US Citizen Chris Turner sits down with Lucie Pohl to discuss how heroes never die, hot takes, terrible last names, US border officials sliding into your DMs, not feeling American, the best German words, assimilating to different cultures, why Germans are suspicious of other Germans, and much more…

Lucie Pohl is a German-born-NYC-raised comedian, actor, voice actor and writer. She is the voice of Mercy on Blizzard's Overwatch, Rixxa Fluxflame in World of Warcraft, as well as voicing characters on Red Dead Redemption 2, Hearthstone and more. On screen she has appeared in Homeland, Red Dwarf XI and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Lucie has created 4 critically acclaimed solo comedies that have toured internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London's West End, Germany, Romania, as well as across the US and OFF Broadway in NYC. Her solo comedy Hi, Hitler was nominated for a NY Innovative Theater Award. Her show Immigrant Jam has been featured in the NY Comedy Festival, The NY Times and on NPR.

Follow Lucie at: https://www.instagram.com/ulovelucie

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US citizen Chris Turner sits down with David Buckingham to discuss metal sculpting, heroin addiction, and throwing explosives at a Chinese restaurant (and more, of course, but I don't want to spoil it...)

David Buckingham roams the windblown alleys, abandoned factories, gritty industrial areas, dodgy neighborhoods, and low deserts of Southern California in search of the cast away, the discarded, the forgotten: old 55-gallon barrels, wheelbarrows, tool boxes, road signs, tractor parts, car doors, gas cans, etc.

These battered relics are carted to a dusty studio in downtown Los Angeles where they are muscled into works of art with a bewildering array of power tools and sheer force of will. All colors are original as found; David Buckingham is no painter.

Buckingham, who worked in advertising in a former life, continues to expand on his playful, powerful motifs, with geometric abstractions recalling Op Art and color field painting, and vibrant wall sculptures shaped like pistols and iconic road signs. Buckingham’s unconventional art education includes a stint at New York’s infamous Rivington School, which created guerilla sculpture gardens in the city, and where Buckingham took welding lessons from artist Ray “Cowboy” Kelly. He has exhibited his work extensively in the U.S. and abroad, including at California’s Riverside Art Museum and the Lancaster Museum of Art and History. His sculptures have been featured in an international advertising campaign for Wrangler Jeans, installed as public artwork on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, and purchased by private collectors around the world.

Follow David at: https://www.instagram.com/buckinghamstudiosdtla

http://buckinghamstudio.com/work.html

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US citizen Chris Turner sits down with Jay Jurden to discuss drag queen slang, british swears, missing your big entrance, performing for tips, what makes a great freestyle rap suggestion. bum vs. butt, black diaspora wars, Central Cee’s marketing strategy, pineapple colonisation, why Hawaii is America’s Falkland Islands, Mississippi being the most American state, where Snoop Dogg is from, Native American place names, American hubris, why you need to touch grass, multitudinous churches, secular songs, how being Southern is exhausting, Freddy Adu, Robert Johnson, the Delta Blues, and much more…

Jay Jurden is a New York based comedian, writer and actor. Originally from Mississippi, Jay regularly performs comedy all over the country. He was recently a Staff Writer for Apple TV+'s Emmy-nominated show, The Problem With Jon Stewart. Jay has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon three times and has also been seen on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Featuring, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and HBO’s High Maintenance. Jay was named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch in 2022. His album, Jay Jurden Y'all, debuted #1 on iTunes. Jay has written for numerous publications including: Vulture, Teen Vogue, McSweeney's, and The New Yorker. He has also written for Marvel's Voices: X-Men #1. He was listed on Vulture's Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2020 and was selected to be featured in Just for Laughs Festival's New Faces in 2019.

Follow Jay at: https://www.instagram.com/jayjurden

https://www.tiktok.com/@jayjurden

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US Citizen Chris Turner sits down with Yvette Segan to discuss spewing in yellow taxis, national stereotypes, firemen with their names on their butts, George Orwell’s sexist riddles, the coming rapture, Gen Z Nihilism, getting punched in the face by a Londoner, living in Nepal, how nerve signals slow with age, the differences between New York and London, drinking in parks, Showtime on the Subway, living underground in Australia, James Bond’s name in different countries, German sex parties, Jewish summer camp, the nuances of antisemitism in America, and much more…

Yvette Segan is a comedian, actor, writer, and producer. She performs standup all over the globe, most notably at New York Comedy Festival and Top Secret in London. She has featured across the US at Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco, The Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles, Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia, and headlined Don’t Tell in Washington, DC. In NYC she performs at clubs and indie shows across the boroughs. Her work has been featured by Buzzfeed, Betches, New Yorkers, and Barstool. She has a BA in Drama from Vassar College and Certificate in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Follow Yvette at:

https://www.instagram.com/yvettesegan/

https://www.tiktok.com/@yevit

https://www.yvettesegan.com

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US citizen Chris Turner sits down with Derek Moss to discuss Cobb Salads, difficult accents, Russian standing ovations, Trump's love of Jazz, and a bunch of things that vaguely relate to America.

Derek Moss is a comedian, musician and improviser based in LA. He has performed at UCB Theatre; with the livestream comedy show Everything Now, and has written for The Onion.

Follow Derek at: https://www.instagram.com/derekmossyeahand: https://www.x.com/derekmossyeah

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US citizen Chris Turner sits down with Atheer Yacoub to discuss tinted moisturisers, the external revenue service, excess and efficiency, international walking speed, an Alabama childhood, weird laughs, creepy men, doing mushrooms on the beach, growing up in Palestine vs. the American South, post-9/11 racism, Billionaires getting away from it all, the status of cats in Islam, why the Quran is part of a trilogy, and where to call home.

Atheer Yacoub is a Brooklyn-based comedian and writer, who has performed across the U.S. on stage and on screen. Her half-hour stand-up special premiered on Comedy Central Arabia in 2018, and was broadcast for a global, multilingual audience across the Middle East. She’s been featured on AXSTV’s Gotham Comedy Live, at SF Sketchfest, at The Boston Comedy Festival and many more. Atheer also served as a staff writer for sketch shows like The Breakdown and Passport Control on Brooklyn’s Emmy award-winning network BRIC TV. She is also the co-creator and co-host of the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy show, Muslim Girls DTF: Discuss Their Faith, on FUSE TV, which has won numerous awards including Series Fest Best: Independent Comedy Writing, Yes And…Laughter Lab competition, and The Pop Culture Collaborative’s Becoming America Fund.

Follow Atheer at: https://www.instagram.com/atheeryacoub

Watch her special 'Denied Entry' on YouTube: @atheeryacoub

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@atheeryacoub?lang=en

Website: https://www.atheeryacoub.com

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US Citizen Chris Turner sits down with Eric Neumann to discuss the price of cigarettes, celebrity Super Bowl parties, ungrammatically escaping oppression, Chris being dumb, taking regular breaks from stand-up comedy, attempting to defy the rating system and ruin the conceit of the show, post-breakup transformations, dormant rap skills, why America loves comedy, free speech, theories of stand-up, caring about the audience, Andrew Schulz and crowdwork clips, challenging a crowd’s opinions, the status of British audiences, continental generalisations, getting away from people, how New York is a dominatrix, flipping Taylor Swift tickets, rewatching The Ring, wanting to return to the womb, why you should call your mom/mother, Chicago, and judging people who settle for a slower life.

US citizen Chris Turner sits down with no guest to discuss 50 minutes of behind-the-scenes stories, culminating in a freestyle rap.

Beat: Coffin Nails by MF DOOM.

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