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All right, welcome back to the podcast everybody.
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On this episode we have special guest, Adrian Krajcar.
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Adrian is a content creator and TikToker,
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where he's amassed over one million followers.
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He often plays on stereotypes and points out
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the funny things from everyday life in Croatia
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and the Balkan region.
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We're gonna hear also the incredible story
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of how his parents immigrated back to Croatia
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during the war and learn a little bit more about him.
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Adrian, thanks for coming on the podcast.
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No, thank you for having me.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I'm really excited to have you on.
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I've been watching your reels.
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Because I got to talk about TikToker.
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Yeah, it's kind of the same, but yeah.
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Yeah, it's basically, I would like to pretend
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I'm better than TikToker by using reels,
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but it's the same content.
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It's the same content as maybe a month before.
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Yeah, it's just a little late to the party as well.
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But sort of before we start talking about the content
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and the stuff that you're creating right now,
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you have a really interesting story
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that you sort of briefly told me.
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Yep.
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When we were messaging back and forth,
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I really want the diaspora to hear this
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because I'm sure a lot of people...
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Of course, of course.
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...relate to some of it.
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But definitely an interesting thing
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because your grandparents were from Croatia.
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Both grandparents, yep.
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And then your parents came back to help during the war.
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Can you talk a little?
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Exactly, yeah.
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I won't explain it.
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I'll let you go through it, but yeah.
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Yeah, I'm gonna start off, but people always ask me,
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like, how do you know English?
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You know, I'm from Croatia.
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I live in Croatia my entire life and stuff.
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And I usually tell this story all the time,
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not in detail because I don't even know the full detail.
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My parents don't even tell me that much.
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But what I do know is so my grandparents
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both lived in Croatia.
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My grandpa lived in Istra.
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My grandma lived in Lika somewhere.
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And my other grandparents lived in Dalmatia.
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And yeah, during Yugoslavia,
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I wasn't really great for some people.
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And that was including my grandparents.
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And the cool story is my grandpa from Australia,
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he ran away from Yugoslavia.
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So he was imprisoned.
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He was actually captured and stuff.
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And then he escaped the prison and then left by boat.
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I think it was by boat.
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Like, it should be, yeah.
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It was by boat.
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But yeah, my grandparents from Australia met in Australia.
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So they didn't know each other in Croatia.
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So they met in Australia and Canberra.
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That's where they stayed.
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That's where they had my mom.
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And my dad's side of the family,
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that's I know a little bit less from my dad's side of the family.
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But they all Dalmatia, I feel like it's the same
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because of Yugoslavia.
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They just left to Cleveland, Ohio.
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And that's where that's where they lived.
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And that's basically the story for my grandparents.
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They ran away because of Yugoslavia
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and lived their lives in America and Australia.
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My mom was, I think, 20 or 22,
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somewhere in between there where she left to go off to war.
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And she didn't tell her parents.
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She just left because she wanted to help out Croatia
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because she's seen it on TV and everything.
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And she couldn't just stand there.
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So she went off to war with her other three friends,
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other three friends that were also Croatian.
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So girls, they're all Australian girls.
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And my dad was a journalist back then.
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And I think he went to Croatia as well to report the situation
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because it wasn't really being reported as good in America
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than it should be because no one was actually hearing
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about the Yugoslavian war, the Croatian-Serbian war.
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So he went there and helped out by doing media.
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And they both left America and Australia,
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they all left what they were doing and went to help.
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My mom went to help in, I don't know how you say in English,
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Sanite, so medical side, I feel like.
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And she helped the wounded and stuff like that
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while my dad was a reporter.
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That's a crazy story.
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I know on your dad's side as far as the US,
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because I'm from Los Angeles and I have stories from my dad
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that the same thing, there wasn't a lot of stuff in the media.
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It was reported and stuff like that.
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So what was that, 91?
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Was it right at the start?
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I don't know 100%.
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This wouldn't like, if someone could tell the story,
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it's probably my mom.
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But I think it was 93.
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I think it was 93 when she left.
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Yeah.
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Did she have a medical background?
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Nope.
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She just finished, I think, her third year of university
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for management.
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So she was going for a manager.
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And then she is one now, but she went off to war and stuff.
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Yeah, that's a huge decision.
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I mean, the hospital was trying to help as much as they could,
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raising money and doing things like raising awareness.
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But to go off to actually, to the war, to where it's happening
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and help out, that's like a whole thing.
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I know the story where she said she chose to go.
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She went to the priest, where a Christian family and stuff
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like that, and she didn't know what to do.
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So she went to a priest and she asked,
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she didn't tell her parents, but she asked what to do
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because she doesn't know.
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And the priest said, follow your heart.
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And that's what she did.
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She just left.
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Wow.
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That's in it.
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She flew in at Croatian at that time?
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A flew in where?
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In Croatian?
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No, no.
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She was, she understood Croatian,
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but she didn't speak it properly.
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She took to this day, she doesn't speak it properly.
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She speaks fluently, but the Padesj, you know,
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it just still sticks around, you know?
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Yeah, it was speaking it properly with the Padesj anyways.
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I mean, even fluent Croatians don't even know perfect Croatian,
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you know?
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Right.
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So then after the war, she decided to stay and live there?
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Yeah, she decided to stay here.
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The three, two girls decided to go back and two stayed.
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But yeah, my mom stayed.
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My dad and my mom, I don't think they met in the war,
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but after the war, I think they met.
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I'm not 100% sure about that.
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But yeah, she decided to stay, same with my dad.
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That was it.
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So you were born and raised in Croatia.
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Were you ever able to go back and, you know,
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see things in Australia, in the US?
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Yeah, of course.
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More in Australia than America, my parents are divorced.
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I mostly live with my mom.
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But when I was a kid, I went to Florida, to Cleveland, Ohio,
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to, so when I was a kid, a little kid,
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so I don't really remember all of it.
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But Australia, we kept on visiting maybe every two,
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three years.
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So I love Australia.
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Australia is definitely something, maybe even want to live
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for a couple of years, you know, just to experience it.
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Yeah.
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So I definitely travel a lot.
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What's different about Australia?
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I've actually, I've never been to Australia,
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but as far as like the Croatian community, have you seen?
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Croatian?
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Yeah, I mean, I've definitely seen the Croatian community.
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When I go to Australia, my nono, my grandpa,
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he's in the choir and stuff of the church,
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and it's a Croatian church, a Croatian community.
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It's basically like you didn't leave Croatia, I guess,
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when you go there and stuff.
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So it's kind of cool.
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But Australia can definitely, I'm more of a hot guy.
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I need tropical weather.
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I need warm weather and stuff like that.
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So Australia is definitely something,
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the climate is a must for me.
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I love Australia with that.
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But also, I don't know, the Australia has, I love nature.
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So Australia has a different kind of nature.
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And I don't know, I'm here for it.
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So that's why I kind of like it.
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Well, yeah, I'll put your up in his up,
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actually, a job by Zagreb.
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It's been snowing a lot, the last couple weeks, no,
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last two weeks has been like snow.
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Yeah, it's not.
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The weather's weird here in Croatia,
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because like December, no snow.
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January, maybe a little bit of snow.
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And then now it's just snowing, it stopped snowing,
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of course, but yeah, the weather is like,
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we had 17 degrees and then the next day it started snowing.
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So that was just weird weather, weird weather here.
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Crazy, yeah.
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I know I'm in Makarška right now
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and I know people got stuck on the road
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trying to get back to Zagreb.
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Yeah, Lika's crazy that part, you know?
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Although it's a...
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That's nuts.
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I wanna talk a little about, you know,
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getting into the content creation and stuff like that.
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But before you sort of started making all these,
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you know, TikToks and the reels,
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what you're making now,
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you were doing like photography, right?
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Or travel.
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Yes.
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Yeah, I was doing most of it as a hobby,
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because as a kid, I always wanted to be a YouTuber
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and a content creator.
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And I always wanted to be a content creator.
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Since I was a little kid, I wanted to do it.
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And I've been privileged enough to travel
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because of my mother, she took me away to find other,
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see other cultures and stuff like that.
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And I always wanted to capture it.
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So I did little vlogs as a kid and stuff.
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But I always had that camera and just...
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I always started photography.
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And it's like, I tried to go into the photography
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and I fell in love with it.
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And so every time we travel, I take my camera,
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I do some photos and stuff, maybe make a blog.
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And that just turned into a thing on Instagram.
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I started uploading my photos on Instagram.
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People have seen it.
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I've gotten jobs because of my photography,
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as a wedding photographer, as a gym promotion and stuff.
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So I did a lot of photography as a hobby,
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but as well, it turned into a job just because
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the amount of work I put into it for photography,
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I think I've gotten the professional skills of it.
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And I started photography maybe as a 14-year-old
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all the way up to like even 18 years old.
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But then I a little bit stopped
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just because of the content creation.
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But yeah, I love photography.
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I love traveling.
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So combining that, it's great.
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How many different countries have you been to?
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Do you have a few?
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I think I know the...
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I counted it.
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I think it's 26 or 28, somewhere there.
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Some countries, I'll say five of them are like,
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when I was a kid.
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So I'm counting it, but also I can't really remember it.
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But yeah, like around 26, 28 countries.
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Yeah, or if you want to do more.
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Your favorite places?
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Favorite places.
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Three favorite places, probably Thailand,
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Portugal and New Zealand.
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Those three were great because it's totally different from...
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They're totally different from each other.
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Europe, Asia and I know Cheyenne, but they're great.
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They were great.
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Yeah, I've heard a lot of good things about Thailand lately.
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I've had some...
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Yeah, no, I'm even planning.
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Like that's my dream.
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Moving out of Croatia for a couple of years,
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I definitely want to come back and stuff,
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but to experience the New World and stuff like that.
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One of the places was Bangkok.
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If I get an online job and stuff
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and move into a hotel monthly,
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I feel like Bangkok is a great experience
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just because it's not...
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You don't even need to know Thai.
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Bangkok is definitely a tourist place
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and everybody speaks English, so that's great.
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What does going to all these different countries
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and all these different places,
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does that give you a different perspective on...
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Definitely.
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Definitely.
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How everything works.
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I don't think I would have this kind of open mind
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and knowing about other cultures,
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how everything functions, what can we do better,
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what can we do worse.
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It's just...
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Because a lot of people from the Balkans never left.
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Like people from Croatia never left Croatia.
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I know everybody like, where do you go for vacation?
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They always go to the same place every single year
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and stuff like that and they say Croatia is the best.
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And that's of course,
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but you can't say Croatia is the best
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if you've never been outside.
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I do believe Croatia for me is kind of the best
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because my people, I feel at home and stuff like that,
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but I definitely suggest for people to go outside
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and just explore,
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because exploring just opens up your mind.
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I don't know, I just feel like I've seen stuff
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that happens like good that I'm living in Croatia
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because let's say, I don't know, America,
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the culture and stuff like that.
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There's not really any warm family feel to it.
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So it's like when you go to Croatia,
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I don't know, I just feel more welcomed, if it makes sense.
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So definitely there's positive sides of Croatia,
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there's negative sides of Croatia,
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but there's positive negatives in every single country.
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So...
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Yeah.
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What are some of the things that you miss about Croatia
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when you're abroad?
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When I'm abroad?
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Hmm.
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Coffee culture or...
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Yeah, I do like the coffee culture.
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I think we should keep it, but also to an extent,
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where everything in an extreme is an extreme,
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but I definitely miss our sea.
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Like if I went to Portugal, too cold,
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the sea is too cold, it's not the same.
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Like we have, I feel like we have the best coastline.
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Wow, it's just beautiful.
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I've been everywhere, I've been to the Maltesers.
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I still think Croatia is one of the most beautiful coastlines.
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I like it, so that's definitely what I miss.
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Yeah, it's too cold in Portugal, even in the summer.
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Yeah, because it's the Atlantic.
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So it's the ocean that's coming in.
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So summer, it was like, what, 16 degrees the water?
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So it wasn't like, it's not like,
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we get 25 degrees water here.
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And so it was a bit colder than usual, you know?
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But yeah.
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Yeah, I love the Croatian sea.
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Like I said, I'm in Marcoska right now.
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Yeah.
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Marcoska might be one of my favorite places.
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I mean, I spent so much time here, so I'm biased,
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but I don't know, it's smaller than Split,
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but it's still got everything you need.
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It's got, you know, if you want to.
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That's perfect.
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Yeah.
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But as long as you can see the sea,
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you always feel happy.
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That's what I say, okay?
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As long as I can see the sea and stuff
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and just smell the air, I love it.
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I like it, I like it, yeah.
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You know, so after your travel, photography,
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and all of that, you transitioned into
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making TikToks, making, you know, video content.
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When did that happen?
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And how?
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Um, I never, no, I was always a photographer
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and a video photographer, so I was always making TikToks
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before I was on Vine and stuff.
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I was always making that stuff,
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but I was never known for my Croatian Balkan videos.
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It all started, like I was uploading my photography videos,
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like my photography through videos on TikTok.
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That's how I started, usually, on it.
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And I was saying, in one video, I said I'm a travel photographer
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from Croatia, and then people started knowing,
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oh, he's Croatian, speak Croatian.
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And then I got like 100, 200 messages on my videos,
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just speak Croatian, speak Croatian.
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And that was never my plan,
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because I definitely do want to make people watch me
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from abroad and stuff, which I, which I did,
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but like people just bombarding me with those comments.
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So one time I was just like, you know what?
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I'll record one and I said, I'll never speak Croatian.
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My videos, my phone dropped, and then, can I swear?
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Yeah, go for it.
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One word, one word.
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No, I dropped my phone and I say, yeah, but that was,
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because of that one Croatian word,
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I got almost half a million views.
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And I was like, this might work, you know,
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maybe I should milk it.
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And then I just started making English content,
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but with like Croatian in it.
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You know, I was never speaking,
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I never spoke a whole sentence in Croatian.
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I just spoke English, English, English,
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maybe a Croatian word there here.
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And then people loved it, you know,
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because everybody couldn't understand,
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like people from the US, from the UK, from Germany
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can understand, but also they can hear a foreign language,
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which is kind of cool and stuff.
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It was mostly swearing,
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but Croatians love the swearing jokes.
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So that's what kept on milking it.
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And I kept on just doing and doing it.
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It just made me into a Balkan comedian that speaks English.
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So that's how it happened, you know,
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it didn't happen on purpose, but I saw the views
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and I was like, I gotta use that.
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I gotta use that.
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So I did.
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So most of your followers, would you say, are diaspora?
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I would say so.
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I'm not sure, but my highest ones are from the US.
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So there's 39% of people watch me from the US,
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but I do think majority from the US
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have something in common with the Balkans.
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So probably Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian people
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from the US watch me.
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So I do think most of the diaspora does watch me.
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Well, you've even been on the Croatian news.
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I saw just recently.
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I don't know how often, but I saw for sure one recently.
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Something about jobs.
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You're pointing out the stereotype,
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like you have to know someone to get it.
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Oh, I was on the news for that?
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Yeah, I saw.
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I forget.
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Was I in an article or on the news, like TV news?
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No, no, no, no.
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Oh, you've been on the TV?
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Yeah, I was.
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I was on RTL.
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He made a segment for TikTokers and our UNESCO.
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Like we have to protect our origins, like the old,
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but there's our new UNESCO protections.
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TikTokers.
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So he was making a sarcastic joke about us,
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and then it was me, Mimi, and one other guy.
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And it was just, it was jokes.
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So I made a video about him and he liked it,
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but it was mostly like back and forth banter.
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So that was.
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I didn't realize you were on TV.
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Yeah, I was.
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I didn't even realize.
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And then people started on my, just, oh, you're on the news.
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You're on the news.
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I'm like, what?
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And then I watched the segment and it was like,
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he's making fun of us in a nice way.
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But it was funny.
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It was funny to see me.
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Is that when you were younger?
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Is that how you thought you would get on the news on there?
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Never, never.
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Like even, like I always wanted to be a content creator.
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And always like, oh, I'm dreaming big.
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I always dream big.
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And, but as a kid, I was like, I dream big,
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but it's probably not going to happen.
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So if I told my little self, I have a million followers.
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He wouldn't believe me, honestly.
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Like it's a dream come true.
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I feel like I'm, I'm blessed.
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You know, not a lot of people can do this as a job and stuff.
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So I do feel blessed.
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So you are doing this full time?
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I'm a college student.
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So I'm not doing it full time.
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It's more like a part time job.
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I may, I am making more than a college student
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that wouldn't have a part time job as well.
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So that's great.
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But I am aiming to make this full time.
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So I'm close.
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I'm close, but I want to finish college and then go full time.
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And we'll see, we'll see.
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I still have a year and a half of college.
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What are you studying?
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I'm studying basically what I'm doing.
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I'm a multimedia television and film production.
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So basically in media, filming and stuff.
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So that's, that's what I love.
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So I'm doing that.
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Yeah.
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What, where is that university in Zagreb?
525
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:37,440
It's in Zagreb, Verne.
526
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,240
It's a private college, private university.
527
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,040
Yeah, I wouldn't, I feel like there's probably not a lot of.
528
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,440
Nope.
529
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,840
No, I guess when I was in high school
530
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:51,040
and when I was in middle school, like I never knew what I wanted to do.
531
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,240
And then I would talk to people and stuff.
532
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,680
And the things I wanted to do, there was not really a lot of things to it.
533
00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,920
It was all, all artistic stuff and all that has to do with photos,
534
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,520
videos, making content, acting and stuff.
535
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:09,680
So definitely, definitely not a lot of stuff to do in Croatia.
536
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,200
Well, not a lot of high schools or universities with that.
537
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,280
Yeah, I wouldn't think.
538
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,960
What's been some of your favorite content to create?
539
00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:20,840
Favorite content?
540
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:22,080
Video stuff.
541
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,320
I like my Balkan stuff more and more now.
542
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,440
Before I didn't really like it because it's just like,
543
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,360
it's not my comedy, but I'm doing it more for the people.
544
00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,240
And like, if the people enjoy it, I enjoy it.
545
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,680
I like making more professional ones.
546
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,200
They don't work on TikTok.
547
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,200
Never will.
548
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,640
The more effort you put into a TikTok, the less you'll you'll get.
549
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,440
So it's like, but I do like creating, like, let's say funny little vlogs,
550
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,200
professional vlogs or, yeah, my photography.
551
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,280
I like my photography, my professional vlogs,
552
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,680
maybe making a grown up content, as you may say,
553
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,600
maybe on educating people how to grow on TikTok,
554
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,800
like maybe a business account.
555
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:01,880
I like doing those.
556
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:02,800
I try doing those.
557
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:03,840
They don't perform well.
558
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,640
So I don't really concentrate on those,
559
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,280
but I enjoy doing that kind of content.
560
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,320
All right, now you're sticking with what works.
561
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:15,120
I'm sticking with what works, but might sneak in some videos that I want.
562
00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:17,960
I'm doing, yeah, that's how you can start building it slowly.
563
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,120
As far as the Balkan stuff, you have sort of different,
564
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,240
like series of things.
565
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:26,480
Oh, many.
566
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,560
The tram, the Becky goes to a Balkan school.
567
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:30,280
Yep, yep.
568
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:30,960
Like that.
569
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,480
What's your favorite?
570
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,600
I don't know what to call it, like a series.
571
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,080
A series, yeah.
572
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,600
I feel like my first series that wasn't really a series,
573
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,120
it was a trending sound.
574
00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,960
It's called Slavic Man.
575
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,480
So there was a guy that made a viral TikTok.
576
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,960
He's called Koochie Man and he was like a superhero on TikTok.
577
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,320
And he was like, I can make it into a Slav slash Balkan theme.
578
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,440
So I copied him, but, but make it into my own theme.
579
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:57,760
Put, put Crowe.
580
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,120
I made Severina in the background and stuff like that.
581
00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:02,600
I was drinking vodka, Akiya and stuff like that.
582
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,400
And people, oh my God, it's Slavic Man.
583
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,920
And people till this day know me as Slavic Man.
584
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,920
Some, some people don't even know me as Adrian.
585
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,240
Some people know me as Slavic Man.
586
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:11,920
So I continued that trend.
587
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,880
And that's what pushed me to almost a million on TikTok
588
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:15,720
in 2020.
589
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,480
That's where I blew up because of Slavic Man.
590
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,320
I blew up and I was like, okay, it's kind of dead now.
591
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:21,040
What do I do?
592
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:21,480
What do I do?
593
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:22,440
And stuff.
594
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:28,800
I speak fluent American English, you know, but American accent.
595
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,080
And I know how America works.
596
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:32,200
I know how Croatia works.
597
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,040
Let's combine that.
598
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,560
So Balkan man goes to, to an American school and people loved it.
599
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,280
So that blew up.
600
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,480
And then Becky goes to a Balkan school and then that blew up.
601
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,520
I would love to do Balkan man goes to Australia,
602
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,120
but I don't have the accent.
603
00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:48,960
So that's, that's a bummer.
604
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,200
But yeah, those, my favorite series, I would say Slavic Man,
605
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,720
but I definitely do love the, the Becky and stuff like that.
606
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,160
That's, that's fine.
607
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,880
Or you have to wear a towel on your head.
608
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,800
Oh, see, that's what, that's what I'm saying.
609
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,080
I would, I would make a professional production with
610
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:03,760
Becky and stuff like that.
611
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,280
Maybe make, get a wig and stuff, but that doesn't work.
612
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,520
You know, just put a towel on and people, oh my God, that's so funny.
613
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,640
And yeah, it works.
614
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:12,320
It does.
615
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,080
Every time I see a towel on your head, I click, I watch it.
616
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,880
Yeah.
617
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,240
Do people recognize you on the street?
618
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,680
Yes, yes, they do.
619
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,320
Definitely.
620
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:24,840
In some cases, I love it.
621
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,360
In some cases, I don't, but that's what comes with fame.
622
00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:30,720
So I have to just accept it, you know?
623
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:31,880
What do they say?
624
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,760
I mean, that's the point.
625
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:34,480
That's the point.
626
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,480
When people say something like, I love the people I love,
627
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:38,400
I love your content.
628
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:39,560
They talk to me, want to take a pic.
629
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,080
Of course, if you're nice, you're nice.
630
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,080
That's all.
631
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,040
When I'm, let's say eating, I'm eating out.
632
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,880
I've had questions like a bunch of five, a group of five people just came up.
633
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:49,520
Can we take pictures?
634
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,320
And I have a burger in my mouth and I was like, please wait.
635
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,800
You know, those kind of, or people who just stare and you know, they're staring.
636
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,000
And it's, it just makes me uncomfortable a little bit.
637
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,120
But for the people who approach me nicely and just talk to me and stuff like that,
638
00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:05,920
that makes my day, honestly, when people just talk to me and just like, wow.
639
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,640
Oh, that's, you know, it's crazy to me.
640
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,200
You know, yeah, that's pretty cool.
641
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:11,000
Yeah.
642
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,840
Have you thought about doing a stand up comedy at all?
643
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,000
Oof. I'd have to practice.
644
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:18,280
It sounds cool.
645
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,240
I'm the type of guy that wants to do everything.
646
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,040
And that's never going to happen.
647
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:28,200
But like, I want to get into acting, make a song, maybe do stand up comedy and stuff like that.
648
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,640
But I have to choose one lane, do one lane perfectly and then maybe go into another one.
649
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:33,600
So stand up comedy.
650
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,280
Definitely, I'll have to work on my, I guess, talking skills,
651
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,200
performances and stuff like that.
652
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:45,360
So maybe, maybe, but you have to work on some jokes, you know?
653
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:51,200
Well, I feel like a lot of your content, you can turn it into, you know, sort of a stand up joke.
654
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:51,800
I could.
655
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,000
I could probably.
656
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:53,360
Yeah.
657
00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:54,080
Most of it actually.
658
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:54,600
Yeah.
659
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,120
That's it.
660
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,520
Well, so if not for stand up comedy, what future plans do you have?
661
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,320
You just mentioned you want to write a song.
662
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:02,720
Yeah.
663
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:03,560
Yeah.
664
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:08,680
Um, you know, how every YouTuber or influencer and stuff like that go make songs and stuff,
665
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:09,400
but they're shit.
666
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:09,600
Yeah.
667
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,840
I never want to do a shit song.
668
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,560
I'm never going to release it if it is shit.
669
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,040
Sorry for if that's a swear word.
670
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:15,480
I know.
671
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:15,960
I know.
672
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:16,360
Right.
673
00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:21,040
Um, but yeah, no, as a kid also, what do you want to be?
674
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,120
I was like, I don't know.
675
00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:22,920
I like acting.
676
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,240
I like you being a YouTuber.
677
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:32,440
I feel like it's bad, but fame is cool to me.
678
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:32,920
I guess.
679
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:33,400
I don't know.
680
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,040
It's cool seeing the numbers grow and I'm still in that.
681
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:41,480
I feel like I won't like it later on, but for now, it's just like, I like chasing the
682
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:42,000
numbers.
683
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:48,400
It sounds bad, but it's kind of, but I'm making songs like it's cool listening to
684
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:53,760
songs and trying to make your own song is something I definitely see like a little
685
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:54,960
spark and a passion to it.
686
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,320
I try to learn a guitar and never did, but that's the problem with me.
687
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,880
I want to learn stuff and then I give up pretty quickly, which is kind of bad.
688
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,840
Just move on to the next, next stress.
689
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:06,280
Yeah.
690
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:06,960
Yeah.
691
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,320
That's bad.
692
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:08,720
That's bad.
693
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:09,640
That's something I have to work on.
694
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,440
Well, you know what you mentioned about the numbers.
695
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,240
I mean, it is a little addicting, you know, to see.
696
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,200
It is, it is.
697
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:16,840
That's the problem.
698
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:17,040
Yeah.
699
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:18,640
But it's also good.
700
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:19,600
I mean, it's cool to see.
701
00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:23,600
You can see, oh, you know, all these people are enjoying the content that I make.
702
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:23,920
Yeah.
703
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,120
So by putting out like it's cool to see how many people actually appreciate that's
704
00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:33,040
why I'll never stop if like I get a day, maybe a hundred messages.
705
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,320
You just made my day with this video.
706
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:35,840
You did that.
707
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,600
And just that just makes me happy.
708
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,800
You know, I don't want to change because of the fame.
709
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,000
Like if I do, I want someone to snap me in the head.
710
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,240
But when I when I get messages like nice messages, you made my day and stuff like
711
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,800
that, they make my day.
712
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:52,280
So it's like, oh, I have to create content because some people are not feeling
713
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,440
the best, so let me let me cheer them up.
714
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,760
You know, I like that.
715
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:57,720
Yeah, that's the best feeling.
716
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:58,640
It is.
717
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,720
You know, sort of as we're winding down here with the podcast.
718
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:03,800
So I want to ask you.
719
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,040
I want to ask about future plans.
720
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,480
You know, we just sort of mentioned that I wanted to give you the opportunity.
721
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,040
If there's anything else, anything big, you're coming up within the future.
722
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,800
And future plans for now get through college.
723
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,120
That's the that's the main one.
724
00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:23,080
But future plans definitely there's one project that I did in Dubrovnik
725
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,000
that's coming out probably in November, which I can't say now.
726
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,080
So now that's one of them.
727
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:35,120
But bigger projects just I'm going to be keep on dumping content for people for
728
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:35,480
now.
729
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,320
For now, it's just focusing focusing on college and making content for everyone
730
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:41,120
to make them happy.
731
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,160
So that's that's pretty much it for now for now.
732
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:45,120
Awesome.
733
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,120
Where where can people find your stuff?
734
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,400
You know, shout out some of your links and stuff for people who don't follow you.
735
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,720
Now, the ones I concentrate the most is tick tock, agent, K.R.
736
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,760
So Kratzer, but just K.R.
737
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,360
And Instagram agent, Kratzer.
738
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,040
That's that's fully me.
739
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,960
And also I do stream sometimes because I'm on board.
740
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,400
So if you do like games and stuff, Twitch, agent, K.R.
741
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,400
underscore, and that's pretty much it what I focus on right now.
742
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:12,320
Awesome.
743
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,920
And now just two last questions.
744
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,560
For you, Carlos Vasco or Oji Vasco?
745
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:19,760
People are going to hate me for this.
746
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,160
All right.
747
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,080
I'm more of a Carlos Vasco guy.
748
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,760
Yeah, I don't want to turn people against you.
749
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:27,680
I won't ask you.
750
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:33,520
And then Kaimak or Aiba?
751
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:34,520
Kaimak.
752
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,200
I'm more of a Chevapi and Kaimak.
753
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,040
I like Kaimak better.
754
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:40,200
I like both.
755
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,200
I like them both.
756
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,400
I like Kaimak better. I like both. I like combining.
757
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:45,840
So I wouldn't answer that question.
758
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,320
That's that's a that was a smart question.
759
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:49,160
That was a smart answer.
760
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,480
I should have said that.
761
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:51,120
Why not both?
762
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,200
You know, I know.
763
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,560
Thank you so much for having me.
764
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:56,480
Yeah, man, I appreciate it.
765
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,720
Thank you so much for taking the time and looking forward to
766
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,160
big things to come from you.
767
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:00,800
No problem.
768
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:12,320
Of course.