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Megan's on holiday yet again, which means another special episode with Chef Basti, AKA the flaneur of Flughafenstrasse. This week, the AfD's email accounts got hacked and it turns out some of them might be a bit racist — how could we have known? Also, Germany's Gen Z takes to the streets in solidarity with their comrades in France, online gamblers could beat the house after all, and Basti wins his altercation with the Hausverwaltung and makes a plea for co-existence with non-human Berliners. Peace out!
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Germany is reeling from its biggest spy scandal in about two hours as yet another former agent turned "security consultant" skips off with some secret files, while also plotting to kidnap children with a steak heiress. Meanwhile, the CDU pretends it definitely didn't help the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, and even tries to make out it was die Linke, while die Linke sues two cabinet ministers in a week, allowing Konrad to explain yet another section of the German constitution, which is always his favourite bit. Mahlzeit!
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Die Linke win in Berlin by trying to make the city affordable, and the CDU and the media decide they must be antisemitic. Meanwhile, the AfD win yet again and the CDU disappear completely on the Baltic coast, like a dying whale sinking into the sea. Megan and Konrad pick the bones out of the carcass of another normal weekend in German politics. Also, judges and prosecutors say the government needs to change the constitution before things really get bad. Ahoy!
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September is upon us, Megan's back in school, the megacans are turning yellow, and the slow wheel of history is gently tipping towards fascism. This week, the Megacanners are joined by friend of the pod and host of the Bupkes, Noach Głuchowicz, to talk about the elections in Saxony-Anhalt, an intervention from a Kabarettist, and the disenfranchised people of Berlin — as well as Noach's fascinating Master's thesis on settler colonialism. Lechaim!
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This episode was first released on September 12, 2025
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 them brutalize protesters with impunity on a weekly basis. Well done, Kai Wegner. — If only there was some kind of catastrophic lesson in German history to learn from to prevent this kind of thing. Prost!
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The Megacanners are on holiday, so here's another chance to listen to one of our best episodes of the past year - our collab with the Bupkes!
This week, the Megacanners are joined by Noach Gɫuchowicz of the Bupkes podcast for a special collab episode! Noach explains Berlin's anti-antisemitism fiscal misappropriation scandal (AKA Germans explaining to Jews what Jews are supposed to be). There's also Germany's obsession with having a reason for its state — because German people always need a reason — plus winter joy as a herd of sheep get frisky in a Penny. Lechaim!
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Megan's off on holiday, so as a special treat Konrad is joined by ex-chef, thwarted drone pilot, occasional traffic law violator, and shrewd political analyst Basti Knight. Over bottles of arguably the worst and second-worst beers produced in Germany, they discuss the fall of Jens Spahn to a surrogacy scandal, the federal police's new Minority Report powers, Germany's obsession with tanks, and Basti's surprising difficulties on Where's Wally. Prost!
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This week, Megan dissects everything that's wrong (and right) with Germany's weird, segregated education system, while Konrad worries whether this is the right time to gut Germany's freedom of information act. Also, Merz's government maintains a slightly strained relationship with the German constitution: Instead of banning the AfD, it wants to ban the bit about expropriating parasite real estate corporations. Still, at least Berlin has a rent database and Megan will never have to think about Julian Nagelsmann or Kai Wegner ever again. Mahlzeit!
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This week, Megan and Konrad prove they are fully integrated in German society by showing too much interest in the government's pension plan reforms. Honestly, they'll be leaving passive-aggressive notes in your Briefkasten next. Meanwhile, it looks like the Bundestag wants to catch up with the rest of Europe when it comes to organ donations, a very generous energy company decides it won't need the coal under Germany's last bit of old-growth forest after all, and don't get Megan started on Julian Nagelsmann… actually do. Football!
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Germany's teenagers once again prove that the spirit of protest and class struggle isn't quite dead yet, by making personal grooming advice for Friedrich Merz go viral. But should we get rid of Section 188 of the German Criminal Code, and how come we even know the numbers of sections of the German Criminal Code? Plus, Konrad reports back from the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Germany's lack of soul-searching at the UN, and how hope died on a Danish beach. Merz Leck Eier!
VITA: MERZ LECK EIER
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