in my head, i m german. i m glad that my parents wanted to have a good education for me. but still at home, they were turkish, like turkish traditions and turkish thinking, so i was always on both sides. and now, i m adult enough to pick the best ones from both sides. anthony: growing up here as the child of turkish immigrants, how did you feel in school? you felt german? melek: yeah. yeah. anthony: so, why do you think germany s good at that? melek: the germans are very correct people. they want to have everything on the point. they don t like surprises. so they organize everything before. anthony: i mean, it s almost a cliché that it s organized. melek: it s not a cliché, it s organized. anthony: grilled minced lamb basted with hot tomato sauce and slathered with melted sheep butter and yogurt. roast lamb with feta, bulgur, and roasted vegetables. ah, that s beautiful. melek: danke schön. anthony: so if you graduate
in my head, i m german. i m glad that my parents wanted to have a good education for me. but still at home, they were turkish, like turkish traditions and turkish thinking, so i was always on both sides. and now, i m adult enough to pick the best ones from both sides. anthony: growing up here as the child of turkish immigrants, how did you feel in school? you felt german? melek: yeah. yeah. anthony: so, why do you think germany s good at that? melek: the germans are very correct people. they want to have everything on the point. they don t like surprises. so they organize everything before. anthony: i mean, it s almost a cliché that it s organized. melek: it s not a cliché, it s organized. anthony: grilled minced lamb basted with hot tomato sauce and slathered with melted sheep butter and yogurt. roast lamb with feta, bulgur, and roasted vegetables. ah, that s beautiful. melek: danke schön.
in my heart, i m turkish. in my head, i m german. i m glad that my parents wanted to have a good education for me. but still at home, they were turkish, like turkish traditions and turkish thinking, so i was always on both sides. and now, i m adult enough to pick the best ones from both sides. anthony: growing up here as the child of turkish immigrants, how did you feel in school? you felt german? melek: yeah. yeah. anthony: so, why do you think germany s good at that? melek: the germans are very correct people. they want to have everything on the point. they don t like surprises. so they organize everything before. anthony: i mean, it s almost a cliché that it s organized. melek: it s not a cliché, it s organized. anthony: grilled minced lamb basted with hot tomato sauce and slathered with melted sheep butter and yogurt. roast lamb with feta, bulgur, and roasted vegetables. ah, that s beautiful. melek: danke schön.
slathered with melted sheep butter and yogurt. roast lamb with feta, bulgur, and roasted vegetables. ah, that s beautiful. melek: danke schön. anthony: so if you graduate from university here and choose to live in cologne, could you afford to live here? melek: yeah. you can. anthony: so it s reasonably affordable. melek: yeah. but because of the refugee situation i think living space is becoming less, like everywhere. anthony: do you think this is a pretty town? every most of the people i speak to say, well, you know, we re a very ugly city. melek: yeah. anthony: but i don t think so. i think it s very pretty. melek: everything was destroyed after the second world war. anthony: yeah, it s not the most beautiful city in the world, but it is not an ugly city, i mean, at all. melek: hmm, i think, i m more with the ugly city. anthony: you think it s ugly. melek: the buildings are new, ugly, gray, like made up after the second world war. there s only small, ol
it s like christmas coming a month early and then continuing for ten years. that s really how special it is. giovanni ribisi joins as sidekick. look, it s the ice. oh. oh. that was so fast. he knows exactly what works and what doesn t. it is like working with a genius in that regard. by the same token you re invited to just bring everything you have and contribute as much as you can. sheep butter? a chance to contribute to seth s unique brand of comedy is apparently worth pleading for. i came a-begging, man. i really did. the idea of working in a genre that i haven t really explored fully with someone who is at the top of his game, seth macfarlane, and him in a situation where he s kind of throwing himself out of his comfort zone by deciding to star in it and be in front of the camera, as well.