

Megan's Megacan
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
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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Oct 10, 2026 • 42min
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 Saxony-Anhalt, and even tries to make out it was die Linke, while die Linke sues two cabinet ministers in a week, allowing Konrad to explain yet another section of the German constitution, which is always his favourite bit. Mahlzeit! Music by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a round!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanKo-Fi: ko-fi.com/megansmegacanOr ask us a question: [email protected] follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-o_U5nqe4_-yKfOm1CXOPA

Sep 23, 2026 • 49min
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 carcass of another normal weekend in German politics. Also, judges and prosecutors say the government needs to change the constitution before things really get bad. Ahoy! Music by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a round!https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanko-fi.com/megansmegacanOr ask us a question: [email protected] follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-o_U5nqe4_-yKfOm1CXOPA

Sep 5, 2026 • 1h 1min
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 intervention from a Kabarettist, and the disenfranchised people of Berlin — as well as Noach's fascinating Master's thesis on settler colonialism. Lechaim! Read Noach's thesis here: https://www.thebupkes.com/p/how-zionism-settled-the-jews-masters-thesis-colonialism-history-leiden-universitySubscribe to The Bupkes here:https://substack.com/@thebupkeshttps://www.instagram.com/thebupkes/https://ko-fi.com/thebupkesMusic by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a round! https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanhttps://ko-fi.com/megansmegacanOr ask us a question: [email protected] follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-o_U5nqe4_-yKfOm1CXOPA

Aug 21, 2026 • 51min
Fascism = Colonialism for White People - with Wael Eskandar (Summer Repeat)
This episode was first released on September 12, 2025A 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 was some kind of catastrophic lesson in German history to learn from to prevent this kind of thing. Prost! Music by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a round, ask us a question! https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanOr follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-o_U5nqe4_-yKfOm1CXOPA

Aug 7, 2026 • 1h 6min
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 fiscal misappropriation scandal (AKA Germans explaining to Jews what Jews are supposed to be). There's also Germany's obsession with having a reason for its state — because German people always need a reason — plus winter joy as a herd of sheep get frisky in a Penny. Lechaim!Listen and subscribe to the Bupkes here:https://www.thebupkes.com/Megan's Megacan theme song by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a round, ask us a question! https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanOr follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacan

Jul 24, 2026 • 52min
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 surrogacy scandal, the federal police's new Minority Report powers, Germany's obsession with tanks, and Basti's surprising difficulties on Where's Wally. Prost! Music by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a mega: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanOr buy us a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/megansmegacanOr email us: [email protected] follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanwww.megansmegacan.com

Jul 10, 2026 • 46min
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 constitution: Instead of banning the AfD, it wants to ban the bit about expropriating parasite real estate corporations. Still, at least Berlin has a rent database and Megan will never have to think about Julian Nagelsmann or Kai Wegner ever again. Mahlzeit!Music by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a mega: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanOr buy us a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/megansmegacanOr email us: [email protected] follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanwww.megansmegacan.com

Jun 26, 2026 • 47min
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 rest of Europe when it comes to organ donations, a very generous energy company decides it won't need the coal under Germany's last bit of old-growth forest after all, and don't get Megan started on Julian Nagelsmann… actually do. Football!Music by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a mega: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanOr buy us a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/megansmegacanOr email us: [email protected] follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanwww.megansmegacan.com

Jun 13, 2026 • 42min
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 German Criminal Code? Plus, Konrad reports back from the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Germany's lack of soul-searching at the UN, and how hope died on a Danish beach. Merz Leck Eier! VITA: MERZ LECK EIERMegan's Megacan theme song by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a mega: https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanOr buy us a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/megansmegacanOr email us: [email protected] follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanwww.megansmegacan.com

May 15, 2026 • 49min
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 the room is full of trade unionists, and Megan has more to say about this silly whale rescue palaver. Mahlzeit! Megan's Megacan theme song by Eden Ottignon from Planet OTTBuy us a mega! https://www.patreon.com/megansmegacanOr buy us a Ko-Fi! https://ko-fi.com/megansmegacanOr email us! [email protected] follow us on whichever psychotic billionaire's data-fracking machine you prefer:https://www.instagram.com/megansmegacan/https://www.facebook.com/MegansMegacanwww.megansmegacan.com


