About the show

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

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Episodes

  • 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.

  • Fired Wall

    February 3rd, 2025  |  1 hr 3 mins

    Hey, we have to do the depressing episode about the CDU breaking the taboo of working with the AfD. The bonus this week will be fun, we promise.

  • How About Some News?

    January 27th, 2025  |  1 hr 4 mins

    The gang talk about Eurovision, France, Slovakia and Catalonia

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

    January 24th, 2025  |  2 mins 8 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

  • K-Holing on the Floor of the Bundestag part 1

    January 20th, 2025  |  1 hr 30 mins

    Nick and Ciarán talk through the heavy hitting parties in the 2025 snap federal elections in Germany, stay tuned for part 2 on the Patreon

  • PREVIEW: Jean Marie Le Mixtape

    January 19th, 2025  |  1 min 37 secs

    Uma, Nick and Ciarán talk Jeremy Fragrance, Jean-Marie Le Pen dying and AI in politics

  • Mr. Musk goes to Nuuk (feat. Riley)

    January 13th, 2025  |  56 mins 28 secs

    This week we have on Riley on from Trashfuture and No Gods No Mayors to talk about Musk, Greenland and a Dutch digital bank.

  • PREVIEW: Ciarán's Wario

    January 9th, 2025  |  29 secs

    Uma, Nick and Ciarán go through the Politico Playbook quiz of the year and we also look at the list of Politico dot eu's predicted most influential politicians in 2024 to see who were studs and who were duds.

  • The Annual Berlin Fireworks Discussion

    January 6th, 2025  |  1 hr 7 mins

    Uma, Nick and Ciarán ring in the new year with a discussion of Berlin's fireworks tradition, Macron's arrogant comments in Mayotte and Musk's Op-Ed in Welt am Sonntag.

  • The Hot Royal Frosty Treatment part 1 (feat. Josie Parkinson & Kate Cheka)

    December 23rd, 2024  |  1 hr 32 mins

    Heya, it's the holiday season so Nick and Ciarán have on the Wine Queens (Josie Parkinson and Kate Cheka) to talk about the Netflix Christmas movies Hot Frosty (2024) and The Royal Treatment (2022).

  • PREVIEW: The Absolute Worst Mole

    December 19th, 2024  |  58 secs

    We mostly talk about the return of an old corner späti "The Shark" and about the slipper failson rapper funding Volt but also we talk absolute nonsense about Twilight, Harry Potter and Diddy Kong up front.

  • The Centre Cannot Hold Special

    December 16th, 2024  |  56 mins 32 secs

    oh god, too much is happening. France, Syria, Romania and Italians are doing propaganda of the deed again

  • Uschi

    December 12th, 2024  |  51 secs

    Uma and Ciarán talk about Ireland and Germany but mostly about Ursula Von der Leyen for way too long

  • The French for Flop Era (feat. Harrison Stetler)

    December 9th, 2024  |  58 mins 50 secs

    Ciarán and Uma talk to Harrison about how the EU will respond to Trump 2 and the Draghi Report, that thing everyone half read.