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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This week, Megan and Konrad are gently corrected on their sugar tax coverage, an alleged former member of the RAF forgets to get rid of her kalashnikov before the police knock on her door 30 years later, why the AfD actually doesn't rule the East, Friedrich Merz can't read the room, especially if the room is full of trade unionists, and Megan has more to say about this silly whale rescue palaver.…
The German state continues to show that it's learned so much from its history by equating direct action groups with terrorists and as the Ulm 5 went on trial in Stuttgart — for a couple ofminutes anyway. Then, Friedrich Merz located his backbone against Donald Trump, who took the criticism on board with his customary grace — plus, more health care reforms, and some millionaires have put a whale in…
This week, the Megacanners wear the boring old German news as a nice comfort blanket against impending Armageddon: There's 66 new proposals to fix Germany's over-expensive healthcare system, why prediction markets are a pox on democracy, and the tale of Sad Timmy the Unnecessarily Anthropomorphized Whale — plus: What is Berlin good at? It ain't the flippin Olympics, that's for sure. Ahoy! The…
Ocean's 11, the Louvre jewellery thieves, those naughty kids who nicked that massive gold coin from the Museuminsel - everyoneloves a good heist, so the Megacanners are psyched to have the editors of Berlin's newest English-language news outlet on the show. Ruthie and Peter talk about why the city needs worker-owned media. Plus, the Collien Fernandes story, the Berlin police raid an anarchist…
It's an evil brew of news to get through this week, so ladles and bowls at the ready, everyone. The Megacanners rattle throughGermany's petrol prices, because we must feed our cars, the tightest of elections in Baden-Württemberg, where the CDU man was a bit creepy, ploughshares get made into swords in Wedding, wolf-hunting is back, and time for a raccoon bounty. Fire away! Megan's Megacan theme…
