11:20 "Adam suggested, our Adam... Ginsberg. He suggested that, um, uh, an answer to our, uhh, to our problem with our brain, uhhh, to how, how we've lost our sharpness, and our, intellectually..." *doesn't finish train of thought* This is the kind of gold that keeps me coming back to this pod. P.S. Great special, Nick.
Nick's special is on its way to a million hits and has to be the first hour long standup that we've been able to watch in one sitting in what feels like years now. so proud of my best friend for overcoming his crippling gay autistic agoraphobia 🙌
Yeah, I was sitting there watching it and then I hovered over the time bar and like 40 minutes had gone by. That was a very entertaining special, even though it was quite a bit tamer than the juicier Cumtown bits.
Really appreciate you guys slowing the show down by 50% preemptively for people like me who need a little more time to understand the humor. Still didn’t get it but I appreciate the gesture.
It's like Calvin and Hobbes if Calvin grew up and developed severe major depressive disorder, and Hobbes became a gay man. Take your pick who's who. Good ep.
I love how it's the Adam Friedland Show Podcast but Adam is so supportive of Nick that there's no ambiguity of his importance to the show. You guys are adorable actually
I think the reason why Nick seems so lethargic is that Adam is draining him of his life energy like some sort of LIch. It also explains why Adam seems so much "cooler" and "funnier"
Adam during ad read: "Wirecutter says this is the best digital photo frame, they can't be wrong" Adam 5 minutes earlier: "Wirecutter does not have a good hit rate, 50% of the stuff they recommended that I've gotten is probably crap" You can tell these guys really love and use the products they promote on the show.
how i feel. he literally reminded me, via his commitment to wordplay and word association and shit, that i'm better than he is at it. comes from like, a speech pathology standpoint as well as being a writer, but like, he really really inspired that shit out of nowhere. and i just don't like seeing someone who challenges me to be creative lose that drive in themselves. and fuck no am I another idiot who all of a sudden thinks i'm capable of doing stand up.
@@lagok7036I get what you’re trying to say. Even though you literally said you’re better than he is at it, I could tell that’s not what you *actually* meant. Just that it brought that out of you creatively speaking, and I think that’s powerful, as well as power-bottom.
Hell yeah my two best friends have let out another episode, I can’t wait to watch this episode that my two best friends do together. These are my best friends.
To the new guys here from Nick’s special: These guys are not usually like this. I think Nick is just a little sleepy. They’re usually really funny. They’re good friends of mine.
@@DiscardedContext i don't know man, i watched it. i saw mixed reviews among people i thought were just ct fans. it wasn't new to me really, cause i kinda check out at this point when i hear the buzz words 'racism/autism/chinese guy/cum.' and this special was intellectually stunted, even when discussing those topics. right on.
you know adam and nick really have made it when you start seeing guys with themselves sitting in their car smiling as their youtube profile pic in the comments. mazel tov to the both of them.
You beat me to it. I'm so negative when I see Nick all low-energy. He's why we're here. He needs to jump into real life and understand the enigma he is in the comedy world from a different perspective. He's our hero. Seriously, it's stupid to say, but we all feel a gay connection to this shit and we want Nick to be his happiest self. If not that, then I want him to at least have more energy when people unironically want to see him.
@@bonech1p I don't like being negative, serious, or gay, and I don't like turning into my extremely online friend and see him - overall - not taking the expectation of what people desire from his intellect seriously.
Man after slogging through nick being depressed and or mad at adam, the shitty ad read including uploading videos to a tablet through an app, and also slandering the myth buster guy..... The reincarnation conversation was really touching and interesting
I’m glad to see the Nick getting some real cred from this special. Cum town was easily the funniest podcast out committed 100% to bits and it wasn’t close. Legitimately pure comedy. I think we all expected a bit of an adjustment with tafs but i also think we’re just getting started. I also think I might be gay.
You’ll be at a million views on the special soon, Nick! You have given me the courage to not jump off the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena for at least another year. Love you, buddy. Love you, Adam.
nick with a brief moment of clarity when he speaks those lyrics "you only get what you give" LMAO you can go on some random blathering monologue about cancer and whatnot but if you expect adam not to make a dumb pop culture reference in an attempt to break up your boring ranting then you must not have been paying attention to your own podcast over the better part of a decade - it's almost like nick's autism has made him unable to parse adam's humour, and adam just continues to do the same "wrong/dumb reference on purpose" bit knowing full well that nick can just never actually understand it and will always just get annoyed and HAVE to correct him, which is Adam's actual bit.
Nick’s special made me think he was 6’4. Sadly, when sitting next to his taller, more successful friend Adam with his own show and podcast, Nick looks like his actual height. It might also just be that I’m gay
I loved Nick Mullen 3: Year of the Dragon. Especially with that little bug guy who dances around eating butterflies. And now we're back to the Sparx Friedland show.
There was an ad read so I took out my dogs. When I came back, it was an aura ad so I went to the store. When I came back, it was a bluechew ad. Im either having a stroke or doing youtube wrong
this episode is so low-energy it makes me want to blast myself. what are my actual irl friends even doing? musta been a superbowl hangover from the beautiful YOTD Special. also im a Gay man.
It's nice to see Nick beaming with energy after the release of his special
He seems on top of the world!
Nick's special was great. Hopefully he can get his own show one day like his more successful friend Adam
It blew
….I seriously doubt that would ever happen! …have you seen Adam?!?…….hes pretty fukin kewl 😎
Calling it great is wild. The dude closed with 10 minutes of Stephen Hawking jokes straight from a 1988 episode of Evening At The Improv. Come on son.
@@keith3946you posted this exact comment on the special with no likes or replies lol
nicks a good standup, but hes just as funny on podcasts
The potential new fans coming in from the special are going to love this.
Nick's incredible advertising campaign for the special was enough to bring in millions of eyes alone!
@@Keaks_ It's the passion that captures us. H'e's not stupid.
I love e-commerce!
@@YangiTheCat I'm selling my family's possessions right now and it's soooo easy with Ship Station!
Yeah I got recommended the special and loved it. This however...
just finished watching the whole thing on 700x speed. you guys will love this one
Thank you yabujin vevo
Thanks man
Retardedly brilliant joke
i speed run every episode
putting it at 1.5x speed makes it normal
This was a hard watch boys. Good work
If you set the speed to 1.25x it actually sounds like two normal people talking
Love nicks energy on this one. Very upbeat after his gay special
It seems mindblowingly hard to be his friend
Nick has a real depressed frustrated vibe about him. He should like do some magic mushrooms and smoke a little weed. He's too smart to be sober.
@@grungepants being romantic about drugs at 35 is for fucking morons
@@grungepants Nick already thinks he's better than everyone else and talks about subjects he knows nothing about. He doesn't need psychedelics.
Imagine new fans from the special following up to see this awful podcast, LOL.
11:20 "Adam suggested, our Adam... Ginsberg. He suggested that, um, uh, an answer to our, uhh, to our problem with our brain, uhhh, to how, how we've lost our sharpness, and our, intellectually..." *doesn't finish train of thought* This is the kind of gold that keeps me coming back to this pod. P.S. Great special, Nick.
i'm even bored with trying to figure out if he's ironic when he says shit that stupid
@@lagok7036they literally don't give a fuck
I happened to read this a few seconds after he said it, and was like "holy shit, it only been eleven minutes!".
I like the way Nick knows stuff about tools, he is like an everyman and I feel comfortable with him because I can relate! I am going to wear his skin
You should do a Saw type thing for him and help him appreciate being alive.
I physically laughed at this thank you I'm gay
For some reason I read that in Nick's African Guy voice.
It’s good to see the integrity of their ad reads has remained on a Cumtown level.
Grateful to see Nick's adopted son.
I'm gay
I thought Nick would be stoked taking a victory lap here. Boy am I a gay idiot.
He’s coming down from his “special”
He smiled too much in the special. Now the chemicals in his brain have to re-imbalance back to perpetual frustration.
At least he had a good energy for the stand up special, even if he's been phoning it in on the podcast.
Nick's special is on its way to a million hits and has to be the first hour long standup that we've been able to watch in one sitting in what feels like years now. so proud of my best friend for overcoming his crippling gay autistic agoraphobia 🙌
Yeah, I was sitting there watching it and then I hovered over the time bar and like 40 minutes had gone by. That was a very entertaining special, even though it was quite a bit tamer than the juicier Cumtown bits.
If Nick just gets more comfortable on stage he has the potential to be the next Louis CK.
I liked his special too but really no love for Shane Gillis? his 2 specials are killers.
@@lilvernler17insane dogbrain logic here folks
@@lilvernler17 Gilis fans can't go three minutes without namedropping him and calling him the best
Really appreciate you guys slowing the show down by 50% preemptively for people like me who need a little more time to understand the humor. Still didn’t get it but I appreciate the gesture.
It's like Calvin and Hobbes if Calvin grew up and developed severe major depressive disorder, and Hobbes became a gay man. Take your pick who's who. Good ep.
Uh, it's called Calvin and Cobbe's.
@@PuddingAtheist and it's about Calvin discovering his prostate
Was hoping there would be some fresh energy coming off the special! Happy to see nick is even further towards ending it all instead!
Hopefully he streams it.
wish nick still made jokes on the podcast instead of looking depressed for an hour
That’s not very sensitive of you sir
please don't criticize my personal friend Nick, he's neurodivergent and a miner (Dracula).
What if we’re just not deep enough to like, comprehend them man?
He's rich, he should be on drugs and eat like shit, then he'd be happy.
It's cos he's funnier than Adam who has been dragging
Fun episode. I love hearing two healthy men at the height of their success ramble about death.
Nick has created a new version of "Yes, and" for Adam called "Yeah, nah.."
This must be one of those Heidecker-style intentionally bad conversations. Brilliant!
I love how it's the Adam Friedland Show Podcast but Adam is so supportive of Nick that there's no ambiguity of his importance to the show. You guys are adorable actually
Straightest thing anyone has ever said ever.
congrats on understanding the joke a year late
I loved the Queer of the Faggon. Great job!
Cum-eationer Gordon Tier. Well done
Nice one. Also I’m gay
another banger ep with a contagiously chipper mood
The utter disdain Nick has for his “best friend” Adam is incredible 😂 Nick wants to die so badly lol
yeah he hates him
I sympathize
Imagine the moment you look at Adam and realize this is your best friend.
I think the reason why Nick seems so lethargic is that Adam is draining him of his life energy like some sort of LIch. It also explains why Adam seems so much "cooler" and "funnier"
I believe the correct term is a "blood sucking jew"
It's true, Adam Friedland keeps Nick Mullen around as a Peter Thiel-type blood boy, siphoning his blood and jokes to extend his lifespan.
Well the jews are known for their life draining abilities
typical jews
Adam during ad read: "Wirecutter says this is the best digital photo frame, they can't be wrong"
Adam 5 minutes earlier: "Wirecutter does not have a good hit rate, 50% of the stuff they recommended that I've gotten is probably crap"
You can tell these guys really love and use the products they promote on the show.
First time?
Relatively new to these guys tbf😂
Just getting this ep fired up - expecting another riveting & upbeat entry in the TAFS catalog
nick is approaching new levels of disinterested
Yet people still watch this crap somehow. There's so many better things online by people who care. They need a non stav 3rd wheel desperately
@@daniel_dumileI agree. It should be Matt Rife so the show is more trendy and hip with cool people like women
They should just get Stav back and make fun of how bad the show was without him. They're like the Beatles, they all kind of suck without each other.
@@daniel_dumile No they don't. This is great.
@@grungepantshorrible opinion
nick ur special was fucking hilarious
thanks its nick commenting from his friends account
Hey thanks buddy, I'm nicks best friend ill let him know 👍
nick-ur
@@_vaethis is the way
Gay guys
Nick I hope you find happiness in something. You literally made me not want to give up. I know you hate us fans but we don't hate you 😂
how i feel. he literally reminded me, via his commitment to wordplay and word association and shit, that i'm better than he is at it. comes from like, a speech pathology standpoint as well as being a writer, but like, he really really inspired that shit out of nowhere. and i just don't like seeing someone who challenges me to be creative lose that drive in themselves. and fuck no am I another idiot who all of a sudden thinks i'm capable of doing stand up.
@@lagok7036 " that i'm better than he is at it. " No you're not
@@JimNortonsAlcoholism ah shutup. i'm not trying to prove i'm better. he inspired me to think stupidly again. that's the takeaway.
@@lagok7036 real redditor vibes
@@lagok7036I get what you’re trying to say. Even though you literally said you’re better than he is at it, I could tell that’s not what you *actually* meant. Just that it brought that out of you creatively speaking, and I think that’s powerful, as well as power-bottom.
nicks transformation into a cartoon buffalo is almost complete
Hell yeah my two best friends have let out another episode, I can’t wait to watch this episode that my two best friends do together. These are my best friends.
best gay friends.
also i’m gay
Nah, my best friends
To the new guys here from Nick’s special:
These guys are not usually like this. I think Nick is just a little sleepy. They’re usually really funny. They’re good friends of mine.
Only Cumtown fans watched it
@@DiscardedContext i don't know man, i watched it. i saw mixed reviews among people i thought were just ct fans. it wasn't new to me really, cause i kinda check out at this point when i hear the buzz words 'racism/autism/chinese guy/cum.' and this special was intellectually stunted, even when discussing those topics. right on.
Jesus, this podcast is like having teeth pulled
Nick is looking more and more like end stage Walter White when he was living in a cabin in New Hampshire.
Enjoyed the shit out of the special 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
top 3 of the year for sure
I just enjoy shit in general!
My favorites part was when Nick realised he was a part of the LGBTQ because of the Ukrainian flag
you know adam and nick really have made it when you start seeing guys with themselves sitting in their car smiling as their youtube profile pic in the comments. mazel tov to the both of them.
@@rpemulis thanks
Ad 1 - 12:56 to 21:14
Ad 2 - 31:02 to 41:27
Ad 3 - 50:45 to 54:13
Roughly 32% of this episode is ads.
Really love Adam’s shoes here. You can tell he almost went to law school 👔👞
The smile on Adams face while Nick is talking about his mum being reincarnated as a small child is really nice
Can't wait for Adam Friedland: The Year Of The Bug
I hope Nick is happy this episode
If Nick can be happy then we can all be happy
You beat me to it. I'm so negative when I see Nick all low-energy. He's why we're here. He needs to jump into real life and understand the enigma he is in the comedy world from a different perspective. He's our hero. Seriously, it's stupid to say, but we all feel a gay connection to this shit and we want Nick to be his happiest self. If not that, then I want him to at least have more energy when people unironically want to see him.
@@lagok7036 Well said my gay friend
@@bonech1p I don't like being negative, serious, or gay, and I don't like turning into my extremely online friend and see him - overall - not taking the expectation of what people desire from his intellect seriously.
He’s not. He’s an artist and having just finished a piece he’s now tortured with the “what’s next” question.
Man after slogging through nick being depressed and or mad at adam, the shitty ad read including uploading videos to a tablet through an app, and also slandering the myth buster guy.....
The reincarnation conversation was really touching and interesting
This show is a 45 minute ad read with no thought given to the into or how it ends.
I watched the YEAR OF THE DRAGON three times already, top comedy specials of the year
🙄
Mean Nick is back! The dynamic is returning to normal.
Nicks s
pecial was the first one i ever watched from start to finish! im hooked!
Great sign guys , really loving that sign .
Adam: “i’m pretty confused on what you’re saying
Nick: “mmhmm”
I really liked the bit where Adam and Nick both forgot they were making a talk show and starting doing tech support for their show in real time
Goddamn how long was that picture frame read? People online are right, cumtown was so much funnier
Special was great. Bravo
i binged all Adam Friedland Show Podcast episodes and I believe that this is the future of comedy
I think I understand you on a fundamental level as a result of reading your comment. I, too, am riveted by this content.
@@ritaannbarnettwe hop into the abyss but at least we know we're not alone.
adam looks like seinfeld when they had no water pressure
The special was amazing Nick!! Blew my nuts off!!! Yall are gold, and your flow on the special was bussin
You ain't cappin
I’m glad to see the Nick getting some real cred from this special. Cum town was easily the funniest podcast out committed 100% to bits and it wasn’t close. Legitimately pure comedy. I think we all expected a bit of an adjustment with tafs but i also think we’re just getting started. I also think I might be gay.
that free radicals segment got me so good
You’ll be at a million views on the special soon, Nick! You have given me the courage to not jump off the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena for at least another year. Love you, buddy. Love you, Adam.
Nicks excitement was palpable.
nick with a brief moment of clarity when he speaks those lyrics "you only get what you give" LMAO you can go on some random blathering monologue about cancer and whatnot but if you expect adam not to make a dumb pop culture reference in an attempt to break up your boring ranting then you must not have been paying attention to your own podcast over the better part of a decade - it's almost like nick's autism has made him unable to parse adam's humour, and adam just continues to do the same "wrong/dumb reference on purpose" bit knowing full well that nick can just never actually understand it and will always just get annoyed and HAVE to correct him, which is Adam's actual bit.
Is this purposefully the worst episode yet? Kind of a missed opportunity since the stand-up special probably brought in new viewers.
I typically will type something funny but this episode pissed me off lol
Nick’s special made me think he was 6’4. Sadly, when sitting next to his taller, more successful friend Adam with his own show and podcast, Nick looks like his actual height. It might also just be that I’m gay
Muldog rocking the classic high water, skinny mom jeans
I loved Nick Mullen 3: Year of the Dragon. Especially with that little bug guy who dances around eating butterflies. And now we're back to the Sparx Friedland show.
The 30 minute picture frame bit made me wanna gouge my eyes out
picturing nick manically labelling boxes with powerhouse playing 😍😍
I love this show, but also I'm gay.
Me too!
this podcast is so bad that the inclusion of a digital photo frame really heated things up
Its real dry humor
I think nicks disappointed his hour didn’t flop
This "not giving a shit" shtick has run its course, Nick.
Special was special. God job. Well deserved sigh of relief.
Nick should make some shirts for his special, I love the logo he made for it.
There was an ad read so I took out my dogs. When I came back, it was an aura ad so I went to the store. When I came back, it was a bluechew ad. Im either having a stroke or doing youtube wrong
nick's hat is so cute. i love him like a son
I loved the special Nick. Amazing job
Wild how the advertisements are half the show every time except when guests are on
This one fucking slaps. Edge of my seat for real.
I really like the philosophy and religious discussion near the end. After 6 years of songs about being gay I think we're ready for this new direction.
Damn, Nick seems miserable that his special doesn’t have 30 billion views. Guy should be happy
I begging you to get a third mic. This is truly insufferable. A two mic podcast is just not working out guys i hate to say it
The problem is the fucking 20 minute ad reads tbh
No, this is great. You just have a low iq and can't listen to a podcast without some fat guy laughing non stop at every little thing that is said.
I don't know when to expect any videos....I love it.
Adam’s laying down some serious Goldblum vibes in this ep. And not just because he’s a bug either.
I wonder what it will take for nick to care about his life again
Commenting for tips
And tricks
this episode is so low-energy it makes me want to blast myself. what are my actual irl friends even doing? musta been a superbowl hangover from the beautiful YOTD Special. also im a Gay man.
15 min fumbling over a Chinese picture frame
Nick is literally a geriatric at 34 years old
We really need this intro back.
Agreed I used to beat off to that shiz. Still do but it ain’t the same.
Shoutout to the editors discovering the saturation slider
Thanks boys
Is this a show where the hosts try to stay awake after taking Nyquil?
Best review ever
I think you should bring back the cackling guy, he was funny
He is fatly missed 😢
he wasn't funny. he was cackling. and also i'll give you that half the time he wasn't derailing bits, but made a from mediocre to okay Yes-and.
@@grigorym147His special was better than Nick's 😏
@@garrgravarrterrible take
@@grigorym147he had great energy that these guys desperately need
This podcast was effortless
The special kicked ass. Watched twice already. Mulldog still got it.
I love TAFS Podcast and Nick’s special was dope as hellll
you must be new ?
Nick’s new show should be called Mullen It Over
Nickin My Wrists
Continues to be the only podcast that matters
This episode really radiates a similar energy to the most awkward moments from Space Ghost Coast To Coast.
The special is really good. I enjoyed it a lot!
Don't worry about the yamakas, time for our boy to write a new hour 😂
has adam ever made nick laugh once? i feel like it has never happened in the last 5 years
Podcast is a lot more enjoyable at 0.25x speed honestly
Woah, it's like a Fear and Loathing trip.
the special was so good, almost made me half-smile a couple times, before i turned it off