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[4] Hi.
[5] Hi, Katerina.
[6] Welcome to Conan O 'Brien needs a fan.
[7] Hi, it is so great to see you.
[8] Well, I wish I could see you, Katerina.
[9] I don't see you yet.
[10] Can you really see a...
[11] Huh?
[12] Can she really...
[13] Oh, there she is.
[14] There you are.
[15] Oh, I'm sorry.
[16] Yeah, you were...
[17] I just saw a...
[18] dark screen and I thought I was having some sort of cerebral event but I'm fine now I can see you and could you start again and just say who you are and all that stuff?
[19] Yeah my name is Katarina I am calling from Austria from Feldkirch and I am also having a cerebral event this feels like a weird fever dream this is so weird it's weird yeah weird to to use Zoom is that what you're saying what's weird?
[20] Yes exactly that's weird like after four years of Yeah.
[21] Yeah.
[22] No. Like, I mean, I've listened to your podcast on an 11 -hour drive from Poland back home, listening to your voices.
[23] And it is very weird to interact with you right now.
[24] Well, I'm sure that's the best way to take that road trip is listening to our...
[25] I was going insane.
[26] I think half of my brain melted during the drive, but it kept me awake.
[27] Worth it.
[28] We have saved many a driver's life.
[29] Well, listen.
[30] It's a...
[31] Is it Katarina, and you are from...
[32] Katarina.
[33] And you are from Austria.
[34] Which part of Austria again?
[35] Yeah.
[36] From the very wild west, from Feldkirch.
[37] It's actually just a...
[38] Feldkirch.
[39] Feldkirch.
[40] Yeah, it's just a 15 -minute walk to Lichtenstein.
[41] Okay, so it's a 15 -minute walk to another place I can't pronounce.
[42] I come from Scheisenhousenhauser.
[43] It's just seven minutes from Utenslaten, Lindenblarten.
[44] Well, it's nice to talk to, Katerina, and tell us a little bit about yourself.
[45] What do you do?
[46] For work?
[47] Well, for whatever.
[48] Just tell me about yourself.
[49] Whatever.
[50] Okay.
[51] I work as a psychologist.
[52] I did my bachelor master's degree in Zurich.
[53] Did I PhD in social neuroscience in Bern.
[54] And now I work with adolescents between 14 and 18 years old.
[55] I like to make metal music.
[56] Oh, my God.
[57] Okay.
[58] Well, wait a minute.
[59] First of all, you seem like a very impressive.
[60] You're a very impressive person.
[61] You have great knowledge.
[62] You're helping people.
[63] But I want to hear it.
[64] You said I like to make metal music.
[65] You're talking heavy metal, yes?
[66] Yeah, well, heavier than heavy metal, yeah.
[67] Oh.
[68] This is the vibe I'm getting.
[69] Yeah, I know.
[70] A banner that says cringe blizzard.
[71] Yeah.
[72] Tell me about this.
[73] There's a banner behind you that says cringe blizzard is.
[74] Is that the name of your heavy, heavy, heavy metal band?
[75] Tell me, one of my bands.
[76] What kind of music do you play in Cringe Blizzard?
[77] And feel free to have a drink at any time.
[78] Okay, thank you.
[79] Then I will switch to beer.
[80] Yay!
[81] Yeah, we're talking.
[82] Very good.
[83] You are from Austria, yeah.
[84] So tell me the band that looks...
[85] We have the best alcoholism over here.
[86] We'll get to that fun stuff in a bit.
[87] I don't know what you're talking about.
[88] I'm Irish.
[89] Behind you, there's a banner that says, cringe blizzard is that the name of your heavy metal band yeah it's one of my bands yeah well tell me what kind of music what is cringe blizzard what kind of music do you play uh cringe blizzard is a fantastic journey through insanity and madness i love that sound like well it is it's kind of hard to put it into a subgenre i mean it's like sludge metal but also death metal but also trash metal, but also whatever.
[90] Yes, yes.
[91] No, I'm familiar with...
[92] You know what I'm talking about, right?
[93] Yeah, of course, yes, yes.
[94] It's death metal, but it's also slush metal and cringe metal.
[95] And what's...
[96] Why the word cringe?
[97] Why the word cringe?
[98] You know, I like slush metal.
[99] Why cringe blizzard?
[100] What does the word cringe mean to you?
[101] Well, our goal is to make great sound, but unbearable life performances.
[102] So you are trying to, are you trying to force people out of the room when they come see you?
[103] Yes.
[104] You are?
[105] Yes, we are.
[106] So the goal is to sell out like stadiums with thousands of people, but by the third song, people are going to leave and we're going to be by ourselves.
[107] Wow.
[108] You know what?
[109] I have confidence you can achieve that dream.
[110] So your job is to basically just clear.
[111] the audience when you play.
[112] And so the word cringe means you really want people cringing when they hear your music.
[113] Not when they hear the music, but when they see out live.
[114] I love this.
[115] So essentially, you just want to do a job that you can go home as early as possible.
[116] Oh, exactly.
[117] Yeah, but still like cash in the money from the entrance fee.
[118] What do you do live?
[119] That makes people leave.
[120] Oh, well, I do have a vape tape to my microphone and call it a fog machine.
[121] So live.
[122] Well, we got, like, silly outfits and tell, like, really, really horrible dad jokes.
[123] You tell dad jokes in addition to the music to try and bum people out.
[124] Basically, that's what you're saying.
[125] Yeah, like, in between the songs, yeah.
[126] And if they do know the answer to the song, if they can figure it out, they get some candy.
[127] Okay.
[128] If they figure out the answer to the joke, you mean.
[129] If they figure out the answer to the dad joke, then they get some candy.
[130] Wow, that's it.
[131] You're giving so many mixed messages.
[132] You're telling terrible jokes, but if they get the jokes, then they get some candy, but you want them to cringe.
[133] You want them to be unhappy.
[134] This is a real overlap of her child psychology and death metal.
[135] It's all happening at the same time.
[136] Do you have an example of one of those jokes?
[137] Yeah.
[138] There's not many that translate into English.
[139] I can't think of one, though.
[140] You know, this type of jokes.
[141] jokes are very typical, it's, it's very typical for like the German areas.
[142] They're called anti -witzel or anti -jokes.
[143] For example, what is green and looks through the keyhole?
[144] It's spainage.
[145] What?
[146] Spinech.
[147] That's great.
[148] Spineage.
[149] Okay, you have driven me from the podcast.
[150] I will leave and never come back now.
[151] Hey, so, I'm just, Karina.
[152] You do the vocals.
[153] Are you the vocalist for Cringe Blizzard?
[154] Now, is there a lot of, is it a lot of yelling?
[155] Is it screaming?
[156] Can you give me examples of that?
[157] Well, I don't want to wreck your headphones.
[158] Go for it.
[159] But yeah, it's a lot of, no, it's a lot of groaning and screaming and it's fine.
[160] Also, I didn't warm up my voice.
[161] I see.
[162] You don't want to hurt yourself.
[163] Do you think you could teach me to do this?
[164] Do you think I could be.
[165] Maybe a guest vocalist for Cringe Blizzard.
[166] Fucking hell, yeah.
[167] You think so?
[168] But what would I have to do?
[169] What I have to really, yeah?
[170] I mean, like, wow, that kind of thing.
[171] I mean, these are some of the sounds I can make.
[172] Abashah ha, you know.
[173] No. None of that is metal.
[174] How are your dad jokes?
[175] None of it is metal.
[176] Well, I mean, we can sample it and work it into the song anyway.
[177] Okay.
[178] But, I mean, the technique is actually pretty similar to opera singing.
[179] It is coming down from the diaphragm.
[180] You try to not hurt your voice and push all the air from the diaphragm.
[181] Can you coach him?
[182] Can you teach him?
[183] Yeah, teach me how to do it.
[184] Right now?
[185] Yeah, there's no better.
[186] I mean, come on.
[187] You're my coach now.
[188] You are the lead singer for cringe blizzard.
[189] You're drinking heavily.
[190] And this is your chance to teach me how to be a metal vocalist.
[191] Yeah, this is gin.
[192] Okay.
[193] Okay, the easiest way to start out for like the basic, like the basic of the of the growl is breathing deep from your diaphragm, which means you breathe into your belly, which extends and your shoulders stay down.
[194] So if you breathe in, your belly extends, your shoulders stay low, right?
[195] And if you breathe out slowly in a very controlled way.
[196] Stop making sounds.
[197] Stop doing that.
[198] You feel your throat relaxing usually, right?
[199] Oh, God.
[200] Why are you making the sound?
[201] Just get off my ass.
[202] I'm trying to learn.
[203] I'm talking to someone in Austria who's teaching me for the first time of my life to do, you know, cringe metal and you're just on my dick the whole time.
[204] Sorry.
[205] Okay, go ahead, Katrina.
[206] Well, actually, okay.
[207] Okay.
[208] Well, and then in the next step, actually, I've listened to your podcast episode from last week where you talked about, like, odd breathing exercises.
[209] And this is actually already pretty close to the basic of a growl.
[210] Yeah.
[211] You try to, like, breathe out, heavily relaxed with your voice resonating with it.
[212] This is actually, this is like the basis of it.
[213] Yeah.
[214] Yeah.
[215] Imagine coming home, you have to unload the dishwasher and your wife comes at you yelling you should do the groceries and you're like really tired and you don't want to do it.
[216] And you go like, oh, I want to do this.
[217] It's hard for me to imagine that because there's like nine people between me and my wife and they handle these things.
[218] I haven't touched a dish in 15 years.
[219] But anyway, I'll pretend to be exasperate.
[220] Why didn't one of the nine people who are supposed to take care of this, do it?
[221] Why?
[222] Why?
[223] That's not bad, right?
[224] Yeah, that's not bad.
[225] Yeah, that's a good, that's a good start.
[226] Why?
[227] Do you think that I would be good good?
[228] embodied embodying cringe metal?
[229] I was hoping you ask that question because I do think we can get with new lows with your assistance.
[230] What do you mean?
[231] You think I can bring you to new lows?
[232] That's a good thing in her world.
[233] Yeah, we don't want to have heights.
[234] We want to have lows, right?
[235] So wait a minute.
[236] Why do you think why do you think I could I would work with cringe Blizzard?
[237] Because it's fun.
[238] Okay.
[239] Are you implying?
[240] And you get candy.
[241] Yeah.
[242] Okay, well, now you sound like a guy outside a van in 1978.
[243] It's fun and you'll get candy.
[244] Well, that didn't work out too well.
[245] They caught him.
[246] Anyway, my point is, Katarina, what is, so you think that I would get, I kind of would embody the essence of cringe blizzard, you think?
[247] I could do that.
[248] I think you could definitely do that.
[249] I mean, you've been making people uncomfortable for decades.
[250] You're a master.
[251] So he's more cring.
[252] The blizzard.
[253] Wait, wait a minute.
[254] Wait a minute.
[255] Wait a minute.
[256] Katerina.
[257] That is not what I've been intending to do.
[258] Is that what you're getting?
[259] That I've been making people uncomfortable for years?
[260] Is that what you're getting from my work?
[261] No, I'm not.
[262] Yes, you are.
[263] You just said that.
[264] I've been making people uncomfortable.
[265] You think my comedy makes people cringe.
[266] Is that what you're saying?
[267] Feel free to go for it.
[268] Maybe sometimes.
[269] Well, maybe that's what made you a fan, you know?
[270] That's the important thing.
[271] Yeah, maybe that's the reason why Cringe Blizzard exists in the first place.
[272] Is that I inspired you?
[273] Did I inspire Cringe Blizzard with my cringy humor?
[274] Is that what you're saying?
[275] Well, maybe a little.
[276] Okay, thank you.
[277] So glad we could chat.
[278] So glad we could talk.
[279] Who else is in the band with you?
[280] Who else is in this metal band?
[281] My brother and a friend of ours.
[282] Okay.
[283] So who's playing what instruments?
[284] My brother's playing the guitar and our friend Arne, he's playing the drums.
[285] Is there a bass?
[286] So, no, not yet.
[287] So, feel free to come over.
[288] Maybe you could play bass.
[289] Play bass with Craze Blizzard, go all the way to Austria.
[290] Yeah, yeah, do the backup vocals, play some bass.
[291] Now, you used to watch the television show back when I was doing a TV show.
[292] Is that correct?
[293] I actually discovered you on YouTube through a couple of friends of mine And then Yeah, I didn't like we didn't get your show in Austria Right Not that I remember A lot of people don't get it here But you Did you write into the show once?
[294] Is that correct?
[295] Oh yeah I was actually featured on a fan correction video You were on my show?
[296] Yeah, I do believe that I was was on the last fan correction video because I was procrastinating my studies and I watched a couple of your fan corrections and I was wondering if the link still works to send in corrections and it did.
[297] So you sent in...
[298] You said no, a fan correction was a thing that we did on the show many times that was where fans, we dared fans to find any flaw with our show and they would find things that we had said or done that were technically incorrect.
[299] So you sent in a fan correction?
[300] Yeah.
[301] What was it?
[302] Yeah, what was it?
[303] It was about you giving liquids to baby birds.
[304] Mm -hmm.
[305] Yeah.
[306] I'm drawing a blank here.
[307] Yes, of course.
[308] I don't know what you're talking about.
[309] And you have a content correction.
[310] And you have a, you found something wrong and so you sent in a correction.
[311] Yeah, you shouldn't feed liquids to baby birds.
[312] They will die from it.
[313] They cannot swallow liquids yet.
[314] happened every once.
[315] In many cases.
[316] I called you a baby bird killer.
[317] And you said you loved me. And now you don't remember me, Cohen.
[318] I'm sorry.
[319] I'm sorry.
[320] I've had many loves in many parts of the world.
[321] I don't remember this one fan correction, but I can look it up.
[322] But I guess we were doing something on the show.
[323] And I mentioned you can nurse a bird maybe with liquids.
[324] You said, no, you can't.
[325] You wrote in.
[326] You tried to help me. and we aired the fan correction.
[327] Yeah, you did.
[328] That's great, because we would get many submissions, but only a few would be aired.
[329] So what a high honor for you.
[330] This is a fucking crazy coincidence.
[331] Except I have something here in my notes that she was supposed to get a T -shirt and she never got a T -shirt.
[332] Yeah, that's true.
[333] Wait, what happened?
[334] Tell me what happened.
[335] Well, when I send in the fan correction, it said that people who get featured on the show will get the Team Coco t -shirt, and I never received one.
[336] You didn't get your t -shirt?
[337] No, I didn't.
[338] You also called me out by the wrong name on the show.
[339] What did I call you on the show?
[340] Katerina.
[341] No, you called me Katerjina Radivanovska, which is my Polish name, which I used for social media, but not my actual name that I used to fill out the form.
[342] Oh, I'm so sorry that I used the Polish name that you used when you wrote in.
[343] How is that my fault?
[344] And now you're mad that you didn't get your t -shirt?
[345] Do you think I'm in charge of sending the t -shirts out?
[346] She was going to be just a folk musician until that happened, and then she turned a cringe dancer.
[347] I'm sorry you did not get your t -shirt, but you have to understand that I am at the top of a very large pyramid.
[348] Do you understand?
[349] I sit high atop a mountain, and then there's millions of people that work for me. Millions.
[350] And they let you down, not me. Do you understand?
[351] Oh, man. Yeah, I get it.
[352] Yeah.
[353] You're, no, right now, you're, where's the buck stop?
[354] What I'm saying is you're, you're calling up Tim Cook and saying my iPhone jammed.
[355] That's unfair to him.
[356] Do you know what I mean?
[357] Don't let some poor random guy suffer for me. No, no, no, no. I'm going to find out who didn't sell you that t -shirt.
[358] They probably don't work for me anymore.
[359] Yeah, I'm going to find them.
[360] And I'm going to have them murdered.
[361] Well, I'm sorry you didn't get your t -shirt.
[362] We'll find you a t -shirt.
[363] and I will get it to you somehow, okay?
[364] Because I want to write this wrong.
[365] You should get your t -shirt.
[366] Sounds great.
[367] Thanks a lot.
[368] Yeah.
[369] You seem thrilled.
[370] Finally, this void in your life has been filled.
[371] Well, I'm sorry that that happened.
[372] This is so nice.
[373] I'm talking now to a fan who did something nice and wrote in and helped our show a bunch of years ago and never got their t -shirt.
[374] And that probably is, was that disappointment, is that what drove you to start getting into heavy metal and then cringe blizzard and slush metal?
[375] Yeah, yeah.
[376] And especially the slush metal.
[377] There was no other way to release my anger and disappointment.
[378] Yeah, I'm kind.
[379] I understand.
[380] Well, you know what?
[381] I've never been to Austria.
[382] Do you think I'd like Austria?
[383] I think you'd love it.
[384] I mean, you do like skiing, right?
[385] Yeah, I like skiing.
[386] And riding bikes.
[387] So, yeah, our region is renowned for their skiing areas and they're hiking trails and all.
[388] I like skiing, yeah.
[389] How's the food?
[390] How's the food in Austria?
[391] What will I be eating?
[392] Very savory.
[393] Like, you will drown in cheese.
[394] Okay.
[395] Wow.
[396] It's like the Midwest.
[397] That's the nicest thing.
[398] Yeah.
[399] Yeah, that's right.
[400] You're going to Austria for some cheese birds.
[401] I could just go to Wisconsin.
[402] I can ride a bike there and drown in cheese.
[403] No, no, no, no. It's not the same.
[404] Okay.
[405] Well, did you have a question for me, Katarina, lead singer of cringe blizzard and disappointed fan who never got her t -shirt?
[406] Do you have a question?
[407] What was that other name you just said?
[408] The artifice.
[409] Oh.
[410] It's the other band I play in.
[411] Oh, sorry.
[412] Oh, wow.
[413] You're getting as many plugs in as possible.
[414] Oh, I have to.
[415] Yeah.
[416] You have a line of jewelry you'd like to talk about?
[417] Do you have a question for me?
[418] Yeah, I do.
[419] Are you sure?
[420] I just, I'm having a hard time to formulate a sentence that makes sense.
[421] Man, this interaction with me really means a lot to you, doesn't it?
[422] You just spaced out and started thinking about lunch.
[423] No, I do know that.
[424] You've also had, like, your fair share of, like, struggles in your life and in the career.
[425] You got this talk show when you were fairly young.
[426] You were just 30 years old and didn't have a whole lot of experience.
[427] And I was wondering, what helped you to stand up for yourself when you faced criticism, to go through, to stand by yourself and still know the work I'm doing is great and I'm going to keep going?
[428] Well, that's, wow, that's a really good question.
[429] To be honest with you, there were many, many moments of true despair.
[430] I cannot lie to you.
[431] And now I want to drink while you're drinking.
[432] But I think a lot of us just push ahead because we don't know what other option there is.
[433] And so I think ultimately for me, my desire to do this was stronger than other people's desire for me not to do it.
[434] And over time, that won out.
[435] but it felt like it took a long time to get people to catch on to my sense of humor and like it.
[436] So I'm very glad and I'm very lucky that I managed to get to keep doing it because there were times there when I thought this is going to be over and then I'll just have to do something else for a living.
[437] But I was very fortunate that it worked out.
[438] So I can't lie and say, oh, just believe in yourself and keep going because sometimes it gets pretty dark.
[439] But I'm talking to the lead singer for Cringe Blizzard, so I think you would understand.
[440] But the big reward is getting to talk to people like you who are really cool and really smart.
[441] I cannot believe how well -educated you are.
[442] You're just...
[443] Yeah, indeed.
[444] No, isn't it?
[445] It's incredible.
[446] You've had this incredible education.
[447] You're doing this great work.
[448] I cannot believe how educated.
[449] She is.
[450] She has, I think that's a compliment.
[451] I know, I know.
[452] You've got like a pH, I mean, and do you think you could psychologically help me?
[453] Many people think I have, I know you treat adolescents.
[454] What's there to fix?
[455] What's there to be fixed?
[456] You're perfect.
[457] Oh, oh, boy.
[458] girl.
[459] Oh, all right, take it easy, everybody.
[460] I don't, I like, I think your gutteral noises are better than mine.
[461] I know.
[462] You guys should start your own metal band.
[463] Well, Katerina, it was so cool talking to you.
[464] I like you.
[465] It was nice meeting you.
[466] Yeah, it was really nice meeting you.
[467] And best of luck with the band.
[468] And please give my best to your bandmates.
[469] Do you get them?
[470] Are they familiar with some of my work?
[471] Do you get them, have they watched any of the videos?
[472] I don't know, actually.
[473] Do you like me?
[474] Do you watch my videos?
[475] No, I'm saying that for a reason.
[476] You tell them about me. I wanted her to say no. I mean, I don't think that they are very familiar with your work.
[477] I mean, my brother might know a video or two because of me, but our drummer probably doesn't know a whole lot except for the Pompadour.
[478] Then I pity them.
[479] I have great pity for that.
[480] Me too, yeah.
[481] What a terrible, what terrible lives they lead.
[482] Well, really nice talking to, Katerina.
[483] Yeah, it was great meeting.
[484] Yeah, take care and have a drink and then get some sleep.
[485] Okay?
[486] Yes, I will, sir.
[487] Thank you very much.
[488] How do you say good night?
[489] Good night.
[490] Good night.
[491] Good night.
[492] Good night.
[493] Good night.
[494] Good night.
[495] Good night.
[496] Yeah.
[497] Good night, Katrina.
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