Raoul Heertje spat an oyster on the face of TV virologist Jaap Goudsmit during an exclusive dinner. Actor and mutual friend Géza Weisz was wrong and completely panicked.
The 58-year-old Raoul Heertje was completely lost more than seven years ago. He had just been bullied away from Comedytrain and for a moment did not know which direction to go. Fortunately, his friends helped him a lot, including Géza Weisz (35). He brought Raoul into contact with Jaap Goudsmit (70), known as a TV virologist in programs such as Op1.
Exclusive dinner
Géza booked a table in an exclusive restaurant. “Géza Weisz said to me: ‘I would like you to meet someone, someone I also talk to from time to time. He’s a little older, but he’s an interesting man, and I’d like you to meet him.” He really likes it when people are together,” says Raoul in the podcast This Will Never Be Alright†
Géza fervently hoped for a click between the two gentlemen, says Raoul. “He says, ‘Then let’s go out to dinner, do you like that?’ I said, “Yeah, I like that.” I mean: I don’t want friends, but I like that. So I did that for Géza Weisz.”
eating oysters
However, things did not go well between Raoul and Jaap during dinner, because of their different opinions about Israel. “Then my friend Géza Weisz said: ‘Shall I order oysters?’ Which is very funny: with three Jews and then order oysters. Then he looked at me like: you certainly don’t (oysters are not kosher, ed.).”
Raoul said yes, however, and soon the oysters came rushing in. Fine, because a little distraction couldn’t hurt. “I was starting to get a little itchy actually [van Jaap]† It didn’t bother me, but I was like, okay. I just wanted to have a nice evening and it was a little… And Géza Weisz was just a little nervous about it.”
flying oyster
There was tension in the air, said Raoul. “The oysters came and Géza Weisz sat next to me and Jaap Goudsmit opposite me. I say to Géza: ‘How do you eat oysters? I do not know how to do it.’ Then he says: ‘You have to pick that off with the fork, then you add this sauce with those onions and then you slurp it down.’”
Raoul set to work with those instructions. “Jaap Goudsmit is telling, I grab that oyster and wanted to slurp it down, but I didn’t recognize that sauce, so instead of slurping, I spit the whole oyster and that sauce straight – but really – into z his face and over his white blouse. I’ll just spit an oyster into its shell. Just really.”
Géza dies
And then? “Geza died. Time really stood still, it was terrible. And then I said, I think in desperation, ‘Yeah, but I just don’t agree with you.’ And then there was silence. Géza thought: now it really isn’t going to get any better. And then Jaap started laughing really hard and then we all started laughing and then we had a great evening.”
It was Raoul’s bizarre reaction that took the tension out of the air. “We talked about it later. Anything else I would have said… From: ‘Oh, sorry, I’ll get a tissue.’ Then it was such a huwehuwewheh evening, but now it was so strange… Suddenly all the rules of normal contact were gone.”
Wrong way
But why did he spit that oyster out? Did he not like it? “I really enjoyed it. It was a reaction to those outings. I just didn’t… I just choked or something. It went exactly the wrong way.”
Note from the intern – Where the above quotes say ‘Géza Weisz’, Raoul Heertje actually called the fictitious name ‘Bert Bock’. He preferred not to mention the name of his celebrity friend Géza. “Now you’ve all got suckers who listen to podcasts, or the intern has to listen to that, and then they start talking about famous people.”