Amstel
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Oct 22, 2026
Sam MoodyHOST
Thunk, knock, clink, creak, groan.
Sam MoodyHOST
The choir of the damned chant beyond the grave, and their voices are carried away from the dungeon of the hold on the rolling fog of the river Amstel, down into the city, where it slips under the window sashes and through keyholes to invade the nightmares of oblivious sleepers.
Sam MoodyHOST
When it creeps in at the cracked windows, the upper story of the narrow house on the warmestra, it rolls in smoky tentacles across the dark oak floor to float in fiendish wisps across the Turkish rug, making the patterned fibres tremble in its wake.
Sam MoodyHOST
Then, spreading, it crawls up the yellow patterned walls to creep along the painted vines of the wallpaper, to run chilly fingers across the faces of the bewigged gentlemen in their stiff portrait poses.
ConradHOST
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Proc & Roll, your guide to practical procurement.
ConradHOST
Today, I'm coming to you from the side of the Amstel River in Amsterdam, just coming out of DPW.
ConradHOST
Super excited to meet up with Zach, the man, the myth, the legend.
ConradHOST
He is in London today, and Natasha, our good friend, is on a sailboat in the Mediterranean.
ConradHOST
Right.
ConradHOST
Because and again, I was worried about getting out, you know, leaving that city center because it's so it's also so charming in a beautiful way.
ConradHOST
But this was my this I was running along the Amstel River this morning.
ConradHOST
all these boats were were rowing along the river and then and then i even you know i had gone out and seen the wind windmills a few years ago when i was here with brooke and and but here i go you know just kind of jog along this small little country road going along the the river and uh and found another windmill out here like it was the morning was just kind of dewy fog the kind of hanging low and it just was absolutely gorgeous
speaker_1HOST
So we are in October of the year 1603.
speaker_1HOST
A secret religious service is taking place in a heavily bolted canal house on the Amstel River, right around modern day Waterloo Plain.
speaker_2HOST
This is the home of a Converso merchant named Jacob Tirado.
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
Dennis SpeetGUEST
So some people decided to build in the middle of a swamp.
Dennis SpeetGUEST
They built a dam across the Amstel.
Dennis SpeetGUEST
So that's where the name came from, Amstel Dam, Amsterdam Dam.
Dennis SpeetGUEST
And back then already they were developing something that is unique.
Dennis SpeetGUEST
Why would you want to live in a swamp? So all this innovation, this creativity to solve issues, that's still in our veins in Amsterdam.