The Adam Friedland Show (Cumtown) - The Adam Friedland Show - Julian Casablancas Ft The Black Keys - The Lost Episodes

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

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We're on. We're back again, guys, with the Lost Episode series. Adam Friedland here at the Adam Freeland's corporate HQ here in Manhattan, New York. We're hard at work on some shit. I know I keep saying that. What does it sound like, guys, when I say that kind of thing? Exciting. I'm pretty excited about what's to come.

Here is the second installment of our Lost Episode series. The guest this time was Julian Casablanca, who, let's be real, folks. I'm gonna be candid, okay? When I was in high school, and I was reading Spin Magazine, I would see pictures of this gentleman who was on the show that you're about to see,

and I don't know if it was gay, but I just wanted it to know him. I thought New York City was a place where it was nighttime, 24 hours a day, and everyone was the strokes. I thought it was that, and I thought it was like Seinfeld. I thought it was a place where Jewish men,

Jewish gargoyles can date 11s, or you could be the strokes. Okay? And I was like, either way, that's the city I want a part of one day when I'm a 37-year-old. I wasn't a gay thought. I never had gay thoughts about this guy. I just thought I wanted to be like him. I just wanted to know him. That album, the first album, you guys remember?

Yeah. What was your favorite song, Thomas? What a shit answer. I'm with my staff right now. My troops, as I call them. I've installed one of those buttons under my desk that Matt Lauer had that locks the door. No.

Yeah, it's just me here still. I really do think now I can do this. I can do this, guys. This is an episode that was recorded, what, 27 years ago with Julian Casablancus. There are a couple of fun complications that you will... Guys, this is the second episode. The last episode of Luke is a Laker.

What? First episode of Lupe as a Laker. Okay, enough ad lipping on the other side of the camera. Intro sketch. Oh yeah, intro sketch. Oh, okay, yeah. Here's the other thing. This one we actually shot an intro sketch for,

which was... So this was never aired, but this is another sketch. Kind of a problem that Nick and I kept running into was the sketch the sketches that we wrote continuously were the same thing where it's like well we don't have anything for the intro this week so this fell in line with that you know we weren't necessarily in love of this these are lost episodes guys make of them what you will I actually think this intro is really funny I had to watch it in about a year and a half but I think it is pretty funny so first we're going to show you the intro then we'll be back with

a word from our sponsors and then please ladies and gentlemen enjoy our interview with Julian Casblankas. Did you see 12 years of slave? No, he didn't. It's a very tragic movie, but it came out like 10 years ago. And I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it since it came out in theaters. And not being able to emotionally connect with the memory of seeing the movie.

It is kind of very funny as a premise. Go on. Well, just thinking. What the hell were you thinking? Doing an interview behind my back. You just gets kidnapped? I'm sorry. You're sorry.

Sorry isn't gonna cut it. You're gonna have to pay for this. I've decided I want more of the money. But you're already taking 95% of the money. Well, I've decided it should be 100%. Yeah, but what about the work that I do? The work you do? Your job is to come up with a monologue and write shitty sketches.

And this is what you've done to me? That's maybe the movie I wanted to see. It's a modern-day Martin Lawrence being kidnapped by slave catchers that have a time machine. You know, I don't know what's worse. The idea that you could just bullshit your end of the bargain or... Or this attempt to replace me. I wasn't trying to replace you.

Yeah, well, you couldn't. I could very well be the greatest interviewer of all time. You remember, this is the Adam Friedland show. It's not the Adam and Nick show, and it's certainly not come town. Yeah, I've been trying to write monologue stuff. Just write me a goddamn monologue. It's just that the news isn't funny. It's been over a year.

since you've written anything there must be something I look and I look and I look well fucking look harder okay all right okay monologue jokes New York Times what we got Supreme Court Trump oh none of this shit is fucking funny god damn it I just wish we lived in a fucking funnier world you should his pants Thank you. Thank you. And switching over to entertainment news, fat actor John Goodman has shit himself on the set of his new film. Yeah, I heard it's actually a sequel to the Flintstones,

which would explain the yabba-dabba doo-doo he took at his pants. In the sports world, a local neo-Nazi has been waiting outside of city field telling passers-by that he could not be more excited for the upcoming baseball season. Yeah, I guess it must be springtime for Hitler. And lastly, a man has died while on vacation in Saigon after being kicked in the back of the head by a horse. Gee, it sounds like that Charlie horse is a real pain in the neck.

All right, we're just having fun. Thank you guys, okay? We got a great show for you today. We'll be right back with Julian Casablan. Who's excited? Thank you. Thanks a lot, guys. Wait, how did you?

That was great. Where'd you get these stories? No, it was all front page in New York Times. What? No. No. Yeah, I guess like a lucky break. Wait, this is insane. Oprah's tits exploded. Yeah.

Hopefully the news stays like this. like this. What? What's wrong? Why do you look like that? Come on. Why are you so good in a certain minute? I don't know. I mean, it just, it feels bizarre. I mean, it's like somebody's changing reality to make the world funnier just to make the monologue good. Well, maybe it's God. I mean, maybe someone up there recognizes that we're working really hard over here. We deserve this. Yeah, see, but that's the thing is that we're not good people and we're lazy and we're untalented. Well, whoever's watching and helping us out, thank you.

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your first $5 lineup. Prize picks, run yo game. Thank you. Our next guest is a legendary American musician. Everyone, please welcome Julian Casablanca. Let's get some energy. You guys are, you guys are audience. Welcome, sir.

How you doing? Pretty good. Do you think this whole like the set and my suit and everything? Do you think it's like strokes vibes? Kind of now that you mention it, yeah. Hell yeah. It's pretty cool, isn't it? That's, yeah, it's glad I was a positive influence, maybe.

I remember I go to Borders bookstore with my grandma and look at Spin Magazine and just see pictures of y'all boys and be like, I just can't wait to get pussy. one day. These guys are the coolest. So first question, have you ever gotten pussy before? It's so embarrassing that I just wanted to be you. No, no, no. Oh shit. Wow. Wow. What's it like? Look at this. Maticulous preparation. Don't read it, dude. It's embarrassing. Damn. You ever, um. Like serial killer preparation. Yeah. I was like, his penis, 14 inches.

Six foot two. What's it like, okay, so, what is that? What are you reading? It's just excerpts from another interview. I didn't even know what it was. You need a cigarette though. This is a cool. I remember when the band first came out, there was like this legend

about boarding school, like New York City, blue blood kind of lads. But you know, you met them in New York, right? Yeah, Nicola I was friends with since we were kids. I think one, I got sent to boarding school when I was kind of like, the fuck up. Where is it, Switzerland? Yeah.

Were there like war criminals kids at that school? Probably, I mean, I was, you know, I think I was the only kid there without a trust fund, probably. It was like, it was wild. But I wasn't friends with him, but at the time Albert had also gone there for like six months. Did Kim Jong-un go to that boarding school?

I don't think so. I think he went to Switzerland. I think the old man sent him off to probably your school. You're probably roommates. Oh my god, no. No, I had a Korean roommate, but no, it wasn't him. He listened to end of the road like 1,500 times. You hated that?

Oh yeah. Really? That's on, yeah. Apparently Kim Jong-un got addicted to Emmental cheese when he was in Switzerland. and he'd have it like sent to North Korea. And he ate so much cheese, it almost killed him. He got gout.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Right? Like, so I was like in adolescence when, you know, your first two albums came out, right? I was like a little bored. But like your contemporaries in that era, it was corn, you know, or like limp biscuit. Were you at the Grammys with those freaks? We read something where we lost.

Would you lose to? Corn? Fuck. The better man won. Let's be honest. No, it wasn't corn. I would have bowed down. I mean, I, you know, I don't know.

You like corn? I wanted to love, I loved a lot about it, but maybe musically sometimes I had problems with it. You know what I mean? I wanted like something. Yeah, because it sounds like, it sounds like, hard to. I like that one song that's like, you know that one? You know that one? The corn.

Wha-a-a-a. Freak on the, oh, why-a-a-a-a. Y, I, ah, ah, is good. Okay. Whenever I hear that music, I think of a guy in Afghanistan. Like, during the war, you know. It's post-9-11. He's listening to, there is that clip of that guy being, like,

I listen to let the bodies hit the floor while I'm in Kabul. Kind of a nightmare, no? What, the war or the music? The juxtaposition. The juxtaposition makes sense to me. Because lads like me were listening When you're upset, you know, sometimes you just want So you're pro-Iraq war?

Defending freedom at all costs. That was a crap war, in my opinion. Okay, that's not a controversial. I just want to make it clear. Colin Powell shouldn't allied at the UN. He said that in... A lot of people aren't willing to say this, but where were the weapons of mass destruction?

I mean if you said that in 2003 you get like fired from the New York Times and stuff but now it's fine yeah now they're defending other there's a new lie to defend it yeah yeah what's your favorite war my favorite yeah um my favorite war i think war war war two fire is not like the study of it but yeah just at least from the america perspective it was like you know we tried to stay out of it and then yeah eventually I feel like people thought you know the world was gonna be taken over by the Nazis or you know America California was gonna be invaded by Japan so that was at least understandable yeah and then of course it built a war machine that U.S. civil so sick what side would you have

been on you're pretty progressive guy politics I mean I would like to pretend to care about the truth. I don't know whatever that means. But you're pretending. You don't care? No, no, no. You're an I just sounds. I don't want to sound arrogant. But yeah, truth is important and I think rarely kind of in the lens in the mainstream view.

When you guys play that thing for Bernie, did you meet him? You met the man? He was pretty didn't seem like he really knew or cared, which is fine. What do you think he listens to? Whoa. Woolly bully probably. He seems like the kind of guy who doesn't listen to music. It's too much noise.

What's this noise with the, I don't know. Yeah. No, he probably likes like, he went to college in the 60s. He probably likes like just fingers. popping style do-wop no sorry sorry sorry I you know like you go to lovers land and try to finger pop to it oh yeah no I don't know still what you're saying and then he kissed me fingering music I don't know what that is I think pops and shrug finger pop Jewish summer summer camp okay

well what's it's better than let the bodies at the floor in Afghanistan is it yes yes that's love that's arguable between two ugly teenagers that's love okay it's arguable what are you talking about well you're gonna out a village and fucking Torabora one made me nauseous and one didn't when did you swipe your view like a 12 probably you're probably one of those cool NYC kids no you guys grow up quick you know that's a late boomer I think everyone I know that grows up in the city is like oh I had my coke phase at 11 I'm over it

No, no, it was later. Yeah, me too. You like punk as a kid? I mean, sure, still. Still. What's your favorite? My favorite punk band? I mean, that's like, I mean...

TV partner night. We're gonna have a TV partner. All right. Yeah, I think probably I would say, I mean in a way, oh man, just the evolution to punk is actually pretty strange. Yoko. Yeah, Yoko. She kind of invented, low key.

She's kind of the first punk, no? I don't know about that, man. Why not? I can't with Yoko. You don't like her? Kind of that when she was going, ah, ah, ah, ah, exactly, yeah, that's a problem. That's kind of bad attitude punk style, no?

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is pay the $5 shipping. BluToo.com. Chew it and do it. I think a lot of people used to think that we were trying to do 70s punk, but I think it was just the coincidence that

like 70s bands and me, we were trying to copy Velvet Underground. You were a Velvet's kid? That was your band? That was maybe, well, that was probably one of the first bands that I kind of got into. Really? Did you meet Luke?

I did, yeah. Did he say you were cool? It's funny because I met him before we were, you know, did anything. And there was a book signing and we met him and he was super kind of weird and cryptic and cool, I thought. And then we met him years later, we did like an interview thing. We did a song with him. We did like Walk on the Wild Side and stuff. Yeah, he said, it was nice.

There's a bad word in that song. There's a what? There's a bad word. The colored girls. It's funny that you bring that up. Well, it's funny because, okay, so we were doing the song, and then he was like, oh, he, like didn't say it. And I was like, no one cares, it's fine.

It was, you know, before Trump, I guess. You know what I mean? It was kind of. It was when it was cool. It was just. No, it was just not like... I think we've kind of gone back on the sensitivity meter. Sure, there was a moral crisis.

There was just a time when, no, I was just like, it's fine. It's like, who cares? It's a legendary song, like, no one cares. And he was just like, I think I said it when we did it or something. And then years, fast-forward, years later, they asked me to do this thing with like Q-Tip. And they literally had like black vocalists doing the background for Wildside. Yeah. And so I had to kind of like face the music thing.

I was like, do you guys, like, should I not say this line? And you learned an important lesson that day. They said, no, definitely sing it. Nice. Nice, brother. So you got the past? I mean, they, I don't know. I was just, I was definitely like, it was like a pretty much majority black audience too.

So it was like, I was like, they told me to do it. Lou Reed's song, I'm just hired to. Yeah, I didn't write this crap. Yeah. Have you blown it with like a hero? Have you like met a big one and just like thought like this line is gonna be fire? I'm gonna say this to him. A little bit, maybe almost.

Who'd you blow it the worst? I kind of, Eddie Vedder, I think, it's just, I was like too much of a fan. I think maybe I've made it up and we're okay again. I like to practice being cool the next three times we met. Dude, it's so embarrassing when you meet a guy like that. Kind of like right now. Anyone else you blew it with, epically? Um.

Kate Moss, Rivers Cuomo. Did you meet Bowie? Yeah. Was he the best? Oh, I kind of embarrassed myself in front of him, too. What? Well, I had, like, a dumb theory, and I was a punk kid, and I was probably drunk. I don't know.

I asked him if Velvet Gold Mine was, like, about anal sex. And you bombed? Yeah, and he was probably so polite. He was probably so polite about it. He was such a gentleman. He was like, no. it was about the London Underground. Before we were doing the interview, you were saying how you have zero respect for Great Britain.

I did not say that. You did. And you said you were glad Queen Elizabeth passed away. Oh my God. Does it bother you? You said I love England and you were like, don't you? Does it bother you that they sing in an American accent? Why do they be doing that?

They're all like singing American style. Yeah. You step off. Adele. Yeah. Do you ever meet Susan Boyle? What? No.

I watch that video when I want to cry. She, like, goes out on that stage, and everyone's like, ha, ha, ha. Look how nasty this lady is. And they're like, what do you want to do? She's like, I want to be a singer. And they're like, ah, you're too nasty to sing. Yeah. And then she just does fucking lame-miss, perfect?

Mm. It makes me weep. Yeah. What's wrong, dude? You have a history with her? You feel it? I wrote a song. You wrote a song?

Play for me. Okay. Oh my God. But it's maybe not your song. Are you gonna pull out like a microphone? What are you? Here, I have headphones. Really?

It's just a demo, dude. Are you joking? What is the song you wrote? It's just a demo, dude. Okay. I wrote this after my mom died too. Alright, oh my god. Ginozburg is over.

Dang. What's he doing? Where do you go? I'd like to kill himself. That was intense. If that's true, I can't. I was like at first I was well. wondering if it was like a joke.

No, it's real. It's good. You think? Yeah. No, come on. Well, I was thinking of like, I don't know if the whole thing you were saying was a joke, but. No, it's true. It worked.

It was like, I was thinking of your mom and it was like sad. Thanks, man. So it's like one of the best songs I've written. Is it one of the, it's pretty cool actually. The chords you're playing are kind of what you play the guitar. Not well. I thought it was cool. You want to listen again?

For... It's only 59 seconds. 59 seconds. Okay. At first I thought maybe you were playing a joke and you're like I wrote a song. It paused in the middle. You didn't even finish it. It just stopped.

Oh, if you didn't even hear the whole thing, bro. You're lying on my ass right now? You're gonna give me an attitude here. I'm being... We're rock. We're rock, dude. We have attitudes.