GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM Talks California, ICE, New Book

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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

• 0:25Speaker 01

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• 1:24Speaker 02

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• 1:30Speaker 00

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

• 1:55Speaker 01

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

• 2:07Speaker 02

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

• 2:27Speaker 01

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

• 2:54Speaker 02

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

• 3:02Adam Friedland?

  What a legend he is. It's kind of like Chevy Chase had that reputation too. I don't know, you like it, right? Jerry Lewis? It's like filmic to like it. Yeah. He's just being annoying. The French, they got to... Yeah, but the French really know funny. When are we walking in? Are we starting?

• 3:16Speaker 04

  Am I standing back up? I'm back here.

• 3:18Adam Friedland?

  When are we walking back in? Let's just start here with Jerry Lewis is annoying and the French don't know anything that's funny. All right, I'm not... We don't need to do a walkout. I don't want to piss off Jerry Lewis. And he's a legend. Jerry, if you're watching, you're a legend. I think he's dead, no? He's dead. Yeah.

• 4:00Adam Friedland?

  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another special episode of The Adam Friedland Show. I'm Adam Friedland. I'm once again recording from home because I am gravely injured. Yesterday while trying to pick up this very large water bottle right here, I threw out my bag and I'm now at home resting and medicating with this pill. But as we know, the show must go on, and our guest this week is City, California Governor Gavin Newsom, whose new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, is available now wherever books are sold. It's actually Gavin Newsom's third book, following Citizenville, my personal favorite, and Ben and Emma's big hit. A gripping sports drama that follows two schoolchildren as they learn how to read using baseball. Young Man in a Hurry certainly doesn't carry the same re-readability,

• 4:44Adam Friedland?

  but it's the kind of book that you have to write because you write it before you run for the president. But here's hoping that someday down the line Gavin returns to the Ben and Emma series, perhaps petting an even bigger hit. Please enjoy my interview with Gavin Newsom. The book is Young Man in a Hurry.

• 5:04Speaker 05

  Yes, right.

• 5:04Adam Friedland?

  It's about trying to find a bathroom, right?

• 5:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, I did. Well, I finally found one on the third floor. By the way, it's a fun... You haven't been up to the third floor bathroom. You should get up there.

• 5:12Adam Friedland?

  If they actually have a better bathroom than us, ours is like a...

• 5:16Speaker 05

  Well, you don't even have a toilet in yours, so let's establish some facts.

• 5:19Adam Friedland?

  We have two toilets and a urinal.

• 5:20Speaker 05

  Right now, you have one toilet and there's someone in there working.

• 5:23Adam Friedland?

  Why are you... You're talking... You're letting them all know there are the second floors...

• 5:27Speaker 05

  I'm just trying to be honest with people about where we are.

• 5:29Adam Friedland?

  Can you beep second, everyone? Uh, I really appreciate you coming on.

• 5:33Speaker 05

  Good to be with you, man.

• 5:33Adam Friedland?

  How's the book tour? How are you enjoying it?

• 5:35Speaker 05

  It just came out yesterday.

• 5:36Adam Friedland?

  You're moving units?

• 5:37Speaker 05

  I mean, this may be the end of the book tour. Day two.

• 5:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. What'd you get on the SATs, by the way?

• 5:42Speaker 05

  You know, really? We'll just jump right there. What'd you get on your SAT? Let's have that conversation.

• 5:47Adam Friedland?

  I don't remember, actually. I don't know.

• 5:48Speaker 05

  Well, you're one of those guys.

• 5:49Adam Friedland?

  I think I got like 14 or something.

• 5:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly. Right?

• 5:52Adam Friedland?

  So what?

• 5:53Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, 960.

• 5:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I'm smart.

• 5:54Speaker 05

  Is there anything wrong with that? Yeah, you are. You probably are.

• 5:57Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm not smart. You are smart.

• 5:59Speaker 05

  I don't know that I'm smart, but I've got 960 SAT, which, by the way, is, you know, that's a fact. And I was gonna do it again. My mother said, "Don't waste your time."

• 6:08Adam Friedland?

  First of all, you got 1600. He's doing the George Bush thing right now. Yes, you are.

• 6:12Speaker 05

  My wife, I think, may have gotten 1600. She's one of those Stanford people.

• 6:15Adam Friedland?

  By all appearances, you like seem like the lawyer to politician. Aesthetically, you look like that?

• 6:22Speaker 05

  I was doing pre-law in college.

• 6:23Adam Friedland?

  You're the restaurant.

• 6:24Speaker 05

  That was the plan.

• 6:25Adam Friedland?

  You're a restaurant owner to politicians.

• 6:27Speaker 05

  All screwed up. It all went south on me.

• 6:29Adam Friedland?

  So it's you and Boebert are the two restaurant owner to politicians.

• 6:33Speaker 05

  By the way, well, there's a few others. Hickenlooper. We used to hang out. There was a bunch of mayors. John F. Glubber was mayor of Denver. He's a senator now. Was governor of Colorado. All those guys, Martin O'Macron, there was this sort of group of people that were just different because they all had bar experience. They all had restaurant experience. So I'm a bar guy. I'm a restaurant guy. Still a bunch of bars.

• 6:51Adam Friedland?

  Was Boebert hanging out or you didn't let her?

• 6:53Speaker 05

  I'm not with Boebert. I don't know. I've never met her.

• 6:55Adam Friedland?

  You know what her restaurant's called? Shooters. It's a gun-themed restaurant.

• 6:59Speaker 05

  That just makes so much sense.

• 7:00Adam Friedland?

  And apparently it's a diarrhea-themed restaurant, I've heard too. I think we're gonna get sued.

• 7:04Speaker 05

  But I'm a, that's who I, by the way, if I had an identity, it'd be that restaurant guy. Still a bunch of them. And that's why, when I'm done with politics, I'll go back to the bar and restaurant.

• 7:12Adam Friedland?

  Is that what you're gonna do now that you're done with governor?

• 7:13Speaker 05

  I've got a sell-by date.

• 7:15Adam Friedland?

  You're gonna be an author slash restaurant owner?

• 7:17Speaker 05

  I'm gonna grow a beard and then I'm probably just gonna start delivering, you know, wine again or something. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

• 7:23Adam Friedland?

  That's what you're gonna do? Well, you've kind of stepped up. You've kind of ascended, right? You were like city council, kind of.

• 7:28Speaker 05

  Parking and traffic, brother.

• 7:29Adam Friedland?

  So you started at parking and traffic?

• 7:31Speaker 05

  Yes, don't forget that.

• 7:32Adam Friedland?

  Then you went to, you worked your way up, mayor of San Francisco?

• 7:35Speaker 05

  No, I worked my way down to supervisor, then mayor.

• 7:37Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Down to meter maid?

• 7:40Speaker 05

  Chair of, by the way, I changed the name meter maid to parking control officer.

• 7:44Adam Friedland?

  Oh, this woke bullshit.

• 7:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, that was, you know, by the way, it was very emotional. People appreciated that. By the way, we did something.

• 7:50Adam Friedland?

  The meter maids?

• 7:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's in the book. It's actually.

• 7:52Adam Friedland?

  Lovely reta?

• 7:53Speaker 05

  You must have read the damn book. We're talking about stuff in the book. We not only changed, see, I actually accomplished something as a parking and traffic commissioner. We changed the name from meter maid to parking control officer. And then we did parking control officer of the month.

• 8:05Adam Friedland?

  Did you give them guns?

• 8:08Speaker 05

  They don't have guns.

• 8:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 8:09Speaker 05

  No.

• 8:10Adam Friedland?

  That's why they're the least respected cops, they don't have guns.

• 8:13Speaker 05

  But meter maids is, you know, that, don't you like parking control officer better?

• 8:17Adam Friedland?

  No, I have no respect until they get the gun. Okay, I'm sorry. They get a gun and then we'll talk.

• 8:24Speaker 05

  I in the book talk about a pellet gun that was used to shoot one of the parking control officers.

• 8:29Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and if they had, if they had an AR-13, it would have been.

• 8:33Speaker 05

  Well, they had AR-15, it would have been more impressive than a 13.

• 8:37Adam Friedland?

  I don't even know what that is. I don't know what a 15 is. They made a new one? Okay, San Francisco, from what I understand, is kind of, in terms of California politics, kind of like, it's a talent factory, right?

• 8:47Speaker 05

  Weirdly, right? I mean, you may not, you may despise all of us, but it conveys all these.

• 8:52Adam Friedland?

  Former vice president.

• 8:54Speaker 05

  Yeah, and then a legend, Willie Brown, who is connected to all this. There's sort of this Brown-Burton-Pelosi machine that it's referred to in Northern California. And it's, by the way, San Francisco, man, everybody, I mean, the folks out on the streets and sidewalks know all about you.

• 9:08Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 9:09Speaker 05

  Cabbed all about you. It's 24/7, surrounds out, political engagement. So you gotta be on your game all the time. And it's a big enough city, and small enough city, that you're expected to know everything, and be everywhere, and do everything.

• 9:22Adam Friedland?

  I'd go, I'd go when I was a kid to SF, like, because I had family that lived there. And it was, it's a magical place. I mean, it's an unbelievable place. It's also, I was saying to you on the phone, it's like, when it's winter everywhere else, it's like 75, and when it's summer everywhere else, it's like 32 degrees.

• 9:39Speaker 05

  The fog.

• 9:40Adam Friedland?

  It's really doing its own thing, but it's also just like, it's on the West Coast, but it's like confined by geography, so they build up, it's like a real city.

• 9:49Speaker 05

  By the way, it was, you know who said it was about the summers? It was, who the hell said it was?

• 9:54Adam Friedland?

  Allen Ginsberg.

• 9:55Speaker 05

  No, well, when in doubt, it was Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco was Ginsberg. No, but it was Mark Twain, he said the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco, because of the fog that comes in. And you get September, September, October, man, it's, it's the most beautiful weather. And Golden Gate Park is stunning, but you go down to Chrissy Field, you walk down there, right near the bay, under the Golden Gate Bridge, come on. Procedio, there's nothing like it anywhere in the world. It's one of the most spectacular cities for all the hate. That they're screaming about.

• 10:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but a lot of those Burning Man kinda singularity, let's do ketamine, fucking.

• 10:33Speaker 05

  By the way, uh, I was like, that was my, those are my people back in the day. I started do Burning Man. I started to do Burning Man sculptures when I was mayor. We started to put it out there. I never went, but I brought, they always, they were, they were bringing the sculptures back. I'm like, can't we put this stuff out?

• 10:49Adam Friedland?

  We can't have a president that goes, I'm not saying you're gonna, whatever.

• 10:52Speaker 05

  You've never been to Burning Man?

• 10:54Adam Friedland?

  No way.

• 10:55Speaker 05

  Back when it was cool?

• 10:56Adam Friedland?

  Okay, the only way.

• 10:57Speaker 05

  But now it's all, you know, gentry, Burning Man's gentrified.

• 11:00Adam Friedland?

  It's ridiculous.

• 11:01Speaker 05

  You never bought into that?

• 11:01Adam Friedland?

  It's ridicu- you're in the.

• 11:03Speaker 05

  You haven't tried ketamine? You never did?

• 11:04Adam Friedland?

  No, it's really, it's, the whole thing.

• 11:07Speaker 05

  I don't know. Seems like a lot of people talking about ketamine.

• 11:10Adam Friedland?

  On the phone yesterday, we, we, it was like two alpha, this is what happens when two alphas get together, butt heads. And let's just say, the cameras were not, but it is one nothing me. Okay.

• 11:21Speaker 05

  Oh, were it really? Is that how we're starting this?

• 11:24Adam Friedland?

  It is one nothing me. Okay.

• 11:25Speaker 05

  So you've edited the first part of this and we're just gonna like jump right into it's one nothing you.

• 11:29Adam Friedland?

  So the book, it, it's, it's not like a celebration of you, right?

• 11:34Speaker 05

  It's not zero, zero sum, man. We're all in this together, man. We're all in this together.

• 11:39Adam Friedland?

  Whatever.

• 11:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, your success is my suc- we're, we're all in this together.

• 11:43Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no.

• 11:43Speaker 05

  You don't buy that?

• 11:44Adam Friedland?

  No, no.

• 11:45Speaker 05

  Are you one of those people that begrudge other people's success? Like you're just like, damn, man, that guy.

• 11:49Adam Friedland?

  If they suck.

• 11:52Adam Friedland?

  If it's like the squad, if it's the, the team and they're eating, that's great.

• 11:55Speaker 05

  You're good.

• 11:56Adam Friedland?

  I'm happy for the, for the boys.

• 11:58Speaker 05

  I used to be that.

• 11:58Adam Friedland?

  This guy's gonna win Academy Award, this guy.

• 12:00Speaker 05

  Is this guy right now?

• 12:01Adam Friedland?

  He's unbelievable talented.

• 12:03Speaker 05

  Well, as long as we edit a few of the things and we'll be all right. Are you an editor or just a cinematographer?

• 12:09Adam Friedland?

  No, with the camera there, uh, yeah, they're director of photography.

• 12:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, he's not. Yeah, forgive me. Is that it? Do you pay them accordingly?

• 12:17Speaker 05

  Why are they laughing, man?

• 12:18Adam Friedland?

  He doesn't have.

• 12:19Speaker 05

  What is that? What is that? How are you guys all doing here?

• 12:21Adam Friedland?

  He's a, doesn't have doc- he's undocumented.

• 12:23Speaker 05

  You guys unionized? What is this?

• 12:24Adam Friedland?

  Shut the fuck up.

• 12:27Adam Friedland?

  Oh, okay. Oh, wow. The chess match continues.

• 12:30Speaker 05

  No, I'm just saying.

• 12:31Adam Friedland?

  The chess match continues, okay. Um, I guess this is a very confessional book. It kind of ends right before your gubernatorial term.

• 12:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:39Adam Friedland?

  It's much more about where you come from and who you are. So like, when someone reads this book, which I'm sure everyone is...

• 12:46Speaker 05

  Unbelievable.

• 12:47Adam Friedland?

  You're gonna get...

• 12:47Speaker 05

  Day two. Buy the book.

• 12:50Adam Friedland?

  Buy the book, we're gonna move to you.

• 12:51Speaker 05

  Best way to buy it is in bulk.

• 12:52Adam Friedland?

  Uh, yeah, yeah. Go to Costco, buy a packet.

• 12:55Speaker 05

  Buy a packet, Costco.

• 12:57Adam Friedland?

  What do you want people to know about you? What do you think the message is?

• 13:03Speaker 05

  Well, then, I'm not this politician. I mean, this is about me.

• 13:06Adam Friedland?

  Well, you are a politician.

• 13:07Speaker 05

  I know, but that, but the political side, it's that I'm a work in progress. I'm human, I make mistakes. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm trying to actually express that I tried to be someone I was not. And I walked through that. I put a mask on and I tried to be, you know, tried to strike a pose, tried to be what people expected me to be and I didn't, you know, made mistakes. I didn't feel good about myself, insecurities, anxieties. And so I scrutinized all that, man. I dove deep and it was a five-year process. And I call it a memoir of discovery because I didn't even understand all this stuff about my background, my life, my parents. My mom died 20 years ago. My dad died right after I got elected. And I never had a chance to talk to them about their childhood and their backgrounds and their struggles. And, and so this allowed me to do that.

• 13:51Speaker 05

  And I just, it was, I learned about this house of secrets in my mom's life.

• 13:55Adam Friedland?

  How did you do it? Did you interview people?

• 13:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. Went back, I got FBI files. I didn't know there was tons of FBI files in the family.

• 14:00Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 14:01Speaker 05

  I didn't know my grandfather was close to Oppenheimer. Um, I, I had someone randomly mention, I didn't know about his suicide and what led to it. I didn't know that he was a prisoner of war during marching in Corregidor in World War II. I didn't know about my dad's forays into some interesting mob-related issues as it relates to old San Francisco back in the day. I didn't know my, the origin story of the Newsom's was an Irish cop. And my dad used to say, he didn't know what came first, the Irish cop or San Francisco. And so you just start to learn about all that and it sort of makes sense. All of a sudden, you're like, that's why this is interesting. Or that's why my father did this 20 years ago. Or that's why they got divorced. I didn't know why my parents got divorced.

• 14:41Adam Friedland?

  It's because your dad lost two races, right?

• 14:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, lost two races. Why my mom said, "Don't get into politics." I didn't know why she didn't want me to get into politics. But it wrecked their marriage, it wrecked her youth, her life. She was nineteen.

• 14:53Adam Friedland?

  And he was how old, thirty-two?

• 14:55Speaker 05

  Thirty-three, man. As he described it, scandal. You know, she's nineteen, bro.

• 15:01Adam Friedland?

  It's tough.

• 15:02Speaker 05

  That's ridiculous. And imagine being like nineteen and a couple of years later with two kids and you come from no money, man. In a broken household, I mean, her family, a mess, in terms of just how she was raised.

• 15:13Adam Friedland?

  Her mother was a red, right? Her mother moved to the Soviet Union. Pretty cool.

• 15:18Speaker 05

  Trigger Addis, that was her station. She was an actress.

• 15:20Adam Friedland?

  She was an actress that moved to the Soviet, it's like that movie Reds.

• 15:23Speaker 05

  Yeah, and then her, and that's why thus the FBI files on her parents, that they were, you know, they were, you know, they're very involved in, you know, in social justice and economic and racial justice. My great-great-grandmother suffered yet back in the day. So it's interesting, this advocacy that ran through it. But she didn't talk about that. No one talked about it. I didn't know about it till I wrote this book.

• 15:45Adam Friedland?

  One thing that's unique about you is that America is a place where no one's from somewhere for five generations.

• 15:53Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's weird.

• 15:53Adam Friedland?

  You're a fifth generation San Franciscan. This isn't like a thing in this country, like, people aren't tied to a geographical place.

• 16:00Speaker 05

  I want to make the point you're making, because you just reminded me of something, no BS. When I was mayor, I think I was, at one point, I was the only elected official in San Francisco from San Francisco.

• 16:10Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 16:11Speaker 05

  And it was like used against me.

• 16:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:13Speaker 05

  Like, I remember saying, when I grew up, you know, and the people are like, who the fuck do you think you are, man? I was like, I don't know, I just grew up here, I talked about the old neighborhood. They're like, what, some elitist?

• 16:22Adam Friedland?

  Where was everyone else from, Burning Man?

• 16:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 16:26Speaker 05

  You know what, that San Francisco is like, someone described it as forty-seven square miles surrounded by reality. Right, a city of dreamers, reality Oakland. Vallejo, Hercules. You remember Hercules? It's still there.

• 16:40Adam Friedland?

  Do you ever ghost ride the whip?

• 16:44Speaker 05

  No, I haven't. Have you?

• 16:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, oh yeah. A lot of my friends actually hurt themselves severely in high school trying to ghost ride the whip.

• 16:51Speaker 05

  Have you ever heard the whistle go whoop whoop? What's the whistle doing?

• 16:56Adam Friedland?

  No, no.

• 16:57Speaker 05

  By the way, one of the things you gotta do, no BS, like to really appreciate San Francisco, you gotta walk the cable up the Golden Gate Bridge to the top.

• 17:06Adam Friedland?

  It sounds scary.

• 17:07Speaker 05

  It's off the chart amazing.

• 17:08Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 17:08Speaker 05

  Done it twice. It is.

• 17:10Adam Friedland?

  Too scary, bro.

• 17:11Speaker 05

  Zen-like, relaxing. You want beauty, man. That you get, you look at that, you look down at Alcatraz, you see the skyline of San Francisco, the Farallon Islands where all the great white sharks are, Marin County, you know, eat your heart out, all those folks on Fox just talking down to my old city. Such a, it's like, it is a spectacular place. And so five generations there, my kid's sixth generation, which is crazy. We finally moved.

• 17:37Adam Friedland?

  Your great-great-grandmother started the fire, is that right?

• 17:40Speaker 05

  They started it?

• 17:40Adam Friedland?

  They started the fire.

• 17:41Speaker 05

  Really started in oh six, I remember, you know one of the coolest things? I was there, I didn't write about this. There's, they called, there's beautiful, Latisse Fountain is where everyone came after the earthquake. And it was like the only working water. And remember, it wasn't the fire, it wasn't, excuse me, it wasn't the earthquake that destroyed the city, it was the great fire afterwards. And, and so people started to send on this area. And we had the 100th anniversary when I was mayor, 2006. And I remember going down and there was five or six survivors and we, it went live. I interviewed people at five in the morning, freezing cold. And there's these wonderful ladies wrapped up and they looked all demure and.

• 18:21Adam Friedland?

  How old were they?

• 18:22Speaker 05

  A hundred and two? Like, no, like a hundred and six, seven, crazy. And, and, and one of them, and so we're live on, I think it was the Today Show or something, and I'm trying to be the MC mayor. You know, tell me, what do you remember of that day? And.

• 18:36Adam Friedland?

  That's cute.

• 18:37Speaker 05

  A few cute things, and then one woman says, oh, I remember getting frisky with my boyfriend in the tent.

• 18:44Adam Friedland?

  Wait, that doesn't make any sense.

• 18:45Speaker 05

  And I'm like, what are you, like 14 years old or something? I can't even remember.

• 18:47Adam Friedland?

  So she was 114 years old?

• 18:49Speaker 05

  I think she was making it up or something, but it was like.

• 18:52Adam Friedland?

  Oh, she had dementia.

• 18:53Speaker 05

  She got deep into the inappropriate stuff and like, I'm live, I'm trying to act all, we're good. And I'll be right back after.

• 18:59Adam Friedland?

  And I went to the forest and pulled my skirt off for the boys, yeah.

• 19:03Speaker 05

  And I was like, so, anyway, that's. San Francisco, man, it's, by the way, interesting, just where the, the, the, the flag of San Francisco is the phoenix.

• 19:11Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I didn't know that.

• 19:12Speaker 05

  Phoenix rising from the ashes of the 06 earthquake. Which I feel like is where we are today, or where we'll be in the future after we're done with Trump.

• 19:20Adam Friedland?

  Can I rapid fire a quiz, San Francisco quiz, who's the best San Francisco band ever?

• 19:26Speaker 05

  Bro, I was just with, I was with Bobby Weir's family.

• 19:29Adam Friedland?

  Oh, at the funeral?

• 19:30Speaker 05

  Funeral, man, I mean, they gave me a.

• 19:32Adam Friedland?

  It has to be, it has to be.

• 19:33Speaker 05

  I mean, but the dead are just so synonymous with everything.

• 19:37Adam Friedland?

  How many shows have you been to?

• 19:38Speaker 05

  Not many, and they actually rubbed that in when I was there.

• 19:41Adam Friedland?

  Dude, you did a little bit of this?

• 19:42Speaker 05

  No, in fact, I write about that. No, that was weird.

• 19:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you said you never did weed.

• 19:46Speaker 05

  No, it was weird, I never got into that.

• 19:47Adam Friedland?

  So you stood there listening to diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle for four hours, not doing any weed?

• 19:52Speaker 05

  It was the op- you know what, you know I was, the first Dead concert I went to, I wasn't even in the concert, I was working for, I wasn't working, I was volunteering for the Environmental Defense Fund. And I had a booth, and I was out there promoting environmental, I was that guy.

• 20:07Adam Friedland?

  Here's a second question, what's the best San Francisco delicacy?

• 20:10Speaker 05

  Oh, a Lucas.

• 20:11Adam Friedland?

  What is, what is that?

• 20:12Speaker 05

  Why do you ask that? How do you not know that?

• 20:14Adam Friedland?

  A Lucas?

• 20:15Speaker 05

  Lucas Deli on Chestnut Street.

• 20:17Adam Friedland?

  Oh, delicatessen or delicacy?

• 20:20Speaker 05

  Delicatessen.

• 20:21Adam Friedland?

  Okay, who is the best San Francisco football star who later played at USC and won the Heisman Trophy? And then played for the Buffalo Bills, ran for 2,000 yards in one season, was in The Naked Gun, and then was falsely accused of...

• 20:38Adam Friedland?

  Who is the best, uh...

• 20:40Speaker 05

  Man, I ain't going to OJ, what are you talking about?

• 20:43Adam Friedland?

  That's your goat, bro.

• 20:44Speaker 05

  That's my goat. Back to the editing, I want to get, can we edit this?

• 20:49Adam Friedland?

  I'm saying, what's the best band, what's the best delicacy, and who's the best football standout star?

• 20:54Speaker 05

  Man, you come on the best of the best.

• 20:56Adam Friedland?

  Who later went to USC, won the Heisman Trophy, played for the Buffalo Bills.

• 21:01Speaker 05

  No, the goat is Joe Montana, bro, number 16.

• 21:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 21:05Adam Friedland?

  But he's not from there.

• 21:06Speaker 05

  Five rings, what?

• 21:07Adam Friedland?

  He's from SF?

• 21:09Speaker 05

  He is, from my perspective. I don't know, where did Joe grow up? I should know this, I've gotten to know him.

• 21:14Adam Friedland?

  Probably Burning Man.

• 21:15Speaker 05

  Everyone, everyone comes from Burning Man, they all just appeared from... The middle of earth and just all emerged.

• 21:23Adam Friedland?

  Oh, God, grow up, okay?

• 21:24Speaker 05

  I'm just saying.

• 21:25Adam Friedland?

  Grow up. We're making sculptures made out of lasers.

• 21:29Speaker 05

  As a kid, were you injured by someone who went to Burning Man or something?

• 21:32Adam Friedland?

  No, it wasn't a thing at Burning Man.

• 21:34Speaker 05

  What was it? What offense?

• 21:36Adam Friedland?

  I just don't need to listen to the guys that are like, like, quite frankly, gonna ruin the world talking about drugs and.

• 21:42Speaker 05

  It's ketamine thing.

• 21:43Adam Friedland?

  The singularity.

• 21:45Speaker 05

  Singularity. There is a little, by the way, you're on to something with all this stuff.

• 21:48Adam Friedland?

  Those idiots, like, yeah, they know all the problems in the world, but they think only they can solve them. And then oftentimes their solutions are just moronic solutions.

• 21:58Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 21:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 21:59Speaker 05

  No, we're now, actually, I'm, I'm, I hear you. I got it. All right.

• 22:02Adam Friedland?

  Did you see when Uber invented, they were like, it's called Uber, like, Route? And you could just hop on and it goes on a route and they just invented the bus? Yeah, like, they acted like this is the new, you know?

• 22:14Speaker 05

  Yeah, I will say.

• 22:16Adam Friedland?

  There's such dildos, those guys.

• 22:17Speaker 05

  They definitely destroyed the taxi industry, as we know. But, by the way, when you're in San Francisco, I saw Waymo just announced they're rolling out to 10 more cities. They've been in six, but that future started in San Francisco first.

• 22:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 22:29Speaker 05

  And you, I got, no bullshit, the other day I have a picture, I think there were six Waymos in front of me, driverless cars, in traffic. I mean, it's like, this is, stuff's happening in real time.

• 22:39Adam Friedland?

  Have you been in one?

• 22:40Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 22:41Adam Friedland?

  There, it's a confident driver.

• 22:42Speaker 05

  It's a confident.

• 22:43Adam Friedland?

  I thought it would be like a granny, but the robot is confident.

• 22:46Speaker 05

  It's confident. And then there are the zooks, which are not even cars, they're just like little convention.

• 22:54Speaker 05

  By the way, the flying cars are coming too, for the Olympics, they're gonna have the first sort of quad flying cars. So that's the, that's the next iteration. It's all, Jetsons are here, man, not the Flintstones.

• 23:03Adam Friedland?

  Ugh.

• 23:04Speaker 05

  Yeah. Well, you don't like that either?

• 23:06Adam Friedland?

  Can we just go to the doctor, I guess?

• 23:08Speaker 05

  I went to your third story bathroom, man, that's old school, so that's maybe, you know.

• 23:12Adam Friedland?

  You were a suit kid to school.

• 23:15Speaker 05

  I was a dork, I told you. My sister said that, she was very, I was trying to be like Remington Steele. I love Pierce Brosnan. I don't know, I love Pierce Brosnan, so I'll admit that, I love that guy.

• 23:25Adam Friedland?

  But did you chill at a crew of other suit guys, or you were the only suit guy?

• 23:29Speaker 05

  I was a complete loser. I'm an absolute loser, I had a flock of seagull haircut, look it up, you guys are too young, you don't know.

• 23:35Adam Friedland?

  We know what it is, we're not idiots.

• 23:36Speaker 05

  Back in the day, and it was, it was bad, man, it was bad.

• 23:40Adam Friedland?

  But suit, suit bad grades is psychotic.

• 23:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, I was struggling, man.

• 23:45Adam Friedland?

  Suit bad grades is crazy.

• 23:47Speaker 05

  Why is that?

• 23:48Adam Friedland?

  It's just crazy. You were suit bad grades, but I don't buy it, I think you're a liar.

• 23:52Speaker 05

  What if I'm a liar, there, I got photos, I mean, Jesus.

• 23:55Adam Friedland?

  But you bat 460?

• 23:56Speaker 05

  I was pretty good.

• 23:57Adam Friedland?

  You were senior year, and you were suit bad?

• 23:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, I was a pretty good athlete.

• 24:01Adam Friedland?

  Bad grades, 460 makes sense.

• 24:02Speaker 05

  But I was a really good athlete back then, now you have to be, you know, like, I mean, like, eight graders could, are better than I was in high school today.

• 24:09Adam Friedland?

  Dude.

• 24:10Speaker 05

  No, I was like basketball, baseball, and that saved me, man, sports saved me, got me into college, that's how you get into college, about the 900 or whatever.

• 24:16Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 24:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, you don't have to, see, this is.

• 24:18Adam Friedland?

  Dude, why are you doing this, you're doing like Jewish comedy with this book, like, and my mother sent me to the, to my analyst, and, oh, look at this, look at this, look at everyone, look, do you think?

• 24:29Speaker 05

  Okay, what are you showing?

• 24:30Adam Friedland?

  This is a suit guy.

• 24:31Speaker 05

  That was it, yeah.

• 24:32Adam Friedland?

  This is the guy who lost his virginity at 11, okay?

• 24:35Speaker 05

  That's not, by the way, did not.

• 24:36Adam Friedland?

  This is the coolest guy I've ever seen in my life.

• 24:38Speaker 05

  No, that's, I tell, I tell.

• 24:39Adam Friedland?

  I need him.

• 24:40Speaker 05

  I was senior in high, I was senior in high school.

• 24:42Adam Friedland?

  So you've become cool at that point?

• 24:44Speaker 05

  By the way, you see the flock of seagull haircut under the hat?

• 24:46Adam Friedland?

  It's barely, it's barely a flock.

• 24:48Speaker 05

  Dippity do, that was it.

• 24:49Adam Friedland?

  You're making it sound like you're a gothic.

• 24:51Speaker 05

  They had a little thing, I'll never forget, I think it was, I can't remember her name, Tracy, whatever, she was one of the, she said, dippity, you know, dippity do, dippity do, Gavin, it was like one of those, we love, you know, some weird cheer.

• 25:02Adam Friedland?

  A girl had a cheer for you?

• 25:04Speaker 05

  It was like a cheer.

• 25:05Adam Friedland?

  I, one thing, I don't know, I tossed her out of my mind, is like, is this like a preemptive, like, defense of like, things that you get hit on? Because you look like, you look like, just like your dad is CEO of the money company. Right? You look incredible. I mean, he's one of the hottest guys ever.

• 25:22Speaker 05

  I wish.

• 25:22Adam Friedland?

  And politics is ugly. Politics is ugly people, right?

• 25:26Speaker 05

  Well, yeah.

• 25:27Adam Friedland?

  You have to chill with the gremlins.

• 25:29Speaker 05

  It's Hollywood.

• 25:31Adam Friedland?

  You're like, you're walking around, you're like, the talent is not.

• 25:35Speaker 05

  What are we talking about?

• 25:37Adam Friedland?

  But what I'm saying is this, is like, is like, you're saying like, no, my mother struggled. She had multiple jobs.

• 25:43Speaker 05

  Yeah. Yeah, three jobs all our life. She died, you know, as I said, 20 years ago.

• 25:48Adam Friedland?

  Tell us about your dad.

• 25:49Speaker 05

  My dad was, he wasn't around. He disappeared when we were kids. He ran for supervisor, county supervisor, state senate. Lost, said he was broke and broke in and then just took off and went to Lake Tahoe region. And near Truckee, became an attorney up there and eventually became a judge. But he was, he was, he was an activist judge. So it was like social justice, racial justice, environmental justice. That's why I was out there with EDF, Environmental Offense Fund. He was on the board at the Dead concert. So he always, there was always cause oriented. He always had social justice. And that was, that was the influence he provided, but was my mom's ethic, hard work and grit. But what happened and what I write about in here is my, the perception of me, besides the blue suits and, you know, all that,

• 26:34Speaker 05

  was the association with the Getty family, which is a wealthy family.

• 26:37Adam Friedland?

  Your dad was like a, like a consigliere kind of to one of the sons?

• 26:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, and he was just, he grew up with two of the kids in high school. And they used, they basically were raised by my grandfather. They, they used to show up at Boss Newsom and they called him Boss back then. And they just became Boss back in the day. But just became incredibly close, including, by the way, my dad was Paul Getty's godson, or godfather, who's one who had his ear cut off, was kidnapped.

• 27:08Adam Friedland?

  Oh, in the ransom. And your dad did deliver the ransom?

• 27:12Speaker 05

  He did do the direct ransom, but he was deeply part of it, which I describe in the book. And it was sort of. Worldwide phenomenon back in the day.

• 27:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 27:22Speaker 05

  In sort of that dolce vita seventies day. The, the, one of the world's first billionaires was J. Paul Getty. Like actually one of the first.

• 27:29Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 27:29Speaker 05

  And he refused to provide the ransom for his grandson. It became an issue and he eventually only did.

• 27:34Adam Friedland?

  I respect that.

• 27:36Speaker 05

  Well, he said, he said, I got thirteen others or twenty others, however many he had. And he said, now I'd be writing a check for all of them.

• 27:41Adam Friedland?

  That is crazy. You're still here.

• 27:43Speaker 05

  And so the guy, so what they did, they cut his ear off. They're like, kid, we mean business. And they put it in an envelope. And there was a strike, an Italian strike, so it didn't arrive in the mail for a while. And it was kind of deteriorated.

• 27:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 27:57Speaker 05

  And, and Paul, lucky he survived because they gave him a date certain that they would take his other ear and other parts of his body off. Um, and eventually the ear arrived and there was a freckle on it that her mom, his mom recognized to verify it. And that's when they got very serious about getting him home.

• 28:15Adam Friedland?

  One, one thing I was like wondering is like your dad had a relationship with one of the children where he was kind of like ran his investments.

• 28:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 28:23Adam Friedland?

  Personal wealth. Yeah.

• 28:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, he was working for one, there's many.

• 28:27Adam Friedland?

  Like the family.

• 28:27Speaker 05

  Trusts. Yeah. And so he, after he was judge and retired from judge.

• 28:31Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 28:32Speaker 05

  He began a more formal role. He was always.

• 28:33Adam Friedland?

  Did that help with alimony? Did that help your mom?

• 28:36Speaker 05

  No, he didn't get, in fact, I talk about how much he got paid, which was not, less than I got paid as governor. Uh, so he didn't, he never made any money, I mean, significant money. There's a perception that he made a ton of money. He died, my dad died with a house in the gold country, uh, very conservative.

• 28:51Adam Friedland?

  Sounds rich. Sounds rich.

• 28:53Speaker 05

  Uh, cause it's, yeah.

• 28:55Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it sounds very rich to me.

• 28:56Speaker 05

  An old cabin in Dutch Flat, California with two mortgages. And, uh, his inheritance was all these books that I talk about never reading because I have.

• 29:05Adam Friedland?

  Dyslexia.

• 29:06Speaker 05

  Pretty bad learning. Yeah, no, that's not my jam. That's the nine sixty. And so, anyway, I talk about that in relationship to some of the academic struggles, my reading struggles, which, you know, I don't read speeches today. I don't like, I'm a politician that doesn't read a speech, because I can't read a speech. And that may not be interesting to many of that people. Maybe they'll go, "Oh, that's why you're so boring and bad." I get it, you know, those that hate me.

• 29:31Adam Friedland?

  Well, did it help you learn how to schmooze?

• 29:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 29:34Speaker 05

  Because you're more, you just, you pick up a room, you talk about whether or not people are unionized, how much they're getting paid, and, you know, you just feel a different vibe.

• 29:41Adam Friedland?

  Oh, you have no idea.

• 29:42Speaker 05

  I'm gonna do a car check.

• 29:43Adam Friedland?

  You have no idea what I'm coming for you.

• 29:45Speaker 05

  I'm gonna do some car check.

• 29:46Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 29:46Speaker 05

  So, I got your back now.

• 29:47Adam Friedland?

  I'm a nerd, the book.

• 29:48Speaker 05

  What's your pension look?

• 29:49Adam Friedland?

  I'm 6'3" and I'm a nerd, the book.

• 29:51Speaker 05

  You don't have a pension?

• 29:52Adam Friedland?

  Why don't you write a book about?

• 29:53Speaker 05

  You have healthcare. Are you doing full-time healthcare for these guys?

• 29:56Adam Friedland?

  Yes, I am, boys. How's the healthcare?

• 29:58Speaker 05

  Okay, that's gonna help you.

• 29:59Adam Friedland?

  Give it up for the boys!

• 30:00Speaker 05

  Maybe I won't get all the sayings.

• 30:01Adam Friedland?

  Give it up for the boys!

• 30:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:03Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 30:04Speaker 05

  Basically, what do you got?

• 30:05Adam Friedland?

  Maybe, maybe you can help me by, uh, I don't have to pay for it, then we can do it through the taxes.

• 30:09Speaker 05

  Uh.

• 30:11Adam Friedland?

  I don't really know much about dyslexia, but whatever they, whatever they want to do in the Castro district is fine by me.

• 30:18Speaker 05

  When was the last time you were in Castro?

• 30:20Adam Friedland?

  Uh, constantly, every day.

• 30:21Speaker 05

  By the way, you know what you need to do? A lot of people go to the Castro Street Fair. You gotta do the Folsom Street Fair.

• 30:26Adam Friedland?

  That's like the bondage one, it's like, yeah, yeah.

• 30:29Speaker 05

  I'll never.

• 30:30Adam Friedland?

  You go to that?

• 30:31Speaker 05

  I remember.

• 30:32Adam Friedland?

  You say, "Vote for me" to a gimp?

• 30:33Speaker 05

  I never, I'll never forget the first time I went there. I, I wanna say what I'm gonna say. I'm not gonna say it, because I still am, I still, I'm facing even more recalls.

• 30:41Adam Friedland?

  You saw one of the biggest penises you've ever seen in your life?

• 30:44Speaker 05

  I've got what you, you, I can never unsee what I saw.

• 30:47Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 30:48Speaker 05

  Yeah. I'm looking at it right now, I just, but I can't share it.

• 30:51Adam Friedland?

  Well, we're jumping around a bit, but like, the first time I became aware of you was like, you were like, performing gay marriages, like, you were kind of the fir-, you kind of like, invented it. You were kind of, came up with the idea of two fellers getting through the door.

• 31:06Adam Friedland?

  Do you think that it made San Francisco a place like the for like gay that gay people like to live in?

• 31:11Speaker 05

  I married, we married 4,036 couples from 46 states, six countries. In the winter, not summer, of love, February 2004 in San Francisco, man, it was off the charts amazing. Like, next level, just spirit, pride, the stuff that politi- you can't legislate that. It just, it happens. People coming together, pilots and firefighters, doctors. So extraordinary because nothing about it was that extraordinary. It's just about love, man. It was just about people expressing their love, faith and devotion and partnership. And that energy was, you know, just, it inspires, you know, just a mindset of what public service can and should be.

• 31:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 31:54Speaker 05

  It also was against the law.

• 31:56Adam Friedland?

  And they sent you to Alcatraz?

• 31:57Speaker 05

  Design, you know, he's working on, he's doing, well, no, he's, well, he's doing the $400 million Kremlin Imperial Palace there. But he's spending your tax dollars now reviewing whether to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison.

• 32:10Adam Friedland?

  That'd be kinda cool, actually.

• 32:11Speaker 05

  Be interesting.

• 32:12Adam Friedland?

  The Rock?

• 32:13Speaker 05

  The Rock. Won that great movie.

• 32:15Adam Friedland?

  He's so sick.

• 32:16Speaker 05

  But that was when movies were great.

• 32:17Adam Friedland?

  Sick where he dives in the nuclear, yeah, yeah, so sick, so sick.

• 32:20Speaker 05

  That's good, and that mean, come on.

• 32:22Adam Friedland?

  Great San Francisco flick.

• 32:24Speaker 05

  Thank you, yes.

• 32:25Adam Friedland?

  You gotta go back to The Rock.

• 32:26Speaker 05

  The Rock.

• 32:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I, I wanna talk to you, first of all, I really appreciate your time. And I think we've, we've done enough of this grab assing and, you know, you know.

• 32:37Speaker 05

  Why don't we start in the interview?

• 32:38Adam Friedland?

  We're about. Do you have an announcement to make?

• 32:42Speaker 05

  What is that?

• 32:43Adam Friedland?

  So why don't you go ahead?

• 32:45Speaker 05

  Uh, boxers.

• 32:48Adam Friedland?

  What do you mean, an announcement?

• 32:49Speaker 05

  Jesus.

• 32:49Adam Friedland?

  What do you, come on, you said, you promised.

• 32:52Speaker 05

  What's the announcement?

• 32:53Adam Friedland?

  It's big, it would be big for the show.

• 32:56Speaker 05

  Unbelievable.

• 32:58Adam Friedland?

  Just do it for me, dude. Honestly, I was nice enough to have you on. Even if you take it back, even if you say, "Psych, I'm not running for president." Just say it on the show. I'll get a clip, it'll go viral. It'll be, it'll be good for me.

• 33:08Speaker 05

  You're all about...

• 33:09Adam Friedland?

  I was nice enough to invite you.

• 33:11Speaker 05

  You are nice enough to invite me. I haven't been nice enough to organize your, your, your staff. Um, get them kind of healthcare and pension they deserve.

• 33:18Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah.

• 33:19Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:19Adam Friedland?

  You were nice enough to write a book like they all do before they announce that they're running for president.

• 33:23Speaker 05

  Politician with a book. I'm surprised you had me on, man.

• 33:25Adam Friedland?

  But your book is called, "I'm Not Cool, Actually." Even though you're 6'3" and like a piece of...

• 33:31Speaker 05

  6'2", 6'2 and a half.

• 33:33Adam Friedland?

  You're a smoke. I can't even look at you.

• 33:34Speaker 05

  6'2 and a half.

• 33:35Adam Friedland?

  I can't even, I can't even look at you. California is what, the fourth largest economy at this point?

• 33:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, 4.3 trillion dollars a year.

• 33:41Adam Friedland?

  The attitude in America isn't like, "Oh, these big, just because they're so big and strong, they look down on us." The attitude is like poop-covered, hobo-infested, hell scape. Right.

• 33:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, pisses me off.

• 33:54Adam Friedland?

  So, the question is, like, obviously, you, you've explained that this is like something that kind of the Murdoch sphere has pushed for 20 years. That makes total sense. But like, if you are being attacked on those grounds directly, if you're meeting someone, or let's, not even attacked. Let's say you meet someone in the middle of the country.

• 34:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 34:13Adam Friedland?

  Right? Some guy at the Iowa State Fair, he's eating fried shit or whatever. Are you gonna have to eat fried shit at the Iowa State Fair?

• 34:20Speaker 05

  No, it's a...

• 34:23Speaker 05

  It's like, it's fried, fried butter, fried, you know, I don't know.

• 34:28Adam Friedland?

  You're, literally, you had a restaurant, you had a nice restaurant, and you're like, "Oh, I love this fried turd."

• 34:33Speaker 05

  No, it's, come on.

• 34:34Adam Friedland?

  If someone comes up to you...

• 34:35Speaker 05

  Your roots.

• 34:36Adam Friedland?

  And they say, "You are a governor of a failed state." Like, uh, if they say to you, "Your shit sucks."

• 34:44Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 34:44Adam Friedland?

  "It's your fault."

• 34:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, cool.

• 34:46Adam Friedland?

  "You let in, you let in busloads of hobos and illegals." This is, this is a common perception. How do you, how do you address a person directly?

• 34:54Speaker 05

  Well, I mean, we can talk about the fact we went from the sixth largest economy to the fourth largest economy. We could talk about the fact we went from 49 to 58 Fortune 500 headquartered companies, more than any other state in the nation. We could talk about having more scientists, engineers... More Nobel laureates, the finest system of higher education anywhere in the world. We could talk about the fact we're the center of innovation and entrepreneurialism with AI, with quantum, with robotics, with autonomy. Dominating in research and development is the third largest R and D center in the world. We could talk about being the most diverse state and the world's most diverse democracy. And we're living and advancing together across our differences. We can talk about it being a tonic for our toxic politics. We can talk about how California's energy and daring across a spectrum of issue on climate change,

• 35:36Speaker 05

  on social policy, on racial policies, on social justice policies, are the dominant policies that have influenced more change across this country than any other state. I could begin there and then I can get to the details of what the issue that they want me to address is and try to balance that.

• 35:53Adam Friedland?

  Okay, I'm a guy like in Dayton, Ohio. I don't know what any of that means. I just heard it's covered in poop and stuff, okay?

• 35:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly.

• 35:59Adam Friedland?

  So just, so why don't you just say, why don't you say like, "Bro, it's mad nice." It's California, it's mad nice. We have the beach, it's gorgeous. Like, just come visit, it's mad nice, actually, right? That's what people say about New York.

• 36:13Speaker 05

  After you're a Burning Man, come to California, it's mad nice.

• 36:16Adam Friedland?

  It's nice.

• 36:17Speaker 05

  It's nice.

• 36:17Adam Friedland?

  It's a nice place. They have nice restaurants, they got beaches. Just tell the guy that.

• 36:22Speaker 05

  You like the mountains.

• 36:23Adam Friedland?

  That guy's not gonna care about-

• 36:25Speaker 05

  Like clean air.

• 36:26Adam Friedland?

  The Nobel laureates.

• 36:27Speaker 05

  You don't like all the economic vibrancy?

• 36:30Adam Friedland?

  It's really nice. But I'm saying a regular guy who's heard for 20 years that it sucks, just be like, "Bro, just come through, it's nice."

• 36:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's nice.

• 36:38Adam Friedland?

  Come, right?

• 36:39Speaker 05

  By the way, this is-

• 36:40Adam Friedland?

  It's actually gorgeous.

• 36:41Speaker 05

  Why do I have political consultants?

• 36:44Adam Friedland?

  I honestly am a starter.

• 36:45Speaker 05

  No, no, like actually, like no bullshit, like everyone who's watching this is like, they're team, like 2-0 right now.

• 36:51Adam Friedland?

  Just say, "Bro, it's nice."

• 36:52Speaker 05

  No, it's bad, I just got my ass kicked.

• 36:54Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 36:54Speaker 05

  100%, I sound like a fucking politician. Yeah, going through, let me say, just, it's mad nice, man.

• 37:00Adam Friedland?

  Honestly.

• 37:01Speaker 05

  Come on, bro. Beautiful, man.

• 37:03Adam Friedland?

  I mean it.

• 37:04Speaker 05

  Mad nice, walk with me in Venice Beach.

• 37:06Adam Friedland?

  You think he feels me?

• 37:06Speaker 05

  Santa Monica. I'm dead serious.

• 37:08Adam Friedland?

  I thank you, bro.

• 37:09Speaker 05

  No, I appreciate the vibe, and it's a California vibe, which is ironic.

• 37:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 37:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 37:13Adam Friedland?

  Just be like, dude, it's chill.

• 37:14Speaker 05

  Yeah, California dreaming, man.

• 37:15Adam Friedland?

  There's hot girls, there's nice beaches. It's just nice.

• 37:19Speaker 05

  The west coast has the sunshine.

• 37:21Adam Friedland?

  The weather's good.

• 37:21Speaker 05

  And the girls are, you know, yeah, you know it.

• 37:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, just like, have you heard the Beach Boys?

• 37:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. By the way, you know what? That is the vibe we need back. See, I'm not even, I'm not, I'm dead serious. I appreciate this. You're right. You're a hundred percent. What happens, and by the way, I write about this in the book. But that's what I, there's, I have this defensiveness about a lot of this stuff. And that comes across, and it comes across as slick and bullshitty. And you called it out. I, I appreciate that.

• 37:50Adam Friedland?

  You're doing like the eight mile thing where you're like, I live in a trailer.

• 37:55Speaker 05

  It's like, but it's actually true.

• 37:57Adam Friedland?

  You're doing it to me right now.

• 37:57Speaker 05

  But it was true, it's like.

• 37:58Adam Friedland?

  I'm hot, I'm hotter than the rest of the people that are in the government.

• 38:02Speaker 05

  My mom deserves me to tell her truth, and so I told the truth. But look, you wanted to call.

• 38:07Adam Friedland?

  I connected a lot with the story of her passing, because I was there for my mother's passing five years ago.

• 38:11Speaker 05

  Well, wait, what were you doing?

• 38:12Adam Friedland?

  Well, I'd like you to share your story from, from the book first, and then, uh.

• 38:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, that was, that was intense, man. I mean, so you literally went through the same thing?

• 38:21Adam Friedland?

  Well, I wasn't like, busy, I was like there for three months.

• 38:25Speaker 05

  Okay, so through the whole, the end.

• 38:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you were like, the mayor.

• 38:28Speaker 05

  I was, I was an ass, you know, I was a little piece of shit.

• 38:31Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:32Speaker 05

  Son that was not paying attention to her. She calls me, leaves a voice message, and says, if you want to see me, you should see me before next Thursday, because that'll be my last day. And I'm like, that's a hell of a voice message.

• 38:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:42Speaker 05

  And called my sister and like, what's going on? She goes, well, you haven't been around, you should pay an attention. Mom is doing assisted suicide. And it was illegal back then, it's 20 years ago. And, and so she got a courageous doctor. And I started spending a little time with her, and sort of. You know, talk about a pattern erupt in life, get your shit together, focus on what matters, not just yourself and what you're trying to achieve and be. And, uh, and it was intense, man. I went there. Uh, everyone spent time with my mom in the room, the back, everyone's in the living room, uh, in her apartment, and she just wanted to be with my sister and I.

• 39:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 39:19Speaker 05

  Uh, as the doctor gave her the final, you know, whatever the cocktail was.

• 39:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 39:24Speaker 05

  Doctor leaves and says, "It's all set," just quietly disappears. My sister on one side, I'm on the other side, we're looking through all her old photos, a sort of seventies type photographs, and she's just, "Oh, I remember there," and then she's having a hard time breathing. My sister just panics and just takes off, and I, she's like, "Can I go?" I say, "Go." And I didn't know what to do, and I was like, I, so I was there with her by myself, in those last sort of violent breaths, and then just put my head on her stomach and was there quietly for another ten, fifteen minutes, just bawling and what, you know, just reflecting on what a piece of shit I was, not to have been where they're always.

• 40:04Adam Friedland?

  What impact did that experience, what did that change?

• 40:06Speaker 05

  I hated her. Pissed me off, I was like, "Don't do that, yeah, don't, don't." Like, who allows their kids to be there to go through this?

• 40:15Adam Friedland?

  Well, I think most, a lot of people are, do it that way.

• 40:19Speaker 05

  Yeah, I, I just felt that at the time, I felt, and like, cause I saw my sister breaking down, and like, the pain she was struggling with, like, I, I was so glad she wasn't there to experience that, but no bullshit, and I, I, and I write a lot about it. Over the process of a five-year period, that's why that memoir, Discovery. Man, I'm now holding her hand, that breath is my breath, I don't want to like be modeling about it, and I'm so thankful to her that she gave me that privilege. And it, and it took years to understand that.

• 40:51Adam Friedland?

  Did you, have you considered that she wanted to be with you and your sister at that moment, right?

• 40:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, it, you know, so of course, she wanted it, the last thing she saw, yeah, man, it was, uh, "Make me a..." Yeah.

• 41:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:05Speaker 05

  And I remember the last words she said.

• 41:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:08Speaker 05

  Uh, so, hey, man.

• 41:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:10Speaker 05

  That's, uh, you don't get those things back. And so, you know, when you're asshole in a hurry.

• 41:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:16Speaker 05

  Uh, you know, this is like, I'm growing up, man. And every day I'm growing up and trying to be a better father. I've got ten year old tomorrow, twelve, fourteen, sixteen year old and better husband. And so that's, uh, that's the journey I'm on, man.

• 41:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I, I, I had the same experience. I, I think I told, I told my dad I didn't want to be there. And my dad said, that's your choice, obviously. And then I, it ended up that I was there.

• 41:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:41Adam Friedland?

  It was like, I, it was the right thing. She like.

• 41:44Speaker 05

  Was it, was it at home or is it in?

• 41:45Adam Friedland?

  It was at home.

• 41:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was at home.

• 41:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, well, it was like the first three months of COVID, uh, she had brain cancer. So, yeah, we were all there.

• 41:52Speaker 05

  God bless.

• 41:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, she was the best. She was twit. She was twit. I was very close with her. Yeah.

• 41:58Speaker 05

  How, how old was she?

• 41:59Adam Friedland?

  She was the two, twenty, twenty, fifty eight or sixty eight.

• 42:05Speaker 05

  Sixty eight.

• 42:06Adam Friedland?

  Too young.

• 42:07Speaker 05

  Too young, yeah.

• 42:08Adam Friedland?

  Really, really low.

• 42:09Speaker 05

  My mom was, I'm, I'm much older than my mom when she passed away, which is, by the way, when you get to that age, that's, that's a hell of a birthday. When you outlive your parents, when you meet that moment where you're like, Jesus. And my mom died at the age I am. You're like.

• 42:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 42:24Speaker 05

  So you just, you start to count blessings, man, not, you know, and the days, you know, the finality of it. You know, memento mori, you know, you can walk around with that, that, this notion, the finality of this.

• 42:35Adam Friedland?

  What was the issue? That she was just hard on you? She was like exhausted from work and then she like told you you were average or something?

• 42:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, man, cause I was. I was struggling. I was bouncing out of schools and, you know, always faking being sick. And, you know, I honestly, like, you know, people have certain degrees of dyslexia. I like literally couldn't do books. I faked reading. I was got into Cliff Notes. I'd copy the Cliff Notes and submit a book report.

• 42:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 42:59Speaker 05

  You know, getting caught. I mean, it was pathetic.

• 43:01Adam Friedland?

  I used to chill out too.

• 43:02Speaker 05

  Do you?

• 43:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 43:03Speaker 05

  What kind of, what?

• 43:03Adam Friedland?

  It was out of laziness.

• 43:05Speaker 05

  Out of laziness, yeah, cause the sixteen hundred SAT, it was too easy. You got, I just got bored. Um, but yeah, no, for me, it was like desperation. Anyway, so she, one night I'm just, you know, she's trying to put me to bed. She's back late from, you know, work and I'm not going to bed. I'm crying, I'm, you know, and she's like, it's okay to be average. Like just, and I'm like, fuck.

• 43:25Adam Friedland?

  That's really nice, actually, to say.

• 43:27Speaker 05

  And

• 43:28Adam Friedland?

  You don't have to get straight A's.

• 43:29Speaker 05

  I felt at the time, that wasn't harsh in hindsight, but it was harsh at the moment. And it was her just saying it's okay to be yourself. See, I didn't see it like that.

• 43:38Adam Friedland?

  My parents told me it wasn't acceptable not to get straight A's.

• 43:41Speaker 05

  I never, I had never had that expectation.

• 43:43Adam Friedland?

  My parents are Chinese. They're Mandarin.

• 43:46Speaker 05

  Tiger, tiger parents.

• 43:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they're Mandarin. No, I totally like understand. It does change completely everything, you know?

• 43:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:54Adam Friedland?

  It changes your perception of kind of what the point of everything is. And I feel like I, I feel like you, it seems as if you've gotten here, gotten there now. It's a very raw perspective. Do you feel like politicians have to like be more, I don't know? We like didn't know that FDR was in a wheelchair.

• 44:12Speaker 05

  I know.

• 44:13Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 44:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 44:14Adam Friedland?

  Kennedy, Kennedy was just like slaying.

• 44:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, just barely could have his back was moving. He's on steroids and all pumped up with all kinds of shit.

• 44:21Adam Friedland?

  We didn't know his body was broke. Yeah, like, you know, we didn't know that Reagan was senile.

• 44:30Speaker 05

  No, I mean.

• 44:32Adam Friedland?

  You know, like, do you think that?

• 44:34Speaker 05

  That's the problem.

• 44:35Adam Friedland?

  There's an aspect of, of public life now that you have to disclose. You have to, because of, I guess, the concept of authenticity, that like you have to kind of be more forthcoming because people respond to it more?

• 44:47Speaker 05

  I think it's, I think the proverbial over ten window, as they refer to it, but you know, it provides a little bit more latitude and grace in that respect. But I think, I think you can't get through this nowadays without people just like calling the bullshit like you did on my answer on, on California. And, and I honestly, I think people just want, just be your, be yourself, man. Let it go.

• 45:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 45:07Speaker 05

  And that's what this book is. It's me, as I said, scrutinizing, not sanitizing.

• 45:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 45:12Speaker 05

  Who I am. And you may not like me even more. You may not like me more because of this conversation. It is what it is, man. I can't control that. And it's, I always was trying to do that. I was always trying to control things. That's why I put the gel on. That's why I put the suits on in high school. That's why I tried to be like people I wasn't. That's why I was trying to always be something and not spend time with my mom like I should have and, you know, and, and people and family and friends. And so I, I went, so I think, you know, I went through this recall in California. They almost took me out. And I'll tell you, you, I don't, you know, no one gives a shit, but when you're on the receiving end. Of the humility of having a recall qualify when you literally-

• 45:55Adam Friedland?

  But you mogged. You did. No, but honestly, it was a non-presidential election year. It was a special election.

• 46:02Speaker 05

  Special election.

• 46:03Adam Friedland?

  You won by a landslide, but enough people were like, "I'm gonna go to the polls." "I'm gonna go to the polls to be like, that I want to save Gavin."

• 46:11Speaker 05

  It was wild.

• 46:12Adam Friedland?

  Because the people that want to vote against you really want to vote against you, right? And you also were lucky you didn't have Arnold Schwarzenegger, otherwise you would've... If you ran against fucking Conan the Barbarian, dude, Ray Davis was fucked.

• 46:25Speaker 05

  You know, California-

• 46:26Adam Friedland?

  You got some guy for radio.

• 46:27Speaker 05

  You were gonna, you know, wake up, you know, this stage, you know, this complete mess. You know, these Democrats, you know, they don't... They're so stupid, you know, slow.

• 46:35Adam Friedland?

  And looking at your career, I see like three inflection points, kind of, that were just like...

• 46:39Speaker 05

  That was one of them.

• 46:40Adam Friedland?

  There's... That is the third. I would say, kind of like, the gay marriage.

• 46:45Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 46:46Adam Friedland?

  And then running against the big dog, getting Leno'd, basically.

• 46:50Speaker 05

  Getting Leno'd?

• 46:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, like, you know how they gave Conan the Tonight Show, then Leno wanted to come back?

• 46:55Speaker 05

  Oh, that's right, yeah.

• 46:56Adam Friedland?

  So Jerry Brown, kind of-

• 46:58Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, interesting. That's interesting you picked that up. That's actually... Wow.

• 47:02Adam Friedland?

  So that's the second inflection point.

• 47:03Speaker 05

  You do need to get your staff a raise. It's impressive you picked up on that.

• 47:06Adam Friedland?

  They're not doing shit, dude. It's all the...

• 47:08Speaker 05

  That's why they're not...

• 47:10Adam Friedland?

  This guy, Thomas, is a-

• 47:11Speaker 05

  You said he wanted to get some damn Academy Award, so apparently he's good at that.

• 47:15Adam Friedland?

  I'm from Home Depot. I got it from Home Depot.

• 47:17Speaker 05

  Okay, well, I thought we were Costco. You talked about buying my book in bulk.

• 47:21Adam Friedland?

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• 48:05Adam Friedland?

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• 54:05Speaker 05

  I was gonna make you my liaison to Burning Man.

• 54:08Adam Friedland?

  Dude, your first order of business is...

• 54:11Speaker 05

  You can be my psychedelic czar. You can work on my ketamine policy.

• 54:15Adam Friedland?

  Your first order of business is ICBM straight to Burning Man. Okay.

• 54:17Speaker 05

  ICBM. Jesus, wipes off Burning Man.

• 54:21Adam Friedland?

  ICBM, yeah.

• 54:22Speaker 05

  What do you think, with the whole singularity? It freaks you out, doesn't it? Are you in the AI? How panicked are you about AI? Seriously, it's got like 1 to 10. Is it like, are you, it's over? You know, we're all gonna be computer chip...

• 54:34Adam Friedland?

  I don't know. I just have to make this show with these three guys. I don't have enough time.

• 54:39Speaker 05

  You don't have time?

• 54:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, like, people call me about stuff, and I'm like, really? My sister's like mad about the East Wing of the White House, and I'm like, ugh.

• 54:46Speaker 05

  She should be.

• 54:47Adam Friedland?

  It's Trump, he's obviously gonna build some gross crap.

• 54:50Speaker 05

  The people contributing to it are getting special deals using tax dollars, crony capitals.

• 54:56Adam Friedland?

  But there are concentration camps in the country right now.

• 55:01Speaker 05

  Well, that's a fact too.

• 55:02Adam Friedland?

  Right, I don't care about a ballroom as much as that. People are getting just as mad about that. We're like, we're like, we're funding a genocide, we're like, there are concentration camps in America. And like, you're from California, right? I'm from the, I'm from the western part of the country, like, I grew up around a lot of Latinos. And like, you worked in restaurant, you're in restaurant industry. Like, these are people that fundamentally just wanna make more money for their families. They work their asses off, they don't complain about anything. After what you, uh, your say went through in Los Angeles with the Marines, you know? Uh, I realized I just kinda went to the office the next day. You know, life kinda continues as normal. What it like, what do you do?

• 55:42Speaker 05

  This resonates with me, cause I'm like, why is everyone going to their office? Why are people fucking waking up to what's going on in this country?

• 55:48Adam Friedland?

  There's a fucking cage in Florida, right, right now, today, what do we do?

• 55:51Speaker 05

  Just to, cause I, what you just said is really important, and I love the way you said it, and I like sort of the outrage and that you expressed. So last June, this all started. When Donald Trump federalized 4,000 National Guard in California and sent 700 active duty Marines, not overseas, but to the second largest city in the United States of America, on war with his own country. Sent 5,000 troops, talk about communities on edge.

• 56:17Adam Friedland?

  I've never seen that in my lifetime.

• 56:19Speaker 05

  No, and he also sent out this guy dressed up as if he just came off a movie set.

• 56:24Adam Friedland?

  The Folsom Street.

• 56:25Speaker 05

  From the 1930s, no bro, I wish it was the Folsom Street. If it was the Folsom Street, we would be in a very different place. It was right out of the 1930s. I mean, like, with the Himmler haircut, Greg Bobino, in his mask, man. Where people are disappearing, cars are being smashed, windows are smashed. Uh, people quite literally on edge racially profiled with sanction of the United States Supreme Court in their shadow docket that allow racial profiling on the basis of skin color where you congregate or your accent. That's happening in the United States of America today. And that's why we drew the line and I shifted, I don't know if you've seen some of my social media. It literally shifted because I was, I was like.

• 57:07Adam Friedland?

  You say fuck a lot now.

• 57:08Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:08Adam Friedland?

  You say the F word.

• 57:09Speaker 05

  That's why I'm counting on my cinematographer to edit all that.

• 57:12Adam Friedland?

  Fuck.

• 57:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, fuck, but like, fuck.

• 57:16Speaker 05

  No bullshit. I'm like, why are people more pissed off? Why aren't you more outraged? Why are you going like you? Why'd you go to work the next day? And I'm suited to your question. So, we're filing lawsuits. We're trying to call this shit out. We're trying to put a mirror up to Donald Trump. That's why we banned private prisons in the state of California. And that's why we have most progressive laws as it relates to getting masked men saying you can't unmask these masked men, saying, first law saying you can't, where can mask? You gotta show your ID. You gotta tell us who you're from. I mean, if some guy dressed up, it was a mask, comes around me, I'm gonna fight back. It's a miracle. There hasn't been more violence. And now these sons of bitches are killing American citizens. I mean, this is a private police force, a secret police force, that has taken the oath of office to Trump, not the Constitution of the United States.

• 58:01Speaker 05

  It should outrage and infuriate everybody. And so, I'm trying to exercise it legislatively, legally, using my voice, trying to get more aggressive and blowing back at Trump. I think I've been pretty aggressive against Trump by standards, you know, comparative standards.

• 58:16Adam Friedland?

  And I think you've stared him down.

• 58:18Speaker 05

  And punched a bully in the mouth by fire with fire. Did all the redistricting stuff, Prop 50 in California. And, yeah, every day, the fucker's attacking me. I mean, two days, you know, new scum, you know, all this sort of eighth grade bully bullshit.

• 58:32Adam Friedland?

  Like, what I'm seeing is like, there's this guy watching YouTube in the White House. And then, he saw a video about Somalis and didn't realize that they were 98% legal. And then, now, you know, Mexican people in Minneapolis are getting their fucking skulls bashed because of, like, basically, he's arbitrarily just fucking with different Democratic states and cities, right?

• 58:54Speaker 05

  Hundred percent, yeah. It's what it all has in common. And by the way, and he went into Democratic cities run by African-American mayors as well. This guy's a piece of shit.

• 59:01Adam Friedland?

  Oh, you call yours, oh, no, no.

• 59:02Speaker 05

  No, I mean, this is the guy that put out the Obama video just a few weeks ago. I mean, you know, and that didn't even get as much outrage as it deserved of Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. It's the birther guy. It's the guy called, you know, country shit all countries. I mean, it's, you connect all these damn dots. These guys want to roll back, you know, the last half-century on racial justice, on issues of voting rights, civil rights. TQ rights, women's rights, you've seen it. I mean, anyway, so this like, for me, it's code red. People need to wake up. We can lose this country. I really believe that. I talked about rigging the election before. I wasn't bullshitting about that. He doesn't believe in fair and free elections. He's a competitive authoritarian, which means he wants elections, the veneer one. Just like Putin, who got eighty seven point three percent of the vote.

• 59:44Adam Friedland?

  Oh, good for him, yeah.

• 59:46Speaker 05

  Right? Just to show says large S. And, and you saw it on display last night, this sort of vulgar display.

• 59:52Adam Friedland?

  You watched it?

• 59:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, you know, the state of, you know, red state.

• 59:55Adam Friedland?

  You watched the whole thing?

• 59:57Speaker 05

  I wa- I watched until the end and then I.

• 1:00:00Adam Friedland?

  I was prepping for Gavin Newsom, I could watch it.

• 1:00:02Speaker 05

  Bullshit. You were reading my book? You weren't.

• 1:00:04Adam Friedland?

  I've, no, I've finished your book. The, I'm, I'm actually, I'm actually not cool. I actually don't get.

• 1:00:10Speaker 05

  You didn't watch it? You didn't watch the longest State of the Union in American history? It's a historic speech.

• 1:00:16Adam Friedland?

  There was no funny parts, no?

• 1:00:17Speaker 05

  Funny.

• 1:00:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, he didn't say anything.

• 1:00:19Speaker 05

  I mean, I, I thought the funny part is.

• 1:00:21Adam Friedland?

  He was like Arnold Palmer's dick is bigger than, they used to say the biggest.

• 1:00:26Speaker 05

  Isn't it amazing, the shit he said all the time?

• 1:00:29Adam Friedland?

  It's just less funny, you know?

• 1:00:30Speaker 05

  It is less fun. It doesn't feel derivative. It does feel, it's, it's, the show is not as interesting.

• 1:00:35Adam Friedland?

  Well, the truth is this, right? Like, the first term, we didn't see stuff like this. We heard people talking about Russia and some James Bond conspiracy theory crap. And then we were told by the Democratic Party that in this last election, this is the most important election ever. And then Joe Biden made it seem like they didn't actually think it was the most important election. If they sent him out on a debate stage like that. Like, if it's the most important election ever, if you're saving democracy, you're not gonna do that. The Democratic Party isn't gonna, they're gonna take it more seriously.

• 1:01:06Speaker 05

  The party, the problem is, everyone thinks there's like six people in a room, smoke filled room, and we got ashtrays like this. And, you know, we're deciding who the, you know, that, that, that's a black and white movie.

• 1:01:15Adam Friedland?

  That's even more depressing.

• 1:01:16Speaker 05

  It's, it's, it's so diffuse. A party is many, it's, it's DCCs, it's D, you know, it's all the state parties. It's, it's all of us. It's, the party is Clinton, it's a composite of Obama's, it's, it's Pelosi, but it's Jeffries, it's Schumer. And so there was no, there's no sort of centralization of that kind of decision making, is my point.

• 1:01:36Adam Friedland?

  Well, speaking of what is the party, like, in the light of like, Joe Biden was doing family separations. Like, you know, like, a lot of these, like, you know, under Obama, like, ICE was dramatically expanded. Like, I think that there has to be kind of a, a conversation amongst your caucus as to like what. Morally, they stand for.

• 1:01:55Speaker 05

  That's right.

• 1:01:55Adam Friedland?

  Because it really runs the gamut. There are people that are like making a lot of money. You know, in the stock market, they're wolves of wolf.

• 1:02:02Speaker 05

  The inside trading is gross, man. I mean, and the role of opening door for lobbyists is gross. And the fact he can be there for 73 years. Come on. There's, but yeah.

• 1:02:10Adam Friedland?

  How long was Fineside there? 750 years?

• 1:02:12Speaker 05

  Uh, and that was hard, man. I was, I'm, God, I remember, by the way, you know, it was hard. I have a story that I would share privately with you because I, she was such a powerful force in my life and supporter of mine, but it was hard near the end. And, you know, I was with her talking about some Pentagon satellite issues related to climate and how we can early fire detection. Uh, near the end with her and, and I didn't know how bad it was until, you know, it was.

• 1:02:41Adam Friedland?

  She was talking about this satellite climate.

• 1:02:43Speaker 05

  No, she was, no, I was talking about that, but she, she was talking about other things.

• 1:02:47Adam Friedland?

  I used to go to the forest and pull my scum.

• 1:02:49Speaker 05

  It was, it was, but she, you know, look, she's, she's a legend.

• 1:02:53Adam Friedland?

  What does it look like to be president after Trump? Like what is like Baron's gonna be at his dad's funeral. Right? He's gonna be probably pretty sad.

• 1:03:00Speaker 05

  He was at the State of the Union last night.

• 1:03:01Adam Friedland?

  But does he want to go to work as the president?

• 1:03:03Speaker 05

  He doesn't have to work because he's made a ton of money. So he's the rest of the family.

• 1:03:06Adam Friedland?

  Baron, after his dad dies, is gonna assume the throne of the presidency, right?

• 1:03:10Speaker 05

  I think the throne is a good way to describe it. How about this guy?

• 1:03:13Adam Friedland?

  What is?

• 1:03:13Speaker 05

  He's like an emperor put his picture. He's got those giant posters on the sides of buildings all over DC. Including the Department of Justice. That says everything you need to know. Just literally, like right out of some fascist playbook.

• 1:03:26Adam Friedland?

  Can I, can I give you a critique on something you said?

• 1:03:28Speaker 05

  Not what you already have. You've given many critiques.

• 1:03:31Adam Friedland?

  You said the Democratic Party is too fixated on pronouns. Like you're walking into their trap. That's what they're saying.

• 1:03:38Speaker 05

  No, I think.

• 1:03:38Adam Friedland?

  No, no voter has decided like, I was gonna go Democrat, but there's fixation on pronouns. It's like, no.

• 1:03:46Speaker 05

  I think it was a moment, there was some, I think it's not one thing. It's sort of the stacking of things. Where there was, I just, I'm just telling you, like. Like, old school Democrats I talk to.

• 1:03:58Adam Friedland?

  No, you're walking into the trap.

• 1:03:59Speaker 05

  No, I get that, but I also think there's something a little bit of truth to that.

• 1:04:02Adam Friedland?

  It's like, people are like, I would vote for the Democrats were it not for their, like, they're damaging the integrity of girls' sports.

• 1:04:10Speaker 05

  I get it, I get it.

• 1:04:10Adam Friedland?

  Like, come on, dude, you're walking on the trap.

• 1:04:12Speaker 05

  I get it, I get it.

• 1:04:13Adam Friedland?

  Here's my advice to you. If they're doing their thing where they're like, "The Little Mermaid is black," right?

• 1:04:19Speaker 05

  Well, that's just, that's gross.

• 1:04:20Adam Friedland?

  And they're like, "You ruined my childhood."

• 1:04:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's pathetic.

• 1:04:22Adam Friedland?

  The Democrats are gonna say, "Well, we celebrate for all the black Little Mermaids out there. We celebrate our sister queen mermaid." Instead, you just say to the Republicans, like, they're upset about the Little Mermaid being black. Just say, "Um, pardon me, but you're a pussy, and, um, that's a baby movie." Like, uh, you're being a baby right now.

• 1:04:42Speaker 05

  No.

• 1:04:43Adam Friedland?

  The truth is this is like...

• 1:04:43Speaker 05

  I like that. No, I like that.

• 1:04:45Adam Friedland?

  They act like, they just act like SJWs at this point. They're mad at Bad Bunny's halftime show.

• 1:04:50Speaker 05

  Well, SJW, why do I not know what the...

• 1:04:51Adam Friedland?

  Social justice, they act like...

• 1:04:53Speaker 05

  S A W, okay.

• 1:04:54Adam Friedland?

  SJWs.

• 1:04:55Speaker 05

  SJWs, interesting.

• 1:04:56Adam Friedland?

  Was that your dis...

• 1:04:57Speaker 05

  Shows how old I am. Yeah, it's like, S W A, yeah, exactly.

• 1:05:00Adam Friedland?

  They act like woke people, right? They're like mad about, they're incensed at Bad Bunny's song.

• 1:05:04Speaker 05

  He was good, man, I liked that.

• 1:05:05Adam Friedland?

  But who cares? Who's mad at the fucking, they're being, they're being babies.

• 1:05:10Speaker 05

  I appreciate this, man, I do.

• 1:05:12Adam Friedland?

  You know, it's just like...

• 1:05:12Speaker 05

  No, but by the way, this was happening with CRT, DEI, ESG. We were constantly on the, this is why I started, it's why I went on Fox to debate Ron DeSantis, because they were winning that messaging war. They were flooding the zone, we were on our heels, not our toes. And narrative matters, and we were constantly on the defense. So, what you're saying is, I think I align with you on that, in terms of being consistent. Where I have a mod...

• 1:05:34Adam Friedland?

  Bro, fuck off, shut up.

• 1:05:35Speaker 05

  But, but, you know, but there are some...

• 1:05:37Adam Friedland?

  Be normal.

• 1:05:38Speaker 05

  But, be normal. And I think they want us normal to everybody, everybody, uh, look, I don't...

• 1:05:45Adam Friedland?

  Just be like, mind your own fucking business. You know, it's not your life, you know?

• 1:05:49Speaker 05

  It's good. Oh, thank you. This is good, see I'm the

• 1:05:53Adam Friedland?

  Why ain't for me?

• 1:05:54Speaker 05

  No, I'm like, what are you gonna, like, but it's good, though, this is helpful, man, it's helping. Look at that, look at that, he's like, okay.

• 1:05:59Adam Friedland?

  What do you think?

• 1:06:00Speaker 05

  So it's three, three and oh now.

• 1:06:01Adam Friedland?

  All right, I'm gonna, well, I'm not beating, okay, here's, here's my question.

• 1:06:04Speaker 05

  That's how you started this damn conversation.

• 1:06:06Adam Friedland?

  Final question, what, I did.

• 1:06:07Speaker 05

  Competitive framework, man.

• 1:06:08Adam Friedland?

  Well, I mean, it's just, we'll let the girls decide, we'll let the ladies decide.

• 1:06:12Speaker 05

  No, but, but what you're saying is, thank you. Just like, look, and I, you know, as a guy who's a godfather of a trans son, a trans godson, I appreciate what you're saying, man. And, and there are certain things where we may have modest disagreement and, but, but, but I, look, I've been, as we established, and it's well established in this book, I've been way out on all these issues, and I've been on the receiving end of, of, of the counter narrative. And I found myself often in a defensive posture, and so I appreciate what you're saying.

• 1:06:44Adam Friedland?

  Here's my last question.

• 1:06:45Speaker 05

  What is the, that's always the worst, that's the one that gets politicians in trouble the last.

• 1:06:50Adam Friedland?

  I'm not, we don't have, we're not gonna get you in trouble.

• 1:06:52Speaker 05

  I don't know, I wanna find out, that's, okay.

• 1:06:53Adam Friedland?

  You're my boy, I'm not doing yellow journalism, I'm hanging out with my handsome new friend.

• 1:07:00Adam Friedland?

  What are you talking about? Yeah, I'm angling, you're gonna probably win.

• 1:07:04Speaker 05

  Okay, well, you want an ambassadorship or something?

• 1:07:06Adam Friedland?

  You think that J D Vance is gonna, he's gonna look like a fucking potato next to you?

• 1:07:10Speaker 05

  What, what is it?

• 1:07:10Adam Friedland?

  Seriously, the cooler guy wins every time, I mean it.

• 1:07:13Speaker 05

  Is that it?

• 1:07:14Adam Friedland?

  Yes, go through every election.

• 1:07:15Speaker 05

  Rubio's pretty cool, what do you think of Rubio, you don't like him?

• 1:07:18Adam Friedland?

  Little Marco?

• 1:07:20Speaker 05

  Little Marco? He is, I saw him in, you know, I, he's a, he's a, yeah.

• 1:07:25Adam Friedland?

  You're 6'3", bro.

• 1:07:26Speaker 05

  Oh, no, 6'2".

• 1:07:27Adam Friedland?

  You, you, you were a shooting guard.

• 1:07:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, sort of four. It was, we were, you know, it was a short little league.

• 1:07:34Adam Friedland?

  It was Marin County, that's why you backed 48.

• 1:07:38Speaker 05

  That was why I was captained.

• 1:07:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, the baseball field was at a farmer's market.

• 1:07:43Speaker 05

  Farmer's market, where I was eating grasshoppers.

• 1:07:46Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:46Speaker 05

  You never tried a grasshopper, you never answered that.

• 1:07:48Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm a, I'm a regular person, I go to Chipotle.

• 1:07:51Speaker 05

  You know, by the way, they're struggling a little bit right now.

• 1:07:53Adam Friedland?

  Chipotle?

• 1:07:54Speaker 05

  Yeah, which is, I read, I'm interested in art.

• 1:07:55Adam Friedland?

  They really fell off a cliff.

• 1:07:56Speaker 05

  I don't know what's happened.

• 1:07:57Adam Friedland?

  It was a great restaurant, I don't know what's happened to it. Uh, okay, you, we saw you, you know, you know, survive kind of a recall election and, and kind of win by a landslide, which I think is like, adds to your bona fides as like, someone that's like.

• 1:08:12Speaker 05

  Gotten scrubbed up, yeah, scrubbed up.

• 1:08:13Adam Friedland?

  In addition, out of all people in state politics in California, you're kind of like the last one left. During from covid.

• 1:08:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, but that generally, yeah, that's that, by the way, that's interesting that you say.

• 1:08:25Adam Friedland?

  Why am I the one that's.

• 1:08:26Speaker 05

  I don't know. You've been interesting.

• 1:08:28Adam Friedland?

  You're the inventor of gay marriage. Okay, you're the first person to come up with the idea of gay marriage, which is like, come on, don't be ridiculous. What's the point of gay if you're gonna get married? Just be happy and rich. You don't have to get married. You don't have to like, what, like, get a dog? Okay, okay, I'm just kidding. I'm a nightclub comedian. I have a dog too.

• 1:08:48Speaker 05

  What's what?

• 1:08:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Yeah. Fuck. Oh, actually, fuck you, dude.

• 1:08:52Speaker 05

  What the fuck?

• 1:08:53Adam Friedland?

  You tried to ban Whipple's. You're a racist.

• 1:08:54Speaker 05

  I did not.

• 1:08:55Adam Friedland?

  You're a racist.

• 1:08:56Speaker 05

  There was a dog bawling and two people got.

• 1:08:59Adam Friedland?

  So they're all the same.

• 1:09:00Speaker 05

  They're all the same.

• 1:09:01Adam Friedland?

  They're all the same. Actually, fuck.

• 1:09:03Speaker 05

  It was horrible. Diane Whipple, it was a horrible experience.

• 1:09:06Adam Friedland?

  I don't know. I rescued her, she rescued me. Okay, we've seen you do these things at various like inflection points in your career that's that make are very impressive, right? You also just like, you look like the fucking president. You do. It's like, if it was like on TV or something, it'd be like this guy and it'd be like.

• 1:09:22Speaker 05

  Talking about my, talking about more engineers, more scientists, more nobodies, and you'll be yelling at the screen. Just be normal, bro. Be normal.

• 1:09:30Adam Friedland?

  Al Qaeda has sent a comet from space. Somehow they've developed comet technology.

• 1:09:37Speaker 05

  By the way, don't even laugh about that, bro. That could happen. We gotta.

• 1:09:39Adam Friedland?

  You gotta go mortgage.

• 1:09:40Speaker 05

  That's why we have Space Force. It's a legit thing.

• 1:09:42Adam Friedland?

  I have no idea.

• 1:09:43Speaker 05

  Mind your space.

• 1:09:44Adam Friedland?

  I think you you talk about like Bernie Sanders is Medicare for all, you know, like, like, what, like.

• 1:09:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, what's.

• 1:09:49Adam Friedland?

  What is your defined political project? Like, what throughout your career and like right now? Like, what is what is the thing you want to like, you want to accomplish, like politically?

• 1:09:58Speaker 05

  I, you know, I don't have, I don't have like a brand. I don't have a tag, make America great, or I don't, you know, the great society or, you know, something like Medicare for all the billionaires, but I, you know, but for me, no bullshit, it's just standing up for ideals, striking out against injustice. It defines my why. In every way, shape, form. Stand up for ideals, strike out against injustice. I'm a Sarge Schreiber Democrat. I'm into that whole 60s, the vernacular of the 60s. Solving for ignorance and poverty and disease and the spirit of the 60s. And the spirit of King and, you know, and how the nonviolent movement and Gandhi and, you know, Havel and, you know, Mandela, that whole, that moral authority, that whole space. That's the zeitgeist.

• 1:10:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:36Speaker 05

  And, and that's, so that's me. That's my dad, that's my mom, that's the book, and that's my why. And, and so, standing up for ideals is what gave me urge. It was about work I'm doing right now, sort of pushback, you know, we can lose this country. And just feeling like I have to be held to account and strike out against the injustices of the day.

• 1:10:55Adam Friedland?

  So if you had to define it, like, Vote for me and you get X.

• 1:11:00Speaker 05

  You're better at this.

• 1:11:01Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, I don't know who you, what your shit is.

• 1:11:03Speaker 05

  I just gave you my why, but how do you translate that into human?

• 1:11:06Adam Friedland?

  What? So if you say, like, make an appeal to a voter, right? Say, if you vote for me, you get X. Like, what in a, in a, in a kind of concise, tangible sense, talking to a regular guy?

• 1:11:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, no.

• 1:11:18Adam Friedland?

  What is, what is that all?

• 1:11:20Speaker 05

  I've struggled with being able to communicate. I told you what my why is and why I'm here, and, and I mean that. And it like, and that's ingrained in every aspect of my life. And it connects a dot, even in my private life, in terms of the business things. I've done stupid things like screw cap wines and selling wine at retail, just in restaurants. Trying to sort of break up monopolies and try to strike out against the injustice, the rigging of the system, et cetera. And it's part of, you know, all the.

• 1:11:44Adam Friedland?

  What is screw cap wine? What is that?

• 1:11:45Speaker 05

  I see now here we're going back. But that's in the book. You gotta buy the book.

• 1:11:48Adam Friedland?

  Oh, because it's like less classy?

• 1:11:50Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:11:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I remember that.

• 1:11:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, so it's just, yeah, no, it's just like.

• 1:11:53Adam Friedland?

  But that's one of your Ls in life? Dude, you're just, you're hot, dude. You're hot, dude. Why'd you write this book? Just, just write a follow-up, be like, this is how I became the hottest, biggest pimp. Dude, honestly, the reason Donald Trump, you stood him down is because you, you think you're handsome. I mean it. I mean it. The reason you were like, fuck off, Trump, like, when you sent the troops in was like, he was like, I like the hair, I like the way he dresses. You should be proud of it.

• 1:12:18Speaker 05

  Oh, man.

• 1:12:19Adam Friedland?

  I think that's our time.

• 1:12:21Speaker 05

  That's all the time we have today and next week.

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