Jan Böhmermann
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2,587 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Jan Böhmermann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I thought, is Jan in Ramadan? What's going on there? No, I'm in the not disturbing mode. Because I found out, I'm happy, I'm still looking at the SMS, but I open the news app and then there are just seven SMSs in between that I haven't read yet. And otherwise I always have, when someone has SMSed me, I immediately get an ad. And I posted that. And it has nothing to do with you.
Yeah, I just don't have a message. I don't know anymore when someone writes me an SMS, but only when I consciously take the cell phone in my hand and have time, I look at it and then I see when something comes. But I have to honestly say that in the first two weeks there were also a lot of emergency SMS from the private sector. Hey, hello Jan, mom here, call back quickly.
You haven't reported, call back. So seven in a row. But then I saw that you can set that some certain contacts can break through the non-interference mode.
the year of action, I mean. But no one acted on it. The result is everything that has already been shit this year. We don't want to go into depth, it was actually really shit going on this year. And of course absolutely no one acted on it. Because I believe that politics or world design for people is not a service industry.
You can't sit there and say it's the year of action and someone will act for you. But that was actually intended as a challenge. And I think I expressed that too abstractly. That's why I would announce the motto of the year at the end of this show. I would make it a little more concrete. The year of action definitely didn't work.
And it's all what happened, what you feared happened, and it's terrible. And the bad thing is, you get used to bad news. And you start to let yourself be gaslighted by the world. It's still being cut off a little bit and still a little bit more and still a little bit more. Then you have another week of time to recognize it as a new normality. Then something crazy happens and something crazy again.
And I think you have to get out of this cycle somehow this year. Get out of the cycle. That's a good example. Maybe, but we're at six minutes. I don't know where this is going, where this show is going. But I brought a nice topic with me right at the beginning. A historical topic, because I have ... It might be the same for you. I have so many big question marks in my head.
Things that I thought about, but never had a result. And I just forgot. I live near the Rhine. I'm in West Germany. I'm looking out the window, it's snowing in West Germany. Today it's snowing, at least at the time of recording this podcast. Whether it's snowing on the 19th of January, I don't know. But there is a dominant river here, the German river, the Rhine.
And the Rhine has a really hard current, it flows into the sea, that is, it goes from Cologne, Düsseldorf to the sea, and it's a hard current. If you drive opposite, i.e. drive uphill, towards France, the Rhine, high, It needs a lot of petrol, it's super exhausting. I've always wondered, the Rhine is such a historic shipping road. For thousands of years, the Rhine has been used.
That you can simply throw a piece of wood from Koblenz into the water and then it comes out in Rotterdam, that's clear, you don't need a motor for that. But like everything in the world, it was used as a shipping road thousands of years ago with this fucking current. And now I've found out something. I was in the small fortress town of Zons am Rhein before Christmas.
And I've been living in the Rhineland for 25 years, at least partly, and I've never been there. I couldn't believe it at all. Have you ever been to Zons? No, never heard of it. Z-O-N-S. It's really from my home near Cologne. It's... 20 minutes with the car. When I was there, I was ashamed for half an hour that I wasn't there much longer.
That's a medieval, a medieval city of war, completely, fortunately, untouched. No bomb fell on it. French crew, all shit, whatever. It's between Cologne and Düsseldorf, by noise. And an old medieval town with an incredible fortress, a city wall. You imagine yourself as in the deepest Middle Ages, so really a medieval city in western Germany, where not so much is left.
So that it is now beautiful in Görlitz and in East Germany is clear, but Zons, an old Roman fortress that was built into a medieval city. And an important trading street in the past, or an important trading place, a customs place. And there I read in the Heimatmuseum, I was there before Christmas, on the Christmas market, it was beautiful, a great trip.
I heard something and read what I heard on the edge and thought, maybe you've heard it before, the word treideln. Do you know what that is? I know Jördi Streidl, the actress. No, her name is Triebel. No, Streidl. So watch out. And it's on many rivers. Is it something rotten? No, it's nothing rotten at all. Unlike you, who sends me sex practices from the KitKat Club with Wikipedia articles.
I want to start the year with a little culture and history.
No, watch out, watch out. Es ist super einfach von, keine Ahnung, vom Bodensee oder von Freiburg aus oder meinetwegen von Basel über den Rhein zur Nordsee zu kommen. Also man konnte quasi Holz aus dem Süden Deutschlands auf dem Rhein nach oben transportieren, nach Norden, nach Holland und so weiter.
Schwieriger ist es aber mit den Handelsgütern aus den niederländischen Kolonien gewesen oder auch aus... From the north to the south, because the Rhine has such a current and many other rivers too. But there is the sailing technique of the Trident and it is really true. From Kleve on the Lower Rhine, the current of the Rhine was so strong that the horses took over there.
That means the ships... The horses walked on the shore, they had the ropes. And not just for ten years, but for thousands of years. But not always the same horses.
to Cologne, but for them it was too crazy. The Vikings came to Paris. You could sail in there. The Seine wasn't strong enough, but the Rhine kept the Vikings away, at least to Kleve. And from there, on the edge of the river, left and right of the Rhine, there were paths and then you had to pay fees and just tie ropes to the ships.
And horses have the fucking ships, the whole of Kleve, but really far down. You were then pulled along all the rows.
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