Hi,

We're back in the room, talking Luxon & Willis, Hilary Clinton's new venture, urbanism and local democracy, Ukraine, shock rock and apples.

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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. 

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Aim & QNC - Takin' Shots (Feat. Dimes)

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue

Ovlov - Eat More

Phoebe Bridgers - Day After Tomorrow

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!

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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.

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Blackstar - Re: definition

Shygirl & slowthai - BDE

Dizzee Rascal & Ocean Wisdom - Don't Be Dumb

Powderfinger - (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind

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...\

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Portugal. The Man - Steal My Sunshine (feat. Cherry Glazerr)

The Avalanches - Running Red Lights (feat. Rivers Cuomo & Pink Siifu)

Colleen Green - Highway

The Felice Brothers - We Shall Live Again

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.

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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! 

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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!

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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

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Lush - 500

Czarface & MF DOOM - Jason & the Czargonaughts

Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything

Eliza Shaddad -  Fine & Peachy

Hi;

Toilet party etiquette; when is it ok to use the party facilities for what they were actually designed? Is Lana Del Ray your cousin?

The UK announces cessation of covid mitigations! Ha. NZ's National party wants a debate, albeit about an unsurprisingly narrow group of things.

Haiti's president was assassinated. Literal bloodletting in politics' upper circles is rare, but is it surprising? The US pulls out of Afghanistan at great speed. See War Nerd for more details.

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John Lewis - Baby Bay

Lana Del Ray - The Next Best American Record

Gerry and the Pacemakers - ferry across the mersey

DJ Shadow - Six Days (Remix feat. Mos Def)

Hi;

The Wellington City Spatial Plan passes a council vote, with little thanks to bewildering positions adopted by putative progressives siding with arch conservatives against housing affordability and, well, progressivism. Is urban greenery supposed to mean something?

Donald Rumsfeld is dead, ending one of the world's greatest KD ratios of all time.

And lord knows the meat of this will wait for another episode, but Collins is doing bad things, badly.

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Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

Buse and Gase - Bubbles

Lucy Dacus - VBS

Kira Skov & Mark Lanegan - Idea of Love

Hey everyone,

Canonical chaos reigns as the Ardern Cinematic Universe risks an unauthorised expansion. Nick Smith appears to have even made a hash of resigning in disgrace. Dan's watched some TV, Dave's watched some art. Both have had beers. And we never found the film we wanted...

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Mitski - Washing Machine Heart

The Datsuns - MF From Hell

Wolf Alice - Feeling Myself

Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands - Summer In Your Eyes

The Fartlow saga, the Free Speech Union, the ethonographic football hooliganism history, Cummings vs the UK govt, and the budget bringing you the hits of the 80s, 90s and today.

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Tomahawk - Predators and Scavengers

KFC Murder Chicks - What's Inside Your Mind

boygenius - Salt in the Wound

Ukandanz - Tchuhetén betsèmu

Hi.

The government announces that all workers can bargain for better pay, except those who have to bargain with the government. Are industry-wide employment agreements a return to the seventies?\

The destruction of Palestinian homeland and the danger of whatabboutism. The details are far from simple - the morality is not.

Some news from Invercargil, and a familiar villain appears closer to home...

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Leftfield - Inspection (Check One)

Backxwash - I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS and MY DRESSES (feat. Ada Rook)

Only Fools and Horses theme

VOLA - Head Mounted Sideways

So; National's response to the health sector shakeup means war... race war? We talk the weaponisation of your very soul via the hijacking of atrocity acknowledgement. Coffee opinions, music opinions, movie legacy opinions.

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LFO - Summer Girls

(a different) LFO - LFO

Royal Blood - Typhoons

LFO - West Side Story

Haven't we met before?

We kick off with a recap of the past 18 months. In a word; eventful. In two words; event lousy.

Prince Philip's shock death brings the argument against the argument against monarchy back in frame.

And we missed election night 2020 so have a go at recapturing the dark bitter magic of the event, and where that spell has gotten us to now.

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Guns n Roses - November Rain

Shygirl - BAWDY

Cherry Glazerr - Ohio

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire