Megan's Megacan

Here's the teaser to our first ever bonus podcast, especially for our Patreon Patrons. This post-Easter Easter egg also happens to be Megan's favourite ever show – mainly because we don't mention Friedrich Merz even once. Konrad and Megan are joined by expert mixologists Noel and Mark to rate megacans sent in from all corners of the globe. ... Become a Patron to hear the full episode:...

Compromises in Berlin and Berlin as both the federal and state governments of the German capital huddle together to clear the air, hash out their differences, confront their grievances, and decide how best to fuck the climate. Meanwhile, swimming pools declare freedom for boobs. Hooray for springtime! Buy us a round, ask us a question: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacan⁠⁠ Or follow us on whic...

A true moment of history beckons for Berlin as Megan's Megacan goes live from Hotel Selina in Mitte, and also at least some people get to vote on the future of the city they live in: March 26 is climate referendum day, and Megan and Konrad are joined by Sabine Zimmermann from Klimaneustart to explain why this might be the biggest vote in your life. Also, maybe you would like him when he's...

This week, Megan's Megacan goes gin-crazy to settle the ultimate head-to-head: Bombay Sapphire or Gordon's? And boy do they need it: Not only is Berlin about to get an actual boomer racist as its new mayor, with the CDU and the SPD getting cosy, but they have to get their heads round the Northern Ireland protocol and the Windsor Framework and the Stormont Brake. Thank God Irish political analyst D...

On the eve of another election, Berlin asks: Will this one count? And if it does, what does it mean? Megan and Konrad pick through the coalition options, take a spin on the Wahl-O-Mat, and explain why this time nothing can possibly go wrong. Cheers for the volunteers! Election planning background info: https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-gears-up-to-repeat-botched-elections/a-64621620 Buy us a round, ask...

A damp and miserable January is saved at the end by none other than Captain Morgan and his special mojitos, as Megan and Konrad discuss Scholz's tank prevarication and figure out why there aren't enough flats to go round. Plus, how does Megan rate the government's plans to deal with Germany's teacher shortage? Avast, me hearties! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://www.patreon.com/megansmeg...

Armoured men stuck in the mud, besieged protesters holding out in tunnels, while monstrous machines devour the very Earth. This is the medieval hellscape that is Lützerath 2023. How did this happen? Where has the Green Party left its soul? What did the RWE corporation whisper in Robert Habeck's ear in a locked room many months ago? Megan and Konrad settle down with a mug of herbal and a miraculous...

Journalist and historian Nathaniel Flakin joins Megan and Konrad for a dive into Berlin's disjointed revolutionary history, a trip round red Neukölln, and a detour into the left's current disjointed politics to ask: What has Die Linke actually ever done for us? Happy New Year, comrades! Here's Nathaniel's book: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346410/revolutionary-berlin/ Buy us a round, ask us a...

Just in time for Christmas, a yuletide treat comes a-popping out of the advent news calendar – a giant exploding fish tank in the middle of the city. Then Megan and Konrad run through the cabinet that Germany could've had - if only the Reichsbürger had taken over. Plus more of Megan's festive Berlin tips. Merry Christmas one and all! Good article on the batshit Reichsbürger cabinet: https://www.ex...

Megan steels herself for a politics again, but then, for a change, Konrad actually has quite nice news to offer about multiple nationalities – unless of course the CDU has something to say about it. We'll need those megacans after all, Mr. Späti. Also, what happens when the German army runs out of bullets? Plus, especially for the Advent season, Megan presents her special festive Berlin tips. Glüh...

Another glorious day for the German capital, as Berlin becomes the first-ever German state forced to re-take its elections due to being fuck-up central. So we might have a new mayor in the spring. Then Megan and Konrad are joined by the brilliant Heather, manager of a refugee centre in Berlin – rules, deportations, and who are the preferred refugees? Drinks, please! Buy us a round, ask us a questi...

This week, German police chat, as journalist Wael Askandar joins the Megacanners to talk about the time the cops refused people second scoops on Hermannplatz. Meanwhile Veronika Nad is on board to talk about the new Hanau exhibition at the HKW in Berlin. Jack Daniels all round? Don't mind if I do. Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacan Or follow us on whichever bi...

It's Bonfire Night, so gather round with Konrad and Megan and your favourite sticky beverage – sadly festive Jack Daniels with santa hats aren't out yet. This week, a surprisingly nuanced chat about hospital reform, the Söder-Merz conservative romance, and flippin fracking again with Christian flippin Lindner. Frack off! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacan Or f...

Lovers of German regional politics are in for a very special time this week as Megan and Konrad dissect the election results in the nondescript state of Lower Saxony - or at least try and tell the candidates apart. Meanwhile, a survey of Germans' fears falls out of a computer somewhere and Megan has to guess what it said. Things Just Keep On Happening! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://ww...

Like a feckless student, Berlin might need to re-take its elections because of a series of polling day irregularities last September. But can the Klimaliste, the only party actually taking the climate crisis seriously, bring itself to contest it again - seeing as hardly anyone voted for them? We'll see, former Bundestag candidate and physics teacher Michael Hohenadler tells the Megacanners over a...

As Konrad emerges from his pork coma following the CDU party conference in Hannover, we find out how Germany's Christian Democrats are trying to be relevant again. Meanwhile, Megan explains why it's gonna take more than a new "Green Card" to solve Germany's batshit immigration system. Na Zdrowie!

Five weeks of drought and one dose of COVID-19 later, the Megacanners are back in your ears, with more German Things: Germany's north-south rivalry gets reinflamed by a row over energy policy, there's the anniversary of the Rostock pogrom, and How To Fight Money Laundering with Christian Lindner. Sante! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacan Or follow us on whiche...

Megan's about to go on her summer holidays, so the last thing she wants is a German official called Klaus warning her about her winter heating bills. But Germany is on the brink of a gas crisis, so we have special guest energy expert Izzy Choksey to keep us calm. If anyone can help it'll be Economy Minister and noughties romcom star Robert Habeck. Skol! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://w...

Megan's in a superb mood as this week's show begins, so Konrad decides to try and explain Germany's antitrust laws, and why Robert Habeck thinks he can tighten them, because of Christian Lindner's petrol price fiasco. Long story. Then something else that needs tightening: gun control. As well as our grip on the news. Prost! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacan O...

What do AfD Bundestag members message each other about when they think no one's listening? Now we know, thanks to some awkward text leaks. Plus, another state election has happened out West, somewhat confusingly, and what do East Germans feel about Russia? Konrad reports back from Erfurt. Mahlzeit! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacan Or follow us on whichever b...

New limited edition megas this week, after Schleswig-Holstein, AKA the sticky-up bit that's almost Denmark, went to the polls and delivered a blow to the AfD. Then Berlin cops failed to enforce neutrality on Victory Day, Giffey got a Gif-Ei (crap German pun), and why Berlin's Education Minister gives Megan the heebie-jeebies. Ahoy! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://www.patreon.com/megansm...

SPD fossils Steini, Siggi, and Scholz come to terms with their party's disastrous Russia policy, as nerves fray between Germany and Ukraine over arms supplies. Meanwhile, 4/20 protesters took to the streets of Berlin this week to ask why Germany has still not introduced humane drug policies. Gebt das Hanf frei! Buy us a round, ask us a question: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacan Or follow us o...

While Ukraine fights for European democracy, Germany manages to distract itself for a week with some good old pandemic nonsense. The government gets embarrassed in the Bundestag, tries to figure out what to do if we run out of gas, and argues about speed limits. Meanwhile Boris Becker gets himself in a mess. Time for some rave fuel.

War, refugees, pipelines, Nazis, Gerhard Schröder. Things just keep happening and people keep doing them, and Megan and Konrad are here to tell you about it, with the soft cushion of an attitude adjuster, AKA a Rum and Coke. What's all this about then?

The horror won't go away, but then neither do megacans. This week, Megan and Konrad get some distraction from world insanity with a welcome visit from veteran Berlin tour guide and history raconteur Ryan Balmer, who duly vents magnificently about the Humboldt Forum. Also Konrad has something to add about German arms exports.