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;
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
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 deployed and may be what you're looking at right now!
Bumper music;
Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind
The TImelords - Doctorin' in the Tardis
Bob Vylan - Take That
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?
Bumper music;
Hifiklub & Alain Johannes - Make Up
The Wolfe Tones - The Men Behind the Wire
Silencer & JME - Matrix Nokia
3rd Secret - I Choose Me
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 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.
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 (feat. Ty Segall)
Cat Power - Nothin But Time
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 & 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!
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
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...\
Bumper music;
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.
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
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.
Bumper music;
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.
Bumper music;
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...
Bumper music is as follows;
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.
Bumper Music
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...
Bumper music;
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.
Bumper music;
LFO - Summer Girls
(a different) LFO - LFO
Royal Blood - Typhoons
LFO - West Side Story