Post by miachihuandzinnia on Sept 7, 2011 6:18:47 GMT -5
2011
Video-Tutkas are taped Skype-sessions between Sauli Koskinen and Katri Utula. They will discuss mostly entertainment business related things going on both in Finland and in the USA, and sometimes maybe elsewhere, as well...
Please keep in mind that the videos were made for Finnish viewers, and from a Finnish point of view, to give the Finnish viewers a peek what it is like in the big world. Katri and Sauli sometimes compare the American and the Finnish ways, too. Also the way they express themselves is partly very direct (very Finnish style that ) and partly twisted around with humour and jokes, so you have to read a lot between the lines. They are sarcastic and use irony, they joke a lot and have fun.
Also, please note that we (Miachihu and Zinnia) are neither professional translators nor native English-speakers. Therefore it is very much possible and even likely that there will be mistakes and clumsy sentences in the translations. However, the language that Sauli and Katri use is not always exactly perfect and coherent, either, so the source of confusion might be there as well.
Transcript by Zinnia (@tiiqqu) , translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia Posted on September 1st, 2011
Please read the first post of this thread!
K: LOL Help… really… ! Hi Sauli! LOL S: Hey! LOL K: Oh, really, so now we started practicing our Skype-Tutka and really this is… S: Wonderful to see you! K: And you too! I can’t stand it wh… S: This is so freaky! K: This is so awful, really. Just now we put the Skype on, eeeeeekk! S: The first five minutes went in just laughing when we saw each other’s face. K: Help... I can’t take this… S: But hey, here the Mondays start again, you know! K: Oh bloody hell! This is so great! S: People won’t get rid of us. K: What? S: I said people won’t get rid of us! K: Oh no, they won’t! Maybe I should put… (Does something, doesn’t tell what, probably turns up the volume on her headset) S: Even though I’m here on the other side of the world we sure manage to get ourselves sort of joined together like this… united. K: True. Then Sauli was just looking and thinking I had stiffed him and moved from place A to place B. S: Yes! Now I can see our workstation back there behind and you’ve moved there somewhere to the front… K: Well it’s because I respect our workstation so much that I can’t stay there alone anymore… S: But still you’re advertising Wayne’s very well… K: LOL I noticed! S: Can you see these fabulous ads here behind me? (Points at the empty walls) LOL K: I was just saying… S: Then I have to also say here that right now it’s night here, I don’t have lights here so I took this floor lamp and put it on its side here so you can see my face. (Shows a table lamp to the camera.) K: Well I started this like ”Sauli, no one can even see you! Now, put even some lights on!” “But I don’t have any…” LOL S: I was lying in the sun today and burned myself and I’m all red, so you see, I can’t put the big lights on. Everybody’s just thinking “look what a pig there is…” K: So it’s better to just keep them (lights) down… LOL But luckily you are the bigger one on the screen so everybody can see you better than me. S: But this is awful to watch when I see both your face and my own on the screen… you really don’t know where to watch.. K: I’m watching the screen all the time and then sometimes at the camera... this is so… this is a bit freaky now. It would be so much easier if you were here beside me so I would know where to look. So there wouldn’t be many choices. S: Yep, but for once we can make Tutka this way so that we can look at each other face to face here… K: This is so great! And now you have changed so much there, your hair has changed to something really weird… LOL S: It’s like silver… I don’t even know what color it is anymore. I have blue here behind (Shows a tuft of hair from behind which is blue) K: Oh my god! You’ve become a real Hollywood… S: You know, I’m this strange… I kept a Hollywood fast just now, don’t know what’s coming up next… K: Yeah, what, I really can’t stand that… S: What? K: Well, Sauli called me one day and was like ”Guess what? I’m drinking here those wonderful shots you like so much…” And I was like “Oh yeah, really?” So you took some kind of cure there or what? S: Yeah and Katri - the mornings started with that supershot. It was like the first thing when you got your eyes open, you had to drink that green slush… K: I can’t stand it! There is soooo no sense in that Sauli’s stuff, really! S: But, so it was a four day cleansing. Oh how I felt so good afterwards and I had so much energy I could have given some to others as well. K: Okay, so it works? S: It works, it works! I recommend! K: Well, what happened after that then, did you continue on the same line? LOL S: Well… LOL K: LOL it’s good to cleanse your body every once in a while and then continue… like… this is… S: I did continue… I did still continue drinking LOL K: It’s like this thing you’ve always said that you don’t understand these people who have these strange January… these Januaries… S: I don’t understand dropless. K: Yeah. S: A dropless January? People drink twice as much after that… K: Well yeah, exactly. S: … when they haven’t got any for many weeks. K: Well I don’t understand your juice diets either. S: That’s why I had it like that so I won’t miss one weekend but I had it in the middle of the week. K: LOL Well that’s a good one… maybe I should do the same… S: Yes, yes, it works. K: And we’ve had these all kinds of crayfish parties… S: No, I mean really, it was really good. K: Well okay, yes. S: Should people fast.. hey, now something came up and battery is running out and wait… wait, I’ll put… K: I really can’t take this, this is so… LOL S: This is this techn… help… this is even more terrible when you have to work with this equipment by yourself. I’m really no technical wunderkind, you know… Okay! Lights are on and computer is loading… okay, let’s continue! K: Let’s continue… good… Really, I was also looking around here like hey, where do we have electricity here, because we’ve never needed any electricity here. Yeah, yeah, in the Sanoma building (Headquarters of a Finnish publishing company). Yeah, hey, what else has been going on there? Have you had many parties or anything else? Here we’ve been having all these crayfish parties and everything right now so nothing’s coming out of anything here right now. S: Well, there haven’t been very… just normal everyday life here, so no, we haven’t been partying too much, just staying on the fasting line and… (wide smile :D) K: But well, hey… S: It’s nice to go out every once in a while but right now the biggest news here and which I just finished watching a couple of hours ago is that (Video) Music Awards thing. K: Well, now, tell me more about that Beyonce! I was really like in the morning, when I heard that she is pregnant, I was like “YEEE! I can’t take this!” Those were so wonderful news. But yeah, what happened there? S: So, she had a show, she was performing, singing, was totally amazing in my opinion, by the way… the best. Beyonce is one of the best female singers. K: Yes, she is. She is absolutely superior. S: That show was totally amazing. And then, after the show - she had on a coat decorated with sequins - she opened the coat, she really threw the microphone on the floor - then she opened the coat, took it a way... then she had this little belly… K: Noooo… S: Then she didn’t say anything, she just rubbed her belly like this and the whole audience started screaming like this. K: No… I can’t take this! S: And she revealed it like after the show and then they were shooting Jay Z and the audience was all going crazy… K: Aww…. I’m getting goose bumps all around here. S: I did too, almost got misty-eyed. K. Well, yeah - that’s how you should do it, in my opinion. That was great and I sort of thought when she already a month ago or at some point here said that now that her values of life have changed a bit and there is also something else than your career, at that point I was thinking that why would she say such things unless she clearly had something coming. But that is great. S: Yeah, yeah. But she is wonderful, I just wish her good luck because somehow I just think she is such a wonderful person and singer. K: I have interviewed her, you know. S: Well, I really don’t know her, but surely Beyonce will be my friend soon. K: Of course, you will be best friends by the end of the year. You will be their babysitter then next year. LOL S: Oh yes. Godfather, godfather. Just decided! K: LOL Of course! Yes, so I did interview her once in London but I thought she was a bit snob… S: Oh, I’ve heard only positive things… K: Okay, well maybe you have better sources… S: …from the people living here. K: Maybe she didn’t like because I had been asked… told not to ask about their relationship so of course I asked her about their relationship. S: But of course. K Sooo… S: You see, you’re just like that… K: Yes, I’m just like this… S: … and then afterwards you started feeling that you really don’t like her when you’re the one who screwed up. K: Yeah, yeah - that’s true. And then maybe that motherhood will soften her now, I believe that. S: It will soften her. K: Next time when I see her, I’m sure she’ll be really wonderful. S: And then I will say about the Music Awards that I’m really amazed about these… Lady Gaga was dressed up as a man, you know, and she started the whole show. She was a man during the whole show. That was so… Well, I’ll just say that she could have changed to her own at some point when she came back onstage… but she stayed as a man during the whole show and had this sort of role on. I think that went a bit too far. Somehow it was sort of a bit tasteless, already. And then other people there, for example Katy Perry - I think she is wonderful and all - but what on earth did she have on her head, some yellow… some box on her head. So just why do you have to… So many people there had such strange things on that why do you have to put a box on your head, so you try to cause a stir with that. K: Well but hey, I haven’t understood Lady Gaga for ages anymore. Now, she did have this sort of feminine, womanly line a couple of months ago. So she started to change a little be towards more normal. Because in my opinion all her stuff is getting old so… ahh… anyway… S: Well, you know, she can do anything. K: Yes, she can. But was it a good party, otherwise? As you were watching it from the TV? S: LOL A fine place. K: Why weren’t you there, you’re always everywhere? S: No, too tired. K: Too tired, right, yeah. S: There’s so much stuff going on so I’m too tired to go everywhere LOL… K: LOL S: But yeah. As a whole, it was a great show. K: They do know how to make great shows. S: Yes, they do. K: I miss the American Idols so much when we visited it. S: That was in the Nokia… Nokia… what… K: Theatre, yes. S: .. Theatre. K: Okay, great. Hey, Sauli, guess what really? S: What? K: I miss you so much! Because guess what, tomorrow they are introducing all the people in the BigBrother house… S: Oh wow! K: … and I so wish you were here watching them because I so wish you were here to say “Oh my God” to me! Because, really… S: But I… what? K: … what can they think of anymore? S: I don’t know… well, I’ve heard, I’ve been reading news about it and I can follow BB here, however, and I do have to follow it, you know, because we’re going to have to talk about it with you… K: Have to! S: But I read from somewhere… tell me if this is true… that there are only older people or couples going in the House? K: From what I’ve gathered there might at least be… well, at least that there won’t be such teen goings-on anymore. S: Yeah. K: That’s for sure… S: But do you remember last year, when the theme was “facades breaking down”… you know, nothing happened. K: Indeed. S: So what are they going to come up with for three months that will be something different, it will be interesting to see. K: Really. And then we are going to talk about them when they have been introduced, right next week. And hey, tomorrow also the DWTS guys are introduced, that is Dancing With The Stars guys. S: Oh yeah, okay! K: Yeah, and that will be interesting because nothing has been told about who they will be and they really interest people. S: Yeah. K: I have no idea who there will be. So you don’t happen to have… S: I know one! LOL (with a really goofy face :-) ) K: You do! Dammit! And you haven’t told me! S: How do you not know, you’re the reporter? K: Not those… I’ve been away for four months, I don’t have any contacts with anybody anymore! LOL S: Yeah, and I’ve been there so much! K: Gee, and you’re even there! S: It will be interesting to see who there will be. One I know. K: Okay, yeah. We got that, thank you. LOL S: LOL K: Well, but yeah, it will be really interesting. We’ll see tomorrow. I do have some suspicions about one but it’s really… Think, there will be, for god’s sake… how many are there? At least… S: Aren’t there at least eight…sev.. K: …what… about sixteen… no… I don’t even know how many there are. S: It can’t be that much. K: No, it can’t. S: Eight. K: No… I don’t remember. I don’t care. S: Well, whatever. K: Eight it is. Sixteen, yes, yes, all together, couples, yes, yes. S: Yes, yes. K: Eight couples, sixteen altogether. S: But the dancers will be pretty much the same, won’t they? K: Yes, they will be, don’t think there will be any big surprises there. S: I mean the teachers. K: Yeah. Well… what else? Yes, Jenni Vartiainen stopped doing gigs. S: Aha… K: Yesterday was… she had this gig with Loiri you know and… There’s not much here yet… S: With Vesa-Matti Loiri? K: Yes! That was pretty interesting. S: They’ve found each other with Jenni, doing a tour together? K: I don’t know, this was the… this was some kind of final gig so that’s when they finished… S: I see… K: But it’s pretty cool, in a way it surely must be good for Loiri as well to get some younger fans and especially good for Jenni… you know, he’s very highly respected so there’s really no better person to perform with. S: Yeah, that’s true. So all the respect there! K: Yes. S: Well, how’s… isn’t it now beginning of… at least we had the Voice on here. Shouldn’t it be starting there as well? K: Oh yeah – it starts in the winter. And guess what, that’s the interesting thing. S: Well? K: What’s interesting is that it will likely start running somehow at the same time with Idols. Because they’re on different channels, Voice on Nelonen (Channel Four), so think. S: But we had Voice and Idols here running at the same time, as well. K: Almost at the same time… didn’t Idols finish and then Voice started after that? I think so, that’s when I remember watching it. S: There was some overlapping though. K: A little, I think, yes. But that’s how I remember it because I even watched Voice after that. I think it was good. S: Yes, yes, it’s really good. K: Here we have Paula Koivuniemi and Lauri Tähkä and Elastinen and Michael Monroe – so I think it really will be good. And that’s why I’m interested in what’s going to happen to Idols. Can it… when it really already was quite bad in the last season, can it any longer become… S: Why are they starting Idols again in Finland? That’s what I don’t… K: Yeah, I don’t understand. When I heard Heikki Paasonen declaring at that time, I remember watching in the States what was going on there, I… Why are your eyes closed? S: They’re open! Sorry, I fell asleep, it’s night for me here. K: The picture froze! LOL Sorry that my stories are so boring! S: Yeah yeah. K: But really, they announced already then that they start. Then I was thinking that are they starting deliberately because Voice is coming. That they have to start something, still continue with something good. S: It might be. But I don’t understand if. In Finland there are, what are there… little anyway… not many people and all that. So why… you should keep some kind of breaks with that kind of shows. K: Really. S: Then I don’t understand that usually when they start, all the programs start at the same time, but okay, fall really is the best, just under Christmas so that there are programs starting because… K: Yes. S: … it’s getting darker there and you have all the slush and all… (wide grin) K: I know. S: Here I just have the sun shining! LOL K: Oh yeah! That’s so nice! And here we have the first really cold day or not yet so cold but we have dark clouds right outside there. Hey, what’s starting there now? I want to know what we are going to talk about in the fall and about what’s starting in the States. X-factor at least, that we’re going to follow. S: X-factor starts… oh, you know, there are a million and one hundred channels… K: Well, okay, we’ll sort that out for the next time. S: Yeah, we’ll sort it out. K: And then we have Diili and all those starting, but about those we can’t really… But at least about BB we’re going to talk about, and about DWTS and everything possible and in general what is going on here and there and so forth. But… S: Hey, I was going to ask about if the program Tara has started there? That’s what it’s called. K: No… what is it? S: Well I have seen… K: Oh do you mean Tara Read..? S: I’ve seen at least announcements about it starting in Finland. K: Okay. I know nothing about it. S: I was just going to say that I watched the whole season… really good series. Watch it! K: Okay! LOL Great. Hey Sauli, now we are running out of time, we have to stop. S: Okay. K: But this was a great first Tutka. S: Really great, we continue from this, you hear. K: We continue from this. S: And next time we’ll talk about – I’ll find out about those BB things and we’ll talk… K: And then we’ll evaluate all the BB people next time. S: All the BB people will be evaluated next time and from there we continue and this is a good place to stop. K: Exactly! Go to sleep now as it’s already… oh dear… one o’clock at night! S: Yes, Hollywood.. (word cut in the middle) K: Mom again.. did you notice “mom here talking again” Now Sauli to bed! S: Mom talking again… You go and continue your work! K: Okay, I’m going! Husband there commanding! S: Yes. K: Hey, great, it was wonderful to see you, Sauli… I can’t stand this… I miss there so much… S: Yeah… Is this still taping? K: No, I’m stopping it now. S: Okay! K: Bye! S: Bye!
Video re-uploaded by Miachihu on October 29th, 2011
Transcript from Finnish by Zinnia (@tiiqqu), translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia
Please read the first post of this thread!
S: Hey! K: Heey! S: You woke me up again calling like this at 12 o’clock at night but cheers! K: Cheers! S: I just made some tea for myself. K: Hey, this is great! I just noticed that Sauli’s having coffee there as well, and I was about to brag that ‘hahaha’… S: Tea. K: … ‘You don’t have Wayne’s coffee here… there at all’ S: I have this Ellen mug here... K: Ooh! S: …where I made my tea. K: Yeah, right! That’s rude! You’re immediately on those lines! S: I was there at the show as a guest that one time… K: Yeah... right... sure… S: (laughs) No I wasn’t! K: Hey, really, hey, really, I meant to say this already last time. Take a look at me now. I really look like Mauno Ahonen, really… with this Skype headset. S: You do look a bit like Mauno… Mauno Ahonen. K: (laughs) S: Why don’t I have that thing? I don’t need that. K: Yes! And I was totally… I was here… I complained about it last week, saying that Sauli can look good and I can’t. Why’s that?... S: Why do you, Katri, have to have that thing? K: … Where’s the fairness in all this? I don’t know, because also, if you try to drink coffee, this thing is totally insane. I mean, look at this now (takes a sip from her cup after pushing the mike aside). You can’t drink coffee at the same time. S: Get a straw to the other side. K: (about to spread coffee out of her mouth) Coffee with a straw… Well, I guess it would work that way, too. S: I have to ask - what time is it there? K: It’s quarter past ten in the morning. S: Okay. K: I’m having my morning coffee. How are you drinking coffee at this time of the night? How do you get to sleep? S: I said… This is already the third time I’m telling you I’m drinking tea. Caffeine-free tea. K: I’m listening to you so well… that’s nothing new. So, that’s not a shot of any kind now, one of those awful green… S: No, just plain tea, with nothing mixed in it. K: That’s real positive already. S: (laughing) K: So, really, where have you been? S: (starts in the middle of Katri’s sentence) You said to me when we started this that I’m swinging here. Did I swing that much last time? K: Hey, really, you’ve gotten so much feedback about that you shouldn’t swing on that damn chair! S: How am I gonna stay put here? K: I don’t know what kind of a chair you have there but you were like this all the time (imitates Sauli’s movements) S: But this thing doesn’t have any kind of rests… but you’re leaning on the table there, aren’t you? K: No, I’m not leaning, my table is right here, but I’m sitting, that’s exceptional. S: Okay, I’ll try to swing right now so much that I don’t need to swing any more. (swings back and forth) K: (giggles) Hey really, be careful, Skype’s going to… S: No, I swung all the swingings now so I don’t need to swing any more. K: Yes, true. S: Okay. K: Skype can’t keep up with you, you see, you looked just like kind of a stream of fog moving back and forth. This Skype is a bit slower system, you see. Hey, umm… Oh dear, there are so many things going on at once... I should again look at you and at the camera, and then here’s this clock showing how long we have talked, and… S: You’re swinging now there, yourself. K: I am? S: Yes. K: Well, dammit! (laugh) S: Is this coming… seems this comes with a minute’s delay. (laugh) K: Hey, where have you been because I haven’t been able to… or, I mean, I have reached you, in a way, I guess, but a bit poorly, and then on Monday when we were supposed to make Tutka, the guy is AWOL somewhere… S: AWOL, yeah… Well, I spent a week at the Burning Man. K: Yes, you said you were going there. But… S: We were there in the festival in the Nevada desert. There, in a sandstorm, for a week. K: No… no… S: Yes! The phone had no signal whatsoever, I didn’t get into a shower for a week… K: Help! S: … or during the week… K: Heeelp! S: No proper food… or, I mean, sure, we had food, but… K: But nothing like supershots? S: Let’s say, I don’t feel quite the same as I did after that fasting. BUT… K: (giggles) S: …we’re back and alive, and I apologize for all those who have been waiting for a new blog… I will write it this week and tell more about the Burning Man in it. K: Yes. S: Yes. K: Hey, tell us just quickly what it was like? First of all, who was performing there? S: (Laughs – he was surprised. Katri obviously had no idea what Burning Man is about.) There are like many performers… (starts guffawing) K: Yeah, but I mean who… who was a top one? S: Katri, you must first read about Burning Man and what’s going on there, and ask again then. K: (giggles) But surely there were some good ones… good ones that you could mention a couple. Tell us one of your favorites. S: There were these circus performances that I went to see. K: Okay… S: (guffaws) K: Now… now you’re cheating me. S: There’s nobody singing there, Katri! K: There isn’t? S: No! K: I thought it was like a festival… What happens there? S: (hides his eyes while laughing) Help… K: What’s going on in there, then? Oh, help! Now I have to disconnect this for a second. (S + K having a laughing fit) K: Okay, now it’s again recording. S: Help! Well, yeah, I’ll write… I’ll write about this in the blog and I’ll tell about what happened there in it. K: Noo… well, okay, I’ll read it from there. S: Yes, read it… oops… help… K: Once again we came across a thing that I have no idea about what it mea… what it is. S: So it seems. K: But you said you were going to a Burning Man and I thought like, oh, it’s some sort of festival and then I sort of… S: Well, there were… there were all kinds of performances, flames, and in the end the whole place is set up on fire and… K: Oh dear! Oh my God! S: The car queues were five hours long and the whole place is totally insane. K: Oh, wow. S: You have to ride on bike to every place because it’s so big and you have to have a mask on your face all the time because of the sand that’s flying there. I came back after a week and I’ve got my hair and scalp and these nostrils and ears and mouth full of that fine sand. There are these sand tornados going around… It’s totally not a place for you! (laughs) K: (laughs) Help! I’ve been somewhere like Canary Islands at some time when there was a sand storm, about fifteen years ago… S: It’s not quite the same! (laugh) K: Even that was too much for me because it lasted for a day. I was like, yuck, yuck, yuck… Hey, shall we talk quickly about the news of the week. Now that you’ve been away for a week, I’m not sure how much we can talk about them, but first, look at this. A big headline. Have you heard?
From around 6:18 to 20:40 they have a discussion about several TV shows in Finland and the people in them, like Dances With The Stars, Big Brother, Voice, Idols etc.
Two excerpts from the middle:
Around 16:39 S: I would tell… I would like to tell you some news from Hollywood, but I was just out there in the desert for a week without a phone or internet connection, so I really know nothing about anything… and let’s say that I’m so sleep-deprived that maybe I just have to go to bed after this. K: Yes, that’s what I think, that’s what I think too.
Around 19:13 S: Oh, you don’t even know what kind of duds I was wearing last week there in the desert, whoah! K: No! You have to send me some pics.
From 20:40 K: But now I’ll let you go to bed since you’re all exhausted. S: Let’s do that. K: Yes, you’re all worn out and tired. S: I’m already all worn out here and you’ve been totally frozen for a for a couple of minutes already. K: (laugh) I have? S: Yes. K: Can’t you see me there? S: No. You look amazingly calm, I can hear your voice, though. (laughter) S: When we started this Tutka, all I could see was Katri swinging but no voice. I just said that Katri has never… I’ve never seen Katri so quiet. K: Help, I’m already hearing my own voice – my own laughter echoing back so now we have to stop, it sounds so terrible. S: You just sent me a text message: “Is Skype on I can’t see you here?” It just came! K: That’s not true! Really, I sent it to you half an hour ago… Heelp! Hey, now we really have to stop, now really, this is just plain fooling around. S: You’ve frozen with such a strange expression that it’s really good to stop here, otherwise I’ll soon lose my sleep. K: Okay. Hey, good night to you, Sauli, there! And to you all others – we’ll see you next week, we’ll try on Monday. I will wake Sauli up even in the middle of da… middle of his afternoon nap… what did I say? Okay, see you! S: Bye! K: See you! S: Bye!
Transcript by Zinnia (@tiiqqu), translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia Posted on September 13th, 2011
Please read the first post of this thread!
K: Hi! S: Hiii! K: Hey, I mean really, look at Sauli now, he’s wearing a sleeveless shirt there and I’m here shivering because it’s really pouring down right now outside. S: Well, I can say… K: What’s the temperature there? S: Well, right now it’s been cooling down a bit, so it’s about 28 degrees (Celcius – about 82 F). But I’m pouring sweat! K: Only 28 degrees, too bad! S: Only. K: How do you really manage there? S: But it’s awesome that it’s dropped down, it was still 35 degrees (Celcius – 95 F) here last week. It was so hot that you couldn’t really move outside, so this is… K: Oh yes, no… S: … so this is almost human. K: Oh, there’s no way I would come there, no way! (laughs) S: (kidding) It makes me so angry just to lounge down by the pool that I really don’t know which way to turn. K: (laughs) Really, I can’t talk with you about this so let’s change the subject. S: I can see some movement and the cafe there. K: Yeah, yeah. A familiar place, right? Isn’t it? S: Yeah, sure. I really miss Wayne’s coffee and… S: Yes. Hey, guess what? Look what I’ve got here! (shows her cup) I got real – can you see? Cappuccino!! (shows her tongue ) K: Oh, cappuccino! S: Nja-nja-nja… (laughs) K: Okay. I don’t care how warm you have it there, I’m drinking cappuccino here. But hey, I have to… I’ll tell you the background of this. S: But I’m opening a champagne. K: Right. You always have to outdo me! But hey, guess why I’m drinking this? S: …once again were staying up late here… K: It’s already one at night there. Hey, guess why I’m drinking this? S: Well? K: Because my morning started sooo lousy. Because yesterday I wrote in my blog about Pia Pakarinen (Miss Finland, who was taking part in the Miss Universe pageant which ended on Sunday) and how she is demanding money for interviews, and now everybody’s like “you… you…) I don’t really know what all kinds of the stuff there was, I was just, like “okay, who cares”. But it just seems that people don’t understand that nobody gets money from interviews, but I’m not going to talk about this thing anymore… ***** K: What did you say? For some reason this connection is not… some things are not… it must be raining too much outside right now. All the connections are already messed up. But hey, Pia Pakarinen did not make it in the beauty pageant, but let’s talk about the DWTS guys. I’d just like to say… S: Let’s talk, but I can’t see you at all, the picture is not moving at all now. K: So I froze now… S: Okay, now it’s moving, it’s moving. K: Okay, good. Look, I’ll show you… (points at a newspaper headline) S: It moves as slowly as ever. K: (laughs) Okay. Look: here we have this: “Dance practice full of pain: pneumonia, knee injury, sprain.” I called all of these guys yesterday and asked them how the practice was going. S: Yeah… K: You see, it started from Viivi Pumpanen having pneumonia, and I can’t understand how a person can dance for eight hours with pneumonia. It’s highly dangerous, for God’s sake. But I guess she didn’t have fever anymore. But help, these dances and practices push the people to… Imagine if someone keeled down there… S: Are they learning them well? K: Geez… S: Yeah, well who has agreed on that… K: Yeah, exactly, because even a doctor has said that it’s life-threatening. S: Yeah. But hey, how did we jump straight past Pia Pakarinen? K: Well, did you want to say something more about her? S: Well, no… K: (laughs) S: (laughs) Well, I was just going to say that I followed a little bit that Miss Universal… what was that… Miss Universal… K: Miss Universe pageant, yes. Universe. S: Universe? K: You’ve totally forgotten Finnish there again. S: Yes, this language (something – connection is breaking here) is disappearing here (in Finnish with American accent). K: Yeah (laughs) S: Yeah, well, I really didn’t understand the whole show. I watched it only for about ten minutes, but they were just showing some kind of Fantasy dressed. Why on earth do they have those some kind of role outfits in a beauty pageant? The people were… those candidates… someone was dressed as a parrot and someone was dressed as… K: Whaaat? S: Yes, those girls had some Fantasy costumes on. There was the Fantasy dress round going on. K: You’re not serious. S: Yes. One had skulls and one was dressed in such a latex that her eyes were barely visible from there. What kind of a beauty pageant is that? K: Well, I mean… That makes no sense. S: I really don’t know either. I was thinking that was I looking at the right channel or is this some adult thing but I guess it was the pageant after all. K: (laughs) S: I changed the channel at that time. K: I think I would have, too. But what did you think about Pia, do you think she should have had success there? S: Well, I don’t know… in my opinion… well, no. K: I see. Why not? S: I just saw much more interesting and… I’m not going to say more beautiful but, let’s say, more interesting and exotic people there. Why is it that nowadays they always choose a candidate from Finland who is the nice little girl from next door? K: Yeah, well… Viivi (Viivi Pumpanen, former Miss Finland) had some sparkling but it’s true that Pia is quite… she’s very cute and sweet and all that, but she’s a soooo typical ordinary Finn and such and probably that’s why she just won’t really stand out from the others, because these others are putting on such a show… S: (says something but voice breaks) K: … like Lola (Lola Odusoga, former Miss Finland) has said, you really have to… S: … babble… K: …yes, not too much, but enough, so that everyone remembers you all the time. I mean, Pia was beautiful as ever, For the first time in a long time, a divine beauty, and I thought that this time, she’s going to make it, but… You can’t make it if you don’t have enough, like, power. You just have to dare to go… Finns are not automatically like that, like in the States, you know how people there are all the time. Like we just talked with Vappu (Vappu Pimiä), when we were making that interview for the weekend’s paper, and she said that there everyone… S: But then… K: …everyone is just pushing themselves forward all the time, also in a good way. All the time they’re telling about themselves, asking other people, “Hi, how are you doing?” “I’m great” and it’s all wonderful. Because here… people don’t talk like that here, so you don’t dare do that when you suddenly end up there, not even Pia Pakarinen can do that. S: Of course not, because we’re not used to that in Finland but then again, I do have to critize a little bit because I wasn’t totally convinced by Pia Pakarinen’s choices for her costumes, either. In Finland, they make this basic nice model that suits your body and doesn’t grab anyone’s attention in any way… now the screen went all blank… now you came back… this is real nice… K: (laughs) Real nice… we’re using half of our time asking “are you there or aren’t you there?”… S: (voice breaks, imitates something) K: Hey, wait, now we’ll change the topic. S: New topic. K: Now the topic’s changing. Hey, now I want to say about these…
(6:58 – 9:01 follows a discussion of the different injuries the competitors of the Finnish DWTS have).
9:01 - S: That is challenging, you know. K: Sorry, what? S: That is difficult and challenging. K: Yes it is! Bloody hell… S: I can remember, even though I never went to “lukio” (part of Finnish school system; senior high school is the closest equivalent) I still participated in the practice sessions for “Vanhojen tanssit” (see note below), and my feet were sure going like… feet were going to totally opposite direction to where they were supposed to go, so… K: Hihihii. I remember the ”Vanhojen tanssit” as well… oh dear God. Couldn’t do it anymore… S: I’m more like a party dancer. K: Yes… likewise. S: Yeah. K: Well okay – our elevator dance! In Las Vegas! S: Elevator dance! Elevator dance in Las Vegas! K: (laughs) That was so cool, really! S: Yeah, it was! (chuckles) K: Oh god… S: What if in DWTS they also had this like… what would you call it? This… “Random empty your mind and let your feet lead.” K: Hey, exactly. There really should be… Think about it, we should start a dance show of our own, where you could… people could dance there with sort of like free style while they’re dancing some... some dance. S: You got that elevator move expression again. K: (giggles) Starting right up, you see! (jamming) Oh geez, that was really… that was so great really. Why aren’t here…? I’m really starting to consider about sending an appeal to the state that there should be music playing on every elevator in Finland. And I mean disco, like bum-bum-bum-bum (laughs) It was so fun! Geez… S: The best thing was that me and Katri really have danced in Las Vegas in an elevator so intensely that when the elevator doors opened, and new people got in, we didn’t even notice them before they were going out. “Oh… there are maybe others here as well…” (both laughing) S: Help… K: … it was so awful… oh god… S: I remember when I came out of the elevator when I saw this huge crowd of people… K: Yeah… suddenly like… (serious face) ”We didn’t do anything.” Yeah, and it was also funny that that elevator also fell down… I mean that… not elevator… S: Hotel K: … yeah, hotel. I mean the hotel. At least we thought so.
11:20 – 12:35 Discussion about Finnish Big Brother.
12:35 K: Sorry, I can’t hear you properly. What happened to those… S: (laughs) You’re actually telling… (laughter) K: I’m just babbling here and Sauli… S: ”Sorry, I can’t hear you, but let’s tape this Video-tutka…” (laughter) K: Well, I haven’t been listening to you before, either. Okay, hey… S: Ohhh! (Mostly a sigh) 13:03 - 18:25 More about Big Brother 18:25 K: So, are there any news that I should know about? S: Ummm… X-Factor is starting this month. K: Yes! That one we’re going to follow. S: Waiting for more info about that. I think that starts in Finland, too. K: Yes. S: I think it will come to Finland with a one week’s delay. K: Yes. S: So I can tell you from this end a little about how… what’s going to happen there, what’s going on and is it worth watching the next episode or something. K: Hey, that’s great! And then another thing that annoyed me was that Reese Witherspoon was hit by a car. What happened to her? S: Well it was just that she was somewhere there jogging sort of blind and a car came from behind a corner… K: Oh dear! S: … and this 80… no, was it an 80 years old granny, who… K: 83 years, something like that S: … 83 years old granny hit her and… Reese is doing very well and this granny helped her to a hospital. And you and me, we have met Reese, you know! K: Yes, we have – that’s why I was so worried about her. S: Yes, we met – I did call Reese immediately and asked if she was okay, so she is okay and just fine K: (laughs) It’s great that you called her. Otherwise I would habe been sort of worried. It’s good that you have this inside information about how she’s doing. S: Yes, yes! K: Well, hey, now we have to stop because it’s already awful late and I have to go and do other stuff. But, well, you have to go and party, because you have a Finnish friend there, yeaaa! S: My friend is here, I’m so excited! Yeaaa… (claps his hands) We’re going to have such Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive and all, you’d better watch out! K: Oh damn! Well, you’re going to tell us next week about everything you’ve been doing and how a Finn is reacting to where you’re taking them. You have to take them along the same route we were having our adventures. S: I will I will I will K:Okay, good! S: Good! K: You’re once again going and knocking on Brad Pitt’s door, and damn, if he… S: I’ll go. K: … comes and answers … S: Yeah. I already called Angelina today that we’re going there tomorrow. K: … you’re telling Brad that he must call me if you catch him, because he won’t answer my calls, dammit. No, he just won’t do it for some reason… he’s mad at me… S: Yeah yeah. This is breaking now… K: Okay, well, hey. As this connection is like this now, we have to stop – but hey, hugs and kisses to everyone and see you later!
(Vanhojen tanssit: Finnish tradition: a dance event organized for the students of the second last year in school to celebrate the day when they become the “oldest” students in school as the last year’s students have finished their studies)
Transcript by Zinnia (@tiiqqu), translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia Posted on September 20th, 2011
Please read the first post of this thread!
0:00 – 2:50 S: Hi! For once it’s this way that Katri doesn’t have to wake me up like in the middle of the night. K: Right, exactly – for once this way. Did the connection start breaking already? Because I already started hearing you badly. S: Let’s say that the sun is shining so badly on my face that all I can see from this screen is just black and my face as a reflection from it. K: Help. Hey, I came here in the most distant corner in our office because it’s really 10.30 in the evening and people are working in the nightshift here and… What time is it there? Half past twelve… pm? S: 12.20 something... I don’t know. K: Okay, something… S: … but… doesn’t the weather here look the same as I’m sure it’s there in Finland? K: Yes! (in a friendly sarcastic way) Looks really nice… Just exactly like here… I was just at the Helsinki Music House… S: So this is really… K: What S: Yeah yeah, I think this is awful… this is so horrible when the fall is now coming even here… (points at the trees behind) K: (laughs) Oh dammit! Hey, wait now, wait a minute (adjusts her laptop) K: (laughs) Hi! (waves) S: Hiii! (waves) K: Oh holy cow, for once we decided to tape this thing at this time so that Sauli has daytime there and now look at the scenery! I mean really! Noooo! Naaah… S: Now, well, the fall is coming here as well as you can see… K: Yea, right! Exactly! Go and stuff your head! S: (guffaws) K: Here it’s really… dammit, the clock is… S: This is great! This is great this way! What time is it there now? K: 10.30 in the evening and I’m here in the editorial offices darkest corner so that I’m not disturbing when they are making the newspaper there in the Superdesk in a hurry, I have to be here far away so they can’t hear my laughter there… S: Yeah. K: Aw, shocking… S: Now, let’s get this quickly out of the way so that I can continue my sunbathing… K: Yeah, yeah. S: … here. K: Yeah… right! Hey, just guess how much I now feel like talking about these boring news from Finland… But let’s go through the most annoying… the most boring ones first… What are you doing there now? (Sauli is fanning himself with something) S: Awful hot… you could say it’s painfully hot. K: Sauli!! I can’t take this with you! Okay, hey, I’ll show you first what we have today on headlines (shows the front page of Ilta-Sanomat) S: Yeah, go ahead and show… (laughs) K: (laughs) Oh yeah, you can’t see a thing! Sauli told just right before we started that… S: I can see… I can see my own face reflecting from this screen and because that sun is shining straight to my eyes I have like no idea where on the screen you are hovering around… hahaa… I’m just trying to look at the camera so I’m sort of with you in the spirit in this but don’t bother showing me any headlines. K: Sorry, I forgot already. I was like, “yes, yes, you don’t have to see anything” and immediately I’m here showing you this… Okay, anyway, today in the headlines we had…
2:50 – 4:31 Talk about Miss Finland (she gave up her title last Friday), treatment of the beauty pageant candidates
4:31 - 4:54 excerpt: S: Basically, Miss Finland is chosen so that she then goes and represents Finland in the Miss Universal… what is it? Miss Univers… al… K: -sum, -sum! Pageant. S: … that pageant… -sum. K: Last time you also… S: I always get so confused. I always mix those up… K: Yeah yeah, you’re there so ”I know… S: But anyway… K: … only English now.” S: … but let’s say K: Mmm yeah? S: ”Only English now, yeah.”
4:55 – 5:34 They continue about the beauty pageant - Sauli’s picture frozes, Katri stops recording.
5:35 – 6:30 Sauli moved indoors K: Now we got this thing on again. So we’re having technical problems to the extent that this is just not working… S: Just a little bit… Help, we… so we continue now straight from that I was just there outside when … there were about … minutes here between… because I don’t know what my… my laptop froze and then the desktop started ringing downstairs and skype was ringing in my cell… and all those skypes were ringing at the same time and… I didn’t know which one to answer and then I answered one and they all jammed and… K: (laughs and giggles during whole Sauli’s explanation) S: Whoah, I’m so sweaty now, like whoah! This is so difficult this… K: Yeah! Hey… S: So now I’m indoors, so there you have it with those summery sceneries… K: Yeah, great! S: … luckily you saw them there… (sound disappears) K: I think this was a good idea, Sauli, really, I like this scenery. S: I think… (sound disappears) K: Yeah, well… hey, I can’t hear you once more but let’s not care about even if the connection was breaking all the time. Well, so…
6:30 – 11:29 Still more about the beauty pageant, heavy critique and pathos
11:30 – 13:40 Discussion about Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria's baby belly, clothes and visit to Turku with her husband Prince Daniel
11:40 – 11:47 excerpt: S: Sorry about my voice, I’ve been here in fever.. K: That’s exactly what I was just saying that you’re such a poor baby now… S: Mmm K: Hey, we were supposed to be happy now, Sauli! It doesn’t matter now how sick you are… S: That’s right, yeah.
Katri talks about Crown Princess Victoria’s clothes 12:45 – 13:40 Excerpt K: But those clothes… I don’t know who here stylist is but she should change… S: Mmm, yeah. K: Could you come and style her up? S: (Mumbles something) Can you hear me? K: Yes S: I really don’t understand the pregnancy clothing fashion. I’ve even been thinking that if I were a woman and pregnant, I wouldn’t put anything skintight on… You know, when you have to put on a really tight shirt so that everyone absolutely for sure sees that you are pregnant. When there are clothes that are nice and more loose… why can’t you put on those when they must even be more comfortable to wear… K: Okay, so I won’t ask you to come here and style Victoria up because you would make her wear just those also in the future. S: … it must feel so nice when your clothes are tight from here… exactly why do you really have to show your stomach to everybody so that you even put on a skintight dress. K: (laughs) Okay, you don’t understand because you’re not a woman.
13:40 – 18:44 Discussion about The Deal/concert at the Helsinki Music House/Big Brother
18:45 – K: Hey, tell us quickly: what’s been going on there? S: Well, everything’s fine here. Let’s say that I’ve been a convalescent here for three days now so I haven’t really been able to go anywhere because I’ve had fever and let’s say that it’s not really nice to have 30 degrees (Celsius – that’s 86 F) outside and fever. K: Aww, I’m sure not. S: But today, today I feel a little better and actually I’m going today to the Universal Studios. K: Again! S: So there’ll be a blog coming from there for the readers. K: Yee, yee! S: And I have a Finnish friend here. So there is still a lot we are going to do… K: Great! Yee yee! Hey… S: X-Factor is starting really soon and you always have to watch that. Remember to watch the next Project Runway. I’m not going to say anything more about that! K: Okay, okay. So it’s running here approximately at the same pace? Isn’t it? S: Hmm… yeah (a bit unsure) K: Okay. Hey, great. We have also Finland’s Next Top Model starting here on TV and all. There are too many programs coming now when you don’t have enough time to watch them all. But, well, we have to check this connection next time, for some reason this is breaking now all the time. This is really annoying. I feel bad for our viewers. But there’s nothing we can do now… S: Yeah. But I’ll be getting a better laptop for next time and then I think I have to shut down Skype from my cell and from that other computer because if you’re calling it’s ringing here in three places at the same time and that’s why I’m not wondering at all that it’s breaking a bit, but you know what, I’m really starting to sweat because I’m not a technical wunderkind when you have to push buttons and put your headset on and try to get a connection on the backyard so whoa, it’s really getting a bit difficult. K: (laughs all the time Sauli is ranting) S: But we’ll get it right little by little! K: For sure! Hey, well, okay… next time we’ll continue with X-Factor maybe, yes, and hey, I have to say this – Joonas sent me a hint to Kyttääjä (Katri’s blog) already a week and a half ago and I forgot to say about it then and I told you about it that… S: Yeah K: … In the British X-Factor there is this one Samantha. Really, somebody… I watched the tape and she is… you can find it in Youtube – she is absolutely fantastic! Sort of like a beret… or a girl, I mean a woman, with a leopard shirt and all and she was so so really… I was looking at it like no, help! Like Susan Boyle the second. S: Yeah, I watched it. K: You watched it?! S: Yeah, I watched it. She sang really well. K: I mean insanely well. She was siiick! So everybody go and check her and we’ll talk about her next time. And then in the Talent there are… Talent is starting here now – there are wonderful girls singing. Absolutely the best! You can find it on our web pages. You’d better watch it now. But we can talk about Talent also next time. S: Oh, Talent Finland is starting. K: Yeah, Talent is starting. S: In Finland there’s, well… K: What? S: Nothing… K: Damn, this is really… okay. Just when I agreed that… S: … to watch… K: Whaaat? S: No, no, I was just saying that I have to watch those Talents then. K: Shall we go through this once more…? Whaaat? (laughing together, the connection was breaking and messed up their conversation) K: Okay, now let’s finish because I have to get to bed and you have to go and try to get over your sickness. Hey, take care and say hi to all the other people and, well, let’s hope that they renew the beauty pageant organization and that Talent will be good and… S: Yeah. K: … that the Deal… Deal will be great and… S: Yes. K: … everything goes on from here. And then next time we’ll talk about X-Factor… S: Yes. K: Great, hey… S: Now look everything will be all right when we rearranged things a bit. K: Yeah, that’s right, exactly. S: They’ll get things soon fixed up. After this the pageant organization will be flying high! K: Yeah, yeah – absolutely. After this, they will be… That’s for sure. S: Yeah. K: Bye now – kiss kiss. S: It’s bye now and good night and now I’m going to go and sunbathe for a while, heh. K: (sarcastic laughter) Yeah, bye bye bye!
Transcript by Zinnia (@tiiqqu), translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia Posted on September 28, 2011
Please read the first post of this thread!
Sauli and Katri had a long and passionate talk about the Big Brother Finland which took most of the video time, so there is not much translated this time . - miachihuandzinnia-
S: Yeah yeah… K: hihii Hiii! S: Heyyy! So lovely to see you again! K: Likewise. Listen, we are having a home-Tutka today. Because our… S: Yes, we are, both at home. In our comfy dens. K: Yes… because, really it’s so… our schedules are such that we have totally crossed each other. And we’ve been crossing for three weeks already… and we were like Help! Especially now when we really had decided that now we will start making a proper Tutka, and then we were again like… S: Mmhmm K: … like “Help!, it’s already this late… and this late.” A bit challenging prospects. S: But think about it, now we’re making this all by ourselves, you know. We don’t have a anyone here standing beside us to help. K: True, that’s absolutely true. But on the other hand that’s what’s making this so fun now because no-one can some and say that “you can’t talk about that” (laughs) S: Yes, yes, and I think that even the picture is moving now better than it used to earlier. K: True! You’re not breaking at all! S: I’m not breaking? K: … don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing… S: Don’t know, we’ll see… we’ll see what comes up. K: Yes, true. Hey, we promised that this week we’ll talk properly about BB because we’ve been avoiding talking about it until now since we haven’t had time to even follow it properly. Well, now, let’s have it! So… S: Yes, really. I think it’s funny because we started the first Tutka by saying ”We’re definitely not going to follow BB” but… K: (laughs) S: … but somehow I’ve sort of gotten hooked on it even here in America, so… K: Sauliii! S: …so I’ve been watching the main programs and the talk shows here. K: That’s not true! Don’t you have anything else to do there? S: Weelll… I don’t know. It’s just somehow… I don’t know why it sort of sucked me into it. K: Okay, but hey, tell me… S: I’ll just say that it’s nice to watch Finnish programs and how nice it’s to watch a Finnish reality program like that. K: That must be true… S: Yes. K: … when you’re abroad. I myself can remember when we spent that four months there and in the end I really started missing the Finnish programs a bit just so that you could hear Finnish. S: Yeah.
1.59 – onwards discussion about Big Brother
3.30 – 3.56 Extract: Sauli and Katri talk about the BB-Extra (TV-show) where they were studio guests last year and where Katri is going also this year. S: And remember to say that… you have to have a sentence from me and say something like ”Sauli also said that… blablabla” K: I’ll definitely say that. But I think that… S: Yeah yeah. K: … that now I’ll probably have a better chance at staying there a couple of minutes longer because WE are not there together causing general confusion. S: That’s really true. K: Help, wish we could get on full speed and start explaining there once again. You really should come here when I’m… we… we could go there together because it’s so boring to go there alone. S: We’ll see about that… Might be that I’ll be there. (laughs)
23:39 - till end. S: Hey, we talked lots of stuff about the BB now and… K: Really. S: … so, well… K: And now we’ve also made a long video… I can tell… oh my god I see the figures here… help - we have a half an hour’s sort of mono… dialogue here somewhere like in the middle of the night. S: This went better than well now. K: Exactly. S: So, well, that’s about it – America signing off! (laughter) K: Hey, great! Hey, I have to ask – is there something new up over there? Hold on a second… S: Umm… nothing much. Let’s say that the traffic is all messed up. Obama arrived to Los Angeles yesterday, and I can tell you it’s a complete waste of time to try to go somewhere with your car. The roads are always so crowded anyway, and now the whole city is like totally jammed. K: Nooo… help… S: Yeah. K: Oh dammit. I can remember when we were in NYC, it was at the same time as when we were making the Roadshow, or at least right after it… S: Yes. K: …and he was there right… all those bloody streets there at the Manhattan were… it’s a small place anyway, so when the traffic and all… S: Yes. K: … we had to get to the airport and there were no guarantees that we were going to make it in time because everything was… When they close them, they really close them. And the Air Force One was at the airport at the same time with us. It was actually interesting because there were no flights departing anywhere… S: Right. K: … for at least a half an hour. Unbelievable. Yes, but hey – also Finland signing of… and saying thank you! S: Finland signing off.. and a new blog is there, my Hollywood blog… or what is it, Sauli’s… K: Great! S: … Hollywood, so there you can read more about what I’ve been doing here. K: Yes, yes. Hey, great! And you can also write comments to my blog about the Deal and BB, there’s more about them in there. But hey, wonderful, next week we’ll talk more about DWTS and the Deal. Bye bye! S: Bye!
Post by miachihuandzinnia on Sept 9, 2011 15:44:23 GMT -5
Video-Tutka: This is why Anna Abreu gets so much critique / Salar and Tanja get out of the BB-house Part 1: October 4th, 2011 Part 2: October 5th, 2011
These Tutkas concentrate solely on the Finnish Dances With The Stars (Part 1) and to Finnish Big Brother (Part 2), so there really isn't much worth translating. They have a very thorough conversation and Sauli is looking very cute. If you want to see some funny expressions, go to around 4:30 at the Part 1 when Sauli has a great idea about having the previous season's winner as the guest judge for the next season. Or when he cracks up when teasing Katri about the weather in Finland (Part 2, after 7:30).-miachihuandzinnia-
Transcripts by Zinnia, translations by Zinnia (@tiiqqu) & Miachihu (Miachihu) Posted on October 5th, 2011
S: Hello Finland! K: Hello America! S: Hello, still here… K: Clearly! S: … in Hollywood K: Oh geezh, I’m again here in the café having my morning coffee, it feels pretty stupid to sit here all alone with these stupid earphones on, and nobody else around… I’m alone here and swaying and babbling and laughing all alone. S: Well, I’m here… I’m here kinda having my night cap… K: Okay okay okay okay… damn you! Okay, hey – we’ve gotta start talking about our topic of the week right away since last week our clip was so long that it stopped rolling. S: Yeah it was, so, so no time now to talk about anything else.. K: That’s right S: … so we’ll start right now. You start. K: Yes. I’ll start. Since we have here… S: Finland starts. K: Yeah, Finland starts. The dances have now started…
Lively discussion of the Finnish DWTS. Sauli has lots of opinions and good ideas.
Excerpt 7:13 S: They all have some trag… what..? How do you say it …? K: Strategy S: Having here a sort of a language barrier since I've been talking that English too much. K: Yes S: You do know. K: Yes, yes I so do know. But anyway… S: I know
Part 2. More lively discussion, this time about the Finnish Big Brother Excerpt: 7:33 till end K: But we are gonna stop now, because this web connection is breaking up… S: mmm K: Have a lovely week there at LA, and to you all others too… S: Yeah K: … have a lovely week! S: And also you over there, have a nice time waiting for Christmas! (he teases K about the cold weather) K: Haha! S: (cracks up) K: See - I’ve already changed to this sweater… it really bugs me to see you still in that T-shirt! But anyway… Oh, by the way, what's the temperature there at the moment? S: It’s been around 28 C today. K: (shows her tongue) I don’t like that at all! Well, this is a good moment to stop now. Hey… S: It’s a good moment to stop K: … have a lovely week there, bye bye! S: You too! Kiss kiss! K: Byee… kiss kiss kiss!
0:01 - 1:04 K: Hi!! S: Heyy!! K: Hey, we are honestly having such problems with the technique here that you’re really not going to believe it… S: Ohh… oh dear… K: Really, we’ve been… S: I’m honestly about to lose my patience here even though you and I, we usually don’t lose it with this equipment stuff but this is absolutely shocking… K: This is really so… you should have…. we can’t even get this equipment on… I have to like run around the office here switching all these systems on and it is so hopeless. So absolutely hopeless. And then… S: Well, you see, it really doesn’t matter to me, since while you’ve been trying to get all the things working there I’ve just laid down on the Baden Baden lounge chair here for some sunbathing. K: (laughs) S: And I can tell you that we’ve been having a heat wave here this week, we had +37 C (about 99 F) here yesterday and already this morning it’s been around +34 C (about 93 F). So it goes. K: I don’t get it, I really don’t get it… why, why can’t we have a small breeze from there to here as well – we would get a tiny heat wave. Here it’s just… S: Exactly. K: … getting colder, colder, and the wind’s blowing and blowing and it’s raining and raining… Okay, hey, but now let’s talk about BB…
Excerpt: 9:31 - end K:… next week we’ll try to make a new Tutka about these new occupants (BB) right in the beginning of the week as this went so to the end of it because, oh dammit… S: Yeah yeah. K: … the net wasn’t working in LA. That LA is a really a strange place as the Internet doesn’t work there at all (laughs) S: Well, today it started… It started working only yesterday evening so… K: Unbelievable. S: Yeah. I’ve been here in such darkness, or not in darkness – it’s light here of course since it’s so sunny…. K: So it seems… S: … but I had no connection to anywhere… K: That’s pretty tough, too. Awful. S: Mmhmm. K: I wouldn't be able stand that at all...
Excerpt: 3:10 - 4.35 K: (about DWTS) This is such a spectator competition. If they don’t like your persona, if it’s not funny enough, if you can’t laugh at yourself… all those – they all have an effect, it’s really not just about the dancing. S: It’s exactly the same as Big Brother, totally the same thing. K: Exactly. S: It’s the persona that lets you survive and win. K: Exactly, even though here it’s about practicing dancing, in BB you don’t have to practice anything except by being… being yourself and aarghh… whatever… so… S: By being lazy (raises his hand) K: Yeah (laughs) S: AKA: ”Four years ago” K: Mmhmm. You were wonderful in those days. In those times! Note: in those times! (laughs) S: In those times! Nowadays I’m terrible! (laughs) You were also very nice in those times, Katri, nowadays I don’t so much… like you… K: You know we are just faking it here. We’re making this Tutka in a way that we can barely talk this short moment… S: Yeah, yeah, exactly. K: … then it’s piss off. But, anyway… (don't get that wrong, they are kidding.... :D ) S: Don’t need any calming down… K: What was I going to say? Can’t remember anymore. This is awful when I suddenly in a horrible rush have to talk about these things because I’m all the time afraid of that all the tech stuff here crashes again. Then this would be… then no-one will have fun. S: That’s the way this goes. Now this has been going on surprisingly well. K: Surprisingly well, yes. I can even hear you, and there’s not like a five seconds delay every time when you say something. S. Yep. K: Besides, I’m the world’s most jealous person about that view (behind Sauli) but I thought that I won’t comment on it in any way because all the viewers will be so jealous anyway that it’s really not necessary to comment on it very much.
Excerpt: 8.46 - end K: But now your voice and picture disappeared so we have to stop this. S: Okay. Bye! K: Bye! And have fun there! S: Hollywood kisses! K: What… Hollywood kisses! S: Yeah, I’m going to the pool… I’m gonna swim in the pool now because it’s so hot. K: (makes a face) S: Have a nice day at work! K: Yeah, thanks! Thank you, thank you, Sauli! Now I’m stopping this here… S: (laughs)
Last Edit: Jan 13, 2012 5:00:29 GMT -5 by Miachihu
Translated by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia (@tiiqqu] Posted on October 20th, 2011
K: Hey! S: Heeeeyyy! K: Hello, hello, Finland calling! What’s going on in Los Angeles? S: Well, everything is fine here in Los Angeles, it’s about 12 o’clock at noon and the sun is just shining… and people here are now waiting so much for Halloween that I’m starting to lose my patience! Every place is full of orange colour… K: No! S: … and there’s nothing but Halloween stuff in the shops and everybody’s home is full of such pumpkins that… soon there’s not enough room to walk around on the streets because even this narrow street… they have rigged these huge pumpkins in every place… K: (laughs) S: I don’t know… I’m truly interested to see how the Halloween is really celebrated here. K: Hey, by the way, where do they grow those damn pumpkins? How do they become so huge? S: I don’t… K: Do they have, like, pumpkin fields there somewhere or what? S: I really don’t understand… how can there be so many of them… even every flower shop is full of them, they don’t sell flowers there anymore but just pumpkins… K: (laughs) That’s great! I remember how in every movie they make these faces on them so that they are scary looking, they carve these things in them… S: Yes, yes. And you do know that people here tend to go a little overboard all the time, so yesterday when I was walking home I passed a house on the way and there were such riggings on the walls… there were giant toy spiders and spider webs… K: Heelp… S: …and lanterns and ghosts and… so I don’t know what I’m going to dress up like… I’ve thought about making a vampire of myself… K: (claps her hands excitedly) You have to send us a picture of you then so we see what you looked like! S: I’ll send you a videotape! K: Great, great! Okay, so what else in that Hollywood… no I mean Halloween… S: (chuckles) K: Well, so, I mean yes, I really don’t understand it. I don’t get the point of them, like Thanksgiving, Halloween, all those… Jeez, I’m so out of them… S: (waves his hands) Me neither… K: And do they eat… S: What? K: Do some people really eat that pumpkin pie or whatever it is? Do they eat it? I think it’s… I think pumpkin is… I don’t like it at all. S: Yes, they do! K: Ugh! S: I just ate a pumpkin cupcake but it tasted exactly like gingerbread. K: Oh! Hey, send me a couple, too. They might become mouldy on the way, though! (laughs) Help… S: Shall we start with the news? K: Let’s start with the news. What shall we talk about now… Hey, first of all, thanks to Myy. You told in my blog that people might be able to watch DWTS abroad, because there is such a label on it, and I just told Sauli about it. So… S: Yeee! K: So we’ll have to see if you could see it there in the future because then it would be more fun to talk about it. S: Yeah, of course. It’s been nice to watch those clips as such and I got all those codes and all but they didn’t work but now if I can actually watch it I will be really happy… K: Yeah… S: It makes it a lot easier… K: Yeah. But shortly… The rest is talk about DWTS.
Transcript by Zinnia (@tiiqqu), translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia Posted on October 20th, 2011
Katri talks about spectator numbers of TV-shows in Finland. 1:18 K: But hey, now you could tell shortly, since I was also looking at the spectator numbers of X-Factor USA (in Finland) and they are not that awesome, but people are still watching it, so you must have been watching it there as well at least a little bit? S: Well, I have been watching it and seen it, now they are at the stage where… here they are at the point when the sheep have been separated from the goat and each judge has taken a group for themselves… so Simon has these soloists and was it so that Nicole has… she had… did she have just men… Dammit, now I’m so… K: (laughs) S: … she had soloists too… K: Really well you’ve been watching it, really well! (friendly sarcasm) S: Paula Abdul at least had groups. K: Yes, she did, I remember that too. S: Then I can’t even remember who the last judge was… K: Oh yes, it’s that L.A. S: He had groups too. K: Yes, he had. S: He had groups too. But let’s say that… that quite… I really don’t know, last time I watched it it was a little bit… it’s not… In my opinion it’s nice to follow a reality show like Idols as such, so I… somehow that X-Factor hasn’t gotten me yet… K: Okay. S:…sort of excited. In Simon’s group there is for example this little girl who sings really well, so… and anyway, I think Simon had probably the best performers in my opinion. K: How surprising! Simon got the best ones again. S: How surprising. Simon did say that ”It’s absolutely certain that someone from my group will win this.” K: So surprising. S: But then… so, all these performers went and sung at the judges own homes. That was really nice. K: Well, but that brings them always closer… S: True. K: … those is so pure entertainment industry things in the States, they make such soap out of them that uuuggghhh! S: Yeah. But then I have to say that that Nicole is a little bit like… She is really such a fake. K: Yeah, I’ve been watching it a couple of times. S: I just think that you can see straight from her that she genuinely doesn’t like you, her expressions are such. And, and… she had… they all had these guest stars like at their homes and Nicole had this Enrique. Enrique… Enrique what… K: Enrique Iglesias S: … Iglesias yes, he was there with her. They were together a little bit like… mmm… K: Mmm… okay… S: …I really don’t know. In my opinion this Paula Abdul, she is absolutely lovely. K: She is wonderful. S: She always welcomes everybody so happily and understands everything and so and… K: mmmm S: Simon is what he is, but even from Simon you get these feelings like… Also from Simon you got a sort of totally different feeling when they were there at his home performing and and so, he was smiling and so and he didn’t throw out one bad word during the whole show! K: Wow! S: Yep. K: I should also start wathing it but really I just have to admit and quite openly… I just don’t have enough time to follow all of these shows! I do nightshifts at work and at the same time on TV there’s X-Factor USA and Farmer Wants A Wife and… S: Yes K: …the Deal and Finland's Next Top Model all at the same time. And there’s just no… also Desperate Housewives and Grey’s anatomy… really, you couldn’t do anything but sit in front of the TV if you really started watching all of them. S: Exactly. K: …then I’m at the DWTS live shows so I can’t see Big Brother again and, like… no, this is just insane. S: How about here in the States, must be 150 channels and there’s a new reality show on each channel… so I’ve left that… K: (laughs) S: …TV watching a little bit to the background. K: Yeah, you have to have time to do something else, after all… S: So you don’t get hooked on too much. K: Yeah…
4:34- 12:27 Finland's Next Top Model, Big Brother
12:27 - BB – speculation about the candidates and favorites K: Ever since you won I’ve known each year who is going to win. S: (laughs) K: … so there’s no point in arguing with me. (both howling with laughter) K: Actually *we* have known every year ever since. S: Yes. K: Last time we decided that Aso will win and… S: Yeah, that’s what we decided. K: Specifically, we have just decided that beforehand, we have just told that that person will win, mmh! It’s so simple… S: Right. K:… this thing nowadays. S: Yeah. K: Hey, well yeah, but… I guess that’s about… S: There was a lot of everything. K: Go and get yourself some pumpkins! S: Pump… I’ll go and get pumpkins. K: (laughs) S: We’re about to go jogging right now. I’ve already… I have already here… K: Oh! Sneakers on! S: Yes! K: Oh dear! Here you really can’t get outside, there such a storm right now that electricity has been lost everywhere, so… (not really everywhere, but there was a pretty severe thunderstorm going on at the time they were taping this and there were a lot of power cuts) So greetings to you in the heat from here. Now I’m going to stop this because I don’t want to… S: (laughs) K: … hear one bit more about what the weather is like there! S: (laughs) Bye bye! K: Bye! (laughs)
00-3:55 K: (chuckling) Cheers! (guffawing) S: Cheers! (laughs and takes a gulp out of his mug) We’re waiting for Halloween here now. I’ve been getting a little bit of… mmm, accessories for my Halloween outfit along this line of style. I actually don’t know if this is really my thing because I’m looking a bit like Michael Jackson here. K: Sauli, I mean, really… hasn’t anyone told you that Halloween is supposed to be a scary party… Wohooo!! (tries to act scary with her hands) And that sort of thing like… S: (takes the hat off his head) What? You don’t like this? (fluffs up the wig) K: … Noo… everybody will laugh you out, even the kids in your neighborhood! (giggles and points at Sauli) S: But look, with some teeth here and red contact lenses and something… but I guess it will be a little like Mikko Kuustonen… (a Finnish singer) K: (laughs) Really! S: …God dammit… help, now I’m swearing… K: But hey, hey, guess what? S: …but I have another one… K: If you want to look like Mikko Kuustonen, guess what you really should wear? He’s having nowadays a totally different hairstyle than before, as he is now in that tv show “Finnish Whose Line Is It Anyway?” S: (comes back up with a new wig and red glasses) How about this Tarja Halonen look? K: (bursting with laugher)No, I mean even she has almost more… Even Mikko looks more like that than Tarja Halonen… S: Well, I don’t know… K: … because Mikko has nowadays that, I mean I really don’t understand his hairstyle… I even saw Mikko once and I asked him where did he get a hairstyle like that because he has like from here (shows with her hands) his hair goes like this and from here to the back like this. I mean, it’s like… (chokes on laughter while she tries to continue her sentence) S: I don’t understand now (chuckles)… Is it like long at the front? K: It’s even from here like this (shows). It’s like this from everywhere… S: (laughs and imitates Katri’s hand movements) K: Well, to each his own… to each his own! S: I guess there’s nothing to that… K: Well, that your’s either isn’t all that… I really don’t think about it so positively… S: Yeah. No, no, I think this will end up with me not putting a wig in my head. I’m still looking, I still have a couple of days left to look around. K: You’re much scarier like that (Sauli’s mohawk look) S: Like this? K: You’re much scarier like that, just put on some teeth and it’s perfect. S: There you go, that’s what I’ll do! K: Yes. S: Oh wow (laughs) K: Hey, well, okay. So when is that Halloween? Is it now this weekend? S: Basically the official day is Monday, that’s when it’s celebrated. K: Yeah. S: But basically now here’s… well, you know the Americans… They have been decorating their houses this whole month and I suppose on this weekend there are quite a lot of these Halloween parties going on… K: Yes. S:… and people are organizing house parties and then they have this when the kids start going around, that’s on Monday… Monday evening. K: Which means that you will go, too? S: …which means me, too, of course. Of course I want… K: What is that… S: … candy and… What? K: What is it what they are saying…? S: Well I don’t know… K: It’s some trii… tick o tree S: Something… I’m just going to say ”Gimme some candy”, you know. Well, or money! K: (laughs)… help…! S: But yes, Monday is the official day but I guess, or no guessing there but during the whole weekend from Friday until Monday people will be celebrating it… pretty heavily… K: Okay, okay. S: (chuckles) K: Well… okay… You at least… I know that you don’t know how to party like… less heavily. S: (laughs)… I meant like clothes and such… K: Yeah yeah, just clothes and such, of course… S: Mmm K: Well, we here have nothing but All Saints day and here it’s really… I just read from the net, from our net, something about the wintertime (polar night) depression. I was thinking that we really have nothing here… it’s even so dark there outside. Oh jeez! S: Well, but you have to… K: Here, you really have to… S: … go then and buy yourself a pumpkin and carve it and then put on some witch hat and… K: True! Not bad, not bad! Some guys might even think I’m even… S: … take a broom along and go for walk around Helsinki… K: … crazier than before, but… S: … you’ll see, you’ll be a sight! You’ll get some attention. K: That would be at least something to cheer these days up. Hey, well, I’ve had something to cheer me up since I’ve been watching the TV shows again… (They start to talk about the TV-shows)
Talk about TV shows: In Finnish Big Brother they have an exchange housemate from Norway, Siv Anita, and Katri and Sauli are scolding the Finnish housemates because they are not speaking English all the time so that she could understand them. Excerpt 10:04-.12:15 S: … They don’t have so many housemates there who speak English. Luckily Sebastian has been supporting Siv Anita in a way that he’s been translating a little so that when those others speak Finnish to Siv Anita, then Sebastian translates. Of course I understand… K: That’s crazy. S: … if you don’t know English or like have nothing… but I do believe that like everyone should know at least that much English and… K: Yeah, and I think everyone should at least try. People will understand you if you just open your mouth, so you just can’t be like… S: Yeah. K: … like ”Sebastian, you can translate this,” a little bit like that. I mean really… S: Or that you just sort of… you like ignore… K: ….ignore. That’s been annoying me, too. S: Because if nothing else works then you can use your hands to signal and show what you want to say so you will get your message understood by that other person. K: Absolutely! S: Yeah. K: Just think, during the time we were making the Roadshow how we were explaining… S: Exactly. K: .. all kind of things to the people there, well at least… jeezh… even sort of standing upside down there somewhere sometimes! S: Yeah, and I, too, come across situations here when I have no idea what a person is saying to me… K: Yeah, yeah! S: Because I just, like… because, after all, my English vocabulary… K: Yes. S: … isn’t like unlimited. K: Exactly, yes, yes. S: But you just always manage then, or like… K: You just have to… S: Yes. K: I remember, too, when I went to a dentist and I tried to explain something about a tooth because I know what a tooth is in English, but everything after that is just like… (apparently this happened while Katri was in Canada). But then you just explain! Explain, show… S: Yes, right. K: …”the ache is there, now it hurts, aw aw aw” So goddammit you will finally get it clear… and that’s why I just think that is so crazy. I think it’s childish and I think this is the kind of thing that just… you just don’t dare throw yourself into it… S: Yes. K: … You just have to have the courage and talk there. And that’s why I’m always saying to everyone that especially since it’s so great in Finland that we can hear everything, all programs without dubbing, so our English knowledge should actually be pretty good, anyway. S: Yes, and then… K: And then in the house they are like not talking, so, so…(shakes her head) S: I think it’s just that the Finns don’t have the courage to talk it, then on the other hand… K: Exactly. S: … when they get something to drink, what do you know, they are fluent in every language. K: Then you speak Swedish and Indo-Chinese at the same time. S: Yeah, and Norwegian to the porcelain God… and everything goes there. But I really do feel a little bad… (The rest is about BB in general.)
00-00.57 K: Okay, now we’ll talk about the Dances. Just like… what are you doing there now? S: Nothing… K: I’m here like, ”Sauli, now let’s continue” (imitates Sauli) S: I’m checking my vampire teeth that I will put in my mouth on Saturday. K: Show me! S: Well, these are just like this (shows)… these are metallic luster ones, so… K: Ohh! S: … these are like pink, but I also have white regular ones and then I have silver ones and all. But I really don’t know how to attach them, they should be glued with some kind of glue to your canine teeth, so… K: Help… now, don’t put anything stronger than Eri-Keeper (basic household glue in Finland) in there or you’ll have them on for weeks. S: Yeah. K: Otherwise they’ll get stuck. S: Isn’t that… some nail glue is supposed to be very… strong… K: You can’t put that in there! S: (laughs) K: Think, you’ll have them on even next week. Nice to go to a grocery store (playing with wide smile) “I’d like to have a bottle of milk”. (laughter) S: Yeah, well, I’ll have to see.
Talk about DWTS
10:09 - K: Well, well, okay, yeah, so now – I’m heading to bed now, and you just go spend your time by the pool or wherever. Yeah, so, we’ll continue next week from this. S: It’s cloudy here, I’m not going to the pool now. But maybe it will clear up. K: Hmmh, yeah, right. Okay, good night. (puts a magazine in front of the camera) S: (something…) to the screen again. But I’m wishing you a good night… K: Hey, thank you. S: … and until next week… K: Next week, yes. S: Hollywood thanks you,,, K: Hey, and then next time you will tell us about all the Hollywood happenings… No, I mean… why do I always say… I mean HALLOWEEN happenings! S: Halloween K: … oh dear… S: Yeah, there should be a lot to talk about it then K: Great.. And hey, you went surfing! How did it go? S: Yes, I did. Well, it was pretty difficult in the beginning, but, well, I did get a couple or three times even standing on the board and this was just my first time. K: Oh dear! I don’t believe you! I don’t believe you… S: (laughs) K: You have to send me a picture so I’ll believe you. After all, you’ve probably just been standing there, put the board on the sand on the beach and like “Woohoo, I’m standing here, woohoo, look at me!” (laughing) S: And I had a great wetsuit and all… K: Oh jeez… must be pretty awesome. S: Yeah. K: But now, be careful there, don’t hurt yourself surfing. We should talk about these… S: Yeah, and you must watch out for the sharks and all… there can be such. K: Oh, oh, terrible S: (laughs) Terrible! K: Okay, but now (waves and claps) I have to go to bed! S: Bye! K: Good! Bye bye! (waves) S: Bye bye! (waves) K: Happy Halloween!
K: Okay! Hiya hiya hiya hiya hiya! (waves) S: Hi hi hi! (waves) K: I see we have a somewhat human looking guy there this time. There are, like… there are no fangs (shows) or no… S: Yes, no. There aren’t. K: You’ve been somehow changing lately so that you are looking better. S: What? I have? (laughs) K: (laughs) S: Well, that’s what they’ve been writing. (laughter) S: Dammit there were stories in every magazine about Sauli having silver jeans and silver hair and a California tan. K: Jeez… Well except that California tan had been hidden by some bloody make up foundation because you were totally white in that one picture I saw. S: Oh, you mean now on Halloween, yes. K: Yes. Oh, I see, I didn’t even know what you’re tal… I haven’t seen any silver pants. S: Well that isn’t worth talking now. And now there were stories about Halloween costumes and… K: Yeah, about everything. S: Oh boy. K: You see, that’s it like to be a world star out there in the big world. S: Yeah, right! K: I’m too tired to even follow… read those stories about you when… S: Yeah, I’m not interested in them myself either. K: … I get enough of you already once a week, there’s no need for me to read those stories about you. S: Yeah, I have about the same attitude if I go and look at the Finnish news, I really don’t bother reading those stories about myself. K: (laughs) I’m sure not! “Hey, what’s that Sauli been up to now? Have I really been there? No, I can’t take this!” S: Yes. I get the feeling that no matter what you write in Twitter, you’ll read about it the next day… K: Well hey, Jarkko Ruutu here deleted his Twitter completely after he was supposedly always quoted in the newspapers. Well, I’m a bit like that even though Jarkko is wonderful, I was sort of amused that “okay, maybe you shouldn’t write anything there if it’s always quoted”, so it’s a bit like… (spreads her hands). S: Or let’s say that if you put something there I don’t fell like they are such things that you really have any reason to write about. K: … reason to write about, yeah, if you write ”Yippee! Halloween!” and there are stories everywhere like “Sauli’s shrieking “Yippee, Halloween!”, it’s getting like, okaaaay… S: Mmmm. K: Well, but hey, how did your Halloween party go? S: It was really nice, well actually today it’s Monday which is the official Halloween day… K: Oh I see. S: … when the kids go round from house to house and… K: Oh yes. S: So today is the official day, but the whole weekend has been just one Halloween party at this end, so… K: Right. S: … today is the final culmination day and then tomorrow this craziness will be over. K: Really, it can’t be real that… that it starts like on Sat… Friday, right? Or when? S: Well, basically in my opinion this Halloween has started like... or has been going on for the whole week… K: Oh. S: … but let’s say that the parties have been going on this weekend and today is the last day. But we were celebrating Halloween only on Saturday and that was quite enough, so... but I’ll write about it to my blog. K: But hey, I have to reveal now that you really did get an invitation to Heidi Klum’s party, to Las Vegas or somewhere but you didn’t go then…? S: Yeah, no. K: What!? S: (laughs) K: ”Naw, I don’t care about Heidi Klum, no… I mean who is she even?” (kidding) S: Yeah, well, you know we have those all sorts of happenings going on all the time… (chucles). Just kidding… K: Bloody hell, and I… S: We had, we had a really fun Halloween party and so, but I promise I’ll write about it a bit more in my blog so I won’t talk now… K: Ok. S: … here because we have so much to talk about once more here with you that there’s no time for that now… K: Yeah, yeah, about the Dances. I’ve been trying to go through this today’s paper now… so let’s start. But hey, one more thing. What’s going on now... I mean, tell me… first these guys go, today the kids there go “trick o…” (long pause) “trick or treat” – I can’t remember! S: Yes… that went well! K: (laughs) S: Well, then, there’s nothing more strange… K: … some trick or tret or something… bloody hell! Learned from the movies. But anyway… S: .. there’s nothing more special going on so that’s the… K: Are you eating something there, have you been eating that pumpkin there now? S: No, and I didn’t even carve one. K: Okay. S: We didn’t even buy… I - I didn’t even buy any pumpkins… K: Okay, okay, that… S: …for the yard, but… K: …that’s probably best. S: …but I don’t know, maybe I’ll carve a pumpkin today. Maybe. (laughs) K: Right, right. But well, okay. But, let’s move on to the Dances. That Finnish World… Hey, by the way, now first when we are still there at your end. Well… S: Yes? K: I have to say about the X-Factor. I watched it a little bit now. And… okay, I can see from your face that you haven’t been watching it, once again… S: (bursts to laughter) K: So, well, yes… umm… I mean, really, now they were in, like, Paris, singing there, like… S: Yeah. K: … something, I guess. They had flown the… like the best ones… or like the best ones so far there and then they were evaluated. And the that Simon was also lying there with a Pepsi can in his hand somewhere, like by the pool and was supposedly listening to them. I think it was soo fake that there’s no limit to it! I think it’s so awful! S: That’s the… they didn’t… I think they were not there in Paris, hadn’t they like come back here, I mean that these singers had visited Paris but weren’t they just now at those judges’ homes. K: Oh yeah right, right, right, exactly! S: Yeah. K: …home… S: That was the one I was… that was the one I was talking about last time when I spoke about X-Factor, they were there singing at their homes and so. And then I said that somehow I’m starting to lose my patience with that show and so… K: Yes, yes. S: … that I can’t even stand to watch it because doesn’t it seem like it’s a bit sort of… a bit put-on. K: It’s so put-on. Oh how that Enrique Iglesias – or however you pronounce that – he was wonderful when he was there with Nicole… Scherzinger. Why do they have such names, really??? Change your names! (chuckles) S: (laughs) K: (laughs) And then, well… then when they… S: Yeah, I’m having a bit of problems here sometimes, too… (refers to the pronunciation problem) K: Yes… then that… well… he was somehow wonderful, yes, but in my opinion that Nicole didn’t really listen to that Enrique. “Well, I have decided that in my opinion this one is the best.” And then that Paula, in my opinion she doesn’t need, she doesn’t even need help – you know that already. Why do they even have these so called “advisors” That Simon was like, “Well, I’m not going to take that one even though everyone will think I’m going to take her.” And so, but it is just so put-on entertainment. And that when they are lying there somewhere by the pool and like he even could hear their songs… I mean singing really properly… S: Yeah, right… K: Because it’s like… It echoes there through the whole… I mean, you can hear… If he really wanted to choose from those people he would listen to them in a studio, they would take them to a sound… he would take to some recording- some studio… So I think it’s like… there he just, he really knows whom he’s going to choose… then they take them to some supposedly luxurious place where he’s going to make the final decision. I mean really… S: I’m really thinking a bit the same. And somehow you really can see through them that it’s all just such façade. K: Exactly. S: And besides, I really don’t even believe that those houses were those people’s real homes… K: Right. S: … because I don’t quite believe that they want to introduce their own homes but that those are just some rented places or then… K: Yeah. Actually somehow I didn’t even realize that, I mean I started watching about from the middle of it so I thought that was still somewhere where they were traveling, when they were just lying there by the pool. Yeah. But yes, they didn’t look like that or if they are, I think Simon must have about 700 places so that could be some of his places for vacation where there are no personal items or anything, you know. It was decorated like a hotel. An apartment hotel. S: You know, I just think that X-Factor has like sponsored those for them. K: Yeah. S: … those houses where they like… K: Exactly. Yeah, but somehow, at least from the first view I can say that it’s fake. I mean pretty much like nonsense. That… but okay, probably… Oh, there were good singers, I’m not saying that there weren’t but when there already just was American Idol I just think that X-Factor is somehow just unnecessary. It’s just an extra program. You should look for something else in it than singers… but I don’t know about Talent either… S: Right. K: … I can’t stand it either because it’s so extreme. There are always people from such opposite sides that… I really don’t know. You really are starting to lose all the taste with this because there are so many of these programs. S: When there are too many. K: Exactly. S: There’s SYTYCD, DWTS – well okay, DWTS is in a different category… but there’s SYTYCD, then there’s X-Factor, then there’s Talent, then there’s American Idol., and then the Voice just started… K: Right. S: ...so we have these five similar programs running here. They air pretty much one after another so you just get tired of trying to be interested… K: Exactly! S: … in, like, all of them. K: And you just can’t. S: That Voice is good because it’s different, we had that one here. There the system was totally different and it was, like, interesting, and I think… K: It is. S: … good entertainment and so. K: That’s what I’m expecting. S: And, well, yes, different from Idols. But that’s also a singing competition and so, so do you really want to see three different singing competitions…? K: Right, exactly. S: Yeah. K: And we have to concentrate on something, too – so let’s now concentrate at least this time on this… (shows, the Ilta-Sanomat tabloid. Continues with talk about DWTS until the end).
(laughter) S: Okay! K: This started really well… I said… S: Yeah, hi! K: … to Sauli that I know nothing about BB so you can start. I mean really, I haven’t had time to watch it very much because that DWTS is always on on Sundays at the same time with the BB-talk show. So, Sauli, let it rip!
Talk about BB house with a funny twist – a little bit before one minute point Katri accidentally mutes her mic for a while
Talk about Eurovision Song Contest
10:20--- (Talk about the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest)
S: We could also participate with our new single next year. K: Yes, we’ll definitely go, I mean totally! S: Right. K: And hey, then I was going to say that you know, everything’s all shaken up there in Hollywood right now… so I’m really shocked that you weren’t the first one to tell me about this but I had to read about it from the People Magazine… Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce. S: (snorts) K: She was married for three months. So this is surely the most shocking thing in the world. I can see clearly that this is not the most important news to you, but for me this was such a… S: No, it’s not and in my opinion the papers have been writing about them all the time anyway… K: Yes, they have. S: … and I don’t even understand… they’re on every cover and all and what for? And they’re on every TV-show and so, and it’s just…that’s such a publicity stunt… K: Yes. But I mean… I just don’t understand that if it really is like a publicity stunt… because somehow I was thinking that it is… I just wanted to believe in this real love… so, so then I thought that no way will anyone let… at least no one will ruin their relationship by getting married after three months because then you’re living in a sort of first ecstasy, there’s no… (waves her hands) no way it can last. But there you see that Hollywood stories are all so rubbish… S: Mmm, deceptive. K: … and then I feel so sorry for that Jennifer Lopez because there she is trying to get that Bradley Cooper…There’s nothing coming of that, either. (laughs). You see, I know these thing! S: But those things are also like that depending on how much you give of yourself to the publicity, if you do - then you have to explain all kinds of things after that. K: Yep, say no more. So it’s just awful. S: Mmm. K: Well, but hey, we had this little coincidence when we were calling each other earlier today… S: Yeah… K: Because I was wondering when the clock was ringing and the clock was seven in the evening and I was like “why is he calling because we agreed that at eight pm my time” so you don’t have to wake up so early there. Like it’s enough that you wake up at ten. So, guess what happened… What’s going on there? We’re on Standard time and you’re not. S: Well, I set the clock to ring like at nine in the morning which means, well I usually sleep here until eleven or twelve… K: (laughs) S: Yes. So, well… and I’m going back to bed right after this… Because you’ve been turning clocks there or something… we haven’t changed anything here… and I, I’m really, I have to say that I’m a bit stupid now… that I really don’t know if we’re changing here or not… Because usually these mobile phones and computers change themselves, so… K: (laughs) S: …to some direction… K: … don’t be late from anywhere if you’re on wrong time there… (chuckles) S: Well I’m not really all that busy here BUT (laughs) my calendar is naturally absolutely full everyday of something. K: Yeah yeah yeah (giggles) S: But yeah, I really don’t know if we’re changing or not, but at least now the time here is 11.20 and there it’s… nine..? K: Here it’s 8.20. So, you see, here… S: … twenty… K: Now we’re having a nine hour time difference at the moment even if it’s supposed to be ten hours. For us this is great because this way we can shoot Tutka much better. S: If it’s 8 there and 11 here. K: Yeah. S: Isn’t it then like, isn’t it… (laughs) K: Isn’t it somehow even worse then… No… Now I really don’t.. because if next time we do this so that for me it’s morning 9.30… S: Don’t we, isn’t it eleven hours difference now for us… K: … then for you it will… For you it will… no, jeez… for you it will be already 12.30. That’s bad. Change quickly now to the standard time! S: We lost one… we got one hour more time difference now. K: Did we…? No, don’t we have… S: Help… soon I’ll be full day behind you… and I can’t get any kind of connection to the whole Finland... K: No, we caught you one hour… S: … because I’m just going… K: We caught you one hour, we have nine hours time difference now. And it’s… S: Okay. K: … good at this time but if we do this so that it’s morning for me and evening for you, you’ll have to stay up until about two o’clock in the morning, unfortunately! (laughs) S: Well that won’t be a problem! (laughs) K: (laughs) I’ll remember that when I’m waking you up at two in the morning! “Okay, Sauli, Tutka time!” (laughter) K: Hey, help… now I have to go… S: ...Straight from some night club, tada! K: Yeah, exactly! I’ve got a ton of stories still to write, I have to go now and start writing them. But, well.. (waves her hands) S: Yeah… (waves) K: … so you just go to bed now! (laughs) S: Yeah, well, I don’t think I’ll do that now because I already drank three cups of coffee so I’m really not that tired right now… K: Okay, but hugs and kisses there (claps her hands) And, well… S: Hugs and kisses there! K: … And take it easy today on Halloween. How many cups of candy are you going to get from your neighbors? S: Mmm… probably none… K: Oooh! But on the other hand, all those local candies there are so bad… S: Well but why should I go there jumping in the middle of the kids… stealing their candy… K: Well… I would! (laughter) S: Well that I believe! K: Okay, so… now we have to stop! S: You just start scribbling there! K: Sorry, what? Yeah, I’ll start scribbling, yes! S: You start scribbling your stories… K: Hey, do you need more Panda licorice, do I need to send you some already? Do you miss salty licorice? S: Yes, please do send, and Fazer’s Blue (chocolate) K:Okay, got that! S: Yes. K: Okay, I’ll try to remember that at some point, yes. S. Yeah. K: You have to send me some pumpkin pie. Okay, good! (waves) S: ..pumpkin… yes, let’s do that! K: Bye bye bye! S: Bye!
Transcript by Zinnia (@tiiqqu), translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia Posted on November 8th, 2011
Sorry, there wasn't much to script and translate in this Tutka. They talked most of the time about the Big Brother. -Z & M-
K: Heyyyy! Hiiiii! S: Heyyyyii! They start immediately discussion about DWTS for a short while and continue after that with BB. The discussion is very lively and animated. Then, suddenly in the middle of the BB discussion (an excerpt from 2:07 – 3:00): K: (takes a sip of her mug)… Oh how this tea tastes good! Yeah, yeah, well… (they both burst into laughter) S: From one thing to the trillionth… I have some, too! What are you drinking there? I’m having just peppermint… with honey. K: Hey, I’m having cardemum… this has… this is really… this is something called Tsiau or Tsau or something like that. Some Ita… Indian… You’ve got to try to get some India-feelings even through. like, tea. S: (mumbles something) Yeah, exactly. Well, okay. K: I mean, this November is so dark that you really don’t… You better be so happy that you are there right now. S: Well, I am here and very happy. K: And hey, by the way, when Sauli comes to Finland we’re going to make many Tutkas here. S: Yeah, if I come! K: I’ve been telling Sauli many times already, ”Come back, Sauli, when you come, Sauli, we’ll make…” S: If I come to Finland! K: Yeah, you always… then you always say, ”I don’t know yet when I’ll come.” S: (smiles) Well, then when I come… K: Yeah, right. From one thing to, like, the seventh… How many times are we changing the topic until we continue from this… So.. wait… And they continue talking about BB.
21:21 - K: But hey, but… This time we concentrated on BB on purpose so that we don’t have to make so many clips every time… S: Right. K: … and parts, and especially now we had a lot to say about it. Sauli, it was wonderful to see you… and how’s life been going on there? S: It’s been great here. And I just wrote my blog so you can read more about what’s been happening with me from there. K: Oh, great! S: (laughs) K: (claps her hands) Yee yee yee. I mean, I… S: Hey, I miss you, Katri… K: I miss you too… S: … but I hope we’ll see each other soon. K: I miss you, too! I miss you, too! Hurry back now from there! Please please please please! S: I’ll try. K: Yeah. You’ve already a little Finland-prepared since you’re wearing a sweater and all, so you’re looking like you could like step into a plane. S: I tried a little… so that you wouldn’t be looking at me like you were moping since the heat still continues here… K: Okay, let’s not talk about that! You see, it looks like it… when it doesn’t look like it’s warm it’s easier for me to be like this. S: Well hey, it’s about one o’clock in the night here… K: (starts laughing) Once again these schedules are what they are… Okay, but it was wonderful to see you, and everybody - have a really wonderful week! S: Yes! To you too! Bye! K: Bye bye bye bye bye!
Transcript by Zinnia (@tiiqqu), translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia Posted on November 15th, 2011
(laughter) K: Whohooooooo (waves) S: Heyyyy, hi Finland! K: That’s a bit spooky, what’s going on in there? I’m just wondering here…? S: This time I’m making this Tutka from the outer space here… so Earth, do you read me, this is Sauli calling. K: I was just going to say that you really look like if you were in the middle of a space flight or something, dammit! S: Oh-oh! Oh, well, it’s about one o’clock in the night again, so I was thinking I would to this in kind of a darkness, like this… But here I am, just woke up again to make this Tutka. K: Ouch, I sent Sauli a message some two hours ago saying “How about if we make Tutka today like a quarter past ten my time?” “Well, yeah, okay, I’m just about to go to bed but of course it’s okay if I just wake up for it again…” These time differences are just awful. S: (unclear) I go to bed early, too. K: Yes, yes. S: I’m this night owl. K: Well, yes you… I remember that you are, dammit. We were always shooting there… But well, hey, what shall we talk about now?
Talk about BB for almost the whole video, a bit about Finland’s Next Top Model, Johanna Tukiainen (a Finnish not-so-glamorous wanna-be celebrity )
Excerpt: 14:35-17:12
(Katri guffaws) K: No, I mean really… this was really great… The connection broke again because the sound is circulating and then I asked Sauli, ”Can you hear me?” and he’s like “No, I can’t, but we’ll just talk now.” Okay, so we’ll just talk now! Okay… you probably can’t hear me… (laughter) K: I can’t take this… S: This is breaking up a bit but we always talk on each other anyway… K: Okay, heelp… S: … whether we talk or not. K: I really should be in a meeting already so I have to tell you quickly about DWTS that… well… Hey, by the way, I saw the X-Factor USA episode. I even had some favorites there! But now my notes are at home and there’s no way I can remember them by heart… help! S: Once again this is going so well! (laughter) S: How about if – since I can’t even hear you properly – I’ll just keep on nodding here and you talk! K: But really, there was this wonderful girl band, they were all so pretty and oh no…! Then there was a good boy band, too. I really almost liked those bands the most, you know, really. “Really, you know, hey really, you know, you know!”(making fun of her own way of talking) S: Yeah K: The ones with Paula Abdul or who was it… But really, Nicole Scherzinger or how do you say that, and Simon Cowell, they are fighting awful lot all the time. S: Yes. K: They really are not in it together, I bet that that Nicole won’t be there again next season. And well, Paula, and Simon really get along nowadays. But you know, those Simon’s solo women aren’t really all that good. There’s only one good and she’s that Melanie who already once was dropped from there and got pulled back by Simon. So those Simon’s girls aren’t that good, after all, in the end. S: Yeah, yeah. K: Those groups, about them… we need more of those nowadays… maybe some, we need now a group, a band… because there are already so many soloists and there are more coming out of American Idol so in my opinion that X-Factor could totally concentrate on those group things. Can you hear me at all? (laughter) K: I can’t take this… S: Help… (laughter) S: I can just hear that you are talking about that you want a group of something, I don’t know… but well, yeah, I agree on everything with you… (laughter) K: Help, I can’t take this… Okay, so… yeah… It’s good that you agree. Well… S: I really don’t hear you but keep on talking. K: Okay, but hey, what else was I supposed to… Yes, about the DWTS…
Talk about DWTS.
17.55 to end (Katri’s short analysis on DWTS to which Sauli comments:) S: Well, you’ve got it all figured out, you’ve got all that so figured out that this is like looking at what we are going to eat today when everything is already set on the table. K: (laughs) S: But yeah, it’s good to continue from this. K: It’s good to continue from this. Hey, next time we’ll talk about all the things that have been going on there and well… S: Yeah! K: … and… ummm, yeah. I guess that’s about it then. S: Yeah, it’s like bye-bye from here. K: Byee! Oh yeah, I was gonna say to you, I was once going to write on FB that "what are we going to eat today" because really, sometimes it’s the most difficult thing in the world to figure out what you are going to eat today… (laughter) K: Help… okay… now I’m stopping this.
Transcript by Zinnia (@tiiqqu), translation by Miachihu (Miachihu) & Zinnia Posted on November 24th, 2011
Please read the first post of this thread!
00-9.26 K: Okay, hi! S: Hey! K: Hi, hi! (laughs) S: Hi! Heyyy!!! K: Really, guess what? Like, we didn’t notice that this thing was taping... we really should put those clips to the beginning… I don’t know, they could be edited in the morning, ‘cause I don’t know… like a surprise… but me and Sauli, we tried like 10 minutes to get this machine working. It was like either the voice of one or the other one was missing, or both. Or then the picture was missing from one or the other, or finally both! Soo absolutely hopeless! S: This is really hopeless. And I was thinking about asking from you our viewers that if you have any good tips about how to improve this Tutka, Tutka show in some way from the technical point of view, please do send the tips to us! K: (laughs) I really can’t take this… this is so totally hopeless. And with the two real geniuses here… S: Two, two blonds here… K: … ”press that”… S: Two blonds here!!! K: Yeah! Exactly! S: ”Now I can see you but I can’t hear your voice!” “Now you’re upside down there!” (laughter) K: That was great! Sauli finally took his mobile saying, ”Let’s do this with my phone then!” It was… first it was this way (shows the directions with her hands)… like in the wrong way, looking like this… Then it was sideways like this… and then opposite sideways like this… And all the time I was saying, “No… turn it once more like this (shows)” And then finally it turned the right way. And then, you still had to turn it once more… S: But the main thing is that… K: Well, now it’s the right way. At least now I see you in the right way. S: … that at least the sound is working. K: True, true. S: Yeah, and I’m here the right way around. K: Okay, good. Hey, well, you’ve been to New York… I can’t take it… again. Was it raining as much as the last time we were there? S: Actually… yeah, it was raining. K: No way? S: Yeah, that one day... it was the only day that I had some time to go and walk around the city, and it was raining again even horizontally so much that umbrellas were turning upside down, so I didn’t... I just took a five minute shopping trip and got back to the hotel room. So that was my New York trip then. K: Help, help! I mean, really what… we had such bad luck with that New York, weatherwise, I mean… S: Mmhmm… K: … when we were there we were wearing sneakers or such… I remember when our sneakers, they were like, you could really squeeze them like this (squeezes a “sneaker” with her hands) There was so much water dripping from them. S: Yeah, yeah. K: Umbrellas… me and Sauli were going after them… (shows)… (laughs) S: It was the same – same thing again. K: … that’s awful… help… S: Help. K: Hey, exactly why were you in there? S: So it was pretty nice to get back to LA. What? K: Where were you exactly? I saw pictures of you all the time from all over the places. Where you in several parties? S: Yeah, well, in New York there was this one Gala and then here in LA there was the American Music Awards. K: Oh, that one gala was in LA. Hey, really, now I have to make a compliment – you had such a fine suit! It was so nice! S: Wasn’t it, a new suit. K: What? What? I didn’t hear you. S: A brand new suit. K: I noticed! I know… S: Yeah! K: … all of your clothes already because I remember how we… S: Right. K: … were always thinking about what to wear… (she means the Roadshows) (laughter) K: Help! Oh dear… oh those golden memories! Yes, but really… S: It does. K: … oh yes. But it was wonderful. I liked it so much. (the suit) S: Oh thank you, thank you! K: But, so… well, but… what, what’s it really like to be in those galas? Tell me! Does it start to get a little boring since you’ve been in all of those already, so there’s probably not much… S: Well, it’ not, it’s damn cool to go into… those (laughs) But, well… K: Well, yeah. S: I don’t know… If you went to those even, like, here in LA, like, all the time and such, sure, you would get used to them. K: Exactly. S: But, well… yeah. You know, when you walk on that Red Carpet and the cameras start flashing, you get a little bit…your heart takes a couple of extra beats there… K: I’m sure, yes. Earlier we were just laughing at all those people who were there on the red carpet but never did I guess that this one guy would be strolling along them (giggles)… like constantly… (laughs) S: Well, you do have to try it! (laughter) K: Hey, I’ll come there with you some time, let’s try it! S: Yeah, yeah, do come, it’s really… really fun. It’s only that… your eyes hurt a little bit after that so you really can’t see in front of you after all the flashes have been going on. But… K: That’s absolutely true! Because I really do remember, do you remember while we where there, in those premieres a couple of time – it’s really like that when a star walks on the carpet, and really, no matter who it is… but everybody has to get at least 1000 pictures, every photographer. And there are probably about a hundred of those photographers there in the line. And everyone… S: It would be nice to take pictures of the photographers… K: … is screaming at you… Sorry, what? S: I said that next time I have to take pictures of those photographers because there really is an insane… insane amount of them! K: Right. S: It’s not just one line but there are like (shows with his hands) five or six rows and then the width… what would it be… 30 - 40 meters… so… K: Exactly! It’s absolutely insane. S: Mmhmm. K: I remember how they are always shouting there out loud like, ”Brad Brad Brad, here! Look here! Smile smile smile!” And it’s coming from all the directions at the same time, a hundred people screaming like that so you just… “pose”(a real fake smile and gestures ) S: Yeah, and you know, I got totally confused while I was there, they started screaming, ”Together!” and I was like.. “I don’t know which way to go now” (shows) and all… Help! Oh dear God! K: (laughs) Oh dear! S: Whoa! Oyoyoy. K: Well… but that better half of yours is already so accustomed to all of this… so it’s easy for you to just go along when he just drags you there. S: Yeah, to these horrible assignments (laughs) K: Right, exactly! But hey, what else – is there anything else going on now… You’ve probably had very little time to follow anything like X-Factor this week. S: Let’s just say I haven’t… Just a little while ago a friend asked me who won the X-Factor and I do have to say that I’ve been missing that all… the past two weeks have been such a hullabaloo and then this week... We have the Thanksgiving going on here now and the whole place is once again all upside down and so… I haven’t had time to do actually anything (laughs) except run from one place to another K: You know what? S: What? K: I’m dreaming about… or actually we were thinking about that now that we have our Independence Day coming here, we could celebrate a sort of Thanksgiving here, too. Put a giant turkey in the oven and try what it’s, what it’s really like because you know, we really don’t celebrate anything like that here, except for the Christmas – and eat properly! S: Oh yeah! Do that, do! You have to… you know, here with us… You have to put all the stuffing in there, inside of it, and… K: That’s what I understood… you put something like minced meat in there? Like, in a turkey…? S: You can put anything in there. K: Will you send me a good recipe from there…? S: Yeah, I’ll send you one. K: Great! Good, thanks! So I’ll try… S: There is… we just have turkeys roasting in the oven. K: Wowow great! Hey, you know my cooking skills… (laughs) so it will probably end up being a really tasty turkey! S: Right! No… yeah, Katri, maybe you shouldn’t touch anything that has to do with food. K: (laughs) I think I’ll let someone else take care of that thing then… Well, hey, yeah… okay. I’ll say this much about X-Factor – because I’ve had time to watch it a couple of times properly now that they really started here, because we’re running two weeks behind of you in here. But now the finale programs started here, or I mean those “live” programs, so I watched one yesterday from TV, and they are dropping out the second person at the moment. Yeah, those Simon’s girls there, they are absolutely fabulous! Last time I was saying that they aren’t that good, but they are absolutely the best ones there. There are Melanie, Drew, and then this adorable lovely Rachel who is only 13 years old and she is singing there like a 30-years-old. She is totally out of this world! And the same… S: She is wonderful but a little bit precocious. K: Well, she is a bit precocious and especially with her curly hair and all, and she dresses a little bit… S: Yeah, right. K: … in a precocious way and then she… She has been studying with Astro, they both… When they are both around 13 or 14 years and then they talk to the judges like, “oh thank you, thank you, oh thank you, thank you, oh thank you, thank you…” So you get the feeling that they are like… they are not having fun like a 13-years-old is supposed to be, like “Aaaah! Yeee!” (claps her hands) “Oh great, thank you!” They are like, just so precocious, both of them. They have learned it so… S: They have an old head on their shoulders. K: …Maybe like that. Yeah. By the way, guess what? S: Yeah? K: It’s a bit boring nowadays with this version where you don’t have to stop this taping every once in a while, so I… have you noticed that for once I haven’t said to you, “Hey, now I have to, stop, stop!” S: Help – are we having some new equipment and stuff there…? K: Yeah. Now we have such equipment that we can talk, like, for two hours… S: Okay! K: … in line and nothing’s breaking up! S: Oh jeez! K: This system is a bit deceiving that way. S: Okay, so I’ll settle down here a bit more comfortably... (laughter) K: Yeah, like when we called first it was like, ”Now we have to be real quick because we have this Thanksgiving thing…” and we… S: Quick, quick! K: …still haven’t gotten to the point and we’ve been talking for eight minutes about something totally irrelevant. S: Yeah, and I have to be running again in about ten minutes… K: Okay… S: … to another place from this computer, but you’ll see, we’ll talk quickly and now we start… K: Yes. S: … now we’ll talk a little about BB… (continues with BB but Katri interrupts him) K: And hey… look at what the time is here (shows her phone screen saying 23:24) S: Oh, you’re changing the subject… 23:24.(11:24PM) K: Yes. S: Oh dear! For once it’s night time there for you! K: Yeah, right. It’s so late here, really. S: Yeah. K: Okay then… S: Help, what are you still doing sitting there (in the office)? K: (explains about having to write an article about Vesa Keskinen, a Finnish publicity person) S: Are you alone in there? K: No, there are still some other people here, as well. S: Katri has no home… K: But hey, really, I was just at the… (continues explaining about meeting Vesa Keskinen and having to write a story about him.)
Discussion continues about BB Excerpt 11:37 – 12:26 They talk about BB-Sebastian and Katri messes her words up (she doesn’t handle idioms :D) K: I was thinking about Sebastian and wondering if he really is an egg or a chicken, or how do you say that? “or fish or fowl?” S: Fish or fowl, Katri! We have been talking about these! Don’t start saying those things. K: No… (laughs) S: I just wrote to you today that where are you, probably once again having a scare of the moon in the sky… (another idiom that Katri has messed up some time before and Sauli teases her about it) K: (guffaws) Help, I can’t take this, really. I can’t take this… (continues laughing) S: (laugh) Egg or chicken… K: … or fish (still laughing) It’s just that I can’t… (both guffawing) K: Help, okay. (laughter) Oh dear… Okay, I’ll try to concentrate now, somehow. What else could we talk about…
Continue talking about BB, then about DWTS
17.39 – till the end S: Hey, I wrote in my blog that I’ll be coming to Finland for Christmas – and I will be in Finland for Christmas. And I’ve been asking if me and Katri could make a Christmas-Tutka, so we’ll try really hard, but at least I would like to make a Christmas-Tutka with you, Katri. K: We are so making a Christmas-Tutka! We’ll once again make a Jingle Be… S: Right! K: … I was about to say Jingle Bens… (laughter) S: Right, that exactly… K: Ben (BB housemate) is already going into bloody Christmas carols! But hey, yeah, Jingle Bells. Some (sings and swings) “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way…” S: Yeah, we’ll make a, a hilarious… K: I’m so looking forward to you coming here. I so… oh, you told about it already? Because I was here already flailing like (clapping her hands) S: Yeah I wrote that I will spend Christmas in Finland but I didn’t..., well, okay… K: Yes. S: We’ll talk about it then later, you and I K: Yes yes yes! S: Well, yes, well… (clears his throat) yeah. Yes… K: (clears her throat) (laughter) S: I guess that’s about it, so… K: That’s about it, yeah. Hey, wonderful! Now go and have a happy Thanksgiving and tell about it then in the next Tutka. (Sauli puts on and off glasses while Katri is talking) K: Oh, what were those glasses? S: These are just some fakes from which even the other lense is missing… so… K: Oh, I thought you were going to wear those tonight. You have all kinds of props there nowadays… S: Yeah, I really do use these reading glasses with these bottle bottom thick lenses, so… K: (laughs) Those are really great after you wore that Indian costume with nothing else on, so those glasses are really like the other extreme from that. S: (bursts into laughter) Now, I did wear something! K: I guess so… S: I was just saying here that I’ve had to wear suits and Indian costumes and a vampire outfit and even my tie’s been so tight that now it’s really nice just to chill out a bit and wear just my own clothes (laughs) For a while! K: Yes, yes, yes. S: Yes. K: Hey, Happy Thanksgiving! S: Right, thank you! I’ll even eat for you. K: (laughter) Right, thank you. Bye, and I’ll see you next week! S: Now you go and fix yourself an egg and a chicken and we’ll see next week! K: I can’t hear you… Doesn’t matter! (pretends she doesn’t hear Sauli’s joking) (laughter) K: Okay… bye! S: Byebye!
00.00 – 3.14 S: Hi hi! K: Heyyy! Hey, this was absolutely great. Sauli just told me now when I came up at this end, “This is the first time I can see you properly!” (bursts into laughter) S: This is just so insane! Like, not once before have I seen you, Katri, so clearly, as I’ve been having just, like, pixel pulp here… and usually you’ve been frozen about after the first second to a one position. So I’ve just been hearing your voice. But, I mean… this is… I’m telling you viewers, too, this is the first time I can see Katri really properly. I’m just so excited about that… That finally I can see her, I’ve just been, like, pretending here that I can see her, but now I finally do… Finally almost sort of like live. K: This is so great! I just now heard from Sauli that “Actually I haven’t really…haven’t seen you well…” (laughs) S: (speaks, no sound) K: (laughs and listens to Sauli) S: (makes wild gestures and expressions, Katri guffaws) K: Mmmmm… all the people here do anyway… S: (speaks, still no sound) [Katri wrote later on her blog: And it was so stupid that the sound was missing totally from Sauli’s first story. Skype clearly doesn’t like Sauli’s voice. Sauli explained how before we started taping Tutka he was praising the color of my sweater, and I immediately started complaining out loud how this is totally too HOT! That I can’t stand to be in this sweater at all! So that explains all Sauli’s explanations and hand movements.] K: Duh, no! But really, I don’t get it. Okay, so I have to run around all the time because of the Independence Day Reception in Presidential Palace, dammit… but I mean really, when I looked outside, I thought – It’s so gray out there once again, really. I thought it would be cold out there… and then I go outside and it’s like + 7 C… and I have this real proper winter sweater on. I’m like “Oh dear God”, I mean really, how can this weather change like this when it looks the same all the time but then it can be like -5 or +7. (sighs). Yes, this wasn’t the best choice for today. But you are… S: Well, the next time (sound missing) for a longer time (no sound) bikinis, yes. K: Exactly. But hey, next time I can wear the dress I’ll have on at the Palace, because next time we’ll talk about the Palace party… S: Oh, wow! K: … since I’ve been there. S: Oh boy, you get to go there. Remember to say hi to Tartsa! Give my regards to Tarja… (meaning the President of Finland, Tarja Halonen) K: Yeah, sure, I will, I will. S: … from Hollywood! (waves) K: Yeah, exactly. I will and then, maybe, should I actually ask Jani Toivola to dance with me… (Jani is a member of parliament, and he was one of the dancers in the DWTS – he was dropped out last Sunday) S: Yes. K: … he will be a guest there. S: Hey, but I will be attending the Independence Day Reception here at the Finnish Consul General's, so it’s not going to be such a bad party here, either! K: Oh, that is such a wonderful place! Isn’t it the same place which we visited at that time? (They made one Roadshow there: www.adamtopia.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=sauli&thread=463&post=88208 ) S: Yes, yes, that’s it. K: Wonderful! Great, Sauli! It is such a… S: Oh, wow. K: … wonderful… Bel Air… and then it’s so great when you go there… S: Yeah, but what… We’ll tell about these Independence day celebrations then next… K: True! S: … more in the next Tutka. K: That’s true, that’s true! But I have to say about that Bel Air area, it is absolutely amazing as there are like million gates when you drive in there… such a luxury area. They ask your names and all at the gate… and only.. S: Mmmmm K: … in order to get into a residential area. S: But sure, yeah, yeah. K: It’s absolutely unbelievable, yes… S: Oh dear. K: But hey, then you will tell us who were attending. I wonder if Riku will be there again? (Riku Campo, Katri and Sauli interviewed him in a Roadshow video) S: All the familiar faces will probably be there. K: Eeekkkkkk (claps her hands) S: … and then we’ll exchange news about how the Palace party went. K: Exactly. Say hi to Riku for me! S: Yeah yeah, and we’ll both remember to take it really easy there. K: Yeah yeah yeah… I’ll be WORKING. S: (laughs) That you will be! Okay! Maybe we should start the Tutka now... K: (laughs) Yeah, right then, hey – so, Jani will be there… (They talk about the Finnish DWTS, whose finale will be on next Sunday. Katri talks excitedly about the happenings in it last Sunday)
excerpt 6.57 – 8.45 K: Help, here’s some kind of weird… they have some kind of an exhibition here… (chuckles) S: Turn! Turn – I wanna see! I wanna see! Turn! K: They have some exhibition here (turns the camera) Okay, wait a second… , I thought there’s some weird guy there… K: Naw… no, they have some exhibition here… wait a little. Look – can you see? S: … floor… Okay, now I can see. K: And then there’s a lot of people here and I’m all sort of embarrassed here… help… I mean, no, God dammit! S: Should we… are you aware that you really shouldn’t shout out so loud in Galleries like that? K: That’s why I’m here like… (looks around) ”Should I start talking with a little quieter voice…” S: (laughs) You can’t be quiet… K: Every time when we talk I never realize myself how loud I’m babbling here when I get excited about something like Jani so I must be… the whole bloody house is echoing here. Well, okay. So… S: (laughs) K:… well…so, okay.. S: I do have this really wonderful background here every time. K: (laughs) Every once in a while I’ve been telling Sauli, ”Now, at least open a door so you get some light in there since you’re there in the dark!” S: I’m like in a hospital here. K: (laughs) Yes and you’re even sick now! You said, “I will look so sick then.” S: Well actually I’m really here in a mental hospital (bursts into laughter) On every Tuesday I get this permission to move around freely. K: Yes, exactly. ”I’m here in Hollywood.” Yes, yes, yes, in reality Sauli is somewhere there in Meilahti, in Lapinlahti, or whatever they are… (laughs) (Meilahti is part of the Helsinki University Hospital and Lapinlahti used to be a mental hospital until recently). S: (laughs) In Lapinlahti! Okay, now… (coughs) help… How did we once again jump… sort of jumped from one matter to another… K: Just a little bit! S: Just a little bit! From DWTS to a mental hospital… K: (laughs) … ended up going into Lapinlahti… S: … to Lapinlahti K: Okay, so, well… hey, now… S: They probably dance in Lapinlahti, too, so… K: … oh for sure, yes… S: … let’s just go on. K: Yes, yes. Isn’t it empty… I don’t even know. Well, but hey, yes. I mean, let’s not talk about Lapinlahti more… So, well, yes… (... and of course they were just joking , thought we'd tell you just in case :D -m&z-)
Talk about BB. In the middle they have once again some tech problems and have to restart the taping. 10.19 K: Now it’s getting hot again… (stretches her turtleneck). Now it’s getting to that, have to stop. (laughs) K:… stop since it’s getting hot.. Can’t do this anymore, I’m starting to lose my patience again… (snaps) S: (fans his face) K: (laughs, fans) That’s right! But well, so… Hey, next week we’ll talk about the Palace party and how Independence Day was celebrated over there. And then we’ll talk about the DWTS finale, did the right couple win… and then, well, then there is one week left of BB… and it will be interesting. And then you’ll be coming here soon (claps her hands). S: Yes. One week of BB? Yes, I’ll be coming there. And then, maybe next Friday I’ll be on BB Extra as a phone guest. Don’t know yet. It isn’t totally settled so we’ll wait and see. K: Great, I’ll be definitely listening if you are there. On Friday… S: Right. K: …Why is it always on Friday… since I’m never at home at that time. S: I really don’t know. K: Well but okay, maybe I will… S: We’ll have to see… if I’m too tired to wake up I think I won’t answer the phone… K: Yeah, that will be pretty early! I mean, it’s already at nine in the morning there then… S: Yeah, you see, it’s so damn early. K: Oh dear, yes… so how would you be… S: Exactly K: … at that time yet… S: Here the alarm is usually ringing at half past one in the afternoon, so… K: (laughs) Oh my! Okay… S: Oh, now you have some stalker there behind you. K: (turns to look) Oh, so it seems. (shouts out “hi there”) Yes. S: Okay, let’s finish here. Shall we take (something) for the stalker? K: Yep, yep, yep. (continues quitely) He’s a real weirdo. S: (laughs) K: Now we have to stop. But hey, wonderful, Sauli – and we’ll see each other soon here! S: Yes, good! (waves) K: (waves) Happy Independence Day to everybody! Bye bye bye!
(Note: Finland's Independence Day is December 6th)
Last Edit: Jan 13, 2012 5:06:39 GMT -5 by Miachihu
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