Nick Schilder receives a sharp verbal blow from Jan Uriot. The star journalist of Privé finds it laughable that he is playing the Greta Thunberg of Volendam. “What nonsense!”
It is all terribly difficult for Nick Schilder: he really wants to break through internationally, but he feels terrible when he gets on the plane, because that is not good for the climate. Yet he does that regularly. “But I try to compensate for it by, for example, following a plant-based diet,” says the Volendammer.
Climate Pope
Private star journalist Jan Uriot does not understand that boy. “That’s the climate pope from Volendam, because what’s so funny: he aspires to an international career with America and I don’t know where he wants to go, but then you have to fly of course. To compensate for that, he has a plant-based diet,” he sneers What does Jan think?.
“Then I think: so you eat your fill of plant-based burgers and then you can fly back and forth? Well, I think it’s all a bit nonsense. Of course, if that international career doesn’t work out, he can always say: ‘I’m not going to pollute the world with all that flying back and forth!’ That’s always a good excuse!”
A bit hypocritical
Telegraaf presenter Wilson Boldewijn notices that his colleague does not like Nick. “You just think he’s a bit hypocritical?”
Jan: “Well, I think… Then I think: that’s all well and good and of course we have to be careful with the environment and so on…”
Wilson: “But this doesn’t make any difference.”
‘Isn’t about anything’
That Nick shouldn’t act like that, says Jan. “Of course this is not about anything. They went looking for Simon & Garfunkel…”
Wilson: “And in South Africa. Where haven’t they been?”
Jan: “Yes, they didn’t do that with the bike, did they?”