Nick Mullen's Best Call Centre Stories | The Adam Friedland Show
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Adam always sounds like he’s talking on the phone while laying in bed.
Ankles up and switching back and forth
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Ahhhahahaha well done, that is perfect brother
It's a Jewish thing
Twirling his hair into the phone cord.
On his stomach with his legs in the air
I really hope they just redo all of the stories from Cumtown without Stav just to repeat the original experiment without the obese control group
Obese, low iq, easily amused… he really is the control!
What happens when we get to the iconic Thousand Island Stare?
Stav was an important part of cumtown. It's sad he's gone. This new stuff is still finding its feet but some episodes have been amazing. I'm still in it for the long haul.
@@angusmatheson8906 if by important you mean turning 90% of the riffs onto gay shit or talking about regular obese stuff only 20% of the population can relate to?
You shouldn’t speak ill of the dead
He told 90% of this same story on Cumtown but it’s always hilarious to listen to this experience
the idea of a dude walking around with a theatrical skull cane always makes me lose my shit
@@murph5455 We use to call it mutant league, there'd always be, no matter what call center you're at have multiple people claiming to be writing a book. the least autistic person of the autists was always a thing too, and i'm the spectrum
Wait ur saying that a few years ago he had the same exact early adulthood that he used to have? Wow I thought that when stav left his past completely changed
he’s gotta drop a couple oldies for the new guys.
I was just thinking this. I've been listening to some of the earlier episodes of Cumtown lately and listened to the one he told this story in earlier today.
The thing about old people literally not knowing how to push a button is 100% true. Boomers might not be digital natives, but anyone older than that grew up in a world where a gas station had a staff of 40 people including a concierge desk with a guy in a tux
It males me scared for what shit's gonna be like when I'm 60. I'm in my mid 20s and I'm just barely competent enough with current tech.
@@mrscruffles801 lol I'm not sure we're gonna have a liveable society in 30 years, plenty of gay sex though
@@GaigeGrosskreutzGunClub Hell yeah dude
@@GaigeGrosskreutzGunClubI wouldn't want it any other way (unless it was more gay sex)
@@mrscruffles801I know 50+ yo guys who put my IT knowledge to shame and I am a 30yo CS engineer. It's not an age thing. If you're dumb with technology, you're just dumb with technology. Extra points get deducted from your account if you grew up with smartphones and not proper PCs you had to troubleshoot occasionally or install drivers etc.
Adam is getting too comfortable. The whole paper bag and eating thing. Mullen needs to get a 3rd viable person so he can bring Adam down a notch.
He should be screamed at one inch from his ear for that.
Looking at adam for 3 seconds pisses me off so fucking much lmao. Maybe im starting to understand some certain 20th century mass political movements… hehehe
@@docBZA rofl
He should start the Sam Hyde stream routine. Only eating and picking his nose on stream. Sometimes he'll watch something for 10 minutes and give no commentary
Sometimes I feel Nick gives Adam a hard time but seeing the way he just sits there... There's something super icky and Jewish about him that makes me uncomfortable to lay my eyes upon him.
If I hear Adam say “run train” one more time I’m gonna “run train” on my dad
I hate Adam so much it turned me gay too.
No, Ian nooooo
Excuse me
the thought of a grown man hyperventilatating as his codependent boss furiously makes a cup of hot cocoa is hilarious.
Clunky but you got there
Damn the thing about staring in the laser is so fucking heavy haha
Adam not knowing what a Let's Play is is hilarious.
Let's Gay
He didn't get PlayStation until 2019
@@videogamenostalgia Get's Laid
knowing what a "Let's Play" is, is hilarious
@@samueltomen3337 you would expect adam to know because he's constantly absorbing weird details about gay younger people things to sound cool
nicks premonition about looking into lasers and going to a baseball game is considered racist when we're all 80 will come to fruition
We already got articles about "how excersise is rooted in racism" so any day now
Nick's description is spot on. 99% of the calls are, 'how do I use a computer/phone/email?'. Basic fucking things like 'how do I double click?'. I had to spend 45 minutes explaining the concept of apps and how an app is not a phone to a customer the other day.
My first job was doing phone surveys. Lasted about 3 weeks but it's a good job to get into as a highschooler just to scare the hell out of you for ever ending up in these types of call center jobs my god! Just a little funny story, I remember the guy I would sit next to was pretty cool and we would talk between calls, he muted himself, turned to me and said "This guy just excused himself from dinner at a restaurant with friends to take this survey" hahahahaha
Americans are so weird...
This Nick guy is pretty funny. He should be a regular.
so true
I would love to see what their chemistry is like with Stavros
@@toooes It'll probably end up with Stavros laughing the entire episode and copying Nicks jokes verbatim. Ironically he might end up being the most successful whilst being the least funny. I'd still listen.
I’ll let him know, we’re going out for sushi later.
Call centers and canvassing jobs turn n burn 3-5 employees a week. Our weird staff dude was a 20-something that invited us all over one night and literally had swords and shields and made his apartment a low-rate renaissance fair. he asked if we wanted to see his capes and we all laughed at him. He quit a few days later. I didn't know anyone who brushed a doll's hair, but there was a guy who would talk to his daughters on the phone and help them fall asleep while there was a California 7/10 attractive coke fiend kneeled in front of him frustrated she has to wait for this phone call to finish before blowing him for blow.
I'm so glad I can talk to my best friend and his sidekick that takes half the revenue
Jesus fuck loool
He was getting blown by a girl? Gross
Fuck man and I thought you met weirdos working in kitchens.
Eh if that's a hobby that makes the renaissance guy happy I'd be a bit more forgiving. One of my previous co workers had his house paid for but his x wife got pounded out by other men in it. Routinely. I'd take an eccentric hobbyist over a legitimate cuck any day. The drug stuff is far more common than you'd think and every job I've ever had there was someone that drove there completely zonked 100% of the time.
California 7 is not bad good for him 👏
Get that man off the frontline, he's got shell shock
That guy at the call centre was probably watching DSP lmao
Worked at a soul sucking call center for a while right after college. It was a hell hole and Nick's story is 100% spot on.
@@mrscruffles801 People who are interviewing for positions but still need to pay rent in the mean time?
@@mrscruffles801 Ah, one of those. It’s ok man, not everyone has to be a doctor or a lawyer.
@@mrscruffles801 crazy to publicly say "I'm a fucking retard" but I'm proud of your honesty!
What Bruce Springstein sings about
Now the bug is eating in the middle of the fucking show...
He is so noisy
I actually totally get watching Wind Waker. “I would rather be at home playing video games but instead I am stuck here in this stupid dead end job.”
Honestly the only time I ever watched let’s play style videos with no talking was when I worked in a call center. I would also sometimes have twitch on mute. There must be something about it that tricks your brain because I would definitely feel more calm with it on
The Strange Thing About the Friedlands
@@H4ZM4TT A little bit of passive stimulation goes a looooong way in a boring job
I love when Adam pretends to not remember
Such a kind young gentleman
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
He remembers every dollar he lent out.
anytime someone mentions Zelda or a call center I always think about these stories hahaha
People complain about them reusing stories, but this was worth it just for the part about staring into lasers
Adam's "What happened to her... Something bad." in response, IMMEDIATELY, to Nick telling him about brushing the doll's hair, has gotta be the funniest unexpected response I can imagine
I worked for a defunct (M&I Bank) bank call center years ago overnights. One guy worked a full shit during the day and then he would work overnights. So he'd fall asleep underneath the desk on the floor with the headset and then wake up when a call came in. He was really good at it.
I like Nick because he admits how low we've all been. You don't have to rub shit all over yourself to know what it is.... but I think I guess i did already
Adam looks like he calls movies "films" in that Woody Allen cosplay
It always takes some sort of social anguish to engineer a great comedian. Glad nick and mark Norman are where they’re at now. Adam too.
Norman is boring though
If that were true I’d be the funniest person alive - instead I’m the gayest
Not stav
Stav’s social anguish is how he dresses himself.
@@juanmontalvo3617 what....? no he isn't
I'm sorry but Nick is CARRYING this show. Adam is just as entertaining as a bologna sandwich.
Nick has always carried. In cumtown he was the only one to add value. Slav would constantly ruin his anecdotes and stories by doing that cringey laugh and cutting in every 10 seconds to talk about his dick. It’s amazing that he was the one to get success out of the 3.
his monologues are funny
@@lazytitan6848 Stav's the one who put the most work in to his sets and is just way more personable than Nick is. Obviously there's an element of luck involved, but in hindsight Stav was definitely the right horse to bet on.
@@Ryan-Petre agree to disagree. Always got annoyed when Nick was setting up a joke or telling a story and Stav would ALWAYS cut him off and say “Yeh and he had a massive cock” or “then I got my cock sucked”. It usually derailed the momentum completely. I think we can both agree that Adam was never going to be the successful one.
@@Ryan-Petre Yeah stavs insult the audience bit is VERY funny and not stale. If they replaced stav with stav-bot and just never told anyone, nobody would know cumtown ever ended.
So now we’re just repeating stories that they already told in Cumtown but with video
They repeated stories on Cumtown too lol
Why not?
yeah Nick should catalogue every story he ever tells to make sure it doesn't happen lmao
I know right? After 10,000 hours of telling stories on the internet he has nerve to repeat something. We should ask for a refund.
That's all I really ever wanted
I cannot get into this podcast but I want to
I return 3 weeks later as a humble man. These guys are great. Their appearance on MSSP is one of the best episodes yet
So you finally scored some fenty?
You mean as a humble, gay man. Right?
I kinda feel the same Nick and Shane have good chemistry together maybe them with Soder would be as good.
my boyfriend sent me here
Oh yeah? What’s his name
I wish I was gay
He sounds cute.
Sounds like a keeper!
Mine too
Adam is the most dainty man of all time
“Are you insane? What do you mean just come to the game?! Are you a racist “ lmao
I worked at a call center and this stories couldn’t be more accurate
This was such a funny moment to see the switch in Nick's head as what Adam said registered 😂
When?
@@josh-kf2rd 0:10 when he says smash and Nick’s face does a reboot.exe
You wrote that like a gay stroke victim
I once worked at a call center with a dude who had been among the most powerful lawyers in town before getting caught embezzling funds. Dude had to get a shitty call center job to pay that shit back.
Honestly that’s probably a more effective punishment than jail. Maybe add in a clause that he now has to take the bus to truly get the shitty life experience
@@H4ZM4TT my life is literally a punishment for felonies
I worked a call center for 8 years due to the pay (surprising I know). I have become a husk of a human. Jaded, pesimistic and quick to anger.
And also gay.
The worst thing is the managment and middle managers. My first call centre job made me realise we can easily have a full genocidal tyranny in any country, with plenty of volunteers happy to help in the rounding up, running of the trains and manning of the ovens. Its these same people who now manage call centres.
Jaded Smith
I did this job for 2 years. Can confirm everything he said.
Worked at one for 2 months. Surprisingly normal, but equally depressing.
Did you ever finish watching that Zelda video?
i'm on month 12 every day I'm convinced I'm gonna quit, but nothing beats work from bed
I worked in a call center for like 7 years with 2 years of that in a "frontline" position which was by far the worst. Nonstop inbound calls for 8 hours straight with small business owners screaming at you because their phones/internet don't work. It's brutal shit that some companies subcontract out to prisons which is cruel and unusual punishment.
I remember learning about the prison thing after getting a job at a call center. I used it as an example for coworkers to explain why we shouldn’t expect more money, and should be ready to quit the second it started sucking.
The new meta is rehashing all the old jokes but with a little more context
I realize Hollywood is rebooting all the classics because they’ve run out of ideas but this has gone too far
I had a call center job working for metro pcs and we would disconnect calls all the time. Imagine getting yelled at by black women for eight hours a day. It was awful. Finally I just started putting calls on hold and reading at my desk. I got away with that for a few weeks then got fired. lol
How do you still get hired if you were fired?
@@SorrowAvenue Don't use them as a reference.
Lmao admitting you worked in a call center to a new employer is an automatic resume in the trash situation
That AI comment Adam made at the end was pretty cool and smart
ai generated comment
now i see where nick learned his patience at dealing with an incomptent cohost
I love Adam and Nick, but god damn the most annoying thing to me in aural media is people fucking eating. Probably on purpose here, but damn, Adam.
It sounds made up but the old person not knowing how to push a button and you running them through that is a thing i have to do at least 10 times a week. Blows my mind.
How do you manage the anger that naturally arises? Do you meditate for like 2 hours a day or something?
@@lmackenzie9198 I have pictures of my kids I look at on my desk. I get paid good money and never working a factory again is a great motivator. Being able to sit down and not work in the weather is great. We call it air and a chair.
@@lmackenzie9198 If you get mad at stupid old people you aren't gonna be able to do the job. The worst are their fucking kids who've never used the service, don't actually want to help their parents, but want to take it out on you. I heard so many "you mean I have to drive 15 minutes and visit my parents to help them?" yes you horrible child.
@@5starviewMakes me think of Homer.
@@5starview This is literally why I have thought about quitting many times to work at a bank instead
But god do I love the solitary nature of it, 8 hours a day of being off in the middle of nowhere by myself is pretty damn comfortable too
Adam knew from memory that David Schwimmer grew up in Beverly hills, he knows what let's plays are.
"Just go ahead and unplug the ethernet ca..."
"WHAT COLOR IS IT!?!?"
"Uhhh... let me place you on a brief hold."
I think this pair of fruits should do a 23 & Me or Ancestry DNA test and then spend several hours riffing on how Irish and Jewish they actually are, complete with offensive accents.
Oi vey
@fajile5109 Foive Dollas?! What do you need ten dollas for?! I can‘t believe you‘d ask me foh FIFTEEN Dollas! HELP! Police! Ders a madman trying to steal twenty Dollas from me!
Yo‘r gonna hear from my LAWYER about the FIFTY DOLLAS you owe me! Oi Vey!
4:29 I think about this all the time and it pisses me off, idk exactly what makes Nick want to be interned in a Chinese labor camp but this is what does it for me. I’d rather have to dig for wild roots and tubers to eat in the wilderness and die of parasites at age 40 than learn to use whatever bullshit new social media is going to be out in 5 years
I hope they just end up redoing all the old cumtown episodes so i can laugh at all the jokes again without nick getting interrupted by a squealing pig. People hate opie from opie and anthony so much they edit him out of clips from the radio show and upload it on a chanel called nopie and anthony. TAFS needs to do that with stav!
Adam finally looks 35 in the thumbnail
Hey Adam "least entertaining part of the show" DONT EAT ON THE PODCAST. Thanks.
One of the most popular podcast for years and Adam still eats in mic
i worked through my time in school, but one year, for some stupid reason i tried working at this job my buddy suggested. it was a place that sold $1500 vacuum cleaners. they would have us cold call these poor bastards & try to get them to agree to an in home demonstration. we would get so stoned, it was shocking, like pass out on the phone stoned. i literally never, not once single time made an appointment. i was the worst employee, but it was the worst job
I worked with a guy at a call center who had a sleeping disorder and he would fall asleep in the middle of calls it was fn great
My most memorable moment from working at a call centre was doing network troubleshooting for a guy who, based on the frailty of his voice, was about 117 years old:
"Okay, so you should see a small box with lights on the front with the word "netgear" on the side."
"[FULL BORE HARD R N-WORD SHOUTED INTO PHONE]?"
"no... Netgear."
"*[N-WORD SHOUTED INTO PHONE AGAIN BUT LOUDER]??*"
"No, net gear. Like internet gear."
"Oh. Okay I see it."
You know who is gonna replace them? GAY I
Is it just me or does the energy feel so much better without Stav?
I worked at a call center in Austin and had to sit next to this guy who would just all day quote jokes he heard on UPN sitcoms.
I stomached working at Telenetwork for all of 2 months, it was by far the worst job I've ever had
Hell yeah
I work in IT Support supporting PhD scientists at a biotech and you’d be surprised how many of them are this dumb.
Nick doing a robin williams bit, old MacDonald losing his farm to AI farmers, ‘A I A I oh! This isn’t very good! Robots are taking my farm! I might have to…. Kill myself’’
I work in a call center environment, and I'm about a year away from murdering our clients.
My call center job experience sounds so similar to NIck's. It's a fucked up dance between you and management. They desperate for workers due to the rate of turnover and constant training. You're badly underpaid and overworked. And you find a balance.
I worked at a call center for 4 years, because of it I developed severe anxiety and not from the customers but by the ones in charge and just being complete dicks and clueless at the same time since most don't understand why the calls would last too long since they moved up food chain like withing a week of being on the floor. worst job ever, but it was the only job I could get that paid 11 an hour at the time.
Get rid of Adam please
Nick previously being part of the hell that is the call center world truly explains a lot of his personality now. This shit sucks the life out of you.
yea great time to start eating
4:22 I think about this part a lot.
This is a common experience. I had a guy on the phone ask me if he "should put the password into THIS box or the box that says password"
Oh my god, as my parents have gotten older they have somehow lost the ability to properly use a TV remote control despite having used TV remote controls for over 40 years and it drives me nuts. I can totally sympathize with the call center people. Also, listening to Nick describe behavior I consider totally normal as wacky, aberrant, and autistic was a real pick-me-up.
I used to go on an email in a very chill call ctr for an hour while going to the pub (it was next to Rockstar North offices so always nerds to drink with
When was this? R North made some good stuff back in the day
Good ol' Telenetwork, sort of miss those days. I had this guy call that wanted to complain about getting 4 spam emails in the last week. He spent the next 30 minutes excitedly telling me in graphic detail how he was going to murder these people and nuke them to the center of the earth at the I just said "Well that'll do it"
Nick explaining Let's plays to Adam tickles my 30 year old autism.
Adam not knowing what Let's Plays are made me click out of this video. And I'm not even being a bitch
Its nice to pretend I have friends whenever they post a video.
I work for a call center troubleshooting home internet and people really are that dumb and slow. It hurts so much lol
Honestly where we screwed up was not adding at least 2 internet and general technology classes to public schools back in 05. Typing courses don't help people understand filing, how connections work, or intuitive design.
@@victorkreig6089 you’re right I’ve been thinking more about this tech literacy is need for general tech. Because when I was in hs I knew how code because Tom(aka MySpace) taught me.
"just stare in the laser" LMAO
1:52 makes me fell like I’m in 2012 again
As much of a nightmare as it was it was a legitimately better time
I hope Vikram didn't kill himself
From the thumbnail I thought it was a 54yo lesbian on the right.
I wasn't far off though.
I worked for a medical tech company that provided chronic ill patients with medical equipment. Teaching old people how Bluetooth connections work was something else.
Adam “Sounds Like a Computer Thing” Friedland
Reminds me of the Yelp days, shoutout all the former Yelp sales crusaders. Brutal job lmao
so I do this job without the comical irony does that mean I'm a failure?
ok yeah you're right I'll just see myself out.
sorry.
keep goin peter
“Oh no what happening to her”
Had a similar call center job.
It was alright before the lockdowns, but once I started working from home it became way too gruelling. I didn't get the catharsis of complaining about all the retards who called in anymore. I had to quit. Couldn't hold out until WFH ended.
should have made a team discord group. would have helped a lot
Adam eating into the mic made me antisemitic
I’ve worked at a call center 3 separate times, two of which were at the same place. Usually I make it 3 months with 1 of those being training. The longest I’ve ever made it was around 6 months and that almost destroyed me. I felt bad for the dudes that had even fewer options that me and had been there for years.
Nick had a black guy?
He's had many
2:14 love how much labor nick puts into explaining lets plays
Weird when I’m several minutes in and start scrolling through the comments
only for some asmr to start going on in the background.
a 70 year old new employee last week at our call centre about 2m into his first call was already heard bellowing "YEAH I CAN HEAR YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!" lmfao sums it all up.
I remember dudes would upload the video game plays & just slap sandstorm darude in the background lmao we would do that as a bit walking around in real life & the cafeteria in college 😅
Nick on Cheek Clappers was a crossover I NEVER KNEW I NEEDED IN MY LIFE and now I'm gay
I still can't get over Nicky Boy being on Cheek Clappers, the #1 Comedy Podcast in The World
“What does email mean?!?!?!?!”
How did Nick manage to get himself on the Cheek Clappers Podcast? His agent must be really well connected
Nick on Cheek Clappers was a crossover I NEVER KNEW I NEEDED IN MY LIFE and now I'm gay
I will never forget where I was on 9/11, because that is also where I was when I heard Nick on the Cheek Clappers podcast for the first time