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The progressive, provocative talk show host dishes on Ritchie Torres, Zionist summer camp, the year he lived in 'the real nothing town' of Petah Tikva and how he discovered the Israel advocacy of his adolescence was 'divorced from the people involved'

The Manhattan set of Adam Friedland's talk show features a simple raised platform with a rug and two chairs. It is an intimate, barebones setup modeled after "The Dick Cavett Show" that also evokes the makeshift Merv Griffin set that Cosmo Kramer built in his apartment in a famous "Seinfeld" episode."