September 14, 2025 • 23 mins
Ever felt like giving five stars just for surviving? Berlin’s Bolt drivers think they’re in Fast & Furious, but that’s only the starting line. From sugar rush myths that crumble into sugar crashes, to drone paranoia and the comedy of emergency alerts, this week’s episode is here.
Nepal experiments with Discord democracy, Albania hires an AI minister, and somewhere in the skies, an interstellar comet makes us wonder if ET’s finally calling.
Add Berlin’s explosive cars, Gaza rallies, whimsical kite festivals, and grocery drones—welcome to dystopian utopia, where the ordinary is anything but. Buckle up, question everything, and don’t expect your driver to slow down."
00:00 Introduction and Episode Start
00:15 Crazy Bolt Drivers in Berlin
02:56 Podcast Overview and Drones in Poland
04:44 The Myth of the Sugar Rush
06:53 Nepal's Historic Protests and Discord Voting
09:03 Albania's AI Minister
17:42 Berlin News Highlights
21:37 Conclusion and Farewell
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
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(00:06):
Hi, hello and welcome to get another expert.
This is episode 69. No jokes on that.
I'll go straight to the point. Have you ever used a Bolt car?
Bolt. The equivalent of Uber, but for
poor people. Whenever I use it in Berlin, I
feel, how do I say this? Every Bolt driver drives like a
(00:29):
maniac, OK? Every single person.
I don't know if I'm going to make it.
I don't know if this is the timeI die.
It really saturates what a five star review looks like.
Because the first time I took a Bolt, I thought, Oh my God, this
driver is crazy. I'm going to report it.
(00:49):
But it's their normality. It's the I give five stars.
If the person is not trying to kill me, that's it.
I don't need anything more. I didn't die.
Five stars. You can have them.
Like I think every single Bolt driver thinks that they are in
these movies. Like when you enter a taxi and
(01:10):
you say we need to stop this wedding or I don't know, I'm
losing my flight, my wife is having a baby, whatever it is.
And then you just wish that the taxi will just go like crazy.
They go like that every single time for no reason.
As a child, I could play with myGame Boy for three hours
(01:30):
straight in the car without getting seasick.
I cannot type one single messagewhen I'm in a Bolt in Berlin.
It's nice in a way because I feel like the main character,
you know, I feel like I'm playing in in a movie, but it's
just too much and they have all this stupid pricing now.
(01:51):
If you order a bolt or an Uber or whatever, if you want it to
arrive now, if you wanted to be super duper extra late, if you
want it to arrive fast, if you want it to be more echo and it's
just bloated with 1015 differentoptions.
Here's a proposal. How about you put an option
(02:11):
where I arrive safe where the driver is not driving like a
maniac. I would pay a couple of EUR more
just to know that I can breathe in the car instead of holding
for my dear life. So give me that option or give
the driver driving like a maniacas another option.
But we need to differentiate that, OK, I want a driver who
(02:34):
doesn't drive like John Wick or Jason Statham.
I just want normality. Why can't I have some normality?
I started off strong. I'll try to keep it fast and
speedy so you don't need to put me on 1.5 like I know you do.
(02:56):
This is a podcast of random newsstories, thoughts and all in
between. Now drones have been flying over
Poland and everyone is pooping their pants, including me living
in Berlin. Berlin was, you know, half
Russian at some point. And just today, Romania also had
drones flying over. So let's see where that goes.
(03:19):
I have to say one thing. I was at work last week and
suddenly everyone's phones went off.
They started doing this crazy alarm sound.
If you've heard it, it is probably the loudest sound phone
can make. So all of them in Unity made a
really nice panic feeling together with the sirens of the
(03:42):
city. It turned out that it was just a
drill, just a test, no stress, nothing to worry about.
We're just dusting off our systems.
But here's the thing. Every single phone rang in the
office besides my phone. Why did my phone not ring?
(04:03):
I don't understand. I have a German SIM card.
I bought my phone. Actually, I think I bought it
even in Germany. I ordered it from Google for
Christ's sake, and my phone didn't ring.
You know what this means, right?It means I'm doomed.
If anything happens. I will never know.
(04:23):
I'm also deaf from one ear. I don't think I can hear all the
sirens outside of a building. For all I know, it could be
happening right now. The drones could be here.
I wouldn't know. Let's dive into this podcast
fast before it's too late. Now #1 You've probably heard
(04:46):
about eating candy, eating sugar, and then you get this
burst of energy, right, the sugar rush.
Apparently science says that is a myth.
It's a myth. They did a comprehensive study,
31 studies actually with 1.2000 participants and basically they
(05:06):
found no positive effect of carbohydrate, including sugar on
mood or energy levels. In fact, the carbohydrate
ingestion is associated with increased fatigue and the
decreased alertness within the first hour post consumption.
In normal words this means thereis no sugar rush.
(05:29):
But actually the sugar crush is very real.
So the sugar high is a lie and the sugar crush is real.
What an unfair thing. And this misconception comes
from the fact that you get pleasurable sensations with
sugar. So if you consume sugar, it
stimulates the release of dopamine and opioids in your
(05:52):
brain. And these chemicals are
associated with pleasure and reward.
So they can mimic a bit the feeling of a rush.
But actually there is no increase in your energy levels,
no increase. It'll it's all just a sugary
trick in your head. But the bad news, what comes
after the sugar crust? That's real?
(06:15):
Your blood sugar levels spike and then they decline.
And that does bring your energy down.
It makes you tired. It gives you irritability,
difficulty concentrating. So there it is.
The world is unjust in many ways, but here's a tiny one.
If you hear anyone talking aboutgetting their sugar high, I'm
sorry, but that's not happening.I'm sorry, Harry Styles, the
(06:38):
watermelon sugar high. It's just not happening now on
things that have been happening.And I will have a quickie for
Berlin in the end with all the headlines of the week.
Wow, amazing. So stay tuned for that.
You probably saw the crazy things happening in Nepal.
Nepal made history in a pretty unexpected way.
(07:00):
So they had this massive protestwith young people in Gen.
Z and it was over corruption, nepotism, and then there was a
social media ban and that made people even more bananas.
They went on the street, they burned everything, they
destroyed everything, and the government was overthrown.
(07:21):
You've probably read or heard about some very violent
activities that happened. But the bottom line is they
overthrew the government with this mass protest.
And then in a very weird, this is what I want to bring.
I know that there's a lot on thetopic, but the protesters, all
(07:42):
this Gen. Z young people, they used
Discord, the popular chat application that they use for
gaming, that's Discord to vote for their new interim Prime
Minister. How crazy is that?
So Sheila Khadke, she was a former chief of justice and she
had very strong anti corruption stance and she helped overthrow
(08:07):
the monarchy in the 90s I think.So people voted over Discord for
her to become the new Prime Minister.
And that appointment was confirmed.
It was confirmed by the president and the army chief.
So this is this is her first, isit Gigi?
Well played. We will see.
(08:28):
But voting for your new representatives over Discord is
is one thing. And you know, you can never know
who's a good representative or not.
People are so corrupt. Wouldn't there be a way that you
don't have to have a person in power?
That they are driven by all these weaknesses of ego, of
(08:50):
power, of greed? If there was an impartial AII,
think I would consider it for running some stuff.
I don't think we're there yet and maybe we never go because of
the bias and all of that. However, 1 country appointed the
world's first AI minister on a piece of news that's probably
(09:12):
more for the hype than it is forreality.
But here we are and this is the hype show.
In case you didn't know. Now you know Albania has made
history by naming Diella and artificial intelligence as the
country's new digital minister in charge of public procurement.
(09:34):
It's one of the sectors that aremost prone to corruption.
Procurement is when you look into offers in order to make
something happen. You want to build a road.
People put applications, the companies, the construction
companies, and theoretically through procurement, you check
the different offers and you choose what's the best for the
state. This is where a lot of bribe
(09:55):
money go in. So Della, which sounds very
close to Della, who had an amazing, if you don't know,
Della is a goat I took care of. This is a sidetrack, but Della
is the goat I took care of. There's an episode titled I Have
a Goat now, and she has had portraits made for her.
She spent the summer in our summer house for three years.
(10:19):
Now she comes every summer. So my dad has milk and he walks
her around and makes boomer videos on Facebook about it.
But then there was an artist that visited the summer house
and painted many portraits of Della the goat, and now she is
exhibited in some places. But that's just a sidetrack
(10:40):
because this AI has a very similar name.
But those who are wondering or the old listeners of this
podcast, Della is doing great. She had one more season this
summer and she's back to my dad's brother who has all the
goods. But back to the AI Della that's
ruling Albania. What is she doing?
(11:00):
Well, she is actually going to check all of the contracts that
are there. It almost sounds like the work
that Elon Musk's silly dodge tried to do, cancelling all
sorts of useful things by accident because they were using
keywords. But she will monitor the
government contracts, analyse that time, flag irregularities
(11:21):
in real time. Why this matters?
Well, the Albanian Prime Minister Eddie Rama said she
cannot be bribed, has no political loyalties and applies
the same rules to everyone, which is a step towards
rebuilding public trust. That's a funky one.
I mean, experts are actually warning AI can reflect a lot of
(11:41):
biases. It can be tricked by flawed
data. And it's unclear what happens if
Yella makes mistakes or blocks some legitimate contracts.
One thing is for sure, this looks like an interesting move
to fight corruption, perhaps an inspiration for other countries,
but the critics are urging caution about the actual
(12:03):
accountability and democratic oversight.
You cannot hold DLR accountable,right?
You cannot bring her to justice if she accidentally just delete
all the contracts or someone tries to prompt the engineer.
Maybe I try to become a contractor for Albania, see if I
can make DLR like me enough. But that's one piece of news.
(12:26):
Albania is experimenting with AIin government and definitely
makes headlines. Maybe it's useful, but it also
comes with serious risks. So there's Nepal, there's
Albania, there's the drones. How is Greece doing?
Well, we almost had a good moment on Euro Basket.
The basketball team went all theway to the semifinals and then
(12:49):
played with Turkey. And this is where everyone got
super duper hyped but Yannis andTed Tokumbo couldn't make it all
on his own. The team lost and now I'm
walking the streets of Hermann Strasser by my kebabs with my
head looking down to the ground.But we will play for 3rd or 4th
(13:11):
position with Finland I think. And it will be Germany that
fights Turkey to the final, if I'm not mistaken.
So in one way or another, it allstays within home that someone
who is Greek living in Berlin, but being in the district of
South Northern, it's whoever wins, I will see the
(13:36):
celebrations. Let's just say it like that, But
let's zoom away. Let's zoom, zoom, zoom far far
away and do a space. Space news.
There is a weird thing called three I at last.
It's a big comet. It's coming towards us, and it's
(13:57):
the third object ever detected that's coming from outside our
solar system. So it already makes it a rare
visitor. OK, But the more scientists look
into that giant comet, the more strange it gets.
I'll tell you all the things that are unusual about it.
(14:18):
There are crazy UFO people saying that it's a spaceship
that's coming to see us, and there are all sorts of
conspiracy theories. I'll just tell you why this
comet is unusual and why all of the big telescopes are looking
at it right now. Like the NASA Hubble Telescope
is looking at it, and James Webbis looking at it.
(14:39):
The Sphere X, the TSS, they're all looking at it, studying,
trying to figure out what it is.Why is that?
It's because it looks like a comet.
I also said it's a comet, but it's not really a comet because
comets are like icy balls because of the freeze in space,
(15:00):
and they release gas and dust asthey get close to the sun.
And that's why they form a tail,the tail of the comet.
But this Atlas comet question mark is acting differently.
So the the cloud of gas and dustthat it has around it, which is
called coma. So stay with this.
(15:21):
A comet has a coma, which is this cloud of gas.
It is unusual because it has a high amount of carbon dioxide
and it has the highest amount ofcarbon dioxide that they have
ever seen. Now, the second thing that's
weird about it is that it was already active very far from the
Sun, past Jupiter's orbit, shining enough so the telescopes
(15:44):
can pick it up. This is AI ERMUS to help
understand this bit. When astronomers say a comet is
active, they mean that the cometis currently releasing gas and
dust, forming A coma and often atail.
This activity happens because asthe comet approaches the sun,
it's icy nucleus warms up. Now in this comet it appears to
(16:05):
be active, having a coma and a tail, but it's very far away
from sun to be causing that. So the question is, how is that
comet having a tail if the sun can't reach it yet?
But that was like, it shouldn't be so bright.
It's so far away, if that makes sense.
It was too bright and that's whythey picked it up.
(16:28):
And they're like, what is this? Most comets are are frozen that
far out. And then Hubble started looking
at it, and it looks like it had a teardrop shaped cocoon of
dust. The Tess telescope was the one
that showed that it has been shining and has been active many
months before the discovery, which somehow means that it was.
(16:50):
Yeah, acting in a way that's notexpected out there in the outer
space. Because of all of this, some
scientists are jokingly wondering if it could be a probe
from an alien civilization entering our solar system coming
to say hi. Maybe they're trying to stop
World War Three from happening. Maybe the aliens are sending in
(17:12):
some support. I'm sure we'll shoot it down.
But even if it's not, and it's probably not, it's a cosmic
mystery and astronomers are veryexcited and they'll probably
keep studying it for years because it's made of rare things
and does unexpected. The bottom line, this visitor
from another star is weird, surprising and could rewrite
(17:34):
what we think we know about comets.
How are we doing with time? OK, we're good.
So now I will do a quickie for Berlin.
What happened in Berlin last week?
Subscribed now to multiple newsletters so I can tell you a
little bit of the headlines because why not?
(17:56):
And if you're not from Berlin, you can still listen what
happens to Berlin. Get the vibe.
Let's start a car explosion. Yeah, it happened in
Schoonerberg. And apparently they tried to
kill someone by making that car explode.
They've started looking for an attempted murder investigation.
I thought things would did kaboom.
(18:18):
Only in our side of Berlin, not in Schoonerberg where it's
expected to be more quiet. There it goes.
Now today there is a Gaza demonstration at Brandenburg
Gate. About 15,000 protesters are
expected for a Gaza rally and it's a coordinated set up around
the Berlin Marathon. It's multiple peace and anti war
(18:41):
protests and more are happening across the city.
Let's see how police response tothat because it's been very
rarely peaceful and then are more and more reports and videos
coming online with excessive police force and brutality and a
lot of violence towards peacefulprotesters, including women and
(19:05):
children. But in a more uplifting tone on
the 23rd, 24th, I need to check it's that weekend.
There is my favorite event in Berlin that I have never seen in
person. I keep telling you about it
every year and something happensevery year and I miss it,
(19:28):
including this year because the husband of my partner's cousin
is having a secret party thrown at him for getting his German
citizenship. So there's going to be a
Cartofen festival and I need to think of the German things to
(19:48):
bring him. Who me that cannot even say 3
sentences to celebrate the fact that he made it.
It's a bit of a funny one. I think it will be very funny
activities. He doesn't know about it, so
it's also going to be a surprise.
So it's fun, but I'm using but I'm losing the Kites festival
(20:08):
and Temple Hoferfeld for anotheryear.
Please go there for me. Please send me photos.
It's a festival where giant, huge colourful kites go on the
sky. I'm talking about Dragons, about
octopuses, about all sorts of colourful displays and really
(20:32):
big stuff flying over Temple Hofferfeld.
So it's amazing to go and check it out, chill in the grass, look
at things, fly. It's nice if you have family,
family friendly. I mean, I think the kids will go
bananas. They will think the the aliens
are coming, the drones and the comet combined on the skies of
(20:53):
Berlin. But it's great, it's fun, it's
photogenic if you want to, if you never take photos and you're
like, I never have nice photos that will look like a real photo
shoot and a rare chance to see the skies alive with kites.
So this is it. As a last thing, they will start
here in Berlin, a three-year trial to deliver groceries and
(21:15):
medicines by drones and Tempelhof Schoonenberg.
And this is somehow a focus on sustainability and urban
innovation. I'm really not excited to have
any drones around me, commercialor not.
When it's time for the flying cars, please sign me up.
(21:37):
But this has been today. I hope you don't have any
accidents with crazy bold or Uber drivers.
No drones up your skies, no sugar crushes for yourselves.
Whether we use Discord to appoint the first next minister
or an AI to put just like Albania, one thing is for sure,
(21:59):
the robots are not yet ready to make Greece win the EuroBasket.
But none of these might have anymeaning because a giant comet
that doesn't look like a comet is coming towards us.
Keep protesting for what is right, book your calendars for
next weekend for the kite festival and share the photos
(22:20):
with me. Because this is my curse, this
is my destiny to never see it live.
This has been it. Thank you very much.
If you like this podcast, you know what to do, like share,
subscribe, tell a friend and allof that.
I will see you next week and until then, Xiao.
Hi, hello and welcome to get another expert.
This is episode 69. No jokes on that.
I'll go straight to the point. Have you ever used a Bolt car?
Bolt. The equivalent of Uber, but for
poor people. Whenever I use it in Berlin, I
feel, how do I say this? Every Bolt driver drives like a
(00:29):
maniac, OK? Every single person.
I don't know if I'm going to make it.
I don't know if this is the timeI die.
It really saturates what a five star review looks like.
Because the first time I took a Bolt, I thought, Oh my God, this
driver is crazy. I'm going to report it.
(00:49):
But it's their normality. It's the I give five stars.
If the person is not trying to kill me, that's it.
I don't need anything more. I didn't die.
Five stars. You can have them.
Like I think every single Bolt driver thinks that they are in
these movies. Like when you enter a taxi and
(01:10):
you say we need to stop this wedding or I don't know, I'm
losing my flight, my wife is having a baby, whatever it is.
And then you just wish that the taxi will just go like crazy.
They go like that every single time for no reason.
As a child, I could play with myGame Boy for three hours
(01:30):
straight in the car without getting seasick.
I cannot type one single messagewhen I'm in a Bolt in Berlin.
It's nice in a way because I feel like the main character,
you know, I feel like I'm playing in in a movie, but it's
just too much and they have all this stupid pricing now.
(01:51):
If you order a bolt or an Uber or whatever, if you want it to
arrive now, if you wanted to be super duper extra late, if you
want it to arrive fast, if you want it to be more echo and it's
just bloated with 1015 differentoptions.
Here's a proposal. How about you put an option
(02:11):
where I arrive safe where the driver is not driving like a
maniac. I would pay a couple of EUR more
just to know that I can breathe in the car instead of holding
for my dear life. So give me that option or give
the driver driving like a maniacas another option.
But we need to differentiate that, OK, I want a driver who
(02:34):
doesn't drive like John Wick or Jason Statham.
I just want normality. Why can't I have some normality?
I started off strong. I'll try to keep it fast and
speedy so you don't need to put me on 1.5 like I know you do.
(02:56):
This is a podcast of random newsstories, thoughts and all in
between. Now drones have been flying over
Poland and everyone is pooping their pants, including me living
in Berlin. Berlin was, you know, half
Russian at some point. And just today, Romania also had
drones flying over. So let's see where that goes.
(03:19):
I have to say one thing. I was at work last week and
suddenly everyone's phones went off.
They started doing this crazy alarm sound.
If you've heard it, it is probably the loudest sound phone
can make. So all of them in Unity made a
really nice panic feeling together with the sirens of the
(03:42):
city. It turned out that it was just a
drill, just a test, no stress, nothing to worry about.
We're just dusting off our systems.
But here's the thing. Every single phone rang in the
office besides my phone. Why did my phone not ring?
(04:03):
I don't understand. I have a German SIM card.
I bought my phone. Actually, I think I bought it
even in Germany. I ordered it from Google for
Christ's sake, and my phone didn't ring.
You know what this means, right?It means I'm doomed.
If anything happens. I will never know.
(04:23):
I'm also deaf from one ear. I don't think I can hear all the
sirens outside of a building. For all I know, it could be
happening right now. The drones could be here.
I wouldn't know. Let's dive into this podcast
fast before it's too late. Now #1 You've probably heard
(04:46):
about eating candy, eating sugar, and then you get this
burst of energy, right, the sugar rush.
Apparently science says that is a myth.
It's a myth. They did a comprehensive study,
31 studies actually with 1.2000 participants and basically they
(05:06):
found no positive effect of carbohydrate, including sugar on
mood or energy levels. In fact, the carbohydrate
ingestion is associated with increased fatigue and the
decreased alertness within the first hour post consumption.
In normal words this means thereis no sugar rush.
(05:29):
But actually the sugar crush is very real.
So the sugar high is a lie and the sugar crush is real.
What an unfair thing. And this misconception comes
from the fact that you get pleasurable sensations with
sugar. So if you consume sugar, it
stimulates the release of dopamine and opioids in your
(05:52):
brain. And these chemicals are
associated with pleasure and reward.
So they can mimic a bit the feeling of a rush.
But actually there is no increase in your energy levels,
no increase. It'll it's all just a sugary
trick in your head. But the bad news, what comes
after the sugar crust? That's real?
(06:15):
Your blood sugar levels spike and then they decline.
And that does bring your energy down.
It makes you tired. It gives you irritability,
difficulty concentrating. So there it is.
The world is unjust in many ways, but here's a tiny one.
If you hear anyone talking aboutgetting their sugar high, I'm
sorry, but that's not happening.I'm sorry, Harry Styles, the
(06:38):
watermelon sugar high. It's just not happening now on
things that have been happening.And I will have a quickie for
Berlin in the end with all the headlines of the week.
Wow, amazing. So stay tuned for that.
You probably saw the crazy things happening in Nepal.
Nepal made history in a pretty unexpected way.
(07:00):
So they had this massive protestwith young people in Gen.
Z and it was over corruption, nepotism, and then there was a
social media ban and that made people even more bananas.
They went on the street, they burned everything, they
destroyed everything, and the government was overthrown.
(07:21):
You've probably read or heard about some very violent
activities that happened. But the bottom line is they
overthrew the government with this mass protest.
And then in a very weird, this is what I want to bring.
I know that there's a lot on thetopic, but the protesters, all
(07:42):
this Gen. Z young people, they used
Discord, the popular chat application that they use for
gaming, that's Discord to vote for their new interim Prime
Minister. How crazy is that?
So Sheila Khadke, she was a former chief of justice and she
had very strong anti corruption stance and she helped overthrow
(08:07):
the monarchy in the 90s I think.So people voted over Discord for
her to become the new Prime Minister.
And that appointment was confirmed.
It was confirmed by the president and the army chief.
So this is this is her first, isit Gigi?
Well played. We will see.
(08:28):
But voting for your new representatives over Discord is
is one thing. And you know, you can never know
who's a good representative or not.
People are so corrupt. Wouldn't there be a way that you
don't have to have a person in power?
That they are driven by all these weaknesses of ego, of
(08:50):
power, of greed? If there was an impartial AII,
think I would consider it for running some stuff.
I don't think we're there yet and maybe we never go because of
the bias and all of that. However, 1 country appointed the
world's first AI minister on a piece of news that's probably
(09:12):
more for the hype than it is forreality.
But here we are and this is the hype show.
In case you didn't know. Now you know Albania has made
history by naming Diella and artificial intelligence as the
country's new digital minister in charge of public procurement.
(09:34):
It's one of the sectors that aremost prone to corruption.
Procurement is when you look into offers in order to make
something happen. You want to build a road.
People put applications, the companies, the construction
companies, and theoretically through procurement, you check
the different offers and you choose what's the best for the
state. This is where a lot of bribe
(09:55):
money go in. So Della, which sounds very
close to Della, who had an amazing, if you don't know,
Della is a goat I took care of. This is a sidetrack, but Della
is the goat I took care of. There's an episode titled I Have
a Goat now, and she has had portraits made for her.
She spent the summer in our summer house for three years.
(10:19):
Now she comes every summer. So my dad has milk and he walks
her around and makes boomer videos on Facebook about it.
But then there was an artist that visited the summer house
and painted many portraits of Della the goat, and now she is
exhibited in some places. But that's just a sidetrack
(10:40):
because this AI has a very similar name.
But those who are wondering or the old listeners of this
podcast, Della is doing great. She had one more season this
summer and she's back to my dad's brother who has all the
goods. But back to the AI Della that's
ruling Albania. What is she doing?
(11:00):
Well, she is actually going to check all of the contracts that
are there. It almost sounds like the work
that Elon Musk's silly dodge tried to do, cancelling all
sorts of useful things by accident because they were using
keywords. But she will monitor the
government contracts, analyse that time, flag irregularities
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in real time. Why this matters?
Well, the Albanian Prime Minister Eddie Rama said she
cannot be bribed, has no political loyalties and applies
the same rules to everyone, which is a step towards
rebuilding public trust. That's a funky one.
I mean, experts are actually warning AI can reflect a lot of
(11:41):
biases. It can be tricked by flawed
data. And it's unclear what happens if
Yella makes mistakes or blocks some legitimate contracts.
One thing is for sure, this looks like an interesting move
to fight corruption, perhaps an inspiration for other countries,
but the critics are urging caution about the actual
(12:03):
accountability and democratic oversight.
You cannot hold DLR accountable,right?
You cannot bring her to justice if she accidentally just delete
all the contracts or someone tries to prompt the engineer.
Maybe I try to become a contractor for Albania, see if I
can make DLR like me enough. But that's one piece of news.
(12:26):
Albania is experimenting with AIin government and definitely
makes headlines. Maybe it's useful, but it also
comes with serious risks. So there's Nepal, there's
Albania, there's the drones. How is Greece doing?
Well, we almost had a good moment on Euro Basket.
The basketball team went all theway to the semifinals and then
(12:49):
played with Turkey. And this is where everyone got
super duper hyped but Yannis andTed Tokumbo couldn't make it all
on his own. The team lost and now I'm
walking the streets of Hermann Strasser by my kebabs with my
head looking down to the ground.But we will play for 3rd or 4th
(13:11):
position with Finland I think. And it will be Germany that
fights Turkey to the final, if I'm not mistaken.
So in one way or another, it allstays within home that someone
who is Greek living in Berlin, but being in the district of
South Northern, it's whoever wins, I will see the
(13:36):
celebrations. Let's just say it like that, But
let's zoom away. Let's zoom, zoom, zoom far far
away and do a space. Space news.
There is a weird thing called three I at last.
It's a big comet. It's coming towards us, and it's
(13:57):
the third object ever detected that's coming from outside our
solar system. So it already makes it a rare
visitor. OK, But the more scientists look
into that giant comet, the more strange it gets.
I'll tell you all the things that are unusual about it.
(14:18):
There are crazy UFO people saying that it's a spaceship
that's coming to see us, and there are all sorts of
conspiracy theories. I'll just tell you why this
comet is unusual and why all of the big telescopes are looking
at it right now. Like the NASA Hubble Telescope
is looking at it, and James Webbis looking at it.
(14:39):
The Sphere X, the TSS, they're all looking at it, studying,
trying to figure out what it is.Why is that?
It's because it looks like a comet.
I also said it's a comet, but it's not really a comet because
comets are like icy balls because of the freeze in space,
(15:00):
and they release gas and dust asthey get close to the sun.
And that's why they form a tail,the tail of the comet.
But this Atlas comet question mark is acting differently.
So the the cloud of gas and dustthat it has around it, which is
called coma. So stay with this.
(15:21):
A comet has a coma, which is this cloud of gas.
It is unusual because it has a high amount of carbon dioxide
and it has the highest amount ofcarbon dioxide that they have
ever seen. Now, the second thing that's
weird about it is that it was already active very far from the
Sun, past Jupiter's orbit, shining enough so the telescopes
(15:44):
can pick it up. This is AI ERMUS to help
understand this bit. When astronomers say a comet is
active, they mean that the cometis currently releasing gas and
dust, forming A coma and often atail.
This activity happens because asthe comet approaches the sun,
it's icy nucleus warms up. Now in this comet it appears to
(16:05):
be active, having a coma and a tail, but it's very far away
from sun to be causing that. So the question is, how is that
comet having a tail if the sun can't reach it yet?
But that was like, it shouldn't be so bright.
It's so far away, if that makes sense.
It was too bright and that's whythey picked it up.
(16:28):
And they're like, what is this? Most comets are are frozen that
far out. And then Hubble started looking
at it, and it looks like it had a teardrop shaped cocoon of
dust. The Tess telescope was the one
that showed that it has been shining and has been active many
months before the discovery, which somehow means that it was.
(16:50):
Yeah, acting in a way that's notexpected out there in the outer
space. Because of all of this, some
scientists are jokingly wondering if it could be a probe
from an alien civilization entering our solar system coming
to say hi. Maybe they're trying to stop
World War Three from happening. Maybe the aliens are sending in
(17:12):
some support. I'm sure we'll shoot it down.
But even if it's not, and it's probably not, it's a cosmic
mystery and astronomers are veryexcited and they'll probably
keep studying it for years because it's made of rare things
and does unexpected. The bottom line, this visitor
from another star is weird, surprising and could rewrite
(17:34):
what we think we know about comets.
How are we doing with time? OK, we're good.
So now I will do a quickie for Berlin.
What happened in Berlin last week?
Subscribed now to multiple newsletters so I can tell you a
little bit of the headlines because why not?
(17:56):
And if you're not from Berlin, you can still listen what
happens to Berlin. Get the vibe.
Let's start a car explosion. Yeah, it happened in
Schoonerberg. And apparently they tried to
kill someone by making that car explode.
They've started looking for an attempted murder investigation.
I thought things would did kaboom.
(18:18):
Only in our side of Berlin, not in Schoonerberg where it's
expected to be more quiet. There it goes.
Now today there is a Gaza demonstration at Brandenburg
Gate. About 15,000 protesters are
expected for a Gaza rally and it's a coordinated set up around
the Berlin Marathon. It's multiple peace and anti war
(18:41):
protests and more are happening across the city.
Let's see how police response tothat because it's been very
rarely peaceful and then are more and more reports and videos
coming online with excessive police force and brutality and a
lot of violence towards peacefulprotesters, including women and
(19:05):
children. But in a more uplifting tone on
the 23rd, 24th, I need to check it's that weekend.
There is my favorite event in Berlin that I have never seen in
person. I keep telling you about it
every year and something happensevery year and I miss it,
(19:28):
including this year because the husband of my partner's cousin
is having a secret party thrown at him for getting his German
citizenship. So there's going to be a
Cartofen festival and I need to think of the German things to
(19:48):
bring him. Who me that cannot even say 3
sentences to celebrate the fact that he made it.
It's a bit of a funny one. I think it will be very funny
activities. He doesn't know about it, so
it's also going to be a surprise.
So it's fun, but I'm using but I'm losing the Kites festival
(20:08):
and Temple Hoferfeld for anotheryear.
Please go there for me. Please send me photos.
It's a festival where giant, huge colourful kites go on the
sky. I'm talking about Dragons, about
octopuses, about all sorts of colourful displays and really
(20:32):
big stuff flying over Temple Hofferfeld.
So it's amazing to go and check it out, chill in the grass, look
at things, fly. It's nice if you have family,
family friendly. I mean, I think the kids will go
bananas. They will think the the aliens
are coming, the drones and the comet combined on the skies of
(20:53):
Berlin. But it's great, it's fun, it's
photogenic if you want to, if you never take photos and you're
like, I never have nice photos that will look like a real photo
shoot and a rare chance to see the skies alive with kites.
So this is it. As a last thing, they will start
here in Berlin, a three-year trial to deliver groceries and
(21:15):
medicines by drones and Tempelhof Schoonenberg.
And this is somehow a focus on sustainability and urban
innovation. I'm really not excited to have
any drones around me, commercialor not.
When it's time for the flying cars, please sign me up.
(21:37):
But this has been today. I hope you don't have any
accidents with crazy bold or Uber drivers.
No drones up your skies, no sugar crushes for yourselves.
Whether we use Discord to appoint the first next minister
or an AI to put just like Albania, one thing is for sure,
(21:59):
the robots are not yet ready to make Greece win the EuroBasket.
But none of these might have anymeaning because a giant comet
that doesn't look like a comet is coming towards us.
Keep protesting for what is right, book your calendars for
next weekend for the kite festival and share the photos
(22:20):
with me. Because this is my curse, this
is my destiny to never see it live.
This has been it. Thank you very much.
If you like this podcast, you know what to do, like share,
subscribe, tell a friend and allof that.
I will see you next week and until then, Xiao.
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