The Adam Friedland Show Presents: The Beautiful Pod With Chris Ryan
6/11/20261 hr 13 min
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Beautiful Pod. For the next six weeks, host Adam Friedland will be joined by The Ringer's Chris Ryan and famous celebrity guests from the world of entertainment and sports. In this episode, our hosts preview what is certain to be the greatest World Cup of all time. They discuss the incredible cultural exchange happening in America right now as teams marvel at the country’s advanced infrastructure, resilient democracy, and delicious food options (spaghetti, tacos). They also touch on Team USA’s prospects in the tournament, in addition to all the other countries that will be losing to America. At soccer. Host: Adam FriedlandCo-Host: Chris RyanExecutive Producer: Adam Friedland, Marc Fineman, Mason KleinWriter: Adam Friedland, Sam SerxnerProducer: Sam Serxner, Julia CassidyEditor: Jon RoemerDP: Caroline Jannace, Justin Nardecchia --See Adam on tour https://theadamfriedland.show/pages/tour--JOIN THE FRIEDLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION / PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/@TheAdamFriedlandShow/join--Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheAdamFriedlandShow--Buy our merch!: https://theadamfriedland.show/collections/new--X: https://x.com/adam_talkshowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theadamfriedlandshowTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adamfriedlandshowclipsYouTube: Subscribe to @TheAdamFriedlandShow here:https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAdamFriedlandShowSubscribe to @TAFSClips here: https://www.youtube.com/@tafsclips--#adamfriedland #thebeautifulpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAdam Friedland· Host0:00
[drum music] Hello, and welcome to The Beautiful Pod. For those of you who are confused about seeing this on your feed, um, uh, The Adam Friedland Show, uh, is currently in pre-production on season three. It's returning in July, and this is a special limited run series, uh, from now till the end of the World Cup. For any of you who are confused, uh, this podcast will be coming out on Tuesdays and Thursdays, along with Taps Unplugged every two weeks on its normal schedule. And the show will return in July. We have some big guests. We've done a couple of them. St- stay put. It... Woo. [upbeat music] I wanna introduce my co-host in Los Angeles, Chris Ryan.
Chris Ryan· Host0:48
What's up, man?
Adam Friedland· Host0:49
Hi.
Chris Ryan· Host0:51
Hi. How's it going?
Adam Friedland· Host0:52
I'm, I think- I'm excited to be doing this, man. This is the dre- uh, this is my dream. I mean, I am now in your world. I get to power rank everything.
Chris Ryan· Host1:00
Yeah.
Adam Friedland· Host1:00
[laughs] I get to, I get to view the world through GOAT debates.
Chris Ryan· Host1:04
You can power rank co-hosts.
Adam Friedland· Host1:05
The cultural exchange that's happening right now in this country because of [laughs] the- [laughs] ... because of what we're seeing on the streets of America, the, uh, the energy for Team USA, uh, just the passion that people have. Um, you know, on the streets of New York, for instance, after every Knick game- Yeah ... uh, people are out on the streets for Team USA Soccer. I don't understand why it's coordinated with Knick games- [laughs] ... but it seems like people are really excited about Team USA Soccer.