Introducing the Schnitz & Giggles Podcast!

What do the "edelwisecrackers", supermarkets, and Batman have in common?
Mr. Giggles, the American baseball coach trying to hit a home run with Viennese culture, and Dr. Schnitzel, your native guide to all things Austrian, invite you to join them on a whimsical romp through Vienna's charming alleyways. 

[By the way, the Spar logo really is a fir, but without this tree inaccuracy, the punch line wouldn't have worked. Never let facts get in the way of a good joke. More on that in episode #4.]

Transcript

Intro to the Intro

Mr. Giggles 0:01

Good to know and welcome to the Schnitzel and Giggles podcast brought to you by the Alois crackers . I'm Michael , from here on out referred to as Mr Giggles .

Dr. Schnitzel 0:14

My name is Lucas and some people who don't exist call me .

Mr. Giggles 0:19

All of you will now refer to him as Dr Schnitzel . We're just a couple of friends that decided that we needed to get together to talk about life here in Vienna . I'm a baseball coach living here in Vienna for a few years trying to figure out life .

Dr. Schnitzel 0:37

And I'm an Austrian , a Viennese , living my life , having lived my life , continuing , continuing my life here in Vienna , and I try to figure out how I can live with Americans and other internationals peacefully and maybe even be a little bit of help and assistance to them .

Mr. Giggles 0:57

So , as you can see , my friend Dr Schnitzel has quite the task ahead of him ,

Wow, we're top 18!

Mr. Giggles 1:02

very much so . So we're here to do what seemed to need to be done and started a new podcast .

Dr. Schnitzel 1:11

Yes , we were looking around and we found out there's a like 17 podcast about Austria , and so we were really determined to be sure we make make it 18 and at least place among the top 18 for Austrian podcast .

Mr. Giggles 1:23

So welcome to the 18th best podcast in Austria that deals with Austria , but you think there'd be a few more podcasts about Austria .

Mr. Giggles 1:33

It's a beautiful place and now there are and maybe we'll do a few more , just add to the list , but really our goal is to just have conversations about what it's like to live in the city of Vienna . The city of Vienna has been voted as like the best place to live in the world . We're going to do a whole episode on that . I think yeah , at least . Well , I think every episode will have to do with that , because we'll be sharing stories about at least our , our experience with why it's so great here and maybe maybe some experiences about , maybe , why it shouldn't be , but we're hoping to just bring you into our conversations and for those of you who might be interested in what it's like to live internationally .

Mr. Giggles 2:14

Obviously , lucas is here from Vienna , but the rest of us myself and some of our other guests that we'll bring in from time to time are internationals , people who have left their home country and are now living here in Vienna , and so if you're thinking about doing such a thing , maybe we'll entice you to join or get a bonus scare you away . Yeah , maybe you'll just forget about it .

Dr. Schnitzel 2:35

Yes , because my basically my daily business is working with internationals who have moved to Vienna and explaining to them what's so great about the city , or funny excuses why it's not so good .

Mr. Giggles 2:46

Yeah , and the amount of times where we've been having conversations and Lucas will say something and I'll be like , what are you talking about ? And the same is true when I will say something . Usually it's that way .

Dr. Schnitzel 2:56

Yeah , we have encountered lots of American-Austrian conflicts in the past and we all resolve them .

Mr. Giggles 3:03

Yeah , peacefully resolve conflicts , as is the goal . No baseball bats necessary so join us for this podcast as we find ways to share these stories .

Never explain puns

Mr. Giggles 3:16

So we're calling ourselves the Ittle Vise Crackers , which is kind of a fun name . That's a bit of a pun , but I'll let my resident german teacher explain kind of where we were going with this .

Dr. Schnitzel 3:30

All right . Number one rule of humor says like if you tell a joke or pun , don't explain it . So that's exactly what we're gonna do now we're gonna explain the pun .

Mr. Giggles 3:39

Yeah , I've learned that it's much better to explain a joke in these situations makes it so much funnier Because we're here to break all the rules right .

Dr. Schnitzel 3:48

So if the rules don't explain the pun . It's going to do that . Here comes the explanation . So the first part , of course , is Edel . Edel buys , that's two german words . Really buys , being white , and it'll be something precious or noble , or what are the words that are used just before ?

Dr. Schnitzel 4:06

Refined , refined refined , much like ourselves very refined impressions , so it means like refined precious white . And it's not just any kind of white , it's actually the name Of a flower and , again , not just any flower . Wait , there's more . It's the Austrian national flower . It's very special since it really only grows in on the mountains , like high altitude , and since Austria is about 70% , is covered in 70% of mountains and woods and forests . It's a very , very important flower that you can't get in Vienna , because Vienna is not in the mountains but somewhere else . And I don't know if I told you that , but it's the advice .

Dr. Schnitzel 4:43

Flower is protected by , like what you call it , austrian law , like it's not called nature law , like it's what is it ? Just like a protection law , whatever conservation law , conservation law yeah , great conversation about conservation , anyway . So this flower is also featured in a very famous movie that a lot of Americans still know to this day , although it's been I don't know how many 50 years first came out , still family favorite and I'm sure lots of internationalists know this called the sound of music , and there's a prominent song that deals with this flower . It's also titled Edel buys , and Michael's gonna sing that song for us now .

Dr. Schnitzel 5:26

Edel buys and that's all you get , because we don't want to copyright it's just a teaser and when he had a full version . Our album will be coming out soon . Very soon .

Mr. Giggles 5:36

Yeah , final mixing process right now .

Dr. Schnitzel 5:38

And then , of course , we move on from this really really long explanation of upon . That's more or less two or three words , and only a third of our name . So , of course , vice , as it's pronounced in German , it means white . The word for wisdom in German is vice height . So vice the color , and vice height is sounded like two and Thomas , as if these two languages are related . I don't know , and you have more insights on that must be .

Mr. Giggles 6:05

Well , obviously we're going with the wise crackers , because you crack wise is to make some jokes , and so we're gonna . We're gonna be refined and precious jokers , basically . So we hope that , like the long explanation to a simple , simple word , we hope that there will be some ways that through this podcast , we can kind of explain how our cultures can combine and also you might learn a little something about Austrian life .

Mr. Giggles 6:33

And at some point we're hoping to offer crackers that are shaped like the Edelweiss flower Spring of twenty seven , I think , is our launch date for our , our idol , vice crackers . It's all planned out . Yeah , we're in conversation with Spar right now to get them on the shelves

Supermarket trees

Mr. Giggles 6:50

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Dr. Schnitzel 6:52

You have to explain first what is Spar , because most of our listeners might not know what .

Mr. Giggles 6:56

Spar is .

Dr. Schnitzel 6:56

Spar is a wonderful place , a happy place , a place where all your needs a place of milk and honey , basically , and bread and salami and some sandwiches , yeah and any other snack you want .

Dr. Schnitzel 7:14

And here's the quiz question of the day . Oh boy , what does spa spelled SPAR mean , like savings or to save , yes , to save , like you just say you go there , you save money . And here is the question that's impossible to answer unless you speak Dutch . What does it mean ? What does the word SPAR mean in Dutch that groceries ? It's actually the name of a tree in Dutch A spruce Interesting .

Mr. Giggles 7:55

I thought it was like a pine tree . What made you ?

Dr. Schnitzel 7:56

think that I don't know Well , but now it should click for anyone who's ever been to SPAR , who has seen the logo . Oh , that's great . The logo is a tree . Right next to it says SPAR , of course . So we have some partners in crime when it comes to naming a brand , naming it , labeling it with a pun . Yeah , so the SPAR guys seem to be very good with Dutch-German puns and seems all specialty is .

Mr. Giggles 8:27

German . I'll tell you what . The cross-lingual pun content that we're bringing is top notch , you think it's going to help our podcast to come from the top 18? . We might get up to number 16 with this . I don't know .

Dr. Schnitzel 8:42

I don't know it's going to take some work , but I think we're going to get a lot of downvotes for those puns Well , or for explaining the pun .

Mr. Giggles 8:48

I don't know . I think the explanation is key . Well , great Well , because our international listeners might not understand why these are so funny .

Dr. Schnitzel 8:56

Yes , and maybe people would just move to Austria just because of the SPAR supermarkets .

Mr. Giggles 9:02

Right , I mean , if you want to come see this Bruce logo while you save , come on .

Dr. Schnitzel 9:08

And we haven't even talked about Euro SPAR and Inter SPAR yet , but that's a wide variety of SPARs .

Mr. Giggles 9:14

All under the same brand and umbrella is pretty incredible . Yeah , I think that's as much to cover in one episode . Way too much . That'll have to come later when we explain where to shop in Austria Exactly .

Dr. Schnitzel 9:25

I mean coming soon , we'll hear again your grocery store tutorial , exactly Because SPAR is not the only supermarkets out there and they definitely have not sponsored this episode . They have not sponsored this episode yet , if there's any news .

Mr. Giggles 9:39

You'll be the first to know

Podcast Rankings and Goals

Mr. Giggles 9:40

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Dr. Schnitzel 9:42

So I'm not an expert in Dutch or on the Netherlands . Well , we can pretend to be .

Mr. Giggles 9:46

We can pretend to be .

Dr. Schnitzel 9:47

But I do know one thing , oh boy , you know that in the Netherlands there is also a Batman Like the superhero Batman . But they found out his real identity . Do you know what ? What is called in real life , in real life . Like the final is Bruce Wayne . His name is actually Spruce Wayne oh boy .

Mr. Giggles 10:07

Wow , this is . I think we dropped back to 18 . I think we're going to make it to 20 . I think we're going to fall back to 20 . They're going to . They're going to just have some empty space in between 17 and 20 . For us , that's all right . Yeah , but for now we'll leave it at that . It's fun to be able to talk and share some of these stories . Hopefully , hopefully , you'll come back , help us get into that top 15 , or not . You know we can sit at 18 for the majority of our time . That's fine . I'm sure it's . Bruce Wayne likes our podcast , bruce Wayne . Good to bye , bye . Good to bye , bye .