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Quiet on set. Are we going? Should I go? Okay. Guys, it's Adam. We're here at the studio, The Adam Friedland Show. We are working on some things that are pretty exciting right now. I'm not yet at liberty to divulge. I've made a lot of promises over the years, and I think these are gonna be the first. It's like, I feel like a deadbeat dad to you guys, saying that I'm gonna go to your baseball game.
I'm your father. I mean, some shit is happening, okay? But in the meantime, we have four episodes that we hadn't released yet from the talk show, and we're going to be starting a series called The Lost Episodes, The Lost Tapes, I don't know. Didn't Chappelle do, Pete, Chappelle did like a... Lost Episodes. The Lost Sketches or something? Yes, we'll call them The Lost Tapes.
will kind of believe it kind of like they should go how comedy legend dave chapelle we're gonna be doing the lost episodes summer good some summer atrocious uh... you'll enjoy them i think this was good we had three eight dre eddie maceo from sopranos uh... played adriano lacerda famously so is also in the joey show the joey trippi on the spin-off of friends in the meantime
As we reorganize a lot of things around here in the office, we're installing some new things, whatever. I'm going on too long. I can do this, guys. I can do this.
okay guys so the this episode was actually recorded a couple months before we shot the short film and so we held off on releasing it because uh i don't know nick said it would be confusing if it was ready again i don't it doesn't matter okay so this is me andrea di matteo um there's something that there's something happening in the interview i'll let you be the judge
So also it is technically the first girl to be on the show. So guys, enjoy it. We'll be back next week. And with our series, we lost tapes, lost episodes. I can do this. We've wanted a girl for a long time. Everyone said no until, I can't believe it, American actress, most notably from the television show The Sopranos. Everyone, please put your hands together for Drea Di Matteo.
Girl, I'm a man. I am the first male guest you've had.
Don't do, no, you're doing the gender, no, don't. Come on. What's up? Stop it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Adam fucking Friedman.
Shut up.
I'm going to talk in my accent for you.
I'm going to be Adriana the whole time. Don't do that. Don't. Stop it. Just be yourself.
And Adam?
I'll just full disclosure.
Adam, you're going to be okay.
Full disclosure. While the show was coming out contemporaneously, I watched Sunday Nights with my family. And the tennis scene was a seminal moment.
You had it run to your bedroom?
I got an erection. I did get an erection and my mom was sitting there like, you were like, I hope a Jewish child gets an erection?
Yes, I only dated Jewish boys back then.
You grew up in the city, you said in 1972 you were born? I was born in 72.
I'm the oldest person in this room right now.
Do you study theater growing up? Your mother was a playwright?
Yeah, my mom was a playwright, so I had no choice but to be stuck in the theater watching all these fucking indulgent people roll around.
You don't like theater?
Feel their emotions all day.
That was 70s theater. That's nasty. They all had their dicks and pussies out, right?
What was it called? Was it Living Theater?
The Living Theater. The Living Theater. Disgusting. Baby boomers should kill themselves, honestly. They're revolting people.
Yeah, my mom was an Italian, and she was, you know, that was a little more conservative. It was very Italian plays. If you love The Sopranos, you would love the way my mom wrote.
What is Italian style? What does that mean?
A lot of mafia stuff. A lot of mafia. Her father was Joe Babes. He was a mafioso.
Joe Babes is your grandfather.
Yeah, she was a mafia princess, my mom.
Really? And Joe Babes was like kind of a, because Babe is a little girl.
Well, they say Joe Babes because he was a womanizer, but then I looked it up in the Google, and the Google says he shot a baby by accident. Your grandmother? How you doing? He shot a baby by accident. I was like, fuck, is this the reason? Really? He also was known for bringing heroin, bringing morphine, heroin.
Oh, my God.
To the United States back in those days, so he was kind of like.
That's what Pussy was doing to send his kid to Villanova. But it's a big no-no.
You're not allowed to do that in the Mafia.
They don't like when you... They don't like pushing H. You can say whatever the fuck you want. You're kind of a film head. I found an interview with you in 2006 where you were talking about Abel. It was when you were doing Assault on Precinct 13. It seems like you wanted to be a filmmaker.
I did. Because I grew up in the theater, I absolutely hated watching all these fucking actors rolling around and acting like assholes. And I was forced to sit in the theater every night. So when I went to school, I wanted to do the anti-theater, which was film. I don't know. I think it's kind of similar.
I was just being rebellious, but at the same time, I was like, I know I'm going to end up in this fucking industry.
Why? Because it would make your mom happy?
No, well, she would write me plays when I started acting and stuff.
What kind of plays? Italian stuff?
She would write stuff. Well, she wrote something that was about our lives, actually, because it was called The Heart Transplant, and it was my 25th birthday. But she gave me a play about my relationship to her and my nanny. I was raised by my nanny.
Oh, okay. I was raised by my nanny. Was she West Indian?
Nope, Nicaraguan.
Nicaraguan.
My Nicaraguan bat. We call her monkey.
She was a bat. I don't think you should say that. We called her a bat. Why a bat?
Because she was a Nicaraguan. I don't know.
It's a nice lady.
She was a bat. I fucking loved her. I love her. I mean, she's dead.
She's dead now?
Yeah.
Do you speak Espanol? Si.
It's my first language.
When I was a little kid, my babysitter was from Mexico. I lived in Los Angeles. And I spoke fluent.
Me too.
Yeah. I watched Univision. Me too. Sabado Gigante.
Sabado Gigante is the best. It was great.
That was when I fell in love with boobs, really, because those shows had such big boobs. I was like three, and I'd be like, I need a motorboat them shits. Oh, yeah.
The best hits in the biz.
Yeah, yeah. They really do have incredible ones down there.
They're not even real, half of them. But they're like the soft fake ones. The ones you just... Do they have better ones now? They have squeezies? I mean, we just had to do a photo shoot for OnlyFans.
Yeah?
And this girl had the best fake boobs I have ever felt in my life.
Squeezies.
They make those now? They're incredible.
When I was 18, I went to a strip club.
They call them gummies. Gummies is that dog they the doctor calls that I don't know We're talking about their fake boobs and they were like can I may I and they look they're all feeling each other's boobs I'm like Robbie you want to come in Robbie grab the boobs.
No You're a good man, you didn't get to she lied I She said, I'll kill you, I'll cut your dick off. I was like, you know, you want to see this. If you touch these gummies, I'll... What? You're taking a duty?
It would have been my duty.
Oh, it would have been your duty.
Yeah, he was in the sloppy Duke position.
When I was growing up, I grew up in Vegas. There were so many big, like so many of the roundies. And then as a kid, you think Double D fake, best kind. And when I was 18, I went to a strip club and I touched one and I was like, these are, these are terrible. They're so hard and scary.
Yeah, no, no, no. Some girls have these really incredible fake boobs. They must be uncomfortable for them. Wow. I always wanted fake boobs. You wanted them? I always wanted some fake boobs.
But you're beautiful.
Yeah, just to keep them up. Really? These things are rolled up now. I got them rolled up in my bra.
Oh, my god. You're perfect the way you are. You're amazing. Oh, you're a good singer.
Did you learn how to do that in Vegas? Bruno Mars. Oh, he's your Vegas showboy.
No, I'm not Vegas. I'm a song and dance man. I want to get into the Sopranos. Is that annoying for you? No. You love talking about it.
No, I talk about it all the time.
When I read that interview with you from 2006, I was like, oh, you know, actors can be 65 IQ, especially the guys. Like, some of them are golden retrievers, right? But, like, if someone, if David Chase was, like, telling someone in The Sopranos what it's like, that it's a meditation on the concept of family, and they're like, yeah, you know,
whatever the fuck you talking about you know but like he's still amazing in the scene it doesn't matter right but when I get a sense of what I was reading that interview with you is you fully grasp the the gravity of what you were taking part of even before the pilot
I think that comes from growing up with a writer and she's a teacher. She taught playwriting too. And I would sit through her classes a lot. I learned how to act listening to her teach the writers because the whole thing, and you would know this too, just doing what you do, it's like, If you're in a constant state of doing something all the time, then you're not going to bore anybody.
If you're just sitting there stagnant and everything kind of falls apart. So with that show, when I first read the pilot, I read her pieces of it over the phone. And then I sent her the script. She read it. I was like, this will never get made.
You were the hostess at first. Yeah, I wasn't even meant to. And then you became a regular. Yeah. And fucking Brendan Fallone was playing around with trucks.
Brendan Pallone.
Do you know that I don't really know that much about the show? You've never seen it.
You gotta watch Sopranos, bro. You gotta watch it.
The kids never saw it.
How many times have you seen it? Your kids, they're babies.
No, the kids that were on the show never watched it. When I had my podcast, I was interviewing them. Yeah, and they had never watched it, Jamie and AJ. Met on AJ, but now they watched it. AJ hasn't fucking seen the show.
So funny. That is so AJ. Yeah. I'm going to the Puddle of Mud concert. I can't watch. How many times have you seen it, just once through? You watched it while it was coming out?
No, I was a psycho fan. I am still a psycho fan of the show. Me too. I don't even relate to having been on it. Really? I wouldn't read the scripts when we were shooting. I mean, in the beginning I did, because I couldn't believe I was even being added to the show. But in those days, being on TV wasn't cool. I was like, there, I'm kissing my friggin' movie career away. I'm not gonna do this.
But when I was getting those scripts, I was like, I don't even care that I'm not gonna be doing films. And I would keep sending them to my mom. I was like, this is amazing.
And your mom said, as a playwright. She was floored. My expert opinion.
She was floored. Plus, my family is like steeped in the mafia.
I know, you kill babies and stuff.
I know, it's fucked up.
Why does the mafia have to kill a baby? How much money do you get for that?
It was an accident.
Oh, there was no envelope under the baby or something?
That baby's a fucking threat.
The baby was in the envelope.
That baby's a threat.
Your story arc on that show is one of the most tragic. Was it like a Hollywood decision or were they like, you're getting popped this week?
Oh, no, that was the story. That was the story.
That was the story arc.
Yeah, and I was never meant to be on the show anyway from the beginning. So I was like, all right. And I was done, man. I was done crying. Back in those days, like, when I was acting, I was really invested in it.
Method.
Super method.
So you and Christopher were kissing for real?
We were shooting up heroin, man.
Really?
He was choking me out. I had black eyes all day. It was fucked. I was done. You know what I mean?
I was, like, ready to move on. The scene where he, like, it's one of the most misogynistic scenes. There's the junior pussy eating scene where he's like, who the fuck were you told? The pussy eating? Oh. Yeah, they find out junior eats pussy. Yeah, it's the best. And, like, he's part of the generation where he's like, that, like, means he's gay. And he beats up his girlfriend from Florida.
That's so good. But the scene where you and Chrissy, he's like, who's your most famous? You're, like, doing a couple, like, boyfriend-girlfriend thing. And then you say Penn and Teller. And he's like, you fucking whore. No. I mean, it's a show about cavemen, right?
It's the best comedy out there.
You did a sitcom afterwards? Oh, no, it didn't compare.
And I didn't want to do that because I was like, it's never going to be the same.
As The Sopranos?
Yeah, it's all about that timing.
There was no timing on Sopranos.
That shit was natural.
I think the Joey Tribbiani spinoff of Friends was similarly poignant.
I think that watching Matt LeBlanc is one of the funniest things ever.
Is he actually Italian? LeBlanc? What is he, a hockey player? He's French. He's French? LeBlanc. Our heritage is not a costume, LeBlanc. What do you think is more italophobic as a character? Do you think Tony Soprano, a mass murderer, mob boss, sociopath, or Joey Tribbiani, a mentally handicapped actor?
I mean, and they weren't protesting in front of the fucking Warner Brothers or, but we got protests all day for Sopranos from the Italian Anti-Defamation Society. They hated it.
They hated it? They hated it. They need to shut the fuck up.
I was like, you guys are the ones that make us look bad because you don't understand literature or art.
Christopher Columbus was a monster. I mean. Did you watch the final episode with the rest of America?
I lost my shit. I had a house full of people, lots of mozzarella everywhere. Oh, you got mozzarella? You know, we did it. I was a Sunday night prepper.
It's clear what the ending was, right?
Well, what did you think the ending was?
What do you think?
What do you think?
I'll let you say it, and I'll say the funny thing that I had prepared for this.
He's like, this bitch is fucking up my shit.
I thought you were on the Joey show. I thought you understand comedy.
Yeah. Okay, I think that if David Chase would have killed him, people would have been pissed. And if he didn't kill him, they would have been pissed. I thought leaving it a blank canvas was a great way to... David Chase said. Did he say it? Because I never watch the interviews of him saying it.
Now I'm going to mansplain. Okay, the joke was, you were supposed to say, yeah, I think David Chase has said that he gets killed. And I was going to say...
i'm pretty sure it's that aj becomes the boss which is that was that was my joke but no there's a scene i think the episode before where they're talking about the moment it happens and then they said yeah what when it happens it's just everything ends everything goes black This episode is sponsored by cornbread. Swap alcohol for a guilt-free option.
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That's exactly what happened.
Does the song come up after everything goes black?
Have you not seen the fucking Sopranos?
I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it.
No, Meadow's trying to park the car. Tony's at Holston's. He sits down. He goes through the jukebox. He's looking. You see Don't Stop Believing. He keeps looking and then he goes back to it. Can we play it right now? Genius. Fucking genius. Fucking genius. It was. That song too.
I know.
100%.
I think about the people that I love. When you were, to that song. No. When you were 15. I think about all the people I love in that show. I love, I love every character so much.
I know. I love you.
No, I mean. Can we hold hands? No.
Oh, he's a germaphobe.
No, I'm not a germaphobe.
Like Pauly Walnuts. Do you know that he's a real germaphobe in real life? And he died. He died. I know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can you tell me a little bit about Jim Gandolfini?
You know, I was just talking to his wife last night. She sent me an article of me defending Jim because you know who played Rosalie Aprile? Sharon Angelo? Yeah, she was posting all this stuff. Apparently some article came out or a book came out where this guy just went nuts. About what? On James Gandolfini.
Why?
Talking about his he's in the ground talking about his demons and talking about we used to party on the show like crazy we were celebrating we were like what is happening this is like Beatles vibes really we were losing our minds and we had a great time was there all of us were there were romances you had a couple no I don't think there were romances you didn't get with Johnny Sack
Anyway, someone was talking shit about James.
They wrote a book. They put a book out on the 25th anniversary, and it's a sensational book about Jim's demons.
What do they say?
If any actor doesn't have demons, then don't go see their fucking movies because they're going to be boring. All of us actors have demons, but this guy told a story that wasn't his story to tell.
Who was the guy? He worked on the show?
He was like a locations manager. What the fuck does he know? Everybody's furious about it.
So he's a location scout that said that James had demons?
Yeah, but he was never on the show. He was there in the end.
So wait, so you guys were partying and stuff, like blowing off steam? It was like a loose set?
We all were partying. No, not on set. I mean, we would drink when we had those scenes where we're eating and drinking. We always ate and drank.
It was real booze.
Yeah, there's that one scene with Christopher and I where we're at the funeral, we're at the Olivia's memorial.
We're sitting there stoned.
We were so stoned.
You actually were high.
We were so fucking, it was an experiment.
That's great acting in that scene.
But they also painted our eyes red and we were like, we don't need this. We were so stoned that we couldn't do the scene.
I have a question about sex scenes in movies. I've never done one, but eventually it probably will happen in my career.
You're definitely going to have a big sex scene.
With the style of casting that they put me out for. But is it true that actors imagine the audience naked when they're doing a sex scene?
Wait, say it again?
When an actor does a sex scene, is it true that actors imagine the audience naked?
You mean like if it's live? Like in the theater or like on set?
I just thought that was a saying about acting where if you're doing a sex scene, you imagine that the audience is naked.
No. That's not true, Adam.
Well, I didn't go to Tisch, so I don't know anything about acting, I guess.
How long have you been in New York for?
About to be 10 years.
Oh, not long. For me, it's... But then again, your life hasn't... You're not as old as me.
I'm getting... Mayor Adams sent me a letter. I'm getting Yankee fitted at Tim's 10-year anniversary.
He said that's for your 10-year... What's Kathy Hochul going to send you?
I don't know. What's her vibe?
Maybe she'll send you a vaccinated necklace, and she'll ask you to be one of her disciples.
Oh, yeah, you don't like the vax? You're not about that vax?
No, I don't really give a shit about it.
You don't wave other people.
Well, yeah, that's the only reason why I'm not about it, because who gives a fuck?
Yeah, yeah. But it killed opportunities for you?
I mean, it killed a lot of things.
What did it kill? The virus? Anyway, so what are you in New York for right now?
We're promoting our streetwear clothing line because I can never wear my tennis outfit again and act on television.
And what is that called?
Because I wasn't compliant and fun.
Ultra free. Ultra free.
Let's hear about it. Ultra free is in the back of my leg.
You got that?
You got that? Fucking work out the... Just kidding.
So what's the idea for the... I mean, it's ultra free.
The website's ultrafree.co. And it's really just...
Let's get a little, what was it, elevator pitch? What kind of woman is wearing this?
It's men and women, and it's like a streetwear line.
So it's like streetwear meets January 6th or something, right?
Yeah, it's not really about politics. It's got political vibes because it was born out of it, but it's not really about that.
It was born out of politics.
It was born out of it because freedom is not cool anymore.
I think that you shouldn't allow these...
I don't have a choice, Adam. I didn't allow anybody.
I'll cast you. You can work it.
These people are crazy.
So what if I cast you as my wife on the show?
Can we please do that? That would be so much fun. I'm your older wife. I take care of you.
So in this show, do we have kids? We could have kids. What's the conflict, though?
Maybe the whole show is us trying to get the old lady pregnant.
That can't be. Wait, so it's porn? Or we're going to, like, fertility? That can't be the only conflict.
Listen, we'll do the show on my OnlyFans station.
Really?
I'm just kidding.
So you've moved on to OnlyFans. That's it, man. I have to say I've never seen it before.
OnlyFans? Neither did I. I never saw it until I did it.
Are people gross to you? People should respect you.
No, they are respectful.
Good.
Yeah, it's a fan page.
You tell me if anyone is out of line. No, they're not out of line. It would make me insane.
There's a few of them that are out of line.
Actually, when I was researching for this, I found a YouTube video where he's like, Reviewing Drea de Mateo's OnlyFans page.
Oh, are you fucking kidding?
And I was like, I want to kill him. I literally want to kill him. I have a surprise for you. You do? Yeah, can I get it up?
Can you?
Yeah, he's bringing it up.
Can you get it up? What the fuck are you talking about, Ovii?
Here's a, you close your eyes?
Yes.
Okay. Promise you're closing.
I promise. Yeah. Are you going to put something in my mouth?
No, no, he fucked up. No, no, I'm not going to, come on. He fucked up. That wasn't it. So keep them closed. I'll just be asleep for a little bit.
It's cool.
You know, this guy's from Jersey over here. He's an eye trallion from Jersey.
He might need to blindfold.
Where is it? No, I don't. Under here? No, it doesn't work unless I have a
I got to open my eyes. I'll just put it in the bag.
Oh, no, no. I have it. Oh, my God. All right.
You open your eyes. Did you just put something in your mouth?
No. You can open your eyes.
Oh, my God. You look like Christopher.
Yeah, I do.
Oh, my God.
Is it true what they said?
You recognize this? Yeah, yeah.
That you've made number two in your pants?
Oh, yeah.
Is it true?
When during the mock execution he pooped his pants and the Russians said, . You know what I mean?
Wait a second. You look like fucking Michael. He does. Come on. What the fuck?
No.
Your nose isn't big enough. And you're cute.
I know. He's got a huge one. You're cute. That's kind of we're cousins, the Jews and the Italians.
Yeah.
I'm blocking your screen. We're melodramatic. We're annoying.
The Jews and the Italians are the same.
I'm sorry. You know what they say? Tony says in the show, Jews with better food.
Yes, it's true.
So I do look like him?
Yeah, you do. You want me to count?
No. Is it true you made number two in your pants?
Ladies and gentlemen, Tracy Mateo.
What a day.
What a surprise.
And today was my bar mitzvah. Your bar mitzvah.
The day I became a man. Thank you so much.
That was so fun. I'm sweating my fucking balls off.
Hello everyone, it's me, Tommy in it, and Jack Manifold, and we are here on the Shut Up, I'm Talking podcast to let you know we just had the legendary Dan and Bill on our podcast.
YouTube OGs, legendary status, and they gave us so much advice and gave us so many interesting stories. They're bloody brilliant, weren't they? It was incredible.
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