Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - Ep. 33 Flula - Ear Biscuits

Episode Date: May 16, 2014

Eccentric YouTuber and German DJ, Flula Borg, joins Rhett & Link this week to discuss his background, his recent epic collaboration with Sir Mix-a-Lot, how he covertly assumed the role of UNC's mascot, and whether or not he truly understands why people find him funny. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This, this, this, this is Mythical. Welcome to Ear Biscuits. I'm Rhett. And I'm Link. It's time for another conversation with someone interesting from the internet at the round table of dim lighting. This week, we have Flula Borg, German techno DJ and producer with a major YouTube presence and an extremely dedicated cult following. Now, he's hosted a number of shows on a number of channels, like What's Trending, Machinima, Screen Junkies, to name a few,

but his own YouTube channel, which he started in 2007, boasts over 330,000 subscribers and over 44 million views. Now, we really like Flula. Let's go ahead and just come clean here. We really like Flula. From the first time we met him, yeah. We met him at VidCon. He came up and introduced himself, and we just were immediately drawn to this guy's personality. He's hilarious. Charismatic.

Yes. Happy. And I would say unorthodox. And I don't think it's just because he's from Germany. But I'd say he does get a lot of mileage out of that. Yeah, he does. But I think he's just a different dude, as is evidenced by one of his first hit songs, which we're going to play for you here. It's called Moo Moo Cow, You Are So Dairy.

Oh, what's up? Moo Moo called moo moo cow you are so dairy now flula's first viral success on his YouTube channel were his vlogs where he articulated his confusion around American idioms. Okay, so his most viewed video to date, almost at 5 million views, is called Jennifer is a Party Pooper, 7.12 a.m. Jennifer goes to the party and then poops but she do it so people know with where do she go for it does she does she visit the water closet and make door of the open so people may see and smell things maybe she go like by the tables with the gift and the present and the punchless bowl. Jennifer, you have some mental issue. And he's moved beyond the vlogs to successful series like Auto-Tunes with Flula, which is a play on words in which he records an entire a cappella cover. Yeah, he does like a loop.

In a car. He has his looping machine. Right. And he usually collaborates with different YouTube guests you know he's he's worked with Grace he's worked with Hannah he worked with Miranda Sings

and a really popular one I think his most popular auto tune so far yeah 2.5 million views is the No Diggity cover with Chester C

play on play that yo they drop the verse ha it's going down, fade to black. See the homies got heavy collab creations. Bump like acne, no doubt.

I put it down, never slouch. As long as my critical voucher dog couldn't catch me saying ouch. Tell me, who could stop what Trey making moves? Attracting honeys like a magnet. Giving him your dazzling with a mellow accent. Still moving his flavor with the original black streets. And Teddy, the OG, I'm shaking us down. Good Lord.

Baby got it moving all over town. Sticky bitchy don't play around. Never much grind. Guy came by the mile. Getting paid is a forte. Each and every day, truth laying away. I can't get out of my mind. I think about the girl all the time. So we're glad to have Flula sit in with us here and make an Ear Biscuit.

I was personally very interested in the story of how he made the collaboration with Sir Mix-a-Lot happen. Baby Got Back. We also talked about his backstory growing up in Germany. Was that a pun? His Baby Got Back story in Germany. Coming to America, which is a movie, but it's also the story of Flula coming to America, including his stint as a mascot at the much hated,

around here on Ear Biscuits, school UNC. And we asked the $64 question, or the $25,000 pyramid. I think it's $64,000 question. The $64 question or the $25,000 pyramid. I think it's $64,000 question. The $64 million question. If he knows why he's funny, does he know that he's funny at all? So we dove into that. Here it is.

The Flula Biscuit. My ex-girlfriend Alright, warming it up Yeah, you talk about crisscross You know it My ex-girlfriend was almost in a relationship with half of crisscross I don't know if it's the half that died or not Oh, dark, oh, dark turn Pretty early

Whoa Which one died? Cross. Chris? You were following this? Well, I know they're both Chris's. Right? They're both Chris's?

Like Chris something? They wore their outfits backwards. They were totally crossed out. Now, I knew when I said warming it up that you were going to latch on to that. But just like we were talking about working on something together, and I think we've settled on you're going to let us be in your video with the salt and pepper push-it. You want to do a push-it?

Yeah, I mean, absolutely, we want to be on your channel. Let us be you. No, this is my honor. This is like a free box of Pop-Tarts. If you give me this, i will eat all of those yeah i mean are you seem to be steeped in i'm trying to put parameters on the music on the either the genre or the time period because i think we're similar in age yeah so what what music are you obsessed with i have obsessions with i think it's

terrible music from the early 1990s it is when you do not have taste yet as a child and just oh is it on the radio this means it's great and so i i love it so like 1990 92 34 i'm loving all of the old hip-hop so i really love this very much. I listened to 93.5 here. K-Day. K-Day. Oh, I love it. They play the old school rap and I was...

93.5? Yeah. Sorry. They were one of the first stations to play, first hip hop stations in America back in the day.

But they still play the old school stuff and my kids were in the car and they were playing that jam at the playground and stuff and my kids were in the car and they were playing that jam at the playground and it's the kids at the playground

da da da dee da da that's another bad creation ABC oh yeah they also sang Aisha Aisha you know I want you so bad

not about him don't mean I'm Buddha they also had a song called Spiderman which sounds like Aisha except they just say Spiderman well you know Spiderman if you've got a hook you know recycle They also had a song called Spider-Man, which sounds like Aisha, except they just say Spider-Man.

Spider-Man. If you've got a hook, you know. Recycle. Recycle. But my kids, when that song went off the radio, my kids don't understand the radio because they're in a digital age. And Lincoln was like, Dad, play the song again. And I was like, Sonny, it was on the radio. And he did not understand that I couldn't play it again.

When did this happen? Recently? Two weeks ago. And then he was like, play that Playground song again. That was cool. It's kids rapping. I was like,

I can't play it again. It was on a thing called the radio that we'd never listened to. Wow. And then he said, well, download it. So now I gotta, you know, now I gotta download it.

In the moment, he was like, well, download it from the radio. But you're saying just later, download it. Well, the fact is, I could have downloaded it immediately. Of course. On my phone. You could have, but not through the moment. He was like, well, download it from the radio. But you're saying just later, download it. Well, the fact is I could have downloaded it immediately. Of course. On my phone.

You could have, but not through the radio. I wasn't willing to pay $129. I just want your kids to be properly informed about this. Well, speaking of music, Flula, you've been quoted as saying about your own music. Yeah. My music is like a hamster who has been fed some magic juice. The hamster is looking strange in the eyes yes which is probable from the juice and the people are saying dance hamster dance from your hamster legs and now a secret i

am the hamster yeah can you uh can you put that in layman's terms in who terms yeah that means uh make that in a way say that in a way that normal people can understand. I'm a person who is like, do you know like a sponge? Yeah, sponge. Yeah, let us, we are at a supermarket. We have purchased a sponge. What is in the sponge right now? Air.

Nothing. Yeah, serious, right? So you put a sponge in the earth and everything is coming to the sponge. You squeeze it it you squish it and dirt out dirt and sound and poodles and everything is going into the sponge right i'm like the sponge and then the old man is walking by and then he does not see the sponge it's small he step on the sponge what is occurring it all comes out yeah poodles and everything. All of those things. Okay. What genre is your music?

I mean, you're a DJ. But you invent music. Yeah, DJ is tough. Everyone is a DJ now, right? You're like, oh, who are you? Thomas. Great, you're a DJ. It doesn't matter.

DJ Thomas. DJ Thomas is a hot name. But I like to make weird sounds and sounds. Well, they're not weird. People say they are weird. I find things that are interesting, and then I just make loops with those, and I like to express,

wow, eww, ticka-ticka-bong. Like anything that is in my brain, I bring it out. Everyone is, you are doing this. You guys are making videos. You know. This is true, but I think there's, I don't know if I would describe our work as a hamster. I think that's one of the key differences. But would you say tröppel?

Maybe. I don't know if I would use any small furry animal. We've never sampled cows mooing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But we did hear your track. What was that one called? Well, two names.

Kuchen, which means tiny cow or cake, if you're pronouncing it different, or Mumukau for the American audience. But it had a tagline that was like, you are so dairy. Yeah, Mumukau, you are so dairy. You are a heifer fairy. And what year did you write that? I did write that as a child, but it was before I was understanding how to write techno songs. So I have a tiny book where it is many poems as a child. And then I was taking these poems and making techno songs when I learned a very crappy software called EJ.

EJ. Which is E-J-A-Y. It's terrible. But then I was using this to make dope techno tunes. As a child? That was like 17, 18 years old. Okay. Yeah, but the poems are 9 years old,

10 years old. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that was like one of the first songs to kind of like be like, oh, this guy is an artist. He's got a song about a cow. Yeah, about cows, about cows about cows and i

was sampling the cows i live in so i'm from a small town close to nürnberg nürnberg has a set history for americans it is the trials place of the trials deborah downer oh the trials do you know yeah yeah not like medlock or what but but yeah, German. So, but this, I was working some summers in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is in Bavaria, and then we can ski there many winters there. Cows are there, many, many, many cows. So I was recording those cows and then, yeah, sampling. Okay, so let's come back to sampling as a child Or writing poems as a child But

I did want to pick your brain about Not only your music but Your video with Sir Mix-a-Lot We love all of the auto-tunes. Oh, thanks. And that's why we're like, okay, we really want to be in one. This push it thing, let's make it happen. are doing it super excited oh yeah um love the chester c one i mean i knew that you know okay just reading the title no diggity with chester c no i'm not surprised that it blew up as big as it did i mean it's in your top five performing videos at least for now i think you know things are still blowing up for you but

it was so it was so satisfying when he when he drops when he starts singing oh uh it was it was just smart the way that you set it up well we yeah well that we we did not have so much planning i just said hey but maybe you are a taxi an Uber and then he's like Uber then I say let's record and then we did do it but you knew the tension was going to build

to him like busting out into that chorus that Chester C voice he's having pipes so I do not own pipes but you were the perfect set up it was like the tension was Mr. C voice. He's got the pipes. Pipes. He's having pipes. So I do not own pipes. But you were the perfect setup. It was like the tension was building. Oh, I can't wait for that.

No diggity chorus. Well, he can. Well, and also I love this song. It is one of my most favorite songs. And I'm very happy he did like it. He really did enjoy it. Yeah, it's like volleyball. Like bump. I was bumping.

And then he was volleyball. So he was ready for it. It wasn't like, oh, I was bumping, and then he was volleyball. So he was ready for it. It wasn't like, oh, you know that song, No Digging? He was like, let me familiarize myself with it. It wasn't one of these situations like on American Idol where these kids are singing a song that we all know by heart, and you can be like, oh, they've heard it twice. Oh, no, he knew it.

He was in his bones. He killed it. He came from deep. In the bones with the pipes. But I wanted to ask about the Sir Mix-a-Lot, he knew it. He was in his bones. He came from deep. In the bones with the pipes. But I wanted to ask about the Sir Mix-A-Lot, Baby Got Back autotune. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How did that come about? Well, I love Sir Mix-A-Lot very much.

This song is one of the top 10 hip-hop songs I sing in the history. So this is ubiquitous. Oh, right? So I love it. In Twitter, we have a friend. We are sharing a friend, me and Sir Mix-a-Lot. Who is this friend? Like a celebrity?

No, no. Well, yeah, she is. It's Miss Destructo, Amber Osborne. She's very dope. She's like a social media guru expert person. And we have connected some years ago. And one time she makes a tweet like, hey, Flula and Mixalot, you guys are cool

or something like this or very nice. And I see it immediate. I did not realize he was on Twitter. One tweet to both of you. Yeah, and I immediately started, boom, we have to do it. Matchmaker. Oh, yeah. And then we are following each other. Then I'm direct message, Mr. Mix'm direct mess a mr he started following you at that point oh yeah we did it

because she was our my friend and his friend also and then i said uh you know mr mix a lot i think i said sir i don't know if i said i said something formal maybe he already was sir you might as well go with it right so i did maybe did maybe once. Like, sir makes a lot. I will drive to your house if you do not are scared of me, and we will record a song. Is this a direct message? Yeah, direct message. And then he's like, yeah, great. I think he's probably receiving many things in life that he's like, yeah, whatever.

But I was like, yeah, boom. This is the time. This is the day. I have the car. Let's do it. And then he's like, yeah, this sounds boring. Let's do it different. And then I said, well, what if it has some dubstep?

He's like, boom, let's do it. So then he said yes. And he's local? No, he's in Seattle. Seattle. So you drove from Los Angeles to Seattle. Yeah. Because you said, I will drive to your house.

Yeah. I did not care where he was living. Yeah, does not matter. your house yeah i didn't not care where he was living yeah does not matter so he gives you the over twitter you kind of you figure out you had to add dubstep into the mix in order for him to be interested yeah because he's like you know this is i've seen this so many million times i need some hello let's try something fresh please you know and i understand if it if i'm a mr sir mix a lot this is boring Let's try some new things. So we did it.

So you drove up there. Yeah. And what was that initial meeting like? Knock on the door type thing or was there a gate? There was a gate. He was not there.

He's like, oh, sorry, at the pharmacy, which was great. I was like, oh, he's a human. He purchases aspirins. That was nice.

So I did wait and then he did arrive and then we go inside. He shows me studio and then we shoot in... What is Sir Mix-a-Lot's house like? Very nice. So I did wait and then he did arrive and then we go inside. He shows me studio and then we shoot in... What is Sir Mix-a-Lot's house like? Very nice. Nice, dope, dope,

dope mansion. Is that Big Butt money? Oh, you know, big booty, big booty, big booty. It's still coming in. All day long. Like fountains inside

type situation? Outside. I did not see inside. Perhaps the water was off. But there was a statue. Of himself? No. That would not see inside. Perhaps the water was off. But there was a statue. Of himself? No. That would be cool though. Ah, next time.

He's probably got more self-respect in there. But then the parameters are you have to shoot. This is like your rental car? Your car? Rental car. Suburban or what. Usually the car didn't move with Mix-a-Lot.

No, but the Vipers did. Is that because he was like let's just keep let's just stay stationary? No, it was raining. You had to make it happen. Yeah.

Yeah. And we also didn't have like a driver and I was thinking maybe you just come in like I will and then you enter and then we will start. And it was okay. I think it's nice to not move if you have a nice person like that.

Like if it's only me, maybe better to drive or have like chickens outside or something outside. That worked out pretty great though. Wow. I was very lucky and happy about it he is also the bomb he's so cool so easy to work with oh wow so great he's a producer and so he under i don't know he's just great very great person and do you keep in touch now little bit yeah like i have to see hawks i did text to him because he's a big Mr. like a Seattle Seahawks the football he loves it

so we will text and hey great work boom boom boom boom and then he says something I don't remember LA face with the Oakland booty what

so good what's your favorite auto-tune that you've done so far oh that's tough I like many of those in my mind right now to answer

it's perhaps because it's nba playoffs i did auto tunes with dirk nowitzki oh yeah who was in a couple of ladies some some nice ladies they are g leader spirits yeah and for the mavericks and so we did sing rolling stone satisfaction which is a song yeah and and dirk he's uh he can sing okay Dirk can he's like a wizard of every all the items

he's a jack of all trades all of the jacks and he's a very big man he's a large person in the backseat of that car especially it was

standing out a little bit it was awkward yeah and you edit all of this too I assume right I do edit it it's quite an editing exercise it is a lot of exercise.

Yeah, it is a lot. But I enjoy to do it. It's a nice, it's creative. You guys, I think, are knowing it. Editing is like, this is where you make your breads. Like you purchase the ingredient, you know? Like you purchase the flour. Bread and butter.

Bread and butter, that's your edit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So let's find out we know where you're at now right so you're here in LA

you're making a go at it as a DJ now you've got the YouTube thing that's that caught our attention just you know

in the past year or so great big fans wanted you to be a part of the the belly button video thanks for doing that thank no thank you guys that was so very fun and yeah and want to be a part of the belly button video. Thanks for doing that. No, thank you, guys. That was so very fun.

And want to be part of an autotune. Of course. Let's go back. Let's go back to the beginning. Boom, boom, boom. So what's the origins of Flula? Where were you born? How did that happen?

What are your parents like? Parents did make a magic time, but it was in Erlangen, which is a small town near to Nürnberg. And Americans like Erlangen is how you would spell it. But Erlangen. Erlangen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

So I was born there. It's in Bavaria. It's North Bavaria. And I always did like music, always. I was always beatboxing. I have no brothers or sister or anything like that. So when I'm alone, it's like, always making sounds and weird and drawing things.

And I think always I was feeling like I have to get it out. It's like a bowel moving, but of good times. Yeah, and so this is, I think, my start was I have to release it. What occurs if you do not release it how do your parents articulate this now back to you we thought you were weird or yeah they are i think now they are okay with it before a little concern a little bit was concerned like what's occurring what are you doing they would want me to make because i was like an engineering major a little bit so they like let's do this you are understanding math please let's let's follow this get a real job

real job they are understanding this path better but for me it's uh okay that's good but i do not feel for me personally it is right i need something different now i was i was an only child i well i grew up with a stepsister until third grade and then uh my mom and jimmy split up and then it was from third grade on it was just me and my mom so i was basically living with no siblings and i remember i would play solitaire on my bed actually i wouldn't i got that wrong i would play poker against myself with cards on my bed. Stop it. Like, uh... Well, that's sadder than solitaire. That's sad,

isn't it? Because that's the whole point of solitaire. I would play poker against myself as a kid. Who won? Yeah. I don't remember. But maybe I should have been beatboxing. But who, why? Look what was occurring now. We're wearing headphones and speaking.

I don't play cards, though. It worked out. I didn't have a future in cards. So, as crazy as it seems, it seems like you were on to something. Well, I did not know it, I think. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. But what was in terms of all the music that

we were listening to here in America, were you pretty much being exposed to the same stuff? So like that late 80s, early 90s, where I remember when we were in middle school, we started beatboxing. You know, there would be beatbox contests. Oh, wow. On the playground. At the playground.

And so this kind of stuff was happening in Germany too. Well, no, not so much, I must say. And I will tell you, I'm not like an expert of beatboxing. I just enjoy it. So I make, I do it. It is like a man who enjoys yoga. He's not like in the Yoga Olympics. He's just doing downward dogs all day long.

So you didn't have like, I mean, we had like, I mean, the real story was, is that we were two white kids that wanted to be able to beatbox like all the black kids that we went to school with and oh yeah and we would just watch them and listen to them and then try to emulate them and it was like oh i think i can figure out what they're doing and now let's now let's do it and now let's practice and let's kind of push each other push it but what i mean what were you how were you you just trying things out, moving your mouth around? Yeah, yeah.

I was doing that. There's an old band. They're called the Fat Boys. Oh, yeah. The Fat Boys. Yeah, yeah. And they have one song. I don't know if it's allowed, but it's called My Nuts. Yeah, that's what we say.

We say that here, yeah? My nuts. And the man is always. This is a crazy one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. so i was always trying to do this a little bit but in my school not so many people we are liking american culture it is it's still like this in germany but as a child we have obsessing with everything and it was like a perfect time because michael jordan was big and so And so I love basketball a lot. And so that was like many culture things are coming to us in this time, like Michael Jackson, the Dangerous album.

This was a very big thing also. So I was listening to all of these things, and I was trying to make a copy of it for sure. But not everyone was like that, I must say. Okay. And were you at this time like recording your stuff like inventing stuff come you know producing your own music said you were writing poems yeah i was writing poems as a child so i would write the poems and then it was you know how we have like

a faces like of the moon but longer and and for your life you know so like i was like writing poems for like three years and then i did not know where's the book who knows time to collect stamps but then i would find the book and oh whoa this is a cool cool poem about cows and now i have some techno software let's make a song and what are some of the lyrics to that to the uh the dairy song whatever it's called. Yeah. Moo moo cow, yes, you are naked. No. Wait. Oh, yeah.

Moo moo cow, you are so dairy. You are a half a fairy. That's my most popular line in this. I can see why. Moo moo cow, yes, you are sacred. You are black and white and naked. Okay. So here's a question.

Yeah. Do you know how funny that is? No. I only am writing things I think are making sense And are fun time And maybe if they are rhyming Or sounding good inside Boom

Let's do it Because I'm gonna This is I'm gonna tell you how I perceive that When I hear that Mumu and Cal You are so dairy

What? What's the next part? You are a heifer fairy You are a heifer fairy I'm like Okay This guy is hilarious This This is a so dairy what what's the next you are a heifer fairy you're a heifer fairy i'm like okay this guy is hilarious um this this is a and this guy's a little crazy perhaps people have said it and so

that's and then i think and that's why i like him and i think that's why everyone else likes him are you do you you see how people latch on to that because this song got kind of popular right a little bit yeah it was a little bit it was yeah i don't know what when it happened what were you like oh they liked the hook or were they did you think oh no they they must understand that i'm funny i don't understand comedy really i'm only making items that I must make you know like you feel the pressure it is like

let us eat we are here with ear biscuits let us have 15 biscuits well these may not just live in your place yeah sometime they must come out

so if I'm seeing too many cows on the street in the pastures I must record a song with the cows and then i must release this song and was this a breakout hit i mean what what was the i'm trying to figure out where in the journey something popped for you because at some point you come here to the states which came first entertainment or the move what was what was the next yeah so i was djing in germany first and i was i was well okay so to start i was a shoe plattler a dancer

and so shoe plattler is like the you know the yodel yodel like i cannot yodel but shoe plattler also meant that they're wearing the lederhosen and slapping legs and feet we cannot show in a podcast because it is for ears only. Like a folk dancer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we are calling it Schuhplattler. So I was a Schuhplattler in a group. And I was doing this.

You were a dancer in a traditional German dance. That's right. Yeah, yeah. So more like Bavarian a little bit. And so I was doing this. You were dressed like a yodeler. Well, with lederhosen. And we are all...

Where do you do this at? Like at festivals? Yeah, we have a club. We have a club. And then... Sorry. Then we go and we will have like at events.

We will have at Volksfests, which just means like the people parties. Like a fair. A fair. A fair, yeah. But we do not have

like the large pigs and you're like, oh, chicken fried dumpling hot dog in the Twinkie chocolate. Right. Yeah, we don't have that. You just had dancing. And waffles, yeah. Okay. Yeah.

And so we will do it at these parties or sometimes it's just only for practice. You know, it's like old people are like, let's have a waltz club. Let's waltz together, old ladies. We had this with the Schubladlers so I was starting with this we have a DJ and I was speaking to him about DJ times music and that this is my start of

making some music and so then I was making music but it was like not like a good tape recorder like a recorder of tapes like yeah yeah boom and then then uh blah blah blah blah right this is something i'm speaking too many words now no i got you then i was making some techno songs and then the cow song was a starter many of some that i was making okay the

video was helping this is before youtube i did write the song many years ago you made a video with it yeah yeah yeah yeah and where do you put the video oh well before it was not on youtube it was like on my page in some way it was like an old video on old website and then when youtube was i was like ah i will pump it up i will i will upload it just for fun time and so yeah but it involved a tape recorder and actual cattle. Cows. Yeah, cows. Yeah, yeah. But what was the video?

The video was I did have some friends and also a suit for cows. And so I did dress with the cow suit. And then we did just film it. And this isn't on your channel now, though. Yeah. Yeah, you may see it. I did make a re-releasing of it. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah

it was it was feeling a little like so i was like ah let's make it let's make it a little more better so i did i learned some editing and then remix remix yeah yeah yeah i'm just trying to figure out so you put that on youtube yeah and then when did you when did you get to the states so when did and when did the youtube traction start to come or was it music traction first so i was always working in germany sorry a little bit then i did my okay so this is crazy but my friend david gentoli you may not know this person but perhaps some listeners will know him he is on the show grim on nbc it is a monster show he's an actor he was backpacking some years ago in in germany and

we did meet we're like beers beers blah blah blah he's like you should come to you know come visit some time and then so i did so i did visit with him in los angeles some years ago like six years ago seven years ago with my cousin and we did live on his uh on his balcony with in a tent for a little bit okay yeah what yeah you lived in a tent yeah on the on the balcony of the dude from grim the television shows house before but this is before he was like a big actor person. Like he was just, I think, just making like auditions for like commercial. Just a guy with a balcony at that point. You met him backpacking in Germany?

He was backpacking, yeah. And I was working as a DJ at a Hofbräuhaus, like a party house, a beer house. And then he was like, hey hey do you have this song play this song and then we start talking and then i realize he's american and he's from st louis st louis yeah and i have obsession a little bit i do not know why but like they have like this aussie aussie something man from baseball and i like he makes weird flips aussie smith yeah yeah yeah flipper flipper and i was like didn't we start talking and BSR occurring and then boom

he's like come you must find me when you know when you are coming to America and you did he didn't think you would I don't know yeah

later he said why I do not know why why did this occur he was with a surprise he forgot I think so

but he lets you sleep on his balcony in a tent for five months with another guy With another guy. With another guy, my cousin. Yeah. Yeah.

And then, yeah. And then this is, so this was my first like, let's make music. And then this was when I realized I must come to America because America in my brain is like a megaphone, right? If you want to spread your energies to the world, Los Angeles is a place where you may do it. You make it here and people can hear all your things. It's not different with YouTube. You can make upload

in schnuppel schnappel dingle dong. What is this place? Who cares? Do they have internet? Perfect. You may upload. Right.

But before it was a place. You needed to be in LA. Yeah. But hold on. You told us about the whole mascot at the Tar Heel mascot thing. Yeah.

So you got to tell us how that fits into this whole thing. Yeah. Being graduates from NC State, our arch rival, at least in our minds, are the UNC Tar Heels. Yeah. Who in UNC Tar Heel minds, arch rivals are Duke University Blue Devils. But if we have to get into that, we will.

Yeah, yeah. But first you got to tell us that you were the Tar Heel mascot? Yeah, for eight games. Yeah, yeah. I was not fired. I retired. This is before that. He's retired.

This is before the LA thing or after? So this is college time. So I've been to America, you know, sometimes. You know, when I was in college in germany we did exchange so i had one semester in chapel hill in north carolina and so i like to explore many weird things and this was i had my friend he was on the same dormit. He was some doors down and he was the mascot. He was the UNC Tar Heel. Ramesses. Ramesses.

Yeah. Ramesses. Yeah. And so I did see it and I said, Todd, I have to do this. I have to take your job. Yeah. No one will know because, I mean, we're in a suit.

We're wearing masks. I mean, problem is I'm, you know, 35 centimeters taller than Todd. So some people will know. And the mascot suit not made for people, as you know. Yeah. Tall dudes, tall dudes not good for the suit. Crotch pressures. So, hold on.

Did you wear the same suit? Of course. This was like a clandestine This was a This was a Under the table operation Where you slipped into the suit With no one No permission Well

Todd said yes Wow This is This is You have to jump around You have to know routines Jump up Jump up

And get down Not just that though But there's a certain level of Respect for the position That there's probably somebody out there. My brother graduated from Carolina. Oh, sorry. How does this work in your brain? Well, I mean, you know.

Bitterness. Yeah, we don't talk about it. We don't talk about that. Yeah, yeah, under rocks, under rocks. Not to mention that your wife graduated from there. Yeah, yeah. And that you dated her while she was still attending there, and I gave you a hard time about that for you.

I blocked that out. I blocked that out. But what I'm saying, I'm using my brother as an example because my wife doesn't care about UNC sports at all, you know, a little bit. But there's this like, oh, hold on. You were Ramsey's and you were basically, you know, it was like Link said, it was clandestine. No one knew that you were doing it.

Oh, you disrespected the position. Oh, I say no, because I was bringing many hot energies. I was burning many calories. And I did study. You know, I was watching all the game, watching Todd. What does he do? How does he hold a baby? How does he say go team?

You had to hold babies? Two times, yeah. Wow. But it's dangerous. Baby hold is a problem for the lawsuits. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I did learn very fast.

Did you have any kids cry because you got close to them? No, no. One baby, actually it is an NC State man, slapped at a child. I was like walking around like la la la, go, go, go, go, tall heels. And then the mascot suit make a rotation so the eyes are now where my ears are now living.

And so I cannot see, I am blind. And then I make an adjust, put the helmet back and I see and it is a child who's red in the face from the paint. He's maybe eight years old and give me double birds. Yes! Double birds. Just like my son would do if he were him. Well trained.

We hate the Tar Heels. I think that's great. I like you, Flula. Oh, thanks. I like you that you stole into the costume. I do like that. But you were the Ram during basketball games.

Basketball games. The best time. I mean, that's big time. I did think so. I was really enjoying it. Halftime show, you were like cavorting out there

in the middle. Isn't there some sort of choreography involved in this? Well, the Ramsey suit, the head is a very large thing. It is not like for flipping. Like I've seen other, like, you know, like the mascots in the NBA, it is like

time for dunking. The Ramsey mascot is like, he's like a large marshmallow person. He's like the Kool-Aid boy. What may he do? He can bust a wall. He can bust a wall and serve a beverage. And hold a baby. T-shirt cannon? No, a beverage. Right, right. And hold a baby.

T-shirt cannon? T-shirt cannon? No, no. We had no cannons. So as the cheerleaders are flippy flippy, I can just go, yeah, number one, number one, and then go into crowds, high five, high five. And you're like facing the wrong direction. Probably. Yeah, yeah.

Were you found out? No. You just gave it up. You were like too sweaty in here. It was very hot and very, it's much sweat. Perspiring it up. You were like, too sweaty in here. It was very hot and very, it's much sweat. Perspiring every place. Yeah.

And Todd was like, I want my job back. And the suit. Well, and only was the deal was, and we're sometimes trading it, so I was second half. He was like,

I will sweat very hard inside. You will not go first half and I have to live in your perspirings. Oh, but you let you take over. Yeah, it was sloppy

as you say what sloppy sloppy sloppy seconds I don't say that okay someone is

saying it wow you never got in trouble no no and then

did you get a degree or you went back to Germany or yeah

that was one semester so yeah so my degree was engineering degree yeah we have that in comment oh NC State is engineers Germany or you exchanged? One semester. So my degree was engineering degree. We have that in common.

NC State is engineers. Both of us have engineering degrees. We should engineer something. The three of us could do something. Did you get an engineering degree? Did you finish? Yeah, I did finish, but I did not use it. Which one do you have? Environmental engineering. Oh. We cover

everything. What are you guys? Civil and industrial for Link. Oh, we can build a pony. We can build a working pony. Let's build a pony. Yeah. And you have to get in it for the second half.

I will do it. Second half pony dance. Oh, it's going to be mechanical and you're able to get it. You know, two of us, you know what? Two of us can get inside of it and one of us can ride it.

I have seen your pony. I have seen your pony. I have seen your pony video. Dope zebra. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, a zebra, sorry. And that wasn't us inside it. Oh. We made it seem like it was,

but it wasn't. Smart work, guys. Outsourcing. Okay, so fast, re-fast forward back to sleeping on the tent in Los Angeles. Is this when things

started to snowball for you? We were, it was a time when I was thinking we must come in Los Angeles. Is this when things started to snowball for you? It was a time when I was thinking we must come to Los Angeles. And so we did do it. And we have some videos of this time. I was thinking I must come here to make a spread of my music. But what was a sad time

is I did not think about visas and legal issues. And so I was deported. And it did not take about visas and legal issues and so i was deportated deported and and it did not take so long it was four months five months and then boom back back to germany uh okay and that's when you see the video early on because you can't get a dj visa well yeah i'm in germany and then you're with your that's your grandfather yeah my opa my grandfather and then those are my poodles of my parents and then döner which is a turkish, my grandfather, and then those are my poodles of my parents. And then döner, which is a Turkish, very tasty, nice food. And then bread also.

So you kind of made that a song. Right. Like you know it, guys. When you are feeling depression, what occurs for you guys? You want the things of home. Right. You are missing the home times. I'll eat some ice cream, but a doner or whatever that is, never heard of that.

You would like it. Is that a meat? It's a meat. Yeah, it is a meat. Meat with a nice sauce in a nice little Fladenbrot, which is like a bread time. And then you have like, if onions do, if you like it,

then ah, whoop, whoop. So, but you made your way back to LA. It didn't take the deportation. Yeah. So now, then I was away for some years. And I always travel. So if I have a job, I will come back to America. And if it's a hosting or music or what.

But now for two years, I'm now living a little bit more in Los Angeles. What was the breakout? What was the thing that you started getting? Hosting gigs? What was the big thing that popped? getting hosting gigs what what what what was the big thing that popped dj gig dj music gigs and also hosting because because i'm so not i think they were like oh you are you are different so here's a job and so i would make hosting jobs of like battle of the bands do you know battles like it's a battle of the bands here's who's gonna win it i

don't know and for some reason i don't know not know why they did hire me to make a host of these things for well okay and that goes back to kind of what i was saying before with the with the perception of you know like the the cow song so it's just like i think what people see is they're like oh hey let's get this let's get flula he's german he's he's kind of crazy uh i mean i love the way he talks clue i mean clueless do you have you ever have you ever heard or read people describe you would they say something harsh you mean like the film clueless yeah like if they would say that oh this guy's from germany he doesn't know how to speak english isn't he funny yeah let's do a battle like people taking advantage of you is what i'm saying like do you think that people are like oh let's bring him into this scenario where you know he doesn't know he doesn't

know why he's being funny right now i uh well for me it is if you are giving me a job who's caring i don't know is it a job great does it pay some dollars or euros or or who cares a hard drive pay pay him to me something great you've been paid in a hard drive yeah a seagate 250 gigabyte hard drive yeah whatever it takes yeah this was the college battle of the bands uh they they were like that they needed a host and they paid you in a hard drive one well i did negotiate for two after the start the end because i know i did do a good job. So I said, this was great. What was it good? May I have another hard drive? So it was two.

Okay. Yeah. Right. So you don't concern yourself with that. You're just like, I'm here, I'm having a good time

and I'm not thinking too much about why people might be asking me to do this. Because just as somebody who's observing your career, I'm thinking, you know, I know why we were like, you know what, we should get Flula to be in this video. Because I was just thinking, you know what,

let's just give Flula a phone and let him be himself and we know it's going to be funny. Oh, great. We know it's going to be funny, yeah. And it totally worked. Oh, good. And then when you, if you know, a lot of people will give you, will give this away now, you click on Link's face at the end of the belly button video, you go to

the secret video, which is Flula just ad-libbing at the end and it was, I mean everyone on set was having a very difficult time containing themselves as you were just being yourself. Oh, that's nice. And so I'm saying that's how we perceive it. I don't, yeah.

I mean, you ham it up. Well, sometimes I go to a world, right? Like if something's occurring, you guys, guys you're like hey you you must teach us about belly buttons what has occurred well then i just go into my brain and i enter a world and i just speak from that place i don't really know what's occurring if you are liking it that's very great but i have also been to places where like we hate you you suck a large you suck a large cheese ball you know you do not get a hard drive today. Yeah, no hard drives for you, sorry. Not one, not two.

Yeah, use the cloud. But was there a point when you were like, oh, oh, okay, these Americans are really digging this. They're digging what I'm... Azul. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I do this cow song, when I do this, when I dance in this way way and then you're like

oh i can keep doing this and i can get more successful and i can have a career in entertainment like was there a point where you were like that's kind of clicked i'll yeah so i like it's maybe you guys too proper like when i see people are liking something like if i receives many views like i made a vlog i did make a vlog about daddy long legs this insect it did receive all in sudden many views so i was thinking oh people enjoy vlogs from from me great i should make more vlogs like the party pooper so the party pooper yeah yeah party pooper was the after the daddy long legs after yeah yeah yeah and party pooper is like the number one video for me it is the most yeah yeah

and I just was now for the vlogs I just if something is hitting me hitting me like oh

I should this is this is in my brain weird let's make a vlog about it and then I release and some who knows they do receive no views who you know

but I think people do enjoy my brain to spit it out yeah especially with the cultural differences okay right i think so i think so if you were if you were to go to germany and do the same bit we'll call it

about the party pooper they would be like i don't understand why this is funny right so and as internet is everywhere you know so the germans may see this party pooper video but they don't understand because they don't know. I think in America and perhaps other English places, they know this thing and they know that they can see, oh, this is a different perspective of the same thing. And so maybe that is why we have success. I don't understand the internet.

But you now understand what a party pooper is. Now I know it. I know that Jennifer is not very interesting and if you're wanting to have a good time, you will not make an invitation to Jennifer. That's what I've learned. Right.

As I kind of hear your questioning, I kind of reflect on our motive in asking Flula to be in the intro to the belly button song. Okay, who could be the perfect guy to be in the know

about something that two idiots who never even discovered their belly buttons. We knew that you would be funny, but there was actually, I guess, another thing which we never had to discuss that was wouldn't it be funny

if a guy who's perceived as not only being funny but being clueless to culture is our source for knowing this thing that

everybody knows that you got a belly button right this is our authority so yeah is there a sense of people kind of

is that a sensitivity to you do you do you get concerned that people see you as as uh an outsider who just doesn't doesn't get it and they find me funny oh no i for me it is if i am seeing that people are enjoying my things from any way, for any angles, I don't care. Like I like to spread my energies. This is my goal is let me spread it. And if people enjoy it, great. If they're like, oh, you are a silly, dumb goose face.

Okay, that's a nice reaction. I think it's most sad if you make something and nobody is caring. Like, hey, here's my soup. And then you come back, who has eaten the soup? Nobody. Yeah, that's sad. You don't want that. But there's a difference between not being of being intelligence and

kind of a culture difference. There are two different things that I think in a lot of people's minds, they say, well, this guy can't, his English is not as great as mine, or his cultural understanding is not the same as mine. They equate that with unintelligence. Ah, yeah.

Well, for me, it is like exposing, right? So many times I have not had your exposing to your phrases, to your idioms. So for me, they are new. Also, sometimes I am understanding what it is meaning but it is so stupid to me right it's like what why are we putting the proof in the pudding ah so you're the smart one well no i don't know i'm only seeing it in a different you have seen i think that's i that's my point exactly is that we instinctively equate those things like when i go to france and you know all of a sudden I'm like

I think people are perceiving me as an idiot because I feel like I'm not smart I can't communicate and I get really frustrated yeah me also here I do also it is always I'm a constant making a switch to English and

that is a frustration if you are in France and you have a feeling you cannot express, then you are feeling like an idiot. At least that is how I am feeling. It's hurting my brain to make constant switch, constant, constant, constant. But the thing is you haven't let it prevent you from coming at the people and talking to them. You know, like we met at, was it VidCon? VidCon, yeah. Is that i we met at uh was it vidcon vidcon yeah yeah and you know and i you know that's one thing but just the fact having the courage to to make the comfort to videos comfort yeah and and and put yourself out there in that way and

then people start perceiving it i mean you know one of the reasons that i think it works so well is that youtube is such a personality based thing people fall in love with personalities it helps if you're also talented and you've got that you've got good ideas like the auto-tune thing that something people can latch on to and that works really well in the context of youtube uh but yeah it's that works really well in the context of YouTube. But yeah, we're excited to see it growing. Because as soon as we met you and we looked at all your stuff, we were like, oh, this guy, we think Flula's about to blow up. Oh, wow.

Because it's just, it's a, and it's cool. I think you're in the process of that happening. One of the things you're doing is you're collaborating with a lot of people. You know, we see you in a lot of different videos. You obviously have people show up to be a part of the Auto-Tune series, but you're in, like, Grace and Mamrie and Hannah's videos. You know, what is the, how did you get to know them

and how are you collaborating with them? Yeah, well, no, that's the, I'm learning that is the good time. First of all, it's a very great community, the YouTube place. Like, I love all these people.

To meet those guys, I'm trying to, oh, Grace. So, Grace, she did cover, when she had a show some years ago

with Daily Grace, Daddy Long Legs. So, she was making it she had a sexy Friday show sexy Friday

sexy and so I was in it because Daddy Long Legs and so this was the start so that is

how yeah so that was that was the first video that was going viral that was the

so the most big the first one was I'm in Germany Opa Poodles when I was deported then this received some views that was going viral? That was the, so the most big, the first one was I'm in Germany, Opa Poodles, when I was deportated. Then this received some views.

Then it was, like half a million probably. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so then was, I made the song for Dirk Nowitzki, My Hero, the German Moses.

And then was, I think Daddy Long Legs was like the number three one that was receiving some views. And then Grace is, you know, she's pushing that one. Yeah. She's helping. Oh, that was great.

And then I was in a studio audience for What's Trending. Do you know the show What's Trending? And I was just watching it. And then Hannah was in the show. And during the show, she looked at me like we are cousins. And so I was like, oh, yeah, I know also you. And then we did hug and then have some i can know you from from daddy long legs and so we did hang out okay yeah and so then and

then it was and then those guys did show me and we did meet uh mamrie from this okay yeah yeah yeah they are very great i like those ladies she's got the unc connection too yeah and then we did connect because torhiel saw she was also. Yeah, yeah, very fun. Now, okay, this is a little bit off topic but I've got to ask you about it.

Let's do it. You're the first non-American to participate and medal in the Redneck Games. Ah yeah, that's true.

Which is, where are they? It's in Texas, right? In Texas, from Dallas, it was like in the, as you say, It's in Texas, right? In Texas, from Dallas, it was like in the, as you say,

the boom docks, right? Middle of nowhere? Oh, wow. Who is it? Where? We don't know. Yeah. I was there

with a television crew and they did come and they're like, we want you to also maybe participate, a little bit participation. So I did with my cousin Jürgen. It was the mattress chunk,

they're calling it. It was... Throwing a mattress jürgen it was the mattress chunk they're calling it it was throwing a mattress so you must throw the mattress from the so from the truck from the truck uh the the hinten the bed the bed so you sit in the bed of the truck and you throw the mattress with with a part of a two-man team two persons yeah yeah yeah and i we were third place third place so we we did bronze. We bronzed it. So it's a medal, but almost not a medal.

So we were lucky. Were you, I mean, were you welcomed in that crowd? Or were they like, get these guys out of here? They liked it. I think it's always nice, a little spice, right?

Oh, look at all the pepper. Where's the salt? We need some salt. Yeah. Yeah. How far did you throw the mattress? do not it was probably uh yeah so eight nine meters perhaps eight eight meters pretty i would say i was i was more with push-ups and bench press in this time okay yeah you were pumped up i was pretty pumped yeah what other videos started to pop for you next was it you got into the auto

tune after like daddy long legs and kind of the cultural idiom differences yeah was that the next thing those were the next so the idioms was good like uh uh fish in a barrel was the one people did enjoy like shooting fish in a barrel those was nice or happy is a clam also was weird and then yeah the auto tunes and you started that afterward yeah auto tunes i think i was realizing i'm a musician and people don't know it so what may i do that is interesting for me and then also perhaps for other people and that was auto tunes so i was starting to make more of those and that became like the big thing on your channel. Yeah, it's interesting.

They are so hot. I must do more. We must make our nice autotunes. We will make it. It will be fun. And you're doing other things too. Like you're trying the 10-minute. I've got 10 minutes.

Tell me what to do. Tell you what to do. Yeah. So I will make this. I will tweet like, I have 10 minutes with a jacuzzi. Tell me what to do yeah so I will make this I will tweet like I have 10 minutes with a oh with a jacuzzi tell me what to do

and some so they said yeah make the film Jaws so I did make the film Jaws in the jacuzzi with the hand with the hand oh very real

whose jacuzzi was that by the way that was a neighbor friend not really that was a hotel I just said that was a that's a nice nice balcony there's no tent on that

balcony no no tents no time for tents there where was that that was in like malibu or something this was in a mexico mexico i did have a so a private a dj gig and they said we would like for you to come to have a dj gig for our family for a birthday party. And so, yeah, very strange. In Mexico? Yeah, it's very weird. I have a strange, I do not know why, but it was in Cabo San Lucas. And it was like, we love you.

We will like you. We are large fans. Our daughter's having a birthday, but you must DJ the party. So they did Flamme Down. How old is the daughter she was 18 okay yeah yeah so not so weird yeah yeah eight is weird eight year old yeah that would be awkward yeah I don't know 18 year old daughter is kind of weird for now a different reason that's really hey dad isn't your dad flew me down so it was you're finally legal let's date oh ouch ouch no no no it

was surprise it was like surprise here watch out who is it well and was it like the daughter and the mom and the dad and you like the four of you kind of dancing well no that was one song we did have that that one. But that was CNC Music Factory. We did this. But everyone, the party, children, not children. Big party. Yeah. A lot of people.

80, 100. 80, 100 people, yeah. Sounds like some rich people. Perhaps. I think so. Yeah, I would think so. How many hard drives you get for that one? Yeah, exactly.

It was a hard drive with Bitcoin on it. You know it. But we've had the privilege of experiencing your DJing, you know, at the Playlist Live collective party. That's right. And I got to say, you move a lot more than any DJ that I've ever seen. And I don't mean bobbing the head, but I mean leaving the station. Yeah. And entering the dance floor. Yeah, yeah.

It happens several times. Most of the time, I fear. Yeah. For me, that is the most important part. If you are a DJ, do you not enjoy the music that you play? Yeah. Yeah, but I was just worried that you leave the,

what do you call it? The turntables. Yeah, the home. Home base. Your spin home, yeah? The turntables. Yeah, the home. Home base. Your spin home, yeah. You leave home base. Yeah, yeah. Someone could come

and fill the spot. Oh, but this is, you must have the trust of the group, I guess. Yeah, you're right. It has not happened before. So you normally leave and go and dance.

I will go and dance. You dance with this 18-year-old girl? Well, with friends, everyone must watch. It's not like me and lady and like we are a private closet. That's awkward. It is public. Everyone may see.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what's your plan? What's next for your channel? And from here on out, mean you're gonna have an album more series on your youtube channel so i'm making right now an ep oh yeah yeah so that's for me that is five songs and just like these are songs that maybe are more like sounding like a professional sound like many times i make weird songs that are who i just want to make it let me

get it out you know like I have a song about leftovers and I just did make it in my refrigerator. I was sitting in it and did make the song. Boom, release. We are done. But this I'd like, I want to make like real songs that are sounding more like, you know, professional. So this is one goal.

This will occur hopefully in the next some months. In the channel, more autotunes. They are some time consumed for me, but I love those very much. More vlogs. I'm now starting something German wizard German with Flula. So I am teaching some German phrasing to the audience. Flip the script, so to speak.

What do you call that series? German wizard German with Flula. I like it. Yeah, that's the name. And so I want to do, I'm doing more of these. We must do one. They're very easy. Today I did one Scheißfreundlich, which means poop friendly.

So it is how we say in German if someone's like, oh, how are you? Oh, so nice. Oh, you look great. Like we cannot see it in the camera. We have no cameras here, but it is fake. They're not being sincere. Yeah. Scheiß freundlich, poop friendly.

Poop friendly. Poop friendly. Well, you know. Yeah. Yeah. But so we are teaching this. I want to do more of the other series. Scheiß what?

Freundlich. Oh, that's what scheiß is. So scheiß. Scheiße. Freundlich. Freundlich. Perfect. Yeah, that's good. Scheiß fre? Freundlich. Oh, that's what scheiß is. So scheiße. Scheiße. Freundlich. Freundlich. Perfect. Yeah, that's good.

Scheiß freundlich. Yeah, that's good. That's really good. Really? Yeah. Scheiß freundlich. Freundlich. Yeah.

The most difficult I've seen with Americans is the C-H. Yeah, freundlich. Freundlich. Yeah. Yeah. Freundlich. Yeah. Most Americans, as hard as lick, they will say lick, not lich feinlich yeah yeah feinlich yeah most Americans

it is hard is lick they will say lick not lich and that is for us it's like the TH is sometimes hard for us

yeah in American like that's English sorry that's hard okay yeah but anyway

yeah most more more things more items are coming okay and and you've got this camera here yeah yeah so what's going on

so right now my friend Alex he's filming he's making calling it the Flula Mentory a documentary about

Flula the me he's just thinking I have a strange life it's like you have a very strange life perhaps maybe

I will film it and so I say yes okay so maybe Ear Biscuits is a scene in your documentary you know it and then we will get very strange life. Perhaps maybe I will film it. And so I say yes. Okay, so maybe Ear Biscuits is a scene in your documentary. You know it. And then we will get some cheese

and have some Ear Triscuits. The snack for your mom. We'll think about it. We make all kinds of puns about the Ear Biscuits. So, I mean,

you want to add Triscuits. In fact, you know what? We could get Triscuits as a sponsor. Oh. I'd be willing for a add Triscuits. In fact, you know what? We could get Triscuits as a sponsor. Oh. I'd be willing for a pretty penny, maybe for a few hard drives

to change the name of this to Ear Triscuits. Dude. Well, let's work on it. And I like Triscuits. They're good. If Triscuits follows you, you can probably

work something out and also introduce us to Mix-A-Lot. Oh, I will do both. But now, it's time for you to sign the table. Thanks for hanging out, man. It's been good to get to know you.

Thank you, guys. Very fun. This is very great. I may sign your table. There you have it. Our ear biscuit with Flula. Clearly a hilarious dude. How self-aware of how hilarious he is is still a question mark.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I will be pondering Flula for the rest of the evening. Hopefully I won't have any dreams about him because it'll just be this German guy singing about heifer so, what did he say? What is the lyric to that? I can never remember it.

You so. Naked cows. Moo moo cow, you are so dairy. Something like a heifer fairy? Yeah, something like that. But we should get him to DJ our birthday party in Cabo San Lucas. That's pretty great. Yeah, I will.

And you know what? Maybe we can stop a little short of that and just have him DJ a work Christmas party. Or just DJ every one of our Wednesdays. Or any day of the week, really. It's Flula Day at Rhett and Link. Here he is. He's back. Well, you know, like I said, I wasn't blowing smoke when I feel like we're talking to, we talked to Flula at a time when I feel like his career is on an upswing. You know, we talked to a lot of people who were talking about, oh, when you busted out on YouTube in 07 or whatever, it's interesting to talk to somebody who...

It's happening with him right now. Yeah, there's this sense that like... This is a big year. You start seeing him show up in all these different videos, and everyone you talk to is like, that dude is so funny. You know? I'm going to fly him to Cabo San Luis, Lucas. Yeah, and you know, you got to wonder what that girl's parents thought

when she was like, hey, Dad, we got to have this German DJ at my birthday party in Cabo. Anything for you, daughter. And he's like, Okay, let me look this guy up. Okay, he thinks his music is like a hamster. Sure, we'll fly him in. Bet you I can pay him in hard drives. All right, yeah, so tweet at Flula. Let him know what you thought of his ear biscuit.

Also, hashtag Ear Biscuits when you're speaking to us on the Twitter. We enjoy your feedback and also value your review on the iTunes. So thank you for doing that. And if you are associated with Triscuits in any way, I will not say this is an official endorsement or a request for sponsorship, but I will say I love Triscuits. I love all the varieties. I've never had a variety of Triscuit

that I've not thoroughly enjoyed. They're especially good when you're camping. You know, when you're just out camping and you got some salami and some cheese and you throw them on a Triscuit. Or when you're camping on someone's balcony. Yeah. Or when you're not camping. See how good this

could be, Triscuits? Alright, thank you for being a loyal ear biscuit listener. It always gets us choked up when we think about you. Thank you. And we will deliver another one to you next week. Can we count on you? Boom!

I knew we could.