SARAH JESSICA PARKER | Sex & The City, Hollywood Relationships, The Pope

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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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• 0:37Speaker 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.

• 0:57Speaker 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.

• 3:02Speaker 03

  Um, even though, obviously, you're Carrie, are there any... Which character do you identify the most with?

• 3:09Adam Friedland?

  Okay, let's hear it. Steve.

• 3:12Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 3:13Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 3:13Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 3:14Adam Friedland?

  I'm a Steve, too.

• 3:15Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm a Steve.

• 3:15Adam Friedland?

  A half-burger, half-Steve. We're like the same person.

• 3:18Speaker 05

  I know, isn't it? I'm not surprised to discover that.

• 3:24Adam Friedland?

  Ah!

• 3:54Adam Friedland?

  Welcome back to The Adam Friedland Show. I'd like to ask you for a minute of your time. As many of you know, the objective of our program is to make a weekly television show that isn't funded by networks or by studios.

• 4:11Adam Friedland?

  And in order to do so, we've had to reinvent the wheel a little bit. For about three and a half months prior to the launch of this season, we went into pre-production. I hired a pretty sizable staff, many of whom are paid, many of whom are even women. In order to fund that for three and a half months, I spent money. I spent money out of my own savings. I spent about $154,000, which as a Jewish person is scary. If you don't believe me, I'll call my business manager who can confirm this.

• 4:54Speaker 06

  Hey, hey.

• 4:55Adam Friedland?

  What's up? Yo, hi. Hi.

• 4:58Speaker 06

  Hey, hey.

• 4:59Adam Friedland?

  Oh, what are you up to?

• 5:02Speaker 06

  Oh, I just...

• 5:03Adam Friedland?

  Okay, anyway.

• 5:04Speaker 06

  I'm out.

• 5:05Adam Friedland?

  Quick question. How much money have we spent thus far out of pocket?

• 5:12Speaker 06

  Oh, man, give me one sec. One sec. Hold on, I'm out. So let me just check my...

• 5:16Adam Friedland?

  Nice, brother.

• 5:17Speaker 06

  One sec. Sorry. Beep boop, beep boop, beep boop, beep boop. Yeah, so we spent $144,000.

• 5:25Adam Friedland?

  Great, thank you so much. So here's where you come in. I'm announcing our new premium membership service here on youtube.com. It brings me great pleasure to present to you the Friedland Family Foundation. What is that? Well, there are three tiers. The basic tier is Adam's friends. That's me and it's Richard Kind. And that's Adam's best friend, the middle tier, and Chet, that was Chet, and Adam's family. So what does that get you? For the first tier, the basic tier, the friend tier, you'll get early access to every episode days before it's released to the general public.

• 6:08Adam Friedland?

  You'll also get additional bonus content. It's a little bit too hot for the normies, you know, the gen pop. You'll get discounts on merch and whatever loyalty badges is, you'll be getting that as well. For the second tier, Adam's best friends, you'll get your name in the credit, but it'll be smaller, and all the other stuff. And then for family, you get your name in the credits, but big, and all that other crap. So guys, there's a link in the description, right at the top. You click it, you sign up to be a member. And if you don't want to, you just watch the show and enjoy it. It's a good show, it's gonna get better. We're gonna do a lot of exciting things. So without further ado, Sarah Jessica Parker.

• 6:54Speaker 07

  Good evening, and welcome to a very special episode of The Adam Friedland Show. My guest this week was the unimpeachably charming Sarah Jessica Parker, one of Hollywood's most accomplished actors. Known for her grace and unpretentiousness, this interview was meant to be a major accomplishment in both of our careers. Instead, it was an unmitigated disaster. To explain further, we'll have to travel back in time, May 8th, 2025.

• 7:27Speaker 07

  It was another normal day here at Taft's. Another celebrity walks in, takes their seat, and is treated to one of the greatest conversations of their entire lives. But this time, something was different. The twist?

• 7:43Speaker 07

  A dribbling mass of mucus, otherwise known as a booger, crawling its way out of my nose, presenting itself to one of the world's most famous actresses. Upon reviewing the footage, I was mortified. My biggest guest appearance to date, ruined by an uncontrolled bodily excretion. My first thought was to stage a cover-up, to hide the truth from a public that might not be ready to see it. I spoke to an expert in visual effects, who explained that we could use an artificial intelligence program to create a three-dimensional digital clone of my face and replace the part of my lip that was sullied by the booger. But upon hearing the price, I realized something.

• 8:25Speaker 07

  At the backbone of this program is the trust my viewers have in me. The trust in my dogged pursuit of the truth. And I wasn't willing to violate that trust over a big, green, dripping booger.

• 8:44Speaker 07

  Now, I've made a lot of enemies in the short time I've hosted this show. Right-wing nut jobs, the media establishment. Simply put, they want me gone. I represent a threat to their status, and I wouldn't put it past them to attempt to sabotage my biggest interview yet.

• 9:11Speaker 07

  Perhaps they sent a saboteur into my studio disguised as a janitor, or perhaps I had a vagrant to disperse allergens. Perhaps they held blackmail on someone I'm close to, someone I love, and threatened them into slipping me some sort of decongestant that made boogers come out. Perhaps I've even inserted a double agent into my crew, who spent months earning my trust just to stab me in the back. The truth is, we'll never know. And frankly, it doesn't matter. I cannot and, and I will not be intimidated. I cannot be discouraged. I could have urinated, I could have even defecated in my pants during this interview, and I

• 9:55Speaker 07

  would still release it. Because the truth is, there has never been a more important time to release an interview with Sarah Jessica Parker. Who stars in the new season of "And Just Like That," now out on HBO Max. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back.

• 10:21Speaker 07

  Ladies and gentlemen, our next guest, I don't have to give the CV. Everyone, it's Sarah Jessica Parker. Give it up for her.

• 10:32Speaker 07

  From "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," Sarah Jessica Parker.

• 10:36Adam Friedland?

  Did I knock you in my lounge?

• 10:38Speaker 07

  You have my permission.

• 10:40Adam Friedland?

  I don't know what the rules are.

• 10:42Speaker 07

  Wow, I don't know, wow, this is amazing. What is that? It's a mess here?

• 10:46Adam Friedland?

  Pluff.

• 10:47Speaker 07

  You text, well, you signed your text to me when I was trying to trick you into this. I wouldn't say book, I'd say trick. And you signed it "mom."

• 10:56Adam Friedland?

  Yes, well...

• 10:59Speaker 05

  Wasn't, hadn't I been referred to as mom in the introduction, but previous exchanges, of which I became privy to?

• 11:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but you could, I mean, if you want.

• 11:08Speaker 05

  I thought it was funny. I think you referred to me.

• 11:11Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I said, "Hi, mom."

• 11:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, so then I responded in kind.

• 11:15Adam Friedland?

  You're such a cool mom.

• 11:16Speaker 05

  Love mom.

• 11:17Adam Friedland?

  You're so nice.

• 11:18Speaker 05

  Or warmly mom, or stay safe mom.

• 11:20Adam Friedland?

  You're a massive fan of this?

• 11:21Speaker 05

  I love, I love your show.

• 11:23Adam Friedland?

  How the fuck is that possible? I'm sorry.

• 11:25Speaker 05

  I don't think I'm alone.

• 11:27Adam Friedland?

  Who else?

• 11:28Speaker 05

  Oh, well, I assume that there are, there are many.

• 11:33Adam Friedland?

  Like Obama?

• 11:34Speaker 05

  Do you want me to, Obama? Perhaps.

• 11:36Adam Friedland?

  I feel like I'm sitting with the president of women.

• 11:41Adam Friedland?

  Whether you like it or not, you can be a reluctant leader like General Washington, the father of our country.

• 11:46Speaker 05

  Father of our country.

• 11:47Adam Friedland?

  You don't have to, you don't have to accept that title, but I'm, I'm, I'm.

• 11:51Speaker 05

  Well, I think.

• 11:52Adam Friedland?

  Deeming you.

• 11:53Speaker 05

  That's very generous of you.

• 11:54Adam Friedland?

  Number one girl.

• 11:55Speaker 05

  Oh, Adam. Thank you. But that's not true, but it's very sweet.

• 12:00Adam Friedland?

  I've been performing extensive research, actually. I do for the show. So I've been watching a ton of interviews with you.

• 12:05Speaker 05

  Uh oh.

• 12:06Adam Friedland?

  And also, I was kind of in a, like, a police stakeout outside your house in the West Village.

• 12:10Speaker 05

  Excellent.

• 12:11Adam Friedland?

  So, from what you're saying, it is true. Like, typically, you go out, there's a barrel with a fire in it, you warm your hands with a.

• 12:17Speaker 05

  Correct.

• 12:18Adam Friedland?

  Those are the, those are the people that you're around.

• 12:19Speaker 05

  No, I'm part, yeah, I'm in the community. I, I, I blend in with your everyman.

• 12:27Adam Friedland?

  As, as a fashion icon, do you think that the barrel with suspenders is gonna come back at any point? Or like, what do you think about?

• 12:34Speaker 05

  I didn't even know if it left.

• 12:36Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 12:37Speaker 05

  Did it leave? Is it not?

• 12:38Adam Friedland?

  It's peculiar.

• 12:39Speaker 05

  I feel like that's one of those kind of timeless pieces. I feel like any, anybody could wear it anytime, any season.

• 12:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 12:48Speaker 05

  I don't feel like it has a shelf life.

• 12:51Adam Friedland?

  Can you imagine not having any clothes, but only having a barrel?

• 12:56Adam Friedland?

  It's bizarre. It's a, what leads one to that? I mean.

• 12:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, like, what was the story that preceded?

• 13:01Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I lost all my clothes, my job, but I have this barrel.

• 13:05Speaker 05

  And some braces.

• 13:06Adam Friedland?

  And these suspenders.

• 13:07Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:08Adam Friedland?

  And this stick and this bindle.

• 13:09Speaker 05

  But I, but maybe, um.

• 13:12Speaker 05

  Maybe the circumstances do make sense.

• 13:15Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh.

• 13:16Speaker 05

  Because typically, I think you ride the barrel down rapids.

• 13:21Adam Friedland?

  Correct.

• 13:22Speaker 05

  Right?

• 13:22Adam Friedland?

  Over Niagara Falls, yes.

• 13:24Speaker 05

  And...

• 13:25Adam Friedland?

  We're like the same person.

• 13:26Speaker 05

  I know, isn't it? I'm not surprised to discover that within the first forty seconds. But I could imagine a scenario where, and this might have been, you know, the beginning of denim, the beginning of barrel and suspenders.

• 13:39Adam Friedland?

  Mm-hmm.

• 13:40Speaker 05

  The providence of those things, once you know, makes sense. It gets very possible that a person could find themselves without clothes at a moving body of water. Like, I could see that, say for instance, you were getting undressed behind a tree to swim, to put on your togs.

• 14:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:02Speaker 05

  In that time, they might say togs or bathing costume.

• 14:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:06Speaker 05

  Then there was...

• 14:08Adam Friedland?

  Sketul.

• 14:09Speaker 05

  Pardon?

• 14:09Adam Friedland?

  Sketul.

• 14:10Speaker 05

  Sketul?

• 14:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, I think that's a term they used to use.

• 14:12Speaker 05

  I'm gonna believe you.

• 14:13Adam Friedland?

  Like the onesie.

• 14:14Speaker 05

  The onesie, yeah.

• 14:14Adam Friedland?

  Like the guy with the, like, barbells and the onesie.

• 14:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly.

• 14:17Adam Friedland?

  That's gotta come back too.

• 14:18Speaker 05

  And they were like wool.

• 14:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 14:19Speaker 05

  But say that there was an unforeseen incident and you ran.

• 14:26Speaker 05

  You were just about to put on your bathing clothing. And then there was an incident and then you had to run. And then the only way to run, maybe it was a bear. The only way to run eventually became to be in the body of water. And the only way to travel safely in the body of water was in the barrel.

• 14:45Adam Friedland?

  I, I, I think I catch your drift.

• 14:47Speaker 05

  Maybe all you had left on were your suspenders. I mean, I could see that you could...

• 14:50Adam Friedland?

  That's one of my favorite episodes of Sex and the City, the barrel suspenders one.

• 14:55Adam Friedland?

  Miranda was about to go over Niagara Falls, of course, and then...

• 14:59Speaker 05

  Of course.

• 14:59Adam Friedland?

  And then some pranksters took the clothes. And I'm like, that's classic Miranda.

• 15:03Speaker 05

  Classic, classic Miranda.

• 15:05Adam Friedland?

  That is so Miranda, to lose all her clothes and wear a barrel. That is so her.

• 15:09Speaker 05

  And then everybody was wearing a barrel.

• 15:11Adam Friedland?

  I, I wanna back up a bit because like, it's so funny because like, the, the, the fanbase of like Sex and the City is like, characterizes girls and gays. But like, there is a percentage, and, and I feel like there's a... A sizable percentage of like boyfriends who are like, like your girlfriend's like, can we watch Sex and the City? And you're like, babe, I don't want to watch girl stuff.

• 15:34Speaker 05

  Right.

• 15:34Adam Friedland?

  But in your head, you're like, I want to see what this is all about. And then by episode three, you're locked in. And like, I've seen every, by episode three, I'm like, why the fuck is she putting Aiden's ring on a necklace? She's not serious about this engagement. I'm like yelling at my girlfriend down on the couch. What is she doing? I can't with Carrie right now.

• 15:53Speaker 05

  I can't with Carrie.

• 15:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but like, it's so funny because I've like literally seen every episode of both movies and every, every episode of the new series.

• 16:01Speaker 05

  I think that's, from what I understand, I think that's how a lot of straight men, you know, came to the show reluctantly and some stayed and some, you know, maybe in your like Stockholm syndrome or like you were held hostage or you came to actually free will.

• 16:18Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh.

• 16:19Speaker 05

  But it's nice to hear that you aren't wanting your time back.

• 16:23Adam Friedland?

  It, deep down, you want to check it out, right? And deep, but you have to project like, babe, oh, come on. What are we going to watch? Real Housewives of Salt Lake City?

• 16:33Speaker 05

  I'd like to not have those two be

• 16:36Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm not saying, but it's

• 16:37Speaker 05

  Thought of in the same way, but I understand your point.

• 16:40Adam Friedland?

  As a dumb, straight guy, you want to characterize it as, as girl stuff, right?

• 16:44Speaker 05

  Hundred percent, yes.

• 16:44Adam Friedland?

  But like, deep down, you're like, I am being the best boyfriend in the world right now. And then, and then suddenly you're just locked in.

• 16:52Speaker 05

  And they're watching ahead and then you're in trouble because you went ahead and, no, I'm just kidding. I took it, I took it a step further.

• 16:58Adam Friedland?

  No, no, what it is, is like, it's like the boyfriend showing the girlfriend sopranos, if they haven't seen it. And they're like, this is, this is important for me.

• 17:07Speaker 05

  Right.

• 17:07Adam Friedland?

  But on the girlfriend's side, it's like, you gotta watch Sex and the City.

• 17:11Speaker 05

  Yes, yes.

• 17:11Adam Friedland?

  And like, but then you get more into it than your girlfriend. You have, we had an argument the other day. Because I've been like re-watching episodes and we literally got in an argument because of something Miranda says. Where she's like, where she's like, he should just know what's wrong. And I'm like, how the hell is, how the hell is Steve supposed to know? If she doesn't say it. What is he, a mind reader? How, why are we expecting? Yeah, it's great. Anyway.

• 17:38Speaker 05

  It's very funny to hear you say Steve. It's just like I never thought I would hear you say Miranda then Steve.

• 17:46Adam Friedland?

  I think I'm a Steve.

• 17:47Speaker 05

  Are you a Steve?

• 17:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I'm like a, I like basketball.

• 17:53Speaker 05

  Where do you, do you, where do you live?

• 17:55Adam Friedland?

  Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

• 17:56Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 17:57Adam Friedland?

  They had a house in Brooklyn, of course, famously.

• 18:00Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 18:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Um, I feel like, I feel like the, the, the kid was probably listening to our old podcast.

• 18:06Speaker 05

  Oh, for sure.

• 18:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 18:07Speaker 05

  Oh, for sure.

• 18:08Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, that's, he acted out emotionally in his early adolescence. Cause he was listening to Cum Town.

• 18:16Adam Friedland?

  I want to back up a little bit more to like.

• 18:18Speaker 05

  Your suit is very nice.

• 18:20Adam Friedland?

  It's my father's.

• 18:21Speaker 05

  Is it really?

• 18:22Adam Friedland?

  Yes.

• 18:22Speaker 05

  It's really nice and I like that you're wearing cowboy boots.

• 18:25Adam Friedland?

  I know, well, I was for you.

• 18:26Speaker 05

  Do you always wear cowboy boots?

• 18:28Adam Friedland?

  No, I wore them a little.

• 18:29Speaker 05

  But are those worn, are those?

• 18:32Adam Friedland?

  No, these are for work.

• 18:33Speaker 05

  Are they brand new?

• 18:35Adam Friedland?

  No, I, I work, uh, this is for farm labor that I do.

• 18:39Speaker 05

  Right.

• 18:40Adam Friedland?

  When I'm not here, I'm like wearing shit kickers and, yeah, yeah. That's kind of, but I don't talk about it.

• 18:45Speaker 05

  I love cowboy boots. Those are very nice. Anyway, sorry.

• 18:48Adam Friedland?

  You want to try one? Can we?

• 18:50Speaker 05

  No, that's okay.

• 18:51Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm just kidding.

• 18:52Speaker 05

  No, but those are really nice.

• 18:53Adam Friedland?

  Um, something I think that's interesting about you is that like going into like your, your biography is like, you kind of buck a lot of trends, right? So you were like a child actor and like the, the understanding about a lot of child actors is that they, they grow up too fast and they, and then they have problems later on in life, but you seem relatively well adjusted and like.

• 19:18Speaker 05

  Relatively, yeah.

• 19:19Adam Friedland?

  And one thing that I'm interested in is like how, how like, how that's possible, like not, not possible, but like how, what about the way you were raised? Like what grounded you or centered you, like, um, you know, to be like relatively like fine, you know?

• 19:37Speaker 05

  Yes, I mean, I would like to think I'm relatively well adjusted. Not as well adjusted as some people I know, but better than others.

• 19:44Adam Friedland?

  For an actress, though, most of them are Joseph Stalin.

• 19:47Speaker 05

  Yeah. I think, honestly, I was sharing this with somebody else recently, that I think I was really lucky, although it might not have felt it at the time, that I was working mostly in the theater between the ages of, you know, 11 and even though I had some detours into television, my real, a majority of my time spent as a working actor was in the theater. And I just feel as if the kind of scrutiny that a child actor is under versus a child

• 20:30Speaker 05

  performer on television, or a child star in the movies, is radically different. Like, the scope of exposure and the ways in which you're talked about and discussed and deconstructed, you're not reaching the same eyes in the theater and you're not exposed to the same kinds of whims of economy. You just don't have any money, period.

• 20:57Adam Friedland?

  Is it a more supportive environment?

• 20:59Speaker 05

  I think it's an environment that is more so about the work simply because it has to be done and the rewards are not enormous. So, there's a balance to the professional experience. And I think, if you think about child stars that struggled or were challenged by the world paying attention, they were really up for discussion in ways that, if you think about my career, you didn't know what I, that I was doing a play off Broadway, or I was doing the one-act festival at EST, or that I did a play at Circle and the Square downtown.

• 21:37Speaker 05

  Like, it wasn't, so I think it allowed me to become a young adult without someone saying I was funny-looking, or examining my family life, or my parents, or discussing me in ways that aren't healthy or helpful. Does that make sense?

• 21:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it does.

• 21:59Speaker 05

  So, I sort of think the theater... Saved me and allowed me to have a grown up career.

• 22:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but I've heard you talk about like how you were like eleven, twelve, going in the subway, going to auditions. Does that feel like, you know, your childhood was cut short? Or does it feel like, you know, like you were like, I grew up fast and that became tough and strong like?

• 22:23Speaker 05

  I think both, I don't feel that my childhood was cut short at all because I felt like a child. I actually felt like a young person. But I was doing something different than most of my classmates. Who, by the way, some of them were great baseball players or soccer players or had extracurricular activities where they were shining.

• 22:49Speaker 05

  But I loved, I loved being an actor. I loved being liberated from school. I loved being on the subway and walking to auditions and having five bucks in my pocket and knowing

• 23:03Speaker 05

  that it had to cover pizza, like my meal. And running for the train after show. When I was coming up as an actor, no one was self-taping. You were, you were literally, as they say, pounding the pavement all day. If I was thirteen or if I was eighteen, I was going to three and four auditions a day. And then one could be in Midtown and then you could have two auditions for commercial on Third Avenue where all the ad agencies were. So you went up and down Third Avenue into Ogilvy and Mather, into this accounting house, that accounting house, that advertising house. And then you hustled back across the park, maybe you got the one oh two or the one oh three.

• 23:45Speaker 05

  And then went down Broadway and you went to two more auditions for plays. And then maybe up to Columbus Circle because that's in the Gulf and Western Building, which is now Trump Tower. That's where all the casting agents were for Paramount.

• 24:00Adam Friedland?

  I still call it the Gulf and Western.

• 24:01Speaker 05

  Me too. Do you really?

• 24:04Speaker 05

  So like you'd be doing that all day, every day. And it was so great.

• 24:08Adam Friedland?

  It was exciting.

• 24:09Speaker 05

  I loved it.

• 24:11Adam Friedland?

  That's cool.

• 24:12Speaker 05

  So I wasn't a good student.

• 24:18Speaker 05

  School made me very anxious, tests made me very anxious. I tested really poorly. I could never really understand the concept of what the formula was to write a really good paper. My daughters and my son do it now and I'm like gobsmacked by their ability. I'm sure you know how to write a paper.

• 24:39Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 24:40Speaker 05

  But I, really?

• 24:40Adam Friedland?

  Illiterate, yeah.

• 24:42Speaker 05

  No, that's absolutely not true.

• 24:43Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no.

• 24:43Speaker 05

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

• 24:44Adam Friedland?

  I have a lot of, yeah. I just, I'm wearing glasses.

• 24:47Speaker 05

  That's only, that's why I think you're smart?

• 24:49Adam Friedland?

  People see me as a public intellectual, but in reality, I've.

• 24:52Speaker 05

  I don't believe that.

• 24:53Adam Friedland?

  I've never read, I've never read a word.

• 24:55Speaker 05

  Remind me of your schooling.

• 24:58Adam Friedland?

  My schooling?

• 24:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, remind me of like high school and then you went to.

• 25:02Adam Friedland?

  For elementary school, I was at the Sorbonne. Um, middle school, uh, Cambridge.

• 25:08Speaker 05

  Uh huh.

• 25:09Adam Friedland?

  And then, uh, high school, Boston Cambridge, the other Cambridge, I like to call it.

• 25:14Speaker 05

  The other Cambridge, yeah.

• 25:15Adam Friedland?

  And then I was in prison for college. Rikers Island.

• 25:21Speaker 05

  Uh, University of Life.

• 25:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I call it the school of hard knocks.

• 25:24Speaker 05

  School of hard knocks, yes.

• 25:25Adam Friedland?

  I think I came up with that, actually. Yeah, I think I was actually the first one to say a school of hard knocks. No, I, I grew up in Vegas, in like suburb in Las Vegas. And then I went to George Washington University.

• 25:37Speaker 05

  Oh, you did?

• 25:38Adam Friedland?

  In, in DC.

• 25:39Speaker 05

  My sister went there for, um, to get to be, to, she's in the medical profession.

• 25:45Adam Friedland?

  Oh.

• 25:45Speaker 05

  She went as a post grad.

• 25:47Adam Friedland?

  I'm sure that was a good program. For, for me, it was just nimrods.

• 25:50Speaker 05

  No.

• 25:50Adam Friedland?

  From the tri-state area.

• 25:53Speaker 05

  Were you a classics, were you a?

• 25:56Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 25:57Speaker 05

  Were you a liberal arts student?

• 25:58Adam Friedland?

  I studied, uh, international politics, yeah.

• 26:01Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 26:01Adam Friedland?

  And Middle Eastern studies, yeah.

• 26:03Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 26:03Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 26:04Speaker 05

  And you graduated a year early, you're messing with me?

• 26:06Adam Friedland?

  I am, no, that's real, yeah.

• 26:08Speaker 05

  That is real, and you graduated early?

• 26:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, cause I had like AP credits and stuff and I had like some college credits, so. And also like I was like taking.

• 26:15Speaker 05

  You're starting, you're trying to pretend.

• 26:16Adam Friedland?

  I was taking student loans out too, so it was just like.

• 26:18Speaker 05

  You need to get it, be done as quick as possible.

• 26:20Adam Friedland?

  I got a lot of money, well, I didn't realize that. It was so funny, they, like, that, the fact that they let an eighteen year old sign a loan.

• 26:27Speaker 05

  I know.

• 26:28Adam Friedland?

  Like, I got out of college and they're like, you owe us eighty thousand dollars? I was like, what? I was like, where am I gonna get that from?

• 26:35Speaker 05

  We're gonna get eighty thousand dollars.

• 26:37Adam Friedland?

  Have to become the richest man in the world? I was like, I just wanted to, I just wanted to get away from, my, my parents were annoying me, so I signed this frickin' loan. Eighty thousand dollars? It's so funny that we do that in this country.

• 26:52Speaker 05

  Have your loans been forgiven?

• 26:54Adam Friedland?

  Forgiven?

• 26:55Speaker 05

  Well, I didn't know if you were part of, and if you were part of the-

• 26:58Adam Friedland?

  After what I did.

• 26:59Speaker 05

  Forgiven?

• 27:00Adam Friedland?

  Uh, no, I, I managed to pay it off.

• 27:03Speaker 05

  You paid them down?

• 27:04Adam Friedland?

  Pay it off.

• 27:04Speaker 05

  Wow, paid them off in entirety?

• 27:05Adam Friedland?

  Through podcasting for ugly men is-

• 27:07Speaker 05

  That's so good.

• 27:09Adam Friedland?

  Podcasting for men with bad personalities is really just-

• 27:13Speaker 05

  So, but you did, you did grow up in Vegas?

• 27:15Adam Friedland?

  I grew up, uh, yeah, I was born in LA and then grew up in Vegas.

• 27:18Speaker 05

  Where in Vegas?

• 27:18Adam Friedland?

  My parents are from Cape Town. We're, we're Jews from South Africa.

• 27:23Speaker 05

  I can't, I don't know when you're being serious.

• 27:25Adam Friedland?

  No, no, what is that, that's not a good bit. How is that a good lie?

• 27:29Speaker 05

  I don't know, you've said so much-

• 27:31Adam Friedland?

  Well, the sore bone, obviously, is in elementary school. No, I'm just kidding. No, no, yeah, my parents are from Cape Town and then-

• 27:38Speaker 05

  So, when did they come here?

• 27:39Adam Friedland?

  The eighty, eighty-one?

• 27:41Speaker 05

  Oh, so-

• 27:41Adam Friedland?

  Eighty-two, because my dad got called up to the, to go to Angola.

• 27:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 27:47Adam Friedland?

  To the, to the-

• 27:48Speaker 05

  To serve.

• 27:49Adam Friedland?

  To, for the apartheid, South Afri- My parents both went to university in London, then came back and met each other.

• 27:55Speaker 05

  Where in, do you know what university they went to?

• 27:57Adam Friedland?

  My dad was an architect, he went to the, the AA, and my mom studied drama.

• 28:00Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 28:01Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 28:03Speaker 05

  How come people, how come, do people know this?

• 28:05Adam Friedland?

  She studied drama and gossip. No, I'm just kidding.

• 28:10Speaker 05

  I'm gonna ask you one other question.

• 28:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 28:12Speaker 05

  Did you read, read The Goldfinch? The Donna Tartt book?

• 28:15Adam Friedland?

  I, I'm getting, I'm gonna get around to it.

• 28:17Speaker 05

  There's just an amazing section-

• 28:18Adam Friedland?

  No, I know it takes place in Vegas, yeah.

• 28:19Speaker 05

  Just, there's a pretty significant section in Vegas, and I, I think it's like a piece of masterful writing, but you might say no, because you live there and-

• 28:31Adam Friedland?

  Have you read The Giver?

• 28:33Speaker 05

  No. I can't tell, I can't, I don't know.

• 28:36Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm just, I've-

• 28:37Speaker 05

  There's a Pope?

• 28:37Adam Friedland?

  I came up with a baby book.

• 28:38Speaker 05

  My hair, what?

• 28:39Speaker 07

  No, no, no, Pope.

• 28:40Speaker 05

  There's a Pope?

• 28:41Speaker 07

  Well, it just came out.

• 28:42Adam Friedland?

  Who's the Pope?

• 28:43Speaker 07

  Not yet, not yet.

• 28:44Speaker 05

  Okay, okay.

• 28:46Adam Friedland?

  I don't care, personally.

• 28:47Speaker 05

  So, so-

• 28:48Adam Friedland?

  After what they did.

• 28:52Adam Friedland?

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• 31:56Adam Friedland?

  So, yeah, I want to talk to you, obviously, about like you're an actor. You've been working for what, like 40?

• 32:02Speaker 05

  52 years.

• 32:03Adam Friedland?

  52 years? But you're only...

• 32:05Speaker 05

  60.

• 32:06Adam Friedland?

  No, you're not.

• 32:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, I am.

• 32:07Adam Friedland?

  Stop lying to me. Now you're doing a bit.

• 32:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:11Adam Friedland?

  So, I mean...

• 32:11Speaker 05

  I mean, really, like, just like your parents, you make up a bit like that?

• 32:16Adam Friedland?

  What, I make up a bit about my parents?

• 32:17Speaker 05

  No.

• 32:19Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 32:19Speaker 05

  I think what you just said.

• 32:21Adam Friedland?

  My parents, I don't have them.

• 32:22Speaker 05

  I don't.

• 32:23Adam Friedland?

  I don't know where they are.

• 32:24Speaker 05

  It's not a bit.

• 32:25Adam Friedland?

  No, yeah. So, so, obviously, like...

• 32:28Speaker 05

  I've been acting for a lot of years.

• 32:29Adam Friedland?

  You had a pretty successful stage career, film career. You were in like some of like the most iconic movies. And then, obviously, you, you joined this series. And then, you kind of, your character has become culturally so ubiquitous. I mean, like, the show, like culturally, it's, it's so, it's huge, right? Like, the characters are like, at this point, like a Zodiac sign. Like, you're a Sagittarius, you're a Miranda, you know, like, there's like a...

• 33:00Speaker 05

  You really fixate on Miranda. It's so interesting to me because you've not said Charlotte, Samantha. Once, curiously enough.

• 33:07Adam Friedland?

  Can I be honest with you?

• 33:08Speaker 05

  Yes, please, that's what we're here for. That's what I was promised.

• 33:11Adam Friedland?

  Okay, first of all, the one, Charlotte is just, I don't want to mention her because I'm, I was in love for a little while, growing up, and...

• 33:21Speaker 05

  Does she look like the person?

• 33:22Adam Friedland?

  She, she converted for some ghoulish Jew. And it meant a lot to me growing up.

• 33:30Adam Friedland?

  The fact that she would marry Harry. I was like, maybe I'll get a wife one day. And maybe she'll be fabulous like.

• 33:39Speaker 05

  I feel like you've had plenty of opportunities to have wives.

• 33:44Adam Friedland?

  Plenty of opportunities?

• 33:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, I don't know that there is, there's a pope.

• 33:49Adam Friedland?

  Who cares?

• 33:50Speaker 05

  I care.

• 33:51Adam Friedland?

  What's the, who's the pope?

• 33:52Speaker 05

  Wait, I'm so excited. Should we guess? I feel like we should guess.

• 33:55Adam Friedland?

  I'll tell you who the pope is.

• 33:56Speaker 05

  No, wait, let's guess. Wait, are you guys seeing it?

• 33:59Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I know who it is. It's Joseph Goebbels.

• 34:01Speaker 05

  Wait, wait, wait. Oh, my God.

• 34:03Adam Friedland?

  I'm sorry. I won't, come on.

• 34:06Speaker 05

  Oh, Lord. Adam is getting.

• 34:07Adam Friedland?

  I'm a, I'm a.

• 34:09Speaker 05

  Are you a practicing Jew? I mean, are you observant, I should say, sorry?

• 34:12Adam Friedland?

  Well, do I believe in like the spells?

• 34:14Speaker 05

  No, it's like, do you go to High Holidays? Do you, are you observant? I'm assuming you're not kosher, but.

• 34:19Adam Friedland?

  I'm not, well, I, like, it's, I'm just, I'm just, no.

• 34:24Speaker 05

  You're just culturally a Jew?

• 34:25Adam Friedland?

  I think like it's more Jewish to not believe in God and think that the spells are boring.

• 34:30Speaker 05

  The spells.

• 34:31Adam Friedland?

  And I think, to think that my grandma's stressing me out. I think it's more about that.

• 34:35Speaker 05

  Cultural.

• 34:36Adam Friedland?

  I think it's like, it's, to me, it just, that's, yeah, it is cultural. I, I was interested to find out, like, I feel like you're very like, people just think you're Jewish probably.

• 34:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, but.

• 34:45Adam Friedland?

  But you're not.

• 34:46Speaker 05

  No.

• 34:46Adam Friedland?

  Thank God.

• 34:47Speaker 05

  My real father, sorry.

• 34:48Adam Friedland?

  I would wish it upon my greatest enemy.

• 34:51Speaker 05

  My real, my, my father is, was, but he didn't, he wasn't an observant Jewish person. He didn't, to my memory, I didn't go to shul or temple. We weren't raised with a religious. And then my stepfather, who I grew up with and I was, spent my, you know, he was in my house from the time I was an infant. He was a Christian. He was a Unitarian. And that was, I think, almost.

• 35:24Adam Friedland?

  What style was that?

• 35:25Speaker 05

  Political for him, you know, and he was a, you know.

• 35:28Adam Friedland?

  What is it, Unitarian, what, what type, what?

• 35:30Speaker 05

  Unitarian Church is a part of the Christian church, but it's, no, but it's, it's not, it's, it's. Unitarian is.

• 35:41Adam Friedland?

  They believe in everything?

• 35:42Speaker 05

  Open, very.

• 35:45Speaker 05

  It always felt very progressive. My parents went there because it was a really progressive community church. And it was, I think there were services that probably referenced Jesus, but that's not why my parents were there. It was because their politics were very... Yes. Their politics were very aligned with my parents. They were very community oriented. They were anti-war. You know, they would be for integration. They would have been, you know, on the right side. Well...

• 36:18Adam Friedland?

  And you rebelled against that because you're famously pro-war. You've been on the record.

• 36:22Speaker 05

  Correct.

• 36:23Adam Friedland?

  In Vanity Fair, I read you were pro-war.

• 36:25Speaker 05

  Yes, I am.

• 36:26Adam Friedland?

  Which was shocking. She's not Jewish and pro-war. No, I want to talk about like the cultural symbol that you're a part of.

• 36:34Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 36:35Adam Friedland?

  Obviously, you're a human being and you're an actor that's worked for 50 years. But like, you know, when someone, obviously, the characters are so meaningful to people that like if I saw James Gandolfini, were you alive, walking down the street, I'd be like, Tone, the boss? You know, like, and I'm sure when people see you, they're like, like, I met you briefly on the street and you were like, Adam, I love your work. And I was like, oh, and just like that.

• 37:01Speaker 05

  When I was at the bus stop.

• 37:02Adam Friedland?

  We had the bus stop, yeah. I saw you with the hobos.

• 37:05Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 37:07Adam Friedland?

  Warming your head.

• 37:09Speaker 05

  One more example of me just on the street.

• 37:11Adam Friedland?

  You're just a woman of the people.

• 37:13Speaker 05

  Yes, I was at a bus stop.

• 37:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, at a bus stop.

• 37:17Speaker 05

  But I was at a bus stop.

• 37:18Adam Friedland?

  So like, does it, how do you handle people seeing you as a, you know, like, how do you handle, do you think that that's like, is there a frustration there? Or do you think it's like, this is awesome. I just made something that's, I'm just, I cooked. I cooked on that.

• 37:34Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, mostly it's really, really nice. There's times when it's not opportune, you know, if you're doing something or with somebody.

• 37:44Speaker 05

  I think the time that it feels particularly...

• 37:48Speaker 05

  The occasion's when it feels like particularly ill timed is coming out of a bathroom stall and there's someone just waiting there and they wanna, you know, take picture, send a message via video to somebody else.

• 37:59Adam Friedland?

  You're like, can I wash my hands?

• 38:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, you just feel like...

• 38:02Adam Friedland?

  It's disgusting.

• 38:03Speaker 05

  It feels, you know, inappropriate. It feels like wait till someone leaves the entire unit of the bathroom, not just the stall.

• 38:16Adam Friedland?

  Right.

• 38:16Speaker 05

  Or when my kids were younger, when you're with your kids and you're going someplace or eating, or one of them's having a meltdown in an airport. It's hard to be gracious while you're trying to get your child made of noodles off the ground and make a flight. But primarily, it's a lovely thing. It's a blessing, honestly, it really is. Like, what's the point of working in a vacuum? Like, you want your work to connect. You want, you wanna find an audience and it's a, it's a privilege.

• 38:51Adam Friedland?

  Your husband, what's his name? Sarah Jessica Parker's husband.

• 38:55Speaker 05

  Matthew Broderick.

• 38:56Adam Friedland?

  Oh, he has a name? But he also kind of, interestingly enough, also played a role that was culturally iconic. Is that something you guys have bonded over?

• 39:08Speaker 05

  No, I think we've probably, I don't think we've ever discussed it.

• 39:13Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 39:14Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't think we've ever discussed it in relation to ourselves. Like, no, I've never had that conversation.

• 39:24Adam Friedland?

  Have you discussed Inspector Gadget?

• 39:27Speaker 05

  I discussed it when he was making it. We discussed it at the time, yes.

• 39:31Adam Friedland?

  The hijinks on set must be fun.

• 39:32Speaker 05

  Hijinks on set, yes, yes, yes.

• 39:36Adam Friedland?

  How have you managed, in a similar way to being a child actor that seems relatively well-adjusted, how have you managed to make a Hollywood marriage? You know, the understanding is that those typically are difficult and don't work. And like, it seems like you guys have bucked that trend as well. I feel like Andy Cohen right now. This is incredible.

• 39:58Speaker 05

  What does it feel like to feel like Andy Cohen?

• 40:01Adam Friedland?

  Oh, starting shit between people that are drunk and like, work at a restaurant together? So jacks.

• 40:10Speaker 05

  Well, we don't live in Hollywood. Let's start with that. Maybe that's helpful. I don't know.

• 40:16Adam Friedland?

  Do people leave you alone more in New York City, you think?

• 40:19Speaker 05

  I think you probably are left alone less because you're just, you know, we are among the people as we've established. I am...

• 40:28Adam Friedland?

  On the freight trains.

• 40:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly.

• 40:31Adam Friedland?

  With a stick.

• 40:32Speaker 05

  Yes, on the docks, on the docks, in the yards.

• 40:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, with the longshoreman.

• 40:36Speaker 05

  On the line.

• 40:37Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 40:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:40Adam Friedland?

  In the bread.

• 40:41Speaker 05

  In the field.

• 40:41Adam Friedland?

  The breadlines.

• 40:44Speaker 05

  On the cook line, bread line, dockyards, all of it.

• 40:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 40:49Speaker 05

  And I think when you're out every day, walking in a city, you're exposed to people and some people care, some people say something, some people don't. I think if we were living in Southern California, very likely you're going from your house to the driveway to a car, to a building. And you're probably less engaged with people. So I think there'd be less intrusion, although it doesn't, it's not, I don't want to say intrusion because that has a sort of negative connotation to it. I just think we're up against people more in a good way in New York. And so with that comes exchanges.

• 41:29Adam Friedland?

  It starts small. "A bill you can't pay today. Your mailbox is flooded with final notices. Pay immediately. Legal action pending." This is scary. "Your phone won't stop ringing. You don't answer, but you know who it is. It's a debt collector." And they're not going away. This is, this is speaking to me a little bit, right? Okay. "They want your car, your home, your paycheck, your peace, your family's future. Debt doesn't wait. It destroys quietly and then all at once."

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• 43:51Adam Friedland?

  Thanks. A lot of people in my life are mad at me for getting to talk to you. It's like, the haters have really come out of the woodwork. So I have a loud... I want to do a segment where a lot of people have asked me, if they could ask me a question, and I was like, "Well, why don't you just send me a voice..." Do you have voice memos? I have a couple of voice memos if you're down. That's fresh. Okay, so we'll try. I haven't actually listened to any of these yet, so we'll go to the first question. Yeah, yeah.

• 44:26Speaker 03

  Even though, obviously, you're Carrie, are there any... Which character do you identify the most with?

• 44:33Adam Friedland?

  So original, that question. Amazing. Okay, let's hear it. Steve.

• 44:39Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 44:39Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 44:40Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 44:40Adam Friedland?

  I'm a Steve too.

• 44:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm a Steve.

• 44:42Adam Friedland?

  A half burger, half Steve.

• 44:44Speaker 05

  I'm not a burger. No. I'd say I'm a half Steve, half...

• 44:49Adam Friedland?

  We love Ron Livingston. Anthony?

• 44:52Speaker 05

  Anthony.

• 44:52Adam Friedland?

  Um, alright, let's move... Well, let's keep doing this.

• 44:55Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 44:55Adam Friedland?

  Oh, this girl? Okay.

• 44:57Speaker 10

  Hi, Sarah Jessica. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. I can't believe I'm doing this. Hi, Sarah Jessica.

• 45:05Adam Friedland?

  So embarrassing.

• 45:06Speaker 10

  I'm such a big fan. I just want to, first off, of course, thank you for, like, everything you have done.

• 45:12Adam Friedland?

  I... Me too.

• 45:14Speaker 10

  Emotionally for me, and also for all of us culturally, and, um, fashionably. You know, just everything that you've done. You're such an icon, and I don't even know what to say.

• 45:24Adam Friedland?

  So long.

• 45:25Speaker 10

  I'm so overwhelmed. I am, like, kind of in a weird situation, I think, that I want to ask you about. I have your attention, if that's okay?

• 45:33Speaker 05

  Of course.

• 45:34Speaker 10

  I know I'm supposed to call in with a question, but I'm just, like, I'm kind of in this weird situation. I'm, like, kind of at the end of the line here, and I don't know what to do, so I'm just gonna say, um, okay, so I am, like, seeing this guy, or I've been seeing this guy for, like, eight months.

• 45:49Adam Friedland?

  Who cares? Is this what they do in the bathroom to you?

• 45:52Speaker 05

  We might be missing the whole...

• 45:53Adam Friedland?

  Okay, enough of that.

• 45:54Speaker 05

  Oh, really?

• 45:55Adam Friedland?

  I'm sick and tired...

• 45:56Speaker 05

  Can you move your finger on the thing?

• 45:58Adam Friedland?

  She's just talking about herself.

• 45:58Speaker 10

  ...part of the issue, you know what I'm saying?

• 46:00Speaker 05

  We missed the finger.

• 46:02Speaker 10

  So, like, we've been seeing each other for, like, nine, 10 months, all this year.

• 46:05Speaker 05

  Oh, I thought she said six, eight.

• 46:06Adam Friedland?

  Blah, blah, blah. Okay.

• 46:08Speaker 05

  Well, does he move away?

• 46:09Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 46:10Speaker 05

  Is he moving away something physical or is he emotional?

• 46:12Adam Friedland?

  She's saying that she thought she found her forever person, but he's acting in public. He's... She's clearly stalking a guy that she's never met before.

• 46:17Speaker 05

  So, he's... He's hot and cold?

• 46:20Adam Friedland?

  I don't...

• 46:20Speaker 05

  Do you think that the...

• 46:21Adam Friedland?

  I don't listen.

• 46:22Speaker 05

  The crux?

• 46:23Adam Friedland?

  I don't listen. Okay.

• 46:25Speaker 05

  Well, shouldn't we tell her something?

• 46:26Adam Friedland?

  Alright, let's try this next one.

• 46:27Speaker 05

  I feel bad because we've not addressed...

• 46:28Speaker 10

  Hi, Sarah, big fan. You're a total...

• 46:30Speaker 11

  Icon and a total hero to women everywhere.

• 46:34Adam Friedland?

  This is good, this is gonna be good.

• 46:35Speaker 11

  My question is, so your husband is Matthew Broderick.

• 46:39Adam Friedland?

  Love him.

• 46:39Speaker 11

  Did he teach you acting, or did you learn it from another guy?

• 46:41Adam Friedland?

  Okay, no, never mind. No, no.

• 46:46Adam Friedland?

  No one's taking this serious.

• 46:49Adam Friedland?

  That's rude.

• 46:49Speaker 05

  It's a fine question.

• 46:51Adam Friedland?

  Alright, listen, hopefully this one's alright. Let's try this one.

• 46:53Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 46:55Speaker 11

  Hey Sarah, huge fan for like ever.

• 47:00Adam Friedland?

  Same.

• 47:01Speaker 11

  Yeah, so I was just wondering, like, do your reps like know who Adam is?

• 47:06Adam Friedland?

  Oh shit.

• 47:07Speaker 11

  Or like what this show is? Because like I feel like if they did any research at all, they would see that this is like, like Adam is like such a loser, like, like his entire like career is like built off the fact that people like make fun of him.

• 47:17Adam Friedland?

  Okay, alright, alright, that's enough of that. Okay, let's try one more.

• 47:22Speaker 12

  Hey Sarah, uh, big fan.

• 47:24Adam Friedland?

  What's a guy?

• 47:25Speaker 12

  I just wanted to ask about sort of the elephant in the room. I hope you're okay to talk about this. But like, uh, was there ever time on set when like you or Miranda or one of the girls just had like, just ripped like a big ass fart?

• 47:42Speaker 12

  And, uh, did it smell if they did?

• 47:45Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god.

• 47:47Speaker 12

  And, uh...

• 47:47Adam Friedland?

  I'm sorry.

• 47:48Speaker 12

  Yeah, I don't know, it's just like I've seen all your interviews.

• 47:51Speaker 05

  The level of sophistication that...

• 47:51Speaker 12

  You guys never talked about it.

• 47:53Adam Friedland?

  I didn't, I should've listened to these before.

• 47:54Speaker 12

  Clear this up a little bit. Uh, and also, who's your favorite Carrie boyfriend?

• 48:01Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 48:02Speaker 12

  Thanks.

• 48:02Adam Friedland?

  Alright, so that's a fair question. Was there ever a time where someone ripped a massive big ass fart?

• 48:07Speaker 05

  Not to my knowledge, yeah. First of all, women don't, let's just start with that. So the odds of it happening among the cast is... None, but I...

• 48:16Adam Friedland?

  This is a conspiracy of silence. Quite literally.

• 48:19Speaker 05

  Correct. The, the, the second part of the question was...

• 48:23Adam Friedland?

  Who's your favorite Carrie boyfriend?

• 48:23Speaker 05

  Who was the favorite Carrie boyfriend, which, of which I, I won't, I won't...

• 48:28Adam Friedland?

  You can't say it.

• 48:29Speaker 05

  I won't entertain that question. I, I don't pick favorites.

• 48:34Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 48:35Speaker 05

  I can't.

• 48:35Adam Friedland?

  I'm burger. I like burger.

• 48:37Speaker 05

  Do you have a partner?

• 48:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. I have a fiance.

• 48:40Speaker 05

  Was she, are you being serious?

• 48:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 48:43Speaker 05

  Really?

• 48:44Adam Friedland?

  Why?

• 48:44Speaker 05

  Well, no, I'm happy. Was she walking with you the day that I saw you at the bus? There were three of you.

• 48:50Adam Friedland?

  No, there was two, me and my girlfriend.

• 48:52Speaker 05

  Wasn't there somebody else with you that day?

• 48:54Adam Friedland?

  You were seeing double.

• 48:55Speaker 05

  No, I thought there was a gentleman with you as well, a third party.

• 48:57Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, no, it was just the two of us, I think. Yeah.

• 49:00Speaker 05

  That's so exciting.

• 49:02Adam Friedland?

  I know.

• 49:02Speaker 05

  What, have you set a date?

• 49:06Adam Friedland?

  Whatever she wants.

• 49:07Speaker 05

  Really?

• 49:08Adam Friedland?

  Every single idea I've had has been summarily rejected. I asked her if me and two friends could rap, me and three friends could rap each verse to International Players Anthem, which is a wedding song, at the reception. She said, without a doubt, no.

• 49:23Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 49:23Adam Friedland?

  I also asked her if we could have like a potato skins bar with bacon bits.

• 49:27Speaker 05

  That sounds good.

• 49:28Adam Friedland?

  And she said, she said, "Stop talking." I said, I also asked her-

• 49:33Speaker 05

  Forever or right now?

• 49:34Adam Friedland?

  Oh, well, probably for, no, she's the best.

• 49:37Speaker 05

  That's so great.

• 49:37Adam Friedland?

  I can't believe anyone wants to.

• 49:39Speaker 05

  That's wonderful.

• 49:40Adam Friedland?

  I'm so annoyed.

• 49:41Speaker 05

  No.

• 49:42Adam Friedland?

  No, I am, I'm so, I have a bad personality.

• 49:45Speaker 05

  No, you don't, no you don't.

• 49:46Adam Friedland?

  Terrible breath.

• 49:47Speaker 05

  Stop it, stop it.

• 49:52Adam Friedland?

  Little do you know. You'll find out soon, mom. I want to talk to you a bit about like how the show kind of created, like life kind of imitated art in the show. Like, the show inspired a generation. Now, even on TikTok, like Gen Z, or Gen Zers? Gen Z, Gen Zed, Gen, whatever the fuck. Gen Zoomers? I don't care, honestly, okay? And I asked you not to-

• 50:23Adam Friedland?

  No, yeah, they're discovering the show, you know, like-

• 50:25Speaker 05

  Yes, yes.

• 50:26Adam Friedland?

  It's become like, you know, it's been, it's something that's-

• 50:29Speaker 05

  It's moved on.

• 50:30Adam Friedland?

  It's moved on and people have found relevance in it. There were so many people that saw it and then they were inspired to like move to New York, like have their Carrie Bradshaw, like, you know, moment.

• 50:40Speaker 05

  I hear that a lot.

• 50:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 50:42Speaker 05

  "I moved to New York to be a writer. I want to live in an apartment in a charming community that is overpriced and..."

• 50:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. "I want to pay $2,200 a month and four roommates, just like Carrie."

• 50:56Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 50:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, "I want to meet people on Craigslist." Yeah, yeah. And then have a landlord, the ceiling fell down and, just like Carrie.

• 51:08Adam Friedland?

  No, but I- Like, to what extent are you like aware of this like culture that the show has created? And do you think that there are any like misinterpretations that you've seen amongst the like the fanbase? Or like the people that have been, you know, influenced by it?

• 51:24Speaker 05

  I think we're all aware of it in different ways. I live very near the exterior of the apartment where Carrie lived and we shot for all those years.

• 51:39Adam Friedland?

  I know where you live.

• 51:40Speaker 05

  So, we see all those people every day, they're taking pictures. And sometimes they're many, many people deep. So you really, it's very present, you know, that it has some significance to people. But also, I think because of social media and the ways in which this particular generation who's watching it for the first time are like metabolizing it. They spit it back out and they talk about it and they, you know, social media is the way in which everyone communicates.

• 52:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 52:17Speaker 05

  So we see it that way and even though I'm not on social media like a huge amount, I can sense it when I am. And just the way people approach me. And so that was the first part of the question. And the second part was...

• 52:36Adam Friedland?

  Do you think that there have been any like misreadings?

• 52:39Speaker 05

  Misreadings.

• 52:40Adam Friedland?

  Or like, do you think that there is any influence that you're like, oh, that's...

• 52:44Speaker 05

  Not what we meant.

• 52:45Adam Friedland?

  Not what we meant, but yeah.

• 52:46Speaker 05

  I mean, I'm sure there are, but that is, that's kind of the nature of...

• 52:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 52:52Speaker 05

  Anything you do is going to be somewhat open for interpretation and people can have feelings about it. And I would disagree and I would, I could, you know, it's very possible I would say, no, that's not what he meant or she said, or the way in which she wanted that to happen, or that doesn't mean that she is therefore...

• 53:15Speaker 05

  This way always, but you can't babysit and like gatekeep impressions.

• 53:22Adam Friedland?

  You can't be responsible also for like the way people interpret your crap.

• 53:26Speaker 05

  You kind of sort of have to let...

• 53:28Adam Friedland?

  I didn't mean to say crap, your work.

• 53:29Speaker 05

  Well, your crap, or whatever, whatever.

• 53:31Adam Friedland?

  My shit.

• 53:32Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 53:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, obviously like fanbases are, they're fans, you know, short for fanatic.

• 53:38Speaker 05

  It is.

• 53:39Adam Friedland?

  I yell at sports guys all the time.

• 53:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 53:42Adam Friedland?

  What right do I have? They're sports guys.

• 53:45Speaker 05

  I know, but it's...

• 53:46Adam Friedland?

  I'm a, I'm a, I'm a schlemiel.

• 53:48Speaker 05

  But they are playing the game for you.

• 53:51Adam Friedland?

  I'm a fanatic though.

• 53:52Speaker 05

  So that they, they, they are playing the game for the fanatics and for the idol. A hundred percent they are.

• 53:59Adam Friedland?

  My, the big, the beautiful, the guys?

• 54:02Speaker 05

  The Adam.

• 54:03Adam Friedland?

  That I, I buy their shirt?

• 54:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, don't you think?

• 54:06Adam Friedland?

  I'm like wearing another shirt that says...

• 54:08Speaker 05

  Were you crazy what happened with the Knicks the last two nights? Or Monday and Wednesday?

• 54:11Adam Friedland?

  On the real.

• 54:12Speaker 05

  Isn't that incredible?

• 54:13Adam Friedland?

  Can we go courtside?

• 54:14Speaker 05

  I feel like James is, James, he's like, his mind is blown.

• 54:19Adam Friedland?

  Can we sit courtside with us?

• 54:20Speaker 05

  Isn't it, I don't have courtside seats.

• 54:22Adam Friedland?

  Come on, we have them. Imagine like if someone got a picture of us and they're like, what's happening? What's that all about?

• 54:29Speaker 05

  I would be thrilled to go to a game with you.

• 54:30Adam Friedland?

  What's that all about?

• 54:31Speaker 05

  It'd be more fun to go with you and James Wilkie because he's such an insane fan.

• 54:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 54:37Speaker 05

  And he's so excited about this team.

• 54:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 54:39Speaker 05

  And so to be with you both would be really fun.

• 54:43Adam Friedland?

  Okay, we can bring him too, yeah.

• 54:44Speaker 05

  They gotta just stay in the game until we can go. It's possible.

• 54:48Adam Friedland?

  Oh, apparently, I'm getting word there's a new Pope.

• 54:50Speaker 05

  No, I know, should we talk about it? Should we?

• 54:52Adam Friedland?

  No, apparently...

• 54:53Speaker 05

  Cause they promised that I could guess because they all know.

• 54:57Adam Friedland?

  You know all the guys?

• 54:58Speaker 05

  Well, no, I mean, we've been, we've been going over it for a while now though.

• 55:01Adam Friedland?

  You know the whole roster?

• 55:03Speaker 05

  We know a bunch of them. We know countries that are allegedly considerations, but we don't, this was just speculative. This was Papal News, this was whoever was covering...

• 55:13Adam Friedland?

  Papal.

• 55:13Speaker 05

  The Pontiff and Papal News for the Times.

• 55:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 55:16Speaker 05

  Has been giving us sort of, you know, the leaderboard of contenders.

• 55:21Adam Friedland?

  He's gossiping.

• 55:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 55:22Adam Friedland?

  Did you see, uh, did you see, uh, what do you call it?

• 55:26Speaker 05

  Conclave?

• 55:26Adam Friedland?

  Conclave.

• 55:27Speaker 05

  I didn't.

• 55:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 55:28Speaker 05

  But now I sort of feel like...

• 55:29Adam Friedland?

  It's kind of fun.

• 55:29Speaker 05

  We're seeing it now.

• 55:30Adam Friedland?

  It's fun.

• 55:31Speaker 05

  Um, do you want to know, or you want us to do this after the show's over? I'm happy to do it afterwards.

• 55:36Adam Friedland?

  Listen, this is a relaxed set, you know, like if they've announced that...

• 55:42Speaker 05

  Give me two guesses. If I don't get it, let's go back to focusing solely on Adam.

• 55:46Adam Friedland?

  You know, I think it's gonna be, and it's gonna be crap.

• 55:48Speaker 05

  Do you want me to guess first, or you want to guess first?

• 55:50Adam Friedland?

  It's gonna be old Donald Trump.

• 55:53Adam Friedland?

  Can I, okay, so I said earlier, you're like the president of the girls?

• 55:56Speaker 05

  No Pope, later.

• 55:57Adam Friedland?

  Wait, just say the Pope.

• 55:58Speaker 05

  No, no, no, no, I can't, it has to be a guess.

• 56:01Adam Friedland?

  You're excited for this crap?

• 56:02Speaker 05

  Every time, every time there's a been a Pope, I have been...

• 56:05Adam Friedland?

  Who you got money on?

• 56:06Speaker 05

  I have been excited about this process, and I can remember the last two very clearly, where I was and what happened. So, we are invested, because...

• 56:16Adam Friedland?

  What are your two guesses, then?

• 56:19Speaker 05

  All right.

• 56:24Adam Friedland?

  William...

• 56:25Speaker 05

  She gives nothing, and she never gives anything. You could be clinging to the side of a building with, by one pinkie, you could say, "Just give me the third letter in Wordle, I beg you. If you give me the third letter, I can, I will survive." And she's like, "I don't do that."

• 56:38Adam Friedland?

  Why do you do that for her?

• 56:39Speaker 05

  Our family doesn't give letters.

• 56:41Adam Friedland?

  You gotta do that for her.

• 56:42Speaker 13

  I don't give hints.

• 56:43Speaker 05

  She doesn't give hints.

• 56:43Adam Friedland?

  I would hint you anytime you want.

• 56:45Speaker 05

  Thank you, good to know.

• 56:48Speaker 05

  I'm gonna guess, I'm just gonna go with the one that I've been saying all this time, just to get it out of the way, but I already know it's...

• 56:56Speaker 05

  Mbabbo wasn't picked, correct? Okay, the Africans out.

• 57:01Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 57:02Speaker 05

  Okay. Now, there were multiple...

• 57:04Adam Friedland?

  Was that your number one pick?

• 57:05Speaker 05

  That was my first, it wasn't my pick.

• 57:08Adam Friedland?

  What's his vibe, Mbabbo?

• 57:10Speaker 05

  People, he's beloved.

• 57:11Adam Friedland?

  He's a nice guy.

• 57:12Speaker 05

  He's beloved, yes. Allegedly, they all are.

• 57:15Adam Friedland?

  Some of them are not very nice guys.

• 57:16Speaker 05

  I'm gonna go quick for the, a quick Italian, because there are multiple Italians, so I'm just going to say, my second guess is not really my second guess, but since there are multiple Italians, it was an Italian.

• 57:26Speaker 13

  Are you giving her hints?

• 57:27Speaker 05

  No.

• 57:27Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 57:28Speaker 13

  No.

• 57:28Adam Friedland?

  I'm just...

• 57:29Speaker 13

  It's not an Italian.

• 57:30Adam Friedland?

  Was it, why did you say, you should...

• 57:31Speaker 13

  Because I saw her looking at him, and I was like...

• 57:33Speaker 05

  That is fascinating. Okay, so not an Italian, and not the African...

• 57:40Speaker 05

  Cardinal.

• 57:41Adam Friedland?

  You know what I'm going for?

• 57:42Speaker 13

  I should say, not from Italy, like, I don't know that he's not. Right.

• 57:46Adam Friedland?

  I don't think so.

• 57:47Speaker 05

  So it's a man?

• 57:50Adam Friedland?

  You should see Cockle.

• 57:51Speaker 13

  He just broke my own rule. It is a man, I'll give you that.

• 57:54Adam Friedland?

  I think I know who it is. Saudi Arabia, no?

• 57:58Speaker 05

  We have a pope, we have a cardinal that covers the Middle East, but as an ambassador, we do not have a Saudi Arabian cardinal thus far.

• 58:08Adam Friedland?

  Oh, man. One day, though.

• 58:10Speaker 05

  That'd be an interesting bridge that was made.

• 58:14Adam Friedland?

  One can only hope that one day.

• 58:15Speaker 05

  Alright, so we'll stop with that now, and back to you, Adam.

• 58:18Adam Friedland?

  Okay, we're gonna do another little segment. This, hopefully, is gonna go better.

• 58:22Speaker 05

  This segment's called...

• 58:23Adam Friedland?

  Okay, so you're like, as I said, the president of girls, so, or, like, you're like, you know, you're the number one, you're the reluctant leader.

• 58:31Speaker 05

  Yes, father of the country.

• 58:32Adam Friedland?

  So I just wanna ask you, as your majesty, your highness.

• 58:36Speaker 05

  Mom.

• 58:37Adam Friedland?

  What the answer is to some questions I have about girls.

• 58:40Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 58:41Adam Friedland?

  Okay. So when they say, "Take these fries away from me," are you supposed to physically do it? Or do they like, do they say they taste good?

• 58:48Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 58:50Adam Friedland?

  I don't know what to do.

• 58:52Speaker 05

  That's so interesting.

• 58:53Adam Friedland?

  Do I take the fries, or am I...

• 58:54Speaker 05

  You're saying, is it rhetorical?

• 58:56Adam Friedland?

  Do I take the fries, or does it mean that they like the fries?

• 58:58Speaker 05

  I think it means they really like the fries.

• 59:00Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 59:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, don't take their fries.

• 59:02Adam Friedland?

  Okay, that's good to know.

• 59:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 59:03Adam Friedland?

  Okay, when, um...

• 59:05Speaker 05

  If someone shoves them toward you and says, "Please, take these fries away, I can't eat anymore," I think then you'll know to take the fries.

• 59:13Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 59:14Speaker 05

  I think so. I feel like you know that.

• 59:16Adam Friedland?

  So you shouldn't just, like, physically remove the fries?

• 59:19Speaker 05

  I wouldn't.

• 59:20Adam Friedland?

  And throw them out the window?

• 59:21Speaker 05

  Especially if you don't really know the person well.

• 59:24Adam Friedland?

  No, it's your girl, it's your girlfriend.

• 59:26Speaker 05

  It's your fiancee.

• 59:27Adam Friedland?

  It's your girlfriend.

• 59:27Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 59:28Adam Friedland?

  Not my girlfriend, hypothetically, your girlfriend, okay. Why do you like, when you have a dream, and we did something bad in it, why do we get...

• 59:35Speaker 05

  Are you still mad at them?

• 59:36Adam Friedland?

  Why do we get in trouble in the real world? That's not fair. It's not not fair, but like, why?

• 59:41Speaker 05

  I know, I don't know. It's a pathology, I don't know.

• 59:45Adam Friedland?

  Dreams are really, like...

• 59:47Speaker 05

  I know.

• 59:47Adam Friedland?

  What is the dream thing?

• 59:48Speaker 05

  I, because I think that, um, some people subscribe to this idea that...

• 59:57Speaker 05

  These are real feelings of yours. And so, I guess when you wake up, you could still be angry. And then maybe you project that whatever caused the anger could happen. Or could be like produced in some way. So they're already angry at you.

• 1:00:17Speaker 05

  I can see how that could.

• 1:00:18Adam Friedland?

  Can you write that down for me?

• 1:00:19Speaker 05

  Sure, sure. I'll send you a voice thing.

• 1:00:22Adam Friedland?

  Okay, so why, sometimes like if you're like at a restaurant and they say they're not hungry? And then you order something like, why they eat 75% of your sandwich? Because then they say, "I wasn't hungry when you asked, but five minutes later when there's a sandwich here." Why didn't you just order something and then you have 25% of the sandwich? Hypothetically.

• 1:00:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why we do that.

• 1:00:45Adam Friedland?

  Here's another question.

• 1:00:49Adam Friedland?

  Why do they say, "Can we talk later?" Like, don't you know that that means we feel like we're like waiting for the electric chair?

• 1:00:55Speaker 05

  That's horrible.

• 1:00:55Adam Friedland?

  Just like friggin', I can't, what am I gonna?

• 1:00:58Speaker 05

  Would it be better if they said, "I'm really angry, but I can't talk now, so I would like to talk to you later."

• 1:01:04Adam Friedland?

  Well, I have a follow-up question then.

• 1:01:06Speaker 05

  Right.

• 1:01:06Adam Friedland?

  When they say, when you, when hypothetically, when the boyfriend says, like, "Is everything okay?" And then they say, "I'm fine." And then, and then you're like, "Are you sure?" And they're like, "I'm fine." And then three days later, they're like, "This was the thing that it was three days ago." And then you're like, "Why didn't you tell me three days ago?" And then they're like, "You were supposed to know what the thing was." And it was like, that is impossible, like.

• 1:01:32Speaker 05

  Right.

• 1:01:33Adam Friedland?

  So what?

• 1:01:33Speaker 05

  The sort of gymnastics that you have to do to get to knowing in order to not, three days later, be in trouble is hard.

• 1:01:42Adam Friedland?

  So who's the, who wins?

• 1:01:43Speaker 05

  That's a really good question too. Gosh, let's see.

• 1:01:48Speaker 05

  I think that if you can survive and stick it out, that won't happen in 20 to 30 years. That's gonna stop.

• 1:01:59Adam Friedland?

  We love them.

• 1:02:00Speaker 05

  But honestly, it's, if it's not.

• 1:02:08Speaker 05

  If it's not like an epidemic, if it's not like a chronic problem, it's just passion, it's just love, it's just being angry and not being angry.

• 1:02:18Adam Friedland?

  Maybe we're just, we're dum-dums and girls, we're trying, we don't, sometimes we're trying to understand girls, but we're also still dum-dums.

• 1:02:26Speaker 05

  But does that make you a dum-dum, or you're not necessarily the same as us?

• 1:02:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, we're different.

• 1:02:33Speaker 05

  Generally speaking, and so therefore you can't know what we're... This idea of you all meant to intuit us in our feelings is a very, that's a very, that's a lot of pressure. And I would say that we have sort of entrenched places that we operate from. And part of it is kind of fun and lively and, and then part of it is because often men behave in this way, and then often women behave in this way.

• 1:03:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:11Speaker 05

  And our natures are not to see the other way, so it's hard. And it just takes practice, and also to just get over something.

• 1:03:22Adam Friedland?

  If you love someone, you want to see the other way, that's what, like...

• 1:03:25Speaker 05

  You can, that's what I'm saying, if you stick it out.

• 1:03:27Adam Friedland?

  We're never gonna fully understand each other, but we're gonna, because we love each other, we're gonna try our whole lives. It's so beautiful, that's what love is.

• 1:03:34Speaker 05

  You'll be better at the differences.

• 1:03:36Adam Friedland?

  I know.

• 1:03:36Speaker 05

  So it's all fine and good and worth it, and I don't talk about my marriage, basically, but I will say the one thing, the one thing I do say is that you learn that the things that don't matter, don't matter. Like, every day, I'm sure I annoy Matthew, all day long, I'm sure.

• 1:04:00Adam Friedland?

  No way.

• 1:04:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, of course I do, of course I do.

• 1:04:02Adam Friedland?

  You're the best ever.

• 1:04:03Speaker 05

  No, I'm not.

• 1:04:03Adam Friedland?

  No way.

• 1:04:04Speaker 05

  And there are times that he annoys me, less frequently, no doubt.

• 1:04:07Adam Friedland?

  I'm sure.

• 1:04:08Speaker 05

  But like, I tell myself all the time, like... It doesn't matter. Why are you gonna say something about that? But you have to get to a point. You have to invest enough time to be that willing to... So, all the stuff that comes before of three days later and how can you believe you didn't? And why, when I looked at that and you can't, you don't, you couldn't tell how upset I was? Like, that's all part of the courtship, so it's all fine.

• 1:04:35Adam Friedland?

  It's so nice to just be around you. You make people feel so good.

• 1:04:41Speaker 05

  Well...

• 1:04:42Adam Friedland?

  You make me feel so good. I feel like I'm flying right now.

• 1:04:44Speaker 05

  I have faith in you.

• 1:04:46Adam Friedland?

  The Oprah thing. You have the Oprah thing. It must be incredible to be around Oprah.

• 1:04:50Speaker 05

  If only. I wish I had the Oprah thing.

• 1:04:51Adam Friedland?

  I was in an elevator once with her.

• 1:04:53Speaker 05

  Oh, you really?

• 1:04:54Adam Friedland?

  My whole life, I was like, "What, why are these, why are these..." "Why, why is everyone making such a..." She's just from a TV. And I was in an elevator with her and I was like, "Oh, my God."

• 1:05:03Speaker 05

  Wait, what was the occasion?

• 1:05:04Adam Friedland?

  She, I used to work at a, like, a media company, like, a Discovery.

• 1:05:09Speaker 05

  Did I know that?

• 1:05:10Adam Friedland?

  I used to...

• 1:05:11Speaker 05

  Oh, when she had her own channel?

• 1:05:13Adam Friedland?

  They were launching her channel.

• 1:05:14Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:05:14Adam Friedland?

  But I was, like, in the elevator and I was, there's just an energy.

• 1:05:17Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:05:18Adam Friedland?

  That's just so magic. She's a magic person.

• 1:05:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's absolutely true. What did you, um, what did you do at Discovery?

• 1:05:25Adam Friedland?

  I was a paralegal. I was gonna go to law school before I became a nightclub comedian. Paralegal? That's not a good bit. Why would I lie about that?

• 1:05:33Speaker 05

  I don't know.

• 1:05:34Adam Friedland?

  No, I was gonna go to law school and then I told my parents I wanted to be a clown.

• 1:05:37Speaker 05

  Were you really a paralegal?

• 1:05:39Adam Friedland?

  Uh, yeah, I was.

• 1:05:39Speaker 05

  For Discovery?

• 1:05:40Adam Friedland?

  For, I was for, like, five years. For five years, I was a paralegal.

• 1:05:44Speaker 05

  So, basically, reading contracts, reading any legal stuff that came through, you had enough...

• 1:05:48Adam Friedland?

  It was a passion.

• 1:05:49Speaker 05

  Experience.

• 1:05:50Adam Friedland?

  It was a passion. It was a passion. Some of the best years of my life. You know, like, you're a book Jew or you're a money Jew? Those are, like, the two stereotypes. I'm illiterate and terrible at money. I had everything in checking.

• 1:06:02Speaker 05

  Well, you're not illiterate. You're not, well, first of all, you wrote a book, so you're not illiterate, correct?

• 1:06:07Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 1:06:08Speaker 05

  What's the title of your book? It's a good title.

• 1:06:10Adam Friedland?

  It's called "Sra Drastica Perker."

• 1:06:16Adam Friedland?

  The low, my, my best friend. My mom. I didn't write a book. No, why? You thought I did?

• 1:06:25Adam Friedland?

  I did write a book.

• 1:06:26Speaker 05

  I know you did.

• 1:06:27Adam Friedland?

  It's called, it's called "The Art of the Deal." I don't know. No, I didn't write a book.

• 1:06:32Adam Friedland?

  You thought I did? That's why you did the show?

• 1:06:34Speaker 05

  No, I thought you wrote a book about your relationship, your first relationship.

• 1:06:39Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 1:06:43Adam Friedland?

  What was it called, The Anarchist Cookbook?

• 1:06:45Speaker 05

  No, come on.

• 1:06:46Adam Friedland?

  No, I never wrote a book.

• 1:06:47Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:06:48Adam Friedland?

  It will be, it seems too hard.

• 1:06:51Speaker 05

  Really?

• 1:06:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, this is, for me, is like, this is

• 1:06:54Speaker 05

  This is hard enough.

• 1:06:55Adam Friedland?

  The most I'm capable of. No, this is hard, this is phenomenal. I feel like I'm flying right now. Can you?

• 1:07:02Speaker 05

  When do you, when's your next show, and who is it?

• 1:07:05Adam Friedland?

  Tomorrow.

• 1:07:06Speaker 05

  Oh, really? Who's, who are you interviewing tomorrow?

• 1:07:09Adam Friedland?

  This guy. There's this

• 1:07:13Adam Friedland?

  You know Steiny from the Nelk Boys?

• 1:07:16Speaker 05

  Wait, Steiny from who?

• 1:07:17Adam Friedland?

  You don't know it.

• 1:07:18Speaker 05

  And one last question, the design inspiration for the studio?

• 1:07:21Adam Friedland?

  The Dick Havitt Show.

• 1:07:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:07:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you could tell.

• 1:07:24Speaker 05

  Do you wanna hum it with me?

• 1:07:26Adam Friedland?

  What's that?

• 1:07:26Speaker 05

  Do you wanna hum the theme with me? Do you know it?

• 1:07:29Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, hold on a second.

• 1:07:30Speaker 05

  From Candide?

• 1:07:30Adam Friedland?

  It's a

• 1:07:32Speaker 05

  I just gave you

• 1:07:33Adam Friedland?

  Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match. Find me a find.

• 1:07:39Speaker 05

  Catch me a catch.

• 1:07:42Speaker 05

  Longing to be the envy of all the sea. For Papa, making us color for Mama, making rich as a king. For me, well, I wouldn't holler if he were as handsome as anything. You changed keys.

• 1:07:58Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, well, I'm not a singer like you.

• 1:08:01Speaker 05

  A singer.

• 1:08:01Adam Friedland?

  I wasn't Annie.

• 1:08:02Speaker 05

  Sing it.

• 1:08:03Adam Friedland?

  I was an 11-year-old Annie, on Broadway. Just, just, just discovered in Ohio. They're like, this is, we found a star.

• 1:08:12Speaker 05

  No, I was in New York. I wish I'd been discovered in Ohio. That would've been more financially fruitful.

• 1:08:18Adam Friedland?

  I wanna ask you about fashion.

• 1:08:19Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:08:20Adam Friedland?

  Okay, so you're like a fashion icon.

• 1:08:22Speaker 05

  But, okay, but I'm not. I mean, I understand. Okay, I'll play along.

• 1:08:26Adam Friedland?

  Have you ever wanted to dress like shit?

• 1:08:29Speaker 05

  I do, all the time.

• 1:08:30Adam Friedland?

  No, you don't.

• 1:08:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, of course I do.

• 1:08:31Adam Friedland?

  Look at you, you're impeccable.

• 1:08:32Speaker 05

  No, no, no.

• 1:08:33Adam Friedland?

  You don't feel an obligation to be an icon?

• 1:08:35Speaker 05

  No, no, no, no. I mean, I do my best when I leave the house. If there's gonna be a public event, I try to not be I would prefer if it wasn't attacked. But the world is too, the opinions are too disparate.

• 1:08:49Adam Friedland?

  Did Joan go at your ass ever?

• 1:08:51Speaker 05

  Oh, I'm sure she did, but I was very fond of her.

• 1:08:53Adam Friedland?

  She was the best.

• 1:08:54Speaker 05

  She was, and I loved her and my son loved her and my husband loved her and I think she was very hard on me multiple times. I kinda didn't care.

• 1:09:02Adam Friedland?

  But it's funny when she did it.

• 1:09:04Speaker 05

  She was funny.

• 1:09:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:09:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, I was actually very, very fond of her.

• 1:09:08Adam Friedland?

  I was hoping we could do like maybe a little fashion and police segment real quick.

• 1:09:12Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:09:12Adam Friedland?

  Where I show you a look and then you can give me like your, like...

• 1:09:16Speaker 05

  My look or anybody's look?

• 1:09:18Adam Friedland?

  No, no, we have like pictures of different looks.

• 1:09:19Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:09:20Adam Friedland?

  And you can give us like your, like your reaction.

• 1:09:22Speaker 05

  I tend to be very friendly because I don't see any point in being cruel.

• 1:09:26Adam Friedland?

  Okay, first look.

• 1:09:28Speaker 05

  Wait.

• 1:09:29Adam Friedland?

  What do you think of that?

• 1:09:30Speaker 05

  Is that you?

• 1:09:30Adam Friedland?

  You can keep it.

• 1:09:31Speaker 05

  No, no, no, who is that?

• 1:09:32Adam Friedland?

  It's me.

• 1:09:35Speaker 05

  It's not.

• 1:09:36Adam Friedland?

  What, I've aged?

• 1:09:36Speaker 05

  Oh, wait.

• 1:09:38Adam Friedland?

  What, I've put weight on?

• 1:09:39Speaker 05

  No, that's you. Why do you look different? It's, I guess it's the orange lighting. That's your chair, that's you.

• 1:09:44Adam Friedland?

  I look bad. Oh, the lighting's different.

• 1:09:46Speaker 05

  What's wrong with you? That's great. It's, you're making a fist. Well, that's not...

• 1:09:50Adam Friedland?

  Well, I'm talking, I'm making a good point. Is this cuter or this cuter?

• 1:09:53Speaker 05

  You sort of look a little bit like a cross between Borishnikov here and, um...

• 1:10:01Adam Friedland?

  Mick Jagger.

• 1:10:03Adam Friedland?

  Okay, let's go on. Next one.

• 1:10:04Speaker 05

  Should we leave these up for the audience?

• 1:10:06Adam Friedland?

  No, throw it away. Well, you can keep that one.

• 1:10:09Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 1:10:10Adam Friedland?

  What about this look? What's your, what's your impression here?

• 1:10:13Speaker 05

  Amazing.

• 1:10:13Adam Friedland?

  I kinda like a uniform.

• 1:10:15Speaker 05

  Me too, me too.

• 1:10:16Adam Friedland?

  First of all, I kinda love, I like a uniform. Cause like what, like if, if you become like a uniform guy? You, like, that's like one of the, that's, that's incredible thing.

• 1:10:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:10:27Adam Friedland?

  Love the, the Yoji Yamamoto mock on him.

• 1:10:30Speaker 05

  I feel like the trousers look so good on him, don't they?

• 1:10:33Adam Friedland?

  I love...

• 1:10:33Speaker 05

  The jeans.

• 1:10:34Adam Friedland?

  I love the pant.

• 1:10:35Speaker 05

  The pant, me too. I really do.

• 1:10:37Adam Friedland?

  I think he, I think he gets way too much crap for this look. I think it's phenomenal. Okay.

• 1:10:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, I agree.

• 1:10:42Adam Friedland?

  This is a look from the Met Gala this year.

• 1:10:45Speaker 05

  Oh, really?

• 1:10:45Adam Friedland?

  I wanna see your reaction to this. What do you make of this?

• 1:10:48Speaker 05

  Oh, it's great. Great. Understood the theme.

• 1:10:51Adam Friedland?

  Met Gala.

• 1:10:52Speaker 05

  Dandy, dandy.

• 1:10:53Adam Friedland?

  Bartolo Colon.

• 1:10:55Adam Friedland?

  Okay, real quick, rapid fire.

• 1:10:57Speaker 05

  Oh, that's a name I heard a lot in my house.

• 1:10:58Adam Friedland?

  What do you think, this is one of the worst outfits I've ever seen.

• 1:11:00Speaker 05

  Pinstripes is very dandy. What does it say? Make the rich.

• 1:11:05Adam Friedland?

  Horrific what this guy's wearing. I can't stand it, personally.

• 1:11:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:11:09Adam Friedland?

  Whatever, it's crap.

• 1:11:11Speaker 05

  He's got skinny legs.

• 1:11:15Adam Friedland?

  Fashion police.

• 1:11:16Speaker 05

  No, no.

• 1:11:17Adam Friedland?

  Last one, last one. This is a full circle moment.

• 1:11:20Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:11:20Adam Friedland?

  This is gonna get picked up. It's time. Let's, let's...

• 1:11:24Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 1:11:25Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no, give her a taste of her own medicine.

• 1:11:27Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 1:11:29Adam Friedland?

  Just say one.

• 1:11:30Speaker 05

  Kind of not as fast, funny, or biting, or cruel. The words wreath come to mind, muppet.

• 1:11:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. Clown, jester.

• 1:11:41Speaker 05

  Nest.

• 1:11:42Adam Friedland?

  I would, she would look...

• 1:11:43Speaker 05

  She's like a baby bird that was just birthed.

• 1:11:45Adam Friedland?

  You know what, I'm gonna, I'm gonna actually take the opposite side.

• 1:11:49Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:11:49Adam Friedland?

  I think it's a fabulous outfit.

• 1:11:50Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:11:51Adam Friedland?

  And it would look great on a woman.

• 1:11:55Speaker 05

  Did we?

• 1:11:56Adam Friedland?

  Sarah, you gotta get out of here.

• 1:11:58Speaker 05

  Adam?

• 1:11:58Adam Friedland?

  Did you have fun?

• 1:11:59Speaker 05

  This is part one.

• 1:12:00Adam Friedland?

  You're coming back on the show?

• 1:12:01Speaker 05

  Part two.

• 1:12:02Adam Friedland?

  We're gonna talk Israel, Palestine?

• 1:12:03Speaker 05

  The best, the best, yes.

• 1:12:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:05Speaker 05

  The best interviews are three parters.

• 1:12:08Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 1:12:08Speaker 05

  Don't you think like the Housewives of Blankety Blank, the reunions?

• 1:12:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:12:13Speaker 05

  I think we should do a three parter.

• 1:12:14Adam Friedland?

  Okay, we're gonna talk about...

• 1:12:15Speaker 05

  So this year...

• 1:12:16Adam Friedland?

  The gossip, the cheating.

• 1:12:17Speaker 05

  Then 2026.

• 1:12:18Adam Friedland?

  2026.

• 1:12:19Speaker 05

  Bring up all background.

• 1:12:20Adam Friedland?

  The midterm elections.

• 1:12:21Speaker 05

  2027, yes. We could cover the midterms together.

• 1:12:25Adam Friedland?

  You're my best friend.

• 1:12:25Speaker 05

  You know, there's always like a desk? You know?

• 1:12:30Speaker 05

  I'm gonna stand up to it.

• 1:13:08Adam Friedland?

  Guys, thanks for joining us. That was a fun one. Again, humbly, let me remind you, there's a link in the description. Click it and support the show. If you don't want to, just enjoy the show. I really appreciate everyone for watching it. Thanks.

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