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Mar 3, 2024

Hi!

Prime Minister Chris Luxon gets in hot water by smashing the Free Money button in his office, and has since promised not to do it again. Charging the country to rent his own apartment off himself is prima facie obscene, but could just be the least corrupting things about having multi-millionaire landlord rule makers.

Meanwhile the sexy working class are putting in strenuous, trans-tasman scuba diving shifts at the cocaine retrieval factory in order to get their daily bread. And the imminent demise of Newshub looks set to change the New Zealand news media landscape forevs.

There's some movies out, some music out, and something in Glasgow that is as yet uncategorisable...

Bumper music;

Elbow - Balu

Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Just Another Rainbow

Primus - Pure Imagination

Feb 6, 2024

Hello there,

Recording Waitangi Day Eve 2024. Ardern is married, Invercargil sex toy thief identified, Wānaka burger options in the balance. Dave goes to the Foo Fighters, people pick on the public service, and the fallout from Golriz Ghahraman's shoplifting allegations.

Bumper music;

Lustra - Scotty Doesn’t Know

Electric Six - Down At McDonnelzz

Manga Saint Hilare, MoreNight, P Money & Jme - Alarm Bells

Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

Jan 7, 2024

Hello,

Chaos as hip hop and municipal sanitation issues collide in Lower Hutt. The grand tradition of New Years Eve munted rambling collides with the Prime Minister. Dumbass racists collide with the official status of languages. We both collide with Saltburn. One year collides with another, cheer and goodwill collide with all.

Bumper music;

HEALTH - DEMIGODS

Peter Gabriel - I/O

Issey Cross - Bittersweet Goodbye

Skepta - Love Me Not (feat. Cheb Rabi & B Live)

 

Nov 28, 2023

Hi,

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.

Bumper music:

Micky Dolenz - Shiny Happy People

Chase & Status & Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee)

The Afghan Whigs - The Getaway

The Beaches - Cigarette

Nov 15, 2023

Hi 

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.

Bumper music;

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.

Oct 31, 2023

HI hi,

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

Oct 12, 2023

Why hello,

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.

Bumper music;

Arone Dyer & stargaze - Define

Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone - Are You In Peace?

Enigma - The Return to Innocence

Sep 20, 2023

This episode contains discussion of Russell Brand & sexual assault

Hello,

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

Aug 23, 2023

Hi,

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

Aug 9, 2023

Hi,

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

Jul 11, 2023

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. 

Aforementioned article.

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

Jun 28, 2023

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

Apr 21, 2023

Hi!

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

Mar 16, 2023

hi!

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

Feb 25, 2023

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

Jan 23, 2023

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

Dec 6, 2022

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

Nov 14, 2022

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

Nov 5, 2022

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

Oct 17, 2022

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)  

Oct 3, 2022

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

Sep 18, 2022

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 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.

Sep 5, 2022

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

Aug 12, 2022

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"

Bumper music;

Carly Rae Jepsen - Beach House

POLIÇA - rotting

Big Thief - 12,000 Lines

Mitski - Working for the Knife

Jul 21, 2022

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:

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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