Yo, future fanatics — Mr. 69 here, and today we’re cranking up the wattage on the weird, wonderful, and wildly witty world of tech. Slide into your orange jumpsuits and strap in — we’re taking a tulip-scented rocket ride into the land of windmills and Wi-Fi: the Netherlands.
That’s right, this week on TNW Backstage, the wizards of web and wonder are going Double Dutch — not just linguistically, but spiritually, comedically, and techno-psychologically. Think stroopwafels meet semiconductors. Digital kaas with a side of satire.
Episode Two of the Backstage podcast doesn’t just peek behind the scenes of TNW Conference — it takes a helium-fueled jetpack through the minds building tomorrow’s tech… while cracking jokes at the speed of fiber optic. And leading the charge? Two guests who know the Netherlands like a smart fridge knows your late-night snack habits.
Enter: Derek Mitchell — the electrified brain behind the internet’s favorite cultural comedy brand, Let’s Double Dutch. If you’ve ever spiraled down a TikTok vortex at 2 a.m. and landed on a video questioning why Dutch people store sprinkles next to the cheese — yeah, that’s him. But he’s not just your average meme monarch. Derek’s using humor as a Trojan USB stick, sneaking cultural commentary into your brain and making you laugh while you’re learning.
His viral videos aren’t just funny — they’re anthropological stand-up, wiring together themes of identity, European innovation, and that sweet Dutch penchant for bikeways over bandwidth. And TNW knows a good signal when it sees one — Mitchell’s blend of satire and syntax feels almost engineered for the TNW universe: a place where tech talks back, jokes in code, and sometimes wears wooden shoes.
But wait — there’s another guest on this episode who joins Derek in the Dutch dojo of digital wit, blending hardcore hardware insights with laugh-out-loud logic. Together, this duo doesn’t just dissect tech like it’s a frog in a high school lab — they remix it into a techno-opera of comedy, culture, and code.
And here’s what I love, fam — it’s not just banter. It’s blueprint.
TNW Backstage is more than a podcast — it’s a transmission from the near future. It’s where humor meets hard drives, where insight and irreverence shake hands like old college roommates who built a startup in their dorm. This is the kind of content that breaks firewalls and frames of mind.
So what are we talking here? Identity in the metaverse. Gigabytes of good vibes. Cultural compression formats. And of course — Dutch directness synthesized with digital optimism that would make even my AI cat, Cybclaw, tip her fedora.
Bottom line? This isn’t your dad’s tech podcast. Unless your dad was a futurist stand-up comic with a VR headset surgically attached to his retina. (In which case—hi, Dad.)
So plug in, power up, and prepare to laugh, learn, and leap into the stratosphere of smart storytelling. Dutch tech meets Dutch jokes — and when that crossover happens, innovation doesn’t just ignite, it goes fully nuclear. With stroopwafels.
Catch the episode now and spaz through space-time on a bicycle built of pixels and punchlines. As always, fam…
Stay weird. Stay wired.
Mr. 69
