In the meantime, Pateiro took on new professional challenges, but at the time of our conversation with him, that car and that role were still his. They parked in front of Casa do Vintage, a place that João had chosen by hand and not by chance. As well as his friendship with the shop's owners, he confesses to a habit of collecting small objects in these speciality shops. Also because nostalgia is almost a vocation for Pateiro: with journalist Carlos Daniel and musician Filipe Fonseca, he formed the band ‘Tertúlia dos 40’, recognised for singing medleys of Portuguese songs from other decades, familiar TV jingles and other elements of collective memory.

The band's only original song is ‘Leva-me à Baixa’, a tribute to the renewed nightlife of Porto's historic centre. And this nightlife dimension ends up giving João a metaphor for what attracts him to Porto: ‘I think Porto is a pub. Whereas, for example, I see Lisbon more as a nightclub, Porto has something more intimate, more to the skin, with more feeling.’ And this is a more measured feeling, according to the broadcaster: ‘I see Porto as something that leads us more to meditation, that leads us to be, to stay. Porto invites you to be and not be in a hurry.’

This lack of haste seemed to impose itself, even during rush hour: ‘When TSF was in Gonçalo Cristóvão, in downtown Porto, instead of taking the VCI, I'd go down the Aliados and drive along another route. I'd get to Mouzinho da Silveira, then the Ribeira area, turn right and drive all the way to Matosinhos, past Alfândega, until I got to Lavra, which is where I live. I used to do this because I find it relaxing, it's almost a head massage.’

This evocation of places and wanderings awakens his voice, and João Pateiro launches into a rendition of Rui Veloso's ‘Porto Sentido’, in the style of a football report. But that's not to read, it's to listen to in the video below.