"You're Gonna Get Me In Huge Trouble": Adam Friedland Is a League Source Now

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Podcast Summary

Podcast: Pablo Torre Finds Out
Episode: "You're Gonna Get Me In Huge Trouble": Adam Friedland Is a League Source Now
Date: February 12, 2026
Host: Pablo Torre (The Athletic)
Guest: Adam Friedland (comedian, podcaster; The Adam Friedland Show), special appearance by Max Friedland (Adam’s father)

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Episode Overview

This episode is a loose, rapid-fire, and hilarious deep dive into the intersections of internet subcultures, sports, media capitalism, and generational anxieties. Pablo and guest Adam Friedland unpack everything from sports agency powerbrokers (and Adam’s surreal meeting with Rich Paul), to the bizarre “looksmaxxing” subculture, the effects of the COVID lockdowns on Gen Z masculinity, and their own evolving family and career dynamics. The episode retains a tone that is part-satirical, part-confessional, lightly anarchic, and always self-aware, with moments that also veer into touching family territory—culminating in a charming phone call with Adam’s dad.

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Key Themes & Discussion Points

1. Adam Friedland’s Meeting with Rich Paul and Becoming a “League Source”

Timestamps: 01:43–03:09, 28:33–29:53, 32:12–32:23

• Adam humorously recounts being courted by UTA and semi-accidentally landing a meeting with Rich Paul (NBA super-agent):
  • “I think they told him I was like David Letterman or something... he's like, 'Tell me about your process, your motiv.'” (Adam, 02:31)
  • Rich Paul was interested in podcasting, and, in Adam’s words: “At a certain point, I'm like loitering in the most powerful agent probably in basketball's office.” (Adam, 03:09)
• Adam is self-deprecating about the meeting, joking about his own status in media:
  • “How important of a client am I to the United Talent Agency for them to have done that? I don't know.” (Adam, 29:53)
• A recurring thread is Adam’s tongue-in-cheek claim, “I have league sources now,” poking fun at his insider status:
  • “I have league sources now... I know things.” (Adam, 32:12)

2. The “Looksmaxxing” and Masculine Internet Subcultures

Timestamps: 04:00–08:39, 10:23–13:39

• In discussing the “looksmaxer” clavicular (an influencer recently arrested), Adam breaks down the terminology and psychology of online masculinity movements:
  • “It's a community of men... someone being sexy for guys. To mog another sexy guy...” (Adam, 04:47, 05:15)
  • “Mogging is to... I think we used to call it alpha-ing.” (Pablo, 05:15)
  • “He knows exactly what my scheme is.” (Adam, 05:33)
• The dialogue gets existential and bleak about the pandemic’s impact on young men:
  • “There isn’t a conversation culturally about the collective trauma that all of us have about lockdown... I know a lot of people who have committed suicide and overdosed.” (Adam, 10:28)
• Adam and Pablo note how the way society talks about youth has become hyper-fixated on sex, identity, and bodily autonomy, rather than genuine well-being.

3. Media Spectacle, Sensationalism, and Internet Fame

Timestamps: 13:56–16:16

• The panel parses how internet personalities perform both online and off, focusing on clavicular’s meeting with fans:
  • “You guys are kind of cringe, bro... That was like the most gay thing ever.” (Adam, 14:49)
• Pablo comments on the cyclical nature of internet “characters” and how empathy and condescension mix in responses to them.

4. Generational, Cultural, and Family Commentary

Timestamps: 16:16–21:10, 23:54–26:47

• The experience of “missing” real life for online content is lampooned:
  • “I spent six hours on a couch, a beautiful couch, with Hasan Piker streaming the Super Bowl while holding my phone because he didn’t care…” (Pablo, 16:56)
  • Discussing legacy media personalities like Tony Kornheiser and the absurd genius of Airbnb as a business.
• Adam shares how his dad finally came to agree with him on being skeptical of both major US political parties, a generational shift enabled partially by Pablo’s reporting:
  • “His favorite... you’re the favorite son, apparently.” (Adam, 25:02)
• Extended riffing on podcast names/fanbase—Scoop Troop, Sherlocks, etc.

5. Basketball, NBA Power, and the Corrosion of Sports by Capital

Timestamps: 33:03–34:09, 33:26–34:09

• Sports as an institution: discussion of the evolution of the NBA, the role of strong leadership (David Stern compared to Adam Silver), and money's impact.
• “There’s a lot of money on the table if you want it. And it’s in the Middle East, it’s crypto, it’s gambling, coins…” (Pablo, 33:38)
• Rich Paul’s offhand (and, per Adam, possibly risky) take: “College basketball sucks.” (Adam, 29:46)

6. Absurd Anecdotes: Acting Auditions and Internet-notoriety

Timestamps: 34:09–40:19

• Adam’s audition for a Sam Bankman-Fried biopic:
  • “You’re auditioning to play one of the ugliest guys of all time… I get there and see all these other actors… I’m like, my adrenaline’s pumping and I’m being super obnoxious.” (Adam, 36:17)
  • “The lead in the new Planet of the Apes… this guy could do anything. I’m screwed.” (Adam, 36:50)
• Adam’s long riff about Lena Dunham and making fun of his own past in “edgelord” podcasting:
  • “We were young men. I was 37 years old at the time. Okay. I’ve grown, I’m in my 50s now.” (Adam, 40:42)

7. Heartwarming and Humorous: The Call with Max Friedland (Adam’s Dad)

Timestamps: 46:14–53:20

• The episode’s emotional highlight is a call to Adam’s dad, Max, who alternates between pride and gentle ribbing:
  • “I enjoy your playful attitude towards it and the guessing games and the. The secret documents and the closed files and magnifying glasses that you give them. You know, you have a whole bunch of Sherlocks on your show.” (Max, 47:15)
  • “LeBron is going to... If he leaves the Lakers, and I think he'll go, and I think he's going to do something spectacular.” (Max, 49:00)
  • “Celebrity and besmirching my family name in public. I will give him that.” (Max, 51:59)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Meeting Rich Paul:

  • "I think they told him that I was like David Letterman or something... he's like, 'Tell me about your process, your motiv.'" (Adam, 02:31)
  • "At a certain point I'm like loitering in the most powerful agent probably in basketball's office." (Adam, 03:09)

• On Looksmaxxing & Gen Z:

  • "I suppose it's creating an idealized version of self-masculinity—enhancing one's jaw, facial features..." (Adam, 04:23)
  • "There isn't a conversation culturally about the collective trauma that all of us have about lockdowns... but we don't have a broader conversation about the fact that kids weren't promised a better future." (Adam, 12:30)

• On Clavicular Encountering His Fans:

  • “You guys are kind of cringe, bro. It’s... the most gay thing ever.” (Adam, 14:50)
  • “It makes him now realize, oh, this makes me feel pathetic.” (Pablo, 15:07)

• On NBA Power, Paranoia, and Reporting:

  • "If David Stern were commissioner, Pablo would be dead." (Adam, 25:04)
  • "I have league sources now... I know things." (Adam, 32:12)
  • "College basketball sucks." (Rich Paul, as quoted by Adam, 29:46)
  • "There’s a lot of money on the table if you want it. And it’s in the Middle East, it’s crypto, it’s gambling, coins..." (Pablo, 33:38)

• On Lena Dunham Audition/Jokes:

  • "We were young men. I was 37 years old at the time. Okay. I’ve grown, I’m in my 50s now." (Adam, 40:42)

• On Podcasting, Influence, and Interview Style:

  • "How can we not do yet another show where sports takes are the entire premise..." (Pablo, 30:58)

• Family Pride and Evolution:

  • "My pop is very, very proud of the show... and you." (Adam, 45:52)
  • "I enjoy your playful attitude towards it... you have a whole bunch of Sherlocks on your show.” (Max, 47:15)

• Max on LeBron’s Future:

  • “If he leaves the Lakers, and I think he’ll go, and I think he’s going to do something spectacular.” (Max, 49:00)

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Important Segments and Timestamps

• (01:43–03:09): Adam’s surreal meeting with Rich Paul.
• (04:00–13:39): Deep-dive into looksmaxxing, lockdowns, Gen Z trauma, masculinity.
• (16:16–21:10): Media, streaming, Super Bowl, and generational culture clashes.
• (23:54–26:47): Reporting on the NBA, family political shifts.
• (33:03–34:09): NBA leadership, capitalism, and crypto era.
• (36:17–40:19): Adam’s SBF audition story.
• (46:14–53:20): Phone call with Max Friedland, covering sports, pride, and LeBron rumors.

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Tone, Structure, and Takeaway

• Tone: Smart, irreverent, confessional, side-eyed comedy with pockets of genuine empathy and warmth.
• Structure: Dense with riffing, recurring in-jokes, and meta-commentary on both the current state of media and generational identity.
• Takeaway: Beneath the gags, the episode explores how people process cultural absurdity, generational trauma, internet celebrity, and family—suggesting that today’s media world is both stranger, sadder, and more interconnected than ever.

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For Listeners Curious About This Episode

This episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out is less about breaking news than about vividly staging the ongoing weirdness of today’s sports-media-internet complex, as refracted through the minds of two uniquely self-aware and funny guides (plus a wonderful drop-in from Adam’s dad). Come prepared for deep tangents, generational debates, and an exploration of what it means to have “insider status” in an absurdly online world.

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Summary prepared for efficient review and maximum context for non-listeners. Ads, intros, and outros omitted. For fanbase names, vote between Scoop Troop and Sherlocks.

Transcript

[Pablo Torre]

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre. And today we're gonna find out what this sound is.

[Adam Friedland]

If David Stern were commissioner, Pablo would be dead. What do you think about that?

[Pablo Torre]

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[Pablo Torre]

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[Pablo Torre]

Can we talk about your meeting with Rich Paul?

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, it's funny. Yeah. I mean, why would. Why would I not?

[Pablo Torre]

I mean, Are you a clutch client now? Are you a member of they Are UTA? Yes. UTA owns clutch.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

LeBron's agency, which is Rich Paul's agency and not LeBron's agency for various. This is, I don't know, reasons what.

[Adam Friedland]

Whatever has happened in my life in the last year is hilarious because I'm going to blow it so badly.

[Pablo Torre]

I talked to you on the phone. You were in LA and you were like, I have a meeting with Rich Paul.

[Adam Friedland]

I said as a joke to UTA when they were trying to sign me, and the next time I'm in Los Angeles, I a meeting with Mr. Rich Paul. And they were like, yeah, they thought it was serious. But I guess I talked to him about podcasting because now he's going into the podcast space.

[Pablo Torre]

He's one of us.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. But I think they told him that I was like David Letterman or something. And he's like, tell me about your process, your motiv. And I was like, did he tent.

[Pablo Torre]

His fingers like that?

[Adam Friedland]

Is that the. He was doing golf in the. In the office. Golf swing With a club. Like it was like a movie. So cool. Yeah, yeah. But then like at a certain point he was taking calls like the last 15 minutes we had a great conversation for 45 minutes. I was making him laugh. And then I think he'll come do the show, so we'll tell the story on the show. So I think this should be fine. But then at a certain point I'm like loitering in the most powerful agent probably in basketball's office.

[Pablo Torre]

Certainly the guy who has created the most headlines recently.

[Adam Friedland]

I think dollar amount, Scott Boris is probably number one. So.

[Pablo Torre]

Yes. And like Jerry Maguire, the real life Jerry Maguire. Lee Steinberg, that's a real guy. Jerry Maguire is a guy named Lee Steinberg.

[Adam Friedland]

Next you're gonna tell me that Rod Tidwell is real. Who's that supposed to be?

[Pablo Torre]

I would guess that Rod Tidwell was inspired by any number of like Michael Irvin types.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes. Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

If I had to guess, loyal, loyal guys who want money.

[Adam Friedland]

And next you're going to tell me the goldfish was real. Next you're going to tell me Renee Zellweger is a real person.

[Pablo Torre]

Jonathan Lipnicki was right. The human head weighs eight pounds.

[Adam Friedland]

I saw a picture of him as an adult recently.

[Pablo Torre]

Can you describe him? Because I did too.

[Adam Friedland]

Yoked. He's like five, two yolked.

[Pablo Torre]

He's, he's clavicular. Actually he became clavicular.

[Adam Friedland]

I lost my big Friday interview also.

[Pablo Torre]

What happened?

[Adam Friedland]

He's got charged with two felonies in Arizona. Can't leave the state today. Clavicular, a kick streamer has been arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona. Here's one. Pick one version that I saw of.

[Pablo Torre]

The quote unquote mug shot.

[Adam Friedland]

And here's another one over here.

[Pablo Torre]

So for people who don't know who clavicular is, it's hard to describe him. He is a looks maxer which basically if you're to translate it is what.

[Adam Friedland]

I suppose it's creating an idealized kind of version of, of self masculinity, enhancing one's jaw, enhancing one's kind of facial features to fit some sort of criteria that they have for like the best looking guy.

[Pablo Torre]

And it, it really is a golden ratio. Like ah, there's like a math and a. And an objectivity to.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, it's really hot. Some of the smart, smartest stuff you can imagine. The interesting thing is it's a com. Audience of men. Really.

[Pablo Torre]

Yes.

[Adam Friedland]

And so he's not like a. It. It's a someone being sexy, not for like tween girls being like, ooh la la. It's someone. Someone being sexy for guys. And then. And then the objective is. Is to kind of. To mog another sexy guy and which.

[Pablo Torre]

And mogging is to. I think we used to call it like alpha ing.

[Adam Friedland]

Alpha ing. I think they. There's probably still do.

[Pablo Torre]

I don't the whole.

[Adam Friedland]

Are we pedophiles? I mean, like, this is just disgusting that we know even any of this. You're supposed to come in.

[Pablo Torre]

It's such a perfect. Adam Free and the show guest.

[Adam Friedland]

He has me blocked in every corner because, like, my. The first question I have is like, have you ever made a girl laugh with a funny joke? And then. But that's gesture maxing and that's cope. Obviously, that's what I'm doing. And now it made me look in the mirror. It's like, obviously I have bells on my hat. I've been juggling and tricking these women into sleeping with me. He knows exactly what my scheme is.

[Pablo Torre]

Right? Your cortisol was spiking.

[Adam Friedland]

He's right. I had to learn how to be funny to attract the opposite sex. And I didn't. I. I could have just been breaking the bones in my face.

[Pablo Torre]

Whether it be with a hammer, with your fists, either. Or to, you know, grow your bones and get a more masculine, chiseled face. You smashed your face in and what you do after, like, you went to the doctor and they reconstructed you or. No, no, no, no. So it's just small micro fractures and the bone grows back stronger according to the cow's damage. Like how a hammer or usually I'll use my fists. So, like, I'll just lay down in my bed and brace my head so that there's no cte. I saw that he was streaming from his hearing in Arizona.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Like he somehow got. He was like co streaming the feed from like the correctional.

[Adam Friedland]

Everything has like gotten like just Robocop, but it's a caveman. Like, like a mog off is like mma. Just the stare down. Not. Not the fight part. Right. Isn't that everything is just like, what if, like we just stripped out all these extra elements behind things that already exist.

[Pablo Torre]

What if we were just in our underwear one inch from each other's nose tips and stared and gesture maxed.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. MMA is like, what if, like we didn't use bums? Famously from the website. Bum.

[Pablo Torre]

Bum fights. Bum fights. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

That might be one of the most reprehensible things from our. From our younger generations days, but now.

[Pablo Torre]

Everything is bum fights.

[Adam Friedland]

Everything is Kind of bum. Have you ever seen these? The Pedophile Hunter guys? Yes. Streamers.

[Pablo Torre]

I have.

[Adam Friedland]

It is kind of end of history stuff because they. To Catch a Predator. A guy. And more often than not, it's like.

[Pablo Torre]

A. Developmentally, there are cognitive concerns when you watch these videos of.

[Adam Friedland]

They don't have them arrested also. They just like throw like a, like, like flower or something on them.

[Pablo Torre]

They chase them around, I think, and they publicly humiliate them.

[Adam Friedland]

And then. But now, like, rappers will go on the pedophile hunter thing and. And promote an album on the To Catch a Predator stream guy. It's so sad watching it. And then the guy hits them. He like, he'll like, slap them across the face and he's like, you like kids. And then like, Aon will be like, locked up. Yeah, please, brother.

[Pablo Torre]

You might want to sing along with me on this. You might want to sing a lot more than this one.

[Adam Friedland]

You're about to get locked up. They won't let you out. They won't let you out. They won't let you out. I was very content not knowing what anything was until I started the show. And now I have to like, drill into, like, these different. Like.

[Pablo Torre]

Now you're hunting pedophile hunters.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, genuinely speaking, my objective for the Adam Friedland show is this. This is my thesis. If it goes into a time capsule in 50 years time, if someone watches an episode back, they'll be like, that sucked. Like what they like as a document of culture and, you know, 2026, that. What the was that? You know, that's. That's kind of my.

[Pablo Torre]

On what level do you want it to suck?

[Adam Friedland]

I wanted to reflect kind of like how, you know, to the extent that. Oh, yeah, BB's going on the Nelk Boys podcast in the middle of a genocide.

[Pablo Torre]

Right?

[Adam Friedland]

Like, that sucks.

[Pablo Torre]

So what's. What's your message to. Why? Because a lot of Americans don't think we should support Israel at all. That means you don't support America because.

[Adam Friedland]

For the terrorists, you know what? The terrorists are fighting us because they say, we're America and America is Israel. We have the same free societies, the same free values.

[Pablo Torre]

They want to drive us back to.

[Adam Friedland]

The dark ages of this tyranny. And Americans who say that, I think.

[Pablo Torre]

Basically say, okay, so you support those.

[Adam Friedland]

Who chant death to America, those who.

[Pablo Torre]

Want to eliminate America.

[Adam Friedland]

That's crazy. Oh. Oh, boy.

[Pablo Torre]

This is nice Espresso.

[Adam Friedland]

Service.

[Pablo Torre]

This is service.

[Adam Friedland]

It's very good.

[Pablo Torre]

That's how we do it on the full sun pod.

[Adam Friedland]

Thanks. Like hyping. A genocide on a tran. And lifestyle and chugging and partying. Lifestyle content podcast is absurd. It's insane.

[Pablo Torre]

Can you interview me as if I'm clavicular? What would you want? How would you have gone about this?

[Adam Friedland]

I'm gonna hold him to it. I'm still gonna do it. But you have to like, look at it as a 19 year old, right? Which is like, oh, God. That's what, that's the thing is like, okay, two things. There isn't a conversation culturally about the collective trauma that all of us have about lockdown. Right. I think when we, when Covid comes up, the extent to which we discuss it is Fauci vaccine, Pfizer, yada, yada. He. He was a kid.

[Pablo Torre]

He was 13.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. And he was looking at pictures of hot guys. He's like, I'm going to be the hottest guy on the, on the phone. I mean, Covid didn't invent the phone, but there was only the phone for two years. And yeah, I think I anecdotally, I don't know anyone who died of the, the, the virus, thankfully, but I know a lot of people who have committed suicide and overdosed on drugs and who have, you know, relapsed on drugs. And when I think about kids, you know, how many kids had like unhappy households and then couldn't see their friends at school for two years and only had the phone? So him being a, a 19, 20 year old, you know, hopefully, you know, he'll look back on it and he'll be like, that's was, that was lame as hell. But he's made a lot of money from it.

[Pablo Torre]

Right?

[Adam Friedland]

And maybe try and be nicer to girls. I think when it comes to young people, the only way they're discussed in popular, I guess, discourse is like their genitals and like sex changes and stuff.

[Pablo Torre]

And we are living kind of the word around. Kids in America has definitely been like pedophiles in like 1000 point font.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, it's, it's, it's trans is kind of dominates the only way that we talk about kids.

[Pablo Torre]

No, it's genitals. You're right, it's genitals. It's really genitals. It's there all the way down. It's genitals.

[Adam Friedland]

I have a cousin who, third cousin who's at Harvard getting a Ph.D. in child happiness. And these are dyed in the wool libs, like, like Biden Harris T shirt kind of people. And yeah, he's studying child happiness in places where they lock down where they didn't. And he said that suicide rates, rates of mental illnesses, night and day. And this is not an indictment of the concept of lockdown. This is an indictment of the fact that we don't have a broader conversation about the fact that kids weren't. The world kind of sucked for them. They weren't promised a better future. And I think, to some extent, looks maxing is an extension of their declaring one's identity and having agency, at least over something. And also, there's a. An aspect of it that's communal, you.

[Pablo Torre]

Know, and it's like, ostensibly self improvement. And the video, that clavicular is all over my timeline because, admittedly, I keep watching the videos. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

He's so hot.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah. I mean, his cheekbones. His. The cheekbones. He shattered into perfect angular shape.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

But the video that I saw, which is haunting, is him out in the wild with, like, his girlfriend. I tried this the other day. That.

[Adam Friedland]

What up, mommy?

[Pablo Torre]

Yo, you think you can sign my.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Sell my album?

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, I got you, man. Yeah, no worries. Yeah, but we've been on your ass since the moment you were streaming since November. Oh, hell yeah, dude. Good stuff. Stream photo. Yeah, let's do it, man. I bet. On the count of three.

[Adam Friedland]

Hell Hitler.

[Pablo Torre]

Three, two, one.

[Adam Friedland]

Hell Hitler. Oh, my God. Love you.

[Pablo Torre]

And immediately, like, clavicular, who is, again, the sort of, like, paragon of this movement, the shattered and refashioned face of it.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

You sort of watch him realize what happens when he encounters his community.

[Adam Friedland]

Right.

[Pablo Torre]

In real life.

[Adam Friedland]

It's a come to Jesus kind of moment.

[Pablo Torre]

I'm, like, known in Orlando as, like, the Asian mogger. I would have the honor if you could verify me as the Orlando Asian mogger, bro. Honor honors mine.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't know.

[Pablo Torre]

You guys are kind of cringe, bro. It's going to be real, you know?

[Adam Friedland]

All right.

[Pablo Torre]

Y' all. Kind of cringe. That was, like, the most gay thing ever. I couldn't even.

[Adam Friedland]

I couldn't even mute, bro. That was.

[Pablo Torre]

I find it incredibly interesting because every once in a while, a new character pops up and you're like, oh, this is farcical. And I don't want to spend a second of my time thinking about it. And then you think about it, and you keep thinking about it, and he is just, in a way that I both understand and also find deeply sad as, like, very dismissive and condescending to them for doing the thing that they thought they were supposed to do because they do it on the Internet, but they did in real life, and it's just it makes him now realize, oh, this makes me feel pathetic.

[Adam Friedland]

It's fascinating because there. There are like a million of these different things that are super famous that you've never heard of. And. And then. And then you hear of it and.

[Pablo Torre]

You'Re like, your role in whatever the media sort of like industry is now is somebody who can engage with all of these characters. When I say clavicular is a perfect guest for you, it's like, oh, you have the ability to both see it in a way that is, I would say, unsparing, but also clearly, I mean, you started from a position of, like, genuine empathy, of like, man, this. Imagine being this kid six years ago.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, we sucked at 19. We sucked. We were awful at 19. You know, it's fine to suck at 19. You know, it'S fine. So you missed the super bowl because you did a socialism stream. See this. This stuff is ruining our lives. You to know Woody Page, you used to get points for your. And I don't understand how Tony Reali was tough but fair, but sometimes it seemed a little bit arbitrary.

[Pablo Torre]

I was sitting on our lives used to be nice. You have. You have gotten to have meetings with Rich Paul.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

And I spent six hours on a couch, and it was a beautiful couch welcoming couch with Hasan Piker on his twitch stream, watching the Super Bowl. And by that, I mean holding up my phone and watching it on my phone on mute because he didn't care about the Super Bowl. And I should have known that when I said, hey, he was in New York, he was like, let's finally, like, get together. And I was like, what if we did something during the Super Bowl? And then he asked, what time is the Super Bowl? And I still decided to do this. And so I imagine that's on me.

[Adam Friedland]

Explaining, going on the Hasan Piker stream to Tony. Imagine explaining to Tony. Okay. Yeah. What's the stream? What do you mean? He's a communist, but he has big muscles. Oh, so he's some sort of wimp, right? No, no, he has big muscles, but. And you were watching on your phone. Oh, I know. Noah Coleman was there. I know him from the meetings. Of course I know.

[Pablo Torre]

That's right.

[Adam Friedland]

Thanks.

[Pablo Torre]

Oh, God. Felix was there too.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Real sports fan. Yeah, well, he knows mma.

[Pablo Torre]

Oh, my God. Yes. He talked about MMA at length. And I was. I was outclassed by. By him.

[Adam Friedland]

Have you seen Felix's documentary, Fighting in the Age of Loneliness?

[Pablo Torre]

Oh, my God. It's like the one he did with John Boys. The.

[Adam Friedland]

It's like, yes, the One.

[Pablo Torre]

Yes. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't connect that.

[Adam Friedland]

That's.

[Pablo Torre]

I'm. I'm such a. I. I am a poser now. I'm like, yeah. Sitting on this couch with these. With your. With. With stars in your wing of the Internet and realizing, oh, couch?

[Adam Friedland]

What kind of couch was it? A casting couch. So you missed the game. Drake May. Really.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

He.

[Adam Friedland]

The left side of the line did not protect him. Who was that on the left side of the line?

[Pablo Torre]

Will Campbell.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, they were just getting.

[Pablo Torre]

It was destroyed.

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[Pablo Torre]

Bad. Really, really bad.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Miss. They did some sort of Spanish halftime. I couldn't understand it, but the guy. Whoa, he was a real looker. They had Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, though. Big fans. Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

I was talking to Kornheiser yesterday, and I was talking about the Washington Post and all this stuff, and I was reminded that he refuses to ever stay in an Airbnb.

[Adam Friedland]

He's the best.

[Pablo Torre]

He's like, why would I want to do. And someone else is the best.

[Adam Friedland]

He's the best.

[Pablo Torre]

He just, like, couldn't even begin to comprehend.

[Adam Friedland]

It blows my mind.

[Pablo Torre]

Why? That's a. Why, that's a company.

[Adam Friedland]

It's the best company ever. Think about it. We're gonna have a. We'll have a hotel. Oh, where? Everywhere.

[Pablo Torre]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

But it'll cost a lot of money to, like, clean it and stuff. No, no, they do that.

[Pablo Torre]

They're gonna do it.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Or we make them pay us more.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, well, we'll need, like a. A bunch of people like, to manage it. No, no, no, no. No one. We'll need four lawyers in Palo Alto and, like, a couple tech support guys. We'll outsource that. It is the. It's. It's sinister how good that is.

[Pablo Torre]

It's. It's.

[Adam Friedland]

It's the only thing tech has made that's good. Well, it's not even good. Your girlfriend wants to go to Maine. It's ruined. It's ruined our lives. Foreign.

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[Pablo Torre]

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[Adam Friedland]

I don't know.

[Pablo Torre]

The Bob Kraft commercial. Stop.

[Adam Friedland]

Do not listen to that. The anti Semitism commercial.

[Pablo Torre]

That's right.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, We. We worked hard on it. Yeah. You know who directed it?

[Pablo Torre]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

Woody Allen. Did you know that? Oh, God, I saw that. The commercial sucked. I.

[Pablo Torre]

Blue Square Alliance.

[Adam Friedland]

I posted one.

[Pablo Torre]

I saw. I saw. I liked it. I was like, I'm gonna support Adam. He needs us in this moment.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, it was a bad one. I mean, last year was kind of bad too, because it was a blowout. We haven't had a good one in a while.

[Pablo Torre]

It wasn't good. I do want to point out though, that the Bob Kraft stuff. It made me think of, like, a character that you talk to me often about is your dad.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yes.

[Pablo Torre]

What does your dad think of you? And this.

[Adam Friedland]

He's very proud of me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Finally. Finally. My dad loves this show, by the way.

[Pablo Torre]

That's why I'm bringing it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in the Pablo Rodzi. The. The Manila Mob. He's workshopping fandoms.

[Adam Friedland]

Team Pablo.

[Pablo Torre]

Team Pablo.

[Adam Friedland]

Team Pacquiao. Yeah, Pacquiao. Cut that.

[Pablo Torre]

That was a pretty good Filipino.

[Adam Friedland]

I saw. Team Pacquiao was going cosmic bowling once at the Sun Coast Casino in Las Vegas, and I saw a bunch of guys wearing T shirts at Team Pacquiao.

[Pablo Torre]

I mean, it's pretty awesome. It was them.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. They were out there. My dad really hates the Clippers. So you. Yeah. And he's like. And. But he says something crazy to me. He's like, it's not just the Republicans that are bad, Adam. It's all of them. Because, I guess the connection to the Obama administration. You made my dad realize that I've been arguing for 38 years with him that it's all bad. And now his favorite. You're the favorite son, apparently. No. Yeah. He would be very flattered to hear this.

[Pablo Torre]

You had the best take, though, on my reporting.

[Adam Friedland]

If David Stern were commissioner, Pablo would be dead. What do you think about that? Do you sleep with the fishes? You know, I mean, after All Star, are they gonna finally. They're gonna open it up.

[Pablo Torre]

So this will come out on Thursday, which means that we'll have dropped our sequel to the seventh part, so we'll drop part eight on Tuesday, and we'll see if.

[Adam Friedland]

We'll see.

[Pablo Torre]

We'll see. Have.

[Adam Friedland]

What's the most paranoid you've gotten?

[Pablo Torre]

Just when you're talking on your phone.

[Adam Friedland]

And you're like, someone's breathing in the well, just like.

[Pablo Torre]

I don't. I don't know. I don't know what it sounds like when your phone is tapped, but I'm certainly a bit paranoid about, like, Is that Verizon or is that. Yeah, a guy with $150 billion.

[Adam Friedland]

It's me, Tony. That'd be so cool if he tapped you because he cared. He just wants to make sure you're okay.

[Pablo Torre]

He does care about me. He is worried about me.

[Adam Friedland]

Who's gotten the most pissed at you, I guess, thus far?

[Pablo Torre]

One of them is Jordan Hudson, Dollar Shack's girlfriend, who threatened to sue me but hasn't yet and also wore a T shirt with I Saw Orchids of Asia.

[Adam Friedland]

Did you see Port Noise quote, tweet? No, he's like, this. Not today.

[Pablo Torre]

I mean, look, the Bob Kraft stuff is. It's all the Epstein stuff, too. Like, his lawyer for that was recommended by Jeffrey Epstein guy, Jack Goldberger.

[Adam Friedland]

What? You're not allowed to have a lawyer? Wait, my. My dad has some medical stuff, and my sister searched the Epstein emails, and he was talking to a friend of his that has the same thing, and he's like, go see this guy. He's the best doctor at Cedar Sinai. He's amazing. Go.

[Pablo Torre]

He's taking notes on the medical advice.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I mean, I mean, it's. We should really view it as more of a resource, right?

[Pablo Torre]

A WebMD. What if the Epstein files were also crowdsourced WebMD.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, no, I, I, I would imagine. Yeah, I. Well, I had Lena Khan on the show.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah. Friend of the show. She's the best.

[Adam Friedland]

You have the richest owner in sports mad at you. She has every one of the richest companies in the world mad at her.

[Pablo Torre]

I love her for that reason, if nothing else. She's.

[Adam Friedland]

But it doesn't register, though, right? Like, I was like, have you ever listened that song many men by 50 cent? She was like, no. I was like, never mind. I was gonna go for a joke.

[Pablo Torre]

There, but they wish death upon her.

[Adam Friedland]

But I. I said to her, I was like, you know, there was an op ed every single day in the Wall Street Journal, the Post, like, the FTC chairwoman, psychopath, you know, like, just trash. Everyone was like, what? The ftc? Like, you know, And I asked her, I was like, did you ever clap back? Or like, you know, what was your response? And the thing that was most impressive about her was, like, it wasn't as if, like, no, I'm above that. You know, Like, I'm, you know, I don't play. Like, I don't go low. But it was more like, what? Like, it was like, no, I have to win the lawsuit. You know, So I suppose, like, that's kind of. That's kind of a. Should be a lesson to you is like, I don't know. I'll just do another.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

You know, do another Tattles hail podcast.

[Pablo Torre]

How dare you.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, the Tattles. The problem.

[Pablo Torre]

I'm gonna keep working this. None of this feels good. None of this feels good that your.

[Adam Friedland]

Guys are the Tattles. I love that.

[Pablo Torre]

I wanted. I want to know. I wanted. I wanted to know what advice Rich Paul wanted to know from you.

[Adam Friedland]

Speaking of tattling about podcasting, he Wants his show to be more like a show.

[Pablo Torre]

So he hosts this show with Max Kellerman for the ringer and Bill Simmons.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes. Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

And it's the way it's shot. It's like two chairs, totally black. Soundstage.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Dramatic lighting. And Rich, who I had never seen talk this much before.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Is basically tattling on the Lakers all the time. Listen, your Lakers.

[Adam Friedland]

It's UTA family. But he did say he's like, what? Like, you know, like, how could it differentiate more? And I think he probably meant production value wise because I think he saw clips of the show and he was like, oh, like the Adam Freelance show. He's like, oh, this is like something similar. Did you, did you see there was a moment where he paused and where he got off a call, because the last 15 minutes I was just like trying to say goodbye and he kept getting calls and, and I was like, I'm loitering in a man's office. We had like a great chat before that. But he did, he did just look at the TV and he goes, college basketball sucks. I don't know if I'll get in trouble for that. No, it's a fair take.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, it's a fair take. But he was, he. Did you get the sense that Rich Paul was mogging you when he was doing his.

[Adam Friedland]

As well he should. I mean, I, I. How important of a client am I to the United Talent Agency for them to have done that? I don't know. I think the agents didn't realize.

[Pablo Torre]

But, but did you tell him how.

[Adam Friedland]

It was a cool style? I mean, if you, you're a corner office guy one day, like golf swing in. I did do something actually similar. I saw a behind the scenes thing about Conan and he was in the writer's room with a guitar, like acoustic guitar, and they were like pitching him jokes and he was like, noodling. And I, I do have, I do that with myself.

[Pablo Torre]

You're Conan Maxing.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, Yeah, I, Conan Max. I always thought it was really cool. Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

I love the setup that you have. I mean, not only did you build the Dick Cavett set like it's your Truman show, but the backstage area is like, it's you and your squad and you're like working the boys. Yeah. Editing shows.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Actually caring about making this good.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Well, you don't want to do just another podcast. Right.

[Pablo Torre]

I mean, I'm sure thesis of this is like, how can we not do yet another show where sports takes are the entire premise.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. So you're like, how could we just maybe more gossiping about Scoop Troop. Scoop Scoop. The Scoop Troop. The Gum shoes.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

The. Yeah. The Clouseaus. Yeah. The. No, there has to be a better name for your guys.

[Pablo Torre]

What? Ramp to the Whistleblower. Well, again, we'll continue to workshop it.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

But you're. But the whole thing with you is that I was laughing on the phone when you told me that you were meeting with Rich Paul because you're also, like, the most underpentant Kobe Stan that I know. Did you discuss. No. You did not.

[Adam Friedland]

No, I didn't. But I said to him, oh, God, I can't say it. This is so funny. Like, why? Like, it's absurd that I found myself in this place in life, just, I think, genuinely speaking. I remember when I call you with the Kobe memorial thing, I was like, yes. And I said, I have league sources now. Is it? Are you league sources? And I'm like, wow, this is so cool.

[Pablo Torre]

I mean, I know things now.

[Adam Friedland]

I know things. I know a lot.

[Pablo Torre]

I know you do.

[Adam Friedland]

I know where the bodies are buried. Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

You know where my body would have been buried and you know where some actual bodies are buried.

[Adam Friedland]

No. They would have, like, framed you for something. You would have been wrongfully accused.

[Pablo Torre]

Right.

[Adam Friedland]

Or, I mean, like the Tim Donahue thing. Right. Like he was about to go in with a wire and then at least.

[Pablo Torre]

My God.

[Adam Friedland]

Right.

[Pablo Torre]

The whole New York Post thing.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

They would have.

[Pablo Torre]

Like, think about how somehow the Tim Donaghy scandal got scooped by a New York Post article that has since very. I would say, coincidentally, been mentioned as helpful to what the NBA was trying to do.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you think that, like, Obviously in the 1980s, it was kind of the third of the major American sports. Is that right? Decidedly.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Football, baseball. The NBA.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Had there not been a Stalinist kind of leader. Right. Who knew where the bodies were buried. Do you think that the profile.

[Pablo Torre]

Larry o', Brien, I don't think, was burying nearly as many.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

People. Allegedly.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Do you think that, like, that that's what it required?

[Pablo Torre]

Well, I think the big difference with the NBA right now is that Adam Silver and this is sort of like everything where there's like, a lot of money on the table if you want it. Yeah. And it's in the Middle East. It's crypto. It's gambling, coins.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, all of it.

[Pablo Torre]

All of it. Like, crypto.com arena, you know, like all these naming rights.

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[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

FTX was on the roof of the Miami Heats building.

[Adam Friedland]

It also sponsored the MLB playoffs. Right.

[Pablo Torre]

The MLB umpires had FTX on their chest protectors as well.

[Adam Friedland]

You know, I was up for a role for. To play Sam Bankman Fried.

[Pablo Torre]

In what?

[Adam Friedland]

A biopic? I didn't sign an NDA, did I? No.

[Pablo Torre]

Did you? Did you?

[Adam Friedland]

I worked really hard. Yeah. I auditioned. Yeah. Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Oh, wait, so how did you prepare to play sba?

[Adam Friedland]

I worked so hard. I knew a guy at Jane street that SBF was. Yeah, was. He was his intern when he was there, like as a college intern. I like worked really hard on it and I was so nervous. And then the funny thing is like, you're a auditioning to play one of the ugliest guys of all time. Right? Like so. So that's. That's in and of itself hilarious. And then I got to the. It was in person, which they don't do anymore post Covid. Most of it is you're taping for.

[Pablo Torre]

When. When was this?

[Adam Friedland]

This was a couple years ago, I guess. This was two years ago maybe. I don't know what happened with Philip Seymour Hoffman's son, but then I think he dropped out and so I don't know. They could hit me up. Whatever they hit.

[Pablo Torre]

They called up Ridge Paul and they said, do you have anybody in your stable?

[Adam Friedland]

They said my body was. Was too buff to. To play. There wasn't.

[Pablo Torre]

Can you unbreak your cheekbones?

[Adam Friedland]

Actually, it was beyond parody because the. I don't know if you've seen SBF's real life partner, but she was.

[Pablo Torre]

I have.

[Adam Friedland]

She was, you know, she was. I would say she's probably, you know, not the best. What? But they got this. The actress was already cast and she was gorgeous. It was like so funny. But I get there. I see all these other actors and like most of them look like me and I'm like, my adrenaline's pumping and I'm being super obnoxious. And like we're sitting there and they're silent, like nervous actors. And like for me, I don't care about acting. I'm like, you just know the words, you say the crap and then you, you know, whatever. And so I'm like, yeah, it's pretty funny. We all look kind of similar. And they're like, hahaha. And then one of them is like, are you. I love the show. And I was like, that's right, you actors, like, you know, I'm from a YouTube Jewish style long form talk talk. Yes, that's right. You know, who are you? And I'm assuming they're like students at Tish or Something, right? Like, not in my mind. They're like, these are some schmucks. And so they all go in for the audition, and it's just me and one other guy, and I'm. I'm like, really? Just. Just extra obnoxious. And I'm like. And I look at him. I'm like, hey, like. Like, you do this kind of thing a lot? And he's like, yeah, sometimes. I was like, have you ever, like, been the main guy before in a movie? And he's like, the main guy. And I was like, you know, like the. Oh, yeah. The lead. And he's like, yeah, but you wouldn't have seen my face. And I was like, oh, cartoons. And he's like, no, I'm. You know, I'm. You know, the Planet of the Apes movie that's in theaters everywhere right now. I'm the lead in the new one. And I'm like, oh. And I'm like, well, this guy doesn't look Jewish. Then it dawns on me. I'm like, he can play a ape. This guy could do anything. I'm screwed. I thought that they were like, nobodies.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, but.

[Adam Friedland]

And then I'm like, oh, yeah. These guys are all probably very successful.

[Pablo Torre]

That ape had range, man. Yeah, that ape really had range.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Do you remember what any of the lines were from what you prepared?

[Adam Friedland]

The casting lady was, like, a serious. Like, she, like, cast, like, succession and friends, I'm sure. And everyone's like, she's made people cry. They're like, you know. And I'm like. They're like. I'm like, but they're not even in the movie. They're like, she's. She's. You better get ready. And she was really nice. And then I talked to her for a while about it, and I was like, first of all, like, where is this monologue happening in the movie? And she's like, oh, like, that's a great question. Because I read the full script. I'm like, it doesn't. I didn't see it anywhere. And she's like, you know, we had this written for the audition just to. And I was like, yeah, but the character changes throughout the movie. So it's like, what. At what point, like, is. Is this indicating, like, you know. And she was like, yeah, no one's asked that question. So that was, I guess, good. But everyone, I guess. Yeah. I was in there much longer than everyone else. Probably because I was being annoying.

[Pablo Torre]

Because you started podcasting.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And I was like. I was like, yeah, I talked to the. The guy that was his boss at Jane street, actually, and she's like, oh, you took this very seriously. I was like, you know, I was like. I was like, how long is this going to take? Because, like, she said, is this going to take? She's like, yeah, it'll be in, like, China and, like, all over the world. And I was like, it would have been so funny if I got cast one time for one movie and played the lead and was just the worst actor of all time ever and then just never acted again. I think that would have actually been, like, really awesome. But I don't know if they're making this movie. I don't know if I'm just gossiping about things this entire episode that I'm gonna get in trouble for. You're.

[Pablo Torre]

You're a scoop trooper. I am looking this up. And it does. I mean, there's plenty reported about who.

[Adam Friedland]

They get development, who they recast after. After Cooper Hoffman.

[Pablo Torre]

Oh, boy. So did Lena Dunham wrote the script, the adaptation?

[Adam Friedland]

No. Is someone Zoller?

[Pablo Torre]

Are there multiple projects?

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, so. So this was like the Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs movie and not the Michael Fassbender one?

[Pablo Torre]

I think this is the same one.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean. Ah, maybe.

[Pablo Torre]

Okay, so there's a Netflix series. Is it an apple? A 24 movie?

[Adam Friedland]

It's for a feature. Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah. The. It says Elena Dunham as of.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, that's why I didn't get it. I love you and I'd love you to come on the show. And we were very immature boys on Cometown. And we shouldn't have said after Hillary Clinton lost the election in 2016 that we're looking forward to your public execution. Cut that, please.

[Pablo Torre]

Gonna leave that in.

[Adam Friedland]

No, cut that in. I love Girls. Have you seen that show, the Show Girls?

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, I watched all of it.

[Adam Friedland]

She's a genius.

[Pablo Torre]

It's. I. I recall it being really good.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Like, every choice she makes as a storyteller is the right one.

[Pablo Torre]

Like.

[Adam Friedland]

Like, she's a. She's such a good writer. It's crazy.

[Pablo Torre]

Yes, yes. Also, you wanted her executed.

[Adam Friedland]

It was just funny because she made that video for Hillary. Hey. Hey, guys. It's MC Pantsuit. My hobby is rap music, but my passion, defending the nation's baddest grandmother. I'm talking Hillary Rodham Clinton. We were young men.

[Pablo Torre]

I was.

[Adam Friedland]

I was 37 years old at the time. Okay. I've grown. I'm in my 50s now.

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[Pablo Torre]

I did enjoy watching you do stand up, though.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Speaking of, like, being out in the world and like.

[Adam Friedland]

You read that show.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah. A friend, Joe Mandy, friend of Pablo Torre, finds out Joe Mandy's show.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. What'd you think? Pretty much the best stand up in America legitimately.

[Pablo Torre]

It was really good, man. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And if you want to see me live, I'm gonna be. When's this coming out?

[Pablo Torre]

This is coming out On. On. At this rate. Not never.

[Adam Friedland]

No. We have nothing so far. So far, I'll be in Philly this month, I'll be in Portland next month, and I'll be in LA in May for the Netflix is a joke fest.

[Pablo Torre]

Wow.

[Adam Friedland]

All right, so what do we got? Let's. Let's. Let's really break a break. Break something huge.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. LeBron's retiring.

[Adam Friedland]

Shut up. Who told you?

[Pablo Torre]

I just hear things. I just hear things.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm gonna get in trouble. You can't put. You can't put that. No, he's not retiring. I asked Rich.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, did you really?

[Adam Friedland]

Was this the whole setup right now?

[Pablo Torre]

It was.

[Adam Friedland]

I can't. Dude, you're gonna get me in huge trouble.

[Pablo Torre]

You didn't ask Rich that, did you?

[Adam Friedland]

No. I didn't ask.

[Pablo Torre]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

I said, when you get. When's this gonna get out?

[Pablo Torre]

But by the way, that has been since we talked, and I said to you it kind of feels like LeBron's retiring. Based on information. There's been lots of signals. Like, they've basically been.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, they said footsieing, forcing, divorcing the Lakers. That's what I heard. All I've heard is that he's splitting up the Lakers at the end of the year.

[Pablo Torre]

That seems likely.

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[Adam Friedland]

Okay, what do we got? We got nothing today.

[Pablo Torre]

That's not true. We had clavicular spf, sbf, Rich Paul golf swing.

[Adam Friedland]

That was cool.

[Pablo Torre]

That was good.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

Your dad being proud of you.

[Adam Friedland]

He is very proud of me.

[Pablo Torre]

What was the turning point? Friendship. With me?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. No, no, no. I think I just make something that's. He could watch now. I used to pedal in gross humor that.

[Pablo Torre]

Did your dad ever listen to Cometown? Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And I would get it grounded every time. I'd be like, I don't even live at home. I would adhere to the grounding, of course. I wouldn't leave my room. I couldn't. Couldn't see my friends that weekend. But, you know, was. You know, I'm 32, dad. How am I grounded?

[Pablo Torre]

What did your dad think of how the Richie Torres interview came out?

[Adam Friedland]

His heart monitor went off a couple times. I think you had an agenda to speak with us. Did it have an agenda?

[Pablo Torre]

I really did.

[Adam Friedland]

It's your number one copy.

[Pablo Torre]

It's not my new number one copy. It's just not.

[Adam Friedland]

It is.

[National Debt Relief Advertiser/Voiceover]

You're.

[Pablo Torre]

It's not my number one topic.

[Adam Friedland]

It's. It's what I saw. Well, then I was not elected on Israel.

[Pablo Torre]

You don't get elected in the South Bronx.

[Adam Friedland]

And I'm not trying to make you feel bad or like.

[Pablo Torre]

But you. I just don't think you know what you're talking about.

[Adam Friedland]

We called each other Hitler. That's just dinner. That's our family. Okay, that's fine. But about a week later, he had consumed all of the recap content and he saw that the very wise people were calling me a capo. And he was like, these people are hypocrites. You know, to co opt the language of the showa. This is exactly what they accused the other side of doing. And it was kind of like, don't with my boy. And, yeah, it was a very beautiful kind of moment.

[Pablo Torre]

That is. That is legitimately heartwarming.

[Adam Friedland]

My pop. No, my pop is very, very proud of the show. Yeah. And you well, we can call him if you want.

[Pablo Torre]

I would love that.

[Adam Friedland]

Would you?

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, please.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Okay.

[Pablo Torre]

We called Korenheiser the last time.

[Adam Friedland]

No, I mean, he'll do a better job on the show today than me.

[Pablo Torre]

He didn't. Kornheiser didn't pick up.

[Adam Friedland]

But we'll call Dad. I do it a lot.

[Pablo Torre]

Your dad's name is Max?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Max.

[Pablo Torre]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

My. He can tell you all about sports if you want. Seriously. He was at the Gibson game in 88. High flying eyeball into right field. She is gone.

[Pablo Torre]

He was at the Dodgers.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Pablo Torre]

That's great.

[Adam Friedland]

He was there. I was a baby. Well, ask him what he thinks. I don't know. Can you hear? Yeah. Hi, Pa. I'm on. I'm on with Pablo Tor right now. And he. He just wanted to say hi, cuz I told him that you liked his. His episode about the Clippers.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

I enjoy all these shows, actually.

[Adam Friedland]

You watch all of them?

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Well, I don't know. I can't. I can't kind of guarantee that, but I've watched a few of them. Quite a few of them, really.

[Pablo Torre]

Thank you, Max. There's a lot of content. We're putting out a lot of episodes. I really love that you pay attention to what we do.

[Adam Friedland]

No, I.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Thank you. I enjoy your playful attitude towards it and the guessing games and the. The secret documents and the closed files and magnifying glasses that you give them. You know, you have a whole bunch of Sherlocks on your show.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes, Sherlocks.

[Pablo Torre]

Sherlocks.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Pablo Torre]

There's something in there.

[Adam Friedland]

We've been, like, trying to find a nickname for his, like, stands. His fan base. Pablo.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah, we got to come up with, like, fan base. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had. We had Scoop Troop, but we're trying to improve that. And Sherlock's. It's a good. Is a good one.

[Adam Friedland]

Scoop Troop, where are you? The supermarket.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

I'm in the supermarket. I'm checking out.

[Adam Friedland]

What do you buy?

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

I'm buying. I bankrupted the family at Costco this morning.

[Adam Friedland]

Where'd you get.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Speaking of clubs, I was a little. I was a little compulsive.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, I haven't sent the computer yet.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

I've noticed that, Adam.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sending it to. I'll send it today. I'll get my guy to send it.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Okay, good, Pablo. Good work, my friend. Terrific.

[Adam Friedland]

War. By what?

[Pablo Torre]

There's.

[Adam Friedland]

There's a lot.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

There's a lot to write about in the. In, in the sporting world. I mean, there's a lot of controversies.

[Pablo Torre]

Yes, There Is Max, do you think.

[Adam Friedland]

LeBron is going to retire?

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

LeBron is going to. If he leaves the Lakers, and I think he'll go, and I think he's going to do something spectacular.

[Adam Friedland]

This.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

There's a casino in Vegas that has. I don't think it's ever going to get booked, but had planned into it a rather spectacular basketball arena. And what I understood was that he had very much an interest in that project and that he would want to finance either a new league or a new team for Vegas. So I don't know if that's just speculation, because I live here and everybody thinks that Vegas is the hottest thing since sliced cheese. I don't know, but that's what I heard.

[Pablo Torre]

Wait, Max. Max, Max. Did you, did you know, did you know that your son had a meeting with Rich Paul? Did he tell you about this?

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

I, I heard that. I'm not quite sure what came of it. Other than nothing.

[Adam Friedland]

Pretty much nothing.

[Pablo Torre]

Mostly this podcast that he's doing with me.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

You know, my, my feeling. My feeling is that. Do you stay clear of that whole. I, you can report on it because it's dramatic and it's certainly newsworthy, but.

[Adam Friedland]

So I shouldn't, I shouldn't mention that I, I had that meeting on a podcast?

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Yes, you can if you want.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

In the appropriate context.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, I think, I think it was appropriate.

[Pablo Torre]

I think it's totally appropriate.

[Adam Friedland]

So.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

No, that's. Are you on his show or you just having lunch?

[Adam Friedland]

I'm on his show right now.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah. He said, he said that Rich Paul told him that college basketball sucks.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Am I live or am I. Are you.

[Pablo Torre]

You're, you're live to take, I guess.

[Adam Friedland]

If you want to. If you want to. I just, I told him that, that you're a big fan, and so he wanted to say hello.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

That's terrific. Well, lovely meeting you. This way.

[Pablo Torre]

Wait, Max. Max. I wanted to say that Adam told me something very sweet, which is that despite years of him trying to radicalize you into a member of the Dirtbag Left, you finally saw something about the Democratic Party that we exposed here in. Pablo Torre finds out. And I love that we were able to do something in terms of your political evolution that your son Adam, who is once again the Jon Stewart of our generation, was not able to do.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

I think there's an element of fancy.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, stop it. Oh, stop it.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

This celebrity and besmirching my family name in public. I, I will give him that.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm not besmirching anything. I, I, I.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Come on, man.

[Pablo Torre]

You know.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

And you want to know just how percussive I am at the moment.

[Adam Friedland]

What? What? What?

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Standing in front of the lookout thingamajig, and I can't find my cell phone.

[Pablo Torre]

Oh.

[Adam Friedland]

Because it's in there. It's in your hand. Oh, you got to pay for the groceries. That's funny. Oh, that's funny, Pop. Oh, that's really good. That's funny. All right. Okay.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

It's terrifying for me.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, it's. You had a senior moment, Dad. I had.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

I definitely had a senior.

[Pablo Torre]

All right.

[Adam Friedland]

I love you. What'd you. What'd you think of that Super Bowl? Boring.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

No, I thought it was boring.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I. I did the blue square, dad, to stop anti Semitism.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

I saw that. And by the way, it was politically brilliant because the.

[Adam Friedland]

The.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

The designers will think, oh, he's finally come home.

[Pablo Torre]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. That's what I want them to think.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Guys will think that, you know, Ah, one for the team.

[Adam Friedland]

You know, I don't under. What? What. What team? The Nazis. Okay. I love you, dad.

[Pablo Torre]

Max, thanks for. Thanks for joining Narc Nation.

[Adam Friedland]

Narc Nation.

[Pablo Torre]

We're still. We're still working.

[Adam Friedland]

All right. Bye, Pop.

[Pablo Torre]

Bye.

[Max (Adam Friedland's Dad)]

Bye.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, the. That was all right. Did he save the episode?

[Pablo Torre]

I think he saved it.

[Adam Friedland]

Thank God.

[Pablo Torre]

Dude. This has been Pablo Torre Finds Out a Meadowlark Media production and I'll talk to you next time.

[Adam Friedland]

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