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Sep 16, 2026

Ryan MaxwellGUEST
4:46
But yeah, as you rightly pointed out, I'm not sort of traditionally or wasn't born in Switzerland myself, but my family have actually... lived in like about for the last 20 years so i've been coming here for 20 years actually as a tourist prior to them working here for the last year so kind of seen it from both sides of the table and it started out with my sister she moved here 20 years ago as a physiotherapist and then my parents moved five years later so 15 years ago and they've lived out here afterwards so yeah kind of home away from home and now very much become the solid base so yeah Not Swiss myself, but half English, half German, speak the German language.
Ryan MaxwellGUEST
5:21
The Swiss German's a whole other thing in itself, but I can understand that too, a bit.
Carolyn SchonefingerHOST
5:25
Yeah, wonderful.
Carolyn SchonefingerHOST
5:26
Okay, well, yeah, you've really got that connection with Leukerbad then with your family.
Greg McKeownHOST
21:24
You talked about it, how, how, y- you know, Arabic, Arabic-speaking countries have it.
Greg McKeownHOST
21:29
Switzerland also has its standard German as their high, Swiss German dialects as the low.
Greg McKeownHOST
21:35
Uh, H- Haiti has it.
Greg McKeownHOST
21:36
French is their, is the higher version.
Christopher DillonHOST
19:37
But the next president we're gonna look at represents a very different chapter in the German-to-American story, and this is Herbert Hoover.
Katja HoyerHOST
19:45
Yes, his ancestry connects us to the 19th century waves of German and Swiss German, uh, migration, um, to the Quaker communities in America, and to the extraordinary westward expansion that helped create the United States.
Christopher DillonHOST
19:59
Now, Hoover doesn't tend to place very high up on the list of successful or popular presidents.
Christopher DillonHOST
20:04
So outside the United States, if he's remembered at all, it's as the guy that was in charge when the Great Depression hit and who rather fatalistically sat back and let things take their miserable course.
Katja HoyerHOST
21:17
And William Penn himself had founded Pennsylvania as a refuge for such persecuted religious minorities, and this also included many German-speaking groups.
Katja HoyerHOST
21:27
So over time, these communities became intertwined in a way, more defined by religion than by their original ethnic identity or by the, by the place in Europe where they came from.
Katja HoyerHOST
21:38
So Quakers married into families of Swiss German and German ancestry, and successive generations gradually moved west as new farmland became available.
Katja HoyerHOST
21:48
So that moment, uh, or that movement, rather, westwards is the defining element here.
Doug MelvilleHOST
37:46
Now, when you go to Switzerland, you have one year to learn either French, German, French, German...
Doug MelvilleHOST
37:53
I'm sorry, French, German or Swiss French or Swiss German, which are local dialects.
Doug MelvilleHOST
38:00
But when you take the driving test, it has to be one year after you move there.
Doug MelvilleHOST
38:04
So you could move there for one year and your driver's test is fully okay and your company takes care of it.
Hwee KengGUEST
6:58
And
Rachel LimHOST
6:59
Swiss German.
Rachel LimHOST
6:59
Yeah.
Rachel LimHOST
7:00
So daddy speaks to them in German.
Rachel LimHOST
7:03
Swiss German.
Rachel LimHOST
7:04
Swiss German.
Rachel LimHOST
7:04
And then you speak to them in Mandarin.
Rachel LimHOST
7:05
Yes.
Jane Weber-MillerGUEST
4:22
And Basel borders Germany and the Alsace region of France.
Jane Weber-MillerGUEST
4:28
So in our family home, Jörg, my husband, speaks Swiss German and I speak British English.
Jane Weber-MillerGUEST
4:35
So that's fun.
Jane Weber-MillerGUEST
4:36
Our sons, Stefan and Thomas, both recently married to beautiful women.
Amanda ProrokGUEST
4:45
I think that speaking multiple languages is not only about the actual functionality of speaking multiple languages, but it also teaches you to think in different ways because every language comes with a culture and you have to understand the culture to actually communicate with the people.
Amanda ProrokGUEST
4:59
So when I'm talking in English, I'm a different person than when I'm talking in Swiss German or French with my husband, or I lived in Japan for two years or Japanese with...
Amanda ProrokGUEST
5:09
the people I was working with when I was in Japan.
Amanda ProrokGUEST
5:11
It's a completely different way of thinking.
Nathan BrennanGUEST
34:19
... bratzel cookies as well.
Nathan BrennanGUEST
34:22
But expect, again, that Swiss German type of dishes and local favorites there that you'll get to do there as well there.
Chris ChristensenHOST
34:31
Okay.
Chris ChristensenHOST
34:32
Sounds like, um, some of those might be American versions of Swiss food, like so many things that we do in here in the US.
IngoHOST
33:27
Sometimes in the car.
IngoHOST
33:28
I think when she traps him in the car with her he has to listen Yeah, but she said it's been quite nice because he's it brings back memories for him and he can talk about you know some of the German stuff in it and so All the best to them And I was just going to comment a little bit on how different Swiss German is from German.
IngoHOST
33:53
I know I've ranted about this before, but it's actually quite charming, right? Like instead of goodbye, or instead of danke, they say merci.
IngoHOST
34:03
You know, and instead of...
IngoHOST
34:07
It's very, it's not all French, but it's, you know, it's a lot of little French and it's just got charm.
IngoHOST
34:16
It's very charming.
IngoHOST
34:18
And if someone's speaking hardcore Swiss German, it's very hard to understand for a German German.
IngoHOST
34:24
There have been times
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
1:27
This feminine imbalance sets the stage for the masculine to operate out of its lowest calling, dominance and control.
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
1:35
When the masculine drops into its darkness, it builds a world driven entirely by transactional dominance, where everything and everyone is treated as a resource to be colonized and consumed ultimately losing its humanity today i am here to close the door on that corrupt transactional reality to understand how we reclaim sovereignty over our world i had to look directly at the ancestral lineage of my maiden name blazer it is a swiss german name tied to the wisdom embodied in jeremiah 31 33. teaching us that wisdom and knowledge are transmitted from the soul of God and written directly into the hearts and souls of people, bypassing scripture and religious institutions.
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
2:22
With this higher knowledge, Blazer stood firmly against the treachery of institutionalized Protestant Christianity in Switzerland, while also embodying the martyr archetype.
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
2:34
Interestingly, In 2016, their ancestors, the Amish, led the way to healing Christianity's manifest destiny wounds with native tribes.
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
2:43
Swiss Germans are structurally complex.
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
2:46
What can I say? Anyone familiar with the Swiss Germans knows that we operate on a unique psychological frequency.
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
2:53
We are often described as double German, meaning within our worldview, everything must be double perfect, meticulously structured, and bound by an unyielding work ethic.
Carrie Mae BlaserHOST
3:05
My ancestry helps explain why my work is so structurally aligned with two more Swiss Germans who were close friends in Zurich, Albert Einstein and Carl Jung.

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