Yet another Expat

Ermis Z.
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A short comedy podcast by a tired Greek millennial in Berlin. Shower thoughts, weird internet garbage, science, tech, AI, geopolitics, microplastics, and other 2 a doom scrolling thoughts stuck in my brain. Also jokes, observations, everyday chaos, and the occasional moments of clarity. So basically it's thoughts, stories and news, combined with an "existential dread / old man yells at cloud" energy and a quiet hope for some alien intervention to save us all. Or I'll go and grow tomatoes back in my village. Anyhow, I’m just talking so you’re not alone with your thoughts. So, press play ;)

  1. 6D AGO

    E95 - Parenting Adventures & Game Development with Claude

    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 the €230 question I once paid a lawyer to answer, that I'd now ask ChatGPT for free. Which is great. Except for the part where the same machine is firing people I know.Some parenting at 1.5 years. He sleeps through the night now. He wants to wear one red boot. Just the one. We are walking, slowly, into the part of toddlerhood where he figures out he can lie down in the middle of the pavement and there is nothing I can do about it.And then the long stretch. I am building a 2D platformer called Pull the Plug. I cannot code. I am making it anyway, with Claude. I'll tell you about the shortcuts I built this week that finally made the thing move faster. Fly cam. God mode. A one-button checkpoint. A screenshot batcher. Petty victories. They felt enormous.The game is ugly. Shipping anyway.We can pull the plug together, kill the AI, then go grow tomatoes. That was always the plan.— Play the ugly in-progress version: https://pull-the-plug.feepok.workers.devGame landing + waitlist: https://ennui92.github.io/pull-the-plug-site/Daily devlog: https://ermis.devNewsletter: https://ermis1.substack.com

    32 min

  2. MAY 11

    E94 - Alligators, UFOs, and Rebrain Greece

    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 functionally extinct with only two females left, relying on IVF. He shares a news story about an alligator lifted by helicopter after a flood, found to have eaten a missing businessman and to contain six pairs of shoes, suggesting it may have preyed on others near a frequently flooding bridge. He comments on the Trump administration releasing UFO files in curated batches while dumping Epstein files as unorganized raw data. He critiques Greece’s “Rebrain Greece” campaign amid brain drain statistics and misleading “reversal” language, praises Korea’s mixed-ripeness “one a day” banana packs, covers Berlin’s e-scooter hub parking plan extending to 2035, and updates that he’s building a six-level 2D platformer game playable in a browser: here https://pull-the-plug.feepok.workers.dev/ more projects at: https://ennui92.github.io/ermis-dev/.00:00 Welcome to Episode 9400:46 Zoos and Conservation Guilt04:41 Rhino Extinction Reality06:09 Alligator Eats Businessman10:01 UFO Files vs Epstein Files13:14 Rebrain Greece PR Spin19:31 Bananas One a Day Pack21:26 Berlin E Scooter Parking Ban24:05 Building a 2D Platformer Game25:34 Final Wrap and Callbacks

    27 min

  3. MAY 4

    E93 - 1st of May in Berlin & the Rise of the Pasta Toddler (And some AI News)

    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 directions. We’re also flirting with the dreaded “pasta period,” which may already be too far gone. Plus: An Amsterdam church experiments with going offline,Anguilla keeps cashing in on the AI boom, and I ship a new Chrome extension, Tab Noodle, after last week’s “fair German Google reviews” tool. Thanks for tuning in. If you're interested in the stuff I make, like Tab Noodle or the Fair Google Review calculator for Germany, you can find everything here: https://ennui92.github.io/ermis-dev/

    23 min

  4. APR 27

    E92 - Google is hiding bad reviews in Germany so I built an extension

    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 York restaurants using remote on-screen cashiers paid $3/hour from the Philippines, and Polymarket manipulation, including the Coinbase CEO trolling “mention” bets, a Super Bowl anthem-length bettor timing rehearsals, and someone allegedly heating a single Paris airport sensor to spike temperature bets. Also Ryanair closing its Berlin base amid rising costs and taxes, and ends with a personal plan to shave my head. Sunday Intro Germany Review Loophole Fair Rating Extension Claude Coding Freedom Remote Cashier Wage Hack Polymarket Mention Games Super Bowl Rehearsal Edge Weather Sensor Manipulation Ryanair Leaves Berlin Shaving My Head Wrap Up and Thanks

    19 min

  5. APR 20

    E91 -Dried Mangos, Reels, Trump vs the Pope, Artemis and Reiner's Ballet

    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 Timestamps00:00 Mango Delusion00:55 Apps Became Casinos02:33 Episode 9204:00 Trump vs Pope07:40 AI Is Fooling Everyone10:24 China’s “Show Your Diploma” Rule12:08 Accidental Ballet Date20:40 Artemis Splashdown21:36 NASA’s Potato Stream26:25 Moon Won’t Turn Around27:00 Wrap-Up

    29 min

  6. APR 13

    E90 - Greek Scandals, Good Espresso & The New Messiah

    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—corruption, surveillance, and a luxury hotel near the Acropolis making money off being illegally tall. I also talk about ads that feel psychic (they’re not), a stupid “white messiah” meme, a Germany rule about leaving the country, and Voyager 1 just quietly escaping all of us. Berlin blossom festival, breathing, jump around, don’t die. See you next week.00:00 Morning Hello00:26 Coffee Standards Clash01:20 Ditching Nestle Guilt02:22 Placebo Nostalgia Trip04:46 Music Memory Hack06:23 Greece Corruption Snapshot08:40 Acropolis Hotel Scandal11:48 Ads That Read You14:30 Cobain Hawk Messiah Meme15:41 Germany Travel Permit Rule18:12 Voyager 1 Deep Space Update20:42 Wrap Up And Wellness Tips

    22 min

  7. APR 6

    E89 - Mostly Animals

    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 drilling can take out rare whales, turtles, sharks, and coral. Migratory birds might literally see Earth's magnetic field through quantum effects in their eyes. A data engineer used AI and DNA sequencing to make his dog a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine. It worked.Like, rate, subscribe your grandma. Ciao!

    32 min

  8. MAR 23

    E88 - Spiritual Bird Watching ft. Hipster Cafe Battles

    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 bird watching is the way. Oh and I won the caffe hipster battle so I saved you that click. Links: Yet Another Expat on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7ibAqCfRRWJmUiWIRyTeWD Ερμής και ο Κόσμος - Greek Podcast with Cosmo: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jOWcdO5g0UWf5vaWtr43i?si=0eS3osRDQh-9lDELdXncKA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yet.another.expat.podcast/ Thanks for supporting!

    30 min
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A short comedy podcast by a tired Greek millennial in Berlin. Shower thoughts, weird internet garbage, science, tech, AI, geopolitics, microplastics, and other 2 a doom scrolling thoughts stuck in my brain. Also jokes, observations, everyday chaos, and the occasional moments of clarity. So basically it's thoughts, stories and news, combined with an "existential dread / old man yells at cloud" energy and a quiet hope for some alien intervention to save us all. Or I'll go and grow tomatoes back in my village. Anyhow, I’m just talking so you’re not alone with your thoughts. So, press play ;)

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  • Creator
    Ermis Z.
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    95
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ermis Z.
  • Show Website
    Yet another Expat

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