DRINNIES - Wir adoptieren eine Autobahn

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

Aha, aha! Giulia mietet einen Gyros-Foodtruck für einen Roadtrip und Chris lässt sich sein Schienbein von einem Fliesenleger sponsern. Außerdem: Eine Waffe aus Strumpf, eine Packung Theater-Celebrations und die eckigste aller Bettkanten. Die Minute 1:24 bis 2:12 dieser Folge wurde adoptiert von: Horst Brockmann aus Bietigheim-Bissingen.Hier gibt es Tickets zur Tour: drinnies.de18.10.2025 LEIPZIG, Gewandhaus20.10.2025 BERLIN, Philharmonie21.10.2025 KÖLN, Philharmonie04.11.2025 MÜNCHEN, Isarphilharmonie10.11.2025 FRANKFURT, Alte Oper11.11.2025 HAMBURG, LaeiszhalleBesuche Giulia und Chris auf Instagram: @giuliabeckerdasoriginal und @chris.sommerHier findest du alle Infos und Rabatte unserer Werbepartner: linktr.ee/drinnies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello Julia. Hello God. This episode almost didn't take place because we're still here. I don't have time. I'm fighting zombies in New York. Especially because we both have the up the obligatory climate control. We're still in New York and the climate control, as I said last time, is on strike. And you got hit pretty hard and me half.

But I'm pretty sure that will come to me. Yes, it's a shame because I love climate control. I love the cold. I'm so happy when they cool it down really, really well. But unfortunately, I don't really like it. Especially when this subway is cooled down. U-Bahn station very hot, outside very hot, business very cooled down and always out, in, out, in.

Exciting. It's a toxic relationship with air conditioners. Hot and cold. But I have to say, we could have recorded this episode almost without a taxi yesterday and today. And yesterday we almost died driving a taxi. And I didn't want to say it first, that we could end it here in the taxi, because we were on the highway. Life is a highway. here in the taxi because we were on the highway on the highway and we drove very fast so not we but the taxi driver and I noticed that I

have seen him in the rearview mirror in the rearview mirror that he just feels like driving 150 and I see him close his eyes again and really not just a little longer blink but really a second away. He had a second sleep after the other. Maybe not a second sleep, but I didn't know if we would come out alive. He took a lot of time to blink. He blinked very slowly. And yet, later on, I realized, when we got into the city and got out, that we were too involved in it to wake him up and say, hey, open your eyes. We didn't want to bother him, so we took our own death into our own hands.

I first thought about whether I should tell you at all, because I didn't want you to be afraid, but I thought it would be good to inform you that I'm not alone with this thing, because you never want to talk in the taxi and I thought, okay, we have to talk now, a little louder, so that he doesn't feel like he's sitting here alone and sleeping away, because you, when I'm in the taxi with you, then the conversations are often one-sided, you say yes or no, one-sided answers, because you don't seem to want to talk. I'll tell you quite simply why, Chris, I'm not a backseat driver.

When I'm on the backseat, I have to look outside, fix myself on a point that's far on the horizon, so I don't get sick. And when I'm talking, I get sick too. That's why I prefer to be quiet and enjoy my point on the horizon. Well, I thought, okay, we have to get out of the taxi, the motorway is rather bad, but as we have to get out of the taxi, the highway is rather bad, but as soon as we got off the highway,

I really took my mouth together and said, hey, you can let us out of here, we'll go the rest of the two kilometers on foot. The same around the corner. And of course a big drink, because I know why he's tired, because he works a lot and it's a difficult job, especially in the traffic jam and the difficult, exhausting traffic here in New York. I thought the same. I just hope he's going home with his cordless car and going to bed with it. Yes, but somewhere it's not our responsibility either, right?

I saw on the highway, Christoph, there was a sign and it said Adopt a Highway. And then I immediately became deaf. Adopt? Right. Some people adopt a highway. as a private person. And then you have a Autobahn section, mainly from Heckensec to Hauburgen or something like that. And then there's a sign on the side of the road, on the Autobahn, that says, this section

is sponsored by Chris Sommer. That's really true! Yes, that's really true. I don't have to explain how expensive that is, because that's the perfect gift for me for your birthday. A piece of highway in the USA. Wonderful! But honestly, I prefer a piece of highway than an olive tree in Greece. I've seen that too, how that was given to the 50s.

And then Heiner has something nice, he's happy, he likes olives. Nice, the olive tree is in Greece and Heiner lives in Osnabrück. That fits, of course. We put the Hein in Heiner. Olive Heiner lives in Osnabrück. That fits, of course. We put the Hein in Heiner. Olive Heiner. Yes, definitely. So, could we do that now? So, now really a highway piece?

Yes. So, is that a meter or an inch or a foot or how? I don't know exactly. I still have to find out. But it would be interesting for us too. Maybe we can also put it off if we adopt it as a drinnies. And then there is a piece of drinnies Autobahn. But that's actually good. Why doesn't the German Railway do that?

You could maybe adopt a whole wagon from them. Or a seat. Exactly, where you then put up a sign. Attention here, this is a flower bed from the neighborhood. Please don't poke in, you know? Single seat with limited view. That is the keyword. This is the best seat in the ICE. I'd like to adopt that.

Exactly. This folding table is adopted, for example. Please don't crumple it. Crumple, they belong to me. And today in the taxi, you have to say, that was a tricky story. Because there was traffic jam and that's always an interesting story. I think it's nice to be in the traffic jam in it's nice because you can still see something from the city. You can really see something there. And today it was like this, you say Chris, look, you looked out to the right, you fixed a point. But that was a moving point because it was a man with a free upper body who obviously screamed. Yes. And we were in a traffic jam for reasons, because the car, the white small transporter

in front of us, stopped in the middle of the street. You have to imagine that the guy who was standing on the street side up without a stand, that was a mess. Obviously I recognized it by the accent. He was talking with an accent. Yes, he was between 30 and 40 years old. He was there with his buddy, obviously some, and they just came out of a pub and were obviously very drunk. The guy was upstairs and had a cigarette in his mouth.

So, and now we didn't notice what the foreigner was like, how it all started. But there was a twist between this man, topless, on the board and the man on the passenger seat of the white small transporter in front of our taxi. Yes, obviously a real fight. Bad words are coming and going. And I liked one thing. The taxi driver, younger guy, in his mid-twentys, I would say, I then watched what we could do, because we were very close. You looked out, you were completely in the van.

You didn't know what was going on. We were one to two meters away, so right at the scene. And I thought, Julia, don't look so offensively. In the end, you are such a casual victim of this confrontation. And I thought the taxi driver looked straight ahead, knew exactly what was going on there, but knew he had to protect himself and didn't react. But the man in the van in front of us got out and obviously as a caretaker,

as we found out later, as an old caretaker, because I was standing on the side of the car, as an old caretaker, he got out and it went back and forth a few times. He was still wearing scrubs, so this work clothes. You obviously recognized that he came from a nursing profession. Yes, a nursing profession, actually in a fresh Bordeaux red, you could say. Kind of friendly, you know? And then the little as sock or as cloth that was bundled with a little heavy, probably stone in it, which you could use as a weapon, so where you could now hit someone probably.

It was interestingly already prepared, so he already had it in his hand, I found that interesting too. He was ready to go into battle with his self-made sledgehammer that interesting too. He was ready to fight with his self-made trailer. It's like an ADAC employee who opens the back and knows exactly which device to use. Open it, take out the drawer, and there's the hammer in there. I take it out and throw it away. The funny thing is, they were screaming all the time. And I think the man on the board, who was up there, didn't believe that the guy from the car,

really in the middle of the road traffic, in the traffic jam, where thousands of cars and pedestrians were around him, that he really had the guts to get out and get in with him. That's why he had such a big snout. Yes, someone took over. And it was the human being who took over. And then I liked that he snout. Yes, someone took over. The person who was the most that you say, okay, really completely out of nothing, a half-punch, which then became a punch, spoiler alert, that you then say, now let's set up rules. We're already in the middle, it's already hot and hot.

But I don't think that's okay. But now it's enough, buddy. You go to the quiet stairs. That was interesting. I'm not that experienced in punches. I don't know if that's the case that you say, hey, we're totally unlevel, in the middle of a big city, up without a complete but we still have a gentleman's agreement that we don't hit each other with stones.

So the one up there definitely had no experience with something like that. I can tell you that, he was such a guy, I once had a pub with 4.8 per mille, but the guy in the car, he was professional. So he's from the department, he's from another corner. And I thought, he really got into a fight with the wrong guy. He was a really big, broad, strong man. And I thought, wow, now we're really a few meters away in the middle. And then he runs up to me with this sock, with the stones in it, and he's already getting out, and our taxi driver in the second

reverse gear, stooped back, drove around the car and just shot away. And I look back and I couldn't see it anymore and then our taxi driver just says, he just looked in the mirror and said, oh shit, he hit him. And we unfortunately didn't see it. I have to say, unfortunately, because I'm a coward. When I think of two guys who are staring at each other in the street on bright days and insult each other, I have to say, I have no problem with that. When they fight, it never hits the wrong one. I'm a fan of that.

You have to say, there were a lot of people around. There were also people who knew this guy. There were also others who said, hey, Mr. James O'Connor, my friend, my young friend, enough, let's do half-blank. That's not our responsibility. No, your buddy didn't do anything either. Sorry, but I don't have to get out of the taxi as a woman from abroad and say, please, sign again.

No, above all, you really don't have to play a hero. If someone already takes out the stones, then I'd rather go away myself. I really don't have anything with me on my hat. I'm sorry. You don't have anything with you on theipper hat. Then we were also at a very good food truck where we were once and ate gyros pita. Very important when you're in New York always eat gyros pita. But isn't it called gyros as you then taste it out? Once gyros once gyros pita please? Wrong? It's called gyro, right? Yes, it's called gyro. I then also learned that. It was a bit embarrassing. But then I thought, stop it in Greek, it's called gyro, gyro or something.

You should have understood that. But well, that's how it is in Queens, Astoria, there are good food trucks. We were there and ate so flaky things. And now I got the idea. We sat in front of it and then I read on the food truck, book this food truck for your event. And then I have to say, Chris, it's a nice birthday, company party, whatever, food truck, nice and good, we've all seen it before,

or at a company party, a food truck, it's nothing new, it's cult, super funny, haha. But Chris, hear me out, Chris. Listen to me once, trust me once in life. I'll tell you what, rent the food truck, but not for an event, but for a road trip. I thought about renting the Gyros Peter food truck and then driving down Route 66 for days in this food truck. And in between always Gyros Peter food, souvlaki, everything on board. You're in charge? I'm in charge.

You can also save the driver's costs. Yes. You can say, I also make petrol fuel. Yes. And in the back the souvlaki and the gyros are stirred. Gyros. Sometimes someone is sent forward. The pees.

And I think you drive non-stop, too. I drive through. I drive through. I also sometimes do autopilot so I can nibble on the back. Yes. And on the side I have the flaps where all the colas and Fanta's are in the melted ice cubes. Exactly. So driving a food truck somewhere and then putting it down is not the concept for the end. I think so too. Because otherwise you could also say we can go to a restaurant. That's always there.

It must have an advantage that it's in a car. Yes, in general. Why don't we adopt highways? Why do we have only rushes that are on site? Why don't we make everything drivable? So we say that food trucks drive on the highway and you can just go left on the overtaking lane and then you can order Gyros Pita and then you just drive next door and then he gets in. While you're at 180 at the height of Iserlohn, that worked out, right?

Yes, I think it's good. I think it doesn't make sense why they are food trucks if they don't drive. Then just be an Imbiss, just be a small container. But don't be a truck, the truck must be used. Right. He gets also gets parking damage. It's like with Roger Federer and his car park. If it's too long, the car will come and a mada comes. Then you have it.

Exactly. So you actually have to move the food trucks, alone because of the mada damage. Yes. You'll also get in trouble with the insurance. If you say, someone drove into my car on the highway, because I just made suflaki chicken suflaki, with an extra portion of tzatziki, and someone drives in, then that's of course, that's where the Volcasco is.

That's clear. Yes, of course. I'm also wondering, if you say, adopt highway, now you could of course say, Deutsche Bahn could also release things for adoption, but what if I would release things for adoption from me? If I say, not me as a whole, as a person, because people can adopt children, but if I say, for example, my shin bone.

Because that has suffered. This bed where we are sitting right now, in our hotel room, that has such a brutal wooden edge. And in front, the mattress is rounded off. If you look from above, the mattress is rounded off, but underneath the bedside is angular. And how angular? I walked in alone twice today,

and my shin bone is completely blue. And you can't say, okay, for the costs of this shin bone treatment, you can adopt that. A body part of me belongs to it. But I could give it up for adoption. By the way, it's my out of the week. So you could also solve bed edges, right? Yes, definitely.

It doesn't have to be, you just bump into each other. What are they even there for? So I think you should give your shin bones to adoption. Maybe to a medium-sized company that can advertise on your shin bone. Like Kämmerlingen or something. A craftsman's company. Maybe something like ATU, Autoteile Unger. And then nice with a tattoo across something like that. In a craft shop, maybe something like that.

Like A.T.U., Autoteile Unger. And then nice with a tattoo across your shin bones. And then you always had to walk like Axel Schulz with a torch. Yes, boxers, at least earlier, it was like that that you got a tattoo on your back from a gujia tire or something. And Pirelli, that's sprayed on it. If back of gujia tires or something and pirelli that is then sprayed on it could now also on mine so if you now want to adopt that you could now

tattoo it on it julia becker on my shinbei i would like you to have the george forman grill on it yes i have i have an end of the week to bring the mood to the point in the podcast and as i said i often go to the toilet here as normal you go to the center of the podcast. As I said, I often go to the toilet here. As usual, you go to the toilet here. And I do that in New York, of course. That's right. And I have my toilet app. And I walk up here to the high-rise.

And what I noticed, I've already talked about it between pissois, if there are no tear walls, it's terrible. Terrible. There is no intimacy at all. You look at each other in the intimate zone. I try to look forward stoically, like a taxi driver today.

But there are people who are just glaring at you. That's one thing. But what I've experienced a few times in the week is like the cash machine, where you have a small mirror on the wall where you can see what's happening behind your back. And that, when that's pissing you off, that's a great thing, because sometimes people wait, even if everything is occupied, especially when you're at events, musicals or something, where everyone runs to the toilet quickly during the break,

which I've rarely experienced. When there's a musical break, how quickly people run there to get to the toilet quickly, because otherwise you have to wait forever. There aren't that many toilets. And then you see what happens in the back. When people stand around, you know, okay, they're really just standing around and waiting and staring at the ceiling and don't watch you now, how you're doing your business. I think that's good.

Yes, but watch. Also there, in the mirror, you have to look at the dead angle. Someone can also stand in the dead angle angle that you don't see immediately. I have to say, we were in a musical with Death Becomes Her. That was quite funny, but I was also pretty distracted, I have to say. Because you got it too.

In front of me was an older woman. You have to say, there were three generations and she was the grandma. Then she had the daughter on the left of herself and on the far left was the granddaughter. I would say, in a way. In a way, yes. And the grandma did everything right. She had her daughter on the left and on the very left was her granddaughter. Namely a jacket that you have in the night in the forest when you go jogging, that reflects so much.

In neon yellow. I had a woman in front of me who was small, but had ultra radiation. I was so distracted by this neon yellow that lit me up. And I was also a bit skeptical. It was obviously worked with ultraviolet there and there were also stains on the jacket.

It irritated me. And of course she was a frequent musical-goer, I think, because she could sing the lyrics without any help. She sang along and spoke along. Where I also say, hey, I don't know, does it have to be... I'm giving her the pleasure. She also continued to sing in the middle of the musical. But she also talked to me, where I said, huh, interesting, let's meet like this,

then she can just tell me as a monologue. But what I also observed with her, eating and drinking is not allowed in this theater. And this woman somehow managed to take a complete menu with her in tupperware, main course, appetizer, dessert, muesli, and then also different drinks. So not only water, not only this little PET bottle of water that you might still take with you when you're on security,

but really a choice of drinks. She had a can, she had a bottle, she had a coke, she had a little juice and she she had it all during this two and a half, three hours that we were there with a break, she was delicious. Yes, but you have to say, these souls are not that big. The volume is, when spoken on stage, not that high. It's not in a pop concert where there are 60,000 people, where you are actually mega always at the top of the volume. There are also places that are quiet.

When we were at Bob Odenkirk and Kieran Kalkin last week, at Glengarry Glen Ross, there was also someone behind me who said, okay, I was on the road all day, you don't have time, New York, that keeps you on track. I just didn't get to eat, and he brought a snack with him, where I said, okay, put it in,

a banana or a Snickers, and then it's just a rush. But I think he decided, no, today I'll take some celebrations with me and I'll pack every little Snickers and Mars individually. Celebrate good times, come on. I was distracted, but also because I was hungry. You know, that rustle of the bags where you think, oh, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now It was really fantastic and I noticed something. It's a one-woman-show and you're very focused,

you look at the stage and then a person came, we were sitting right next to the hallway and a person came at least half an hour, if not even three quarters of an hour too late, when the piece was already in the middle of running and you were fully focused and then what did the person do? She had to go to the middle of the row and did not dare to ask if she could go through. So she stood there with a backpack, straight ahead of us and did not move. And then the first five seconds behind us were already like, hey, move out of the way!

Hey! And the woman behind me was like, I'm gonna kick his ass! And then at some point it was over, and then the people asked, I heard that, does he belong to the piece? point it happened. And then people asked, I heard that. Does he belong to the band? And I have to say, what I liked, he came in with his backpack too late. And I have to play that for you exclusively.

Because we're doing a video podcast, it's not going to be published. He was standing there, with his backpack from Samsonit, He hit his hands in the hip, looked from left to right, nodded his head a bit, smiled at it, and then he shouted,

man, this is a really great story! With a self-understanding, and he blocked so many people's eyes, but he just stood there stubbornly. He didn't move away from the spot. And then he stood there for so long that people suddenly thought, he's part of the play. Yes, where I also thought, is this a flash mob story

where the people come out of the audience again and then you're being played and then you're suddenly in the spotlight. And the whole annoying story, it wasn't just a guy who came too late and it was embarrassing to him. And then I have to say, it was kind of frustrating. Totally! And I thought at some point, okay, maybe it's part of the play and it's a kind of social experiment. And the people who are going to get involved with him are then punished by being introduced.

Because it's about social interaction and maybe we'll even be filmed with it. Because it was also a multimedia piece where many different types of media took place on stage. That's why I thought, now just don't make a wrong move, otherwise we'll also be part of the piece. I have to say, what I really like is that the events here tend to start earlier than I'm used to in Germany or Switzerland. For us, mostly at 20, 30, at the cool events, it starts at 22 o'clock, the door opens at 10,

at 22 o'clock, the front bed at 23 o'clock, the main act at 0 o'clock, and then the concert ends at half past three in the morning. Here it's different. And that's really my dream of a concert that starts at 17 o'clock and ends at 18.30. We're getting a whole lot further here in the US, especially here in New York. Because here the performances start at 6pm or 6.30pm. Sometimes there's a second set at jazz concerts, later on.

But in musicals it was like that, or in theaters, or at comedy events. Wonderful! 6pm, 6.30pm, then you're done at 6clock, then you can go home and watch another Tatort. Honestly, I can also go at 19 to 20 o'clock, and I thought that was ideal. And then at 20.10 you've already seen me at the bubble tea stand, I got my good night tea, and then at 22 o'clock, at the latest, off to the pub and then get up refreshed the next day. That's not possible. I really like that.

But it's always the question, every time I sit there, do people come straight from work? Have they been home yet? Did they change clothes? How do they do that logistically? These are questions that concern me, which I don't think anyone else is interested in, not even the people themselves.

I think a lot of people change their outfits at work, that's what I noticed. They often have backpacks like that. And I've seen people changing their high shoes on the street in two milliseconds into sneakers after work. I think they do it on the fly. It's like that.

A complete costume change, like in a musical. You take off your zipper, tear off the three-piece suit in a navy blue and suddenly you wear a red sequin mini dress. That's the New York vibe. Everything on the fly. Three outfit changes a day, like others, in two weeks. Yes, right. In good weeks. Last week we asked if people from the USA, especially from New York,

could send us a message on our email address and tell us a little bit about their perspective. What is friendly in here and what is unfriendly in here? Because we always look at things from our point of view. We are tourists and we have no idea of life. And people wrote to us and I want to briefly present this. Sure. For example, Katharina wrote, she sent a whole list.

Maybe we'll just go through it. So, for example, first of all, self checkout cash, of course, we also know that from us. But she says it's especially important here to take self checkout cash as a tri. Because she writes, the Americans love small talk. I always recommend self checkout cash. Otherwise, there is always a risk that your entire purchase is commented. Whether food or at the tupac boxes or scented candles buy at TJ Maxx. Everything is commented in principle. Nothing remains undiscovered. Even at Trader Joe's at the cash register, the cashier asks me what I bought at Sephora before, as soon as she discovered the bag.

Go to the self-checkout. It's really good. And I've seen self-checkout classes at clothing stores. It's really more widespread than ours. That happened to you at Trader Joe's too, when you bought the honeycomb candies on sale for Germany. So then old wounds will be torn up again. Thank you very much for that.

He also addressed you that there are so many of them. What did he say? It really has to taste good if you buy so much of it. And what did I say? Yes. Yes, thank you. You too. You're welcome. Thank you. Yes, you're welcome. I always say, no matter where my conversation is, perfect, you're welcome. Perfect, great, amazing. Thank you. You're welcome. Katharina writes, second, pick up orders in the restaurant.

Same reason as with the self checkout cards. You don't have to small talk. And that's something we've already done. It's really very, very common that restaurants actually all have their own rules for orders that you make via an app or your website. Where you can then just any big questions and apologies, I've ordered, you go in, the bag is there, the name is on it, you don't have to say hello, you don't have to say thank you,

they're actually happy if they have nothing to do with it, you go in, take your bag, the food is ready, go out. Often it's even arranged in alphabetical order in the shelf, with the letters, so you can easily find your name yourself and then disappear disappear quickly again as if you had never been there. Yes, and she also writes a thing that I noticed, but I never really asked why we do that in Germany. She writes, change the wagon in the subway with strange passengers. While in Germany the trend of going through situations, it is generally common in the USA, as soon as someone is uncomfortable in the subway, they change the car.

It's true. If someone does something weird... And that happens a lot. Yes, and then they go out and get back in, where we always have the feeling that we have to get out of here. And I don't know, we don't want to be overtaken, even though we can do it for our own self-protection. You don't have to deliver an unpleasant situation. I'll put it this way, one of the advertising claims for the New York subway is Don't be someone's subway story. And that's really how it is, everyone has a subway story to tell.

We've already experienced things with ninjas who through the... We also changed the wagon, thank God, because then we met Bob Odenkirk in the next car. Or this Tumbler couple you did a half-axe shoot with, where I was very distracted, but where I was distracted, fascinated, but also somehow irritated, but also rejected by the situation. There are people who put mopas, motorcycles and sofas in the subway, there is everything in the subway. And change cars to self-protection. It's a yes. Hannes wrote to us. He doesn't live in New York, he lives in Oregon.

And there he is with an IT company. And he already got the feedback from his superiors that he can't get into the thing so quickly at meetings. So he has to give a little bit of a lead and a little bit of small talk. A little bit of small talk. He is extroverted, but that is also an unpleasant thing for him. And he has also counted many points that Katharina has also counted. He even says that he makes purchases at Walmart via the app so that even the purchase is carried into the car and he doesn't have to say anything anymore.

That's awesome. And he also says, which is particularly interesting, that calling is out. You'd rather write here, doctor appointments, hairdressing visits or even deliveries can be almost always done by SMS or app. Oh, that's so nice. Wonderful.

But I don't want it to disappear with WhatsApp. Because that's in many countries now, especially in Asia, that also the professional things run via WhatsApp, so also doctors, especially in Asia, professional things are also being broadcast via WhatsApp. Doctors, kindergartens, schools, communications, everything is being broadcast via WhatsApp. And I don't want that either. I want WhatsApp to remain private.

That's why there should be an extra WhatsApp only for things where you have to make appointments. I think that's good. Yes, where there is an anonymous, encrypted thing. Yes, exactly. That you don't distribute the phone numbers to everyone. Yes, but there's also this anonymous, encrypted thing. Yes, exactly. That you don't distribute the phone number to everyone directly. Yes, exactly. Like, with protocol.

Yes, and then they might get a code, but not the phone number, you know? Come on, Chris, we have to get something out of this. We have a colleague from Oregon who can help us, he's an IT guy. You know, yes, exactly. Can't we make that big in Germany? But I have to warn you, because there are also high-end TVs. I've got dozens of messages. Apparently, the TV industry is already so desperate that the idea that I thought was new,

that you say, we all have high-end phones anyway, we all watch TikTok and Instagram, all in 9 to 16, not 16 to 9, that the TV industry will come up with an idea in 10 years, in the despair data high-end TV, for example, exists for a long time. I even saw it in the Whitney Museum. It's hanging there. It's just hanging there, part of the art exhibition. That's why these apps where something gets leaked,

I mean, there's Telegram. Maybe we just have to switch to conspiracy theorists, drug apps, Juli. Yes, right. And just set up our business there. Yes, that's right. And just set up our businesses there. Yes, with a mirror. But Hannes, honestly, Hannes, do a meeting with us to develop such an app.

And I promise you too, you don't have to do a small talk with us beforehand. We can go straight into the subject. We go straight to media series. We are known for that. But I also noticed that when you work with bigger companies, which has happened to me more often this year, when I develop series or something like that, that people really learned,

when you have an hourly meeting, that the first at least five minutes, rather ten minutes, are not talked about, but first a little warmed up. And then there are people who are really, really good and they go in smoothly. So nonchalant, without the mind, it will moderate through. And then there are people who are really, really good and they go in smoothly. So nonchalant, without that you will moderate it. And then there are people who come and don't make the leap into the topic. And I also said, should I make a transition now?

Should I make a transition? Yes, because at some point you just can't stand it anymore. I also think so, so the meeting is already unnecessary anyway. You could just write an email anyway. Then let's just do this, and how are you doing and where are you right now? Let's shorten it, I want to continue playing Minesweeper. Stop it with the fucking zoom. And Hannes wrote something else.

He says he is not disturbed by the house door. So ringing is not a theme in Oregon. There are the no soliciting signs, which means no advertising, no advertising, but also this no house, so not begging or I think that's what it's about, that people offer their services directly at the door, something like I can clean their facade or the elevator or something. I can clean the straw from their cellar. Exactly, exactly. That is probably very respected there, so if you have such a sign, then nobody

just comes unannounced past. But Hannes writes too. I live 45 minutes from the next city, in the middle of the forest, in the absolute nowhere. Nobody really annoys you here. The only thing that makes you feel like action are animals that interact with my chicken stable. Surveillance cameras are sacred.

Oh. So you might just have to go to nowhere in Oregon, in the middle of the valley, an observation chamber, a gun on the right, a can of beer on the right, and then maybe nobody will come. Good tip! Yes, and both say, Hannes and Katharina and also other letters that they have reached us, you have to be careful with speaking German in public and with a German accent, which

of course is difficult for me, where I also noticed, when I'm on the road with you and I'm in this high German mode, I'm completely confused. Because I learned English from Swiss German, of course. And when I speak English and I'm on the road with you, I have a hardcore German accent, which I don't really have when I come from Swiss German. Because then you usually have a hardcore Swiss accent. Yes, yes. Yes, I have it on display. I don't have such a strong then you usually have a hardcore Swiss accent. Yes, yes.

Yes, I have a trained one. I don't have such a strong accent, but you will judge it better. I also have the German accent completely. So completely. It doesn't matter at all. Werner Herzog 2.0 I am. Exactly, it doesn't matter at all. Only it's just that people like to do smalltalking here.

And Hannes, for example, writes that the conversations always run the same way when people hear an accent from him. The conversations are like oh wow where is your accent? Germany. Oh cool and then there are five different answers. A. I was stationed there. B. a family member was stationed there. C. I've never been abroad. D. I speak a little German. And E. It's a because they had a German in the treehouse 14 generations ago. I think it's just about how they want to connect. I don't think that's meant to be superfluous or something. At the end of the day, they're interested in a wet kebab for you. We're not going to do anything about it. But do you know what I'm interested in?

No. What does the competition do? And I'm not talking about Bob Odenkirk or Keele and Carlton, but what does the beverage sector do in the US? I saw something about Coca-Cola, about the great Coca-Cola company that I support with money. I'm crazy. But if they want me to support them even more, they have to send me several pallets.

Or the Pepsi Company or Afri-Cola or whoever. I actually support every cola drink if I get enough pallets. But here it's about a very specific thing. You know, I like orange flavor in chocolate, which you really hate. And I saw something there, Coca Cola with orange flavor, where I immediately became bright, but it was not just orange, but it said orange cream, Coca Cola flavor. I haven't seen that yet.

So I have to say, be careful, I have to bring the coca cola shawarma to the market soon before the competition is over. It's getting crazy. Because it's orange cream, it's not just orange cream or something, but cream refers to cream soda and that's a vanilla lemonade in principle, which refers to this float thing. Yes, with the cola with vanilla ice in it. Exactly. And that's just with orange in it. So you actually have a cola with vanilla and orange flavor at the same time. Absolutely brilliant. So if you say I like orange and vanilla, then that's something for you.

If you say I like orange but not vanilla, then you shouldn't drink it. And if you say I like orange, but not vanilla, then you shouldn't drink it. And if you say, I like vanilla, but I hate orange, then you shouldn't drink it either. So I think this product excludes almost more people than one. Nevertheless, I will offer it in the food truck if I drive down Route 66 with it, on the side, in the flaps, in the melted ice. But only if I can adopt one tire from your food truck.

But do you know what I'm record in the assortment? The new collaboration of the year, I almost mean, Linkin Park has brought something on the market together with Haribo. The Linkin Park Haribo. Is that an advertisement now? Did the rapper from Linkin Park send you a pallet? Unfortunately, he didn't pay any advertising. I just saw it and I had to laugh so hard. Because it's so funny for Linkin Park Haribo.

What's next, Chris? What's next? The Aiken cat tongues. What is it? Jean Paul man-armor. The Evanescence Mozart balls. Those are the bands for eternity. Linkin Park is back, but it's interesting to do it now.

That's interesting. I'm interested in how they taste. Maybe I'll taste them. Maybe it has the potential of a snack of the week. I have to test it first. Also here, unpaid advertising. As always, I am That's actually the underline. It's underline that if you go to the people enough on the sack, then you can possibly do it if you are lucky. So that's it. That's the American Dream summarized underline. Great. Well, that's it. Next episode then again from a good old Germany. We have managed to analyze a country within two podcast episodes.

Now you can actually save every Markus Lanz doko in the USA, right? I'd rather watch Markus Lanz in Greenland, I've taken more with me. That was the final verdict on these United States that are there now. Next week, if things go well, a new episode on Tuesday. When we've recovered, I have to say my throat is pretty sore now. Yes, same. Let's see if that will change. Do you want to adopt my voice bands?

Yes, very much. Thank you for listening, see you again and bye. Bye. Drainys, the podcast from the comfort zone.