Marián Čekovský (48) is the last guest of this year’s yoga talk show A SME TU. The musician accepted the invitation of the editors on the autistic spectrum and spoke about his serious accident in the show. Čekovský crashed on 7/7/1994 behind Humenný. He was only sixteen years old, but he took his mother’s car and went to see his sister.
He couldn’t drive at high speed and spent three months confined to a hospital bed after a terrible accident. “My sister was a key figure. I was saving her the day I had that clinical death. It was 7/7, I was born in 1977 and 7/7 i had this event” the artist recalled.
„In a way, I think it was ordered from above that they called me up on the carpet for a moment and the clinical death was like, ‘Come here, you, for a moment.’ That day I understood that I am a small part of a big whole, but that whole would not be so perfect without me,” he confided about what a valuable lesson he had learned in life.
Čekovský perceives the A SM TU project as an opportunity to get closer to people who experience the world differently, but all the more intensely. “It was a question mark for me. I didn’t know what to expect. But I like it. So I walked into the space and I was just inspired. I listened and took in the questions and all the emotions around me. Truthfulness got me to the stage of not playing for anything and being myself. They were nice moments,” he evaluated after filming.
Slovak version of the award-winning format
A SME TU is the Slovak version of the award-winning French format Les Rencontres du Papotin, which is behind the creators of the film The Untouchables – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. The show is already broadcast in thirteen countries around the world and others are preparing it – it was brought to Slovakia by JOJ television.
In each episode, one prominent public figure meets 27 editors on the autism spectrum. They ask questions that a professional journalist would often not dare to say – not to provoke, but because they ask directly, without posturing or prejudice. The result is conversations full of emotions, humor, silence and unexpected moments of honesty.
Among the previous guests, skier Petra Vlhová introduced herself, who emphasized that the editors do not attack or judge – they simply ask questions and listen. JOJ plans to bring more episodes in 2026. The audience can look forward to the singer Dara Rolins, the first Slovak cosmonaut Ivan Bella or the football legend Martin Škrtel.
