Pretend you didn't live through a play to just do this.

Yeah it'll be fine. What are you gonna have?

Conrad. I'm gonna have a West Coast IPA.

Okay yeah they've all got funny names, I don't really know. One of them is called Polymer something. What's that? Is that a good one? What's that one called? Psychotic.

I

can't see it. Psychotic for our safari.

Psychosis safari, even better. There you go,

you have that one. I'll have psychosis saf

George is on the back. He is the lovely person who emailed me with the best email I've ever received and I'm not going to do this for all the beers but Psychosis Safari just was made yesterday. A new brew.

Wow. I'm very excited. I'm

going to have a West Coast IPA because I like a West Coast IPA. This one is called Action Direct. But hang on, we've got... That's what we're all about around here. We can make it friends and people and then we can all do the count at the same time. Okay,

yeah, yeah, good. Who wants one? Who'd like a... Any

Blur fans? We have Parklife.

Yeah, okay.

I'm going to get this and I'm sorry if there are more groups than what I have counted. There's

one with coconut in it. Does anyone like coconut? Beer? You

want a IPA? It's called Pam's. That's nice. You have that one. I actually can't see with this one but it's got a really cool monster on it. Polymers are forever. Heather, former, I think two time guest on there. One time. And we've just got two more left. This is a Mexican style lager. And this one is a Mexican style lager. And this one is a Mexican style lager. And this one is a Mexican style lager. And this one is a Mexican style lager. And this one is a Mexican style lager. And this one is a Mexican style high five, a hazy, very trendy. Is

that a cloudy beer? Is that like a...

Yeah, like the haze. Some people are all about the haze.

Yeah, but people like cloudy things, certainly.

Sure this is the kind of marketing that George was dreaming about. Oh hazy, yeah cloudy. Like a naturtube. Like naturtube, yeah it's like bits in it.

Yeah the bits in it, does it have bits in it? No it probably doesn't matter. But that's what uh apple, like that apple juice that you get in the supermarket and it's uh BO and stuff.

Anyone for a high five? Flow! Oh oh oh I'm sorry. Raw paper scissors. I'm sorry. Yeah, it has to be. Are you sure? Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, Flo. Okay,

so we're all gonna open them at the same time. Okay, yeah. Okay. One, two, three. Cheers. Cheers. They're

very pretty cans, aren't they? Obviously we are all about the mega cans but no mega can company has offered us anything.

This will just have to do with until Jack Daniels gets in touch.

Come on Jack. Anyway no. Action

direct with

an e-lion. This is delicious and it's a really nice size of can. Like it's an actual can that's not 250 millilitres. How's everyone's beer? I sort of accidentally, not accidentally drink a lot of craft beer but like go to quite a lot of craft beer places. And I do think this one is delicious. Alright, I suppose we better talk about some news. We also want to have like an Ask Us Anything Within Reason. As a teacher, you just never say Ask Us Anything in a public forum. Yeah, at the end, so you can think about any questions.

But then we'll do that at the end, like questions. But you can always feel free to chip in if you...

Yeah, maybe some people have stories about what we're

talking about. If you disagree with anything we talk about or, you know, want to... if something's not clear. So, do you want to hear some news?

Well, did we want to talk about current events, i.e. the Olympics? Oh,

yeah. Oh! Who's

been watching the Olympics constantly said I knew you would be. Misha's raising his hand because he lives in my house. Against his will. I love

the Olympics. No,

he's been watching the Olympics against his will. I mean. really sweaty.

Tell me about the Olympic. Do you like the Olympic? It's really nice of you

to let him out. Oh god. So yeah, because I'm not really obsessed with the M62 and I realised after a while why it's because it takes me back to when I was 10 years old and it was like children's birthday parties. Because all the games, they're basically games that you used to play as children. It's all like BMX biking and skateboarding.

Birthday parties? You go to them! And

you know, today I watched one there was the 10 meter air rifle. The men's 10 meter. And I just thought 10 meters is not far away.

So you like watching me limous? And

I wondered how did that sport develop? And I realised it's because people were practicing in their back garden and they only had 10 meters of space. That

seems reasonable.

I love it, I just love it. Because also, how do you get to that stage where you spend your life doing 10 meter air rifle shooting? I

love it because I can shout at the TV and not in rage for once. I'm sure a lot of other people do this who have literally never heard of a sport or a swimmer today. There's a timeochi, who is for anyone Irish, Charles Hochi's grand niece. She's really good. I'm like, I didn't know any of this. I turn on the swimming heat. So it's like, Hong Kong, Siobhan Bernadette Hochi. And I was like screaming at her, she wins the heat. Then I looked it up, I'm like, wow.

Yeah.

It's so cool. I just think

sometimes the people are too old to be doing that thing. BMX Biking, they look too big on those bikes. They're like 30 year old men. They're gonna break something and the bike looks a little really tiny. I don't know.

I don't think you can say in quince part that sorry your old man shouldn't be riding me. I'm sorry. Riding

little bit. It's dangerous. And yeah anyway I've been watching that. But now that we're all drinking.

Yeah, also, sorry for scheduling this live podcast when the women's gymnast. I don't want to talk about it. Let's all just not look at it. And we'll all not know. Okay. Probably all know.

Okay. Yeah. So other

news. It's not Olympics.

Well, yeah, I wanted to get on to the news because that's what we're here for. Is it? Did you know, because now we're all the drinking and everyone in the room is also drinking, there's been a lot of young people don't drink anymore, have you noticed this? Like a lot of it's going out of fashion and there were a German influencer such as Toya Diebel who calls on all her fans to not drink at all and she says alcohol is just not cool. Thanks

Toya.

And yeah and apparently loads of kids have stopped drinking and the sales of non-alcoholic beers have gone up and everything. And this is the other thing. The Germany has some of the most liberal drinking laws in the world. So in Germany there's a law that says you can drink at the age of 14 as long as you're with your parents. It's called Beglititus Drinking and that is actually a law and between for 14 because the legal drinking age is 16 but if you're 14... For beer

and wine.

Beer? No I think anything.

No I think it's 18 for hard liquor. Okay see. about five years ago, I got ID'd by a very young man in Kalfland and it was the best day of my life because I was buying a bottle of wine and I was like, you think I'm under 16? And then by the time I'd sort of turned to him, he was like, oh, no, no, no, don't worry. You don't, it's fine. It's fine. It's great.

Well anyway, Carl Alderbach wants to ban all that. Carl

Alderbach wants to ruin my life.

Your teenage drinking, and I just wondered how you felt about accompanied drinking.

Accompanied, like with 14... That seems very French to me, doesn't it? Isn't that all the kind of stereotype we have about the French that you're sort of given a bit of wine or whatever? I don't know, but do we know if Germany is alone in this? Or is it?

And Germany does not have the lowest legal drinking age in the world. That is Burkina Faso. Where you're allowed to buy alcohol at the age of 13. Which is obviously quite young. And some countries don't have any laws at all.

Do you like to buy it? Not just like, good

lights? Yeah you can just buy it apparently in Burkina Faso which is obviously very young, I don't know why that is but I noticed that because I wondered if Germany had that was special and I think this principle of a company drinking is quite unique in the world I don't think any other country does that. And anyway Karl Lauterbach and this influencer and the lots of people who want to ban it now and keep the drinking age at 16. But except, you know who's against that? The CDU.

I was thinking this is probably the one issue. the grandchildren actually of these CDU boomers, can you imagine not if they suddenly take the wine away from you at the table when you have to listen to these people talk about politics at like Easter brunch and they suddenly, oh no, you can't have sex now because of the woke army. So maybe we should of them. Maybe we should think of them.

So health policy spokesperson for the CDU CSU parliamentary group, he's got a great name, it's called Tino Zorga, which is German for tiny Rory. He says the family plays a central role when it comes to responsible alcohol consumption. Would you agree with that?

I have some notes for you. I'm much more into it. But I think

if you

text me this a while ago and was like do we actually agree on the CDU on this one? I do have this thing of like oh that seems fine why do more like restrictive things Germany seems very responsible then I come from Ireland and that is not like the bar at which we should be measuring like problematic or non problematic alcohol consumption but I don't it's not clear to me how, I don't know, I think kids are gonna get booze if they want booze. I never have to think how much like this, like reducing, but then I don't know. 16 seems.

So there is a problem with drinking in Germany, do you want to hear the stats? Do you want to hear some stuff?