Megan's Megacan

A brand new year, a brand new Megacan - and welcome to our Exberliner listeners! We drink two of the classics, and discuss naughty kids in Leipzig, the German speed limit fetish, and what has Siemens been up to in Australia.

Megan and Konrad celebrate Megan's blazing return to the megas by welcoming back two of our old favourites - the Bombay G&T and a Johnnie & Ginger. In between soothing gulps of sweet alcohol we talk of jewel heists, the right to be forgotten on the internet, and we have a rant each about German NGO laws and conscription.

This week, Megan and Konrad sample the three pillars of Germany's early-teenage drinking culture - Spezi, Club Mate, and Almdudler - along with special guest Carl Clancy. We also talk about preppers on trial, flags outside schools, and what the fuck is 5G anyway? Also: come to the Live Show!

Konrad and Megan go deeper into the jungle weird organic drinks and come out with something that tastes vaguely of apples and cola nuts? Meanwhile, we discuss that cheeky beggar Rezo and what Germany is doing with Nazis and Islamists.

Megan and Konrad and special guest Maurice Frank drink fizzy algae and vodka and discuss Angela Merkel's Klimapaket. CO2 pricing, subsidised wind farms, cheaper tickets - that'll definitely stop climate catastrophe, won't it?

Week 2 of Megan's abstention experience sees us necking the Fritz-Spritz Schorles with indecent abandon. Meanwhile, there's much to discuss: Berlin's rent freeze, the Thuringia election, and what is Braunschweig in English?

Megan's on the wagon, so she and Konrad have taken to reviewing weird German organic lemonades, before catching up on three months of news to discuss Halle, the Kurds in Syria, and the proposed supply chain law, which is remarkably less boring than it sounds.

In which Megan and Konrad discuss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (AKA AK56) and her rise to the defence seat. There is some robust talk about defence budgets, an attempt to stick up for Health Minister Jens Spahn, and then they unpick the riddle of Hans-Georg Maaßen, the former head of the German Verfassungschutz. But is there any good news? https://www.dw.com/en/kramp-karrenbauer-sworn-in-as-german-defense-minister/a-49727370 https://www.dw.com/en/german-ex-spy-chief-pushes-angela-merkels-cdu-further-right/a-49684021 https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-backs-compulsory-measles-jab-for-schools-kindergartens/a-49616655

Megan and Konrad discuss how the EU's benign finger of welcome pointed at Ursula von der Leyen. But does anyone else get a say? Also, Carola Rackete, Kristina Hänel, and of course, Nazis again.

Looks like we made it through a whole year! Sit back, crack a mega, and take a sentimental journey through a year of German politics with Konrad and Megan. Plus, the taste test: who's the best at the Cola Mix: Jack Daniels, Johnnie Walker, or ... er .... George Washington?