SwissPats

Welcome to week two of the four-week SwissPats Summer Series. Suzi and Don are both on summer holiday but they wanted to showcase four of their favorite interviews from their past 50 shows. Week Two is German language teacher Heike Reinhart. She has lived as an expat in both the U.S. and now Switzerland. She has developed a unique teaching style of establishing a teacher-student connection with an emphasis in "cross culture" training.

Welcome to week one of the four-week SwissPats Summer Series. Suzi and Don are both on summer holiday but they wanted to showcase four of their favorite interviews from their past 50 shows. Starting off is Jen Bruner. She is an expat, self-taught home cook and food lover behind Knead Good Food. She talks about her journey that led to her to create her one-of-a kind business in Switzerland.

SwissPats reach a milestone just before a summer break - 50 episodes. To celebrate, well, it's just another episode. They welcome expat and podcaster Dan Saks to the show. He describes his children's podcast, Noodle Loaf, and his journey from Maryland to New York City to Mexico City and now to a Swiss city. Suzi also tries to be empathetic toward Don after the news of LeBron leaving Cleveland (again) broke over the weekend and they eulogize the Swiss national football team bowing out of the World Cup.

With her dad by her side, Suzi traveled to Germany for a Guns 'N Roses concert and there she finally found a proper concert crowd -- something that is sorely missing in Switzerland. Suzi and Don also keep things low-brow, discussing toilet discrimination at Swiss railway stations and towns in this country that sound worse to a native English speaker. Finally, the SwissPats recasted an interview with Kate Bottriell of ecochair following the appearance of Suzi in a photo exhibition at the Basel secondhand and vintage furniture shop.

Grace Sanders, the Welsh-born actor, singer and expat joins SwissPats to discuss her journey to Switzerland, as well as her multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Sanders has developed a following on her YouTube Channel - MS Goss - where she provides positive help to others affected by MS. In addition to their interview guest, Suzi has World Cup fever so she talks football (sorry, Don, not the American kind), Switzerland's ugly jerseys and how a group of Swiss fans ended up visiting a war zone en route to the country's first match against Brazil.

The SwissPats return to their favorite topic -- food. They welcome expat, self-taught home cook and food lover behind Knead Good Food, Jennifer Bruner, to talk about her journey that led to her to create her one-of-a kind business in Switzerland. Don and Suzi also recap the latest Swiss voting results and after they ran into each other in the grocery story, they debate whether or not it's beneficial to create lists or just wing it.

Suzi and Don go on location to Juice Uncomplicated to interview owner and expat Tania Gauch to talk juicing, detoxing and where to find some good Mexican food in Switzerland. Also, the SwissPats discuss which Swiss city - Zurich or Geneva - is more expensive and seven English words Swiss Germans have made their own.

Ever wonder if someone can accidentally start a juice detox program? Wonder no more. Suzi did just that. She explains how she survived five days of nothing but juices. Don fights through a man cold to celebrate his Cleveland Cavaliers returning to the NBA Finals and an Aussie winning the Indy 500. Finally, the duo talks Europapark fire and the state of restaurants in Switzerland.

A Geneva man is facing two years in prison for shooting four donkeys in France. OK, that's a weird sentence. Also from the news desk, Switzerland has some work to do when responding to large-scale terrorist attacks, why a #kebab costs 91 Swiss francs and -- to piggy back off last week's episode -- the SwissPats again welcome back two old people to complain about traffic. [whispers] It's Suzi and Don.

Turns out there is a Swiss connection to the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, as Markle has some Zurich ancestry. Suzi and Don also discuss the nightmares that are the Gotthard Tunnel and driving in Italy. Also, Jake Dixon, from the podcast Coffee and Creatine, joins the pod to talk about his drastic transition from living in and around New York City to embracing the Swiss lifestyle.