wellRED podcast - #127 - Comedy Ha Has and The Hee Hee Hoos w/ Flula Borg!

Episode Date: July 24, 2019

This week we are joined by the INSANELY HILARIOUS Flula Borg. Since moving part time to Los Angeles, Flula’s goal has been to “invade—in friendly ways—all of the Media Sources of Earth.” To that end, you may have seen Flula:On the silver screens, where he has co-starred in Universal Pictures’ Pitch Perfect 2, appeared in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, or in the independent feature Buddymoon, which won the Audience Award at Slamdance and was distributed by Orion Pictures and Gravitas.On the television screens where he has appeared on HBO’s Silicon Valley, TBS’s Conan, Comedy Central’s @Midnight and Workaholics, Netflix’s Chelsea, the upcoming Starz drama Counterpart featuring J.K. Simmons, and other “sassi places.”Online, Flula’s videos have have racked up over 90 million views and have been featured on on The Today Show, Last Call With Carson Daly, and ESPN’s SportsCenter, among others. His video “Jennifer Is A Party Pooper” has been watched millions of times.Flula has been selected Variety‘s 10 Comics to Watch, one of Hollywood Reporter‘s Top 25 Digital Stars, and won a Streamy Award for Comedy in online video.Sit back and crack open one of them good German Beers while we let Flula take over the show and talk about basketball, accents, and why the Germans may not have the best sense of humor.flulaborg.com for more on Flulawellredcomedy.com for tickets to showsBluechew.com (Promo Code RED for your first delivery FREE.. you just pay 5 bucks shipping)MDRNCBD.com (promo code RED for 30% off your first order and FREE shipping)

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Yes. I'm going to be at the International Space Station the week after that. Oh, yeah, I heard you got a new gig. Yeah, man, we'll figure it out. All right, it's Little Rock, August 9th and 10th, August 16th, and 17th. We're in Chicago and Iowa City, and then on the 18th in Madison, Wisconsin. Following weekend, August 23rd, 24th, and 25th, we are in Michigan, Grand Rapids, Traverse City, and Detroit. And, Corey, I mean, how many days I need to give, buddy, how far you normally go?

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Well, how's it going out there in Studio City, boys? It's going good. We got a real treat for you all a little bit later. When we get him in here, we got a guest this week, Mr. Flula. I want to just call him Flula, like a single name thing. That's what he goes by. That's his DJ name. Yeah, but his name is Flula Borg, and he's a German DJ actor and just all around good time.

He's a very fun guy, and y'all are going to, he's also fucking hilarious, so y'all are going to dig that. But first, well, what's going on, fellas? I've been on the moon. There's an astronaut who has the same fucking. name is me, astronaut Drew Morgan. A current astronaut? They just sent him to the moon. We sent somebody to the moon?

Am I wrong, Corey? Where did we send him? Space Station. Okay. I sent me to the Space Station. I was about saying. Yeah, we sent me to the Space Station. Astronaut Drew Morgan is being sent along with another, I think, Russian up to the International Space Station to replace someone. So we're going to Little Rock next. And

I've locked myself into doing this fucking bid on Twitter. where I've changed my name to astronaut Drew Morgan and I've decided to just at least do it for a week. We're going to Little Rock next where the other more famous Drew Morgan made his bones nearby at the University of Arkansas, the receiver who plays now for the Miami Dolphins, I think, or he might have got cut.

I think he got cut. I don't know if he landed anywhere else or not. But yeah, there's a couple other, I mean, dude, in my opinion, and I'm not just saying this because I'm your buddy, if that guy did get cut. who hasn't landed somewhere else, I think you hit harder than him. I mean, like... But the thing about astronauts, and I was thinking about this,

astronauts are like comedians in one specific way. This is a stretch. Here we go. But, like, that dude, undeniably hits harder than me. He's one of the top five astronauts in America right now. Astronauts are wild. And astronauts are wild, but that dude has climbed to the top of his profession. And not unlike comedians, so few people care.

Anymore, that's a real bummer, though. That's what I'm saying. Dude, I've been thinking about it. It's weird because I wasn't even thinking about the fact that the 50th anniversary of the moon landing was coming up. Right. Just totally randomly, I've been on like a space kick lately kind of. I think it's because Apollo 13 is on Delta flights right now and I watched it the other day. That's definitely why.

Movie fucking holds up. It's so great. But like, that shit, it just like, it's just like, it's just. such a shame what happened with out as far as our space program goes like we did dude it's fucking nuts that they went from they went from the right brothers on the beach at kitty hawk like 50 years or so 40 50 years after that uh-huh stepping foot on the moon with computers on the the space shells and stuff that have the processing power of like a fucking calculator that you buy nowadays. Yeah, it was all manual.

They'd had to drive that some bitch and then land that some bitch. And then we just stopped. Like if we kept going with that, with that same fervor and everything, by now, dude, we'd have people living on the moon. We'd be going to Mars. We'd be doing all kinds of wild shit and we just dropped it. I do think the next time they send someone to the moon, they're planning on it being a permanent thing like that. They are, yeah. with International Space Station.

But my sincere thoughts on that is everything was kind of tongue-in-cheek, I think, with the episode with DJ recently, with, like, aliens and all that, or people maybe were reading it as tongue-in-cheek. I'm not completely decided how I feel about that. But if there are aliens and they made contact with us, they absolutely told us to stop. That is, like, sincerely one of the most logical explanation. Why the fuck else did we stop?

Because all that really, the people, who were pulling the strings at least, all they really cared about was winning against Russia, I mean. For what reason? Because we had to win against them and everything. The whole Cold War, we could not allow. We could not stand for Russia getting to the moon before us. So we beat them there, and then the game was over. The game was over and we'd won.

The moon is a natural satellite. Is it not actually a defense problem? if they get there before us? I'm sure, yeah, why not? But it's a bunch of things. But we didn't leave anybody there. No. Why ain't China trying to get to the moon now?

Well, the part of it is because it's really fucking hard and expensive to do. The lizard people told them not to. It's an incredibly impressive feat to have pulled it off. Like, you can't just throw people up to the moon, you know? So, like, we were, and also, so many things came out of that program trying to get to the moon. like, you know what I'm saying? Like technological advancements that impacted our day-to-day lives after the fact were a result of the space program and getting to the moon. If that had continued on, it would have had a ripple effect outside of just, oh, yeah, we're sending people to Mars.

We'd just be further along technological. I know. I feel you're making my argument for me. Like, there was no reason to stop. They don't give a fuck about it, dude. You could say people, like, they being the politicians and shits. And so many just regular Americans 100% view it

it being space funding as like wasteful. You know, it's like we got problems here on Earth. The hell we want to go to Mars for. Ain't nobody up there. You know, like, that's a real thing. And like...

No. The aliens told us to say. No, we got to go to Afghanistan. We can't go to fucking Mars. Yeah, it's fucking, it's stupid, but there's a lot of people that feel that way about it. And I think that's why they stopped. I think the lizard people told us to.

Well, I mean, maybe. Either way, it don't fucking hit for me. It's a real shame. As soon as they found out we had nukes and then saw we were starting to go into space, that's a double no-no for them. Because it's like, you guys, we'll let you live here in peace because we don't need your resources and y'all ain't a threat, but stop trying to become a threat.

You already got nukes. Stop pushing out away from your home with them. So was Elon a lizard? Or has he not been contacted by them yet or what? Because he's like actively pursuing all this. You'd think they would have come to him with this proposal you're talking about. He's a front. Or ultimatum, I guess.

He's a front. I've always thought that. For the lizards? I mean, I could see him being a lizard for sure. Like he's just a mouthpiece for him or some shit? He's just a front. It's like he's pretending to pursue all that when he fails and he will. Then that'll give him more private people.

They'll be like, look, what a waste of money. How's Tesla failing? There's one every 10 feet. But they're losing money. Every day they're losing money as a company. I mean, I don't know, but you said one every 10 feet. There are in Los Angeles. I understand that, but his business model didn't seem to be predicated on the notion that everyone in America would drive one.

I hope it wasn't. Well, I hope that it was predicated on if we sell one, every one we sell, we make money, or every hundred we sell, we make money. But he's losing money. And his SpaceX is losing money, and it's a front. I'm making all this up as I go for the records. of both of those examples, I think it's always been a long game thing with Tesla. It's he's trying to be the first dude that is doing self-driving. No, self-driving cars are coming and they are.

And he's trying to be the guy that's on, there's the Henry Ford of self-driving cars when that happens. And we're just not there yet. But that's what his eyes are on. And I'm just telling you how I understand the arguments. And with SpaceX, it's to get eventually to a point where you can, like, mine asteroids and shit like that for resources. Like, there's a lot of money potentially to be made in space, but you got to be able to get there land, take back off and come back, which is, you know, shit we can't really do for the most part right now. So it's all like, ostensibly, he's playing the long game with all of it. and that's why it's okay that he's losing money right now, I guess, is the argument.

But I don't know. No, he's the front. Because you let him fail, and he failed so badly that no one else pursues it for a little while, independent of governments. Well, I mean, I'm literally making this up, as I go. Well, okay. This is kind of somewhat related. So, you know, I told you I've started keeping a list of, like, potential types of. topics we can talk about. This is just one of them, but Elon kind of reminded me of it.

Drew, you hate the rich. They don't have for me either. But, you know, like the whole thing out rich. The super rich, the mega wealthy. And like, the, um, honestly, just richer than me, though. I mean, if you wanted the truth, Corey. And that, then that, that answer will remain true, no matter how much money he makes. That's right. The answer is always going to be. anybody richer than me the joke i was working on and i'm pretty much throwing it out um because i think it's too cheesy but the joke i's working on one of the lines was i think i feel about rich people the way republicans feel about gay people like i see them their life is better they're happy and secretly i want to be one of them yeah so i turned that into hatred that's good i don't think

that's that's pretty fucking funny yeah that's a good that's good you just started working on that or no i think it didn't fail i just didn't like something about it i don't remember what it was Because, I mean, I feel like that's got legs. But anyway, the whole deal with income inequality now and the super rich is that they just want more and more of it. They won't give it to, you know, they won't redistribute it. They, like, they're just evil and hoard all the money, right? Right. That this system that we live in has created them in a lot of ways.

Okay. On that note, a lot of the wealthiest people ever are in modern history, especially, were in, I know this is anecdotal what I'm about to say. And also, yeah, you got Bill Gates who's giving all his money away. But, like, some of the first ever, like, mega wealthy people in modern history, like, uh, Jakob Fugger who's a German guy. Damn. Uh, he was like, uh, you know, a fucking. How's it spelled?

Fugger. F, UG, G, G, E R. This motherfucker. He was a banker and a merchant and all this shit. And, like, in, the banking fugger. In, in Germany, in the 1500s, and he became like this mega wealthy dude. but he also started the Fugeri, or Fugeri, which is the world's oldest housing project. He was the first person to ever make a, you know, what am I trying to say?

A residential complex for poor people and homeless people. That's subsidized housing is the technical term for that. But he wasn't a governmental, totally private. And he said, It's still there today, and it's still, so the rent was and is still one, Reinschgolden, you know, whatever the hell that is, it's equivalent to one euro, roughly, as well as three daily prayers, a Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary and the Nicene Creek. And the praise thugger.

The conditions to live there remain the same as they were 500 years ago. One must have lived at least two years in Augsburg. That's the city in Germany where it is. Be of the Catholic faith and have become indigent, poor, homeless, whatever, without debt. And if you have that, then you can live there to this day. How do you become indigent without debt? Like, as you get poor, you just don't borrow money in hopes that this do to let you live there? You got exactly zero dollars.

You don't have negative nothing. I guess so. That's fucking bullshit. Because people with zero dollars are richer than everybody. Most people, right. Yeah, if you've got just zero dollars and no deck. I feel like that rule was made for a different time period. It was.

It was. It was. It's also like charging rent and prayers. That's true. There's a lot of problems going on there. I mean kids have been raped at the Fuggerland. I'll be quicker about these other ones. Andrew Carnegie, very famous American.

Yeah, Carnegie Hall. The Rockefellers, too. He was like the first mega wealthy person to basically give it all a He gave like 90% of his fortune away and said it was the responsibility of the rich to do that. John D. Rockefeller, his contemporary, some people say the richest man that ever lived, depending on how you look at it, he founded a shitload of colleges and a bunch of medical institutions and funded medical research. And basically with his- Poor people can't get into now. Basically with his money, cured, hookworm and yellow fever.

Henry Ford's whole deal. Now, Henry Ford hated Jews and was a Nazi, but it's not going to do that right now. Henry Ford's whole deal with Fordism, his like business philosophy was that you have to make your product cheap enough that the average man can buy it and you have to pay people a living wage. Right. So that they can buy your product. They can buy the things that you make. But in order for that to work, you have to pay them a living wage, which is something we're still arguing about today. So these were like the titans of the elite and wealthy back then who,

made it a point to, you know, try to like give back or do something good with it or whatever. And there were way fewer billionaires then. These were like the only guys at the time who were even like that. Well, that's what I was going to ask. And they had this philosophy. Do you know that for sure based upon what you read? The only guys? Leave out rich people who weren't doing that back then.

Well, this is my own independent research. I just looked up each of them. Oh, I see. I didn't find a list of an article that summarized this. But, like, as one example, Cornelius Vanderbilt, namesake of Vanderbilt University, and the Biltmore in Asheville, he was a bit of a dick. He didn't do much of that type of thing. The one we got in the South, ours was turned out the band of the asshole. Oh, I know.

Yeah, right. So, no, it's not all of them. I admit it's anecdotal. By the way, a lot of the research that I've done in looking into, like, coal companies in the history of the South and how Appalachia ended up the way that it did, including what's going on with Big Pharma, what you just said, like almost in passing, like, well, he wasn't Southern. that actually is a big part of how the South ended up so fucked up. When you've got the Rockefellers. Well, when you've got the Rockefellers and what's the other guy before that? Andrew Carnegie.

And Carnegie given back in the Northeast and out west and building schools and hospitals that are free or cheap for people. And then you've got the Vanderbilt's not fucking doing that. When you've got Harvard's one of the biggest landowners in Kentucky. The Harvard, whatever that, not trust. It's not a trust. It's not a trust. No, it's the endowment. is one of the biggest owner, landowner, they don't even pay taxes.

Right. So you got a group of rich people up north paying taxes and giving back. And then you got the Vanderbilt and people of their ilk in the South not paying taxes and not giving back. Yeah. Yeah, probably because they had just disdain for the region and the people. Well, they could. I mean, they probably just went there because that's where they were allowed to do that. Right.

They were allowed to do that because of our own homegrown crook politicians. and yes, the national consensus that we deserved nothing, and that we should be punished in large part, probably because of the Civil War, this is a stretch, I'm just thinking out loud. Ironically, though, most black people then and now lived in the South and suffered the most for that. Yeah, but I just felt like, and again, I'm kind of pulling this out of my ass, and it is anecdotal, but I feel like just talking about just trends generally,

it seems like in modern history, it's not going back in California, and princes and kings and all that type of shit that had an insight, you know, but like business, capitalist billionaires. There was this like philosophy among a lot of them are the biggest ones that you are, it's your responsibility to like do something good with it or try to. And I know there are some now that are still like that, but I just feel like as far as it being a philosophy or whatever, it's very much not. It's the, I can't help but wonder though if because Carnegie Hall got named after the guy, because he was doing that, if the Rockefeller, you know, founded so many of these schools that ended up becoming the places where history books were written and culture was sort of partially made if they got elevated. Deified.

While dickheads got forgotten about in history. But that's like an argument for why. It's an argument for why they should. Sure. Like that, you said on an episode forever ago about that guy in billions who was saying, and he was saying you got to give all your money away because it's the only way you can still have control or something like that. But I feel like you can make an argument or an argument could be made that if you're just a billionaire or whatever, mostly history is not going to give a shit about you, you know, but if you are fucking using your billions to cure diseases and all this other, you know, great shit for humanity, then, you,

you'll be deified or whatever, you know, literally, but you'll go, you'll be remembered, you know, like in a positive light. What, Corey?

Yeah, Jeff Bezos is going to have, well, Jeff Bezos going forward is going to have characters like Lex Luther based on him, whereas Bill Gates will be your Carnegie Rockefeller type of dude.

Right. And that's, and that's, and that, it's crazy. I was actually reading the Forbes 400 today. And it's nuts to, and I've read it for the purpose of,

I was like, I wonder how, because I know Bill Gates gives away like half of his shit every year. I was like, where's he still at on the list? That motherfucker's still number two. Like, that's how crazy. That's how crazy Rich he is that he does so goddamn much and is still a G. Because compared to what he has, he doesn't give away that much.

And that's not me trying to be like, oh, actually, I'm contrarian. That's just a fact that a lot of people have talked about. So, and the reason I know that is, you know, bringing it to politics or whatever. But hasn't he pledged, though, that by the time he dies or when he dies, That like 98, 99% of it will go to charitable things. And think about what that's saying. Because you could say, oh, he wants to keep it for himself. He knows he's not going to spend it.

That's not what it is. He's saying, I want to control where it goes in the meantime. Right. And I want to keep it because I think I can protect it and keep it big or make it bigger. And that's something Warren Buffett has said about taxes. And he's clearly doing that. Doing what? Doing the first, but doing the making it bigger part.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, he probably is. Yeah, we'll see about that. But what I was going to say is... And I don't... This is like a weird philosophical thing. I am for a higher tax rate. And I am very much for a high tax rate

after a certain amount of money. It's something that we had in America until I want to say the 70s. Yeah. Where if you made over a certain amount of money, 70% of every dollar above that amount. And look, I would go so far that you tap out. That like, once you get...

get worse so much, like the government takes the rest of it. I feel like Bill Gates' honest answer to that would be, I'll do more good than the government will. I was about to say, and I feel like this is a bullshit argument for most of them, because it's not really what it's about, but like, I could see someone feeling like, it's not that I don't want to pay, you know, a portion to go to things for poor people or infrastructure or whatever. It's that. I don't trust the government at all to use that money the way that they should. Yeah. But most of them, though, just don't want the government to take it at all.

Well, here's why I think it's both, and I think it's part of the same disease of ego. And it's hard for me to fathom that all those people don't have pretty big egos. It would be super, yeah, to get it and to maintain it and all, and this is what it would do to you if you got there. that to me is like why it I think it poisons you I mean I really do think on some level a certain amount of money poisons you against fucking the rest of humanity you don't fit in I mean even this is a dumb reference but even rappers talk about like Drake I can't hang out with broke no mo like you you probably can't like that shit fucks you up it makes you different and that's why I say tax them because like I say tax them too it won't prevent it and yeah the government can be become corrupt and not do a good job, but that's on us. That's on democracy to fix. You know, them saying, I'll do right. It's like, man, go fuck yourself. 100% agree. And don't you think, there's the last thing I'll say about that particular thing, but don't you think you could see a world where if it's always been that way?

And it'd be hard to get people to change in the middle of shit. I mean, we would literally take a bloody revolution. Hit me up on Twitter. But don't you think that if it was always that way, like if you got to a billion in a year or half a billion, every dime after that, it'd probably be lower than that. If you got to $100 million in one year every dime after that went to the government, wouldn't that be like a bragging thing? Like, wouldn't these rich guys who need to know they were number one?

Wouldn't they be on the Forbes list for most taxes paid that year? And that would be enough for them. Like Jeff Bezos would be like, yeah, look how much taxes I paid this year. I'm sure if that was the reality and that's just the world they were living in, then yes, they would make it a dick measuring contest. But I feel like, I think you should tax the fuck out of the rich, but having like a hard ceiling, like a literal salary cap for individuals, I just feel like that's going to incentivize people to not, it's better, like, if there's a

billionaire and if that, if that cap you're talking about it is once you're worth a billion dollars, then after that, everything goes to the government versus just making it 80, 85% on everything over a billion dollars. The guy, if we, for the record, it should be way lower than a billion. Almost nobody makes a billion dollars in one year. I didn't mean in one year. I meant once you get, which that's not how you would do it. You're right. But I meant like once you're network, once you are a billionaire. But either way, the guy who is still getting to keep even 15% of the additional billions he makes, I feel like it's going to be incentivized to make more billions over the guy who's losing all of it. And that's better for us in the long run. Why? First of all, why does he need to keep making more money? big because it's like keeping a revenue stream open like if you're getting 85% of every

every additional dollar this guy makes and he wants to make as much as he can because he's still getting to keep some of it we would get 85% of the government right yeah we that'd be more money we'd be getting versus if you get a guy's like well I'm a billionaire guess I can stop now because I'm not making any more money anyway stopped wouldn't there be you know something to replace him in theory yeah I'm just saying I think it's better you should tax the fuck out of them, but you should also want them to want to keep making more money because that's more money that we can tax them on. That is the most convincing argument I've ever heard. I'm going to have to think about that

particular part of it. I'm not sure that I agree that after some tantrums and some trying to move some of their money to other countries, which they would do, that the rest of it, dude, I just, at some point, you don't even know how, like, it doesn't change your life anymore. The difference between being a hundred millionaire and a billion at some point. Like literally what's left for you to do? And honestly, and now we're about to get into like some real gnarly shit

with the current news cycle. Fucking kids, that's all that's left. I think that's why some of those motherfuckers do it. That's all that's up. And I don't just mean like, oh, like gross, gross shit little boy, and it's all gross. But like, I think when you hear about some millionaire fucking a 16 year old prostitute and you're

like, why not just choose an 18 year old? This is why. It's all they had left to do. Now I'm getting into my tin full hat shit as if DJ's here talking about aliens. No, I mean, I think there's probably something to that. There's not many things that can, this is so gross. But there's just not many things that can be

like a thrill for you. Right. Once that is what your life is and one thing that's certain to thrill anybody, you know, any sociopathic lizard is fucking a kid. So they do it. This just freeze

that. Yeah. Sound bite. I said it's so gross and it is, but I mean, yeah, I think you're probably on. Why don't they just go bungee jumping though, dog? They've probably done it a million times. They probably have some kind of button they can hit that defies gravity. They've already beat gravity. Look, there's got to be some, and maybe it's just that the correlation between the mega-rich and sociopaths is very high.

Maybe that's all that it is. But not all sociopaths are fucking pedophiles, though. They're not comatant or whatever that word is. No, dude, like. Are there's got to be a reason? The fucking, like, sociopaths, like, decent ones? Can you be a sociopath and not hurt people? Yes.

It can. That happens, right? Yeah, it does happen. In comedy. I know some. Yeah, they're comedians, yeah. I'll just want to break joy to the world. But there has to be some reason why there's always some fucking pedophile ring made up of rich-ass, powerful fucking people.

There's another theory. Then this goes against my first argument. The other theory is, like, that'd just be happening. more than we want to admit. There's more people that do it. And they can... I buy that. They can pull their resources together and, you know, get away with it or whatever.

Yeah, that, I mean, that makes sense. But then when... I think it's just a way, fucking bigger problem than we want to give it, we ever want to give it credit to, and it's just now coming a lot and a lot. Like, you hear about, I mean, shit, we talk about it all the time. The old Jerry Lee Lewis shit, fucking Elvis, all that shit. Like, dudes have been into younger chicks for a very long goddamn time, but when you get ultra-godam rich, you just get away with it more and you can afford to

like have an island to put them on so you don't get caught as much and you can have all your, I mean like that's really probably just the deal. Like it's such a fucking huge problem. But like with anything, when you're super mega goddamn lizard loaded, you do it to way more extremes and you keep getting away with it because you can keep paying people off to tell them to shut the fuck up. But how do you get recruited into it? I've always wondered that type of thing. That I don't. Not just with the mega rich version of it, but like when people go on like murder sprees together and stuff.

Like couples and shit. You know what I mean? I've always been fascinated by like, God damn it, I wish I could. How that happens. I'll feel so bad when I can remember a joke and not the comic's name. But at Mike show recently at Fated, there was a young woman who had a joke about that.

And she was talking about how jealous she is of couples who go on murder sprees because the amount of trust that exists between them the first time you have that conversation. How do you broach that subject? Well, like, jokingly, I'm not trying to be funny here. But like, do you? you think it's kind of a thing like you know gaydar that that whole thing we're like you know you can just tell like gay people can know when somebody's gay like after several conversations two sociopaths just start to fucking know and then one of them just knows how to

kind of broach the subject you know what I'm saying I think with a couple I always assume one person it's a control is under the other one's control and that's not to minimize it and say that as an adult you don't have a responsibility to not murder kids with your partner but that one of those people just broke the other one down slowly. Yeah. Yeah, like Clyde certainly did that to Bonnie. What a lead-in to this particular interview. Because we recorded the interview first and did the intro afterwards.

So we've already had the interview with Flula, and he's so fun and upbeat and great, and we have introed into that. Or lead-in to that conversation. But maybe it makes a better pallet cleanse. One segue, he did tell us he grew up in a gang in the Fugger Housing Project. He did not do that at all. No, but anyway, I guess we'll... Go ahead, Corey.

It is a good palate cleanser, and so, yeah, let's do it to it. Here's our interview with the very hilarious. I'm very... This is the most jealous I've been that I wasn't there in person. Flula. He had me laughing the whole goddamn time. He's very interesting, very entertaining. A man that wears many different hats.

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Yeah. Hey, Corey, say something. Hey, were y'all just talking about the beginning of Space Jam with Michael Jordan's outside? Nope. Nope. I think every, we were just speaking about every basketball film in the history of mix. Except that one and it's great that you brought up the cartoon. Right.

Yeah, right. So Flula, this is Corey. What were you all talking about? What were you all talking about? Hi, Corey. Corey, that's Flula. How are you doing? I'm so great.

How are you doing today? Oh, I'm well. Oh, okay. Also, the world, the very small portion of it listens to our podcast, this is Flula. Flula Borg. Thanks for joining us. Well, thank you for letting me join your guys' world. Yeah, absolutely.

So you guys might have noticed a little bit of an accent. Flueless from Minnesota. This is, yeah, a deep in the Finger Lakes region. Yeah, right. Yeah, a lot of snow and everything. Yeah, yeah, a lot of snow. Good beer, though. Oh, delicious.

Yeah. Delicious. Yeah. He's two for two, by the way, and playing the accent games. He was like, oh, you have an accent. Where are you from? And I was like, Bavaria. And he was like, Southern Germany, exactly.

Yeah. Now, Flulig, you're from Germany. Okay. Where are in Germany? I'm from North Bavaria, so not so far from South Bavaria. Yeah, so Erlangen, small town close to Nernberg. But you live here in L.A. I live here.

How long you've been here? Some years. I call back and forth, Rudy Baggy, Rudy Baggy. How often do you get back to the old homeland? Two to three times per year. Right on. And you guys are both of you from Tennessee? Yes.

Corey, the guy on there, he's from Georgia and he's in Georgia right now. Oh, wonderful, Corey. Yeah. I wonder where it's hot. Corey, how hot is it there right now? Because it's hot as hell out here. It's like 95, 96. Okay, pretty close.

Yeah. But yeah, we're from Tennessee. I have a look, but I just took the trash out and it fucking sucked and it felt like. I know that's right, baby. Troy's our importance, Corey. He hates them. Corey's a big kid. I got it.

Hence the Space Jam reference earlier. We think about the new Space Jam. You excited about that? Everybody? Lebron. Yeah, Lebron, yes. Well, I want to know who are the other people, you know. I do too.

Anthony Davis is confirmed now that he's in it because a lot of people are like saying like, oh, this is part of this bullshit with him coming to the Lakers. He got, there's like a sports conspiracy theory kind of, because Anthony Davis just signed with the Lakers. Right. And there's this sports conspiracy theory on the internet out there that part of that deal, basically that they hid like salary for Anthony Davis in a role in Space Jam too. Right. Like he, they like, you know, that was, they sweetened the deal by putting him in that movie and they're also. going to dump a bunch of extra money in there that really he's getting paid for playing for

the Lakers, not for being in the movie. And let me guess, the rest of the cast is just going to be like Boogie cousins, Rajon Rondo. It's just the Lakers. Rondo already looks like a cartoon character. He looks like Marvin the Martian. Those shoulders are amazing. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, it's a different

man's hand. You've ever seen him live? No. He's so fast. It's unreal. Like, even in the NBA, you know how like even in the NBA, LeBron looks more athletic than a lot of the players somehow other than maybe Blake Griffin. Yes.

Rondo is faster. He was in his prime. He's not anymore. I saw him in Boston. He's faster than other NBA players. It's weird. He has his arms feel. I mean, I do not know if it's true, but they look so long. Like impossible long with like Kauai hands. Yeah.

Given LeBron's career so far for most of it, not all of it, but like they should just have all the the cartoon characters that are on the team with him who are terrible, just, like, be all his old actual teammates. Mo Williams.

Yes. Mo Williams. He's way more appropriate for this role, really, than Jordan ever was, if you think about it. The whole, like, you know,

carrying a team of... I have a cartoon. Cedrunas Ilkowska. There it is. Yeah. Big Z, baby. Big Z. Big Z.

And a shirtless... Oh, damn it, his name just left me. Oh, oh, was the crazy here? Yeah. Justin Quarini here? No, no, no.

Oh, yeah. But who's that? Shit. He also joined the Warriors for 2.5 seconds. Verrajao. Anderson, Vergeal. Anderson. Anderson.

Yeah, yeah, the only two Andersons, I know. Cooper Verhsha. You're a huge Novitsky fan, aren't you? And it's your birthright. That totally checks out. Bingo says. I saw you talking about that on Conan, I believe. I go deep and hard with Dirk.

I love him so very much. He's the best basketballer to me ever of the times. Dirk rules. But as, but as a German, though, just, I bet he rules extra hard for you, right? Super duper hot. Super hard. Oh, I love also that he was in a South state.

Like, he's the least of the cowboys I can imagine is Dirk Novitsky. Yeah, I just think this is a wonderful location. Big text, right? I think Dirk is a good cowboy name, though. Is that just because of Dirk's Bentley? Or does it just in my head, you know, Dirk's over there, rassling them up? Well, how do you say it? No, I think Dirk's good.

Dirk. Dirk. Yeah, well, we say Dirk. Oh, Dirk. I'm saying the American word for penis when I say, But you guys say d'ur. I would like to request that anytime you are referring to that, you just say penis

because it's way funnier the way you say penis than his dick. Copy that. Flulia, you are a big time multi-hyphenate. And for all the people out there not in the biz, what that means is this guy's a renaissance man. He does a little bit of everything. Well, no, a Renaissance man, I think, does a lot of everything. I'm an idiot.

Right. We're just doing a little bit of everything. A very entertaining idiot at the very least. Yes, that is my job. DJ, actor, comedian, what I'm else, basketball player. Basketball fan, yes. But let me tell you, all of us, if you own at some point an iPod, you're a DJ. So already, that is easy.

Actor, we can all do this. Just give me some scripty lines and spit it out. So, you know. Scripty lines. He's humble, folks. I can't wait to tell my wife that later. No, but Flew has done a ton of. Just deliver your scripty lines, damn it.

Deliver those, like a postmates. No, Flew, you're all over the place, man. You've been in all kinds of stuff. Those pitch perfect movies. those are great. Yeah. How was that? That was very fun and strange.

Yeah. Why strange? Most of your jobs you could probably describe that way, couldn't you? And including me, actually. Right. Yeah, yeah. That's kind of your whole deal. Very fun and strange.

Yes. I dig it. Yeah. Well, that was a weird one because I did audition because I had a video I uploaded and someone found it and then they just said, oh, we should audition this person perhaps. And so I auditioned for a lady port. And so I was with very many ladies who are auditioning. and then I was here with my techno looping beatboxing machine,

and then somehow then I received a port. It was very confusing. Which of those things came first for you? Like chicken. Yeah, I've always been an egg guy personally. I get it. Yeah, yeah. You see where I'm coming from.

But like as a kid or whenever all this started, like was it music first and DJing and all that shit? Or was it acting in theater? Or was it all kind of just you've always been a fun and strange, entertaining idiot. your whole life. Well, to answer your question accurately, DJ music and all that shit,

is what I would say. I liked it. As a child, I was a shoe plattler, which is a man in Bavaria. We have a lot of dancing where you are slapping your legs and your feet. Fucking clogging?

Fucking clocking. We have a thing in the South called clogging. I got excited. I'm excited to curse a little bit. That's a new thing for me. So I'm trying it out. As you say it, I'm also just repeating you,

like a terrible theory. But yes, so I did this, and then I started to DJ from this and then I realize it's fun to perform and to try new things and things like that. What's your live show like mostly? People buy a ticket and come see you live.

What are they in for? Yeah, it can be three things or a combination of the three things. Okay. So one can be stories of my life and of other people's lives followed by a techno song about this story. All right. Yeah. Some of it can be my attempting at being something a comedy, ha-ha, like some trying to

stand-up, doing stand-up? Yeah, we're trying it, the he-he-he-hoo. And then another time it can just be like a hardcore techno dance dance show. Like you go eat your glow sticks, swallow your glow sticks. There's vampires around. Who knows? Do you know, do I know as a fan what I'm getting before I get there? No, usually I can see the confusion in the people's eyes. Should they have, though? Like, is it clear, do you think? No, it's fair. So confusion is it's a justified. Okay. Because I want to go to any of those shows, but that last one sounds rad to me. Oh, it's going to be dope, yes. It's the last.

time I did it, I did the show in the world's largest fanny pack. Yeah. Can we get on the list for that? Absolutely. Number two? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Count you guys in. Right on, man. So, I have a question. Go forward. You were talking about what, uh, you, some,

some kind of leg slap dancing. Do you do it with spoons? Uh, no, but I've seen this like, but, yeah, as a clicky clicks. I tried to click with my mouth. You're from a small town, you said, I think earlier. Erlangen. It's small for us. Yes. It's the home of the MP3, is our fame claim. Oh, nice. Yeah, someone there invented it.

What I wanted to know is, are there German rednecks? But before you answer that, what do you think a redneck is? Well, I've learned now a little bit. I thought it was someone, at first I was not understanding this person doesn't apply SPF correctly. So I assumed it was this. But I now know it's like, you are maybe from the South Place and you enjoy some biscuits. You do not need a fast life. You can have a slow time.

That's pretty good. Yeah, you know. Yeah, it's pretty good. I ain't told a while yet. Yeah. If we define it to you as like, this is the Jeff Foxworthy definition, a glorious lack of sophistication. Oh, I like it. As a person or a culture.

Do you have that in Germany? Yes, it would be just south of me. So we are North Bavow. Always in the South. Yes. Yeah, this is very true. It's south. So Bavaria, Bayern, is kind of where I am from.

but I'm North Bavaria. So in America, it's like if you are from like Virginia, like you're from, I don't know, Washington, D.C. or something, like Falls Church. Like, okay, that's the South maybe. Yeah. Or like Maryland. Yeah. Maryland.

I'm like in the Maryland. I'm like a terrapin, a German terrapin. Right on. Yeah. That's pretty rad. So, so German rednecks, you know, as we have defined them. Yes. What kind of describe those people to us?

Like, what are they into? How do they act? Yeah, do you have an equivalent word for redneck for other Germans, like, or white trash or, you know, in Australia, it's bogans or chavs and the UK, any of that type of shit? You got a word like that? No, but thank you for teaching me these words. These are wonderful. No, I mean, I don't, we don't have those unbiah. I mean, if you're from Bavaria, you know, like, you just do it.

And to describe to us, you, them, beer is a very large factor. It's lots of beer. We have mass beer, so the mass is one liter, and so you can chug-a-luck those all days long. Oktoberfest is in Bavaria, in Munich, so this is very much connected. I do not know, is beer a large portion of the redneck? Yes. Oftentimes, yeah. Is your beer?

Whiskey, just alcohol. Okay. But yes, huge part of it. How close did you grow up to Munich at all? Yeah, so like 90 minutes? I fucking love Munich. You like it? It's my favorite city in the world.

Let me guess. Mike Spikes. I don't know what that is. Great, wonderful. You skipped the one tourist trap. Oh, no. Yes. We were too poor to get in any tourist traps when I was there.

I went there with my wife a while ago. Oh, okay. Beautiful. Yeah. We took some of the beer. I remember that. Yeah. We took some of the beer.

I definitely want to ask you about that. So yeah, since you've segued into it kind of already, that's southern white men in particular very much know what that is like I think that you said we're not allowed to have too much pride like you I saw I also saw young Conan and he asked you does it bother you that bad guys in movies and video games are always the Germans you go no it doesn't bother me and he said why and he goes well have you heard

about our history and so it's a similar thing with us you know the the Civil War Confederacy slavery all that stuff I feel like from my removed perspective that Germany has done a very admirable job of dealing with all of that way better than we have. Like, you know, we still got all these statues and shit that you can't, of Confederate generals that people won't get rid of. Like, it's a whole thing with us, but you guys seem to have done pretty well. Well, okay, so the very short answer is we lost a war. Right. And I know that you could say that.

Us too. Yeah, but you were still part of the same team, which is America. as a large thing. So America kind of won and also kind of lost. We just is straighted up lost and also lost for the second time in 30 years. So like at this point, maybe

stop doing the thing about wars. Right. So that's been like no BS is. We just finished paying our World War I reparations about seven years ago. So like this is very fresh in our minds. See, that's a great example. You guys do that. We've never done that.

No. We were supposed, reparations are supposed to be a thing. for the South too and we just sort of ignored that forever. It was the North that promised to do it and they didn't. I mean, that's true. America as a whole ignored it, but... When you lose a war, you have to look at yourself and reboot. America hasn't lost and America was started with some problems. Yeah.

Like the entire history has some tricky stuff. I don't know what you're talking about. Right. Goddamn flula. It's a perfect glass. And you're making these fucking noises with your... I'm kidding. Yeah, yeah.

I think you're completely right. And it just occurred to me. America's so badass. The only war we've outright lost was to ourselves. So that's pretty good. Right? I mean, we fucked a few. We fucked plenty of.

We didn't hit Vietnam. Sh, Corey. The last time we really took home the W was against them, honestly. That's true. We took a big L. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, sorry again. Do you think the reparations and all that, do you think it helped?

Do you think it's like changed the culture of Germany at all? Do you think that, I mean, I can't ask you to speak on behalf of people who aren't you. But let me. Do it anyway. No, I think it's a tricky time in Germany, just like everywhere, this weird right wing thing is not unique to America, you know, and this like idiots running things is not unique even to America. Like England, very weird. This man who is, I don't, probably not qualified to be the head of the government is probably going to win an election tomorrow to be the price. This makes no sense.

And in Germany, there's a weird backlash. and it's right wing and racist and all of these things. And because we have a representative government, you get a seat in Congress, in our Congress based on the population. So here it's winner take all, right? So like if 51 people vote in Wisconsin and it's just a 51% majority, you get all the electoral college votes, blah, blah. Yeah.

Yeah, sometimes they can lose an election and still win it. Right. It also happens in Senate and Parliament too, right? Yes. So we get a representative. So even ding-dong parties can get seats in our parliament, which is a weird thing because in a far-right group can have some seats in that puppy. And that gets a little strange. Is that worse or better do you think in the long run? Better because it exposes it and then you can think, oh, these are idiots. And then we are about coalition building. This is how all laws get passed in Germany. So parties have to bind together. So they find common ground and try to pass stuff. And our biggest party right now is pretty powerful. It's called the Grunen, which are the Greens.

So we are all about eco stuff. And I like this very much. So I'm stoked about this. And I would love for you guys to have maybe another party. I don't know. Us too. Now that'd be great. The problem with another party here is that we're not a parliament.

So another party is just taking away votes in the winner take all games. So everyone's afraid to do it. If we could get everyone to agree to become a parliamentary system, then it would be. Yes, but there's one group that doesn't, it's a tricky thing here because the minority at the moment is actually in control of many of the pieces. And so they will not relinquish this. It's a weird, you guys are in a weird spot? We sure are. So you're talking about the whole, the alt-right thing being a thing, it's not limited to America.

You guys have it, England has it's going on, you know, all over the place. So here's my theory on that, and I admit that it's optimistic. this is me telling myself this, but I feel like and hope that the reason that's such a thing right now, while why they're so vocal and out in everybody's faces and like, you know, visible and everything, is because they were pushed to the brink of, you know, extinction. But like, we had progressed so much as a society, generally speaking. They, and it reached a point where they were like, they're in their death throws. I'd like to think. This is them, you know, they're freaking out and this is the result of that is what I hope is happening. I agree with your hope. I hope this as well. I think this is what's occurred is when you put the kitten in the corner, then the kitty turns into Wolverine for a little bit. But I'm hoping that the numbers just outweigh. The problem is there are many states where there is not a lot of diversity. That's the problem. Yeah. Yeah. North Dakota is going to vote for whoever is wearing a red hat.

right sadly yeah it's a bummer uh a lighter topic yeah let's bring it so but also something that i definitely can relate to i was on i don't know if you do you ever read the comments on any of your videos on the internet or do you stay away from that i would describe that idea as poisonous yeah yeah so anyway do you like poison no okay no no i like non-poisonous foods are my favorite so i also i'm also an internet feller and uh and uh and i i i i'm also an internet feller and i I agree with you completely. But I was reading some of yours the other day. Oh, no.

So I'm only going to talk about one thing in particular. It's only poisonous to you. I'm only going to talk about, we eat your comments. No, it's not that big of a thing, but it's something that I also got a lot and still get. I saw a few people here and there saying some version of, I'm from Germany or my people are from Germany or whatever. And, like, that accent is bullshit. Like, there's no way he really talks like this. This isn't his actual accent.

I know Germans and this guy's playing it up or whatever. Yeah, yeah. So I get that all the time for my accent. Of course. And I think it's fake and everything. And I said it's not a big deal because it's not. But those are the only types of comments that actually make me like want to respond to them. Because they're such bullshit.

Like if anybody calls me like a, you know, commie patsy, you know, secret Jew or some crazy shit like that. Literal thing he's been called. Yeah. for real. I'll just, I brush that off because it's ridiculous. But when somebody says I don't actually talk the way I talk, I'm like, listen to your motherfucker, you know, so how, I just, how do you feel about that? Maybe you can help me have a healthier attitude about it. I find it very funny because you and me, we both know what is the truth. Right. So who cares? Right. I mean, and also, I always remember who has sat down on the seat and said, today I'm going to write a comment that sounds like this.

So on this, like, what is your life? Well, especially because those comments who are particularly, like you said, we know what the truth is. So, like, when I see somebody that says, I'm from Tennessee and we don't talk like that about me. And I grew up in rural tennis. Until I moved out here two and a half years ago, I spent my entire life in Tennessee. So, like, to me, I know that they're just pulling some shit out of their ass to, like, complain about or whatever, because they can't. can't be saying a thing they actually believe because it's not true, you know? And like, what makes somebody want to just say some totally erroneous bullshit like that, Flula? What's up with

that? Oh, you would like me to know, like me to say? Yeah. Well, they're just, they have some extra time and then they want to feel something. So let me jab this polar bear and see what happens. And maybe the polar bear will bite back. And then they're very excited. I always hear about these things where like, someone's like, yeah, you suck so hard. And then they respond. And they're like, oh I love you. Wait, you just said I suck. This makes no sense. Yeah.

It's just attention. It's like children. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And you say, don't give them the attention. I always respond, or usually do not respond, or I always respond very positive, even if it is the rudest thing I've ever seen, because that to me is actually kind of funny. Yeah, that's like a winner.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm biased because as a stand-up, when people are like, oh, did that really happen to you? I get annoyed because I'm like, if I had made that up, I'd be the good. greatest stand-up comic in the world. So I'm admitting that I have that bias. But, like, I would be more impressed by both of you if y'all were faking this. Yeah, right.

I would be like, what kind of amazing backstory that these guys concoct in a basement sophomore year make the backstory, stick the fuck with you. This dude knows about the MP3 coming out of a tiny town in Germany. I mean, that did sound a little bit like Wikipedia. Maybe I'm a fluella truther, but... Fullerruther. Yeah. I would be way more impressed if you guys were faking it.

This, we ended up, we got, our studio time got pushback 30 minutes, which really sucks, because that only leaves us half an hour with you, which is a shame because I'm really enjoying this. But Flula, because we're, you know, starting to run out of time, I want to make sure that we get. I have 18 minutes. You got 18 minutes? Oh, okay. I thought we only had three minutes.

Well, all right. Well, still. We're still, I want to let you. Now that I've gotten into it. So you have some new music coming out, right? I do. Yes. This is accurate.

Self Care Sunday? Self care Sunday. So I began my life as a musician, and then I started to do some fun, like, acting things. but I want to get back to those rootsies you know like a tree and so I'm starting to release some nice hot tracks Hot tracks yeah and this one is about what to do with your body and your brain

to you know rejuvenate after a really hard party And so I think Sunday's a nice day for this So I wrote this song with my friends And also performed with me Ninja Sex Party is there Is their name He's we

Do you know these guys? We have an non-existent rivalry with them Yeah we Our album Purely Stand Up album came out the same day that their album came out and they murdered us. We were number two in the billboard and everything. Destroyed us.

Yeah, we were number two behind only them, but they crushed us, dude. And then we ended up following the number three behind then and their old album, which got new sales off their new album. I saw this. They are a phenomenon of insanity and they have lovely, crazy, wonderful fans. Yeah. And so, of course, I would, yeah, next time... Don't do that.

Check the schedule. Oh, buddy, we made a lot of mistakes. I mean, honest with you. I bought an into sex party t-shirt and became a fan, though. Yeah, nothing but love. It's just hilarious that that's who you said. Our fans are going to get a real kick out of that. Well, I'm sorry.

Now, yeah, I am my apology. No, I'm sure it's great. I can't wait. So it comes out like tomorrow, right? So the single is already released for your ears, but then your eyeballs will take just a few days to actually see the video, which is coming out very soon in a few days. Okay.

And also you are doing a thing with Kobe Bryant. Oh, we're doing some plugins. I love these plugs so deep and hot. Well, like I said, I thought we were having to wrap up, and I want to make sure you can get this out there. Let's get it out. Yeah. So Kobe Bryant, a man of, speaking of a Renaissance man, polyglot, multi-hyfer nations.

I'm a colossal Kobe Bryant fan. That's my dude. Let us just take a pause. How many people own an NBA MVP trophy and also an Oscar? Yeah. I think one. Yeah. I think it's just him.

Yeah, that's it's insane. Anyway, he has also created a very cool sports, children's music-themed podcast. that's scripted. And I'm in season two. I play a referee for this wonderful, wonderful podcast. And I get to sing some nice hard tracks as well on there. It's very fun. It comes out August 31. What's it called? The punies. P-U-N-I-E-S. There are no cursing words, children, adults, dogs, everyone would love it. That's great for like families that are, my family did this. I played traveling basketball all every summer growing up or whatever. So we'd be in the car. I bet that there's families listening to that, you know, on their way to one game and then the sister's got another game on the other side of town.

Yeah. And then you should know Kobe directs it. So I was in the booth with all the people while Kobe Bryant is giving directions over the talkie back. I don't think Kobe Bryant could fit in our booth, maybe. Well, yeah, no, not if he's bringing all the awards, no. Are you in separate booths because I want to know what he smell like? I have come. Two millimeters have separated us on four separate occasions.

Once he smelled of chamomile and of lavender. and then the other two just stuff like delicious. Yeah. Right on. Yeah. Well, we were talking about sports. We were talking about this when we were waiting out there. What's your favorite?

Tell the world what your favorite, what am I trying to reality show is. Oh, yes. Currently it is called Last Chance O. And how would you just define or describe that show? Oh, it's basically like Friday Night Lights, but with no scripties. And it's like if a very nice division when football players were rude for some reason, were kicked out of their schools, needed to rehab. their careers in a very small podunk town with a fiery coach for one season to see who wins what?

It's a recipe for drama right there, man. I've seen it. I know I love it, but you doing it just like that made me want to see it right now even more, as if I've never seen it before. He has that effect on things I have found. When he describes things, it makes them sound, even if they're already great, you make them sound better than they even are. Please hire me as your pitchman for anything into all of the products. I was about to say maybe you should do a plug for our podcast later. Yeah, please.

Yeah, no, that's part of it. I don't know if you got the contract. You have to do, we're going to be like 15 minutes with a plug. Yeah, yeah. We can start that in one minute. We can just start banging those out. What's your, now that, you know, you've gotten into these multiple creative arenas, if you had to pick one, which one would it be like, what's your favorite?

Yeah, so this is like, you know when people are like, what's your most favorite movie of all time or give me your five? I would only ask this to you if you can change your mind in 120 seconds. Okay. So there's no pressure. So currently, I will tell you my rankings, but it will switch after I've had a burrito. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah.

So number one right now is music because it's so fun to make some dope, dope, dope, tasty beats. And then lip syncing is so fun. You know, you just move your lips and move your liby's as they sing the shippies and you make the videos, which I think is very fun. And then number two is voiceover, because you can wear anything as long as your genitals are covered. and then I've been to enough booths that you should wear shoes but that's it That's good enough dude

I'm dying to get me Some of that voiceover action It just seems like the best Exactly for the reasons you just said And what you're about to say We have cartoon character voices You have wonderful voices Buddy I've been telling people

Corey ain't talked a lot Corey say something cartoony That was perfect Yeah yeah was that an episode of Rick and Morty Yeah It was wonderful That was the episode of Rick and Randy.

Rick and Randy. Rick and Randy. Yes, so those are my two most favorite acting. It's also very fun and live stuff as well. Did you move straight to L.A. when you came to America or have you lived elsewhere in this country before? I have lived elsewhere for small moments. I had in exchange.

So this is why I did ask about the accents. I lived for a little bit in North Carolina in Chapel Hill with the Tor Heels. It was an exchange program. And then also I've lived in Chicago for a little bit. and then just kind of traveling. Did you ever live where you said your father had a program? Oh, yeah. So my dad studied a little bit in Boon, Boone, North Carolina.

Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, up in the mountains. Yeah, mountaineers. Appletian State. Yeah, yeah, App, App State. Our late producer, Bryce, may you rest in peace. Rest in peace, yeah. He's an alum of App State.

And, yeah, hugely into it. He's not actually dead. I'm sorry. Bryce, wait, he's not dead. No, no, he's fine. Okay. Okay. Hi, Bryce? Yeah, he can hear you.

Of course. In heaven. Jesus. So how do you feel like, as someone who's, you know, from a different country, and you've been, you know, basically the capital of the Midwest, you've been in pretty southern, I mean, North Carolina is pretty damn southern. Depending on where you're at, obviously, Chapel Hill in particular is probably one of the most. College Town, Research Triangle, all that. It might be a little, you know. Not so, as you would say, redneck perhaps.

Right, right. But still very southern. And then now Southern California, how different do they all seem to you as an outsider? Because as Americans, they're all three very different, but also have a lot in common. But as somebody coming from the outside, did they seem very different to you? Or do they, is America more, you know, like they all feel American? Or do they feel very different? They do feel all American.

I will tell you that food is the most large of the different. Yeah. The tastiest food. are in your geis region thank you there's not a that's right even a close one

oh yeah we've been saying it but it's nice to hear you know a neutral observer yes I'm the Switzerland in this case and I will tell you I have been

I know it's not official sour food but I've been Googling Cracker Barrel nearest for many years in Los Angeles not so close let me tell you

yeah we're fine with Cracker Barrel oh it me as well and I will just say chicken and dumplings make sure to also get the biscuit and the cornbread

and as your side is sweet potato free dessert it's basically a dessert it's some brown sugar on this stop it and sweet teas dude i've been saying that for fucking years that's so awesome i agree this is corey this isn't the man who's died this is not bry no no not bry oh great oh great carrie we agree yes so much we agree how do you feel about uh Hollywood

on it not comparing them to the other places just in general Because, you know, this is a very polarizing place. Like, it feels to me like people either love it or hate it. Like, I talk to people all the time, people that live in New York or wherever. I tell them that I like L.A., and they're like, oh, really? You know, but then on the other hand, some people are, you know, way too into living out here. Yeah, I would not live here if it was not for professional reasons. Right.

So I can like it if I have very real friends that are normal people. But you can see as you drive a lot of A-holes. Yeah. And also just a vibe of a holosity. So that is what you have to fight. I will say, though, the food is delicious. I mean, everything is very nice. And I do not like the sun.

So this is a big F for me is the weather. Everyone loves it so deep. I think it sucks a big one. I like it when it's sad and rainy. As a German, I like this. But I will also say other Germans disagree with me. So sorry, Georgetown. Kind of sort of on that note.

You have already busted a stereotype in the short time you've been here. busted it for me within two minutes of meeting you and that is the unfortunate stereotype that Germans are not funny. That Germans don't have a sense of humor. What is that about? Because you are hilarious. Well, this may just be a confusing

cultural difference between you and I. I mean, we are not funny. I am not funny. So you're not doing this on purpose. No. Who's what? Like saying Routis and who's what just now? These are more fun. I don't have a full vocabulary. My name is not Miriam or Webster. I think he's faking it.

This dude's a genius. This is Andy Kaufman's son. Leader not. I wish this was a true one. No, but we are Germans. If I look in the eyes of a German, I know it's a German because our eyes are there's a strange thing happening in the background of it.

You can also just look at the feet and see our Birkenstocks occurring and then that's probably a German or someone from Silver Lake. Well, where do you think that either the stereotype or the reality, if you're saying it's a reality, but the Germans are kind of humorless. What does that come from?

Is it some cultural thing with you guys where you don't, you know, take things more seriously or what? Yes, I would tell you, I would refer you to my YouTube channel's comments. And if you see a German, it is always analyzing not the content of it, but like how I said a sentence

or if I did not pronounce something correctly, it's deep offense. I cannot believe he didn't say dachshund instead of Dixund or, you know, whatever. So it's very much we are missing sometimes, I think, the point of humor. And we have a different definition of it for sure these. But I don't know. What's the German definition of it?

I'm still, I've been looking for a long time. I don't know. This is why I work here. Is it really? Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. I don't.

When did you know you were perceived as funny here, even if you say you're not funny? I uploaded it. I had a video that was very old and then it received many views for no reason. And then I said, balls against the. wall? It was daddy long legs. I know that one. Yeah, this was a very oldie, and I just had to upload, I was like, I made a deal with myself to make a video every Tuesday. And so I just had an old, like, I was just very confused late at night, and I still do this where I record when I'm confused. And so I uploaded it, and it received a duty of views.

You said earlier you wouldn't live here if it wasn't for professional reasons. Yeah. Where would you? Back home, back in Germany, or somewhere else? I need to be close to here. for the professionals so I would live in Portland Oregon or perhaps Missoula Montana or Bozeman Oh hey Have you been to Boise? Boise Yes

I like Boise you a lot I've been to Boise as well Nampa is outside of Boise Sounds like Napa, less wine Yeah You been to Napa? The Napa Valley Yeah yeah yeah What of you guys

If you did not have to live here I assume you do must live here We both live here Would you do it if it's like Hey guess what You guys can be any place You can hang out with Corrie and take out the trashes in Atlanta? Is that where you are, Corey? No, he's in Chickamauga, Georgia, which is...

Yeah, it's about an hour and a half from Atlanta. Oh, tiny, insane. Corey, you should see. His face just lit up like when we give you chicken. Yeah. Chickamauga. Okay, that's a good look. I really dig L.A., but, like, I genuinely do. But if I, if, what you just said, if I could live anywhere and it didn't matter, it didn't affect my career at all one way or the other, no I wouldn't live here

I think I would probably live in Nashville but if I had but if you remove my home state from the equation for whatever reason I would attempt to live in New Orleans before I died less than five years after moving there from all the booze and awesome food and everything

yes yes it would limit your lifespan Knoxville and then if you remove the home state because I got we got family there it's another city in Tennessee why do you say remove the home state I just I just feel like that's like I don't know Feels like too easy of an answer or something.

And it's like, my family's there. If I could get my family to move to, you know what I mean? It would probably be Austin or maybe Denver. Yeah, Austin, right. Both of those are great cities. Well, Denver is more to do with the mountain. Like, I love Denver, but it's not even in my top three cities. But I love the mountains and all that so much that I could like be in Denver,

go to the mountains. I'm trying to get my dad to move to Colorado. That's really all this is about. He's not even listening to the podcast. You're not listening to the podcast, Dad. But I just want him to buy a fucking ranch in Colorado and he can almost afford it and he needs to do it. Hurry up, Daddy. Yeah, that'd be right.

Wait, top three cities very quick. You said it's not your top three. Who are those? Austin. Yeah. Portland. Oh, yes. Yeah.

And then probably New York. Oh. New Orleans, Austin. And I don't want to say two of yours. So I probably would say Portland, but taking Portland out, Washington, D.C. actually. Honestly, I got to change mine. to New Orleans. Wow.

I don't know. It's going to kill me. We've talked about it a lot on the podcast. I don't want to get into it for the people who listen, but like, New Orleans is trying to kill me

on three or four occasions and I'm going to let it one day. The city has. What about you? It will shift again, just as I told you. Yeah, mine too, probably.

But I hate to say it, but yes, Portland, of course, is nice. I think something outside of Seattle somewhere. Oh, and then Astoria. Oh, have you heard of the Goonies? Yeah.

You mean Astoria of Queens? No, Astoria in Oregon. Have you heard of the films The Goonies? Yeah. Also watched Cobble Pot? Man, you do like rain, huh? Do you know how I know? Big Pacific Northwest.

Pacific Northwest rules, but the rain is like a deal breaker for me. I love it up there. I don't think I could live there because of the rain. For any other Flula truthers out there, here's how I know he's not faking it. He just asked if we know of the Goonies. That's not an American question. Oh, okay. Because it's very, like, that's like, almost like, have you heard of the Bible?

Yeah, it's a cultural touchdown for sure. Okay, got that's got to call that. Matter of fact, I'm going to blast. a blaspheme real quick. It is a cultural touchstone. I didn't watch that movie until I was a young adult, but I was probably 19 or 20. I didn't watch it as a kid, and that was like a mark of shame

for me, because every kid in America has seen it, and I hadn't. And my dad on the video store, too. I don't know what happened there. But, so I watched it when I was like 19 or 20, and didn't really dig it all that much, to be honest with you. And I think it's because I hadn't seen it as a kid, so I didn't have

that, like, it didn't have that nostalgic glow to it. I watched it for the first time as an adult. And I mean, I didn't dislike it, but I didn't see what all the fuss was about. I'm in the same, I'm in the exact same boat, and it's a huge bummer because I know that I would have dug it as a kid and thus still dug it now. But, yeah, I didn't see it until I was probably about that same age. I agree, Corey.

And I, that's Bryce, rest in peace. Has he seen? Yeah. Has he seen it? He was in it. I'm sure he's seen it. Doesn't he look like amalgamation of all them cute kids in every movie from our childhood, actually, now that I think about it?

Yeah, well, they're all super wild. Right, for the most part. He's the whitest guy on earth. Corey, hearing you talk made me like have this pain in my heart that no one, that I didn't say Athens or Oxford. And also, we didn't let Corey answer. Oh, Corey, yeah, your top threes. Is it the home of Aga the dog? Well, I just got really excited again, Corey.

It really is. Yeah, it's going to be Athens probably. And like you said, it'll change depending on, you know, what day it is. Of course. Probably Athens. Then definitely Washington. in D.C. and then probably just because my favorite comedy clubs there, for one reason

Nashville, Tennessee. I love this reason. Or hell. I love Chapel Hill. I love a good Southern College Town. Oh, yeah. Well, I am a coach... Yeah, me too, because Oxford rules. Well, Oxford... That's Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi. The Rebels? Yeah, well... No? No, they are. They're the rebels. They changed the mascot.

Because the rebels is... That's a Confederacy thing. Yes, yes, yes. Cowboy guy. Yeah, and he was a Confederate, like, Colonel guy, but a cartoony one. And they changed it, I think, to a black bear, which makes no sense. But they kept... I thought it was a shark. Who knows?

But they kept the name rebel. I'm pretty sure he's a black bear. The student body voted to make it Admiral Akbar, because he's a, you know, a famous rebel from Star Wars. Team America? Which it was like a meme thing. I also thought it was Team America. No, Admiral, you know, it's a trap. The fish guy from...

You don't follow Star Wars. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes. We thought it was Akbar, like the dude from Team America, like the very racist caricature. I know we're running out of time. Did y'all see the last Star Wars movie, not solo, but the latter? Yes. So you know how she does that?

She does this shit. I don't want to spoil it for you. Spoil it. There's a, like, like a kamikaze moment in that movie where a spaceship is flown purposely into another one and the person sacrifices their own life to save other people. Oh, Rogue One. And people were, no, this is in the last Jedi. They just do this in everything.

Probably. But there's a theory on the internet that the reason they didn't have Admiral Akbar do that was to avoid all the inevitable Allahou Akbar memes and shit from having Akbar character suicide bomb somebody, even though he was a good guy. That would have been free press. I think that they would have done if they'd have thought of it. All right. We have got to let Flula go, although I don't want to, man. This has been great.

Let's do it again. We should. You got anything? anything, how can people like follow you on social media? Google me, Flula, like you have a flu in Los Angeles F-L-U-L-A. I'm in the places that exist. Right on. Thank you so much, buddy. It's been a great time.

Thank you guys. And thanks, Corey. And again, sorry about Bryce's demise. It's okay. All right. Good to see you. Good to talk to you, Flula. YouTube. Hi to the mayor of Chickamauga. Skiw. Hey, you can listen to the podcast. We appreciate all of you. just make jokes of bad thoughts. We're glad you still stay tuned.