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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.

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The Bird And The Bee - Christmas Without The Queen

Oasis - Whatever

SSVU - Suzanne Ciani

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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!

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Pile - Loops

The Dodos - If

Aimee Mann - You Could Have Been a Roosevelt

No Joy - Happy Bleeding

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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!

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Wu-Lu - Times

Sasami - Say It

Julia Holter - Vasquez

JME - 96 Of My Life

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The results are in from the local body elections we said didn't matter. Liz Truss is just spectacular. Albums, movies, good times man.

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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?

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Big Thief - Red Moon

Lonely Guest - Pre War Tension (feat. Joe Talbot & Marta)

All Them Witches - Silver to Rust

Bjõrk - Fossora

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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

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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 joke Dan made which I managed to kill accidentally in the edit where he said that last song is a kind of a mask. If you're a legend who reads podcast descriptions to the end then I guess this is your gift.

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

Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth

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 we all had to learn about of late.

Links to stuff mentioned; 

Morgan Godfery: The protective embrace of being part of the in-group

What Makes This Song Stink Ep. 7 - Machine Gun Kelly "Emo Girl"

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Carly Rae Jepsen - Beach House

POLIÇA - rotting

Big Thief - 12,000 Lines

Mitski - Working for the Knife

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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:

Simple - Dog Food (feat Denzel Curry)

Dead Cross - Reign of Error

The Mars Volta - Blacklight Shine

Silversun Pickups - Scared Together

Perfume Genius - Eye in the Wall

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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.

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Prodigy & Andy C - Firestarter (Andy C remix)

The Bobby Lees - Dig Your Hips

Daughters - Our Queens (One Is Many, Many Is One)

Feist - The Bad in Each Other

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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.

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Georgia - Running up that Hill

Hand Habits - Concrete and Feathers

Perfume Genius - Describe

Buke & Gase & RAHRAH GABOR - Taste Up

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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 deployed and may be what you're looking at right now!

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Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind

The TImelords - Doctorin' in the Tardis

Bob Vylan - Take That

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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?

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Hifiklub & Alain Johannes - Make Up

The Wolfe Tones - The Men Behind the Wire

Silencer & JME - Matrix Nokia

3rd Secret - I Choose Me

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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.

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Nas - Meet Joe Black

Big Thief - Time Escaping

Sasami - Tried to Understand

Benny the Butcher - 10 More Commandments (feat. Diddy)

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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 Band - Strange Religion

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.

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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 (feat. Ty Segall)

Cat Power - Nothin But Time