Unexpected but true: Martine van Os only makes no-nonsense programs on television, but turns out to be a real doom-monger in her private life. “I’ll sell my house.”
If you watch Time for MAX at five o’clock in the afternoon, you really get the feeling that nothing at all is going on in the world. Doctor Ted who comes to tell you how to poop smoothly, royaltyologist Paul Rem who rehashes the tragic life of Empress Sisi and then someone who bakes some oliebollen in the kitchen. Really nothing wrong.
‘I’ll sell my house’
The one who talks all these things together is Martine van Os, but what is our surprise? That woman is sitting on the couch at home, worrying non-stop. Turns out to be something of a doomsayer. “I am very concerned about the new generation. I think the world is moving backwards so much,” she says excitedly Weekend.
What then? “In terms of climate, in terms of wars, how the finances are going, I find it almost impossible. I read more and more about young people becoming homeless and then I thought: I have to do something. Then I will sell my own house and we can share the proceeds with the children. Then at least they have that. I had that feeling.”
‘We’re thinking about it’
So Martine wants to sell her house to young starters who are forced to bid against each other like crazy, and then share the proceeds among her own children? Well, all very effective. “We are seriously considering it, but it is also quite a step. I have a lot of conversations about it with people.”
What do those people say then? “They say that I must continue to have faith in the next generation, because every generation solves its own problems. They all do it together and you must also have that trust in your children’s generation. But I do carry the concerns for the future of the new generation on my shoulders.”
‘It’s complicated’
So Martine spends all day worrying about the new generation and in the meantime she has to listen to all that nonsense from Doctor Ted on her talk show? There is no other way than that that woman is on the verge of collapse. Hopefully she is looking for something on the ground floor… “Well, because we have such a nice house, I am actually looking for the house I have.”
Huh? She wants to have the same house? But for how much money? “For half the money, so that doesn’t exist. It’s complicated. Sometimes I think: I want to be carried out here between six planks, and then the inheritance will be for the children.”
A bit like it happens with every parent.
Stress ball
Anyway: how lucky that Martine is so relaxed on TV. Imagine that she also tells this to those camping elderly people. At the end of the trip, they think they should just sell their camper. “Well, when the cameras aren’t rolling, I talk to them too. And I also have these kinds of conversations with a lot of people at the campsite.”
Oh god… That MAX pessimist is driving everyone crazy. Have Martine’s children given their Christmas present yet? Otherwise they can last minute maybe pull a stress ball from somewhere…