Carlos Sobera: "I like being a pimp"

Carlos Sobera (Barakaldo, 62 years old) has made many people happy.

More than 15,000 people have already passed through

, Cuatro's dating television program, of which seven marriages and eight babies have come out.

Love at dinnertime hooks and this off-road presenter who is also an actor ―he premiered this summer at the Mérida Classical Theater Festival with Plauto's

, as well as a former professor at the University of the Basque Country, It has a rennet and a breech that make it fireproof.

As eternal are his hobbies of reading and collecting

He shows off being the great Spanish pimp and his fascination with Lorca, aware that all his cathodic character comes from classics like

or

Ask.

So you, where you are best out of place is between books.

Response.

Yes, I opened a bookstore, but it was a bad business.

I had to leave it.

I also feel comfortable in

P.

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How?

R.

Yes, in the most typical of each country.

I go to Seville and I notice the bull and the flamenco dancer.

P.

Addicted to the topic?

R.

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A geek of the topic.

The

, if they are well designed, tell you the most important things about each place.

P.

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So you have to trust the clichés?

R.

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Always.

Are we going to philosophize about this?

The priority of the human being, even before food, is love.

Says the paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga

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It can't be done.

Doesn't it represent a reality like coming out of a mother?

R.

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It is a call to exaggeration.

You cannot go to Paris and not bring back an Eiffel Tower.

Please… What do you want to bring if not?

Q.

And from Barakaldo, what would we take with us?

R.

Well, they no longer exist, but I would decide on the Vizcaya blast furnaces.

It would have been a great keychain.

Q.

Industrial archaeology?

R.

Very representative of a time of the country, sustenance of millions of people.

That has changed a lot.

One day I woke up and saw a report in

entitled: “The three ugliest towns in Spain”.

One was Barakaldo.

I haven't recovered yet.

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In Spain, seeing towns like this, one might think that there is a secret official commission to make ugly places more horrible.

Who will direct it?

R.

We had a mayor in the forties who decided that all the streets should be twisted.

And he designed something like

the Beatles song.

Just as there are people focused on beauty, there are others dedicated to horrors.

I believe that this commission must exist for sure and the worst thing is that they believe that what they perpetrate is done with good intentions.

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counted

?

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No, I am unable to count the pencils, crystal balls, and baseballs that I have.

And the worst thing is that I don't like baseball.

Even when I go to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, I go in and take something with me.

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To feel foreign to himself?

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To not feel so stupid.

Every time I walk into an exhibition, I am amazed at what I see and what I learn.

It is an extraordinary museum.

[For 'First Dates'] Normal and paranormal people pass by.

But they are all very authentic.

There is no such a good actor capable of doing what the participants in the program

Q.

What was your bookstore called?

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It will surprise you...

P.

Barakaldo?

A.

No. Huatulco!

We had it in Alcobendas [north of Madrid].

I am a great lover of pre-Columbian cultures, especially the Mexican ones.

Hence the name.

Anyway, I think the day I opened it I decided to close it.

I lasted three years.

Outside of Christmas, selling a book is a feat.

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Have you read since you were little?

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From the age of five.

But my big change occurs at 14, when my older sister was given an anthology of Federico García Lorca, with her plays.

One afternoon I started reading it and I couldn't put it down.

That's where my love of theater came from, although the priests had already done their thing by giving me a role as a donkey in a function.

P.

Continuing with the literature transferred to

television, are you the great Spanish pimp?

R.

How I like that expression!

Few languages ​​have the beauty of ours.

I like being a pimp.

Yes Yes.

Let's go for 1,500 programs.

P.

With the plot of love before dinner?

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The priority of the human being, even before food, is love.

Says the paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga.

Q.

is also a sociology.

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Normal and paranormal people pass by.

But they are all very authentic.

There is no such a good actor capable of doing what the participants in the program.

I am unable to count the pencils, crystal balls, and baseballs I have.

And the worst thing is that I don't like baseball.

Even when I go to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, I go in and take something

P.

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Why should we be so exhibitionist?

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I am not so sure that it is an exhibition.

I think it has more to do with the need to relate to each other.

I like what I do, but I think I like more to tell what I do.

Otherwise it wouldn't make sense.

When they come here they do an act of generosity by sharing experiences.

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Is it good to eat at the

restaurant ?

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You eat well, there is little variety but it is very tasty.

I taste everything: the wine, the food.

If I don't like it, it's not served.

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It is that in addition to being a pimp, you are a

.

R.

Another nice word.

And more its function.

Make life enjoyable and easy for others.

Be polite and courteous, take care of you and show you affection.

Far from putting anyone in trouble, what we try to do is ensure that the participants enjoy themselves.

Q.

To provoke the chemistry?

Do you see it coming?

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Yes, it looks, it looks.

Chemistry exists, that's true.

There are people who connect to the second and others who nothing.

When that magical attraction occurs, you see the spark.

P.

Is it because it has happened to you?

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It has happened to me and I have seen it here.

Suddenly, their faces light up, their little eyes go

and their pupils dilate.

And everything flows.

You don't need stupid questions like: what do you study?

A torrent ensues.

Here we have already propitiated seven weddings and eight children have been born to us.

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