Adam Waheed | Club Random w/Bill Maher
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How does Adam Waheed describe his journey from moving to LA to building a TikTok following?
What are you, thirty?
I'm in my twenties. I'm uh twenty nine. Try. I'm milking it for as much as I can. Punching 30 in the mouth. I'm I'm I'm right there.
I'm sure I felt that, you know, like I'm I'm always fascinated by age and different not um people think I'm like, oh don't worry about it. I'm not worried about it. I'm just fascinated by it. That
yeah
because I of course I remember thirty, but you can't possibly know sixty-six.
I don't know. You know what? But you
will. And it'll go by like that.
I was literally like twenty one yesterday. And then bam, I'm twenty nine. I'm twenty nine now. But I have a terrible like I would have never guessed you were sixty six. Like I I I have a horrible age radar. Like I never know how old somebody is. I mean I know if someone's over eighteen, but That's that's as far as it goes, you know? That's as that's as far as it goes.
That that actually that a very hard one to know. Models they constantly are p plucking models from like s farm cities in Ukraine and they're like fourteen, right? And that's what they at least that that's how they used to get models and they looked they were eighteen. So they find 'em on Instagram. If you have a radar that could tell
Yeah.
That you're good.
Yeah, I don't know. Do I do I look twenty nine?
Well, I just guessed you were thirty. So you're gonna have to live with What do you got? Another six months, but
it's a beard. Yeah, no, I have uh my birthday's in October, so
Oh, you're okay. Yeah. Let me tell you something. It's not how old you are, it's how old you are. Like against where you are. And you're doing great.
Yeah.
I think you have what, like a tr one trillion uh TikTok followers or something?
So on TikTok I have fifteen point four million followers. Now how
did you build that up?
Man, so I m I I've been in LA for five years and when I moved out here I was trying to Where you
from?
New York. Yeah.
I've heard of it.
Born and raised. Yeah.
Oh really? What part?
Queens flushing and then uh like towards high school my family moved to Long Island. I moved out when I was eighteen. I went to school in uh Texas. I went to college in Texas. And then pointless. I mean I went there to I was majoring sociology. I was playing football at the time. I wanted to like be in the NFL. Turns out I wasn't good enough. And um My sister was like, You should you know, you should you've always been funny, you should just move to LA and be like a comedian and actor. And I was like, All right, let's do it. So I ended up moving out to LA. I was like an assistant at the time. This is five years ago. So I'm an assistant. I'm making like six hundred bucks a month. I'm like taking the bus and train.
Um, I'm assistant, I'm trying to like get gigs. I'm doing stand up, but I'm doing like shitty bar gigs. I'm not doing real stand up, you know. In the club. Yeah, anywhere I can get on stage, right?
You think you're different than everyone else who But we all did that.
You know, it's tough because when you move here you see people who are already successful, but you don't see what they went through to get there. I I mean I'm just a kid when I moved here so you're
the one who's going through what you went through to get there.
Yeah.
True. So it's good for you.
Yeah, I wouldn't be where I'm at today if I didn't go through the yeah.
Yeah. System and it's toughens you up and makes you funnier and
oh yeah.
You know. It's fascinating to me. I mean the the way that technology changes obviously funny is funny, that doesn't change. But how where it's going through? I mean from when I started when it was like getting on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Yep.
You know. to like Then I remember Dane Cook. Remember that was a technological that was sort of like wasn't he the f the first one to
sell out the garden. He sold out the garden like
but because he used the internet.
Yeah.
Wasn't that I
don't remember if it was I
think that's what it was.
It might have been, but I remember watching Dan Cook. I mean at that point when I was watching him, he was already doing the garden, so
But that's what made him unique. Yeah. He w he mastered a new technology.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How does Adam Waheed describe his journey from moving to LA to building a TikTok following?
0:01–4:57
2
What strategies does Adam use to grow and maintain his TikTok audience?
4:57–10:02
3
Why does Bill Maher explain NATO and the ACLU to Adam, and what are the key takeaways?
10:02–15:25
4
What is the ‘Gazpacho moment’ and how does it connect to learning about NATO?
15:25–21:19
5
Why does Bill Maher say he will never have children, and what does he say about marriage?
21:19–27:22
6
How does Adam handle the pressure of creating daily content and its impact on his personal life?
27:22–33:01
7
What insights do they share about Appalachia, rural internet access, and cultural stereotypes?
33:01–38:41
8
What final thoughts do Bill and Adam leave about creativity, collaboration, and future projects?
38:41–42:42