THIS ON IS IN DUTCH (AND ALSO A BIT OF ENGLISH) – Regular listeners know his name by heart. Jordy is the Dutch backpacker that decided to buy a boat to escape COVID19 and sail back to the Netherlands. Well, that was easier said than done. BUT! He is on his way and together with Yoga teacher, helmswoman, and partner (yes, all rolled into one) Loryn, he made his way to Indonesia. It only took a year but Loryn and Jordy finally made it to Indonesia. For SBS Dutch I called them while they were in quarantine off the coast of Kupang on the island of Timor. This interview originally aired on SBS on 21 October 2021!

And then there was this thing, all of a sudden… I was listening to an episode of the Daily Source Code (with Adam Curry) and there was this song, about podcasting… Catchy little number! Written by some unknown guy calling himself Greg St. Claire. Recorded and produced by Nashville recording artist Chris Hicks and sung by Oklahoma city vocalist Josh Cruise (Gee, I wonder where they got the band name from). It was basically a 3 minute jingle promoting podcasting. A bit of a circle jerk, really. But boy was it exciting!

This is a Skinny White Boy episode, that isn’t really an episode… I heard that song and wanted to blast it out to all 5 of my listeners. So it’s the shortest episode ever. And the best song ever! Whatever happened to St. Claire, nobody knows. Chris is now teaching music production at an OKC college and Josh… well Josh is still performing around the vast state of Oklahoma. You can catch the Josh Cruise Duo weekly, somewhere around town.

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!

THIS ONE IS DUTCH (BUT ALSO ENGLISH) – It looks as if the crew of the Samara (the boat that Dutchman Jordy bought over a year ago to escape COVID19) will finally set sail… New people on board, exemptions allowing to leave Australia in the pocket, and enough food to last, well that remains to be seen.  A year in the making, the crew of the Samara shows us what boat-life is all about. This interview originally aired on SBS on 23/7/2021 the night before Jordy and crew set sail.