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.

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#39: The Bonus Episode with COVID-19 and Machete Man

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/

#38: The Episode with Celebrity Steak Addiction and 50s Techno

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.

#37 The Episode with Head Cheese & a Swingers Buffet

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!

#36: The Episode with Coke Taxis and The Wizard of Wedding

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.

#35: The Episode with the Devil's Utensils & a Live Studio Audience

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.

#34: The Episode with Granny Tom Cruise & Not Oktoberfest

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.

#33: The Episode with All the Movies & Murder on the Orient Twitter

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.

#32: The Episode with Radical Honesty & Julia's "Big" Story

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/

#31: The Episode with iRats & Eunuch-Cycles

Carl Me Maybe makes their What's The Mate debut with this hilarious and absolutely wacky episode. Marisa Llamas and Carl Clancy take us on a Panda date, inspired by the birth of Ming Ming's twins at the Berlin Zoo. The story of Julia's unhealthy relationship with her Zumba instructor inspires a kink party at Chuck E. Cheese and Marisa's teachings of Bird-Collecting and Softboys takes us to the weirdest house party we've had on the show. This episode was brought to you by Bear Radio with support from Tom Evans of Particle Studio and Hindenburg.Make sure to catch Carl and Marisa at their monthly show, Show and Tell with Carl Me Maybe at 800A, and in various teams at Comedy Café Berlin. Follow Marisa and her hundreds of characters on @llamedycentral and Carl at Carl Clancy Comedy on Facebook.

#30: The Episode with Softboys and Zumba Moms

Our favourite Skeleton Brains are back! Blake Farha, Daan Henselmans and Henri Parmentier join us in season three for another epic adventure. Together, they took us to 30AD where "Jesus Christos" zoomed around on an e-Scooter and the People for the Unethical Treatment of Animals (PUTA) had sway. The story of a German kid who's drunk friends try and break him out of jail inspires the worst surprise birthday gift of all time, and Blake's nude adventures through France take us to the set of Naked in Paradise, the sitcom where method acting gets a little too method. 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, these guys also host the weekly Improv Playground at Heile Haus in Kreuzberg and you’re welcome to join! Visit www.henriandblake.com for more.

#29: The Episode with Naked Blake & Birthday Boyd

Kevin Napier, Emma Aldridge & Lou take the WTM stage as Britwich, a British Sandwich if you will, with Kevin as the single slice of American ham. The true story of beer sabotage inspired a tale of the angry Frenchman, driven to extremes because "who would put Franken in Germany!?" The groups' mutual misadventures in the world of clubbing and flirting took us back in time to "Ye Old Club" with Rosalind the street walker and to wrap things up, Lou's skinny dipping experience introduced us to two of our favourite characters: Marjorie and Tabitha, and their pruned bosoms. This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio. Thank you to Hindenburg for their support and to Tom Evans of Particle Studio for his help with the theme song. Catch our guests in various groups and at various gigs around Berlin. You’ll find Emma performing as part of People System at Comedy Cafe Berlin Harold Nights and hosting the Nameless Comedy Open Mic (facebook.com/namelessopenmic/). @yergal_loulou_ can be found performing this Friday, 13 September at Kapital Komedy (https://www.facebook.com/events/363004524369605/?ti=as) & at the Trans-Europe Expression Poetry Slam on Sunday 15 September @ Prachtwerk (https://www.facebook.com/events/2404180966295142/?ti=as). Kevin can be found playing the essential piece of ham to many an improv group across the city.

#28: The Episode with Buxom Bosoms & the Angry Brewer

We kick off Season 3 with CUNT HAMMER, our favourite 'girl group' since Destiny's Child and The Bangles! Sara Nere, Caroline Clifford and Janina Rook take us on a beautiful journey of "Double Dom" speed-dating, we take a peak into the bizarre world of Naked Attraction Germany, and CSD 2019 memories introduce us to a poor cop who has a rough first day on the job. This episode is brought to you by Bear Radio. Big thanks to Hindenburg for their ongoing support and to Tom Evans of Particle Studio for the tunes. Catch CUNT HAMMER performing at CCB where Sara, Caroline and Janina also do shows in various groups. Don't miss out on Janina's podcast, Unverschämt and her second one, Binge, available on iTunes. Witness Sara's singing talents with Rollercoasters @rollercoastersimprov and Caroline every Tuesday at We Are Not Gemüsed at Same Heads Bar.

#27: The Episode with 13 Espresso Shots & Timothy the Fluffer

Coming to you live from Das Improv Festival 2019, it’s What‘s The Mate!In this episode we bring you talent straight out of New York, as the veteran musical improv troupe EMPIRE join us, LIVE, for some of the raunchiest, funniest and sweatiest improv comedy. Hailing from UCB, Magnet Theatre, Baby Wants Candy and North Coast; Katy Berry, Jon Bander, Patrick Noth and Kiki Mikkelsen recreate Julia‘s wild summer night of cab drivers and fights with middle-aged women, they rap and beatbox through a tale of how they saved nightlife in Berlin, and they set the record for saying „dick“ more times in one episode than anyone else in the history of What‘s The Mate. Make sure you don’t miss their closing song, it is truly the goodbye of all goodbyes.This episode was brought to you by Bear Radio, with incredible support from Das Improv Festival 2019, Hindenburg and Particle Studio.Our brilliant guests perform all over NY, all the time, so be sure to follow them on social media to keep up to date with their gigs and their hilarious content: follow Katy at @katyberrycomedy and katyberrycomedy.com, Kiki on @kikimikkelsen and kikimikkelsen.com, Patrick on @patrickn0th and patricknoth.com and Bander at @jonbander on all the socials.

#26: The Episode with EMPIRE & the Prophecy of KitKatClub

Before you hit play on the best GOT retelling you'll ever hear, educate yourself on Season 1 through 8 because SPOILER ALERT!We've heard your cries of frustration and are here, answering your call, with Berlin's finest improvisers, to rework the final season of Game of Thrones and give you the ending that you deserve!Emma Aldridge, Noah Telson, Carl Clancy and Daan Henselmans take us on a seemingly familiar journey of love, sex, war and many faces but all is not as it appears to be. Is the Night King just broody? Do Jon and Daenerys get to go on Honeymoon? Does Tyrion have a weird little voice inside his head that sounds a lot like Bran?? Hit play and find out!This episode is brought to you by the brilliant Bear Radio team, with support from the kind people of Hindenburg and Particle Studio.For more from our improvisers, follow Skeleton Brains on Facebook and Instagram to find out where they are performing next, visit comedycafeberlin.com for all the latest on shows and classes, head on over to dasimprovfestival.com to see what shows and workshops you can attend this coming June (2019) and then be sure to head over to Nameless Comedy Open Mic for some stand-up gold!

#25: The Bonus Episode with Game of Thrones and Game of Thrones

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