Hello podcast nerds and welcome to the extra pack of peanuts podcast.

I'm your host Travis Sherry and with me today is someone who has said hello to strangers in 21 countries,

has shot over a thousand portraits and has someone who has only three rules for his incredible Monday night dinners.

No politics, no business, no agenda.

I think that's just the rule for the

podcast here. Here we go. Adam Schluter, and we're saying that right. A German told us. We're

saying that right. I'm from hello from a stranger.com and a short documentary series that will be

coming out soon of the same name. Welcome to the show, Adam. Hey, thank you very much, Travis.

Right before we got on, you told me that your grand...

This is a funny story. I want to rehash this because it's funny.

Your grandpa told you that your last name was pronounced a different way,

and then after he died, you found out that you were saying it right,

and he was beating up on you for saying it wrong give us that

quick little story because we're we're chuckling about that backstage yeah my dad's got a laugh

about that timid's here this i i i just we have an umlaid over the u and so i was always raised it

there was schlieder schlieter and it was like oh yeah that makes sense like the umlad makes it

like a e sound i guess you know

like even that looks like and then uh you know all these years is just tough grandpa and say the name

right and everything and then i finally go to germany and i'm talking to locals and i'm so excited

to go to Dusseldorf and black forest my family's from and i'm like oh my family's from here

at Schleether and they're like what

they're like what they can't figure out like how how is that German they're like

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