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Ah, the German Efficiency Tour coming
our way, well sort of. I'm

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gonna be in Nashville, Tennessee.
I want to bring in comedian Mario Adrian

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A Mario, how you doing,
man? What's up? Good morning?

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Hey, good morning Adrian. So
listening, there's so much to get into

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because I gotta tell you, you're
the kind of guy that most guys would

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hate. And here's what I mean. Growing up, the girls would either

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gravity gravitate towards the extremely good looking
guy, or there was fat, ugly

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people like me that had to be
funny to try and get a girl go

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home with them. You're the double
edged sword. You're you're a fashion model.

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Then you quit that gig and you
go to comedy. It just doesn't

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seem fair. Man. I was
so sorry. Man. That's why I

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feel like when I go on stage
and there's a lot of dudes in the

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audience, I always feel like I
have to address that. I'm always like,

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I know, I look like a
douchebag, but I'm a nice guy.

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I feel like I have to self
seprecate for people like me. Feel

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like I feel like guys, especially
sometimes get a little get a little intimidated

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or whatever. Yeah, and so, so when you were a model,

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did you go by Adrian or Mario? Because I'm thinking I go by Adrian,

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because you just go by one name. I am agent. You said,

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it seems like you should have a
set after your Yeah, like what

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name do you use? And then
what did you model? Was it like

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underwear? Jeans? Well? Did
youmorrow? Dude? Everything? You know,

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it's funny like I did. I
ended up doing everything. But my

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first paid gig in New York.
When I started modeling, I had big

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dreams. I come from a small
town in Germany called Spot. Oh that's

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nice. Yeah, I had that
That's very nice exactly Hoiding moon Spot,

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So a small town of like a
thousand people. And then I came to

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New York and I had big dreams. I thought I was going to be

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like on the billboard for like Calvin
Klein and Square. But my but my

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first paid modeling job was actually for
the online catalog of Targets fully dressed in

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a full body suits sorry as a
as a muffin. Are you talking about

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the little zipp Yeah? It was
a Halloween ad for you know, targeted,

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like the Halloween that's awesome, and
one of them was like a muffin

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take and my hat on the head
ndlong it I looked like I looked like

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a teletubby, you know, like
I know this, I know this outfit.

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I know this is what you're talking
about. I know I know what

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you're talking about. You could go
buy a muffin cake, Mario. So,

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yeah, I did model that didn't
turn out. You know, I

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thought I was gonna be a big
under wrong. But I did end up

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doing a lot of stuff, like
a lot of UNDERWRO modeling at the later

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point. But I started off with
as a muffin. So you do comedy.

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That's what I wanted to That's what
I want to get to. It's

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because look, man, so so
you've got quite the successful career going right

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now, Mario. But what what
blows me away is you didn't started until

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twenty twenty, just four years ago. You leave modeling and somehow, here's

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the story I get. You went
to a comedy club and you said I

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want to do that, and somehow
you is that is that kind of accurate?

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Well kindness, So, first of
all, you know, there's a

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lot of as a German, there's
a lot of stereotypes about Germans not being

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funny, right, we don't.
We don't read it last. Yeah,

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do you what we do? Do
you wonder what caused that stereotype. Here's

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what I think about your comedy.
You are prepared to take over the world.

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Yeah, oh yeah, exactly.
The German officials are invading America.

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Exactly, we're doing it. We're
doing it. No, But like you

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know, Germans are funny. I
think the theories that I think the Germans

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don't last. We don't express emotions
because it's very energy efficient to show emotions

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that you just compressed the laughter and
re use the energy, you know,

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I mean, you tell a German
joke, he's gonna be like, oh,

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is it's funny? Is it's very
funny joke? Yeah? Intell actually

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understand the jokes. We don't laugh. Said, we like suppressed the energy

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from the laster and we used the
energy to make lessons. You just explained

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something to me because being in radio
I've done a few sets on the comedy

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stage, I guess all the audience's
members were just German. Then oh yeah,

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that explains that. That that explains
it. So okay. So but

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you become a comedian and you get
success you also trained its Second City in

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Hollywood. I think that's amazing.
It's it, uh because listen Second City

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Chicago watched John Candy, Bill Murray, Eugene Levy, so many names.

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Is there a chances that could come
back and start being a I don't know,

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a factory to push out even more
comedians like he used to be.

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Well possibly, I just think.
I just think improv it's such a it's

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such a vital life skill. Like
it's so I see people who do stand

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up who come from improv. There's
another level to them. There's another comfortability

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on stage, there's another like this
skill of like improvising and being quick on

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your feet is so important. So
I do think that, like some of

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the best entertainers come from improvn that's
I started improving because I always loved being

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silly. Back to your question,
like I loved I love being silly.

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But in Germany there was no real
uh, there was no real path of

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being a comedian, you know.
So it took me coming to America to

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see that there's actually something you can
do entertainment, which is like being a

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comedian. So then I am yeah, challenged myself, took a Second City

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in uh in Hollywood, and they
had an intro to set up comedy class,

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and I was like, you know
what, I'm gonna challenge myself.

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So I went to my first ever
open mic as a comedian, and I

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thought an open mic meant there was
an actual show. But it was literally

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one dude in the audience, one
dude, and it was like it was

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one dude who ran the show.
And that's how I started. So,

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you know, much like with the
modeling I started, I started up very

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strong, you know, as a
muffin, and with one dude in the

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audience, hopefully it's uphill for me
a right, So how do we see

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you when you get to a little
more. You know, he's not coming

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to a little sorry. The closest
market he's coming to us is going to

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be Zani's in Nashville, Tennessee.
That's a great room. That's going to

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be on September eighth, excuse me, September. More tour dates. I'm

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adding more something in Louisville. I
want to do some some kids. Yeah,

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we're still adding. With my manager, we're working on like expanding for

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German efficiency to so yeah, I
will definitely add at a Kentucky didnis.

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Well, well, listen, if
you had, Louis, we'll make sure

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you reach back out. I want
you back on, I want to bring

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I want to go circle back to
the modeling career for a second, because

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in twenty nineteen, didn't you work
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Yeah, God's got it, I
tell you, man, she's the

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most Yeah, iconic, she's like
the most famous German. Second most famous.

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Problem, ye, second most Jesus, she's the most famous Germany.

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People like exactly. But okay,
so when you're modeling, don't forget about

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Falco. Yeah Falco, alright,
yeah, okay. Austrian though like Arnold

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Arnold, Arnold Schwartzenegger krissed off a
Waltz, even Hitler, technically Austrian.

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Austrian really his house his house was
Okay, then let's say this Austria.

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What about Till Linderman, He's German. Okay, there you go. So

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Till Linderman, all right, the
singer of Einstein. I met his son

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last a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, oh yeah, man, wow,

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he knew who he was. Of
course, Till Lenderman you're talking about.

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I got one more question about the
modeling career. So you know,

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when you see these models and they're
wearing like a gigantic suitcase and they're dressed

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up like all these stupid outfits,
what's the purpose behind that? Did you

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outside of a muffin for Target,
did you ever have to wear one of

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these dumb ass outfits? Oh?
Man Week show, I can't even describe,

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Like it's so weird. Like I
showed up there and they put me

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in a do a fitting and they
put me in like a you know,

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it was like a regular jacket or
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I didn't know what it's called.
It was like, okay. First

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I had a white it's kind of
like a white speed on. Yeah,

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and big platform boots. They gave
me hair extensions. I look like a

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Japanese anime character. Oh my god, I see. And then I was

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wearing like a I don't know,
it looks like a bra. It's just

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like a piece that basically covers it's
almost like a bra. Very strange,

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very avant garde, very high fashion. I don't know who's gonna you know,

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fashion week. Sometimes you question yourself
because there's no like, you know,

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if you wear a suit or something
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don't know who would actually wear this. It's just like the most extravagant that

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just gets you pressed. The fashion
week shrows are not what people wear.

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It's just like the most crazy out
there outfits. So I remember my first

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show. I was walking out there, and it's kind of hard because you

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have to like, you know,
flex your ads, like make sure you

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walk. You have to look like
foot on your blue steel look, you

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know, and I could barely see
through the extensions and also having a white

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speedle. You know, it's cold
in there. It's a little embarrassing,

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but you know, we did our
best. Listen, Mario, the German

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Efficiency Tour is full effect right now. The closest day right now is September

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eighteenth. It's Zandi's in Nashville.
But listen, make sure that you keep

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in touch and if you book a
Louisville or a election and show, we

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want you back on. All right, and we go. I love you

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man, Thanks so much, great, Thank you, Mariam, thanks so

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much for the time. Mario.
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I talked to Tanner. Tanner walked
me through the glasses and said, you

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kind of have a round face,
so let's look at these. And I

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went, okay, uh, And
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