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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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.
Dec 5, 2020 • 38min
Megan's Megacan, December 5, 2020 - Teaching High School in a Pandemic
Teaching is hard enough as it is, but try doing it in a major European capital with a virus decimating the population. This week, Konrad lounges around like a work-shy fop eating sweetmeats while two weary Berlin teachers report from the city's classrooms, where society are being held together. It's time for a G&T, with special guest Mareike!
Nov 28, 2020 • 36min
Megan's Megacan, November 27, 2020 - Old Shat In Her Hand?
There's a pandemic, everyone's facing a grim and lonely holiday season, and now the weather is rubbish too. There's only one megacan suitable for the situation - good old Johnnie & Ginger.
On this week's show - a saga in Saxony at the Karl May Museum, another trial involving a Nazi called Stephan, and no you're not allowed Böller either?
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.
