Weetikveel

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Big subjects, made graspable.

The gist

Weetikveel builds each episode around one subject and a named guest who can make it less vague. Social fraud, Studio 100, vulvar anatomy, Palestinian refugee status, and Nobel-winning physics all get the same treatment: curious questions, plain analogies, and patient correction.

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About Weetikveel

Weetikveel is an explanatory interview show built on the premise that almost any subject can become clear if the right questions keep coming. It is brisk. The format usually puts one guest in the room and lets a topic expand from a practical hook into a wider explanation. Social fraud is not treated as an abstract legal file; it becomes a discussion of social dumping, subcontracting, black wages, fiscal boundaries, and why a welfare system depends on correct use. Studio 100 is not reduced to nostalgia. Hans Bourlon’s episode turns children’s entertainment into a conversation about creative instinct, copy-paste expansion, the risk of making strange choices, and the long life of a story that keeps finding new generations. The anatomy episode is more intimate. Maxime Brusselaars corrects basic terms, separates vulva from vagina, and speaks plainly about arousal, orgasm, bodily response, and the long neglect of female sexuality in research and education. The episode on Palestinian refugees has a different weight. Masht Khalife explains inherited refugee status, statelessness, UNRWA registration, Egyptian papers, and the absurdity of being born somewhere yet remaining legally foreign there. Then the show can turn again, suddenly, to theoretical physics. François Anclair, Peter Hicks, CERN, proton collisions, microwave acceleration, and the Higgs particle are handled through simple images rather than foggy prestige. That elasticity is the point. Weetikveel moves from paperwork to playground culture, from sex education to displacement, from family brands to particle tunnels. It is conversational without becoming loose. The questions can be naive on purpose, because the show uses naive questions to force precise answers. Guests are allowed to correct, qualify, and reframe. The result is a compact general-knowledge show with a public-radio spine: curious, practical, sometimes grave, and usually clearer by the end than it was at the start.

Made for: For listeners who like explanatory interviews that start with everyday confusion and end with a sharper mental map. It suits curious generalists who want law, culture, science, bodies, and world affairs without theatrical hype.

What sets it apart: Weetikveel’s strength is its range paired with its stubborn plainness: it can move from Studio 100 to Palestinian statelessness to CERN without changing its basic method. The show keeps asking small, clarifying questions until knowledge becomes speakable.

In their own words

Wist je dat olifanten zich herkennen in een spiegel? Dat we 10.000 jaar geleden allemaal bruine ogen hadden? Dat we niet met onze neus ruiken, maar met onze hersenen?In 'Weetikveel' praat Kobe Ilsen telkens met een boeiende gast over één onderwerp. Of het nu gaat over koffie, cocktails, Vikingen, AI of eenzaamheid: telkens is Kobe grenzeloos nieuwsgierig. Zo ontdek je samen met hem kleine dingen over een grote wereld.

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One question sends Kobe Ilsen from K3 pigs to proton accelerators, and somehow you keep up.

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  • an expert to explain proton accelerators without leaving you at CERN's front gate
  • frank answers about vulvas and arousal, minus the schoolbook blush
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  1. 1

    Olie (grondstof)

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  2. 2

    Olie (economie)

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  3. 3

    Kinesitherapie

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  4. 4

    Zwemmen

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  5. 5

    Ramadan

    ·43m
  6. 6

    Oscars

    ·49m
  7. 7

    Joegoslavië

    ·42m
  8. 8

    Oorlogschirurgie

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  9. 9

    De Epstein-files

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  10. 10

    Formule 1

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  11. 11

    Zonnestormen

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  12. 12

    Farao

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  13. 13

    Belastingparadijzen

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  14. 14

    Lingerie

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  15. 15

    Michelin 3-sterrenchef

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  16. 16

    Femicide en geweld tegen vrouwen

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  17. 17

    Energie over 100 jaar

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  18. 18

    De geschiedenis van ons eten

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  19. 19

    Tantra (seksuele energie)

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  20. 20

    Het gehoor

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  21. 21

    NBA

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  22. 22

    Bioritme

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  23. 23

    De tram

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  24. 24

    Psychopaten

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  25. 25

    Vrijduiken

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  26. 26

    Rampenplannen

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  27. 27

    Oostende

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  28. 28

    De viool

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  29. 29

    Waterzuivering

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  30. 30

    F-35-piloot

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  31. 31

    Octopus

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  32. 32

    Inbraakpreventie

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  33. 33

    Kwantumfysica

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  34. 34

    VRT

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  35. 35

    Veldrijden

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  36. 36

    De frituur

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  37. 37

    Nvidia

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  38. 38

    Gletsjers

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  39. 39

    De Belgische staatsstructuur

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  40. 40

    Exorcisme

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    Topmodel

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  42. 42

    De loge

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  43. 43

    Topvoetballer

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  44. 44

    De Belgische monarchie

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  45. 45

    Seizoensgebonden koken

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    Horrorfilm

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    Huis (ver)kopen

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  48. 48

    De bank

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    Eminem

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  50. 50

    Het Grondwettelijk Hof

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  51. 51

    Management Assistent

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  52. 52

    Bart De Wever

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  53. 53

    Cryptomunten

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  54. 54

    Loopschoenen

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    Woordvoerder in de Wetstraat

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  56. 56

    Het Journaal

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  57. 57

    Oasis

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  58. 58

    SpaceX

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    Artificiële intelligentie (update 2025)

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  60. 60

    Adult content creator

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  61. 61

    Paardensport

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  62. 62

    Euthanasie

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  63. 63

    Advocaat van de Duivel

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  64. 64

    Plastic

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  65. 65

    Zenboeddhisme

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  66. 66

    Leiderschap

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  67. 67

    De piano

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  68. 68

    De douane

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  69. 69

    De Maya's

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    Autopsie

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    Europese defensie

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    Paus

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    Psychedelische therapie

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  74. 74

    Bill Gates

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    UFO's

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    Elektrische auto's

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    Julius Caesar

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    Spijsvertering

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    David Lynch

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  80. 80

    Het Lam Gods

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  81. 81

    Cold cases

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    Leuven

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    India

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  84. 84

    Leuven

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  85. 85

    De huid

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    Oorlogsjournalist

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    Uilen

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  88. 88

    Beleggen

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    Mossad

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    Artsen Zonder Grenzen

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    Olijfolie

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    Slaap

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    Bomen en hun verhalen

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    Pastoor

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    Arabisch

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    Sociale fraude

    Philippe de Ketelaar explains how a black-worker case can reach 24,000 euros per worker and six months to three years in prison.

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    Belgisch Nobelprijswinnaar François Englert

    Hidden gem

    In this Weetikveel Academy episode, host Alex Sivrij interviews VUB theoretical physics professor Alex Sevrin about his colleague and collaborator, Belgian Nobel laureate François Englert, who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Higgs for work explaining how subatomic particles acquire mass.

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    De vulva

    Host Kobe Ilsen interviews sexologist Maxime Brusselaars about the vulva and vagina.

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    Palestijnse vluchtelingen

    VRT journalist Masht Khalife discusses his personal experience as a Palestinian refugee descendant.

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    Studio 100

    Hidden gem

    Hans Bourlon traces Studio 100 from the first Samson broadcast in the 1989-90 Christmas holiday to a company that now spans TV, musicals, and parks.

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