Nick Mullen on Black Hawk Down | The Adam Friedland Show

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[@mikemacken4229]

Nick just needs to start a movie podcast already. It's like he doesn't want to do things he's good at

[@chronitized]

Too guay to be himself

[@LordJagd]

Chapo can suck my hog but the ep when they got Nick Mullen to talk about Eyes Wide Shut was awesome

[@yaboi269]

I’d pay $10 and a straight pube for that

[@andrewfernandez7410]

Mullen and List.

[@ChumpWumber]

There are definitely a lot of movies I would rather have described to me by nick rather than actually watch them

[@Audios2010]

Nick singing in traditional Pashto was something i wasnt expecting, what a beautifully cultured being we truly have 🙏🏼

[@Nowledgeman]

Nick millions, the dwarf philosopher is where I get my information and cultural immersion

[@AustinStephan]

Nick can't go one bit without mentioning Garfield

[@aNerdNamedJames]

You just know that child Nick kept the booklets under his pillow.

[@1travstone]

I wonder if he loves lasagna too

[@victorrain]

ClangersTV! Time for you to work your magic!!!!

[@franciscofeest6691]

Nick's movie memory borders in photographic. Dude could have used his weird brain in incredible ways if he had any other upbringing. He still created one of the most successful podcasts ever.

[@nietzchepreacher9477]

hes incredibly wrong about the background context of the movie tho

[@TerryWhisk]

@@nietzchepreacher9477for someone who’s not a military history guy he’s not that far off

[@nietzchepreacher9477]

@@TerryWhisk fair. But he does refer to the un and the US in Somalia as separate entities

[@eduardosuarez2414]

It's so funny how some people think comedians are geniuses because they remembered something. I read a similarly gushing comment recently about how Shane Gillis remembered a WWII veteran's name.

[@JeffreyBenzodiazepines]

@@eduardosuarez2414 Autistic fanboy hipsters for you

[@danielrosic2960]

One of the most recent episodes of the Shawn Ryan Show features a dude who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu, it’s really worth a watch. Really wild how these little stories that he tells actually appear in the movie. I remember as a kid reading the book Black Hawk Down, and in the notes somewhere I remember that the author worked closely with JSOC or whatever it’s equivalent was at that time (SOCOM?) to get everyone’s stories and stuff

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

The "this is my safety" story comes from the selector not going back into safety after you pull the trigger to drop the hammer on an empty chamber. When a captain (?) started talking smack about an unsafe weapon, the Delta dude had no patience to explain how the trigger mechanism bumps against the selector lever and makes it impossible to flip it back to safe, so he just did the "this is my safety" with his finger to steer into the skid.

[@snowjerkface]

EveryDayNoDaysOff has a hilarious patch of Eric Banana doing the finger thing @@ChucksSEADnDEAD

[@matthewryan2060]

Fun fact. The Americans tried to bomb a meeting of Ahdids lieutenants 2 weeks prior to the events of BHD. Turns out they were religious leaders from different parts of Somalia and all died in the the attack. Which is why the Rangers were so heavily attacked during the raid.

[@grandpathong]

thatll teach em to mess with us these colors dont run

[@sardonicus76]

This was pretty good but Nick’s spectacular breakdown of “A Time to Kill” is still the gold standard.

[@Karl_Squell]

Gran Torino and Robocop/Batman for me

[@AC-oz9gr]

Mr Hershey Nesquick

[@Double_Vision]

@@Karl_Squell A very, very low quality ten minute fan animation of Robocop Showgirls Batman with a boom box for a head was what cursed me with listening to all of Cumtown several times. It's no longer available.

[@Karl_Squell]

@@Double_Vision RACHEL!!!

[@mrbump28]

Lifetime movies for me

[@alexolife]

"Damn, Nick's memory of the events leading to the Battle of Mogadishu is surprisingly accurate." -Me (just another random male like Nick who has read the Wiki a hundred times and watched countless KZbin videos about it)

[@adamdudley8736]

Except that he thought black hawk down was made after saving Private Ryan

[@Trisket]

​@@adamdudley8736Saving Private Ryan is 1998, Black Hawk Down is 2001.

[@whyy__it]

The amount of random Wikipedia articles I could lecture on is astounding

[@FourthExile]

same, i recommend the Black Hawk Down book by Mark Bowden. It's fucking bonkers.

[@Diarrheahaver]

Me (a guy just like my friend, Nick Mullen)

[@will.davlin]

The chet hanks credits song is song of the year production wise

[@jakebroz9116]

As someone who low-key has read alot on what happened in Somalia I'm impressed with Nick's fluent explanation of it.

[@StupidDumbIdiotImbecil]

If you have the Internet it's not hard to learn things, it's just most people have very cursory and shallow interests. Also I'm incredibly gay.

[@yashnigam6]

So when do we get the Nick Mullen review of Birth of a Nation?

[@brandonknox8175]

I have never watched this podcast before but that dude pulled out the Heartbreak Ridge reference and he got my respect.

[@scumbaggo]

oh boy, you're in for a ride bud. enjoy.

[@PotentialAutist42069]

Kinda neat to see Adam's style slowly change from city jew to country jew

[@Frip36]

Country Jew & the Fish

[@HistoryNerd8765]

From City Jew to Field Jew.

[@JMG_86]

@@HistoryNerd8765 *Fieldy Jew

[@lukebryant5017]

That movie created more Rangers than any recruiting campaign ever could lol also I believe you used to be able to watch actual footage from the Somalians called “Mogadishu: graveyard of the crusaders” even tho they got signed to belt2ass records lol

[@brittanyelise668]

“Look how cool infrared is” that’s a Bill Hicks bit. nice.

[@WesMerc]

Maybe the best cast ever assembled

[@TalkingThrones]

Boogie Nights

[@borismuller3279]

Inception and Mars Attacks are up there

[@Frip36]

So you've seen about 14 movies in your short life?

[@AstroJenkins]

Triumph of the Will.

[@Lucky-sh1dm]

“The Thin Red Line” has it beat by just a hair

[@bobbachet]

The “helicopter guys” were actually Montgomery Gentry

[@SuperEagle112]

I know that up until recently, for the better part of 15 years my local hobby shop that was corporate owned. Had an iPod with like seven songs on it and one of them was that like Afghani battle riff song. You’ll never see employees more excited to play Christmas music for a change of pace.

[@MegaMan-bs3oy]

Good point. I can only think of Black Hawk Down, Jar Head and The Hurt locker being good modern day war movies. ALL my other fav's are WW1,WW2,Nam movies. WW2 was just...you cant beat it

[@ryshellso526]

Sad you zoomers are disenfranchised from becoming a man through war... enjoy your gender change!

[@StudioMod]

The soundtrack of that film is absolutely top tier. Barra Barra IS amazing. I grew up listen to that song.

[@raydawg6364]

Nick being creative is fun. Him pandering to people isn’t. Just be great boy the world is ready

[@ngonzales3781]

I like the booger in his mustache

[@JeffreyBenzodiazepines]

Nick is boring now, he peaked in covid

[@MrSomethingdark]

You guys are starting to glow

[@skatekr3wmonty]

fun fact if your not somali:a week or so before the events portrayed in black hawk down, we did another mission where instead of trying to capture a tribal leader, we waited until they had their weekly tribal meeting, and then hit the building with 5 uninterrupted minutes of machine gun and rocket fire. kinda explains why they were so mad when we tried another mission

[@lmackenzie9198]

That'll learn 'em

[@willshogren1987]

My cool youth pastor took us to see Black Hawk Down in theaters and a bunch of parents got mad because it was rated R 😂

[@lmackenzie9198]

Dudes rock

[@treytison1444]

I kept waiting for Nick to bring up the casualty numbers lol

[@alo4912]

"17 Americans were killed, and we killed like a thousand hahahaha" -Nick

[@Frip36]

And since we sent in "100,000" marines, 17 isn't that much. @@alo4912

[@Mr.Redink]

It may be american military propaganda. But at least its well written and produced military propaganda.

[@douglasmcveigh5559]

How is it military propaganda?

[@douglasmcveigh5559]

@@harrybirchall3308 You don't write a true story.

[@monkeyassvespucci8463]

cuz it was an ameriKKKan defeat. dozens of special forces dead or wounded and their toys shot down. large amounts of the "fighting" was amerifats shooting into unarmed crowds.

[@Mr.Redink]

@@douglasmcveigh5559 does it make the US military/US government/US interest look good/like the good guys ? Yes? -> propaganda. On BHD: “He came into my office and said 'General, I'm going to make a movie, and your Army will be proud of [it]. ' He did, so we thank him,” General John M. Keane, the army's vice chief of staff, recalled. For $2.2 million, the Pentagon lent the production 100 troops and eight helicopters. Do you think Somalian people watching that movie would see it as an unbiased film ? Or anything else than US propaganda?

[@eduardosuarez2414]

@@douglasmcveigh5559 you don't get to make a movie that looks halfway accurate, with all the actual black hawks and humvees etc, with defense department cooperation and military advisors, unless you're going to make the military look good. They cooperate because they know war movies about duty and honor and all that shit inspire people to join the military.

[@crackthefoundation_]

Can we have a 15 minute segment about Adam's thermos collection, which have a vaccuum chamber, what type of exterior material they are made of, etc.

[@scpmarine]

Nick: "Hey, I'm just a dumb comedian. But, let me explain this incredibly intricate story involving world diplomacy."

[@electricbenedict]

he has every guys only wikipedia article memorized to 80% accuracy. its wild.

[@NinoTheHuman]

On Cinema at the Gay Bath House

[@Kyryyn_Lyyh]

Unlike these seething roasties, I get what you mean OP. Nick just knows the difference between being Smart and Knowing stuff.

[@riadhbenkilani4733]

He is smart enough to play dumb He is a huge fan of Norm (i remember the CT episode just after Norm died, "somebody died?" Or smthng Norm always said nobody likes the smart Guy in the room

[@JeffreyBenzodiazepines]

@@TonyBustaroni Autistic hipster comedian fanboys for you

[@kingjoe3rd]

100,000 Marines? That's basically half of the Marine Corps at any given moment. Maybe that number is a little off. 1,800 is the correct number according to historians.

[@ZeZeBatata69]

Thanks nerd.

[@Dubstepping23]

When the autism kicks in.

[@bigbrossi2434]

sorry for thinking it was 100 thousand I'm gay

[@JoesephsSiezmore]

This is all we need!

[@thomasv9258]

Interesting this was a conversation, Tom Satterly, who was Delta Force in Mogadishu during that just went on the Shawn Ryan show and told the true story about it

[@thatoneguy3115]

He should do a grappling match with goggins

[@thekotabear3262]

@thatoneguy3115 thanks for this comment. Watched the whole interview. story is wild.

[@infantryL0RD]

bro lmaooo Filthy Frank used to always use that Black Hawk Down Somali song it was so funny everytime

[@moh2108]

I’m Somali. In no way is that song Somali in any shape or form but it BANGS! Lol!

[@messi-mk3cq]

That was not a somali song. Hollywood using random Kenyan (swahili) song when making movies about black/africans🤦‍♀️u people dont know shit about us

[@infantryL0RD]

@@messi-mk3cq dont care didnt ask

[@eyswdsht999]

You should have Colonel Mullen on the show more often. You can tell he's been through hell, carries that thousand island stare everywhere he goes. I thought you handled the interview well, considering the Colonel is still dealing with stuffed shell shock

[@breakercassidy6946]

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” - Plato

[@ClibanariusJJ]

"Camper noob :(" - Me, a gay man

[@alexolife]

"Being smart is good and being dumb is bad." -Socrates -Plato

[@Frip36]

He meant war will always be with us. He did not mean a particular war. @@alexolife

[@ninjomaniac]

My favorite COD death quote

[@alexolife]

@@Frip36 I'm just quoting his shitty book.

[@krazykkarl]

30 year anniversary the other day. Just watched an interview with one of the delta force guys that was there.

[@Frip36]

crazy story bro. Tell it again.

[@magicknight13]

We need a movie podcast with these two so much

[@melissag1364]

Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down is a dope recounting of events. He interviews all the dudes involved including some Somalis. It’s a bodacious read

[@afterhourscinema782]

How about *'Black Cock Down'?* It's a center-left drama about how African Americans have to deal with the all the pressures of racial stereotypes

[@TalkingThrones]

No

[@jspike96]

"Gordy's gay man, suck my balls, I'm bi"

[@eduardosuarez2414]

How about Black Hawk Downs and the helicopter crashed because the pilots dropped his nerds rope

[@armeniimisthios]

@@TalkingThronesaye i used to watch your videos back when game of thrones was good 😂

[@peraticti]

Because the entire cast has Down syndrome @@eduardosuarez2414

[@messi-mk3cq]

0:46 That was not a somali song. Hollywood using random Kenyan (swahili) song when making movies about black/africans🤦‍♀️u people dont know shit about us

[@ManDuderGuy]

The "little bird" attack helicopters were the real MVP.

[@TehUltimateSnake]

Loved that part of the movie

[@Lucky-sh1dm]

Scene When that one little bird lands at the first crash sight and the pilot is right hand on the yolk left hand ripping an MP5 into the Somali alleys as the medevac grabs casualties one of the hardest scenes of all time

[@ellisd3165]

I want Nick to talk about The Nisour Square massacre while Adam tries to fuck it up.

[@Frip36]

LOL

[@TheHonoredMadman]

Weird european bodybuilders became our action heroes

[@shifty1927]

Got hooked to the Blackhawk Down video game as a teen when I was on house arrest. Even joined a team with these older dudes from Canada and ended up winning the championship. Then got into Joint ops after Blackhawk. Those 2 games from Delta force were the shit and the original modern warfare fps games.

[@alo4912]

Did you guys kiss?

[@shifty1927]

@@alo4912 only through the phone like Soulja boy

[@JasonYount-hn2bc]

@@shifty1927😂😂

[@TheBigWI93]

he doesn't mention we were soldiers but that came out a year later and is also really good

[@Slop_Dogg]

two elderly men discussing war films

[@pEMDASist]

It was Tears of The Sun for me

[@Frip36]

0:27. "It's so, for us."

[@sangyedorje]

Nice to hear from a war correspondent and my personal friend Nick Mullen

[@ryanv4587]

We need a collab with Will Menaker on movie mindset!

[@fuguestatetoo6789]

2:04 - (Adam signals Nick to wipe his nose)

[@KennyP.Gemstone]

Hurt Locker was successful. Navy Seals was the first war movie I can remember that had thermal scopes.

[@paintman7709]

I have that song on a running playlist.

[@romanmanner]

Black Hawk Down got me to join up

[@andrewk7199]

"there are scenes in the movie that are very funny. I think it was like 17 americans were (unlived)..." -- my favourite nick mullen quote.

[@mickeyblueyes]

adam is a fashion icon

[@nickfalletta661]

Not sure what this segment was about because I could only pay attention to whatever that is in the middle of Nick's mustache.

[@Frip36]

Would have been barely amusing for 20 seconds. But to keep it in the whole time was not good.

[@pbplauralfilms]

That hoodie's wonderful

[@wolfcatwithagun]

I remember the Marine "invasion" of Somalia where CNN was on the beach filming as the Marines were landing in their little rafts. Epic.

[@L11ghtman]

The marines exist largely for no reason other than to recruit more marines, which is such an epic business model. They do the same job as the army in every war, except they generally take more casualties, which is so cool of them.

[@Matt_J98]

A gay fact: one of those initial marines was the warlords son; who after he was done in the corps, became a warlord himself

[@gregorteply9034]

I'd call it career advancement.

[@steventrotter4958]

You know whenever I hear the phrase Warlord I immediately do so in the voice of Phil Hartman, as Bill Clinton in that SNL sketch

[@wojciechgrodnicki6302]

The mini gun scene was epic.

[@lukepedersen9681]

its amazing to be around someone as funny as nick& be on earth as long as Adam has &not know how to laugh.

[@chayneschaetzle9307]

I’m really impressed by Nicks knowledge on this subject

[@voiceofreason2674]

"Bakaara Market is the wild west and people do live there so be prepared to do some shooting" meanwhile the warlords troops are getting locked and loaded and burning tires. But the actors playing the warlords troops were all from senegal, like huge badazz dudes then I met the actual dudes who come from s0ma1ians and they're runts with big foreheads and bad attitudes. How those dudes managed to shoot down one of our choppers is so embarrassing

[@smartiechuco]

Tough lives make tough men, you wouldn’t understand lil buddy

[@klof4276]

"Somalians are so thin, they beat the Americans by shooting and taking cover behind their own rifle." was the joke we used to say at the time north of the dunes.

[@williamdavid9272]

They chewed on khat and were just methed out zombies with automatic weapons. Spray enough bullets and eventually you hit stuff, which is what they did

[@eduardosuarez2414]

Some of them had specific training on how to shoot down helicopters from Al Qaeda

[@GerardPerry]

Mohamed Farrah Aidid l-the warlord referred to in this video-had a son who served in the USMC, and served in Operation Restire Hope in Somalia.

[@Frip36]

The warlord had sons in the military? He had about five thousand sons. Probably had a kid in every high school in America.

[@MeBoylife]

Once per week, movie review with nick would be dope

[@gofannon1943]

“BA-SHAA-LABALLLAAAA”

[@KydraExhale]

“So fuckin cool” -Cool Adam

[@griffinsalmon5798]

Waiting on ClangersTV for this

[@astrotrek3534]

I need to know what Nick thinks about Master and Commander, the quintessential dudes movie

[@ewei318]

I’d love to watch these guys breakdown Wire episodes. Bring on Tim Dillon and Stav too. That shit would be gold.

[@davidjd123]

Bruce Willis in tears of the sun was cool

[@blooblefwarden4432]

Thats crazy Just watched the movie for the first time since i was like 5 and this comes up again

[@Krow943]

I think I’ve seen this movie like 4 times and never knew what was really going on until this

[@fenjohrer]

Nick looking like Wild Bill Hickok

[@andrewnicon]

nick mullen knows so much about history and politics when its in a movie he's seen

[@JohnNoir8911]

Anyone know what chairs they use? Need one for my room lol

[@frankwhite7878]

Wtf episode is this from. I thought I saw them all, it says ep 20 but I just checked and it’s not

[@adraburnes1549]

Nick is such a smart dude. He talks about things like he wrote the Wikipedia for it

[@amareto5772]

The Marines underestimated the rebels. Yes, they did kill a lot's of people, but they couldn't get out of Mogadishu. The Pakistani peace keepers interviened and saved the rest of the marines who were alive.

[@thesho_music]

Blackhawk Down Song - Gortoz a ran

[@bonitabromeliads]

what episode is this from?

[@zkc7489]

is that a booger in nicks moustache

[@jonw3462]

I had the most intense experience watching that movie recently. Watched a video on KZbin detailing the mission and deep dive into it. Saw the videos of the real dead marine dragged by Somalian on some gore site. Snorted the fattest line of ketamine and watched it for the first time. The line between reality was blurred but was one of the most intense movie experiences I've had and being a real story made it that much more emotional

[@Kyryyn_Lyyh]

Thank you for your Service 🫡

[@jonw3462]

@@Kyryyn_Lyyh 🫡🤤

[@stevowilliams8279]

@gobrowns2509like me.

[@alexcoyg3281]

​@gobrowns2509 Tell that to his mother!!!

[@unropednope4644]

​@gobrowns2509people don't know what an operator is. Just say delta force

[@snafu700]

I love adams conservative mom hat

[@kekchanbiggestfan]

The audio delay is insane

[@FirstFamilyCharger]

They’ll get it fixed soon don’t worry. They just started using audio equipment.

[@nbm5493]

He watches Shawn Ryan clearly

[@edschell9411]

What episode is this?

[@Frip36]

The sparkle in his mustache ha-ha episode.

[@davidfenton6682]

If Nick could talk about Meet Joe Black my life would be complete.

[@DarkMuj]

How about “Meet Black Joe” And Brad Pitt is in Blackface for the movie. And his character is gay.

[@xMPGx]

pretty sure he has talked about that one . i wanna say mid coomtown era ...maybe like 2019 ish ? or i could be imagining it

[@jaygonya8383]

​@2Chill2Game yeah I think just shat on it pretty hard, I don't remember there being a lot of analysis besides him laughing at Brad Pitt's use of patois

[@CrackinJacks138]

Nick just make a movie podcast with cruisin joe list, he always has ranan hershberg on to talk movies and that guy blows

[@Frip36]

Trying to read that sentence was like tumbling down Boulder Hill. As for flow, you are the anti-Giorgio Moroder.

[@r0achbait]

nick please cut your hair you look like a time traveler escaping the vietnam draft

[@danielmcdermott138]

He's about ready to slap Jenny because of that 'Son of a b*tch Johnson' 😂

[@lukepedersen9681]

I circle back to this show cuz nick is truly one of the only things in this painful hellscape that can make me laugh, but the vocal fry, the appearance, the completely unmerrited success, smug conceitedness &honestly entire existence of Adam makes me turn it off was quickly as it came on.

[@homer1268]

pretty sure that warllords son was a marine and after his father died he went back to take his job

[@SrAntonio301]

Nick regrets not joining the military

[@LorwelDonquist]

Love it

[@andrewk7199]

Blackhawk down my throat.

[@michaelmcshane6050]

Those delta force guys were real tho lmao

[@lastEvergreen]

بره بره... الحزن والبغض والزوارة

[@ClibanariusJJ]

Hell yeah, dude.

[@klof4276]

Barrina w'michina ennaykou aslan m3a hal kazi wel show mte3ou. Rabbek ighoss 3la zboubetna bchmeta kol episode... Ya friedland ma3adech tet7annech 3ccha3b bellehi w'sayyeb zboubetna mel mradh mte3ek !!!

[@voiceofreason2674]

Wabuuuuu wabuuuuu alllllLLLLLLAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[@klof4276]

@@voiceofreason2674 Ain't no translating robot can decipher phonetically transcribed Arabic... Sorry kid... You're not a member of Da Club... Go suck on a frenchman.

[@zakiyala4509]

​@@voiceofreason2674racist

[@cliftonfurney5083]

Need a cool adam movie review

[@jonathanthompson9068]

So strange to hear an actual insightful conversation about film.