THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH – What do you do if you are traveling back to Australia from your mother’s funeral and have to spend 2 weeks in a lonely Covid-19 quarantine hotel room, without much in the way of support for your emotional wellbeing or indeed, anything to do at all. Weekly, in Australia, 100’s of people find themselves isolated from the world because federal regulations mandate that all overseas travelers go into 14-day quarantine upon arrival in Australia. Monique Mach née Walraven decided to make the best of a dire situation and used the 3 brown paper bags she would collect each day from food deliveries to make… stuff. Sometime a hat, sometimes a dress, and even the Statue of Liberty. When she decided to post her creations on Facebook, the good news story went viral!

Today we learn what not to do in the left lane… or the right lane, if you happen to live in one of those strange countries where people drive on the left side and have their steering wheel on the right – I know weird right? Officer Jay once again calls upon the Gods of Hilarity  to teach us the rules of Oklahomean driving. This episode originally went onto your interwebz on 16 May 2007.

THIS ONE IS IN DUTCH – In a previous broadcast on 4EB I chronicled some of the history of one of the most awesome ugly buildings in Amsterdam, the Olympic Stadium. I say that it’s an ugly building with all the love in the world. It’s iconic, it’s part of my hometown, it has a rich history… and, yes. It’s not particularly attractive (if you ask me, and you didn’t but I am telling you anyway). Someone who knows a lot about the rich and colorful history of that stadium is its former managing director and my friend Hans Lubberding. The interview presented here previously aired in my JEROEN OM JE OREN broadcast of August 8. That photo, by the way is of Hans posing by a painting of one of my all-time favorite Dutch musicians Herman Brood, depicting the only football club worth writing about, Ajax who incidentally used the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam for their international matches until they moved into the stadium, then called Amsterdam Arena that is next door where I used to work… Coincidence? I think Not!