# Madrid, Bond & EVs: Easter Weekend Catch-Up Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tailoring-talk-magazine-1382942/madrid-bond-evs-easter-weekend-catch-up Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tailoring-talk-magazine-1382942/madrid-bond-evs-easter-weekend-catch-up.md Podcast: [The Tailoring Talk Magazine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tailoring-talk-magazine-1382942) Published: 2026-04-12T16:30:54+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-tailoring-talk-magazine/episodes/madrid-bond-evs-easter-weekend-catch-up Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/687907cab93bd5454dcade35/e/69dbc8bfcdaa3e377c41b5c3/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tailoring-talk-magazine-1382942/episodes/madrid-bond-evs-easter-weekend-catch-up Duration seconds: 1162 ## Resource 246 Roberto is on his final morning in Madrid - soaking in the city’s effortless elegance one last time - while Jon is freshly back from an Easter break in the New Forest. In this episode of our Candid Conversations series, we picked up the phone and just… talked. No agenda, no script, no edits. Exactly as it happened. This week’s unscripted conversation covers: •Madrid vs. London living - what Roberto keeps coming back to the Spanish capital for, the food culture, the street energy, and why the fashion just hits differently •Easter in the New Forest - Jon’s family catch-up, a delightful 22-month-old second cousin, and the very real pain of UK bank holiday traffic •Electric vehicles deep-dive - the state of public EV charging in Britain, Jon’s VW ID4 and its genuinely bizarre “unlock seven times” cable trick, Roberto’s new Mini Electric, route planning for a potential Cheshire road trip, and why Top Gear’s 50 Best Family EVs list is pure clickbait •Tech on the road - Roberto’s real-world verdict on the M5 MacBook Air after editing video on it in Madrid (spoiler: it might be the MacBook for most people), plus speculation about the upcoming Apple Mac Studio M5 •Reading & culture - Jon is deep into Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography; Roberto has cracked open Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale and is discovering Bond on the page is considerably more swarthy - and considerably more chain-smoking - than on screen •A style epiphany - sitting alone in an elegant Madrid hotel bar, Roberto quietly resolves to start dressing with genuine sophistication: suits, winter blazers, and leaving the “late forties dressing like mid-twenties” era firmly behind •Coming up - a potential Fleming novel vs. film review mini-series, the new Bond video game dropping 27th May, and plans to get Al… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tailoring-talk-magazine-1382942/episodes/madrid-bond-evs-easter-weekend-catch-up/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tailoring-talk-magazine-1382942/madrid-bond-evs-easter-weekend-catch-up.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.