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
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.
Bumper music;
Guns n Roses - November Rain
Shygirl - BAWDY
Cherry Glazerr - Ohio
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
Screw it, we're conspiracists now. Prince Andrew, Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Epstein, Michael Bloomberg - Dan has a theory of the lot.
Additionally we discuss some recent music releases, gigs we can't get to, wishes unmet, and NZ First.
Bumper music;
DJ Shadow - Drone Warfare (feat. WAs & Pharoahe Monch)
BRONCHO - New Karma
Charly Bliss - Threat
Welcome back. Try keeping up with the news these days and it'll drive you barmy. Britain goes back to the polls to see if they will go back to the polls. Famous canines of the USA. Vegan abuse. Dan visits a toilet. Fun times!
Bumper music;
Jedi Mind Tricks - I Against I
All Them Witches - 1X1
That Dog! - Your Machine
Michael Stipe - Your Capricious Soul
Hi!
First things; you have until the 19th of September to submit on the Abortion Legalisation Bill. HERE IS THE LINK GO ON.
Fast food news meets Invercargil news meets MBCs with a tale that brings the nation's racism into sharp relief and our butchery expertise into surprise use.
The UK aflame! Wow, so where to from here and how we got here in a hovercraft in the first place.
In NZ; the Labour party in deserved disgrace for their apparent wilful mishandling of sexual assault complaints within their power structure. National sucking at just regular politics.
Bumper music;
Pixvae - La Fuga
JME - Don't @ Me
Hi,
Stuff is kicking off in Kashmir; a grim reminder that there is more than one way to end this planet. A bitter history of colonialism, sectarianism and cynicism coming to a head sounds a bit like everywhere else in the world too, eh.
Back home; the first parliamentary step towards abortion law reform passes, and the issues at the heart of Ihumātao are at the heart of New Zealand itself.
Also we talk talking, eating, and ASMR.
Bumper Music;
Chance the Rapper feat. Death Cab For Cutie - Do You Remember
Lucy Patané - En Toneles
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Hey kids, rock and roll.
50 years ago today the moon happened. We discuss the suspicion and paranoia that has infected the understanding of all power relationships since, occasionally with good reason.
Also, in the United States the president's slurring of the 'squad' manages to be both ethnofacism ratcheted to a new frightening degree, and just another banal increment in this same old goopy crud that was there from the start. Dangerous times all 'round.
Bumper music;
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Half Manne Half Cocaine
Nas - N.Y. State of Mind
R.E.M. - Man on the Moon
Hi there.
Milkshake warfare in the streets. Radical centrism's part in the culture wars. Dave turns paranoid. Dan watched the dem debates. And with Johnson a hair's breadth from the prime ministership of the UK, what the bloody hell is going on over Europe ways?
Bumper music;
Hatchie - Not That Kind
Cave In - Shake My Blood
Bad Religion - Faith Alone
Hello,
The ACT party had a rebrand - at least that's what they'll tell you. Is Seymour doing enough, or doing it well enough, for people to care about this sort of stuff?
Tapu te Ranga suffered a tragedy, and Orangi Tamariki appeared to cause one. Amongst the many racisms is a tragic paternalism, and when New Zealand history is lauded for having less of the violent kind between coloniser and colonised it would pay to mind how insidious what we got truly was.
And the UK is going to be run by somebody. Strange but true.
Bumper music;
Chase & Status ft Cutty Ranks - Retreat2018
Tim Heidecker - When I Get Up
Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands - I Study Horses
Hi. Here we are.
Somebody stole the budget and we've got to solve a series of increasingly devilish riddles to get it back! Why are so few MPs actually talking about the weed referendum? Are we in the midst of a culture war in New Zealand or is everybody just weird and shitty? Also, Bob Hawke died, which tells you something.
Bumper music;
Skepta - You Wish
Hellrazor - Landscaper
Charly Bliss - Blown to Bits
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The slushies! Ha ha ha.
With that out of the way we move on to an almost total fast food and drugs episode. KFC is Wellington's hottest new night spot. Burger King highlights mental health with menu based shitposting. They've been testing everybody's piss at the sewer outlet and here come the drug reckons.
Bumper music;
The Bird and The Bee - Panama
Pile - Your Performance
Black Grape - Get Higher
Ps; if the last episode felt familiar, I uploaded the wrong audio initially so you may have ended up with an episode from a few months ago. Delete that and redownload to get the real deal. I suck at this, I just started.
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Welcome back, us.
Dan was on holiday and this was served consecutively with our usual tardiness. This is our first episode since the Christchurch attack and that's bigger than this cast. We're back; on our bullshit. Mostly.
Bridges vs Emo Jr Staffer; mate. The coalition govt's taxation revolution vs one wrinkly boi. Mayor Pete vs the ghoulish spectre of American politics.
Bumper music;
Mark Lanegan Band - Stitch It Up
Little Simz - Boss
Rain Phoenix feat. Michael Stipe - Time is the Killer
Hi,
The tax working group recommendations still hang in the air like a piñata. Some drool at the goodies within, others want to hit it with a stick. This makes for some excellent online comments.
Also; Richard Prebble exists, and we try to work out how characters from 90s-00s tv shows would have voted in 2016.
Bumper music;
The Prodigy - Breate
Charly Bliss - Capacity
Pile - Bruxist Grin
Hi. Bernie Sanders has announced he's going to run for president; oh boy. Can the next couple of years' worth of infighting and rhetoric be predicted this far out? Sure. Have we used this title pun before already? Don't sure.
Venezuela still! As if the world wasn't already an unbearable cynical pit of fire, this serves as a reminder of the weaponisation of the humanitarian instinct and all the wars it has precipitated before. Luckily there are punchable billionaires in the frame to anchor you to the hellish reality.
As Brexit starts to resemble the sort of thing David Blane would do to himself in public we take a look at British exceptionalism.
Also! Lime scooters, Capital Gains Tax, and the www.righttoselfid.nz campaign.
The Taiping rebellion was the deadly one in the 19thC and the Boxer rebellion was the less deadly one in the 20thC. You don't need to write in about that but feel free to write in I guess? It would be nice to hear from you.
Bumper music!
Princess Nokia - Biohazard Butterfly
Capone-N-Noreaga - Y'all Don't Wanna
Carly Rae Jepsen - No Drug Like Me
Good grief,
National have not had a great time with a recent poll showing them to have slipped behind Labour for the first time in twelve years of Newshub polls. Are things made better or worse by a new attack ad which appears to either consciously or accidentally push certain buttons of their detractors? Or is sometimes a sausage just a sausage?
In all the other news, oppositionitis is not contained to New Zealand as Democratic party infighting in the states highlights the never ending layers of ridiculousness engendered by the two-party system. And we, noted Venezuela experts, know exactly what is going on in Venezuela.
Bumper music;
Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold
Re-TROS - Hailing Drums
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Hi,
Seeing a word cloud about yourself must rank as one of the more unusual tortures, even when it's a nice one. This is the latest in our irregular saga on when and how Simon Bridges is going to get a clue. I'm honestly never going to get sick of this and hope he sticks around forever.
George HW Bush died, which was a surprise.
The Grace Millane tragedy shames all men.
Bumper Music;
Cart Power - What the World Needs Now
Daughters - The Hit
Marianne Faithful - They Come at Night
Hi. The Jami-Less saga got incredibly dark incredibly quickly, and the only winners in the equation were those too slow to get their reckons off in the midst of it all. What began as a popcorn event turned into a picture of abuse and decline right before our eyes, ears and microphones.
In other news the Saudi regime butchered a journalist. Just cut him up. This and the run up to the US midterms paint a very bleak picture of the world (and this was recorded before details were known about the Pittsburgh shooting, or much about the pipe bomb mailer, and before Brazil's election - the list goes on...)
Bumper music!
Hatchie - Bad Guy
Maribou State - Turnmills
Millionaire - I'm On A High
Hello good citizens. New Zealand First had a conference where they unveiled their "One Of The Good Ones" immigration policy. Simon Bridges had yet another week, begorrah. And plastics!
Also Dan takes on city hall with a home brewed vendetta against the mayor.
Watch out for Dan's appearance on Balls After Dark
Bumper Music:
Joe Cardamone - Out of Road
Beck: New Pollution
Broadcast: Come On Let's Go
Hi, sorry about that. Dan's "read" another book, this time it's presidential. Find out what bits made him fall deeply in love with the Donald.
Meanwhile, to Simon Bridges, Trumpism is both a slur and an ethos where you can denounce your not-like-him opponents for being like him then also be like him yourself in the same breath. Things are going great for Simon.
Britain sucks. And we explore for probably the third time the cultural party desert that is ages 11-14.
Bumper Music!
Ty Segal - I'm a Man
The Beths - River Run: Lvl 1
Alain Johannes - Luna A Sol (Feat. Mike Patton)
Hi. Dan's read a bit of a book so we talk about that book. Also; rebranding ACT, Winston's tenure as PM, National's conference, the wrong shoe size, USA democrats, the whole shebang.
Bumper music;
Don McGlashan - Bad Blood
Taylor Swift - Bad Blood
Massive Attack - Voodoo In My Blood
Hello. Since we last talked about the odd issues kicked up by the mooted alt-right talk in Auckland, a gaggle of the more reprehensible bullshit slingers in our nation have managed to come up with an even worse opinion and several tens of thousands of dollars to back it up. Amongst these idiots, noted nominal leftist opinionhaver Chris Trotter's position is the most pitiable. This speech is so free you can't give it away.
And in the second half, we lower our voices because the baby's gone to bed and talk about Brexit. This isn't a metaphor, but it could be. Makes you think.
Bumper Music;
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Split Enz - History Never Repeats
M O P - Ante Up
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Wellington has been visited by a giant sea creature and everything is pretty much OK. Auckland council so no way to some alt right numpts. Peters is PM and nobody much is bothered. And scientific pseudobeef causes a national meltdown, good grief.
Bumper music;
Jorja Smith - On My Mind (Preditah VIP mix)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Stove By A Whale
The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
Hey,
The PM's baby is here and that's rad. It has unfortunately caused a lot of politics which has caused noted bad at politics people like Simon Bridges to talk about it. We welcome an old friend back to see how bad the takes can get.
Plus; the latest horror and hope from the states, civility, and a shocking allegation certain to scandalise the dog community.
The Bruenigs on retirement; https://soundcloud.com/ebruenig/how-does-retirement-work
Bumper Music
The Mars Volta - Goliath (El-P Remix)
Honeyblood - Swell Love
Nas - Cops Shot The Kid
Everybody knew meth testing houses for use was a con - the only thing that changed was the government. Now everybody involved has to grovel their way back to humanity by explaining how they turfed people out of mouldy houses over molecules of P.
Abortion is in the news and there's a fight coming, probably.
Also; international power, the press, the president, the horrors of USA's immigration system and where it sits on the overall scale of american horrors.
Bumper music;
Big Freedia - 3rd Ward Bounce
Kids See Ghosts - Reborn
Got a Girl - There's a Revolution
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Budget time! Labour's first in a bit and it manage to confound and meet expectations, silence and incense critics, make and not make sense. Because we sure didn't read the thing it serves best as gauging a combat profile of the opposition who have to talk about why it's bad. This didn't go well.
Also; Royal wedding! Israel, Gaza and reductionism. Korea(s). Fear.
Bumper Music!
Big Freedia - Rent
Wolf Alice - Swallowtail
Loney Dear - Dark Light