Q fever is back in the Netherlands! With that, Rob Trip opened it Eight o’clock news. He looked cheerful and I misunderstood it, so I thought he was happily announcing the re-introduction of an extinct bird species: the kukors back in the Netherlands! When Mayor Aboutaleb came in News hour said he wants to send police officers to South America to tackle the drug trade at its roots, I also thought I misheard him. A police action, but a real one. Cops Rotterdam in the jungle; are they equipped for this? War on drugs? The Americans have just come back from it. They are now adopting the Dutch tolerance policy.
The satirical section has proven for years that with a good selection of the news you don’t need much to show the absurdity of it. This was the news. I haven’t watched it in a long time, but Eva Jinek was a guest in this 296th episode and I didn’t want to miss it. She did not disappoint. Her American origins came in handy when hearing the news about the conductor who had been severely abused. Jinek imagined that as a conductor she would face the aggressive train passengers armed. First put the coat panel aside to show her barker, then audibly open the holster button. I saw Dirty Eva sliding menacingly down the aisle: “Go ahead punk, make my day”.
Comedian Peter Pannekoek referred to Jinek’s new job at the public broadcaster, where her unexpected love of arms would come in handy: “The NPO is currently one of the most dangerous places to walk around.” When colleague Jan Jaap van der Wal told how he had defied an American taxi driver, he said: “Matthijs van Nieuwkerk-like scenes. I got down on my knees just to be sure.” It’s great that the 28-year-old program has remained so fresh, especially thanks to Peter Pannekoek who apparently just chats away and is casually funny. Naturally, Kees van Kooten called it fun.
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Frans Bauer thinks he is too fat. In the reality soap The Bauers he went to the dietitian who, at 111 kilos, cheerfully classified him as “obesity class 1”. It was because of the corona, he said: “Then I just sat opposite the refrigerator every day.” Bauer continued to hit the gym. Just in case workout and diet didn’t work, the whole family took a CPR course. The folk singer turned out to be too round for first aid for choking: his wife could not get her arms around his torso. The course did not look like a natural outing anyway. This was probably registered by the producer to make the program more exciting.
Bauer breakfast with sausage rolls and eggs with bacon. The rest of the family clearly had too Man is a flop by Teun van de Keuken not yet read. When one of the sons scores a bami slice at a gas station along the way, the mother says: “They are really tasty here.” It never occurred to anyone to weigh the culinary performance of gas stations. Worth a detour.
Olga Zuiderhoek has a sympathetic section in the talk show Sophie & Jeroen: Olga’s Record Cabinet. Due to the commemoration of the Second World War, the actress gave a talk about soldier songs. First came Marlene Dietrich who asks those in power: “Sag wo die Soldaten sind/ Wo since sie blieben?” Then came ‘Nu tabé dan’, about Jordanian boys who joined the army in the Dutch East Indies around 1900. Zuiderhoek places it in the Indonesian War of Independence (1945-1949). Wehrmacht soldiers and KNIL soldiers are usually associated with war crimes, but Zuiderhoek sees them as poor devils who went to hell. She concludes with a Ukrainian soldier who is an opera singer in everyday life. He now sings for the injured: “Music helps them sleep better when the painkillers run out.”
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