Mentioned on a Show No Tokio Hotel Fan Will Ever Find

There’s something particularly satisfying about this journal getting mentioned somewhere genuinely unexpected—not in some snarky Facebook comment thread, not on a German chan board where the regulars manufacture nightmares for themselves and everyone else, but on actual radio.

Sanft & Sorgfältig is a weekly show on Germany’s public station radioeins, hosted by Jan Böhmermann—TV satirist, arguably the sharpest comedian working in German right now—and Olli Schulz, a musician who turned out to be even better at talking than at performing. In their latest episode, the two take up an interview this site ran with Tokio Hotel—the German pop-rock band that owned a certain kind of teenage bedroom in the mid-2000s—in which the conversation turned to sex parties, drugs, and Berghain. Jan and Olli’s verdict: neither man is remotely convinced by the band’s talent. Which will devastate a generation of fans, assuming they ever learn what public radio is.

The segment is protected, in a sense, by the fact that Tokio Hotel fans and public broadcasting audiences exist in completely parallel universes with no known points of contact. The hate-Snapchats and blood-soaked Bill Kaulitz keychains will never arrive. It starts at the 45-minute mark—catch it at radioeins or as a podcast on iTunes.