Nick Mullen's Best Call Centre Stories | The Adam Friedland Show 

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

Adam always sounds like he’s talking on the phone while laying in bed.

He told 90% of this same story on Cumtown but it’s always hilarious to listen to this experience

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

the thought of a grown man hyperventilatating as his codependent boss furiously makes a cup of hot cocoa is hilarious.

Damn the thing about staring in the laser is so fucking heavy haha

Adam not knowing what a Let's Play is is hilarious.

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

This Nick guy is pretty funny. He should be a regular.

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.”

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.

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.

If I hear Adam say “run train” one more time I’m gonna “run train” on my dad

People complain about them reusing stories, but this was worth it just for the part about staring into lasers

That guy at the call centre was probably watching DSP lmao

Get that man off the frontline, he's got shell shock

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.

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

nicks premonition about looking into lasers and going to a baseball game is considered racist when we're all 80 will come to fruition

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

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 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 love when Adam pretends to not remember

This was such a funny moment to see the switch in Nick's head as what Adam said registered 😂

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.

Adam looks like he calls movies "films" in that Woody Allen cosplay

I'm sorry but Nick is CARRYING this show. Adam is just as entertaining as a bologna sandwich.

Now the bug is eating in the middle of the fucking show...

now i see where nick learned his patience at dealing with an incomptent cohost

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

anytime someone mentions Zelda or a call center I always think about these stories hahaha

Adam is the most dainty man of all time

I worked at a call center and this stories couldn’t be more accurate

“Are you insane? What do you mean just come to the game?! Are you a racist “ lmao

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.

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 did this job for 2 years. Can confirm everything he said.

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.

That AI comment Adam made at the end was pretty cool and smart

"just stare in the laser" LMAO

So now we’re just repeating stories that they already told in Cumtown but with video

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

One of the most popular podcast for years and Adam still eats in mic

The new meta is rehashing all the old jokes but with a little more context

my boyfriend sent me here

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.

Oh this is going in a special playlist

Adam knew from memory that David Schwimmer grew up in Beverly hills, he knows what let's plays are.

Reminds me of the Yelp days, shoutout all the former Yelp sales crusaders. Brutal job lmao

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 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 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’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.

2:14 love how much labor nick puts into explaining lets plays

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"

I realize Hollywood is rebooting all the classics because they’ve run out of ideas but this has gone too far

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"

Phenomenal

1:52 makes me fell like I’m in 2012 again

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

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

The new thing of eating while podcasting is killing me !!

Adam and Nick saying "upwards mobility" in unison warmed my heart

hell yeah this rules

Weird when I’m several minutes in and start scrolling through the comments only for some asmr to start going on in the background.

Amazing how much more energy nick had just a few months ago. And i thought he was low energy when this aired

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 😅

Oh cool this story. Again.

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.

I have had one of those jobs, probably the easyest job I have ever had, it did suck hearing those chimes so much that i would still hear them at home in the quiet.

This call center must be where Nick got his inspiration for the old man character in his prank calls

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.

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.

"Just go ahead and unplug the ethernet ca..." "WHAT COLOR IS IT!?!?" "Uhhh... let me place you on a brief hold."

“Oh no what happening to her”

i need to find this call center so bad

Adam “Sounds Like a Computer Thing” Friedland

4:22 I think about this part a lot.

I work for a call center troubleshooting home internet and people really are that dumb and slow. It hurts so much lol

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.

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.

Adam finally looks 35 in the thumbnail

I work in a call center environment, and I'm about a year away from murdering our clients.

I worked at a Spectrum call center he nailed it lol

yea great time to start eating

Lol I did tech support. It do be like that. Back then, people that could tell someone to click on the mouse or plug in a monitor were like cutting edge tech guys. Those days are long gone now and I am obsolete .

That Wind Waker guy rules

This sounds exactly like my call center experience, with the exception of upper management getting it. The work sucks.

“What does email mean?!?!?!?!”

I worked in a call center for 2 years and this is 100% accurate, I straight up had a nervous breakdown and quit.

5:29 I’m sorry but, Adam reaching and eating watching Nick talk about the premise to Workaholics was so stupid lol

Nick rules!!!

single file!

My best friend who works in a call centre here in india(medical paper work) described it as a tap. Once you login, the water(calls) starts flowing in non-stop and it won't stop ringing till you logout. You need a shot of whiskey every night to flush the days crap out. People who don't talk will not be able to handle this job.

Outro song was a fkn banger what was that

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.

Everyone stepping into a call center gets nauseated. Sitting at your desk watching the seconds tick to the exact minute the first bleep from the headset comes in, then 8 hours of mind numbing misery.

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"what happened to her?" "something bad"

need that t shirt