Zbigniew Pietrzykowski was an extremely accomplished boxer long before he stepped in the ring with the man who would become arguably the greatest sporting icon of all time. Professor Patrick Vaughan from UJ joins us to discuss a film project that documents the life and career of this fascinating but overlooked part of Polish sporting history.

When you think about places with a large ethnic Polish population, Brazil probably doesn't come to mind. In fact, a city called Curitiba in the far south of that nation is home to one of the largest Polish communities in the world. Listen as we speak to someone from Curitiba and learn about its Polish past and present.

Strange news items to talk about this week, including the return of students to Krakow and their optimistic job expectations, the on-again, off-again histories of bike lanes and bridges, a VERY strange press conference in Warsaw, Biedronka's 15-minute promise, more people hate the Sunday shopping ban, the police pretend to be ill and someone in Nowa Huta was collecting bombs.

In the first part of a new series, we welcome a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese to talk about the differences with Portuguese-Portuguese, what a Brazilian dog says, the REALLY bad word that makes everything in life better and much more. Thanks for joining us, Pedro! Ouça e aprenda!

This week we talk about new crime stats for Krakow, an e-scooter collides with a tram, too many cars in Krakow, bar & restaurant owners suing the government, COVID shots in schools and NAKED GUY VS. TRAM!

Netflix is increasing prices on the Polish market (again). We started using it because it was a cheap, legal alternative to *cough* "sharing" *cough* but how long before it becomes too expensive and we go back to *cough* "sharing" again? Listen as we discuss where many people in Poland satisfy their need to binge watch and how things have changed (and might change again).

President Duda is considering creating yet another public holiday - December 27th - to commemorate one of Poland's many uprisings. Poland already has 2,785 public holidays (ok, 13, but it feels like a lot more) so do we really need another one? Listen as we go through the existing holidays and compare Poland's days off to what other countries have.

After too much talk about when people listen to the KrakCast (rarely), we get into medical care from Zabka, PO is still LOL, Krakow isn't so "green" after all, RIP Krakow Plaza (finally), new train stops at Hala Targowa and racing on the autostrada.

We start with bad and even tragic news this week, with the deteriorating situation on the border with Belarus and the deaths of two young Afghan refugees as a result of eating the wrong mushrooms in a Polish forest. After that, it's Polish support for Moldova in the EU, Donald Tusk says he's for same-sex unions, horrible mineral water now available in Krakow, the census deadline approaches and GIANT CANNIBAL ALIEN SLUGS INVADE POLAND!

The ruling Law & Justice party would NEVER use government force to silence criticism from independent media, would it? That's the semi-rhetorical question we answer while discussing last month's proposal to ban foreign ownership of media in Poland.