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Adam Friedland<\/a> won\u2019t shut up. A standup comic at heart who earned a cult following as a host of the brilliantly juvenile podcast Cum Town, he has since reinvented himself with The Adam Friedland Show<\/a>. It\u2019s a Dick Cavett-style talk show, and he\u2019s emerged as one of the most compelling and unpredictable interviewers of his generation. Whether he\u2019s talking to Sarah Jessica Parker<\/a> or Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, Friedland approaches each conversation with equal parts genuine curiosity and gleeful chaos. He\u2019s just as likely to troll his guests as he is to ask them something devastatingly on point. When we asked him who he\u2019d like to speak to for this story, his only direction was it had to be a talk show legend. So we introduced him to Maury Povich<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n TUESDAY 3 PM FEB. 17, 2026 NYC<\/p>\n MAURY POVICH: Hi, Adam. How are you?<\/p>\n ADAM FRIEDLAND: I\u2019m very well. How are you sir?<\/p>\n POVICH: I\u2019m okay.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Where am I speaking to you from?<\/p>\n POVICH: I\u2019m in Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Phenomenal. You\u2019re at old Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n POVICH: Thankfully I\u2019m a little north of that.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Are you a snowbird?<\/p>\n POVICH: I guess. I go back and forth to New York when I do my podcast and things like that. And then we spend a good four and a half months in Montana, where we\u2019ve been for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Do you have a nice spread out there? You\u2019re like a Yellowstone-style guy.<\/p>\n POVICH: Well, there are a lot of wealthy people who live in places like Yellowstone Club and these high-end gated communities. I don\u2019t understand why you would want to go to Montana and then live in a gated community.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: So you live in a McMansion?<\/p>\n POVICH: No, we live near Glacier National Park, about 40 miles from Canada. We kind of live on our own mountain, which I love.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Oh my god. You have the best life ever.<\/p>\n POVICH: Only because I married Connie Chung.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: You\u2019re a gold digger, Maury.<\/p>\n POVICH: Absolutely. My wife was making 10 times what I was making when we got married. How\u2019s that?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: You\u2019re like the model of the ideal Jew. You have the respect of urban people who love you from the show, and you have a gorgeous Asian wife. You\u2019re the ideal for all of us.<\/p>\n POVICH: I\u2019d like to think so.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: My friend Joe, he\u2019s a little bit older than me, he\u2019s a television writer. He\u2019s won a bunch of Emmys. His first job was as an intern on your show.<\/p>\n POVICH: Oh, wow.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: He said he used to answer the phone for people to call in and the person on the other end would be like, \u201cHello Maury,\u201d because they didn\u2019t realize you didn\u2019t pick up the phone.<\/p>\n POVICH: Yeah, I didn\u2019t pick up the 1-800 number. [Laughs] I\u2019m glad there were some successful people that came out of the internships. This is before your time. I did a very popular show called A Current Affair on Fox.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I\u2019m well aware.<\/p>\n POVICH: I interviewed Don Lemon the other day and he told me he was an intern there!<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Don Lemon was recently a guest on my talk show.<\/p>\n POVICH: Is that right? He was on my podcast, too.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: And he was also recently a guest at a federal penitentiary.<\/p>\n POVICH: Correct.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: It\u2019s a small world! Growing up, when I was sick and stayed home from school, I\u2019d watch The Price Is Right, and then I\u2019d watch you and Jerry [Springer]. It was the most entertaining stuff in the entire world, and I thought you and Jerry were the coolest guys, genuinely. The way you could command chaos swirling around you, it made a huge impression on me. Now I\u2019m doing a talk show, but it\u2019s not like that. There\u2019s no studio audience. It\u2019s more of an interview show, like Cavett.<\/p>\n POVICH: Jerry and I, we go back.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Did you have a relationship with Jerry?<\/p>\n POVICH: Didn\u2019t see each other a lot, but we were very friendly. For the last 15 years, we both taped our shows in the same studio in Connecticut, but Jerry and I started the national talk shows in the same year, in 1991. Jerry described our shows this way, and I thank him for it: \u201cMaury, your show is the real deal and my show is wrestling.\u201d<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Jerry\u2019s backstory was fascinating.<\/p>\n POVICH: Absolutely.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: He was mayor of Cincinnati, and he paid for a hooker with a check.<\/p>\n POVICH: Correct.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: And he was so beloved that he won a write-in campaign.<\/p>\n POVICH: And then he got into the news business in Cincinnati. We were both doing newscasts. Nobody realizes I was doing news 25, 30 years before I was ever a talk show host. It prepared me, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: It\u2019s like getting your 10,000 hours, I suppose. You\u2019re talking into a camera.<\/p>\n POVICH: Exactly.<\/p>\n Suit Emporio Armani, T-shirt Canada Goose, Shoes Converse.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I did podcasting for nine years, so I\u2019m doing a different format.<\/p>\n POVICH: I\u2019m now following you. I\u2019m doing what you used to do.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: We were doing a comedy podcast, but I got sick of it. We were three 30-year-old men behaving like 11-year olds at a sleepover. It was really funny, but creatively it got pretty stale. My current show requires a tremendous amount of research and prep. I\u2019m attempting to do something that\u2019s produced like a television show, but on the internet. I was working two hours a week, getting a pretty great salary for doing this stupid comedy podcast. So from a business standpoint, I\u2019m an idiot to be doing way more work.<\/p>\n POVICH: And making less money.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I don\u2019t really know. Money stresses me out.<\/p>\n POVICH: Why would money stress you out?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: My parents experienced financial difficulty when I was growing up, so my big worry is my business manager will call me and tell me I ran out. I\u2019m doing well, but knowing the numbers is a source of anxiety.<\/p>\n POVICH: You\u2019re so different than I am. We never had a lot of money. My father, by the way, was a columnist for The Washington Post for 75 years. But as you know, you don\u2019t make a lot of money working in print. He always said, \u201cMoney makes you less nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: He\u2019s insane, this guy!<\/p>\n POVICH: He also said money gives you a sixth sense in order to enjoy the other five.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I have no idea what that means. One thing I do know is that money doesn\u2019t necessarily buy happiness, but I also know from being a struggling comedian and then eventually doing well, that you can\u2019t be happy without it. When you don\u2019t have it and you\u2019re constantly stressed about it, it consumes your life.<\/p>\n POVICH: That confirms what I said.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Yeah. I threw a tantrum with my business manager when they wanted me to do an IRA. They\u2019re like, \u201cYou get it back when you\u2019re 65.\u201d I was like, \u201cThe 65-year-old me? That guy\u2019s a loser.\u201d They\u2019re like, \u201cYou\u2019re an idiot, Adam. It reduces your tax burden.\u201d<\/p>\n POVICH: Exactly.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: And I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t care about that 65-year-old. He\u2019s a doofus. Tell him to make his own money.\u201d<\/p>\n POVICH: You\u2019ll get there, Adam. And you\u2019ll call this guy up and say, \u201cSo when can I start taking the money out of my IRA?\u201d<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I had to accept that I\u2019m a comedian and I\u2019m not predisposed to understanding any of that stuff, so I have a wealth manager that handles it. I used to lay in bed at night stressed out about the fact that I needed to file my taxes. They say you\u2019re a book Jew or you\u2019re a money Jew.<\/p>\n POVICH: Oh wow. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m either one.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I\u2019m neither. I\u2019m illiterate and I hate money.<\/p>\n POVICH: Look, I was in TV news for 25 years. I wasn\u2019t walking around Wall Street with a lot of money, that\u2019s for sure. By the way, since you\u2019re a comic, what standups do you like?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I think standup stinks.<\/p>\n POVICH: It stinks?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Yeah.<\/p>\n POVICH: I just interviewed a standup.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Which one?<\/p>\n POVICH: He\u2019s the closest thing to George Carlin. His name is Josh Johnson.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I don\u2019t know him.<\/p>\n POVICH: You never heard of him?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Now I\u2019m feeling competitive.<\/p>\n POVICH: He\u2019s 35 years old and you don\u2019t know him?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I\u2019m 38.<\/p>\n POVICH: Come on, Adam.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: He\u2019s probably jealous of me that I\u2019m older than him.<\/p>\n POVICH: He\u2019s not jealous of you because he\u2019s doing fine.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Maybe I know Josh. I\u2019ll look him up. When I was growing up, I was obsessed with stand-up, but once you\u2019ve heard every joke and do it for your career, you don\u2019t view it in the same way. I\u2019m a sports fan because I can\u2019t do any of that shit. But watching another person doing standup makes me genuinely anxious because I\u2019m like, \u201cI know exactly what that guy is going through in his head on that stage.\u201d<\/p>\n POVICH: Look up Josh Johnson. I\u2019m telling you right now, you\u2019ll appreciate it.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Oh my god, you\u2019re obsessed with this guy, Maury. What about me?<\/p>\n POVICH: This guy can go two and a half, three minutes without a laugh as he builds a story. It\u2019s terrific.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Oh, I know this guy. Yeah, he is funny.<\/p>\n POVICH: You know how I found out about him?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: He\u2019s a correspondent on The Daily Show, right?<\/p>\n POVICH: Yeah. He\u2019s an anchor there, too.<\/p>\n T-shirt Stylist\u2019s Own, Jeans Levi\u2019s.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: So are you going to come to a show of mine?<\/p>\n POVICH: I thought you gave up comedy.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: No, I didn\u2019t give up comedy. I\u2019m in Philly this weekend.<\/p>\n POVICH: It\u2019s too far. Do you know Philadelphia? It\u2019s a tough town.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: They\u2019re real dumb.<\/p>\n POVICH: It\u2019s the greatest. Are you kidding?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I agree with you. It\u2019s wild. There\u2019s real energy. I lived in DC for a long time. You grew up there?<\/p>\n POVICH: I lived there until I was 37.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: It\u2019s an entirely different place.<\/p>\n POVICH: DC is made up now of a lot of people who never came from DC.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Exactly. And they\u2019re so ugly, too. The talent there is nothing to write home about.<\/p>\n POVICH: You know what we thought about that town? That the President of the United States was the mayor and Congress was the city council. That\u2019s how we grew up.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I went to GW [George Washington University] and then I started standup in DC. I was supposed to go to law school, but I had to come out of the closet as a clown to my parents.<\/p>\n POVICH: That must have gone over well.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: They were like, \u201cGet a normal job, you psycho.\u201d It\u2019s a ridiculous thing to tell your parents. To be honest with you, I\u2019m tremendously lucky. It\u2019s a terrible industry to go into. It\u2019s not a meritocracy, we\u2019ll put it that way.<\/p>\n POVICH: Did you used to go to clubs and wait to go on last when nobody would be around?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: In DC, I was the opener for touring acts in a small comedy scene. I was the nebbish Jew. I remember my parents were like, \u201cWe don\u2019t know anyone in show business.\u201d I was like, \u201cYou don\u2019t understand comedy. You have to be the best.\u201d And then I moved here and there were 10,000 guys literally named Adam Friedland, who probably had the same argument with their parents.<\/p>\n POVICH: Adam, now you\u2019re turning on your own name.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: What I\u2019m saying is, in the small scene in DC where I started, I was the nebbishy, Jewish, self-deprecating guy. Then I moved up to New York and there was nothing special about me. It was a very humbling experience.<\/p>\n POVICH: [Laughs] You ever make it to Carolines?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Of course I\u2019ve done Carolines.<\/p>\n POVICH: She\u2019s still around, isn\u2019t she?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: She is. The club on Broadway isn\u2019t open anymore.<\/p>\n Sweater J. Mueser, Shorts Canada Goose, Sunglasses\u00a0Thistles, Shoes Nike.<\/p>\n POVICH: When I used to do the news in New York, she used to come on a lot to promote her stuff.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Yeah, I had Richard Kind on the show, and he was a singing waiter at one of her places in the Hamptons or something.<\/p>\n POVICH: [Laughs] You\u2019re kidding.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: That was one of my favorite episodes. Have you seen the talk show?<\/p>\n POVICH: Which talk show?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: My show. The Adam Friedland Show.<\/p>\n POVICH: No, I haven\u2019t. Are you any good?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I\u2019m alright. I do it my way. I\u2019ve had some big guests. I had Mamdani.<\/p>\n POVICH: I heard. How\u2019d you do with him?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Great.<\/p>\n POVICH: He didn\u2019t overwhelm you? Pretty smart guy.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: No, no, no. We\u2019re the same kind of guy.<\/p>\n POVICH: I see.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: We\u2019re both guys that are, like, from the same tree.<\/p>\n POVICH: I didn\u2019t vote for him.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: You voted for Sliwa?<\/p>\n POVICH: No. I voted for Mamdani in the general. I didn\u2019t vote for him in the primary.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I thought you were a Curtis Sliwa guy.<\/p>\n POVICH: No, but I go way back with him. [Laughs] I knew him when he had his original beret.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: It\u2019s not a good look for America. We don\u2019t like berets.<\/p>\n POVICH: Well, it was a red beret.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Yeah. But for us, we\u2019re like, \u201cWhat are you, a mime? Are you in France?\u201d But what I got from Mamdani was the sense that\u2014my parents are baby boomers, and I remember in \u201892 they were so excited about Clinton. And I guess it dawned on me when I was talking to Mamdani, it was like, \u201cOh, this is the first leader from my generation.\u201d We\u2019re both millennials.<\/p>\n POVICH: You didn\u2019t get excited about Obama?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Obama\u2019s not a millennial.<\/p>\n POVICH: I understand that, but you\u2019re old enough. You said you\u2019re 38 years old.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I was excited about Obama. I\u2019m saying this is the first time it felt like, \u201cThis guy\u2019s genuinely our generation.\u201d<\/p>\n POVICH: I got you.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: And Mayor Pete doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n POVICH: Kind of like the way we were\u2014<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: About Clinton.<\/p>\n POVICH: Well, I\u2019ve got to go back to Kennedy.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I thought you\u2019re Millard Fillmore\u2019s generation.<\/p>\n POVICH: Close.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I guess Mayor Pete is also a millennial, but he just seems like he\u2019s a suck-up, like he\u2019s asking the teacher if he could have more homework over the weekend.<\/p>\n POVICH: I\u2019ve never paid much attention to Buttigieg.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I\u2019m just saying as a guy, if I was in class with Mamdani, we\u2019d probably be friends. We\u2019re both into soccer and hip-hop and movies.<\/p>\n POVICH: So did you ask him about Israel or not?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I didn\u2019t ask him about Israel. What the fuck does the mayor of New York have to do with Israel? That\u2019s driven me insane, to be honest with you.<\/p>\n POVICH: Well, he ran on that kind of\u2014<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: No, he didn\u2019t run on Israel. Cuomo was hitting him on Israel because he had quotes from the past. But honestly, that really upset me as a Jewish person, that they were making it all about Israel when there are homeless people in New York. It just made it seem like we\u2019re more important than everyone. That didn\u2019t feel good. But beyond that, he was being painted as radical in a way that he\u2019s fundamentally not. He\u2019s from the Upper West Side, he\u2019s practically Jewish. And a lot of my friends I grew up with who were like, \u201cThis guy is radical,\u201d called me after he came on the show and said, \u201cWhile I still don\u2019t agree with his politics, he seems like a pretty decent guy.\u201d<\/p>\n POVICH: As long as he gets along with [Police Commissioner] Jessica Tisch, I can handle him.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Well, it seems like people in the city are very happy with him right now. He got the universal pre-K done quickly. It does feel like an Obama moment. I remember the excitement when Obama was elected and the disappointment of how McConnell and the people who understood the game made his two terms in office hell. They weren\u2019t able to translate a popular grassroots movement into legislative success. I think Zohran has this mix of policy people who are young and driven and experienced, and people who understand the messiness of municipal politics. He has like a 75-year-old in his inner circle. You need people who know the game and you need people who have the vision.<\/p>\n POVICH: This is very interesting, Adam. You talk a lot.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Is that bad or good?<\/p>\n POVICH: I don\u2019t know [Laughs]. You invited me to talk to you.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I invited you?<\/p>\n POVICH: Oh, sorry. I invited you?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I don\u2019t know. They just told me you were going to be on this and I was so excited. I thought you were interviewing me. Am I interviewing you?<\/p>\n POVICH: I think we\u2019re just talking to or above each other.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Can someone from the magazine tell us? Because if I was meant to interview you, I sincerely apologize.<\/p>\n EMILY SANDSTROM: Maury is technically supposed to be interviewing Adam, but I think this is very much a conversation. This has been fun to listen to.<\/p>\n POVICH: I had no idea! I thought I was being interviewed and now I\u2019m interviewing you! Well, good!<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: This is so funny. We both thought we were being interviewed.<\/p>\n POVICH: [Laughs]<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Maury, this is unbelievable. So you\u2019re like, \u201cThis freak won\u2019t shut the fuck up.\u201d I\u2019m never going to forget this for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n POVICH: [Laughs] You\u2019re not the first person to run over my answers.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: You must have been so offended, this entire time I was blabbing about Mamdani to you.<\/p>\n POVICH: [Laughs] I didn\u2019t know what I was doing.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: This is one of the funniest things that\u2019s ever happened.<\/p>\n POVICH: It\u2019s the story of my life.<\/p>\n Jacket Stylist\u2019s Own, Shirt and Pants J. Crew, T-shirt Hanover, Sunglasses Ray-Ban.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I can interview you if you want.<\/p>\n POVICH: No. I\u2019ve been interviewed so much, I have nothing to say.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Maybe I\u2019ll ask you questions you\u2019ve never been asked.<\/p>\n POVICH: I think we\u2019re in good shape.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Did your dad know Tony Kornheiser?<\/p>\n POVICH: Of course. He hired Tony Kornheiser.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Unbelievable. He\u2019s the funniest guy ever. He\u2019s like Larry David.<\/p>\n POVICH: He is the sports version of Larry David. I just spent a weekend playing golf with him in Florida.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: So my friend Pablo, who does a podcast as well\u2014<\/p>\n POVICH: Pablo and I are best friends. Pablo Torre?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Yeah.<\/p>\n POVICH: You\u2019re buddies with Pablo too?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I was on his show last week. I\u2019m good friends with him.<\/p>\n POVICH: So was I!<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I constantly beg him to introduce me to Tony. I love you and Tony and Jerry. Let\u2019s link this to the beginning of our conversation. My parents came to this country, so I kind of had to learn American Jew. A lot of people when they meet me think I\u2019m from New York, but it\u2019s only because I\u2019m wearing glasses and I\u2019m obnoxious and I don\u2019t shut up. But in reality, it was people like you and Kornheiser and George Costanza or Seinfeld or Bob Dylan that educated me on what an American Jew was.<\/p>\n POVICH: You didn\u2019t learn through Dylan, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Of course I learned from Dylan!<\/p>\n POVICH: Not about Judaism.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: It\u2019s not about Judaism, it\u2019s about what an American Jew is. It\u2019s not like you talked about Judaism on \u201cYou Are Not the Father,\u201d but you were a Jewish guy. I\u2019m a fraud, Maury. I\u2019ve constructed my entire being off of movies where there\u2019s a schmuck and it\u2019s the Upper West Side and there\u2019s a precocious blonde girl he\u2019s trying to impress.<\/p>\n Jacket and Jeans Loro Piana, Shirt J. Mueser, Belt J. Crew.<\/p>\n POVICH: [Laughs] I think we got a lot of stuff going on here.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Wait, I have one question for you.<\/p>\n POVICH: What?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Are we going to hang out when you\u2019re back in the city?<\/p>\n POVICH: Yeah, we can hang out. I\u2019ll be back in the city in April and May, if you\u2019re playing anywhere. Do you play in New York, or don\u2019t they allow you?<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: I do weekends on the road and then I\u2019m working on my talk show. Actually, I\u2019d love for you to come on the show. How about that?<\/p>\n POVICH: Okay. Maybe I\u2019ll have you on my show.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: He sounds excited to come on my show.<\/p>\n POVICH: Look, I\u2019ll tell you what happened to me. I never realized what kind of impact I had. And since I retired\u2014 I was on a show the other day and I was walking down the hall and this guy comes and gives me this big hug and he says, \u201cYou\u2019re my man.\u201d And I look at him and it\u2019s 50 Cent, and I go, \u201cHoly shit. Maybe I did have an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: You\u2019re a legend, sir.<\/p>\n POVICH: I\u2019ll be up in April and May, we\u2019ll have fun.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: You better do my show. You swear? This is going in print.<\/p>\n POVICH: Depending on whether I do your show and how that goes as to whether you\u2019ll do my show.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Okay. Fun.<\/p>\n POVICH: Alright, good enough.<\/p>\n FRIEDLAND: Bye, Maury.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n Grooming: Ashtyn Thurbe<\/p>\n Photography Assistants: Nate Jerome and Eve Alpert<\/p>\n Fashion Assistants: Abby McDade and Claudia Sanchez<\/p>\n Production Direction: Alexandra Weiss\u00a0<\/p>\n Photography Production: Georgia Ford<\/p>\n Post-production: Nikita Shaletin<\/p>\n Location: Shio Studios<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Interview_Issue-566_Spring-2026_Adam-Friedland_2-scaled.jpg\")
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