Spelade
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A special live recording of the fourth and (maybe) last episode. Take a tour of all four of Berlin’s under-construction, out-of-use, falling-apart and over-capacity airports. Each has had a part to play in the story of how Berlin f#cked up an airport.
At BER, we hear the airport company's side of the story: damn high regulations got in the way, they say. Tempelhof is closed, Tegel is operating precariously, and only socialist-built Schönefeld is muddling through. The end is in sight - October 2020. But even now Berlin is planning to double BER's floorplan and build a new government terminal.
BER critic Dieter Faulenbach da Costa tells us the building is rotten to the core and should be scrapped. "I am convinced this airport can never open. They should pray for a miracle."
We are joined on stage by Martin Delius, the former Pirate Party politician who led the Berlin parliamentary investigation into BER. Who was responsible for BER? All Berliners, he says. We ignored warning signs and re-elected incompetent politicians.
This episode was recorded live on stage at Prachtwerk Neukölln on Sunday April 29, with audio support from Craig Schüftan from Ducks!
How To F#ck Up An Airport is presented by Radio Spaetkauf and RadioEins.
Producer: Joel Dullroy
Presenters: Joel Dullroy, Maisie Hitchcock, Jöran Mandik and Daniel Stern
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BER has been built twice - the first time incorrectly, the second time incompletely. We hear from Marco, an engineer who worked on site. Employees were busy stealing copper instead of fixing the fire system. Some managers got rich taking bribes. Informers had their coffee poisoned.
Joel and Jöran drive out to the unfinished BER terminal to inspect the too-short escalators that end with stairs. They were just one of 150,000 mistakes discovered in an audit after the 2012 cancellation. Cables were stuffed together in overloaded enclosures - a fire risk. The sprinkler pipes too small to carry the required water. More than 600 fire walls had to be reconstructed. And the builders forgot to install lightning rods.
Even when it's fixed, BER will need another overhaul: "As soon as they open it they have to modernize it," Marco says. "The technology is old standards. New airports are already building in a different way. This is going to be from the beginning an old airport."
But finally, heads are starting to roll... the wrong heads. The BER supervisory board fires the only people who know what's going on, creating new chaos. Then they fire the CEO Rainer Schwarz, but bungle the paperwork. Will any politician ever take responsibility?
How To F#€k Up An Airport is presented by Radio Spaetkauf and RadioEins.
Producer: Joel Dullroy
Presenters: Joel Dullroy, Maisie Hitchcock, Jöran Mandik and Daniel Stern
Music: Ducks!
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BER is the international airport code for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, nickname Willy Brandt. It has also become a signifier of failure, incompetence, corruption and Berlin’s general inability to get its act together.
If you’ve flown to Berlin Schönefeld Airport in the last few years, you’ll have seen BER as your plane taxied along the runway. But despite outward appearances, BER is far from finished. It has been under construction for 11 years, blown through six opening dates, three general managers and two state leaders. Costs have ballooned from around €1 billion to at least €5.4 billion.
Across this series, you’ll learn why the escalators are too short, why the lights are always on, and why the rooms seemed to be numbered by bingo. We’ll interview insiders and disgruntled workers, chase ghost trains running to the terminal, and go inside the unfinished airport.
On this episode we’ll go way back to before any plans had been drawn, before even the Berlin wall had come down, to discover the foundational flaws that continue to haunt the unfinished airport.
Presented by Radio Spaetkauf and RadioEins
Produced by Joel Dullroy, Maisie Hitchcock, Jöran Mandik and Daniel Stern
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Thea har vært i England og blitt fridd til! Står bacon og øl bruspulver til forventningene? Hva er oddsen for at vedkommende som tar handlevogn før deg, fordi du mistet poletten på gulvet, også skal ha kalkun? Yan kjørte på elbilen med vilje og kan man ta telefonen hvis det ringer og man er midt i en ganske fin erindringsrekke ved en grav? Dette og mye mer i Husarrest på Vinyl!
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I denne utgaven kan du høre; Tim Bjerke til unnsetning: Barnebarn faller. Har sluttet å spille LOTTO fordi Finn ikke har nok small talk til å takle at det ikke ble noen premie denne gangen heller. Bør man vente til det er sluttet å snestorme før man måker? Kan man som politivenn spørre hvorfor det står en patruljevogn utenfor den samme adressen hver dag? -Og besøk av Thea, som har et meget interessant pålegg på brødskiven.
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Translation, A Love Story:
Translator listens to The Allusionist. Translator hears about the podcast The Memory Palace. Translator listens to The Memory Palace. Translator immediately becomes smitten with The Memory Palace. Translator translates The Memory Palace from English to Brazilian Portuguese, and turns it into a book – O Palácio da Memória – which will be published in Brazil two weeks hence.
But, like any love story, it’s not quite that simple.
Literary translator Caetano Galindo recounts the trials and treats of turning Nate DiMeo’s English language audio into Brazilian Portuguese text.
Find out more about this episode at http://theallusionist.org/translation, and hear The Memory Palace at http://thememorypalace.us.
The Allusionist is on a break during July. There’ll be a new episode out on 4 August; meanwhile, stay in touch at http://twitter.com/allusionistshow and http://facebook.com/allusionistshow. And come to see the live show at the London Podcast Festival in September.
Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionist
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After a secret breaks in the news, Reply All re-examines how Alex Blumberg's Uber account was hacked.
This episode is a follow up to #91 The Russian Passenger and #93 Beware All.
Further reading:
The Best Password Managers
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After Andrea is attacked by a stranger in Mexico City, she just wants to figure out who the guy was. Investigating this question drops her right into the middle of one of Mexico’s biggest conspiracies.
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Our finale for the year! We solve some unsolved mysteries, call up some of our favorite people, and answer questions about stories listeners are still wondering about. Plus many weird surprises.
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This week: Yes Yes No returns and takes us to the brink of apocalypse.
Further Reading
replyall.fyi
The yes yes nos tumblr
The tweet in question
Tide Pod Pizza Tweet
Uganda Knuckles in VR Chat
Who Killed Captain Alex trailer
Logan Paul "Why 2017 was the best year of my life" video
"Somebody touch my spaghett!" tweet
Smashmouth spaghett
Kirby spaghett
Full Metal Jacket Spaghett
PewDiePie's "Youtube Touched My Spaget[sic]" video
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Writer Jia Tolentino has a new case for Super Tech Support: where are all those bitcoin she bought six years ago?
Further Reading
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Stories by Jia Tolentino
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