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

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

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We're rolling. We're back again guys with the Lost Episode series. Adam Friedland here at the Adam Friedland'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 Episodes series. The guest this time was Julian Casablanca who, let's be real folks, I'm going to be candid, okay? When I was in high school and I was reading Spin magazine I would see pictures of this gentleman who's on the show that you're about to see. And I don't know if he was gay, but I just wanted 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 to be 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 wanted to 37 year old. I wasn't a gay thought. I never had any 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? What was your favorite song Thomas? I don't even remember, it was so good. 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. Yeah, it's just me here still. I really do think now I can do this.

I can do this. I can do this, guys. This is an episode that was recorded, what, 27 years ago with Julien Casablanca. There are a couple of fun complications that you will... Guys, this is the second episode. I've lost... First episode of Luca as a Laker. What? First episode of Luca as a Laker.

Okay, enough ad-lipping on the other side of the camera. Intro, sketch. Oh, yeah, the intro sketch. Oh, OK, yeah. Here's the other thing. This one we actually shot an intro sketch for. 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. We weren't necessarily in love with 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 Casblancas You see 12 years a slave No, you didn't it's a very tragic movie but it came out like 10 years ago and I hadn'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. Uh, go on. Well, just think. What the hell were you thinking? He's like a doctor or something. Doing an interview behind my back. He just gets kidnapped? I'm sorry.

You're sorry? Sorry isn't gonna cut it. 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 on the-

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 Morton Lawrence being kidnapped by slave catchers that have a time machine something. You know, I don't know what's worse. The idea that you could just bullshit your end of the bargain or this attempt to replace

me. I wasn't 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.

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 Analog jokes, NewYorkTimes.com. What do we got? Supreme Court, Trump, I don't know. None of this shit is fucking funny.

God damn it, I just wish we lived in a fucking funnier world. Come on. All right, Wait a minute. He shoot 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 in 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 Casablanca's. Who's excited? Thank you.

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

Hopefully the news stays like this. What? What's wrong? Why do you look like that? Come on, why are you so concerned, man? I don't know, I mean it just 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. We're not good people.

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Everyone please welcome Julian Casablancas. Let's get some energy. You guys are our audience. Welcome. Sir. How are you doing? Pretty good. Do you think this whole set and my suit and everything, do you think it's like Strokes vibes?

Kind of, now that you mention it, yeah. Hell yeah. Pretty cool. Yeah, I'm glad I was a positive influence. I remember I'd 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, I just wanted to beat you. No, no, no.

Oh shit. Wow. Wow. What's it like? Look at this. Meticulous 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 the other interview I didn't care.

I didn't even know what it was. Um. You need a cigarette though, that's a cool actually. I remember when the band like 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, Nikolai I was friends with since we were kids. I think one, I got sent to boarding school when I was kind of like a 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, probably your roommates. Oh my god, 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 song, yeah. Apparently Kim Jong-un got addicted to Emmentaler cheese when he was in Switzerland, and he'd have it sent to North Korea. And he ate so much cheese, it almost killed him.

He got gout. Oh wow. Yeah. Right? And he got ate so much cheese it almost killed him. He got gout. Oh, yeah right like So I was like in adolescence when you know your first two albums came out right I was like a little boy, 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 were at something where we lost Would you lose to Korn?

The better man won. Let's be honest. No, it wasn't Korn I would have bowed down. I mean, I you know, I don't know. You like Korn? 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 something kinda. Yeah, because it sounds like shh. Hard to.

I like that one song that's like, mm-ba-ka-ka, mm-ba-ka-ka-ka. You know that one? The corn? Waa-a-a. Freak on the, oh, waa-a-a-a is good. Okay. Whenever I hear that music, I think of a guy in Afghanistan.

Like. Sure. During the war. 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. No, um...

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 have lied at the UN. 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'd get 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.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's your favorite war? My favorite? Yeah. My favorite war, I think World War II. Fire. Is not like the study of it, but yeah, just, at least from the American 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 a pretty progressive guy in politics.

politics? I mean I I would like to pretend to care about the truth I don't know what that means. But you're not you're pretending you don't care? No no no I just you're an 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? Briefly. 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, 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 finger-popping style doo-wop no no? Sorry. Finger-popping? Sorry, you know, like you go to Lover's Lane 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 finger-pop to the stroke. Finger-pop. Jewish summer camp. Okay, wow.

Well, it's better than let the bodies hit 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? Clearing out a village in fucking Toriboro or whatever? One made me nauseous and one didn't. When did you swipe your V? Like 12 probably. Jesus. You're probably one of those cool NYC kids. No, no, no.

You guys grow up quick, you know? I was the 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, no. I was later. Yeah, me too. You were like punk as a kid? Uh, I mean, sure, still.

Still? What's your favorite? My favorite punk band? I mean, that's uh, like, uh, I mean... TV partner night. We're I mean... TV party tonight. We're gonna have a TV party tonight. All right. Yeah, I think probably, I would say, I mean, in a way,

oh man, just the evolution of punk's 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?

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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 and I 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. Mm-hmm Yeah, he said he 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 cares. It's fine. It was 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 I was just like, it's fine. It's like, who cares? It's a legendary song. No one cares.

And he was just like, I think I said it when we did it or something. And then years, fast forward forward a years later they asked me to do this thing with like q-tip and they literally had like black vocalists doing the background for wild side 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 Well, I'm so you got the pass I mean they I don't know I was just I was definitely like it was like a pretty much Like majority black audience too. So it was like I was like they

Told me to do it. Yeah, Lou Reed's song, I'm just hired to be there. 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 of like this line is gonna be fire, I'm gonna say this to him? A little bit, maybe, almost.

Who'd you blow at the worst? I kind of, Eddie Vedder, I think, I was like too much of a fan. I think maybe I've made it up and we're okay again I like practice being cool the next three times. We've done it It's so embarrassing when you meet a guy like that kind of like right now Anyone else you blew with epically? Kate Moss Rivers Cuomo

She 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 Goldmine was like about anal sex.

And you bombed. Yeah. And he 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. Yeah, you did. And you said you were glad Queen Elizabeth passed. 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 American accent? Why would they be doing that?

They're all like singing American style. Yeah. Step off, Adele. Yeah. Did you ever meet Susan Boyle? What? No. I watch that video when I want to cry.

She 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, 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. And then she just does fucking Les Mis, perfect. It makes me weep. Yeah.

What's wrong, dude? You have a history with her you I wrote a song you wrote a song play for me, okay But it's maybe not your song. Are you gonna pull out like a microphone? What are you... Oh, okay. I have headphones. Really?

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

All right. Oh my god. He's not. Fuck. He's crying. Oh, fuck. Fuck. Gainsburg is over. Dang. What's he doing? Where'd he go?

Like to kill himself. That was intense. If that's true, I can't. I was like at first I was wondering if it was like a joke. No, it's real. It's good. You think? Oh 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 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 best? 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. Do you want to listen again? It's only 59 seconds. Okay. At first I thought maybe you were playing a joke. It paused in the middle. You didn't even finish it. It just stopped.

Oh, you didn't even hear the whole thing, bro. You're lying on my ass right now. You're going to give me an attitude here. We're rock. We're rock, dude. We have attitudes.