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Revisiting New York's own "Acute Inflections" during the last days of the Trump presidency both El and Sadiki were kind enough to answer my politically incorrect questions. How has the Jazz duo changed their business model during the pandemic? How is the political climate after Black Lives Matter? How are they dealing with their Trump supporting neighbors?

eL and Sadiki are living in New York – and they are black. In times of Corona and world wide #BlackLivesMatter protests due to the murder of George Floyd they kindly answered all my questions like: How is it to be black in America in 2020 – and where do we as humans move on from here?

Renowned Rockstar Sander Gommans (After Forever, Trillium, HDK) took the time to sit down with me and talk about building a band, tour life, fans, fatherhood and future plans.

My friend Hughlene grew up in the coloured community in Cape Town, South Africa during the Apartheid regime. 16 years ago she moved to Germany and therefore has a good view on both worlds.
For a long time I was curious about many SA topics that were hard for me to understand with my German outside view, so I'm happy Hughlene could shed some light on topics like
- How did it feel to grow up under Apartheid laws?
- What is this artificial "ethnic group" called Coloured?
- How racist does Germany feel for her today?
- living in two worlds
and many more.

I've had the pleasure of sitting down with Guy English (Canada). He's known in the Tech scene for his podcast 'Debug' with Rene Ritchie (iMore) and his programming work, mostly on iOS and macOS. I've always liked his friendly, yet witty and opinionated way of discussing tech, culture and politics. We had a lot of fun talking about our trans-atlantic perspectives on US-american politics under Trump, Europe and more.