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Scheck this out (mit Bastian Bielendorfer)

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Micky Beisenherz welcomes Bastian Bielendorfer, hinting at past incidents of injunctions, charges, or public uproar.

1. Apokalypse & Filterkaffee records an Easter Monday episode on 6 April with host Micky Beisenherz and guest Bastian Bielendorfer covering the day's headlines. 2. Bielendorfer is introduced as a stand-up comedian on his 'Game Changer' tour, Bestsellerautor, and co-host of the podcast Bratwurst und Baklava with Özcan Koza. 3. The episode's thesis is that apocalyptic news cycles have always existed, but social media makes today's crises feel uniquely overwhelming. 4. Micky opens with birthday greetings: Thomas Koschwitz turns 70 — the radio and Late Night presenter who was replaced by Harald Schmidt at RTL around 1995 — and Özcan Koza turns 45 on the same day. 5. The first news item is a 2.20-metre statue unveiled in Siem Reap, Cambodia, for Magawa — the HeroRAT who sniffed out more than 100 landmines, weighed 1.2 kg, and died peacefully in 2022 aged 8. 6. The stranded whale Timmy at Timmendorfer Strand dominates the week's coverage; Bielendorfer calls humpback whales impressive but says the wall-to-wall reporting — 'er hat gerade zweimal geatmet' — became exhausting. 7. Micky notes an AfD member from Lower Saxony who posted grief-stricken sympathy for Timmy but shows no comparable empathy for people arriving by sea on European coastlines. 8. Trump posted on Truth Social calling Iranian leaders 'verrückte Bastarde' and demanding they open the Strait of Hormuz, then set a Monday deadline which he extended to Tuesday at 20:00. 9. Iran responded by demanding Reparationszahlungen for the US-Israeli war and proposing a Hormuz toll — prompting the hosts to joke that what German transport minister Scheuer never managed, the Iranian regime now proposes. 10. Micky describes Trump's reaction to Robert Mueller's death: posting 'I'm glad he's dead' on Truth Social, noting even Jeffrey Epstein reportedly described Trump as 'sehr gefährlicher und unangenehmer Mensch.' 11. Artemis 2 reaches 320,000 km from Earth and photographs the far side of the Moon, but the toilet on board is broken, forcing astronauts to use vacuum-sealed bags; Microsoft Office also reportedly fails. 12. The hosts compare the 1972 Apollo photographs of Earth to Artemis 2 images and conclude 'wir haben unseren Glow verloren.' 13. The film Project Hail Mary (Ryan Gosling) is discussed; Bielendorfer attended the premiere after reading the 800-page book and says the film condenses problems to quick reversals while the book handles translation and science in far more detail. 14. Sandra Hüller's role as Stratt is noted as more humanised in the film than in the novel, with an added bar scene; Bielendorfer calls her performance 'wunderbar.' 15. New draft legislation under the Wehrpflichtgesetz — in force since 1 January but barely publicly discussed — requires all men aged 17–45 to get Bundeswehr approval for foreign stays longer than three months. 16. Bielendorfer, aged 41, notes he is technically within scope; Micky, 48, jokes he is too old and feels a 'narzisstische Kränkung' at being excluded. 17. Florence Gaub's SZ essay 'Die Zukunft war schon immer scheiße' argues that the 1970s had the same combination of embattled US president, Middle East war, and nuclear fear — and the 1980s added HIV, 8% German unemployment in 1984, and roughly one million dead in the Iran-Iraq war. 18. Both hosts agree the essay's core point is correct but add that social media's immediacy — Georgina Fleur livestreaming a rocket strike in Dubai — makes today's anxiety feel more continuous than earlier decades. 19. The tone is fast-paced satirical commentary with comedic digressions; Bielendorfer provides punchlines while Micky drives the news agenda. 20. Best for German-speaking listeners who want irreverent political commentary; those wanting straight news reporting will find the jokes disruptive.

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