Howdy. Literal tragedy with Cyclone Gabrielle causing death, damage and mayhem to much of the north island but not us. The curious cases of really-quite-identifiable-flying-objects getting exploded by the American Air Force. Trump's re-ascendancy. Jimmy Carter and the myth of a "good president". Plenty more! Bumper music; The C.I.A. - Inhale Exhale Feist - In Lightning boygenius - $20 Duke Garwood - Lion on Ice
Hi, Jacinda Ardern quits outright, rather than say doing a bit of prime ministering every other weekend for sporadic bursts of a handful of months at a time. Chippy Hipkins takes the mantle. And we're back to routine politics with no superstars on the court. And Dan's listened to all of Prince Harry's book, Spare, which we give our undivided attention. Bumper music; Peter Gabriel - Panopticom Sofía Naara - Las Torpezas 2nd Grade - W-2
Hello, Polls polls polls abound as we head into an election-year-eve-christmas. Is our fiscal relationship to state power going to get a squeeze in the name of freedom? And the politics of being wealthy and dim, or insane, and how it shapes one's worldview, one assumes. Bumper music; The Bird And The Bee - Christmas Without The Queen Oasis - Whatever SSVU - Suzanne Ciani
Hello! The music and the TV of our 1990s looms large. Elon ushers in Twitter's Robert California era. KFC and hate crime, Dan hit by a car again, lions on the loose and the midterm elections! Bumper music (pun intended) Pile - Loops The Dodos - If Aimee Mann - You Could Have Been a Roosevelt No Joy - Happy Bleeding
Hey! So; hate speech legislation in NZ. The end of another UK PM and the semi Boris resurgence. Political violence. A few drinks, a nice time, a sneezing fit. Great audio! Bumper music: Wu-Lu - Times Sasami - Say It Julia Holter - Vasquez JME - 96 Of My Life
Hi, The results are in from the local body elections we said didn't matter. Liz Truss is just spectacular. Albums, movies, good times man. Bumper music; Alvvays - After the Earthquake The Afghan Whigs - Jyja Momma - Speeding 72 The Dandy Warhols - The Last High (Are Sound)
Hi there, Local body elections turn sinister with urine innuendo and none of us being particularly bothered enough to engage with it. The UK experiments with kamikaze economics. Dave listens to Simon Bridges' podcast and we check out more Clinton TV. And the Uffindel report is concluded? Bumper music; Big Thief - Red Moon Lonely Guest - Pre War Tension (feat. Joe Talbot & Marta) All Them Witches - Silver to Rust Bjõrk - Fossora
Hello, Well it happened. With the Queen dead there's a lot to discuss about the power and the drama of the institution she embodied. Also NZ's covid mitigations are no more - are we saved, done for, or a secret third thing? And we watch the Clinton gal's foray into entertainment "Gutsy"! Apologies to Simon Mayo Bumper music: The Mars Volta - Black Condolences Jim Parker - House of Cards theme Carly Rae Jepsen - Talking to Yourself Cardi B - WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stalion) There was a great dirty ...
Howdy? After much consideration we deliver our conclusion on the upcoming local body elections; no. The Fire and the Fury documentary is compelling and skilfully made and almost has as good a website as us, but is it the complete picture it claims to be? Plus: Farewell, Boris? 20 years with Songs for the Deaf. The death of Mikhail Gorbachev. Gastro. Bumper music; All Them Witches - Tiger Pit Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Strangers (feat. A$AP Rocky & Run the Jewells) Wet Leg - Oh No Que...
Well, well, well. Our freshest MP turns out to be one of the rottenest as Sam Uffindell's bully past comes to light. The National Party exchange scandal at the top for the bottom. National dominate headlines for some deliberate reasons too with their conference policy announcements targeting welfare and some new poll results. Meanwhile the Greens have their turn at a bizarre form of leadership challenge. And the ethics of online ethics policing and working in the military industrial complex, as ...
Hey folks, Andrea Vance's book "Blue Blood" has just been released and at time of recording Dave had read some of it. It's a humdinger whodunnit political true crime murder mystery, says I attempting to explain the pun on Cluedo in the title. Also; more on the assassin of Shinzo Abe. The politics of human damage. Funeral for a computer. Catastrophes and the economic order. Breakfast. And our leaders' international conduct with both Ardern and Luxon talking it up large overseas. Bumper music: Sim...
Hi! The boys got covid! Our personal recounting of the physical tribulations of 2019's hottest viral disease. Ex-PM of Japan Shinzo Abe's assassination has shocked the planet. Boris Johnson's semi-resignation has confounded it. And what's more "planet" than local body elections? Wellington has mayoral candidates and we try to care. Since we last talked the expected Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs Wade came to pass - what this animating bigotry clings to in our psyche. Bumper music; Pro...
Hi! New information on the rising prominence of inner-city violence as Dan is attacked, on two separate occasions, by seagulls. Pride and the flag. DMT and soiling yourself. The holo-Queen's jubilee. Can Boris Johnson survive surviving a no confidence vote? And Luxon, by-elections, Three Waters and local government; we solve the lot. Bumper music; Georgia - Running up that Hill Hand Habits - Concrete and Feathers Perfume Genius - Describe Buke & Gase & RAHRAH GABOR - Taste Up...
Hi, In the news; new Doctor Who and the whooping narrow arguments about media representation. Ardern in America. The nihilistic attitudes available to us in the sagging middle period of a government. And booze... for ladies? Is there something about this moment which has admen (and admen ladies) pushing frothies to the fillies? Or is alcohol marketing just an omnipit of villainy with no rhyme, reason or gender politics? With special thanks to Ian for the website which is in the process of being ...
Hey! A new era of Covid mitigations and the social ripples inherent within. Dave has travelled, Dan has partied - what is the new world like? Fast food and militant Irish republicanism once found common cause in McDonalds. Dan with the deep dive. And in proper politics, Fair Pay Agreements may be the Ardernocracy's largest non-covid legacy. Luxon's National Party stand in opposition, to this, that, themselves and everything. But are consistent arguments really lacking if they don't matter? Bumpe...
Hi, We give our review of Deep Water, the erotic thriller tasked with reviving the genre. Also; union building activity in the USA, and the music we are digging right now. Bumper music; Nas - Meet Joe Black Big Thief - Time Escaping Sasami - Tried to Understand Benny the Butcher - 10 More Commandments (feat. Diddy)
Hi! In this episode; hospitality in crisis. Wellingtonians aren't undertaking their collective duty to private enterprise in the right way, apparently. War in Ukraine - the dark maths of the unexpected. Urgh. The protest at parliament ended with Dan eyewitness on the ground. And we note the passing of Mark Lanegan. God that sucks. Bumper music; Press Club - When You Were Young Queens of the Stone Age - A Song for the Dead UNKLE - Looking for the Rain (feat Mark Lanegan & Eska) Mark Lanegan B...
Unruly, uncoordinated, lasting longer than anyone expected or wanted; it's us back with another episode. The copy-cat protest occupation at Parliament is at once a harbinger of menace, pitifully sad, and a mirror to the city. No solutions, just urghhhhrgh. Also; Ukraine! Bikes and Cowboys! Bumper music; Beastie Boys - Too Many MCs (feat. Nas) REM - Welcome to the Occupation Mitski - Love Me More The Dillinger Escape Plan - Hero of the Soviet Union...
So; Dan's credit card got stolen and used on OnlyFans. We discuss this impact of this on the new credit lending regulations causing misery across the land, and the proposed national employment insurance scheme. In blighty, Boris scandals on. Bumper music; DJ Format & Abdominal - Behind the Scenes Sir Mix-A-Lot - Put 'Em On the Glass Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left Barkmarket - Undone
Ahoyhoy; recorded Saturday 22nd before our latest covid news and after several brews; here we go: Boris! Public art. Girlboss jailpurge. Royal succession. Bumper music; JASSS - Wish Aktive - Higher Sharon Van Etten - Comeback Kid Daniel Hart - Blome Swete Lilie Flour
Hi, here's a lazy one to a happy new year. We discuss Don't Look Up, a film that has become a totemic piece of media over the festive season. Media consumption as psuedopolitics reaches new heights with the director's commentary tweet . How much is forgivable in art with a message? Our predictions for 2022 ahead, and what we talk about when we talk about inflation. Plus sealions! Jarred farts! Bumper music; P Money & Whiney - Buss the Red Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy - Miracles (f...
Hi, We're back in the room, talking Luxon & Willis, Hilary Clinton's new venture, urbanism and local democracy, Ukraine, shock rock and apples. Bumper music Big Freedia - Tis the Season Dilated Peoples - Ear Drum Pop Mollono.bass - No Silence Big Zuu, JME & Novelist - Offline
Hello, We have a service station problem and it involves sausage rolls . Blame supply chains, the youth, or plain old common sense somehow; something must be done. In less pressing news National changed leaders again and this time... who knows? Collins exists, sort of, in at least some degree of earned ignominy. But where to now? Groundswell protests, anti-government covid protests, and the issues missing from any of our debates about this deadly pandemic, hinged or un. Bumper music; Aim & Q...
Buona sera. It's still Covid o'clock in little old New Zealand. We talk the vast spectrum of vaccine hesitancy, antiauthoritarianism, through to proper conspiratorial lunacy. Which of course leads us to; Music in politics! Dave Dobbyn! And the end of Turkish-Kiwi relations! Bumper music; SASAMI - Skin a Rat Pulp - Party Hard Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - William Weld in the 21st Century Ceza - Buna Dur Dedi General
kia ora, Technology is neat, and is holding society together whether that be by heating meals, being a computer, or causing nonspecific harm to USA spies. Dave got his brain broken by reading the Jakarta Method then watching Squid Game back to back. Dan's just got a proper disease. Machine Gun Kelly, the Covid strategy, Super Saturday, James Bond and what's on the telly. Bumper music; Blackstar - Re: definition Shygirl & slowthai - BDE Dizzee Rascal & Ocean Wisdom - Don't Be Dumb Powderf...
Hello, New Zealand may still be a team of five million, but there are very different jobs to do. Is this disunity affecting the mission? The psychology of participation in a health response, and what learning to live with the virus might actually mean. AUKUS kicks off an inscrutable diplomatic row with the French. Why does geopolitics gotta be so dramatic? And some fast food news, and fast food history...\ Bumper music; Portugal. The Man - Steal My Sunshine (feat. Cherry Glazerr) The Avalanches ...
Hi, New Zealand's covid lockdown starts easing just as we're getting the hang of it. Masks in the time of cardio. Seymour vs health system vaccine prioritisation efforts. The National leadership spill that's more of a water feature. The human and legal wreckage in the wake of last week's terror attack. McDonald's vs justice. Bumper music; Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u Quicksand - Emdr Z-Ro - Crooked Officer Wesley Willis - Rock N Roll McDonald's
NZ back in Covid lockdown! Afghanistan! Music! Sean William Scott! Chats and bants! Bumper music; Ty Segall - Whisper Tricky - Money Greedy Mega Drive - Crypt Diver Phoebe Bridgers - Nothing Else Matters
Audio now corrected 0842 9-8-2021 Hi, National's first conference since the election give us all cause to take stock and look ahead. How much as the myth of the ideal anti-politician leader bent our discourse? Dan watched the Woodstock '99 documentary everybody is talking/angry about. Just give me a film format to break! Bumper music; Korn - Freak on a Leash Merdian Dan, JME & President T - Teachers Pets The Offspring - Self Esteem
We finally watched Rising Sun and, yeah, it's trash. In the news, gang koha, rehabilitation costs and looking after stranded wildlife come under fire from the right because they are not free. Dan sees sandwich crime. Farmers are angry. There you go Bumper music; Lush - 500 Czarface & MF DOOM - Jason & the Czargonaughts Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything Eliza Shaddad - Fine & Peachy
