Huge Scandals That Hit Famous Podcasters

Comedian and podcaster Adam Friedland is no stranger to courting controversy; it's kind of his bread and butter in his popular podcast, "The Adam Friedland Show." But in February 2023, Friedland's mouth got him into a bit of trouble during a sit-down with Matty Healy, frontman for pop rockers The 1975. During a conversation about rapper Ice Spice, Friedland and his co-host Nick Mullen made a few choice and racially insensitive remarks about Ice, punctuating these with mocking, stereotypical renditions of a non-American accent or two; Healy chuckled and enthusiastically engaged with this nonsense, before encouraging the hosts to — there's no delicate way to put this — imitate Japanese people laboring in concentration camps, for some bizarre reason.

The podcast's episode was pulled from major streaming services after the inevitable and justified blowback, and while Friedland and Mullen have largely clammed up about the whole matter, Healy has not. In a New Yorker profile, he was contrite, apologetic, and — oh no, wait, he was an absolute cad about the whole thing. "It doesn't actually matter. Nobody is sitting there at night [worrying about it]," he said. When the interviewer opined that maybe it did matter a little, Healy responded, "If it does, you're either deluded or you are, sorry, a liar. You're either lying that you are hurt, or you're a bit mental for being hurt."

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