DRINNIES - Maskottchen von hinten

Episode Date: March 31, 2025

Mon dieu, Giulia und Chris sind vraiment in den Eurostar gestiegen und haben sich in der Stadt der Liebe einen Wolf gelaufen. Aber selbst im schönsten Schloss Frankreichs lassen sie sich nicht von einfach verglasten Fenstern und stümperhaft hochgezogenen Trockenbauwänden blenden. Folgende Fragen werden geklärt: Ist Donald Duck thicc? Kann eine PlayStation auch eine Stehlampe sein? Und steht Vincent noch auf der Rolltreppe am Hansaring? Allez, hop!Besuche Giulia und Chris auf Instagram: @giuliabeckerdasoriginal und @chris.sommerHier findest du alle Infos und Rabatte unserer Werbepartner: linktr.ee/drinnies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bonjour, Madame, Monsieur, bienvenue à Hückelhoven. No, that's nonsense. We're in Paris. Ah, Saint-Talbot. Yes, exactly. Right. There's baguette, crepes, Eiffel Tower. There are rats. Exactly. They're all called Remy. And they can cook.

We're recording the episode of the most beautiful castle in France, as you've already teased in the last episode. And the most beautiful castle in france after your measurements is in disneyland paris yes yes this episode is not sponsored by disneyland that is already clear but also not by louis cattox or louis haessen namely not from versey we are not far from the disneyland castle we have too bad rooms for that but we are in the hotel of Disneyland's castle. We have too bad rooms for that. But we're in a hotel in Disneyland. Also, you could almost say it's a royal hotel.

Yes, royal. Lettuce-moi, I'd say. I feel like Leroy Desolais in this hotel. We're in a hotel in the Disney Resort area. Yes. It's not the most expensive category, because it's in the front, at the main entrance. We're a little bit off the mark in a Marvel hotel.

Which is cheaper, because we're obviously not Marvel fans. We're in the upper middle class. In the upper middle class, in the Hotel New York. Or what's it called? Art of Marvel. It's called Hotel New York, wherever. What I find funny is that it's like saying, Hotel Hamburg, but in Zurich, or Hotel Hückelhoven, but in New Salon.

In Hannover. Yes. Yes, it's strange, it's generally a strange experience to be here. The rooms are already very, the way you imagine a Marvel Hotel, I think the main target group are heterosexual white men. Yes!

They planned on the table, what do men actually like? Shout out to my boys. And one thing is not, color is definitely not, it's all brown and gray and black. So, first of all, I have to say, my legs hurt, because we have two days Disneyland here and what are the other half half days Paris in the bones. What I see is a huge mirror in my room.

Behind it is a TV that you don't see, but you only see when you turn it on. I see myself all the time and that's probably the biggest dream for many podcasters. It's not mine. Completely different conditions to which we record. Normally it's in the bedroom, it's more dark. One has the back in the hallway. It's cold. Here it's also darker, but for other reasons.

For reasons intended. Here a man cave is to be created. The soap in the bathroom smells like sawdust or something. The mood was really for the room D D-Max and also Obi bonus card. Yes, but D-Max with a certain flair for furnishings. So it's something you see at the perfect dinner, when you're at a single-man household, and you're at home,

on the wall hang Spiderman and other Marvel figures that I unfortunately don't know. Yes, unfortunately. That didn't really get me in the mood. We're really just here because of the situation. And you have to say, the lamps, so there's a lamp here that's very high, Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. in a very long and narrow space in the middle of the room. That's super weird. We're not used to these conditions. Normally we open on Mondays. Then we're free on Tuesday, like on SNL. Free on Tuesday after the big show. Everyone heard it. Then Wednesday morning at 7.30 we go to the office. Meeting with the editorial.

Starts at zero. Nothing closer. Everyone stinks. Completely new show. Sometimes they sleep in the office. Every week. What kind of cameras do we have? Sky, Kim Kardashian, Pete Davidson, they're all there. Last week it was all over.

Go straight ahead, look forward. What's up? Hückelhoven, out of control. Then we do brainstorming. The authors come together. Then they write, write, write. In between, someone has to be a coax dealer so they can continue working at night. Four hours of sleep, three hours of sleep, shit. Someone goes to be a coke dealer so they can work more at night.

Four hours of sleep, three hours of sleep, shit. Someone goes to Dunkin, gets 40 liters of black coffee. And then we go through. Saturday is the first rehearsal of the podcast. Then Sunday, second rehearsal. Where then a few cameramen and technicians are standing around. Who are all bored. Many do not know that, but our podcast is being filmed. Already from the beginning. From three camera people, from three different perspectives.

But only for us. We don't want to publish it, it's only private for us. And unfortunately also in IMAX format, you can't see it anywhere. Except in selected cinemas. And also only with 3D glasses. A very, very difficult video podcast. The most difficult video podcast on earth, maybe. And on Sundays there is a general rehearsal in costume.

In costume, yes. Until we're really hot and have rehearsed everything four or five times. And now it's really spontaneous on Monday. Everything you just told me, I've heard six times. And I have to laugh about it again, as if it's the first time. But I'm really good at it now, I have to say. Yes, but I have to say that the room spreads a certain cold that does the whole thing well.

So we have stainless steel here, we have white, we have anthracite, we have black, we have red and blue from Spiderman on the wall, we have many mirrors and really many interesting stainless steel amateurs in the bathroom, where I first, when I took a, where I burned my feet when I was showering. I didn't understand the opening, so I tried to do it with my foot and it burned right away. It's so hot and cold,

that's what I think men like to do, to get a cold and then get a cold again, and then you call it a shower, for the masculinity. I think that's what it's meant to be. Right. We've been in Disneyland for two days, and we were in Paris for one and a half days. We also did some sightseeing.

Perpedes, I'd say, through the city. We looked at what we saw, what we walked through. We went through Paris. In my opinion, this is the best way to explore cities that you just walk past and see what's on your way. Well, the goal was to get to the Eiffel Tower, but first we had to say we went to Paris with the Eurostar, with the Eurostar, and I have to say,

I got nervous for the first time. For the first time, I've never driven with the Eurostar, and business processes are too valuable and not too small to estimate. You thought it was the Silver Star. But after half an hour you said, when will it go down? I said, Chris, it's the EuroStar. The Silver Star is in Europa Park Rust.

Exactly. We had the best experience, we got to the access. There was a boarding, which irritated me. That's why I got really nervous. I was out of my house, because I saw 20 minutes before the train left, there was a boarding. The tickets were scanned. And then we found ourselves in the best ambience,

in the middle of a school class that is currently doing her school trip. Yes, it was just a professional school class. They were a bit older, they were 16, 17, 18, around that. That's a flair, I missed that. You, Lukas, you, David, you. The first name in Winten-Sietzen. That's a flair, that's an ambience that I want to greet. The Hamburger Du or what's it called? I don't know.

In any case, two teachers in the class. And there was a problem. We were all sitting there. And I noticed that one teacher was walking around the hall all the time, nervous, and she kept going back and forth to the door and was peeking out. And I noticed that the class didn't notice it. The teacher snorted right away.

And suddenly someone wrote, Vincent is not here! So Vincent wasn't there. Vincent was probably a classmate who was probably too late. And as I said, 20 minutes before departure boarding. And then the time of departure was getting closer and closer. The teacher was nervous, made phone calls with the private cell phones of the classmates. I noticed that. Yes, also an interesting detail.

Did you just call Vincent? Can I talk to him? Then we talked with different cell phones. I even had the impression that he was talking to two cell phones parallel, left and right. It was like Lola is running. You feel like you're in real time. Vincent is trying to get the train. The departure is getting closer and closer.

Five minutes before departure, four minutes, three minutes. The teacher is standing at the door. Vincent is on the phone. Vincent, where are you? I must say, I was feverish. My fear of being late at school was triggered. It was out of the closet, where I had already been stung in the shoe box.

It was taken out and I had wet hands again, where I thought, now is the moment again. 7 o'clock, 5.30 in the morning, first hour of math. I could be late, then I have to do the walk of shame, everyone is watching, then you have to justify yourself. I didn't want to experience that, but I had to experience it forcibly. Yes, and then there really comes Showdown,

Showdown on track 8. The teacher asks Vincent, where are you? And Vincent says, I'm coming up the escalator now. And the teacher says, Vincent, which escalator? I don't see you, track 8. And Vincent says, and that's the funniest thing, the teacher repeats what he says, what does that mean? You're at Hansa Ring.

The train leaves in two minutes. Turns out Vincent is at Hansa Ring, not at the Cologne central station. He's at the completely wrong station. He can't get the train anymore. We're leaving without Vincent. Wow, and I have to say, there was a train companion, a manager, who sprayed Esprit. He had some really long hair,

a bit like Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix. But also French. Wow, what an Esprit. Oh la la, oh la la, oh c'est cool. He comes in, he has this manager device. What is this over-dimensional cell phone with the keys? That's not what it is. What is a cell phone, a phone, a scanning device

and a cash machine at the same time? He hung himself over his shoulder, comes in and says, oh la la, what a pleasure. You know what, I think these are the old car phones. Yes, right. These rectangular, big boxes, they have changed to ticket scanners. Short side note, did you know that until recently,

I've had to find out bitterly at my last Swiss visit that you don't say Natel anymore for mobile phones. What? You now say mobile phone. Natel was an old term for national car phone. A mobile phone that you can hold in your hands and can call on the go. And I want to say, until about ten years ago, a mobile phone that you can hold in your hands and use to make phone calls.

And I want to say, up to about ten years ago, that was the common term for the cell phone. And now I've revealed myself as an old Millennial Suck and told Nathal that the eyes got big, the smile loud. You're like the drummer from Metallica when he comes to Denmark. He knows the old words from Denmark and blames himself. That's the same with you. You've been in Germany for too long, you can't handle it.

And half a day too late for every job. Now I have to say, but Monsieur Claude with the big cell phone. Jacques Chirac. Exactly, from the EuroStar. Now it's going in the right direction. Sorry, no, he looked good. He didn't just look good, he sensed a spirit. He said, how can I help you with a small share?

Then the teacher was a bit desperate, a bit angry, saying, Vincent Masson didn't make it on the train. What do we do now? And she said to another student, Vincent has to pay the ticket himself. In two hours the next train will arrive, he has to pay for it himself. And then the manager comes,

oh, I've seen it, when checking in, someone's missing. I've already told my colleague, in an hour the next train will arrive, it's supposed to get in at Wagen 29, all good, have fun. All good, all good. No stress.

And then the deal was settled, no new ticket, Vincent Vasson didn't have to pay for it himself. He could just get in an hour later. But we also heard the phone call. He almost didn't make it to the second train. And the teacher was really confused. Where are they now? Are they in the train now? And Vincent didn't really formulate it. He somehow formulated it in a misunderstanding.

But he was definitely in his train. He definitely made it. Vincent. I was able to warm up, you were able to warm up. And only then, after that hour, we were able to enjoy the ride. Yes, the bread roll with remoulade, which almost made me get a cramp in my throat because it was so criss-crossed. It tasted good. The train ride was quick. It's not a long distance and I have to say, the hotel was well-arranged. Actually, directly on the track, you have to say. You heard the hotel was good.

Actually, directly on the track, you have to say. You heard the trains rumbling. Check-in process was not so good in my opinion. It wasn't so good. Yes. I am then, at some point, when you talked to someone, all the time in difficult English, it was enough for me. We had already checked in, Julia. We can actually go into that now. I got up, put my feet up,

first enjoyed the city, the flair, the ambience, Paris, the city of la mort toujours, the city of love, the big apple, the... La grand pompe. Exactly, the city that never sleeps. All the whole program. And you then, I would say, came came about a quarter of an hour later. What was going on there, Julia?

Yes, Chris, I would like to ask you to go to the accountability scene. You could have gotten me out of there, but you didn't. Instead, you just went to the room. I got into a situation of will again. Even if I acted like that, openly, friendly, closed up, I didn't want to open up, even if I did seem like it. I was only involved in a small talk because of my bag. I had a YouTube-bag from a magazine I subscribed to, called The Paris Review. It's a literature magazine from New York.

It's the same fault if such high-class shit is around your neck. It deserves it in my opinion. Yes, that's a different topic. I've noticed that there was a guy in front of me who also had a bag, but from the London Review of Books. Don't tell me Paris doesn't know that pig. And that's the English version of this magazine. And I thought, oh no, if he sees this with my bag, I'll turn him around, the logo was on the other side too. And then I thought, oh no, if he sees this with my bag and stuff, I turned him around, the logo was on the other side too.

And then I thought, fuck. And it was exactly the same, he saw it, he went straight to me and started talking. Then the educational citizenship is over, right? And I have to say, I don't even like to talk in German. I like to read my magazines, I like to read books, but I don't have to do the big interviews, I don't have to profile myself big interviews. I don't have to profile myself.

I don't care about the distinction. I prefer to be quiet. So he nodded. What happened? He called me and the problem was not only that he called me in English. I understand English quite well, but he spoke in an accent I couldn't assign. It was either, and now we come to the option, I have no idea what it was. Wait, here we would put millionaire music in.

It was either Australian, Scottish, South African or something like Irish or such a small island. Isle of man or Isle of white. Yes exactly. Something like that. It was definitely not clear British, British English. So we can't solve the answer now. We can't solve it, I will never find out. And I'll tell you why. I asked for his name and we're already at the problem.

He got me involved in a conversation. He asked me after a couple of minutes if I'm an author. Which I couldn't deny because I'm an author. So I told him I'm an author. Julia, honestly, when I'm at the dentist and I'm asked what I'm working on, I've had the experience, when I'm asked what my job is, I say, work on TV. Then they ask, then they drill.

Where, when, at whom, and do you know anything? They drill on both levels. And then you sometimes say certain names that are now being taken into account. I don't say it anymore. I'm still at the official appointment, I'm still Saxon from Lehra. Yeah, well, I didn't notice anything else in the second. I was glad that I understood the question at all. And I answered truthfully,

yes, I am an author. He asked me, what are you doing? Then I said, I'm making humor. And in German, I know, it's a little weird, sounds weird, but it's like that. You know, Julia, I have to say, I'm also someone who walks around the airport and then I get approached by these credit card people.

And I say every time, hey, someone asked me for directions, I'll just stand there and I'll regret it every time. And I think that's exactly the exact thing with you. You think you don't want to be unfriendly, you turn non-verbally, you open up to the conversation, turn your body, and then of course the other person is already on the net, with the tennis ball in hand,, just has to sink the ball. And then it doesn't get started anymore.

Then I have already signed credit card contracts that then of course have to be annulled. Because you see, he's a freelancer, we don't want to have anything to do with him. Yes, right, that's exactly how it was. And then he even wrote my name in his notary app. I had to write him letters. Very unpleasant. I knew he wanted to google me

and he probably found some embarrassing press photos of the Cologne trip. Hey, we have to make them disappear. We really have to make them disappear. That's really bad. Call your work in the folder. You have to delete it. And I really didn't feel like it at all,

because I knew he had checked it out too. And I'm going to up for it, because I knew he had just checked in. And I'm going to spend the next one and a half days with him in a building. We'll probably walk our way again. And then we talked a little bit and he recommended me some books. He called me dozens of authors and titles. And I couldn't... I didn't even notice, because I didn't understand it. I just did it all the time, as if I were writing things in my note-book. I wrote Z, F, A, M, G, and so on.

I understood exactly one author who told me, Nina Stipp, I wrote her. Otherwise, there's only Kauderwell-Street. Nobody in Paris knows her. I was so nervous because I was typing all the time. I wanted to convey the feeling that I was interested. I was, but I didn't want to ask. Then I forgot to ask him if he's an author

and if he can give me his name. And he was 100.000% the author, because when the conversation was over and I wanted to leave, he really pissed a little. He was really angry. He was very reserved at the end. He was shy. He had a nice, friendly, jovial conversation until I finished the conversation without asking what his name was and which book he wrote. Because then he was very cool and then I said, okay, bye. And then I went to the room.

It could be that you now had to do with the Australian Daniel Kehlmann or Sebastian Ficek. Because it shows you how you fill the Langzess Arena in five seconds. And you gave it a chance. You could have learned something, Julia. Ficek, the Isle of Wight. Maybe I talked to him and I really have no idea who that was. I don't know, maybe it was a big name, a big star. But I really fled, I couldn't do it anymore.

And I was so afraid that I would meet him again and have to talk about literature again in English, in an accent that I don't understand, that I didn't go to breakfast. That I paid. And then you had to go alone and got your pain au chocolat and your coffee. And I then really went downstairs to the boulangerie and then tried to order a croissant in French with my two or three brocquettes.

That was a big argument that you didn't want breakfast anymore. And I said, I paid for it. I always paid for it in the hotel. I have to have something, at least four croissants and five pounds of chocolate, which I regret instantly, because of course the soup boils up. The soda burning is there, because all this butter dough, all these puff pastry doughs, that's the absolute hell for me. But I noticed that I'm actually getting absolutely nothing in France with my French.

I was aware of that before. But a problem I wasn't aware of is that I once studied in the French Swede, at the Genfersee. That's why I heard a lot of French in my life, even in school. I can't say it loudly how long I've had French. I think nine years or so. And then four years studying again. So incredibly long. You can speak better French than French people now.

No, not really. That's my big problem. I have a vocabulary of, I want to say, maybe when it comes up, 100 words. But the 100 words I have, I have them pretty good. There's little accent. And now that's a problem, because in France, I know exactly how the people are there, it's about the business processes. The people in France don't like to say, they hate to speak English. So what do I do? I want to be friendly.

I'm read as a German abroad. There is a certain historical context in which you take place abroad, especially in European abroad. And I want to appear closed and try to say bonjour in Paris and greet people and thank them. But the problem is, every time I asked for a coffee or something or said hello somewhere, even in Disneyland, then I was answered course answered in French,

and then I just had it all. I didn't understand anything anymore. So I could say, hello, I'm looking for the toilet, or hello, I'd like to pay the bill, and then it was over. Yes, I noticed too, with your French, it's really hardly noticeable that you're from abroad. The gedacht, du kommst aus Paris.

Die haben sich sofort auf Französisch angesprochen. Nur wenn du nur bonjour gesagt hast. Schon komplett anders als ich. Ich sag bonjour, du sagst bonjour. Oh, lolo. Und es ist wirklich so, die Leute straight reden mit dir Französisch, mit mir sofort immer so auf, auch Französisch, aber so ganz langsam, weil sie merken, ich kann's nicht. Aber bei dir, direkt straight denken sie, du bist Pariser. with you French, with me immediately, always in French, but very slowly,

because she notices I can't do it. But with you, straight away, they think you're Parisian. I don't have to exaggerate, it's not that good either. But I noticed one thing, that your English, what you speak, is also far superior to mine. I'm subject to something like that, I really have to be careful.

I then switched to English, and they also talked to me on the wall. So, chapeau. In Paris you know how to speak English. A friend of mine asked me if I would send her a map from Paris. And I have several problems with that. First of all I said no, I won't do that for any reason. First of all I think sending a map is a nice gesture. But apart from the fact that they arrive three weeks later,

when you're already back home and in a completely different mood, it also comes to the fact that you don't just have to find a postcard in the country, which is easy, but you also have to buy postcards, which you always have to ask, do you have to use the same word in French? I'm not in the mood for that at all. And then there's also the fact that I often mix mailboxes with trash cans in the mood for that. And I often get in the way of the trash cans in foreign countries. And that's a lot of problems.

But now another thing. In general, when it comes to postcards and souvenirs, I've been asked. We drove from Cologne by train to Paris with the Eurostar. And it took 3.5 hours. Less than from Cologne to Hamburg with the ICE. It was faster, we were faster in Paris than in Hamburg from Cologne. And I wonder,

how far away must the holiday destination be, that a souvenir that you bring from this city is no longer a disgrace. Because I personally find 3.5 hours a souvenir, seriously, that's really closer than Hamburg. Do I really have to bring a souvenir with me? You can also ask the opposite question. There are people who always bring a souvenir with them when they are on vacation.

And then I didn't even ask them to bring me something. It's nice, but what can can start with a parrot from the Caribbean that was bought from porcelain limit, from plastic, in a duty free shop. Also not quite right. You could ask how far a city can go until I have a bad conscience that I don't bring souvenirs. Is Paris still in the range where I can say, I don't bringing anyone anything.

Even those who always bring me souvenirs or write cards, I can say with a good conscience, no, I'm not doing that. No, I think, sorry, three and a half hours by train, just drive over yourself if you want a magnet. Just drive over. But that doesn't cost much anymore, it was cheap, that's fast, faster and cheaper than Hamburg. What do I want to bring with a magnet?

I really think that's... I think that's a souvenir request. I think I'm a coward at three and a half hours. Do you think the clad industry is angry with the magnet industry? The clad industry? Yes, you always see these clad strips that you can stick on and then it means you can hang some coated cloths on the window if you don't have any space left in the drawer.

Or you can do it with magnets or what is also popular, suction cups, but they never hold. Then you have to lick them like this. And then with the spit you stick them on the window and then the spit hangs there and you look there and think, man, that's my spit. I'm absolutely confused by what you're telling me. But here in Disneyland, there were a lot of people

who bought shoulder pads with magnets. Yes, but you could also solve it with a clasp. I thought so too. But that always makes a noise. When you pull it off, you know? Magnets are very discreet. Yes, a magnet has something more modern than clad, if I think about it like that. Definitely.

So from the rank list of Podest, the modern one, we agree on place three, there are the suction cups on the window. Yes. That's old school, that's old economy, you don't do that anymore. That should have died out with the year 1000. On place two, clad has a good feeling,

makes noise, but magnet is really the real art, right but Magnet is the real art, right? Are we agree? But you mean these figures, Ratatouille, Remi on the shoulder, a rat on the shoulder, somehow cult-like. Yes, you always think, Disneyland, these are the ears, but that's not all.

There's everything here, and people buy everything. Shoulder dolls are just one of the evidences of this commercialization. And it's really crazy, because when you're here, I can totally understand that you suddenly think that something like this is cool. We've talked about the market effect here in the podcast. When things that are really ugly,

in the context of something that is even more ugly, look nice. And in the Disneyland, it's like this, there's nothing else. You're isolated from something even more ugly to look good. And in Disneyland, there's nothing else. You're isolated from the outside world. And you only have these Disney shops. And if you sometimes just stay in them for several days, you suddenly find things that you like, where you think, that's nice.

Because the rest is even more ugly. I'm trapped in the trap myself. I'm trapped myself. Did I myself was the one who got it. I myself got it. Did I buy earrings with Ariel? I did. I did. I agree. Costs 35€, have a value of 1,20€? To 1000%!

These things are totally overpriced. These are all Temu-quality. All mass-produced goods in China that they sell incredibly expensive. Incredibly expensive. You just have to say. I know you actually prepared yourself to go to Disneyland. You watched a lot of vlogs, a lot of tips and tricks. Did you use any of the tips and tricks?

I have to say, I'm absolutely disappointed with the tips and tricks videos. Now with the knowledge I have, Chris, I could, I can give you the letter and seal, I could make a German-speaking YouTube video that would be as informative as there is no other source at the moment. I've seen all of them and I have better tips and tricks after two days of Disneyland than these videos I've been given. The videos were all so basic. It's like, go to the Magic Hour.

That's the first hour in the park where only people are allowed in who are in the hotel. Then you can go from 8.30 to 9.30. Yes, good. It's already on the hotel website. Absolute basic knowledge. Then don't buy, don't eat that and that. That's too expensive. Instead, go there and there. Get yourself around so and so much time. Go to Peter Pan's Flight first.

I wouldn't do that either. I would do everything completely differently. I have my own tips. After two days, Chris, I have developed my own tips. And I'll tell you what. Keyword, long line, stand by food and restaurants. My motto is always eat anti-cyclically. Morning in the Magic Hour at 8.30, in the park, and straight to the pizzeria.

I saw that at the pizzeria at the notte. At noon, the line is completely around the building. But if you go to eat pizza at 8.30 in the morning, there's no fucking time. If you go to eat pizza at 8.30 in the morning, always eat anticyclical. You don't lose your time in the line. And there are always these spots where the mascots go.

You can take pictures with them. Costs, right? It doesn't cost, but you have to get in line. It takes an hour. That's something that people get in line and don't walk around the park and peep in the park or just take away space at other attractions or make the queue longer there. I think there are attractions that should just bind people. Yes, sure, 100 percent.

Are these the mascots too? I mean, they're always so small and have a goofy costume. Yes. I think to myself, Jean-Jacques, I think you're nice too, but I don't have to take a picture with you in costume. You know, I would have really liked to take a picture with Minnie Mouse, because I wanted to have one as a child, and I was in the park and all the mascots were fighting, which I would gladly do. But I wanted to tell you... Was that really like that?

It was really like that. They all were fighting. We were in a fight, an active fight, and not a single figure was in the park. And back then it was still like that, not a single figure was in the park. And back then it was like this, that the figures just walked through the park. And when you met them, they hugged each other, took a picture with you. That's not the case anymore today. You find them at certain times,

it's completely timed at certain spots, and then you have to get ready, you arrive an hour later, I don't do that. And there I also have a tip again. As a tip, I developed the mascot, always just to photograph from behind. Stand behind the spots, you don't have to stand there.

You save time. You don't have a photo with the mascot, but I have a really cool photo of Donald Duck from behind. From his thick ass. That's my tip. Always eat anticyclically. And photograph the mascot from behind. And that's how you're saving valuable time. It's like that. I've never been to Disneyland.

It was too far away financially. And it's really expensive. That hasn't changed. I can imagine that it was even more expensive. Yes. And that was my first impression. And I think there are a lot of people there. So from Drini, I have to say, after two days,

the last few hours I was there, I have to say, after two days, the last few hours I was there, I realized I was out of luck, and there was a certain aggression in me. And sometimes I had the impression that I would like to push a few people over my head because they move in a strange way in the room. I noticed that. That's a limit for me.

And I have another tip. Because it's so expensive, and the food is expensive, but it's not that good, and the toys are cent-articles, but they're sold for 30 or 40 euros. I say, my conclusion is, I think Disneyland is all about

making them earn money there. They don't want us to have fun. You're a big thing on the track. They want to take the euro from us out of their pockets. So my tip, if you don't want them to make big money with you, best not go to Disneyland. That's my tip. That's your tip.

You can really just say that. But you have to say that the food is rather a bad McDonald's quality, but royal prices. It's really crazy. I liked it. There's click and collect for all the trainees. You can order in the app. I still have to get into the mega long queue if you want to get the food. But you don't have to repeat the order.

You can just say here that the code... Two for five. And put it in the bag and I'll draw a line. But I have to say, popcorn was good. Popcorn was very good. Popcorn was good. It tasted better than the ones in the cinemas. So I got popcorn three times in total.

And you have to say, at three different places in the park, at three different times. And every time it was the same seller. So he also seems to rotate in the park. And his name was Jonathan, I noticed it exactly. At this point, shout out to Jonathan from Popcorn Stand in Disneyland. He was the same seller, he also seems to rotate in the pack. His name was Jonathan, I noticed it. At this point, shout out to Jonathan from the popcorn stand in Disneyland. The popcorn was really very good.

And I always took the menu with soft drinks. I saved a lot of money. 8 euros for drinks and popcorn. That is by far the cheapest meal you can eat in Disneyland. And I also watched a video that gives tips for people who are fat. Because it's not all made for big and fat people. A lot is for children, but that doesn't stand out to normal, normal people. And there are things that you should do alone.

For example at Dumbo the Flying Elephant. Yes. So I informed myself beforehand and it said that it's best to do it alone. There you have space and if you're alone, you don't have space as a fat person. So I got in there, into the line, which was already very long, and the flight was at the end,

with the flying elephant Dumbo. The flight was maybe a good 30 seconds, but my good, I got there in 30 minutes, that was worth it. And I have to say, you can maybe remember, children in Germany, maybe they will become the biggest enemies, or are already the biggest enemies of me. So, they're not my enemies, actually.

I think I'm her enemy. Because a few months ago it was like this, that I drove in the car and someone showed me a middle finger from the trunk. The children who sat in the trunk, again legally, they cut me some crem the trunk of a car. The children who were sitting in the trunk, they were cutting my gums and my fingers. And then a few weeks ago I walked along the sidewalk and a group of children passed by me

who called me asshole, asshole, asshole. And now it turns out that not only in Germany am I the biggest enemy of children, but also in France. In Paris, in Disneyland, in the queue line in front of Dumbo the Flying Elephant I was standing alone. The queue line was very long and then I suddenly hear in the queue line behind me there was also French, suddenly when there were people insulted then I turn around and then I notice, wait a minute, I'm here in the visor.

Fist of Püt and so on and so on. I didn't understand a lot, probably a new-fashioned insult that I'm not familiar with. But the four groups of middle-aged boys, I'd say 12, 13, maybe even a bit younger, 11, they had a massive problem with me. But I had no idea why. So, the only thing I can imagine is that they had a problem

that I was standing there alone in the long line. And I took a dumpo from them. Yes. That could have been a problem. I can't explain how the riding squad who called me an asshole, or the ones in the trunk who stretched their middle fingers, I can't say what exactly the problem is.

I have to assume that I'm the enemy of children all over the world, at the age of, I'd say, 6 to 13. You're the number one enemy of the state, all over the world. I have to say, there are some attractions in Disneyland that are good, and many of them you have to get on for a long time, and then you're somehow being chased through, then you stand in the line for 40 minutes, and then you somehow drive through the dark ride at Schneewittchen, and are eaten up being chased through. Then you're standing in the line for 40 minutes, and then you're driving through the dark ride

at Schneewittchen and you're being thrown off in 50 seconds. And then it's over. And you get thrown off way too fast. And then there are attractions where I think wow, that takes extremely long, that has an extremely bad capacity. I think it's about

people being beaten up there so they don't run leave the attraction somewhere else. I know exactly what you mean. I thought about it. Disneyland, I know, we have a few highlights here. That's why people come. And then we also have a few fillers. Obviously there are things that are neglected.

But of course, that doesn't want to communicate to the outside. That would be stupid, right? For them everything is on one level, for everyone there is something. And now I got the idea. You said that the merch shop is just full of stuff, a lot of stuff, the building market effect is growing. But one thing caught my eye. And that is the Disneyland Monopoly. The board game.

I thought, wait a minute. There the monopoly manufacturers sort the different streets, and in the case of Disneyland, they're attractions according to the value. And then I realized, wait a minute, there's where Disneyland drops its mask. Everything's clear, the real person appears, the guy, the capitalist.

Walter Disney. And then it's clearly included, what's the hot shit here what is the absolute filler. And I can say the cheapest on the Disneyland Monopoly board is the playground in Frontierland. That's where they find shit. There's hardly a company for that. That's stepped on with feet, emotionally from Disneyland. And then everything becomes clear.

This store just wants to make money. And what's the most expensive? Probably the Disney castle. Or is there more? Yes, yes, that was the Disney Palace. I couldn't really see it. They did a very good job of solving it, in my opinion, back on the verpong. I didn't buy the Disneyland Monopoly, of course, because in the end the Disneyland just wants to make money. You have to say Disney Palace from the front, of course, super, makes something, photo motif.

But we also went through, went in and I even knocked against the wall. So the quality, that's not all gold that shines. But we went in and knocked on the walls. The quality is not all gold, just glazed windows, a lot of dry construction, and you can hear the squeaking. When I was at the Dumbo, I thought, is it a good idea to go on here?

Everything squeaks and rattles. And then I asked myself, when I was insulted by the kids, what is the liter of WD-40's oil per day? WD-40, the old-purpose oil for smear, that's an old-purpose weapon. That's for the craftsmen, the same as the remoulade in the Kams bakery. That's put in everywhere, where it's only possible. And after that, it's a clean thing.

Oh, it's the chocolate whoopie. But honestly, I love just looking behind the scenes and looking at the details. Like the business processes in such parks, the employees. Where I have to say, it's a plus point. The employees were super friendly. They all answered in English. I was really amazed how well you could speak English in this park.

They were really, really nice. It's not true for the employees. I'm getting more and more sad. When people are so nice, they know what they're doing. It's clear. There's an appointment tomorrow from the shift manager. They say, people, get together. We don't have much in the show window, but not much in the store.

The customer is king. We have to, the customer is king, we have to excite people with our style. That's how it is. And what I noticed when I sat in Fantasyland and ate my popcorn, I noticed that there were two ducks living there. So in Disneyland Park, in Fantasyland, on one of these meadows. I took a picture of it, which are so beautifully planted and look like fairies, there are just two living ducklings. And they live in Disneyland. And I asked myself, how do they take that?

So for them, the world is Disneyland. I have to laugh, because there's not much left with nature. No. So there are trees, there are hedges, there's a labyrinth. But you don't see many birds or squirrels. I've seen that. That one duck, Donald Duck, that was a costume. That was a costume.

And the question is, what did the ducks think when they saw Donald Duck? Is that your father, the leader of the ducks? How do you see that? They live in this world where everything is colorful. The whole day this Disney Doodle music runs. That's completely normal for them. They were completely uninspired.

They held their nipples there. They swam in the lake from the waterway. They lived there very openly, were probably even born there. For them, that's normal. They are in Disneyland Paris every day. When they see Donald Duck, they think, oh, man, crazy guy. But when they see Poonokyo,

that's nonsense with the long nose. That's not realistic. You can save that. Julia, maybe we should answer a question from the inside. I used the queue line at the Eiffel Tower to read emails. And since it would take a lot of time, you have to say that.

We knew what we were into. That's right. And I used the time to think about what are the problems of the other people in our emails. And I noticed a question from Marie. I would like to answer it with you. Sure. Dismiss! Marie writes an email at Info-drinis.de

a huge terrace. Southern views with a view of roofs, trees and the river were a dream come true. Our neighbors thought so too and soon there was a big frame next to the house. The neighbors waved happily and said that they would also build a balcony. The problem is, the house is right next to ours and so the balcony is only a few meters away.

The neighbors are infinitely friendly and warm, yet I'm a drinny and just want my peace. We see each other all the time and I always feel obliged to a applause or just watched. How should I deal with the situation? How can I keep my terrace as a place of relaxation? So, I read that in the snake. Then we drove up to the Eiffel Tower and thought,

man, Marie, now I see your problem, I look down on the terrace of Paris. I see people up there, at 12 degrees, but in the sunshine, doing sports. Someone did yoga. You see a lot of things, a lot of people do things. And then I thought, Marie, I understand you, this is not necessarily a place where you can relax. When Jean-Jacques

makes a hot pilates in the sunshine of a March morning. I've always been amazed how people can relax in the garden or terrace or balcony knowingly when someone is sitting next to them, lying, standing and has a very clear view. So I can't even estimate, I can't ignore it, I can't deny that there's someone who sees me. And if I try to read a book, I just pretend to read it

because I think about it all the time, what is the person doing, is he watching me, is he taking pictures of me? That's why I can't do that, I'd rather not go on the balcony. The problem is, of course, when the balconies are right next to each other. Yes. It's an architectural question. There are balconies that are spread out and then you have a good and pleasant 5 meter distance in between.

But there are people who are right next to each other. And they might be nice, if Tobias from the next door invited the three friends, because the Bundesliga is running, and the sausages are grilling on the highway and Gladbach is on the iPad against Dortmund and Gladbach is 2-0 behind then there's not that much relaxation. So, actually, Marie has only one thing left. She has to drive the neighbors away.

Yes, she has to drive them away. Maybe first subversively, maybe with smells. I learned about butter acid in biology. Our teacher thought it would be a great opportunity to teach us the Brownian law, that every substance that strives to spread as much as possible by simply screwing up a barrel of butter acid in the room behind the classroom. And that worked out in the whole room and the smell. And we all had to leave the room because it got so bad.

But I have to say, it worked. I got used to it. But that would be an idea for Marie, maybe to just screw up a glass of butter acid. You can never be sure if it's a butter acid attack or maybe just the roof or in front of it, or just let it grow. Or what I've also seen, of course, solar panels, which have partially blinded me insanely on the Eiffel Tower. And then of course you could also align them so that they blind the neighbors.

Yes, just blind the neighbors. Or you could also work with mirrors, or even better, I have an idea. First of all, plexiglass walls, because you want to have light yourself, you don't want to be in the dark, so plexiglass. And then there weil man möchte ja selber noch Licht haben, man möchte nicht im Dunkeln sein, deswegen Plexiglas. Und dann gibt es so spezielle Folierungen, hab ich gesehen. Man kann sich Fenster folieren lassen, dass man noch von innen raus gucken kann, aber dass man von außen nicht mehr reingucken kann. So eine Tatort-Fenstersache, so ein Spiegel, von innen sieht man nicht raus, aber von umgekehrt schon. Ja, genau. Und dann kann man hinter der Plexiglas-Wand wall and you can see everything that happens, but the people can actually see it.

So basically turn the balcony into a winter garden, but fully mirrored so that nobody can see it. Or if we go back to the ducks from Disneyland, you could of course try to lure the pigeons and the birds and and ducks with targeted feeding. I know this from the fishing area, where people go to their fishing spot and then go there every day and feed at the exact same time every day so that the fish can get a taste of it. There we go and at some point you say, people, this is not food, but there is also a hook on it and I'll pull it out for you. That's so mean.

Fishing is so mean. In my opinion, anglers are really behind the scenes people. That's what you could say, right. That's so mean. Fishing is so mean. In my opinion, fishermen are really behind the scenes people. That's how you could say it, right? That's so mean. They make worms and then they make a fishing hook underneath and fool the fish and then you pull it off. And so, bad luck, you have to believe it now. That's really so mean.

But if we look at it positively, if we look at it pigeons-positively, then you could say, Marie, pick the best pigeon food. Not just bread crumbs, because you shouldn't do that anyway. Please look at the Nabu in a traditional way, what's the best? You have to serve the pigeons a real five-course with wine accompaniment.

A really good pigeon food, maybe a five-corn with corn and a little bit of leisame, quinoa, maybe tofu, whatever you like. Throw it over the balcony, Five grains of corn with corn and flaxseed, a little quinoa, maybe in the Jean-Jacques-Straße 107. We'll let ourselves down there. The pigeons from all over Europe unite, drive with the Eurostar, with Vincent, who's also just done it. Vincent, that was Hansa Reng,

get him off Hansa Reng. Get him off, Vincent is also coming with us, Mr. Flüb. Vincent Holgersson gets on the pigeons, flies to Hückelhoven, where there are five-storied with wine accompaniment. Vincent Holgersson! Yes. That's the solution, right? You have to make sure that pigeons occupy the balcony of the neighbors.

Occupied balcony by pigeons. Good. One or the other pigeon will fly over to you, but well, you can then drive it away with a bad French accent. Yes, exactly. So, I have to go now, Chris. You know I wanted to buy an ugly merch at an overpriced price. That's why I have to go now, with my credit card, spored and booted, to the merch shop.

Yes, and my feet still hurt. They are so swollen from the first day I turned on the shower headlight. I'll put them in the fridge right away, from the minibar, and see if something happens. In my opinion, mini bars are saved. And not on the product, but on the fridge cooling power. I always go to the mini bar in the hotel room first, clean everything up, put my own Pepsi Max 2.578 liter bottles in there.

And then I leave them in there overnight and hope that they that the next morning they'll be cold and what happens. No, it's not. It's actually warm. Somehow nothing ever works. But I'm in a good mood that it will help me with my feet. Yes, I think Paris, in spite of one or the other detour that we had to do in Disneyland, was really cool. Or as they say in France, gile. And that's why I want to say,

we're now starting the home trip with the Eurostar. And then we'll hear from you next Tuesday again, to a regular episode from Germany. And until next week! Thank you for listening, see you next time and bye! Bye! Drainys, the podcast from the comfort zone.