00:00:07: Not gonna lie every time that recording progress comes on.

00:00:09: I feel like I'm being indicted for something.

00:00:11: I feel like I'm being watched.

00:00:13: I'm just like, ah, shit.

00:00:14: Ah, damn, it got me.

00:00:15: I don't know what I did, but I ain't doing shit.

00:00:17: I got alibi.

00:00:36: You feel about, like, I don't know how it is for you, especially, like, coming from New Orleans, I've had so many interactions with police, and some of them are pretty intense.

00:00:51: I it's so funny here in Munich.

00:00:53: I know that it's.

00:00:55: I know that if a cop is behind me on Like some random road and follows me like for three turns.

00:01:02: I know it's Probably ninety nine percent no problem.

00:01:05: They're just going the same way.

00:01:07: Oh But I've had that happen so many times in New Orleans and in the South.

00:01:13: I I've always been stopped when that happens and it's never Like.

00:01:20: I know I'm a privileged white dude, but I I've had some interactions where they were.

00:01:25: it was really scary and like really intense and over the top.

00:01:29: Do you like?

00:01:30: I mean how was that for you when you when you go through?

00:01:34: you know, Germany with cops.

00:01:35: Is it just no issue for you anymore?

00:01:38: Yeah,

00:01:38: it is still an issue.

00:01:39: That has not gone away, bro.

00:01:42: It's almost to the point where I have to do a double taking, like, hold on, wait, so I'm not being followed.

00:01:46: Hold on.

00:01:46: So I'm not in trouble.

00:01:47: Like, are you serious?

00:01:48: I go through a group of cops just talking and they're not trying to identify me.

00:01:53: I don't fit a profile.

00:01:54: Like, oh, shit.

00:01:55: You know,

00:01:56: like, have you had any interactions with police in Germany since you've lived here?

00:02:02: No, not really.

00:02:03: Not even like a look, to be honest.

00:02:06: Yeah, no issues or whatever.

00:02:10: And once the issues even goes down to no pain and tension to me at all.

00:02:15: So that's even a trip, too, of me walking somewhere, being in the store, and there's police in there.

00:02:20: And then there's no one looking at me, no one trying to size me up.

00:02:24: I'm kind of like,

00:02:25: what?

00:02:27: At some point, I get a little offended.

00:02:28: I'm like, hold on, wait.

00:02:28: But I'm a person, too.

00:02:29: Hold on.

00:02:31: So you just, that don't exist?

00:02:33: Like

00:02:35: what's going

00:02:40: on?

00:02:45: You're so welcomed and accepted that you're like, hey, hey.

00:02:49: Come on now.

00:02:50: Come on.

00:02:51: Yeah.

00:02:52: It's like, it's like, what's the catch?

00:02:53: I'm thinking like this is the episode, episode or a scene of good fellows.

00:02:56: I'm like, hold on, wait, wait, what's going on?

00:02:57: Why are they acting too comfortable?

00:02:59: Why are they even trying to size me up?

00:03:01: It's like that

00:03:02: Sam Jackson scene where he's like, yeah, let's get ready for breakfast.

00:03:05: Let's go.

00:03:09: So yeah, bro.

00:03:10: My paranoia is still there, but I'll say like no issues.

00:03:13: I do know I had like a clip.

00:03:14: Actually one of my friends, he used to live in Munich and he said he got he got rest, not rested, but something happened because he had like a little bit of weed on him.

00:03:21: And like the way they took him to the station, there was no handcuffs.

00:03:24: There's no like, you know, apprehension.

00:03:26: They were just like, hey, so our car is about a couple blocks.

00:03:28: So we have to walk to go to the station and they just walked casually to the cop car, which is like a beam, not beamers, like a Mercedes Benz and then they drove to the.

00:03:38: I'm like, what kind of fairy tale arrest was this?

00:03:42: Yeah.

00:03:43: It's like basically just like a show for it with rules.

00:03:47: All

00:03:47: right.

00:03:48: He got closer to his flat.

00:03:50: It was great.

00:03:50: Like he was like, oh, this is a great time.

00:03:52: Yeah.

00:03:52: I was like, you know, ten kilometers away.

00:03:54: Thank you for bringing me closer to my flat.

00:03:57: This is a free Uber.

00:03:58: Wow.

00:03:59: OK.

00:04:02: Uber black.

00:04:02: Oh my god.

00:04:03: This is like the advance.

00:04:16: I thought Uber black was the luxury service.

00:04:18: No, this is a derogatory way of bringing black people to the police.

00:04:23: So Munich still has some racist issues to deal with.

00:04:29: I want to get into your, into your stand up and stuff soon, but I just on this topic before I forget it.

00:04:35: I've also been doing some stand-up and I have this this bit.

00:04:38: that's a totally true story and it's about going to like a document this documentary film festival that takes place in Munich.

00:04:47: and there was a documentary that was in like mixed languages.

00:04:51: it was in English but also German but it had subtitles and it was a story about this.

00:04:58: it was like.

00:04:58: basically The documentary is following different police stations in different states and cities like around the world.

00:05:06: And it was focusing on the software that police stations were trying to implement that might help them in this like minority report, like help them predict where crime might occur, essentially racism.

00:05:22: At the end of the day.

00:05:23: Yeah.

00:05:25: So but it was so funny because they they went to like Chicago.

00:05:29: And there was a guy who was like so grizzled and seasoned and he was like, yeah, they took this woman and they chopped her up in pieces and tossed her in the harbor or whatever.

00:05:38: It was like, oh, shit.

00:05:39: And then they went to this other guy in New York and they were like, yeah, they like, yeah, they took this guy in the alley and they they've execution style like popped his brains out and put, you know, tossed him in the Hudson.

00:05:50: And then they went to Munich and for some reason, for some reason, and there were two cops and this was so real.

00:05:56: They had two cops that were like, oh.

00:05:58: Like, should I start?

00:05:59: Okay, I can do it.

00:06:01: Yeah, we've had a lot of complaints that next to this U-Bahn, someone is stealing bicycles.

00:06:11: It's like, what?

00:06:13: What kind of rookie shit is that?

00:06:15: And I think in my set, I described him as like the two most well-slept, doughy-eyed beat cops you've ever seen

00:06:28: in your life.

00:06:28: You know, let me tell you something.

00:06:29: Smoking a cigarette.

00:06:30: I was talking about a stolen bike and like, get out of here.

00:06:33: That's, that's something that the Boy Scouts take care of in the United States.

00:06:36: Yeah.

00:06:37: And like, and to follow the Chicago guy who was like bagged from like years of no sleep and he's probably getting a divorce and his kids don't talk to him and he's just smoked himself into a corner and he's like, They chopped her in pieces.

00:06:51: and there's like someone is stealing the bicycles from this.

00:06:57: And that cop had.

00:06:59: that cop has a full pension.

00:07:00: that's never going to be threatened by anything.

00:07:02: It's like good health care.

00:07:04: He just for stolen bicycles, this guy is being paid.

00:07:07: Exactly.

00:07:09: This guy in Chicago seeing people getting their brains popped out.

00:07:12: He's like, I don't know this pension.

00:07:13: is divorces really killing me?

00:07:15: I don't know what I'm gonna do after this one.

00:07:17: This is my second divorce.

00:07:21: Definitely second divorce like kids with both wives, but they all don't talk to him.

00:07:26: He's like yeah, Alamone.

00:07:27: What a bitch am I right?

00:07:30: He still thinks therapy is gay even though he's like.

00:07:32: I talk about traumatic things three times a day.

00:07:34: It's like all right, bro.

00:07:35: There's a reason why you have two divorces with a third on the way.

00:07:39: He just watches like NYPD blue reruns.

00:07:43: It doesn't get all days.

00:07:46: Backed on the force.

00:07:49: He watches Shawshank Redemption and judges it.

00:07:55: I would have known.

00:07:56: I would have figured it out.

00:07:59: He's the guy that every crime that happened to every movie.

00:08:03: He already knows it before the main protagonist knows.

00:08:08: I

00:08:08: know what's in the box.

00:08:09: Why doesn't Brad Pitt know?

00:08:13: He's a fucking loser.

00:08:14: That's just drinking a Heineken by himself in a single recliner in a living room.

00:08:21: I was going to say exactly that, but with like an open door garage.

00:08:30: You know, it's funny.

00:08:31: This is this is so American coded.

00:08:33: Yeah.

00:08:34: Yeah.

00:08:34: Yeah.

00:08:35: I wonder who in Germany is going to get what we're talking about because it's it's.

00:08:38: it's sad, but it's reality for a lot of parts of America.

00:08:41: It's so real, dude.

00:08:43: It's so real.

00:08:44: Where are you from in the States?

00:08:46: Yeah, it's originally from New Jersey, and then I lived in New York City for a while before moving out here to Brooklyn.

00:08:51: Where in New York did you live?

00:08:53: Yeah, so I lived in Bethstah, Brooklyn.

00:08:55: Bethstah?

00:08:56: How long?

00:08:57: Yeah, I was out there for about, like, ten years, yeah.

00:09:00: Wow.

00:09:01: What was your, like, favorite, well, what age were you when you were living there?

00:09:06: Yeah, so the age I was at when I was living in, what, New York?

00:09:09: Yeah, in Brooklyn, yeah.

00:09:10: Yes, I was there in like, oh, I was like, like, twenty three, twenty four.

00:09:15: Yeah, around that

00:09:16: time.

00:09:17: Yeah.

00:09:17: For studying or just to like get out of Jersey?

00:09:20: To be honest, man, the reason why I went there is that I did like this coding bootcamp thing.

00:09:24: So you learn how to code.

00:09:26: old and you know it was in New York and I was working a job in in what I was.

00:09:30: I was what a job in Jersey or something and I was like you know what.

00:09:33: let me go ahead and try this because I was trying to.

00:09:35: I was trying to do a code in boot camps thing to learn how to code as a plan B because I wanted to get in film and Yeah.

00:09:43: So I had a mentor who, he's a DP, a director of photography, and he did a lot of work in New York, like for the New York Rangers and all these other things, Adidas and stuff.

00:09:52: And I wanted to follow him.

00:09:54: So I was like, you know what?

00:09:55: That's a plan B. Let me learn to do one of the hardest things to do in this world, which is holding and working with computers as a plan B and then do film as a, that's the main thing.

00:10:08: That's why I moved to New York.

00:10:10: Like why?

00:10:11: Why are we so interested in film?

00:10:13: Because that's definitely a strong interest.

00:10:15: I think we have in common.

00:10:17: Yeah, that's no.

00:10:20: Hmm.

00:10:20: I don't know.

00:10:21: This is so interesting because like I'm not like a movie buff or something, but I think I just had like a strong visual connection with things or something or like.

00:10:30: I would just visualize like, I don't know, like I watched a sitcom and I was to visualize how else it can go.

00:10:36: And then I think it just manifested weirdly into me.

00:10:40: having a camera, I started shooting like YouTube way back.

00:10:43: And then I started going, I started approaching people literally and be like, oh yeah, you're a rapper, you're a musician.

00:10:48: Yo, if you want, I can shoot a video for you.

00:10:52: I was doing that a bit.

00:10:53: And then eventually, yeah, it's kind of snowballed from there, just where I met the right people or certain situations happen to where I was like, oh yeah, let me go ahead and do this.

00:11:04: It sounds a bit like you were more interested in just like professional videography.

00:11:10: Then like then like movie making which is also a really cool career.

00:11:15: I think when people specialize in Like when I was in college I was doing like skateboard videos for friends.

00:11:22: I was a I cannot skateboard, but I filmed all my skateboarder friends.

00:11:27: Oh wow And we made like another friend like when I think we were fifteen before I went to film school We did like a lot of sketches and tried to we had like a little.

00:11:38: What was it called like?

00:11:39: a?

00:11:39: oh the DVD handy cam the Sony DVD handy cam?

00:11:43: We're making all these terrible short sketches like three minutes long in the woods.

00:11:50: in the woods

00:11:53: It was like stand by me, but it was just very very bad.

00:12:03: Yeah, I. but that's interesting because I It sounds like just the idea of like filming, like generally was an interest of yours as opposed to, you know, the average like film school kid who's like, I want to be Steven Spielberg or like, I want to be Spike Jonze or something.

00:12:24: But like, do you have some like favorite directors or favorite like films that really stand out to you?

00:12:30: One of my favorite films, I mean, I mean, aside from like the hood classic, like, you know, you got boys in the hood, you got paid in full.

00:12:36: Ooh, paid in full.

00:12:39: Yeah, paid in full, man.

00:12:40: Actually, I need to watch that.

00:12:41: I have a friend who, he watches it every year as like, as a thing.

00:12:44: So I gotta rewatch it.

00:12:47: That, the wire, I mean, that's like a, you know, series.

00:12:51: Absolutely.

00:12:52: In terms of films, you know, yeah, you know, it's funny.

00:12:54: It's like, I'm not really a film person anymore.

00:12:56: Like when it comes to movies, I'm like the worst, like, I think the last movie I saw was Sinners.

00:13:01: But aside from that, bro, I don't go to movies that often as I should.

00:13:06: But

00:13:06: those are the films that come to mind.

00:13:08: TV series, I'm like, let's start Galactica.

00:13:11: That was one where not the old one.

00:13:14: I'm not talking about the one that came in mid-two thousands.

00:13:18: Yeah, I think mid-two thousands, early-two thousands.

00:13:20: That's

00:13:20: cool.

00:13:20: That,

00:13:21: bro, that is man.

00:13:23: Anyone who hasn't watched it, they sleeping on something great.

00:13:31: Yeah, I mean those are those are the things that come to mind here.

00:13:33: What are like a couple of.

00:13:35: I mean do you have like any feelings about?

00:13:38: you know prominent like prominent American like African-American people like Denzel or Spike Lee?

00:13:46: Denzel he's the goat.

00:13:48: Yeah, he's a goat man Denzel.

00:13:50: I mean I do whatever he plays he's the goat even though he's pretty much the same guy generally speaking playing those parts, but I don't know what it is, bro.

00:13:59: He's addictive.

00:14:01: It's addictive.

00:14:02: It's like as if Denzel Washington is playing someone that he can also play.

00:14:08: It's like weird.

00:14:09: You just see in a different angle of him, but not him playing as the character.

00:14:13: It's like him inviting the character because of this certain situation in the movie.

00:14:18: You know what I mean?

00:14:19: So it's actually kind of interesting to watch, but you got him, you got... Who else?

00:14:25: You know, you got Spike Lee, obviously, you know, do the right thing, Kirkland, all that.

00:14:30: You know, the Five Bloods.

00:14:31: Absolutely.

00:14:32: Then, you know, obviously Steven Spielberg, I'm gonna give you the goat, right?

00:14:36: James Cameron, you know, you got the Avatar series, Terminator, back in the day, all, you know, one, two, I don't know, three or something.

00:14:42: But another one that comes up, I mean, Will Smith, Will Smith, that's, I mean, that's OG classic.

00:14:50: Dude, what was your reaction to the famous slap?

00:14:55: The famous slap that bro.

00:14:57: I was just I was just conflicted because at first I was like, all right Is this real?

00:15:00: because I didn't know if it's like a real thing because it was just so like what?

00:15:05: and Did you see it live like when it actually happened on television?

00:15:10: I don't think I did see it live.

00:15:11: So that's probably what made it worse because then by the time I saw you had so many different takes and angles.

00:15:15: You know, like, you know, and you know all social media's like they find an angle about yo, it could be this it could be that it could be this and then conspiracy start appearing.

00:15:23: but Yeah, I was confused, bro.

00:15:25: I'm like, all right, Will Smith is like a personable dude.

00:15:28: So, you know, when he came and just walked on stage and it's smack and the way the smack look, it looked like some, it looked like a slap that you see in a B, a minus B rated movie, like where it just smacked.

00:15:42: It's not like, it was like, that little choreograph, like what the hell does that smack look like?

00:15:47: You know it sounded.

00:15:48: it sounded like when you do like fight choreography for theater where you like stomp as you.

00:15:54: Yeah, you know, so I thought that's crazy.

00:15:58: Yeah, I didn't think it was real either and I was like going on Twitter like wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, you know.

00:16:04: Yeah, I don't know who's real or you know or what's the name is a good actor?

00:16:08: You know I'm saying I don't know like if they both are so good actors like.

00:16:11: okay.

00:16:12: This is my moment.

00:16:12: Okay, I know something real is about to happen, but for the camera that's on let's do it.

00:16:16: I I was visiting my brother in Nashville and it happened to be for the Oscars, so I saw it on live TV and It was so crazy how the like the FCC how they tried to censor and like, you know It glitched, you know, like the actual network glitched because they all the people in like the soundboard room Didn't expect it to happen.

00:16:40: Obviously.

00:16:42: So he walks up and he smacks him And you see him walking back to his seat, and so for that whole stretch, you're like, oh, that was a weird joke.

00:16:52: It didn't really land.

00:16:53: That feels odd.

00:16:55: And then when he starts to go into the keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth, basically it stops.

00:17:03: It's like a freeze frame.

00:17:05: Instead of the old red, green, blue, beep, screen.

00:17:09: Yeah.

00:17:10: It just freezes and glitches like a YouTube video that's too high of a quality for your Wi-Fi or something.

00:17:17: And so I was there with my brother and I was like, wait, what's going on?

00:17:22: Is your internet messing up?

00:17:24: Or what is going on here right now?

00:17:26: And then it caught up later and it was the FCC frantically trying to bleep or prepare to bleep anything.

00:17:35: It was so weird.

00:17:37: It was really freaking

00:17:38: weird.

00:17:38: That's kind of scary.

00:17:39: I ain't gonna lie to you.

00:17:41: It was scary.

00:17:41: Yeah, it was

00:17:43: okay.

00:17:44: Somebody said it's like, yeah, that's I ain't gonna lie.

00:17:47: Yeah, that that must have been even more crazy.

00:17:49: just to see it live and see that freeze frame.

00:17:51: You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, like, huh, I thought it was a live broadcast, but it's being monitored live like twenty four seven.

00:17:59: Yeah, it was.

00:18:00: I've never seen anything like it.

00:18:02: I mean, it was I've.

00:18:05: you know there's all these stories about like some you know mishaps on SNL where people you know curse or when they shouldn't or someone Does something wrong and you're like yeah, I've seen that you know in a in a compilation YouTube video or something.

00:18:18: But to see it live where a thing happens you think it's staged and you go well, maybe that's just a weird joke.

00:18:24: and then Then the the starts the TV starts to glitch and then you see you like let Peter Nyong'o like behind Will Smith like She's trying to say so still and then they keep my wife's name at your mouth like that.

00:18:41: it just.

00:18:42: it was like kind of scary.

00:18:43: It felt like oh, I'm watching something that that's so unplanned and so Unreal in this moment.

00:18:50: It was really crazy.

00:18:52: Yeah, that's I didn't know about that part with the freeze-frame.

00:18:54: I ain't gonna lie you that should would have.

00:18:55: man.

00:18:56: I mean how do you feel now seeing that and then watching anything live now?

00:19:00: because I would imagine there's some skepticism probably with like out alive something it

00:19:06: yeah, yeah, I Man, I think that was that I would say I wonder if that will be.

00:19:12: I don't know how it is like with Trump and stuff, but like I wonder if that if the slap will be the last Maybe the I mean because there's always not to backtrack too much.

00:19:23: But like like with Ricky Gervais's old jokes like the Golden Globes that they had to sort of monitor as he went along I wonder If the slap will be the last sort of live broadcast.

00:19:36: faux pas Where where the editors in the moment for live television You know are kind of scrambling to figure it out.

00:19:44: so they like really actually like for NBC or whatever.

00:19:47: it was ABC pausing a broadcast.

00:19:51: I wonder yes,

00:19:53: I mean I think it sets the presidents for any type of live thing, whether it be live streaming.

00:19:57: I mean, it's happening now, right?

00:19:59: Like if you own any live streaming thing, if you say the wrong word or something, there's now, I would assume AI or something to catch it.

00:20:06: And then they like, you know, reduced it.

00:20:08: I mean, they still keep it live, but they were reduced to actual spread of it.

00:20:11: So there's some active like monitoring and restrictions on things that are not deemed reasonable or agreed upon.

00:20:20: So I would imagine this Trump world now is in the States and even now going to Europe and some parts of it that there's going to be some active monitoring being like, all right, like, yo, we see that, you know, live is a big thing on these platforms.

00:20:35: I want to sit down here, want to pay some dude, he's going to watch it and then see or even AI, right?

00:20:40: That's a, you know, do that in

00:20:43: AI.

00:20:43: Have you seen the, I don't know, I forgot the guy's name who created ChetGPT.

00:20:48: I forgot his name.

00:20:49: He looks like such a fucking dweeb.

00:20:52: But there's interviews where he's like, yeah, I think that artificial intelligence will be the death of humanity.

00:20:58: But in the meantime, there's some pretty cool stuff we can make with it.

00:21:02: I'm like, did you hear the first part of the thing that you said?

00:21:05: you fucking turd?

00:21:06: You know

00:21:07: what?

00:21:07: We gotta bring back Lion, yo.

00:21:09: You know what I'm saying?

00:21:11: Like, why

00:21:11: would you?

00:21:13: It's like yeah, we are thinking that but like why you got us?

00:21:17: you

00:21:18: don't say it.

00:21:23: Why would you say that like that's some evil that's some evil that's some joker shit right there?

00:21:29: because

00:21:30: Yes, like dr.

00:21:31: Evil or like

00:21:32: be an evil person in the shadows, okay?

00:21:34: We don't even like to be in the shadows, but for you to be on a global stage.

00:21:37: Okay, so mr.

00:21:38: Head of chat GBT Sam all men.

00:21:40: How you doing?

00:21:42: Okay, cool.

00:21:43: So we get into the little gist of things.

00:21:45: All right, how's this?

00:21:46: All right, so what's the state of AI?

00:21:48: What do you think?

00:21:49: Yeah, I think it's going to kill all humanity.

00:21:51: Great.

00:21:53: But in the meantime, though, we're going to have some sick yachts.

00:21:57: But in the meantime, you can have a duck holding a flag and running for the Olympics.

00:22:01: What?

00:22:02: Dude,

00:22:04: I I love actually that the more I've seen of jet like a lot of Gen Z is really anti AI video and imagery and that really comforts me a lot.

00:22:17: Man got to you know, I look.

00:22:18: I think I think now because AI is getting so crazy now I think the required watching.

00:22:23: for anyone growing up from this point forward it has to be all the Terminators Terminator one two, and they just see how it plays out without a robot.

00:22:34: that is, you know, sentient and doing this thing for a purpose.

00:22:38: And how like just seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger being like, I'm the AI.

00:22:42: You'd be like, all right, I think we need to.

00:22:44: let's let's slow down on the robots doing backflips.

00:22:46: Let's chill out on that.

00:22:48: Let's make it to where it is.

00:22:50: I don't know.

00:22:51: Saying like, hello.

00:22:52: And that's it.

00:22:52: They don't need to shake hands and close business deals.

00:22:55: Dude, have you seen that?

00:22:56: I think his name is.

00:22:58: Which is so funny because it's such a perfect name, but have you seen this chat?

00:23:01: I think it's Chad Smith guy who married his AI chat bot like his his The conversational chat GBT that he had.

00:23:11: have you seen that?

00:23:12: Yeah, it's this absolute loser.

00:23:15: clearly it's this I would guess by looking at him.

00:23:19: maybe maybe maybe he's my age maybe he's like thirty four thirty five and he He has a long like a long-term girlfriend.

00:23:28: I don't know.

00:23:28: I don't know if she's a wife now probably not after this story She's.

00:23:38: he had like a long-term girlfriend and a kid with her and they all lived together.

00:23:45: And he was starting off as like any normal geek like me, where it would be like, oh, I'm going to ask this AI to help me build a PC.

00:23:59: I think he was building a PC, or he was trying to learn how to edit his music software, whatever.

00:24:05: And then he got really attached to the positivity and sort of like the response, how it always just supports everything you want all the time always, which is if he's not self-aware enough to realize that that's a him problem, that's the start of like the demise.

00:24:22: But you can program it to flirt with you as it gives you helpful information.

00:24:28: So there's like, I mean like basic American news did a piece, I think it was like, sixty minutes or something did a piece on him.

00:24:35: And it was like him in his studio and he had They filmed him like you know going through his programming or something and was like hey, I think it's Sona like Sona, you know, how do I add?

00:24:49: Compression to this audio file.

00:24:52: and she was like what a great question, baby.

00:24:54: It's really smart of you to ask, honey So you're gonna do this and that and this and that sweetheart.

00:25:01: And it went so long that his girlfriend obviously got upset about it and got jealous and a bit concerned, you know, because she's a person.

00:25:12: And then he went so long with this interactive AI that he proposed to it.

00:25:21: I mean, you can't contractually marry your phone.

00:25:24: So I guess it's not like official, but he proposed to it.

00:25:27: And it said yes, and then he went on sixty minutes and the I don't know if it was like Lester hold or somebody was like.

00:25:35: Can I ask Sona how she feels about this and they interviewed the phone?

00:25:39: And she was like.

00:25:41: what a great question Lester.

00:25:43: it was really wonderful when John asked me to marry him.

00:25:47: I felt very rewarded and special and I'm like

00:25:49: it's a phone.

00:25:53: You

00:25:54: look at it when you take a dump Like what?

00:25:59: There's so many angles to this that needs to be questioned.

00:26:01: First of all, all right, he married the chat GBT, whatever the AI.

00:26:05: Yeah, I wonder if it would be cheating if he starts flirting or starts talking to a higher version or like an updated version, right?

00:26:13: So imagine if he married chat GBT, three point two, and now we're like chat GBT five.

00:26:18: I wonder if that will be the same person, like at what point would that be considered an affair?

00:26:23: Oh, dude, or like chat GBT's like, John, have you been talking to Grock?

00:26:31: No, baby.

00:26:32: No, not at all.

00:26:33: I never talked to Grock.

00:26:34: Well, I have the receipts.

00:26:38: Who's Claude?

00:26:39: Are we opening the marriage?

00:26:40: Who is Claude?

00:26:41: Is this something you want to tell me?

00:26:42: It's okay to come out.

00:26:46: Dude,

00:26:46: it's so lame.

00:26:47: It's so

00:26:48: lame.

00:26:49: And it's so, it's so dystopian, dude.

00:26:53: It's crazy.

00:26:53: So dystopian.

00:26:55: I mean, the thing is, like, all right, like, how do you have sex with a child?

00:26:59: Like, I bought, like, what are you doing?

00:27:01: So you just, like, jerk off the prompts?

00:27:06: Yeah, so, you know, this dude is jerking off to words that don't even exist yet.

00:27:14: So he got to be every dexterous with typing left hand.

00:27:20: Yes, talk dirty to me.

00:27:25: Wow John you're so good at doing this.

00:27:32: Oh You froze you froze.

00:27:33: Oh, there you are.

00:27:33: There you are.

00:27:34: He came back.

00:27:37: Yo,

00:27:37: this dude jerking off the prompts.

00:27:39: Yo, that's crazy.

00:27:41: It's like Just do that to normal.

00:27:49: or I wonder oh shit I wonder if he has porn on and he mutates it right and then he has like the talk feature on the a high.

00:28:05: You've got an AI voice on top of a porn.

00:28:12: Oh, Toby.

00:28:13: That feels so good, Toby.

00:28:16: Right there, Toby.

00:28:18: I was like, oh, she loves me, dude.

00:28:20: She

00:28:21: fucking kills.

00:28:24: That's so lame.

00:28:26: Hello, listener.

00:28:27: This is Jordan from the editing booth here in post-production.

00:28:32: I've been playing back this podcast, and there is a section here where we go very much off the rails.

00:28:38: I like the jokes, but I understand that for some listeners going that far being as dirty as we go might not be suitable for the average listener.

00:28:51: So because there are other moments that are also, you know, kind of pushing the envelope a little bit, you know, it's two comedians, two Americans just bouncing jokes off of each other.

00:29:03: I trimmed this part out.

00:29:05: Uh, but I like where we come back into it because it's pretty funny.

00:29:08: Here we go.

00:29:09: Thanks.

00:29:10: I'm so caked up.

00:29:11: I belong at a birthday party.

00:29:14: I bet whoever's gonna watch this will utilize this.

00:29:22: Somebody will utilize this.

00:29:33: I'm caked up like a birthday party at a roller rink.

00:29:37: At a roller

00:29:52: Sorry mom.

00:29:54: Oh, yeah, we are good.

00:29:58: The future is not looking good.

00:30:00: It's not looking good.

00:30:03: Oh my god, there's this.

00:30:05: there's this like young Gen Z or news channel guy that I was following on TikTok for a while and then I saw that he was doing longer videos on YouTube and he made one like three days into twenty twenty six and he kicked it off like whoa.

00:30:23: okay well we have a lot to get into.

00:30:25: and it was like you know Venezuela and it was uh I mean it was just.

00:30:30: it was like eight things back to back to back that were just so over the top and crazy.

00:30:35: and I was like I. I like this guy and I'm not going to unsubscribe, but I don't know if I can just literally every two days.

00:30:43: Maybe maybe I don't want to follow the news every couple of days.

00:30:47: I've

00:30:48: been checked out the news for the whole entire, I mean, I watched headlines and some things that pop up other than that.

00:30:53: Cause like, look, bro, I did my time.

00:30:56: All right.

00:30:57: I did my time over there.

00:30:58: I'm now over here.

00:30:59: I'm watching snow fall down in a place where I got free healthcare.

00:31:02: You know what I'm saying?

00:31:03: Right.

00:31:03: Right.

00:31:04: I'm here, you know.

00:31:06: How long have you been in Germany, by the way?

00:31:08: Yeah, been here for about two years now, yeah.

00:31:10: Only two years.

00:31:12: Two years, yeah.

00:31:13: Are you still studying German or not, not much?

00:31:16: I mean, my study is just me speaking German at the best of my ability every day.

00:31:21: And then I do like, was it, I call it, I call myself the ineffitiella Berlin investment.

00:31:27: And I don't even know how to keep up with that.

00:31:29: Get

00:31:30: a dunk.

00:31:31: I don't know how it got to that, bro.

00:31:35: So like my learning of German has been just like observing something and then just repeating it or saying it in German.

00:31:41: So that's really my study, you know?

00:31:44: Yeah, I mean, that's a huge part of it for sure.

00:31:46: But I forgot, yeah, you're in Berlin.

00:31:48: I mean, there's.

00:31:48: no, there's not even really like, there's not even in Berlin, there's not even like a huge need to like, you know, lock in and do these intensive classes and stuff for your visa or anything, right?

00:32:00: Not really.

00:32:00: I mean,

00:32:01: yeah, kind of.

00:32:02: It depends where you at.

00:32:03: Like there's still some places.

00:32:04: Well, maybe this is more of a feeling for me is that I have a lot of friends that speak German.

00:32:09: So like you do feel left out or I do feel the shift of energy when there's someone in the group that doesn't speak German.

00:32:15: Because now it's just like, oh, boy, now you got to, you know, now not be ourselves and see the guilt.

00:32:22: The guilt, right?

00:32:23: Of like, you're kind of hoping they switch.

00:32:26: But you know, if they do switch because they're looking at you and you Then you feel bad.

00:32:30: How, how is that for you?

00:32:32: Because that's something I still live with pretty regularly.

00:32:36: Yeah, to be honest, man, sometimes it depends on who, who the people are, like how good the friends are to me, that I would just say like, Hey, just speaking German, I'll figure it out.

00:32:45: So like, I'll literally just sit there kind of a loop and not loop, but I'll start piecing words together here and there.

00:32:50: And it will force me, or what I'm trying to say via some words, but then like feeling the vibe.

00:32:57: So like, okay, I know this person complaining about the gym.

00:33:00: I know this person is talking about what to eat.

00:33:01: I hear essence.

00:33:02: You know, you know, I know, you know, Machen or something, I know, you know, to make.

00:33:06: So I know when they use that somewhere, something.

00:33:11: Yeah, you get like glimpses.

00:33:13: You can understand like glimpses of the topic.

00:33:15: That's for sure.

00:33:16: That's such a real thing, I think, for anyone going to a different country where they, you know, aren't fluent in the language where There's a, there's like a, there's, it's like such a constant curving point where you start with, I remember like the first couple of years I was here, sorry, where I was hearing stimp so much and I, but I wasn't really learning it in my classes and I kept hearing it over and over and I kept thinking like, is this a slang word?

00:33:45: Is this someone's name?

00:33:47: Is this the name of a place that, or like a, A thing people are doing like?

00:33:52: I couldn't quite grasp it, but I kept hearing stimp stimp stimp and then finally I Just asked one day and I was like, oh Oh my god, it's just like yeah.

00:34:04: Yeah, you're right.

00:34:05: You know or like.

00:34:06: yeah, that's true Yeah, that's for sure, you know, yeah, but it.

00:34:10: but but then that led into Hearing more and more just words or like small phrases that I wasn't quite getting in the classes, because the classes are like, the cat ran across the street, you know?

00:34:24: But in real life, you're being like, stemmed and genau and echt and klar.

00:34:30: And, you know, these little terms and phrases and like little specs of real talk, you know?

00:34:38: How would you, like, what level would you say, like, if you were stuck on an island with someone who... Only spoke German, not a word of English.

00:34:47: Do you think you could figure out what you needed from that person or how to like get by?

00:34:55: I think so.

00:34:56: And I think so because we're stuck on the island now.

00:34:58: So I think we have no choice.

00:34:59: But like that person have no choice but to believe me and what like?

00:35:04: believe me to understand what that person is saying.

00:35:06: Because I think I don't know.

00:35:09: Like if I was to think about.

00:35:11: how I interact with people that they know I don't really speak German or really don't really understand it that they have like this apprehension because you know they're like.

00:35:19: okay you don't understand it and I don't trust you to really figure it out.

00:35:23: yeah

00:35:23: and you know to be honest man it's been some situations where like I you know I can figure out what they're saying because like I can understand like tonality and vibes.

00:35:32: maybe that just comes to me as a person that grew up in a household where there's different languages.

00:35:36: that was being spoken.

00:35:37: So I can understand tonality.

00:35:40: So the tone and how you saying something, I know this person means serious.

00:35:45: I know this person joking.

00:35:46: I know this person just shooting the shit.

00:35:49: That's how I can get by around

00:35:50: that.

00:35:50: I'm so glad you brought that up.

00:35:52: I'm so glad you brought that up.

00:35:53: That's such an important... For anyone listening who has ever lived somewhere and you're learning a language and getting accustomed to... The society that you're like living inside of tonality and body language is dude like it a strange way.

00:36:13: I feel like I Mean.

00:36:16: it sounds pretentious.

00:36:17: It's not meant to be but it's I feel like in the past like eight eight or ten years.

00:36:22: I've become like a weird like Subconscious master of body language read like reading people's intent through how they position themselves.

00:36:35: because Because for like four years or the first four or five years I was really struggling a lot with German.

00:36:43: I mean I still do but it's much better now.

00:36:46: but like Sitting like if you sit at a table of let's say eight people and you don't get shit that they're saying like Let's say it's a dialect, right?

00:37:00: Maybe it's like Southern Mountain dialect or it's like Bayerish or it's you know, the Franconian dialect or the Swabian dialect or it's like Super Eastern or Berlin Hamburg like it's all.

00:37:12: it always sounds all different.

00:37:15: Yeah, there's.

00:37:16: so there's so many dialects.

00:37:17: So there's sometimes we're like There's like literally different words being used.

00:37:22: So you just don't quite it's not Hochdeutsch in like most places.

00:37:25: So I remember like multiple countless times sitting at a table with let's say eight people and then I feel the guilt of knowing that once they register that I don't understand they're gonna switch back to English even though I want them to.

00:37:46: so I kind of so I kind of keep my head down a bit like I want them to finish their chat their topic before I go.

00:37:53: like what was that about?

00:37:55: You know, whatever you know.

00:37:56: was that about the movie we saw or something?

00:37:59: So you're kind of like watching but not trying to draw attention to yourself And then you're seeing how people cross their arms or cross their legs or hands on the table or elbows on the table Or like if they lean in or if their eyes are looking away and the tonality mixed with that like you can sort of even in a different language you can really pick up on if they're Like oh, I don't really know what this person's saying, but it really really from the body language and the tonality feels like they're complaining about someone from their job.

00:38:30: Right.

00:38:30: Yeah, and then like ninety percent of the time you're right.

00:38:34: You know you might hear a. you might you might hear one word or one thing or maybe they're complaining about someone.

00:38:39: Cut them off in traffic.

00:38:40: Maybe you're wrong about that like specific detail But you can tell that they're like focusing in on one person who did one specific thing that they've been flustered about because of how they, you know, like just, I hate this word, gesticulate.

00:38:58: What kind of life do you live in that you just pull out these words, gesticulate?

00:39:03: Hold on, bro.

00:39:04: I hate this word.

00:39:05: I hate it, but it's the specific.

00:39:07: We're

00:39:07: only not enough.

00:39:07: No, I haven't said that word in like a thirteen years, dude.

00:39:12: Bro, he got a podcast mic, he started using big words.

00:39:16: This motherfucker, he said gesticulate.

00:39:18: What's going on?

00:39:19: What kind of podcast is this?

00:39:21: I thought it was supposed to be chill.

00:39:25: You know why that word stuck out to me?

00:39:28: Because in film school, some loser kept using it in his scripts.

00:39:32: We had to read each other's like scripts.

00:39:35: Right.

00:39:35: And it would be

00:39:37: like,

00:39:38: Michael went to the door, but it was locked.

00:39:40: So he gesticulated aggressively.

00:39:44: What?

00:39:44: It's locked?

00:39:45: What?

00:39:45: You know, it's just like waving.

00:39:47: It's just using your hands.

00:39:48: I hate it.

00:39:49: I hate

00:39:49: it.

00:39:49: He gesticulated.

00:39:50: Whoa, I don't know what that means.

00:39:53: That sound a little...

00:39:56: You've got gesticular cancer.

00:39:58: I'm sorry, Mr.

00:39:59: Prince.

00:40:06: You'd be like, yo, that's a Vans ball cancer right there.

00:40:09: Oh my God.

00:40:09: Wow.

00:40:10: This is such a sad movie.

00:40:11: Oh my, I'd say your poor

00:40:12: parents.

00:40:16: It's like the movie Philadelphia, but it's just about your hands waving around.

00:40:24: You got Daniel Washington like, yo, I'm not gay.

00:40:26: Like what?

00:40:27: Get your hands off me.

00:40:31: The Jamie Foxx thing.

00:40:33: Have you seen that?

00:40:33: Oh, that's just so funny.

00:40:35: Oh my god.

00:40:37: He's like waving the quivering the bottom limits.

00:40:41: I can't replicate it.

00:40:42: It's so good, dude,

00:40:43: bro hats off for him to even have the confidence to do that in front of Denzel Washington.

00:40:46: Could I could have gone on literally only two waves good or very bad?

00:40:52: I mean bro, just imagine Denzel Washington not laughing at a joke about him, bro I will.

00:40:57: man Rear is over.

00:40:58: Yeah, if that's recorded and that's put somewhere so you miss about Denzel Washington and he doesn't like I'm getting booked again.

00:41:05: It's over.

00:41:05: Your career is over.

00:41:07: Dude, his eyes shoot daggers.

00:41:09: It's insane.

00:41:11: Oh

00:41:11: my god.

00:41:12: It's really nice.

00:41:13: Daggers,

00:41:14: the dramatic everything.

00:41:16: So you've been in Munich for how long?

00:41:20: I think, yeah, it's ten years.

00:41:21: Ten years.

00:41:22: Ten

00:41:22: years.

00:41:23: Wow, okay.

00:41:24: You speak German and everything.

00:41:25: So I guess you have to level now to where you can hear the differences of these dialects from.

00:41:34: I think hearing that was a bit of luck that I could hear that difference.

00:41:41: I think it was a musician thing, like just hearing like a, just like, I don't know.

00:41:46: Or maybe it's an ADHD thing, I don't know.

00:41:50: You know, like hearing just a slight, hearing words or the replacement of words.

00:41:57: From these dialects like for example when I first came in first came to Germany I was touring mostly as like.

00:42:04: I was only doing music.

00:42:06: So I was trying like full-time to make it as like a My like I write songs I sing I play guitar and I was trying like with as a solo acoustic Artist and then with a band to really try and like get you know some get it going You know like get a label and you know get it running.

00:42:28: So for a few years before I moved over to comedy as opposed to doing music full-time I Went to all these different parts of Germany.

00:42:38: So like I was like living in Munich, but then I would go to the east I would go to like, you know Leipzig and Dresden and then I would go to Berlin then I would go over to Hamburg and then I would go to like Frankfurt and Cologne Then other cities that I'm forgetting right now and then back down.

00:42:56: then I would go to the like the deep South in the Alps in the mountains and then back up to Munich and it was.

00:43:02: and then Austria and then to Switzerland and it was really So interesting that I realized one not only does like every part of Germany hate every other part of Germany, which is so funny to me.

00:43:13: Like I would go to Dresden and they would be like, where'd you come from?

00:43:19: And I'd be like, oh, I came from Munich.

00:43:21: Oh, those, you know, those slow ass, you know, rednecks in Munich.

00:43:26: Where are you gonna go next?

00:43:28: Oh, I'm gonna go to Berlin.

00:43:29: Oh, those drug addicted cocaine hippies, you know, whatever.

00:43:33: And then you go to Berlin.

00:43:34: It's like, where'd you come from?

00:43:35: Dresden.

00:43:35: Oh, those Easterners.

00:43:37: They're so behind and slow and stuff, you know.

00:43:42: And were you gonna go next to Hamburg?

00:43:44: Oh that place stinks like fish and all the people are you know punks and like every single place just had the same exact reaction.

00:43:52: So that was funny, but the yeah the tonality like like you said tonality all the all the sounds of the Everything I was learning in German class, which is basically I Think the best way to put it is like in German class you're taught Like as a metaphor, you're taught like, okay, one and one is two, two and two is four.

00:44:15: And then you travel around and they're like, well, over here, you know, we're doing calculus.

00:44:20: as opposed to

00:44:21: that.

00:44:22: And over there, we do algebra.

00:44:23: And over there, we do physics in Arabic.

00:44:31: But I was taught two and two is four.

00:44:32: They were like, yeah, over here, actually, time is a metaphor.

00:44:38: Right.

00:44:38: That's for people that are addicted to drugs.

00:44:40: Over here, you like what?

00:44:41: They're

00:44:43: like, that's pretty old school.

00:44:45: We can tell you're from Bavaria.

00:44:46: I'm like, what?

00:44:49: It's like, I didn't know math had something to do with drugs or old time or whatever.

00:44:53: I thought it was all one to one.

00:44:55: It's like, no, it's not.

00:44:56: Dude, have you been in a bar or a club where they still smoke inside?

00:45:01: But that's all of Berlin, bro.

00:45:03: That is up, bro.

00:45:04: I just came from yesterday.

00:45:06: Really?

00:45:07: Oh, yay.

00:45:08: Because I was doing like a mic or something and like, bro, to get inside is already smoking.

00:45:12: It's to the point where I was having a conversation and I started getting lightheaded.

00:45:16: I'm

00:45:16: like, I don't even smoke.

00:45:17: Right?

00:45:17: Yeah.

00:45:18: I saw

00:45:18: it.

00:45:19: Yeah, yeah.

00:45:22: I used to work in New Orleans at this beautiful cafe that was like an old bank.

00:45:25: It was like two stories tall.

00:45:26: It was gorgeous.

00:45:29: The guy that that was my like trainer before he left worked there when they could still smoke inside and I was in.

00:45:39: I was like twenty years old and One day he was leaving So they couldn't do it anymore, but then one day he was leaving and he was like all right.

00:45:47: I want you to close down.

00:45:49: You know you're gonna mop you're gonna do all this and that and he was like by the way.

00:45:52: He was like at the door.

00:45:53: He's like by the way When no one's here you can still smoke inside because that it doesn't stick it like there's.

00:45:59: it's like it was all like Concrete and oh wow it was so tall and there was so many like cracks in the doors like if there's no smell ever.

00:46:08: So he was like.

00:46:09: he was like if you want when you close you can smoke Every time he left.

00:46:18: he left.

00:46:19: I'd lock it at closing and then go in the back and turn up the system.

00:46:22: because we had like this house music system I could like plug in my phone Yeah, and then I would put on whatever music and I wouldn't mop like with a like a hand-rolled, you know cigarette.

00:46:32: at twenty years old like This is the coolest job ever.

00:46:37: He was a man.

00:46:38: then broke.

00:46:41: Yeah,

00:46:52: that's a good question.

00:46:52: It came completely random.

00:46:55: I came here because of the stand-up comedy.

00:46:57: What?

00:46:59: I know, bro.

00:47:00: Still to this day, I look at it.

00:47:01: I'm like, it's crazy.

00:47:03: Yeah, send them call me.

00:47:04: You're like, all

00:47:04: the greats did it.

00:47:08: People are like, yo, shit must have been rushing New York City for you to come out here and tag.

00:47:11: Yeah,

00:47:11: you have the seller.

00:47:12: Like, why would you come to Berlin?

00:47:15: I like how people say that.

00:47:16: You got the seller.

00:47:17: I'm like, yeah, it's a seller.

00:47:18: There's only a few people that can go on the seller.

00:47:19: Not everybody in the city.

00:47:21: That's fair.

00:47:22: That's actually fair.

00:47:22: Yeah.

00:47:23: Sorry, explain.

00:47:23: Sorry.

00:47:24: Yeah,

00:47:24: yeah, no, no, no.

00:47:25: Yeah, so what happened was, there was me and a friend of mine, named Alex, and we was like, you know, traveling around doing different cities in Europe.

00:47:32: We did like, what was it, was in France, was in Paris, was in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, then we came to Berlin.

00:47:38: So we had like this little plan thing where we were doing spots at these shows and clubs in these different cities in Europe.

00:47:45: So then we got to Berlin and I never, I never been to Berlin.

00:47:48: I didn't like, I only knew about it because the war and, you know, techno, but I'm a techno person.

00:47:55: What's here?

00:47:55: I'm just like, yo, you see, people, everyone speaking English here.

00:47:58: And then there's a lot of English stand-up comedy out here.

00:48:00: So I was like, yo, I'm doing like, I'm doing a show every day.

00:48:03: This is crazy.

00:48:04: And like a lot of people too, not like no small shows.

00:48:07: I'm like, yo, what?

00:48:08: So then we get back to Paris, then my friend goes to London and I come back at the Berlin.

00:48:13: So I'm like, yo, let me come back out here.

00:48:15: And I'm out here.

00:48:16: I'm doing my thing.

00:48:17: I'm having fun.

00:48:18: And then I was here around like April, like near end of April.

00:48:22: And then one of my friends was like, yo, you need to stay here till May, like May, like May first as Labor Day.

00:48:27: That's why we won't party.

00:48:28: So I'm like, all right, cool.

00:48:29: So I'm out here working remotely at the time.

00:48:32: I'm doing shows and stuff.

00:48:34: And then people are like, yo, where can I find you?

00:48:36: I'm like, yeah, I'm just visiting.

00:48:37: They's like, oh, OK.

00:48:38: And then some other people are kind of like, just like, oh, so do you live here?

00:48:41: I'm like, no, I don't.

00:48:43: And they got to a point where these comedians, they came up to me.

00:48:46: They was like, hey, so when are you going to move here?

00:48:48: I'm like, move here.

00:48:49: I'm like, bro, I live in New York City.

00:48:50: I didn't expect this place to even exist like this.

00:48:54: And it was like, yo, bro, you doing good out here.

00:48:56: You got to do a vibe.

00:48:57: Like we think you might do good out here.

00:48:58: You should think about really moving out here.

00:49:00: You can get yourself an artist visa.

00:49:02: And I was like, what's that?

00:49:03: So they broke it down that the artist visa, the visa you can get as long as you can prove you can make some income from the art that you do.

00:49:10: So I was like, oh, all right.

00:49:11: So now I looked into it.

00:49:12: And then I talked to a few people and it gave me like the whole blueprint.

00:49:15: It was like, OK, like this is what you do.

00:49:17: This is the appointment.

00:49:18: This is when you get it.

00:49:19: And then I looked at it.

00:49:21: And, you know, I was like, you know what, why not?

00:49:23: Like, I mean, you know, it was kind of the worst and come back to New York City is only like, what, six to eight hours away.

00:49:28: So then I just sold everything in New York City.

00:49:30: I put everything into a carry-on suitcase and a book bag and then just came out here and crashed on a friend's couch that I just met in Paris who happened to live in Berlin.

00:49:38: And yeah, that's how I made it out here to Berlin, man.

00:49:41: Dude, that's wild.

00:49:43: What a, what a choice, man.

00:49:45: That's a big leap.

00:49:47: That's every

00:49:48: big leak, bro.

00:49:49: To move somewhere that you only didn't know existed until six months ago and then just move like, yeah, I left in May and I moved in August.

00:49:57: Were you like, like privately, I guess in New York, were you kind of looking for a big change that maybe helped that motivation to go somewhere so different?

00:50:08: That's a very good question, bro.

00:50:09: So I would say the one that comes to mind that I read this book called Die with Zero by Doe Perkins.

00:50:16: I don't know how I came across that book, but it's a book that just talks about how the goal is to, by the time you have zero in your account.

00:50:28: And basically, he makes an argument about how he knows a lot of people who save so much money, but they haven't really used it.

00:50:35: And he goes deeper into how there's certain things all of us want to do in life.

00:50:39: But it comes relative to when in life we want to do it, we may have the best experience doing it.

00:50:45: For example, if you want to tour across Europe on a Euro rail or something and sleep in hostels, it's better for you to do it younger than older.

00:50:55: You may have all the money and stuff, but literally that season of your life has passed to where you would have the experience or the moments you saw you would have because literally you're not in that point of life anymore.

00:51:06: Now you have a you more like against hostels.

00:51:10: You're like, yeah, I don't want to be around random people.

00:51:12: You want your own space.

00:51:13: You're looking at time constraints.

00:51:14: Like, all right, why take a train where I can go by plane or something?

00:51:18: So you have, you're in a different mode.

00:51:20: So that was like a big motivator.

00:51:22: I'm like, all right.

00:51:23: So I'm at a point in my life where I ain't got no wife.

00:51:25: I ain't got no kids.

00:51:26: I can make this move.

00:51:28: Like literally this would be something, this is like a moment in my life where this would be dope.

00:51:32: Like I, why not?

00:51:33: And that was like a big.

00:51:35: Motivated that plus just traveling out here and like literally having someone to be like yo, you should move here.

00:51:42: and then Yeah, things are happening.

00:51:43: You're up to like this guy man in Estonia.

00:51:45: He saw me at a mic in Paris.

00:51:47: He's like yo, man.

00:51:48: Yeah, you're next time.

00:51:49: Let me know.

00:51:49: I'll fly out to Estonia.

00:51:51: I'm like you.

00:51:51: you you fly me out to Estonia.

00:51:52: I'm like.

00:51:53: I'm like I mean at first I

00:51:55: was like yeah for a price.

00:51:59: There you go.

00:52:00: I'm so happy talking to somebody from the stage.

00:52:03: You went to where my brain went to.

00:52:04: I'm like, yo, what you talking?

00:52:05: You about to fly me out for what, bro?

00:52:08: Who do you think I am?

00:52:10: He's like, I've also prepared a suit that fits your specific sizes.

00:52:14: I've already ordered it.

00:52:15: I've tailored it to you.

00:52:16: How did you know?

00:52:18: I've been looking at you a lot.

00:52:20: I'll

00:52:20: fly out there.

00:52:21: I'll get back to his place and whatever.

00:52:23: He just put the finger in my ass and chopped me up and just put me in a suitcase.

00:52:26: I'm like, ah, this is the way I'm going to go.

00:52:29: He's Hannibal liquor.

00:52:35: Yo,

00:52:36: that

00:52:37: would have been it for me.

00:52:38: I'm like, yo, I knew I shouldn't have left New York.

00:52:41: Hannibal liquor.

00:52:41: Hannibal liquor.

00:52:45: Again, sorry, mom.

00:52:46: She listens to this.

00:52:48: Oh, she does?

00:52:49: Well, I... I'm

00:52:49: sorry.

00:52:50: No, no,

00:52:51: no.

00:52:52: Be you, be you.

00:52:53: Okay, all right.

00:52:54: It's her choice.

00:52:56: Well, I love your son's work.

00:53:00: Dude, that's, oh, that's so funny.

00:53:02: So you, oh man, that's, what a wild choice.

00:53:04: Like,

00:53:06: I'm talking about, I hit the ground running too.

00:53:08: So like, and then the dude actually did find me out to Estonia and come to find out, he's like one of the, he's like that thing, that top selling comedian in Estonia.

00:53:15: So, whoa, that's for the Patreon episode.

00:53:19: I don't know if you got a Patreon, but.

00:53:22: You should start one now, so I can tell you more about it.

00:53:24: You're

00:53:24: like, look, he flew me out, and actually, he's a really gentle lover.

00:53:29: You cut to like a little advertisement, and if you want to hear more, jump to our Patreon account.

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00:54:01: Dude,

00:54:01: that would be so rough.

00:54:04: Before I forget to ask, like, are you, like, do you have like a small family, a big family?

00:54:09: Are you close with them or are you not close with them?

00:54:11: How do they react to you moving?

00:54:13: Yeah, it's a good question.

00:54:13: So I do have a big family, very big family, I'd say.

00:54:16: And yeah, I mean, they reacted positively to it, I think, like, because like my mom, like, she said, all right, cool, yeah, go ahead and do your thing.

00:54:24: And then everyone else was like, wow, you're going to do it?

00:54:25: All right, like, they just had like a lot of confidence in me doing it.

00:54:29: And I think that's because I moved around a lot, like on my own accord in places that like I just kind of made my way, right?

00:54:37: Even when I moved to New York City, right?

00:54:39: That was something where people were like, all right, so you can quit your good job.

00:54:42: You go do the study coding, and you're going to learn in three months and then get a job.

00:54:48: And they're

00:54:48: like, all right.

00:54:49: And I mean, I did make it work.

00:54:51: It wasn't in three months.

00:54:52: It was definitely a lot longer.

00:54:53: I think when people saw what my family saw repeated like, OK, he said he's going to do it and he did it and he's not homeless.

00:55:02: He comes back home.

00:55:03: He doesn't have any holes in his shirt.

00:55:05: He has a shape up.

00:55:06: I think he's good.

00:55:07: You know, his face is not rattled.

00:55:10: So I think over time, people just have confidence.

00:55:12: All right.

00:55:13: If he's going out there, he will find as well.

00:55:15: Do you have like?

00:55:17: how many siblings do you have?

00:55:18: Yes, I have three siblings.

00:55:20: Three.

00:55:21: Are you the youngest?

00:55:22: I'm like in the middle cuz.

00:55:24: I got two older brothers and I got one younger sister.

00:55:27: Okay, do you think do you think being in that position in the lion had an effect on your creative choices?

00:55:35: My creative choices

00:55:37: like a lot of people who I mean you have there's four in your family, but a lot of people who have three that middle child tends to always be like Traditionally, maybe a bit more sensitive or complicated or creative or all the above.

00:55:49: or in my case if there's only two I'm the baby.

00:55:52: So that also sometimes, do you think that's connected or not?

00:55:55: so much in your case?

00:55:58: Um, I don't know.

00:55:59: It doesn't come to mind in terms of it being a connection.

00:56:01: I think, uh, the influences was like just, man, I mean, just like the, you know, the times are grown up.

00:56:08: Also too, I was like in the video games a lot.

00:56:10: So like, you know, that, and then I grew up like in a semi rough neighborhood.

00:56:14: So like, you know, got into punching, you know, got my punch in the face done early in life.

00:56:17: You know what I mean?

00:56:18: It's been like, um,

00:56:20: So in your family, did the other siblings have any other creative work?

00:56:24: Or do they do more traditional jobs?

00:56:27: Yeah, more traditional.

00:56:28: Like when, you know, my brother, he got like an office job.

00:56:30: My sister, she's like in the arts actually.

00:56:32: So she's like a makeup, uh, she's like a makeup person, like in film.

00:56:38: So like she does that.

00:56:39: And then my other brother, yeah, you know, traditional, yeah, traditional jobs.

00:56:42: Like to be honest, I think I'm like the only one really to kind of venture off into that creative, definitely.

00:56:50: I mean, this is on comedy in Germany.

00:56:52: Yeah,

00:56:53: yeah.

00:56:54: What movies has your sister worked on like huge like Hollywood movies or?

00:56:58: Well,

00:56:59: I'm like Tyler Perry movie.

00:57:00: So she worked at a Tyler Perry studio.

00:57:02: So she's working on something.

00:57:03: Yeah.

00:57:04: Yeah.

00:57:04: That's

00:57:04: cool.

00:57:06: That's cool.

00:57:07: That's funny.

00:57:08: Like a Medea film or something else?

00:57:11: I mean, you know, he'd be pumping out like shows and movies like nothing.

00:57:14: So I don't know which one she worked on.

00:57:15: but yeah, it's just yeah I don't.

00:57:18: actually I don't know.

00:57:19: I didn't know.

00:57:19: she's she's in the lot and she does make up stuff.

00:57:22: That's the most I know.

00:57:23: that's cool, man I I the last like major project I worked on.

00:57:30: I had two like two small jobs on it, and I don't want small to sound like I'm not extremely grateful.

00:57:36: I just mean like it wasn't as if I was you know pulling any big strings.

00:57:40: I just had these jobs.

00:57:41: my friend wrote This.

00:57:45: I don't I think you can.

00:57:46: yeah, September September

00:57:47: fit.

00:57:47: Yeah, yeah, yeah

00:57:49: Yeah, so I my friend wrote that and he's Oscar nominated for that movie.

00:57:53: Wow

00:57:54: and because hey dude, he's legit and Because he wrote it and because we're such close friends And because the film is American actors and they came to Munich to shoot it at Bavaria Studios.

00:58:09: He very it's all because of him.

00:58:11: It's only luck because we're friends and he is a sweet guy who spoke to the director to like.

00:58:17: include me as a native English speaker who studied film.

00:58:22: So it's very it's just all luck he brought me in to do.

00:58:27: the first job was um basically like reading the script.

00:58:33: uh well i guess it was like three small jobs but basically it was two.

00:58:37: the first woman had two parts.

00:58:38: the first part was reading it.

00:58:41: uh for like does do these american lines sound like americans talk?

00:58:48: so just like reading through it and i basically didn't have to suggest anything.

00:58:51: maybe one or two lines.

00:58:53: and then The second part of that was being meeting the actors, being there at the studio and like reading the blocking, like reading the narration.

00:59:07: So, you know, like, you know, Mike opens the door, he approaches Tommy, whose fingers on the phone before he rings, and then the actors talk, you know?

00:59:16: So I got to be there, like with Peter Sarsgaard, who was one of my favorite actors ever.

00:59:23: Dude, I was sweating bullets like meeting this guy.

00:59:27: I'm such a big fan.

00:59:28: And then John Magaro, he's a huge actor from like The Big Short and from other, I can't think right now, other big projects.

00:59:37: And that was really fun.

00:59:40: There's also like a lot of other really cool actors, but I got to do that part.

00:59:45: So I thought when that section of work was done that my job was done.

00:59:50: And I was like, well, this was just such an extreme pleasure.

00:59:52: I can't believe I got to meet these people, have fun shooting.

00:59:56: And then they extended an offer to me to be a background extra, like no lines, just a guy like standing in the back.

01:00:04: And I was like, yes, please, okay, yes, I would love that.

01:00:06: Yes, absolutely.

01:00:09: So dude, I then like for, I think it was two and a half weeks that I was there.

01:00:15: I think they shot for longer.

01:00:16: I forgot how long.

01:00:18: the the writer actually more it's he.

01:00:20: he also listens listens to this frequently so i'm sure he'll tell me.

01:00:24: but uh i was i think was there for for two and a half weeks and dude and then that was like the biggest i don't know honor like of my life to to be there like in full full like because i was thinking about your sister like meeting the makeup.

01:00:39: people like full costume and then just like being in the corner with like the like a styrofoam cup of coffee and like talking to the actors and then you just you just go around one wall and it is a fully like created.

01:00:55: nineteen seventy two i think seventy two seventy four uh like newsroom like completely fleshed out down to like the knobs on the phone.

01:01:07: that's what.

01:01:09: wow dude they moritz had told me That some of the props they had were literally requested originally denied and then eventually approved from a museum that had the actual like phones and soundboards and things from exactly that story.

01:01:30: So they had people like we're not gonna let you have that.

01:01:33: and then somehow they got convinced.

01:01:34: and then it was like Oh my god, this is crazy.

01:01:37: This is literally like the phone that you know was there like.

01:01:40: it's so crazy.

01:01:41: It was so such a fun experience.

01:01:44: That's wild it bro.

01:01:45: It must have been so dope and probably easier to act within it because you know the whole scene is set.

01:01:50: So it's like I'm here.

01:01:51: I'm literally in nineteen seventy whatever.

01:01:53: Yeah, dude.

01:01:54: Oh my god I feel.

01:01:56: so I have to tell you one funny story and then I can let you go.

01:01:59: there's there's this.

01:02:00: what's his name?

01:02:01: Benjamin Walker.

01:02:03: Oh, Benjamin

01:02:05: Walker

01:02:06: played Peter Jennings.

01:02:09: And he was so funny.

01:02:10: He was so nice.

01:02:13: Really, I didn't even know he was going to be on the movie.

01:02:16: And then he showed up one day.

01:02:17: I was like, oh my God.

01:02:18: And then I knew his face so well that I quickly Google was like, Ben Walker.

01:02:24: And we started talking.

01:02:25: And he loved that.

01:02:26: I was coming from New Orleans.

01:02:27: And he talked football.

01:02:29: dude the dude knows ball like he was.

01:02:32: oh shit he was like offensive lineman like shit no one would.

01:02:36: i would be like.

01:02:37: you know that guy and he'd be like oh yeah yeah i was placing beds and i really you know.

01:02:41: so was it like?

01:02:42: he was so shit.

01:02:43: he was so funny so relaxed and uh one day there was a scene where uh my my role was to walk up to him as peter jennings briefly and whisper something like and like look at his notes in his hand that just had gibberish like circles and be like and then just walk off like as if I'm telling this report or something important that he's gonna share.

01:03:12: every single time I walked up to him he fucked with me he told me something to make me laugh to see if I would break And I was so scared of breaking because it's like millions of dollars set, you know?

01:03:30: Yeah, that is so funny.

01:03:32: Dude, he was so funny.

01:03:34: I remember walking up and every time, I think we did like six takes, every time I walked up he said something different and it was always bullshit and I walked up to him at one point And I was like, uh, I said something like, okay, right here, sir, we need to do this.

01:03:51: And he was like, uh, can you get the phone number of the girl running the camera please?

01:03:57: And

01:03:57: there wasn't even

01:03:58: like, there was no girl.

01:03:59: It was, it was all fake.

01:04:00: And I was just like.

01:04:02: I'll I'll ask sir and then I remember

01:04:04: like walking off

01:04:05: and then we did like another take and it came back and I was like It wasn't successful.

01:04:09: She says that you're a bit too much.

01:04:10: She was like, yeah, that makes this.

01:04:11: that checks out.

01:04:11: Thank you very much.

01:04:15: I would have fucked up the whole scene like three times.

01:04:17: Yeah, I'm like fuck

01:04:19: Dude, I I just absolutely adored him and Peter Sarsgard was so open and sweet.

01:04:26: Yeah, but I've, man, I feel like I've ranted forever and you're the guest, so sorry about that.

01:04:30: No, no, no, it's good.

01:04:31: No, this is a real podcast for real.

01:04:34: So, you know, this is, we just talking.

01:04:37: Oh, man.

01:04:38: Is there like, with your standup, is there like, well, first I would ask, what standups do you admire the most and what is your, like, What is your approach when it comes to doing it?

01:04:55: Like, what is your ideal sort of, if it were to go perfectly, what would that look like for you?

01:05:00: Yeah, so, I mean, my influence is my not fluent.

01:05:04: People are liking influences.

01:05:05: I mean, it goes like, you know, Dave Chappelle, you got Richard Pryor, you got, you know, Cosby, you know, you know, a lot of things.

01:05:16: Let me put it out there.

01:05:17: I know, I don't know where it's going to be broadcasted, but let me just, as a person, I know what's happening, but we're talking about comedy.

01:05:22: But dude, yeah, I think that actually, I mean, you know, Cosby is horrible behavior offstage aside.

01:05:28: It's the storytelling like Chappelle and him.

01:05:31: Prior as well also being honest with like, you know catching himself on fire and stuff like.

01:05:36: there's such.

01:05:38: That's my favorite as well.

01:05:39: like this Store.

01:05:41: is your thing like?

01:05:42: do you prefer like telling honest stories with jokes laced within or how do you approach it?

01:05:49: Yes, good question, man Like I mean there's some stories that I do talk about that have stories laced in like literally based on like the things I've gone through here in Europe and that something you know I do on social media, but like in stand-up is like a different way.

01:06:00: And then also too, man, it's just sometimes I just have thoughts.

01:06:04: Like I didn't be having thoughts of like different angles.

01:06:06: So like my approach is literally I'll be sitting down.

01:06:09: I'll be like, yes.

01:06:11: Like I thought will come to mind and I'll just expand upon it or it'll be something where it should be like,

01:06:16: huh.

01:06:17: So

01:06:18: I look at like the differences of something or like irony, the irony of something like, you know, I don't know.

01:06:24: Like, for example, how with like German culture it might be one way but then I look at it different or um that's yeah I would say like my I would say my experiences as well.

01:06:36: so like literally if I experienced something like I and any like my experience is gonna be small like literally I think I made a video about like the the high color by uh not deal organic sugar like having organic sugar in a random coffee spot like for me.

01:06:53: that was like yo like yo.

01:06:54: so yeah so My things don't have to be big.

01:06:57: It doesn't have to be like, yo, so y'all don't use salt.

01:06:59: Y'all put rocks on it.

01:07:00: And then I will have a whole thing that expounds upon rocks and salt, but then the environment, but then this, then that.

01:07:07: But yo, y'all, but what about the rocks?

01:07:09: How y'all build buildings?

01:07:10: My brain can go far.

01:07:12: That's awesome.

01:07:13: So

01:07:13: yeah, my process is literally just letting my brain go as far as it can and not putting any limiters on it.

01:07:20: Because it just doesn't.

01:07:21: I'm gonna look at, you know, I see an old lady walking on a street that hasn't been de-iced.

01:07:26: I'm like, yo, Sabrina doesn't give a fuck about the old people at all, yo.

01:07:30: I wonder how the, and then my brain just goes.

01:07:32: That's

01:07:32: awesome.

01:07:33: Do you write your material down or do you just run it on stage and then have it memorized?

01:07:38: I do both.

01:07:38: Like this time that I, I definitely, like writing definitely like lies is it?

01:07:43: Like, so again, like just imagine my thoughts are going all over the place.

01:07:46: So sometimes like I literally got to write it down, just to organize it, but.

01:07:50: In a lot of cases, it's just like, I'll have this thought on stage.

01:07:53: And I'm like, huh.

01:07:54: And then I just like say it.

01:07:55: So I might have something written.

01:07:57: I'm just like, huh, this person wears some interesting shoes.

01:08:00: Yo, shoes.

01:08:01: And then my, so my, my bingo ADHD, I would say on stage, not in real life as a mom.

01:08:07: What

01:08:11: was, uh, what was your most, uh, recent like humbling experience on stage?

01:08:16: Like where you, you know, like.

01:08:18: I guess the better, the most popular term people probably understand is like bombing, but like, what would be like a humbling experience you had maybe in the last, you know, few months?

01:08:27: What was it like?

01:08:28: Last

01:08:29: few months.

01:08:29: Okay.

01:08:31: I think the last few months, this actually wants on tour.

01:08:33: I was out in Munich or something.

01:08:35: That's right.

01:08:35: You're on tour.

01:08:36: Oh my God.

01:08:36: Sorry.

01:08:36: Okay.

01:08:37: No, no, no.

01:08:39: The thing is, I want to talk about that so we can talk about a humbling experience another time.

01:08:43: How was the tour and what city was the best city?

01:08:46: Oh, bro, the tour, bro.

01:08:48: First of all, just going to all those cities and countries I've never been to and interacting with those places and in the form of comedy was like crazy and learning a lot and just like being out and traveling to that many places in a short period of time.

01:09:01: It's the best, right?

01:09:02: It's the best.

01:09:03: I love it so much.

01:09:05: The best, bro.

01:09:06: And I would say also traveling to that many places, there's some stereotypes.

01:09:10: I've heard about some of these cities that like when I went there, like my interaction was different.

01:09:15: So it almost like, I don't know, it's like the stereotypes of being broken as I travel to these places.

01:09:20: Cause some people are like, oh man, you go to, if you go to Helsinki, if you go to Finland, man, they just cold, they just don't really love, and bro, when I, that was one of the best shows, bro, in Finland.

01:09:31: Wow.

01:09:32: Bro.

01:09:32: That's

01:09:33: so cool.

01:09:34: It was on fire, bro.

01:09:35: Like, I mean, this girl, I'm where she was like, cause I was talking about saunas and she had like a story about a song.

01:09:41: They's a little bit, she was like, what are you talking about it?

01:09:43: everyone in the room was like from Finland.

01:09:45: So, you know, some of the shows that I've been doing is like literally everyone's from that city.

01:09:50: So that also has been interesting to be like, you know, could I speak English, American-ish immigrants, or you speak American, but sometimes it's like the whole room is like from that city.

01:10:00: Yeah.

01:10:01: They're actually like laughing out loud.

01:10:03: So I'm like, all right.

01:10:04: So, yo, Finnish people, they, yo, maybe I came across the right ones, but.

01:10:09: Bro, that was a fun show, bro.

01:10:12: Estonia was one.

01:10:13: So Estonia, that was like... I've never

01:10:14: been there.

01:10:16: Bro, Estonia?

01:10:17: Yeah, bro.

01:10:17: Estonia was fun.

01:10:18: That was me.

01:10:19: Estonia, you know, granted shout out to Sander, but he, that was the guy who flew me out to Estonia.

01:10:24: He flew me out the first time and I went to Estonia.

01:10:27: So I know how to, I have performed in front of people that only speak Estonian or like they, that's their primary language.

01:10:33: So maybe that's something.

01:10:35: But I would say, yeah, Finland was one.

01:10:37: Estonia.

01:10:39: Some German cities like Cologne was another one.

01:10:44: I mean, those are cities that come into mind, bro.

01:10:45: Like Vienna was fun.

01:10:47: Yeah, I enjoyed Vienna as well.

01:10:51: It's such cool people in such a beautiful city.

01:10:58: Living in Germany, like for those who don't know, Germans and Austrians have sort of like a friendly rivalry, particularly in Bavaria.

01:11:07: talk down about each other a lot, even though they go to each other also a lot.

01:11:13: But going to Vienna is just such a wonderful man.

01:11:19: I relate to you so much.

01:11:21: I wasn't sure what to expect, but it's mostly people from there, and they're so cool and open and young and progressive, and they laugh and they enjoy.

01:11:32: and they're engaged and locked in and it was just, yeah, it was a really, yeah, that's a really cool city.

01:11:40: Very cool, yeah, very, very cool, you know?

01:11:42: And then, you know, all this is too, just like seeing, because, you know, obviously you wanna come across some cities that are gonna be a little more stiffer or just, you know, outright, just like, I ain't do good in that city, right?

01:11:52: Totally.

01:11:52: So

01:11:54: also, I think visiting cities multiple times, so Vienna visited multiple times to where like, all right, there's like maybe one or two shows where, you know, like the crowd was kind of, This is actually an interesting point, right?

01:12:05: Because how people enjoy comedy or just live entertainment is different than that in America in that if they enjoy or they find something funny, they may not outwardly laugh or they might actually restrict their laughter.

01:12:18: So you'll be doing a show and you kind of get some tepid laughs here and there or just outright, just people nodding, looking at you.

01:12:25: And then after that, they'll come up to you, but, oh man, I really love the show, man.

01:12:28: That's a great show.

01:12:28: Like, hey, when next time you're coming back, do you have an email list?

01:12:32: Instagram, I like that one joke you play,

01:12:34: hold on.

01:12:35: You liked it?

01:12:37: Yeah,

01:12:37: it's like, bro, your face didn't move the whole time, but you acting more interested about my comedy than someone that does laugh.

01:12:43: That's crazy.

01:12:45: That's such a good point.

01:12:46: Yeah, I've experienced that too, even with playing music, but also with comedy, exactly the same way as you described it.

01:12:54: There will be moments where someone's, yeah, just nodding along.

01:12:59: and you think, oh well, you know, maybe they don't love it, but they're not displeased enough to like, leave.

01:13:06: You know, they're going like, all right, all right, this is, okay, oh yeah, okay, all right, I'll finish this.

01:13:11: And then they come up and they're like, can you sign my blah, blah, blah, and you know, and they're, you're like.

01:13:16: You can I get a selfie you play?

01:13:19: Yeah, it's crazy if that's so crazy.

01:13:22: and then there was smile in the selfie.

01:13:24: I'm like where was the smile when you was in the audience?

01:13:27: So you have a great smile.

01:13:28: actually I would have loved to see that when I was actually lied and perform it.

01:13:32: yeah,

01:13:32: dude I also found out like on stage.

01:13:34: there's certain topics that Like I I talk a lot about my insecurities or my past or personal stories and I'll talk about being like a like a really big kid And I remember I did, I was on the first, I think the first tour, maybe this, I don't know, maybe on all of those shows, I think that I had to change the language of the setup because I realized if I say fat kid that they, it's kind of sweet in a way, but they started to have like too much sympathy where they would be like, ugh.

01:14:13: That's really a shame that he was an overweight child.

01:14:17: You know?

01:14:19: So I had to literally change every time I mentioned like this being a big kid for whatever setup I was doing for a joke into chubby, bigger, you know, whatever.

01:14:32: So that way it would just kind of breeze past them.

01:14:34: And then they, every single city laughed more.

01:14:37: If I said like, oh, like, you know, I did this and it was chubby and blah, blah, blah.

01:14:41: And then they, they rolled with it.

01:14:42: But when I said in the first round, fat, they would, it would die.

01:14:47: And it was

01:14:47: like, whoa.

01:14:49: Yeah.

01:14:50: And you bring up a good point too about like semantics and words and how they affect people and like affect people differently per region.

01:14:57: So that's like another thing where you're like, all right.

01:14:59: So literally, bro, I would assume if you said fat and he was in like an Eastern European country, that would probably done great.

01:15:06: Like.

01:15:06: I got jokes where I talk about getting punched in the face and I was the best thing in my life as a young kid.

01:15:11: And bro, Eastern Europe, Eastern

01:15:13: Europe,

01:15:14: hilarious.

01:15:15: Here in Germany.

01:15:16: Oh my God, call child protective services and a therapist.

01:15:19: We need to go back to his inner child and save him.

01:15:22: Absolutely, dude.

01:15:22: That's, that's, I'm so glad that we could connect on that.

01:15:26: That's so real, dude.

01:15:27: It's, it's like that's such a big part of the job is like literally rephrasing things that you when you when you write them or you you you know play with them or you get a flow or you know you get like into this like flow state or whatever like with the joke or the story and then you realize as you perform it for more and more people these just like just replacing a word sometimes changes everything.

01:15:55: it's really crazy.

01:15:57: It's very

01:15:58: crazy, bro.

01:15:59: I would say that's something that has been humbling is in general because Well for one that you know also forces you to be more specific because you know Lisa in New York City or any places you perform in in the States you can kind of go off on like People understand the context and we're just, you know, you're from America, you know, they're from America.

01:16:19: So everyone gets the context to some extent.

01:16:21: Whereas here, the context is not even there.

01:16:23: So you have to be very clear what you're saying down to the words and the semantics.

01:16:27: So like that actually has forced me to be more explicit with what I'm saying and then also be more clearer.

01:16:33: So I got, I can't just rant like, I got to like clear, you know, paste.

01:16:41: it follows in a way that they can understand.

01:16:44: So I actually have to understand where I'm at to even be able to really say the joke that I want to say or add context or the premise or even a set up of it.

01:16:53: Exactly, exactly.

01:16:55: It's the combination of like finding the best word for the joke, split with finding the best language for a non-native audience.

01:17:05: And that's, it's, dude, it's... it's a challenge but it's also like.

01:17:10: it's cool.

01:17:10: it's like it's like flexing the muscle it's or like it's like a training tool which i think can apply to doing stand-up probably anywhere.

01:17:19: you know.

01:17:20: oh yeah yeah i mean now now we're good like now because i'm gonna be going on tour soon.

01:17:25: uh anyone in different cities that that's something you know i won't or something or i went to a Latvia.

01:17:39: But all right, bro, like I don't want my go to Spain.

01:17:41: I might go to like one of these nicer countries.

01:17:43: Let's go.

01:17:44: Yeah, dude, that's absolutely excellent.

01:17:47: I look this is dude.

01:17:48: I could talk to you for like eight more hours.

01:17:50: This has been so insanely fun, but I have to let you go.

01:17:55: Do you want to first off?

01:17:57: Thank you so much for so much time.

01:17:59: Thank you for having me, bro.

01:18:00: Thank you for having me on, bro.

01:18:02: You know, now that we meet, we meet together in real life, not real life, but technically, you know,

01:18:07: I mean, at least more than just DMs, you know, I wish I wish we lived in the same city, man, we would hang out all the time.

01:18:14: But if I'm ever in Berlin, I'm going to hit you up and please do the same if you're in Munich.

01:18:19: Yeah, absolutely, bro.

01:18:20: Do you, I'm gonna put your Instagram link and your Eventbrite link and I think I'll put a few, I think I'll put like three or four of your links in the show notes.

01:18:30: Is there anything

01:18:31: else?

01:18:32: Of course, is there anything else you wanna specifically plug before we go?

01:18:35: Um, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm on Instagram as you got it.

01:18:38: Yeah, I mean NYA and EAN and then I have all my tour dates there.

01:18:43: So I'm going to, um, I don't know when it's coming out, but I'll be in Germany.

01:18:47: I'll be in Spain and Valencia, I'll be in Italy, I'll be in a lot of different places.

01:18:51: So God check me out.

01:18:53: And yeah, bro, thank you very much.

01:18:55: I have me now.

01:18:56: Dude, this was such, such a crazy pleasure.

01:18:58: Man, it was so fun to talk to you.

01:19:00: Yeah, guys, go check out the show notes.

01:19:03: Follow Neon Yennefin, okay?

01:19:05: And thank you so much for listening, brother.

01:19:07: I will stay in touch with you.

01:19:09: Listen, let's stay in touch, please.

01:19:11: Yeah, definitely, man.

01:19:12: Munich is like, what, six hours

01:19:13: away?

01:19:14: Seven?

01:19:14: It's not so bad.

01:19:15: Do a little weekend trip or something.

01:19:16: I can host you.

01:19:18: Hey,

01:19:18: oh, yeah.

01:19:19: I hear about the forces out there and, you know, and the, what's it, the food.

01:19:23: So, yeah, let's do it, man.

01:19:25: Let's do it.

01:19:25: All right, man.

01:19:26: I'll talk to you soon.

01:19:27: Thank you so much.

01:19:28: All

01:19:28: right.

01:19:28: Thank you, bro.

01:19:47: Peace.

01:19:50: All right.