00:00:36: All right, everybody, welcome back to a brand new episode of Artsy Fartsy Immigrants.

00:00:40: I'm your host, Jordan Prince, and please, I hope to the Jesus above that you are watching this on YouTube.

00:00:48: If this ever comes out more, then likely you are simply listening to this wherever you get your audio podcasts.

00:00:59: I've made that promise before, and what's the expression like, don't write chicks.

00:01:05: that you can't cash.

00:01:07: Don't write checks that your wallet can't cash?

00:01:13: I think that's, I forgot the expression.

00:01:15: But basically in terms of telling listeners over and over over the years that I have filmed myself and I intend to put this on YouTube is basically a stack of checks in the corner that my friend would bounce like big Frida, okay?

00:01:32: Okay.

00:01:33: Um, anyway, so we're going to just hop right into it today.

00:01:36: Um, I guarantee that this will just be at least audio first before it, um, ever becomes video because, uh, well, who knows what my day might look like.

00:01:49: Who knows?

00:01:49: I don't know.

00:01:50: No one knows.

00:01:51: No one knows.

00:01:52: But I think I have a good angle here.

00:01:54: You know, I have this new, uh, Sony camera and this would be a great goal for me to just like kind of constantly use.

00:02:02: this angle, this framing, this lighting.

00:02:06: I mean, hopefully I don't know.

00:02:08: I shot like my first official YouTube video not too long ago and my friend Ben very kindly offered to edit it for free, which I'm so grateful for.

00:02:19: because editors, you know, they're expensive and sometimes you don't really click with like their flow.

00:02:24: and it's kind of like... Finding the right editor is kind of like finding the right babysitter or finding the right doctor because maybe you like a doctor but they're not in your network so you're paying just a tremendous amount of money that is not sustainable.

00:02:45: based on your income or you can afford a doctor or the insurance will pay.

00:02:53: You know this is like America talk because in Germany it's like the insurance will cover the doctor.

00:02:58: But maybe you know go to a doctor in the States and it's like oh, there's like a so-and-so deductible But then you don't like the doctor because they come in like smoking a cigarette.

00:03:09: So says on your on your chart here.

00:03:12: What's this?

00:03:14: Did you fart?

00:03:17: You're sitting there like in the little gown with your butt out and you're like No Look, look, I'm your doctor, you gotta be honest, okay?

00:03:27: You're gonna have to be honest with me.

00:03:30: Did you rip ass?

00:03:32: Did you toot?

00:03:34: Why are you leaving?

00:03:35: You just gonna toot and scoot?

00:03:38: Well, anyway, knocked over my water bottle.

00:03:41: That's kind of what finding a good editor feels like.

00:03:44: Either they're affordable, and they ask you, why did you pull a toot and scoot?

00:03:50: Or they're perfect, and like, so.

00:03:54: Mr.

00:03:54: Prince, looking at your chart and your medical history, it would appear to me that we should just do an examination, which won't be harmful.

00:04:03: And your insurance will cover the whole thing.

00:04:06: But then... You find out that the insurance doesn't cover it, and it's like, oh, so sorry.

00:04:13: You're going to have to pay eight million dollars.

00:04:18: Yeah, it's a whole thing finding the right editor.

00:04:22: But Ben has very kindly offered to edit my first, like, you know, YouTuber-y YouTube video, which is really great because I think we have a really similar taste and we have a really similar humor, which, by the way, My friend Ben the editor is the producer and you know main sort of instrumentalist arranger Producer of a band out of Regensburg called moon mates with his wife Gloria and we released a song in twenty twenty one called pieces One of my favorite songs to have collaborated on.

00:05:04: I think we were talking about collaborating on doing some song or maybe I think maybe we were discussing it and then one day I had written this kind of folksy song which is very much my style and I sent it to him like what do you think?

00:05:19: maybe something in this vibe?

00:05:21: you know I didn't I didn't really know what he would do with it but then he really You know sauced up the chords and made it so groovy and rhythmic and added these harmonies and everything with Gloria and this bridge that I hadn't you know originally written and Then he made the music video from scratch, which is just bananas.

00:05:43: So yeah, if you haven't seen the pieces music video or heard the song Go ahead and do that.

00:05:51: So shout out Ben Hoff.

00:05:53: Much love.

00:05:54: Can't wait to see where that goes.

00:05:56: Also, just speaking of YouTube because of what I'm doing right now, the stand-up comedy show that I, from October.

00:06:10: Oh, I keep bumping the table, which is also bumping the camera.

00:06:15: Sorry about that.

00:06:16: The stand-up comedy show that I did on tour in twenty-twenty-five culminated in me filming two performances at the Vek Zeben, the work seven here in Munich, and that is also being finished now.

00:06:31: I just saw the last draft today.

00:06:34: It's so funny watching so many drafts of yourself perform the same jokes over and over.

00:06:39: There's like a there's like a gap where you there's like a little gap where you like how it How it sounds how it flows or whatever and then there's like a big window of time where you just Can't stand yourself.

00:06:57: so what I did was watched it back on two times speed.

00:07:02: so it's like.

00:07:14: You know, it's like a really weird feeling, but I was like, I just can't keep watching this in on one time speed.

00:07:20: Like I can't just keep watching this in real time.

00:07:23: I have to speed up this process.

00:07:25: Just get it rolling, you know?

00:07:28: But anyway, that's gonna be done pretty much.

00:07:32: I would say like in the next week.

00:07:34: So that'd be cool to look forward to.

00:07:35: I'm going to promote that and put that in the show notes when it's done.

00:07:38: If you have not seen my very first standup comedy special, it is the highlighted video on my YouTube channel.

00:07:45: So go check that out.

00:07:47: If you haven't seen that already, it's from the twenty twenty four tour.

00:07:52: The twenty twenty four tour.

00:07:55: Hold the door and.

00:07:58: Yeah, this year, you know, I'm curious what people's New Year's resolutions were, what their projections were for the new year.

00:08:06: I keep thinking about my screen time.

00:08:11: You guys, I mean, probably not a lot of my listeners, but maybe some.

00:08:15: Do you guys struggle with just an absurd amount of screen?

00:08:19: Like, I almost feel like tormented or like mocked by my iPhone when I think it's every week or so.

00:08:29: a few times a month, excuse me, it'll like announce on the home screen, like you got a text message, like a main notification, hey man, your screen time was up by nineteen percent for a staggering, and I'm like, I don't need that extra, I don't need the extra adjective there, but they're like for a staggering unhealthy.

00:08:53: concerning Nine hours and thirty-eight minutes.

00:08:59: It's never been nine hours, but It hasn't not been close to nine hours before.

00:09:06: like I try to convince myself.

00:09:07: Oh, well, you know I work in social media So it's also just a symptom of like.

00:09:13: well, I'm some of that was recording time, but I know the truth.

00:09:17: I Know the truth.

00:09:18: It was also because I. It's also because I'm just so addicted to social media.

00:09:24: it's really a it's a curse man.

00:09:26: it's like it could be.

00:09:27: it could be fun to just make stuff on there but i feel like the people who the people who have the strength to work on social media but not digest it those are.

00:09:42: they're like aliens to me.

00:09:45: how are you doing that?

00:09:47: how is that?

00:09:48: how is that manageable for you.

00:09:50: how is that possible for you?

00:09:52: I just don't really quite get how people can... Like, I saw a video once where someone was like, look, here's the deal.

00:10:01: If you want to post on TikTok, make sure the bottom line is you don't consume anything until you've made and posted a video.

00:10:11: And I tried that for a day.

00:10:13: And then for those who don't have TikTok, the thing about it is You know, imagine you're clicking like the Facebook app, right?

00:10:21: You click it and then and it opens up and it's the home screen like the home feed, right?

00:10:27: Maybe I haven't been on there in a long time.

00:10:29: Maybe there's an ad first.

00:10:30: I don't know.

00:10:31: But you click it and there's like the feed.

00:10:33: Well, with TikTok, you click it is like and it's a video just starting.

00:10:39: It's just a. the video is just like you're sitting on the toilet.

00:10:42: You're like, let me just take out.

00:10:45: Hey guys, well, check out my new hair care product that only you can have for a limited time.

00:10:50: Don't skip this video.

00:10:51: And you're like, okay.

00:10:52: And then you're like, I guess I'll scroll to the next one.

00:10:54: And then your brain's like dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, you know?

00:11:01: It's ridiculous.

00:11:02: It's ridiculous.

00:11:03: I've seen more interviews with celebrities than I ever saw in my entire life.

00:11:08: And I never feel fulfilled by them because I'm always like, yeah, that's cool.

00:11:12: I like that celebrity.

00:11:13: That's, you know, an interesting like, oh, what did, you know, Rachel Senate think about, you know, making Isle of LA for HBO or like, yeah, okay, cool.

00:11:25: Or like, you'll see like a Golden Globe interview where I don't know.

00:11:29: It's just, you see these things and you're like, yeah, but.

00:11:32: It kind of lost its magic a little bit, don't you think?

00:11:35: And you see so much of the same thing.

00:11:37: And I also feel bad for beginner musicians who, that's the only way they can really promote themselves.

00:11:44: Promote themselves is really going on TikTok and performing a video, performing what they're... And part of it's like, oh, great.

00:11:57: It's approachable, it's practical, it's accessible for anyone who wants to do it, but the problem is that literally anybody can do it, so the higher quality content or output gets lost in the spider web of bad stuff.

00:12:20: Also, because there's so many fish in the sea now, It's kind of I don't know it's it just starts to become like a situation where you feel that It's less special and that sounds awful because I want like I I've taken advantage of that like I have videos on YouTube I have videos on tiktok.

00:12:43: I have videos on Instagram, but like I also have felt many many times personally in my like comedy niche that it's just such an overflow and like an overwhelming flow of like constantly like just constant new content new people.

00:12:59: the algorithm is always just like new new new new new.

00:13:01: so like it's.

00:13:03: uh if you're not um famous if you weren't famous like by the time this you know.

00:13:12: like.

00:13:12: if you don't if you don't have a lot of money If you're not like a Nepo baby, which kind of also means like having a lot of money, or you're not having a lot of connections, also underlying all of those things, having a lot of skill most of the time, then you're really not gonna shine through the fog.

00:13:29: You're not gonna like come out of the woodworks and be like, it's like, hello, it's me, oh, looking for, and you're like, Because there's a lot of talented people I've seen.

00:13:40: but like you scroll and scroll and scroll and you're like that person's really talented.

00:13:44: Wow, that's a great guitar player.

00:13:45: Oh, that's a really talented pianist.

00:13:47: Oh, that's a really talented singer, but like I there's a gun to my head could not name one.

00:13:53: maybe Oh, maybe Dermot Henry or Max Rickon.

00:14:01: Dermot Henry and Max Rickon are the only two Songwriters that I discovered through tiktok that whose names I can remember because I've you know like listen to their songs so much.

00:14:13: But honestly there's a lot of people that have added their songs to my playlists because I discovered them on tiktok.

00:14:19: And maybe that's also a good thing.

00:14:20: like even if I don't know their name Or I can't recall them in the moment that they are getting streams and so that you know if I give them like fifty streams they get a penny.

00:14:31: But at least it's something, you know, I it's just the social media world is just so weird in that way.

00:14:39: It's very, you know, like.

00:14:43: this is an odd topic.

00:14:44: I'm just on a rant right now.

00:14:46: But like with social media, when you are working in it, you have like a split brain.

00:14:53: The first part of your brain is like, I'm scrolling now because I'm looking for.

00:14:59: trends and ideas and inspiration, but also wanting to support, you know, other creators or see what big creators are doing that I like and that I admire.

00:15:11: How did they shoot that?

00:15:12: Or like, if there's really small creators just on their phone, like, is it funny?

00:15:16: or what choice in the editing did they make?

00:15:19: So you, you know, part of your brain as a creator is like convincing yourself that it's necessary for the work, which... It sounds like the drug addict trying to justify injecting heroin, but you're like, well, yeah, I mean, it is kind of like, there is an aspect of like knowing what the trends are, which is beneficial.

00:15:39: Sure.

00:15:40: So you saw how I just made that circle where I was like, you get this brain, but then you justify it.

00:15:44: And then I justified myself in the same sentence.

00:15:47: The other half of the brain is just like full on slug brain mud face.

00:15:55: like addiction.

00:15:56: It's just, you've lost the conviction of convincing yourself that it's worth it, that it's important, that it's necessary, that it's interesting, that it's inspirational, and you're just like, you're just scrolling, just dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, and all of a sudden it's been like two hours, and you're like, I'm gonna get started at ten a.m.

00:16:16: and it's like, dead fifteen, dead thirty, dead forty-eight, And Kiefer Sutherland just knocks down your door with a the six-shooter.

00:16:34: like where's the president?

00:16:36: Where's that?

00:16:36: Where are you keeping the president?

00:16:42: My god Yeah, it's a really wild.

00:16:46: it's a wild business to be in because also like at the same time that I am like.

00:16:51: I think these this divided brain thing is.

00:16:55: This divided brain thing, I think, is pretty relevant because both sides of them are like different trees, right?

00:17:02: So like, you would look and be like, oh, that's oak.

00:17:05: And I hate, I always think of my grandpa.

00:17:08: That one's cypress, right?

00:17:09: So it's like, oh, that's, yeah, that's oak, that one's cypress.

00:17:12: On like a face value, in a face value kind of way, right?

00:17:17: Like that one is the, this is for work and sometimes it actually is for work.

00:17:23: And I've convinced myself that it's productive to do so.

00:17:25: and the other one is just like.

00:17:30: So with that in mind They're both trees right.

00:17:33: so they tree branch off they go off in different directions and they all all branches of both trees do tend to in a certain way Spread out and there's never like a like.

00:17:46: there's a I was gonna say there's never like a positive ending to these tree branches.

00:17:51: There's no leaf that blooms joy.

00:17:57: But that wouldn't be completely fair.

00:17:58: Like the one that you've convinced yourself that like looking at it for work is a good thing to do.

00:18:05: It kind of like does lead to some ideas sometimes.

00:18:10: So you have like a few tree branches that bloom, very few.

00:18:15: Seldum at all right, and they're like the kind of you know picky seasonal flowers.

00:18:21: They're like, I don't actually it's cold in here, so I'm just gonna like fall off the tray or whatever You know and then you come back in the summer and it's like are you dub with all this nonsense?

00:18:32: Turns out I'm you're like I'm dying.

00:18:35: This is too much And then just repeats again and again, but the other tree branch I think doesn't have.

00:18:45: That's also not fair.

00:18:46: There's a couple of nice little branches as well.

00:18:50: However, very few.

00:18:51: And it's connecting to what I was saying before.

00:18:54: Finding musicians you wouldn't have heard.

00:18:57: So I guess that's fair to say too.

00:18:59: Both trees are like connected to the devil's backbone.

00:19:07: But each tree has like one or two very small branches that do, you know... Have a couple of blooming flowers of positivity.

00:19:18: that would be something that would make sense for me to.

00:19:22: I would feel fair saying that You know, but the majority of the trunk is full of like slop and filth and hate and confusion.

00:19:30: It's so weird going through like scrolling through tiktok or Instagram for example, and it's like the most absurdly different content constantly.

00:19:41: it'll be like an AI shrimp and then it'll be like a some some model in like Paris Fashion Week like you know doing like a Get ready with me while I get ready for Paris, magic.

00:19:56: And it's like, yeah, well, we're clicking this because you started it like in your underwear.

00:20:02: And then it'll go be, then it'll cut immediately to like Treasurer's secretary.

00:20:06: today here at the American, you know, at the United States was, you know, accosted by, you know, protesters after President Trump sent in ICE agents to go shoot me.

00:20:15: It's like, okay, politics, okay, politics.

00:20:18: Okay.

00:20:18: And then I'll scroll again and it'll be, it'll be some guy on stage at the.

00:20:23: What's uh, what's?

00:20:27: what's everyone's deal with with with trees?

00:20:31: Yeah, how about how?

00:20:32: about how?

00:20:33: about you make like a tree and you and you'll leave and Then you skip it again, and then it's just like Like a montage of Jim Carrey clips where he talks out of his butt and then puts on them the mask and he's like somebody stop me And then he and then it's him from like the Truman show.

00:20:51: It's like in case I don't see you good afternoon.

00:20:53: Good evening and good night.

00:20:55: It's so chaotic.

00:20:56: It's too much.

00:20:58: It's too chaotic.

00:21:01: Yeah, I don't really know how I got on that tangent, but my god, it's crazy and it's so inch.

00:21:06: I was thinking about this a lot today because the I was in a work meeting earlier today and the company, which I can't divulge much because, I mean, it might not work out in the first place, but I can't mention things yet, but if it does work out, it's basically contributing to that culture, not in like a negative way, but it's just like, it knows it has to play the game.

00:21:35: Maybe contributing was the wrong word, or contributing.

00:21:38: Maybe that was the wrong word.

00:21:39: It's more like you're seeing more established older companies, particularly also in Europe, which is in Germany, often ten years behind American cultural choices.

00:21:52: But I had a meeting with someone today and they were like, well, now we're eight years behind.

00:21:57: That was funny.

00:22:01: Now aiming towards instead of instead of you know, the agency that this company is working with going to like a television network or a media company to make commercials for public TV or to make advertisements that would go on the street or like In front of the you know commercials for like the cinema or something.

00:22:22: Now it's focused on short form content and that's how I was even involved with the whole thing.

00:22:29: and it's You know, it is just that culture.

00:22:33: It is just that world.

00:22:34: It does make sense to do that.

00:22:36: It just does make sense to do that.

00:22:39: It's smart of them, but also I was so hyper self-aware in the meeting itself.

00:22:45: Like, I'm happy to do it and I think I can be of service to this project and I hope it works out just because it's something I feel like I know and can do and of course like money.

00:22:59: But, you know what I mean?

00:23:01: It's like So weird to be in a meeting with a large like with it with an agency that's working with a large company Talking about the needs of the company and what they are asking for and it's all about digestible short form content.

00:23:20: and I wonder where that will lead, you know, like television is kind of Dying or you know it's on the it's on the last end and that was something that I had had like my whole life.

00:23:33: and uh you know they're having like cut cut costs and it's it's an odd feeling.

00:23:39: it's like where's the reliability of like?

00:23:44: where?

00:23:44: what is the media that feels the most reliable for me?

00:23:47: like I I still see a lot of American late night talk show clips and news clips and stuff like that on YouTube or on TikTok.

00:24:00: So I'm also a consumer of this change.

00:24:07: It's not like I'm off the grid.

00:24:09: I can't believe they would be doing this.

00:24:10: I'm also a part of it.

00:24:13: I don't believe.

00:24:14: I am so abhorrently against AI.

00:24:17: I cannot... stand how much AI is being used.

00:24:23: I feel like there is, unless it is like contributing in like a scientific laboratory to help people find the answer to solutions that they could not do on their own because it has like this vast access to every published scientific paper.

00:24:44: Um, except unless it was used in that capacity to benefit health or growth or development or progression, um, or infrastructure, I don't like it and I will not use it.

00:25:01: Um, I remember there was like a month where I had chat GPT and I was like.

00:25:05: Dude, I asked one question and I could just see water draining out of the out of the oceans.

00:25:11: It's just so.

00:25:12: it's just so horrible for the environment.

00:25:15: and now it's like you don't even have a choice sometimes, but this is off topic.

00:25:19: but I will just say I don't like using Google and then it being like Google AI is like looking for your answer right now.

00:25:26: Do you just hold on tight, okay?

00:25:29: Looks like the blue whales are the largest mammals to ever exist, bigger than the dinosaurs.

00:25:34: And I'm like, why didn't you just show me a website?

00:25:39: Show me a .org.

00:25:41: Show me a .org.

00:25:43: And let me go take a look, okay?

00:25:46: But anyway, I'm also a can.

00:25:48: I'm obviously, you know, that's my.

00:25:49: I work in that field and I'm a consumer of that material and that content, but I don't Love that.

00:25:58: it's kind of killed cinemas and it's kind of killed television.

00:26:02: I mean in partnership with COVID.

00:26:06: That's the big contributor there.

00:26:11: That's often not mentioned in in partnership with like how social media has affected Well the globe.

00:26:18: If I wonder what it I wonder how different it would be if social media was still at the level that it's at.

00:26:26: it might not have been different at all because we are you know addictive creatures were communal creatures, but we love also being alone.

00:26:34: Technology is always trying to hook you in.

00:26:37: you know accepting cookies on the website and trying to you know Target ads to you based on if you watched you know one video half a nano second longer than the other one the algorithms and blah blah blah.

00:26:49: It was already like heading in this direction but I wonder sometimes how different it would be if there would be a difference had COVID not happened because I think that not as intensely or maybe as dramatically as nine eleven.

00:27:10: bear with me, bear with me, bear with me, not in the same way.

00:27:17: But I think COVID had one of those long-lasting cultural sort of like stopping points turning points that That really it changed.

00:27:34: I think it really honestly changed the pathway that We were on permanently.

00:27:43: I think it, you know, it drew, you know, people were stuck inside.

00:27:47: They were isolated.

00:27:48: They were afraid.

00:27:48: They were looking for answers.

00:27:50: They started to not trust like pretty reliable medical and governmental sources, right?

00:27:58: Trump was already in office in the States and he was, you know, he was a weirdo then, not that he's not now, but he was like a weirdo, but he were like, okay, he's in office and he was already kind of pushing an agenda and trying to sort of build like a culture around his followers and beliefs and things like that.

00:28:17: And then when everyone's stuck inside, isolation, like full-on isolation is a torture technique from the military, you know?

00:28:32: When you get in trouble in prisons, you get sent to the hole.

00:28:36: That is full on like this like literally diagnosed through studies after studies after studies as as like actual torture.

00:28:45: Not that people being at home is the same as being tossed into a you know isolation at a prison or something, but it's on the same.

00:28:56: You know like you're crossing a similar bridge because an Yeah, because you know because you're affected by the loneliness and I think that drew so many people Far more people than maybe would have into online forums community groups subreddits online chat rooms things like that.

00:29:18: where They're they were so easily susceptible to the comfort of someone having an answer.

00:29:26: You know if you're feeling vulnerable and scared and alone and then someone comes up and says Well, you know, you are like conspiracy theory people.

00:29:33: Oh, God, my nose is so itchy.

00:29:35: Sorry.

00:29:36: But like, if you're susceptible and lonely and afraid, and then someone shows up and seems, at least in your forums or like in your chat rooms or whatever, and they seem to be part of a group or leading a group or whatever, like a chat, and they seem to have the answers.

00:29:53: What in a time like COVID where people didn't know how long quarantine would last or people started to doubt like if vaccinations were The right thing to do and you know, it's all.

00:30:05: it was always like driving people indoors away from others into their computers and I am so I feel so certain that like yes, you know, it's it's in partnership with a lot of other factors culturally speaking but it had I think I had a huge shift on how media was affected by short-form social media content.

00:30:30: You know, I mean, that was when I started a TikTok channel.

00:30:34: That was which led into me having, you know, a reasonable, you know, a nice Instagram following and like trying to build, you know, sort of a career in comedy because I hadn't, you know, I had done some music.

00:30:48: and then, you know, like, being, but being isolated, being at home, being sort of, you know, unsure, vulnerable.

00:30:54: I think also it's, you know, in the States, it's not just this taste, but there, when there are people who just feel scared, people look for answers.

00:31:06: And then when no answers arrive or arise, and they maybe also aren't like, when they're not maybe also taught by their guardians or parents to be critical thinkers, to question something to like when someone's proposing an idea that sounds a bit odd And not just like you know not not odd in the sense of like oh get a vaccine.

00:31:36: for me That's not odd whatsoever.

00:31:38: That's something that we've been doing for so long.

00:31:42: But when someone's like scared or unsure and you're isolated and you're on a computer and maybe you maybe you're not like a very deep critical thinker maybe you're just searching for.

00:31:52: I think it's very easy in that case to accept a conspiratorial solution before you face a harsher truth of just like what you're seeing is what it is and it's not good and it doesn't feel good and it makes you feel sad and we don't know when it's gonna end.

00:32:11: A lot of people are not going to accept those harsh truths.

00:32:18: That's just kind of how it is.

00:32:21: I mean, I don't know why I went down such a rabbit hole here, but I it basically.

00:32:27: in short, I think that's Was a. I think that was a major Contributor to the like cinema.

00:32:37: I think cinemas, you know have died off so much because of COVID and sadly because TV as well, you know, like I I love my you know late night talk show formats.

00:32:47: I love You know, I when I visit my parents and they just have the TV on and we're just kind of watching whatever and then there's a commercial I honestly don't mind it, you know, it's something about like Feeling that there are other people also watching this.

00:33:02: you feel kind of connected to a world.

00:33:04: It's like when you watch a like a football game like a Super Bowl or something and you're like, oh Everyone's a part of this, you know, I I was looking the other day How many people watched the finale of Seinfeld?

00:33:19: It was something like seventy-five, seventy-six million people.

00:33:27: And then I googled how many people tuned in for the Golden Globes that just took place in the States.

00:33:34: And it was like nine point three or something like that.

00:33:38: It was between nine and ten.

00:33:40: And I thought, well, that's still good numbers.

00:33:44: But whoa, what a drop, right?

00:33:46: And of course, I'm watching Golden Globes in clips on TikTok and YouTube, which the majority of people, especially abroad, will do.

00:33:54: I mean, unless I were to sign up for some international thing to pay money, I mean, I paid money to stream the Oscars last year because, was it last year?

00:34:06: I think it was last year, or the year before.

00:34:08: I think it was last year.

00:34:09: I paid for a subscription thing for one month so I could watch the Oscars live as it happened.

00:34:16: Because of September five and my friend more it's being Nominated, but I but then you know that would.

00:34:23: that's like a rare occasion.

00:34:25: a lot of people are not gonna pay for something like that for a month And so they just see the clips they just get the updates, you know as they Like what they just they just see the yeah the little updates as they Are made into clips as a as it comes along, but yeah, wow what a tangent whoa What a tangent this was my god.

00:34:51: Oh Yeah, so okay.

00:34:54: I Don't know how we got on quite quite such a ramble, but if you guys have not checked out Nia's my poor old my previous episode with Nia Is it man?

00:35:05: I feel so bad.

00:35:06: Is it Nia Yennefin?

00:35:08: Yes, Nia Yennefin.

00:35:10: Sorry Nia if you listen to this.

00:35:11: Sorry He's a great American comedian who lives in Berlin.

00:35:15: It's a little raunchy.

00:35:17: It's a little raunchy.

00:35:17: I cut out some stuff, but it's still a little raunchy.

00:35:20: So if you are cool with occasional jokes going a bit off the rails, then definitely check that out.

00:35:28: He's a very funny comic and it was the breakout, the breakout as if it's like a award winner.

00:35:33: It was the kickoff episode of twenty twenty six.

00:35:38: I was looking for, did I have something I wanted to announce here?

00:35:43: Basically, I am Yeah, getting back into full swing with making more in-depth content.

00:35:50: Hopefully... Hopefully at some point you will see this on YouTube.

00:35:54: And if not, then thank you for listening either way.

00:35:56: And I am making music with Ben Hoff, the editor of the YouTube video that I just spoke about, the new live comedy show from last year's tour.

00:36:05: The final version's finished, so we just have to get the high-def version, do a little sound mixing, pop that bad boy out.

00:36:12: Otherwise, guys, I know this was a bit of an oddball sort of rambling episode, but thank you so much for being here.

00:36:17: Thank you so much for listening.

00:36:19: I love you all so much and I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful week.

00:36:22: Bye bye.