Hello, I'm Adrienne Dobb.

And I'm Weir Dhan again.

Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right.

So, Adrian, today, we are talking about a whole new set of conservative freaks over in Germany because we are debriefing the recent German elections from this weekend.

I think there's been a lot of attention paid to this election compared to other German elections. People tend to, well, interest in them tends to spike as the numbers for the Nazis

tend to spike for reasons that are not actually that hard to fathom.

But this was a particularly, I thought, closely watched one.

I noticed that, you know, the New York Times had a sort of explainers,

had, you know, had sort of like five lessons from the German election. Like the way you might

almost treat, the way they're going to treat the Virginia elections later this year, I would think.

Like, it really got a kind of treatment that I don't remember it getting in the last, you know,

in 2021 when the last one was.

I should say that we're joined today by a wonderful guest who I've been on podcasts with before,

but we've, the first time, first time guest to embed with the right, Anika Brochmidt,

who I should mention is a German journalist who specializes actually

in U.S. conservatism and who sat out the recent election or while it was happening.

Were you on the plane?

Is that what happened?

Yeah, I was.

It was dark.

I unfortunately had Wi-Fi because I had to finish an article, but it was pretty dark.

Because I made some questionable life choices because I was not in fact in Germany.

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