Dam Yankee

An NL Times podcast featuring English speaking entertainers about their experiences performing in the Netherlands. New episodes every Thursday! 🎙

16/06/2026

He lost his sister two weeks before the world locked down. He could not grieve properly. He could not perform. So he did 100 Zoom comedy shows instead.

Ray Ellin on how comedy kept him going when nothing else could. Full episode link in bio. 🎙️

14/06/2026

Ray Ellin did it on the New York City subway. Let’s just say it was completely different times :) Full episode link in bio. 🎙️

13/06/2026

Ray Ellin once had someone walk out of his show in tears after a bit about internet dating. They had a bad experience with internet dating and could not handle hearing a joke about it.

He feels bad about it. But also — it is a comedy show. You kind of know what you are walking into. Full episode link in bio. 🎙️

12/06/2026

Ray Ellin moved to New York to make it as a comedian. He could not afford an apartment so he slept in his grandmother’s old Dodge, parked on 76th Street, eating $1.50 hummus and selling postal uniforms during the day.

He made it anyway. Full episode link in bio. 🎙️

11/06/2026

Ray Ellin was sleeping in his car on 76th Street in New York, selling postal uniforms to survive and eating $1.50 hummus to get through the week. Today he owns the number one nightlife activity on TripAdvisor in the entire country of Aruba.
In this episode he talks about building a comedy career across New York and the Caribbean, losing his sister at the start of the pandemic, and why he has hundreds of hours of crowd work footage he has never posted.
Full episode 🎧 link in bio.

11/06/2026

Rael Lomoti’s relentless effort of providing girls in her hometown a better life by playing football came at the cost of turning down her own professional football career.

09/06/2026

Rael Lomoti “in my community young women are seen as a source for wealth”

07/06/2026

The story behind the famous photo of Rael Lomoti.

06/06/2026

In Turkana, Kenya, girls are prepared for marriage from as young as 4 years old. By 12 or 13 a husband is chosen for them, usually an older man with enough cattle to pay the bride price.

Rael Lomoti saw it happening to girls around her and decided to do something about it. Full episode link in bio. 🎙️

04/06/2026

Rael Lomoti was offered a professional football contract abroad. She turned it down and went home to Turkana, Kenya to start the first ever all girls football club.

Six years later she has reached over 4000 girls and is fighting child marriage one pitch at a time. Full episode link in bio. 🎙️

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