Yet another Expat

It's the hottest day I've ever lived through in Berlin, the asphalt is melting, my phone is peeling, and yes, I'm recording this with no clothes on. Why does EasyJet make you choose your level of suffering to board a plane? How do you cut a $15M worm program and end up paying a billion? And how exactly do you paint a national monument's pool, drive your car through it, and turn the...

Who does an ultramarathon in the desert and calls it a vacation? Who's building a new free public swimming pool at the center of Berlin? What's the latest in Trump's agenda vs anything that ever made sense in the world, and why Anthropic is calling for a pause in AI development? These and more. Come we can laugh and cry together. Follow me on my socials if you can find them. Leave a co...

I propose modern public holidays, starting with a yearly “check your backups” day (USB sticks, external drives, photo chaos) and I campaign for using exclamation marks again. Then I rant about workplaces adopting Claude so heavily that company chat starts reading like AI-on-AI communication: people use AI to generate overly long polite messages and recipients use AI to compress them back into one...

Links at the bottom. Greece won. Three years in a row. The title of the most complex country in the world to do business in. I open by complaining about it, then quietly admit I still keep an accountant there even though I left, because the complexity is also why I cannot leave. (Before you read further... You know who writes these descriptions... right? Right. Ermis out) Then a small thing about...

Zoo Animals as Influencers, a Shoe-Hoarding Alligator, and Greece’s “Rebrain” PR Yo I'm too tired so got an LLM to summarise this episode below, sorry. No need to read ittttt Ermis records episode 94 from Berlin, reflecting on modern zoos and their conservation narrative, comparing captive animals to “trapped influencers” funding protection of wildlife, and noting the northern white rhino is f...

Click me! What a chaos. Freshly converted by the city’s May 1st mass awakening, moving through the people-rivers. Listen as we try to hold a family-friendly corner in a park while DIY DJs multiply, and I attempt to sleep a baby in a stroller like a Game Boy game, and a million things to avoid. He’s good. Charming strangers, cautiously worshipping dogs, and steadily evolving in unpredictable direct...

Fair Google Ratings, Remote Cashiers, Polymarket Scams, and Ryanair Leaves Berlin This episode covers a new Google Maps change in Germany that shows how many reviews were removed under defamation-law claims, and my free, open-source Claude love built Chrome extension called “Fair Rating for German Reviews" Extension here The episode then looks at ethical gray zones in tech capitalism: New Yor...

I praise dried mangos, while the orange man is fighting the pope, and AI fakes are ruling the world. Some nostalgia for old times, a story about my date with an old man to see ballet, and a few thoughts on the Artemis mission splashdown Thanks for tuning in Timestamps 00:00 Mango Delusion 00:55 Apps Became Casinos 02:33 Episode 92 04:00 Trump vs Pope 07:40 AI Is Fooling Everyone 10:24 China’s “Sho...

I got one extra hour of sun and one surprisingly decent espresso, which is weird because I usually drink instant dirt and pretend it’s a personality. I spiral a bit about Nestlé, then I put on Placebo and immediately time-travel back to being an embarrassing teenager. So yeah: music, memory, and how to hack your brain without buying another app. Then I peek at the news: Greece doing Greece things—...

Us or them? An AI dog cancer vaccine and birds using quantum physics. Here's whats up: Growing the podcast - ads, stickers, mild criminal energy. Expat dad life in Berlin. The nightly betrayal of waking up to pee at 3am. A thought experiment involving €100 million and the ocean. Europe's biggest drugstore chain drops krill. Trump's committee guts the Endangered Species Act so Gulf dril...

Hello world, hello spring. It's been a while. Recording on a Sunday with a kid playing horrible flute through the wall. Divine. Back pain, tooth pain, and a norovirus. Living the dream. Sewages exploding at home and abroad. Also a lovely 14-month-old who points at things until they happen. But life is good and I'm trying to keep this episode light. Succeeding partially - Maybe spiritual bi...

Sunny days and deceiving titles. This one's worse than usual! Thanks to whoever did that 21st rating, you're the real MVP.

The sun is out in Berlin. Leonidas eats sand at the playground. Sterilizer is gone, it's his immune system against the world now. He also fell off the bed. He's fine. Probably. Claude AI refuses the Pentagon autonomous kill systems and gets threatened for it. A Spanish guy accidentally controls 7,000 robot vacuums with a PS controller. Iran, AI war simulations going nuclear, and wasps in G...

Fork vs wall & Vitamin D propaganda. Joining HBO Max and how my electric toothbrush outperforms me emotionally. First time at the Berlin International Film Festival red carpet and a yikes Finnish body horror (Nightborn) Also, the polar vortex will break. Normal week.

Poop, algorithms, and the UN falling apart. Also: babies learning gravity, why you need a dog, Berlin's infrastructure having a moment, TikTok getting censored under new management, Jeff Bezos quietly dismantling the Washington Post, and measles making a comeback because apparently we're done with vaccines. Like always, jumping between my kid throwing food and the world doing the same thin...

Pokémon cards are apparently the new way to move money across borders. Meanwhile, Berlin has turned into an ice rink, Trump posts AI penguins in the wrong hemisphere, and lab mice are being told to touch grass for science. Parenting continues to be a content (and contént) giving journey: from the food Olympics to the floor is lava. On top of that, I interviewed an AI cheater, Lego launches interne...

Re-wearing clothes, crows at work, salad towers in China, ancient civilizations discovered with lasers, policy changes in the US, a shiny new Greek warship, and Berlin giving away… tons of potatoes. Like always, jumping between personal stuff and random news :) Follow the Instagram and rate on Spotify! https://www.instagram.com/yet.another.expat.podcast/

Another week of trying to keep up. Venezuela, Greenland, people betting on wars, chip wars, Greece losing its airspace for a day, Berlin freezing, power grids getting attacked, and me wondering (again) if growing tomatoes should be my plan Z

A Spotify Hack, Quantum Leaps, and the State Department's Font Fiasco. Heads up, this episode was recorded 10 days ago, so no info on the US invading Venezuela. I talk about a massive hack on Spotify, quantum computing getting a big upgrade, AI translating Chinese research into English, the bizarre font change at the US State Department, and the messy release of Epstein Files. Like, follow, co...

Hey gang - it's been a hectic end of the year. No news in this episode. More dear diary style and longer format. From Berlin's winter cold and my Vitamin D deficiency to a scam with fake Pokémon cards at the flea market, and my love for Radiohead. Tune in for personal stories and relatable moments of excitement and frustration according to the LLMs.  If you like, show it with some clicks in the pl...

Moving apartments with a sick baby, zero planning, and 40 mystery boxes - my personal favourite. Spotify Wrapped lies, burnout, fake seasons, radiators with commitment issues, Greek scandals, European fines, tech-bro tantrums, Trump winning imaginary awards, and why the world feels like someone accidentally hit hard reset. But it ends on something lighter. A documentary festival, a tiny bit of hop...

No news this week, it's all updates and random thoughts. Nice to be back

Slapped with a false copyright claim but here I am. Sharing random stuff news and updates. This time we have stories, flying spiders and types of people in my local swimming pool. Also you can learn about changes in German laws for 2026 and new policies on social media restrictions for teenagers in Denmark. Link to the flying spider: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2232385167279638 00:00 Introductio...

Albania says they have AI kids now. Trump is confused about a dementia test he thinks proves he’s a genius. UFC showed up at the White House. More random stuff too. Listen if you want.

My grandma always said: a yellow vest and a ladder will get you anywhere. Have you seen China's glass waterslides? Wanna hear how I defended my honour against dirty gloves guy? And why rainy days don't fully suck? Sprinkles on top with tips on how to sleep a baby with a Pilates ball. Lastly, why classic books like '1984' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' are banned in some school...