Third Culture Talk Podcast
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Third Culture Talk Podcast
Germans Everywhere, Code Switching, and USA vs German Money w/ Tanja Renee Parker | Ep 85
Today I sit again with Tanja Renee Parker. We talk about interracial dating and paranoia. Also America vs Germany finances . Also code switching and why Tanja came back on the podcast.
Timestamps
(4:07) German Grandparents And American Grandparents
(5:30) Interracial Dating
(10:14) Racism In Europe
(14:06) Paranoia
(18:53) Hood Movies, Lingo, German Words
(29:30) Speaking The New German Speakers
(31:04) Getting Heckled In Germany
(37:43) Doing Comedy In Interesting Venues
(41:20) Cabaret And Strip Clubs
(47:49) Germans Be Everywhere
(51:35) Code Switching And Voice
(57:22) Corporate In Germany
(1:00:09) Sales And Changes
(1:06:25) American Vs German Financial Systems
(1:12:46) Comedy Plans
(1:18:54) Reason On Coming Back On The Podcast
Tanja's Socials
Instagram | Tiktok
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00;00;00;00 - 00;00;16;24
Unknown
If, if they're really struggling to speak German to me, I will just take that burden off them and speak English to them. Yeah, especially was like important things to do. Oh, if I have more patient or some more leisure thing to do, then I'll take the time to speak German back to them. But I think it also depends on the situation, because sometimes we just don't.
00;00;16;24 - 00;00;36;10
Unknown
I just don't have the patience or the time. Welcome to the Third Culture Talk podcast. I'm your host Nya Yeanafehn. In this podcast, we talk of people that are raised in a culture different than their parents, home culture or way of life or nationality, and now they're living in today's culture, vastly different than it is of our parents or even back in the day.
00;00;36;12 - 00;00;57;00
Unknown
So let's begin today's episode. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Okay. You know, I think you the first person on the podcast, the club, you know, this is good. It's what I've learned. Yeah. To make it clap. Sorry that I just presented itself. I'm not going to. Well, I mean, look, you know that it all adds up.
00;00;57;01 - 00;01;15;00
Unknown
You know. You know, no matter where the claps are, indeed. Now, whether it be, you know, for a podcast downstairs, left, right, left, right. However, you know, it can be in many different places. But anyways, how are you doing today? I'm good, I'm good, you know. It's quite mild outside, so I'm happy about that. But you know.
00;01;15;02 - 00;01;35;28
Unknown
Yeah. Little gloomy, but, you know. So I'm excited. Yeah. It's always going to be gloomy somewhere in Germany, right? Always, always. Miliar. Why are you doing this to us? Middle Europe? Yeah. Like miliar. I feel like like the strip of. Yeah. What countries are in the middle of Europe? I think it's like Germany. The Netherlands. Smother. Poland.
00;01;36;03 - 00;01;54;17
Unknown
Poland. Poland in the middle. I mean, we're like, on, like, one little strip. Oh, policies in the middle. Okay. I would consider it the middle. I mean, also, Europe graphics have not been my strong suit. Oh, no side of my shows as well. Yeah. So there's an American side of you? Yeah, yeah. Just like. Just like. Man. Fuck that.
00;01;54;17 - 00;02;12;02
Unknown
You know, it's a city. It's a city. That's what I know. That is definitely the American side. Even the energy is like. Yeah, is is it's over here. Yeah, yeah. It's like. Right, right. Like this one lady, this one British lady was like, oh, that's guitar by her. No. For she was like, let's get one over. And I'll just like, Austria.
00;02;12;04 - 00;02;29;10
Unknown
Yeah. Because I was thinking both sides book which is isn't I Austria. But let's get it by Hanover is definitely northern Germany. And I was like, yeah, I'm stupid. I'm sorry. No, you're not stupid. I, I, I take it, I, I take the fact that I did not know and I took, I can't really I was there and I was like, you're so right.
00;02;29;11 - 00;02;43;28
Unknown
I did not know that correctly. Well, at least you was trying to learn, you know, just use a setting of the new yes information. Yes I did. Yeah. Yeah. Like you knew it. That was about. Yeah. Yeah. So that definitely the German side balance the Americans bigger. So for me, I'll act like I knew I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00;02;44;04 - 00;03;00;08
Unknown
Up there. Right. Yeah. I got cousin over there I mean yeah, yeah probably will say that. And then hopefully the conversation go any further. No further questions. Yes. Just like. Yeah. Have you been to before. All right. Now you ask is it too much? I don't even know your name. No, no, no. Okay, let's buy me dinner first.
00;03;00;08 - 00;03;16;10
Unknown
Like, buy me a drink first before you ask all of this. Hahaha. Buy me a drink. Shit. You for information? Yeah, at a random store, at a river or something. Just buy me a drink first before I start talking to you. Yes, as you want. Since you want to. You want to be all inquisitive and shit. In the law and order, we get coffee.
00;03;16;10 - 00;03;32;18
Unknown
So let's do this. There you go. Coffee? Other drinks? Yeah, yeah. Interrogation. Yeah. So when I first started. So the last couple episodes ago, you doing. You started out in comedy, right? And and now you now you you you've been touring a bit. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you've been talking to, you know, the hidden couple cities. That's the tour right there.
00;03;32;19 - 00;03;56;01
Unknown
That is. Yeah. Any cities, you know, here in Germany they name close all the time. So that's a how far was these cities that you done? Oh I think Berlin is only the furthest. I think regional in my area is like where world B is in Heidelberg Mannheim Frankfurt. Stuttgart. And then obviously Berlin. Right. And but I like to hit up like Cologne and Hannover.
00;03;56;09 - 00;04;18;10
Unknown
So I think that, that it's my, is my next undertaking to, to go hit Cologne while I visit my grandparents be like hi, I'll do a show where I come back right. Peace. Grandparents. German. German grandfather. Yeah. So was I born by Bonn? Yeah. Oh, okay. Like you grandparents are like, cool. Grandparents are like, you know, just chill.
00;04;18;17 - 00;04;46;00
Unknown
Know very much German. Very, very like, post-World War Two. My great grandfather was 1,000% a Nazi. So. But I'm like, they're only like my brother and I were. We're the only descendants. Oh, so. Oh, only descent. Okay, here I go. Live. Wow. Happy black history month. I like the diversity. You know, people I would never hear.
00;04;46;00 - 00;05;09;11
Unknown
I would never expect to hear that. I've been like, yeah, my great great grandfather. Definitely. Wow. 100%. Okay, I'm pretty sure. I mean, we've never, like my grandfather. Never like, confirmed it verbally, but I'm like one plus one does equal to. So let's make this very, very clear. I mean, wow. Yes. Yeah. My great grandmother, she came from Alabama.
00;05;09;14 - 00;05;27;28
Unknown
So I'm pretty pretty sure that, you know, I mean, I'm pretty sure slavery is also on your dad. Yeah, on my dad's side. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's like. Yeah. Unfortunately, the, Yeah, that that historical, the the historical. But then that balance them. Hey, I mean, has anything ever come up to where you kind of like you heard some you like.
00;05;27;28 - 00;06;03;20
Unknown
Oh, okay. That's, I think I think the. I think the objection of my grand parents to my, to my father, sometimes in the early stages of my parents relationship, I mean, I'm pretty sure that there are certain prejudices that played into it. Yeah. I mean, you know, but, yeah, which makes it kind of difficult, right? I guess, like, because it is new, but at the same time, there are some, you know, remnants of some things that were racial and like white to a certain extent.
00;06;03;20 - 00;06;23;25
Unknown
There, like, I think like there are levels to us like, I mean, my parents got married nine months after they met. Oh wow. Yeah. And then they went to the States. So as a as a parent I would assume that you would want to protect your daughter. Like there's this random guy that she's known for nine months, she's going to move to the States with him there, going to be certain objections.
00;06;23;25 - 00;06;50;00
Unknown
And then he happens to be of another race and of a different culture of a different country. Yeah. He's also a soldier. So. Oh, it's a it's a lot of complexities. I think race in that aspect is the smallest aspect, but it's the most obvious one. That is interesting. You bring that up because it's so many layers that in their own layer it has its own complexities, like, you know, so I have I have no illusions about certain conflicts that may have occurred.
00;06;50;12 - 00;07;17;00
Unknown
But as, as an adult, if I had a daughter who's doing the same thing, I would probably object similarly or have certain thoughts about it. If I did not know, and it was still like the 80s. So the internet. Yeah, things like that. So so, you know, these are the signs at the time. And if people want to object to to that, I was like, I mean I probably do, I probably you.
00;07;17;01 - 00;07;40;09
Unknown
What the fuck is wrong with you? Right. Like this is not what I vision for you. Okay. And then and then now you popping out these weird ass kids. Why does my granddaughter do that? What is this? Looking at her daughters. You come back with a Fubu, tracksuit. What's Fubu? What? That is kind of jarring for a journey where they see their daughter come back with some, farm attire.
00;07;40;14 - 00;07;58;18
Unknown
Yeah, definitely the granddaughter of my mother. She's very much the German. She never she. That's where I really. Hats off to my mother. She never did the she never did the the thing where she was just like, oh my God, hoop earrings. Yeah. Karen. Karen haircut. I mean, probably for safety, right? I mean, because, like, shoes in the States, I don't know where, but I mean, now she, you know, she always she, she kept she kept a real at all times.
00;07;58;18 - 00;08;20;07
Unknown
She was never like in there like that. She's a very calm, quiet, shy. My mother looks nothing like having a my mother and I have nothing in common. Right. Which I mean nothing. And I love it from a safety standpoint. I mean, look, no, I'm messing with a German person in the hood like that. That six foot lady, every one.
00;08;20;10 - 00;08;39;06
Unknown
I'm just saying, one time in Detroit and this is in Detroit. Oh, no. First I went when my parents got married, they went to Georgia in the 80s. What part of Georgia we talking about? Like, Fort Hood for Stuart? That sounds. Yeah. Very. Yeah. So my mom had issues finding a job, even though she was very well qualified.
00;08;39;06 - 00;08;56;18
Unknown
But because she was in an interracial marriage. She's German, so it's like a whole complexity issue by speaking with authority in another country. Yeah. Duh. Then, then I hear people in Georgia and I used to have people immigrating and speaking with authority there, like, like like, ma'am, who are you? You don't know how tall my mom was, like six foot.
00;08;56;18 - 00;09;15;24
Unknown
So, you know, she's just towering over people, like, nine inch shit. Correcting people, like, immediately. Yes. There's no nuances or, like, she or even like you. She'll be quiet. She just so definitely make it known that she is not happy with the situation. So I'm just like, oh, oh, she got the German stare. Oh, there's a lot.
00;09;15;25 - 00;09;41;17
Unknown
There's so many layers. Oh, shit. So then yeah, that could wow. That could not. Sure it's a journey, but like one time when, when my parents, traveled to Detroit to visit my father's side of the family. My dad went to my great aunt's house. He came in, said FBI. And the thing is that my like he go FBI and he does have like a voice that could have been in law enforcement.
00;09;41;17 - 00;10;00;10
Unknown
Right. And then like he walks in, my mom walks in and then like we walk in and it's just like people really started moving quickly. Oh, shit. I was like, daddy to fuck with these people. Like, they're going to have heart attacks. Like, you come in here with that loud as voice. You got the six foot white woman behind you.
00;10;00;10 - 00;10;14;04
Unknown
Yeah. It's like this could some shit actually could be going down. Like you don't know who's really looking. Yeah, I know my uncle Joe was running. Sure he was running. Damn. But it was fun. Everything was fine. I mean, of course you got to have that type of joke. Yeah, but it was it was, it was. It was a fun joke.
00;10;14;11 - 00;10;31;12
Unknown
And. But as you know, I'm glad you put all those layers, because at first we'll look at, like, race and stuff as, like the main thing. But also there's so many other layers and it's own self. That's kind of why I, you know, I mean like even for anybody you like. Yeah. There's some questions. Right. You know. Nah just a couple questions.
00;10;31;12 - 00;10;45;06
Unknown
I have a couple concerns. Yeah. You know not judging but some concerns. Let's do this. Yeah. What makes it difficult to deal with America? You like. Damn. Yeah. Cannot just blame it. All right? Damn. I got to look at it. There's. There's so many layers. Fuck. Like. Yeah. People, like, try to like, you know, you like. Oh, you knows racism.
00;10;45;08 - 00;11;08;25
Unknown
Like. No, there's some things like it's not great. Like, let's, let's let's be adult about this. Yeah. Let's, let's let's mature, let's dissect it, see what parts of it. Why are the moving parts. And so the. Oh damn. It's it's difficult for black people to come out here because like, you know, you got so many layers. Yeah. They, you just like, you know, and like, even, like even in my comedy, like, when people, like, are on racism to harm, just like, come on.
00;11;08;25 - 00;11;34;20
Unknown
Like, you know, it's not just that, like, there are just things that we're more than that. Yeah, yeah. And I think and that's what I, that's what I've really learned and I've when I've, I'm drifting. Drifting. When I went in, when I went to like create sets, I was just like, I don't want to go into, like, racism things too much because it's it's easy, but it's also not my reality.
00;11;34;25 - 00;11;58;27
Unknown
Right? Racism is not something that I, that I, Deal with a lot of prejudice. We've had that last time I was here. Like racism, prejudice and, like, ignorance. Right? So to me is just like, it's not like, present authentically. If racism comes up, that's like, do what you got to do. We'll, we'll tackle that.
00;11;58;27 - 00;12;20;07
Unknown
But everything else like this, we'll just, we'll just be authentic and just give it, give it all. What's called doubt the benefit of the doubt. Exactly. You know interesting I wonder if because I feel like when you growing up in America, you grew up in states, there's different. There are definitely a lot of differences, but I can't I can't treat my experience here as harshly as I would if I were in the States.
00;12;20;10 - 00;12;45;08
Unknown
Yeah, I know for one thing that there's one thing where I'm just like, I can't identify my experience as people do in the States. There's way more harshness over there. I cannot compare it to here. It's not the same. Yeah. I mean, there's other like you said. Yeah. Racism here. Chill. Yeah, it is pretty chill. I would say if anything I haven't really you know, I was talking about this in another episode about it, somebody asked me, have you ever been dealing with it?
00;12;45;11 - 00;13;02;05
Unknown
And to be honest, no. Not anything direct because it's other like, you know, I mean, there could be other reasons. First of all, like, I mean, there's some people that a couple of times I've gotten somebody say, I like 50 cent says like some, you know, I, I don't think so, but I have some friends that they call me 50.
00;13;02;08 - 00;13;21;01
Unknown
Like they literally don't call me by my name. They call me fifth because I, you know, if I had my haircut and I fit it, that. So there's other layers that I'm like dealing with that like race and then, you know, American. That's another thing too of like, you know, the way I come across. And so like to your point, a lot of layers before I even get to race right.
00;13;21;06 - 00;13;38;18
Unknown
Being like a thing. Yeah. So yeah, to your point is like kind of and it's, I guess I want to say complicated. It's even harder for me to even say because I, you know, we in America is like, clear cut. You things are boxed in like that to a fault, actually. Yeah. But when you out here, there's so many layers, right?
00;13;38;20 - 00;13;54;03
Unknown
Yeah. You know, you got the Balkans, you got like, people from this country, in that country, you know, Poland and Germany. Beef. You know what I mean? It just be they just beef and just cause like, yeah, my the village just broken. We are the elite. We are the least of their concerns. Right? I mean, but Poland, Germany has some historical.
00;13;54;07 - 00;14;10;13
Unknown
Yeah, yeah. I mean, the war. I'm not going to act like I know why, okay? I'm not going to act like I feel like, oh, there was a war. There was a war. Yeah. This is this is this is a big war. But a big one. Yeah, a big, big one. Big. Yeah, a little bit big. Hey, even when I went to England we got, we got, we got eggs thrown at us.
00;14;10;15 - 00;14;29;11
Unknown
Yeah. What. Yeah I was like 15 but I don't know, but maybe they were just fucking horrible kids. But we got eggs. But I think they were just bad children. She. Well yeah, there's beef. There's beef with the British and the German. Beef with the German and the French. So you know, this way, do you have eggs thrown at you like your whole family?
00;14;29;11 - 00;14;44;24
Unknown
Oh. Oh, no, it was school. It was me. And like three other white girls. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. This is a point. You said other white girls because I thought it was like a racial thing. It's not racial. This was. This was purely cultural. This was, if anything, if there were like. But these were children. These are teenagers.
00;14;44;24 - 00;15;04;14
Unknown
Yeah. But eggs. Oh, damn that you know. Oh, this is not even a day close to Halloween or anything. This is like, on a regular, I don't know, like September, September. Yeah. Oh. Whoa, wait. It was random. It was random. It made no sense. But they were just like some dumb ass British kids. Yeah, but this is like some.
00;15;04;22 - 00;15;23;05
Unknown
This is some different type with them. Asari. What? Eggs? Yeah, that's the assumption you you you hear like in some, I don't know, stadium or some, you know. Oh just outside the little is outside. Have a little. It was outside the little. This is. And you said this in the UK. Yeah. And then in London. Yeah. In in London.
00;15;23;06 - 00;15;39;19
Unknown
Yeah. When I was like 15. What. Like I said it could just be some dumb ass children. But we did speak the Deutsch. Oh yeah. So they could have had like a beef and they were just like, man, which school was going to throw these eggs? Farm at these at his chairmans. We don't like them. Why are they here?
00;15;39;19 - 00;15;56;19
Unknown
They now our country. I don't know what they were thinking. Damn that. Okay, that's that's a little different. Wow. It was funny to me because I really didn't get hit that bad. Because I do have a certain, like, awareness around me, but like the other ones did get hit more if you know what hit them. Literally they did.
00;15;56;19 - 00;15;59;11
Unknown
I.
00;15;59;13 - 00;16;19;25
Unknown
Was like, what? What? What's up with it? That's mine. You know, it's right. It's what time I, I, I use for a duck. And he's like, oh shit. Yeah, yeah I got, I got that. He tried to me. Yeah. You know he did talk to you you know. Yeah. When you, when you. Yeah. Oh. Oh yeah. One time a different situation I was writing I was with my friends.
00;16;19;28 - 00;16;50;01
Unknown
We were on our way home in the summertime, and I heard, like this, this rushing sound. Rush, rush, rush. And I was like, what the fuck? And I turned around. There's a guy on inline skates. And he had, like, a face covering on woo! And I think I screamed and I went to duck because he. Because he, he lifted his hand and he sprayed something onto my friends because I ducked.
00;16;50;08 - 00;17;10;11
Unknown
Oh. Ha. And he but he sprayed something on my friends and he just kept going. And what your friends do, they got they got wet. And the reaction. What was the reaction? Shock. It was. But they said it was like, they said was like some sweet, sweet, liquid substance. I think he was just fucking my people.
00;17;10;14 - 00;17;22;27
Unknown
But I did call the police and let them know that this was happening. For some reason. Feels like your friends was not. They were. They were shocked. But then quickly being like, oh, I guess this, oh, no, no, we were shocked until we got back to the house and until we found out because I was just like, this is not, this is not.
00;17;22;27 - 00;17;41;04
Unknown
This could be some shit. Right? I watched way too much TV. Yeah. That's take. And this is in Berlin now. This is in worms. Worms? This is it. You do not need to know where that is. No, I clearly I don't. First of all, the name. Perfectly fine. Yes. Worms. There's a city called worms. And is there anything to do with worms in the city?
00;17;41;04 - 00;17;58;09
Unknown
Or just, just a whimsical name? Just. That's cool. Wow. But you guys can't say of worms. Bombs, worms. We suck. Okay, there you go. It sounds better in German, but in English, it sounds like we're went to worms. Yeah, it sounds like that's something that happened in that city called worms. I know. Right? It was, warming behavior.
00;17;58;10 - 00;18;19;11
Unknown
Go in ice skates, mass, you know, have tasting on with a sweet bottle of, water. Just, you know, just people. That's fucking crazy. It was insane. Damn, it was hilarious. But that's crazy because you had you had the paranoia enough to duck, and they just kind of just stood and just, you know, got sprayed. Not. Yeah. Because I was like, what the fuck is this washing sound?
00;18;19;14 - 00;18;42;11
Unknown
It was just so it was. And it was like, so irregular. What the fuck? This is like, you know what it is, you know, Friday, Friday, first Friday. Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, and Debo comes up and with the bike. Yeah, it like it's a screeching sound, right? I feel like that's kind of where I was conditioned to hear for shit like that.
00;18;42;18 - 00;19;02;22
Unknown
Oh, shit. Like we're like, you know, just regular sounds. Yeah. Boys in the hood noise. I mean, you know. Yeah. You know, I'm saying, like hood classes will keep. We'll keep your head on a swivel. Yeah, I know to run zigzags, you know. Oh, you you learn. Wow. That's crazy. Oh, shit. The movies really being instructional? Yes, yes.
00;19;02;24 - 00;19;21;01
Unknown
Yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah. I mean, that's a good. Yeah. And that's real learning. You know, some things can be educational. Yeah. And they really map real. Like I've been chased before, and, Yeah, you definitely need to know how to hop over fences a certain way and know how to, you know, know. So my hand is moving in a certain way.
00;19;21;03 - 00;19;45;28
Unknown
So that is real life. That's so interesting. Yeah. Because, well, I got, I guess, the mic. I'm sorry. That's, So. Okay, I guess, you know. Well, yeah, well, it was whatever. It's comedy. Yeah. Comedian. So this is part of the comedy act anyways. Have you, this is going to be a random question. Yes, but when you were the place where you grew up, were there any, like, wild dogs or anything?
00;19;45;28 - 00;20;15;04
Unknown
You had to run away from? No, no, no. Wow. No. All dogs were well taken care of and contained. Oh, is it like a law or something here? And I'm pretty sure the I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure that there is that there are like animal laws and stuff. So I don't I or pet pet laws. Yeah, but I don't I've never been chased by a dog in Germany, but I've.
00;20;15;06 - 00;20;33;25
Unknown
No. And all the dogs I just wanted to chase, to love them. Okay. So I've never been chased by. I feel like Germany has like, maybe a restriction on, like, the type of breeds that might be that, like, I don't know that because I in America, like, you know, this dog like the you knew everyone knew somebody got their hand bitten or was like attacked by a dog.
00;20;33;27 - 00;21;01;10
Unknown
No, no, no, I mean, my like when I went to Detroit, like I didn't grow up with like, the fear of pitbulls. I just thought they were really cute. I still think that they're cute, but I've learned that they are sometimes not. Or they're they're sadly they're sadly raised to be vicious dogs. And some of my, one of my uncles, he had he had pitbulls of course and stuff and I, I was like yeah I understand the funerals, pit bulls and all that stuff.
00;21;01;10 - 00;21;18;24
Unknown
Yeah. Sometimes you got to shake it like a red nose, but, you know, shake it like a rhino. And she, I said, it's a dumb song. Shake it like a swastika. But instead of the saw, Cica is a red nose. So red nose stage is Gemini. So that works, Oh, well. Okay. It's a no no.
00;21;18;25 - 00;21;37;03
Unknown
It's works on all the correlations together. There was no correlation. Was that really like because I, because I learned that the red nose was was a dog reference. Oh. Oh something's happening real time. Right. Okay. Yeah. Oh okay. Yeah. It's like pitbulls because a red nosed pitbull. Yeah. Because you said blue nose pitbull. That's where that correlation came from.
00;21;37;03 - 00;21;52;13
Unknown
Yeah. And this is a thing as a red nose I think. Pitbull. Yeah. That's I'm saying that's why that's what that's where the correlation came from. We talked about pit bulls. I was like take like a red nose because that's what the dog reference was. Oh okay. Yeah. This is a comedy podcast. You guys. Sometimes comedy, we figure things out.
00;21;52;28 - 00;22;07;01
Unknown
On the fly. On the fly. Hey, off the dome. Yeah, off the down. And when two black people in a room sometime we gotta act like we know what we're talking about. We actually don't. Yeah, no, no, I you know that dad jokes on deck. Okay. Hahaha. That's what I do. So it's a struggle. Yeah. Trying to figure it out.
00;22;07;02 - 00;22;23;24
Unknown
Yeah. Like. Oh, shit. Now I got to explain where I came from. Yeah. That's. Yeah, that's always. Well, I like the northern part of comedy. Yeah. Are then also this why black people just kind of assume what you're saying. You. Yeah. Yeah. Like. Oh, yeah, I got you. Yeah, yeah. Nobody know what the fuck you talking about.
00;22;23;26 - 00;22;41;11
Unknown
You know, like. Yeah, yeah, that's our lingo. You know what? This sometimes, like you're going to Google black. Hey, what the fuck. This this what it does. Yeah. Do they have that, like, in, like German, like, you know, German culture where somebody say something and you don't know what it is, and then you kind of just play it off like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I don't play it off.
00;22;41;26 - 00;22;59;07
Unknown
You don't, I don't know anything. I mean, I was, I mean, an interesting straight up. Wow. Sometimes like like and like I've learned to do that more because real people like to explain things to you. Sometimes it's like, I don't know what that means. What does it mean? Like when I find myself to ask, I ain't gonna lie, since I'll be acting like.
00;22;59;07 - 00;23;19;05
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I got, I really think like, yo, what the fuck this person say? I think there is. I think there's value in, in asking if you don't know it's true, but it's, it's this unreal. I mean, you don't like the person that you're talking to. Yeah. But it unwritten rule maybe it depends on what culture you're in or whatever to that you, you just supposed to know whatever lingo is being said.
00;23;19;05 - 00;23;36;03
Unknown
Right. So somebody out I mean me and Justin was talking about this. If somebody say some like thing word or something, you don't know, it's almost as if like is expected for you to know, but then you get so good at knowing what somebody's saying, what I know and what exactly they say that you can follow a conversation where they can be like, yo, yo.
00;23;36;03 - 00;23;56;25
Unknown
So I was with this thing, you know what I mean? I was so, so and then, you know, was so, so did it had a, and then that thing and you, you like, I can follow the whole conversation is not one word spoken. No complete sentences. Yeah, I know, I mean, I recognize context clues and depending on where I am in the conversation, sometimes it's just I'm just go mama business.
00;23;56;28 - 00;24;11;08
Unknown
You know, maybe I don't want to know. But if I'm an active part of the conversation, I'm going to ask my. Hey, so what does that mean? I don't understand that. And I also I have, like I also have like the cultural thing, maybe it's like two black people from the same area. Yeah, that would be a different conversation.
00;24;11;08 - 00;24;26;07
Unknown
But because I am not fully black, I didn't grow up there. I have like the benefit, like saying like, hey, I don't know that what that means. And you have the you have the spiritual freedom. Yeah. I mean, I take the spiritual freedom. Yeah. Which don't check me. And I'm like, I'm on my ass. Then anybody go check it out?
00;24;26;10 - 00;24;44;07
Unknown
Yeah, and I'm going to beat your ass. Oh, you should ask more. Oh, you know, depending on the neighborhood. Yeah, yeah. I'm asking questions here. Yeah. No, here is great ask going yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. Let me explain to you what this means. Yeah. This is what this means. Yeah. You know what makes us. Yeah. Yeah. You're right.
00;24;44;08 - 00;24;58;12
Unknown
I need to do that because I still don't. I still act like I do know what they're saying because I'm trying to learn German, so to say something in German. But yeah, you know, I don't I don't know what I ordered. I, you know what I mean? But you know what I mean. He drinks, I got that were incorrect just by me not asking like what they said.
00;24;58;14 - 00;25;18;06
Unknown
Power. Yeah. You know, ask your question. I'll be like the Toronto Cola and they'll give me like, Coca Cola with lemon. And I'm like, no, I want the lemon, you know, soda, not the coca cola, you know. So you want a sprite? Nah, I wanted just a lemon flavored. So, like, there's, they're trying to fruit outside in France.
00;25;18;08 - 00;25;35;29
Unknown
Yeah. The toned Fritz. Yes, but like, I'll say the Tom Cola, and then they'll give me Coca Cola with the lemon in there. I'm like, father, I, I mean that, but see, I had too much ego or maybe pride for me to be like, nah, can you repeat to me? Or, you know, something? I just kind of like, yeah, that's what I what it.
00;25;36;00 - 00;25;54;05
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and I get a low level diabetes that night you know. Yes. Yeah. You know, for your own health from. Yeah. For, for the challenge of my own health. Yes, sir. Charlie Brown has practice asking I need injecting I need to do that money. Be more free. Like hello. Did you. I don't know what this means.
00;25;54;09 - 00;26;16;25
Unknown
How you say I don't know what this means. And then he passes it. Oh. Well, ish ish. Wise, wise. Next Nick Vass plus does does the doit it. But doit is very good. Whoa. Damn. That's that's how to say I don't know if it's like, I don't know what this means. Oh, or the doit. It is, means the doivent means means.
00;26;18;00 - 00;26;44;20
Unknown
I don't know what this means. Or if you were like, oh, this is a wrong order. I was like that's how I pushed it. And just be polite about like literally just having posted the harvest. That's, that's Harbor Harbor is, is Nick. Nick fished it this that. Yeah. That's not what I ordered. Wow. Damn. Yo yo I know that a lot I know, I'm sorry.
00;26;44;21 - 00;27;03;02
Unknown
No, I mean no, damn. You know, somebody was on my ass about me not learning enough German by this time. I've been a year, and somebody is like, you need to know more words, I. What's going on? Okay. It's really okay. It's such a vast and complex language. Even we're not doing it correctly anymore. Germans aren't even aren't speaking the shit correctly anymore.
00;27;03;04 - 00;27;34;13
Unknown
Really? Especially here in Berlin. Like they we they be speaking so much English. It's embarrassing. Like some Germans can't even speak a whole sentence without. Without using an English word. I heard some English words are more expressive than German words. Yeah, but as Germans. Germans is the language of the poets and the thinkers. So technically we have all the words in the world, but as I have also, you know, we've come become more lazy when it when it would come when it comes to expressing ourselves.
00;27;34;13 - 00;27;53;21
Unknown
Yeah. But yeah. So it's just, so we'll just have to. You'll be fine. You will be fine. Of course. Yeah, it is of your is an advantage to you to to grow your vocabulary. This is true. But I don't think you should beat yourself up about it. Yeah, but I'm coming cause this this is not an issue.
00;27;53;21 - 00;28;18;04
Unknown
But let me say situations where, I come in with too much confidence that I know German, that I speak the words that I know. Yeah. And then the response back is like, oh, this part speak German. So when we going out, you know, I can bullshit enough to where it will get me far enough to get what I need to get, but it might go a little bit deeper to where is like, ask me questions about my day or my life or all this stuff.
00;28;18;10 - 00;28;35;17
Unknown
And then I gotta say, to me, like, my my Deutsch is good. And then it would be like, whoa, like, I had that before. And that's why I said that the person was like, confused or like, but we were speaking German. So what? We mean you can't speak it, right? Because. But that's a weird response of someone was say to you, yeah, I was at a restaurant.
00;28;35;17 - 00;28;51;20
Unknown
I was, I was at, I was at a Viennese restaurant. I was able to order things in German. Yeah. And then, you know, once it got to a point where it wouldn't eat and food, the person on the way wanted to go use the bathroom. Then the waitress came back and she she was asking me something in German, so I was like, oh, she I was like, yeah.
00;28;51;20 - 00;29;07;15
Unknown
I was like, you know, like, yeah. But she was like. She asked again. I was like, oh, this is not a yeah, that's not your question. So then I was like, dude, my like, my Deutsch is so good. And then she was like, And she was also I was like, my snakes so good. She's like, what do you mean?
00;29;07;15 - 00;29;21;01
Unknown
Like, she is just really confused. I was like, oh shit. She's like, get. But you speak in German. You ordered in German. You said something like, what are we talking about? I was like, yeah, that's as much as I got. And she was just like, she was like beside herself. And she just collected the plates and just like, walked off.
00;29;21;01 - 00;29;36;25
Unknown
I was like, oh, shit, that's a that's a weird thing to be confused about as a service person. Yeah, that in an international city people might have a limited vocabulary, I guess, but maybe the way I said it, I don't know, because I hear a lot of people that learning German, they're not German. They try to speak, they try to speak it.
00;29;36;25 - 00;29;53;18
Unknown
They immediately talk back to English. Yeah, because they can't pronounce or something. I've I haven't heard you speak German that much to make that assessment, but I always pick up on accident accents pretty early. Right. I would do that too. Do you do that to people? Like if you, they, they try to speak German to you. But I can't speak good.
00;29;53;18 - 00;29;56;28
Unknown
They just speak English, you know?
00;29;57;01 - 00;30;24;23
Unknown
Yeah. I mean, it depends. It depends because there are certain situations. There's certain situations. Even when I was working, if, if they're really struggling to speak German to me, I'll just I will just take that burden off them as being English to them. Yeah. Especially was like important things to do. Oh if I have more patient or some more leisure thing to do then I'll take the time to speak German back to them.
00;30;25;29 - 00;30;44;16
Unknown
But I think it also depends on the situation because sometimes we just don't, I just don't have the patience or the time right to, to guide you through this German conversation or English conversation. So you just I don't want to talk right now. Yeah. Was like I was like, let's do, let's let's make this quick. Like even when, like German people try to talk English to me.
00;30;45;04 - 00;31;04;29
Unknown
And I hear that strong as aggressive as accent way I would like. So I was like, let's get close. It cannot do it now, since I was you can boom, boom, boom. Oh, wow. Because people don't anticipate me speaking German. Oh. So they're kind of like, oh shit. Yeah. So that happens. That happens more frequently that I'll have to flip to German on them.
00;31;04;29 - 00;31;23;10
Unknown
Like I got heckled at a show. At a German show? No, at an English show. So I got heckled in Kaiserslautern. It was a very. I wasn't, at the army base that was off base, or maybe it was off base and it was like a bar. It was like a mixed talent show. So there were like singers, rappers.
00;31;23;10 - 00;31;48;23
Unknown
It was an interesting show, I would imagine, in Kazakhstan and off base. Yeah, but it was a bar where a lot of Americans frequent. Oh, okay. So it was it was very it was, it was a proper it was not abnormal to be in there. And my mom was in the, in the audience. And I happened to go up second, even though I was supposed to be seventh.
00;31;48;25 - 00;32;03;22
Unknown
Oh shit. So my it's my second show since I started. Oh, wow. This is a real talent show. Okay. Yeah, the mics make this. Yeah. Real mics. Mic light. And like, the first guy was like a rapper, singer and all that. All right. Cool. And there's a all time just go up now. And I was like, was it good?
00;32;04;02 - 00;32;23;16
Unknown
Was he good? He was. He made a great effort. Oh, okay. That's that's how it. Nice. Great. Wow. Very nice young man. Well, hopefully he makes a well in Kaiserslautern. Young man. Yeah. And, so I went up on stage. I was drunker than I anticipated. Okay. Great. Yeah. Great. My mom was in the audience. All right.
00;32;23;16 - 00;32;44;10
Unknown
Cool. Wow. Not great. That's great. I mean I'm her daughter. She's not that surprised. Oh okay. And she is a supportive mother. Yeah. Hey, mom. And I started talking. I start with my opener, da da da da. And then this guy in the corner was like, sing karaoke, and I'll just like. Sir, do you see any words up in here?
00;32;44;10 - 00;32;51;12
Unknown
Nobody. Do I look like I'm singing? Yeah. And then he was just like.
00;32;51;15 - 00;33;11;15
Unknown
They tell the story last time I was here. Now you do? Oh, shit. Yeah. So I sing karaoke and I was like, Nuh. And then he was just like. And then he says, he says something and he says, shut up, bitch. And I was just like, well, just like, hey, y'all ain't English. Yeah. And I was like, yo, you shut the fuck up full hearted.
00;33;11;15 - 00;33;27;25
Unknown
Yeah. And then I mean, and I'm tipsy. So like that, that, that came out, I was like, yo, you shut the fuck up. Right? And then he says something else. But then I when the, when I heard his shut the fuck up bitch, I heard a German accent or a Slavic accent. So what I do, I flip that hoe and I was like, let me explain this, why don't you?
00;33;27;25 - 00;33;46;20
Unknown
I was like, how often I got an off day. He's a smiley hardness. Okay, so I'll be honest. Wow. And I shut that shit down quickly and people applauded. I mean, my side was fucked because I just, I couldn't you you were very hot, I was hot, I was, I was, I was, I was hot, I was hyped and I was tipsy.
00;33;46;20 - 00;34;04;18
Unknown
It is this is the second time to see and how to manage all those emotions. Like real time. That takes a while. But the thing was also like I was hype also because I was just like, I'm telling you, ass off on stage. You can't check me, big dog. So I got off stage. I went up to him straight because I saw him.
00;34;04;20 - 00;34;30;07
Unknown
He went off, I went up to him. He was looking down at his phone. Yeah. I bent down to catch his eye. I got up to stand in front of him, made eye contact, and I left that bitch. You and I walked out and I was just like, this is fucking ridiculous. And then went up to him. Yeah, because he needs to know that I'm a real person and there were real consequences.
00;34;30;07 - 00;34;52;15
Unknown
Well, somebody was saying, fuck you with their chest. That's a right. You said, shut up to be a bitch on stage. You was real bold. I was like, let me explain something. This bold is going to come up right to you. And then and then I was ready. I went outside and and like, 1 or 2 emo chicks, like anime Gothic girl came up to me.
00;34;52;22 - 00;35;09;09
Unknown
Was that the Naruto move? Yes. Oh, yeah. But the hits. What are you in the root of all this? Well, that's how much anime I watch for you to know. You'll be like, That's all I got. That's extensive. Well, you didn't have to do the full thing for me to recognize, so I know your cover from that.
00;35;09;09 - 00;35;21;12
Unknown
And then. And she was like, it was so brave that you did that. And I was like, I mean, yeah, like, that was so fucked. Yeah, he did. And they were just like, yeah. We really like the fact that you stood up to him. I was like, man, fuck yeah. You know, am I going to punk me?
00;35;21;16 - 00;35;39;13
Unknown
Right? And then like, this guy hit and he left. Yeah. Like, oh white outfit on white man. Really all white outfit. Oh. White outfit. Oh wow. How symbolic I know right. That's why you probably really use like a yo. Like yo do you go shut this shit. I was like big. Oh, yeah. Laid out. Not today. Not some old man today.
00;35;39;13 - 00;35;56;05
Unknown
Not here in Kaiserslautern for like. And then like I went back inside and my mom and then we went out. We we left the, the thing early, like during the break and like, all black dudes were standing outside whom I've met, and I didn't know all of them. Right. But I knew, like, the the data, whatever.
00;35;56;07 - 00;36;17;06
Unknown
Yeah. And they're just like, oh, man, you crazy how you handled that. But, you know, we would have we would have beat his ass or some shit would have gone down. I was like, yeah, not necessary. Okay. Not necessary. It's not that deep. And one guy who did not know me, he was just like, bro, I was scared because I wasn't sure if it was a part of the set or if it was real.
00;36;17;11 - 00;36;37;16
Unknown
And I'll just like you thought it was real. Yeah. You thought you thought that was fake. You thought I was staged at a local MC in Kaiserslautern. I was on a stage performances. You doing like that? What? I do it, I was just like, Yeah. As I was like, alrighty then. I don't not know how to do all this information.
00;36;37;16 - 00;36;58;17
Unknown
I was like, all right, cool. Well I'm out. Wow. Did you ever do that MC again? Fuck nah nah nah, I did not do that. Like, again, I kept information, I was just like, yeah, because it was everything about that was not conducive. It didn't make sense. For for a comic to be in there when there was like, music and a bar playing like it was a bar.
00;36;58;19 - 00;37;22;26
Unknown
People walking around bar acoustics were ass. Right? So therefore I never went back. But there people were super nice, but I just didn't go back. It wasn't the right venue or the right, you know, situations and, yeah. And the other like, comedy stuff that's happening Mike wise around Kaiserslautern. It's like, aside from the army base, of the base, German, I mean, there are German mikes here and there.
00;37;22;29 - 00;37;40;24
Unknown
I wouldn't I did one at a university in K-Town. Well, nice. So that was cool. But yeah, it's just open mikes here and there, but they're very spread out. There's not like here in Berlin where you can do like two, three a night maybe, Frank, where it's the closest, right where you can do two night maybe. Oh, but not like as much as you can hear now.
00;37;40;24 - 00;38;03;08
Unknown
Not every day, Not every day. There's something interesting, you say, because, like, you know, comedy related, like, in terms of venues and like, how hospitable it is for comedy. Yes. I feel like it's a real thing. Yeah, but I feel like it's a real thing here in terms of the options to find those places right where it's like, you know, I start on New York City and like, you know, just just a space that said yes was like, we'll do it.
00;38;03;08 - 00;38;21;19
Unknown
So like a bar. Yeah. There's been times where I'm talking about it's acoustically not correct for anything aside from watching sports on T.V., right? Right. And I'll remember, you know, be somebody, they'll come in and like, a whole stadium, like he just tell everyone, hey, we're having a comedy show, guys. We're having a comedy show. It turns out, oh, the TV special.
00;38;21;19 - 00;38;40;03
Unknown
You're. What the fuck? Like, yeah. What what what comedy show where? And a lot of places in New York. A lot of bars. Okay. In New York. I can understand that. Yeah. So, like little you be performing and people didn't know there's a comedy show. So you, like, have to be talking, and then people will still be trying to watch the game or they're paying attention or like, so talking to their friends and, you know, you'd be like, hey, can we be quiet about.
00;38;40;03 - 00;38;55;15
Unknown
No, shut the fuck off guy. Yeah. He but pisses you off. I mean, one time I did a mic, and, this is one woman. She was very drunk, and I'll do my best. And she's like, yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, I was like, hey, look. I was like, yeah, I don't know who you were. You manage that, but you need to go to him because I need to man.
00;38;55;15 - 00;39;11;09
Unknown
Like was going this hour. Yeah. And then I when she came up there's no stage. It was I was in the middle of the bar floor. Right. Came up to me and she's like, yeah. I'm like, I'm like a, you know, because, you know, she's drunk, white lady. I'm trying to, you know, I put my hands on my hey, I ain't dragging no, you know, my alibis.
00;39;11;09 - 00;39;24;12
Unknown
I'm doing comedy. Right? And then, she took the mic out of my hand, and she's like. And she's like. I suddenly, you know, just talking crazy. I was like, well. And then, like, the host had to come and then take the mic out of her hand and give it back to me. He's like, he's like, hey, man is good, man.
00;39;24;15 - 00;39;42;14
Unknown
And, yeah, you got six more minutes, man. Go ahead. Ricky, do a cavity. As if that's it that happened. She's still sitting there, just, like, quiet in the shame. And then she apologize after and after me, offer me some drinks. I was like, I'm okay. Was that like, his mom or something? Some neighborhood drunk or something, I don't know.
00;39;42;15 - 00;39;59;24
Unknown
Yeah. It was, it was a bar full of, like, construction people and people that had nowhere else to go. Okay. In Queens. Yeah. It was, yeah. Pretty much said, you know, the guy that was performing, he's always had, like a bad cough. And I think he had a heart defect or something. You know, he's kind of like, just like, you know, the sound is good.
00;39;59;24 - 00;40;18;19
Unknown
You know, it's very, not acoustically correct. But boy, was that a mic. I did way too much. You did repeatedly. Oh. What? That was them? Yeah. They gave you 12 minutes. That was something wise to travel for, like an hour and a half to go to. Damn. Yeah. Interesting. Hour and a half to go to the host.
00;40;19;00 - 00;40;36;03
Unknown
I forgot that. I forgot his name, man. But he says, why do grew up in the Bronx? The way he did do live the life. He he's one of white dudes. They can tell he had a lot of black friends in his formative years. Because you talk about things specifically related to, like, some hood related stuff and like, yo, bro, use use out there.
00;40;36;06 - 00;40;58;14
Unknown
You have live lives. Yeah. Talking about the time where he's in Rikers and then someone's shitting near a toilet and and how you had to deal with. I'm like, yeah, bro, you have been through some shit, do you? Yeah. So, you know, I feel like here in Germany, other places there's like, acoustics that are, there's an option for acoustics, for comedy and other things because there's so much space they're more accommodating.
00;40;58;26 - 00;41;18;17
Unknown
I'm going to assume I guess. Yeah. Well let's just say is more accommodating for any type of art that has some high standards to it. Right. Like you know, dance or cabaret, like a cabaret theater. That's the common I hear a lot of people say cabaret theaters out here in Germany. Like, that's the thing. Cabaret theater is a cabaret, whatever.
00;41;18;22 - 00;41;35;10
Unknown
And which I ain't gonna lie, you know the fuck that was? Until I came here. I was a cab. What? And that's like a specific theater for, like, these type of performances, You know, I've never done or been at a at a cabaret. I don't think at maybe I did in New York or something. I don't know, was cabaret.
00;41;35;13 - 00;41;59;01
Unknown
It was definitely a lot of women with like, scantily, scantily clad burlesque. Yeah, but it was burlesque. That's what it was, is burlesque. It was not interactive burlesque. That sounds bad. That's basically a strip club. No, this is regular burlesque. Regular burlesque in there. And, yeah, it was people sitting down and like, you know, if you know, you know, you know, women shaking an ass and I think some performances or something.
00;41;59;01 - 00;42;18;19
Unknown
So my were like, I don't know, some like baseball outfit that's like daddy's little was like, nah. Well, it's time for me to leave. And I know. Yeah. So they have, they have things like that in New York City, but, yeah, that was an interesting time when I went there. Interesting journey. Yeah. Somebody invited me and I was like, you know, where is New York City?
00;42;18;19 - 00;42;35;24
Unknown
Let's see. Let's go do it. You know, I went and I was like, oh, okay. So as I walked in and somebody was like, twerking on me, I was like, oh, right. This is, this is burlesque. This is some this is, this is parties in the 2000, but it's bootless as well. There's just on the back.
00;42;35;24 - 00;42;52;02
Unknown
I was like, oh, shit, I was out, you know, I was I was not anticipating all this. I thought I had to go down self or have real Blue flame or I don't know what these places. That was the only ones I was, I'm like, oh, you know, well, I'm on my time. Yeah. I mean, I, I enjoyed it, but, you know, not not when it's like I'm the center of it.
00;42;52;02 - 00;43;09;00
Unknown
I'm. I want to be part of that performance. Good. I'll get you on stage. No, they don't I don't know I don't know how burlesque shows work. They did. Yeah, they they get somebody on stage. They actually got some girls on stage. And, like, I think she was, like, ready for it. And she should do some.
00;43;09;00 - 00;43;25;06
Unknown
Yeah, she do some. Yeah. She was like really twerking on a pole and then licked it. And I was like, oh, she really into it. Fond memories. Shocking because I was just, you know. Oh, okay. Trauma. Well, not trauma, just it was more like, I this ain't my this ain't my cup of tea in terms of going to these places all the time.
00;43;25;06 - 00;43;41;29
Unknown
So I'm just chilling there. I'm just trying to, you know, take it in and try to be like an artist, be like, oh, I, you know, I start a strip club, but this burlesque. Okay. And then you see some, you know, some things happening and some characters you like. I start looking at myself, I'm like, oh, I think I'm out of place here.
00;43;42;03 - 00;43;59;08
Unknown
Yeah. Oh, when can I leave? Supporting the arts. Supporting the arts. When it goes too far. Yeah. Throwing dollars. So like. Oh yeah. No tip jar, no tip bucket. You putting it down on the tip jar was on a, you know, the waistband of us. Oh. You know. Oh, this is not this is, this is not a strip club.
00;43;59;08 - 00;44;18;13
Unknown
This not club mushroom club. This is burlesque. But you. But you can make it drizzle. You can make it. You. And boy, did I not have enough cash. An ATM was way too far. So, also for fish out of water. Indeed. Then I was not making it rain. I was, I was making it drizzle. No, I was blowing clear air into the wind, making it hell.
00;44;18;13 - 00;44;31;19
Unknown
Got I got some pennies and I was like, I need to conserve. Yes you can, you know, you know, once you know, situation, you got to think about conservation. Yeah. You can't empty the dam. It's not the time, not the time, not the time. I mean, even a strip close, right I have yeah. And. Yeah. You made it rain.
00;44;31;22 - 00;44;53;19
Unknown
Fuck. Now. I went to one strip club in Miami. Yeah, I know, it was a weird situation. It was a very interesting situation. The weird. It was called 11 hot. It's called 11. Yeah, and it was. I think it was like, I don't know if it was like it one of them 24 hour ones. But it was cool.
00;44;54;13 - 00;45;14;26
Unknown
I went there with some guys I had met earlier in the day, because I was traveling by myself. And then. Yeah, this was in Miami. I was traveling by myself, met this girl, then we met like these three other guys. Very nice men. Like, not even like, not even weird. There's all we're going to this club.
00;45;14;26 - 00;45;36;29
Unknown
Another, I bet, went to the club, met them there, and I was just like, just chillin. Seeing how this works, you know how it is work. Because this was my first strip club experience. Yeah. And, yeah. The aggression of the of the strippers. I was just aggressive. Wow. Pretty aggressive. I mean, it's like it's money.
00;45;37;00 - 00;45;58;28
Unknown
Survival is is what it is. What is the business? I was like, I respect that. Do what you gotta do, beautiful ladies handling their business doing it, doing a great job. I enjoyed the the ladies who work the pole very nicely. And then I ended up talking to these two Canadian girls, like Persian Canadian girls. And then this coked up producer.
00;45;59;00 - 00;46;21;27
Unknown
Not producer, coked up promoter, coked up promoter. Okay, okay. Brand was own brand. Very much own brand. Yeah. Came up to us and was like, do you want to send VIP? And we were just like, okay, I guess, then we sat in VIP, with this one guy who was visiting from Chicago. It was just by himself.
00;46;22;00 - 00;46;39;18
Unknown
I was just like, did you just come here by yourself? Like, cause the girls weren't talking to him, and I followed up, like, in that aspect. I'm still in a strip club. This was in the show club? Oh. And I'm just like. So you just came here by yourself? Like, do you know this man? I didn't, I was very green as the dynamics of clubs.
00;46;39;18 - 00;47;03;01
Unknown
Well, and he was asking a lot of questions. I was like, sir, what are you doing here? Right here. So you're like, yeah, I'm visiting from Chicago. And I was like, so you're just here by yourself. So I know this is going to I know this costs money because he had like the vodka and the chasers. And so I was like, so you just came here myself because like you, he's like, yeah, you know, I'd like to do this sometimes like, oh, cool, this is awkward.
00;47;03;03 - 00;47;30;05
Unknown
It was very awkward because that's what he ask the question straight up. So you just here by yourself? Why yes. Because like, you spent like $1,000 to sit, maybe like ten feet closer to the pole, right? Than the free section. I'm projecting my, budgeting right to him. I was like, I was like, for some insight, right? Like, I feel I feel like you just ask them outright.
00;47;30;05 - 00;47;48;22
Unknown
Like there's no movie. There's no more. Like, I'm not the stripper. Like I don't make no money. Like, what the fuck? Like I don't benefit from being coy. I'm just. Sir, I want what the fuck is this? What? What's going on, everybody? Jared. He's like, oh, shit. No. It's pretty. He was pretty chill. And you know what the weirdest part of that evening was?
00;47;48;22 - 00;48;11;06
Unknown
What? I heard German. I was mad as hell. I was like, I did not come all the way to Miami to be at this club, to hear German. I me Germans be traveling. No, I don't care, but I hear, I think it's me everywhere. You everywhere. Okay. What was it? What was the most craziest place you. You saw?
00;48;11;06 - 00;48;34;16
Unknown
Like a German person? He was like, surprise! While they're out here. I mean, no, I'm not. I'm not that much of a crazy. Oh, yeah. Well, let me tell you, Liberty. Okay, so I went to Detroit, I went to yeah, I was he tried to visit my family last year and, first night, my parents and I, we went to Applebee's close to our hotel to get some dinner.
00;48;34;19 - 00;48;56;20
Unknown
And I walk in, or we walk in and there is a group of, like, I don't know, like seven men. Just sitting at the table, and I'm just like, I'm just, you know, hearing, listening what's going on. And then I recognized as these this is a whole group of German men. I go to my mother, I'm like, why are these people speaking the Deutsch?
00;48;56;22 - 00;49;20;29
Unknown
She was like, yes. I was like, In Detroit. Ironic. My first day in Detroit, my first day in Detroit. And I'm just like. And then because I am the weirdo that I am, I walked up to that table. I was like, hi, good. Heck, that's not even here. They were practicing, thrown all this like, whoa, I had my I had braids, I had my shoes was big.
00;49;20;29 - 00;49;40;09
Unknown
I had an all black outfit on. I looked very much non-German. The most non-German I could look is the way I look. Well, if I made them feel stupid, they knew everything about Detroit. It like, oh, Detroit. There's no German speaking black people here. Yeah, it's just like, I mean, granted, it was a suburb of Detroit, but I was just like, oh, so that's not even here.
00;49;40;12 - 00;50;02;23
Unknown
Like, it's been got hair flown from here. Yeah. If you come visit. So they were there because they worked at Ford. Oh. Whoa, whoa. Yeah. And I was like, so where are you guys from? There's like, I was like, you shut the fuck up. I'm from Heidelberg is like an hour away. Yeah, yeah. So I just, I, I, I did it from here.
00;50;02;23 - 00;50;20;20
Unknown
He was just here to visit my family and, you know, and I was like, oh yeah. Yeah, I just I wasn't sure. No, I'm not here. No, he's showing up and So they were very surprised as I was like, whoa, it's my that's my most favorite thing to do is just like talk to people randomly in Germany, outside the country.
00;50;20;23 - 00;50;38;19
Unknown
My favorite thing to do. Yeah, you probably catch people off guard. That's my point. Yes. That's what I love to do. Like, every time I enjoy too much, I enjoy it naively. I did on the subway in New York before. I don't know why I did that. Now you need to the flex. Yeah, that's how I kind of good talk.
00;50;38;19 - 00;50;57;24
Unknown
Hi. I've heard it twice tonight. Hello. But like in New York at that point, every on every corner you hear German everywhere. Yeah. I mean there's a big. Now it's not that special anymore. But in Detroit or special actually, what's crazy is that I didn't like until I came to Germany here, like the German language. More and more, I didn't realize how many German people traveling in New York like the one here.
00;50;57;27 - 00;51;15;19
Unknown
I don't even know. But now hearing it and learning it, I'm still. Oh, shit. Like I spotted, like, yeah. Oh my God. Wow. Yeah. It's like once you once you get that in you, you're just like, my people. Yeah. But for me, my people. Right? Yeah. Yeah. You people. It's like, You're like, oh shit. Yeah. I just just drove.
00;51;15;19 - 00;51;38;29
Unknown
I was like, oh, because that's what exactly when you hear that accent, that's I English me, I just flip it and be like, babes. Deutsche Country I was. Yeah, it's easier that way. Yeah. It's just easier. I was like, I, I know, I know that you can't speak this English as well as I can, so let's, let's just for you the same way even with, talking to, with, the day or about or whatever about because, like, the way I sound here, I sound different.
00;51;38;29 - 00;51;54;04
Unknown
I speak to my family like, my African like like so my family, Africans up, all my family that like, if I go to like Liberia like that, that, the pidgin. Yeah. Pidgin English. And I come stronger if I talk to another African person. But I remember he's like, oh, speak right now. I was like, oh, damn.
00;51;54;04 - 00;52;12;22
Unknown
I got like a mental block a little bit because I'm so used to originally speaking that way. And then people focusing on how the way I'm speaking English rather than the subject of what I'm trying to say. So I'm just like, all right. Yes, yes is from Liberia. Yes. Is this not? Yes. I talk to everybody about it, but I'm just trying to see when it is serving the food.
00;52;12;22 - 00;52;29;12
Unknown
Right. Do you know we're having these little conversations I had thousands of times. So sometimes you just want to speak. Whatever is the best way to get your point across, to get the thing you want done. Yeah. And some people be thinking like, aren't you the banana you want is I just want shit to get done. Exactly.
00;52;29;12 - 00;52;45;21
Unknown
So whatever language or a dialect or speak that I have to put on that we can get this done. Let's do it. But hustle. Yeah. You know, it's hard for you to. It's hard for you to speak in a certain accent and start talking about KPIs. You know what I mean? Or talking about metrics is like that, right?
00;52;45;22 - 00;53;02;03
Unknown
Right. You buy a yo like yo, these KPIs yo yo yo yo. So these these cost per clicks. Here it is while low like man off of yo. You see these links yo we gotta make it sort of conversion right. Yeah I mean like yo these these these watch times a guy increase and I'm saying same damn big enough.
00;53;02;09 - 00;53;14;21
Unknown
Yeah. Like big enough. You know, if I say, hey, look, man, I ain't gonna lie to you, somebody came up to me to ask him my. Yo, look, man. Yo, we got increase the viewership on this. You on this video, you know what I'm saying? Because, like, you know, this shit kind of low, and we want more people to come and subscribe.
00;53;14;23 - 00;53;33;03
Unknown
I'm like, all right. And I'm not going to do that for another couple months. Why? I would love that. I, I love that I will love it. But boy, the urgency would be low. Why would you if somebody kick? But first of all, it's chill. Like for me personally, somebody came up to me like that. I'm like, oh, this my man is here.
00;53;33;03 - 00;53;47;10
Unknown
So like, are y'all I'll get it done. But first I got I got some other shit, dude. But yo, yo I got you, I got you. It's my game. Like, you know even it could be. This can be even a black person and they switch to voice or something. Yes, I did, I did, but hey. So, it it came to air voice.
00;53;47;12 - 00;54;06;04
Unknown
The air voice. Oh, yeah. That's a triggering voice. Yes, a lot of people. Hey, so, we noticed that, the numbers a little bit low, and we stalled per discussion. You know, when they start saying per discussion or something, you're forthright per discussion that, you know, we're going to raise it by this amount by this quarter, and we just want to see, like, what's going on.
00;54;06;07 - 00;54;24;06
Unknown
I'm like, far. I'll be like, damn, I'm about to get fired. Shit. Yeah. I mean, oh, that's a that's a corporate in you. Is that corporate in me? It's not. But I feel like as an outsider or just in general, if someone were to come at me with, like, original work, like, hey, yo, man, these, these KPIs, it's mad low down.
00;54;24;06 - 00;54;43;28
Unknown
Yeah, I'd be I, I would the word that would be more urgent for me. Yeah. Because they came at me for real. Okay. To to to to play back on what you're saying right. If dude if person sounds like that. But it came in kind of like yo like I've been telling you this shit is fucked up.
00;54;43;28 - 00;55;08;02
Unknown
Like, yo, you know what I mean? I yeah, I'm like I'm like, yo there. But it would be more, it would be an urgency of like, definitely urgency. Bobby. Urgency. Kind of like oh shit. Yo. Like for okay. So now yeah we're getting somewhere with this. Yeah. Yeah. Actually corporate way there's no chill. There's always going to be some danger involved with it i.e. some loss of something.
00;55;08;02 - 00;55;37;12
Unknown
Yeah. Money job whatever. Yeah. When it comes to somebody who has that type of tone, like I won't say who that type of tone, but like, you know, like the type of hooded jays. Let's say hello to Jason. Let's say they did not switch their code, then switch they code switch code that there's a, there's a, there's a range of like it could be cool or can not be cool where it's corporate is like inc on never be actually is always going to be some, you know banana in the tailpipe type shit like but yeah I, I think for me I'm like for me when I'm listening to you, the only thing, the only like,
00;55;40;24 - 00;56;02;26
Unknown
connection I bring is like Ryan Coogler because Ryan Coogler has a very, very distinctive accent when he speaks or dialect when he speaks like he does. Like I think, was he from Compton or at like Compton here? Yeah. So but because of what he's created, my initial thought was also to be like, oh, you know, that to, to be like, he's chill.
00;56;03;19 - 00;56;25;25
Unknown
Because he's because he's in his like dialect. He's not, he's, he's not code switching. Yeah. He's real chill. But I was like now he's really speaking like his real business creative facts. I should not downplay just because it's in his authentic dialect. So I think to me it's just like if someone speaks me in their authentic dialect, whether it be German or English, I take it as serious.
00;56;26;19 - 00;56;44;07
Unknown
So that's why I, I just, I was like. But more in a creative context. Yeah. In a, in a corporate context. But even in corporate context I still take it serious. Doesn't matter for me. Okay. So the it's a corporate it's a corporate aspect of it. But even but corporate. There you go. That's a good point. Corporate aspect.
00;56;44;10 - 00;57;03;06
Unknown
If somebody sound like Ryan Coogler saying that there's a range right. Which is better. But this is a range where whereas like the regular corporate speaker or something, there's no range ranges like that's very straightforward. It's like we need this. It's, it's a, it's a, it's a thin line at best. There's teetering tours probably you losing your job at some point.
00;57;03;06 - 00;57;20;19
Unknown
Yeah. Type shit or losing something or you getting blackballed or some shit like that. But creative is like, yeah, creative is like whatever. Yeah. Great. Was like, yeah, whatever. I also don't have a job. Oh, okay. Well, this is good. Yeah. That's why I was like, corporate. Not in it anymore. Yeah. Happy. Oh you have worked in corporate though.
00;57;20;21 - 00;57;48;12
Unknown
Yeah. Very much so. But corporate in Germany. Oh is that corporate in Germany is adapting to American corporate interests. Yes. It's very it's very weird. It's very weird because I used to work in, like it's called traveling federal or like, public office things, and it's more like, what's the word?
00;57;48;15 - 00;58;14;20
Unknown
Hierarchy is ish. So very much like, like authoritative. It's like Aussie good hard like Mr. and Mrs. and things like that. That's how you still move. And like in German you say Z that's how I kind of grew up in the business world. And then I, decided to switch jobs because I was like, oh, you know, I want to see what's out there, work with the big boys.
00;58;14;23 - 00;58;40;28
Unknown
And that's when I learned that, you know, they're doing the whole like using people's first names and, like, flat hierarchies and things like that. Now, just like this, this false sense of, familiarity, this false sense of like, hey, man, you know, there I was like, no, like, it bothered me for a long time because I was like, bro, I don't know.
00;58;40;28 - 00;59;03;20
Unknown
You, like, call me by my last name. I want to call you by your last name because I don't know you like that. Because it gives you just a false sense of trust. And then, like, I went to BSF, so that was still more traditional German ish work environment, but still very much going into like the American corporate structure, global American corporate structure.
00;59;03;27 - 00;59;21;15
Unknown
Then I worked at SAP. Oh, nice. And that's big and very big on this. Like you and, you know, this is this is Frank. This is gonna be this is this is is that I was like, but I don't know, like like you that you see the voice right there, though. What do I voice again? Which one?
00;59;21;17 - 00;59;40;00
Unknown
Hi, this is Frank Darby. This is my calm voice I see that's that voice that made you feel like. It's like. Hello? Yeah, yeah. Just like, yeah, we just need this. And it's just like. And my thing is, I don't really switch that, like my switch. If you work in corporate, you're going to switch is this comes to what degree.
00;59;40;03 - 01;00;04;13
Unknown
Yeah. To what degree. Yeah. Like I think that like on a scale of 1 to 10, like I might switch to like a like for adapting or things like that. So, yeah, I really don't change that much. That's what's up. Yeah. That's what's up. Yeah. I mean, what what what position you work there? I saw, when I was working with the big boys, I was working assistants.
01;00;04;15 - 01;00;23;00
Unknown
Okay. Was it, like, customer facing? No, it was just, I was it was just. It was just internal. Yeah. I feel like if you're not customer facing is, a little more easier maybe. Yeah, but, like, if you're customer facing especially ones in sales. Yeah. Yo. Yeah. They, they wanted me to go into sales. Oh yes. Well I've been told like, and I was like, I can't bullshit that much.
01;00;23;03 - 01;00;48;22
Unknown
Yeah. I can't do that. Like, because, oh, like, I know how to talk to people, make them feel comfortable and things like that, but I feel like I can only do it authentically. Yes, if I actually care. Sales to. Yeah. Sales turn you to a different person. The sales you start, you start interacting with people in ways that you don't in real life, and then you start knowing about human, psychology in a, in a weird way that's actually kind of depressing.
01;00;48;22 - 01;01;12;06
Unknown
Yeah. It's like opportunistic, like that's what's driving the interaction. Yeah. More than, like authentic interest. Right. And to me, that's why I'm just like, yeah, I don't want to. And then actually sometimes the crazy, kind of work in sales or whatever and sometimes to be situation where you trying to help. Yeah. But you realize that there's, the context in which you guys are talking is of that.
01;01;12;08 - 01;01;35;19
Unknown
Yeah. But then it's almost like, all right, you're telling somebody about something like like, like for real. Like you actually. All right. This is actually one of the few opportunities I. This will get you out of the situation for real. And you hear somebody buy. Yeah. I don't believe in any of that anymore. Like, look, I get that, I get that, but but like but like for for real though, like I have your profile.
01;01;35;19 - 01;01;50;00
Unknown
You're struggling right now. This will. And then you got to, you know, then you start realizing like, oh. And then we start, you know, trying different tactics in it. Like, yeah, do you buy them? I just told you the truth. And then you want to know. But I had to like packages in a certain when you like. Yeah, I'll do it.
01;01;50;00 - 01;02;08;27
Unknown
You might, Damn it. What did you sell? So I used to sell mortgages. Oh, my God, how does that make you feel now? How was it for you? It was. I mean, this is like, this is like one of the first jobs I had. First few jobs I had, after college or whatever. And this is, yeah, I had a friend, I was working and he got me.
01;02;08;27 - 01;02;30;00
Unknown
And so like at the time I was like broke. So I was like I was happy at the time like great. There's some money. Right. You know, shout out to America. But it was something where at the time I did not have like, because I guess I was making money or so like that, but then what happened was, I started realizing.
01;02;30;03 - 01;02;47;03
Unknown
This is funny, my friend. Somebody is my voice started to change in a way that was like more I just I used to work out a lot, and then, like, I started sounding a different way, like, is weird, like, basically I was code switching, but, like, it went over, it went like, over corrected to where I didn't know how to turn it off.
01;02;47;29 - 01;03;02;09
Unknown
Because I was so I was always on the phone. So that's the way I always sound. I ran into it, got to a point where I talked to my my boy like that, and he was working the same job. He's like, bro, like, I'm. I'm your boy. Like, why are you talking to me like that? And I even realized I was sounding like that until it was like.
01;03;02;14 - 01;03;18;08
Unknown
It was like two years later, he's like, bro, you remember that time we used to like, I was like, I did that healing. Yeah, bro. You that you you spoke to me, like, use on a sales call. I was like, oh, oh I don't even know. Yeah, yeah. The way I was. Yeah. So it definitely has an effect on you.
01;03;18;08 - 01;03;39;02
Unknown
Yeah it does. Yeah. Yeah. But it definitely, yeah. I mean sales job, although, I mean, this is good. Maybe because it's funny because like in America, sales job is kind of like synonymous with, like, just Americanness, so to speak. You always capitalism, right? Whereas I hear, like, every time I hear somebody talk about sales, I was like as bullshit.
01;03;39;02 - 01;03;58;22
Unknown
Like, that's fucking bullshit. Yeah. And and, you know, America is like. I mean, you got real estate, you know, reality television shows, everybody. Real estate agent. Everyone's trying to sell. Yeah. You know, it's glamorized. It's glamorized. Everybody is selling every yeah, every book because everything is transactional. Yeah. You selling some? Yeah. You selling something? Oh, is is capitalistic is very expensive.
01;03;58;22 - 01;04;27;19
Unknown
There's no social, security blanket that you have as much and then third is just that, I guess then this is maybe where it comes, like capitalistic, and entrepreneurship. Yeah, that's kind of it's hard to split the two. And, is that the in America that's like, so promoted that into entrepreneurship. Like, it's almost like to the point where if you want to make money, if you want to like, really progress, like in a way in a hierarchy or whatever in America is entrepreneurship.
01;04;27;19 - 01;04;43;05
Unknown
So like, you just if you try to get out of corporate or this or whatever, you kind of have to be. So you go to Atlanta, you got somebody, you got someone always selling something to you like, oh, you got this. You got everything that got that, you know? Yeah, yeah, I have everybody and it is so open to do it.
01;04;43;05 - 01;05;03;12
Unknown
So yeah. Well sales is is kind of interesting. I like, I think working in mortgages at that time, it was something where I learned a lot about my finances, I guess. So that was pretty good to see that, because you're able to see people's profiles and be like, oh, wow. Because you are, you know. So right when I started actually dealing with people money.
01;05;03;12 - 01;05;19;11
Unknown
Right. So then you start actually learning by money via how to use money. So you'd be like, oh, wow, why they got enough money to buy the house. Why do using debt? I thought all that was bad. And you start realizing like, oh no, it's not. Debt is tax free. So then that's why you so you start learning some stuff.
01;05;19;12 - 01;05;39;12
Unknown
Yeah. Or you start talking, you start talking to people. I got money and you start to learn it, that it becomes not an abstraction, but it becomes like an actual. You started learning their psychology. Yeah. It's a system. That you can that you can find your way to work within. Yeah. Or you start learning like, oh you may not even need money but just other things to leverage.
01;05;39;13 - 01;05;57;20
Unknown
You know me. So you start learning some insights. You like. Oh so then what. Then we out of it. Then you start hearing people talk about money, but oh, okay. This is why. Okay, I see why the knowledge of this is not told to a lot of people because, you know, and then you can see it. It's kind of yeah.
01;05;57;20 - 01;06;16;09
Unknown
It became something where I started learning more deeper about how money works and then seeing like the this, the disparity between how someone and I know how it works and how it affects them in their life and how people they do know about it and that like, I mean, you know, the moralizing, it's it the moralizing is the moralizing and it's tough.
01;06;16;12 - 01;06;48;17
Unknown
And even when you try to talk about it, some people are still like, yeah, it was like, it's it's a lot of layers to what I say. Extremely. Like I still don't understand it. I really don't like the the American financial system. It's it's a very it's just a weird. Yeah. Predatory. It's it's crazy. Like when my, my brother when he was 18, he was sent so many credit cards in the States,
01;06;48;19 - 01;07;07;03
Unknown
That does not happen in Germany. Wow. I had I have one credit card. Simply because you needed to travel or to order something. Sometimes you need a credit card, and then I don't. I don't have a credit card. I don't use a credit card. The only thing like, that's how I was raised. That's a German way of how you deal with money.
01;07;07;15 - 01;07;31;19
Unknown
Like unless you purchase something that's big, like a car or a house or you travel, you don't need your credit card. And in the States you're, you're thrown credit cards and bullshit. What's it called. Bullshit. What's it called. Maximum credit limits. Yeah. Credit limits and credit scores and things like that. Wow. That's that. Wow. So in Germany.
01;07;31;19 - 01;07;51;21
Unknown
No. Yeah. No, it's not promoted. Like my thing is like the way I, the way I deal with money. Whatever I have is what I have. If I can't afford it, I'm not going to get it. And I was raised to save a lot of money or to save money and to have it. And that's a habit. It's normal and I it I pay for it, I pay for it.
01;07;51;24 - 01;08;09;01
Unknown
If I can't pay for it outright cash, I it does not belong to me. I'm not going to get it. That is such a brutal. Yeah. Because in America it's like, oh my God. It's like, the amount I have is relative to the credit card limit. It's like, I like, you can like you can like it's like an idea of money.
01;08;09;01 - 01;08;25;15
Unknown
Like. But it's not, it's not a reality like that. Money does not belong to you. And whatever I have is what I have. Yeah, I own like, I own the money that I have right. Yeah. And that's no me. And I'm wondering, because in America, you definitely realize quickly that a lot of things are made on debt. Yes.
01;08;25;15 - 01;08;49;17
Unknown
So like it's just the whole economy's on debt. Yeah. But it's also like it's a, it's a, it's a predatory cycle. Like okay you're 18 years old. Yeah. Or like not in high school you're not taught financial literacy. Right. So you're like your parents get you a car or you start getting a job at like 14, 15 years old, then your parents get you a car or something or whatever.
01;08;49;17 - 01;09;10;02
Unknown
Like they don't teach you how to save money. You start credit card student loans and student loans will have you in that cycle. And then you know it just goes and goes and goes and how, how do you get out. And everyone I think like now with the last election you can just see that people think that they're the exception.
01;09;10;04 - 01;09;25;26
Unknown
Yeah. At some point they'll be the exception. I was like, you're not the exception. Yeah. You're just you're just in the system. The least of us will. None of us are the exception. You. Yeah. Who born into the exception? Yeah. The least of us ever. Get out of it? Yeah. Born and or extremely lucky and even that, you know.
01;09;25;26 - 01;09;46;10
Unknown
And that will never happen. That alive and that will never happen. I think that's that's very interesting to watch from afar. Yeah. And I'm glad that I'm not a part that I'm very glad that my parents protected me from that, because that is the thought of having that amount of debt that people have regularly. Yeah, normal people not like made bad decisions.
01;09;46;10 - 01;09;50;19
Unknown
But this is normal. Everyday people.
01;09;50;22 - 01;10;10;04
Unknown
America, you got a problem. It is crazy. Yeah. I mean, all the lifestyles, debt and everything, you know, the lifestyle, the how, like, last time I went out, it's like, why is everything so expensive? Yeah. And people running it up, it's it's it's so multilayered. I mean, obviously the game is rigged and like, the system is rigged and everything.
01;10;10;06 - 01;10;26;19
Unknown
And then it like a trickle. I don't it that's the context. So whatever is happening within that like environment is like excavated. So like all right. If you don't know about money or science or you don't know how like to save or something is excavated now because of like how expensive things. Yeah. And the system and everything. Yes.
01;10;26;19 - 01;10;49;07
Unknown
Thinning it out or like even not knowing how to How would you say. Because. Like not knowing how to manage what you already have. Or like even curtailing or like, you know, tapering down your demands on what you want. Like you want, you know, some people want like a very big house or I want a big house, I don't want a big house like, oh do you need it now.
01;10;49;07 - 01;11;08;18
Unknown
You don't. But you know, that's just like get an alert, do some marketing other things, whatever. But then you're in this environment where it's like predatory. You have marketing, you have sales, you have, you know, this economy where it's very expensive. So now I get excavated. So now you're doing things that are really overextend yourself. Yeah. So one thing that is a bad thing.
01;11;08;21 - 01;11;24;24
Unknown
Right. And that's I think that's like the messed apart like that is. Right. You know like all right, let me get the new Jordans. Even though that thing cost like $300, $300 can get you like you buy two pairs, two pairs of Jordans. Can you get you flying out to a different country and, like, be okay and, like, really get a good experience?
01;11;24;24 - 01;11;45;18
Unknown
Yes. You know. Yes. Or just save it. Yeah. I have, I have friends I spent like thousands, thousands. I had a friend in college, man I do spend those $1,000 in Jordans. I'm talking about thousands. I've never understood it. Yeah. Answer me. He had, like, the new, like, a thousand out. And, you know, now looking back, I'm like, yeah, we could have just gone.
01;11;45;22 - 01;12;01;26
Unknown
We could have done, like, a year old, trail and what, the Euro rail thing or something. Yeah. Travel around. Yeah. You can go to Africa, travel and stuff, but it's like the, the the environment. You it's the environment. It's a lot of it is definitely the environment. And it's tax too because you know you guys you do like a nice joins us.
01;12;01;26 - 01;12;19;11
Unknown
And how you going to attract a certain type of woman that you may want. So then there's so many layers. Yeah. If I came in with some sketches and some shit and like whatever, I mean yeah, I can be internally great. But on the outside. Nah, just just nah 99. They ain't going to let you in the party like you.
01;12;19;11 - 01;12;41;14
Unknown
Sketches. What are those? Oh. What's that? Skechers. What's that? Big ass. Get out of here. That's, like. Better skedaddle. Us with those shoes. That's what you probably use in your day to day vernacular. So get that shit out of here. You ain't using no cool worlds with Skechers on. Yeah. You ain't, you ain't. You know you ain't.
01;12;41;14 - 01;12;58;07
Unknown
You ain't. Chill. You just squabble up. Yeah. Good song though. So. All right, so you start. You you been doing comedy stuff like that. So what's next for you in comedy. Like what's the next thing you got in your mind in terms of what you want to do in comedy? Right now I'm just really exploring what I can do, which is important.
01;12;58;07 - 01;13;37;00
Unknown
You know, having exchanges with other comics, other artists in general. I'm exploring, like what it means to be an artist in Germany. Coming from the corporate world, it's a very big shift. You, Yeah, a shift I did not anticipate at this time. So I'm still kind of. Yeah. So I'm trying to use this time to pivot this unexpected time to pivot and explore and see what I can do, how flexible I can be, how to curate my life, to my knees and my wants.
01;13;37;20 - 01;14;08;05
Unknown
So it's a lot of reflecting going on and with comedy. I'm just so grateful that I found it when I did. Because it's open doors conversations. And it allowed me, yeah, to explore parts of my personality that I thought that were just decorative. So, like, my personality, pretty like, it's very natural for me to be funny.
01;14;10;02 - 01;14;33;24
Unknown
And it's so refreshing to see that it can pay off. A part of me is still very scared to dream larger. Okay. Yes. I was just like. So I'm trying to, like, baby step my way into it. I, I, I have no illusions. I'm going to find, like, a part time work or a full time job because, you know, money.
01;14;33;26 - 01;14;58;09
Unknown
Yeah. Stability. Sure. So I'm trying to see I'm trying to not be as rigid as my German side wants me to be. Yeah. Please don't. Exactly. So I'm also I'm also not trying to be a delusional like, delusional. Yeah. As, as as the other extreme would be. So I'm trying to find a good middle for myself to to be as stable but still explore comedy.
01;14;58;11 - 01;15;24;04
Unknown
If it's traveling, I definitely this year, what I really want to do with the time that I have is to travel. I want to use the contacts that I've made in the past years. You know, to travel and to, to explore different comedy scenes. I just, I just ran into this this girl that I met, from when I used to dance at the basketball team.
01;15;24;06 - 01;15;50;20
Unknown
She lives in Barcelona, and she was like, hey, you know, shout out to Tina. If you're ever in Barcelona, my house is open to you. I'll hook you up. With who? With who I know in the scene. And then, you know, go do some shows. I believe in, you know? Right. So I'm just. I've been. It's so refreshing to see how putting myself out there with comedy, how that is, how that has like affected my relationships with people.
01;15;50;21 - 01;16;21;03
Unknown
Like it's a great like it's it's I was like, wow, this shit really works, right? I was like, damn. So yeah, it's been really refreshing to see what leaning into my natural personality, leaning into my natural like character, with stand up has done and but always, you know, doing mix sharpening, taking in all the feedback that I've, I'm very grateful for and.
01;16;21;03 - 01;16;48;21
Unknown
Yeah, just. Yeah. So the plan is just to travel, to explore and to find, a lifestyle or curate a life that is, you know, peaceful but also meaningful. And, Yeah. And joyful. Yeah. But, you know, that's nice. Yeah. The road is rough. Yeah, but the road to it, you know, trying to see what happened. Comedy. Those last three words you said.
01;16;48;21 - 01;17;06;07
Unknown
Just throw that out the window. Well, comedy is, very peaceful. Yeah. It's never. Yes, I like to meet. There's like, I was like, you know, I'm not, like, on a scale, you know, like these things that kind of balance it out. Because I'm not like, because I'm, I don't. Yeah. Because in comedy, you just want to be afloat.
01;17;06;13 - 01;17;28;06
Unknown
Let me just say afloat. Yeah. So I recognize the flow part. Yeah. But I'm trying to be like, yeah, I still find, like a good level of stability by still having by still but still floating and still being able to do float. We'll see. Yeah. Did you just, you floating then. Yeah. You shrunk. But I mean, you're in a, you're in a place where the seas are not as crazy.
01;17;28;09 - 01;17;47;04
Unknown
That's a good point because I'm, I mean, you know, maybe I'm biased. I'm coming from a place where, like, I, I seen people saying, yeah, you know, I'm trying not to think trying to swim in these waters. Yeah. Because sinking is, that's more common than afloat. Unfortunately, that's what I. Yeah. So I'm trying to see I'm trying to just like, I'm not trying to.
01;17;47;04 - 01;18;05;28
Unknown
I'm not trying to sink. I'm trying to just swim. I'm trying to float, see what's going on. And, you know, hold on. I have a ring around me or to, to keep me afloat, right? Yeah. And I mean, like, you know, also, you just exploring and trying these things. I think you just outside of you being committed by some artists to let it help.
01;18;05;28 - 01;18;27;00
Unknown
Yeah. Not what I want. And, yeah, I want to get, you know, you know, get more into dancing again. I want to host corporate maybe, and to just, like, lean into that. What that can be as a stability, you know, just and just see what happens. You know. So I probably go to the States. My brother is thinking we're going to the States in September.
01;18;27;00 - 01;18;49;09
Unknown
I might just go with him and just and just you know, see what's poppin out there. And then, you know, be in these Europe streets and doing your thing. Portugal, London, Barcelona, I Amsterdam, just trying to see what's happening there. Yes, it is right there. Yes, right around the corner. You know, just we're just we're taking the fruits that are here, you know, and you make it a work.
01;18;49;11 - 01;19;11;02
Unknown
Fuck. Yeah. There you go. You know, lemon lemonade, lemons and shit like that. But. Yeah, but also why I want to do this podcast with you again and revisit this podcast again. Yeah. Is the follow up episode. Okay. So I'm just going to do I'm just going to tell the story okay. The place. All right. So the dead the way.
01;19;11;04 - 01;19;38;26
Unknown
Yeah. And I did our first episode. The way he popped my podcast cherry was because I was in town in June last year for the Ne-Yo concert. That weekend was insane. The whole weekend was insane. But it started out on Thursday. I would did the show Black in Berlin. Mo was so nice. Let me spot without seeing me ever speak so nice of him and I ran into Nia, found out he does a podcast.
01;19;38;26 - 01;20;02;15
Unknown
So I was like, hey, can I do your podcast? He said, yeah, came on Saturday, did the podcast. He invited me to a show later that evening and I was like, bet. I pulled up. Pulled up. The host of the show comes out and I'm just like, I know this young man from somewhere. And I was just like, I know you.
01;20;02;15 - 01;20;10;28
Unknown
And he was like, cool, cool stuff, bro. He left and all that, right? But comedian comes out and then he comes back out. He's like.
01;20;11;01 - 01;20;34;26
Unknown
So, I know who this lady is right now. So everyone you know, this is Tanya, everybody, this Parker, my, social worker, you call me a social worker, but that's like, from back in the day because I gave Eunice, a dorm room in Heidelberg when he was starting her studies. What, ten years ago? Nine, ten, 9 to 10 years ago.
01;20;34;28 - 01;20;51;25
Unknown
And. Yeah. And then after the show, just all was outside, and I was like, oh, it just connecting the dots, like, oh, shit. You know, like, I hadn't seen Eunice in so long. He was always such a kind tenant. He was always such a funny, charming young man. And he stayed in my like, I just remembered him. I don't remember a lot of people.
01;20;52;00 - 01;21;11;15
Unknown
I managed 800 rooms always while I was working. So I don't remember a lot of people, but I remember Eunice because, you know, I was always very nice. He always was very, you know, there was always a nice back and forth. He was a kind young man. I don't remember him being the type of tenant that he mentioned when he was here.
01;21;12;11 - 01;21;39;22
Unknown
I don't remember him not paying his rent. Oh, yeah, I don't remember that. I just remember him being a nice kid. Oh, okay. Well, there you go. Yeah, but. And that's the thing, like, it just, you know, your kindness and your energy overshadows, you know, maybe some shortcomings. So in that aspect, seeing Eunice here at the comedy club and then us going to the roast afterwards, people explaining to me what Berlin means in the comedy scene in Germany or in Europe.
01;21;39;25 - 01;21;58;26
Unknown
I was like, I was really inspired to come back. And then Eunice was so nice and kind to me to offer his apartment to me while he was out here. Well, while I was out here. So I came back in August, and I stayed in his apartment for two weeks, and it was just the nicest thing for him to do, and it was such a full circle moment.
01;21;58;28 - 01;22;32;13
Unknown
Eunice helped you when you moved to Berlin? Yeah. And it was such a beautiful moment. And it really it strengthened my my commitment to comedy and to the journey because it was just I was just like, what the fuck? Like for the universe to provide such a what's it called? Coincidence. I couldn't ignore it. I really, I wasn't, I was this close to not coming back to Berlin to not coming back.
01;22;32;16 - 01;22;50;26
Unknown
But then I listen to the, to the follow up podcast that you did with Eunice. And I was like, yeah, I'm about that life. I'm going to do it. What it. Yeah. I didn't even know that had an impact like that. It did like it for me. I was like, I was sitting like, I remember like because I, because I was like, oh, like Tonya's like, oh my, oh, there's another tie.
01;22;50;27 - 01;23;10;18
Unknown
That's funny. So I just listen to the 20 minute podcast on my lunch break at SAP. Yeah, hottest day now. Just like, oh. Fuck that. I'm finna do this shit like I'm finna do this. And then I went back, I text, I was like, Eunice is offers on the table. I can stay in your apartment. He was like, yes, but.
01;23;10;20 - 01;23;35;13
Unknown
And it was done. What? It really meant a lot. It meant a lot to me that it meant a lot to me, that I had an impact on Eunice, even a lot to me, that Eunice had an impact on you. It meant a lot to me that Eunice remembered my impact on him. It just just everything was just a very lovely and cohesive situation, and I was just so it was just so nice.
01;23;35;13 - 01;23;57;25
Unknown
And it was just like. It was just a beautiful thing, that kindness of people, you know, does come back. It does. So it just really strengthened my, you know, just my trust in the universe. One does everything life, y'all, I, I really did, and it could have been so many different things that could have just, like, prevented that from not happening either.
01;23;57;25 - 01;24;15;08
Unknown
So many different things I was doing in case I, I kept on saying that I was about not to text you because sometimes the show gets canceled. Yeah, sometimes I was like, and I remember you hit me up or so, and then I was like, oh, I was actually. So it's so many different things. Yeah. Wow. And then even doing that follow up episode that was like awesome.
01;24;15;24 - 01;24;34;27
Unknown
I had an idea. I was like, yo, you know, Eunice, let's do it. Let's go to your place. And then we went there and then shot it. And, you know, I don't even know where it would even go. You know, it was just like, all right, let's shoot it. Let's see. And then for you to hear it and then that have an impact on you specifically, that is enough for you to come back to Berlin.
01;24;34;29 - 01;25;07;08
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. Because it was just like, you know, because I was going through my own thing. I was changing jobs. I was looking for a job, changing jobs and stuff like that. It was just it was a hard time, and it kind of gave me the strength to to lean in more, and to, like, take the leap to go to Berlin for two weeks, right, and, and explore the scene and me taking the time in August for those two weeks, you know, has made way easier for me to come out now because, you know, I now have a direct line to people, not direct line.
01;25;07;08 - 01;25;35;14
Unknown
But I know who to talk to. Yeah. Now. So it's quicker. Right. So it's just it, it has had good impact. It's it really benefited my comedy career to invest that time. And that investment also was backed by the follow up episode that really strengthened me. That is oh, I'm not going to lie to you. And maybe this is also an appreciation, too, of like just even being a part of that whole connection between your news and everything.
01;25;35;14 - 01;25;52;24
Unknown
And the podcast is that it made me feel like this podcast is bigger than myself. It is. And, it also kind of put me in the zone of like, all right, I got to like, really focus, focus on this for real. I just happened out of, yes, a couple episodes. Yes. And I got to really make sure this thing is, like, good.
01;25;52;24 - 01;26;21;05
Unknown
Yes. You know, definitely the people, like, I like people knew about the podcast before I came on. Really? Yes. I had friends who was like, yeah, the third Culture podcast. Yeah, I listen to it. I watch those clips, I like those. I was like, yeah, I was like, I'm. And yeah, the other day that's crazy. Like even on one of your posts, when we did a podcast, one of one of the one kid that I when that I know from like my hometown who now lives in Texas, I was like, hey, on you.
01;26;21;07 - 01;26;45;14
Unknown
He just commented on it. The internet is insane. One. Yes. So before you got on the podcast, no, let's make this very clear. I did not, someone told me about it or had mentioned it at or maybe mentioned it, but I know that after I said, like I did the podcast with you, they were just like, oh yeah, I've listened to it, I've heard it, I've seen the clips.
01;26;45;17 - 01;27;09;27
Unknown
What? Yes. Oh. Did you, what you do that. Yo, And I and and whoever I know who comes to or whoever I know who I think will be a great fit for the podcast is who I send to you. You know, we did that one show with, with Stephanie or the one who's the swimming instructor was a British accent.
01;27;09;27 - 01;27;29;28
Unknown
Oh, yes. Yes. Her. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, we did it like that because yeah I told I was like, they're interesting. Go talk to him. Anyone who I think that would have a nice impact or has an interesting story who reflects their culture. I send to you because I think that everyone deserves to tell their story, because at the end of the day, it's going to impact someone.
01;27;30;00 - 01;28;02;24
Unknown
Oh yeah. Oh, that. Yeah. That, that, that, that really hits home. I did because, you know, sometimes you doing things and you don't know what kind of effects has happened. So the just even hearing that that's oh it does mean a lot because we're out here, you know, Berlin, Berlin. The world is a lonely place sometimes. You know, even Berlin out here, it's hard to I mean, for me it's not as hard because I'm German, but I can't imagine how hard it is for others who really are true third culture people trying to find a community.
01;28;02;27 - 01;28;25;20
Unknown
And if. I will support anything that gives a home or a voice or an impact to people who are authentically looking for, you know, for their tribe or just feel the need. Even a venting session, even if it doesn't break, even if it doesn't have an impact to talk to you for an hour or two hours, have a real conversation.
01;28;25;23 - 01;28;48;15
Unknown
Is is more than what people may need. You just it is what it is like even you talking to John. You know some people. Yeah they'll say just even the podcast just it's a nice conversation for people to have maybe the real conversation they've had in months. So maybe that's just that, a smaller big yo. Yeah. Oh, shit.
01;28;48;18 - 01;29;10;05
Unknown
Yo, you sure you haven't worked hours? You did hours. Flowers. I'm. I'm speechless. All right. Wow. Thank you very much for sharing that. That means a lot. You know, and, you know, now I got to make sure that thing really comes out strong, you know? Hey. And we were both in the first hour. Okay? We're both in that.
01;29;10;07 - 01;29;26;18
Unknown
I know for a fact I was going to this this is this is this this point will be made up, period ahead for us, you know, so, you know, when you got a you don't think straight now. The fear now was when I locked in. Now know I can I can I. Hey hey I was in I was like hold on till I start.
01;29;26;18 - 01;29;48;23
Unknown
I got to like pause my man's pause. Wow. Yo, no, thank you very much for sharing that. Because the zombie, like in the weeds is doing that, man. You know, it's seen. It's it. You're doing great, sweetie. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for it. You're welcome. Wow. Okay. I guess that's a good way to leave off on that, I agree.
01;29;48;26 - 01;30;05;08
Unknown
You know. Yes. Almost got me emotional here. Come on, be emotional. Oh, my God, be emotional. The most emotion I gave was like, what? That. Wow. You know, so you can cry later. Oh, you can cry later. It's fine. So thank you very much. And I just, Now above real time you thank you very much for being back on the podcast.
01;30;05;08 - 01;30;20;00
Unknown
Thank you very much for sharing that. That really means a lot. And, you know, hopefully, you know, any time you and challenge, let me know anything I could do to help out or whatever. If you have something you wanna talk about, by all means. I'm here all day, so thank you. Very same. Jeez. Same this room.
01;30;20;01 - 01;30;31;17
Unknown
Thank you. And, guys, thank you for listening and are watching the third Culture, third culture talk podcast is your boy Nya Yeanafehn and this is Tanya Renee Parker. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace out bye.
