MATTY MATHESON Talks The Bear, Bad Customers, Burgers

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Before this,

• 0:05Speaker 00

  there's this.

• 0:08Speaker 00

  As you celebrate the game, take a deeper look at its roots. The people grow in the grass, paving the lots, welding the goalposts, inspecting every football. The hardworking people that make every Sunday possible. Carhartt is proud to outfit the crews behind the game. Visit carhartt.com/jointhetrades to learn more.

• 0:30Adam Friedland?

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• 0:54Adam Friedland?

  This list of questions under the category stupid. I am blind reading right now. Rank these ingredients. Banana peel, edamame shell, oyster shell, shrimp tail, walnut shell, apple seed, apple stem, broccoli sock, and peanut peanut paper. I know the answer is an easy answer.

• 1:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't care.

• 1:09Adam Friedland?

  A million dollars or dinner with delicious food?

• 1:13Adam Friedland?

  Was it hard to be around Mr. Potato Head because he's an ingredient?

• 1:17Speaker 02

  What?

• 1:48Adam Friedland?

  My guest this week is actor and chef Matty Matheson. If I were to describe Mr. Matheson in two words, I would say human burger. And to him, this would be a compliment due to the fact that he is a famous chef. But he's not just a chef. He's also an actor. And he stars in season three of The Bear, which is available now on Hulu. I will be in Denver this weekend, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at Comedy Works. Welcome back to The Adam Friedland Show. I'm host Adam Friedland.

• 2:25Adam Friedland?

  Ladies and gentlemen, beloved chef, actor, Matty Matheson, everyone.

• 2:32Adam Friedland?

  Cultural icon. Canadian, Canada's favorite.

• 2:40Adam Friedland?

  How are you?

• 2:40Speaker 02

  I'm well. How are you?

• 2:41Adam Friedland?

  I'm great. Yeah.

• 2:43Speaker 02

  Good. Fantastic.

• 2:44Adam Friedland?

  We're kind of, we're like in a weird with the show. We're like dark for six weeks and we're relaunching season three. So you're part of the.

• 2:51Speaker 02

  Season.

• 2:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, the lineup for season three.

• 2:54Speaker 02

  That's good. How many episodes in a season?

• 2:56Adam Friedland?

  We don't really know. Yeah, yeah.

• 2:58Speaker 02

  Just stop it.

• 2:58Adam Friedland?

  This is the first break we've taken in a year.

• 3:00Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 3:01Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 3:01Speaker 02

  You shoot one a day?

• 3:03Adam Friedland?

  Uh, no.

• 3:03Speaker 02

  Five days a week?

• 3:04Adam Friedland?

  Whenever, like, people are available, basically. Because people are like.

• 3:08Speaker 02

  So you have other jobs?

• 3:10Adam Friedland?

  No, this is it. I'm successful. I'm quite successful.

• 3:12Speaker 02

  Pod success. It's good success. Pod success is basic.

• 3:15Adam Friedland?

  It's talk show.

• 3:16Speaker 02

  Talk show.

• 3:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I've transcended from.

• 3:18Speaker 02

  I know. I can see the numbers on the camera.

• 3:19Adam Friedland?

  Enough about me.

• 3:22Adam Friedland?

  No, thank you for joining us. You're like, you've had an interesting career. Like, did you think it would go in this direction whatsoever?

• 3:28Speaker 02

  No.

• 3:29Adam Friedland?

  Is it funny? Sometimes you look at it, you're like, that's ridiculous. Or like, who would have thunk?

• 3:35Speaker 02

  Dude, I'm in Toy Story. Like, it's insane.

• 3:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 3:39Speaker 02

  It's an insane thing. Like, I never wanted to be an actor. I never tried to be an actor. I never auditioned for anything, you know? Like, I never was in, like, I just cooked and then started making, you know, well, this is a big talk show. But like, I used to make like stupid videos for Vice and stuff. So like, we would make small things, not as big as this, but like smaller things. And then I did that, but it's all unscripted. So it's just like, I did that shit, traveled the world for a long time. And then, and then just, you know, and now I'm on Toy Story.

• 4:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 4:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 4:09Adam Friedland?

  Do you grapple with it? Does it like stress you out? Do you feel fortunate? Like, yeah.

• 4:13Speaker 02

  No, it's super, I'm super grateful. It's incredible. Like, it's a wild thing. Like, it's like, I don't think a lot of people get opportunities like I do, to be able to do multiple things throughout their lives and like, and, you know, succeed in them.

• 4:27Adam Friedland?

  But they're not as fire as you, though. That's the truth.

• 4:29Speaker 02

  No.

• 4:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they don't deserve it.

• 4:30Speaker 02

  That is, it is. They're not as fire as me.

• 4:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they're not as fire.

• 4:34Speaker 02

  Nobody really is. There's very few people genuinely as fire as me. Yeah.

• 4:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's, I like, you grew up LDS?

• 4:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 4:46Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I grew up with a lot of LDS folks. I'm from Vegas, yeah.

• 4:49Speaker 02

  Oh, really?

• 4:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 4:50Speaker 02

  Bang. My partner Ricky, he's, he's from Vegas. He's from Henderson.

• 4:55Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I'm from Summerlin. Yeah, the other side of town, northwest.

• 4:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 4:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you know, I look out my window and what do I see? Popcorn popping on the apricot tree.

• 5:05Speaker 02

  No. Or what is that? Is that Las Vegas?

• 5:08Adam Friedland?

  My Mormon friends, they, they learned it at church.

• 5:11Speaker 02

  I've walked it all out. There's so much trauma, so much.

• 5:13Adam Friedland?

  When did you guys leave?

• 5:14Speaker 02

  When?

• 5:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, did you leave with your family?

• 5:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, we left with my family. We left like, 13?

• 5:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 5:23Speaker 02

  Around like 13, we stopped.

• 5:25Adam Friedland?

  Bar mitzvah. You had a bar mitzvah? You became a Jew?

• 5:26Speaker 02

  I got missioned, whatever, baptized in the, in the tank in the church.

• 5:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 5:31Speaker 02

  But it's, yeah, you know, you got to meet everybody, make sure that you're like righteous.

• 5:35Adam Friedland?

  The moms, though, are woo, whoa, whoa, whoa, wowee, wowee.

• 5:38Speaker 02

  Wowee, wowee. We didn't grow up in like, like, we were like.

• 5:41Adam Friedland?

  You missed out.

• 5:43Speaker 02

  We missed out on like my dad having like just tons of wives.

• 5:46Adam Friedland?

  Well, it wasn't even polygamy or anything like that. It was like, the moms that I grew up around were just like somehow 23 years old, even though we were 14. They were like so hot and nice.

• 5:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 5:59Speaker 02

  See, my mom's hot and nice, I guess. Yeah, she's a good looking lady. And, but it's funny because my parents, they got married when they were like 16.

• 6:06Adam Friedland?

  No shit.

• 6:07Speaker 02

  Because they're, they're like my, my mom got pregnant and then they had to get married. Like, their parents are like, what the hell's, like, so they got married.

• 6:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 6:16Speaker 02

  And so like, you know, they weren't Mormons growing up. They were Mormons like later on in life when they're like, my dad, they were away at like university and like Mormons missionaries knocked on their door. My dad let them in and they, you know, like John Smith got into them, you know? Couple of Holy Spirits.

• 6:32Adam Friedland?

  It worked?

• 6:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think, well, I think young, they were living in a different province at that time. Young, living in a different town and like away from their families.

• 6:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 6:42Speaker 02

  And I think there was like, my parents always like, now they're like, yeah, we're like atheist. Like, they don't, they believe in like whatever.

• 6:48Adam Friedland?

  It's sadder, right?

• 6:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 6:50Adam Friedland?

  How sad is that?

• 6:51Speaker 02

  I think it's good. I think we die.

• 6:52Adam Friedland?

  I think it's better, Joseph.

• 6:53Speaker 02

  It's just celestial kingdoms?

• 6:55Adam Friedland?

  I mean, the moms, I just remember that they were so nice.

• 6:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 6:59Adam Friedland?

  They had snacks.

• 7:00Speaker 02

  So nice snacks.

• 7:01Adam Friedland?

  They were so nice.

• 7:02Speaker 02

  I could never sleep over at people's houses. It was like, it was perfect. We were perfectly, you know, never had sugar, only could watch G-rated movies, never saw The Simpsons. You know, like, Married with Children was like the devil.

• 7:14Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but all your moms were tens and your dads were all gay guys.

• 7:18Speaker 02

  No, no, Steve, he ain't gay, bro.

• 7:20Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm not saying you're a guy. Because he left the church, obviously. He made it out. No.

• 7:25Speaker 02

  Should we say that?

• 7:26Adam Friedland?

  I remember the dads were just starchy shirt, like, like.

• 7:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, he wore like a suit. He looked like, in the eighties, like, he looked like someone like Teen Wolf.

• 7:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 7:33Speaker 02

  Like a guy who, he had like a briefcase, but I'm like, never had a job or something. I don't know what he did. Yeah.

• 7:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, the dads were all like guys in the 1950s who were like, I'll never tell. You know, like, they're like Rock Hudson kind of guys.

• 7:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 7:45Adam Friedland?

  And the moms were just smoke shows.

• 7:47Speaker 02

  But not smoking and drinking or doing anything. Just like living.

• 7:49Adam Friedland?

  Just being nice.

• 7:50Speaker 02

  Just being nice, helping their neighbors. Yeah, helping their neighbors, like shoveling a snowy driveway, you know? Doing stuff like that, but like not allowing your children to play with any other children, you know? Not that nice.

• 8:01Adam Friedland?

  And if you're me, well, I used to go to their houses and they'd have King's Hawaiian rolls. And I remember they'd drink milk. This is food related.

• 8:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:09Adam Friedland?

  With dinner. Yeah.

• 8:10Speaker 02

  Milk?

• 8:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they had milk as a drink.

• 8:12Speaker 02

  Hawaiian King rolls?

• 8:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 8:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, I drank a lot of milk as a kid.

• 8:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 8:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:16Adam Friedland?

  Oh.

• 8:16Speaker 02

  My mom used to have it in the freezer.

• 8:18Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 8:19Speaker 02

  She would have like, you know, like a big jug of it.

• 8:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 8:21Speaker 02

  And she would, she would put it in the freezer. We would go buy it in the States in Buffalo because it was cheaper.

• 8:26Adam Friedland?

  Across the border.

• 8:26Speaker 02

  Across the border.

• 8:27Adam Friedland?

  Contrabando.

• 8:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, contrabando. Like before 9/11, we would just go over and get dairy.

• 8:31Adam Friedland?

  And then everything changed.

• 8:32Speaker 02

  Everything changed.

• 8:34Adam Friedland?

  Wait, so you were in Nova Scotia with your family, like?

• 8:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, I was born in like St. John and then we lived in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia for a long time. And then we moved from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to Fort Erie in Ontario.

• 8:44Adam Friedland?

  What's the vibe over in Nova Scotia? You got a lot of?

• 8:46Speaker 02

  You're on the ocean?

• 8:47Adam Friedland?

  You got a lot of lox?

• 8:48Speaker 02

  Lox?

• 8:49Adam Friedland?

  Or the.

• 8:49Speaker 02

  Smoke salmon?

• 8:50Adam Friedland?

  Nova, I mean, not lox. Is Nova from Nova Scotia? Am I bombing right now?

• 8:55Speaker 02

  Nova? What the fuck's Nova?

• 8:57Adam Friedland?

  Salmon. I thought you were a foodie.

• 9:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, salmon. Salmon lox?

• 9:03Adam Friedland?

  Like, they put on a big, am I crazy right now?

• 9:05Speaker 02

  Nova, where's that from? That ain't from where I'm from. Nova is like, but I feel like that's like maybe from like Alaska or some shit. We have different, no.

• 9:15Adam Friedland?

  What's about, it's like Irish. It's like low-key Irish in Nova Scotia?

• 9:18Speaker 02

  Yeah, lots of Irish. More like Newfoundland, but it's like, I think, my dad's from Newfoundland.

• 9:23Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 9:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 9:25Adam Friedland?

  Canada's a weird place because it just has like a French one.

• 9:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's like French.

• 9:28Adam Friedland?

  And then out west, you have a Chinese one?

• 9:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:30Adam Friedland?

  Vancouver's Chinese, Canada?

• 9:31Speaker 02

  Vancouver's, yeah, very, yeah.

• 9:34Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it's kind of a very, and then you have Texas, Canada, Alberta.

• 9:37Speaker 02

  Alberta, straight up, yeah, yeah.

• 9:39Adam Friedland?

  Oh, congrats, by the way, the succession failed.

• 9:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:42Adam Friedland?

  We're staying together as a country?

• 9:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think so.

• 9:43Adam Friedland?

  We are one Canada?

• 9:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, we don't want to be the 51st or 2nd state. We like our country.

• 9:49Adam Friedland?

  Did you have to do land acknowledgements at restaurants?

• 9:54Speaker 02

  Sorry.

• 9:56Adam Friedland?

  It would be funny if you acknowledged like this.

• 10:01Adam Friedland?

  It's kind of rude to do land acknowledgements, right? Like you guys do up there? It's like, we just want to recognize the guys who we killed. We killed all of them.

• 10:08Speaker 02

  This is awesome.

• 10:09Adam Friedland?

  And they used to be here, right?

• 10:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, we do.

• 10:11Adam Friedland?

  It's spiking the football.

• 10:12Speaker 02

  We proudly do them. We proudly do them.

• 10:15Adam Friedland?

  It's like, we, they fucking, we gave them smallpox, we killed them, but they used to live here, so we're just going to say their name. But we're the winners.

• 10:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:21Adam Friedland?

  It's a little bit spiking the football.

• 10:22Speaker 02

  I think it's a little bit different than that, but yeah. We just want to acknowledge, you know?

• 10:25Adam Friedland?

  I think it's pretty much that.

• 10:26Speaker 02

  Take, yeah, sum it up.

• 10:27Adam Friedland?

  Wait, actually, this is a, let's get into restaurants, food and everything.

• 10:31Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:32Adam Friedland?

  I was in Vancouver doing stand-up. I went to, I went to a restaurant with some of the openers, right?

• 10:36Speaker 02

  Yeah. That's nice of you.

• 10:37Adam Friedland?

  For me, it's like, I'm an adult, right? Like, if, you know, I get dinner and then my friend gets the next meal. Or if my friend has, if one friend has more money, one friend has less money, the guy with more money pays because you want to have dinner with your friend, right?

• 10:49Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 10:50Adam Friedland?

  These fucking freaks up there in Vancouver.

• 10:52Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 10:52Adam Friedland?

  They all give their card individually.

• 10:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:56Adam Friedland?

  For what they ate.

• 10:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:58Adam Friedland?

  And I'm like, this is a sick culture.

• 11:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't like that.

• 11:01Adam Friedland?

  That is just disgusting to me.

• 11:03Speaker 02

  It's disgusting. It is.

• 11:04Adam Friedland?

  And they were weirded out that I was like, what are you doing right now? Just let someone get the check.

• 11:08Speaker 02

  You know, I'd like to take this opportunity.

• 11:10Adam Friedland?

  I hate it.

• 11:10Speaker 02

  I hate it too.

• 11:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 11:12Speaker 02

  Jeremy Allen White loves splitting bills.

• 11:17Adam Friedland?

  And what are the? The girls thinking, what are they seeing in him?

• 11:22Speaker 02

  Cause I'm always like-

• 11:23Adam Friedland?

  And he splits the bill! And I was broke, I paid!

• 11:26Speaker 02

  Dude, yeah, I'd call my mom, "E transfer me some money, I'm about to-" Someone at the table is about to split a bill, help me. It's disgusting.

• 11:34Adam Friedland?

  I used to tell girls, when I didn't have money for a restaurant or a bar, I'd say, "Let me cook you dinner." And I had a meal that I'd priced down like seven dollars.

• 11:42Speaker 02

  What would you make for seven dollars? Like a taco bar?

• 11:45Adam Friedland?

  I would make like a bolognese with a turkey, ground turkey instead of beef.

• 11:50Speaker 02

  That's gross.

• 11:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. No, it was alright.

• 11:54Speaker 02

  It was okay? There's not a lot of fat or anything, and like turkey just tastes like sawdust.

• 11:58Adam Friedland?

  Bro, just, just, don't knock it till you try it, my brother.

• 12:02Speaker 02

  Okay, I'll make a turkey bolognese. Would you cook it for a long time? Or like, would you just like cook it like a 30 minute, like canned tomatoes and brown turkey?

• 12:08Adam Friedland?

  No, no, first of all, a jar, let the-

• 12:12Speaker 02

  The jar?

• 12:12Adam Friedland?

  Prepared sauce, prepared sauce.

• 12:14Speaker 02

  Prepared sauce?

• 12:14Adam Friedland?

  Obviously a jar of prepared sauce.

• 12:16Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and then, and then you don't, you-

• 12:19Speaker 02

  And then you just drizzle it up with some ground turkey? And you think you're gonna get somewhere? Or like, you think that that relationship will last?

• 12:25Adam Friedland?

  I, yeah, I stepped, yeah, it did. I just didn't have the money for the restaurant.

• 12:30Speaker 02

  You still have that person in your life? Or you've done this multiple times? Like, there's a handful of women that had a delicious turkey bolognese?

• 12:37Adam Friedland?

  I miss all of them, and I hope they're doing well. When they had a, they had a heavy, heavy sleepy trip to family. Okay, um, I wanna get into you, like, when did you, like, when did, what, when did the food thing start for you? Was it young, or did it like develop later on in life?

• 12:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, like nourishment started early.

• 12:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but I'm like, when were you like, "I ate this thing and it was like wow wow."

• 13:01Speaker 02

  Wow wow we wow.

• 13:01Adam Friedland?

  This is something I feel, uh, I wanna devote my life to, or like-

• 13:05Speaker 02

  I just wanted to go to college and get out of my town and go to a city, so I just went to college for like that. And then like later on in life, I could have some perspective and look back and like have this romanticism, and like create these like false-

• 13:16Adam Friedland?

  It's bullshit.

• 13:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, like I was like standing under the table, and as the flour fell, when my mom was making a lemon chiffon cake, I was like, "I knew one day I'd be a chef."

• 13:24Adam Friedland?

  So your mom was sitting at the table-

• 13:26Speaker 02

  She was sitting at the table just throwing flour everywhere, making a mess.

• 13:29Adam Friedland?

  You saw her flour?

• 13:30Speaker 02

  I saw her flour. I saw, I was like staring at my mom's flour, as she was making a lemon chiffon cake. I was actually, she didn't even know I was there under the table, didn't she? Yeah.

• 13:40Adam Friedland?

  You know, I've seen a lot of these websites where, all these stepmoms are getting stuck underneath tables, and you have to-

• 13:46Speaker 02

  Is that a thing?

• 13:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you gotta see these videos.

• 13:48Speaker 02

  I love those videos.

• 13:50Adam Friedland?

  No, but like, uh, yeah, so it was just a job, you worked in kitchens?

• 13:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, like it was, it was a means to get to the city, I wanted to live in the city. I'm from a small, like, border town, farm town. I just wanted to go to the city and like, you know, go to art shows and punk shows and be in a city.

• 14:06Adam Friedland?

  Did you, you wanna be a rocker more than a chef?

• 14:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, I used to like tour with friends' bands and like, that was nice, that's good. The fucking, uh-

• 14:16Adam Friedland?

  That's on you, bro.

• 14:18Speaker 02

  The, uh-

• 14:19Adam Friedland?

  You getting WD-40 for my guy?

• 14:20Speaker 02

  No, we're good.

• 14:21Adam Friedland?

  Alright chef.

• 14:22Speaker 02

  The, uh-

• 14:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, like I wanted to be like a rocker, for sure. I just wanted to like, you know, rock.

• 14:30Adam Friedland?

  Who were your goats, like, growing up? Were they, were there musicians or chefs?

• 14:34Speaker 02

  No, uh, musician, like punk, like hardcore, like, growing up in Buffalo is just like going to like Bear the Live shows and like, being a part of like the Buffalo hardcore scene and just like that shit.

• 14:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, did you, did you, uh, do that?

• 14:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, mosh and shit, yeah.

• 14:48Adam Friedland?

  You did this, yes?

• 14:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, we would do that, not, not so much now.

• 14:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, well, you're hurting your friends, what's the point?

• 14:54Speaker 02

  You know, get it out, you know? Parents buying their kids skateboards their whole lives and they're angry, I don't know.

• 15:00Adam Friedland?

  So who's your rock hero?

• 15:02Speaker 02

  Who's my rock hero?

• 15:03Adam Friedland?

  Well, growing up, who did you wanna be?

• 15:06Speaker 02

  No, I don't think, I don't know, I never had like heroes like that.

• 15:08Adam Friedland?

  There was never like a guy?

• 15:09Speaker 02

  Like I was staring at my wall like Michael Jordan poster, like, you know, Mario Lemieux, or like, you know? Like, I was just like, I don't know, I never had that. It was more of, uh, being a part of something, I think, rather than that.

• 15:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:21Speaker 02

  Like, my room was just, like, as a kid, it was just filled with like flyers, like just show flyers.

• 15:26Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, so would you say that you've developed a passion for food, or like, it's just like-

• 15:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, like I love food.

• 15:32Adam Friedland?

  You're a company man?

• 15:33Speaker 02

  I'm like, no, what?

• 15:34Adam Friedland?

  Well, it's, it's your, it's your, it's your beat. It's my thing, yeah. It's your thing, you've worked in food, that's your career.

• 15:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's my whole thing, I love it, food has given me every opportunity in my life.

• 15:42Adam Friedland?

  Honestly, cause I'm really liking the way you're talking about food right now, because it really bothers me when people are just, when you watch a chef's table-

• 15:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 15:49Adam Friedland?

  And someone's like, "This is where two cultures meet, and around the dinner table." And this is where people sharing a meal, and then they, they make like eight hundred dollar pre-fee meals for war criminals.

• 16:02Speaker 02

  Pre, from war criminals?

• 16:03Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 16:03Speaker 02

  Good.

• 16:04Adam Friedland?

  Well, it's just like, they're like talking about how like, it's just high falutin', and it's a little bit like, like, shut the fuck up. Like, you're making a luxury product-

• 16:11Speaker 02

  It's shit in 45 minutes.

• 16:13Adam Friedland?

  You're good at what you're doing.

• 16:14Speaker 02

  You're very good at what you're doing.

• 16:14Adam Friedland?

  You're one of the best in the world, but like, you're not saving cultures, right?

• 16:18Speaker 02

  Yeah, calm down.

• 16:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:19Speaker 02

  No, I don't think so, those are, the thing is, is the funny thing, the chefs aren't doing that. The mom and pop shops, serving all the like, on the corner stands, having a family restaurant, where their family lives there and works there, and like, those are the things that are like moving the needle on like, I feel like, a global happiness. But it is like, us as chefs are just like, we're washed. But I think it is, uh, I love restaurants and I love them, I don't think they can change the world, like, people act and I don't think that they can do anything, we can feed people, and, and be creative within that, and have this beautiful place, and put a lot of heart and soul into something, and, and care for it, and have people around that believe in your vision, that wanna cook food to make themselves happy,

• 17:00Speaker 02

  and provide for themselves, and like, that kinda stuff, but, yeah, I don't, I don't know, like food, uh, yeah, it's, it's good, I like it.

• 17:08Adam Friedland?

  It's great.

• 17:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 17:09Adam Friedland?

  It's tasty.

• 17:11Speaker 02

  Since I've been here, I've only, I've literally, I found this like random place in Chinatown where nobody's ever in it, and I just go there by myself and just get chicken and rice, and it's 10 bucks, cash only. It's really nice, I just sit in there, now they know me, they just bring over the chicken and the rice and the soup.

• 17:25Adam Friedland?

  You have money problems?

• 17:27Speaker 02

  No, I just think it's nice to be like alone, and like, it was good, and everyone's like, everything was packed around it, and then I went to the one that had like nobody in it, I was like, I'm either gonna, you know, I might get sick. And then I went in, and it's been really, I've gone three times. It's really nice, and I'm like, that's, that's nice, you know?

• 17:42Adam Friedland?

  You're gonna be taking a bathroom break 20 minutes, I'm telling you.

• 17:44Speaker 02

  I don't think so.

• 17:45Adam Friedland?

  Start the fucking timer.

• 17:46Speaker 02

  I ate the one, I had half of a chicken and rice in my room, and I ate it before I came here, and it was just sitting on my like little desk all night.

• 17:53Adam Friedland?

  I leave, I leave cooked food out-

• 17:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 17:56Adam Friedland?

  For like overnight-

• 17:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 17:58Adam Friedland?

  And, uh, and people are very critical of it, and I'm like, "It's already cooked."

• 18:02Speaker 02

  Dude, how much raw chicken could you genuinely eat before you get sick? Nobody knows.

• 18:07Adam Friedland?

  Well, it's not raw, it's already, it's a cooked chicken, I just didn't put it in the fridge.

• 18:10Speaker 02

  The fear of this, the pathogens.

• 18:12Adam Friedland?

  I love him.

• 18:13Speaker 02

  The fear of pathogens is like, shut up.

• 18:15Adam Friedland?

  We're nasty guys, I get it.

• 18:17Speaker 02

  Eat your boogers, one today, no covid.

• 18:19Adam Friedland?

  I still do, I still do.

• 18:20Speaker 02

  Dude, one a day, dude, get that world in you.

• 18:23Adam Friedland?

  Don't get me started on covid and Fauci and-

• 18:24Speaker 02

  Dude, Fauci! Lies!

• 18:27Adam Friedland?

  Okay, uh, let me, what, okay, so what do you make of like this thing where like, food is now a personality for people and stuff, like it's, like-

• 18:35Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 18:36Adam Friedland?

  It's like a thing that people are like, not people that work in food, right, but like, uh, people, that's a, that's a personality trait.

• 18:42Speaker 02

  My whole identity is food. But you're like a- But I never did, like, I think the thing is, I never tried, I never tried to do that. It was just like a thing where like, my homies worked at Vice, and I'd party with them, and I'm like, "Oh, let's do, we're doing food now." And I'm like, "Oh, cool, let's do food."

• 18:56Adam Friedland?

  But it's your career.

• 18:57Speaker 02

  And then it's just like, a thing, yeah, but then you just turn it into a thing where you're like, "Oh, I can do this, or I'm over here now." Or I'm over here, I can like go cook, and I, what's that, you got a little sucky?

• 19:05Adam Friedland?

  A vape, yeah.

• 19:06Speaker 02

  What is it?

• 19:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you look good.

• 19:09Adam Friedland?

  Dude, I don't know, I was a fucking bad boy right now. Oh shit, I forgot to give you something.

• 19:13Speaker 02

  What?

• 19:14Adam Friedland?

  I wanted to, I wanted to pay tribute. Pat, you wanna come? We, uh, this is the TAFS Award for Excellence in Food Media. We made this for you. Uh, we didn't make it for you, but-

• 19:25Speaker 02

  That's good.

• 19:26Adam Friedland?

  A goldsmith made it for you.

• 19:27Speaker 02

  Can he eat it? Oh, it's, it's actual spray paint.

• 19:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:31Speaker 02

  It's recent.

• 19:34Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, I, normally I don't get a gift and, uh-

• 19:37Speaker 02

  That's nice, though.

• 19:38Adam Friedland?

  Say, judge, uh-

• 19:39Speaker 02

  Have you had the chicken one? Do they have that here? Dude, the chicken Big Mac's fire.

• 19:43Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, we all have tried it, yeah.

• 19:44Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 19:44Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no, they brought it, it was a special menu item that they-

• 19:47Speaker 02

  It's fire.

• 19:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they brought it, but the Mac rib is gone forever, you know that.

• 19:50Speaker 02

  Fuck rib.

• 19:51Adam Friedland?

  No, but you know why, you know why they brought it back, when they said the Mac rib is back? No, because when pork prices, uh, were like down-

• 19:58Speaker 02

  You think there's pork in it?

• 19:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, of course there's pork in it.

• 20:01Speaker 02

  How much?

• 20:01Adam Friedland?

  What, you fucking supersize me? I'm not trying to talk about this shit. Okay, um-

• 20:05Speaker 02

  You brought, what?

• 20:06Adam Friedland?

  No, no, but I think that there is a thing, right, for like young people with disposable incomes, that, that, this becomes an interest of theirs, and in reality-

• 20:15Speaker 02

  Dining?

• 20:16Adam Friedland?

  No, like, but like, uh, yes, food as a personality trait. When, you're someone that, it's your career, and it's the thing that you've worked in your entire life, and you've devoted yourself to, so it's a different interaction-

• 20:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 20:27Adam Friedland?

  With, as food being your life, and as a guy that eats, eats the food.

• 20:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, oh, like bloggers and like TikTokers and shit?

• 20:34Adam Friedland?

  Eating at a food is, has become a, like, that's my personality, right? And does it, does it bug you, or do you care?

• 20:41Speaker 02

  Not if they're coming to my restaurant.

• 20:42Adam Friedland?

  They're fucking losers, though, but they should come, yeah, yeah.

• 20:44Speaker 02

  Absolutely, disgusting people, same as the people that split tables.

• 20:47Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 20:48Speaker 02

  Whatever.

• 20:49Adam Friedland?

  Um, your friend, uh, Chef Nguyen, tell me about him.

• 20:53Speaker 02

  Reg?

• 20:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 20:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 20:55Adam Friedland?

  Is he, would you consider him to be your best friend?

• 20:59Speaker 02

  He's one of my longest running, besides like my friends from high school, like, he's, I've known him since like 2002, so he's like, he's my guy.

• 21:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, when you, have you invented a food ever?

• 21:10Speaker 02

  Invented a food?

• 21:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, like, this is a new food.

• 21:12Speaker 02

  Just like a fucking, like, like sprung a chicken out of a fucking lamb?

• 21:15Adam Friedland?

  That people are like, "I've never seen that before," yeah.

• 21:17Speaker 02

  Well, I think you make dishes, that's the whole thing.

• 21:19Adam Friedland?

  Sorry, not a food, yeah.

• 21:20Speaker 02

  Like a dish?

• 21:21Adam Friedland?

  A dish.

• 21:21Speaker 02

  Well, yeah.

• 21:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 21:22Speaker 02

  There's lots of dishes, but it's also like, you always take it, it is, uh, the fucking, uh-

• 21:28Adam Friedland?

  I don't know anything.

• 21:28Speaker 02

  You take a, you, you can't rebuild the wheel, but you can paint it any color, it's like this, like-

• 21:33Adam Friedland?

  The mother sauces.

• 21:34Speaker 02

  Like, you're the same, this is like the view, but different, you know?

• 21:36Adam Friedland?

  It's not the view, cause it's more, cause it's more-

• 21:38Speaker 02

  No, I know, but this is like kinda similar.

• 21:40Adam Friedland?

  Cause it, the view is five tens around the table, just trying to-

• 21:45Adam Friedland?

  And it's just like, and they're fucking-

• 21:46Speaker 02

  But this is different.

• 21:47Adam Friedland?

  And there's one-

• 21:47Speaker 02

  This is like a five and a six.

• 21:49Adam Friedland?

  And they're all wet. Uh, yeah. Sorry, I don't know, I went too hard there. But I'm just saying like, so would you say Rang is like, is it like, right?

• 21:56Speaker 02

  Rang's my guy.

• 21:57Adam Friedland?

  If you write a song, right?

• 21:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:58Adam Friedland?

  And you have a friend that you trust his opinion, you send him the song, and then he's like, "This is good." If you come up with a dish, do you have like a brain trust or people that you kind of like trust?

• 22:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, I have all my chefs. I have a lot of chefs that we work with in our restaurant company and like, yeah, we, I, I send in ideas and they're like, "That's stupid," or "We already did that, Matty," or like, "Thank you so much for that." And then, and then we do like ideation stuff.

• 22:20Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 22:20Speaker 02

  Just dreaming of things that make sense.

• 22:22Adam Friedland?

  Did you have a mentor yourself, like the OG?

• 22:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, like Rang, Rang was my guy. Like, but Rang was like- I learned, like, it's like, he, he was like the chef at like Les Select. So it was just like, when I got out of college, I went and got a job and I worked at Les Select. And Rang was like, he was the, he was the guy who ran the kitchen. And he was like, you know, there was a chef above him, but Rang was the guy who like ran the kitchen. And I became, he was very mean to me for a long time. And then, and then I got in there. And then, uh, I started doing his work on top of my work and he really liked me. And so then, we had this relationship where I would do stuff for him and he would do stuff for me.

• 22:58Adam Friedland?

  Wow.

• 22:59Speaker 02

  And then we became very close. Then I started hanging out with him and like hanging out and like going to like Vietnamese clubs and like doing some really fun stuff late. And then, uh-

• 23:07Adam Friedland?

  Like what? Like, uh-

• 23:08Speaker 02

  Just like old, like Vietnamese like card games. Going to like poker games and like basements till like 6 a.m.

• 23:13Adam Friedland?

  But like, they didn't ash the sink and it was the long ash?

• 23:15Speaker 02

  They wouldn't actually say there'd be cognac. People getting like, a lot of yelling, you know? And, uh, a lot of scary stuff and like, a lot of good times and fucked up times. And, and me and him are, we still talk all the time. Like, he, he's in Vietnam now. He opened up a poutine shop.

• 23:29Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 23:29Speaker 02

  Yeah. Fries, gravy, you know what Vietnam needs? Poutine.

• 23:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 23:33Speaker 02

  So if you're ever in fucking-

• 23:35Adam Friedland?

  It sounds heavy for like, it's like very hot there.

• 23:37Speaker 02

  But all they do is drink hot soup.

• 23:39Adam Friedland?

  It's true, but, yeah, it cools you down or something?

• 23:41Speaker 02

  No, it's hot.

• 23:42Adam Friedland?

  Where's the best-

• 23:43Speaker 02

  Makes you sweat. You ever drank hot soup in, in the heat?

• 23:45Adam Friedland?

  The, uh, ramen is bullshit, right?

• 23:50Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 23:50Adam Friedland?

  It, I, I'm over it and it's bullshit. Like, pho is a much-

• 23:53Speaker 02

  Ramen's disgusting.

• 23:54Adam Friedland?

  Pho is a much better soup.

• 23:55Speaker 02

  Pho, pho, I could, I could eat pho every single day.

• 23:58Adam Friedland?

  I love pho so much.

• 23:59Speaker 02

  I could eat pho ga every single day.

• 24:01Adam Friedland?

  Actually, I want to shout out, I went there this weekend. Rose V L in Portland, Oregon is the best bowl of soup I've ever had in my entire life.

• 24:07Speaker 02

  Ah!

• 24:07Adam Friedland?

  The fermented fish Friday soup. And I'm not even a, food is my personality thing.

• 24:12Speaker 02

  It is. Look at what's happening.

• 24:13Adam Friedland?

  A good bowl of soup is phenomenal. And it, it is, it's just this old lady and I've, every time I go, I have, I go and I have this lady's soup. She has two things. And then you have to order one of the two things.

• 24:23Speaker 02

  Exactly. I've been there, I've been there like three times.

• 24:25Adam Friedland?

  You've been there?

• 24:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 24:26Adam Friedland?

  It's incredible.

• 24:27Speaker 02

  It's incredible.

• 24:28Adam Friedland?

  It is-

• 24:29Speaker 02

  Andy took me the first time where he used to have like puck puck.

• 24:32Adam Friedland?

  So that was a good shout?

• 24:34Speaker 02

  Oh dude.

• 24:34Adam Friedland?

  Did I just drop?

• 24:35Speaker 02

  That is the one.

• 24:35Adam Friedland?

  Was that bars? That is the one?

• 24:37Speaker 02

  The bars, that's the one.

• 24:38Adam Friedland?

  Dude, that feels great.

• 24:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 24:39Adam Friedland?

  That feels great.

• 24:40Speaker 02

  Yeah. Food's your personality.

• 24:42Adam Friedland?

  No, I mean, I, I-

• 24:43Speaker 02

  You, you went to the one spot that every chef goes to.

• 24:46Adam Friedland?

  Alright, I'm gonna do something offensive-

• 24:48Speaker 02

  You didn't just randomly go there either. You looked into it a lot.

• 24:50Adam Friedland?

  When I'm doing stand-up, someone heckles me, I say, "I don't go to your job and knock the dick out of your mouth." That's the old, right, okay. But I'm gonna tell you what I, what-

• 24:59Speaker 02

  How did you get there?

• 25:00Adam Friedland?

  How I want to change restaurants.

• 25:01Speaker 02

  Yes, that's what I want to hear.

• 25:03Adam Friedland?

  Okay. Let me tell you this.

• 25:04Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 25:05Adam Friedland?

  Okay. First of all, the name server is perverse.

• 25:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:11Adam Friedland?

  Okay? I don't, it's really what it is, when people say the service was terrible.

• 25:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:15Adam Friedland?

  Like, I don't need anyone ever to serve me. It's a weird concept.

• 25:19Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 25:19Adam Friedland?

  It's like, I'm going to a restaurant to rent a slave for an hour. And it's a guy that's like trying to, trying to be an actor in New York City and he hates his job and he's bored. And he's got a ton of other tables.

• 25:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 25:28Adam Friedland?

  And I'm, oh, he's being rude to me.

• 25:31Speaker 02

  My water wasn't filled up enough.

• 25:32Adam Friedland?

  In fact, when some, well, don't get me started, well, I'm getting to water.

• 25:34Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 25:35Adam Friedland?

  When someone is rude to me, I tip more.

• 25:37Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 25:38Adam Friedland?

  Because I want to show them. I want to show them that he was actually a great guy. Uh, no, no, okay. There's too many trips to the table.

• 25:46Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 25:46Adam Friedland?

  It's too many trips.

• 25:47Speaker 02

  Just come when you need.

• 25:48Adam Friedland?

  Just, I hate, "How was your meal?" I hate-

• 25:53Speaker 02

  How's the first few bites? How's the first couple bites?

• 25:55Adam Friedland?

  If, I, I've had literally a bowl of diarrhea and I've been like, "It's fine." I'm not gonna complain. I've seen my parents complain enough in restaurants. I don't want to be like them.

• 26:03Speaker 02

  Your parents complain in restaurants?

• 26:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they're like, they're terrible. They're disgusting. Don't get me started on the Jews. Okay, uh, we, cause we broke this down yesterday into how many trips it is and how many trips it should be.

• 26:14Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 26:15Adam Friedland?

  One, pre-menu introduction. Two, menu drop.

• 26:18Speaker 02

  Why a pre-menu introduction?

• 26:20Adam Friedland?

  Because this is what happens in every restaurant I've ever been to.

• 26:23Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 26:23Adam Friedland?

  Four, drink order. Five, appetizer order. Six, drink delivery. Seven, food order. Eight, food delivery. Nine, how are you enjoying your, "Eeeehhhhh," how are you enjoying your meal? You know that? The way they sing it, I'm like, this guy's on the edge and he has so many other tables.

• 26:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 26:39Adam Friedland?

  "Eeeehhhhh," and I'm like, poor guy. Like, okay? And you're, I, and you're, you're my servant?

• 26:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 26:45Adam Friedland?

  For an hour I'm renting this poor man as a servant? He just wants to be in rent. And he doesn't realize that, that, that, he's never gonna make it. He's a bad, okay. Uh, ten, ask, ask about dessert. How are you feeling about dessert? Okay, eleven, dessert menu. Twelve, dessert delivery. Thirteen, how are you enjoying your dessert?

• 27:05Speaker 02

  With a coffee?

• 27:06Adam Friedland?

  How are you enjoying your dessert? It's crazy.

• 27:08Speaker 02

  How are you enjoying your dessert?

• 27:10Adam Friedland?

  Yes, they always do that.

• 27:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:11Adam Friedland?

  Caleb, you're right. I said, "How are you enjoying your dessert?" That is, okay. Fourteen, check drop. Fifteen, check pick up. Sixteen, check, and then they bring it back for the check. It's like, then they have to pick up the side check seventeen.

• 27:25Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:26Adam Friedland?

  They have a million, everyone else is waiting for food.

• 27:28Speaker 02

  And then seventeen interactions, and there's more than that actually. And you're there for an hour and a half. You're just gen, like, there's a lot of things. Oh, can I get a, a mayonnaise? Can I get thing?

• 27:38Adam Friedland?

  Oh yeah, can I get mayo?

• 27:39Speaker 02

  Let me ask, let me ask the chef that.

• 27:40Adam Friedland?

  Every table has mayo.

• 27:41Speaker 02

  And I gotta go back and ask the chef if I could have fries and salad for fuck's sake. No one's ever asked, "I can have fries and salad before?" What's happening?

• 27:48Adam Friedland?

  No substitutions ever. Shut up, shut up.

• 27:50Speaker 02

  Order the menu, no substitutions.

• 27:52Adam Friedland?

  And don't be the parents.

• 27:53Speaker 02

  Allergies, you forgot allergies.

• 27:55Adam Friedland?

  Oh!

• 27:56Speaker 02

  Allergy question.

• 27:57Adam Friedland?

  Just die.

• 27:57Speaker 02

  Anybody at the table can die from shrimp?

• 27:59Adam Friedland?

  Just die. Okay.

• 28:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's what I mean, just die.

• 28:02Adam Friedland?

  Just die.

• 28:03Speaker 02

  Just die.

• 28:04Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 28:04Speaker 02

  If you're allergic, don't leave the house.

• 28:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, don't leave the house.

• 28:08Speaker 02

  Why are you in a restaurant? Why is that my problem?

• 28:10Adam Friedland?

  Listen, maybe Anthony Fauci can figure it out. Okay.

• 28:13Speaker 02

  Ask the Fauch.

• 28:14Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 28:14Speaker 02

  The Fauchinator.

• 28:15Adam Friedland?

  So here's why we decided, every restaurant, dim sum, you got a piece of paper, you put your, your thing on.

• 28:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:20Adam Friedland?

  If you don't order dessert, first trip, you don't, you don't get dessert, young man.

• 28:24Speaker 02

  What's the little one with the black bean and the donut that burns your mouth?

• 28:26Adam Friedland?

  Ooh, that is really good at the dim sum.

• 28:28Speaker 02

  That is great.

• 28:29Adam Friedland?

  I like the eggy tart.

• 28:30Speaker 02

  The black sesame seed.

• 28:30Adam Friedland?

  The eggy tart is good.

• 28:32Speaker 02

  That's good.

• 28:32Adam Friedland?

  Wait, there's, I, we should go to dim sum after this.

• 28:34Speaker 02

  Let's go.

• 28:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, me, you-

• 28:36Speaker 02

  Where do you go? Which one's yours?

• 28:37Adam Friedland?

  I go to, go, go, no, there's one in south, south, uh, Brooklyn in, in, uh, in like, uh-

• 28:43Speaker 02

  You go to Brooklyn?

• 28:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, cause I-

• 28:44Speaker 02

  You live in Brooklyn?

• 28:45Adam Friedland?

  It's called something seafood company.

• 28:46Speaker 02

  What's your address?

• 28:51Adam Friedland?

  Um, okay. Also, just like, these people, the server, like, have to like, get a good tip so they're like, that you can tell they're miserable. Jobs suck, right? And they're exhausted, and they have a lot of tables, and they're performing like, they're not, like, they're, they're having a good day.

• 29:06Speaker 02

  They're there. They love hospitality.

• 29:08Adam Friedland?

  They don't love it, they want to get-

• 29:09Speaker 02

  They love hospit, they love taking care of you.

• 29:11Adam Friedland?

  They want to pay their rent.

• 29:12Speaker 02

  They want their little baby, wanting to be taken care of.

• 29:13Adam Friedland?

  No one is loving it.

• 29:15Speaker 02

  They love it.

• 29:16Adam Friedland?

  No one is loving it.

• 29:16Speaker 02

  Everyone loves it.

• 29:17Adam Friedland?

  No, there's one guy at work that loves it and everyone else is like, "That guy's a fucking piece of shit."

• 29:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 29:22Adam Friedland?

  He's like, actually, guys, we're a team. He's like, yeah. And everyone's like, "Fuck that guy." And then there's a rude older lady.

• 29:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 29:30Adam Friedland?

  Who never, yeah, who's like, just like, you don't want, yeah, she's a cut to everyone else.

• 29:35Speaker 02

  Ah!

• 29:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 29:36Speaker 02

  Stupid.

• 29:37Adam Friedland?

  Okay. If you ever review service online, you don't get to go to any restaurants anymore.

• 29:43Speaker 02

  So that's a fact, Jack.

• 29:44Adam Friedland?

  Who's gonna tattle? Imagine writing a three-star review.

• 29:48Speaker 02

  Everyone's an narc.

• 29:49Adam Friedland?

  A three-star review about something okay?

• 29:53Speaker 02

  I like when people can't get into restaurants because they're like busy. And then you say, "Just the restaurant's trash."

• 29:58Adam Friedland?

  Oh.

• 29:58Speaker 02

  That's the best.

• 29:59Adam Friedland?

  I say it's for my boss, Adam Friedland.

• 30:02Speaker 02

  Exactly. Adam Friedland, talk show host.

• 30:04Adam Friedland?

  Okay. There should be entertainment at every restaurant. A show, a review, a band, and a dance floor.

• 30:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:12Adam Friedland?

  Right? And it's, so you could get up and have a dance.

• 30:15Speaker 02

  What was the Sammy's?

• 30:16Adam Friedland?

  Sammy's Romania with Danny Love.

• 30:18Speaker 02

  Dude, he played, he played my buddy's wedding.

• 30:20Adam Friedland?

  We, we had him on the show.

• 30:21Speaker 02

  It was incredible.

• 30:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, did he do the, he did this, like, "Stop, uh, selling the Jews." That's his thing, is that he does parody songs where he replaces his words with "Jew."

• 30:30Speaker 02

  I don't remember that.

• 30:31Adam Friedland?

  Was it not, he did, he did it for other people?

• 30:34Speaker 02

  It was a Jewish wedding.

• 30:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, he's like, "Jew York, Jew York."

• 30:38Speaker 02

  I don't remember that song.

• 30:39Adam Friedland?

  He's a phenomenon. Shout out to Danny Love, he was on an episode of Taps, actually. We cast him in a sketch we wrote.

• 30:45Speaker 02

  He's great.

• 30:47Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 30:47Speaker 02

  But that restaurant's like a perfect restaurant.

• 30:50Adam Friedland?

  What do you think about this entertainment thing?

• 30:52Speaker 02

  That's why I referenced that.

• 30:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 30:54Speaker 02

  I agree with you.

• 30:55Adam Friedland?

  Just it's lovely.

• 30:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, just like a live band, like, honestly, just like a singer-songwriter, just loosely in the corner.

• 31:02Adam Friedland?

  Okay, now I want to talk about song, or music choices at restaurants.

• 31:06Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 31:06Adam Friedland?

  Right. Is there a song that makes a food taste bad, or it food tastes good?

• 31:12Speaker 02

  I don't know. I like, in my restaurants, I pick decades. So I just pick, like, I have like a high-end steak seafood vegetable spot, like a restaurant.

• 31:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 31:23Speaker 02

  And like, we only play stuff from the 60s. So it's just like, it's mellow.

• 31:26Adam Friedland?

  It matches the food.

• 31:27Speaker 02

  Well, it just like matches the thing, it's just like, there's no, all of a sudden, it's not like, you know, it's not like us. Blasting or something, you know, or whatever.

• 31:35Adam Friedland?

  Not like us should, that would, that would make the food taste worse to me.

• 31:38Speaker 02

  It would, it would do, like, whatever, but there's places, like, I think every place has its own vibe, where it's just like, whatever, where I'm like, but I'm like, as I'm older,

• 31:46Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 31:47Speaker 02

  You know, I'm like 44 now, and I'm just like, I don't want to hear anything.

• 31:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 31:51Speaker 02

  I don't want to, I love going, like, go to a omakase spot where I can't even speak to the guy handing me sushi, and that's my favorite experience.

• 31:57Adam Friedland?

  I like watching the guy.

• 31:58Speaker 02

  Don't speak to the person next to me, just hand me the sushi, I eat it, see you later.

• 32:02Adam Friedland?

  Well, you see the boy doing the work.

• 32:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 32:04Adam Friedland?

  It's beautiful. Okay, yeah, more Benny Honda's style or sushi bar kind of experiences.

• 32:09Speaker 02

  Sushi bar, Benny Honda, sit at a bar, also like Swan Oyster Depot, perfect restaurant. Sit at the bar, a bunch of guys shucking oysters, doing crab, doing everything, here's your wine, here's your stuff, fuck off.

• 32:20Adam Friedland?

  Right.

• 32:20Speaker 02

  It's nice.

• 32:21Adam Friedland?

  Right, exactly, like, maybe the entertainment should be the chef that's making the food, because instead of the guy that they're like, that really is just as at his job, and he's like, I have to be here.

• 32:31Speaker 02

  Bringing you water.

• 32:32Adam Friedland?

  I got brunch in the morning.

• 32:33Speaker 02

  Or when they pour, before sparkling into your still glass.

• 32:37Adam Friedland?

  Who cares?

• 32:38Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 32:38Adam Friedland?

  Right, okay, here's one, one other thing, yeah, every restaurant should be Benny Honda style, I already said that, you can get up and walk around, and it's fine, and your girlfriend doesn't have to tell you you have to sit. Because sometimes it's hard to sit for so long.

• 32:50Speaker 02

  I like that, just like wander?

• 32:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 32:53Speaker 02

  Like, start looking at stuff on the walls?

• 32:54Adam Friedland?

  If there's a dance floor, it's acceptable to kind of like, I don't like sitting for so long.

• 32:58Speaker 02

  Right. What's your perfect music? Like, if you were to be like at a place, is it quiet, or is it?

• 33:02Adam Friedland?

  Well, I feel like, I have a theory, tell me if this sounds right, during the charred Brussels sprout era, it was a lot of trip hop.

• 33:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 33:11Adam Friedland?

  That's right.

• 33:12Speaker 02

  Just, just Goldie.

• 33:13Adam Friedland?

  I think that's a shout, yeah.

• 33:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 33:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, DJ Shadow.

• 33:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, DJ Shadow, Portishead, yeah.

• 33:19Adam Friedland?

  Remember charred Brussels sprout?

• 33:20Speaker 02

  LSDC Sound Systems.

• 33:22Adam Friedland?

  Okay, now I want to talk about hamburger.

• 33:24Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 33:24Adam Friedland?

  I want to talk about the smash burger.

• 33:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:27Adam Friedland?

  Do you think that it is the charred Brussels sprout of today, or do you think it's, do you think it's?

• 33:30Speaker 02

  Dude, I have a, I have a burger, two burger shops. And when I opened them, we did, I've had multiple, my whole, the first time I was ever on TV, I won, I went, the first time I ever won on TV, because I thought anyone that won on TV was a fucking loser. So it was just like,

• 33:48Adam Friedland?

  It's awesome.

• 33:48Speaker 02

  I won, and I won this thing called Burger Wars, I went on Burger Wars, and I won it.

• 33:54Adam Friedland?

  Who hosted it? Guy?

• 33:55Speaker 02

  I don't fucking know.

• 33:56Adam Friedland?

  Have you met the, the legend, the goat?

• 33:58Speaker 02

  Who?

• 33:59Adam Friedland?

  Guy.

• 34:00Speaker 02

  Guy? Oh, Fieri Oreo? No, I've never met him.

• 34:03Adam Friedland?

  Would you be too nervous?

• 34:05Speaker 02

  No, I don't think I would be nervous, I just, I don't think I'm in the same rooms as that guy.

• 34:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but he's, come on.

• 34:10Speaker 02

  I know, but I, I don't, I'm not in that world, I'm not in that, like,

• 34:13Adam Friedland?

  He's so funny.

• 34:15Speaker 02

  No, I'm sure he's great, I mean, dude.

• 34:16Adam Friedland?

  You think he's lame, you think he's lame.

• 34:17Speaker 02

  He's making hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the guy's just like floating around, probably having the best time ever.

• 34:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and he's just like, uh,

• 34:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 34:24Adam Friedland?

  He's undeniable.

• 34:26Speaker 02

  He's undeniable, yeah. But I think, you know, my hat's off to him, you know?

• 34:30Adam Friedland?

  Right. If you met Guy, what would you, would you dap him?

• 34:32Speaker 02

  What up, Guy? Congrats on all the success, bro.

• 34:34Adam Friedland?

  No, that's, that's snide, that's a little bit,

• 34:36Speaker 02

  Big fan.

• 34:37Adam Friedland?

  Just say like, "What up, legend?"

• 34:38Speaker 02

  What up, legend? Dude, all those memes going around, "Are you not eating your food? What's up with that, dog?"

• 34:43Adam Friedland?

  Don't you think people are a little too hard on him? Like, people are like, "That guy sucks," a little bit too much.

• 34:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's just like, who cares? Like, why even punch down, or like, who cares, or punch up, like, dude's fucking, he killed it.

• 34:53Adam Friedland?

  He really?

• 34:53Speaker 02

  And, and like during like the fire, like, I'm like, that's the thing, is like, people hate this guy, and he's successful, and then like, during the fires in LA, like, raised like millions of dollars for people.

• 35:01Adam Friedland?

  Really, he did?

• 35:01Speaker 02

  Yeah, he went and fed people, dude, he like, went and like, paid for all this shit and fed people.

• 35:10Speaker 02

  A real American hero!

• 35:12Adam Friedland?

  What I'm saying is like,

• 35:13Speaker 02

  But it's just like one of those things where it's just like, it is the good and the bad, and like, whatever, I'm like, he's evil because he fucking is successful.

• 35:20Adam Friedland?

  No, yeah, that's just, yeah.

• 35:22Speaker 02

  Or, or he's a clown because he drove around in a car and like, ate at really nice mom and pop shops, and like, all these restaurants are successful because he ate at them, like, dang, that sucks.

• 35:30Adam Friedland?

  That's a rock star bite. That's a rock star bite, yeah.

• 35:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, rock star bite.

• 35:33Adam Friedland?

  But don't you see him sometimes, because you dress well, you like, wear like, like nice clothes?

• 35:37Speaker 02

  Normal.

• 35:38Adam Friedland?

  No, you dress, you're like, always wear like fashionable kind of clothes.

• 35:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:41Adam Friedland?

  Like, you see him, and he's wearing that, and he doesn't,

• 35:44Speaker 02

  No, he's wearing like a flick sheet, and he looks,

• 35:45Adam Friedland?

  He's happy.

• 35:46Speaker 02

  Dude, I think people like that are sick, though. I wish.

• 35:49Adam Friedland?

  He gets in his fucking 57 Chevy, and he puts on Sugar Ray or Smash Mouth, and he just feels good.

• 35:55Speaker 02

  I love that.

• 35:56Adam Friedland?

  I kind of, I think there's a,

• 35:57Speaker 02

  I'm envious of him.

• 35:57Adam Friedland?

  There's kind of something, kind of special about that.

• 36:00Speaker 02

  Dude.

• 36:01Adam Friedland?

  And why, the fact that he obsesses people so much, it's like, why don't you make a fucking,

• 36:04Speaker 02

  Dude, he smokes cigars inside of like sports arenas.

• 36:06Adam Friedland?

  Why don't you make a fucking diner's dive-ins and drives yourself, you fucking losers?

• 36:09Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 36:10Adam Friedland?

  This guy's doing,

• 36:12Speaker 02

  Exactly. Why don't you get in your goddamn fucking 57 Chevy?

• 36:15Adam Friedland?

  His name is literally Guy.

• 36:16Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 36:17Adam Friedland?

  His, his wife is named Chick.

• 36:22Adam Friedland?

  Let's go back to it.

• 36:23Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 36:24Adam Friedland?

  Let's talk about, let's talk about the smash burger, right?

• 36:27Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 36:27Adam Friedland?

  Would you say that you put, you put everyone back on game?

• 36:31Speaker 02

  No, I think there's a thing that like, everyone's either trying to make In-N-Out or Shake Shack, or like, you know, and then In-N-Out is the same as like Apple Pan, and Pie Burger, and like, all these things, and like, California has such a distinct burger, and then like, I guess the East Coast doesn't really have, it does, but it, I don't fucking know. But it is like a thing where I'm like, I made like Maddie's Patties, and I made this thing, and I was just like, it's neither of them. And then when I, but when I opened my restaurant like five years ago, I was just like, yo, smash burgers are this thing that are so fucking hype right now, and it's like, whatever, even like five years ago, and I was just like, I put on a fat burger, so I put, I call it the Maddie, and it's just like a fatter, juicy,

• 37:11Adam Friedland?

  A restaurant sauce.

• 37:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, like, if you go to like, like a Luger burger, and now all of a sudden, the Luger burger's the biggest thing in the entire world.

• 37:17Adam Friedland?

  Well, the Red Hook Tavern one is, but, yeah, I love that one, yeah, yeah.

• 37:22Speaker 02

  Derny's a killer.

• 37:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, the Luger, you know what's nice about those Luger guys?

• 37:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:26Adam Friedland?

  They're all old, and they all make like, like 200 bands a year, because it's a legacy position.

• 37:31Speaker 02

  Dude, cash.

• 37:31Adam Friedland?

  And they're not nice to you.

• 37:33Speaker 02

  They're nice to me.

• 37:34Adam Friedland?

  They just, well, because you're fucking one of the most famous people, you know, in the,

• 37:38Speaker 02

  It's nice for me.

• 37:39Adam Friedland?

  You know, whatever.

• 37:40Speaker 02

  I, I walk in there anytime.

• 37:41Adam Friedland?

  That's what happens to me.

• 37:42Speaker 02

  Trent the Luger's.

• 37:43Adam Friedland?

  I walk into places,

• 37:44Speaker 02

  Fire.

• 37:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 37:46Speaker 02

  I like my steak cooked six different ways at once.

• 37:49Adam Friedland?

  It honestly, it's, it's kind of, it's kind of not as good as, as I thought it was.

• 37:55Speaker 02

  It's the best.

• 37:56Adam Friedland?

  It's not as good.

• 37:57Speaker 02

  Every time, I think the best bite in the, maybe in the entire world, is taking their grilled bacon, a piece of shrimp, a piece of onion, a piece of their like, unripe tomato, in their fucking Luger sauce, like, put it all on a fork, cut it all into like perfect little pieces, and I take that like a little canapé, and I eat that, and that's like one of my favorite things in the entire world.

• 38:15Adam Friedland?

  But the first time you go there, you get a cheeseburger, and then you get it with, You get it with bacon, and then they give you bacon on a plate, and look you in the eyes, and say, "That's right, bitch, it's not on the burger, it's this fat, and it's on a plate, figure it out." And it's like, it's their little joke.

• 38:31Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 38:31Adam Friedland?

  They go back, and they're like dappling each other, they're like, "Got another one, got another loser."

• 38:36Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 38:37Adam Friedland?

  I give him a plate of a, whatever the fuck this fat of a bacon is.

• 38:40Speaker 02

  But you cut it, yeah. I never get, I don't put bacon on the burger, I've never done that, I think that's a stupid move, bacon on burgers is stupid.

• 38:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:47Speaker 02

  Yeah. Just have a burger.

• 38:49Adam Friedland?

  I'm over lettuce on burgers and tomatoes on burgers.

• 38:51Speaker 02

  Yeah. I'm back and forth.

• 38:52Adam Friedland?

  Mustard, onion, and mayo.

• 38:54Speaker 02

  Maddie's Patties, you cannot get lettuce and tomato in the thing.

• 38:57Adam Friedland?

  It's just, and, and, just thank you, he's, he's the only man of the people, okay? Unlike Jeremy Allen White, this fucking cheapskate.

• 39:07Speaker 02

  He's not cheap, he just, he is,

• 39:09Adam Friedland?

  And women are so, and women, women are, cannot get enough of this, he's got all these,

• 39:14Speaker 02

  Muscles, he's muscly.

• 39:15Adam Friedland?

  Veins, he just has too many muscle veins. And I was at a party once, and Austin Butler was there, and all the girls we were with were like, me and my friend were like, "Wow." And all the girls we were with were like, "No, he's disgusting," and we're like, "What are you seeing?"

• 39:29Speaker 02

  He's gorgeous.

• 39:29Adam Friedland?

  And they like Jeremy Allen White, who wouldn't even, who wouldn't even pay for your portion of the meal?

• 39:36Speaker 02

  He would, with his friends, he likes to split.

• 39:40Adam Friedland?

  With his friends, he likes to split, that's all I'm saying. More like the twink to me.

• 39:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 39:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 39:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 39:46Adam Friedland?

  More like the fucking veins, it's the, it's very penis-like.

• 39:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 39:50Adam Friedland?

  I'm sorry, that's your board.

• 39:51Speaker 02

  He's like a giant strong penis.

• 39:52Adam Friedland?

  Can we call him right now, just, can I just give him a piece of?

• 39:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, we can call him.

• 39:56Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 39:57Speaker 02

  He won't pick up. Watch. You want to FaceTime him?

• 40:00Adam Friedland?

  If he does, yeah, let me, okay. I'll, I'll be nice to him.

• 40:03Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 40:04Adam Friedland?

  Girls, girls love him, they're all busting when he did that underwear thing.

• 40:08Speaker 02

  If he answers, I'll be, he's the worst at phones.

• 40:11Adam Friedland?

  I'm just gonna tell him to start doing, I know exactly what I'm saying. Was he, is he probably having sex with every girl in the entire world?

• 40:17Speaker 02

  That's not true, actually.

• 40:19Adam Friedland?

  He's never had sex?

• 40:20Speaker 02

  He's, no, he's like a verge.

• 40:21Adam Friedland?

  One Adam, zero that, that guy.

• 40:25Speaker 02

  What do you want to say to him, though?

• 40:26Adam Friedland?

  I'll say, just like, uh, he seems like a nice guy, I don't, I know I O from comedy.

• 40:38Adam Friedland?

  Good. I don't know, congrats on every girl wanting to fucking bust, busting, sliding out of their chair whenever you walk into a room. Can you imagine what it's like?

• 40:45Speaker 02

  He's not gonna answer.

• 40:46Adam Friedland?

  They slide out of the chair. He walks down, he's in an airport, every woman's full, there's a puddle of just...

• 40:55Adam Friedland?

  Alright, let's get back to the smash burger. But from what I understand, it originates in Oklahoma, if I'm not mistaken.

• 41:01Speaker 02

  The Oklahoma burger? Yeah, that's one of them, like the onions.

• 41:03Adam Friedland?

  Is the purpose of a smash burger to use a lower quality of meat and then it's just crispy? You don't have to like...

• 41:08Speaker 02

  The Millard effect and the lace and all that kinda stuff?

• 41:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:11Adam Friedland?

  What's Millard?

• 41:12Speaker 02

  Millard's like the effect of the caramelization of the beef on contact and not moving it, and then you use like the paint scraper to like sear it off and there's the lace around the shit and all that shit.

• 41:22Adam Friedland?

  Wow.

• 41:23Speaker 02

  But it's like, I think it's this like, it went so hard and then it's just like, still people are just making like either Shake Shack or In-N-Out and it's just like, everyone's still making like special sauce and it's just Thousand Island sauce and it's just like, I find it very tiring and just whatever, but also like get your bag and do your shit and like whatever.

• 41:41Adam Friedland?

  You think it's gonna go the way of the charred Brussels sprout?

• 41:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think everything is a charred Brussels sprout.

• 41:46Adam Friedland?

  What's up next?

• 41:47Speaker 02

  What's up next?

• 41:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:48Speaker 02

  It quickly turned into everyone's just like, we only eat like Luger burgers, you know, and then, and then it'll turn into...

• 41:54Adam Friedland?

  I was gonna say shrimp cocktail revival, that's what I was gonna say.

• 41:57Speaker 02

  Shrimp cocktail, yeah, but that's been...

• 41:59Adam Friedland?

  It's back?

• 42:00Speaker 02

  Been back. Every restaurant is a steakhouse. Every restaurant serves prime rib now. Every restaurant serves like, you know, everything is homogenized. Like every restaurant has tartar and like fucking, you know, fucking something, dumplings or something.

• 42:13Adam Friedland?

  But that's good, right? Those are regular foods.

• 42:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, everybody wants to eat the same thing. Everybody wants to go to every restaurant and eat the same thing, I guess. It's great.

• 42:19Adam Friedland?

  Another bullshit, fusion.

• 42:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 42:21Adam Friedland?

  Who cares?

• 42:22Speaker 02

  No, fusion's great. Mix it up.

• 42:25Adam Friedland?

  I want a Caesar salad, I wanna...

• 42:27Speaker 02

  Peruvian Szechuan, no?

• 42:29Adam Friedland?

  Is that a thing?

• 42:30Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 42:31Adam Friedland?

  It's too annoying. They're trying to like, they're doing too much with it.

• 42:35Speaker 02

  But they came from somewhere. Maybe it's a person that has that in their family and their life and their love and they're putting their heart and soul into the food and you want to get like, it's disgusting. What is this?

• 42:45Adam Friedland?

  And that's why if you...

• 42:46Speaker 02

  I think white dudes do infusions.

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• 44:16Speaker 02

  Whack?

• 44:17Adam Friedland?

  What's the best sauce?

• 44:19Speaker 02

  Uh...

• 44:21Speaker 02

  Bordelaise.

• 44:22Adam Friedland?

  Bordelaise? What is that?

• 44:24Speaker 02

  Like, just like demi.

• 44:26Adam Friedland?

  What, what, what color is it?

• 44:28Speaker 02

  What?

• 44:29Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 44:29Speaker 02

  It's like brown.

• 44:30Adam Friedland?

  I know Bernaise.

• 44:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, Bernaise is like the mayonnaise with tarragon, hollandaise with tarragon. Bernaise is just...

• 44:35Adam Friedland?

  Hollandaise is nasty, yeah.

• 44:37Speaker 02

  It's the exact, you just said you like it, but it's just fucking hollandaise with tarragon.

• 44:41Adam Friedland?

  Hollandaise is brown, I thought, and... No, Bernaise is brown and hollandaise is white, I thought.

• 44:47Speaker 02

  No, it's the exact same color, just one should have tarragon and one doesn't.

• 44:50Adam Friedland?

  Uh-huh. If you could eat one the rest of your life?

• 44:55Adam Friedland?

  For breakfast, lunch, and dinner?

• 44:56Speaker 02

  Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, just egg mayonnaise.

• 44:58Adam Friedland?

  You've probably been asked this death row meal.

• 45:02Adam Friedland?

  Have you been asked that?

• 45:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 45:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, obviously.

• 45:04Speaker 02

  Yeah. Yeah, I did this pod about death row meal and I did it. Everyone said I was like sad and angry and I was just like...

• 45:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, because it would suck, you're about to die.

• 45:12Speaker 02

  They're asking me about like near-death experiences. I was like, what are you talking about? The fucking, uh, my last meal ever would probably just be like, like a chilled fresh lobster, some caviar, french fries, like filet with like au poivre sauce, fucking, uh... Yeah, that's fine.

• 45:32Adam Friedland?

  Who's like...

• 45:32Speaker 02

  Or just like, or honestly, just like, like the best chicken wings ever and just shoot me, you know?

• 45:38Adam Friedland?

  I'd be, I would be so stressed out about being executed but for a crime that I didn't commit.

• 45:42Speaker 02

  What if you had to eat your last meal, but during your last meal, you didn't know when it was gonna happen?

• 45:47Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god, like ISIS mock execution?

• 45:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 45:50Adam Friedland?

  It's not, I don't want any part of that.

• 45:53Speaker 02

  They set you up, you have dinner, and your last meal, and then like you take one bite, but because you take just even that one bite, you fuck it, you, you have that happiness in you and you're able to go and then...

• 46:05Adam Friedland?

  Well, I don't know, I would...

• 46:06Speaker 02

  Or, or they do like, but you have no talk, you don't have one...

• 46:08Adam Friedland?

  I would hope that my friends at the Nation of Islam, which I'm a thriving member of, maybe the leader of, would bust me out.

• 46:16Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 46:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 46:19Speaker 02

  Fine.

• 46:20Adam Friedland?

  Do they let white guys in Nation of Islam in prison? That's my number two fear.

• 46:24Speaker 02

  No. I don't think so.

• 46:29Speaker 02

  I don't know. I don't know the inner politics of prison.

• 46:33Adam Friedland?

  Well, I think you got the, uh, the Nazis and then the Nation of Islam and then you have the, I don't know, like the Latin...

• 46:43Speaker 02

  Everyone says...

• 46:44Adam Friedland?

  Latin Kings.

• 46:45Speaker 02

  What?

• 46:45Adam Friedland?

  The Latin Kings.

• 46:47Speaker 02

  That's it? Latin Kings?

• 46:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, so if you're like an Asian guy or like an Indian guy, you're screwed.

• 46:53Speaker 02

  You got Nazis and the AB boys, and then you got, you got, you got your guys.

• 46:58Adam Friedland?

  The Nation of Islam.

• 46:59Speaker 02

  Nation of Islam.

• 47:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, we're, and we're a bowtie style. We're kind of Farrakhan style.

• 47:03Speaker 02

  Oh, nice. That's nice.

• 47:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. We dress for the job we want.

• 47:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 47:07Adam Friedland?

  Uh, rank these ingredients: banana peel, edamame shell, oyster shell, shrimp tail, walnut shell, apple seed, apple stem, broccoli stalk, and peanut, peanut paper. I know the answer, it's an easy answer.

• 47:20Adam Friedland?

  It's an easy answer, Caleb.

• 47:21Speaker 02

  Let's go back to like prison gangs.

• 47:23Adam Friedland?

  Broccoli stalk. It's, that's a food. The stalk of the broccoli is a food. You can make, that's...

• 47:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, you can make lots of stuff out of that.

• 47:29Adam Friedland?

  The apple stem, you're not gonna have a salad of.

• 47:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't care.

• 47:32Adam Friedland?

  Sorry, continue.

• 47:33Speaker 02

  No.

• 47:34Adam Friedland?

  I know the shaved ones. Yeah.

• 47:36Speaker 02

  Go ahead.

• 47:37Adam Friedland?

  Knock yourself out, brother. I feel like you're my fucking, fucking shooter. You're my boy. A million dollars or dinner with delicious food?

• 47:47Adam Friedland?

  This, what I'm saying, this is a list of questions that I'm...

• 47:50Speaker 02

  What?

• 47:52Adam Friedland?

  This list of questions under the category stupid. I am blind reading right now. I have not read, and Caleb and Patrick...

• 47:58Speaker 02

  You didn't prepare for me?

• 47:59Adam Friedland?

  My two friends, no, no, I, I wanted to try this as an experiment. My two friends made a list and it's long. You wanna do the whole thing? They have an excellent podcast called Pod About List. Clap it up.

• 48:16Adam Friedland?

  Alright, so let's go through their questions. If you had a time machine, what piece of food would you have back in time to eat? Good question.

• 48:25Speaker 02

  I said the other day I'd love to have like the original McDonald's. Like what, what did that actually taste like?

• 48:29Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, what did it taste like?

• 48:30Speaker 02

  Like what's that milkshake taste like? You know, what's that burger taste like?

• 48:33Adam Friedland?

  Probably tastes like a new pan, you know?

• 48:36Speaker 02

  Like eating a new metal? Like just chewing on...

• 48:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, because everything was brand new, so it was like, yeah, you know, like a...

• 48:40Speaker 02

  Not necessarily.

• 48:41Adam Friedland?

  You know how you have to like wash sheets?

• 48:42Speaker 02

  No, like the first one, it was probably wasn't new at the...

• 48:43Adam Friedland?

  Tastes like a factory, I say.

• 48:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, okay. Tastes like gasoline.

• 48:47Adam Friedland?

  Tastes like a spatula factory.

• 48:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, it tastes, yeah. Just fresh melted rubber.

• 48:52Adam Friedland?

  Okay, um, point out your least favorite, biggest tattoo regret, and then I point out my least favorite. Okay, so what's your biggest tattoo regret?

• 49:01Speaker 02

  I don't know. I don't really have...

• 49:03Adam Friedland?

  You like being tatted, tatted up?

• 49:05Speaker 02

  It's fine.

• 49:05Adam Friedland?

  It's fun. It's just a thing.

• 49:07Speaker 02

  It may, like now that...

• 49:08Adam Friedland?

  You kinda went with it.

• 49:08Speaker 02

  Now, yeah, like I was very covered very early, so I was just like, by the time I was 25, I was like heavily covered and like my head was done and everything was done.

• 49:17Adam Friedland?

  And that guy was an idiot.

• 49:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 49:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, that guy was a real dumbass.

• 49:20Speaker 02

  But now it's like, now that, you know, big actor guy, I'm like, first question's always like, do, am I gonna have to do makeup? Because like, I'm like, oh, that role, am I gonna have to spend five hours in a makeup chair before I even act? And usually if I have to like do makeup stuff, I'm like, I'm good.

• 49:33Adam Friedland?

  You don't have a sex scene? Do I have a sex scene? You asking about makeup before a sex scene?

• 49:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't, yeah.

• 49:40Adam Friedland?

  You didn't say, does it have a sex scene?

• 49:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, every time I got a role for a thing, do I have a sex scene?

• 49:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, does it have a sex scene? Unsimulated.

• 49:46Speaker 02

  With Rachel McAdams.

• 49:47Adam Friedland?

  Unsimulated.

• 49:47Speaker 02

  Is it Natalie Portman there?

• 49:49Adam Friedland?

  Unsimulated on the pit.

• 49:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, is it, is it like, what, nymphomaniac? I wanna have real sex with my coworkers.

• 49:55Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. Would you rather have effortless style or iconic style? I wrote that one with you.

• 50:01Speaker 02

  Effortless.

• 50:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, because when you said you had effortless style, kinda like Shia LaBeouf vintage t-shirt.

• 50:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, just wear my clothes, yeah.

• 50:08Adam Friedland?

  What's the gateway food? Like what gets, what could get someone into like...

• 50:12Speaker 02

  Cereal.

• 50:13Adam Friedland?

  It's the best food. It is the best food.

• 50:15Speaker 02

  Captain Crunch.

• 50:16Adam Friedland?

  And is it gendered? Because my girlfriends don't understand how great it is.

• 50:21Speaker 02

  Maybe it's a, is she like young?

• 50:24Adam Friedland?

  Oh, she yeah.

• 50:28Adam Friedland?

  If you could drink and do drugs for one day with no repercussions, what would you do and drink?

• 50:35Adam Friedland?

  He's in recovery. That's a mean question.

• 50:37Speaker 02

  Probably like, you know, a couple of eight balls.

• 50:41Adam Friedland?

  Don't answer the question because then you're gonna be picturing it and then...

• 50:44Speaker 02

  No, it's fine.

• 50:45Adam Friedland?

  No, it's...

• 50:46Speaker 02

  I'd get like a big bottle of Jameson, a big bottle of vodka.

• 50:49Adam Friedland?

  Proud of you.

• 50:50Speaker 02

  Like thirty beers.

• 50:52Adam Friedland?

  You could crack all that? You could finish all it to the dome?

• 50:55Speaker 02

  I could go pretty good.

• 50:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 50:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 50:57Adam Friedland?

  Because you're Canadian.

• 50:57Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 50:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 50:58Speaker 02

  Well, it was twenty-four hours, so like you'd go twenty-four hours.

• 51:01Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah.

• 51:01Speaker 02

  Maybe a couple of E's in there.

• 51:03Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 51:03Speaker 02

  Throw a couple of ecstasy's in there, a couple ketamines, a big bag of coke.

• 51:07Adam Friedland?

  Horrible, the ketamine. Oh, it makes you feel like a... Horrible.

• 51:11Speaker 02

  Not if you do it at all, and then you just die.

• 51:13Adam Friedland?

  Not if you're a horse and you're trying to be tranquilized, that's for sure. Wait, what's the Mount Rushmore of Canadians? Who do you think are the four most important Canadians?

• 51:22Speaker 02

  John Candy.

• 51:23Adam Friedland?

  Great answer, okay.

• 51:24Speaker 02

  John Candy, Martin Short.

• 51:25Adam Friedland?

  Great answer! Wow!

• 51:27Speaker 02

  Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara.

• 51:29Adam Friedland?

  Jiminy Glick, what about...?

• 51:30Speaker 02

  Jiminy Glick's all time. Have you had Jiminy on? You need Marty?

• 51:34Adam Friedland?

  Do you know?

• 51:35Speaker 02

  I got people that know.

• 51:36Adam Friedland?

  He knows so many people. Can we book people right now while he's on the show?

• 51:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, call Marty.

• 51:40Adam Friedland?

  You know Martin Short?

• 51:41Speaker 02

  Have you had Benny Blanco on?

• 51:43Adam Friedland?

  No?

• 51:44Speaker 02

  No.

• 51:44Adam Friedland?

  Why?

• 51:45Speaker 02

  You should. He's here right now.

• 51:46Adam Friedland?

  The record producer?

• 51:47Speaker 02

  Yeah. I bet he would love to come on here, actually.

• 51:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, write some new questions. You have ten minutes. Yeah, tell him to pull up, dude. We're hanging all day.

• 51:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 51:57Adam Friedland?

  How important was the movie Waiting for...

• 51:59Speaker 02

  That's a good movie. Waiting is the best restaurant movie in history.

• 52:02Adam Friedland?

  Dude, in college, I saw it three hundred times. Yeah. I would rather watch Waiting than that fucking Favreau crap any day of the week. "Oh, you made a sandwich for a girl. Great." Okay, you're a dad.

• 52:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:14Adam Friedland?

  How would you cook your kids?

• 52:17Speaker 02

  How would I cook my kids?

• 52:19Adam Friedland?

  Caleb!

• 52:21Speaker 02

  Like piglets, like a...

• 52:23Adam Friedland?

  Caleb, that's a horrible question.

• 52:25Speaker 02

  La Chong.

• 52:26Adam Friedland?

  You gotta learn drugs when you do, and I was saying, "How would you eat your...?" Oh, don't it?

• 52:30Speaker 02

  Well, Ozzy's the youngest, so like a Peking duck, dry her out, blow her skin out, just fucking hot oil.

• 52:36Adam Friedland?

  And she's hanging in the window.

• 52:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, just hanging in the window.

• 52:37Adam Friedland?

  Hanging in the window, yeah, yeah. Any tips for dads out there who want to get into hardcore and like...

• 52:44Speaker 02

  Like later on in age? Yeah, for sure. Like just, you know, just really get into it, really strap in, maybe start like a vlog or something about it. I want to hear your opinions.

• 52:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 52:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think just get into it. Just go to a local hardcore show.

• 52:57Adam Friedland?

  Any? But they're all young and scary and they're trying to hurt you.

• 52:59Speaker 02

  Exactly, just jump in. It's so good. We need more old people.

• 53:01Adam Friedland?

  There's no CD they can listen to or...

• 53:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, like My Chemical Romance.

• 53:06Adam Friedland?

  Everyone knows that. That's not hardcore. Was it hard to be around Mr. Potato Head because he's an ingredient?

• 53:12Speaker 02

  He sat in front of me at the premiere.

• 53:14Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 53:14Speaker 02

  I didn't get his name, though, but I was just like, "Mr. Potato Head, what's up?"

• 53:18Adam Friedland?

  Tell us about your character in the Toy Story.

• 53:21Speaker 02

  Dr. Nutcase?

• 53:25Adam Friedland?

  I call him Dr. Fauci personally.

• 53:27Speaker 02

  The plandemic.

• 53:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 53:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, the grand orchestrator.

• 53:30Adam Friedland?

  So who's Dr...? Are you an enemy of Buzz, maybe?

• 53:33Speaker 02

  No, no. I'm blowing my whistle on big tech tablets, taking kids' imaginations away.

• 53:40Adam Friedland?

  Oh, so you're a good guy?

• 53:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:42Adam Friedland?

  You want kids to just use their imaginations?

• 53:43Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:44Adam Friedland?

  Do you let your kids on this thing?

• 53:46Speaker 02

  A little bit. Not, uh...

• 53:47Adam Friedland?

  Oh, it's scary.

• 53:48Speaker 02

  Not in the cars. They only have thirty minutes a week on YouTube.

• 53:52Adam Friedland?

  At the restaurants?

• 53:54Speaker 02

  No, no iPads in public.

• 53:55Adam Friedland?

  I want to smack it out of their hands.

• 53:57Speaker 02

  It's crazy.

• 53:58Adam Friedland?

  Control your kids.

• 53:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's on the parents. That's not on the kids. That's on the parents.

• 54:02Adam Friedland?

  They're watching a fucking hardcore gangbang.

• 54:05Speaker 02

  They're watching, yeah, they're on Pornhub just deep.

• 54:08Adam Friedland?

  It's so scary.

• 54:08Speaker 02

  They're signed in.

• 54:09Adam Friedland?

  You could be nine and just switch from Bluey and then you see that, you're like...

• 54:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, what's going on?

• 54:14Adam Friedland?

  I... We used to have to go to the woods to find porn.

• 54:16Speaker 02

  Exactly. An old tree fort?

• 54:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 54:19Speaker 02

  Yeah. You always found an old porn bag in the woods.

• 54:21Adam Friedland?

  Your friend's older cousin left it there, and it was like fully cummed all over and wet from the woods.

• 54:26Speaker 02

  Exactly.

• 54:27Adam Friedland?

  You're a dad.

• 54:28Speaker 02

  But you grew up in Las Vegas. How do you have that?

• 54:29Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 54:30Speaker 02

  What?

• 54:31Adam Friedland?

  Well, we do have a pine forest in Mount Charleston, but yeah, we used to go into the desert to these woods.

• 54:36Speaker 02

  Do you ever swim in Lake Mead?

• 54:37Adam Friedland?

  Yes, I have, of course.

• 54:38Speaker 02

  I have.

• 54:38Adam Friedland?

  You know it's going down?

• 54:40Speaker 02

  It's down.

• 54:40Adam Friedland?

  It's a really...

• 54:41Speaker 02

  AI.

• 54:42Adam Friedland?

  Are they gonna fill it back up with AI?

• 54:44Speaker 02

  I think that was the first body of water that's been going down from AI. AI's been around for a while.

• 54:47Adam Friedland?

  They're filling up AI with Lake Mead?

• 54:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 54:50Adam Friedland?

  I thought it was global warming.

• 54:50Speaker 02

  No.

• 54:51Adam Friedland?

  Guys, we're just talking Vegas. We'll be right back. You know who's from Vegas? Guy Fieri. We should... How do you know Lake Mead?

• 54:58Speaker 02

  My parents lived in Vegas for a little bit.

• 54:59Adam Friedland?

  Where?

• 55:01Speaker 02

  Like Red Rock. Outside, like Red Rock.

• 55:03Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah, that's where, that's my zone. We used to go in the desert and blaze, yeah, yeah.

• 55:09Speaker 02

  Like blow up like propane container?

• 55:10Adam Friedland?

  We'd go look at the whole valley, and then one night, my friend...

• 55:13Speaker 02

  Did you ride dirt bikes growing up? No, you didn't ride dirt bikes?

• 55:15Adam Friedland?

  Come on, that's ridiculous. You'd die immediately.

• 55:18Speaker 02

  You like metal militia?

• 55:19Adam Friedland?

  I don't, I have no interest in that. I don't know what it is, and I have no interest. What is that? Like Twisted Metal, the video game?

• 55:24Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 55:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I played, yeah, The Clown.

• 55:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 55:28Adam Friedland?

  Twitch? You know Twitch? Like Hassan Piker?

• 55:31Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 55:36Adam Friedland?

  Wait, we, one time when we were in the desert, we were all smoking weed, we're having like, we're high school boys talking about life and stuff. My friend Greg's like, "Did you ever think about who would be the best at sucking dick?" And we're like, "No, like who?" Like a porn star? And he goes, "No, like us, like guys. We know exactly what we want when we're getting our dicks sucked." And we're all like, there's just a silence, and we're like, and someone's like, "Oh, yeah, did you get the homework for..."

• 56:09Adam Friedland?

  It was one of the funniest things ever.

• 56:11Speaker 02

  No, like us. Think about it. We know what we like, dude.

• 56:16Adam Friedland?

  We know exactly how to like just pleasure cocks like we want.

• 56:20Speaker 02

  I like it when she licks my bum.

• 56:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it was just like, there's a preg...

• 56:23Speaker 02

  That's not a blowjob.

• 56:25Adam Friedland?

  Have you had your bum, your that? Have you had your salad?

• 56:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:29Adam Friedland?

  Is there, what do you think about the food?

• 56:31Speaker 02

  Are you weird about stuff?

• 56:31Adam Friedland?

  No, I want to ask you, what do you think about that being called food?

• 56:35Speaker 02

  Pardon?

• 56:36Adam Friedland?

  It's tossing a salad.

• 56:37Speaker 02

  Salad. It seems a bit, I'm like, what is that?

• 56:39Adam Friedland?

  Licking up someone's butthole.

• 56:41Speaker 02

  Pool?

• 56:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. That is where pool comes from.

• 56:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 56:46Adam Friedland?

  I don't, it's very, my father watches the show, but what I will say to you is that it was too ticklish.

• 56:51Speaker 02

  Mr. Friedman's.

• 56:52Adam Friedland?

  It was too ticklish.

• 56:53Speaker 02

  Friedman.

• 56:53Adam Friedland?

  She said, "Why are you taking this seriously?" I'm like, "Are gay guys just tickling each other?"

• 56:59Adam Friedland?

  I was like, "I can't stop it. It's too tickly." Okay, that would, dad?

• 57:04Speaker 02

  Your dad used to do that to you.

• 57:06Adam Friedland?

  No, my dad, my dad, my dad taught me right.

• 57:09Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 57:09Adam Friedland?

  He taught me right. Why is food so popular all that, that's done? Most underrated utensil?

• 57:18Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 57:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it doesn't matter. Okay, what's better, cheese or cookies? Good question.

• 57:23Speaker 02

  I like cookies more than cheese.

• 57:24Adam Friedland?

  Cookies are, yeah. You know, like, I told my girlfriend when we started, because she's a high, she's a fancy lady, that I didn't like cheese, like a challenging stinky.

• 57:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 57:35Adam Friedland?

  And she got really mad at me when we first got together.

• 57:37Speaker 02

  Just like a Rockford, like a nice blue.

• 57:39Adam Friedland?

  I've tried.

• 57:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 57:41Adam Friedland?

  And like, no.

• 57:41Speaker 02

  Like a triple cream, like a stinky cripple cream.

• 57:43Adam Friedland?

  Because of love, I've like tried to do it, and she, I don't get any points. I'm eating this fucking nasty...

• 57:49Speaker 02

  And then you kiss right after, eat some stinky cheese and then make it up?

• 57:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 57:54Adam Friedland?

  Are you flexible?

• 57:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, very. I'm agile.

• 57:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, they said that you seem flexible in the stupid section of the...

• 58:00Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 58:01Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you are. Kind of like you have like a kinetic aspect to your...

• 58:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 58:05Adam Friedland?

  When you perform music, are you very like all, like...

• 58:08Speaker 02

  I can move around a bit.

• 58:09Adam Friedland?

  Farley-like.

• 58:09Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 58:10Adam Friedland?

  You smash coffee...

• 58:11Speaker 02

  Fall through tables, yeah.

• 58:12Adam Friedland?

  Smash coffee table.

• 58:13Speaker 02

  I just fall, I bring a coffee table out and smash it, yeah.

• 58:15Adam Friedland?

  What happened with fondue?

• 58:18Speaker 02

  You know?

• 58:19Adam Friedland?

  It was a bullshit to begin with, but what happened to it?

• 58:21Speaker 02

  Who wants to eat bread? I think it was the demise of bread. People are still eating cheese, but bread is the non-gluten pandemic, you know? The Fauci with the bread, with the gluten.

• 58:30Adam Friedland?

  Do you remember the Melting Pot? That was the place, the chain. People used to go there after prom.

• 58:35Speaker 02

  There was a fondue chain?

• 58:36Adam Friedland?

  There was a chain called The Melting Pot.

• 58:38Speaker 02

  I grew up in a small town in Canada. We did not have The Melting Pot.

• 58:40Adam Friedland?

  Oh, you had The Melting Pot. Yeah, you had The Melting, no. Would you join my religion called food is...? No, you guys are getting lazy now at this point. Who's your biggest enemy in the food world? Good question.

• 58:52Speaker 02

  Hey.

• 58:52Adam Friedland?

  Do you have ops?

• 58:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 58:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, what pisses you off? Like, you don't have to name names.

• 58:58Speaker 02

  What pisses me off is that I always have to take the high road.

• 59:01Adam Friedland?

  Why?

• 59:01Speaker 02

  Because I don't...

• 59:02Adam Friedland?

  What's the low road for that? How are they taking the road?

• 59:04Speaker 02

  Engage with anybody. It's just like, I have trolls for life.

• 59:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 59:07Speaker 02

  It's just like, but that's the thing, is like, once you get to a place and you're like...

• 59:10Adam Friedland?

  They're coming at your ass, you think?

• 59:12Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, I got, yeah. They'll love it.

• 59:14Adam Friedland?

  Oh, it's not something that's like a contemporary of yours, and you're like, "That guy stinks. Like, he doesn't deserve the..."

• 59:19Speaker 02

  I don't care about that. I've always been like, I don't, I've never worried about anybody. Like, I don't have that.

• 59:25Adam Friedland?

  You're just working on your shit.

• 59:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, like I really don't give a fuck about anybody, except for me and my team.

• 59:30Adam Friedland?

  Jeremy Allen, Jeremy Allen.

• 59:31Speaker 02

  Jeremy Allen Weiss, I love him.

• 59:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I don't know. I've never, I haven't heard many good things so far in all the girls.

• 59:39Speaker 02

  He's the sweetest guy ever. You've only heard good things.

• 59:41Adam Friedland?

  How tall is he? He's like four one.

• 59:42Speaker 02

  He's like five eight. He's taller than me.

• 59:45Adam Friedland?

  He's disgusting.

• 59:46Speaker 02

  He's taller than you, you fucking weirdo.

• 59:47Adam Friedland?

  Why do they, they look at Elvis, they look at Austin Butler, they're like, "Gross." And I'm like, "What are you doing?"

• 59:53Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 59:53Adam Friedland?

  You're like this guy who won't even pay for your... He makes the woman pay, and he only dates poor women with no money.

• 1:00:02Speaker 02

  To embarrass them.

• 1:00:03Adam Friedland?

  Who is the cause of food? That's a good question.

• 1:00:06Speaker 02

  Jesus Christ.

• 1:00:07Adam Friedland?

  KAWS.

• 1:00:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:09Adam Friedland?

  Who is the cause of food?

• 1:00:10Speaker 02

  Oh, who's the cause?

• 1:00:12Adam Friedland?

  Cause. KAWS.

• 1:00:14Speaker 02

  Cause of food?

• 1:00:16Adam Friedland?

  If you think of food as art, who is the cause? The guy with the X's over the cartoons, that is badass.

• 1:00:23Speaker 02

  Like Jordan, I like Vesper teen. Like all that shit in L.A.

• 1:00:26Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:27Speaker 02

  Like, I've never had food that looks the way that his food looks and is absolutely delicious.

• 1:00:31Adam Friedland?

  Is it cartoony?

• 1:00:32Speaker 02

  No, not at all. It's very serious, but it looks like sci-fi. He's made stuff that like looks insane, and you go there and you eat, and it's like, you're in a fortress, it's an insane thing, there's fucking all this shit, and it's just, but it works because it's beautiful, his food is delicious. Like, you're eating this shit, and you're like, "What the fuck is this? This is incredible." So you're like, "You did it." Everything else is like poser shit, where you're like, "Oh, this looks like this." And they have to explain it, and then you eat it, and you're like, "What?" And as soon as you say, it's like explaining a joke, if you have to explain it. But there's different levels of like comedy, you know?

• 1:01:03Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:03Speaker 02

  Smart comedy.

• 1:01:06Adam Friedland?

  I don't know. I'll get into it. I mainly watch Comic View.

• 1:01:10Speaker 02

  Who's your favorite comic?

• 1:01:11Adam Friedland?

  Ever?

• 1:01:11Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:01:14Adam Friedland?

  Nick Mullin, Sabre's Hakius.

• 1:01:22Adam Friedland?

  I got two, it's a tie. Who's the Banksy of food?

• 1:01:29Speaker 02

  This is good, I like it.

• 1:01:31Adam Friedland?

  That's a good question, right?

• 1:01:32Speaker 02

  It is, maybe the best one I've ever been asked.

• 1:01:34Adam Friedland?

  Who's the Banksy of food? Because if you think about it, right? Like, there was a time where-

• 1:01:38Speaker 02

  I think Guy.

• 1:01:39Adam Friedland?

  Andy Warhol was world famous, right?

• 1:01:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:01:41Adam Friedland?

  Like, if you had to ask yourself, who's the most famous artist in the world?

• 1:01:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:01:44Adam Friedland?

  Probably Banksy.

• 1:01:46Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:01:47Adam Friedland?

  If you go to, like, Berlin in a mall-

• 1:01:48Speaker 02

  Like, who was, like, wheat pasted and just sell- Or who was, like-

• 1:01:51Adam Friedland?

  I can't think of a-

• 1:01:52Speaker 02

  Wasn't Banksy just wheat pasting?

• 1:01:53Adam Friedland?

  No, don't, come on, don't, he's gonna come for you if you start talking to crap.

• 1:01:56Speaker 02

  He's gonna hack me? Or what happens?

• 1:01:58Adam Friedland?

  You don't know what he's gonna, he's gonna-

• 1:01:59Speaker 02

  Did he sell that thing and it just, like, shredded?

• 1:02:01Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:02Speaker 02

  Yeah, that shit? Like, who's doing that shit?

• 1:02:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, a lot of people say-

• 1:02:06Speaker 02

  Grant, I feel like Grant at Linea? Maybe that's the Banksy?

• 1:02:09Adam Friedland?

  Is there, like, uh, like, like the band Gorillaz? Is there a guy that's anonymous?

• 1:02:18Speaker 02

  Who's the MF Doom?

• 1:02:20Adam Friedland?

  Is there a chef that wears a mask?

• 1:02:25Adam Friedland?

  I feel like you're, you're very open about informing me. We're very low, we're stupid guys.

• 1:02:29Speaker 02

  Dude, this is where I like to be. This is where I like to be.

• 1:02:32Adam Friedland?

  You didn't help me figure out who the most famous female-

• 1:02:37Speaker 02

  There's so many.

• 1:02:38Adam Friedland?

  Alright, let's, but let's go back to, uh, to like, uh, like, like, like, what? I guess, like, um, I guess, like, your grandfather had a restaurant, right?

• 1:02:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:02:51Adam Friedland?

  And like, uh, was, is that, like, I guess, like, the nice thing about, I don't really care about the food a lot of the times, right? I just like to hang out with my friends at a place, yeah? And have some drinks?

• 1:03:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:03:03Adam Friedland?

  Right? And like, the food is great. If it's tasty and delicious, it's great. But if I'm, like, having a really funny conversation and it tastes like crap-

• 1:03:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:03:10Adam Friedland?

  It's, it, sometimes when it tastes like real crap-

• 1:03:12Speaker 02

  It's amazing.

• 1:03:13Adam Friedland?

  It makes it funnier, right? We like, we bite it and you're like, what the fuck is this?

• 1:03:17Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:03:17Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 1:03:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:03:18Adam Friedland?

  Um, so I, so I guess it's just like, um, yeah, it's like, do you think that, like, uh, like, I guess, do you think that has been corrupted in some way by people thinking that, like, um, uh, you know? It's not, it's less about, it's, it should be about hanging out, no? I don't really have a question. I feel like I'm giving a great speech, though.

• 1:03:39Speaker 02

  I agree with what you're saying.

• 1:03:40Adam Friedland?

  You know what I'm saying?

• 1:03:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, we should hang out. We should just be there and it's like, no matter what, you're gonna have a good experience if you're with good people.

• 1:03:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:48Speaker 02

  That's all you're saying.

• 1:03:49Adam Friedland?

  I was in Paris once and I threw a tantrum at my girlfriend.

• 1:03:53Speaker 02

  You threw a tantrum?

• 1:03:54Adam Friedland?

  I threw a tantrum, I was like, you never let me choose shit. You choose everything.

• 1:03:57Speaker 02

  She controls you.

• 1:03:58Adam Friedland?

  Well, no, she, because she has good taste, alright? And I was like, she's like, fine, you go ahead and pick one restaurant.

• 1:04:04Speaker 02

  Let's see.

• 1:04:04Adam Friedland?

  And we left after the appetizer. We were dying of laughter. I was like, how did I find the worst-

• 1:04:08Speaker 02

  Where did you go?

• 1:04:10Adam Friedland?

  I didn't know this, but apparently on TripAdvisor is, you could buy, what? You're laughing at me?

• 1:04:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:04:16Adam Friedland?

  I said it was number one on TripAdvisor, that looked good.

• 1:04:18Speaker 02

  Number one.

• 1:04:19Adam Friedland?

  And I didn't realize that it's-

• 1:04:20Speaker 02

  Who goes on TripAdvisor? Who goes and votes?

• 1:04:22Adam Friedland?

  I Googled best restaurant in Paris.

• 1:04:24Speaker 02

  You literally said if you leave a review and you went to the place where people leave reviews.

• 1:04:27Adam Friedland?

  It was actively horrible. It's a place where the, the worst food is pretty alright, right?

• 1:04:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:04:34Adam Friedland?

  Paris, yeah.

• 1:04:35Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:04:36Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 1:04:36Speaker 02

  I was just in the south of France and it was crazy. The food was crazy.

• 1:04:40Adam Friedland?

  Where, Marseille? You have Bully Base?

• 1:04:43Speaker 02

  No, I, I love a Bully Base.

• 1:04:44Adam Friedland?

  You have the, the anchovy pizza thingy?

• 1:04:46Speaker 02

  No. What, Pissalot de Air?

• 1:04:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, that, that means-

• 1:04:49Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:04:49Adam Friedland?

  Just red sauce and anchovy.

• 1:04:51Speaker 02

  Pissalot de Air. Pissalot de Air.

• 1:04:53Adam Friedland?

  Of course.

• 1:04:54Speaker 02

  The, uh, no, I was in Cannes. And it was just like, yeah, the food was crazy. Dude, the Cannes.

• 1:04:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:00Speaker 02

  Couple Owls.

• 1:05:01Adam Friedland?

  Couple Owls.

• 1:05:01Speaker 02

  Dude.

• 1:05:02Adam Friedland?

  Uh, yeah, okay, so I guess, um, I guess, like, you kind of, it seems to me like your career is just like, things happen and you're like, oh, that's weird, and it's kind of sick. Because I think you're like a magnetic person. I really like you. I, I get annoyed, like, even by, uh, yeah, like, I used to, the bear, when I, the first time, it reminded me of, uh, I used to live with three service people in my first apartment.

• 1:05:26Speaker 02

  Lucky.

• 1:05:26Adam Friedland?

  They'd be like, at, it'd be like 11:30 PM every night, and they'd be like, talking like they were in Vi, like, Da Nang Province, Vietnam.

• 1:05:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:05:33Adam Friedland?

  And they were pissed and then we were in a push and da-da-da. And I was like, I was like, guys, just relax. Yeah, yeah, you know? Like, and, so it's like a little bit like, uh, uh, I think you have like the right attitude. Like, it was like an attitude that I can like, uh, kind of identify with more, we're, uh, but like, I guess it's like, um, do you have designs on what is coming up? How like deliberate or calculated is your life? Or is it just shit happens?

• 1:06:00Speaker 02

  Shit happens. Always.

• 1:06:02Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 1:06:02Speaker 02

  Yeah. I don't plan for the year, I don't have a, like, a whiteboard. I don't fucking, when people try to talk to me about stuff, I make fun of them. If, if, I, I rarely talk to my accountant because he, everything annoys me.

• 1:06:16Adam Friedland?

  I don't want to know the number.

• 1:06:17Speaker 02

  Yeah, I don't have like-

• 1:06:18Adam Friedland?

  I'm scared.

• 1:06:18Speaker 02

  A bank app on my phone, I don't have social media on my phone, I don't have anything. I just live in my life.

• 1:06:23Adam Friedland?

  You get in trouble with your wife still? Like, for forgetting to do stuff?

• 1:06:27Speaker 02

  No. Wow, yeah.

• 1:06:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, I kind of forgot Mother's Day a little bit. But then I was there and then I had, like, my assistant bring some stuff, because I was like, once again, I was just like, am I, I need to do something like actually sick? Because I, I told her that I forgot, kind of. Well, I was just like, we're here. I'm here, I'm home. I'm like, this is nice. I was like, you're, also, like, you, you, you're not my mom. My, my mom is Joni. She, she gets a phone, I'll just make her cry with how much I tell her how, how much I love her and-

• 1:06:54Adam Friedland?

  Mount Rushmore.

• 1:06:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, I just call Joni and I'm just like, what's up? Who, Joni? My mom is your mom, Mount Rushmore?

• 1:06:59Adam Friedland?

  Rob Joni and Joni, Joni Mitchell, Canada, Mount Rushmore.

• 1:07:01Speaker 02

  You love Joni? Yeah.

• 1:07:02Adam Friedland?

  I love Joni.

• 1:07:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, Joni's great.

• 1:07:04Adam Friedland?

  She's a-

• 1:07:05Speaker 02

  Just hacking darts, painting shit, fucking dude.

• 1:07:07Adam Friedland?

  Oh, man.

• 1:07:09Speaker 02

  She's great.

• 1:07:09Adam Friedland?

  Makes me cry. Neil, Joni.

• 1:07:11Speaker 02

  Yeah. Neil, Joni.

• 1:07:14Adam Friedland?

  Rob Ford?

• 1:07:14Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:07:14Adam Friedland?

  You ever meet Rob Ford?

• 1:07:16Speaker 02

  What, Rob Ford? Which, was he the one who died?

• 1:07:19Adam Friedland?

  The mayor, the mayor of Canada. The mayor of Toronto.

• 1:07:22Speaker 02

  He was the one smoking crack.

• 1:07:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:24Speaker 02

  No, I never met him.

• 1:07:25Adam Friedland?

  How do, how are you?

• 1:07:26Speaker 02

  But the one, the thing that's crazy is the one video was, uh, I forget the fucking name of the restaurant. The one video where he was smoking, or doing like the patois, like, in the restaurant.

• 1:07:35Adam Friedland?

  He's the coolest guy ever.

• 1:07:36Speaker 02

  I, I used to live in Rexdale. So when I went to Humber and call, like, when I went to, like, culinary school, I lived in Rexdale. And so like, that whole zone was lit and, and, but that restaurant, like, I've been to that restaurant before. But I forget the fucking name of it.

• 1:07:50Adam Friedland?

  I just put something together in my mind.

• 1:07:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:07:53Adam Friedland?

  Guess what I'm thinking, guys?

• 1:07:56Adam Friedland?

  He's an actor. He's from Toronto.

• 1:07:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:08:01Adam Friedland?

  Play Rob Ford biopic.

• 1:08:03Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:08:04Adam Friedland?

  I'm thinking-

• 1:08:05Speaker 02

  That's a lot of makeup, see, but the thing is, that's a lot of makeup.

• 1:08:08Adam Friedland?

  Who cares about the makeup, dude?

• 1:08:09Speaker 02

  Honestly, but I couldn't do that-

• 1:08:10Adam Friedland?

  You get to be a crack-smoking mayor that gets to do like, ear me now, ear me now.

• 1:08:13Speaker 02

  I know, no, I think it's, I think it's fantastic.

• 1:08:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:17Speaker 02

  But it's just like, you can't do that.

• 1:08:19Adam Friedland?

  I have one last-

• 1:08:19Speaker 02

  I can't do that. One last question?

• 1:08:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:22Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:08:22Adam Friedland?

  Do you have, do you know Drake or?

• 1:08:24Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:08:25Adam Friedland?

  Never?

• 1:08:26Speaker 02

  No. I know people around him, I, I know people that work with him.

• 1:08:30Adam Friedland?

  Who, like, who's the closest to Drake that you know?

• 1:08:32Speaker 02

  I know Oliver from stuff, but it's just like-

• 1:08:36Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 1:08:37Speaker 02

  What, you didn't want to meet Oliver?

• 1:08:38Adam Friedland?

  I just want-

• 1:08:39Speaker 02

  Well, you want Drake?

• 1:08:39Adam Friedland?

  I want to get him on the show because I-

• 1:08:41Speaker 02

  Dude, get him.

• 1:08:41Adam Friedland?

  I'm gonna make everything right.

• 1:08:42Speaker 02

  Okay, I'll make a couple of co- co- calls.

• 1:08:44Adam Friedland?

  And Drake's probably watching because he doesn't miss an episode of a Canadian guest on the show.

• 1:08:48Speaker 02

  Drake, come on!

• 1:08:49Adam Friedland?

  Oliver40, the whole gang, just come, maybe bring me an owl chain, maybe anoint me.

• 1:08:56Speaker 02

  You need one?

• 1:08:57Adam Friedland?

  Do you have one?

• 1:08:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:08:58Adam Friedland?

  You have an OVO chain?

• 1:08:59Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:09:00Adam Friedland?

  This has been the most fun interview ever, I think. It's our boy, right? Ladies and gentlemen, Jeremy Allen White, everyone.

• 1:09:09Adam Friedland?

  That fun?

• 1:09:10Speaker 02

  How are you?

• 1:09:12Adam Friedland?

  Quite easy.

• 1:09:14Speaker 02

  Easy?