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Welcome to the journal editorial report i'm paul gigot a, major

Step forward thursday in the republican push to overhaul the tax code with a, house passing its tax cuts and jobs act by a

227 the 205 vote all eyes now on the senate, where the fate of the reform is less than certain

With republican ron johnson of wisconsin declaring his opposition, wednesday to the plan as it now

Stands joining the panel this week wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger

Columnist kim strasse and editorial page writer kate bachelder, odell who for her sins is covering the tax bill so

You, saw it pass the house i was the thing that surprised, me is how

Relatively little drama there was in the sense that they didn't have to break people's arms they got only 13 republican

Defections that's right and they had votes to spare you know, we're seeing an entirely different story than

We did on health care reform earlier, this, year why, why

Do you think that is well i mean one reason is because health care reform failed and so now republicans understand that their very

Political lives depends on passing tax reform so i think we're generally picking up the pace here and i think the senate now has

Really, wants to get this done before the alabama special election when they might lose another republican seat

And have a thinner, majority, but the defections of the 13 defectors i think 12 of them were from high tax states

California and new jersey and new york in particular

That's because of the state and local tax deduction right right so basically the house

Did a a carve out for property taxes up to a certain amount. And then eliminated the state and local deduction, which we know?

Subsidizes blue states that have, high tax rates and but but

So they're, saying that's going to hurt, my, constituents i'll have to tell you kate i mean i never thought

They'd pull this off because that's a huge

Tax deduction that they're eliminating right i mean its enormous reagan tried this in the 80s he couldn't pull it off

Right i mean it got taken out of the 1986 act

Which, was the last, major reform so it is quite surprising that it looks like

This, this deduction is heading for death row

It's in the senate bill as

well in fact they don't even have an accommodation for property taxes they just get rid of it i

Think, they will restore that when a court conference assuming

This, passes this it's the day of reckoning for those three states after all these years new

York, california new, jersey been raising taxes on their on the public

And they benefit the most from that deduction it is extraordinary that it was all those virtually only?

House members from those states, who voted against the tax bill

And that everyone else actually supported this thing and i think what if i were?

Congressman from one of those states i say look i voted against, this thing this provision

We tried to keep it in and i would turn to the people in my state and say

We have got to lower taxes in these states because this

Is what they have done to us the whole country has turned against those three states and kim i think this

Is what demick one price the democrats are paying for total opposition to this bill in contrast to the 86 act when

democrats decided to negotiate

And they were able to get some things they, wanted i as part of a bipartisan reform here they're

Sitting it all out and so republicans have little incentive to try to accommodate them in order to get some votes

Absolutely if chuck schumer, had stepped up to the negotiating plate you can

Absolutely bet that there probably would have been an accommodation for new

York, and new jersey in california instead you see all of them furious over this, issue suddenly democrats have decided that

You know not being able to deduct things from your property taxes is a terrible idea?

And and that they

want to lower taxes so jerry brown out in california is saying you can't do this you've got to take care of it

All right, what do you think ron, johnson wants kim and in the senate he's he announced this week i mean he's a pro-growth

Guy, we've know, we know i'm he i don't think he, wants to kill the bill but i do think he wants?

Some concessions what does he want?

Well ron johnson has been saying all along he's very concerned about smaller businesses that

File in their taxes as corporations or pastors and he says that when you look at the bills

They are not given as good a treatment as corporations so

Corporations for instance a brooke come down to a

20% rate but pass throughs they get a deduction there and then, by the time they pay

Some surcharges it's more like 35 so he

Wants better treatment for them and the question now is is how can you do that and some of the ideas out there from

Equalizing the treatment, would in fact be good

Mm-hmm, okay, yeah okay, you could, lower the top rate to 35% from 38.5. In the senate bill which would make the

Deduction more valuable against a lower rate that would be one way to solve it i think ron

Johnson's case here is a little thin, because corporations are double taxed on dividends as

Well and are much more disadvantaged under the current system what, we see is see corpse wanting to become these

Pass-through it's not the other way around but ultimately i don't think this

Is the kind of technical details you kill a bill over and i think they will come to an accommodation, yeah dan how

Do you, see this playing out in the senate you have john mccain you have other senators you know. You never know. How

They're, gonna, go that's true but you know this the mood here is so different than it was with the health care bill

Where you, had all the fractious nuts, which indeed started in the house

Here the passage, by the house the way they

Do republicans holding together i think has really created a mood and a

Momentum behind this bill add to that the fact that the republicans

Really, need to get something done in addition to alabama i would mention the virginia gubernatorial race

Huge setback i think that really focused the republicans so john mccain

Susan, collins i kind of i'm not.you know. You hate to say you think they're, gonna vote for cuz

they Got burned the last time but i think the momentum is behind this bill all right thank you all still ahead as the senate scrambles

For the votes needed to pass its tax reform what, would the oklahoma mean for economic growth and wages we'll?

Ask, former cbo, director doug hole taken next

With a, house, passing it's tax reform this week and the senate scrambling for the votes to pass its version

After thanksgiving we're, back with a look at what the overhaul?

Would mean for economic growth jobs and wages in the us economist douglas holtz-eakin is the president of the?

American action forum and former director of the congressional budget office so doug

Welcome back to the program let's look at this bill you look at the house and the senate versions kind of in toto wow

what do you think overall is going to be the economic impact if something close to to these bills pass i

Think, the important common elements are a corporate tax reform that gets the right down to 20% as we know we're?

Well out of line of the competitive rates in the developed world moves us away from a

Worldwide tax system toward one that only taxes firms on the, basis what, they earn in the us

Again, that's just getting in line with, worldwide norms makes us competitive they're, good investment incentives upfront expensing for the first five years

That's a message that says you should invest innovate and do it in the united states if that happens then

We get the capital accumulation, and the and the capital deepening that is typically associated with better productivity growth

That's been the missing element in the us equation with productivity growth come, higher real wages

and that's the missing part of the labor markets getting a higher standard of living so i

Both bills have that in common that's an important element

The over on the the pass-through side, which where more than half a, business income is taxed they're

Going to have to settle some differences in the bills the same basic

Message get rates down get capital accumulation incentives in place is something that they can accomplish those are the most important

Pro-growth elements of these bills and you think that would have a sand i'm asking a

Significant pro-growth impact on the american economy starting immediately

I think that's absolutely right, we you have a built in test as, well

Both bills have a deemed repatriation

We know there are trillions of dollars of us earnings parked offshore

In these bills on a date certain, they will be deemed to have been repatriated and no a?

Tax liability on them then comes the test, do they really, bring the money back if there's a good reform us corporations gonna

Say let's put that money in the us and we're gonna see big impacts right away if they don't do a

Good job on the on the growth incentives we'll know real quickly any concern on your part

By, the!

delay

And the senate bill of one-year in getting to the twenty percent rate now the

Expensing starts immediately in the senate and the house bills but the delay in this in the house set up to some

Economists say you know, what corporations are going to are going to delay for a

year taking profits, and that's gonna, delay the investment you agree i

Don't i think, they'll run the numbers and understand that it's way better to deduct costs against the thirty

Five percent rate and and have earnings taxed at the twenty percent rates so that one-year delay i think is a modest investment

Incentive to front-load things i don't think it's gonna impact the the long-run

implications of the bill, and i'm not entirely comfortable with it okay now i

Look, at the individual side of this reform frankly and i think it's not nearly as good in my view as the corporate side it's

Kind of a. Hash right i mean there's a classic. That's right i mean so

No, cut in the top rate except minor one in the senate and we know and i know your economic research you talk about rate?

Cuts especially at the higher levels and really give you the economic bang for the buck there's very little of that here

Indeed the house bill, goes the wrong

Way in many

Ways there's a there's a phase-out of the 12% bracket that gives an effective 45 percent marginal rate

That's going the wrong direction the senate goes the right direction but, not very far

The estate tax is a mishmash in both bills so i think the individual side turns out to be pretty much a

Wash at best as i mentioned the core elements are the business tax reforms

That those get the us back into the 21st century

They could do a lot better on the individual side okay now on the corporate side there's a

In the growth impact there's you get a wide range of views of just how much it would help the economy i think the tax

Foundation says it would increase it by growth by 0.3%

A year, in gdp larry, lindsey, who you and i both know says it could be 0.9

Percent so would take us a year on average that, would take us above 3% for the next four years of economic growth

Where do you fall in kind of the estimates and why that, why the variation

I'm pretty close to the long run impact of the tax foundation

And but the real issue is is that the speed at

Which the adjustment takes place if it gets heavily front-loaded if you get something that looks like a, boom that takes you above-trend growth

And a quick adjustment of trend growth you get closer to larry, lizzie's number i don't think you can

Get that high if the adjustment takes a long time you can get something, that's like, point two point three, okay?

So and if that happens, is that going to flow. Through to wages

Because as you as you know as our content?

We have a very tight labor market right now in much of the country i have to assume that if you get a big capital

Investment you're, gonna some of that's gonna go to productivity and a lot of that's gonna flow through to wages

That's in the data historically if you get productivity growth it flows through to real wages

And as i've mentioned before that hasn't been happening the us because, we haven't had the productivity growth so right now

We can have a tight labor market it could produce higher nominal wages it'll just get passed on prices you need the

Productivity piece to make people better off all right what, about the deficit concerns this is gonna according to the budget structuring

gonna

Add as much as a trillion

dollars to the deficit over ten years but i assume

Some of that a good portion of it will be made up with and faster growth

Because the growth estimates out of congress are now so so low at one point nine percent on average

Right i don't think anyone should be happy at the prospect of another

Trillion trillion 1/2 of deficits, we are in a fiscal mess i won't belabor that

So the question is what do you get for it and and if you get good growth if you?

Focus on the pro-growth elements then it's, gonna, be worthwhile if you just put out say the individual side which is a mash

It wouldn't. Be worth it so i think this is a proof is in the pudding moment

Okay all right thanks doug appreciate your being here

Thank you when we come back sexual misconduct

Scandals royal the senate as democrat al franken, faces groping allegations and republican candidate roy

Moore refuses to exit the alabama senate race despite pressure from

Republican leaders and a growing list

Of accusers diet beautified the democrats

In fighting it gets me because they don't walk

Many of you have recognized that

This is an effort. By mitch mcconnell and his cronies to steal this election

From the people of alabama and they will not stand for it they got a call and said asked

me to step down from the campaign

Well i want to tell you who needs to step down

That's mitch mcconnell!

defiant roy

Moore thursday refusing to bow out of the alabama senate race even as accusations of sexual misconduct

continue to mount a fox news poll released thursday shows, more losing support, amid the allegations he now trails democrat doug, jones

52 42 percent with nine percent undecided we're back with dan henagar kim strasse

And wall street journal columnist and manhattan institute senior fellow

Jason, and riley so kim we heard roy, moore he seems to suggest, that somehow

Mitch mcconnell gathered all these women to come in and make their arguments against him

Where does this stand at alabama now and i guess, what, do you think of these accusations?

Yeah, well we're now up to i think at least nine women, who have come out and alleged that of some form of sexual misconduct

against them you've, also

Had some important local reporting that quoted residents of work down in that area saying that it was well-known

Way, back when that roy, moore had a predilection for young women now

None of this has been proven but it's out there and there's no escaping it at

This point and you would think that if bro moore believed in the cause of a republican senate and he understood this he would

Step aside perhaps let, somebody, else run

He's defiant that he's not doing that he's defiant that these accusations are false

And what he's doing is now turning this into a battle between roy

Moore the the upstart republican and the establishment in washington dc

Much that kind of trump move as it were it looks like it's

Gonna cost him the seat jason it did very, well could this is a deep red, state this race should, not be anywhere

Near, as close as it is i don't think alabama has had a republican senator since the early 1990s maybe

1992 so this is this is shocking and and if people are wondering, why, people are sticking by

Roy, moore if to the extent that they are i think it has a lot to do with, how

these people feel they're perceived

By, mainstream media, by, these coastal elites these are the people

Who cling to their guns and their religion as obama said our people the deplorable z-- hillary described them as and roy

Moore, pushes back, against, them it's just like the plex off but the polls showed an that he's losing

Yeah, fox released a poll thursday night and he's down to doug, jones the democrat 52 42%

among

Women he's down 58% and so it you have a lot of write-in since october 18th roy doug

Jones is a pro-abortion

Absolutist i think it's a little hard to handicap what's going on down there and look if roy

Moore pulls out the republicans are gonna lose this race this is a problem there's two races going on here doug

Moore and doug jones and roy moore and steve bannon versus mitch mcconnell and i want to, ask, you about steve bannon

Because he he's the former white house aide who is wants to get rid of mitch mcconnell

And he's running he says he's gonna run all these challengers to republican incumbents roy

Moore, was his poster child

His first person he got behind here in this in the cycle and yet it turns out, that he looks

like he could be a loser i

What does this, do to the whole ban and insurgency?

Well i think if that's, why, you see roy

Moore probably based on advice from been a night wing of the party trying to make this into a

Abandon, versus mcconnell race and and deflect from these allegations that are going on because they've got a big stake in this now

The bannon crowd if he goes down

As you said first big trial balloon on this and and honestly though paul this has never been an enormous

Wing of the party anyway so it's it i think it would really puncture that balloon if he were to lose

Yeah, bannon is for losers i think would be the?

be the

Signature line so but let's talk, about, al franken, because that certainly has complicated the you know the bonfire of the sexual harassment

Allegations that we've seen, across the country, now there's one against

Franken including a photo of him attempting to grope a

Woman, while she was asleep, where he says it was a joke and there was no groping involved but it looks pretty ugly

What do you make of now there's gonna be an ethics investigation?

Franken, says he's gonna cooperate welcomes it but does this jeopardize a senate seat

i'm not sure i

I think, al franken might try

And fight this fight this fight it fight through it and and and and it's it's i think it's a little too early

to

Tell but it does demonstrate that this sort of despicable behavior is not limited to one party or one?

Ideology this is a much more widespread problem and and we've been focusing on the entertainment industry a lot of?

Late but i think this is just getting started in the political world i i don't think we're anywhere, near?

The end of seeing a sort of behavior and miracle of miracles day an

Democrats saying you know what way, back when bill clinton should have resigned

Kirsten gillibrand the senator from new. York saying that clinton should have resigned a very convenient 25 years later yeah

Well i think the broader point here paul, is that virtually all of this behavior that we've been reading

About is non-consensual and the bottom line, is some men are pigs with women and the world, would be better off without those pigs

Abusing, women kim what do you think where does this go with franken i mean this is a delicate one for the democrats?

Yeah, you can, tell that franken himself, was certainly, worried that this is where it might go he initially put out a

Short like non-apology then put out a very contrite statement in which he fully apologized

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BREAKFAST: Differences in Germany & USA - Duration: 6:08.

Let's have some breakfast!

Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.

During the week breakfast is pretty much something that I eat because I have to, but on the weekend

it is a meal of the day that I truly enjoy in both Germany and the U.S., but the weekend breakfasts

in these two countries are quite different.

In both countries, nowadays weekday breakfasts are often pretty quick events.

Maybe some muesli or a roll and cheese in Germany or something picked up from a bakery

on the go.

In the U.S. maybe some cereal, a bagel, or a breakfast burrito, for example, picked up

to eat on the go.

But on the weekend in Germany a typical breakfast might look something like this:

So here on the table for our "typical" German breakfast, we have some rolls and slices of bread.

And then you've got to have some stuff to put on those rolls and bread.

We've got, ah, cream cheese.

I almost said the German "fresh cheese" -- Frischkäse.

Cream cheese. Two different kinds of cheese. Butter. Some strawberry jam.

And some jam that our friend made us, actually.

And we've also got Nutella back there. - Milk. - Milk because Stefan said

that you've got to have milk sitting on the table at a German breakfast.

And, oh! We have hard-boiled eggs. - Hard-boiled eggs. - Yeah.

And we're drinking orange juice. - Orange juice. - Cheers. - And mine has ice in it because

I'm still an American even at a German breakfast. - Yeah. And I'm drinking green tea

out of my lovely mug. - And...- Do you remember? - Yeah.

The video is probably somewhere here or in the description.

I got him the mug last year for Christmas.

So let's dig in, right?

Whereas in the U.S. a typical weekend breakfast might look a little something like this:

So what do we have here? - Yeah.

So here...can you see me?

We've got pancakes with maple syrup, and bacon, and a fried egg.

Besides having different foods, a big difference between breakfast in the U.S. and breakfast

in Germany is that, as I showed, in Germany there's often a lot of different options

on the table, and each person can sort of put together their own meal on their plate.

The German breakfast is kind of like a mini buffet spread.

Whereas in the U.S. there's often one set meal that people have agreed upon to have

for breakfast.

It's often put together in the kitchen and then brought to the table to eat like that,

and everyone has the same set of things on their plate.

Another breakfast difference is that in the U.S. once you finish what's on your plate,

you might go back for seconds, but then after that breakfast is pretty much over and it's

time to get on with the day.

Whereas in Germany breakfast can last for a long time.

Even after you've finished doing most of your breakfast eating in Germany, it's often

the case that everyone stays at the table for a while, chatting and sort of still picking

at the food.

You might go thirty minutes without eating anything, and then decide to have another

piece of bread and butter.

So yeah, breakfast is often not over for a while in Germany.

And then also in both countries, what I showed is, of course, not the only kind of "typical"

breakfast that exists there.

As for Germany I know, for example, of the Weisswurst breakfast here in Bavaria, which

is Weisswurst sausages, often served with wheat beer and pretzels.

And in the U.S. there are lots of different breakfast meals that I know and love.

Including: pancakes, like what we had, but also waffles and French toast.

In the South you've got biscuits and gravy and grits, which I also talked about in this

video here.

So my question for you is: how do you do breakfast where you live, and what's your favorite

thing to have for breakfast on a weekday and on the weekend?

Please let me know in the comments below.

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Brötchen, not Semmeln. Brötchen. - Okay. - I'm from Cologne. Is there an actual difference?

Or is it just the, the word?

I think there are, how they are made, how they are cut. - Okay.

Yeah, leave us in the comments below:

how many different words of rolls there are in German. - Okay.

I know Stullen, Brötchen and Semmeln.

Isn't there something like in Berlin Krippe? Krippe? - Probably. Leave us in the comments below. - Yeah.

Schrippe! Schrippe! That's it. Not with a K. Schrippe is in Berlin. I think.

So here at the table...at the table? On the table. Prepositions!

Hungry. - Hungry!

Maybe some muesli or a roll in cheese....a roll in cheese.

But the weekend breakfast in both of these two...what?

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How I've Changed my German Husband (by accident!!) - Duration: 10:02.

So, he's changed! - Have I? - Yeah. Well in some ways.

Hey everyone! Dana here. - And Stefan.

And today we're going to be talking about some of the ways that I think you have changed.

We've been together now for almost 9 years. And I'm American. And you?

I'm German. - Yeah. I've just noticed some little things that, yeah, you've kind of changed in the last 9 years.

And I think some of those things are because of my influence on you. Maybe.

These are not things that I've changed on purpose about him or anything like that.

But yeah, I've made a little list.

And I'm going to read them to you and I'm excited to see what you think about these

things that I've noticed.

So one way that I've noticed that you've changed is I think now you dress more casually.

So right now you're wearing sweat pants. I don't know. When we met...I don't, okay.

Not chilling around this house.

You always dressed casually at home. But like, you now go out in sweat pants.

You go shopping, you go grocery shopping in sweat pants.

And 9 years ago...well, I don't remember you going out grocery shopping in sweat pants.

First of all, I didn't have comfy sweat pants. - Yeah. - And yeah, maybe. Maybe, maybe I give you that. - Okay.

You mean more Americanized, more comfortable with sweat pants. - Yeah.

Um, yeah, maybe. I don't know. - Okay. - I was always comfortable. - Okay. So you're not sure.

Nah, I'm not, I'm giving you half a point. - Okay, half a point. - You're not totally sold on it. - No.

Okay. - No, not sold on it. - Alright.

So would you say your clothing has changed at all in the last 9 years. - No. - No. - No. - Not at all.

Yeah, with time it changes.

I'm older now. - But not because of me. - Totally not because of you. - Okay.

Alright. Anything to do with your wardrobe?

Socks or shoes or pants or shirts or any bit of your style has changed because of me?

Yeah, I wear longer shorts. - Yes, that's true!

Because the European shorts, they're short. - They're short. Yeah.

And when we go to America, when we fly to America, I can't wear the European shorts.

I have to wear longer shorts that at least go up to my knee or cover my knee.

It's hard to find shorts here, though, that cover the knee. - Yeah.

I've become more aware of it that there's a difference between clothing.

So you have changed me in the way that I've become more aware of it.

You put on shorts and you realize, like, oh these are short for American standards.

Yeah. - Also I think that I have changed, not on purpose again, but just sort of happened, the foods

that you eat. Peanut butter. - Yes. - You eat more peanut butter because of me.

Hot sauce. - I eat peanut butter... You eat peanut butter because of me. - Yes.

Hot sauce. - Yes. - When we met you didn't eat hot sauce. - No.

Now he goes through more hot sauce than me. - I do. - Um, things like burritos. - Yeah.

I don't think you would've made at home burritos. - Yeah, you get the point, um, sticky barbecue.

Okay. - Like when we grill, the meat is more - Moist. - the sauce, moist, sticky.

I was never a real fan of the hardcore German cuisine.

Especially here in Bavaria.

I don't like all the innards and everything. - Okay.

But at home growing up we pretty much had standard German cuisine.

Lots of potatoes.

Now we are cooking more internationally.

And then also the American stuff that you brought over.

Peanut butter, hot sauce for sure. - Yeah, for sure. Breakfast burrito. Like, no.

Never would have crossed my mind to even try that.

Also I know without a doubt that this one is true.

That because of me, um, your English has improved.

My English has improved? - Yes, your English has improved. - I don't think so.

It has. That's not even a German accent. I don't know what that was. - I don't know, I cannot do...

I'm pretty bad in accents.

Even in German I cannot put on accents. - Okay. - But yes, I give you that.

Hello, my English teacher.

I was pretty bad in English.

Horrible in English.

And she told me, like, you can do everything, Stefan, but just don't get a job where you

have to speak English. And now... - I'm not a job, but he married someone where he speaks English 24/7.

Exactly. So you have made my English better.

I'm not actively learning English. - Right. - So...

I didn't purposefully try to make his English better. - No.

At the beginning I thought it was really cute.

And I still, I still love your accent and everything like that, but it just has gotten better.

In small talk and, like, all our movies and TV shows we mostly watch English ones.

And also now when I go to the movie theater, I enjoy the original version more than the

German version.

Another one I would say that since we've been together -- in the U.S. definitely, although

that happened right away, but also in Germany -- you are a higher tipper.

You tip more at restaurants. - That's true.

Yeah, I see what you tip sometimes and I know that in Germany you tip more than I would say necessarily

always expected.

Yeah - I think you, and I think that has changed since we started dating and kind of the American

influence of tipping, I think you have become a higher tipper in Germany. - Yeah, I think so.

The German standard seems to be kind of around 10% is what I've learned.

And I think you regularly tip higher than 10% in Germany. - Yeah.

I would say you've also become more out-going. - Yeah. - Yeah.

I think this video is proof of it. - Yeah!

And I'm also aware that Germans are pretty bad at small talk. - Okay.

Like, when we go, when I go from my work to an event, and there are mostly Germans there,

I'm now more aware that Germans are pretty, yeah, shy in small talk.

And I try to start the conversation, most of the time.

I would never have done that before.

Like and also with the videos.

Yeah, - Yeah. - I did not want to be in the videos when she started it. - At the beginning it was really

"I'm not in the videos, Dana." - Exactly. - Yeah. - I will never be in the videos. - Yeah.

Ever. - Ever, ever, ever, ever. - Ever, ever.

And then, yeah, you convinced me for 50,000. - I don't know, I didn't convince you.

You can up with... - Yeah, I came up with it.

Yeah, I wasn't like please be in it, please be in it.

You came to me and you were like, maybe I could be in it. - Yeah. So...

Yeah, definitely you get that point. You brought out... - I brought you out of your shell.

Yes. Not as out-going as you.

I will never be because you are just

the most out-going person that I have ever known. - Uh-uh, Daniel.

Okay, Daniel. Shout-out to Daniel. - Yeah.

If you haven't seen our, my video with Daniel, again, we'll link it somewhere here. - Yeah.

Yeah, he is even more out-going than me. - Yeah. But, yeah, you pretty much changed that.

And kind of, I would say, my last one going along, I think, with that is that I've also,

I think, made you a little bit more comfortable just in general with getting out of your comfort zone.

Doing things - Yes. - like filming out in public.

Or maybe going on vacation at the last minute. - Yeah.

Or changing plans at the last minute. - Yeah. - At first it really freaked you out and...

Definitely. I'm a person that doesn't want any attention in public.

You know, I'm the one - Good thing you're hanging out with me! - on the Underground

and S-bahn.

But not to people you don't know.

No, no. - Just to me. - Just to her. Not to people...I'm not one of these people. - Right.

But just to me. - But just to her. He doesn't want to draw attention. - I just, yeah.

I don't want to draw attention.

And we have now visited lots of areas in the world where, if I hadn't known you, no I would

never have gone there.

I am okay with it if like, I just decide: oh!

Next week let's go to this place or something.

And now I'd say you're more comfortable with that.

I'm definitely more comfortable with that. - Yeah. - We just booked tickets for Thanksgiving.

We're going to the U.S. - Yeah.

And this is like three weeks before Thanksgiving.

And we're filming this on Halloween. Wwwhaaaa! - Ooooh! Spooky, spooky.

So yeah, it's three weeks before Thanksgiving and we're flying to the U.S.

I think 9 years ago to just decide to fly to the U.S. three weeks in advance would have

made you really nervous. - Exactly.

Whereas now you were like, okay, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. - Yeah.

So our question for you is: How have you changed because of the influence of a partner or a

close friend?

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