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Nick and Ciarán from the Berlin-based Corner Späti podcast join us to give a run-down of German politics post-October 7th. We discuss the role of anti-Semitism and holocaust remembrance in German government, the current relationship of the country to the rest of Europe and to Israel, and give a quick brief on the state of Deutschland’s major political parties and the various creeps, criminals and pervs who run them. Finally a brief look at Eurovision 2024 and Israel’s participation has become a touchy subject this year.

For more Corner Späti and their coverage of German and European politics & life, check out: https://www.operationglad.io/

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Schwartz666

I said a slip slop, the slippie to the slippie, To the slip, slip slop, and you don't stop, a slopin' it

Evan Pitkin

Holy shit when it rains it pours.

Rory

Austrians need to stop being such attention seeking Fauntleroys and just call themselves South Germany

Andrew Cross

I mean where do you think Anglo-Saxons originated from

Doom Hermit

Treading slop over here 🏊‍♂️

Sam Evergreen

5 episodes in less than a week is crazy

Ryan Johnston

I’m with the German cab driver. That’s some American arrogance from Will to vape in someone else’s car

Daniel Patten

Gotta say the Keir Starmer story is fake, made by a great parody account Women4Wes

Scoot

Law and Order: Jimmy Savile Unit

JD Nonce

Appreciate all the content, Chapos. Thanks for your hard work. Sorry to be a whiny little piggy from time to time

Dan

I've had a Bavarian friend try to explain to me what the Antideutsch movement is, and I still don't get it.

Jim Chapman

Denken Sie über die Kinder! Thanks, Helen Lovejoy.

Alexander Fuchs

germany is most end of history country imaginable its insane ... our official foreign policy is zionism and american exeptionalism by proxy, nationalism is officially tabu but really just jumped up a level and is projected onto the EU. i hate it

Alexander Fuchs

bring back the early holy roman empire i wanna be governed by saintly women again 😭

THEKILLERWHALE

The funniest part about Germany is that they love sausages so freakin' much but their sausages suck badly and the French do them way better without even giving a shit.

Mister Carousel

that's just so wrong. the french have one sausage that's fire and that's a merguez which is basically north-african and not actually french. I can't help you if you eat a Wiener or Frankfurter and think that's what we've been talking about, but if you truly tried any of the good ones and that's your perception, I am afraid your opinion is, simply put, meaningless to anyone with taste buds

THEKILLERWHALE

"They pretend they care about the rules but really they just want to be right". God that one hits home. Did two years in Germany. The street crossing thing nearly broke me. It is so oppressive to see an empty road and know that the old bags next to you will start hissing if you dare to cross. And it is even more nefarious as this rule obsession reinforces a very bad paradigm where pedestrians must be ultra disciplined lest we impede the vehicles. This should be challenged and rejected but "Germans will never make a revolution because that would require stepping on the grass". That is, a little rule breaking is a catalyst to societal change and this cannot happen in Germany. So small disagreements like that become clashes in worldview. Grand principles are harnessed to support even very small points of etiquette until you are left to conclude that all actions can be justified if you can invoke the principle just right. My favorite WTF Germany story was my friend getting screamed at for recycling cardboard because it was a Sunday. Recycling on Sunday does too much to upset the ambiance in the neighborhood. He did not give a shit at that point and made sure to tear his pizza box up as loudly as possible while staring that old freak straight in the eyes!

THEKILLERWHALE

Wrong! Frankfurters are indistinguishable from hot dogs. Saucisse de Morteau is the goat among sausages. Saucisse de Toulouse dunks on literally any German sausage. Chipolata aux herbes classes up the joint while their German equivalent must be doused in ketchup and curry lest you actually taste the sausage. I have choked down German sausages for years (the best being nuremberger's which would make for a decent doorstop in any other country). You are the one with meaningless takes!

Systemic

Lol Will got got by the keir starmer bit, the article snippet came from a pisstake account

mweber

Lmaoo Germany’s antisemitism tsar’s name is little felix

Ale

Hope Finland can win it this year with Windows95Man

christoph.s

As an Austrian I can say that German Green Party are people who would tell you violent video games should be banned, and then go back on their knees licking Palestinian children’s blood off an idf soldiers bayonet.

Soda enthusiast

Anethema to the german name. Eternal hatred of the kraut.

Petergrifgin

damn krauts walk everywhere and don’t use air conditioning, they yearn for liberation

christoph.s

Also I want to point out that Karl lueger major of Vienna and (example for hitler) had a specificity anti semetic campaign platform for his elections success. His famous quote is (I decide who is Jew) Wer a jud ist bestimm ich (in Austrian dialect) and now they are literally doing that again to defame Jewish people in Austria and Germany.

Olivia Kali

The only thing more annoying than a German is an Austrian

MLVF

Walked in German hotel room. German dubbed Big Bang Theory playing on tv. These guys are legit.

Martin Seidl

There is no helmet law in Germany.

Terry Buckley

Lol, Will got duped by the obviously fake Ice T story, come on man.

christoph.s

As an Austrian I agree:)

Olivia Kali

The analysis of German culture was spot on

Major Powers

Thanks for cranking these out, Chris. I don't know how much editing you have to do, but you always do a superb job and I really appreciate it.

SoConfused

agreed with all of this except the lord of the lost slander

Das_Steckdose

Chapo x Corner Späti LETS GOOOO

Blank

Praying for more Felix this ep 🥺🙏

Evan Pitkin

You're prayers won't be answered.

Blank

😩 27 mins no signs

Michael Ouderkirk

Good ep, bring these fellas back when a German-American Wisconsonite co-host can chop it up with them

Michael Ouderkirk

I don't know what "fuckable grandsons" the U.S. pop music industry is producing these days, but I worked at Borders and Starbucks in the mid-'00s during the "nice young man" era: Josh Groban, Michael Buble, and the king of them all, Clay Aiken. Twenty-something men with fanbases almost entirely of women in their sixties. "Do you have the CD of that nice young man I saw on the Today Show yesterday?" they would ask.

Noodles

Yes I would like Italian citizenship please. My grandfather was Luigi Spaghetti

NYCM&AHole

So spot on about the Germans.

demonsweat

Moonshake at 34:35, thank u Chris

Tim Mullen

These back to back deep dives on specific countries could make a solid unofficial Miniseries. An episode on Chile or Central Asia would be dope. Those Stans always seem to be up to something

dannypresson .

Ooh the Germans are mad at me. I’m so scared. Ooh the Germans.

Demented Avenger

Awww, here I was, thinking that Keir Starmer was the reincarnation of Mary Whitehouse

Jaime Christley

Nice Can drop at the break. RIP Damo Suzuki

Alexandr

I'm sure there's a guy named Helmut Law

dannypresson .

I feel there’s something you’re not telling me. Perhaps you’d feel more comfortable talking to Snappy the Alligator.

Fish Priest

This episode hits wrong. Could you really not find a German to talk about this? Two Americans and an Irish just shit on Germany? Did you reach out to AcTVism Munich (whom interviews people like Abby Martin regularly) and they just didn't get back to you?

Fish Priest

I've had conversations like this with Bavarian friends, about family nazi heritage and how they currently feel about Israel, and what views around other parts of Germany are like.

Fish Priest

You may have dropped the ball taking up this topic and just grabbed a couple of your friends that have lived in Berlin

Ahmed Razick

The GDR is the only Germany we can allow.

Ahmed Razick

Imagine thinking you could reform Nazi Germany. We ain't making that same mistake twice.

Fresh Dill

Hearing them describe the German and specifically Green Party combination of fascism and environmentalism reminds me of Sandra Holler’s character in the zone of interest; a nazi who is both really passionate about their organic garden and genocide

David Andrews

Excellent guests. I am now less confused about inexplicable German politics which don't make sense to the casually interested outsider.

Terry Buckley

Will should be held to higher standards than Ice!

etienne

to be fair it's already almost in the name of the country

Will

Cool episode, but why has felix said a total of like 30 words over the last few episodes?

Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep

I'd put Bavarians as more annoying than Austrians, but that might just be a function of having been yelled at by Bairishe Cops

Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep

So Chapo turns it's attention from the Cursed Anglo and casts it upon the Cursed Saxon. Guess they're Pictish Partisans?

Ahmed Razick

We either bringing back the GDR or the Confederation of the Rhine.

Blank

I think they sold off his mic

Jaime Christley

“Dancing Forever” - wow. paging Michael S. Judge.

JerJin

CUTIES WE’RE WINNING

Tim O'

...are you not?

Tim O'

Really enjoyed the guests, and it's always nice to learn about politics in places other than the US and UK. Good episode.

Tim O'

He sounds delicious

Billiam

is hellworld going to force me to skip eurovision this year? >:(

Syd

The German far left immigrated to America so their great grandkid could have student debt and no healthcare if i lose my job :)

safetyconesavior

Be careful talking like that. Ice T gonna come for you next. 😂

AR

and this and that and that

William

I want identity politics in my podcast! I don’t give a shit if it’s one American and one Irish guy who have lived there for a combined two decades

Cole Heideman

Corner spati has a German host, as well as a Spanish host, and they cover European politics, not just German. They are long established as euro chapo. Stop crying

Tim Mullen

Doing orientalism, but to Germans is good actually

Marc Silverstein

Lets put all "israeli" colonizers in deutschland. PROBLEM SOLVED

Scoot

The Israeli version of Hurricane is just the N word for 7 minutes

Rxk Lenderman

That’s basically how Felix has always operated. Near silent for 2-4 episodes, firing on all cylinders for for one, going back to silence, and then every 6 months pulling out out some genuine journalism

enter_krzysz

Thanks, good episode. We should end Germany.... and i am a German

T

Congrats to Chris on his best chapo joke to date

Jö

There’s nothing in Germany that’s better than döner kebab. Let Erdoğan annex it

Jaime Christley

“Two Americans and an Irish just shit on Germany?” * voice of Joe Spinell in TAXI DRIVER* They got porno theaters for that.

Jaime Christley

Will, the Chapo auteurist contingent heard your blink-and-you’ll-miss-it BRINGING UP BABY shout out and we renew our pledge of fealty to Movie Mindset.

James Browning

I thought he was referencing Kompakt Records at first. Excellent electronic label out of Köln,Germany. Excellent episode! Especially on the heels of my trip to Köln and Stuttgart.🙏🏻

Bella DeBall

PSA: "Downfall" is currently in free view on YouTube

Joe Brunoli (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-09 10:00 Having lived in Germany for many years, on and off since the 80's, I can say that the take on the Greens is almost correct. Almost. I think the guests were actually too charitable to them. The German Greens are pushing for a nuclear war with Russia, which shows how far away they are from the original Party that was anti-nuke and anti-war. Baerbock is an unhinged psychopath. Nick, however is also unhinged in his anti-Putin stance. Both guests were right to wish "Mutti" Merkel were back, because she respected Putin and knew how to deal with Russia. She also knew Russia and Putin and was less susceptible to the blind, psychopathic Russophobia that seems to have all of the collective West in its grip - including Nick. I am a Putin fan, and I am not a crackpot. I just have the benefit of perspective. Nick seems to have fallen for the propaganda, and I think he needs to check himself and ask himself why he is taking the same position (vis-a-vis Putin) as Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Lindsay Graham, Piers Morgan, John Bolton, Dick Cheney and Victoria Nuland. Seriously - if you find yourself falling in line with those people, you need to stop and examine your beliefs.
2024-03-08 21:47

Joseph Brunoli

operationglad.io is a BRILLIANT URL! Damn I wish I'd thought of that...

DROP

Vaping in a cab and getting pissy when the driver gets upset with you is such an ugly ignorant American tourist move, Will is embarrassing himself

Dylan

Gonna OD on slop

Ardy Rezv

I really think if we vote for Biden we can push him left guys! Just like we did in 2020!!!!!!

Cole Heideman

Learn German and listen to like Easy German's coverage of Israel Palestine and that will be enough to not want to hear from another German

Cole Heideman

The walking is nice but the German need to open the window to let air in is pathological, they will never take to AC, it will kill them

More Human than Human

Chris nice use of CAN song. The only good German band to ever exist

Cullen S

Regarding the fantastic flow of back to back to back slop.. I can’t shake the image of the Chapo crew as Homie the Clown just beating the shit out of the Krusty Burglar (i.e. the whiners earlier this week) with this banging content “Stop, Stop! He's Already Dead!!”

sandragl

I am German and Jewish. My keiffyeh is 50+ years old, from my mother (German)’s side of the family. She was part of the “zweiter generation” - the radicals who rebelled against their Nazi parents & teachers and reckoned with the Holocaust. These radicals were extremely pro Palestine (hence the keffiyeh). The students’ radical politics were later liberalized into the state sponsored “remembrance” (read: obfuscated continuity) of fascism. Crazy to think that I, a Jew with a German citizen parent, would be denied German citizenship due to my criticisms of Israel, which come from both sides of my family, both from the left (Jewish secular socialism & German antifascism). Fuck.

A

Neu, Cluster, Kraftwerk, Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream, Faust, Ash Ra Temple, Amon Düül II, LA Dusseldorf, DAF, Harmonia

Andrew Cross

this is a pre-heptarchy comments section boyo

JD Nonce

As a disgusting Brit I’m sorry to report the Kier Starmer story is fake. He didn’t really say that stuff about Ice-T, though I wish he had

A Loon

Will?

Dan

Big Bang Theory feels like the kind of bland garbage Germans would go apeshit over.

Max

Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfurt are the only okay places in Germany, and Frankfurt sucks but at least it's not majority white.

drewb

You can think the west's Russia-baiting and NATO encroachment is a bad thing without also being a "fan" of a homophobic autocrat that a significant proportion of Russians themselves probably aren't too keen on, just a thought

Emily Richardson

This was an awesome episode. I learned a lot.

Rob Schofield

Starmer story is sadly fake, Starmer doesn’t talk about his kids at all which is fair enough. But recently transphobes lost their shit transvestigating whether one of his kids was trans because a journalist (probably accidentally) switched the genders of one his kids. So that’s a bit of local colour for how normal we’re doing

JS

Matthew Black

One difference between Germany and Japan is that in Japan there was a center right-wing push structured around the idea that ‘we must become a normal country.’ I absolutely cannot imagine Germans saying this.

Jason Matthews

"Shut up, export more" doesn't seem to be paying the bills lately, either economically or psychologically.

THEKILLERWHALE

Maybe you meant to say that you are not a Putin fan?

Bobi Jon-son Kenobi

The strangest encounter I had in Germany was in Wurzburg where this guy found out I was American and told me he wanted to come over and solve the Bloods vs Crips problem. He then basically told me he was a pimp and tried to hook me up with a woman for sex. This all happened in a bathroom, mind you

Robert Sayre

I don't think it was covered in the episode, but I was in the car and a little distracted: "Corner Späti" translates directly to "Corner Bodega" for NYC folks. I had to learn the word "Späti" and I was like "ohh... a bodega"

Cas

cha cha cha - käärijä

cashedtrapezoid

Dancing 🕺🏻 dancing 🕺🏻 Israelis forever?

Mohamed Yousri

The majority of Germans don't know much more about their country than what their state TV and right wing media tells them so no thanks. They are too much in the bubble to objectively criticize themselves. I would argue it is even worse than in the US because yes, the German language is big enough to create a media landscape but small enough to create a self-sunstaining ecochamber. Hence why many of them don't hear what the world thinks of their insanity.

james

Omg, EVERYTHING is white!?!? Sounds so terrible!!😞

MKatieUltra

My sister told me the exact same thing about crossing when there’s no traffic in Germany and getting yelled at that it sets a bad example for children in like 2008. But then we went to a record store and saw a section of CDs called “Black Music” lol.

MATT TRIANO

Lived in Frankfurt for half a year in 2022 and that's right there's at least a multicultural element

MATT TRIANO

Whether the windows were up and he blew it out is THE operative detail left out

Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep

Isn't a Center Right-Wing push structured around the idea that "we must become a normal country" how we got Germany in the first place?

Jason G

As an American leftist living in Germany, this episode was grimly cathartic.

Drew

Loved this episode but very sad we didn't get to hear Felix talk about Germans lol

Jon

World needs more CAN fans

MKatieUltra

Frankfurt was where I saw a Black Music section at the record store, woke for 2008

Zac

Is that picture from a movie? Is that some redditor, cosplaying??

Oliver Elliott

Yeah I was slightly confused by the “all white” comments, but I’ve only been to Frankfurt so that apparently explains it.

Oliver Elliott

The Germans don’t cross against the light in order to set a good example for the children and the Italians do the opposite for the same reason.

🤷🏼‍♀️

“ a big fan of our Indian Policy” Chris Wade just pumping out hits jfc

etienne

germany acting as a sin eater for the west

Tom T

Great ep but fell short with no Felix commentary on his favorite people

Doug Cartel

Kkkompakt, kkkonkrete and whatever the other one was

Doug Cartel

Will I want you to know I heard and appreciated your "SS-PD" joke even if nobody else did

veni

Pegida head Lutz Bachmann.

Zach

Not that I think Will will read this, but Atmospheric ignition isn’t possible. They just didn’t have enough information at the time so they did a lot of assumptions. That being said your analysis on the movie is spot on

Will Elliot

Love shitting on Euro vision. More football is coming. Prepare yourself krauts

HeyB00B00

Is that CM Punk in the photo🤣🤣

An Ta

now that chapo is done with england they can finally turn their eyes toward the cursed Teutschland

Muovi

Hearing Cha Cha Cha on Chapo is so weird 😭😭

YourBabysFather

To be fair children should avoid plastic as long as humanly possible

Mark Schneider

This episode reminds me why from my mid-teens in the 1970s I was embarrassed by my ugly German last name. (My distaste was supported because my dad was a fascist who loved Nixon & hated "hippies", gays, non-whites, etc.!) Luckily I'm a Spaniard on mom's side, went to live in Mexico & Central America in my early 20s and got away from Anglo-Saxon culture. I knew German culture was still awful & Nazi Revanchist (lost a former friend, Herr Steiner this year when he supported both Biden's genocide and the Ukraine war.) Didn't know about Sgt. Sholz killing people with vomit-inducing drugs, but sounds like par for the course for these Authoritarian robots. I'm so glad my poor German ancestors were driven out in the 1870s by the cruel regime; if I had been born there I probably would've become a junkie or been murdered by cops in my mid-20s. Germans are awful and their language has the same ugly shmu, xha--, fkka throat-clearing sounds as Hebrew. Just reprehensible as a culture!

Jon

can is cool

Frank

S-slop time now?

Jonathan Nathan

He has to be doing this stuff on purpose at this point

Jonathan Nathan

Yeah that's right, Japan, that country we all think of as the most normal country there is

Jonathan Nathan

What is a German if not someone who lives in Germany

Matt

Nick’s constant proper pronunciation of German words drove me nuts for some reason

Arthur Alvarado jr

This explains so much. Once interacted with a German who invoked Moishe Postones antisemitism and national socialism essay while cheerleading Israel's latest scorched earth campaign in Gaza

Arthur Alvarado jr

Who love using the German language in their anime titles.. coincidence??

Mark Schneider

Really? When I spent the summer of 2004 in Spain I flew there on KLA airlines both ways. I was very impressed with the cabinet announcements being done in Dutch, Spanish & English by the talented crew. I didn't find Dutch to sound so horrible at that time, as best as I recall. . . I do recall Matt japing at the Dutch language to the effect of "What is that made-up bullshit? It's not a real language." He might be right for all I know. Those German compound words are kind of insane if you're not raised with them though. (Oh, & to counter my whole point, Nena's voice & words in the German version of 99 Luft-balloons are beautiful. I understand that Schiller's poetry was rather beautiful in the original as well.)

Jack

I'm so sad the SPD still exists, they literally destroyed the world

Savannakhet

Stewart Lee voice "now that story about Keir Starmer is made up, but I think what it tells us about him is real"

glaourgbn

"generationally was not a part of this" nar if you can feel proud you can feel shame

Tyler Sutherland

1:20:40 you philistines, Lord of the Lost rules! Everyone go listen to their stuff, they whip ass

Khemith

Maybe you're part Doberman?