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Megan's Megacan: Honeybun the Golden Retriever (Super Election Year Special #1)

Megan's old family dog is nothing like Alexander Gauland - this and other astute political insights are in store for you as the MM team analyses last week's state elections.

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Megan's Megacan: We All Feel Stuck In A Canal

If Angela Merkel can do an Easter lockdown u-turn, so can we: This week, we tell tales of the high seas to make up for being stuck at home all day. And we talk about the German news a bit too.

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OUT NOW! Our 203rd issue!

This month, we dive into sex and love in Berlin. ho’s helping unemployed sex workers during the pandemic? And is OnlyFools really empowering women, or exploiting them?

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Megan's Megacan: Jesus Is In The Cave

This week, the saga of Megan's vaccination, more German inability to cope with racism, and the new COVID rules explained (but check them again for yourselves).

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Megan's Megacan: Rent Cap Ruins

On this week's podcast, the megacanners discuss the fallout from the constitutional court's decision to destroy the Berlin rent cap. And to cheer us up we watch the CDU/CSU destroy itself with a...

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Can the Greens be the new CDU?

The Greens have chosen Annalena Baerbock as their candidate for chancellor. But how can they beat a fractured CDU? Konrad Werner outlines their game plan.

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Megan's Megacan: It's All Going Wrong!

Megan and Konrad consider the Laschet v. Baerbock condundrum, and find out how Angela Merkel justified lobbying for a bunch of con-men.

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OUT NOW! Our 204th issue!

This month, Exberliner turns the spotlight on pets in the city.

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Megan's Megacan: A Gentleman Jack for the Weekend, Sir?

There's a guest on this week's show! The Wandering Barman joins Megan and Konrad for a Gentleman Jack and Coke. So what is it like being a performing artist in Neukölln during the pandemic? And why is...

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Megan's Megacan: The Whistleblower Special

On this week's show, Veronika Nad from NGO Blueprint for Free Speech joins the megacanners to explain what's up with whistleblower protection in Germany.

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Megan's Megacan: Super Summer Joy

The megacanners enjoy a Jim Beam and Ice Tea and discuss the Giffey scandal, schools reopening, and there's a special eastern German election preview!

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Megan's Megacan: Peaches and Johnnie Blonde

The megacanners get vaxxed, drink canned cocktails despite medical advice, and chat some news: What happened in the Saxony-Anhalt election? Why do young people vote AfD? And what has Jens bloody Spahn...

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Megan's Megacan: What's New About The New Right?

Another week, another Nazi trial in Frankfurt, while the Verfassungsschutz figures out what the New Right is all about, and something nice happened at the football. Time for some summer gin!

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Election time: The politics of anti-Semitism

Allegations of anti-Semitism are flying around in a pre-election game of political one-upmanship. Konrad Werner looks at two recent examples.

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Basti's Beercan: Existential Election Crisis

It's not Megan's Megacan this week, because Megan is away - but there's a very special guest on to discuss the German election campaign so far.

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Basti's Beercan - What Should We Do With Armin Laschet?

Basti joins Konrad again so that he can find out what's happening in the country he's living in. This week: Bribery in the health care market, and Armin Laschet laughing at human misery.

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Megan's Megacan: Betraying Afghanistan

Megan returns after a summer sojourn to discover that the German news is just as depressing as it ever was. Still, pina coladas now exist in a tin apparently.

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Megan's Megacan: The Not-Querdenker Party

On this week's show - What die Basis are all about, the Afghans who have made it to Berlin, and news from the harvest. Drink up!

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OUT NOW! Our 207th issue!

Auf Wiedersehen, Merkel! EXB bids farewell to our dear leader in a special collector’s issue packed with exclusive interviews and first-hand reports from the campaign trail.

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EXB’s guide to the German elections 2021

Whether you’ve got the golden ticket to vote or not, we bring you the basics on Germany’s 2021 Bundestagswahl.

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Who will be Berlin’s next mayor?

No candidate from the city’s three leading parties – SPD, Die Linke, the Greens – has made a strong impression on voters. Throw a housing referendum into the mix, and the winner is anyone’s guess.

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Megan's Megacan: Absolutely Definitive German Election Policy Countdown

On this week's show, Megan drinks the worst megacan ever, while Konrad explains what all the main parties stand for. It's a corker!

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Megan's Megacan: Vote Klimaliste!

Special guest Izzy Choksey explains why she thinks the Klimaliste have the best approach of all the German parties to tackling the climate emergency - ie, they're taking it seriously.

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German elections 2021: Four things we learned

As the dust settles after Bundestagswahl 2021, Konrad Werner looks at what the results reveal about German priorities, from the climate crisis to the far right.

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Megan's Megacan: Election Aftermath

Megan and Konrad discuss the many intriguing things we learned in last week's many German elections. And drink an odd alcoholic drink.

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Megan's Megacan: The New News Is Old News

After a brief autumn hiatus, the Megacanners are back to discuss Germany's new status as world leaders in COVID infections, a Nazi intervention at the Polish border, and what's new in the new CDU?

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Megan's Megacan: We Can Have New Things After All

Megan and Konrad whip through all 177 pages of the new German government coalition contract in 40 rum-infused minutes: Dual nationality, abortion rights, trans rights, minimum wage, legal weed - It's...

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Angela Merkel inertia

Germany’s new coalition government has finally been sworn in. Will anything actually change?

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Megan's Megacan: New Year Sausage Situation

The Megacanners are back after an extended hiatus, analysing, probing, drinking. The new CDU direction, what is the Bundesrat, and what's with the cheap meat controversy?

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Megan's Megacan: Realos and Fundis

As Baerbock and Habeck go off to save the world, the Green party picks new leaders - so are you a Realo or a Fundi?

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