Hey, Everything's gone to hell and you can't even pretend to make a t-shirt in NZ these days. What's the worst type of rich person? Grimes and Elon raises eyebrows. Shoes. Korea's peace, Iranian war. DJ Khalid. Incel terrorism and the associated reckons. Those Clarke rumours and the little cesspit that spawned them. And Bridges just can't catch a break. Bumper music; Wiley - Bar Speedy Ortiz - Backslidin' DMAs - Warsaw
Hey, Tonnes is up. In all the talk of the first 6 months of the new government, there's still plenty of post-mortem to do on the previous one. Was the health crisis a beat-up? Is Collins waging a war on snowflakes? Who's in charge of this crowd? Also; Kayne West is Kanyesque. The final Anzac day of the WW1 centenary has been. Which war was your favourite? Bumper music; Aimee Mann - Sugarcoated Dr. Octogan - Polka Dots The Black Crowes - P.25 London...
Hello, Cogent war opinions are above everybody's station and ability - maybe that's the point. Many's the time I've talked my face off about this injustice or that and later remembered I'd forgotten to also add that the whole sorry state of slaughter and waste makes sense when you remember this conflicts are the first look some other countries get of weapons they're considering buying. This is one of those times. Syria was already a multi-sided battle torn hellscape, and now they've got to deal ...
Hello! Sorry for the delay. In this episode; never bet against the popular sentiment that airlines can eat dirt and cry about it. Political intrigue abounds with clandestine coffees and inarticulated Ruskie scares in the air. The internet has already taken a few bites of this, but Dan has read Jordan B Peterson's 'Twelve Rules For Life'. This book has been widely criticised for its gender politics and its failure to unseat the IceTV Guide to Life 's 20-year stranglehold on the slacker self help ...
Hey! Things move fast when you're slow. English is out and *checks notes* Bore Smidgins is in. National now face either the complete unknown or a spiral of well-worn tedium - no in-betweens. Donald Glover, Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton are all coming to New Zealand, which is nice. And Seven Sharp make the oddest video about political memes, but we're the last people to get to this , literally . Bumper music! Lorde - Supercut (El-P Remix) [feat. Run The Jewels] Lowtide - Alibi Speedy Ortiz - Luc...
Hello! Ha ha, it totally happened; Bill English quit two weeks after saying he wouldn't. Now a gallery of ghouls compete for his place for the honour of leading a divided party to defeat and another round of soul-searching in 2020. Plus related-to-various degrees; allegations of dimwittery regarding an MP's use of snapchat put the world's worst detectives on the hunt for an antagonist. Trump and Russia and monsters under the DNC's bed. Meanwhile Labour actually appear to be making social progres...
Hello! Stephanie joins us to talk Jacinda's baby news and what this might mean for representation in politics in the years ahead, and all of politics ever. Also the TPP or whatever it calls itself was signed to next to no fanfare or opposition. One of the lightening rods for political dissent under the previous administration just whistles home under this one - what gives? Also, the weather still sucks. Pay equity in NZ and especially professional sport. Mills and Boone romance novels. Good stuf...
Hey! Sorry for the long wait, but here it is! Our annual end-of-year roundup with Mike from Riot Radio. 2017 was an amazing if puzzling year for music and there is PLENTY to talk about. Witness our bonus length Best of 2017 Spotify Playlist which is only the songs we absolutely couldn't do without. Honest. Playlist goes: 1st third Dave (Dandy Warhols to UNKLE feat Mark Lanegan) 2nd third Dan (Japandroids to Warbly Jets) 3rd third Mike (Generationals to Fazerdaze) As well as being awesome, music ...
Hello! Dateline; the fricken desert or something. The weather is fricken oppressive and good god we're all dying. In other news as the weather heats up; upon which miscommunication will this government fail? Don Brash has a go of it. Do petty local government concerns warrant comparisons with Naziism (that's an easy one). But mostly this is a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fan show now, so we talk a lot about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Bumper music; Jess Mills - Vultures (Photek's Dub Remix) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ...
Hello, Modern Australia is a bizarre mix of cosmopolitan western liberalism and hellhole deathcamp paranoid racist wasp fundamentalism. They're weird and we're sick of them. The Manus Island situation is criminal and the fact our new PM appears to agree, well, that apparently doesn't go down well in some circles. In domestic news, procedural whoopsies sort of mar the incoming government, I guess, if you're a nerd. The TPPA morphs. And Bill English, unable to become an irresistible force, commits...
