Megan's Megacan

A bewildering grab bag of news this week as Megan and Konrad whip through two weeks of German politics while staying heroically sober thanks to some cracking 0.0 Radler. Annalena Baerbock changes her ...

26 Sep 202545min

A 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 th...

12 Sep 202549min

The Megacanners are back, and they're not the only ones. After a busy summer of trying to sound important in America, Friedrich Merz is back in Berlin to ring in his so-called autumn of reforms, by wh...

29 Aug 202545min

First released on February 26, 2025!It's the end of an era: Scholz, Habeck, and friend of the pod Christian Lindner have all had their last Absacker and stumbled out into the night — you can still hea...

15 Aug 202538min

It's quiz week at Megacan Manor, as Megan welcomes her summer holidays by guessing some mildly interesting facts about Germany's demographic troubles and the latest pension age gossip. Plus, there's b...

29 Jul 202550min

See, Jens? This is what happens when you don't do your job properly. This week, Germany's Constitutional Court is taken hostage by a right-wing social media campaign, as someone with normal opinions g...

20 Jul 202554min

Oof, what a stacked show this week: Germany's minimum wage saga reaches its disappointing denouement, German voters begin to wonder what the SPD is actually for, and Germany's Retail Institute comes u...

5 Jul 202540min

More Germans can't live on their wages, but the new minimum wage commission has decided to raise it, erm, minimally — ensuring another neoliberal wet dream this weekend for BlackRock Chancellor Friedr...

27 Jun 202538min