About the show

Weekly discussions of a deteriorating world all from the comfort of your local smoke-filled Spätkauf.

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Episodes

  • New Caledonia & Geo-strategic Europe (feat. Nic Maclellan)

    March 31st, 2025  |  59 mins 23 secs

    Nick and Ciarán talk to Nic Maclellan about New Caledonia, imperialism in the Pacific and France's strategy in the region

  • Hungary for Turkey

    March 24th, 2025  |  58 mins 18 secs

    Uma and Nick talk about Hungary and Turkey. Ciarán was on holiday so he doesn't know what it's about yet.

  • PREVIEW: Fidias' Adventures Through Germany

    March 21st, 2025  |  2 mins 18 secs

    Nick and Ciarán talk some nonsense but mostly talk through Fidias' new video where he tries to travel through Germany without paying any money

  • True Gaullism has Never Been Tried (feat. Derek Davison)

    March 17th, 2025  |  1 hr 3 mins

    We have on Derek (of Foreign Exchanges and American Prestige) to talk about the supposedly "new" faltering relationship between America and Europe

  • PREVIEW: 6 Year Anniversary Q&A

    March 16th, 2025  |  59 secs

    You gave us Qs and we shall give you As.

    As always, it's been a blast doing the pod and thanks so much for listening

  • Big Beautiful Log (feat. Séamus Malekafzali)

    March 10th, 2025  |  1 hr 8 mins

    After a very serious opening discussion, Nick, Ciarán and Uma are joined by Séamus to talk about the regional powers of Turkey and Israel in the wake of Assad fleeing Syria.

  • PREVIEW: Nick Reviews Ireland

    March 6th, 2025  |  27 secs

    Ciarán has plied Nick with various treats and now he tells you what he thinks

  • German Election and Trump Fallout

    March 3rd, 2025  |  1 hr 4 mins

    In this episode we talk about the developments since the elections and America's continued pulling away from Europe. Also Germany's good phrenologist

  • PREVIEW: Patriots (European)

    March 2nd, 2025  |  21 secs

    An episode where Ciarán explains the Patriots for Europe European grouping

  • EMERGENCY POD German Elections

    February 24th, 2025  |  1 hr 24 mins

    Okay less of an emergency and more of the slow creeping predictable outcome, but none the less

  • Rotating a Scholz Cube in my Mind (feat. Spaßbremse)

    February 21st, 2025  |  1 hr 49 mins

    We have Ted on for our far too often Plakate review (man there's been too many fucking elections) of the 2025 snap elections

  • UNLOCKED: A Long Overdue episode on Serbia

    February 21st, 2025  |  1 hr 9 mins

    We're joined by Nemanja to talk to us about the protests in Serbia and how they've developed.

  • Happy Baltic Energy Independence Day

    February 17th, 2025  |  1 hr 21 mins

    Nick and Ciarán talk about the jam packed weekend, changes in the election outlook in Germany, Tilo Jung being the only journalist that does any sort of pushback in interviews, and JD Vance's twitter-blue-ass speech at Munich.

  • PREVIEW: A Long Overdue Episode on Serbia

    February 10th, 2025  |  1 min 25 secs

    We're joined by Nemanja to talk to us through the development of the ongoing protests in Serbia. We released this bonus episode a little earlier than usual as the topic is time sensitive.

  • UNLOCKED: K-Holing on the Floor of the Bundestag part 2

    February 10th, 2025  |  56 mins 59 secs

    Nick and Ciarán talk through the less heavy hitting parties of the German snap federal elections of 2025. Make sure to listen to part 1 beforehand

  • PREVIEW: The Blackberry Incident

    February 6th, 2025  |  57 secs

    We intended talk about the news but we got derailed by discussion of phones.