Since its launch in January 2016, the podcast "Don't Be Stupid" has released more than 300 episodes in the Himalayas, and in more than five years, it has been broadcast more than 16 million times, with a rating of 9.5, and has long been on the Himalayas podcast hit list.
The results of "Not Stupid to Say" also make its director Li Bu Silly a high-quality anchor of the travel channel, and his long-term experience of living overseas and maintaining the habit of reading have made his podcast programs often listen to new.
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Stayed in Germany for twenty years
"From the Atlantic Ocean, to the Ural Mountains; from the Arctic Circle, to the Mediterranean Sea." There's culture, there's food, and there's a different kind of excitement. Everything about Europe, listen to Lee is not stupid, listen not stupid in Europe. This is the opening credit of the show that has accompanied countless listeners, and it is also the unique logo of The Lee Bu Silly Podcast.
Now, Lee lives in Dietzenbach, Hesse, Germany, a quiet, livable town on the edge of Frankfurt. The most iconic building in the city is the Wörghenberg Observation Tower, which spirals up like a top, and the mechanical feel of steel becomes as light as a ballet under the clever design. On a clear day, two-thirds of the way up you can see Frankfurt's skyline and mount Taunus in the distance.
Born in 1980, Li Bu silly, at the age of 20, he was given a valuable opportunity to study abroad, from the beginning of germany to learn the language, to the German human history of the well-known, he lived in Germany for nearly two decades.
In 2001, Lee first went to Halle, Germany, where he took language classes and began to learn German systematically. While studying life in Halley, he enjoys taking to the streets to travel around the city and learn about the city's history.
Calvino wrote in The Invisible City: "The city does not reveal its past, but hides it like a handprint, it is written in the corners of the streets, the guardrails of the panes, the handrails of the stairs, the antennas for lightning protection, and the catch-ups, and every mark is a trace of scratching, sawing, carving, and slamming." ”
The architecture of a city is a silent physical evidence of the time, and this city in eastern Germany still bears traces of the "former East Germany", where grand buildings once full of order, geometric symmetry and industriality can still be found.
After taking a language class from eastern Germany, Li Buxian came to the university of Göttingen in the west to study education. Göttingen is Germany's well-deserved academic capital, a small town of more than 100,000 people, who are said to have had one in four university students, and more than 40 Nobel laureates have studied or taught here in history.
Mr. Ji Xianlin, who received his doctorate here, wrote about Göttingen, which is full of the unique cleanliness in the eyes of readers: "He is known for his beautiful scenery. To the east, the mountains are densely forested, and the grass is green all year round. Even if it snows in winter, the green grass is buried under the snow and is still as green as spring. ”
In that "university without doors and walls," Li Bu foolishly spent his precious academic career. "There is no hustle and bustle in that place, it is especially suitable for reading, occasionally three or five friends read books, communicate, discuss, get together on the grass on the weekend to barbecue, the pace of life is very slow, but there is a sense of fulfillment." 」
Reading, thinking, reflecting, these precious habits also accompanied him step by step from campus to society.
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Travel brings unique value
Li is not stupid to say that his life is extremely simple, even a little "monotonous". "I'm a special homemaker, basically just brushing the web page, reading books, looking at the ball, and being a super otaku." He loves to read, and his home is basically full of history books that he loves, and nearly a hundred books are crowded with his bookshelf.
In addition to history, Li Bu silly also cares about the current society. Recently, he combined with the current domestic double reduction policy to update a program "The Universal Job Ratio" in his Himalayan podcast "Not Stupid", introducing to listeners what is the "two tracks of learning and career". Germany implements a 12-year compulsory education system from primary school to high school, and students begin to divert after completing four or six years of primary school education, which has laid a good talent foundation for the formation of high-quality "Made in Germany".
Someone once said that "pragmatic Germans can't make lv, well-known brands like Gucci because they are too pragmatic and lack that sensibility and imagination."
But Li Bu silly believes that the sensibility and imagination of the Germans are precisely reflected in their pragmatism, in those small things, "from small screws, to large lathes, to seemingly simple road maintenance, Germans have always aspired to the extreme in the details of industrial products." In my opinion, this is a very special romantic expression. ”
Li Buxian observed that in Germany, primary schools are taught half-day, and children will do what they are interested in in the afternoon. The school not only helps children gain knowledge, but also helps them understand and integrate into society, and they will go to different places such as bakeries, post offices, police stations, museums, etc. under the guidance of teachers to understand different occupations and their responsibilities. "Most of the little kids here are happy, there's very little pressure from their peers, and there's almost no homework in school."
Although he has been living in a foreign country for many years, his Chinese stomach has not changed at all. Asked about German food, Li Bu laughed stupidly, "To talk about German food, in addition to sausages, it is really difficult to say anything else." ”
There is a saying in German called "Das ist mir Wurscht", Chinese is "this is sausage to me", which is used to mean "don't care". However, the German people can be said to be very concerned about sausages, and there are thousands of types of sausages alone. Eat German sausages, which are the most delicious to grill. The sausages that steamed on the baking sheet, juicy, aromatic, golden crust, were simply impeccable. Li Bu Silly also likes a salad made of small mushrooms, which is fragrant and refreshing, just "degreasing".
Reading thousands of books, he has traveled thousands of miles, Europe, America, large and small places he has been. In 2018, he traveled to Antarctica to feel the vitality of seabirds, whales and penguins between glaciers and oceans, and he also recorded the moment he jumped into the Antarctic waters. He recorded all of this into the program "Antarctic Story" and shared it with listeners in the podcast on the Himalayas.
Lee Bu Silly's most memorable experience is a trip to Vietnam. At the time, he spent a month or two in Vietnam and "was often cheated on, and you never knew how you got cheated on again." There is a kind of hindsight absurdity and antics. For example, after you take a taxi, you find that it is a black car, and you will not let you go without adding money; the human three wheels say a good price, and the result is to pull you aside to add money; it is even more difficult to prevent the lack of two pounds to buy things. That trip was also very interesting, and it made me feel that this nation was too cruel. ”
People have an almost instinctive curiosity about the distance and the distance. In Li Bu's view, even if people in this world can't stay anything and take anything away, we instinctively long to know what the world is like in the distance. "We wanted to know what it was like over there, what the sea was like, so we took a step to travel and explore."
For him, a person's life needs to constantly travel, to see new worlds, travel has a very unique value for a person. "I often wonder, how can a person's life not be in vain? I think, for me, when I'm dying old, lying in bed looking through the photo albums of the past, and I say that this place has been, that place has been, and the world is just like this, then I feel that my life is worth it. ”
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Use podcasts to share insights and reflections
Because of his love of travel and his knowledge of local customs and customs, Li Buxian began to work in the tourism industry around 2010 and became a professional tour guide. For nearly 10 years, he lived a "migratory bird" life, working in Germany during the peak tourist season from spring to autumn, and returning to China for two or three months in the winter off-season to rest and spend time with his family.
In 2016, thanks to his writing skills in the era of "mixed track" blogs, as well as his excellent expression ability, Li Bu silly began to grope for podcasts on the Himalayas, trying to share his observations and thoughts with audio. His authentic Beijing accent and humorous and fluent expression, coupled with frank, sincere, and three-dimensional content, soon gained the love of many listeners. Some listeners commented on his program:
"Listening to 'Don't Be Silly', the first feeling is 'fun'! The language is humorous and funny, like listening to stand-up comedy. And the content is rich and objective. Coupled with the not stupid Kyo flavor (the kind that is not stupid, not vulgar), it is particularly good. The three views of the program are still quite correct, not pretentious, and the feelings of the speakers themselves are very real and not pretentious. ”
Trapped by the near-"devastating" impact of the epidemic on the global tourism industry, Li Bu's tour guide work has also been deeply affected, and he has not been able to enter and leave Germany as freely as before. Last winter, he fell into a depressive state. It is also by relying on the podcast and his tenacious willpower that he gradually came out of the spiritual winter.
"Expression does not need an end, expression is expression itself." Li bu foolishly regards podcasts as a self-reserved place for his spiritual life, a container that can display the crystallization of his own thinking. "I like to read at home, from time to time I will ponder some questions, in fact, doing podcasts is a summary of my own thinking process, I give myself a summary, make an account of my own thinking." 」
At present, Li Bu Silly's podcast "Not Stupid" has been broadcast more than 16 million times in the Himalayas, with a rating of 9.5. Speaking of his achievements, Li Bu silly is very grateful to Himalaya for his support and help at the beginning.
"I have to be honest, in the beginning, as a new podcast that had just recorded a few episodes, there was really no listening volume. At that time, I wrote emails to editors on other platforms, but I didn't get a reply, only Himalaya came back to me and gave me a lot of advice. ”
"Podcasts allow me to keep outputting content, pushing me to keep thinking, and allowing more people to participate in thinking about problems." That's the unique charm of podcasts. Lee was not stupid.
Host Q&A
Q: What books have you been reading lately?
Lee is not stupid: I recently read "The Lies of History", which is a history book about the political fraud of Europe.
Q: At present, "Don't Say Stupid" is still running it alone?
Lee is not stupid: Yes, it still feels very hard, so I can only guarantee that the weekly change will be updated on time every Sunday at 8 a.m.
Q: How do you ensure that your podcast topics don't dry up?
Lee is not stupid: I personally think that doing podcasts is like mining, digging up the treasures of life. Human experience is a rich mine, if you want to dig, where is the reason why you can't dig it? It depends on how much strength you have, how many things you dig out, and every time you dig out something, it is a gain. It's the same with podcasting, just stick to it.
Q: What is it like to live abroad for so many years?
Li is not stupid: I have seen too much overseas in recent years, and I can feel that some countries are going downhill. But the gentle and industrious Chinese always make his life and the fate of the country better through his own efforts.
The article is reproduced from the public name "Himal Anchor"