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i want to welcome to a new edition of your max with me your host meghan lee here's a look at what else we have in store for you today. see why this artist is making a wax sculpture of u.s. president joe biden and find out the secrets behind the licious german great. book 1st rate their god the show within charismatic multitalented the town meyer the swiss singer of the electro pop joe yellow has been entertaining fans for more than 40 years he may be best known for his hit single oh yeah from the 1980 s. but why has other passions besides music which involve beef wine and chocolate we met up with him in zurich to hear more about his calling mary perceives.

peter meyer the singer from yellow isn't just passionate about music he also loves . it here in this. as well as in germany and argentina operates a number of bars and restaurants. beef and nuts he's produced himself. to the plate from the venue to the. people on. an organic farm in argentina located a 5 hour drive south of. it cover several 1000 hectares of land. in the grassland of the omega he breeds hereford and angus cattle meyer enjoys mixing with the gauchos on horseback as well he spends around 2 months

a year here. argentina and it's fertile vegetation never failed to impress him. there are a few trees. you can find as well. as the revelation every time i come here to the countryside. but this is how people know. next to. a singer of the celebrated electro pop duo. meyers been in the music business for over 4 decades he never expected to become a successful artist. i was originally. so to speak. i would never have. become a musician girl or

a singer. in august 2020 yellow's latest album point was released and storms the european charts the duo creates its songs and this studio in zurich. long been there for i always find choruses sound is the incredibly inspiring well this goes on it goes like this. it's on an endless loop for me i listen to it 20 or 30 times and then start to sing it without there being any content to it you know it's all just dog noises. and suddenly a sense of come together there's something i can hang on to him and that draws me into the song 9. 111. but his musical success is clearly not enough for peter meyer the pop star is also

have been or he always has a glass of wine with dinner. in argentina as well as in the north of the spanish island of a pizza meyer grows his own line here he produces among other wines a red today a blend of cabernet sauvignon vadra and shiraz you can be here only 10 elegant i'm up on the hill where we have these fall with wonderfully cool nights and warm but. the impression these ones might there is actually closer to the border of border gold 2 to one. back to zurich where the enterprising singer has also become a chocolate here his approach to producing chocolate is as innovative as his music using a patented process called cold extraction allows cocoa beans to be processed without roasting them 1st so they retain their natural aroma. no one. make

the way we can with this cold extraction method captures 100 percent of the aroma from the cocoa and then needs much less sugar because we've been able to remove. the. wine nuts meat and chocolate when it comes to food and beverages myers entrepreneurial spirit knows no bounds. he called me on his knee for can't imagine not working anymore it's my life. this is mine should i be so lucky to still be i'm going to realize some ideas when i'm 95 or 100 years it's the most wonderful thing there is. both in the music world and the colon ery arts dieter meyer has already made his mark. moving on to another celebrity and a very important one at that joe biden has been sworn in as the 46th president

of the united states now most of us will never get to meet him in person but it will be possible to get up close to his likeness in wax british artist jethro crabb is creating a figure that will eventually make its way to a museum in the u.s. state of south dakota we met up with him to see how the waxy biden is taking shape . in scope subjects were studio sorry hills area southeast. u.s. president. being able to wax figure in the presence of former british prime minister winston churchill whose likeness is also in the world and. this beginning stage is really about sort of investigating. the form of his head and practicing sculpting some of the shapes so nothing to do with features or dates i o's of the state of the figure was commissioned by the national presidential wax

museum in the us state of south dakota jethro crop has been working on the clay model for 4 weeks but it will take another 3 or 4 months before it becomes a finished watchword. crab studied sculpture come again his career at madame tussaud. or the legendary london watch museum fashioned lifelike sculptures of many famous people. such as former beatle paul mccartney actress fan being big and composer lute big ben bank of. war interests me about. the people i scoped is that everyone is completely individual and capturing what it is about someone that makes them look that way it can be almost a meditative experience you know just getting lost in and the forms and the shots they are sculpting and then you forget about her is that you're actually working.

jethro crop mainly works using photos of the people he sculpting it's rare that he works with large models he focuses more on physical characteristics than personality traits. the amount of research the idea on a character depends. really how much their interest. but i don't think it's. strictly necessary to know everything about me and the editor i'm sculpting once he's completed his play model his team helps with the next then. first they make a silicon mold strengthen the fiber glass for the heads a special wax mixture is poured into the silicon mold the hair is inserted strand by strand several layers of oil paint creates an authentic skin tone but here for

us talk show host oprah winfrey. left madam to show off the years and went into business for himself making caricature as of figures like french president emanuel mccrum entrepreneur moss and members of the british royal family created for the satirical show spitting image. i'm just going to say it was the way it was prescribed. talking about walking in the process of sculpting a realistic head and scope to a caricature i had a quite similar. the difference being in the degree there exaggerate the things that unite us we would receive sketches caricature sketches. but that was the freedom for us to add our own style that's really why i enjoy caricature as. jethro craft things joe biden is characterized by his dazzling

white teeth and eye symmetrical smile which gives his face a slightly longer side appearance. is that enough for a good caricature of a router a caricature sculpture of biden i'm warming his head as i work on a sort of. saying the possibilities and. every winter between november and january something very special happens on the german island of heligoland the birth and breeding of gray seals during this time hundreds of young pups are born and raised on the wind protected dunes before they discover the water visitors are allowed to witness these incredible scenes from a distance on a special trail your own x. reporter hendrick unveiling went there for a firsthand look. heligoland is the nursery

grounds for the gracie. i'm visiting the north sea archipelago by hundreds of seal pups are born and raised every year. there are a few places where you can get as close to the grave as in your own heligoland and they're much cuter than i thought but also what more dangerous. after a 2 hour ferry ride i reached germany's only island in the high seas helgoland was once a hideout for pirates before becoming a popular tourist destination in the 19th century but i haven't come to visit the famous sandstone sea stake known as the long ana i'm headed for the bar to do you know a smaller aisle next to the main island in the winter there are fewer tourists but many more seals i'm here for them. sometimes there are so many animals that the ranger to power she must knock off the beach for

a while this gives the seal some peace and quiet but mainly it's to protect the humans because while they may look cute these are germany's largest predators living wild from this special path through the jones we can observe the seals and see where they've come from the ember to january is mating season and the time when mothers give. the reason it's so attractive is because it's protected from storm tides and that's very important when it comes to choosing a place to give birth to their young kid gray seal pups need to be on line for at least the 1st 3 to 4 weeks so that's what counts. on just saved. from up close i can observe how mother suckled very young after 2 or 3 weeks the cow leaves her pup on its own from then on it has to fend for itself.

although they look much the same they're very different there are fearful pops and ones that are always out for a final stage that are always unfriend like a buffet sound ones that just peacefully observe everything so completely different characters. are. off to a few weeks the cops make their 1st attempts at swimming but only after this moment or shot their 1st for a coach their company wide manu go doesn't offer them enough protection and the walked. over 650 pops were born here this winter more than ever before and just 2 weeks after giving birth the cows are ready to mate together. at this time the males are even more aggressive the boats which way up to $300.00 kilos fight for the cows favor. i witness that right on the beach i feel safer by

the rangers side there goes of those audience the larger one is certainly a young boy unfortunately he's trying to mate with a very young female. but they might look cute but they really aren't the this isn't us nish. now i know why we have to stay 30 meters away from them do they bite in the movie or they bite design's who i'd say they could bite right through a leg like ours really. once they've raised their young and mange to get the seeds gradually leached helical and then there are only a few left until next winter. seeing so many grayson's in the wire that's really impressive especially the little babies they're really really cute but when you get so close to them you realize that they are really really dangerous predators and that's what prefer to watch them from the safe distance. but to satisfy my

urge to pet one i've borrowed this stuffed toy from a daughter definitely the smarter alternative. besides beer germany is best known for its bread now there are thousands of different kinds of bread on offer here with many bakers who relish in strength or for our series food secrets we find out what goes into making that stash a loaf of bread. we have over 300000 registered types of bread in germany adored germans are bread crazy we simply love predict. goodness and we shouldn't see bread is just the base for cold cuts or chance cold cuts and cheese or just the supporting acts brad is the star.

punched and the cinema 30 years old and a 4th generation master baker we placed great value on tradition across much of it and it all revolves around the wood burning stove but it was gorgeous for a good german praed you don't need much more than flour but here in this case it's wheat and rye flour. how can you have salt east water from the star of the show sourdough whole together the finished product takes about 5 hours to make. this part of the war. we're fighting off and will be oakwood we let it reach about 262270 degree celsius then we use the decreasing heat to back

'd when the last loaf comes out the temperature is around 210 degrees. but not many because i for the salad ripens of a night while the bacon sleep sourdough lends enormous flavor to the length of also increases the shelf life we always mix up fresh leavening so i can ride in the new every day i will remember i'm taking one kilogram of rye flour and adding 900000000 to water and adding a piece of salad i let dissolve in the water then i mix it all together you can do this either by hand or with a machine that we cover the sourdough and let it sit at arm's temperature for 24 hours so it can develop completely within the next day it will be incorporated into the pred. and then also i follow this daughter from the salad from my great

grandfather from 1928. also already baked tossed founded in a wood burning up and he's 65 percent wheat and 35 percent raw so selecting the right flower is enormously important to. you know it's not german i have some advantages in our own country we can find the 3 major grains used for bread that spelt wheat and rye we grow all of them here so we don't need to import anything and can use the type of grains we have my mom you know my name is bettina lewis and i'm the 2nd bread somalia in germany bread so my game means costs were we listen to the bradleys savor the bread and that's how we create the perfect bread for the perfect meal. and i say we are one of the few countries that offer this qualification from apprentice to assistant to master i master needs to

be able to create bradish and that's why we have so many new types. no but come off and there are so many things happening inside that with nothing of the processes within the print and within the crust of the bread. dark and since all it takes the crust carmel incentives which results later in the crispness and also adds to the taste of the truck. a lot more. color is an important factor so here you see we have a one the few brown crust. or 2 will swallow and then the baker has to have an ear for the finished product out of if you take the loaf and turn it over and knock on

the bottom you should hear this hollow sound and that's all 6 of 5 that's how we know the bread is done. and finally here in berlin we haven't had much snow this winter but one place you will always find it is in a snow globe now they are one of the most popular souvenirs in the world but did you know that they were invented in vienna austria a surgical instrument mechanic named evian patsy came up with the idea by accident over 100 years ago or the parents the family still makes no clubs and can count some high profile celebrities as their customers. shake a snow globe instead you have to turn it on its head and wait until the snow settles then you turn it back over and it's not. adding patsy the 3rd knows all the

secrets about snow gloves his grandfather avin patsy the 1st conducted his initial experiments in this workshop indiana he was a mechanic of surgical instruments and an inventor using a glass bowl filled with water he was actually planning to enhance operating room lighting. and think it was for the hot more than 120 years ago my grandfather invented the snow globe pure charm something because you happen to find some semolina in his mother's kitchen and he tossed some in the bowl of water and it soaked up the water and floated down to the bottom of the bowl very slowly that he thought it looks like it's snowing in this glass bottles of course that's how the idea was born from the snow globe pretty quick. his grandfather found a miniature version of the basilica in the riyadh sand an austrian pilgrimage site he painted a pedestal with shoe polish and glued on the church setting it in a glass globe in 1900 he applied for

a patent on the world's 1st snow globe the flakes fluttered down gently thanks to the viennese formula. yes meant for my father was the 1st to produce the mixture of snow that we used to the degree and that's my secret so far i'm the only one who knows exactly how it's done. every year the viennese manufacturer produces around 200000 snow globes almost all individual parts are made locally the figures are made by hand a process in which liquid plastic is poured into metal forms and pressed into shape the patsy family has also been experimenting with 3 d. printing. is it the other day to recenter. the printer the printer produces the figures layer by layer. if you do. a couple of penguins and i mean joe. as the 1st woman in family history daughters have been a patsy the 2nd has recently joined the business bringing it into the 4th

generation she sees the future of the company positively customers value tradition . back to the source people want to know what they're consuming these are the things they're buying come from you can trace the provenance of every snow globe that leaves this building this globe has a face and that's that's my family this is manna from. heaven patsy's wife is a bean a patsy the 1st paints dozens of snow globes a day many customers commission designs the family uses originality to survive against copy cat and low cost competitors proving they have a sense of humor even during the corona crisis. yes this is the most celebrated snow globe 2020. are snow globe featuring a roll of toilet paper was the absolute best seller off people lined up in the street to get one of these snow globes and the common. directly next to the

workshop is the family's own snow globe museum the unease snow globe is a top export 3 former u.s. presidents have one on a shelf. like this snow globe for the obama family i think you gift given by a resident of vienna on a visit to the white house the company presently stocks more than 350 motifs. remember and you're going to contribute a full perfect world and that's been my world for over 40 years. and cozy world where i always smell as. and with that we were up another show now don't forget to check out our website for this week's draw and a chance of becoming the proud owner of this backpack and other goodies you can

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