- You say hammer, that's what I'm thinking.
- Oh, me as well.
- That's why we pray - I'm thinking like, the big
parachute pants, doing the Typewriter.
- Mm, we've got to pray
just to make it today. - Pray.
[overlapping singing and humming]
- Been around the world. - You got me in feelings
right now, boy. - Yeah!
- I'm about to get up and start doing
the Running Man, but I won't. - I will do it with you!
- I won't. - Okay.
- I won't, might pull a hammy.
[relaxed rhythmic music]
What's up, I'm Kobe Bryant.
- Hello, I'm Flula Borg.
- And we're here to teach you guys
a little slang in Italian and.
- German also, yeah. - German also.
It's obvious why he's teaching you German.
- My hoodie.
- Yeah, me, not so much.
I grew up in Italy, my teachers taught me Italian,
but none of these words, I'm sure.
- Oh, nasty words are coming.
Clean words.
Words.
- So, first word is
guastafesta.
- Oh, that means like, I like to party.
Fest, like Spanish, me gusta la fiesta.
- Not close, not close.
I can see why you would think that with festa,
but no, it actually means like, Debbie downer.
- Debbie downer?
- Yeah, like you're just somebody, just kills the mood.
- What if you're a male?
It's just Steven sadness?
- Guastafesta.
- Okay.
Oh, we have alter.
Oh, what do you think?
- Alter? - Yeah.
- That's like,
I don't know what the hell that means.
- It means old dude, but you say it when you're excited,
I'd be like, [speaks German],
like, what's up, old dude?
But it's not age specific. - Oh, okay.
So you could say it to me?
- Yeah. - 'Cause I'm an old dude.
- No, but even if you are young or like a baby,
I would say, [speaks German].
- Confused.
Essere nelle nuvole.
- Oh, it sounds like a lotion cream.
[Kobe laughs]
- It means head in the clouds.
- Head in the clouds. - Head in the clouds.
- Oh, tall. - You're just completely just,
no.
- Like George Morrison, Shawn Bradley!
- No,
no,
no, no.
It means like, distracted.
Just kinda ah, head in the clouds.
- Because you are so tall.
- Okay, here we go, hackfresse, oh.
- Hackfresse sounds like some computer hacker thing.
- Yes, I agree.
It actually means you are not attractive in the night time.
- What?
- I know.
German. - So what do you say
in the day time?
- Hackfresse.
- Basta basta, rhymes with pasta.
- Yeah.
- Basta basta.
- Oh, enough carbohydrates for me, basta pasta.
- You've got enough, like enough.
Enough is enough.
- Oh, krass.
- Krass, rude?
- Oh, it's the opposite.
Krass is like, [speaks German].
You know like in America, people like,
ooh, you are bad, or mm, you stink.
But really it means you are nice
and smell delicious. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it.
Boh.
- Oh it's like, cool.
- Nah, it means like, I don't know anything.
[Flula gasps]
But boh is also very versatile.
Like, if you ask me what I want to eat for dinner,
I'll go, boh, like, I don't know.
- Hammer. - What is that?
- Hammer means like oh, this is their hammer,
which is like, oh, that's really sassy and great,
much like the podcast, the Punies.
Directed by Kobe Bryant, created by Kobe Bryant,
a wonderful podcast.
- Now that is a hell of a hammer plug.
- Thank you.
- This one is a good one, che palle.
- Che palle. - Che palle.
- Hands are important.
- Like, you know, you're like, [speaks Italian].
- 15?
- That means what balls do you have to wear this outfit?
- 15 balls. - Bravery.
- I have 15 balls.
Ohrwurm.
- [Kobe] Ohrwurm.
- Ear worm.
- Yes, it is for music.
- I like it.
- Yeah, if you had a [scatting]
and this inside your brain all day long--
- I like it. - Ohrwurm.
Like the Punies songs.
- Oh, the Punies songs
are definitely ohrwurms. [Kobe scatting]
Ohrwurm. - Hey, batter, batter.
- Punies. - Swing batter.
- Oh. - Don't get distracted
by my baseball cap. [both scatting]
Okay, anyway, coglione.
Like, coglione's, like.
- Vito Corleone. - Yeah, no.
Coglione is like an asshole.
[Flula gasps] Like, you're a coglione.
- Oh, yes, yes.
- No, not like you.
- Well. - I'm just saying like,
just generally speaking. - This morning I'm not.
On my commute, Mr. Bryant, big coglione.
[Kobe laughs]
Arschgeige.
- [Kobe] Arschgeige.
- This means anus violin.
It's what you call someone if they are just being like,
[speaks German], you know?
And they are just being rude and annoying,
calls them an anus violin.
- Capisce.
- Yeah. - Capisce's like, understand.
- I know this one, capisce. - Capisce,
capisce. - Yeah, capisce.
- Well, like. - What do I say?
- Well, I mean it's fine,
like American movies always go capisce, capisce, capsice.
It's capisce.
- It's capisce? - Or capisce.
- So they are saying it wrong?
- It's kind of been movified.
- Movified. - You know what I mean?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But it's okay.
- Oh es ist mir wurst.
- Es ist mir wurst.
- Sehr gut, it means, oh, that's just sausage to me.
And that means you don't care about it.
- Oh, okay, like, eh.
- Yeah, es ist mir wurst. - Nothing.
- Es ist mir wurst. - Yes.
I think it's because we have a meat man
on every corner in Germany.
- Ah, got it. - Sounds inappropriate
now I just said it, but.
- Magari.
- Magari. - Magari.
Maybe.
- Okay, do you want to get something to eat after this?
- Magari. - Okay.
- Gettara la spugna.
- La spugna.
- Gettara la spugna. - Oh, so
let's have a little solo.
[Flula scats]
- No, I mean, it's like, throwing in the towel,
like quitting, giving up,
that sort of stuff. - What'd you say?
Throwing in the towel?
- Yeah, just like, weak stuff, man.
- So like, washcloth? - Spugna means sponge,
just like throw in the, I'm done.
- No more dishes for me.
- Yeah, I'm out of here.
- Well this is three words in one word,
German's like, we do this, I don't know why we do.
♪ This is how we do it ♪
This is how we do it.
♪ This is how we do it ♪
♪ Backpfeifengesicht ♪
♪ This is how we do it ♪
- Okay, so backpfeifengesicht means cheek whistle face.
Which means a cheek whistle is a word for slapping,
so if I'm like, eh, you're like,
I would love to slap that face,
because it is a backpfeifengesicht.
So if a face looks like it deserving a slap.
That face is called a backpfeifengesicht.
- Acqua in bocca.
- Okay.
- Acqua in bocca, means like water in mouth.
- Mm, oh.
- Stop talking. - You are dehydrated.
- Acqua in bocca. - Dehydrated, you need--
- Like you're talking too much,
shut it up, lock it up, water in your mouth,
you can't talk with water in your mouth.
- Bis nachstes mal.
This means until the next time.
- Oh, until the next time.
- You assume there is a next time,
and we have left on some nice terms
or neutral terms. - Bis nachstes mal.
- Yeah, bis nachstes mal!
- Yeah, in bocca al lupo.
- Oh, in-- - In bocca al lupo.
- Al lupo, lupo, so eyes, eyes.
- No. - And bocca mouth.
Put your eyes in your mouth. - Lupo means wolf.
Wolf, lupo, wolf, mean, bocca al lupo means
like, in the mouth of the wolf.
I don't know why it's generally a term of good luck,
but it means like, good luck.
- This means good luck? - Yeah.
- Put your head in the mouth of a wolf.
- Yeah.
- What? - Like something
you would say to someone
who has a novel that's releasing today,
is just out like today called Legacy of the Queen,
which everybody should go buy,
not a plug or anything at all.
- Not a plug. - Maybe a little.
But you say in bocca al lupo.
- In bocca al lupo, Kobe Bryant,
author of this book you just referenced.