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The National-ACT-NZ First coalition agreement(s?) are signed and New Zealand has a government. These foundational documents may promise things the parties have no intention of providing, contain contradictory wording, not add up, but what's new.
We went and saw Napoleon in the theatres. To some it's a drama, to others a comedy, and to horses a horror.
And a ceasefire-of-sorts in Gaza in even parts celebrated and lamented.
Technical note, there's a weird thing going on with the RSS update frequency if using https://atthedrivethru.co.nz/rss. https://feeds.libsyn.com/69850/rss instead pulls episodes as soon as they're available.
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Micky Dolenz - Shiny Happy People
Chase & Status & Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee)
The Afghan Whigs - The Getaway
The Beaches - Cigarette
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The negotiations to create the next coalition of chaos are apparently underway. What hydra might emerge from it, and what referenda on foundational indigenous rights issues in NZ look like if certain folks get their way?
UK politics remains unstable with the Home Secretary fired, and the familiar face of regretful Brexitdoer David Cameron reentering cabinet.
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Chat Pile - Why
The Dandy Warhols - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Katie Kim - Day is Coming
Supergroove - Scorpio Girls
And the movies! Napoleon is getting a movie. Perhaps the Reading Cinema complex will rise to meet it.
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Bit of a long one so let's get right to the point; An election occurred but we still don't know precisely the outcome. Has an incoming government ever looked more like they're limping home?
A crackdown on gangs / looking mid is coming. The National party in a nutshell.
Dan went to a gig. And the war in Palestine and it's meta discussion online - both horrors to behold.
Bumper music;
Charly Bliss - I Need A New Boyfriend
Happy Mondays - Step On
Black Grape - Shake Your Money
The Gutter Twins - We Have Met Before
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It's election time and another debate has befallen us. My, how the strategic winds have changed since our prior episode. How the slings, barbs, goofs and gaffs have brought us to this one of an unknown number of elections in our near future.
Also; Israel.
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Arone Dyer & stargaze - Define
Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone - Are You In Peace?
Enigma - The Return to Innocence
This episode contains discussion of Russell Brand & sexual assault
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Chris v Chris in the 1st leaders' debate! Spa pools! Russell Brand & his allegations. Wishbone gone. Stuff!
Bumper music;
Jay Rock & Anderson .Paak - Too Fast (Pull Over) feat. Latto
Pixey & Tayo Sound - Daisy Chain
Ty Segall - Void
Jeff Rosenstock - Rainbow
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National's most please-shut-up MP applies for a medal for services to the grocery shop. All as both gender and vegetables form broad, misunderstood, contentious political footballs moving to centre stage this election.
Politics occurs; both vote-based and nonvote-based varieties.
Also Covid-19 - insomuch as it was a successful and powerful central government programme - is over. What about that eh.
Bumper music;
Pixey & Tayo Sound - Daisy Chain
Speedy Ortiz - Scabs
DJ Shadow - Rocket Fuel (feat. De La Soul)
Mitski - Bug Like an Angel
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Major industrial action in the city of stars. What does our entertainment and labour universe look like in the seasons to come?
An election looms with the major parties nodding along or frowning seriously at the tone set by the minors. Retail politics is confusing. Eurodance is back, in parody form.
Bumper music:
Carly Rae Jepsen - Anything To Be With You
Killer Mike - Spaheship Views
Kyle Gordon - Planet of the Bass (feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms Biljana Electronica)
Big Thief - Vampire Empire
Hey we're right on time.
Massive Attack's Mezzanine is 25 years old this year, and while at this age it is now eligible for lower car insurance premiums, at the time of its release things were much less predictable.
Tory Whanau, who is Wellington's mayor, had a spot of bother on the fizz one evening, but whom amongst us has any ounce of grace?
And they found cocaine in the White House, and we talk about Nutrigrain.
Bumper music;
Bodega - Doers
Noizu - Summer 91
Chris Cornell - You Know My Name
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Hello once again.
In the news this hour; where we've been like it's your business, the Russians are revolting a ha ha ha, big big Invercargil news, Kate Hawkesby vs a normal holiday, the National Party's AI dreams and the federation of Taylor Swift fans who have the power to end life as we know it.
Bumper music;
Charly Bliss - You Don't Even Know Me Any More
Sting - Russians
Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
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Dave's back from Japan which is interesting. We talk assassination, trains, nuclear power and the mythic power of heavy industry conglomerates.
Bullying in parliament, the 1975 show, lots more, surely.
Bumper music;
Hello Mary - Evicted
Tower of Power - What Is Hip?
Killer Mike - Don't Let The Devil
The 1975 - Chocolate
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Richie Hardcore gets a form of Women's Day comeuppance but is he the real problem or is it the forces that engage him? Yes.
Banks take a beating. Luxon's losing war of attrition. The Oscars, and more!
Bumper music;
Caroline Polachek - Blood and Butter
Thievery Corporation - Sound the Alarm
Spotlights - Sunset Burial
Mitksi - Happy
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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
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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