Madrid, Bond & EVs: Easter Weekend Catch-Up

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 Alex involved in a future three-way episode

Whether you’re a long-time listener or discovering Tailoring Talk Magazine for the first time, this is the kind of honest, rambling, genuinely fun conversation that reminds you why podcasts exist.

Chapters / Timestamps

00:00 Roberto's Last Morning in Madrid & the iPhone Volume Button Fix

02:36 New Forest Easter Break, Bank Holiday Traffic & UK EV Charging Infrastructure

05:32 Top Gear's 50 Best Family EVs, VW ID4 Tips & Mini Electric Road Trip Plans

08:08 M5 MacBook Air Real-World Review & Apple Mac Studio M5 Rumours

10:49 Ian Fleming's Casino Royale Novel vs Film, James Bond's Lifestyle & a Wardrobe Epiphany

13:29 Bond Video Game May 2026, Future Episodes & Listener Shoutout

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