- Once I got over the excitement of, "Oh my gosh, it's snowing.

This is so nice.

Winter wonderland."

After that I was like, "It's still here.

Why is it still here?"

(Remona laughs) I was like, "How do these people do it?"

(Xavier laughs) (upbeat drum beat) - [Producer] Each of these cards has a statement on it.

Everybody else has to write on their paddle yes, that's true, or no, that's not.

- [Remona] I forgot my spelling.

(all laugh) - Drew a chicken.

- Oh wow.

- [Dani] There you go.

- I could have done better, but.

I'm ready.

The hardest part of moving to Minnesota was learning the language.

- [Remona] Okay.

- [Dani] Okay.

- No.

- [Xavier] Yes.

- Yeah.

So I've been speaking English since I was a kid watching like Tom and Jerry, Desperate Housewives, all that stuff.

(all laugh) - [Dani] Oh my gosh.

- [Remona] I love it.

- [Olu] Nigeria was colonized by the British.

Even in the schools there, they said, no vernacular.

So that means you shouldn't speak whatever your tribal language was.

- Really?

- [Olu] Yeah.

- [Xavier] Wow.

- [Olu] So if you didn't speak English, yeah, you in trouble.

- [Dani] Wow.

- [Olu] Now that I look back on it, that sounds bad.

- [Dani] Yeah.

(all laugh) My name's Olu Fabule.

I'm West African.

I'm Nigerian.

Sometimes it, you have to like specify what Nigeria is.

'Cause like I feel like Africa is just like, some people see it just like one monolith.

So sometimes I'm like, no, that's Kenya.

No, that's Ethiopia.

No, that's Ghana.

They are genuine about wanting to learn about like African culture.

Well, see I said African, Nigerian.

That's funny.

(Olu laughs) That's, oh no.

(chill guitar music) - With the same ingredients, right?

- [Remona] The answer's no for me.

(all laugh) - [Remona] Yeah.

I like this smiley face.

(Remona laughs) - [Olu] I'm an artist.

I'll say I'm a visual artist.

I think I've always been into the art since I was a kid.

Like, my teachers were kind of worried about me, 'cause I was just like, I would just be like staring into space, like looking into the sky, and they're like, what's going, what's wrong with this boy?

My dad, I'm happy he was able to understand and allow me the liberty.

They trusted me enough.

Yeah, education was so important.

My dad, he went to a school called Obafemi Awolowo.

That's like the Harvard of Nigeria basically.

He has a arts degree, so he pursue arts, and then he's like, I want to get a Master's, I want to get a PhD.

And he just kept going up and up and up and up, and from that he was able to get an opportunity to teach in the United States.

Like some people come to America, some people escape harder situations.

- [Dani] Yeah.

- But when I, in my particular situation, I think I came here to have the opportunities that education allows you to have, and which is a privilege.

- [Dani] I don't really feel at home anywhere in the world.

Go for it.

Good.

Now I wanna know why.

- [Xavier] I feel it's, it's more I'm like, I'm biased by my definition of home, which is like, you choose where your home can be.

- For the longest time I kept referring to home as Argentina.

Like, you know, I'm going back home, and you know, that type of thing.

But after so many years of being here, this is home.

I go back every year to visit family and I'm like, okay, three weeks, I need to go home.

- [Olu] America has like a more individualistic like way of life, but at first it was very like lonely.

Like you just go to work, and you just go home, and then you like.

- Feel isolated.

- Yeah.

- I worked with immigration law for many years, so I was able to help a lot of immigrants come.

You relate to the immigrant story because whatever you went through, but there's thousands of different stories.

So like, you know, getting together... - [Olu] When it comes to immigration, I feel like it's a deeply positive thing.

And a large part of immigration is like, I feel a lot of people don't have a historical perspective on it.

Yeah, being in Nigeria, like you don't really think about being black.

You don't think about like the more abstract nature of blackness.

And when I came here it's like, it's like almost like a computer.

Like it's like I had to open up a bunch of my tabs, and then they were always running in the background of like, let me do this, I can't do that.

In Nigeria, it's like, it was more, there were things I didn't have to think about.

So I'm like, oh, this is what it means to be black here.

I think it's gotten to a point where I even avoid certain spaces just because it feels like damaging.

People just perceive you as being inferior.

And I feel like that's what I struggled with, like finding my own definition and being more secure in my own abilities.

I wouldn't be a filmmaker in Nigeria, I just- And being in Minnesota, I feet quite empowered by a lot of like people of color who I'm like, wow, that person is just like, they're just doing it.

So I was like, maybe I can do it too.

(upbeat fanfare music) - [Producer 2] When you get the ball, you're gonna read the question that's closest to your left thumb.

- [Xavier] What has been a highlight for you since moving to- - [Remona] Describe a food your family cooked or- - [Dani] Oh, I don't know about this one.

What is a fun fact about you?

I was a wild teenager.

I have a question.

How did you deal with the Minnesota winter?

- [Olu] Oh, that was tough.

I would be like, this is painful.

(all laugh) - How long you been here now?

- [Remona] Actually negative something degree.

- I've been here 11 years.

- So you got 11 winters in you.

Okay.

- I wear snow pants like all winter.

I'm wearing snow pants right now.

(all laugh) - There's that feeling right in the winter.

It's like this is the worst place.

- Yeah.

- [Xavier] And then in the summer it's like, oh, this is the best place.

- [Olu] Yeah.

- [Remona] I know.

I definitely have a different opinion about that.

- Ooh, go for it.

You like the winter?

- Okay, I don't love the winter, but it is manageable.

But like in the summer though, I did not know about the mosquitoes.

- And mosquitoes here.

- Oh my gosh.

No, I found out there is like a type of blood that I have that they love.

- [Dani] Yeah.

Yeah.

- [Remona] I don't even know what blood type I have.

- [Olu] Oh, okay.

Sorry.

- It's a type of blood that I- - I'm O.

- She has a sweet kind.

- I have a sweet kind.

- That's good.

- They love me.

- [Dani] There you go!

(all cheering) (upbeat music) That's pretty good.

- [Olu] Yeah.

As a young child, I just remembered leaving Nigeria, it still feels like a dream.

Like you could like see the ocean, and it was so vast.

And then we landed in Amsterdam, and then I just remember there was this kid speaking French, and I just wanted to talk to him.

And then we arrived in Superior.

My dad picked us up, and then we drove, and he's like, here's your room.

And then it was like full of clothes, I'm like what?

A day ago I was like in a whole different country.

It just felt so magical.

(chill music) - [Producer 2] We asked each of you to come up with a food from your childhood.

So take a bite and give your authentic reaction to it.

- [Remona] Okay, I mean, this looks like- - [Dani] Gummy worms.

- Gummy worms.

- [Xavier] Let's try it.

- [Dani] Smells really strong.

- [Remona] Never had this before.

- It reminds me of something, but I don't know what.

It's a little bit spicy.

- Really?

- Yeah.

I don't do spicy at all.

So every spice, I feel it.

- She's like, what?

- This is not spicy.

This is like, so- - [Olu] I'm Nigerian, but I eat Thai food more than any other dishes.

I just love it.

I like the similarities of like Southeast Asian culture and Nigeria.

It feels like, yeah, it just feels like home.

- This is from you, right?

You're too quiet.

- Yeah, it's me.

- [Dani] You're too quiet.

- Oh, what is it called?

- Yeah, this is called kuli kuli.

- Kuli kuli?

- Yeah, it's like a mixture of peanut and spices.

It tastes different from place to place.

- [Remona] Okay.

- Like different regions, they put different things in it.

- So people make 'em or you buy 'em?

- Usually buy them like a street kind of snack.

- Like a vendor.

- [Remona] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- So you guys eat gummy worms?

- So I don't eat chocolate.

So whenever I go to any vendor- - [Dani] Okay.

- I just get like gummy worms.

- [Dani] To get something sweet.

- Yeah.

Just something sweet.

- I have a question though.

- [Olu] Yeah.

- [Dani] They are spicy.

- Why are they together in the table?

Do you think it is because you eat it like this?

- [Olu] Oh, I haven't tried that.

I've never done that.

- [Xavier] Let's do it.

- [Dani] Let's do it.

(all laugh) - [Olu] I feel like I'm very grateful for my immigration story.

The lesson I've just learned is just being able to be open to people helping you and putting yourself out there so that when you do take a risk and you do fall, somebody can catch you.

Like as an entrepreneur, like somebody who left a nine to five structure and now works for myself, I'm trying to just help more people look like me to live healthy, fulfilling lives.

Getting used to the cold wasn't too bad for me.

(all laugh) - You exposed yourself.

(all laugh) - [Olu] Why did you all say no?

- [Remona] You're wearing snow pants.

- You're wearing snow pants.

(all laugh) - That's, that's- - That's a good point.

- [Xavier] For sure.

- That's very observant.

Okay, sorry.

- [Remona] Oh my god!

There's no way, okay?

- I think I secretly like it.

I just don't like the lack of sunlight.

I kind of set you, I set you up.

- Oh, you set us up.

- You set us up.

- You set us up.