At The Drive Thru

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

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

Hey, 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.

AUDIO CORRECTED 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-Noreag

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