What's The Mate?

Coming to you live from Podfest Berlin 2021, it’s What’s The Mate!

In this episode we bring you an all-lady powerhouse hailing (or wailing) from the streets of Berlin – Rhymes With Witches! Maria, Tina, Jenna and Nanda join us LIVE to explore some crazy Berlin tales, including Jenna’s wild time at a protest and her run-in with the cops. They introduce us to the brilliant yet terrifying concept of vaccine pizzas, we meet the city’s raver sheep and Tina gives us her best pug impression. It’s wild.

This episode was brought to you by Bear Radio, with incredible support from Podfest Berlin 2021, Hindenburg and Particle Studio.

Our brilliant guests perform all over Berlin, all the time, so be sure to follow them on social media to keep up to date with their gigs. It’s Rhymes With Witches on Facebook and Instagram!

Coming to you from the bowels of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, it’s What‘s The Mate!

In this bonus episode we are joined, virtually and from across the globe, by GRILL TALK. Matilde Keizer dialed in from Berlin, Nacho Sanguinetti from Uruguay and Trevor Silverstein from California to bring you some of the funniest improv comedy!

Together they explore bizarre stories that have come out of life during corona, where the drama of a machete-wielding man inspires “smart-social police officers” who use TikTok to fight crime. Eyewitness accounts of the anti-lockdown protests introduce us to a new journalistic practice of “fact cats” and find out how Matilde’s neighbours brought about the tale of Excalibur, the peephole salesman.

This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio. Big thanks to RØDE for the sponsored equipment, to Hindenburg for their ongoing support and to Tom Evans of Particle Studio for the theme song.

Follow GRILL TALK on Facebook to find out what they’re up to. They also do a number of digital shows in various groups so be sure to head to The Comedy Cafe Berlin for more. Listen to Trevor Silverstein’s The BOSS (Berlin Open Stage Show) Podcast on Bear Radio. Find Matilde Keizer at @matikeizer on Instagram, and check out her podcasts “Matilde und Georg produzieren Unterhaltung” and SCHAMLOS. You’ll find Nacho on Instagram at @nachodenoche.

It's our season finale, and we honestly couldn't think of a better way to end an incredible year! Julieta Degese, Trevor Silverstein and Gaston Stabiszewski join Julia for another side-splitting episode of WTM. We start with the story of meeting Pablo Francisco, which inspires a restaurant where anyone could be a celebrity, we hear the tale of a terrible Berlin club, the reason for Julia's "sexy voice" and the worst Coat Check of all time, and we end things with Julieta's experience with a German police officer, his vest and a cellphone number... it gets wild!

This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio. Thanks again to Tom Evans of Particle Studio for the theme song and to Hindenburg for their support. We'd also like to give an extra big thank you to our producer extraodinaire, Jill Beytin, for all of her time and energy in helping put What's The Mate together.

Make sure you see our brilliant guests in action, both on and off the air: catch Trevor as part of The BOSS (Berlin Open Stage Show) Podcast which you can listen to right here on Bear Radio or see him record live every Thursday at 11pm at Comedy Cafe Berlin. Gaston is also in the business of podcasts so give his German improv podcast, Lebenspodcast, a listen, on Spotify or wherever you find your podcasts. You can also catch both Trevor and Gaston on stage at CCB and in various groups. Last but not least, follow Julieta's stand up and improv comedy journey at https://www.facebook.com/Julietas-Comedy-292482798286521/

Friends With Benefits join us for this week’s hilarious episode of What's The Mate! Antonia Bär, Caroline Clifford and Matilde Keizer dive right in, with the German Record of 268 litres of Solyanka, a traditional Russian soup, inspiring an unhealthy relationship between Antonia and Ramen noodles, 300 German swingers being evacuated from a building educated us on the realities of a "Swingers Buffet" and Matilde's horrible interaction with someone on public transport found us in a world where you reserve train tickets and waiting room chairs for sandwiches.

This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio. Thanks again to Tom Evans of Particle Studio for the theme song and to Hindenburg for their support.

Catch Friends With Benefits in various shows including, It's That Time of the Month, an improvised talk show that takes place every second Sunday of the month at Comedy Cafe Berlin or follow all three across social media to see where they're doing what: @iamabear @cliffy_butt @matikeizer.

The Skeleton Brains are back! Blake Farha, Daan Henselmans and Jake Potashnick join Julia in studio for another wild ride. From coke taxis delivering pizza to teenage birthday parties, family reunions gone awry and the Wizard of Wedding turning people into Pigeons, this episode is one for the books.

This episode was brought to you by Bear Radio with support from Hindenburg and Tom Evans of Particle Studio.

Follow Skeleton Brains on Facebook to find out where they are performing next. If you’re interested in learning a little Improv while having a proper laugh, Blake also hosts the weekly Improv Playground at Heile Haus in Kreuzberg and you’re welcome to join! Visit www.henriandblake.com for more. Be sure to also check out their podcast Improvise Till You Make It where Blake and his co-host Henri chat about The Improv Mindset and how it can change your life!

Werewolves, vats of blood and Berlin's 10pm curfew - it's the What's The Mate Halloween episode and it's LIVE with GLB! Noah Telson (@telsonia), Nicole Ratjen (@rattynikki) and Josh Telson (@joshwithpowers) join host Julia Joubert for the spookiest improv this side of Transylvania.

Julia’s gripping story of the Werewolf of Bedburg (Bedbug?) gets things started, followed by an unsettling tale from Nikki where vats of blood were found on her bus, and we end with our new favorite comedy genre, “Whisper Improv.” Take a listen!

This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio with big thanks to Tom Evans of Particle Studio and Hindenburg for their support.

I, Contact makes their What's The Mate debut with this brilliantly funny and four storied episode! Blake, Ben and Justin dive into what it would mean to be stuck with a stranger's luggage on the S-Bahn, and we find out that Germany has over 3200 varieties of bread and that they celebrate "Buttered Bread Day". Justin's Oktoberfest experience opens our eyes to the fact that the Beer Festival isn't even in October and Ben's interaction with Reggie Watts takes us down a rabbit hole of Tom Cruise, grannies and family facts.

As always, this episode was brought to you by Bear Radio with support from Tom Evans of Particle Studio and Hindenburg.

Don's miss Blake and Ben in their bimonthly musical improv show, Rollercoasters, at Comedy Cafe Berlin and Z Bar - check out rollercoastersimprov.com for more info or follow them on social media at @rollercoastersimprov. Follow Skeleton Brains on Facebook and Instagram to see where Blake and Julia are performing next and be sure to listen to Henri & Blake's podcast: Improvise Till You Make It. Follow Justin on Instagram at @bejustincredible to follow all of his adventures both on and off the stage.

Double XL promised us a weird episode, and what a weird one it is! Nacho Sanguinetti and Trevor Silverstein join us for the „Ultimate Berlin Episode“ with stories about volunteering at the unfinished BER Airport, the fire at Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap and living the Freelance Life in Germany’s capital.

This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio with big thanks to Tom Evans of Particle Studio and Hindenburg for their support.

Catch Trevor and Nacho at various shows and in various groups at The Comedy Cafe Berlin. Enjoy more improv comedy on The BOSS (Berlin Open Stage Show) Live Podcast every Thursday at 11pm at CCB or right here on Bear Radio. If you’d like to boot Trevor off of Twitter, give him a follow on @TreStijl and like the tweet and follow Nacho’s adventures at @nachodenoche on Instagram.

Amanda King, Kieran Humphries and Carl Clancy come together for the first time on What's The Mate as Two and a Half Micks. They unpack some hilarious stories, including Julia's tattoo experience and Radical Honesty, to a real-time example of why you should do a little research on the man who sent you a letter from prison. From cat funerals and assertiveness class to radical riddles, pen pals and Julia's existential crisis in studio, this episode is not to be missed!

This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio with thanks to Hindenburg and Tom Evans of Particle Studio for their ongoing support.

You can catch more of our guests at various shows at the Comedy Café Berlin in the Harold Teams, Action Jackson and People System and Kieran, the brains behind the unmissable VCR - A Video Sketch Show, also at CCB.

Skip Recap join us for the first time on What's The Mate and it's killer! Jakob Wagner, Kevin Napier and Tyrone Stallone step into studio for this week’s episode and turned our Berlin tales into inspired scenes. From a Python who is adamant that Chernobyl didn't happen to an Apple Genius who hates his job and a group of guys who hate pedestrians, Skip Recap went all in to give you some of the wackiest comedy Berlin has to offer.

This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio, with support from the kind people of Hindenburg and Tom Evans of Particle Studio.

You can catch Jakob performing with People System on the first and third Friday of each month at Comedy Café Berlin (comedycafeberlin.com), Kevin at multiple shows around the city and keep up with Tyrone Stallone via his Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/tyronestallonecomedy/