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In this 38 minute mini doc, I just want to know: how y’all do that thing you do? How you’re the “cApItAl of c00L” but so…downtoearth at the same time? What is going on in Berlin? I’m here to find out via the Pfand system, the various photoautomats, and maybe a little bouldering. Sorry Berlin, I’m new here.

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WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS VIDEO

0:00 A social media ode to Berlin

1:00 WTF is Pfand and why is it everywhere in Berlin (Berlin’s plastic recycling program). Did I mention how much Aldi loves me by the way?

3:24 I don’t know if these jam skaters at Tempelhofer Feld know that I’m from a rollerskating family back in Indiana? Oumi Janta, wut’s good?

7:09 No one is on their phones, ever. In fact, they’ll probably never see this video because they’re too busy relaxing in parks and frankly, I can’t blame them.

7:53 I met a ChineseGerman woman while staying at the "Walled Off" Banksy Hotel in Bethlehem, Palestine yes that was a real sentence and I can’t stop talking about her. She has stories on stories from around the world, and this was the first time we have met up in two years.

14:10 The cliché of Germans is that they're "honest, direct people" and I guess the real proof is when you're using their metro system.

14:40 I head to Kreuzberg to visit the Turkish sweet shops, where I wait, am I supposed to reuse that bowl that the other dudes just spit their sunflowers in...*gasp* in the era of...COVID?

18:27 Maybe the reason annoying selfies haven't taken over Berlin completely is because of the prominence of the Berlin photo booth, aka photoautomat. She's the real Berlin IT girl. Asgar and Ole explain.

22:30 We all learn history, but through what lens? You're like: whoa whoa what is that Valencia filter? I'm more A4 on VSCO. I have so many questions about the history of the Berlin wall and the Cold War, and who better to ask than a New Yorker who runs a tour called the Rude Bastard’s tour? In the words of Rihanna, come here rude boy, boy…

30:00 So I’m sitting in Café St. Oberholz when a guy comes up and says he loves this channel. I’m like…so what are you up to in Berlin? Dude invites me to go bouldering in Berlin THIS is what I’m talking about when I say it’s cool to be friendly in Berlin. Döner and Club Maté happen as well.

35:37 Berlin said, “You ain’t gotta go home. But you gotta get the FCK up outta here.”

PEOPLE / LINKS YOU MAY BE LOOKING FOR

Oumi   / oumi_janta  
Jam Skate Club IG https://www.instagram.com/jamskateclu...
Jam Skate Club Website https://jamskateclub.com/en/homeen/
Marie   / sun_murai  
The other really smooth skatin' dude https://www.instagram.com/wumzum/?igs...

Yang
East Meets West https://amzn.to/371EUvk
Man Meets Woman https://amzn.to/2GVPFV0
Today Meets Yesterday https://amzn.to/36Zxn01
Big Meets Little https://amzn.to/3lEjMzk

Asgar & Ole
Photoautomat website http://www.photoautomat.de/index.html

Kai
Can You Handle It Tours https://www.cyhitours.com/

Robert   / roberto.bianco  
Music https://open.spotify.com/artist/20ULQ...

Chloe (Assistant Editor)   / chloe_vlahos  

WHERE I STAYED
Friedrichshain AirBNB https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/36553247
My AirBNB Code (if you sign up here, you get thrown some cash, as do I) https://abnb.me/e/TK1a14wN67

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*Filmed early September 2020