Maurice stops by and we talk about Berlin’s inability to do property development properly and no one knows why there’s so many potatoes.

Our last podcast of the year where we recount the biggest stories of 2025 and give our OPINIONS.Photo is thanks LEGOFIIR via CC2.o.

There’s no music in this episode because Audacity, the editing software, hates my new computer so I’m in the market for new editing software.

The pretzel image is thanks Tim Reckann and Creative Commons 2.0.

This week we talk about the arrest of a man planning an Islamist terror attack, how Heimstaden blatantly overcharges and has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar hundreds of times and Berlin, and how Berlin pledged to plant 1 million more trees but has no plan or funding to do it. Also we get a description of Maurice’s co-working space (spoiler: It’s plywood).

We taped our latest podcast at Podfest Berlin and invited former colleague Elizabeth Rushton to record with us! We talked about buying property in Berlin, the drone crisis and some of our fave restaurants.

We celebrate our 20th podcast by trying our second remote podcast. We talk about the Ordnungsamt not really enforcing cigarette butt bans, the price of public transport going up and give restaurant recommendations. Oh, and the cover photo is from Eric Wahlforss via a Creative Commons license.

Maurice is pro skyscrapers at Tempelhof, pro LAP Coffee and pro free petting zoos (Tierpark Neukölln in Hasenheide). Drew recommends a Ramen place in Mitte.

The picture is thanks Langhof Architekten.

It really, really feels like Germany is stuck in 1999. Plus we recommend two restaurants.