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Summer Breeze Podcast

1:34:06 recording · EN · 4 speakers

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Brief overview

Three hosts trade holiday stories: Cannes boat jousting, a finca that fattens, Singapore's bans, hollowed-out tourist towns.

  1. Complain by pretending to worryThe hotel man passed on the neighbours' noise complaint as "we just wanted to make sure that you're doing well", and the hosts want to reuse the code on barking dogs.
  2. Politeness at the table costs kilosBecause the landlady pulled strings for the best seat, Schmitty ordered appetisers, main, dessert and signature dish and then emptied his parents' plates too.
  3. Tourist places become their own souvenirCannes, Capri, Saint-Paul-de-Vence and Morocco's souks all sell the same stock, and Berlin is building malls and towers over what made it worth visiting.
Executive Summary AI
  • One host records the Summer Breeze episode alone from the Berlin office, guarding the shop while the other two call in from their holidays.1:52
  • Jakob describes a sport he found in the port of Cannes: two gondola-like wooden boats, a heavy man on a plank at each bow trying to shove the other into the harbour, a 12-year-old stick boy swimming out to fetch the wooden staff, and smoking, cheering fans on the quay next to the superyachts.13:26
  • Schmitty explains that his finca's owner gets him a table at any restaurant on the island, so out of embarrassment he orders and eats everything, including his parents' leftovers, and is 3 to 5 kilos heavier than when he left the hotel.26:17
  • Singapore comes up as the opposite of Berlin: freedom traded for security, chewing gum and vapes simply unavailable, and feeding pigeons punished with a 6,000 dollar fine and three weeks in prison so that nobody tries it again.36:52
  • In Provence the same complaint returns, with Saint-Paul-de-Vence, where Picasso once drank with Chagall, now shop after shop selling pictures of the place itself, which the hosts call the museum shop without the museum.58:39
Key Quote
“And now I've seen a sport and I swear to you, you've probably never seen it in your life.”
— Jakob13:26
Key Quote
“Because that's a danger, I haven't seen it coming yet and I want to explain exactly why I've become so fat.”
— Schmitty25:56
Key Quote
“There's the old rule of freedom against security, that means there are draconian penalties for everything.”
— Klaas36:52