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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Nov 14, 2020 • 27min
Megan's Megacan, November 13, 2020 - The Lüften Egg-Timer
Captain Morgan, we've done you a disservice, sir. Rum is nice after all. Especially in a lovely Mojito, the perfect drink for a damp mid-November.
In the news, the blurred lines between COVID protesters and neo-Nazis and the cops, what it's like teaching in a pandemic, and did systemic racism nearly stop us getting a COVID vaccine?
Crack the barrel, captain, Aharr!
Nov 7, 2020 • 41min
Megan's Megacan, November 6, 2020 - Diet Lockdown
This week: A new lockdown brings new lockdown protests, the Bundeswehr loses guns, and the CDU leadership contest is going on longer than the US election count. We're back!
Oct 2, 2020 • 33min
Megan's Megacan, October 2, 2020 - Neukölln Nazis
What's on the news this week? Covid again? And Nazis? Oh great, just what we need. Better have a cocktail in a can.
Sep 19, 2020 • 40min
Megan's Megacan, September 18, 2020 - The Rapper's Pizza
- Kollegah - Fler - Haftbefehl - Bushido - Olexesh - Capital Bra
- What the hell are you on about? You're babbling, man, you're babbling.
- No I'm not! They're all famous German rappers - and on this week's show the megacanners find out how to tell them apart! It's totally Lila.
Sep 12, 2020 • 43min
Megan's Megacan, September 11, 2020 - Skateboarding in Leipzig
Cocktails all round as megacan connoisseur Nicholas Potter joins Megan and Konrad for a chat about rubbing Leipzigers up the wrong way, and an update on how the German judicial system is botching up another Nazi trial.
Sep 5, 2020 • 47min
Megan's Megacan, September 5, 2020 - The Yoghurt Crash
There's a new Megacan in the can, and it's a special one. Konrad was in Norway. While he was gone, some people with reality issues attempted a coup in Germany - but to take a break from discussing the dissolution of democracy by Nazis and YouTube, we discuss a new movie about end of the world anxiety. It involves yoghurt accidents.
Aug 15, 2020 • 33min
Megan's Megacan, August 14, 2020 - Save the Wegbier!
On this week's show, teachers are not happy with Berlin's education minister, the states are not happy with Horst Seehofer, and how the Nazis fucked up a whole generation post-war German children - but at least the laptop-pilfering wild boar is still alive.
Aug 7, 2020 • 39min
Megan's Megacan, August 7, 2020 - River of Fools
On this week's Megacan, we're back to new hygienic schools, another piece of Berlin is sacrificed to the god of property, and there's a river of fools across Berlin. Also it's hot.
Jul 24, 2020 • 36min
Megan's Megacan, July 24, 2020 - Two Nazi Trials
This week, Konrad explains what he saw and heard at the trials of Bruno D., former guard at the Stutthof concentration camp, and Stephan B., would-be far-right terrorist of Halle.
Jun 28, 2020 • 1h 26min
A Chat about Extinction and Grief with Guy McPherson
No Megan's Megacan this week we're afraid - instead here's an extended interview from Konrad's (AKA Ben's) upcoming film about collapse, called "We're All Going To Die". It's a talk from October 2019 with conservation biologist Guy McPherson, who says human life will be extinct by 2026. He hopes he's wrong, obviously, but that's not the point. The point is, what do you do with that knowledge?
