Adam Friedland Breaks Down His Now-Famous Interview with Gavin Newsom + FIRE & ICE: Leftist Attacks!

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From Carolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show.
Adam's guest today, comedian and podcaster, Adam Friedland. And the news with Elisha Krauss, and now, Adam Carolla.

**Adam Carolla** (2:41)
Yeah, get it on. Got to get on the choice video on your mandates, you get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for coming, friends. Love that about you, Adam Friedland in the studio. Adam, you know, probably initially from Come Town and then Stand Up and that kind of stuff, and now podcasting as well. We were looking at a great clip of you and Gavin Newsom that kind of made the rounds and made us laugh. We'll find it at some point.
So you, where do you start off?

**Adam Friedland** (3:09)
In life?

**Adam Carolla** (3:10)
Yeah.

**Adam Friedland** (3:10)
I guess Santa Monica, I was born here.

**Adam Carolla** (3:12)
You're in Santa Monica?

**Adam Friedland** (3:13)
Yeah. And then I'm on the Wikipedia of St. John's Hospital. It's my biggest flex.

**Adam Carolla** (3:17)
Oh, really?

**Adam Friedland** (3:18)
Yeah. I'm right next to Marisco Hargitay.

**Adam Carolla** (3:21)
Notables born at the hospital.

**Adam Friedland** (3:23)
Yeah. It's the closest my dad has come to saying, I'm proud of you, which I felt phenomenal.

**Adam Carolla** (3:29)
So, you grew up, like, where in Santa Monica?

**Adam Friedland** (3:32)
I grew up, like, I was here until kindergarten, then we moved to Vegas.

**Adam Carolla** (3:36)
Vegas.

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Yeah.

**Adam Carolla** (3:38)
Jimmy did that.

**SPEAKER_12** (3:39)
Yeah.

**Adam Friedland** (3:39)
Me and Kimmel.

**Adam Carolla** (3:40)
Yeah.

**Adam Friedland** (3:40)
My favorite sons.

**Adam Carolla** (3:42)
It's a weird place to move. Yeah. I mean, 30 years ago.

**Adam Friedland** (3:47)
Yeah. It was a...

**Adam Carolla** (3:49)
Even more.

**Adam Friedland** (3:49)
It was like, kind of like, no, it was the, I guess it was the kind of housing boom, like, white flight America. So, it was very much like, it's like Orange County or Phoenix or, like, you know.

**Adam Carolla** (4:00)
I get it. People who live in Santa Monica don't seem like they want to go to Vegas. Yeah.

**Adam Friedland** (4:06)
Well, my parents, my parents kind of, my dad was, like, developed houses in the San Fernando Valley and then there was the savings and loan crisis in the early 90s. If you remember Keating, Charles Keating.

**Adam Carolla** (4:23)
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Adam Friedland** (4:24)