As a talk show guest, Alexander Klöpping prefers to join Eva Jinek than Op1. “The contrast between those programs is really very big. At Op1 it looks like Star Trek.”
He has been a welcome guest on talk shows for years: Alexander Klöpping. But where does he actually prefer to move? If he has to choose between Jinek or Op1, at least he knows. “I think the contrast between being a guest at Jinek and at Op1 is really big,” he says in the podcast The Communicados.
Op1: Enterprise
If it is purely about the guest experience, Alexander will undoubtedly choose Jinek. “That is really much more fun. Yes really. When you enter Op1, you enter a kind of… Jort Kelder always calls it the crematorium of creativity. That is a kind of factory hall where you enter and then you go into a cellar.”
He continues: “It almost feels like you’re in Star Trek: Enterprise at times, especially when you’re in a makeup room. It is stripped of any spontaneity and emotion. It is clinical and very white. And then you enter that studio and there is no audience there either. And for the rest it is quiet and yet a bit stiff.”
Fun at Artis
Jinek lives much more, thinks Alexander. “Then you come to Jinek, which is part of Artis in Amsterdam. There’s a restaurant there, there’s commotion, there’s fun. There they have a TV on in the background, which editors are lurking at. There are beers, there are nuts. It’s cozy there. I enjoy being there much more.”
Host Victor Vlam: “I find it interesting that you say that, because I think that for regularly returning talk show guests, those kinds of very practical considerations do play a role.”
With the cab
It is also nice that Jinek comes from Amsterdam and that he can just go there by bike, says Alexander. “That is very nice.”
Still, it is not a huge obstacle that Op1 has been broadcasting from Hilversum since last year, he thinks. “Then I just go by taxi, you know. I can not complain. But it will take longer.”
Victor: “Exactly, it ultimately takes less time to go to Jinek.”
Alexander: “Certainly.”