00:00:00: I'm here with Borden Munich's Aspen and what if you presented for us today here?

00:00:04: I got excited because one um when was the last time you seen

00:00:08: one of these?

00:00:11: Isn't that a ho-ho?

00:00:13: Snowball.

00:00:14: It's a pink snowball.

00:00:15: It's a snowball.

00:00:15: Ho-ho and snowballs I get mixed up sometimes.

00:00:17: Sorry, I put

00:00:18: you too long.

00:00:18: Okay, but here man, there's a spiti near me and they randomly have American stuff like.

00:00:24: They had four types of nerds' ropes.

00:00:26: I also got nerds' ropes because essential.

00:00:28: I

00:00:28: haven't seen that since I was a teenager.

00:00:30: Neither, and they had a bunch of nerds' ropes, and they had ding-dongs as well, and pink snowballs.

00:00:35: Yeah,

00:00:35: they

00:00:36: did.

00:00:36: And then sometimes they have hot Cheetos.

00:00:39: That's cool.

00:00:39: So every time I just, I'm like, what do you got today?

00:00:41: Well, they'll snacks you got.

00:00:43: And then, of course, there was Kool-Aid, great favor.

00:00:47: I've played it in a great flavor.

00:00:48: I have never had Kool-Aid soda.

00:00:51: Not once, ever.

00:00:52: So I'm really interested in this.

00:00:54: With grape.

00:00:55: But the grape's so classic.

00:00:56: That's something that's the classic American flavor because it's like, have you ever had grape before?

00:01:00: Yeah, I totally have had grape.

00:01:02: I know what a grape is.

00:01:03: And then you taste it and it's like, oh, purple.

00:01:05: Nyquil.

00:01:06: No, my god.

00:01:07: No, it just tastes like purple.

00:01:08: It

00:01:08: just tastes like purple.

00:01:08: Yeah, hey, that's American.

00:01:09: Cheers.

00:01:10: Purple.

00:01:10: Nyquil.

00:01:10: Really?

00:01:18: Or do you love it?

00:01:19: No.

00:01:20: I mean, I

00:01:20: love Nyquil.

00:01:21: I drink it a lot to not feel much anymore.

00:01:23: In in my insights, but you don't think it tastes a little bit like medicine.

00:01:27: I'm not trying to yuck a yum here.

00:01:28: if you love it

00:01:29: I don't.

00:01:29: I don't love it.

00:01:30: It's just like nostalgia, right?

00:01:31: And it's just a flavor where it's not a real flavor, but it doesn't also exist here.

00:01:35: natural aromas.

00:01:36: That's fun.

00:01:38: Sour apple sour citrus.

00:01:41: Oh,

00:01:41: yeah, the German label on top of it

00:01:45: They have to.

00:01:45: they're like hey look and we know that we imported this but we also don't want you to die.

00:01:50: Um, it can increase activity and lack of attention in children.

00:01:56: So watch out.

00:01:57: It's like may cause autism.

00:02:00: Ah, that is the the color.

00:02:02: It's the color.

00:02:03: No,

00:02:03: the color purple.

00:02:04: It's the

00:02:05: color.

00:02:05: No, the red, the red color, they have the dye.

00:02:08: And that's the thing.

00:02:09: is this red color dye can affect children.

00:02:12: No.

00:02:12: And this is marketed to kids.

00:02:14: Well, cheers, Eric, who lives in Denver and is eight.

00:02:19: That's also like sanity.

00:02:20: Yes.

00:02:21: Yes, I've had orange before.

00:02:22: I know what orange juice tastes like.

00:02:24: Why does this have such an aftertaste?

00:02:26: I love it.

00:02:27: I'm I'm.

00:02:28: I'm very grateful for the.

00:02:29: I'm gonna drink the whole thing.

00:02:30: who am I fucking kidding it?

00:02:31: Look at me

00:02:32: exactly.

00:02:32: and then of course essential pop rocks.

00:02:35: because I was thinking like if we got if we just realized okay, what do we talk about?

00:02:39: Or whatever.

00:02:40: then we can just test, you know

00:02:43: That's how people die.

00:02:46: No, that's coca-ventos.

00:02:48: No, no, no, that that for sure.

00:02:49: But you never heard that rumor about like like.

00:02:51: that was a rumor that like was famous at least in my part of the States.

00:02:54: as a kid like.

00:02:55: if you if you eat Pop rocks and then chase it with soda your stomach explodes.

00:03:00: Oh, so I

00:03:01: feared them as a kid.

00:03:02: Are you brave enough today?

00:03:04: No.

00:03:05: But I will.

00:03:06: From the content,

00:03:06: maybe!

00:03:08: That's why I wore my cow onesie, because this is my like security blanket.

00:03:11: Is that the thing you'd want to be found dead in?

00:03:14: Oh my god, like moo or whatever.

00:03:18: No, it's like, if I've had a tough day... Or if I'm just like a little nervous or something, I'm just gonna chill my cow ins-.

00:03:25: Feel how soft it is though.

00:03:26: Like it's- It's

00:03:27: really cushiony soft.

00:03:28: Absolutely.

00:03:29: Um, have you seen this TikTok trend of pe- Oh no, you don't have TikTok.

00:03:32: Have you seen the trend of people who were like, here is an owl if they were dot dot

00:03:36: dot?

00:03:36: I saw yours

00:03:37: yesterday.

00:03:37: I was trying to hop on a trend.

00:03:38: Okay, I wanna leave me alone.

00:03:40: But I- No, it's a lame trend, but like it's so funny because some people do it so well.

00:03:45: Like someone was like, uh, here's my impression of an owl if they were a Chris Tucker.

00:03:48: And they were like, who?

00:03:51: You know and then they'll be like I can't do

00:03:53: it.

00:03:53: or they're

00:04:00: like an Australian to be like

00:04:01: Hor?

00:04:03: Horse?

00:04:04: Like it's hard because Kiwi is a bit more sharp and strict but like Australian is a bit more longer out and I can't do that.

00:04:11: I have an Australian friend who is so smart and she's like.

00:04:16: she's such an impressive person.

00:04:17: like she's like studies cancer and she's married and she's like funny but she's also it's just like a really interesting person that I'm still lucky to like a good friend.

00:04:25: and uh I can't resist Occasionally like letting my bad Australian accent slip when I talk to her and I know I look at a person who has a PhD in cancer research.

00:04:37: Oh, no, it's not it's not good easy No, it's not tasty.

00:04:42: Hi.

00:04:44: The kints is not very tasty, eh?

00:04:46: Oh,

00:04:46: wait.

00:04:47: Why be next time, huh?

00:04:48: That's a knife, you know?

00:04:49: It's just like the worst.

00:04:51: It's like something like, oh, you're American.

00:04:52: Oh, guns, guns.

00:04:53: I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:04:54: So I know that she probably doesn't like that.

00:04:56: Anyway, we have ADHD.

00:04:57: Pop rocks, grape, flavored popping candy.

00:05:01: What other flavor do you get?

00:05:02: Fair point.

00:05:03: It's a... Shall we?

00:05:04: Yes.

00:05:04: A little ASMR here.

00:05:06: Right before we start, you're like, no ASMR, and I'm like, oh, thanks for reminding me.

00:05:12: Oh, that's nasty sounding.

00:05:14: My mom is going to be like, why did you do that so loud into the microphone?

00:05:19: Oh

00:05:19: god, there's so much plastic.

00:05:20: It's so hard to open.

00:05:21: I wait how.

00:05:22: Oh my god, it has no smell.

00:05:24: Really?

00:05:25: Oh my god, it smells like a weed.

00:05:27: Well, you can't really smell that well,

00:05:28: right?

00:05:29: It smells like.

00:05:30: It smells like it's not food.

00:05:32: It smells like the inside of a tire.

00:05:33: It smells like a truck driver's handshake.

00:05:36: It smells like a guy named Toby.

00:05:42: Oh, it smells like.

00:05:43: it smells like Batman's gloves.

00:05:48: I'm like, if I inhale too deep, I might get lightheaded.

00:05:51: Yeah, it smells

00:05:51: like glue.

00:05:52: It doesn't smell like food at

00:05:54: all.

00:05:54: I can't wait to put

00:05:55: this in my mouth, oh boy.

00:05:56: Maya, it smells like.

00:05:58: it smells like a marker you had in third grade.

00:06:00: Let's eat it.

00:06:01: Here we go.

00:06:02: OK.

00:06:03: Oh, wow.

00:06:03: The whole thing.

00:06:03: No, not the whole thing, huh?

00:06:04: No, that's insane.

00:06:05: Here,

00:06:06: let's let's let's divvy it up a little bit.

00:06:08: My course.

00:06:09: That many that many.

00:06:11: You can just

00:06:11: put it.

00:06:12: You're cheating.

00:06:15: Okay.

00:06:17: Oh my god.

00:06:20: The day I wear a white shirt.

00:06:26: Oh my god.

00:06:29: I swallowed it like they were pills.

00:06:32: Classic Americans can't get

00:06:33: away from their drugs.

00:06:36: I was scared

00:06:43: to swallow it.

00:06:44: Oh my god.

00:06:44: This is so stupid.

00:06:45: It's so sticky.

00:06:48: That's why you don't put it in your hand.

00:06:50: Oh.

00:06:51: Just, you know, shoot straight to the dome.

00:06:56: We're supposed to be talking but this is a really fun podcast.

00:06:58: if you knew even if you guys have already tuned out I'm having fun.

00:07:01: It kind of feels like you like I like I ate some ants that are not happy about it.

00:07:05: Okay before we get to the nerds rope I do think I legitimately must ask at least one question.

00:07:10: Okay, so Tell the people your name Aspen.

00:07:15: you run bored in Munich and you used to do YouTube like full-time.

00:07:20: Yes.

00:07:21: I was the first non native speaker that was managed by pros even

00:07:26: that's crazy by pros even

00:07:28: back when like like what you do Originally before tiktok happened.

00:07:32: There was five of us in Germany that did that sort of foreigner in Germany.

00:07:35: Let's show you how it is on YouTube.

00:07:37: and then tiktok came and now it's everybody and they mom

00:07:41: Yeah, the niche has really become so extremely over saturated.

00:07:44: It's It's exhausting but

00:07:47: it's cool to see out of way.

00:07:49: because back then it was let me think all of us there were.

00:07:53: We were actually only Americans and one Canadian.

00:07:56: So I mean, it's not much difference in opinion.

00:08:00: I think there were two guys that were here because they were playing like, you know, how Americans come to play football here for a German team.

00:08:06: So that was sort of there.

00:08:06: And it was, it was very just not so much a guest diversity in foreigners abroad.

00:08:11: And now you see, I think it's cool to see different, just different types of people.

00:08:15: I mean, Yeah, so I think it's cool how it developed that way because at least there's a little bit more variety.

00:08:20: at the end of the day It's kind of us all like being dazzled by the same initial things.

00:08:25: But that's that's just how it goes.

00:08:27: But it's cool to at least now be able to see more opinions of what the types of different stuff people are doing or you know

00:08:34: what just like.

00:08:35: So well first of all I should ask also like what was the initial reason you even ended up working in Germany or living in Germany?

00:08:45: So the CIA.

00:08:47: So there I was.

00:08:50: Yeah, that's me.

00:08:51: My life's a little different.

00:08:54: You're probably wondering how I got here.

00:08:58: I can't tell you what's classified information.

00:09:01: And that tells you I'd have to kill you with pop rocks instead.

00:09:03: Oh,

00:09:04: right.

00:09:04: So I graduated high school early and I was in like college when I was seventeen and.

00:09:10: I found that the US is a bit of a pyramid scheme.

00:09:12: I come from a very low income, below the poverty line background.

00:09:17: So it was like pyramid scheme.

00:09:19: because now you think that overachieving, you're like, great, I'm setting myself up for success.

00:09:24: And then you're like, oh, I got to do community college and then also getting loans and work three jobs at the same time.

00:09:32: And also, oh, no, I'm sick.

00:09:34: I can't go to the doctor because that's more loans.

00:09:36: Yeah.

00:09:36: And then you graduate and then you're like, I did it, like success should come now.

00:09:41: Oh, I can't get a job.

00:09:42: What?

00:09:42: Yeah, exactly.

00:09:44: Yeah.

00:09:44: It was like, I really tried to overachieve to think, OK, great, I want to better myself from my situation.

00:09:50: And the US was like, you do.

00:09:52: That's cute.

00:09:54: Oh my goodness.

00:09:54: Well, maybe not.

00:09:55: Give

00:09:55: it a shot.

00:09:57: What if you did everything right, all the paperwork, and then what if you just didn't get it?

00:10:01: That would be so funny.

00:10:02: It's like, have you thought about.

00:10:04: Going into horrendous debt and then just not being rewarded for

00:10:07: it.

00:10:07: Let's just see what happens.

00:10:09: No like totally you can you can.

00:10:11: you can Definitely maybe potentially get something from it, but who knows?

00:10:15: We'll see when we get that girl.

00:10:16: Do it.

00:10:18: Good.

00:10:18: You're stressed too much.

00:10:20: Have

00:10:20: a margarita.

00:10:20: Yeah,

00:10:22: it's just fifty grand.

00:10:22: It's easy.

00:10:23: It's easy.

00:10:23: Okay, glad.

00:10:24: Yeah,

00:10:24: thirteen point eight percent interest rates.

00:10:26: Here's really counting at the end of the day, honey.

00:10:28: It's not even going to come in until like after you're graduated.

00:10:31: Yeah, when you have no job and you're still living with your parents and you have to beg for loans, which also

00:10:35: cause more interest rates.

00:10:36: Don't worry about

00:10:37: it.

00:10:38: American capitalism is basically the most emotionally and financially abusive, sassy, gay cousin you could ever imagine.

00:10:48: Come on, girlfriend.

00:10:48: Don't worry about it.

00:10:49: You need that dress.

00:10:51: You need that dress.

00:10:52: Stop it.

00:10:53: You're

00:10:53: killing.

00:10:54: You're killing.

00:10:55: Just try to treat yourself.

00:10:57: And then the cousin leaves and is like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:11:00: Or just

00:11:00: the concept of like now.

00:11:01: And she

00:11:01: can't afford an ambulance if she needed one.

00:11:04: Or

00:11:04: just the concept of now that you have Clarina for uber eats

00:11:08: that's bananas

00:11:09: I want to.

00:11:10: I want to say you get what you deserve that it's the dumbest stuff ever.

00:11:13: But then again, you know being in that American mentality You just a lot of places are people.

00:11:17: you just feel like you're in this bubble and you're like fuck it.

00:11:19: We ball.

00:11:20: What else like yeah

00:11:23: Do I?

00:11:23: I feel that concerns so much especially like the Clarina family for those who like people like my mom who might not exactly know what she's talking about.

00:11:31: Hi, mommy.

00:11:32: Love you.

00:11:32: Basically, like, Klarna is like a payment system.

00:11:37: Like, you could think of it like PayPal, but in the sense of that it encourages installments.

00:11:41: It encourages installments, yeah.

00:11:43: So the fact that, like, Gen Z, for example, might go to get, like, she was saying that Uber Eats or, you know, like DoorDash or something, and it's like, do you want to do this in, like, eight installments of one dollar and thirty-eight cents?

00:11:54: And at the end of the day, you've paid, like, so much interest on it, you could have bought the thing twice if you'd just gone to the restaurant.

00:11:59: And it's so... It's it's like deeply encouraging unhealthy financial choices for the new generation and that's Terrifying because it was already fucked for

00:12:09: us.

00:12:09: They just think you know I'm fucking millennials.

00:12:11: Yeah, and it's just like encouraging debt.

00:12:13: and it's really like oh my god That way of thinking about it makes total sense to me.

00:12:17: why like that would be a reason to go to to go to Europe like I. People asked me a lot and you probably get this a lot, too.

00:12:23: You probably get people from Germany or from different parts of the world that we meet here asking like OK, so you like it here.

00:12:32: You want to stay here, maybe Germany, but maybe somewhere just not outside the US.

00:12:36: One being like one part of the question being, do you miss parts of the US?

00:12:41: And the other question being, could you ever see yourself going back?

00:12:45: And like in my case, there's of course, like people like, you know, I miss my family.

00:12:49: I miss like a lot of friends from New Orleans and New Orleans itself, like city, like events, like things you do there, the food, the culture is so beautiful and vibrant.

00:12:57: I miss that, of course.

00:12:58: But then they say like would you ever consider yourself moving back?

00:13:02: I Can't like say with my full chest like Munich is my forever until I die like I just can't say that because I didn't think I'd even end up here.

00:13:13: So it'd be weird to assume I would know the future.

00:13:16: Yeah,

00:13:17: but when they say would you want to move back right now?

00:13:21: Not at all.

00:13:22: How do you feel about

00:13:23: that?

00:13:23: complicated as well because I think like so basically after that whole ordeal I was like well I'm stuck in this cycle now I can't get out in the US.

00:13:32: I have just.

00:13:34: I was sleeping like frozen.

00:13:35: I had three jobs.

00:13:36: I had a morning job a day job and I worked overnight shift at a hotel and then in between Managed to do my courses and coursework.

00:13:42: and it was like okay.

00:13:43: But then once I stopped studying the debt payments come in and then it's like I don't have time for another job.

00:13:49: How do I do this?

00:13:51: and so then I thought also I got sick one time and like I passed out in one of my courses.

00:13:57: I took one evening course and ambulance picked me up and, um, they picked me up and then I, and the ambulance, they woke me up.

00:14:03: They're like, what's your insurance?

00:14:04: And I was like, I don't have insurance.

00:14:06: I am, but a lowly student.

00:14:08: And they're like, okay, so guys, let's turn everything off.

00:14:12: Do never tell anybody we did this.

00:14:14: Give us your address.

00:14:15: It's right in the corner.

00:14:16: We're going to take you home.

00:14:17: We'll stay with you until you're better and let you out into your home, but never say we did this.

00:14:21: because right now, if we took you to the hospital, if we did anything on you on the record, You would be incredibly just like fucked.

00:14:28: and that was just this bright thing of wow This is the nicest thing anybody's done for me and I don't know how long.

00:14:35: and then after I was like once a glow faded of that.

00:14:38: Oh, that's so nice.

00:14:39: I was like oh That's that's

00:14:43: so sad that they even have to do that.

00:14:46: Yeah, and that was just like oh my gosh, and so then as a wake-up call So I started like looking and unfortunately like a lot of people are so like romantic like I met somebody I studied Oh, I fell love and I came to Germany and I'm like I studied about like the just.

00:15:00: I'm a dad and nerd.

00:15:01: that's my background.

00:15:01: But I was like okay.

00:15:03: What is the quality of life?

00:15:04: But also what is the economic factors?

00:15:06: What kind of stuff does the state provide?

00:15:08: education wise healthcare wise like.

00:15:09: how can I?

00:15:11: Achieve the American dream and where?

00:15:13: and that was in Germany.

00:15:14: Munich, of course, is one of the most difficult because the Standard living and quality of life is a lot better.

00:15:19: But for that reason, I was like, hey, go big or we go home.

00:15:23: Essentially, if I go home, what's the worst?

00:15:25: I know what's already there, but I don't know what's there.

00:15:27: and it could be opportunity.

00:15:28: Because my biggest thing was is I worked so hard in the in one year in that situation.

00:15:34: Working hard is really stupid because it doesn't bring you back anything.

00:15:37: It just burns you out.

00:15:39: and at least with germany people complain the bureaucracy the paperwork yada yada yada.

00:15:43: but at the end of the day i needed that because the one difference was if you do all the paperwork here you get what you do the paperwork for.

00:15:51: and so for me that was the biggest thing.

00:15:52: like i'm already working myself to death and exhausted.

00:15:56: may as well do that there and at least they'll have something to show for it.

00:16:00: and so that's how it came to be.

00:16:02: but i mean

00:16:03: it's really it's a very like uh pragmatic way of looking at it.

00:16:07: But I think when you're in that situation, you don't have a choice.

00:16:09: and I've seen like how previous generations of my family lived and they just sort of stayed and accepted that cycle.

00:16:14: and I was like I Worked so hard to be an overachiever.

00:16:19: and then now this like I can't even legally drink yet.

00:16:22: What do you mean now?

00:16:23: Yeah, that's Dang, man.

00:16:25: By the way, she can legally drink now.

00:16:27: She's talking about that.

00:16:30: I'm just a little bi over here.

00:16:31: I can't even drink.

00:16:32: I can't even drink here, German.

00:16:33: Sorry, it'll be cool.

00:16:34: It's over for me.

00:16:35: I'm just like, it was sixteen.

00:16:37: Actually, in Germany, that's where you can drink.

00:16:38: It's sixteen to Germany.

00:16:40: Yeah.

00:16:41: No, so anyways about like missing it.

00:16:43: that was one of the tradeovers I think with Germany.

00:16:45: It's I mean the first two years were incredibly Lonely because the turnover rate for foreigners is hard here, but also with Germans.

00:16:53: they're used to all of this because it's quite international.

00:16:55: They're used on this turnover and the emotional investment of one making friends as an adult.

00:16:59: It's It's hard unfortunate life fact.

00:17:02: Um, but So I understood why at the start until I could speak German fluently, it was really hard to build connections because then once I started realizing I made friends and there was this cycle of every year I have to make new ones because everybody's leaving.

00:17:16: Then I was like, okay, I get it, fine.

00:17:18: But it was also like really hard work at the start, figuring it out, setting the foundation.

00:17:23: But overall, I built it up.

00:17:24: I did my citizenship and like that's sort of the thing now thinking of, yeah.

00:17:29: That's so crazy that you have full citizenship.

00:17:31: That's so impressive.

00:17:32: Not yet.

00:17:32: I didn't get the passport yet.

00:17:34: Oh, I thought you said because they didn't recognize dual until twenty twenty four.

00:17:38: Oh, that's interesting.

00:17:38: OK.

00:17:39: Also, before I was thinking of renouncing, if you renounce your American citizenship, there's a processing fee of like three thousand euros.

00:17:46: Because you know to renounce

00:17:47: it you have to pay three thousand to renounce it.

00:17:49: processing fee because you know our.

00:17:52: somehow our system is so complicated because all of the social benefits we get her I don't know.

00:17:56: I'm like there's nothing really to process because like in Germany I get it.

00:18:00: because you get insurance you get obvious good you get education.

00:18:04: so processing sure I get it.

00:18:06: fair enough you got stuff few us.

00:18:07: it's like You're trying to squeeze the last dime out of me man.

00:18:11: They're like Please give, can you please return the laminated Big Mac that we gave you at birth?

00:18:19: You guys did that?

00:18:19: Oh.

00:18:20: I

00:18:20: thought I even laminated though.

00:18:21: You don't

00:18:21: have

00:18:22: that.

00:18:22: I actually don't have my social security card.

00:18:24: The epoxy and Big

00:18:25: Mac.

00:18:25: It got lost to my social security card, but also it's paper.

00:18:28: I had

00:18:28: to order a new one.

00:18:30: I printed out a picture of it.

00:18:31: You could have printed out a picture of anyone's Big Mac.

00:18:34: I'm sorry, but...

00:18:35: I know it's paper and I'm not like, wait a second.

00:18:38: Yeah, why didn't I just do that already?

00:18:40: I've been looking up recently like how to get it and it's really tedious to get.

00:18:44: It's documents here.

00:18:45: It's really.

00:18:46: it's so annoying,

00:18:47: but it isn't even laminated.

00:18:49: It's not even stamped or notarized.

00:18:50: It's a piece of paper.

00:18:52: It's a piece of paper Which seems like so easy to like losing the mail or to be trampled or broken or forged.

00:18:58: Yes, exactly like even something like my birth certificate or my Transcripts from my university and from my high school stuff like that when I needed that for my visa.

00:19:10: it was just like Wow, this is just someone just mailed an envelope of paper, you know, like what if I just didn't make it?

00:19:18: Yeah,

00:19:19: you know, I don't know just seems so like for a system that's so ironclad in its rigidness.

00:19:24: It seems based a lot on like a very fragile foundation

00:19:30: Winging it,

00:19:31: you know like okay.

00:19:33: Well, okay, so you want to give up your American citizenship you German, okay, so we're gonna have to.

00:19:39: Are you comfortable never visiting a McDonald's ever again?

00:19:43: I got me there.

00:19:44: Okay, so that would include also Buffalo Wild Wings.

00:19:48: That would also include our national treasure Applebee's.

00:19:53: We had Robin.

00:19:55: you Sorry, you can't say yum anymore.

00:19:57: That would be also illegal.

00:20:00: You can no longer dunk.

00:20:01: dunk a doughnut Sorry, so also I know you're uh,

00:20:07: well

00:20:08: You're a Jew.

00:20:09: But you can't have a bagel anymore.

00:20:11: I miss bagels,

00:20:12: oh my god.

00:20:13: No more everything.

00:20:14: bagels, blocks.

00:20:15: That was the biggest sacrifice I have to say.

00:20:18: Pickles.

00:20:18: Yes, the bagels.

00:20:19: Pickles and bagels.

00:20:20: Okay, this

00:20:21: part.

00:20:21: Pickles, yes, yes.

00:20:22: Let's get into it.

00:20:23: Yes.

00:20:25: Get your pickles in your bagels

00:20:27: in order.

00:20:29: No, the thing is that just really makes me so angry.

00:20:32: Sorry mom yelling in the mic.

00:20:33: I apologize.

00:20:34: I tried to like put a

00:20:35: disclaimer right before

00:20:37: I'll mix it.

00:20:38: I'll cut it out.

00:20:39: It's fine.

00:20:40: pickles and bagels.

00:20:41: pickles and bagels sounds like a funny sound.

00:20:43: that would be like our podcast.

00:20:45: pickles and bagels.

00:20:46: pickles and bagels.

00:20:47: pickles and bagels sour.

00:20:51: so so pickles piss me off like Germany.

00:20:55: the grocery stores here

00:20:57: get your bagels in order.

00:20:58: They are just the assortment of the grocery stores always confuses me because the stuff you think they should have more assortment of they don't and the stuff they do.

00:21:06: you're like The mustard, I mean, there are a couple like bangers, but there's still not that much difference as a mustard.

00:21:13: It's more like just variations or brands of the same exact type.

00:21:15: Exactly.

00:21:16: There's, you know, I mean, there's sweet mustard.

00:21:17: There's there's a couple variations, but it's still not enough to make sense why this is such a big section.

00:21:23: Yeah.

00:21:23: Pickles, though.

00:21:24: I'm losing

00:21:25: it.

00:21:25: I really am.

00:21:26: So many places that we like, I mean, you, you

00:21:30: know, the pickle aisle at the store, it is massive.

00:21:32: And the thing is, is.

00:21:34: Yeah,

00:21:35: the kosher, yeah, like the dill.

00:21:36: It's

00:21:36: hard to find just a regular dill pickle.

00:21:38: They all

00:21:39: have sugar in them.

00:21:39: Classic.

00:21:40: Classic, yes, thank you.

00:21:41: They

00:21:41: all have sugar in them, these huge aisle pickles, and I don't like sweet pickles.

00:21:45: Like, I don't, I just want a classic dill.

00:21:47: It's super simple.

00:21:48: It should be three ingredients.

00:21:50: And then finally, I found like, at certain stores, like Erika and Reva, they have their own brand, and there's one that's, you know, just suds or just regular dill, and you're like, oh, thank God.

00:22:02: Right, right.

00:22:03: Always digging around trying to find those jars, which they don't stock very often.

00:22:07: But then then I have some of the fridge right now and I was livid livid because

00:22:12: you thought tricks like you

00:22:14: know because you finally find the one without sugar the salt just regular dang pickle and they cannot make them crunchy.

00:22:22: They're so soft and mushy.

00:22:24: It's

00:22:24: awful.

00:22:25: The pickles thing bothers me.

00:22:26: Oh,

00:22:26: they're not crunchy.

00:22:27: Why are they all soggy?

00:22:29: Okay, by the way, but Simon just before because the pickles.

00:22:32: Yeah, I'm

00:22:32: hot.

00:22:34: Yeah,

00:22:34: you're

00:22:34: wearing like a fleece like a hot fleece polyester full-body cow jumper and we're facing full windows.

00:22:43: I cannot believe you did that.

00:22:44: I didn't even wear my.

00:22:45: I usually wear like a little light overjacket.

00:22:47: I'm gonna I'm in a short sleeve because I knew I'd be hot.

00:22:49: if you go to New Orleans go to Stein's deli on magazine Street and I always get the Ruben on Rye that bitch comes out Like stringing like the corned beef and it's it's

00:23:04: Stacks on stacks, baby.

00:23:06: I can just picture how big it

00:23:08: is.

00:23:08: the pickles

00:23:09: also the thing one.

00:23:10: It's hard to find good sandwiches in Germany and if there are sandwiches They don't understand the principle of a pickle on the side like it's not a good deli sandwiches.

00:23:17: There's no pick on the side.

00:23:17: facts like speaking of that there there is.

00:23:21: so one of the first times we hung out It was I showed you a deli in Munich these guys.

00:23:27: Oh my gosh.

00:23:27: Yeah Insane so good Melrose Avenue.

00:23:30: These guys are Bavarian, but this place it's like They have it.

00:23:34: Unfortunately, their pickles.

00:23:35: I mean, they have a pickle on the side.

00:23:37: They put in the effort, but their pickles are just still not like.

00:23:40: they still don't know how to make a pickle.

00:23:42: But they put in the effort and I appreciate it so much.

00:23:44: It's it's like that thing of they know.

00:23:46: they know their customer base.

00:23:48: But that's where you know you're not German.

00:23:50: I mean, you're not American.

00:23:51: You're German.

00:23:51: Yeah.

00:23:51: Because so when they first started, I was like fried cheese balls, chicken and waffles.

00:23:55: Like you guys have paps.

00:23:56: Blue Ribbon here.

00:23:57: What do you mean?

00:23:58: How are you Bavarian?

00:23:59: How can you?

00:24:00: Yeah, that's

00:24:01: where you got it.

00:24:01: Yeah.

00:24:02: But they also.

00:24:03: at the at the deli they have two tv screens and we go in there once playing baseball once playing some promos and we're like

00:24:09: right right

00:24:09: right guys.

00:24:10: the details though and they did that's when i got the um i think you got the po boy and then i got.

00:24:15: i got that cold shrimp the cold shrimp uh

00:24:17: the shrimp po boy that's what they said.

00:24:19: yeah which

00:24:20: i don't know what you do.

00:24:22: i i i love those people and i think they have a lot of Really great food, but that wasn't the sandwich for me because I didn't want it to be a cold cold trip.

00:24:31: There's certain.

00:24:31: there's certain things where you just don't know unless you're from here.

00:24:34: I'm glad I tried it.

00:24:35: But they made this Thanksgiving sandwich, which is like turkey cranberries and that was

00:24:39: Do you know?

00:24:40: do you know that they probably got that from the gobbler which comes from Wawa in the States?

00:24:44: You know Wawa, do you know Bucky's?

00:24:46: You know Wawa?

00:24:48: You know Wawa?

00:24:51: Do you know Bucky's?

00:24:52: Oh god, I want to go there so bad, but I'm from Hawaii in California, so that's way on the opposite.

00:24:56: Stop saying

00:24:57: it so perfectly.

00:24:59: I'm from Hawaii.

00:24:59: There's

00:25:00: an apostrophe.

00:25:02: There's a way.

00:25:04: that's how you pronounce it my guy.

00:25:05: I know

00:25:06: I know I know I'm just messing with you.

00:25:07: What's that?

00:25:08: Um, I remember this is so off-topic.

00:25:11: welcome Welcome to the podcast, but I remember I had a history teacher who was talking about Hawaii Hawaii sorry and He said you know my favorite thing is about how things are said there and I mean I was in Mississippi.

00:25:22: I was like in fifth grade.

00:25:23: I was like what.

00:25:24: so he goes well every word that is said or every like city name or what is pronounced exactly as you see it.

00:25:32: The French could never, never.

00:25:34: What do you mean?

00:25:35: we don't say tease?

00:25:37: What do you mean?

00:25:37: you pronounce all of the letters individually?

00:25:40: What?

00:25:41: I'm sorry, why do you think we're that important?

00:25:44: This is too many words.

00:25:46: How do you guys talk?

00:25:47: How do you get through it?

00:25:48: It's

00:25:48: croissant, okay?

00:25:50: It's a croissant.

00:25:52: That croissant, chief?

00:25:54: Look, you guys don't have croissan which is here with roast beef.

00:25:58: Pastrami.

00:26:00: Oh, fresh pastrami.

00:26:01: Melrose, they do some pastrami.

00:26:03: Nakia sucks off.

00:26:04: We have

00:26:04: run so far off the topic here.

00:26:06: Basically, yes.

00:26:07: Melrose does great stuff.

00:26:10: That particular shrimp sandwich just wasn't the one for me.

00:26:12: But their chicken and stuff, like I've had a lot of stuff from those.

00:26:16: Them boys.

00:26:16: From

00:26:16: that owner.

00:26:17: Yeah, the guy and his wife, I forgot their names, sadly, just now.

00:26:20: But super, super nice.

00:26:21: And when I got his Fairfax chicken sandwich, That's the kind of thing where

00:26:29: you're like... You liar!

00:26:29: We were talking about this the other day because...

00:26:33: What?

00:26:33: I'm not a liar?

00:26:34: We just finished the thought!

00:26:37: When I got the Fairfax sandwich for the first time.

00:26:41: I mean, I did a post about it like a long time ago.

00:26:44: When he had just the truck outside, like the Max Faustat or something, I remember thinking like, okay, he actually understands how to make a juicy hot Nashville sandwich.

00:26:55: It's a very good sandwich.

00:26:56: No notes.

00:26:57: It's awesome summer where they do the better pickles.

00:26:59: That's all and I love what he's doing.

00:27:02: I mean I love that.

00:27:02: there's something like that here and it's from a German who goes to the States and like Yeah, it's amazing.

00:27:08: I'm so I'm so happy that that exists at all.

00:27:11: You know like if he were to see this like keep it up, but let's but let's let's get some deadly pickles brother.

00:27:16: Yeah, I actually had plans the next week's I need to make some pickles.

00:27:19: I'm putting it off and then I just like I hit my limit.

00:27:22: I really need to pickle for something I was making and I was just like I. and then of Like you know the best way to make fried chicken.

00:27:28: the big secret all y'all guys is well one of them I won't give you the full secrets But pickled pickle Brian in the batter is.

00:27:35: that is the ultimate secret aside from another which um, and I couldn't even use that damn Brian because it was ass It was Disrespect.

00:27:45: have you ever heard?

00:27:45: this sounds weird, but I recently tried it and it and it worked really well.

00:27:50: Do you know how sometimes like it can often be that like chicken wing and chicken leg is juicier than chicken breast, but chicken breast is a little bit healthier in terms of like.

00:27:58: when you want to like chop it up for a salad or something, but it's drier.

00:28:01: Yes.

00:28:02: I had a friend, a neighbor recently suggest like, oh, well, why don't you just marinate it in salt and milk?

00:28:09: Yeah, that's what you do.

00:28:10: So for the good fried chicken part of it is you make.

00:28:12: She

00:28:13: just knows everything apparently.

00:28:15: That's what my friends call me, Martha Jewart.

00:28:22: No, but okay, so for fried chicken what you want to do is you want to take the chicken and Basically put a bowl of buttermilk and pickle brine and then let it soak overnight and then the next day I'm gonna blow some German mines.

00:28:38: I'm making fried chicken, and I'm also making buffalo Mother.

00:28:58: I can't believe it.

00:28:59: You're a lovely mother.

00:29:01: She watches your content.

00:29:02: She

00:29:03: doesn't.

00:29:03: She's so sweet.

00:29:04: I don't even watch your content.

00:29:05: You're like, see the story, and I'm like, I don't really follow you on social

00:29:07: because... No, who would else?

00:29:09: She's my only friend.

00:29:10: I comment to support the engagement because I know the biz.

00:29:13: I manage talent, but... I don't watch your stuff because I'm like, and I know you in real life.

00:29:18: Yeah.

00:29:18: Why would you?

00:29:19: It makes me feel creepy.

00:29:21: I don't know my friends.

00:29:22: I know that much about

00:29:23: a lie.

00:29:23: If someone says like, like, I mean, like I. we both, I mean, you know more than me, but we both have friends who are all content creators.

00:29:32: Just their friends content.

00:29:34: I feel weird.

00:29:35: It feels wrong.

00:29:36: It's a job.

00:29:36: And you know, they're like, all right, guys, get ready with me to come in

00:29:39: October fast.

00:29:40: And it's like fast.

00:29:41: Like that.

00:29:42: Do it.

00:29:42: I do.

00:29:43: I know that your dad like has IBS.

00:29:44: Like, what are we doing here?

00:29:46: Listen or be honest.

00:29:47: No, but that's also, I think more so.

00:29:49: I know I watch it and all I can think of is from the background of, so like in my professional job, I do campaign strategy.

00:29:57: I manage talent and stuff like this for brands.

00:29:59: So on the back of my mind, I think.

00:30:01: Okay, I know also as a creator you plan this how you did it how you did the edits and I wonder oh this detail.

00:30:07: You probably thought about that a long time got frustrated left and came back and did it.

00:30:11: so well I just see the work.

00:30:13: Yeah, and also that I'm just like

00:30:14: you see the work.

00:30:15: Yes, exactly Yeah,

00:30:16: I'm just like oh this is.

00:30:17: it feels it feels kind of weird like this is not for me.

00:30:19: this between you and the internet.

00:30:21: so

00:30:22: I mean this might not be the best comparison first off that's perfectly said.

00:30:25: that's exactly how it feels.

00:30:27: This might not be the best comparison, but it's like When you go see a movie with like an idiot like me and you're kind of like you're focused in on the story But then someone then someone like me leasing goes like oh, you know, I think they used the IMAX sixty millimeter.

00:30:46: That's me too.

00:30:47: We can never go see movies together.

00:30:48: really,

00:30:48: you know They really did a really good job with that post-production sort of the color grading is is that Richard?

00:30:54: is that?

00:30:54: oh no way is that.

00:30:56: Did they really get Jenkins for that?

00:30:58: Oh, wow, that's really amazing.

00:30:59: No, Richard Dawkins.

00:31:00: Did they get Dawkins for that?

00:31:02: Let me look that up.

00:31:03: They did get Dawkins.

00:31:04: Wow, I thought he was actually retiring.

00:31:06: But you know what?

00:31:07: Actually, there's only eight IMEX cameras in the whole world.

00:31:10: And Giovanni Rabisi is the one who... We're not

00:31:12: even watching on the right screen though, I imagine.

00:31:15: Ari's actually in partnership with... No, no, okay.

00:31:17: Wait, okay.

00:31:18: So that's Margaret Quali?

00:31:21: I didn't even recognize her.

00:31:22: Let's see.

00:31:22: Let's see.

00:31:23: It is her, you know, it's like.

00:31:25: and then twenty minutes have gone by and it's like what happened?

00:31:27: I can't.

00:31:28: that's exactly me with my friends where I'm just like I'm there.

00:31:30: I'm like not even the plot, but it's the most boring moment.

00:31:33: I'm like.

00:31:33: Do you know what kind of rig they had to set up to get this shot?

00:31:36: Like, I tried watching adolescence with a friend of mine and the whole time I was freaking out.

00:31:41: I freaked out

00:31:41: about,

00:31:42: yeah.

00:31:42: And then I looked up like YouTube everything and I'm like, this is one shot.

00:31:46: How did they get this scene?

00:31:47: Okay.

00:31:48: In my head, I think they did this and that.

00:31:49: Oh my God.

00:31:50: No, but how would they built this rig?

00:31:51: I've been on production.

00:31:52: Wait, wait.

00:31:53: And then my friend is just like, one person

00:31:54: doesn't get their line right.

00:31:56: It's like.

00:31:56: a hundred people that have to start over.

00:31:58: This is a child!

00:31:59: How did they go from this place to this?

00:32:00: Is this a real set?

00:32:01: No, that's a place.

00:32:03: Did you notice that the wall that was there isn't there now because they walked a different direction?

00:32:07: Oh, they must have had a breakaway set.

00:32:09: And that's why we're losers.

00:32:11: And that's why our friends hate

00:32:12: us.

00:32:12: And that's why our friends hate us.

00:32:14: One thousand percent, that's why.

00:32:16: That's the majority.

00:32:17: I've had, the amount of people I've had say

00:32:19: like, can you just... Let me watch the movie.

00:32:23: Let me enjoy the movie magic.

00:32:24: I'm sorry.

00:32:25: You're right.

00:32:26: I'll shut up now.

00:32:27: Yeah, okay, but let's leave the film stuff aside because I think I'm definitely gonna drop out and be like oh my god I come here to escape and now I can't escape from escaping.

00:32:35: That

00:32:37: sounds like such a smith slang.

00:32:39: I can't escape from escaping.

00:32:44: Oh, side note.

00:32:44: I just thought about this the other day.

00:32:46: Why is it that the mascot for like the payback points is a blueberry with legs?

00:32:53: Dude, this is such a great.

00:32:56: like Anglo conversation.

00:32:57: I'm so glad we're finally like divulging this topic.

00:33:01: Like, it's just, you know, I really wow.

00:33:04: Like,

00:33:05: I'm just like,

00:33:06: have you ever

00:33:07: brought this up, actually, because I was a little hesitant to bring it up.

00:33:11: And people, they're not, OK, all fun enough to say these.

00:33:16: OK, here we are.

00:33:18: Cooks just like feel like they just can't talk about payback mass

00:33:21: mass maxing confidence.

00:33:25: Honestly,

00:33:27: I so okay, so the thing with the German.

00:33:30: I am glad that you did bring it up because the German mascot thing and the and the and the advertisement choices that German companies choose to make outside of social media brand deals, because that's up to the creator and there's a compromise, right?

00:33:45: They say, how about this terrible idea?

00:33:46: And you're like,

00:33:46: ah, no.

00:33:47: You're like, can I please?

00:33:48: And they're like, no, otherwise you don't get the money.

00:33:50: You're like, OK.

00:33:50: No, no, no, no.

00:33:52: But wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:33:53: So there's a difference, right?

00:33:54: So we work in the social media content creators sort of world, whatever.

00:34:01: And there is a bit of there's a bit of compromise.

00:34:03: like you can have a big company like.

00:34:04: I did one thing a couple years ago for Samsung and they wanted a certain angle and I asked about you could I push it this way?

00:34:10: and they were like well not this thing but I like this thing.

00:34:12: and then we made a compromise and I was happy with the video.

00:34:15: but that's online.

00:34:16: that social media The the German like TV ads are so cringe and so obnoxious and so out of touch and so Like chat GPT meets like ninety year old white guy who's blind and one eye and like doesn't understand like anything.

00:34:33: There's this German color grade like filter that they specifically put on everything which like a little over saturated and like bright where it kind of feels like in the in the Original Wizard of Oz when it goes from black and white to color.

00:34:46: It's like that type of Technicolor, but like some it like German Technicolor.

00:34:52: It's just I don't know what it is But this is how you tell.

00:34:55: it's a German movie because it has this color grade where you're like, whoa.

00:34:58: Yeah, it's terrible commercials,

00:35:00: too.

00:35:00: It's like first like first off.

00:35:03: Yes, that's true and it looks

00:35:04: it looks yes first off

00:35:06: like fucking facts.

00:35:08: it looks bad.

00:35:10: The second thing and this is because you know this about me that I have

00:35:13: things first.

00:35:13: Yeah, ugly

00:35:15: First things first.

00:35:16: How do you fucking lose that?

00:35:17: You know a good new makeup spot, right?

00:35:19: Okay.

00:35:20: Now the thing that you know, I have a thing about like

00:35:23: I'm just trying to say anything.

00:35:24: Yes, you stop now right now.

00:35:25: No, I have a thing you know that have a thing like sensitivity to like voices and I with German commercials and also a lot of German movies and TV shows.

00:35:37: there's like So ADR is the term for when you go back in the studio and you repeat your lines like this close to a microphone.

00:35:50: So imagine you're watching something and the action is like, all right, Jessica, we have to get there.

00:35:55: Otherwise, Michael's going to fall

00:35:56: off the

00:35:56: cliff.

00:35:57: And then they go back into the studio later.

00:36:00: Even though they don't have to

00:36:02: let's just take down a notch Michael.

00:36:04: Hey, we have to go win save Michael Otherwise, he's gonna fall off a cliff.

00:36:08: That sounds like an English anime dub.

00:36:10: So fake.

00:36:11: it's so fake.

00:36:12: It's that's like an anime dub.

00:36:13: I hate it so much.

00:36:15: Oh my gosh How's you gonna know?

00:36:16: Oh?

00:36:17: What not me?

00:36:19: Oh my god, but that's kind of is like how they did dialogue of German movies and like this synchronization like the way they talk is just.

00:36:25: That's not how people talk.

00:36:26: It's so unnatural.

00:36:27: Like, even Germans don't talk like that.

00:36:30: They don't talk like that.

00:36:31: They're used to dubs, for sure, because of all the different, like, movies from, you know, UK and different France and

00:36:36: the US.

00:36:36: But the dialogue, it's like, it's like, this is great, by no means.

00:36:39: Okay,

00:36:40: shots, yeah.

00:36:41: Wir schaffen das.

00:36:43: It's like, what are you?

00:36:48: What are you?

00:36:48: a goddamn like Sesame Street puppet?

00:36:50: Oh, there were certain enemies like on Netflix.

00:36:53: They have they don't have English dubs and they have a German dub.

00:36:57: And like, if I multitasking and I want to watch my cartoons, like I can't look at the text right.

00:37:02: So I'm like, OK, English is obnoxious.

00:37:04: Of course, like original is the best, whatever.

00:37:07: Don't hate me.

00:37:09: But multitasking important.

00:37:11: But sometimes when it's only the.

00:37:14: German audio dub on an anime that's like exactly this but five times worse.

00:37:18: Yeah, yeah It's really.

00:37:21: it's really frustrating Like the anime thing like the little cross-bay

00:37:30: in my face a little

00:37:35: sweat.

00:37:39: It's so Insanely fake.

00:37:41: and I like I've like I've you know I've worked on German films and I've seen German films at like in the cinema.

00:37:48: And then watching it, I'm like, okay, I'm seeing a couple.

00:37:52: Like, okay, so technically this would be, it's a little bit wide, but let's

00:37:56: say that- It's a simple man and his cow.

00:37:58: They just, okay, for you guys, okay, so it's a little bit wide, but let's say this is like a mid-shot, right?

00:38:02: So it's usually waist up with a little bit of a space,

00:38:05: right?

00:38:07: Mid-shot for sure.

00:38:07: Stop it, you dirty cow.

00:38:10: But like... Okay, let's say like we're talking like this you're watching me just like oh my god.

00:38:14: and jessica.

00:38:15: and please don't leave you're my favorite cow your milk is the best.

00:38:18: it's uh whole milk.

00:38:20: and then like you watch it but it's you hear my voice again and i've dubbed myself like.

00:38:26: oh jessica please don't go you're my favorite cow.

00:38:29: oh you have the best milk like.

00:38:31: why do they dub themselves when the close-up is there?

00:38:34: and you know some idiot was there with a boom mic like Like why do that again?

00:38:40: I don't get that

00:38:41: I don't?

00:38:41: I realized I haven't realized that much and I always was thinking it's terrible.

00:38:44: Is my?

00:38:45: my German can't be that bad that for some reason I keep thinking their mouths are not matching the audio.

00:38:50: It's because I just saw.

00:38:52: I just saw a German film in cinema that I had worked on the music for and there was a close-up.

00:38:59: I can think of the ankle.

00:39:01: Yeah, I could as fork yeah, I can push it.

00:39:02: so imagine it's like a close and they're like, you know like If there's like a mid-shot, right?

00:39:08: Then there's a person with a boom right out of frame.

00:39:10: Yeah, and I saw the woman talking and She adiard herself in studio and the reason I know that's because one There was no natural sound like there was no like thing of like the wind or like

00:39:24: clear crisp

00:39:26: and It didn't sync up with her mouth perfectly.

00:39:31: So she must have been there doing eight takes of like, oh, yeah, this is God kind of a problem.

00:39:35: Yeah, if it couldn't get in or whatever.

00:39:37: And this like, just like, just like a nano, like just a nanosecond off.

00:39:42: And I was like, oh my God, she ADR.

00:39:43: They're that close.

00:39:45: Why did they ADR her?

00:39:47: But it wasn't even like, oh, there was a lot of wind.

00:39:49: And of course they had to fix that in post.

00:39:51: It was every single character.

00:39:54: It would be, there would be like people like talking like this goes like, okay, here's the plan.

00:39:58: We're going to do this.

00:39:59: And then they would cut to like someone's reaction, like in Stranger Things, like, okay, so this is Vecna.

00:40:04: And then like off camera, here they are, like all of a sudden his voice changes, cause clearly he went into a studio with like a ten thousand dollar microphone.

00:40:10: It was like, all right guys, so here's the plan.

00:40:14: We're gonna go there and make it work.

00:40:16: And it's like, why did they do that?

00:40:18: Also, I'm just taking the cost doing that.

00:40:20: Separately it's a lot more money.

00:40:21: and then the guy with the boom the whole time.

00:40:22: Do you know how hard is to hold the shot with the camera and everybody gets the mic?

00:40:26: or did that just hang on?

00:40:27: No, okay,

00:40:30: it sucks.

00:40:30: Yeah, we're getting so off topic here.

00:40:31: I did that for me That's just like.

00:40:33: what is the topic?

00:40:34: No,

00:40:35: it was German commercials.

00:40:36: It was German commercials Yeah, because of the mascot like first off.

00:40:39: Okay.

00:40:39: Yeah, so the colors don't.

00:40:40: the colors aren't cool.

00:40:41: the ADR drives me absolutely bananas.

00:40:44: every single commercial I see also on the radio is like dude chill out and then There's the the mascots, which is like they don't.

00:40:52: they don't make sense to me.

00:40:53: They don't Again, it's just like.

00:40:55: I'm sure some Germans might see this and be like well if you are not liking This is so much than why not go away?

00:41:03: It's an opinion.

00:41:04: relax.

00:41:05: It's also.

00:41:05: we're being funny so chill, but like.

00:41:08: it's also not like we're being serious as hell.

00:41:12: The soda is awful, but I'm still drinking it, and I don't know

00:41:14: why.

00:41:15: Because it's there, because it's there.

00:41:17: The body yearns for the red color.

00:41:19: Body, body, body, body, body.

00:41:21: But like, they are, it's, yeah, it's the colors, it's the sound, and there's also like, the, the, um, it's okay, like for example, when you go to like YouTube and you watch something, I...

00:41:33: They automatically dub it now.

00:41:34: They automatically dub it whether you want it or not.

00:41:37: I'm watching a German creator.

00:41:38: I've always watched in German.

00:41:39: Why is his voice now fake and talking in English to me?

00:41:41: I never asked for this.

00:41:43: Yes, that's a whole different thing too.

00:41:44: That's super weird.

00:41:45: Okay,

00:41:46: they needed to cut that off for...

00:41:47: No, no, no.

00:41:47: Yeah, that's a really interesting topic though for sure.

00:41:52: I clicked on a YouTuber whose topic looked interesting to me and I realized he was speaking Spanish, but his mouth was saying... If it there's like a yes, I think that it is really crazy that in season five will seems to all the sudden have powers and I'm like His mouth is like,

00:42:09: oh it

00:42:10: was like completely different.

00:42:11: I was like, oh shit.

00:42:12: They just dubbed it.

00:42:12: That's weird.

00:42:14: Anyway German ads just they need.

00:42:17: they need like a revamping like the brand deal thing is one thing.

00:42:21: But when I go to YouTube and see like like it like oh like you know O two or or you know, whatever gravy or Some major major like multi-million dollar corporation in Germany making a commercial I watch it.

00:42:35: I'm like, this is a fart.

00:42:36: This stinks.

00:42:38: Ew I'm gonna get paint guy from watching this like no in the states when it like when I visit my parents and like the TVs on and then like commercials come on sure not They're not all perfect.

00:42:49: Okay.

00:42:49: I live American commercials.

00:42:53: I was I don't I think I was watching American show and I was watching it online to where like I could Switch my VPN and then I streamed through there, but then like the American Hulu, that's what it was.

00:43:02: You still get commercials.

00:43:04: Yeah.

00:43:04: And then I was like, man, I forgot how entertaining American commercials are.

00:43:06: Like, I generally don't watch this because I'm like TV.

00:43:08: They're

00:43:08: so fun.

00:43:09: Yeah.

00:43:09: They're so fun.

00:43:10: And they, you know, they, they, you know, it sounds bad to be like, oh, they just look better.

00:43:15: because I know that we're,

00:43:16: there's a story art there.

00:43:18: There's like

00:43:18: a, there's a,

00:43:19: there's an actor.

00:43:20: He committed.

00:43:21: He, he embodies this character.

00:43:23: There's,

00:43:25: there's room, there's, I think there's room to say we're, we're probably in a sense biased, but the opinion is still so valid.

00:43:32: Life

00:43:32: means to be enjoyable.

00:43:33: And it's true, and it's true, life should be enjoyable.

00:43:35: Hey, is she gonna sell me something?

00:43:36: Sell it to me, dammit.

00:43:37: Sell it better.

00:43:39: Huh?

00:43:39: How about that?

00:43:40: Oh, I don't want to get my, uh, points for, what is it, like, eight of caravans or something.

00:43:43: I don't want points.

00:43:45: If it's gonna be a blueberry who's like,

00:43:46: Oh, ahoyte!

00:43:47: Oh, nishvagesit!

00:43:48: It's like...

00:43:50: Go kill yourself.

00:43:50: Why is it a blueberry though?

00:43:51: Anybody know?

00:43:52: Please let me

00:43:53: know.

00:43:53: This has been like

00:43:54: haunting my dreams.

00:43:55: Why?

00:43:56: Give me the Kool-Aid guy.

00:43:57: Oh, yeah.

00:43:59: Oh, yeah.

00:44:04: Give me this guy bursting through the wall.

00:44:07: For no reasons that we've been explained.

00:44:09: There's no background story.

00:44:11: It just is how it is.

00:44:13: The children don't fear him.

00:44:14: The villagers don't run.

00:44:16: They embrace

00:44:21: him.

00:44:21: And shit, and it kills someone and

00:44:28: everybody is just freaking out.

00:44:30: Oh my gosh.

00:44:31: Or the difference is, well the difference is in Germany,

00:44:33: you couldn't burst through

00:44:34: a wall.

00:44:35: Huh?

00:44:35: Like, you couldn't burst through a wall in Germany, the real walls.

00:44:38: Like, I always think that like, okay, Germans, you grow up watching American movies and people will punch through walls.

00:44:43: and do you just think like, are they really strong there?

00:44:45: or what?

00:44:46: Because in Germany, you can't punch a wall.

00:44:49: The wall is, it's, it's sturdy.

00:44:53: Permanent.

00:44:54: it's like Americans who come to reason and then they're like wow This architecture.

00:44:58: What do you mean?

00:44:59: This is an up all year long and I'm like, I guess this is like kind of our houses are built.

00:45:03: I mean you go to like an American like What do you call it like a fast like a like a not a fast like a fair fair.

00:45:11: Thank you.

00:45:12: You go to like an American fair that pops up like somewhere like Kansas City

00:45:15: or like yeah

00:45:16: a missed light fire.

00:45:17: you pop up and then you go like on the fair spoon.

00:45:19: you see it like

00:45:22: Run by sixteen year olds and carnies

00:45:24: and they just see a guy like like with two teeth and one eye like.

00:45:28: well I lost my screwdriver by halfway through but it looks like it's doing

00:45:31: all right.

00:45:32: But let me tell you this deep fried butter is so good.

00:45:35: This year's fair food is the best.

00:45:36: Have y'all

00:45:37: dipped y'all's Oreos in butter and then put them into a hot dog.

00:45:41: Now I tell you what.

00:45:42: now something else I've never had like a fair deep-fried pickle deep-fried Oreo deep-fried snickers.

00:45:53: I've never had those Because I look at myself and I go you're big enough dog like relax.

00:46:00: I think if I did that someone but you know my fear is I would get like a deep fried Snickers bar and then I would look over at someone just happened to be eating a salad and be like Well, no surprises there

00:46:14: It's like a European and they're like, oh, Americans.

00:46:17: Yeah,

00:46:17: exactly.

00:46:18: Exactly.

00:46:18: I don't want to be shamed for the shame I put on other people.

00:46:22: No, I don't knock it like a guilty pleasure is good.

00:46:25: That's one thing I realized like I think living in Germany It's that's been the hardest because I came here for all of these like, you know Reasons like work health care safety this stuff and that.

00:46:35: but the sacrifice for that was the culture and the fun part.

00:46:38: So thinking what I ever after this long winded back to the topic.

00:46:41: We're talking about the thing is thinking about going back to the States is like I. It's not practical.

00:46:47: It's not safe.

00:46:48: I I don't want to risk it.

00:46:50: But at the same time, I really do miss just that like one feeling of belonging because even if you've been here for ages, you speak German with all your friends, it's still adamantly people will make sure to let you remember and never forget that you're not from here, not born here.

00:47:05: Even if you've been here, you will always be reminded you're different.

00:47:08: It'll

00:47:08: be commented on.

00:47:09: And I missed that in the states where it's just I go somewhere and I know that I know this stuff.

00:47:14: or just, you know, people just People want to be social and they want to share culture.

00:47:19: Like you go somewhere having eaten yet little things like this or people want to share stuff with you.

00:47:23: And yes, of course, sometimes it's superficial Germans.

00:47:25: I know you love this.

00:47:26: That's all you talk about.

00:47:27: You go to say people are so friendly.

00:47:28: Shut up about

00:47:29: this stuff.

00:47:30: People are so friendly.

00:47:31: It was so nice there.

00:47:31: Then they come away.

00:47:32: They're like, oh, Americans are so superficial.

00:47:33: And I'm like, yeah.

00:47:34: And you left that shit up, my boy.

00:47:36: Yeah.

00:47:36: Don't tell me.

00:47:37: Oh, you don't like Americans?

00:47:38: Oh, how about stop taking everything that we make me?

00:47:42: Stop enjoying it.

00:47:42: Stop

00:47:43: enjoying it.

00:47:43: Oh,

00:47:45: OK.

00:47:45: Don't know.

00:47:46: This is his livelihood.

00:47:47: Maybe

00:47:47: just don't watch.

00:47:48: Maybe just don't watch the Oscars this year.

00:47:49: How about that?

00:47:50: Okay.

00:47:51: Oh, maybe just don't see how

00:47:53: my bets are going.

00:47:59: Maybe just don't online bet on fucking.

00:48:01: what's the site?

00:48:02: the most famous one Anyway, joke ruined when I forget the

00:48:06: anyway, so that's like.

00:48:08: I think that's also how you maybe came more like better friends of last year's because like we then bond and we're like oh this would be nice.

00:48:14: So then this guy he lives in the internet like he doesn't.

00:48:18: you put a miracle the same time as me and you don't know nothing.

00:48:20: I'm showing him food.

00:48:23: I

00:48:24: do

00:48:24: not know anything.

00:48:25: so you are right.

00:48:26: What do you mean?

00:48:28: So now I'm like.

00:48:30: I'm my task right now.

00:48:31: My mission is I'm going to take you around and show you good food places and stuff like this because one we are both talking about homesick.

00:48:36: I wish I can get a burger this and that and I'm like listen I know what guy.

00:48:40: so now I have to show you because you're.

00:48:43: He has a trench coat.

00:48:44: he opens it up you close your eyes.

00:48:46: He puts it in your mouth

00:48:50: And he goes.

00:48:50: geez

00:48:51: you hear a flash of a camera and then you Like

00:48:53: Skeletor.

00:48:53: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

00:49:01: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

00:49:03: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

00:49:13: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

00:49:17: Which is great.

00:49:17: It's yeah, cuz the thing is.

00:49:19: I mean I like okay getting slightly getting real slightly

00:49:22: like if I tried to explain a pink snowball to my German friends.

00:49:25: They would be like are you having this stroke?

00:49:28: Like this is

00:49:29: not snow.

00:49:30: It is food.

00:49:32: This is not Schnee.

00:49:32: It's not a ball either.

00:49:34: It's

00:49:34: not a ball.

00:49:36: Why is it pink?

00:49:37: Nothing.

00:49:38: Nothing of this is like how it is called.

00:49:40: But it's like so.

00:49:41: it's like a chocolate cake on the inside covered by a giant pink marshmallow covered in like shredded coconut.

00:49:47: I just before I forgot to say I wanted to say like yeah that's the thing is like too.

00:49:51: I respect so much about how you've in your in like in your private life and also in your work how you've adapted to to Germany.

00:49:58: and like obviously you've made such an insane effort.

00:50:00: and like you know, doing the paperwork, doing the bureaucracy, learning the language, you know, getting interconnected with these people.

00:50:07: and like understanding what the hard work is and actually doing it, which I think a lot of expats from different places don't have the courage or the patience to withstand.

00:50:16: Having a health insurance transfer form for you right now saved.

00:50:20: I'm very glad you appreciate that.

00:50:22: No, no, no, I deeply appreciate it.

00:50:23: Like we have to discuss that when we're done.

00:50:24: It does.

00:50:25: Yeah.

00:50:26: Thank you.

00:50:26: And it does.

00:50:27: No, I'm just saying like it deserves.

00:50:29: It deserves a lot of.

00:50:30: respect.

00:50:32: it deserves all because it's because the thing is like.

00:50:34: anyone who might listen to this or see this who is not German but lives anywhere I mean anywhere else who's like from the States or whatever like who lives might in Germany or you know Switzerland or Austria or France or Italy whatever.

00:50:46: it's not going to be an easy journey but what's admirable is like or there's two things.

00:50:55: one admirable like to.

00:50:58: It inspires, I think, me and probably people who are like me who listen to this to, you stop the ADHD bitch.

00:51:04: Sorry.

00:51:05: It inspired, like it's, I'm trying to compliment you so deeply and you're like, like, can I have candy first?

00:51:10: Can I have

00:51:11: a snack while I listen?

00:51:12: Like,

00:51:12: you're taking too long.

00:51:14: No,

00:51:14: I'm okay, sorry.

00:51:15: No, no, I was just saying.

00:51:17: I'm just saying, because I think we can wrap it

00:51:18: up soon.

00:51:19: No, I appreciate it.

00:51:19: No, I want to say that.

00:51:20: Sorry.

00:51:20: No, no, it's just saying like.

00:51:21: uh to it's.

00:51:24: it's admirable to um have such conviction about knowing what you want and understanding the struggle and to persevere through what can be sometimes like the loneliest and most difficult chapters that you don't uh have any sort of imagination that you'll go through until you're just in it.

00:51:43: and you do that so well.

00:51:44: and I find that so inspiring so like really really really really Really cool and like.

00:51:51: I have such the utmost like like deep deep respect for how you function and how you do it.

00:51:56: and then the other part of it being like It's so normal also like when you live abroad that you it takes time to find people that match your energy or your wavelength particularly when they're from that country and you're from somewhere else because your instinct is like to try and get them to like you so much that you sometimes even become a different version of yourself that you weren't before just because you want friends or you want a relationship or something.

00:52:26: and it's so cool that like over time sort of just by chance like literally if I hadn't been working in social media we never would have DM'd like with your channel.

00:52:35: you know.

00:52:36: um and so it's like when you get the opportunity to meet someone either either from the same country or just on the same wavelength whatever it's.

00:52:48: so it's so refreshing and like.

00:52:50: it just gives you a second like it gives you like this button of like boop you're gonna be all right someone does understand you.

00:52:58: yeah i think like for me.

00:52:59: that's why i started um blocking and stuff because when i came here ten years ago which now these kids don't know we were in the trenches like now everything is in english everything is efficient like it's insane.

00:53:11: everything is i mean not as digital as the rest of the world but still comparatively it is insane and you don't you don't have to know German now.

00:53:19: back then it was like you can't like.

00:53:22: I didn't know German but I already had to figure out financial I'm German into my taxes because there wasn't anything in English and like so.

00:53:28: and then I thought okay hey I'm here crying on the daily.

00:53:31: let me just like blog and share some information.

00:53:32: hopefully I can help somebody else in my situation not have to deal with this because it is awful.

00:53:37: and so like.

00:53:38: I always more so focused on like okay using this more as a because I'm the person who if I go to the same bakery every day.

00:53:45: thank you.

00:53:47: if i go to the same bakery every day and ask the person hey what's your name?

00:53:50: i see you here every day and they're like what do you want?

00:53:52: but if i go hey i have a blog what's your name?

00:53:55: they're like oh hi i'm so and so and so half of it is like.

00:53:58: i wanted to just share things with people to help but also selfishly just be like can i just connect a little bit a crumb?

00:54:05: yeah just getting like some socializing some semblance of like

00:54:08: community.

00:54:09: yeah the cool part was then also being able to connect with like people like you.

00:54:12: other people that do what we do are online because in itself that's an incredibly just different world as well where it's not a lot of people can understand.

00:54:19: a lot of our friends are like what do you mean?

00:54:22: this is work and you're like.

00:54:24: This has been so much fun.

00:54:25: I I think we have to call it here because otherwise they're gonna ramble and ramble and ramble.

00:54:28: Um, holy shit.

00:54:29: I thought it was like one fifteen.

00:54:31: Okay, so I'm gonna put all all links that you want to promote in the show notes and I am so grateful for your time and for hosting me here.

00:54:41: I'm

00:54:42: so grateful in

00:54:42: your place.

00:54:43: It was really really fun.

00:54:44: and yeah guys go check out everything from Aspen and boarded Munich and

00:54:51: The Fox Immigrants, a podcast by John Prince and Moritz Batscheider, produced for M.