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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

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 Dylan - 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