{"id":12142,"date":"2019-03-03T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142"},"modified":"2019-05-13T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T07:56:50","slug":"belgian-mole-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Mole 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sundays from March 10th,<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vier.be\/de-mol\">Vier &#8211; official site<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so we come to the highlight of the year (and it&#8217;s only March), as Dutch Mole finishes Belgian Mole begins. And this time: there is no Mole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least not at the very start, one will be chosen through a challenge. And this year Belgium&#8217;s Smartest Man Gilles de Coster has taken everyone to Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who are our ten contestants?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"476\" height=\"248\" data-attachment-id=\"12143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=12143\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mol2019.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"476,248\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mol2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mol2019.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mol2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mol2019.jpg 476w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mol2019-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From left to right, top to bottom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Axel <\/strong>&#8211; 40 years old and a pilot.<\/li><li><strong>Bas <\/strong>&#8211; 32 and a headhunter.<\/li><li><strong>Bruno <\/strong>&#8211; 54, a business manager.<\/li><li><strong>Elisabet <\/strong>&#8211; 34, a doctor.<\/li><li><strong>Eva <\/strong>&#8211; 28 and a lawyer.<\/li><li><strong>Ingrid <\/strong>&#8211; 46, sells blinds.<\/li><li><strong>Joeri <\/strong>&#8211; 32, a team boss.<\/li><li><strong>Kaat <\/strong>&#8211; 22, physiotherapy student<\/li><li><strong>Liesbeth <\/strong>&#8211; 41, a consultant.<\/li><li><strong>Martijn <\/strong>&#8211; 23, a facility assistant<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>An average age of 35.2, slightly younger than last year (38) but still pretty old for this sort of thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of right now we have no idea if there are going to be English subtitles available anywhere &#8211; if not I expect we&#8217;ll muddle through but miss out on a lot of context. <strong>We ask our international friends not to spoil episodes until the English subs have gone up.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m intrigued to find out how they&#8217;re going to do the hidden clues if they don&#8217;t know who the Mole is going to be at the start. Do they have ten sets ready? Add things in post? I look forward to finding out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Direct links to episode discussion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=1#comment-552541\">Pre-season<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=1#comment-552912\">Episode 1<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=1#comment-553265\">Episode 2<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=1#comment-553615\">Episode 3<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142#comment-553358\">Dan Peake&#8217;s The Suspect List<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=1#comment-554003\">Episode 4<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=1#comment-554277\">Episode 5<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=1#comment-554684\">Episode 6<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=2#comment-555072\">Episode 7<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=2#comment-555384\">Episode 8<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=2#comment-555769\">Episode 9 &#8211; The Final<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142&amp;cpage=2#comment-556135\">Episode 10 &#8211; The Reunion<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundays from March 10th,Vier &#8211; official site And so we come to the highlight of the year (and it&#8217;s only March), as Dutch Mole finishes Belgian Mole begins. And this time: there is no Mole. At least not at the very start, one will be chosen through a challenge. And this year Belgium&#8217;s Smartest Man\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=12142\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PLcmt-39Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}