Dan
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Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
They look a little different and take a little more horsepower.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Well, in tender markets like these today, we have to get very specific to do everything we can to make the most amount of profit that we can. And so every bit of that data and decisions is going to help us just arm us.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I'm going to brand it as John Deere infrastructure. So we can't have electric vehicles before we have the infrastructure to support them. We can't have autonomous tractors before we have the infrastructure to support it, and then all the supporting attachments. I think of like a skid steer. A skid steer is nothing without all the attachments. We have to have the attachments that work with that.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So, yeah, you're building the blocks of John Deere infrastructure.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I was just about to say that. Some of the infrastructure is also teaching people. I don't know how to plug in a this or a that. As you guys have incrementally taught people that... hey, this is what GPS is, and then this is how you work a touchscreen, and then this is what WAS is, and this is how to make an AB point. Now we're all up to speed, okay?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Now, how do we take that and put a second receiver here? And then how does that talk with this one? And I mean, I'm just geeking out on all the tech that we can go, but each person is in their own incremental step of learning, if you will.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Innovator, right? Yes. Yes.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I have the first question here. Let me go here, will you? Because I actually heard a question that was asked of the little man running around out here, Jackson, just a Jackson thing right over there. And they said, hey, Jackson, if this wasn't called a gator, what would you call it? Oh. What's your answer for that? If it wasn't a gator, what is it?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
See, and I would have called it the tax write-off to start off. And I was like, wait a minute, got a little bit more here. And now everybody found the functional use of it. So first, let's maybe buy it over here.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Didn't you have to put up one of their grain bins while you were there, if I remember this story, the safety home?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So all jokes aside, you were getting serious. And the serious point is, as I look at it over there, I even asked, like, what is the marker on the left side of that? And Tanner's like, I don't know. I'm guessing it's for marking boundaries. I mean, you guys have teched this thing out.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So I think back to the original Gator that I thought like on a golf course and it was like a six-wheeler and it was low to the ground.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Gators live to a long age. Now we're calling it XUV. So what are some upgrades since then for any listeners like independent suspension or where yet?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Ooh, I like that. Portable office. That's key. I was going towards land management, and even though I joke that it's a tax write-off, I think it's become way more important than that as a tool in the toolbox that was maybe a tool that we used for fun, and now it has become oh so much more important, Tanner. as not a trusted advisor, but a trusted piece.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So if I had to guess, or I'm going to ask you here, I think large farmers, let's say, I'll say 5,000-plus acres, 2,000-plus acres, I'll say that. Okay, do they use it more, or do the guys that are like, I've got a food plot in southern Iowa for hunting use it more? Yes. Okay, that's smart. That's what I thought.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I've got a whole new market for you. I take my kid to football practice, and every one of the parents, like every small community now, let you have golf carts drive all over town. And every parent comes up because we don't have bleachers, and they just drive up there and sit on them. I tell my wife, I'm like, why are we sitting in the dirt? We need our own side-by-side or something. There you go.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Tanner needs an upgrade of his golf cart.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
A lot of hay equipment as well.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
You can marry these two together in that they both have GPS and make us more accurate and better decision making and hopefully more profitable. How wide? So as a first year farmer myself on the row crop side, anyway, I'm making decisions on how wide of stuff to go and and how new of tech I need. But it also depends a whole lot on the John Deere tractor I have in front of it.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Question I wrote down is how much horsepower? Let's go with width first. How wide are these new tools? And then, how much horsepower does it take?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So help me with something. As I'm a decision maker, I'm sitting here at Farm Progress Show. You have a new tool, and I love new stuff, but the budget's tight, of course, this year. So my tillage tool works pretty good, but I'm also an auctioneer. John Deere holds its value. I can sell this with that XYZ Auction Company. And I can upgrade your new piece. Why? Why should I? What's the advantage?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I'm going to put you a little on the spot here, but you're good at answering questions. So I'm going to challenge you with a hard one here. All right. I have a coffee group I go to in the morning, and there's a lot of naysayers. Okay. And these old boys are going to say, it works fine the way it is. It's just a new feature you're selling me.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Why in the world, okay, you've given us some whys to make it applicable, but there's got to be some data-driven decisions behind it because I know Deere uses data. So if you're that old boy that's asking you that question, standing right here at the booth, geez, it works just fine. Is there some data you can provide to me that you guys have why you went this direction?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
74 or more, isn't it? Somewhere in there, 74.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
That was a legit trap question. Did I tell you my wife's story? Yes. So she put DEF in the diesel tank. Oh, jeez. of our truck, but she caught it. She realized it. She was distracted by the kids and calls the dealership, and they're like, do not start it. Do not anything. We have the thing towed. I'm outside. I'm like, why is there a tow truck here? What's going on?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
She wanted to handle it herself. She did, and it was expensive. Not a worry on his gator or our high horse. It can be bad.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Yep. Yeah, I can't wait to be a part of that launch. Yeah, absolutely. But think of this, Tanner. How many seasons does the average farmer get? We did it once. It's like 33. 33 seasons that you're the decision-maker operator. So six years, what is that, a third?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
No, he's not. He's not. So just be thinking ahead for what is coming. That's why we're revealing this now. But I have a crystal ball that says that I think equipment might get smaller because we've maxed the capacity of the roads. We've maxed the capacity, weight limits, et cetera.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So as we become autonomous, do we just have more farms and they're all tilling at the same time and they're all harvesting at the same time? So we need smaller size because we're not so much worried about time and efficiency. As you guys are going autonomy, is it still just as big?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I know at the last show we were at, you guys had a newer program that's more of a lease program for some of that technology that some of maybe the older farmers didn't have that can move. And it can move from my tractor to maybe even, well, it's a lease program. So I could just get another one and just do it as a cost per acre or cost of doing business and then upgrade the gator that we have.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
with another monitor, another whatever, to map that as well. Now, you're talking about brand new, but I might already have one myself. That's still in play, right? We can still buy monitors, buy globes, buy et cetera for our current.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
It does work, yeah. You guys are working good with the old and the new to bridge that gap.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I said metro, didn't I? Geo-metro. He's a geo-tracker. How dare you? I know. We're going to get a lot of flack for that. No, it's all right. I'm going to make a meme of him in a geo-metro.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I was going to say, I'm guessing there's some newer technology and touchscreens in it as I watch the booths that we've sat at. I see a lot of that. Even you go buy a new truck anymore. I was fortunate enough to do that. And even the Ford dealer said, well, we need an hour to go through the screen to tell you how to program everything.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Yes, definitely.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Well, and one of the things I learned is I had some of the technology, but I didn't have the modem. So I didn't have the modem that would automatically sync into my tractor. I was still thumb sticking it, you know. And so that's come a long ways as we think of where there's cell phone signal, where there is satellites, et cetera, that we have. I know immediately the juice is worth the squeeze.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Just pay for it. Upgrade. Upgrade. Of course, and that was part of that new program too, that lease program. You get the modem with it. I ended up buying another one.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Eric, you just made me interject one little thing here, and that is for you listeners of Farm for Profit, when he said R&D, we have an episode coming up that you're going to want to listen to on R&D. Just a teaser here. Keep listening. I'll take the $5 for bringing that up.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
I'm assuming that's some of the technology for the guys that are afraid of that touchscreen.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
And Tanner, for you and a lot of our other listeners, you know, you work with your father-in-law and of course they might set it up and then you might have a hired hand. And that hired hand or that son, brother-in-law, daughter, et cetera, they sit in it and maybe they didn't do the mapping originally, but maybe there's another team member who is the oversight on this or the overwatch.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
And so, yeah, time. Yeah, exactly.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
what's coming down the pipeline and what's here and offered today the technology is fascinating and we we on the podcast we normally get to talk about all the big cool equipment that's out there i think this one was a really fun one and for you listeners that are looking out there uh your gator might be a couple years old you guys got to check this thing out i'm just telling you i know everybody's thinking big tractors big money look at this gator we've learned through that i wrote down a lot of different things on here but i remembered the tech stack comment the fact that
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
But they do have to deal with a family. So answer the question. What do you got?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
You've got to have an app. I told Corey the other day my wife got a new Maytag dryer. It tells us when our clothes are done. I don't really know what the value is here. You've got a new Maytag dryer. But we have a dryer, and it has an app, and it tells you when your clothes are done. It doesn't fold them, though. There you go, Corey. Yeah, that's what we need next. That's what we need.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Like, it's all ready.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
What else could you do for automation?
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So for the guy that doesn't know, why do we go from 15 to 14 or 13 if we're going to hold it longer? What's that do?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
And Tanner, you just showed up. Where'd you come from? You were recording somewhere else and now you're here. I was. I was.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
They hook us up.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
So we're at the John Deere booth. We are. And it's kind of the... Getting towards the end of day two. It's been a huge crowd today. It's a little less humid, but maybe hotter today. And now we get to talk with the game itself. We get to talk with John Deere.
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Innovative Grain Drying Solutions and Big Equipment Advancements
Just a little closer with your mic, and then I'll pick you up a little better. Sounds good. Perfect.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
I don't think... we'd think we were discriminated against. I don't want to be here and say, oh, because we're two Americans. We absolutely do what we're getting into. And it was almost going there and getting rejected was like in fun activity in and of itself.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
It's like you're participating in the thrill. Let me put it this way. I've gone skydiving before. And the level of anxiety I had just as I was stepping up to be judged was the same level of anxiety I had just as I was about to jump out of the plane.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Almost a relief. Really? You get it over with. I wish I had gotten in, but... Yeah. And then when Chris was ejected, too, I felt really good about myself. Would have been devastating.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
So there's a few things I want to know. One thing is, say there are some cases where it's cuspy, right?
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
On the cusp of a decision, where they're like, they can't decide when you're 20 people away whether you're a yes or a no.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
And they want to get a closer look. What are they scanning you for? Right. What are the cues that are going to, you know, nudge you towards getting in versus kick you to the curb? Got it. The other question that I have, every time we would leave, we would walk around the whole club. I wonder if there's a way to sneak in. No. Like, is there just, like, a fire exit? Yeah.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Like, is it permeable from any other orifice than this drawer? I mean, I expect it to be hard, to be clear. I don't think that there's some easy, oh, just go in the back door. I'm just like, if you jump a fence, crawling under a bush, like, I'm like, is there a way? And would you do it if there were? Yeah.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
I would say our form of relaxing is generally not relaxing. It's like partying.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah. Okay. But, you know, respectful, healthy, wholesome partying. Yes.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, it was a really short trip.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
There was a very unstructured itinerary, which consisted of absolutely nothing.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
But we knew what the crown jewel of the trip was supposed to be.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
I guess it has this mythical status attached to it, which is no one can get in or very few people can get in. But once you're in, it's like this mystical palace of fun and amazing music and God knows what else because neither of us have ever been inside.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
And I think part of the whole allure of the venue is because they reject so many people, they have rejected so many famous people, from actors and celebrities to the Elon Musks of the world. And so it would be one thing if, you know, we're not A-list celebrities, so of course we're not getting into this club.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
But even the top of the top of society, the top of the top of the business world, even they are not getting into this club. Yeah, it's savage.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
There are Reddit forums, subreddits completely dedicated to this. There are TikToks dedicated to this. In English? Yeah.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
In every language. We were kind of looking back on the last time that we went, and we were like, what did we do wrong? And I think the last time we went, we were so ignorant to any of these rules, we showed up in, like, black American apparel t-shirts and thought that would be adequate for the dress code.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, no, totally, woefully inadequate.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
We had a shopping module one day where we went to Kreutzberg, which is like their sort of like funky neighborhood with all their vintage stores. And we were like, we are going to dress like freaks.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
There's this air through the day of like, we're going to cinch this. Like, it felt that way to me.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
If it was going to be any moment, it was going to be that day. Got it.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Okay, so tell me about the line. So it's always a fixture. Like, you show up. It's very, very long. Three to four hours.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
When a bunch of people in front of you get rejected, you feel kind of optimistic because you're like, well, they're not going to reject everyone, you know? Just statistically, we're probably in luck.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
You know, that's up for debate. Oh, really? Some people might say they're kind of watching you the entire time.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
No, but people do come back. You see people that are like kind of like strolling the line. Uh-huh. And then you see them again at the door. That happened at least once. Oh, so Santa Claus is watching you. Yeah. But for the... I mean, I assumed or I felt like, for the most part, you weren't really scrutinized until you were within, like, 20 to 30 people at the door. Okay.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
And they're looking out and you could feel their eyes on you. Okay. And so how, what was your strategy for how to behave in the line? The conventional wisdom is to be just stone-faced. Now, we tried that. We also tried the approach of being like, let's just be normal.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Now, another thing that's interesting is I think that they could tell, to the point of like scanning you for authenticity, like we actually are gay, which works in our favor because it retains its roots as a gay club. And they're gay at the door.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
There's actually like a physical demarcation. So like you get to a certain point where like the line actually has a railing around it. Okay. So once you reach that point, you're like, whoa, this is game time. Then you're within like 20 people of the door. You know that you're with inside of the bouncers. That's when like you could hear a pin drop.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Okay. And so you get up, and then there's a number of calculations that are going on in your mind. Do you look at the bouncer in the eye? Do you look kind of at the ground? Do you smile? Do you keep a straight face? Do you say anything? Yeah. And I think on this try, this was like our authentic friendly selves attempt. And so, you know, I smiled at the guy. He asked how many people were.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
I said two. I was friendly. I think I asked him how his night was going. Did he answer? No, of course not. One of my calculations was whether or not to look like I was having fun and into the music. So I kind of like was dancing a little bit. But, you know, Very, like, minor movements. And I don't think that strategy worked. It didn't.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, and you're constantly making adjustments on how to not appear to be a witch.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Is he a he? It's a he. There's Sven, the main dancer. If Berghain itself is the epitome of what you would think of East German old techno nightclub, then Sven is the epitome of what you would think of as the bouncer, the lead bouncer for that venue. What does he look like? A large man with a large number of tattoos and piercings on his face. That man is... He's a unique individual.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Is he intimidating? He's extremely intimidating. And there's two others. Apparently there's some sort of communication between the two of them, some sort of silent communication. But it's not legible. There's only one amount of legible communication, and that's the decision.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
It's always one person they pull up at a time, or a small group. And sometimes they're immediately rejected. Like, they don't even get to say a word. The bouncer just puts his hand out, and they just keep walking.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
It's not so much a point as an open palm out the direction that you should be going.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, it's like, you're welcome to go anywhere else in Berlin.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Or is it two chances? The line was just as long, I would say, if not longer, actually, during the day. And yeah, our thinking was perhaps we would attain that additional level of respect if we pretended as if we were going separately.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
We acted like we didn't know each other. And I was ahead of Chris. And I get up. And one of the bouncers was like, how many? And I say one. And then he just stares at me. And stares. And I actually thought this was the time I was getting in. I was pretty confident because it was like a solid 20 seconds, I would say, before I was rejected.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
But as soon as they rejected me, they looked at Chris and immediately rejected him.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
So we're pretty sure they caught us on the lie. Yeah.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
It was insane. It felt like an X-ray.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, it actually was. Actually, as we're saying this, I'm like, we're idiots. Yeah. Obviously, they knew that we were together.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Well, that would assume they remembered us out of the thousands of people who are probably trying to get in there.
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Why didn’t Chris and Dan get into Berghain? (Part 1)
Yeah, I think we've figured out the answer as to why we didn't get in and we were just dumb.