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đď¸ 13 April 2023
âąď¸ 155 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's up, guys? If you're on Spotify right now, please follow the show so that you don't |
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0:07.6 | The 60s was just a very tumultuous time for America. Around the corner of that was the 80s. |
0:13.8 | Around the corner of that was the fall of the USSR. Around the corner of that was the fall of the |
0:18.6 | Berlin Wall. So even though you had the Kennedy assassination, even though you had Dr. King being assassinated, |
0:24.1 | even though you had all these horrible things that were happening in America, America was |
0:28.2 | turning a corner into this era of prosperity. There's always like the funny Italian, like little traditions and people are like wait what okay |
0:58.8 | whatever sure i guess go with it that's cool but you're you're italian german no yes it's a fucking |
1:04.4 | hell of a combo right there yep where what's your parent's story are they from america originally |
1:09.9 | or so my uh my mom is a first generation American? Oh shit. Yep. And that kind of got into why I wanted to go in the military in the first place just because the nation has just done so much for my family. My, uh, my umma and my grandfather and then my great aunts on on my mom's side were all born in Leibling, which is a small village in Europe. It's not in Germany, but it's near Germany. What is that officially in Denmark or some shit? I should know. I was just at Thanksgiving. Oh, you don't know. No, I think it's in the same place that Arnold Schwarzenegger is from. Well, that narrows it down. |
1:45.0 | Yeah, I know, right. |
1:46.0 | As far as I'm concerned, he's from LA. |
1:48.0 | Yeah. |
1:49.0 | It was a small wheat farming village, and they were just poor farmers, and then the war came through. |
1:56.0 | So when the Russians started coming through, at that time, the USSR, they got in wagons and just fled the war and made their way to Berlin as war refugees and then hung out there for a minute while they were getting their their sponsorship done up. And then once that happened, they made their way to America. How old were your grandparents when that happened? So when my Emma, that's my great grandmother she must have been um 30 and then she was |
2:20.2 | pregnant with my aunt kathy at the time yep my grandfather's around uh he's 13 at this time um funny part |
2:27.8 | about our family is we have this family tradition where every year we'll go uh it's called uh lynching |
2:33.4 | or vinching excuse me yeah it's the wrong one |
2:36.8 | right there well we uh we say the stupid german thing like uh my mom taught me the the girl version |
2:43.7 | you say i vinch i vince i vassnavas grafen dysak und givnavas which roughly translates into |
2:49.7 | hey you know i'm a good little german girl |
2:52.0 | reach into your pocket unkivnavas give me something nice so every year sounds like the hitler youth |
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