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The Adam Friedland Show Podcast - Robert Iler - Episode 60

Woo!
Welcome to the Adam Freelance Show podcast.
We're joined this week's special guest, Robert Eiler.
Thanks for having me, buddy.
Of course, he's most notably from Daredevil.
We all know him from...
He's my biggest...
Which Daredevil were you in?
I just looked at your wiki.
The Daredevil.
What is it?
The Ben Affleck one?
Ben Affleck.
You were in that one?
Yeah.
Dude, that's so sick.
Yeah.
The scene where it rains and he can see the girl's titties from the rain?
I just...
It was so cringy, my scenes in there.
So I don't even know if I ever saw the movie.
Who did you play?
The bad guy?
I was like a bully to little Daredevil.
You played AJ.
I played AJ.
It's so bizarre to me because the show for me is the most important...
It really is the most important work of art of all time.
But I also understand that you've never even fucking seen it.
It makes me so mad at you.
Honestly, I hate you.
Yeah.
Have you fucking watched it?
No.
A lot of people hate me for that.
Come on, bro.
But the thing...
What the fuck is wrong?
Like, sorry.
No, I get it.
It's annoying because you were in it or something.
That, but also it's like my memory of that whole thing of my life is like
perfect.
Yeah.
And I don't want to ruin it by watching it.
I just hate every moment I'm watching myself on TV.
I hate it.
So it's just like...
Yeah, but you're in it for like...
Sometimes...
Sometimes he's just killing people and getting his dick sucked by prostate.
You're not going to see AJ there.
I know.
You just shave your eyebrows.
You go...
You almost kill yourself after Blanca leaves you.
I remember that.
That, where you go to the Puerto Rican parade and you have the flags.
And we did that.
So we did that on 92nd Street on just like a random afternoon.
And you would see people turn the corner and be like, like not understand that
this wasn't
the Puerto Rican Day parade because we had like a full avenue.
They're like, they're doing it again?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We said one day.
One day every year.
We brought nightmares to people on the...
They thought it was a weekly thing now.
Because it's a wild...
It's a wild event.
It's this dark, no?
The Puerto Rican Day parade is like...
Yeah, it's like people get killed and they have sex on the street.
Yeah, it's one of the things where I'm like, okay, I don't leave my apartment
this day.
It's in June, right?
It's this month?
It already happened.
When did it happen?
A few weeks back, I got offered $400 to shoot for Rockefeller Records.
To shoot someone in the parade?
Yeah.
To shoot somebody.
So you got offered $400 to shoot someone for Rockefeller Records?
Yeah, that's correct.
He's a pathological liar, Pete.
He's a good guy, though.
Wow.
Wait, so they do it during gay pride?
Yeah.
That's funny.
That's a nice prank.
Yeah.
Also, not to...
That'd be so funny to see the two parades converge on each other.
Yeah.
To see what happens.
Social experiment?
Right on this avenue.
Oh, man.
And not to put a damper on the whole thing, but now that James has passed away,
I think
watching like 80 hours of him would just not be...
Yeah.
So the reason I came into New York was there's like a David Chase, who's the
creator, did a
documentary.
And we went to watch the documentary.
And even just seeing clips of Jim, like you can't...
I know.
Then it's like the next 15 minutes of the documentary, I'm like, wait, what
happened?
Because you're just caught up in this whole...
There's like a clip I saw recently of Dominic Chinese.
He was there.
He's amazing.
Talking about...
He's amazing.
Dominic Chinese takeover.
Dominic Chinese.
Yeah.
By the way, I went to go see...
He sings with like a group of old timers.
He's great.
Like old Italian standards and stuff.
And I went with my boys to go see Uncle June sing.
Yeah.
I've seen him many times.
He's got a beautiful voice.
Beautiful.
Yeah.
Make you cry.
He does...
Well, he does it in...
What do you call it?
In...
What's his name's funeral?
Jackie Jr.'s funeral.
Oh, he sings at a funeral?
You really should watch The Sopranos, dude.
What the fuck?
You know what the...
Here's another thing.
Every time I date a girl and they haven't seen it, I make them watch The Sopranos.
The Sopranos.
Because I said this is the most important thing.
We wouldn't be...
No, we can fuck, but I'm not going to date.
We're not going to...
It's not going to be like...
You're not going to be my parents.
Does it have to be on in the background?
Yes.
It has to be the Johnny Cakes episode where Vito goes up and he starts a love
affair with
a firefighter, then comes back down, tries to rejoin the murder.
But can we fuck in the bedroom and put it on in the living room so it's like it's
on
but it's not like right...
Okay.
Yeah, just the AJC.
Yeah.
Just doggy style face.
Just a super cut of all of my...
That is so AJ.
That is so AJ.
Me committing suicide.
It has to be annoying for you because you are like a...
You're such a three-dimensional...
Every character is a real person to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If I saw like a fucking Imperioli walking down the street, I'd be like, Chrissy.
Chrissy.
Are you clean?
Yeah.
How's everything going?
You know?
It's very real to a lot of people.
We love it.
And you're a smart guy.
So imagine people of lesser intelligence who really believe...
I've had people ask me like real questions about things that weren't on the
show.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
Like what?
Like, you know, does Tony hit you?
Or like, what did you do?
Or like, what did you do?
What did you do with the money when the kid gave it to you?
And the this?
Oh, I remember.
Yeah.
For the shirt.
Yeah, the fight at school.
Did you really buy a shirt?
Or did you like buy video games?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because I would...
That's the funny thing is this, right?
So you have like the guys like me, the know-it-all Jewish guys.
And we're like, well, actually, it's a meditation on the concept of family, you
know?
Yeah, yeah.
And it's multi-layered.
The downfall of America.
Yeah, it's a universe that is being phased out in society.
It's these cavemen interacting with modern-day society.
And then the other people say, yo, it's sick.
But I would watch in college with bros.
Like, I was friends with bros.
And they were like, who's getting fucking whacked this week?
That was like how everyone was watching it.
And I was like being a...
I believe the term is homo.
About the Sopranos.
And they were like, oh my God.
Like, I hope fucking like Paulie gets whacked this week.
That's how people were watching it.
It was like to see...
They were tracking the whacking.
A hundred percent.
And that's why the ending...
You don't even know what the ending is?
Or you do?
You must know what the ending is.
No, I've seen it like played.
I never watch it.
But I've seen it played like over and over.
You know what I mean?
I was like...
I was like...
Went to college in D.C.
But it was all like tri-state area morons.
So it was like all Jersey, like Westchester, Long Island.
Like just mongoloids.
Right.
The kids that weren't smart enough to get into like Emory or NYU, they went to
my college.
Yeah, yeah.
And I watched the finale with a bunch of these fellas and my friend punched a
wall.
I mean, like people were fucking furious.
Really?
They were like, what the fuck is...
It was like they wasted, you know.
Right.
It's the most brilliant genius thing ever.
I mean, people called their cable.
They thought that the cable went out.
Yeah.
Well, I also know stories of people who then when their friends were like, can
you believe
that?
And they were like, what?
You didn't see?
And then like they described some ending that didn't happen.
Oh, like a Mandela effect.
Right.
Like they would say like, oh my God, did you see like this?
And then people would be like, wait, what?
AJ becomes the boss.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm fully running the fan.
You shoot your dad in the head.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh my God.
Can you please watch Sopranos?
It's driving me insane.
Another reason...
I know it's like, it's such, it's obnoxious of me to be saying this, but...
No, it's not.
You'll love The Sopranos.
Another reason...
You'll love it.
It's the best thing ever.
Another reason why I like not watching the show is because when people come up
to me
and ask me questions, I could just say, I don't know.
Yeah, but you could just lie to them and say that.
Or you could be like, I'm on mushrooms right now.
Yeah, but the same way you know I wouldn't...
I'm on mushrooms right now, sir.
Leave me alone.
Yeah.
T-S-A.
You're right.
I'm wrong.
Yeah, that's good.
Yo, do you ever fuck Meadow on set?
Dude.
The whole time?
All the time.
You're fucking Jamie.
Oh my God.
Because she, for me, us, the J-Boys, we found out very early on, we're like,
actually,
she's Jewish?
She's one of us.
And she was the epitome of your friend's older sister, who when you're like...
I had a delayed puberty, so I was like at 14, I was still...
barely a pube.
And then my...
Like, one of my friend's sisters, for sure, I'm describing one person in
particular, but
she's like 17, she's kind of a little bit fucking with you, a little bit
flirting.
She knows, you know, you'll never...
She'll never, you know...
She's like practicing on you.
Never get this, you'll never...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, Borat style.
No.
Yeah, yeah.
And then she was like, you know, she'll...
They'll say comments like, oh, when you're older, like, all the girls are going
to like
you.
And you'll be like, why not?
No!
Why not?
No!
Yeah.
And Meadow is the epitome of that kind of girl.
Like, for me as a high school, like, young adolescent watching The Sopranos, I
was like,
she was the ideal.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that comparison, that Jamie Lynn Sigler
to Borat...
Yeah.
It's just constant.
She is so much like...
She's so Borat.
And then you break out and get these.
Do you think he got that character from watching Sopranos, maybe, from watching
Meadow?
When he was describing his, yeah, his mentally handicapped cousin who broke out
of the cage...
Right.
And molested his sister, who was showing him her vagina.
Right.
That was clearly a reference to season one, episode eight, College of The Sopranos.
I do want to watch the show.
I will.
I'll watch the show now.
You know, it would be pathetic if I was the person that convinced you.
I'm sure you've had this conversation, like, 5,000 times.
Yeah, we also got offered money to watch it, like, do, like, a re-watch pod.
What are you, the queen of England?
What are you, the richest man in the world?
How much money do they offer?
Not enough.
Isn't everyone doing that, like, a re-watch pod?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Imperioli and Sharippo were doing it.
And that's the other reason I didn't want to do it, because, like, I know Imperioli
is,
like, the best at that.
He might whack you.
He might whack you.
Yeah.
He might whack me, but also, like, he loved the show.
He wrote with the writers.
So, like, then my stupid fucking opinions about the show, like, why?
Who would want to hear that?
You were just a kid, though.
You were just a kid.
It is actually fascinating seeing through that lens, because you were, like,
season one,
you were, what, like?
12.
12.
Yeah, well, I was 12 when we shot the pilot.
Season one, maybe, I was 13, but I think I was 12.
Do you remember the casting?
Like, because you do look like Gandolfini's son.
Season one, you're like, they're like, yeah, that's a little Jim.
Me and Jamie were the only non-Irish, I mean, the only non-Italian people in it.
I'm Irish, she's Jewish, Cuban, Jewish.
I don't know.
Yeah.
And then I had people hating me for...
For being Irish?
Being Irish and not watching the show.
And I was like, no wonder you never watched it.
You're Irish.
You wouldn't get it.
Well, that makes a lot of sense to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That makes a lot of sense to me.
I wouldn't get it.
Yeah.
That's why I didn't watch it.
The Metagon don't understand.
Yeah.
They don't understand.
I also don't want to have to...
I also don't want to watch it, and then David Chase one