LOGIC Talks Wild Childhood, Music Industry, His New Movie

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 2:00Speaker 03

  Have you said no to a freak-off ever?

• 2:02Speaker 04

  I was never invited, thank God.

• 2:04Adam Friedland?

  You didn't get invited to a freak-off?

• 2:05Speaker 04

  Definitely not. I wouldn't have gone.

• 2:07Adam Friedland?

  Does that feel like it hurt your feelings a little bit?

• 2:08Speaker 04

  No.

• 2:09Adam Friedland?

  No, you would have said no, obviously, but it's a little bit like...

• 2:11Speaker 04

  I don't do... I watch anime. I didn't go to the club for the first time until I was 28-years-old and I was paid to be.

• 2:17Adam Friedland?

  If I got a telegram or an invitation to a freak-off...

• 2:21Speaker 04

  What is this, 1908?

• 2:22Adam Friedland?

  If I got one of these invitations to a freak-off, I'd say, "Listen, I humbly decline, but I appreciate the concern."

• 3:01Adam Friedland?

  Guys, we're back from vacation. Very excited to be back. I obviously have to start by thanking our members and patrons. Thank you for supporting the show. If you would like to support the show, there's a link in the description of this video. It says, "Click to become a member." You can sign up and get the episode early before it's generally released. And if you sign up at a higher-priced tier, whether it be the second or third tiers, you will get your name in the credits of this fine program. Of course, obviously, if you prefer to support the show through Patreon, we have a Patreon set up as well. There's a link in the description of the video below. Thank you, guys, for supporting the show. We love doing it, and we want to do it forever.

• 3:45Adam Friedland?

  Let me start this week by addressing something. I wish I didn't have to, but it seems I do. As many of you know, in my last episode, I sat down with hip-hop legend G. Herbo, and it sent shockwaves throughout the culture. It seems like many of those in the establishment didn't take too kindly to a new face breakdancing his way in to the hip-hop and R&B space. My name has been dragged through the mud subsequently. My reputation has been brought into question. Most notably, libelous claims were levied at me by prominent anti-Semitic DJs, Vlad and academics.

• 4:22Speaker 06

  Well, I kind of think it was really more the bozo who was doing the interview. Right? What was his name? I don't know his name. He, he, he. Friedman or some, some motherfucker. It's like one of these like. He, he wanted a. He has Jewish kid, probably got beat up, you know, and, and finally has a little bit of a voice and is trying to be tough. Cause he actually called you a bitch on Twitter or stuff like that. Well, well, well, of course he. He called you a bitch in the interview too. Well, he's trying to engage with me. I, I, I wouldn't. We already got the, the dossier on him. We, we got him doing blackface, all type of stuff. I just don't want to. What? Yeah, we just don't want to engage. What? We, I got the pictures. Blackface? Come on. Yo, show me the picture. Show me. I want to see this shit. Vlad, let me tell you. Fuck that guy. Cause you know what? I, I said, hey man, I heard you on debate. Hit me. I said, your platform or mine? Let's go. Vlad. He didn't even respond. Show me the blackface. This is him? Okay.

• 5:07Speaker 06

  Let's go over. No. Come on now. Look at this. Yo, listen, we keep the files. Look at this, look at this. We keep the files on him, you know? So like. Well, you're racist. Fuck you.

• 5:18Adam Friedland?

  Now this allegation shocked me. Anyone who knows me knows that I hate racism. But if there's anything I hate more than racism is blackface. I've never participated in it and I've cut people out of my life for putting it on. So when it comes to blackface, I have a zero tolerance policy. So I went looking. I looked for an answer to how this image could possibly exist. I scoured the dark web for hits. I consulted with ranking members of law enforcement. I even considered perhaps that this photo was of a real African American that looks exactly like me. In the end, the perpetrator was right under my nose.

• 6:02Adam Friedland?

  Who is this Judas Iscariot?

• 6:06Adam Friedland?

  Turns out it was none other than true crime podcaster Brace Beldon. Now to avoid litigation, my lawyers negotiated a recorded statement by Mr. Brace Beldon himself. Where he explains that this whole situation was entirely his fault.

• 6:26Adam Friedland?

  And I will play it for you now. This video is addressed to DJs, academics and Vlad. My name is Brace Beldon and I wish we were meeting under different circumstances. I've been a tremendous fan of both of your work for as long as I can remember. Sometimes it feels like I'm on an amazing train being conducted by the two of you. That's filled with art, drama, music, rappers and mafiosi alike. I've learned a lot of lessons and one of the big lessons that I've learned.

• 6:54Speaker 04

  Is that I need to stand up for the truth, no matter how unpopular that might be. On a recent episode of one of your shows, I could not tell which, but you both were both there. DJ Academics shows DJ Vlad a hurtful picture on his phone of a comedian named Adam Friedland wearing both blackface, as DJ Academics tells it, and a cowboy hat. Now, DJ Academics, I know that you have a fidelity to the truth, and you wouldn't say anything that you didn't believe. And so I have to let you in on a little bit of information that might damage my reputation, but at least will help burnish you with facts. I made that picture. And that's not a picture of Adam Friedland wearing blackface.

• 7:37Speaker 04

  That's a picture of Adam Friedland wearing a cowboy hat that I ran through a filter of an application called FaceApp in the summer of 2017. I want to stress that Adam had nothing to do with that picture. There may well be, and there probably are, many pictures of Adam Friedland wearing blackface out there. And if you want to damage his reputation, or end his career, or even his life, I won't stand in your way. But that picture is not of Adam Friedland wearing blackface.

• 8:08Adam Friedland?

  So to the DJs, Vlad and Academics, I'm here to stay. And I'm actually a pretty good guy, once you get to know me. I've been at too many funerals over petty squabbles like this. So here's your olive branch. Meet me. Face to face. Here. On the Adam Friedland Show. Before Twitter fingers turn to trigger fingers, let's sit down like men. And I can't wait to see you soon.

• 8:37Adam Friedland?

  And our guest today is Logic, he's a rapper as well. So please enjoy the show, guys. We'll be right back.

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• 9:52Adam Friedland?

  Our next guest is a multi-platinum selling recording artist. He is here in New York City promoting his new film at Tribeca Film Festival. Paradise Records, everyone, please put your hands together for Logic, guys. Clap it up!

• 10:08Adam Friedland?

  Where is he?

• 10:15Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 10:16Adam Friedland?

  Thank you, sir.

• 10:18Speaker 04

  Is this side okay?

• 10:19Adam Friedland?

  This side is okay, yes, certainly.

• 10:21Speaker 04

  Just making sure. Good to see you.

• 10:22Adam Friedland?

  Good to see you. Thanks for coming, dude.

• 10:24Speaker 04

  I'm excited.

• 10:24Adam Friedland?

  You know the show?

• 10:26Speaker 04

  A bit, yeah.

• 10:26Adam Friedland?

  Really? You took a picture in front and stuff? I can't believe it.

• 10:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:31Adam Friedland?

  We've had one rapper here before, it was Jada, because someone manipulated and tricked him into being here.

• 10:36Speaker 04

  Jada's the coolest guy ever.

• 10:38Adam Friedland?

  He's the funniest and coolest guy ever.

• 10:40Speaker 04

  Even though I've never got to meet him. I took a picture out there because 10 years ago, I did my first late-night television show.

• 10:49Adam Friedland?

  This doesn't count. I mean, it's also...

• 10:50Speaker 04

  What are you talking about?

• 10:51Adam Friedland?

  No, this is a, we're in an office building.

• 10:53Speaker 04

  This is incre- what do you mean?

• 10:55Adam Friedland?

  Thank you so much.

• 10:55Speaker 04

  This is why I wanted to do this show.

• 10:57Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 10:57Speaker 04

  There's so much care and thought and, yeah, so I did Fallon. And I was so nervous, and I'm still nervous.

• 11:04Adam Friedland?

  Really? No way.

• 11:05Speaker 04

  So this is great, yeah.

• 11:06Adam Friedland?

  I'm not Jamie Fallon. I'm just some schmuck.

• 11:09Speaker 04

  Dude, no you're not. And it was cool, but I took the picture because there's a picture of me like so nervous before. And just doing that as a musician and now being here also as a filmmaker. For my first movie, thank you for having me.

• 11:21Adam Friedland?

  Congrats on the movie.

• 11:23Speaker 04

  Thanks a lot.

• 11:24Adam Friedland?

  Give it up for...

• 11:25Speaker 04

  Appreciate it.

• 11:26Adam Friedland?

  A lot of your mixtapes and records, they reference films, obviously. You wanted to be a filmmaker your entire life, pretty much, or before you wanted to be a rapper, or no?

• 11:36Speaker 04

  I've always loved cinema. Also, if my voice sounds raspy, it's because I've been fucking talking a lot.

• 11:41Adam Friedland?

  I heard.

• 11:42Speaker 04

  And I've never been so exhausted, and I think I had a cold, and this whole thing.

• 11:45Adam Friedland?

  You were on The View earlier.

• 11:47Speaker 04

  No, I wasn't.

• 11:48Adam Friedland?

  Oh, okay.

• 11:48Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:49Adam Friedland?

  Alright, I got that mixed up, yeah.

• 11:50Speaker 04

  So anyway, but the thing that I've always loved cinema because it allowed me to escape my household. And, you know, I guess mentally, and the very elevator pitch of my childhood is like, mother was a prostitute, dad was on crack, mom was alcoholic, brothers in the streets, shooting guns and cooking crack and wildness and all this craziness. So I was able to escape through cinema.

• 12:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 12:13Speaker 04

  And my entry point into music, like truly, as a musician, I was about 13 years old and I saw Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino.

• 12:24Adam Friedland?

  And the RZA, yeah.

• 12:26Speaker 04

  James. He did the score.

• 12:27Adam Friedland?

  He did the score.

• 12:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 12:29Adam Friedland?

  And that was, and you were like, "I want to be a musician from the Kill Bill score."

• 12:33Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 12:33Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 12:34Speaker 04

  Well, it was, you know...

• 12:35Adam Friedland?

  You hadn't heard hip-hop before that?

• 12:37Speaker 04

  I mean, I had ears.

• 12:39Adam Friedland?

  You're from Rockville, Maryland?

• 12:41Speaker 04

  Born in Rockville, raised in Gaithersburg, but same shit.

• 12:44Adam Friedland?

  Do you think that like becoming a rapper was, it was like a quiet rebellion against being from Rockville?

• 12:51Speaker 04

  No, probably not.

• 12:53Adam Friedland?

  Okay. I would have assumed you were a rocker from, I would have assumed, I was, sorry.

• 12:58Speaker 04

  I see.

• 12:58Adam Friedland?

  You know, is the influence for the movie, Joe's Record Paradise?

• 13:07Adam Friedland?

  Have you been there before?

• 13:09Speaker 04

  Whoa.

• 13:09Adam Friedland?

  I used to work in downtown Silver Spring. This is what I've been wanting to ask you.

• 13:15Speaker 04

  Alright, Nardwar.

• 13:16Adam Friedland?

  I bought some, I bought some great records at that shop. I worked, so I worked on, I worked at the Discovery building, at Discovery. Do you remember in downtown Silver Spring?

• 13:26Speaker 04

  No.

• 13:27Adam Friedland?

  The Discovery Networks.

• 13:31Speaker 04

  You got a lint on you.

• 13:32Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, it's dandruff, it's dandruff.

• 13:34Speaker 04

  I'm disgusted.

• 13:38Adam Friedland?

  Um, yeah, I bought some great stuff there. Do you, have you been there before?

• 13:41Speaker 04

  I have, and I would have never remembered it unless you just said it right now.

• 13:45Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 13:46Speaker 04

  You unlocked like a core memory.

• 13:48Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 13:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is like right next to Wild Shit.

• 13:51Adam Friedland?

  Do you remember that they're like the rare record section?

• 13:54Speaker 04

  No, I don't.

• 13:55Adam Friedland?

  They have like a section that was like a little bit like cordoned off.

• 13:58Speaker 04

  Nice.

• 13:58Adam Friedland?

  And I bought, I bought some-

• 13:59Speaker 04

  James Corden.

• 14:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 14:00Speaker 04

  See, it's the late night in you.

• 14:01Adam Friedland?

  Get out of the, hopefully Ice takes that one away. It's horrible, right? No, I'm just gonna, sorry, sorry.

• 14:08Adam Friedland?

  Sorry. And how old are you?

• 14:10Speaker 04

  I'm thirty-five.

• 14:11Adam Friedland?

  So we're, yeah, we're around the same age.

• 14:13Speaker 04

  For shizzle.

• 14:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. That's, so like, so you have obviously a really crazy backstory, which you like go into a lot in your career and stuff that you reference. And your dad is like, something I found interesting when I was researching is like your dad is kind of like you've reconnected with, but it doesn't seem like as if you've reconnected with your mother like you have.

• 14:35Speaker 04

  Great question, yeah. So my dad, I mean, that's a whole thing. My mom, so one of the last times I had spoken to my mom was on my twenty-first birthday. And I hadn't seen her in a few years, you know, and the thing about my mother is, um, she's just a mentally ill person.

• 14:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:51Speaker 04

  You know what I mean? So I've definitely relinquished any anger or any of that that I had.

• 14:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:57Speaker 04

  Um, but I hadn't seen her in a few years since I was probably seventeen, eighteen, and the last time I'd seen her, she was like covered in blood and naked and screaming and the police were there. It was a whole thing.

• 15:05Adam Friedland?

  My word.

• 15:05Speaker 04

  It was wild.

• 15:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:07Speaker 04

  My sister calls me crying talking about mommy says you don't talk to her because of me. And I'm like, what the fuck does that have to do with, this doesn't make any sense. So I call my mother, having not spoken in a few years, and I'm just like, look, respectfully-

• 15:23Speaker 04

  I don't talk to you because of you and because there is no mutual respect here and it's your way or highway with everything. So just know that. And then she yelled at me and screamed at me and called me a [BLEEP] and then hung up the phone.

• 15:37Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah.

• 15:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, gnarly.

• 15:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. You gave her the pass or no?

• 15:41Speaker 04

  Definitely not.

• 15:42Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no. Pretty raw to be like exposing. I mean, I guess it's part of your art and part of your career is like talking about.

• 15:48Speaker 04

  I'm just an honest person.

• 15:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:50Speaker 04

  You know, and I think a lot of that in hip hop is is very taboo.

• 15:54Adam Friedland?

  Your your father, well, you said he's, is he from DC, your dad?

• 15:58Speaker 04

  He just spent his whole life in Chocolate City playing African percussion.

• 16:03Adam Friedland?

  For, he played Go-Go?

• 16:04Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 16:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 16:05Speaker 04

  Did he play Go-Go?

• 16:07Adam Friedland?

  When's the first time you made a beat?

• 16:10Speaker 04

  Oh, man.

• 16:11Adam Friedland?

  Was it on the library computer at school?

• 16:13Speaker 04

  No, I wish. I remember the first time. Well, I I recorded music before I ever made a beat. I was about fifteen years old. And I had this super like dinosaur manila of computer and computer monitor.

• 16:27Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh.

• 16:27Speaker 04

  And on the monitor, there was this tiny little microphone hole and I would just rap into it like this and I still have the recordings.

• 16:34Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 16:34Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah. I have every song I've ever recorded.

• 16:36Adam Friedland?

  How many songs have you made?

• 16:37Speaker 04

  Thousands.

• 16:38Adam Friedland?

  Probably.

• 16:39Speaker 04

  Probably like two plus thousands.

• 16:40Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 16:41Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:42Adam Friedland?

  And so what like got you, what got you like to LA?

• 16:47Speaker 04

  This was back when like Twitter was just like, you'd be like, yo, I just had some eggs. Like, that's what Twitter was for at the time.

• 16:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:53Speaker 04

  Me and other incredible musicians, whether it was Big Sean, Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa, we were utilizing Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Especially Twitter as a as a platform to promote ourselves, which nobody was really doing at the time, which almost sounds like not real. Like, everybody promotes themselves on Twitter now, but it was a different time.

• 17:12Adam Friedland?

  So you were like pre-SoundCloud, kind of?

• 17:14Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 17:15Adam Friedland?

  You're the Depp-Pit era.

• 17:16Speaker 04

  This is, yeah, this is like pre-Spot. Like, I remember being called from my manager at the time being like, yo, Spotify, Spotify. I'm like, what the fuck is that shit?

• 17:23Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh. It's a Swedish thing. You get six cents for every one million plays.

• 17:29Speaker 04

  And some fish.

• 17:29Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. They give you fish?

• 17:31Speaker 04

  That's Swedish fish.

• 17:32Adam Friedland?

  Who signed you at Def Jam?

• 17:33Speaker 04

  No ID.

• 17:34Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 17:35Speaker 04

  The legendary No ID.

• 17:36Adam Friedland?

  And he was, was he your first mentor?

• 17:38Speaker 04

  No ID was the one who told me I was a producer. So going back to what you were saying, you know, what kind of why I started here was like. I'm like, what? I'm not a producer. I just rap.

• 17:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 17:47Speaker 04

  But we'd be in the studio and I'd be telling No ID like, could you change the drums to like these drums you did? And can we get this on that and all this shit? And he just, he had seen that. And without kind of even announcing it to me was like, just go work with these people over here. And he gave me some of his best musicians.

• 18:03Adam Friedland?

  So cool.

• 18:04Speaker 04

  Other producers and, and taught me a lot.

• 18:08Speaker 04

  Taught me to Swedish fish.

• 18:09Adam Friedland?

  I wish I was a, that's, I'm so jealous of him.

• 18:13Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 18:13Adam Friedland?

  What am I gonna get put on by Jerry Seinfeld? He's like, I want you to work with Andrew Schultz.

• 18:19Speaker 04

  Jerry's, Jerry's awesome.

• 18:21Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 18:22Speaker 04

  I met Jerry in Vegas and he lived in Vegas for a while.

• 18:25Adam Friedland?

  I grew up in Vegas, yeah. He's got some great opinions on global politics right now.

• 18:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, I watch anime.

• 18:35Adam Friedland?

  Um, no, uh, so, so be, uh, kind of coming under No ID's wing, you're kind of, you're, you're, you have a sibling in terms of him being a mentor also for Kanye. I mean, that's the first thing that comes to mind for me.

• 18:50Speaker 04

  For sure, yeah. I mean, that was a, that's a big thing regardless of the current state of my anime watching in the world and the craziness going on.

• 18:59Speaker 04

  You know, huge inspiration musically, especially in that era.

• 19:02Adam Friedland?

  Did you see the Genius documentary on Netflix? The Kanye one?

• 19:07Speaker 04

  Oh, um, you mean the one, like the three parter?

• 19:10Adam Friedland?

  The three parter.

• 19:11Speaker 04

  It only sold two parts.

• 19:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, so you, you don't need to see the third. It doesn't go anywhere. Cause yeah, cause it unravels. There's no like narrative there. Because that's the sad part is that there's no like come to Jesus moment. But, but the first one and a half parts is like amazing. Cause it's like a document of like the, the hip hop that I was exposed to as like a teenage teenager, right? Which was like the Mitchell and Ness Rockefeller Records kind of era. But what's incredible about it is that you could tell that like Kanye is this guy that made the best beats, right?

• 19:42Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 19:42Adam Friedland?

  And he made the blueprint and, but he's a nerd. He's a gay nerd. And we're like, they're like, they're like, he's like, but they're like, this gay nerd makes the best. He makes the best beats. And then, and he's like, but I want to be a rapper. And they're like, okay, yeah, sure, you know, yeah, you can be a rapper. And, and literally he's just being ignored by people. Cause like, they're like, a gay nerd can never be a rapper. I remember hearing the college dropout when I was a kid. And I was like, this is the first gay nerd I've seen. It felt like Wakanda or something for me. It felt like Black Panther.

• 20:17Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 20:17Adam Friedland?

  I felt representation. I was like, this guy, this guy, he's, my mom makes me wear those polos. When we're going to fucking Thanksgiving. I was like, this is amazing.

• 20:29Speaker 04

  Woo, you got bars right now.

• 20:30Adam Friedland?

  You know what I'm saying? Like, I think that it's really amazing that, like, in retrospect, I realized, I was like, it really all changed then and there. He really made the, he, he set the.

• 20:42Speaker 04

  Eight oh eight and heartbreaks, man. Especially, like, that was the.

• 20:45Adam Friedland?

  Is that yours? Your number one?

• 20:47Speaker 04

  That was the one where it's like.

• 20:49Adam Friedland?

  He was being a gay nerd?

• 20:50Speaker 04

  When I first went to LA and No ID played me, like, the demos from the sessions.

• 20:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 20:57Speaker 04

  I heard Kanye mumbling on it, Chuff the Yacht. I heard Kanye, like, mumbling, like, na na na na, like, getting to it. And I was like, whoa, you can do that? Like, I thought everything had to be precise, and he's just going in there, like, not even making words.

• 21:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 21:13Speaker 04

  Just making sounds. And I, I found it very inspiring.

• 21:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Have you, have you interacted with him much?

• 21:18Speaker 04

  Never. I'm kind of scared to.

• 21:20Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 21:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, like.

• 21:21Adam Friedland?

  Do you love, you love him? Like, when you were, like, young?

• 21:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:25Speaker 04

  A thousand percent.

• 21:26Adam Friedland?

  I loved him, yeah. What's the most evil meeting you ever took?

• 21:31Adam Friedland?

  Did you ever get into a boardroom, there's the Monopoly mans on the other side of the, side of the table?

• 21:36Speaker 04

  A thousand percent.

• 21:37Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 21:37Speaker 04

  That's pretty much every meeting.

• 21:39Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 21:39Speaker 04

  Yeah. And that's why I ended up making my own movie myself, which we'll get to.

• 21:43Adam Friedland?

  Going independent, yeah.

• 21:44Speaker 04

  Yeah. But what the fuck was I saying before you interrupted me?

• 21:46Adam Friedland?

  I don't know. I was talking about Israel.

• 21:48Speaker 04

  No, before that.

• 21:49Adam Friedland?

  I don't know. It's just his war, it's pretty much.

• 21:54Adam Friedland?

  No, you were talking about No ID, and then he was, he was suggesting that you work with other people, and then, and then, oh, and then, you know, obviously, you, you brought up Jay-Z, Kanye West.

• 22:04Speaker 04

  I forgot.

• 22:05Adam Friedland?

  Afrika Bambaata, Cool, Cool Modi, Eric B and Rakim.

• 22:11Speaker 04

  Okay, I like it. K is one.

• 22:12Adam Friedland?

  Do you like that stuff?

• 22:14Speaker 04

  Of course, a thousand percent.

• 22:15Adam Friedland?

  But doesn't it sound like nursery? It sounds a little bit baby, no?

• 22:18Speaker 04

  When I listen to it, Mary had a little lamb. It's like, kind of a little bit baby. I love the...

• 22:25Adam Friedland?

  I don't want to... Is that disrespectful? I mean, it's just sometimes...

• 22:28Speaker 04

  You might get jumped.

• 22:29Adam Friedland?

  Where people at parties like trying to get with girls while like, well...

• 22:32Speaker 04

  I went to the hat store today and I bought myself a hat.

• 22:35Adam Friedland?

  Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.

• 22:38Speaker 04

  But that was the vibe, though.

• 22:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 22:39Speaker 04

  That was the vibe.

• 22:40Adam Friedland?

  It just sounds a little baby to me.

• 22:42Speaker 04

  Alright.

• 22:43Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, I mean...

• 22:43Speaker 04

  I love it. I'm a student.

• 22:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 22:45Speaker 04

  And I'm an emcee, right? So as a master ceremony, I think it's very important that you do your research. And I've done my research on hip-hop as I was entering this realm. And it's important to me.

• 22:56Adam Friedland?

  What are your like primary influences? It seems like you're kind of a golden era 93 kinda...

• 23:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:02Adam Friedland?

  Nas kinda...

• 23:03Speaker 04

  Yeah, I love Illmatic, I love Mos Def, Black on Both Sides, The Roots, obviously from Philly, they're incredible. I mean Eminem.

• 23:11Adam Friedland?

  Have you ever met Scott Storch?

• 23:14Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 23:14Adam Friedland?

  You know he was the original, uh, keys player?

• 23:17Speaker 04

  Oh, I know, yeah, keys player of The Roots.

• 23:18Adam Friedland?

  How cool is that?

• 23:19Speaker 04

  How cool is it that you know that?

• 23:21Adam Friedland?

  I love him so, I'm obsessed with this guy.

• 23:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, he's great.

• 23:24Adam Friedland?

  I swear to God.

• 23:25Speaker 04

  He smokes a lot of weed.

• 23:26Adam Friedland?

  He got addicted to yachts and cocaine.

• 23:29Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 23:29Adam Friedland?

  And now he's back. I heard an interview once with, when he went on Drink Champs, the first time he went on Drink Champs.

• 23:36Speaker 04

  I never went on Drink Champs, you're thinking of Breakfast Club.

• 23:38Adam Friedland?

  No, no, uh, no, I'm talking about, uh, Scott Storch.

• 23:41Speaker 04

  Oh, I thought you said you.

• 23:42Adam Friedland?

  Noriega said he was so addicted to yachts that he picked him up at the airport in a yacht and they took the yacht to TGI Friday. Like it was a, like it was a car or something.

• 23:55Adam Friedland?

  How awesome is that?

• 23:56Speaker 04

  How awesome is this?

• 23:57Adam Friedland?

  I don't know.

• 23:59Speaker 04

  This is great.

• 23:59Adam Friedland?

  I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

• 24:01Speaker 04

  Don't apologize, the bit is...

• 24:02Adam Friedland?

  It's not a bit.

• 24:03Speaker 04

  It's a bit.

• 24:04Adam Friedland?

  It's a funny thing that he said.

• 24:06Speaker 04

  He committed to the bit.

• 24:07Adam Friedland?

  He also said another thing, that him and his friends got addicted to a thing called the Miami Blizzard. Where they, they say, he said he was on his boat with a legendary female pop singer and he offered her cocaine. And she said, "Yeah, but I don't do it in my nose, I do it in my culo." And he's like, "Really? You could do that?" And then him and his friends got addicted to just, uh, blowing drugs into women's bums. Isn't that crazy?

• 24:31Adam Friedland?

  They called it the Miami Blizzard.

• 24:33Speaker 04

  Wow, that's so tight.

• 24:34Adam Friedland?

  He likes it.

• 24:37Adam Friedland?

  We are one guy.

• 24:41Speaker 04

  The camera guys are scared.

• 24:43Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm sorry dude. You don't like, you don't like, um, smut, smutty, um, subject matters?

• 24:50Speaker 04

  Have you seen my movie?

• 24:52Adam Friedland?

  It's, your movie's like lovely.

• 24:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, but it's full of some wild shit.

• 24:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but it's not like blowing, uh, into like a row of porn stars' bums. It's not like so gratuitous. There's a heart in your movie. I wanna get to your movie actually, later on.

• 25:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:08Adam Friedland?

  Cause I, cause I was like, uh, yeah, I thought, I thought it was really nice. Um, and like, I could see the influences and it seems like you watched the same movies as me growing up. Clerks, Clerks was clearly an influence, right? You had Kevin Smith in the movie.

• 25:23Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 25:25Adam Friedland?

  But was High Fidel, how much was?

• 25:27Speaker 04

  Oh, thousand percent. Johnny Keane, classic.

• 25:30Adam Friedland?

  Do you remember when you were like?

• 25:31Speaker 04

  A snack.

• 25:31Adam Friedland?

  You remember being twelve and being like, you're heart, like heartbroken by that movie? Cause you just wish you could get all the girls back.

• 25:40Speaker 04

  It was a great film.

• 25:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:42Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 25:43Adam Friedland?

  I love that movie so much.

• 25:44Speaker 04

  Me too. Tim Robbins crushes it.

• 25:46Adam Friedland?

  Tim Robbins is, you just wanna shoot him in the back of the head, that guy.

• 25:49Speaker 04

  That means he's a great actor.

• 25:50Adam Friedland?

  With the soul patch?

• 25:51Speaker 04

  Oh, it's terrible.

• 25:52Adam Friedland?

  He's got the pussy tickler.

• 25:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's hair bits, yeah, no.

• 25:55Adam Friedland?

  Did you have like, um, peers that were like, you know, like guys that you were like around the same age as? And like, you, you felt like you were boys with, or is it like, there's no friends?

• 26:05Speaker 04

  No, I, I definitely always felt kind of alone, you know what I mean?

• 26:10Adam Friedland?

  Why is that?

• 26:11Speaker 04

  Uh, probably because I stick to myself.

• 26:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 26:14Speaker 04

  Pause. And, uh, so there was that whole thing, you know? But I, I'm a very open person, so anytime I'd meet anybody, it's like, we, we would definitely vibe. So there's a lot of people on that list. Like Travis was super awesome and Schoolboy's a great dude. And Absol was so cool. And Dizzy Wright, I mean, me and Dizzy Wright went on tour together, so, yeah, there was a lot. Mac Miller was always super kind and cool. Me and Wiz now, that's like one of my best homies and shit.

• 26:42Adam Friedland?

  He's huge.

• 26:43Speaker 04

  Oh, I know he did.

• 26:44Adam Friedland?

  He's huge now.

• 26:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's insane. He looks like fucking Delsom from Street Fighter.

• 26:48Adam Friedland?

  I saw a picture of him the other day, I was like, Wiz Khalifa's jacked now.

• 26:52Speaker 04

  Insane.

• 26:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and he's still piffing too.

• 26:54Speaker 04

  Big time.

• 26:54Adam Friedland?

  He's just like lifting and piffing? It's pretty, it's pretty difficult at most.

• 26:59Speaker 04

  Piffing.

• 26:59Adam Friedland?

  Piffing, piffing, yeah, piffing, yeah. Um, so you, so, but you, you felt like a little bit of an outsider?

• 27:07Speaker 04

  Uh, yeah, understatement. Cause you gotta understand, this is at a fucking, well, one, I look how I look, right? So there's just that immediate thing. And then there's also the fact that I'm rapping about peace, love, and positivity.

• 27:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 27:18Speaker 04

  And fucking sci-fi, and anime, and nerd shit. It was very much so like, we don't fuck with that away.

• 27:24Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 27:24Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 27:26Adam Friedland?

  But I feel like nerds could be rappers now.

• 27:28Speaker 04

  No, nerds are rappers, they have been rappers. You know, it's like, look at Cudi, look at Lupe, you know, look at all these people who have inspired me. It was just, I don't know.

• 27:38Adam Friedland?

  So you think that it's, they're like, this guy's a total dweeb? That's not nice.

• 27:43Speaker 04

  For sure.

• 27:44Adam Friedland?

  You should tell them that you were a cooking crack when you were a baby. What were they doing? They were in the suburbs.

• 27:50Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 27:51Adam Friedland?

  Did you, did you have any mentors, like, beyond no idea, like, any rappers that have kept an eye out for you?

• 27:57Speaker 04

  I don't know, you know, I really feel like my first real mentor in life

• 28:03Adam Friedland?

  Was Jesus Christ.

• 28:06Speaker 04

  Is Kevin Smith.

• 28:08Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 28:09Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 28:10Adam Friedland?

  You met, like, his films, or like, you?

• 28:13Speaker 04

  No, like, as a human beat, like, when I met, it was just so much there.

• 28:17Adam Friedland?

  Did you ever ask him about that tweet? That he did?

• 28:19Speaker 04

  Which tweet, there's a lot of tweets, man, I don't know.

• 28:21Adam Friedland?

  He did that tweet about his, him and his wife?

• 28:24Speaker 04

  I don't have no idea what you're talking about.

• 28:25Adam Friedland?

  You know what?

• 28:26Speaker 04

  I'm not on the internet, I haven't been on social media in eight years.

• 28:28Adam Friedland?

  I can find it.

• 28:29Speaker 04

  Almost eight years.

• 28:29Adam Friedland?

  It's pretty good, you can read it.

• 28:32Speaker 04

  No, you can read it, it's fine. You got it. Just read it out.

• 28:35Adam Friedland?

  Ten years in, and we bone like we're cheating on each other with each other. A decade plus, and her clit slash brown slash taint dash area still pones my dick.

• 28:46Speaker 04

  I love that.

• 28:46Adam Friedland?

  Did you ask him about that?

• 28:47Speaker 04

  That's so romantic.

• 28:49Adam Friedland?

  Is that bars?

• 28:50Speaker 04

  That's big bars.

• 28:51Adam Friedland?

  You should put that in a song.

• 28:53Speaker 04

  It's, alright, I'll sample this.

• 28:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. Have you said no to a freak off ever?

• 28:58Speaker 04

  I was never invited, thank God.

• 28:59Adam Friedland?

  You didn't get invited to a freak off?

• 29:01Speaker 04

  Definitely not. I wouldn't have gone anywhere.

• 29:02Adam Friedland?

  Does that feel like hurt your feelings a little bit?

• 29:04Speaker 04

  No.

• 29:04Adam Friedland?

  No, you would have said no, obviously, but it's a little bit like-

• 29:07Speaker 04

  I don't, dude, I watch anime. Like, I don't know how, like, I'm not that guy.

• 29:12Adam Friedland?

  If I got a-

• 29:12Speaker 04

  I didn't go to the club for the first time until I was 28 years old, and I was paid to be there. In Vegas, shout out Dre's.

• 29:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. If I got a telegram or an invitation to a freak off-

• 29:23Speaker 04

  What is this, 1908?

• 29:25Adam Friedland?

  If I got one of these invitations to a freak off, I'd say, "Listen, I humbly decline, but I appreciate the concern."

• 29:33Speaker 04

  Okay, so you'd be happy to-

• 29:34Adam Friedland?

  Did you know about that sinister side of the business and hip-hop in general?

• 29:41Speaker 04

  I didn't know about none of that shit.

• 29:43Adam Friedland?

  You didn't?

• 29:43Speaker 04

  No, that's some wild shit, but I always knew that it was filled with misogyny. I was raised by women, so my reverence and respect for women is through the roof. I'm not fucking weird.

• 29:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 29:54Speaker 04

  And I've never seen anything crazy happen in front of me or this or that. But maybe it's because they know. Maybe I just present myself as a good human being and they're like, "Oh no, we can't invite him. He's not gonna come. He's not gonna be down with this Illuminati shit."

• 30:07Adam Friedland?

  He's not freak off material.

• 30:09Speaker 04

  Thank God.

• 30:10Adam Friedland?

  Who's the biggest piece of shit?

• 30:12Speaker 04

  I have no idea. Probably Diddy. No. I don't know.

• 30:15Adam Friedland?

  He could get off, dude. What are you doing?

• 30:17Speaker 04

  I'm just... You're doing the bit!

• 30:19Adam Friedland?

  Did you know he was doing Rico the whole time?

• 30:21Speaker 04

  I have no idea. I watch anime.

• 30:23Adam Friedland?

  What is Rico?

• 30:25Speaker 04

  It's like the whole fucking popo.

• 30:27Adam Friedland?

  It's like an Italian kind of thing?

• 30:29Speaker 04

  I have no idea.

• 30:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. It's a mafia kind of thing.

• 30:32Speaker 04

  Right.

• 30:33Adam Friedland?

  Is it tough for you to court a female audience?

• 30:36Speaker 04

  I don't think so.

• 30:38Adam Friedland?

  But usually they're allergic to logic and facts.

• 30:45Speaker 04

  Good bits, man.

• 30:47Adam Friedland?

  I thought he would like that.

• 30:50Adam Friedland?

  How important is it for a rapper to have a website? Like a good website? When you moved to L.A. to make it in music, did you get a business card or something?

• 31:01Speaker 04

  I did have business cards.

• 31:02Adam Friedland?

  That's kind of good. Well, you're trying something.

• 31:04Speaker 04

  I just wanted people to be like, "Hey, I care about this."

• 31:06Adam Friedland?

  Your first name was Psychological?

• 31:08Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 31:08Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. And then when did you drop that?

• 31:11Speaker 04

  When my fucking friend Lenny was like, "Hey, pass the salt. Psycho."

• 31:16Adam Friedland?

  Did you drop the psycho? Was it like a kind of like, "I'm gonna be normal now?"

• 31:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:21Adam Friedland?

  "I'm not loco anymore?"

• 31:23Speaker 04

  Just logic. Big Lenny, who took me into his basement.

• 31:27Adam Friedland?

  When did you choose Psychological?

• 31:30Speaker 04

  A buddy of mine was like, "Go through the dictionary."

• 31:32Adam Friedland?

  That's like a 13-year-old.

• 31:33Speaker 04

  Oh, well, I was 18, unfortunately, when I picked this.

• 31:36Adam Friedland?

  That's the same. Yeah, it's fun.

• 31:38Speaker 04

  So, I just went and I was like psychological and I read the definition. It was like about the brain and the mind and I was like, "Yeah."

• 31:44Adam Friedland?

  It's just like a Wu-Tang kind of word.

• 31:47Speaker 04

  For sure.

• 31:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 31:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 31:48Adam Friedland?

  I'm into lyrics.

• 31:52Speaker 04

  Yo, we need to...

• 31:53Adam Friedland?

  I'm psychological.

• 31:53Speaker 04

  I need to put that in a beat. I'm into lyrics. Can we remember that? I feel a little weird.

• 32:00Adam Friedland?

  Why?

• 32:01Speaker 04

  Because I think I've just been going and going.

• 32:02Adam Friedland?

  Because I know more about reps?

• 32:05Speaker 04

  So I just hope I'm not fucking this up.

• 32:07Adam Friedland?

  No, you're not fucking this up, dude. You're fine.

• 32:08Speaker 04

  Uh, maybe it's the lights. Lights do are a thing, right?

• 32:12Adam Friedland?

  This is a real talk show. I saw you spent $226,000 on a Pokemon card?

• 32:18Speaker 04

  Yeah. On Charizard. It's because I couldn't afford it as a kid.

• 32:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 32:23Speaker 04

  So, YOLO.

• 32:24Adam Friedland?

  Do you think that rich people should pay more in taxes?

• 32:27Speaker 04

  I do.

• 32:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 32:28Speaker 04

  I pay 55% of every dollar I make.

• 32:30Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 32:31Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 32:32Adam Friedland?

  Every single one?

• 32:33Speaker 04

  Every single dollar.

• 32:35Adam Friedland?

  On Pokemon?

• 32:37Speaker 04

  No, dude.

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• 36:17Adam Friedland?

  What anime do you like?

• 36:18Speaker 04

  Oh, I love Cowboy Bebop and Trigun and fucking Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy.

• 36:22Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 36:23Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, big time. Fucking Dragon Ball, especially Super. I mean, Akira and fucking Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. Honestly, it's all the like, people would be like, like, I'm just naming the like. Oh, and My Hero. I love My Hero.

• 36:38Adam Friedland?

  Barney.

• 36:39Speaker 04

  That's live action.

• 36:39Adam Friedland?

  Blue's Clues.

• 36:41Speaker 04

  Anyway, sorry.

• 36:42Adam Friedland?

  I never got into anime.

• 36:44Speaker 04

  I just loved it. I love it. It's a whole vibe.

• 36:47Adam Friedland?

  You know, something that's big, like, because I'm getting into like this YouTube space. You've actually done this pivot yourself recently and you're like putting out content consistently. You're kind of showing the real you to your audience and stuff, I've noticed. But something I've noticed that's big is like, like getting an anecdote from a guest. Like a wild story about a famous person. That you can then clip and then that can go viral. So I was wondering if you can give us one of those?

• 37:21Adam Friedland?

  Do you have any good ones?

• 37:23Speaker 04

  I know this is like an Elon Musk pause. Just give me a second. I'm thinking.

• 37:27Adam Friedland?

  No, it's a sign of intelligence to be like considering.

• 37:31Speaker 04

  Because there's so much I could tell you. Okay, here's the time that my, well, one thing I'll just give you is one of my favorite openings for my memoir. For a chapter is I'll never forget the night I had a sleepover and my friend Richie saw my mom's pussy before she destroyed the television set. So that's pretty cool. But one time, it was 2013, and this was a year after I saw J. Cole sell out the Fillmore at Silver Spring. And I sold out the Fillmore on fucking mixtape and I couldn't believe it. And this dude threw, throws this shoe on stage and almost hits me in the head. And then my brother in the crowd just starts beating the shit out of this guy.

• 38:12Speaker 04

  And while this is happening, somebody jumps off the second story and like breaks their leg and then surfs and jumps into fucking the crowd and crowd surfs. And then in the end of the night backstage, my brother's bringing the dude that he beat up into the green room.

• 38:29Adam Friedland?

  The shoe throw.

• 38:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, and I'm like, holy shit, we used to work together at Joe's Crab Shack.

• 38:36Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 38:36Speaker 04

  I know this isn't like freak off level story, but this is all I got.

• 38:40Adam Friedland?

  I thought you were gonna be like.

• 38:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, insert bit here.

• 38:44Adam Friedland?

  Do you remember that, do you remember that someone did that to George Bush in Iraq?

• 38:48Speaker 04

  Oh, and he was like huh huh.

• 38:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, he ducked the shoe.

• 38:50Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's crazy.

• 38:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, apparently in the Muslim world, that's like the height of insult.

• 38:55Speaker 04

  Politics, religion, all that shit is a super slippery slope. And I have used and will continue to use my voice.

• 39:03Adam Friedland?

  For Gaza. I've never checked out anime, where should I start?

• 39:06Speaker 04

  Cowboy Bebop.

• 39:07Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 39:07Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 39:08Adam Friedland?

  What is that about?

• 39:10Speaker 04

  It's basically about these bounty hunters in the future that live on Mars. It's a vibe.

• 39:14Adam Friedland?

  You should watch sports, dude.

• 39:15Speaker 04

  I'm not a sports guy.

• 39:17Adam Friedland?

  Come on, bro.

• 39:18Speaker 04

  I'm a sports guy with my friends. Like they have it on and shit and I'll watch it and be like woo. Like I'm watching this basketball game, I'm like, here comes the motherfucking punt.

• 39:29Adam Friedland?

  They don't punt in basketball, dude.

• 39:31Speaker 04

  Okay, my bad, I'm watching football, I'm watching football, I'm watching football, it's like, here's the free throw, it's whole thing, it's fine. Yeah, that the lint.

• 39:39Adam Friedland?

  It's dandruff.

• 39:40Speaker 04

  I felt bad about that.

• 39:42Adam Friedland?

  You're still thinking about that?

• 39:43Speaker 04

  I do, I hold things in like.

• 39:44Adam Friedland?

  You're a multi-platinum selling rapper.

• 39:47Speaker 04

  Do you remember when you were like, you ever walk away and go fuck?

• 39:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. You did that on the way to pee?

• 39:52Speaker 04

  No, that's, yeah, that's that moment.

• 39:53Adam Friedland?

  No, come on, dude.

• 39:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, I feel bad about it.

• 39:55Adam Friedland?

  Don't worry about it.

• 39:56Speaker 04

  Sorry. So like head and shoulders or what? Just rocking it?

• 40:02Adam Friedland?

  No, I have, I have something like a medicated, I go to a dermatologist.

• 40:06Speaker 04

  Is it a thing?

• 40:07Adam Friedland?

  I have medical dandruff.

• 40:09Speaker 04

  Have you ever been like?

• 40:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it's a struggle, let's get a clip.

• 40:14Adam Friedland?

  It was 2007. Um, no.

• 40:18Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was disgusting. I have a tremor. Um, it's a neurological disorder, it's called a cervical dystonia, which I think is weird because I don't have a cervix.

• 40:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 40:28Speaker 04

  That's always a cervical is the neck.

• 40:31Adam Friedland?

  Is it?

• 40:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, anyway, so when I was like 29, uh, so in 2019, my head just started going like this.

• 40:38Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 40:38Speaker 04

  And I can't stop it, so like if I stay still, my head will just shake, shake, shake.

• 40:42Adam Friedland?

  I haven't noticed you doing that.

• 40:44Speaker 04

  Well, there's two reasons, one, because I move a lot. I have all these tics and things that I do that I'm like, do people understand, like, do they see, I feel like fucking Rain Man. So I'll adjust my things and I'm really weird about it.

• 40:56Adam Friedland?

  Mm-hmm.

• 40:56Speaker 04

  Um, and I was very self-conscious for a long time. The cool thing about being self-conscious, like if you're anxious or you feel a little, anything is just saying it. I personally believe I'd rather, like yesterday I did this panel and I felt horrible. So I just, while I was there at Tribeca, I was just like, hey, everybody, I'm having anxiety. I'm really tired. I think I might be sick and I have to poop.

• 41:16Adam Friedland?

  You said that?

• 41:17Speaker 04

  And I just let it be known. Yeah, it's a whole thing, but anyway.

• 41:19Adam Friedland?

  As a man, you said anxiety?

• 41:20Speaker 04

  Oh, a thousand percent. I'm just like, yo, this is what it is. I'd rather be me. So anyway, I found this fucking doctor who uses botox. Oh, I see the gears going already. Uh, who uses botox in the deep part of the muscles in the neck to weaken them. Because my muscles go like this, which forces.

• 41:37Adam Friedland?

  And it worked?

• 41:39Speaker 04

  Um, yeah, it works, but it's, it's wearing off because I have to do it once every, every three months. It's why I have a, uh, really sexy neck.

• 41:49Adam Friedland?

  When did you lose your V? Probably like 11.

• 41:52Speaker 04

  I'm a virgin.

• 41:53Adam Friedland?

  Shut up.

• 41:54Speaker 04

  Yeah. No, seriously, no.

• 41:55Adam Friedland?

  You had like a, like a wild upbringing. You probably just, you probably just lost your V11.

• 42:00Speaker 04

  Yeah, I've never had sex.

• 42:01Adam Friedland?

  No, shut up.

• 42:02Speaker 04

  I've never had sex.

• 42:02Adam Friedland?

  Just go on the record. Everyone's unread it, speculating where his logic lost his virginity.

• 42:07Speaker 04

  My wife, no, for real, my wife, it was an artificial insemination. It was a whole thing.

• 42:11Adam Friedland?

  Mm-hmm. Like Jesus Christ.

• 42:14Speaker 04

  No, because it's, you know, we did it. Also, that's like, that's the original, like no consent there.

• 42:19Adam Friedland?

  Poor guy. Poor Joe.

• 42:23Speaker 04

  Um, I lost my virginity.

• 42:24Adam Friedland?

  Joseph fell for that? She's like, it was God.

• 42:28Adam Friedland?

  Poor guy.

• 42:29Speaker 04

  At 15.

• 42:30Adam Friedland?

  And then they wrote it in a book, like forever is remembered. Is that? 15 on her friend's couch?

• 42:36Speaker 04

  Yeah, it wasn't great.

• 42:37Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah.

• 42:39Speaker 04

  And then I fell in love with this girl and then really happened. And I was like, wow, this is like, it's like that scene in The Forty Year Old Virgin. It's like.

• 42:46Adam Friedland?

  Bags of sand.

• 42:47Speaker 04

  No, not that one. The fucking dawn of Aquarius, age of Aquarius.

• 42:51Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah.

• 42:52Speaker 04

  Aquarius. You know what I'm talking about?

• 42:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 42:55Speaker 04

  Are you having fun?

• 42:57Adam Friedland?

  I'm chilling dude.

• 42:58Speaker 04

  Okay, that's a no.

• 43:00Adam Friedland?

  Why?

• 43:01Speaker 04

  I mean, if somebody asks you, are you having fun?

• 43:03Adam Friedland?

  Why are you stressed out right now? You probably have, what, twenty million dollars?

• 43:06Speaker 04

  So, you know, my brand is made over a hundred M's, which is wild to think about. And then, you know, you pay everybody out, and there's a bunch of people in your pocket and commissions and government and all this other shit. So, you know, I'm sitting, sitting above what you just said, but it's nice.

• 43:20Adam Friedland?

  Nice, dude.

• 43:21Speaker 04

  It's nice.

• 43:22Adam Friedland?

  You know what? I really respect that because people, people beat around the bush with this crap.

• 43:26Speaker 04

  I suppose, but that's why I spent millions of dollars on this fucking movie, because I wouldn't have been able to do it any other way, so.

• 43:31Adam Friedland?

  Really? Because you didn't put the dress.

• 43:34Speaker 04

  The what?

• 43:34Adam Friedland?

  The dress. The cat, you didn't put on the dress.

• 43:38Speaker 04

  What?

• 43:39Adam Friedland?

  That's what Cat Williams said.

• 43:40Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, I didn't put on the dress.

• 43:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 43:42Speaker 04

  No, I guess not.

• 43:44Adam Friedland?

  Let's talk real quick about, um, yeah, having a number one hit single, right?

• 43:51Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 43:52Adam Friedland?

  That, how many times did, uh, did the 1-800 song go, go platinum?

• 43:58Speaker 04

  Last I checked, I think it was like eight.

• 44:00Adam Friedland?

  Did you ever worry that kids were like probably prank calling the, the hotline?

• 44:04Speaker 04

  For sure, but I know that more, uh, people who needed help called, so.

• 44:08Adam Friedland?

  You don't know that.

• 44:09Speaker 04

  I do, actually, Congress wrote me a letter.

• 44:12Adam Friedland?

  It could have been more pranks, though.

• 44:13Speaker 04

  No, it's.

• 44:14Adam Friedland?

  I'm not saying that people didn't get help, that's obviously phenomenal. But mathematically speaking, I'm betting there's more, more pranks in this song.

• 44:22Speaker 04

  Asshole, yeah.

• 44:22Adam Friedland?

  Um, what did Congress write you a letter? What they said?

• 44:26Speaker 04

  Uh, they just, kinda were just like, hey, thanks for your song, like it's, we've ran all the numbers and seen that this has definitely had a, an impact on, uh.

• 44:36Adam Friedland?

  Just all of Congress wrote it? Or like McConnell?

• 44:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was like a, no, it was just like a.

• 44:40Adam Friedland?

  They all signed it?

• 44:41Speaker 04

  I gotta find the, I gotta find the letter.

• 44:42Adam Friedland?

  They all signed it like a, like a?

• 44:44Speaker 04

  I don't think every person signed it, I just know these motherfuckers sent me a letter and said, thanks, and I said, thank you.

• 44:49Adam Friedland?

  So who's like, uh, who's the most famous person you've ever met? And maybe you could do like a wild ass story.

• 44:57Speaker 04

  Um, I don't know, who do I know?

• 45:01Speaker 04

  Oh Seth MacFarlane, okay, so check it out. Family Guy? This is one person, yeah. So me and Seth MacFarlane, I'm at his house. It's like a fucking Lex Luthor, like, it's insane. Like, this, this place is gigantic. He's got like four stories. He's got a fucking IMAX, like, three hundred, five hundred fucking person movie theater. And, and then he's got a nightclub in his house, like a lounge. Wow. And, um, yeah, and so me and him were working on this album that we're doing together where he sings seventeen classic Sinatra and Crooner era, uh, songs, and then I chop them on my MPC, and then we, we're doing a whole album right now. And so, we're down there getting lit, okay? It's not freak off, it's just us two, so it's just like a two off. Like, doing drinking and stuff? Yeah, no, we're just drinking a little bit, I'm sizzling it, no. But we're having a couple of drinks. Yeah.

• 45:46Speaker 04

  But this is the night that he also on top, so, there's three people that convinced me to make a movie, alright? It's J.J. Abrams, Seth MacFarlane, and Kevin Smith. And all three of those are my signatures, that I, I needed three signatures to become a director through the Directors Guild, and those are my three signatures, which is crazy. Now, me and Seth are getting lit, and we're talking about everything. We're talking about nineties cinema, we're talking about fucking Soderbergh and Tarantino and Spike Lee and Jones and Sofia Coppola, and then we're talking about Lawrence of Arabia and fucking Ben Hur and Citizen Kane and Orson Welles and classic radio plays and all this other shit, and he's just like, "How the hell do you know about all that, kid?" And I'm like, "I love it, this is what I do." You know what I mean? Like, I love it so much. And he's like, "Well, have you wanted to act? Have you ever wanted to, you know, make films and shit like this?"

• 46:31Speaker 04

  And this is the night when I was like, like, it began. And I was, I told him my story of how I'm sitting on scripts and I tried to make it, but every corner in Hollywood is followed by no or hurry up and wait. And he was like, "Well, fuck that shit, how much do you got?" And I said, "Uh, X amount." And he goes, "Well, then, take a couple, you know, however many millions it's gonna cost and go make a movie." And I was like, "Hell yeah, Seth MacFarlane's." And I left his house crying in my Maybach. And I call, I call my, I call my wife. And, and she's like, what's wrong? And I'm like, I'm gonna make a movie. And she's like, that's amazing. What are you talking about? And I'm like, I'm about to spend millions of dollars.

• 47:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 47:10Speaker 04

  On this movie. What if it doesn't work?

• 47:11Adam Friedland?

  You are, you're Jewish.

• 47:12Speaker 04

  I always say when I go to the gym, like, I, I, I do curls well, like a Hasidic. So, I'm crying. And my wife is like, why are you crying? And I'm like, cuz I'm about to spend millions and millions of our dollars to make a movie. And she's like.

• 47:25Adam Friedland?

  It's not hers.

• 47:25Speaker 04

  That sounds amazing. Oh, it's ours. It's ours.

• 47:28Adam Friedland?

  She wasn't with you shooting in the gym, dude?

• 47:32Speaker 04

  That's funny. That's funny, that's funny. That's funny. I made that money, she made our children. You know what I'm saying?

• 47:40Adam Friedland?

  It's the hardest job, though.

• 47:41Speaker 04

  She's my Brittany, I love you.

• 47:44Adam Friedland?

  You're Kevin Federline?

• 47:47Adam Friedland?

  You were, you were married once before that?

• 47:49Speaker 04

  I was.

• 47:49Adam Friedland?

  Were you too young to be married? Or what was?

• 47:52Speaker 04

  You know what? It's funny, you could argue that. I don't think I was too young. Um, but I was probably too young.

• 47:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 47:59Speaker 04

  And at the end of the day, that person just wasn't my person. Not a bad person at this.

• 48:05Adam Friedland?

  She wasn't your forever person.

• 48:06Speaker 04

  People grow and change, and we just changed differently. And that's all it was. It's not that deep.

• 48:11Adam Friedland?

  We should get into the movie a little bit.

• 48:13Speaker 04

  Please.

• 48:13Adam Friedland?

  Um, how do you feel now that it's out? Are you getting a good response?

• 48:16Speaker 04

  Well, it's not technically out, but it is.

• 48:18Adam Friedland?

  Well, now that you've screamed it.

• 48:19Speaker 04

  But the love, I mean, motherfuckers are calling it a fucking, uh, what is it? A situational masterpiece in comedy, fucking.

• 48:26Adam Friedland?

  Like Seinfeld.

• 48:27Speaker 04

  Instant comedy classic. Like, I'm like, this is crazy to me. But it's funny to just watch people cringe at certain things, or me talking about fucking getting molested, or da-da-da. And some people are like, ugh, like, or, or might not think that's funny, or like, you probably shouldn't talk about that. And I'm like, eat my ass. Like, what are you talking about? Like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna talk about whatever I want.

• 48:45Adam Friedland?

  But they were mean to you about saying that you were molested?

• 48:48Speaker 04

  Not they, I'm just saying, certain people I know have felt a little bit about the tone if I, if I'm discussing those things, or, you know, just, just stuff that can be very personal, cuz it might be triggering to, to, to somebody, which is completely understandable.

• 49:02Adam Friedland?

  People still acting like that?

• 49:03Speaker 04

  This is my story, dude, come on, bro.

• 49:05Adam Friedland?

  People are still telling you, you can't, you can't mention that you were molested cuz it's triggering for them?

• 49:10Speaker 04

  Oh, it's a wild.

• 49:11Adam Friedland?

  People are insane.

• 49:12Speaker 04

  Yeah. But I'm like.

• 49:14Adam Friedland?

  People need to shut up.

• 49:15Speaker 04

  I'm like, let me take.

• 49:15Adam Friedland?

  And watch sports.

• 49:18Speaker 04

  Anime, anime.

• 49:19Adam Friedland?

  Or you're anime, or whatever, baby stuff, or. Uh, so what's the second, what's, what's LP2? What's LP2?

• 49:27Adam Friedland?

  It's your eight mile? It's your eight mile, no?

• 49:31Speaker 04

  No, everything after this is gonna be... I think this, I think this specific film, it's, you know, a little more slapstick and whatever. Like, from here, I wanna make... So there's two films that I'm gonna do. One is quite expensive, uh, but people wanna give me money, so that's great. But, um, it's like, uh, Spike Jonze being John Malkovich meets Friday and Vanilla Sky, like, fucking each other at a freak-off.

• 49:56Adam Friedland?

  Do you remember watching that movie as a kid and just being broken-hearted because you feel like you lost Pedell P. Cruz as your girlfriend?

• 50:03Speaker 04

  She was so hot in that movie.

• 50:04Adam Friedland?

  She's the most beautiful girl ever. I, dude, that movie, like, do you remember the Cameron Diaz line?

• 50:09Speaker 04

  Which one? There's many.

• 50:11Adam Friedland?

  Uh, right before she, right before she crashed the car.

• 50:13Speaker 04

  Yeah, she's like, "I let you, you came in my mouth, that means something, I swallowed your cum."

• 50:17Adam Friedland?

  When you fuck someone, your body makes a promise.

• 50:19Speaker 04

  You were inside of me.

• 50:21Adam Friedland?

  That's a sample. That's a sample. Logic, everyone. Thanks, guys. That was great.

• 50:27Speaker 04

  I had a lot of fun, man.

• 50:29Adam Friedland?

  Did you enjoy it?

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