Megan's Megacan
by Megan's Megacan
It's a German news podcast in English, because the German news is hard enough without it being all in German. Also involves canned cocktails. Not massive cans.Our Megacans will always be free, but if you feel like buying us a round, not only will we be ever-grateful - our supporters get a free cocktail in a can when we do a live show! Find us on Patreon too. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/megans-megacan/subscribe
Episodes
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Basti's Beercan: AfD Leaks And Gen Z Sorts It
Megan's on holiday yet again, which means another special episode with Chef Basti, AKA the flaneur of Flughafenstrasse. This week, the AfD's email accounts got hacked and it turns out some of them might be a bit racist — how could we have known? Also, Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in...
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Leaky Spies And Steakhouse Conspiracies
Germany is reeling from its biggest spy scandal in about two hours as yet another former agent turned "security consultant" skips off with some secret files, while also plotting to kidnap children with a steak heiress. Meanwhile, the CDU pretends it definitely didn't help the AfD in…
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Berlin Election! Everyone OK?
Die Linke win in Berlin by trying to make the city affordable, and the CDU and the media decide they must be antisemitic. Meanwhile, the AfD win yet again and the CDU disappear completely on the Baltic coast, like a dying whale sinking into the sea. Megan and Konrad pick the bones out of the...
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You Ok, Sachsen-Anhalt? (with The Bupkes!)
September is upon us, Megan's back in school, the megacans are turning yellow, and the slow wheel of history is gently tipping towards fascism. This week, the Megacanners are joined by friend of the pod and host of the Bupkes, Noach Głuchowicz, to talk about the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, an...
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Fascism = Colonialism for White People - with Wael Eskandar (Summer Repeat)
This episode was first released on September 12, 2025 A special episode this week, as the Megacanners are joined by journalist Wael Eskandar to talk about his journey from asking permission from the cops to buy an ice cream on Hermannplatz to watching them brutalize protesters with impunity on a...
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Does The State Need A Reason x The Bupkes (Summer Repeat)
The Megacanners are on holiday, so here's another chance to listen to one of our best episodes of the past year - our collab with the Bupkes! This week, the Megacanners are joined by Noach Gɫuchowicz of the Bupkes podcast for a special collab episode! Noach explains Berlin's anti-antisemitism...
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Basti's Beercan: Surrogacy, Surveillance, Drones, Difficulties Finding Wally
Megan's off on holiday, so as a special treat Konrad is joined by ex-chef, thwarted drone pilot, occasional traffic law violator, and shrewd political analyst Basti Knight. Over bottles of arguably the worst and second-worst beers produced in Germany, they discuss the fall of Jens Spahn to a...
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Here's A Hammer, Maybe We'll Do Some Sums
This week, Megan dissects everything that's wrong (and right) with Germany's weird, segregated education system, while Konrad worries whether this is the right time to gut Germany's freedom of information act. Also, Merz's government maintains a slightly strained relationship with the German...
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Heat Death, Pensions, Organ Transplants
This week, Megan and Konrad prove they are fully integrated in German society by showing too much interest in the government's pension plan reforms. Honestly, they'll be leaving passive-aggressive notes in your Briefkasten next. Meanwhile, it looks like the Bundestag wants to catch up with the…
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Merz Lick Balls
Germany's teenagers once again prove that the spirit of protest and class struggle isn't quite dead yet, by making personal grooming advice for Friedrich Merz go viral. But should we get rid of Section 188 of the German Criminal Code, and how come we even know the numbers of sections of the…
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Keepsake Kalashnikov
This week, Megan and Konrad are gently corrected on their sugar tax coverage, an alleged former member of the RAF forgets to get rid of her kalashnikov before the police knock on her door 30 years later, why the AfD actually doesn't rule the East, Friedrich Merz can't read the room, especially if...
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Ulm 5 Trial Starts — And Then Stops
The German state continues to show that it's learned so much from its history by equating direct action groups with terrorists and as the Ulm 5 went on trial in Stuttgart — for a couple ofminutes anyway. Then, Friedrich Merz located his backbone against Donald Trump, who took the criticism on…
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Just Leave The Whale Alone
This week, the Megacanners wear the boring old German news as a nice comfort blanket against impending Armageddon: There's 66 new proposals to fix Germany's over-expensive healthcare system, why prediction markets are a pox on democracy, and the tale of Sad Timmy the Unnecessarily…
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Everyone Loves A Heist
Ocean's 11, the Louvre jewellery thieves, those naughty kids who nicked that massive gold coin from the Museuminsel - everyoneloves a good heist, so the Megacanners are psyched to have the editors of Berlin's newest English-language news outlet on the show. Ruthie and Peter talk about why the…
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War, Weapons, Wedding, Wolves, And Raccoons
It's an evil brew of news to get through this week, so ladles and bowls at the ready, everyone. The Megacanners rattle throughGermany's petrol prices, because we must feed our cars, the tightest of elections in Baden-Württemberg, where the CDU man was a bit creepy, ploughshares get made into…
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Berlin Sabotages Itself
Film festivals, security conferences, Germans sliding immaculately along icy tubes — this fortnight has been a delirious concatenation of gala events, each one more problematic than the last. But then there's also been the usual background noise of terrible things happening in the world — so…
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Does A State Need A Reason? (x The Bupkes)
Yes! This week, the Megacanners are joined by Noach Gɫuchowicz of the Bupkes podcast for a special collab episode! Noach explains Berlin's anti-antisemitism fiscal misappropriation scandal (AKA Germans explaining to Jews what Jews are supposed to be). There's also Germany's obsession with having…
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An Iranian in Germany
It's an extra specially depressing show this week as the Megacanners are joined by Mohammad Etebari, Iranian in Berlin. Mo explains what it was like growing up in a theocratic police state and what it's been like being an Iranian outside Iran these last of couple of weeks. Mass murder on the...
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Anyone For Tennis?
Who knew that the end of the world would come at 9:30 on a Wednesday morning? Not Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner, who was finetuning his backhand as the lights went out in Zehlendorf. But is the city prepared for disaster? And is Germany's critical infrastructure safe from random acts of arson? Ah,...
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The Special Weasels (2025 Round-Up Show!)
As the winter solstice closes in, the Megacanners convene one more time to round up what became one slinky rodent of a year in German politics: Alice and Elon got a room (boke), Merz broke a taboo, the CDU failed to commemorate the one member of its party who had a spine, Baerbock and Habeck…
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Reporting on Gaza — The Inside Investigation
To make up for the wee hiatus, Megan and Konrad are back with a bumper episode. Could Merz's coalition collapse over a rebellion from the cool kids from the Junge Union? (spoiler: No) Could Germany's school students stop the government from forcing through military service? (spoiler: No, again)....
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Does It Help Centrists To Be Meaner To Immigrants?
Friedrich Merz has come up with a cunning plan to combat the AfD — but could it be the same plan centrist politicians been trying for the last 50 million fucking years? Meanwhile, one minister accidentally grows a conscience, and is immediately punished by his fellow Christian Democrats. But…
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What Terrible Things Has Friedrich Merz Said Now (LIVE!)
Recording in front of a live studio audience on October 17th 2025 at Podfest Berlin, Megan and Konrad are joined by not one but three special guests. Nessa Finnegan provides an update on the activities of the Irish Bloc, at least the ones who haven't been prosecuted or deported or punched by the...
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Not Such Good News After All
The Megacanners return much chagrined this week, obliged as they are to retract last week's delusional good news. It turnsout that Merz's government is addicted to exporting arms into genocide zones after all. Still, there's slightly better news about dual nationality, thoroughly depressing news...
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Big News Variety Pack
A bewildering grab bag of news this week as Megan and Konrad whip through two weeks of German politics while staying heroically sober thanks to some cracking 0.0 Radler. Annalena Baerbock changes her tune at the UN, the AfD's Maximilian Krah makes the case for diversity in the workplace at the...
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Fascism = Colonialism For White People
A special episode this week, as the Megacanners are joined by journalist Wael Eskandar to talk about his journey from asking permission from the cops to buy an ice cream on Hermannplatz to watching them brutalize protesters with impunity on a weekly basis. Well done, Kai Wegner. — If only there…
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Merz's Compromise And Sausage Politics
The Megacanners are back, and they're not the only ones. After a busy summer of trying to sound important in America, Friedrich Merz is back in Berlin to ring in his so-called autumn of reforms, by which he means cutting the welfare state and making poor people join the army. Meanwhile, Robert...
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Ding Dong, What A Night (Summer Repeat)
First released on February 26, 2025! It's the end of an era: Scholz, Habeck, and friend of the pod Christian Lindner have all had their last Absacker and stumbled out into the night — you can still hear them arguing in the distance in a cloud of mutual acrimony. Hey, we just let the market…
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How Old Are Germans And What Do Americans Call A Skip?
It's quiz week at Megacan Manor, as Megan welcomes her summer holidays by guessing some mildly interesting facts about Germany's demographic troubles and the latest pension age gossip. Plus, there's bad news as the German police decides that it would be a great idea to let...
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CDU? Cowardly Democratic Union More Like
See, Jens? This is what happens when you don't do your job properly. This week, Germany's Constitutional Court is taken hostage by a right-wing social media campaign, as someone with normal opinions gets torn apart for no reason at all. And Jens Spahn might wanna stay out of Merz's way for a…
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Shoplifters, Unite And Take Over
Oof, what a stacked show this week: Germany's minimum wage saga reaches its disappointing denouement, German voters begin to wonder what the SPD is actually for, and Germany's Retail Institute comes up with an all but useless report on shoplifting. Meanwhile, a bold wood pigeon wants in on the…
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How Minimal Can A Minimum Wage Be?
More Germans can't live on their wages, but the new minimum wage commission has decided to raise it, erm, minimally — ensuring another neoliberal wet dream this weekend for BlackRock Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Meanwhile, Olaf Scholz gets a shiny new office (but what for?), the Bundestag president...
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Craven Complicity
While one part of the German government tries to decide whether it's against international law to be sending weapons to a country that has started a war while committing genocide, another department is trying to figure out why one in four immigrants wants to leave the country. Meanwhile, we've...
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Welcome To The Party We Call Horrific Reality, Merz
The season of Jesus-bothering holidays is upon Germany, so the Megacanners honour the upcoming Pentecost by imbibing an appropriately sacred beverage: A Gordon's G&T. Meanwhile, the AfD begins to see the light about Russia as does Merz about Netanyahu — a bit late to the party, lads, I'm afraid…
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Germany's Mini-Musk
It's been a funny old fortnight: Friedrich Merz trips over the doorstep to the chancellor's office, Bärbel Bas buggers the Beamtes, Christian clips a canine, and Germany gets its own little Elon to get rid of all of those distracting human rights and climate laws. Luckily, Germany's soldiers...
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A Brand New Collection Of Dicks
New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has picked his cabinet, and filled it with people like him, cos he’s so great: Getting a team of CEOs and lobbyists to run the country is bound to restore people’s faith in democracy. Not only that, Merz has had a brilliant idea: If we shit on immigrants even...
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Smirking Bunnies And Coalition Contracts
It's Easter, which means it's time for fertility rituals, chocolate bunnies and historic peace deals — at least it used to be. Peace seems a long way off, no matter how many Germans go marching for it this weekend, and as for chocolate bunnies, well, they look a bit too Muslim for the AfD....
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Tales Of An Evac Medic In Ukraine
Slightly different megacan this week, as writer turned evac medic Howard Hunt joins Megan and Konrad once again for an update from the Ukraine war zone – with tales of impossibly brave men with no legs, skies filled with drones, how to drive an ambulance on hilariously bad roads in the dark, and...
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Merz's Brake Dance
Friedrich Probably-Next-German-Chancellor Merz has decided that actually, if you think about it, billions in state debts are great after all — and don't worry about anything he might've said before the election — because what if we want to build tanks in Volkswagen factories? Also, who knew…
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Ding Dong, What A Night
It's the end of an era: Scholz, Habeck, and friend of the pod Christian Lindner have all had their last Absacker and stumbled out into the night — you can still hear them arguing in the distance in a cloud of mutual acrimony. Hey, we just let the market regulate itself, Christian! But spare a...
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MM's TV Debut!
This week, German TV producers finally came to their senses and invited Megan's Megacan to make its debut on a politics chat-show. As Megan was providing silent commentary over chief twat Hubert Aiwanger's shoulder, Konrad found out whether football fans can save Germany from fascism. Then they...
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The Wall Crashes Down
This week, the German parliament marks Holocaust Memorial Day with a special tribute to the makers of the Holocaust, as Friedrich Merz reneged on his own promise from two months ago and made common cause with fascists to degrade the German constitution. Meanwhile, Megan and Konrad review election...
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Alice And Elon Get A Room
This week, your favourite can-drinking podcasters subjected themselves to an hour of lies and awkward flirting — thanks to top fascist Alice Weidel and billionaire philosopher Elon Musk, who revealed his vulnerable, damaged soul. Speaking of enablers, the bourgeoisie give the fascists a leg-up in...
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One Last Bundestag Bust-Up
Getting one more row done for 2024, Chancellor Scholz confronted the Bundestag this week to confirm that yes, they really didn't think he could run the country anymore. So the members convened to shout at each other one last time and get their Christmas ducks in a row in time for the New Year...
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D-Day For The FDP
It turns out that serial coalition breakers the FDP were planning to break up the German government weeks ago, much to the surprise of no one except party leader Christian Lindner, who definitely had no idea about the weirdly militaristic D-Day paper — even though his best mate wrote it.…
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Can You Be Our Santa, Mr Scholz?
There's a Christmas election campaign ahead, and it looks like the SPD is going to let Olaf Scholz deliver their presents one last time. Meanwhile, Robert Habeck is convinced that the path to victory goes via coy, night-time kitchen-table videos. Plus, why Germany's medical system has a language...
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The Traffic Light Explodes
Reeling from the impending demise of western democracy, Megan put her phone away for half an hour to have a nice glass of wine — but then Chancellor Scholz chooses that very moment to finally sack that annoying wanker who's been ruining everyone's life and blow up the coalition. Konrad tries to...
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More Weapons For Israel And Megan's Citizenship Advice Corner
We're deep into October, so there's only one thing for it — a trip to Captain Morgan's Mojito island. Elsewhere, in the world of horrors we call reality, Germany has decided it's ok to send weapons to Israel as long as they promise not to do anything bad with them. And there's more advice from...
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Brandenburg Votes And German Arms For Israel
Yes indeed, we've finally made it through all of this year's German state elections. No more horrible people upending the political landscape until after Christmas. Still, as the Germans say, now we have the salad, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has a lot on his plate — yet seems convinced he can…
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Eastern Elections and Electric Cars - LIVE with Radio Spätkauf
Recording live with Radio Spätkauf at Podfest Berlin 2024, Megan handed out free cans so that the audience wouldn't have to get through the news sober — which, frankly, should be part of every media subscription service these days. Then Konrad gets weirdly pedantic about crime stats, Izzy…
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About this show
It's a German news podcast in English, because the German news is hard enough without it being all in German. Also involves canned cocktails. Not massive cans.Our Megacans will always be free, but if you feel like buying us a round, not only will we be ever-grateful - our supporters get a free cocktail in a can when we do a live show! Find us on Patreon too. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/megans-megacan/subscribe
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