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Summerhack Final Episode

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Brief overview

In the last Sommerhack from Tuscany, Felix and Tommy trade school memories, career advice and listener questions.

  1. Not everyone needs an Abitur or a degreeFelix taught himself the Abitur, yet says society has to get away from the idea that everyone must do it.
  2. Keep your job until the stage forces a decisionFelix tells newcomer comedians to do it for a few years first; the point where you must go all in comes anyway.
  3. Live somewhere else for a whileGoing to Marburg was the best decision of Felix's life; if you can live in Berlin for 200 euros, you can live elsewhere for 200 euros.
Executive Summary AI
  • Felix Lobrecht and Tommy Schmidt record the final Sommerhack episode on a terrace in Tuscany, with birds, a sneezing neighbour and scooters in the background, and normal episodes resuming next week.1:59
  • Both remember school as torture: Felix cried over third-grade math homework and dreaded the subway to school at 7.50, while the other says grades were never a topic because the teacher simply wasn't interested.2:51
  • Felix left after 10th grade with a 3-something, did civil service and an apprenticeship at Linde, spent his whole BAföG on a private journalism course at 600 euros a month, then taught himself the non-student Abitur from curricula and for-dummies books and sat eight exams at a school, a path his brother repeated two years later.10:56
  • Felix argues society must drop the idea that everyone needs an Abitur or a degree, and tells newcomer comedians not to quit their job or studies until the point where they have to go all in, because no one is waiting for you.14:35
  • Listener questions cover vacation Tommy smoking cigars and both ignoring the news, drum or piano lessons for each other, which medical specialty to pick (surgeon), sunburn spots, mosquitoes, summer jobs, Felix's cocktail bar at Boxhagener Platz and his years in Marburg, the ideal two-to-three-week vacation, and summer songs from Manu Chao's Clandestino to Jack Johnson.19:32
Key Quote
“No matter what it is, as a society, we have to get away from the idea that everyone has to do their high school degree.”
— Felix Lobrecht14:35
Key Quote
“And sooner or later you come as a person who is on the stage, as a stage artist, you come sooner or later always to the point where you have to decide.”
— Felix Lobrecht16:55
Key Quote
“It's completely irrational to be a football fan.”
— Tommy Schmidt1:04:29