00:00:09: All right, ladies and gentlemen welcome back to a brand new episode of artsy fartsie immigrants.

00:00:15: We have a lot too get into this week.

00:00:17: So let's jump right in.

00:00:36: Alright everybody.

00:00:37: Thank you so much for tuning in today And I think we have a really cool show in store.

00:00:42: A really fun interesting thing now.

00:00:44: thank You can hear that.

00:00:45: um maybe let them may be getting a little sick.

00:00:48: Uh, I can feel the dryness in my throat.

00:00:51: I can-I can feel that evil villain creeping out of me.

00:00:55: Well Batman You thought then you would be able to take over Gotham after I did all the work.

00:01:04: Now it sounds a bit more like Green Goblin from Spider-Man huh?

00:01:07: Alright Peter They don't love you Peter!

00:01:15: I'll be waiting for you.

00:01:17: Spiderman Spider-Man!

00:01:22: That's my Willem Dafoe impression.

00:01:28: I know it doesn't sound perfect, but man does that make me laugh.

00:01:34: We've been waiting here.

00:01:36: Do you know how much i've sacrificed?

00:01:41: Anyway, we're in a good mood.

00:01:42: We are rolling through the show today.

00:01:45: There's a lot of fun things To get into and to talk about so let's hop right Into it okay?

00:01:50: So we're gonna kick off today with a funny story.

00:01:54: Okay, so I'm not going to share names but you are Gonna love this.

00:01:59: It's a classic case of being Trying be the nice person trying to maybe do something nicer than just been caught Or not caught but like sort of you know put into a position that just isn't fun at all.

00:02:14: So I have a friend.

00:02:15: I'm gonna call this friend number one.

00:02:17: Number One does tattoos and we've become friends, and we're both non-Germans.

00:02:22: so we have some things to connect on And You Know it's It's blossoming in.

00:02:28: two are really nice friendship, and i'm very thankful For that, and not too long ago I hit up number one when basically had plans in the city.

00:02:43: So my evening was free but i didn't really just want to go straight back home because When you're In The City from where I live it takes a little bit more time And I also Just Didn't Want To Come Back Here.

00:02:55: Do What I Always Do On A Regular Weekday.

00:02:57: I Wanted To Be In This City.

00:02:58: I Wanted To Do Something Fun.

00:03:00: I wanted to be a sassy little starlight unicorn, you know?

00:03:03: I want it like go out and blossom.

00:03:06: You know but...I didn't really..you know i had.

00:03:10: um A lot of my friends right now are extremely busy understandably So it didn't really my clip.

00:03:16: My super close friends were are really busy and so I thought well, you know what?

00:03:20: You know this number one person is really nice And easy to talk too, and i'll just see if they're Free What They're doing what's going on?

00:03:30: you know Just chitchat.

00:03:31: so I hit up Number One and Number One said um I'm at This bar restaurant area Which I've been To before and I was familiar with I wasn't Too far away from It And they said that, They were with their friend.

00:03:45: who whom the story is about.

00:03:49: Who I will call number two?

00:03:51: So Number one said oh i'm here With my friend number two and if That's okay for you of course You can join us.

00:03:59: we have a table at this place.

00:04:00: and I Said are you sure like Is it Like A One-on-one Thing?

00:04:03: Are you catching up with The Friend?

00:04:04: I don't want to intrude and They said no No It' really fine just come by Sit down.

00:04:10: so I went to this restaurant bar and met up with number one, two.

00:04:17: It feels like thing-one and think-two which makes me the cat in a hat.

00:04:21: oh my god!

00:04:24: So i go there... The restaurant bar is also just anecdotal but it happens to be location that tends quite full mostly non Germans.

00:04:39: Um, and I'm just making a little note here for A small thing that did happen there.

00:04:45: That's not connected to the main story but basically i go There i meet them And i mean i meet two.

00:04:52: in too is a very nice person?

00:04:56: one-in-two or sharing some food and You know we're chit chatting about how things are going.

00:05:02: you know One into our both working In like tattoo art and traveling a lot, working at their own different freelancing studios.

00:05:15: It's cool!

00:05:18: When I meet someone new...I'm very inquisitive.. I ask questions because first of all i want to know about them who they are but also it is sometimes this gift or maybe being overly polite asking really like.

00:05:38: I want them to know that i am curious about who they are and what they do, like where their families go.

00:05:47: Sometimes I can see the line when asking too many questions but this for me felt very normal casual.

00:05:54: so... I'm going pause there just a second because that's why we met two.

00:06:00: The story is about two small paws anecdotally at that table.

00:06:08: And it's one of those situations where you basically can sit down on the end of a long table, so... You know?

00:06:19: A long table can be reserved in certain bars and restaurants if there is like a party of let say eight.

00:06:27: I think the group that i'm thinking was like eight dudes.

00:06:35: So, me and one-and-two are sitting at the end of this table talking as they share a club sandwich.

00:06:43: And I'm ordering a beer... In front of me is like eight dudes!

00:06:50: It's uncommon—I would say that in a bar or restaurant like THIS particularly because of culture around it there so many heavily Bavarian Germans.

00:07:03: And just to paint a picture for those listening who might not really get the vibe that's created in my head when I think of a truly deeply Bavarian drunk guy, imagine it is like the turn of the twentieth century and you're going to West Virginia to work on coal mines.

00:07:34: No, please don't kill me.

00:07:35: Now I'm kidding but no this This group was really the Like the late like lamest a group of people and you know what?

00:07:48: not obviously Obviously not because they're Bavarian And obviously not because their German.

00:07:56: Most of my the like my three four May four or five closest friends that I have are German and all Bavarian.

00:08:08: so it's not about that.

00:08:13: It's uh, It's because they suck.

00:08:17: You know people who just suck.

00:08:21: The reason I referenced the coal miner guys and you know apologies.

00:08:26: Um, i don't mean offense to You Know coal miner people or whatever.

00:08:30: but what?

00:08:30: I mean by that is That you can tell that they Work hard, you know god love them.

00:08:39: II wish then you know all of.

00:08:43: I hope that all their wishes come true in life.

00:08:46: But you could have there like rough-and-tumble dudes who got off work and went to this place, to get sloshed.

00:08:57: They got off work at the construction site let's say because some of them did have like really thick calloused hands.

00:09:05: so either they you know what... Either they applaud at the opera with sandpaper between their hands or they work manual labor which is great.

00:09:15: we need those jobs.

00:09:16: but You know that type I'm talking about.

00:09:19: So these guys are there And they're looking at us a lot probably because we were speaking English, but in my head I thought well that's weird.

00:09:28: That We are even being looked at.

00:09:31: it is very international bar restaurant like most of the tables where British people and People from Brazil you know whatever everyone was speaking English.

00:09:41: It's like standard there.

00:09:45: Then one thing happens.

00:09:46: I'm gonna, i'm going to just shorten this now because I realized that im talking way too much about what the group looks like.

00:09:51: The story- This little anecdote here when Im there with One and Two is That this ONE fat asshole!

00:10:01: This absolute... And im sorry mom but uh yeah Here we go Like this one absolute pile of shit person Comes over..and he IS blacking out drunk, hammered.

00:10:18: I've had half of one beer and i think that was for the best because when you feel threatened or uncomfortable sometimes alcohol isn't the solution.

00:10:29: so i think it was good that at least one of us was sober.

00:10:32: So this guy sits down And I don't think in the moment he recognized me...I Don't think thats why he sat down.

00:10:39: Some other guys certainly did.

00:10:41: A different table pulled me over like For a photo.

00:10:46: Maybe they didn't know why some of the people around us were looking at me or recognized whatever, you know?

00:10:55: Who knows.

00:10:57: But one big old fat dump truck of an idiot just a big ol' bag of expired mayonnaise comes by plops down right... I'm talking like thigh to thigh between me and one in two.

00:11:20: And he just starts like barking the most slobbering drunk Bavarian I've ever heard, and...I'm gonna let you in on something here.

00:11:32: Um.. I can understand German pretty well!

00:11:37: Like if it's Hochsteutsch?

00:11:39: If its clean German- I can really understand that actually better than a few years ago.

00:11:44: certainly not everything but I can see that i've progressed just by being around it, right?

00:11:50: So when he just like vomited uh flubber from the robin williams movie at me He was so drunk.

00:12:01: Like Bavarians not even...like I would never make.

00:12:05: someone's dialect is their culture.

00:12:07: That's all fine and good.

00:12:08: This guy was farting out of his mouth And It Was The Consistency Of Flubber and He Said something, and I didn't understand it.

00:12:25: I didn' know what It was.

00:12:26: i did Know What he wanted?

00:12:28: I just knew his eyes could not stay in one position more than About a half A second.

00:12:35: you know that when You see like people who are That drunk he Just Like Plopped Down Was like.

00:12:43: He was like One of the Aliens In Men in Black.

00:12:45: He was like the dude.

00:12:47: he was like Vincent DeNafrio's alien from The First Men in Black, but just less cool and shittier.

00:12:56: And uh...he said something!

00:12:59: When I wanted to let you in on this when people do that..I go full new immigrant into a new place Like i literally just lie I don't understand.

00:13:15: Sorry, i dont get

00:13:17: it.".

00:13:17: I just straight up lie because screw that dude like if he was a super nice looking guy who you know maybe wanted to be complimentary or just hey how's it going guys?

00:13:31: Then for sure then im gonna say something.

00:13:34: can u speak Hochdeutsch.

00:13:38: When when people like he just came in so aggressive.

00:13:41: He came and hot, okay?

00:13:42: I need to make that clear.

00:13:43: he plopped down literally like between us And Barked something with his crossed eyes and his light had like drool on his lip.

00:13:56: It was it.

00:13:57: this is why these are the cases where i just pretend Like That's my first name.

00:14:03: sorry what pal.

00:14:05: So He goes I'm not.

00:14:09: all of this is one hundred percent true.

00:14:10: he Kind of like when I say it When I say, don't understand German.

00:14:15: Like what do you say?

00:14:17: I don't know.

00:14:18: he looks at me like he kind of leans in.

00:14:20: You know cuz like super drunk people kinda like their butt Is in place but they're shoulders are being controlled by like a cement mixer.

00:14:29: that's like.

00:14:36: And he leans-in And he tries to think of English words.

00:14:42: He goes, let's arm wrestle!

00:14:45: I am dead ass serious with

00:14:47: you.".

00:14:48: He says lets arm wrestle and i looked him in the eyes.

00:14:56: Why not?

00:15:08: By the way, I'm looking over at The End of the Table and the other seven dudes also hammered obviously.

00:15:17: Not a one-of-them whatever in a gajillion years.

00:15:21: take accountability for their hammered friend who like essentially is accosting strangers to arm wrestle.

00:15:28: Like what do you want to be... Do you wanna feel You want to feel like a big old man?

00:15:33: Do you what happens if you win, you go back to your bros and blow each other.

00:15:39: Like sorry mom but... What is

00:15:44: that?!

00:15:45: But let's imagine I said yes!

00:15:48: And then he wins.

00:15:51: cool it ain't making the thing in your pants any bigger.

00:15:58: my guy or maybe found me pretty Like if you want to touch dudes man, there's a lot of clubs in this city.

00:16:08: He he was even in a reasonably decent neighborhood for that.

00:16:12: He could have gone To so many bars and clubs did to touch men?

00:16:16: He could've done like he could have done That.

00:16:18: So I don't really get this.

00:16:19: i think that overly aggressive masculine energy is the worst kind Of gay like.

00:16:30: Because You know you Know that he's dropping like F slurs like at actually open homosexual men.

00:16:39: And he's the kind of guy who was, I won't touch your arm.

00:16:44: He kept talking about how strong my shoulders look.

00:16:48: Go to a gay club!

00:16:55: So lame Like even if it doesn't matter what he is sexually excited by It.

00:17:04: just so Lame.

00:17:10: I don't think.

00:17:10: if anything more lame than that That's like as a man, right?

00:17:16: It's I can't say.

00:17:17: I can and I wouldn't speak for women.

00:17:19: obviously There's nothing lamar on planet earth.

00:17:26: then Like this these masculine guys are like.

00:17:31: well he wasn't masculine He was pretty.

00:17:34: you know what i mean.

00:17:35: These guys who like forceful force this aura of masculinity.

00:17:42: It's false, it's fragile, its hollow...it's flimsy right?

00:17:48: Other men- other adjectives!

00:17:51: When people like so clearly give off the most bullshit, fragile version of masculinity or intelligence or strength or courage or whatever when it's like so clear like clear as day this is what are you

00:18:07: doing?!

00:18:09: In the world, there's nothing lame-er than that to me.

00:18:16: Like why are you wasting your time doing this?

00:18:19: So anyway I do feel like i have to emphasize it wasn't just some guy came up and was like hey man can we arm wrestle?

00:18:31: There is an energy about people And especially when they're blacking out wasted drunk, and they don't... They can't read the room.

00:18:40: Like this is kind of guy who legitimately you know he cannot read body language He cant' read social cues You know?

00:18:49: Even if could on a normal day..he's hammered.

00:18:54: So that also has huge effect.

00:18:59: so I just straight up said no No, I'm not doing that.

00:19:05: But I-I am proud of myself like it really was clear!

00:19:08: It wasn't aggressive... I just talked like this?

00:19:23: And then he tried to think about how the next thing and goes.

00:19:29: there's a German thing of like finger wrestling kind.

00:19:36: It's armwrestling, but just so much lame-er?

00:19:42: Like from the people that brought you lame drunk arm wrestling with strangers.

00:19:49: this summer we've got fanger wrestling Ryan Gosling in.

00:20:01: Can I touch your flanger with my finger because it's like our pee-pees are touching?

00:20:14: George Clooney Brad Pitt return for oceans fingers guys.

00:20:29: How we gonna get this heist off this time?

00:20:31: well Matt Damon walks in the room.

00:20:34: We're going to have to do what we always do boys Put our fingers through her zippers and lock them up.

00:20:44: We're gonna have to do the prison.

00:20:45: tango fellas.

00:20:50: Oh, sorry The prison tanga whoa My god Do you like I?

00:21:06: I wonder about About dudes like that but the poor women who may Have had relations with this kind of guy Like eew.

00:21:18: Was that like a death row punishment?

00:21:20: Were you think of women slaughtered people with the chainsaw and then government was, all right.

00:21:29: So Anna let me take a look at your keys here.

00:21:31: wow!

00:21:33: Sixteen people chopped their heads off.

00:21:35: okay so we got two options.

00:21:37: Okay You can either go to Death Row And be injected in undisclosed amount time In a very uncomfortable underfunded prison, that's one option.

00:21:52: Okay?

00:21:53: Thank you say thanks bailiff and let me see.

00:21:56: Oh option to okay.

00:21:58: option two is Make sweet sweet love to the biggest loser You've ever seen in your life And you gotta sell it.

00:22:06: You got to go on the date and listen to him talk about work Not ask you any questions.

00:22:14: He's gonna make comments about oh how You belong in the kitchen, and oh you shouldn't wear outfits like that because it makes your look slutty.

00:22:21: And...you're gonna have to deal with all of that!

00:22:23: Then go home with him.

00:22:26: To his shared apartment With uh His buddy Eric who does not believe in soap.

00:22:35: And then he's going to have to go all-the way honey.

00:22:40: He is NOT going ask for permission or what YOU like.

00:22:46: Nope Not one little bit, you know what?

00:22:48: It's gonna have to boost his ego so he can tell all of his buddies that he has no worth obviously in this mind.

00:22:59: So I'm going with Death Row immediately!

00:23:03: You could use the chainsaw on me as well right now.

00:23:14: bar restaurant was number one and number two.

00:23:16: And by the way, I've not forgotten the rest of this story but this anecdote is crazy because he didn't stop!

00:23:23: He's like do you know German finger wrestling?

00:23:40: Proud of myself.

00:23:41: I'm often not proud of myself in these situations, but i am happy that i stood up for- Not literally But like you know socially it was like no!

00:23:49: I don't care.

00:23:51: Then he's like this is how It works as if I asked You tub Of shit and He Like puts his finger out which they're You know, they're either a catalyst from working on the construction site or this guy likes some websites little more than others.

00:24:12: And I don't...I guess like you lock fingers because he's too afraid to discuss how we kind of wish is he could interlock some peepies and then what you do was that as your pulling them?

00:24:24: I guess you put an knee up against a table.

00:24:29: um i didn't quite let in like.

00:24:32: he didn't even quite let himself explode.

00:24:35: Guys, I'm man sorry about that.

00:24:39: i am very animated telling the story and then i keep hitting this microphone stand but it's made of metal and spring so every time i bump at is just like um anyway.

00:24:48: yeah this guy was trying to explain Love making tactic.

00:24:53: No, it's like some sort of game kind of arm wrestling but lock your fingers or something and then you kiss.

00:24:59: no kidding You locked your fingers And I guess put the knee up against a table for leverage right?

00:25:10: This is so true!

00:25:13: I'm watching him with an expression on my face that if this man like combusted into flames I wouldn't get a fire extinguisher.

00:25:27: My eyelids have drooped so low, you know that look where your eyebrows are neutral and then like when your eye lids just sink?

00:25:41: You're not looking sleepy or looking full of contempt... Not even anger is just if there's a wormhole Or an alternate universe alternative universe if there's a. If there is like a space ghost that was made of fangs or it's like I?

00:26:03: If someone came in my eyelids were drooped so low and had the expression of like, if someone came here with a GUN.

00:26:15: I Would volunteer Sounds terrible.

00:26:21: It sounds terrible, but I'm just...I'm looking at him like how are you not reading?

00:26:26: That i would rather lay down in front of an eighteen-wheeler that was left in neutral.

00:26:35: On like a five-degree declined hill.

00:26:38: It would just slowly crush my spine I wouldn't?

00:26:42: it's crazy when people Just don't read a room and these drunk guys, it's not just Bavarian dudes that i know.

00:26:50: These guys from the south too its Like.

00:26:52: they enjoy People hating them so much And I Don't quite...it's really sad actually to thrive in a world of like, you know all around this table and then I'll get the point at end.

00:27:15: The story here about... This whole room right?

00:27:18: It's we're not the only table.

00:27:20: it is huge location and it's a lot of international people.

00:27:25: And, you know... pretty women!

00:27:28: And like interesting traveling engineering students and artists aspiring writers film students.

00:27:38: It is really cool mix all ages Like even like.

00:27:45: it's not even like eight.

00:27:45: some of them looked like eighteen which again for those who don't know you can drink under twenty one here but like It's like pretty young people all the way to like sixty.

00:27:53: He was a huge spectrum Of People Here and um, its just a shame that he still in Twenty-twenty six this guy probably wasn't even thirty is probably like twenty seven twenty six And he's just such, I actually pity him because i knew guys like that and those guys were torture for me in high school.

00:28:20: You know, you're obviously using like aggression as a coping mechanism.

00:28:40: Yeah It's just like such something anybody could see.

00:28:43: it's not even like needing to have the experience or just looking at behavior and being like dude.

00:28:48: Why are you enjoying that all of these girls?

00:28:51: And me and these other friends Are all looking at you with such Like such contempt.

00:29:00: You know what like fueled the fire that we stared at him if we could maybe with our eyes like burn a hole through him and He just I don't know.

00:29:11: it's so crazy that some people are like that.

00:29:13: So he's explaining the finger locking thing.

00:29:16: And then you put his knee up on the table, and you know number one or number two were there?

00:29:19: They're sharing Like a club sandwich.

00:29:21: You know There's beers all over the table.

00:29:24: in is big old dumbass like It like he's like.

00:29:27: and then you put your knee on the table And he like pushes the table like an entire foot away, and I remember like throwing my hands up as if i was being held hostage but Still sitting in my chair went relax dude.

00:29:42: Relax!

00:29:44: Remember?

00:29:44: Like-I looked at him.

00:29:45: it was like You... I remember saying like you got to chill out.

00:29:49: You need to relax.

00:29:51: No one wants to do this.

00:29:53: I remember looking, and was like nobody wants to do this.

00:29:57: I'm not playing that with you.

00:30:01: Why not?

00:30:02: And said, I don't want to ask someone

00:30:07: else.".

00:30:08: He just couldn't wrap his head around it!

00:30:13: There's a guy next to me from the group who looked a little smarter And I said is that guy with your group?

00:30:27: and he was like Yeah, yeah.

00:30:29: I think he yes He's with us.

00:30:31: So it's like you think and I said You guys need to light.

00:30:38: You guys seem to liked Like what do you do?

00:30:40: Like I was like you guys seemed to chill him out like What's going on here?

00:30:43: I remember.

00:30:43: I think uh, what did I say?

00:30:44: not rain him in but oh No, I just looked at him as like That's your dude.

00:30:49: they were like yeah, he's in a grip.

00:30:50: It said he needs you guys he needs to relax.

00:30:53: see like can we all?

00:30:53: I said, can you Calm him down, like this is crazy.

00:30:58: And of course they did nothing which was equally as bad as aggressively challenging a stranger to arm wrestling.

00:31:06: when they just go... You guys know me!

00:31:09: I was overly nice at first.

00:31:12: No we're good man, no it's okay.

00:31:15: and then someone said relax It was just so, and he just drove me crazy.

00:31:24: And you know?

00:31:25: He would leave where we were go to the other side of the table and then one into an I could talk... ...and then he would come back and sit there and ruin the whole mood again!

00:31:37: And it's over-and-over-and over.. At some point i think that went to pee or maybe he is on his way home from work Hadn't even been there that long.

00:31:51: I've been though like an hour maybe a hour and a half?

00:31:53: No, no it was.

00:31:55: I hadn't even finished my second beer I think had just been there for an hour And or may be under an hour actually.

00:32:03: Now let me think about him the thing.

00:32:04: he was under an our and I told them I'm leaving and they were like what?

00:32:11: What?

00:32:11: why?

00:32:11: Um They're non-they're not German but they're not American so they do have.

00:32:17: they still have you know different sort of cultural instincts about things From me and I was like look.

00:32:26: I grew up with guys like this.

00:32:29: It's kind of a trigger for me And number one is like yeah, I can tell it looks like well what?

00:32:36: Look II'm an adult and This guy is hammered and he's just trying to get a reaction out of me.

00:32:47: I Told him very politely No, I don't want to arm wrestle and no.

00:32:55: I Don't wanna lock fingers with you You just go dude Go to the other clubs in kiss a boy if it's really that important here.

00:33:06: And Uh-you know then it only cuz they'd only got worse from there like you know.

00:33:10: Then they found my Instagram page and then they were.

00:33:13: it was.

00:33:13: It was just all over the place and them one of the guys too is also like well That's not really my story to tell but he was being another guy who is also like a little inappropriate with One of the people that I was with and in a different way, it just gross.

00:33:30: It's Just Like.

00:33:32: What kind?

00:33:33: Of like?

00:33:34: we're in Munich man.

00:33:36: you guys aren't even thirty.

00:33:38: i mean Not would be excused at any age But just at Any Age.

00:33:43: You're supposed to be like the next generation and you're gross, And your so lame.

00:33:48: It's just depressing.

00:33:51: That what it is.

00:33:53: Its depressing Like.

00:33:55: I think about them.

00:33:56: i'm like Man!

00:33:57: Ya know?

00:33:58: I have empathy.

00:33:59: if they were ya know If they had trauma or they weren't raised right A kid can control how he was raised.

00:34:10: But at some point There are Like a certain you know, there is responsibility of like how you treat others and That behavior I'm so serious.

00:34:23: that behavior reminded me if like those cliche bad guys in like an eighties pool bar.

00:34:32: That's exactly what it-that's Exactly What It Was Like!

00:34:44: Leather jacket and stuff.

00:34:46: It was like one of these things where it's Like hey you gonna arm wrestle loser, I'm like what are we doing?

00:34:57: This is not like a Broadway performance of grease.

00:35:02: I'm not gonna race you for pink slips, my guy.

00:35:12: Go away now!

00:35:14: And mind you in the background there's someone doing karaoke that is singing like a peg from Steely Dan or something.

00:35:37: No, what year is this?

00:35:44: Anyway so I Paid my tab and left that table And was convinced to not leave from the two people.

00:35:54: That's it.

00:35:55: Okay, oh i'll try now but where i'm not gonna stay?

00:35:59: at This part of their restaurant because there Was a cool other bar area that had the karaoke going on, so we went over there.

00:36:05: So then everything was fine there and I got recognized a few times now...I think i needed that validation.

00:36:11: you know it wasn't like for different reasons.

00:36:15: just things are changing with my work and sometimes as a freelancer feeling uncertain about things you're always like oh wow I hope people still like me!

00:36:26: And when someone comes up Yes.

00:36:33: Oh, thank God.

00:36:33: okay so that was really sweet.

00:36:35: I kind of made up for it but i saw that loser again later.

00:36:38: and oh my god he's just a like.

00:36:42: hmm what's the good description?

00:36:43: He's just like a walking bag of maggots That uh Like they just ate like like A month old six pound supply of baloney.

00:37:02: He's the kind of.

00:37:03: he's that kind of person.

00:37:04: That Hannibal Lecter would go.

00:37:07: I'm not bad hungry guys.

00:37:13: He's they can you know what?

00:37:13: Yes, it is The way he behaved and the way he like act.

00:37:16: he's the kinda guy that Dexter Morgan Would have had a like an inner monologue playing who'd been like.

00:37:24: so his fragile this masculinity.

00:37:28: but he challenges others to.

00:37:31: What would he say?

00:37:32: Like, to compensate.

00:37:37: Well tonight I'm going to compensate for my...I mean- I'm gonna murder you!

00:37:43: That's what he'd even say in his head.

00:37:45: Basically that happened.

00:37:46: so thats how i met, wow, thirty seven minutes basically or looks like it now on the screen To basically tell ya how I met number two.

00:37:58: So here's that.

00:37:58: Here's the another funny story, right?

00:38:00: I mean this is a podcast after all.

00:38:02: so That evening the rest of the evening was very nice.

00:38:05: and then Number one And I like I said we've been getting Like really close as friends and it's really nice to chat about like you know struggles in Germany.

00:38:15: and Then number two.

00:38:17: I got number twos contact that evening and they knew my.

00:38:22: They know who I was.

00:38:23: You Know from the internet and things but they didn't make it Main focus or something like that.

00:38:29: it was Sometimes.

00:38:31: sometimes when you meet new people through a friend the friends, you know unbeknownst to you might inform them about Like What?

00:38:40: You know like oh who is this person?

00:38:41: and then they're you know Naturally.

00:38:44: They might be like well he knows there's something on Instagram social media whatever And that's okay.

00:38:49: It's not like your friends trying to do anything wrong but sometimes then you meet the friend of their friend.

00:38:55: Then there's like an expectation maybe to be super funny or There is um, may be an expectation on their side.

00:39:01: Like the.

00:39:04: You know some people have never met a person who.

00:39:10: I'm trying to be careful with the language here because i'm not trying To put myself into a category that i don't think i belong in but you Know there is like Some Very minimal levels of fame to it, like very-very-very minimal.

00:39:30: Very minimal?

00:39:31: Very minimal levels of fame.

00:39:33: and sometimes if you're meeting a friend or the friend recognizes who are then even that tiny minimum level of fame might have an effect on just talking being making new friends.

00:39:49: I think i'm making sense here Um, but that didn't happen.

00:39:53: That evening um so that was nice.

00:39:56: So I got the contact from for number two and it was a chance to uh.

00:40:01: And then an opportunity came a couple days later To go have some Chinese food with them with number two?

00:40:08: And Uh i thought well, that's cool You know maybe like making a new friend And this was the point that I brought all of this up for which is basically may have never had a more boring dinner in my entire life.

00:40:30: Like, this was... This was insane!

00:40:34: I know that i'm a talker or as they say these days you know?

00:40:42: I yapp-I'm a yapper You Know?

00:40:45: Um.. I also understand That My humor is not everyone's cup of tea And I know that I can be as an American and particularly in Europe.

00:40:57: I couldn't be in Germany, it could be overly polite which may come off a bit annoying or Needy.

00:41:06: they can come often needy and I understand that you know?

00:41:08: I've worked on that.

00:41:10: It still happens though, and I think if I come off needy out of politeness said rather at Be That Way then Coming Off Needy Out Of You Know Aggressive Actions Right.

00:41:21: so I meet this person at this restaurant and...I know that i can be hyperbolic.

00:41:31: Like, I know that I can really expand on certain feelings of how things went but..i am telling you the God's honest truth when I say That-and by the way just a reminder This is a person that I briefly met at a loud bar, had short conversations with and knew very little about.

00:42:05: At this dinner I would say the entire thing...the entire engagement of like being AT THE TABLE WITH THE PERSON because they were late but that's okay!

00:42:19: The entire interaction if you can even call it Was maybe Let's see closer to eight p.m.. I would say let's just round it up to like this Just rounded up two three hours, right?

00:42:36: Maybe it was closer to two and a half?

00:42:38: i think It was.

00:42:39: lets us stay two-and-a-half Right for Two and A Half Hours.

00:42:44: i Think i might.

00:42:49: i'm.

00:42:50: i know.

00:42:50: i asked a few questions.

00:42:54: um I would say like, I think was basically permitted to say less than one hundred words.

00:43:04: I do a hundred words in the intro of this podcast and i'm so serious.

00:43:16: you know Jordan Prince comedy aside...I am serious!

00:43:20: I WAS NOT ASKED ONE SINGLE QUESTION.

00:43:27: I'M ON MY LIFE On my family's life.

00:43:32: I'm that serious about that, iIm telling you the truth... I You know?

00:43:38: The American in me perhaps wanting to make a nice impression knowing That this is the friend of a friend that I am getting closer too and want To Make sure everything like cool and nice And chill and relaxed.

00:43:51: Also Me being uncertain Of hanging out with A really new person Especially when it's through a different friend, you know.

00:44:02: sometimes you wonder like is it maybe?

00:44:07: Is there like an underlying Motivation behind it or is it really just that chill.

00:44:16: You know and usually with within like a few minutes A couple of my closest friends now were Friends Of Friends.

00:44:26: Like Moritz was, you know knowing a friend's with Ify before we became friends.

00:44:33: and then through Moritz I met My Friend Bob And so it's like oh like immediately go okay?

00:44:38: Now i get that person i get That feeling.

00:44:41: i understand that that vibe.

00:44:43: this Was perhaps one of the most confusing Couple of hours i've ever experienced in my entire life.

00:44:51: don't think there was any ulterior motive behind meeting up and feeling that way.

00:45:01: And it being, you know experienced as perhaps just a dinner gaining a new friendship none of the behavior matched That.

00:45:14: I sat there in The first few minutes.

00:45:19: Okay so they're couple things.

00:45:20: one like i said was not asked one question.

00:45:24: Not one, not a single one...not A SINGLE ONE!

00:45:28: This person doesn't know if I have siblings.

00:45:30: this person does NOT know If my parents are together or they've passed away or anything.

00:45:34: My parent-this person doesn' t know which city town state i'm from?

00:45:41: How long i lived in

00:45:41: Germany?!

00:45:42: in content creation.

00:45:46: this person doesn't know that I was a musician at all.

00:45:48: Like, no!

00:45:49: i'm telling you zero questions and me being polite at the start... You know?

00:45:55: ...I was asking a couple things And then pretty quickly I realized oh man.. I am keeping the conversation going by asking questions.

00:46:07: Uh-oh Oh No Because there wasn't it like you'd be like hey what color?

00:46:13: Oh, yeah What color is the sky?

00:46:15: and then the person would be like Well this guy is blue.

00:46:19: Blue was this guy because yesterday The sky was gray And then before that There were some sunshine so there was a little bit of yellow tint.

00:46:26: Then now at...then It was grey again because there's rain but Now we have the skies blue But the sky is always behind the clouds.

00:46:33: So the sky's blue cause the atmosphere is blue and a half hours, you know?

00:46:47: And here's the kicker about that too.

00:46:52: This was also another person who just doesn't read body language because I mean if you're looking at a person talk at you... ...and i have to admit like this persons eyes darted around the room alot.. ..I do that when I talk so okay this person is probably on the spectrum which didn't realize it.

00:47:11: in the bar There was occasional eye contact, but the way this person spoke I realized oh i didn't realize like How neurodivergent you are and I did not get a chance to ask about that.

00:47:24: um But there was like.

00:47:28: The reason they brought that up is because often Like very autistic people can't read social cues facial expression or body language.

00:47:38: Um it's very well documented And There was like a big stretch of time where I literally, imagine your eyelids are almost closed and you're resting your chin on your face so heavily that your cheek fat is pushing up.

00:48:08: I don't think this person would know that i've left.

00:48:17: It was insane, I never had the experience before.

00:48:22: they just like looked at a wall and talked about nothing.

00:48:28: And when there'd be a gap...I ask another question because ima nice guy but never got even the standard thing of is print your real last name?

00:48:42: Not EVEN THAT!

00:48:44: nothing at all.

00:48:47: And my last thing, and I'll leave it with this... My last little thorn in the side is that I would occasionally chime-in like when an opinion would be something.

00:49:12: Oh, you know if this person knows that I agree or can have an insight as well on this topic perhaps the conversation could actually start.

00:49:26: As opposed to me just mostly waiting for death every time that i would bring up an opinion The person Would negate it.

00:49:38: and now This is a huge pet peeve of mine.

00:49:41: This this is an enormous, enormous pet peeve of mine.

00:49:44: But like you know let's say for example the topic would be something I These are all made up but i'm just making things up Just so You feel The Example?

00:49:53: But it Would Be Something Like The Person Saying oh i hate when you go to uh...the train station and Uh..The trains Are Just Always Late.

00:50:00: That'S So Annoying And I Would Find A Moment Where I Could Go.

00:50:04: Oh Yeah Oh Totally that's SO annoying When The Trains Are always late!

00:50:08: And Then The Person Would Go.

00:50:11: Well, it's not that they're late.

00:50:14: It's more like blah blah blah.

00:50:16: and I was like okay Just try into agree with you but all righty.

00:50:21: then Then another thing would come up.

00:50:24: Oh You know?

00:50:25: I just love dogs.

00:50:26: dogs are so cute.

00:50:27: And i thought oh me something Like um you know im grown-up With Dogs my mom has dogs.

00:50:31: i love dogs.

00:50:32: this could be an opportunity to talk about dogs Right?

00:50:35: So You know, maybe there was a beat of oh dogs are so pretty.

00:50:45: I love how Dogs play fetch you know just as an example.

00:50:49: and now we go.

00:50:50: Oh, you know?

00:50:51: I love How dogs play fetch.

00:50:53: that's fun it.

00:50:55: dogs are fun And then the person would go.

00:50:57: well It's not that that dogs are always fun.

00:51:08: Every single time that I wedged myself into the conversation like an IKEA doorstopper Like may I please?

00:51:22: The person would go.

00:51:23: no Get out of here.

00:51:25: This is my stage.

00:51:29: Huh, every single.

00:51:31: oh I like hats cool.

00:51:33: I like cats too.

00:51:34: I wear a lot of hats.

00:51:35: Well it's not actually that like.

00:51:38: I like hat.

00:51:39: um II don't You know?

00:51:44: this drink tastes bitter.

00:51:47: Yeah, I noticed that too.

00:51:48: it is kind of better.

00:51:49: It's not really that its bitter.

00:51:52: Go away from me you troll!

00:51:57: You non-social Q reading Absolute like conversation thief.

00:52:06: you absolute conversational hoarder Roadblocking any semblance of human interaction.

00:52:17: I want you to be alone forever!

00:52:20: Ever... That's mean, but it was terrible.

00:52:26: and then now i'm gonna end with this.

00:52:30: dinner ends thank god.

00:52:35: And I politely ask when there is a moment Where you know, which direction do you have to go in?

00:52:45: because I was honestly didn't want to go the same direction and This person was like oh.

00:52:53: I'm You Know two blocks down this way.

00:52:56: And Then they asked Do you wanna?

00:52:59: Like just walk to that bus stop?

00:53:04: Or or is that too far for you like yeah, and I genuinely was in the other direction.

00:53:09: But i'm just too nice to say Oh well.

00:53:13: You know actually Well it's not actually a bus stop It's actually an uh large Trans transportation automobile um landing point with time schedules.

00:53:26: so Of course I said oh yeah sure Walked The the two last like the two longest blocks of my entire life and it was the fastest You know, all right cool.

00:53:44: Yeah this fun alright dude yeah It will stay in touch not you don't?

00:53:49: then like one of those what are those?

00:53:51: Like uncles like a hug that weren't like when you barely know an uncle That you see like once everything's giving is just like All right.

00:54:01: And then, and I did something that I almost never do which actually was great.

00:54:06: Which is...I just took them on- I think it's four or five blocks from the train station that i needed to get too?

00:54:16: And..i usually always walk around with airpods in for my entire walk until Into the train.

00:54:32: I think it was until the first stop of that train.

00:54:36: so this is like Maybe twenty five minutes, I just walked in silence.

00:54:45: Oh It was it was chilly Just ever-so slightly raining.

00:54:50: just just just sprinkles like not enough to bother you hearing The sloshing of the tires against the asphalt overhearing.

00:54:59: You know pitter patter and chit chat from like, you know local students around.

00:55:05: And I passed a place where there was a cover band playing Hey Jude totally true which is kind of cool.

00:55:15: just hearing like that amazing.

00:55:29: oh i reveled in this silence.

00:55:33: Monk in the Himalayas man.

00:55:37: Well, I'm gonna leave you with that Wild very over all of it a play story.

00:55:43: But um.

00:55:44: I hope he had some fun and make sure to stand up for yourselves if you get stuck in those situations And don't be overly nice because It sucks to me the overly overly nice person in this situation.

00:55:57: And yeah, if look.

00:55:58: If you had fun and a good laugh or have not subscribed now is the time to do so.

00:56:03: it's free-to-do.

00:56:04: It really helps me liking The episodes commenting sharing them even though its just me.

00:56:15: Yeah I help see algorithm boost these two new listeners who enjoy it.

00:56:22: Thank you for everyone that listens to this show And I hope you guys have an absolutely wonderful rest of your week.

00:56:31: Have a happy Easter.

00:56:32: if you celebrate that, even if it's just time on your own or time with family and friends whatever... Or some time off work!

00:56:40: For God's sake we need some time away from the grind.

00:56:44: so thank-you for everybody listening and yeah hopefully You're all doing well and i'll see ya next week.

00:56:52: Bye bye Archie.

00:57:09: Farce Immigrants, a podcast by John Prince and Moritz Badscheider produced for M.