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Speaker 1 (00:01):
That is a sublime on the show, It's rock with
five to three. It is a free comedy Friday, And
I gotta tell you, I'm very excited about our next guest. Yes,
I've seen his stuff before and very very funny. He's
from Finland. His name is Ismo, and he is performing
at the American Comedy Company. A couple shows tonight, couple
(00:21):
of shows tomorrow night. He is a mussy And the
thing I love about you is mo Is. You know, us,
as Americans, we just kind of go about our daily lives.
We don't think about what we're actually doing. It takes somebody,
somebody's perspective coming in to point out how kind of
ridiculous we are. And you do that perfectly.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, thank you, thank you for being so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I didn't realize it until you pointed it out, But
you're right, Wow, are we ridiculous compared to it? Like again,
he's from Finland. So you know, there are small things
I'm sure that you are observing that you just probably
don't get right.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, yeah, every day I run into it's either language
expressions or it's just things that people do that like
it's so hard to get it really is then that
it turns into something funny and that's great. So I
really appreciate it does help that, I'm sure, yeah, all
the silly things.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So what kind of stuff are you seeing out there
that you just go it does not translate into Finland?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, like one like one thing that's really crazy, even
like when I came to America first as a kid,
like just when I was before we actually moving. Yeah,
like okay, in Finland, if do you see a restaurant
and there's a sign steak twenty euros and you have
a bill of twenty euros, Yeah, you can eat that steak,
(01:42):
But here like no way.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Like there's the plus tax, the cover charge.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The tip, like what like whatever, So twenty dollars is
twenty dollars Yeah, yeah, you don't add the tax.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You just give that to them.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, it's it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But here you get a bill and you go two
dollars ends up being like forty dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, it's like plus tax, Like how could you not
have the tax in.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The price, Like how could youse?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Like it makes there if you could like opt out
from the tax. I guess they like I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Is tipping a form no pun intended Is that a
weird concept for you?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Uh, it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You know, you don't tip. In Finland.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
There's a thing called salary.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Wait for like everyone, for everyone. Yeah, you don't have
to rely on me giving you a little bonus.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah yeah, no you like, yeah, the customer doesn't have
to pay the salary the way like.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Some people a living wage in Finland.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Like like when American friend comes to Finland and we
go to a restaurant and I'm like, so the waiter
probably has his own like summer cottage or something, so
don't worry about it, like you don't have he's good.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh my gods, me away. You know, tipping is a
big thing in America everyone, and now we're tipping not
only servers, we're tipping everybody like machines.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Like I went to go to the store to get
a red Bull and like at the like a liquor store,
and the guy like pull turns the iPad around and
there's a tip tip line there for my red Bull
that I just bought. Like yeah, that's like I thought,
it's only if somebody brings the food to your table. No, no, nomore,
but yeah no, no, it's just everywhere it's not great.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, yeah, that is, that's that's weird.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And also okay, that was like when I moved here.
Of course I knew that you tip in restaurants and bars,
but I had no idea about other places like hair dresser.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Nobody told me about you have to keep the head
and look at me.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah yeah, wow, oh yeah, that's a big one.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I have no idea that the head like I just
that I couldn't. I didn't even like it's like.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Buying a new car and you tip the car like.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Crazy that that is so ridiculous in other places, but
here it's a common it's common.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Why I learned it now, I type everybody. Last Friday,
I taped my doctor.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Good work.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, checks there going five bucks right after.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Appreciated that Fridays performing at the American Comedy Company, A
couple of shows tonight, a couple of shows tomorrow night.
Now you mentioned phrases. That's got to be a big one,
because I mean things that we say, and and it
is regional too. If you tour around the country, different
regions have different sayings, and when you talk, it's got
to be really weird.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, something you're learning. Well, Like.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yesterday I was just trying to figure out the word check.
That's like there's way too many meanings for the word check.
Just check because it's like check, like it's a thing
like you can write a check. Yeah, but that's like
bunny you give like that's like but then you order
to check in the restaurant, but that's like an invoice,
that's the bill.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's kind of money.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's kind of the upper to check. But he'll called
the check. And then also like if you're checking her
out from a hotel or mean, like if you're checking
her out, it means that you're looking at her, yeah yeah,
but it's also can mean that she's like leaving the hotel.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, you're checking out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Again, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And I actually thought like I was at the airport
and they say that, hey.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We have to check your bag, and I was like, oh,
so you want to open and look into it?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
No, we have to check it. But okay, so you're not.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Check it all. Check your bag, it doesn't mean something
totally different box checking something off your list.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh yeah, checking a box. Yeah, yeah, the check mark.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That you just wanted My mind with the airport thing.
So if you're at the T s A and they
say we got to check your bag, they're going to
look through it. But if you're boarding the plane and
they say we got to check your bag, then they're
actually putting it under the plane.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, they're not looking into it, they's just taking it away.
I've heard that airport in Europe are ten times better
than the airports here too.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Is that true? And like the airlines, we didn't say
ten times, just nine and a half.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I heard they're like more.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
No, it's it's like some of the airports in America great,
but like I live in La and La excess, it's
not functional. Yeah, yeah, that's just the way too, Like yeah,
now they're getting out of the airport, it's very hard,
like it's just like, yeah, they planned it for like
ten flights a day and now there's like ten thousands
or something. So yeah, but the San Diego airport was
(06:40):
actually not I took the bus that was the second
nom airport to town. Was just like yeah, that was
like that was faster than No. Birds was great, yes,
and it came right to my hotel. So that was
that's like the second time in California, I ever taking
public transport in eight years, really almost.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Fling this public transportation. Everybody does that. Yeah, yeah, we're
kind of talking about that this morning. Yeah, Denmark has
the most step steps the people take every day. Yeah,
there was a walkable city, I guess. Yeah that we
don't we drive everywhere here.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's there's like a couple of places
I guess in America, but it's rare.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Like yeah, we don't like to walk like they.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well, now I'm staying at the gas lamp, like I'm
throwing a lot right next to the.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
American Comedy Club. So uh.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I was just thinking to day I'll go to Whole
Foods and get some and it's like, okay, that's five
miles away. Okay, like this there's a lot or not
a lot, that's that's a lot. Like I was assuming
that because I'm in the center. Everything is here, but
there's like there's there's a lot of blocks. Yeah, there's
like there's lots of things in the downtown in the
(07:50):
gas Lamp, but it's just restaurants and bars. But there's
like not like a grocery, like a nice big grocery
store like I would like to go to a.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Whole Foods because they have the thing. You can get
the food and I've to be low carb.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So oh yeah, so I want to go to a buffet,
but there's no buffet. Also restaurant, I haven't found one yet.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So now, now have you noticed the portion sizes that
we have here in America are very different. We have
big portions of food compared to a lot of places.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, well that's good. You can do a doggy bag,
yeah yeah, yeah, so you can take the rest of the.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Origin of doggie bag was that we would bring that
food home for our dogs. But you don't really do that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Right home, and like we hated but we still call
it very.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
True, which is so weird.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Now, it's what I have to ask you because you
said something rightef went on the air and I literally
can't stop thinking about it. You were saying you joked
about playing Angry Birds and that it was created in
Finland by a guy you know. Are you joking or
is that? Like I literally can't stop thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Angry Birds, it's it's it's it's a finished company and
the Finnish guy.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I didn't know is that one of your claim the
fames in Finland that we created angry Birds.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That's pretty actually have a bit about where I talk
about Finland. Both people know and there's like, well, of course, Noki.
It's also ok you know the phones that's finished.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Okay, it's completely finished.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Company.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
If you would have given me a million guesses, I
mean I would have guessed like all the Asian countries.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You got sounds like Japanese.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's a good move on their part.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, it's actually it's lucked because okay, it's just named
after the town it was from and it's called at
the time.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
This is great. You go check out the American Comedy Company.
A couple of shows tonight, a couple of shows tomorrow night.
Really good meeting you man. Yeah, but next time you
come down, you gotta come back in. You want to
learn more fun finish facts. Yes, yeah, there is a
story out today. The US dog owners are not gonna like.
(10:07):
It has to do with what happened with somebody's dog sitter.
Come out next on the show I'd rock with a
five three
That is a sublime on the show, It's rock with
five to three. It is a free comedy Friday, And
I gotta tell you, I'm very excited about our next guest. Yes,
I've seen his stuff before and very very funny. He's
from Finland. His name is Ismo, and he is performing
at the American Comedy Company. A couple shows tonight, couple
(00:21):
of shows tomorrow night. He is a mussy And the
thing I love about you is mo Is. You know, us,
as Americans, we just kind of go about our daily lives.
We don't think about what we're actually doing. It takes somebody,
somebody's perspective coming in to point out how kind of
ridiculous we are. And you do that perfectly.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, thank you, thank you for being so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I didn't realize it until you pointed it out, But
you're right, Wow, are we ridiculous compared to it? Like again,
he's from Finland. So you know, there are small things
I'm sure that you are observing that you just probably
don't get right.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, yeah, every day I run into it's either language
expressions or it's just things that people do that like
it's so hard to get it really is then that
it turns into something funny and that's great. So I
really appreciate it does help that, I'm sure, yeah, all
the silly things.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So what kind of stuff are you seeing out there
that you just go it does not translate into Finland?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, like one like one thing that's really crazy, even
like when I came to America first as a kid,
like just when I was before we actually moving. Yeah,
like okay, in Finland, if do you see a restaurant
and there's a sign steak twenty euros and you have
a bill of twenty euros, Yeah, you can eat that steak,
(01:42):
But here like no way.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Like there's the plus tax, the cover charge.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The tip, like what like whatever, So twenty dollars is
twenty dollars Yeah, yeah, you don't add the tax.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You just give that to them.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, it's it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But here you get a bill and you go two
dollars ends up being like forty dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, it's like plus tax, Like how could you not
have the tax in.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The price, Like how could youse?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Like it makes there if you could like opt out
from the tax. I guess they like I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Is tipping a form no pun intended Is that a
weird concept for you?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Uh, it's yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You know, you don't tip. In Finland.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
There's a thing called salary.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Wait for like everyone, for everyone. Yeah, you don't have
to rely on me giving you a little bonus.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah yeah, no you like, yeah, the customer doesn't have
to pay the salary the way like.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Some people a living wage in Finland.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Like like when American friend comes to Finland and we
go to a restaurant and I'm like, so the waiter
probably has his own like summer cottage or something, so
don't worry about it, like you don't have he's good.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh my gods, me away. You know, tipping is a
big thing in America everyone, and now we're tipping not
only servers, we're tipping everybody like machines.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Like I went to go to the store to get
a red Bull and like at the like a liquor store,
and the guy like pull turns the iPad around and
there's a tip tip line there for my red Bull
that I just bought. Like yeah, that's like I thought,
it's only if somebody brings the food to your table. No, no, nomore,
but yeah no, no, it's just everywhere it's not great.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, yeah, that is, that's that's weird.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
And also okay, that was like when I moved here.
Of course I knew that you tip in restaurants and bars,
but I had no idea about other places like hair dresser.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Nobody told me about you have to keep the head
and look at me.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah yeah, wow, oh yeah, that's a big one.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I have no idea that the head like I just
that I couldn't. I didn't even like it's like.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Buying a new car and you tip the car like.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Crazy that that is so ridiculous in other places, but
here it's a common it's common.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Why I learned it now, I type everybody. Last Friday,
I taped my doctor.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Good work.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, checks there going five bucks right after.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Appreciated that Fridays performing at the American Comedy Company, A
couple of shows tonight, a couple of shows tomorrow night.
Now you mentioned phrases. That's got to be a big one,
because I mean things that we say, and and it
is regional too. If you tour around the country, different
regions have different sayings, and when you talk, it's got
to be really weird.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, something you're learning. Well, Like.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yesterday I was just trying to figure out the word check.
That's like there's way too many meanings for the word check.
Just check because it's like check, like it's a thing
like you can write a check. Yeah, but that's like
bunny you give like that's like but then you order
to check in the restaurant, but that's like an invoice,
that's the bill.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's kind of money.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's kind of the upper to check. But he'll called
the check. And then also like if you're checking her
out from a hotel or mean, like if you're checking
her out, it means that you're looking at her, yeah yeah,
but it's also can mean that she's like leaving the hotel.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes, you're checking out. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Again, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And I actually thought like I was at the airport
and they say that, hey.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We have to check your bag, and I was like, oh,
so you want to open and look into it?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
No, we have to check it. But okay, so you're not.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Check it all. Check your bag, it doesn't mean something
totally different box checking something off your list.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh yeah, checking a box. Yeah, yeah, the check mark.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That you just wanted My mind with the airport thing.
So if you're at the T s A and they
say we got to check your bag, they're going to
look through it. But if you're boarding the plane and
they say we got to check your bag, then they're
actually putting it under the plane.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, they're not looking into it, they's just taking it away.
I've heard that airport in Europe are ten times better
than the airports here too.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Is that true? And like the airlines, we didn't say
ten times, just nine and a half.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I heard they're like more.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
No, it's it's like some of the airports in America great,
but like I live in La and La excess, it's
not functional. Yeah, yeah, that's just the way too, Like yeah,
now they're getting out of the airport, it's very hard,
like it's just like, yeah, they planned it for like
ten flights a day and now there's like ten thousands
or something. So yeah, but the San Diego airport was
(06:40):
actually not I took the bus that was the second
nom airport to town. Was just like yeah, that was
like that was faster than No. Birds was great, yes,
and it came right to my hotel. So that was
that's like the second time in California, I ever taking
public transport in eight years, really almost.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Fling this public transportation. Everybody does that. Yeah, yeah, we're
kind of talking about that this morning. Yeah, Denmark has
the most step steps the people take every day. Yeah,
there was a walkable city, I guess. Yeah that we
don't we drive everywhere here.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's there's like a couple of places
I guess in America, but it's rare.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Like yeah, we don't like to walk like they.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well, now I'm staying at the gas lamp, like I'm
throwing a lot right next to the.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
American Comedy Club. So uh.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I was just thinking to day I'll go to Whole
Foods and get some and it's like, okay, that's five
miles away. Okay, like this there's a lot or not
a lot, that's that's a lot. Like I was assuming
that because I'm in the center. Everything is here, but
there's like there's there's a lot of blocks. Yeah, there's
like there's lots of things in the downtown in the
(07:50):
gas Lamp, but it's just restaurants and bars. But there's
like not like a grocery, like a nice big grocery
store like I would like to go to a.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Whole Foods because they have the thing. You can get
the food and I've to be low carb.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So oh yeah, so I want to go to a buffet,
but there's no buffet. Also restaurant, I haven't found one yet.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
So now, now have you noticed the portion sizes that
we have here in America are very different. We have
big portions of food compared to a lot of places.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, well that's good. You can do a doggy bag,
yeah yeah, yeah, so you can take the rest of the.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Origin of doggie bag was that we would bring that
food home for our dogs. But you don't really do that.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Right home, and like we hated but we still call
it very.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
True, which is so weird.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Now, it's what I have to ask you because you
said something rightef went on the air and I literally
can't stop thinking about it. You were saying you joked
about playing Angry Birds and that it was created in
Finland by a guy you know. Are you joking or
is that? Like I literally can't stop thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Angry Birds, it's it's it's it's a finished company and
the Finnish guy.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I didn't know is that one of your claim the
fames in Finland that we created angry Birds.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That's pretty actually have a bit about where I talk
about Finland. Both people know and there's like, well, of course, Noki.
It's also ok you know the phones that's finished.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Okay, it's completely finished.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Company.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
If you would have given me a million guesses, I
mean I would have guessed like all the Asian countries.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You got sounds like Japanese.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's a good move on their part.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, it's actually it's lucked because okay, it's just named
after the town it was from and it's called at
the time.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
This is great. You go check out the American Comedy Company.
A couple of shows tonight, a couple of shows tomorrow night.
Really good meeting you man. Yeah, but next time you
come down, you gotta come back in. You want to
learn more fun finish facts. Yes, yeah, there is a
story out today. The US dog owners are not gonna like.
(10:07):
It has to do with what happened with somebody's dog sitter.
Come out next on the show I'd rock with a
five three
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