There was an election in Germany a week ago – listen with tenterhooks sharpened to whether Megan and Konrad can remember much about it. Is Germany about to be ruled by its most feared authority – the traffic light? Is Franziska Giffey gonna ignore the million people who voted to socialize housing? And why do younguns love the FDP so much? So many questions, only one megacan to help us through. Crack it open. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

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Megan's Megacan, October 2, 2021 - Election Aftermath

On this week's show, Megan and Konrad get the bejeezus scared out of them by climate activist Izzy Choksey. The major German parties have given up on avoiding ecological catastrophe, so either vote for the nerds who've done the homework, or hope you're not gonna live to see 2040. Luckily we have weird fizzy Green Botanical Rum to hand, because despair is never the answer. Onward! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, September 18, 2021 - Vote Klimaliste!

This is a cracker, a flippin corker, of a Megacan. There's a Nazi trial in the city of Chemnitz, a special countdown of the five worst policies of each of the big political parties, and Megan describes in extraordinary detail maybe the worst drink she has ever had in her life. Can Life Get Any Better? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, September 11, 2021: Absolutely Definitive German Election Policy Countdown

Who are Germany's newest political party? Konrad spends a week with the Querdenker-adjacent die Basis, remains unbrainwashed, and then meets two Afghans who helped the German army, but didn't get much help back. Megan, meanwhile, has picked up a stat about the megacan beverage industry. Now, a spot of Bombay Bramble, sir? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, August 28, 2021 - The Not-Querdenker Party

Megan's back. Her hollybags over, Megan is forced to return to the turgid pool of venality and cynicism that is the German news. There's the miserable retreat from Afghanistan, sycophancy to billionaires in Brandenburg, and the latest election stats. Pina Coladas all round! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, August 14, 2021 - Betraying Afghanistan

On this week's show, Konrad talks about bribery at one of Germany's biggest companies, before Basti explains how exactly he would like to carry out punishment on Armin Laschet for laughing in a disaster zone. In between, there is some musing on the great teachings of life. Prost! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Basti's Beercan, July 24, 2021 - What Should We Do With Armin Laschet?

Megan's on holiday, which means Basti Knight, top chef at the Crazy Bastard Kitchen, has been drafted in to offer his unique take on the German news – on this week's show, Konrad is down as Germany's election campaign is sidetracked into inane bollocks. This prompts Basti to ask some existential questions. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Basti's Beercan, July 10, 2021 - Existential Election Crisis

It's Megan's last podcast before her summer holiday, so what better send-off than an account of a new Nazi trial in Frankfurt, more stuff about Nazi prepper networks, and the Verfassungsschutz catching up to the concept of the New Right. So much fun. Still, there was some good news at the Euros. And it's the weekend! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, June 26, 2021 - What's New About The New Right?

Megan is in a good mood because three nice things happened to her on the same day, but Konrad is on hand to ruin the good vibes with some News. There's an election in Saxony-Anhalt to catch up on, some chat about why East German kids still feel East German, and Health Minister Jens Spahn does the cuntiest thing he's ever done. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, June 13, 2021 - Peaches and Johnnie Blonde

The summer has slapped us in the face like a big sunflower of joy, the birds are singing, sensibly-tested Berliners have returned to their favourite dingy bars, and school children are doing wholesome teutonic end-of-term hikes in the forest. Meanwhile ministers can't remember if they copied their PhDs or not, and there's an election in Saxony-Anhalt to look forward to. Now all you have to do is get through the chemical fumes of that first sip of megacan. Stay Super Happy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, June 4, 2021 - Super Summer Joy

Dieselgate, Wirecard, Heckler & Koch - Germany has one of the weakest whistleblower protection laws in the developed world – but not for long, thanks to campaigners like Veronika Nad. Veronika comes on the show to explain why the German government is slowing everything down - again - and what it's like trying to get the European Union to listen to you.  PS: Also, there's a small correction on the story involving the date of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia's death: Veronika says this didn't happen during the European Parliament's vote on the whistleblower protection law itself – as she said on the show - but on the European Parliament's vote on the initial report on the law, which happened a year earlier, in 2017. You'll figure it out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, May 23, 2021: The Whistleblower Special

For the first time in over a year, the megacanners have a guest! Fresh from a vaccine jab and a nasal swab, the Wandering Barman himself Chris Davis joins Megan and Konrad for a Gentleman Jack and Coke – truly, the Burger King of cocktails. Chris explains what it was like for performing artists facing an existential crisis during a pandemic, Megan explains why Merkel is wrong about vaccine waivers. Konrad mainly sort of chips in when he can think of something to say. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, May 8, 2021 - A Gentleman Jack for the Weekend, Sir?

This week, Germany's party of stability and continuity finally ends three years of in-fighting by picking a chancellor candidate no one likes, while the Greens keep cool and pick Annalena Baerbock. Plus Merkel has to defend lobbying in China for a bunch of criminal fraudsters. Megan and Konrad drink some Johnnie and Ginger. "Es geht alles schief!" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/megans-megacan/message

Megan's Megacan, April 24, 2021 - It's All Going Wrong!

This week, finally some justice for Berlin's oppressed landlords, as the constitutional court reins in the unfettered greed of tenants who won't give them their last fucking tin of beans. Meanwhile, two leaders bash the hell out of each other as conservative politicians prove once again how mature they are, and Merkel takes over the country while everyone's distracted by the shit show in her party. And: Does Jack Daniels really count as whisky? Consider the conundrum solved.

Megan's Megacan, April 16, 2021: Rent Cap Ruins

This week finally some justice for Berlin's oppressed landlords, as the constitutional court reins in the unfettered greed of tenants who won't give them their last fucking tin of beans. Meanwhile, two leaders bash the hell out of each other as conservative politicians prove once again how mature they are, and Merkel takes over the country while everyone's distracted by the shit show in her party. And: Does Jack Daniels really count as whisky? Consider the conundrum solved. Hurrah!

Megan's Megacan, April 16, 2021 - Rent Cap Ruins

Everything you need to know about German politics if you don't quite care enough to read, but still feel persistently outraged. Also megacans.

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