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What's up everybody? Welcome to a new episode of the All Things Croatia podcast.
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I'm your host, Stanko Zovak. Born and raised in Los Angeles, I'm now living in Zagreb and studying the Croatian language.
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In this series, I'll be talking with people both in the homeland and around the globe who have connections to Croatia.
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We'll hear from business owners, returning the osbora, influencers, musicians and artists, athletes, and the biggest Croatian celebrities that will return my calls.
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But enough about me. Either Moldavia, and let's get started.
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Alright, welcome back to the podcast everybody. Today we've got some special guests, Peta Repar and Josip Sep.
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They're founders of LA Vatreni, which is an organization run for Croatians in Los Angeles.
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They put on events, they're active on social media, and they're a great way for the LA Croatian community to participate and stay involved with the Croatian culture there.
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Thanks for coming on guys.
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Hey Stan Kozobak, thanks for having us.
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Thanks for having us, Stan Kozobak. So I'd be here.
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Yeah, of course. Great to have you guys on. How's it going?
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We're doing good man. We're hoping this COVID thing ends soon. We're ready to get back into the Croatian events and get back to seeing everyone.
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Absolutely, yeah. I think I definitely have met you guys at St. Anthony's, you know, years ago.
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That's our local Croatian church over in LA. How long have you guys been going there?
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I know Peta, you're from Fresno area?
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Yeah, I'm originally from Fresno, California, which is central California. My family has a vineyard out there.
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So I grew up there and then I moved to Los Angeles for college, and then I've been here ever since.
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And then I started getting involved in the church about three years ago and coming around and meeting everyone after I graduated college.
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And Yossi, you're from LA, right? You're born and raised?
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Yeah, so I grew up in Long Beach, you know, our Snoop Dogg, Sublime, and Cameron Diaz are from.
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And I went to St. Anthony's pretty much my whole life, like when I was a little kid. Every Friday night we had Croatian children's school,
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where we learned how to speak Croatian, dance, cola, and play tambourine.
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Yeah, I never got the pleasure of doing that as a kid. My older sister went and then I guess my parents got tired of driving out there and then I never got to go.
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So, traffic, rush hour traffic on Friday nights is really bad. Eventually I think it moved to Sundays because it was better for everyone,
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but yeah, those Friday nights were tough to get to.
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Yeah, traffic, LA traffic is brutal.
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Well, I've heard stories that the dads liked it the most because they would all just hang out and drink beer and play ping pong.
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I don't know if that's true. Maybe you had to make someone in trouble, but that's what I've heard.
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I can attest that, man. The ping pong competitions with the dads were very intense.
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I don't know if that's a Croatian Croatian thing or an LA Croatian thing, but definitely the LA Croatian is a big ping pong community there.
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Yeah, definitely.
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So guys, tell me a little bit about growing up with the Croatian culture and what that background was like for you. What was it like growing up?
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I guess I'll go first. For me, it was probably very different than you, Yossif. Like I said, I was born and raised in Fresno, California.
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When there's not a big Croatian community, there's really not a community at all. Both my parents are full Croatian.
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So, I mean, I grew up in a culture. It was actually my first language. I didn't learn English to us about three years old.
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So, it was always a part of my life, but I really wasn't surrounded by many Croatians besides just kind of my immediate family.
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But we would travel back every couple of years and I have a family in Croatia and my grandmother would come during the winters and spend time with us.
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So that's when I got up to practice speaking Croatian with her, which was great.
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My other grandma, you know, I was a spoke Croatian that lived in town. So I didn't really fully immerse myself and get really involved.
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And like I said, until about three years ago, right around the World Cup time, which is when I kind of started going, coming around the church and meeting people.
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And I just really fell in love with the community and the people and just the atmosphere.
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And it's kind of one of those things that's hard to explain. You know, we go and travel, you know, now me and the boys, we go travel to Canada and Toronto and Cleveland and all over.
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And for these Croatian events and you meet Croatians for a week and it's just some of this undescribable kind of underlying connection you have.
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And you just become lifelong friends and, you know, that's what's that drew me in and that's kept me around and coming back.
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Yeah. So I mean, do you feel a big difference these last three years where you've been more involved with, you know, other people other than just your family in the Croatian community as opposed to before?
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Oh, yeah, totally. You know, I've met so many people all over, you know, United States and Canada in the last three years.
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And, you know, I feel like I go to church on Sundays and, you know, it's like an extended family.
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Everyone, you know, everyone talked to everyone and, you know, it's just a great, great community.
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We have a really great community at St. Anthony's in downtown, downtown Los Angeles, really tight-knit community.
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So it's a great, great place to be and spend time.
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Yeah. And it hasn't just been local. I mean, you guys have gone with Ali Vatreni International, so I'm sure we'll talk about that in a little bit.
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You know, that's really cool, meaning people from all over the world, you know, Croatians from all over the world.
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And Yosef, what about you?
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I mean, like I said, like I grew up with the community.
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So both of my parents are Croatian immigrants, you know, they barely spoke any English and it was like, what do they do?
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They go where, you know, other Croatians congregated and one of the best places was downtown LA, the Croatian church.
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So I, you know, Croatian was my first language.
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I feel like a lot of people can say that, like in LA, that it did go to the community.
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So I feel like that's where we all kind of met and, you know, just made like lifelong friends out there.
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I, yeah, and then I went to Croatia like every other year growing up.
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So it just, it means a lot to me.
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Like all of my non-Croatian friends, like they know me as the Croatian, you know, that's like all I talk about.
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I brag about it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's funny.
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I feel like I've joked around with my friends.
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It's like us Croatians were very proud people.
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Definitely.
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And I feel like anytime you meet someone new, somehow we like Croatians manage to work it in at their Croatian.
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Like if you meet a Croatian, you're going to know that they're Croatian like before you leave them.
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I don't know if that's your experience with that's definitely mine.
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Like definitely the first like 10 words of, you know, meaning someone you say, oh, I'm Croatian.
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Yeah, or my friends introduced me as like, oh, he's Croatian.
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Like it's just like the thing.
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Yeah, it's part of our identity.
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And I think with names like ours too, especially, I mean, there's no escaping it.
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That's, you know, that comes up as soon as you introduce yourself.
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Yeah, my usual line is it's a Croatian version of Peter.
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I remember when Petar came around, he was like, hi, my name is Petar.
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I'm never gonna go pet that.
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Well, that's how I think of myself as like the American speaking people.
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It's like no one can say Petar, you know.
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So it's like I want to say my name like in the proper Croatian way, but then I have to like Americanify it.
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So like it's just weird like saying my own name and like introducing it.
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Yeah, it's kind of a matter of how much effort you want to spend, you know, saying, you know, it's Croatian.
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It's like this. You kind of have to go into history of it a little bit.
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Yeah, saying it over and over again.
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Guitar, what?
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Yeah, I've gotten everything.
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Yeah, even with a name like yours, Superman, no one can say it right.
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Yeah, that's, I mean, there's definitely some time you got to spend explaining in the beginning.
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But I mean, I am jealous of you guys.
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You said you both Croatian was both your guys's first languages and, you know, growing up speaking Croatian and learning it.
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You know, I'm trying to learn it now and it's such a difficult language.
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Like all the grammar and like things don't translate so well to English for me.
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And like I'm jealous that you guys, you know, were brought up speaking it because I wasn't.
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Yeah, it's one of those things I think when you're young, you don't really appreciate it.
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And then, you know, I remember we would have like a guy like the local culture and that would come and teach us to Croatian when we got a little older.
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And, you know, I mean, my sister like hated it.
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He'd come every Sunday and teach us for an hour or whatever.
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And, you know, we were like, oh, you know, we got to do this again.
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But now that you're older and, you know, you definitely appreciate it.
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And when we go to Croatian in the summers, it's nice and nice to be able to speak Croatian and get around and kind of feel definitely more part of the culture.
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But you know, you usually when we're Croatian, I let you do the talking.
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He speaks better than me.
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Yeah, when you guys were here a few months ago, to me, both of you guys sounded pretty good.
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Thanks.
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We were drinking a lot.
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It was probably the alcohol.
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Oh, definitely.
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The more the more Karlovačko and I just go drink the better I speak Croatian, I think.
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Yes.
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100% true.
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Oh, man.
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We're jealous of you, though, man, you're still in Croatia living it up.
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We're back here in Los Angeles working.
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Yeah, I'm living the dream right now, man.
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I'm really, I'm really blessed to be over here.
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I've been, what, 10 months now, over 10 months.
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So, I mean, if you had told me this when I was, you know, even just a year ago or a few years ago, I would be almost a year in Croatia.
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You know, I would have thought I was the coolest guy ever.
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What do you think's been your favorite experience?
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I don't know if I've had just the one single favorite experience, but just the experience as a whole really has been, I mean, when I first got here, just taking in all the, you know, new sites and the culture and everything was new to me.
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And then the summer was incredible being the whole summer here down at the coast.
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I got to travel a little bit and then now again doing another semester of Croatian school over here.
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I guess I would have to say the summer just because, you know, you can't complain about a Croatian summer and it's a little bit cold over here right now, but yeah.
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Definitely not. I'm ready for this summer already.
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Yeah, are you guys going to come back here this summer?
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Planning on it.
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I think, yeah, we'll try for sure. I think I have a wedding this year to go to.
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Another?
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Oh, yeah.
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Every summer I get those Croatian weddings.
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Yeah, dude, they're fun, man. They go all night long.
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It's very different for Croatian listeners, American weddings and at 10 or 11 p.m.
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Not the ones that are church, but the ones that have been used usually and very early, which sucks.
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Yeah, not the Croatian American ones, but the American ones.
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American American ones.
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Well, speaking of the church, let's start getting into L.A. Vatreni.
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I'm assuming you guys met there at the church. How did L.A. Vatreni start? How did you guys meet?
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And, you know, what sort of kicked that off?
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I'll let you take that one, Yossip.
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Let's... Alright, so...
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The Croatian radio program and everything.
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Croatian... Okay, so before there was L.A. Vatreni, there was a thing called Croatian radio program.
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And this used to be like, you know, on the radio, it was like f.m. or a.m. something in the 80s and 90s.
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And these like old Croatian guys would speak and play Croatian songs.
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And so our buddies Nikola Tsvethković and Johnny Tsvethković and me, we found the old radio room upstairs in the church hall.
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And we were like, wow, this is like really cool because it was just filled with a bunch of cassettes of, you know, old classic Croatian artists and songs.
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And we're like, let's... We should totally revive the Croatian radio program.
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So we started just, you know, taking photos of like the room and like all the radio equipment.
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We bought like mics to, you know, like talk and stuff and do little shows here and there.
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And it was like, it was just like a fun little hobby, like aftermath that we would do.
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And then we decided to make a playlist on Spotify.
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So we were like, hey, like we can find literally all of these songs.
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We created, you know, this cool playlist if, you know, people wanted to just listen to Croatian songs because, you know, we weren't really on the radio.
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We were on like internet radio, but we weren't on the actual radio.
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And then we created an Instagram for the Croatian radio program.
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We created t-shirts for the program.
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Like it became this like pretty big thing in the church.
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And, you know, from there we were kind of like, well, what else can we do with this?
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You know, what else is fun?
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And then we started showing soccer games, soccer matches, you know, because Croatian, everyone loves the Croatian national team.
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Like it's so much fun to watch.
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But like we didn't have a central location where we watched these soccer games.
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So Johnny was like, hey, we should buy a projector and, you know, have literally all of the Croatians together to watch this game.
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And we started throwing these events.
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We started, you know, posting photos on our Instagram and it just kept kind of like snowballing and getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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And then we kind of rebranded from Croatian radio program because we weren't really doing, you know, the radio stuff anymore, like the music stuff.
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We kind of transitioned to more like sports and events and like kind of like audio visual stuff.
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And from there, like we met Petar at church one Sunday.
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And just, you know, after Mass, he came and I think it was Johnny's dad and went up to him.
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He's like, hey, like, you know, like introduce himself to him and we started talking and we told him, you know, we do and we just started hanging out and...
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We were on the World Cup time.
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World Cup, maybe a little before that.
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Yeah, a little before.
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Yeah, a little before, a couple months before.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, we've just been doing this stuff ever since just like...
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And it kind of went into like not influencer stuff like on Instagram, but we started taking cool videos and like promotional videos.
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We started making cool original, you know, photographs and content on for Instagram.
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So it just became this like really unique, I don't know, like soccer fan group.
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I don't know how to describe it.
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Yeah, sort of a little bit of everything.
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I mean, you had the soccer games and everything, but also it was more than that, right?
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I mean, what were you...
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I guess our goal is to unite Croatians, you know, all around LA, but also the world and bring, you know, bring Croatians together.
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That common love and, you know, love for our country and heritage.
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And it definitely blew up during the World Cup this last one, four years ago.
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You know, everyone was just like so hyped.
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Everyone was loving our videos or photos on Instagram.
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Everyone was coming to our games.
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That was an LA.
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It was just a good time.
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It was a great experience.
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And yeah, we just, you know, went from there.
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Yeah, I mean, our watch parties were definitely the place to be in LA.
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I remember someone said they googled, you know, where to watch Croatian soccer and we came up as number one.
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And, you know, we had the news crews come out a few times.
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We even had Telemundo come out.
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I think Yossi Bizant Telemundo.
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Definitely.
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For a Mexican fans.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, Johnny got interviewed.
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And then for the World Cup final, it was a pair.
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It was a packed house.
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We had probably about 3000 people there.
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And we were actually one of the venues where the United States Fox Sports broadcast came in and filmed like the crab reactions out of six locations all over the world.
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Two were in, two were in Croatia, one for us and then two in France.
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Then one at a French bar in New York.
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So we were one of them.
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And then we actually made it on the national broadcast, which was awesome.
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So it was an amazing 2018 World Cup summer.
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Yeah, great accomplishment.
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Yeah, I remember that.
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It was huge.
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Thank everyone that came out and supported us and, you know, showed up to the games because it was an unforgettable summer.
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Yeah, that was such a cool experience for me too, just to be there and see all that.
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And let's get into that actually.
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Talk to me a little bit about the events that you guys put on and the World Cup in particular, what sort of went into that and how many people were you expecting?
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And because I think you guys ended up getting what over 3000 people.
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Yeah, the final was probably what, if someone said about 3000 people, I mean, you could walk.
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It was like standing room out the doors.
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We had a massive projector in the main hall, then we had TVs around the bar and then in the small hall and then we had another three, what, like 65 inch TVs outside in the patio.
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It was just, it was crazy.
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I mean, we had breakfast burritos, a coffee car, food, drinks.
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You know, I don't think we ever expected it to become what it was.
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You know, Croatia kept winning and we kept just and planning the parties and people kept coming and, you know, everyone was so excited.
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It was, sorry, it was like a lot of, like we started the first game and you never know, you know, how far Croatia can get in these things.
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And it was just like every game was like, what can we do better?
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You know, and it's like, we're like, we all have full time jobs. Like this is just a hobby for us, you know, like volunteer work.
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And we're up to like midnight 1am, like thinking of how can we make this like way cooler, you know, for everyone who's coming here, like the experience better.
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We went out, like we bought like foosball tables. We made like stickers, temporary tattoos, like just everything to like have make everyone have a great time at our event.
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And I just kept getting like crazier and crazier, like the ideas, like for the World Cup final, like I made like checkered pinatas, you know, like people like we're hitting.
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And like we had these like giant inflatable balls and balloons everywhere. Like it was just, you know, it was a good, good time and a great place to be.
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Yeah, that was so cool. You guys did an incredible job, by the way. I mean, I had such a good time and that really like sparked my, I mean, of course I was always Croatian.
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I was always, you know, close with my Croatian identity, but that like really sparked something in me.
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Like that I can't really explain, but like just a bigger feeling than I had before. And I think that's really what ended up sparking, you know, my move to Croatia where I'm residing right now.
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Well, good. That's that was the objective. So, you know, we, we did it. We got it. Yes.
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That was her plan, you know, to make people move to Croatia.
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Well, you got one of them at least. Yeah. Yeah, you even had some, some local celebs in attendance. I got a picture with Evica Zubac from that night that day.
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Yep. Yeah, Evica came to a few of the watch parties. He's a great guy. So that was a lot of fun.
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We even had, we even got on like news and what, where was it like somewhere in Asia?
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Yeah, so they came right to the, yeah, some, can't remember what country in Asia, but it was, we got like, we got on there on there.
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Japan or something. Japan or somewhere, China or, I'm not trying to add, I can't remember where somewhere, but like it was, it was crazy.
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I mean, we were everywhere. It was, it was awesome.
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That was so cool. What was it? What was the follow up like after, after that, the weeks after did that? Like, did you guys try to plan, you know, anything else because of that?
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You said, oh, this works so well. Let's try and do something else soon.
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You know, I mean, I think for, sorry for me, like, I was so exhausted that I just needed time to rest after.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think it was that, but I think we wanted to definitely keep the momentum going. Yeah, definitely. So excited. So we actually ended up planning a Croatian heritage night with LA Clippers, which was, which was awesome.
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So we had the, the Kolo group, they performed at halftime.
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And then we did like a question and answer session at the end with Zubats, which was awesome. So we're actually kind of in the works of planning there and another one of those or maybe even thinking about doing another sport.
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So if possible, so, you know, that's, we're always, we're always looking for like another event or the next best thing or so how we can get, you know, people together and have a good time and enjoy ourselves.
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And I'll celebrate our heritage and culture.
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Well, talk to me a little bit about some of the other events that you guys have been involved with, because I know you've gone international. You've gone to Canada, to their extravaganza. Is that what it's called?
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East Fest, yeah.
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I mean, we just went to travel for fun and then we would just go live on Instagram for those events.
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There was East Fest, it was like a Kolo festival that we went to a little bit earlier on and then we started going to the soccer tournament on the East Coast.
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Tournier, there we go. That was a great time. That's where we introduced Petar Cevapi reviews.
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Oh, what are those? I haven't heard about those.
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Oh, they're fantastic. It's where Petar rates Cevapi.
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Petar, you want to talk about them a little more?
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Yeah, I know. I mean, it's a lot of great Cevapi out there.
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We've been in the works of maybe making an LA botany Cevapi recipes, so you'll have to stay tuned for that one.
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Josep is the Cevapi master, so we're working on a good mix for ours.
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Yeah, there's nothing better than some good Cevapi on the grill.
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Yeah, definitely. But yeah, no, Tournier is amazing. It's probably one of the biggest events in North America.
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I mean, hundreds of thousands of Croatians are there and a lot of young people.
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It's probably one of my favorite weekends of the year.
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And then we also have a pretty big event in Los Angeles.
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We do also like a Kolo festival. We call it Stravaganza.
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And that usually happens like Valentine's Day weekend in February.
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Unfortunately, we haven't been able to do it for two years because of COVID, but that's also a great weekend.
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We usually get about what? I think what 2020 was 500 people, a little over 500 people. You'll see that.
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Yeah, something like that.
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Something like that for the Pinkwit on Saturday night.
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That's one of the best weekends in Los Angeles.
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And like a lot of groups in Canada.
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Do you guys do anything with San Pedro at all? Because that's another big Croatian community right next to LA.
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We definitely do support each other when we have events and we coordinate if we show similar soccer games or something like that.
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Recently, we did go and support them for the Euro Cup because our hall was closed down and we couldn't show anything.
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They had a few events, a few watch parties, so we were helping them promote their stuff.
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Everyone went down there and supported them.
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It's also another Croatian community about 30 minutes south of downtown Los Angeles. 30 minutes to an hour depending on track.
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We're in Los Angeles.
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You're the port of Los Angeles.
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You had mentioned Corona just now and that you guys weren't able to hold events.
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Of course, we've got to bring it up. Have you guys been able to do anything in these last two years?
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Have you switched to online in some respects?
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How has COVID affected LA?
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Obviously, we haven't been able to have any events, which has sucked.
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When everything shut down, our buddy Johnny helped set up the live feed for the church.
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We have masses live streaming every Sunday on the St. Anthony's Facebook page.
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Besides that, we haven't been able to do much. Things are starting to open up now slowly. We were able to have a few watch parties in San Pedro.
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We haven't been able to do anything at St. Anthony's.
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Aside from that, we do try to make content for our Instagram followers.
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We are active with that and we go live here and there.
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As far as events go, it's still shut down for now.
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We're hoping that everything opens up before the next World Cup.
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Yeah, definitely. That would be huge, of course.
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We've already got a theme and an idea ready for our first reopening party.
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We want to keep that under wraps for now. We don't want the secret to get out.
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Stay tuned.
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Once things open up, I'm sure everyone will hear about it and it will be a good time.
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We won't leave that on here. What's your guys' Instagram handle?
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L.A.Vatrani, right?
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Yep, a one word.
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We'll drop that here so people can go ahead and check you guys out.
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What other social medias are you guys on?
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We've got a Facebook too, but it's pretty much the same content on the Instagram.
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The Instagram is definitely the main outlet.
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We use the Facebook more if we do.
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When we go to tourney and stuff, we'll go live for 45 minutes to an hour or so.
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That usually is on Facebook.
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Instagram, I would say, is our primary platform.
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Have you guys got people reaching out to you with either thanking you or asking what's the next event?
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Or just people reaching out to L.A.Vatrani and asking for information or saying,
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hey, I saw your guys' videos online. I'm from wherever.
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Yeah, no. We've had a couple of people reach out.
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We're wondering if we're doing extravaganza this year.
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Unfortunately, we're not.
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It's another cool thing. We've had people DM us and be like, hey, I've got a friend.
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Let's come to L.A.V.
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Do you mind meeting them and bringing them around the community?
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Someone from Australia DMed us and said that their daughter was moving to New York.
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Do we know anyone in New York? We do, so we connected them.
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It's just crazy how small the world has gone with social media and the Korean community.
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Even if it doesn't matter where you are in the world, you're able to find that kind of common ground, which is really cool.
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Yeah. Actually, I think when George, our friend George Gulsich, went out to New York,
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I think you guys helped set him up with the Croatian community over there, too.
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Yeah, exactly. It's a cool thing to be able to connect people all around the world.
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How can people get involved with you guys?
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Is that the best way to go and DM you and be either one of them to volunteer or just find out more?
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Yeah, no. We're always looking for people to join us and help us out and put on events.
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Obviously, it's tough if you're not in L.A.V.
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But anyone in L.A.V. that's around that wants to get involved, when events start back up, we'd love to have you.
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I don't know, just you can DM the Instagram or if you see us around, just come up to us and get involved.
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You'll see we're starting to get older, we're going to have to pass the torch eventually.
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Definitely. Just come to church where they're almost every Sunday,
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hang out with us afterwards and we can talk if you want to get involved.
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I always thought that was cool, that the community revolves around the church. Everyone meets up at the church
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and even the non-church related activities are held at the church, like the watch parties and everything.
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I was telling some friends, American friends, I was watching the World Cup at our church.
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He said, you were watching a game at a church?
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People were like, yeah, I was drinking at church, like, wait, do you have a bar at church?
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I'm like, yeah, I actually have more fun at my church than I do at some bars. People don't get it.
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That's true, I didn't think about the drinking at the church.
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I think actually that might have been my only complaint about some of the events that you guys have put on,
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was that there was only PON a couple of times.
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I needed my Carla watch.
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I think there's actually some supply chain issues with...
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Yeah, well, blaming on the supply chain issues. That's actually the problem.
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Everything going down with the ports right now, it's all backed up.
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Yeah, but the Chavapi were good though, right?
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Yeah, all the Chavapi were. Yeah, of course. It can't pass up the Chavapi anytime I go over there.
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Tell me, I saw you guys here this summer in... where were we? Makarska?
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And then you guys went down to Dubrovnik and I think some other places.
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Talk to me a little bit about that. You were here for a bachelor party.
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Oh, stonk, oh, what happens in Makarska? Stays in Makarska?
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I knew you were going to say that.
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We had a good time. Yossip's sister was getting married and we were down there with all the boys.
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And we got to meet up with you guys, which is awesome. So Makarska is a great place, great beaches, great nightlife.
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We had an amazing time. I'm ready to go back already.
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And then the wedding was in Dubrovnik, which is just beautiful, gorgeous.
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Taj Mahal in Dubrovnik. Yossip would say why probably some of the best Chavapi that we've ever had.
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Definitely. One of my favorite places. It's very overpriced, but it's really good.
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Taj Mahal, I'll have to put that on my list.
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Definitely recommend it. We went there two or three days in a row, right? You'll see if we can get it.
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Definitely went twice.
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And yeah, that summer, that was really fun. And that was really cool to see you guys.
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Because we had been here for maybe six months at that point and hadn't really seen anyone from back home being LA for me in this scenario.
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And to see you guys and Johnny and Nick come out here and party with you guys, that was really fun.
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Yeah, we're going to have to do it again this summer. Maybe you'll have to stay up for another eight months or so.
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I just might, yeah.
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Tough sale, huh?
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That was a lot of fun. Where's your guys' favorite? You guys came here as kids during the summers, I'm assuming.
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What were your favorite places in Croatia to go?
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Sure. I love Dubrovnik. I think just the old buildings and towers just look so cool.
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The walls, that and Plitvice are just so awesome. Just the natural beauty that Croatia has is, you know, like there's no other place like that.
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Yeah.
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Plitvice is definitely one of my top places in the world and in Croatia.
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And then, I mean, I love being back in my grandmother's village, Svetlana, which is outside of Zagreb.
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But then on the party scene, I would have to say probably my favorite bar in the world is Hula Hula, so on the island of Hvar.
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So I'm going to probably have to get buried there under the deck there. That's my spot.
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Yeah, I think you told me some stories about that bar.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Totally the top of the pot fest.
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Yeah, I believe it's it for me is one of my favorite places too. That's really cool.
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I haven't been in the winter and I'm thinking about going maybe soon. I've seen some really cool pictures with the snow and everything.
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I have too. They look really cool during the winter. I've never been, but I've seen the pictures also.
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I'm sure it's worth it. I mean, I'll have to go and I'll tell you guys about it.
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Definitely. Please do.
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I'm also jealous. I want to, I'm jealous of you. I want to go to Zagreb during the winter and Christmas time one, two or two.
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That's on my list.
399
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Dude, Advent was really cool here. It was, and like everyone was telling me, you know, like people that live here saying, oh, this year, like it's way less than it used to be because Corona, it's kind of, it kind of sucks.
400
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:48,560
And for me, it was like, it was amazing. I thought it was so cool. I was like, what are you getting? This is awesome.
401
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:52,560
But I guess like it was even, I mean, little only get better.
402
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:59,560
Yeah. It won. It was like, I forget one first or second best Advent in Europe. What, two years ago?
403
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:04,560
A couple of years ago. Best. Yeah. Best Advent city in Europe.
404
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:09,560
Yeah. It was really cool. And I didn't, before I came here, I didn't know about that. I didn't know that that was a thing.
405
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,560
But yeah, I'm definitely, I'm really glad that I got to be here, you know, for all the seasons.
406
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,560
Because, you know, usually I had just gone during the summer when I was growing up.
407
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:23,560
Yeah. That's, that's definitely a cool thing that you've been able to experience a full, yeah.
408
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,560
Definitely awesome experience.
409
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,560
Four seasons. We don't have many seasons in Los Angeles. So.
410
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:34,560
Yeah. We only have two. I think it's hot summer and cold summer.
411
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,560
Yeah. Basically.
412
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:37,560
I mean, it rains a few days.
413
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:38,560
Yeah.
414
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:39,560
That's about it.
415
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:44,560
Throw in some wildfires and that's LA summer.
416
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:50,560
I think we'll start wrapping it up here. I want to hit you guys with a question or two.
417
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,560
Karlováško or Ožrskó? What's your favorite beer?
418
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:59,560
Before this summer, I would say Karlováško, but I've been converted to Ožrskó after the summer.
419
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:00,560
Really?
420
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:07,560
Yeah. For me, it's a little crisper, little crisper flavor.
421
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,560
That's fair.
422
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:14,560
So for me, man, that's a tough question.
423
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:21,560
You know, I was talking with some of the guys that I traveled Croatia with this summer and we kind of came to a conclusion that
424
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,560
Karlováško is amazing when it's super cold.
425
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:33,560
Right? It's very just fresh, has a great taste, but when it warms up, it kind of loses that magic, right?
426
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:39,560
But Ožrskó, like even if it warms up a little bit, still tastes really good.
427
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,560
So I'm going to have to go with Ožrskó.
428
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:42,560
I'll have to test it.
429
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,560
I'm actually wearing an Ožrskó shirt right now.
430
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:45,560
I think we got you.
431
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:46,560
Really?
432
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:47,560
Yeah.
433
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:52,560
I think I like Karlováško better from the draft.
434
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:59,560
The draft Karlováško a little better, but I think Ožrskó in a glass or whatever from the bottle.
435
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,560
My favorite beer though is the Radler one. I'm in Croatia.
436
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,560
It doesn't really do anything, but it's so refreshing.
437
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:05,560
I could drink that all day.
438
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,560
It definitely tastes good.
439
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:08,560
Those are nice.
440
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,560
Yeah. There's nothing like that in America.
441
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,560
So whenever I'm in Croatia, that's my favorite thing to drink.
442
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:23,560
It's nice that in Croatia, the worst beers are like Karlováško and Ožrskó, but they're still so much better than Budweiser or Budweiser.
443
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,560
It's like keystones.
444
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:27,560
Bring in beer for us.
445
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:35,560
Yeah. Although they do have some good other beers here, like Vukováško. That's a good beer.
446
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:40,560
I like... which one was it? Velobitsko.
447
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:41,560
Yeah, that's a good one.
448
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:42,560
That was a good one.
449
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:47,560
Let me hit you guys with one more quick one and then we'll wrap this up.
450
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,560
Jovapi with Iván or Kaimak?
451
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,560
I knew that was the next question.
452
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,560
It's only natural.
453
00:38:54,560 --> 00:39:00,560
You know, like, it shouldn't even be a question, man. Kaimak.
454
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:01,560
Yeah?
455
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:02,560
Yeah.
456
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,560
I don't know, man. I like a little bit of both. It's tough for me to say.
457
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:14,560
I think I've been kind of converted to, I would say before my past life, I would say Kaiváško, but I think I've been...
458
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:20,560
I'm in Kaimak's good. It just goes so good with the Lepeňa and the meats.
459
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,560
I probably would have to go with Kaimak, too.
460
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,560
Betta, you've been doing a lot of converting lately.
461
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:26,560
Yes.
462
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:27,560
Yeah.
463
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,560
What's been going on with you?
464
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,560
I'm a big fan, if you haven't noticed.
465
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:31,560
Oh, man.
466
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,560
I'm easily swayed.
467
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:38,560
Yeah, next year I'll ask you the same thing and you will switch answers again.
468
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,560
Alright, guys.
469
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,560
I might tell you PON next year when we're back.
470
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,560
Oh, no. Don't tell anything about that. Anything but PON.
471
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:51,560
But Petá, Ryosip, thank you guys so much for coming on the podcast.
472
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,560
It was really cool talking with you guys again.
473
00:39:53,560 --> 00:40:01,560
It's been a while since the summer for me, and I'm sure everyone listening is happy to hear all this information from you guys.
474
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:12,560
Go ahead and follow them at Elevatrani on Instagram, Facebook, any other links you guys want to tag social media.
475
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,560
That Spotify playlist, is that public or are we keeping that on lock?
476
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:24,560
Yeah, it should be on Spotify. Just search Croatian radio program and it should be hundreds of Croatian songs if you want to listen through it.
477
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:25,560
Alright, awesome.
478
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,560
Well, thank you guys again so much for coming on the podcast. Appreciate it.
479
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,560
Yeah, thanks, Danko. Thanks for having us, buddy.
480
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:31,560
It's good catching up.
481
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:58,560
Yeah, thank you so much, Danko, and enjoy the rest of your time in Croatia.
482
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,560
Thank you.