What do you get once you put a comic and a popular culture icon collectively in a room to speak? One charming—and sincere—dialog. Popular comic Anke Engelke and entertainer and activist Riccardo Simonetti are prepared to present followers simply that within the new Spotify Original podcast Quality Time mit Riccardo & Anke.
The two German stars met on the set of one of many nation’s largest tv exhibits, Wer stiehlt mir die Show? (Stealing the Show!), and rapidly cast a bond. Now they’re able to take their friendship to the following stage and share it with the world as they talk about all the pieces from showbiz to vulnerability. For the Record went behind the podcast mic, chatting with the duo in regards to the making of their present and what it’s prefer to document with an in depth pal.
What do you get from podcasting that you just don’t get from appearing or performing onstage?
Anke: Being in entrance of cameras is enjoyable, and I’m nonetheless grateful and blissful each day for having discovered the job that fits me greatest. But podcasts are a lot extra actual! Acting is make consider. Podcasts are, at the very least to me, genuine: no script, no make-up—the other of being in entrance of a digital camera. I’ve fairly a radio historical past, really. I used to be one of many hosts of a youngsters’ radio present after I was 12, continued doing radio now and again as an adolescent, and labored at one in all Germany’s most famed public radio stations for 12 years after faculty. I actually love not having to point out my face!
Riccardo: On digital camera you may have to concentrate on so many issues, and individuals are not at all times actually listening to what you say. Because they is perhaps too centered on the truth that I’m a homosexual man who wears make-up; they’re merely distracted by my look. In a podcast, individuals wish to take heed to what it’s important to say, and you’ll be able to be extra weak. I’m trying ahead to displaying folks that a part of my character.
What would possibly shock followers in regards to the podcast?
Anke: That friendship, dialogue, and respect are underrated.
Riccardo: When I’m on TV, I’m often invited to be a confidence booster, to encourage individuals, and to say good issues. In a podcast, alternatively, I can be candid, weak, and perhaps extra sincere about how I really feel in sure moments.
What’s your favourite half about cohosting with one another?
Anke: It’s such a luxurious to have the ability to spend time with Riccardo. He conjures up and surprises me each two minutes—no, wait—each minute! A pal listens. A pal doesn’t use their listening time to consider the following punchline or a intelligent response. And Riccardo is a good listener as a result of he’s genuinely concerned about different individuals’s ideas and emotions.
Riccardo: It seems like remedy, and the truth that I get to speak to Anke each week seems like the last word present. I be taught a lot from her, and I hope that our viewers will hook up with our conversations as a lot as we do whereas we’re having them.
What subjects do you cowl on the podcast?
Anke: We each work in present enterprise and revel in sharing tales that take care of each the fascination and the issues our jobs evoke. On the opposite hand, we’re concerned about present politics, music, cinema, theater—the checklist goes on and on. Anything can occur once we meet to speak, and isn’t that probably the most lovely prospect? That you’re in a protected house however by no means know what to anticipate?
Riccardo: I feel individuals have a reasonably good thought of what our job seems like however not likely the way it feels. The feeling of the expertise, the vulnerability, and perhaps additionally the silliness of it’s what I wish to speak about.
Catch up with Anke and Riccardo, with new episodes dropping each Friday.