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  • - So Berlin is a place that I've--

  • Portia and I were just saying the other day

  • we'd love to go to Berlin. It's supposed to be--

  • - Have you never been? - No.

  • - It's awesome, yeah. - And I understand--

  • I've learned that you have a hobby there that--

  • - Well, so Berlin is known for its techno

  • and for its--its clubs, right?

  • - Its techno music. - Its techno music.

  • Which I thought I had a real aversion to.

  • I thought like heavy metal and techno

  • were the two genres of music

  • that I just had no kind of tolerance for, right?

  • You'll go to Berlin, you know, you might change your mind.

  • - You get sucked into techno? - You get sucked in.

  • They have this incredible club called Berghain

  • which is like world renowned.

  • And, um, so I kind of--

  • I got in with the guy who knows the owner,

  • and so we kind of got to go in through the back,

  • which was really amazing.

  • But the thing to do is to go on a Sunday.

  • And people there, you know, they go all weekend long.

  • - But it's open during the day? - Oh, yeah.

  • No, for days, plural.

  • - It's a club that you dance to techno music

  • during the day. - Yeah.

  • - Do you know what techno-- can you play some techno music

  • just so you can understand what she's going to dance to?

  • [techno music playing] - I'm going to dance to this?

  • Yeah, no, but that's not the Berghainian way!

  • - No? - I'm supposed to dance to this?

  • I can't--well-- - How do you dance to that?

  • [laughter]

  • That's what you do?

  • [cheers and applause]

  • - Um, no. That's not good techno music, though!

  • I'm telling--see, that's what I thought of as techno music.

  • - So we just played bad techno music?

  • - You played bad techno. - Who picked our techno music?

  • - All right-- - Um, yeah, no, no, no.

  • So people go in on Friday and they leave on Monday morning,

  • and they go straight to work, right?

  • It's intense.

  • The last time I went, it was like fetish weekend.

  • It was kind of int--you know everybody's in black

  • or nothing at all. It's vast.

  • It's huge, this place. It's an industrial warehouse--

  • - I'm sorry, back up, back up, back up.

  • People are dancing completely naked?

  • - Yes! Yes!

  • - That is disgusting. - No, it's actually not.

  • I mean, not everybody's naked.

  • - It doesn't matter. If just one per--

  • Can you imagine?

  • There's a naked person dancing next to you?

  • - Yeah, but, okay, so there are different rooms.

  • It's so huge, there are different experiences,

  • different areas.

  • So there's, like, the bottom floor,

  • which is like the techno, you know, center.

  • Then there's upstairs, which is a little more playful

  • and joy--there's like some disco music

  • and hip-hop and stuff.

  • There's an ice cream parlor as well in this club.

  • You can go take a break a have a little ice cream.

  • It's amazing. It's the best place on Earth.

  • - Well, do they serve alcohol as well or just ice cream?

  • - Yes. - Okay, so...

  • - I was so scared when I first went in.

  • Really, I had acute anxiety

  • because I didn't know what to expect, but--

  • - Because there's naked people eating ice cream.

  • - [laughs] Yeah!

  • Um, but it was-- it's a blast.

  • And a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon,

  • I'm telling you.

  • - I think you should start bringing Cyrus,

  • so I brought--I got something for you

  • so that you can bring him and still dance.

  • - It's a BabyBjorn. - Oh, my God, that's amazing!

  • - Put it on. - That's amazing!

  • - No, it-- - Oh, it's this way?

  • - Yeah, it's a Bjorn.

  • - It's a rave BabyBjorn.

  • - Yeah, you've got-- - Oh, my God.

  • And that-- it doesn't get better.

  • - I think this--I think this comes out.

  • - Oh, oh, I see. Not the hanger, okay.

  • Well, I'm ready. - All right.

  • And then you play the music [techno music playing]

  • [audience clapping along]

  • All right!

- So Berlin is a place that I've--

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