Name: DAVID HOGG Talks Parkland, DNC, Saving the Party
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'DAVID HOGG Talks Parkland, DNC, Saving the Party' from The Adam Friedland Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-24. Transcript available.

DAVID HOGG Talks Parkland, DNC, Saving the Party

oh you just got dumped oh yeah how recently two months ago oh my god you're
in it right now you're trying to save the Democrats I know bro I just like
throwing challenges on top of challenge not what albums are you listening to
post-breakup there's a song called wicked game that's very good Chris Isaac
mm-hmm that's a horny song and then why you're listening to sex songs post
breakup well you know what the song is actually about right it's like it's
literally it's like I'm all right all right I'm watching someone having sex
okay I saw well that's a great imitation
hello and welcome to the out of freelance show and as always I just want to
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through patreon my guest this week is former vice chair of the DNC David Hogg
he first rose to prominence
of course in 2018 in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting
when he organized a series of
high-profile protests in support of gun control more recently in 2023 he
founded leaders we deserve PAC to
help young progressive candidates get elected to public office but before we
show you the interview
I need to address something as many of you know things have changed quite
dramatically in my life
over the last few months laudatory profiles have been published in the New York
Times which is my favorite
newspaper in the New Yorker which is a periodical that I've been meaning to
check out once I will it's
on my list you know the literati are starting to pay attention but I promise to
you the viewers I'm never
going to change I'm the same old bitch okay on Monday I finally got the call up
to the big leagues the one I've been waiting for I was asked to appear as a
panelist on the Piers Morgan
program now whenever I get the question who are your guys I always say three
names number one Bob Dylan of
course number two Martin Luther King MLK some people know him as and then
number three of course is mr. Piers Morgan and I just can't tell you guys how
I was asked to appear as a panelist I was asked to appear as a panelist I was
asked to appear as a panelist on the Piers Morgan program
now whenever I get the question who are your guys I always say three names
number one Bob Dylan of course number two Martin Luther King MLK some people
know him as and then number three of course is mr. Piers Morgan
and I just can't tell you guys how riveting and thrilling I found the
conversation on his program to be
join me now to debate uh Charlie Kirk Jimmy Kimmel on the battle for free
speech he's the CEO of Timcast Media
Tim Poole the man the New Yorker is called the future of late night host of the
hugely successful show
the Adam Friedland show comedian Adam Friedland so where do you sit with all
this I am a tell it like
it is comedian there's a lot of uh kind of empathy being expressed towards uh
Kimmel right now but um
where is the empathy uh for Donald Trump um certainly conservative comics like
uh Dennis Miller Michael
Richards kill Tony I detect a slight sarcasm to your I'm not I'm not Bob Iger
will go down in media
history as Neville Chamberlain in a cashmere sweater minus the dignity um okay
what do you think of that
people always use Neville Chamberlain as a historical reference reference not
to prove that no Democrats
ever celebrated a cancellation on the right I love it I agree with you uh Tim
thank you listen Bob Iger
jumped up on his desk and started tap dancing when this controversy started
because it there's a real
visceral reluctance to have people on the right even engaging in debate and
that's just got a chance
on the Adam Friedland show not on my show well your show is great that's why I
think it's an issue I
think that there's some people on my show after I recorded the episode I was a
nervous wreck all day
I was I was waiting around for the episode to be released and finally something
popped up on this
popular social media platform x.com but what I saw devastated me to no end Mr.
Morgan posted a tweet
with a clip to the episode they referred to me as comedian Adam Friedman to be
deliberately attacked
by one of my heroes it frankly has broken me I found it difficult to get out of
bed I found it
difficult to listen to my girlfriend's awesome and interesting and hilarious
stories perhaps Mr.
Morgan is threatened by my recent ascent in the political chat show space or
perhaps god forbid
this was a well-orchestrated deliberate act of anti-semitism we we don't all
look the same some
of us are good at money some of us are good at books and I happen to be good at
neither so
Mr. Morgan I'd like to invite you to come on my program and to settle this like
a man my name
is Adam Dean Friedland it's the only name I have I got it from my mother and
father and you'll
be seeing a whole lot more of me peers so here's my conversation with David Hogg
and I'll see you
again a little minute one minute our next guest is president and co-founder of
leaders we deserve he
first came to national attention in 2018 David Hogg everyone you can clap guys
what's wrong with you people yeah thanks for coming dude thank you I love the
studio audience
president co-founder so you made the other guy be less than you no you started
the club we just have
different roles coffee coffee run now Starbucks that's not it at all what does
he do he does a
lot more of the internal mechanics and I'm a lot more front-facing that DC is
awesome dude you live
there yeah I do where we're in DC I would get into that but my house has been
swatted before and stuff
so I prefer oh that's just a thing that people do now yeah we had Taylor Lorenz
she said her parents
get did they swap SWAT team that's horrible yeah yeah yeah that's just what
happens in Parkland it
happened to my my family yeah right you were you were a junior or senior when
you when the events
happened is that right I was a senior and you're a senior and just adults were
pissed at you like there's a
a lot of the right for the rest of your life adults were pissed at you yeah you
became an adult yeah
yeah but like I just you kind of like it's strange we had because we had the
kid Harry Sasson too
right he just gets yelled at by like dads really I mean like if you look at his
comments it's just
like it's kind of like you got a you you kids got like a Thunberg kind of
treatment where it's like
you were very altruistic and then people were like fuck these baby you're like
you know fuck these kids
right and it's a strange like kind of impulse what what do you think that was
like or what was it
like when you first started experiencing that honestly I in the beginning we
were so focused
after Parkland on just getting change and like raising hell no to force change
to happen that I
wasn't that focused on it but eventually it did break through more because I
remember the first time
somebody asked me like oh have you gotten your first death threat and just said
that casually to
me as a 17 year old I was like what and then I someone gave you a death threat
or asked you
no somebody asked like oh have you started getting them yet like just like it's
an inevitability and
I was like what are you talking about and then I got really kind of paranoid
and freaked out about it
of course because I was 17 and I think the one of the worst sorry one of the
really hard things that
happened after Parkland when you're like speaking out after something like that
that happened to a lot
of the students that spoke out was we would for example do an interview and a
TV producer be like oh
you kids are so inspiring can I get a photo with you and what do you do in a
photo Adam you smile most
of the time right or that and when we smiled in that photo and they put out
those photos a lot of
right-wingers would take those photos and say these are the photos these are
the faces that you make when
you're standing on the bodies of your dead classmates yeah yeah and what to
hold that
like what it's such a fucking psychotic world it's horrible yeah and I what we
actually internalized it and we told ourselves it wasn't okay to be happy it
wasn't okay to to have any amount of joy because of what we went through and it
took a long time for us to unlearn that because I think those those people knew
that do you mean it wasn't okay to be happy you were depressed you mean well it
that it
wasn't okay to have any amount of joy or ever smile because you would survive
the
school shooting does that so in the pictures you were frowning right well in
photos sorry I'm a stupid guy sorry no no what I'm saying is for example there's
one
photo that we took with a producer after an interview that we did with them
where
the producer was like oh you kids are so amazing like can I take a photo with
you
naturally no matter really what you've gone through you still smile in a photo
even if it's you know a few weeks after or whatever and the right would take
those photos and say these are the bodies that you're these are the faces that
you
make when you're standing on the body yeah that class and that was like that
game
that was like a popular response that you guys yeah yeah and we really
internalized it because obviously we have a lot of survivor's guilt we have a
lot of
PTSD and for a long time we told ourselves it wasn't okay to be happy and you
also
just had to like become part of the adult world or the mess of the adult world
and
not only the regular adult world where you're going to the accountancy firm and
then you're watching the office after work I can't imagine what it would be
like at
17 or 18 to be known I don't know I can't like how did you handle that like
just like just the pride you know like being a private kid you know what were
you doing before that cross-country running in case you couldn't tell did
you bullet you're blazing up no I didn't blaze I had I had I was a serious
athlete I had to and my dad was an FBI agent too so oh my god as you can
imagine
he would go undercover uh he had in the past so your dad used to have different
looks he'd be like biker one what for six months no he wasn't a biker and I can
talk about this now because he'd be like Isis terror cell for six months well
no
as you can imagine a guy who was my father doesn't presumably fit in I don't
know I'm not I don't I he's an actor I mean he could play any role but yeah he
when he started on the FBI his job was he was he would go undercover and dig
through different people's trash um to help he's a hobo yeah he would go
on here's a hobo and he's the government yeah yeah yeah yeah so your dad was an
FBI agent your mom's a teacher yep right yep do you go to parties did I go to
parties did you hit brew not very often did you have beers or blunts before you're
just a running kid uh I was a pretty big nerd I would say that student
government
absolutely not not that big of a nerd did you play gaming I did play a lot of
call of duty and modern warfare and I actually still do play I still do play a
good amount of call of duty yeah like on my phone and it's kind of hilarious
because
you know I'm sure I'm playing with a lot of guys that are playing mobile yeah
that
are playing you know guys that I'm sure to some extent are to the right of me a
lot of the time yeah and I get pretty good and I'll get like first place and I'll
get all the likes and like people following me stuff and they'll be like this
is
great whatever you just got I'm just the hog exactly and I'm just always
laughing
because I'm like if only you knew like because I can only imagine you want to
beat them in in Nazi zombies yeah you kno