Julie Klausner Loves Amsterdam's Bland Food and Red Light District

-Hi, Julie! -Hi, Seth!
-It´s so wonderful to have you here.
-Thanks for having me back.
-That clip is sort of you two talking about a move to L.A.
The difference between New York and L.A.
I see you as very specifically a New Yorker.
-Yes. Thank you, thank you.
-You´re very welcome.
You were recently in Amsterdam, though.
My home away from home.
-You were there for three years?
-Yeah, about three years. A little less.
But you actually believe
that´s the one other place you could live.
-I love Amsterdam. I mean, don´t you?
-It´s the best.
-It´s like magical New York, with canals instead of streets
and prostitutes instead of pigeons.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I mean, where else could you go to the red-light district
in a morning and the Anne Frank house in the afternoon?
-It is a nice -- It´s a nice, like,
little of this, little of that. -I love it.
I love bland food, so it´s sort of my favorite place.
You can have panakuchen and --
-Panakuchen, for those who don´t know, are giant pancakes.
-Yes. And these are the only photos I took on my trip.
They´re just of food. -Uh-huh.
-They don´t -- I mean, maybe you can´t see
how magical they are based on this photograph.
And truth be told, they are just a pancake,
but they are so much more.
They are so completely delicious.
-So much more. I have had a bunch of pancakes.
I have never done this.
Was this in Amsterdam, the cat museum?
-Well, there´s a cat museum, and then there´s something
called the Poezenboot, which is a cat boat,
and it´s basically an animal shelter on a boat.
I spent about three minutes there, thought,
"What am I doing with my time?" -Yeah.
-And then I went about the rest of my life.
But, yeah, if you notice, there´s cats up for adoption,
and some of them just hang out there.
That´s Samus. -Samus?
-It´s says, "don´t stroke me.
I might scratch you," which is classic Samus.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-That doesn´t sound like a way to get adopted.
I feel like Samus should be putting out a different vibe.
-I have a feeling that Samus is, like,
the bouncer of the cat boat.
But then, there´s also a cat museum.
Like, I go abroad, and I don´t go to --
I didn´t go to the Van Gogh Museum.
-Yeah. There are long lines.
You don´t have time for that. -Who has time for that?
-You can walk right into the cat museum.
-No kidding.
Yeah, and there´s, like, paintings of cats.
And museums have paintings of cats,
but they have paintings of other things, as well.
-Yeah. -So they´re better.
-Yeah. -But, um...
-To be very specifically a cat museum
doesn´t seem like a "can´t miss" thing.
-It was a big waste of my time, Seth.
-Yeah, there you go. [ Laughter ]
I heard you also, while we´re talking about boats,
cats or otherwise,
you went to the Provincetown Film Festival.
-I did. -You had to take a ferry there.
-It was a nightmare. -You did not care for the ferry.
-I´m not great with motion sickness,
and I´m also, like, a true, dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker.
Like, I´m not a New Englander like you.
So the idea of motion sickness on a ferry is terrifying.
And then, at one point, the boat stopped.
We hit something, and the captain came on.
And I can´t do the accent, but he was like,
"Sorry, everybody, we hit a lobster pot.
Don´t worry. This happens all the time."
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Nothing about that was reassuring.
Also, I thought a lobster pot was that thing in "Annie Hall."
I really am a New York Jew. -Yeah.
Like, I thought it was, like, a physical pot,
where you drop a lobster in.
It´s like a cage or something?
-Yeah, well, you have to catch the lobsters first,
and then you put them in the other pot.
-Mm, sounds suspicious. -Yeah, it does sound suspicious.
Even as I said it, I´m like, "This is crazy.
I´m making this up."
-They´re indigenous to... and we both know that, yeah.
-So you filmed in L.A. for the finale.
-Yes, for the finale.
-Billy and Julie try to move out to L.A.
We fail miserably.
-This is -- Well, this is a good photo
of how you would fair in L.A.
-Yes, this is me with a terrible --
[ Laughter ]
This is me with a terrible sunburn on a hike,
basically dressed up like Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa."
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-And is that Runyon Canyon?
-Unfortunately, yes.
Runyon Canyon is very popular in Los Angeles,
even though it smells like dog [bleep]
and it looks like a man´s back-hair pattern.
-Yeah. -Like, you look around,
and there´s these brown shrubs and this, like,
male, like, hair -- body-hair pattern,
and you´re just, like, waiting for the beauty of it.
-Yeah. -Yeah, it´s pretty ugly.
-When I go out to L.A., people suggest it
like I´m gonna jump at it as a thing to do.
-Yeah, don´t. -They´ll say, "Oh, you know,
we should hike Runyon," and I´m like,
"So many other things would have to go wrong
for me to want to do that." [ Laughter ]
-Oh, no question.
It´s direct sun exposure, and then people are like,
"Well, you go and you make deals and you schmooze."
I´m like, "You´ve just made it a thousand times worse."
-Yeah, that´s not -- It´s not relaxing
to go on a hike and make deals. -What the hell?
No. -Also, Amy Poehler,
one of the producers of the show, she plays -- what is she?
-She plays a doula with a specialty in eavesdropping.
-Oh, okay, gotcha. -So, she overhears
one of our conversations and comes in,
gives us her business card, which is just a rock.
-Very well cast. -Yeah, yeah.
Her name is Flute on the show, and she wanted a T-shirt
that said something funny on it, so we wrote Jill Stein.
Just because we thought that she was the only one
that was not giving up on that fight.
-Yeah! -And had absolutely no remorse
about how the election turned out.
Like, no self-awareness whatsoever.
-Yeah, still rocking the shirt. -Oh, yeah.
She´s still a Jill Stein enthusiast.
-If you could find one, it would be on Runyon Canyon.
Absolutely. -Yeah, yeah.
-Thank you so much for being here.
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Julie Klausner Loves Amsterdam's Bland Food and Red Light District

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