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
Episodes
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Mar 20, 2021 • 35min
Megan's Megacan, March 20, 2021 - Honeybun the Golden Retriever (Super Election Year Special #1)
Germany's 2021 election orgy has started with some tender caressing for the Greens and the SPD. The CDU and the AfD, meanwhile, must search their blackened souls to find favour with voters. Then Megan and Konrad ask what happened to all those far-right extremists in the military - they've probably all been tracked down and sent to prison by now - Hurrah! Everything will be fine again now.
Mar 12, 2021 • 33min
Megan's Megacan, March 12, 2021 - Maskengate
Some CDU politicians have got caught making extra money off the pandemic, prompting criticism from other CDU politicians who used to make extra money off arms companies. Meanwhile, it turns out that Julian Reichelt, AKA the tumor on the colon of the gutter press, is in fact a big bully. Time for some bourbon and coke - but press your thumbs for Megan's black belt in speaking German.
Mar 6, 2021 • 38min
Megan's Megacan, March 6, 2021 - Lockdown Lockerung
Germany's many governments have come up with a five-point plan for the loosening of coronavirus rules. It means we can start having pedicures before heading to the garden centre to pick up those blooming crocus bulbs. But why is Germany so bad at vaccinating people? And how come the AfD won a day in court? And there's a chat about gin. Make it happen!
Feb 23, 2021 • 43min
Megan's Megacan, February 23, 2021 - Rent Cap Unscrewed
Berlin's rent cap is a year old, so has it worked? Megan and Konrad apply their usual laser-like statistical analysis to the property market data, forensically dissecting the complex legal situation. Meanwhile a Nazi concentration camp guard has been flown from the US to Germany, but is not going to be prosecuted, and Konrad drinks a Johnnie Walker for main and a Jack Daniels for afters. It's DAS NEWS!
Feb 12, 2021 • 35min
Megan's Megacan, February 13, 2021 - Flying With Two Cans
Megan's on the wagon, but this show is called Megan's Megacan. That means that -- for the sake of artistic integrity -- Konrad has no choice but to drink two megacans as he navigates the choppy waters of the German News. This week, lockdown update, Berlin's weird neutrality law, and abusing politicians. Es ist News Zeit!
Jan 30, 2021 • 42min
Megan's Megacan, January 30, 2021 - Hessen In A Can
The state of Hesse is home to Kristina Hänel, the newly-named Walter Lübcke School, and Apfelwein - three good reasons to do a Hessen Special. Konrad reports on the end of another Nazi trial, Megan catches up with the cosmic mystery that is the continued existence of Paragraph 219A in German law, and they both drink fancy cider from a snazzy black can. Prost!
Jan 17, 2021 • 32min
Megan's Megacan, January 17, 2021 - The Dawn of Armin (CDU Picks A Leader Special)
It's over. A yearlong ordeal has come to an end as the CDU finally picks a new leader, in the comforting shape of Armin Laschet of North Rhine-Westphalia. We can all rest. And yet even that could not dent the self-confidence of second-time loser Friedrich Merz. The Andes Pact lives on. Cheers.
Jan 9, 2021 • 33min
Megan's Megacan, January 9, 2021 - School's Out? Or In? Or What Now?
Right, everyone --- Megan has a few things she would like to talk about. Most of them involve the Berlin education department's pandemic response, which some people would argue has been a little bit on the erratic side. The combined force of Captain Morgan & Cola and oatmeal cookies slow her down only marginally, so sit back, crack open a megacan, and don't mention Sandra Sch....
Dec 30, 2020 • 1h 1min
Megan's Megacan, December 31, 2020 - Hindsight is 2020
It's the last day of 2020, and here's the last Megacan of the year, in which Megan and Konrad crack open the Captain Morgans and Johnnie and Gingers one more time and hurtle headlong through a year of upheaval and calamity. Never has the phrase Happy New Year been so pregnant with meaning ... Auld Lang Syne indeed - and thanks to all our special guests: Joel Dullroy, Nicholas Potter, Maisie Hitchcock, and Mareike!
Dec 19, 2020 • 30min
Megan's Megacan, December 18, 2020 - Corona Christmas
Germany is deep into the Yuletide season lockdown, and a lonely Christmas is on the horizon - and yet the German population will start getting vaccinated ZWISCHEN DEN JAHREN. But who gets to go first? Definitely not Konrad, because sitting in your pyjamas all day eating coconut macaroons and drinking Jim Beam with Lime is not considered an essential occupation. Go figure.
