:The Adam Friedland Show

The Adam Friedland Show was preceded by Cum Town, a comedy podcast hosted by Mullen, Friedland, and fellow comedian Stavros Halkias. On June 25, 2022, Halkias announced that he was no longer part of Cum Town.{{Cite tweet |number=1540740091005517824 |user=stavvybaby |title=We had a good run 🤍🤍 |date=June 25, 2022 |access-date=June 25, 2022 |last=Halkias |first=Stavros |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616075634/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWHO8mrUAActI3H?format=jpg |archive-date=June 16, 2023 |url-status=live |quote=Wanted to let everyone know that I'm not a part of cum town anymore.}} Subsequently, Mullen and Friedland revealed their plan for a spin-off production—The Adam Friedland Show—to be hosted by Friedland and produced by Mullen.

During the summer of 2022, test episodes of The Adam Friedland Show were released while the show's set was being constructed. These episodes began as audio-only conversations between Mullen, Friedland, and an occasional guest. The first episode to feature a video recording was shot in the creators' unfurnished studio and released in August 2022.{{Cite web |title=Ep. X010 - TAFS Video Test |url=https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-x010-tafs-69924224 |access-date=January 2, 2023}} Audio-only podcasts continued to be released to the public, with the full video-based episodes available only to Patreon supporters.

The set for The Adam Friedland Show was completed in the fall of 2022 and modeled after that of The Dick Cavett Show. The show's first official episode was released on October 31. Mullen co-hosted the first two episodes and then stepped back to focus on his work as executive producer.{{Cite web |title=The Adam Friedland Show Ep. 011 |url=https://www.patreon.com/posts/adam-friedland-75605372 |access-date=January 2, 2023}}

After the establishment of the talk show, the Adam Friedland Show Podcast was released for free streaming. The podcast has both an audio and a video version.{{Citation |title=Ep. P01 – The Adam Friedland Show Podcast |date=2022-12-29 |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Nj8meVxbuxsO85JXM3MO4 |language=en |access-date=2023-01-02}}

On January 25, 2025, it was revealed Mullen would be departing the show.{{cite AV media | title=Nick Mullen Is Leaving The Adam Friedland Show | date=January 25, 2025 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcG8RO0Tu9s | via=YouTube }}

On March 3, 2025, the Patreon account for The Adam Friedland Show was renamed to Cum Town Archive and an episode titled Cum Town Farewell was uploaded, with its description having described the release as "...the final episode of Cum Town," accompanying a larger expression of gratitude for fans of the podcast.{{Cite web |title=Cum Town Farewell {{!}} Cum Town Archive |url=https://www.patreon.com/posts/cum-town-123539704 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Patreon}}

Episodes of The Adam Friedland Show are available for free on YouTube. They sometimes open with a metafictional sketch involving Friedland and Mullen discussing the show and its production, including their feud with fictional producer Dracula (played by Mullen). The sketch is followed by a monologue in which Friedland comments on recent events. The monologue is followed by a conversation between Friedland and the guest. Featured guests include astronomer and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, businessman Dave Portnoy, musicians Mac DeMarco and Matty Healy, rapper Jadakiss, and journalist Chris Cuomo.

Free and paid Patreon episodes of The Adam Friedland Show Podcast do not follow the talk show format and are reminiscent of Cum Town. Mullen co-hosts the podcasts with Friedland.

• Shane Gillis as Frankenstein's monster, featuring Nick Mullen as Count Dracula
• Mac DeMarco
• Douglas Levison, businessman and internet personality{{cite web | url=https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trumpet-guy | title=Trumpet Guy | date=May 30, 2021 }}
• Gene DiNapoli, Brooklyn-based Elvis impersonator who had previously appeared on a Cum Town episode featuring Bam Margera{{Cite web|url=https://www.genedinapoli.com/|title=Home|website=Mr. Entertainment - Gene DiNapoli}}

• Simon Rex
• Ariel Pink
• Jim Norton
• Ernie Hudson
• Norman Finkelstein
• Andrew "Babish" Rea
• Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Chris Cuomo
• Jadakiss
• Chet Hanks
• Dave Portnoy

• Paul Schrader
• Rob Schneider
• Destiny

• Drea de Matteo
• Julian Casablancas
• Tom Fontana
• Hasan Piker

Additionally, podcasters Will Menaker and Brace Belden, comedians Mike Recine, {{Cite web|url=https://www.mikerecinecomedy.com/|title=Mike Recine|website=Mike Recine}} Rick Glassman, Jordan Jensen, Brandon Wardell, and Chris Distefano, as well as Jackass star Steve-O, The Sopranos actor Robert Iler, and singer Matty Healy have appeared as guests on the weekly podcast.

Matt Healy's appearance was the source of controversy, amid rumors of a relationship with Taylor Swift and an apparent call-out by Rina Sawayama during a concert. Healy dismissed the outrage as a "bit mental."{{cite magazine | url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/who-is-matty-healy | title=Who is Matty Healy? | magazine=The New Yorker | date=May 29, 2023 | last1=Tolentino | first1=Jia }}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rina-sawayama-matty-healy-glastonbury-1234777826/ | title=Rina Sawayama Calls Out Labelmate Matty Healy at Glastonbury: 'I've Had Enough' | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=June 25, 2023 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniesoteriou/taylor-swift-fans-distancing-matty-healy-brutalize-women | title=Taylor's Fans Are Distancing Themselves After Matty Said He Masturbates to Black Women Being "Brutalized" | website=BuzzFeed | date=May 15, 2023 }}

The show is available for free on the show's YouTube channel.{{Cite web|title=The Adam Friedland Show|website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/@TheAdamFriedlandShow}}

Free episodes of the audio and video The Adam Friedland Show Podcast are available via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, and YouTube, among other services.{{Cite web|title=Cum Town|url=https://open.spotify.com/show/5MfQNeGILinrJFkf2UHLVK|access-date=July 13, 2021|website=Spotify|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Cum Town on Apple Podcasts|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cum-town/id1113585468|access-date=July 13, 2021|website=Apple Podcasts|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Cum Town: Nick Mullen|url=https://www.amazon.com/Cum-Town/dp/B08JJR73YX|access-date=July 13, 2021|website=Amazon}} Subscribers who contributed at least $5 per month via Patreon gain access to an additional podcast episode each week, as well as additional bonus content, including TAFS Digital Shorts and TAFS Scraps.{{Cite web|title=The Cum Boys is creating Cum Town Podcast|url=https://www.patreon.com/cumtown|access-date=July 13, 2021|website=Patreon|language=en-US}}

{{As of|March 2023}}, the show was the seventh-most popular podcast on Patreon and the ninth-most popular creator on the platform overall; with more than 18,000 paying members, it had around $88,000 in monthly earnings.{{Cite web |title=The Cum Boys: Patreon Earnings + Statistics + Graphs + Rank |url=https://graphtreon.com/creator/cumtown |access-date=June 11, 2022 |website=Graphtreon |language=en}}

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{{cite news |last=Chery |first=Samantha |date=May 25, 2023 |title=The Matty Healy, Ice Spice (and Taylor Swift) drama, explained |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/25/taylor-swift-ice-spice-matty-healy-karma/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=May 29, 2023 |quote=While a guest on "The Adam Friedland Show" in February, Healy laughed as the two podcast hosts, Friedland and Nick Mullen, made fun of Ice Spice}}

{{cite news |last=Graye |first=Megan |date=February 10, 2023 |title=Matty Healy sparks backlash over interview that mocks Japanese, Hawaiian and Scottish people |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/matty-healy-adam-friedland-b2279829.html |work=The Independent |access-date=May 29, 2023 |quote=The 1975 frontman appeared in the latest episode of The Adam Friedland Show with comedians and podcast hosts Friedland and Nick Mullen.}}

{{cite news |last=Chilton |first=Louis |date=June 24, 2023 |title='He owns my masters': Rina Sawayama publicly calls out Matty Healy at Glastonbury Festival — Musician appeared to castigate The 1975 frontman for his controversial remarks on a recent podcast episode |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/rina-sawayama-matty-healy-glastonbury-masters-b2363745.html |work=The Independent |access-date=June 25, 2023}}

{{cite magazine |last=Tolentino |first=Jia |author-link=Jia Tolentino |date=May 29, 2023 |title=Who Is Matty Healy? For the front man of the 1975, fame is its own kind of performance |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/who-is-matty-healy |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=May 31, 2023 |quote=A month later, Healy went on a podcast called "The Adam Friedland Show." Friedland, whom Healy had befriended in the past couple of years, used to host the podcast "Cum Town," a title that reflects the "Borat"-esque level of seriousness that he and his co-hosts generally brought to the table. Friedland is part of a downtown New York scene referred to as Dimes Square, which, during the pandemic, became widely known for an ostensibly transgressive rejection of liberal pieties and a reactionary brand of post-left politics particularly associated with another podcast, "Red Scare."}}

{{cite news |last=Lindsay |first=Kate |date=May 27, 2023 |title=My Boyfriend and I Are Closer Than Ever, Thanks to the Taylor Swift-Matty Healy Drama |url=https://www.gq.com/story/taylor-swift-matty-healy-adam-friedland-ice-spice |work=GQ |access-date=May 31, 2023 |quote=The niche comedians behind that podcast are now indirectly responsible for the soft cancellation of one of the music industry’s biggest artists. The Adam Friedland Show, known in an earlier iteration as Cum Town, featured Matty Healy as a guest on February 9.}}

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