I'm a great head.

• 52:21Adam Friedland?

  When you were an independent, like, when did you go into, like, independent wrestling?

• 52:24Speaker 00

  I was 18 years old, the story's kind of fucking wild.

• 52:29Speaker 00

  Basically, I had a full-ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.

• 52:32Adam Friedland?

  What, it's a clown college?

• 52:35Speaker 00

  No, the place was called Hartwick University.

• 52:38Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 52:38Speaker 00

  And I was, I was there, I had a full ride, and the head coach told me he wanted to start me as a freshman. And I felt nothing, bro. I felt absolute, I couldn't have given less of a fuck. Because I just wanted to be Roddy Piper. I just wanted to be a wrestler, you know?

• 52:53Adam Friedland?

  Wear a dress.

• 52:54Speaker 00

  And, yeah, I wanted to put the dress on, join the Illuminati so I could become the AEW World Champion.

• 52:58Adam Friedland?

  Do you think Roddy, Roddy Piper would put the dress?

• 53:02Speaker 00

  Probably. He was in, he was in a, uh...

• 53:05Adam Friedland?

  A kilt?

• 53:06Speaker 00

  Yeah, a kilt.

• 53:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, that's why I'm...

• 53:08Speaker 00

  So technically... So, yeah, I remember telling my roommate, who was also vying for a linebacker position, so this was not smart of me. "Hey, I don't know if I really want to be here anymore." And he just went, "Oh," and left the room, which was a wild, weird response. The next day, I got called into the coach's office, this motherfucker narked on me. And the coach, oh yeah, big time snitch, the coach was like, "I heard you want to leave." And I was like, "Yeah, you know..." I didn't want to tell him why, because how fucking ludicrous and stupid would I look? If I, not the rapper, if I looked at him and I said, "I want to be a professional wrestler." Like, he'd laugh in my face at that point. So, I didn't tell him why, I just said, "You know, I kind of want to go home." And he was like, "I get it, you're homesick."

• 53:51Speaker 00

  And I'm like, "No, you know, like, that's not it." And he's like, "No, we've, we've seen this here before, so I'm going to assign you an accountability buddy." And in walked this guy named Sal Levanti, not a Jew. And he was a six foot six offensive lineman. Uh, and he followed me everywhere for like two or three days. And I had to like literally like it was like a covert operation. At three AM in the morning, I like waited to see if this fucking guy was like.

• 54:19Adam Friedland?

  He was watching you?

• 54:21Speaker 00

  Dude, literally would follow me wherever I went. It was fucking wild. And when I told my boss this, who's with the NFL. And also, obviously, they're a little bit affiliated with the NCAA just to, you know, because that's the farming system, basically. He was like, this is incredibly illegal, what happened here? But like, yeah, the guy was following me around everywhere and I waited till like. Three or four AM and I packed the essentials, not even everything. And I hopped in my Dodge Ram pickup truck and I drove all the way home.

• 54:47Adam Friedland?

  How, how?

• 54:48Speaker 00

  My, my parents were not.

• 54:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they must have fucking been so annoying. Yeah.

• 54:53Speaker 00

  And I was not better when I looked at them and I told them why.

• 54:56Adam Friedland?

  You were not better than that you and they, they didn't know it.

• 55:00Speaker 00

  And I, I found a wrestling school, which there's only like a handful that are reputable. It's called Creative Pro Wrestling Academy in Hicksville, Long Island.

• 55:07Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 55:08Speaker 00

  Trained there and then I would get in my car and I would drive to Indiana, Kentucky. All the way to Florida sometimes. I drove from New York to Iowa. I drove from New York to Toronto, New York to win it like. Mex- I did some shots in Mexico in my car and it was all just to, you know, make a name for myself. I didn't make any money doing that. But you know, you're just trying to get your name out there. It's like baseball. There's single A, double A, triple A, and then the majors.

• 55:34Adam Friedland?

  Did you have like a moment of virality? Like, did you have like a clip that like put like? How did that, how did you get on the radar of the big company?

• 55:42Speaker 00

  My answer is genuine, genuinely little by little. It was momentum. Which I, I think you can relate to actually because you like when specifically with Come Town.

• 55:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 55:52Speaker 00

  Like you guys were doing funny bit after funny bit and little by little, it started getting traction, right? And then you started doing this and it started getting fucking serious traction. And that was my wrestling career. Every single shot I was doing, you have more people going, fuck this MJF kid. He's, he's something special. And that's eventually why I got contacted by WWE and AEW.

• 56:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. And, and so when was the moment like, would you see like a moment like a come up? Like when you were early in the company at AEW, like when was your moment that you kind of stamped your mark?

• 56:25Speaker 00

  I got really like. I shouldn't say lucky, it's because of skill. But I was put in a situation where it was sink or swim and anybody else would've sank, but I swam and it immediately made me a star.

• 56:36Adam Friedland?

  What was that moment?

• 56:36Speaker 00

  It was the very first pay-per-view in the history of our company was Double or Nothing. Which, by the way, Double or Nothing, May 24th, if you're interested, is going to be right here in New York. New York!

• 56:47Adam Friedland?

  I'll be there, I'll be there, right?

• 56:49Speaker 00

  Why not?

• 56:49Adam Friedland?

  Hell, yeah.

• 56:50Speaker 00

  Why the fuck not, baby? Let's get you a ticket.

• 56:52Adam Friedland?

  I'm not gonna pay, though, man.

• 56:54Speaker 00

  What, what?

• 56:55Adam Friedland?

  I'm not gonna...

• 56:55Speaker 00

  What, are you fucking nuts?

• 56:56Adam Friedland?

  Give me one, okay. Yeah, yeah.

• 56:58Speaker 00

  Yeah, you put the dress on, you were at the island.

• 57:00Adam Friedland?

  I put the, I put the goddamn dress for longer than you, you had.

• 57:03Speaker 00

  I, yeah, I hon- I honestly, I like, put it over myself and then took it right off.

• 57:06Adam Friedland?

  You, and your fingers were crossed, I saw that, no one noticed, yeah.

• 57:10Speaker 00

  And, and I like muttered under my breath, like, like, "This is stupid." You know what I mean?

• 57:15Adam Friedland?

  I was like, "Guys, how long of this dress?"

• 57:17Speaker 00

  Yeah, I haven't, did they take photos of you? They didn't take photos of me, they took photos of you?

• 57:21Adam Friedland?

  They said I had to take.

• 57:24Speaker 00

  Awkward. Um...

• 57:26Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 57:27Speaker 00

  I forgot what the question was, honestly.

• 57:28Adam Friedland?

  No, no, uh, there was a sink or swim moment, yeah.

• 57:31Speaker 00

  So it was this sink or swim moment of very first pay-per-view. Bret the Hitman Hart, ever heard of him?

• 57:35Adam Friedland?

  Of course.

• 57:35Speaker 00

  There you go. He was out there in the ring and he was introducing this very championship, the All Elite Wrestling Championship. And he was introing it with another gentleman named Hangman Adam Page. And, because Hangman was up for a shot at the world title. And I came out there and I cut a, a serious scathing promo on Hangman Adam Page and Bret Hart. Who's a legend. And it was the first time that many people heard me speak. And it was, it was pretty much game, set, match after that. Everybody was like, "Oh, fuck, yeah, that's the guy."

• 58:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 58:06Speaker 00

  And I've been the guy ever since.

• 58:07Adam Friedland?

  It was like a risk.

• 58:09Speaker 00

  For sure, I mean, if, if that microphone, I think, was in anybody else's hand, I think it would've been like sacrilege and it would've been an awkward shitty dog, dogshit.

• 58:17Adam Friedland?

  Even if you did okay, if it was like a B minus.

• 58:19Speaker 00

  You can't cut an okay promo in that scenario. Like, the mil- 'cause we are introducing the most important championship in all of professional wrestling.

• 58:26Adam Friedland?

  What'd you say?

• 58:27Speaker 00

  And if I were to walk out there and shit the bed, it would, the, the company would look fucking bad.

• 58:30Adam Friedland?

  What'd you say, "I'm glad your brother's dead"?

• 58:33Speaker 00

  I didn't bring up Owen.

• 58:35Adam Friedland?

  I don't know.

• 58:36Speaker 00

  Um, uh...

• 58:36Adam Friedland?

  You like bringing up dead relatives.

• 58:38Speaker 00

  I didn't bring up Owen, I brought up the fact that he got jumped during his Hall of Fame speech.

• 58:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 58:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 58:44Adam Friedland?

  That was, I remember, because the first time I went to a pay-per-view, I was with my friend Max in Vegas, and there was an event called Tour de America.

• 58:53Speaker 00

  How many Max's are in your life, pal?

• 58:54Adam Friedland?

  Um, a lot.

• 58:56Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 58:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Max's are either like Jewish boys or dogs.

• 59:00Speaker 00

  Yeah, it's the number one dog name in America.

• 59:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it's a dog.

• 59:03Speaker 00

  And it's the number one Jewish name in America.

• 59:04Adam Friedland?

  And you got that dog in you.

• 59:05Speaker 00

  I got that dog.

• 59:07Adam Friedland?

  Okay, um, yeah, and I remember Yoko Zuna was fighting.

• 59:10Speaker 00

  Very fat.

• 59:11Adam Friedland?

  Was fighting Owen Hart.

• 59:13Speaker 00

  Dead.

• 59:14Adam Friedland?

  Dead.

• 59:14Speaker 00

  Yoko Zuna, dead.

• 59:15Adam Friedland?

  And I think that there was another time that they fought where the crowd was chanting USA, USA.

• 59:22Speaker 00

  Even though Owen's from Canada.

• 59:23Adam Friedland?

  And Yoko Zuna's from Hawaii.

• 59:29Adam Friedland?

  That was a, that was a pretty good one. Yeah, um, but I guess that.

• 59:34Speaker 00

  Geography and pro wrestling, as you've learned today, does not mix.

• 59:37Adam Friedland?

  What is the toll that you've seen? Like, there is like a darker side, like, you know, we all know about like the Chris Benoit thing, like.

• 59:44Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 59:44Adam Friedland?

  There are times where like this thing that you've dedicated your life to, which is, which is, you're at high risk. There are people that are like, uh, doing anything they can to like maintain their like, uh.

• 59:55Speaker 00

  Their position.

• 59:56Adam Friedland?

  Their positions.

• 59:57Speaker 00

  Yeah, of course.

• 59:58Adam Friedland?

  Um, and you know, obviously there's a risk of like CTE and stuff like that. Um, like, what, how, like, how, just, can you speak to that or like see, like, have you had firsthand, like, you've obviously had firsthand, like, kind of, uh, you've witnessed this amongst men, like, how, like, uh, how, how can you be sure to like protect yourself from, from like a similar kind of thing?

• 1:00:23Speaker 00

  I'm the wrong guy to ask this to. I have a very old school mindset.

• 1:00:26Adam Friedland?

  You're like healthy?

• 1:00:27Speaker 00

  Uh, well, yes, but also the times I have been hurt, I didn't, I like lied and I just continued to wrestle.

• 1:00:35Adam Friedland?

  But everyone does that.

• 1:00:36Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 1:00:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:37Speaker 00

  And I think if you don't do it, you're a pussy.

• 1:00:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they do that in the NFL.

• 1:00:40Speaker 00

  Do you want to be the best or not?

• 1:00:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:42Speaker 00

  Like, I'll give you an example. I was wrestling, um, well, this is a good example because I'm wrestling him coming up on, uh, April 12th, Dynasty, Vancouver, Canada.

• 1:00:54Speaker 00

  We have a pay-per-view and it's me versus Kenny Omega. This was a couple of years ago, the first time I held this title. And my shoulder was, it was fried, bro. My AC joint was completely torn.

• 1:01:06Adam Friedland?

  It was like five minutes in, right, too?

• 1:01:08Speaker 00

  It was like, it was before the match. I had, I had tore it before the match in a different match. I can't remember who it was against and I wasn't gonna fucking tell anybody. So I wrestled Kenny Omega with a entirely like, like torn rotator cuff and AC joint. And oddly enough, Kenny Omega was wrestling me. He was like a week away from being on death's door because of diverticulitis. And we had like one of the greatest matches of all time, like in the history of my company. And now we're about to wrestle again. We're both actually 100%, which is great and I'm gonna beat the fucking shit out of him. But, and then there was another time, this was the worst one. I was wrestling this dude named Jay White at the Forum in LA. And my shoulder's already completely fried. And I put him on a table because I had intended on hitting him with a elbow drop

• 1:01:52Speaker 00

  from the, the top rope, all the way to the outside, through the floor, through the table, right? I put him on the table, the table breaks instantly. So I have two options. I can either let the world be like, well, that was fucking lame and this sucks.

• 1:02:06Adam Friedland?

  You're not gonna climb down, right?

• 1:02:09Speaker 00

  And I fucking literally, I climbed up and I hit the elbow drop. Not even Mick Foley ever did this. From the tippy top rope, all the way to the fucking floor.

• 1:02:19Adam Friedland?

  Let's go.

• 1:02:20Speaker 00

  No padding. My hip came out. And we had-

• 1:02:23Adam Friedland?

  My grandma did it happen.

• 1:02:25Speaker 00

  She just happened to happen, huh? We had 15 more minutes to go. And I continued to wrestle the match and proceeded to continue to wrestle, I think, for like three more months? So, I'm the wrong guy to ask that question to.

• 1:02:37Adam Friedland?

  Why would you do that?

• 1:02:37Speaker 00

  Because-

• 1:02:38Adam Friedland?

  You're a Jewish boy.

• 1:02:39Speaker 00

  This is, this is-

• 1:02:40Adam Friedland?

  That must feel amazing.

• 1:02:41Speaker 00

  It's, there's no better feeling in the world. It's the grandest prize.

• 1:02:44Adam Friedland?

  Can I touch it?

• 1:02:44Speaker 00

  Honestly, I'll allow it. Just be very careful.

• 1:02:46Adam Friedland?

  I'll be careful. Whoa, it's heavy.

• 1:02:48Speaker 00

  Two hands, two hands, two hands. Very, very heavy. You're doing great.

• 1:02:55Speaker 00

  It looks natural.

• 1:02:56Adam Friedland?

  Hey, hey, fuck you, everyone.

• 1:02:58Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:03:00Adam Friedland?

  Why don't you come out down in this ring and, uh...

• 1:03:06Speaker 00

  You were born for this.

• 1:03:10Adam Friedland?

  You met your wife in the company?

• 1:03:12Speaker 00

  So I met my wife.

• 1:03:13Adam Friedland?

  You said something really funny to her too.

• 1:03:15Speaker 00

  I, I did? Oh, I called her Tits McGee from Whore Island?

• 1:03:18Adam Friedland?

  From Whore Island, yeah.

• 1:03:19Speaker 00

  The very first interview we ever did.

• 1:03:21Adam Friedland?

  Dude, we are the same guy. That's, that's how I met my fiance, yeah.

• 1:03:24Speaker 00

  You called her Tits McGee from Whore?

• 1:03:25Adam Friedland?

  No, she called me that.

• 1:03:26Speaker 00

  She called you that?

• 1:03:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, no. Wow, it's amazing.

• 1:03:29Speaker 00

  So you met your wife, you met your wife interviewing?

• 1:03:32Adam Friedland?

  Uh, no, I met my girlfriend randomly.

• 1:03:35Speaker 00

  Got it.

• 1:03:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, in, in life.

• 1:03:37Speaker 00

  Oh, you, so you were just making a joke? That didn't land?

• 1:03:39Adam Friedland?

  No, no, I mean, but I've, you know, we both hate women, so I was just trying to connect over that, you know?

• 1:03:45Speaker 00

  Pause.

• 1:03:45Adam Friedland?

  Okay. Write that down, sir, write it down on your list of, your list of whatever. I thought we were men.

• 1:03:52Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah. Thought we were men here.

• 1:03:54Adam Friedland?

  I thought we were free and men!

• 1:03:57Speaker 00

  But, no, in all sincerity, I met her when I was 20 in Canada and she interviewed me and we just always stayed in touch and I always thought she was hot. And then, one day, we both found ourselves single and I, like, just slid into her DMs like a stud. And it worked.

• 1:04:13Adam Friedland?

  Would you, like, let's say, just like, you're married, you're a loyal married man, I'm sure that women are throwing themselves at you.

• 1:04:19Speaker 00

  Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you, you know?

• 1:04:20Adam Friedland?

  Okay, so let's say like-

• 1:04:22Speaker 00

  Can't score is what I would say to women around the world.

• 1:04:23Adam Friedland?

  Let's say prime-

• 1:04:24Speaker 00

  Give it a shot.

• 1:04:25Adam Friedland?

  Prime Stephanie McMahon.

• 1:04:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:04:27Adam Friedland?

  She, she, she's giving it to you.

• 1:04:29Speaker 00

  Sure. I mean, why wouldn't she? I'm a handsome man.

• 1:04:33Adam Friedland?

  What would you, what'd you do? I mean, that's probably perhaps 2002 prime Stephanie McMahon.

• 1:04:37Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 1:04:38Adam Friedland?

  Do you, do you think the streets will ever forget? 2002 prime Stephanie McMahon?

• 1:04:43Speaker 00

  I don't think the streets are gonna forget about 2026 Stephanie McMahon. She just came out on TV this week and she looked very good.

• 1:04:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but like, look at this. I saw this, I sent this to my boy-

• 1:04:52Speaker 00

  Are you just gooning in the corner right now with your legs crossed? Dude, I- Do you have a fucking boner right now?

• 1:04:57Adam Friedland?

  I'm, my, my balls are stuffed into my bum right now, yeah, yeah.

• 1:05:01Speaker 00

  I hope Triple H is watching this and he's just like watching you goon over his wife.

• 1:05:04Adam Friedland?

  The streets will never forget 2002 Stephanie McMahon.

• 1:05:11Adam Friedland?

  Do you think the streets will ever forget?

• 1:05:14Speaker 00

  I know, let me ask, Adam Hopkins, so you were working there, oh, no, Adam's going, Adam's going, don't ask me about Stephanie McMahon.

• 1:05:20Adam Friedland?

  Fine, fine, fine, fine, with your money and your corner office and your glass window.

• 1:05:28Speaker 00

  Just sitting in his ivory tower, brother.

• 1:05:29Adam Friedland?

  Alright, um...

• 1:05:30Speaker 00

  Adam Hopkins.

• 1:05:31Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 1:05:32Speaker 00

  Won't talk about Stephanie McMahon, horrible.

• 1:05:34Adam Friedland?

  Okay, anyway, so, um, yeah, I just wanted to-

• 1:05:37Speaker 00

  No, Triple H is a lucky man, dude.

• 1:05:38Adam Friedland?

  Just explain to me a little bit of just like, what the rush is, and like, just, just what, like, do you feel like-

• 1:05:46Speaker 00

  Oh, doing this?

• 1:05:47Adam Friedland?

  Doing this.

• 1:05:47Speaker 00

  Okay, I can't describe it, so I have very bad attention deficit disorder, and one of the only times where I'm able to fully, hyper vigilantly, like, focus on something, is when my fucking music hits. And, so, it's like, it is like a drug for me, in a sense, because I'm fully locked in and fully present. Whereas, a lot of professional wrestlers are dorks and losers, and they can't be fully present, and that's why when they're out there, they're doing all this cool shit, but they're like this.

• 1:06:19Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:20Speaker 00

  You know? And it's just, I think a real weapon I have is being able to be fully present, which I, I think that's something Michael Jordan, like, talked about once, like, when he's on the court. That's the only thing he's thinking about. There's nothing else going on in his life, except what's happening in that moment.

• 1:06:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:35Speaker 00

  Um, yeah, so that would be my answer, just fully locked in.

• 1:06:38Adam Friedland?

  When you're locked in, but, but what I'm saying is, when you're engaging with a crowd, like, how does, how does that feel? Like, if you've just fucking, like, when the bell goes-

• 1:06:47Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:06:47Adam Friedland?

  You know, like-

• 1:06:48Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:06:49Adam Friedland?

  And you, when you get the three-

• 1:06:51Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:06:52Adam Friedland?

  Like, what is-

• 1:06:53Speaker 00

  It's like heroin.

• 1:06:54Adam Friedland?

  It is.

• 1:06:54Speaker 00

  Winning is like heroin.

• 1:06:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:56Speaker 00

  You know?

• 1:06:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:57Speaker 00

  And that's why I do it by any means necessary.

• 1:06:59Adam Friedland?

  Uh-huh. I guess, like, um- The last thing I kind of want to ask is like, what's interesting, going back to that point about like, how funny it is that John, it wasn't funny, I mean, it was like electric. When you watch John Cena say that they killed Bin Laden on Raw. It is just like, the way, it still gets you like-

• 1:07:19Speaker 00

  Fired you up.

• 1:07:20Adam Friedland?

  Fired up, right?

• 1:07:21Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:21Adam Friedland?

  There's something about it where it's just like, where it's a man in jean shorts with big muscles.

• 1:07:27Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 1:07:27Adam Friedland?

  But it's still like, it's making you like vibrate, like, and just like-

• 1:07:31Speaker 00

  You could run through a fucking wall.

• 1:07:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:33Speaker 00

  That's what I do to people.

• 1:07:34Adam Friedland?

  There is something cool about how like wrestling kind of intersects with culture and kind of a time in American culture.

• 1:07:40Speaker 00

  For sure. It's a part of the zeitgeist.

• 1:07:42Adam Friedland?

  Where do you see it right now?

• 1:07:44Speaker 00

  Right now, professional wrestling's hot, and I think it has a lot to do with what my company is doing right now. And I don't think that's an unfair thing to say. The Fuck Ice thing went everywhere, and like, I've had a couple of promos that I've done, go super mega-viral, and, you know, I have people walk up to me in the streets and be like, "Oh my god, when you said this and that date", and they like, like, hyper, hyper remember the specific time and the place and the when and the why. And like, I think that's what makes all sports, not just pro wrestling, but all sports so special.

• 1:08:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:16Speaker 00

  Because they're just like, you, you remember that moment when you were knees down next to your bed with your hands together.

• 1:08:22Adam Friedland?

  Oh no, we don't do that.

• 1:08:24Speaker 00

  Like, Bill, Bill, please. Oh, were you, were you doing the-

• 1:08:27Adam Friedland?

  Please God, please, can Bill Goldberg win tomorrow?

• 1:08:33Speaker 00

  But, um, you know, you remember that, and it's a, it's a, it's a part of like your core memory, and I think that that's something that sports offers you, and that's something that AEW offers you, but mainly, that's something that Maxwell Jacob Friedman offers you.

• 1:08:45Adam Friedland?

  Let's fucking go. Oh, and also, just real quick, I'd be reticent not to, to mention this.

• 1:08:51Speaker 00

  I like when you use the word-

• 1:08:52Adam Friedland?

  You're the star of Happy Gilmore 2.

• 1:08:55Speaker 00

  Happy Gilmore 2.

• 1:08:55Adam Friedland?

  Let's give it up for him.

• 1:08:56Speaker 00

  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

• 1:08:57Adam Friedland?

  And I, from what I understand, you've grown quite close with the Sandman?

• 1:09:00Speaker 00

  I have.

• 1:09:01Adam Friedland?

  You're in the Sandler verse?

• 1:09:01Speaker 00

  He's my dad. I'm in the Sandler verse. He's a fucking great guy. We were talking about Passover yesterday. I love him.

• 1:09:07Adam Friedland?

  Phone on you?

• 1:09:08Speaker 00

  I do have my phone on me. Would you, do you want me to reach out to him? Or do you want me to reach out to him on your- You want me to talk to him about you?

• 1:09:15Adam Friedland?

  Just call him right now.

• 1:09:16Speaker 00

  Yeah. I-

• 1:09:17Adam Friedland?

  Why don't you just call Adam Sandler right now?

• 1:09:19Speaker 00

  This is the only time during the interview I've felt uncomfortable.

• 1:09:21Adam Friedland?

  He's my hero. Just call-

• 1:09:22Speaker 00

  I told- and I get that-

• 1:09:24Adam Friedland?

  He means more to me than he means you.

• 1:09:25Speaker 00

  Then, but I talked to your dad over the phone.

• 1:09:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, so, you talk to my dad, let me talk to your dad.

• 1:09:32Speaker 00

  That's, that's fair.

• 1:09:34Adam Friedland?

  It's only fair.

• 1:09:34Speaker 00

  After, after we turn the cameras off, maybe.

• 1:09:38Adam Friedland?

  Cause I need it on the record, because Adam Sandler is notoriously litigious and he knows it's on the record.

• 1:09:44Speaker 00

  Is he notoriously litigious?

• 1:09:45Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 1:09:46Speaker 00

  You're just making shit up.

• 1:09:46Adam Friedland?

  Did you ever hoop with him?

• 1:09:47Speaker 00

  No, I'm very bad at basketball. It's the only sport I'm not good at.

• 1:09:51Adam Friedland?

  Alright, you wanna play basketball after this?

• 1:09:53Speaker 00

  Uh, no. Like genuinely, no.

• 1:09:55Adam Friedland?

  My best friend, everyone. The champ. Give it up for-

• 1:09:58Speaker 00

  Violent Night 2, coming out in theaters as well.