Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻

We’re taking one whole month off and will be back on September 28.

Okay, TWG Gang. We did it. We survived another year of this completely random, slightly unhinged thing we call The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria.

And what a year it’s been. Record podcast listeners, thousands of new people joining the gang, live shows, guests, sponsors, arguments, questionable opinions and an unreasonable amount of work. So before we disappear for our very fashionably late summer break, we’re getting a little sentimental.

We look back at our favourite podcast moments of the past year, talk about our packed Kultursommer show (and why we were convinced five people would turn up), and discuss why Jacob is fundamentally incapable of dealing with emotions & especially success.

But don’t worry, it doesn’t stay wholesome for long.

We also get into why Austrians refuse to believe in themselves, why Jacob has officially declared war on Lüften, the very Austrian art of wrapping yourself in a towel at the swimming pool, why old ads were somehow much more unhinged, and some truly beautiful Austrian phrases involving asses and sugar. And we look ahead at what’s next for The Wurst Guide: and where we want to take this weird little podcast in the future.

Goodbye. For now.

Thank you for listening, watching, coming to our shows and somehow continuing to be part of this weird little gang.

We’re proud of you. We’re proud of us.

Kisses,

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Vienna September 24: Level 4, 8020, 

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We had such a great time at Kultursommer Wien! Full house, not a single spare seat, and lots of funny conversations with the audience about what makes the perfect summer day in Vienna.

Unfortunately, we had some technical issues with the recording... such a shame.

Hear you next week!

Kisses & bussis

Nychos is one of the most internationally recognised street artists to come out of Austria - specifically Styria - with his enormous anatomical murals appearing on walls around the world.

In this episode, Jake and Nychos go well beyond street art.

They talk about living abroad, how leaving Austria changes the way you see Austrian culture, and that strange in-between feeling of still being Austrian while building a life somewhere else.

There’s also an important discovery: apparently, the Austrian accent can get you laid abroad.

From there, things spiral beautifully into Austrian humour, identity, emotional weirdness, cultural habits and why German spoken with an American accent sounds completely ridiculous.

They get into:

+ Growing up in Styria and becoming a globally known street artist

+ Being Austrian while living abroad

+ Seeing Austria differently once you leave

+ The international appeal of the Austrian accent

+ Austrian humour, identity and emotional baggage

+ Why leaving home can make you understand it better

+ German spoken with an American accent

+ Casually psychoanalysing Austrians as a people

It’s a monster of an episode, but one worth sticking with until the end.

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻

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Vienna September 24: Level 4, 8020, 

Graz October 22: Superbude, 1020, Vienna 

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Jacob is back from wintery Australia and immediately gets slapped in the face by Vienna’s second heatwave of the summer. He and Gabriel compare notes on what extreme heat does to the city, why Austrians announce 38-41 degrees like an incoming natural disaster, and how everyone tries to cool down without completely losing it. Plus, one listener send us a present <3

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Annabel Lubega is a content creator at Vienna Würstelstand. She was born in Austria, grew up in Singapore and Uganda, and moved back to Vienna three years ago. The culture shock hit her immediately.

In this episode, she shares what she loves and hates about Austrian culture. Her hot takes include:

Everyday racism in Austria: from inappropriate comments to people asking to touch her hair.

Annabel also shares things she genuinely loves about Austria: Schwimmbad fries, the annual siren test and Arabella Kiesbauer.

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Werbepartner dieser Folge ist der Kultursommer Wien. Go and check out their awesome line-up for this year: https://www.kultursommer.wien

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english below

Jacob ist auf Urlaub in Australien und Gabriel schmeißt die Podcast-Bude alleine. Na ja, nicht ganz: Er hat sich Verstärkung von seiner guten Freundin und Radio-Kollegin Daniela Schmied geholt. Dani war schon einmal bei The Wurst Guide zu Gast, die fleißigen Hörer:innen unter euch sollten sie also bereits kennen.

Weil es heiß ist, Sommer ist und wir dringend Abkühlung für die Ohren brauchen, haben wir diese Special-Folge draußen aufgenommen. Dafür sind wir in den Grünen Prater gefahren, der aktuell leider mehr Steppe als Oase ist, und haben uns ein schattiges Bankerl gesucht.

Da gerade Schulferien sind, nehmen wir das zum Anlass, tief in unseren Erinnerungen zu graben und die besten, peinlichsten und lustigsten Geschichten aus unserer Schulzeit hervorzuholen.

Von ziemlich dummen Schummeltricks über eine nackte Lehrerin bis hin zu Flaschendrehen, ersten Küssen, den ersten Discobesuchen und gefälschten Ausweisen ist alles dabei.

Davor bringt Dani in der Zetteltime noch eine Geschichte über die österreichische Astrologie-Legende Gerda Rogers mit. Die beiden haben gerade gemeinsam eine Sendung aufgenommen und Dani plaudert natürlich ein bisschen aus dem Nähkästchen.

Eine nostalgische, sommerliche Folge mit sehr viel Gelächter. Perfekt zum Eindösen im Schatten eines Baumes.

Viel Spaß!

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Werbepartner dieser Folge ist der Kultursommer Wien. Go and check out their awesome line-up for this year: https://www.kultursommer.wien

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Jacob is on holiday in Australia, which means Gabriel is running the podcast operation all by himself. Well, not quite: he brought in some support from his good friend and Ö3 colleague Daniela Schmied. Dani has already appeared in an episode of The Wurst Guide, so our most dedicated listeners might remember her.

Since it’s hot, it’s summer, and our ears desperately needed to cool down, we decided to record this special episode outdoors. We headed to Vienna’s Green Prater – which currently looks more like a steppe than an oasis – and found ourselves a shady bench.

With the school holidays in full swing, we use the opportunity to dig through our memories and unpack the funniest, strangest and most embarrassing stories from our school days.

From incredibly stupid cheating tricks and a naked teacher to spin the bottle, first kisses, first nights at the disco and fake IDs – it’s all in there.

But first, Dani brings a story about Austrian astrology legend Gerda Rogers to Zetteltime. The two recently recorded a radio show together, so naturally, Dani shares a little behind-the-scenes gossip.

A nostalgic and wonderfully summery episode filled with laughter – perfect for dozing off under a shady tree or while lying by the outdoor pool.

Enjoy!

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Jacob is on a mission to find German words that deserve to be stolen by the English language — from herumgurken to a Schuss of milk. Gabriel introduces him to the deeply cursed world of Chatroulette, they accidentally pitch an idea of a TV show, and somehow the conversation spirals from Van der Bellen and Trump to Indigenous acknowledgements, Viennese dialect, Nazi-sounding German, and whether English is slowly losing its global main character energy.

Also: why business emails are starting to sound like ChatGPT talking to ChatGPT — and why Geheimratsecken should obviously be translated as secret council corners.

this text is written ofc by ChatGPT <3 

Episode highlights:

🏄 New feelings unlocked – Crowdsurfing, skydiving, and the strange joy of doing things your survival instinct politely disagrees with.

🗣️ German words English desperately needs – Jacob wants to reverse the language theft and bring words like herumgurken, schnitzen, and Schuss into everyday English.

📺 A TV show pitch nobody asked for – Gabriel and Jacob accidentally create a television concept. Producers, unfortunately, please call.

🌍 Language, politics & identity – From Indigenous acknowledgements in Canada and Australia to the dilution of Viennese dialect and the eternal question: is English losing its sparkle?

🤖 ChatGPT vs. ChatGPT: the office edition – Business emails are getting so obviously AI-written that soon, no humans will be involved. Just bots politely circling back forever.

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In this special episode of The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria, we team up with SPDL (Siemens Personaldienstleistungen GmbH) to explore a job many of us think we understand... until we actually meet the people doing it.

This time we're diving into the role of Junior Sales (m/w/d) Fire Safety.

What does a sales person at Siemens actually do all day?

To find out, Gabriel and Jake turns up to Siemens City in Vienna - Jake wearing flip-flops (a decision he immediately is made to regret) - and meet sales expert Anja Rajic and then head to St. Pölten to speak with Fritz Treiber, Senior Sales Manager at Siemens Smart Infrastructure Buildings Area East.

Along the way we discover:

About the role:
Junior Sales (m/w/d) Fire Safety

📍 St. Pölten

More information about the role:

https://spdl.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/ukwud449nk38vk5wldxe2m8pjphlxbq

Sponsored by Siemens Personaldienstleistungen GmbH.

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻

It’s hot, sweaty and deeply unserious. welcome to our heatwave episode.

Gabriel and Jacob talk about whether complaining about the heat helps, why Austrian summer feels like lukewarm breakfast porridge to an Australian, Gabriel’s hike to the Drei Zinnen, Jacob’s battle with a Viennese parent WhatsApp group, and two very special German words: „Hexenschuss“ and „Geisterfahrer“.

Also known as: witch shot and ghost driver.

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Graz October 22: Superbude, 1020, Vienna 

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Jake is flying solo this episode because Gabriel is off on holidays. So this one gets a little more personal: a diary-entry-meets-cultural-rant about whether Vienna shrinks you, or just quietly asks you to turn the volume down. Jake talks about the strange feeling some internationals get here — that comfort, cynicism, bureaucracy, and Viennese subtlety can make you smaller if you’re not careful. But he also asks whether we give the city too much power, and whether the trick is to stop waiting for Vienna’s permission to be fully yourself.

In this episode, Jake talks about:

Why Austrians knock on tables instead of clapping, and why this may be the most emotionally constipated form of praise ever invented

The feeling that Vienna can “shrink” people who are creative, ambitious, foreign, loud, chaotic, or simply too alive before 10am

Whether Vienna feels small because of its size, or because its social circles, institutions, and approval systems can feel tight

The clichés around Vienna being “a village,” “comfortable,” negative, jealous, and resistant to change

Why Viennese cynicism can be funny, useful, and also a wet blanket for people trying to build something new

The Berlin comparison: Berlin gives permission, Vienna makes you earn legitimacy

The danger of living too long in “guest mode” as someone not born here

Why being foreign can be a creative advantage, not a weakness with extra paperwork

Vienna’s history of loud, radical, world-changing people — from Freud, Klimt, Schiele and Loos to Red Vienna and the Vienna Circle

The idea that maybe Vienna doesn’t shrink you — maybe it compresses you

Why the most Viennese thing you can do might be to stop preserving the past and start pissing off the present

How to keep going anyway, like a stubborn donkey with one direction and just enough German to know when someone is underestimating you

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