At The Drive Thru

At The Drive Thru

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At The Drive Thru (formerly known as The Egonomist); your premier source for rants, raves and arguments on topics from Politics to News to Social Trends, with a focus on New Zealand but with an eye to the world. Each week Dan and Dave will bring you new episodes. Sometimes deep and philosophical, sometimes filth and vitriol, we aim to be a voice of informed malcontent.

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Aug 3, 2025

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Episodes

Season 4 Episode 48: Kisscam Kompromat 03.08.2025

Hi! Epstein, Trump, Musk and wetting yourself - it is all go in the USA. NZ gets a new FBI office for some reason. Winston Churchill vs Jacinda Ardern. Local body politics in New York and Zealand. And the perils of concertgoing. Bumper music: Gardna & JayaHadADream - Fine Art The K's - Me and Your Sister YHWH Nailgun - Pain Fountain Squid - Building 650

Season 4 Episode 47: Terhan-o-Don 06.07.2025

Hi everybody, A bonus length episode for a missed month. And not a slow news month either... Iran and Isreal, Kashmir, the toil of Empire, Trump's pacific travel ban, Oasis, Lorde, Sean Combes, Zoran Mamdami, Mr Bean. Bumper music! Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap Shygirl, Isabella Lovestory & PinkPantheress - True Religion yeule - Skullcrusher Ty Segall - Skirts of Heaven

Season 4 Episode 46: Vat Summer 26.05.2025

Hi! It's a Popeover! The Budget occurred! Winston heckled, musicians investigated, AI and Andrew Little Mayor Apparent. Bumper music; Kneecap - Rhino Ket Elbow & BBC Concert Orchestra - An Audience With The Pope [Live] Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom Margo Price - Pay Gap 

Season 4 Episode 45: Cone Phone 25.04.2025

Hi!  Recorded Easter Sunday, before 'several events'. The Road Cone Hotline! The Trump Tarrifs! DOGE! The UK's supreme court decision, spiritual bigotry, and sheer dissapointment of the Billionaire TERF movement. Bumper music; Format:B - "Wrong Feels Right" Bilk - "Go" Sports Team - "Condensation" The Dandy Warhols - "I Will Never Stop Loving You (A Place To Bury Strangers Remix) [feat. Debbie Har...

Season 4 Episode 44: Sans Frontières 29.03.2025

Hi, Lots on! "Careless People" and the new horrors of corporate america. Quoting Churchill can get you in two kinds of trouble. Citizens arrest powers, Andrew Bayley, Tamatha Paul, Donald Trump, electorate changes, Massive Attack and French. Bumper music; Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie Perfume Genius - It's A Mirror Massive Attack & Mos Def - I Against I SASAMI - Nothing But A Sad Face On

Season 4 Episode 43: Write Collar Crime 17.02.2025

Hi, here we are to make up for the wait. You've got cat-mail! Luxon's many photographs. Clubbing at Maccas. Phil Collins! The remaining two hours are Miscellaneous.  Bumper music: Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat Shygirl - Immaculate (feat. Saweetie) Sleigh Bells - Wanna Start A Band? Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Home

Season 4 Episode 42: Gossferatu 12.01.2025

Hello, We talk schisms in the right, the legacy of Jimmy Carter's legacy, Trump's territorial ambitions, and other vampires. Bumper music! Doechii - Denial is a River The Dare - Girls Sabrina Carpenter - Taste Chat Pile - The New World

Season 4 Episode 41: Carols by Scandallight 28.12.2024

Hi, sorry for the wait. We're back with a normal amount of things to discuss; the USA election, the treaty principles bill, New Jersey UFOs, the Pyramids, and not Syria. Merry Christmas one and all. Bumper music: JPEGMAFIA - don't rely on other men Elbow - Lovers' Leap Pile - Scaling Walls Loney Dear - Animal

Season 4 Episode 20: Public Spooking 30.10.2024

Hi, We deep dive investigate the Andrew Bailey sweary allegations. Prog music beach party, Lanewayses to come, band tees, and the like. Plus the latest to befall and befoul local body politics. Bumper music; Charli xcx - 365 feat Shygirl Sasami - Slugger Tool - Jimmy Christopher Owens - Beautiful Horses

Season 4 Episode 19: Broasis 28.09.2024

Hello! The second part recorded (first) on September 7th, due to somebody going on holiday. Music! It's all here and it's loud. From the surprise reunification of Oasis to several stunning local shows, music is a happening thing. We are the first people in history to ask "How can a city be dying but its music scene be so good?" Works I think we cited and if we didn't we should have: Lucy Patané -...

Season 4 Episode 18: Method in the Madness 14.09.2024

Hello! Part one of a two-part session recorded September 7th.  The DNC has wrapped and now we watch the polls. The part played in art by the unsexy drugs. Auckland's true crime phenomenon. And the dark Russian interference money flooding the podcast world. Bumper music: Cave In - Waiting on Love Mark Lanegan Band - Methamphetamine Blues  Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Lawman Living Legends, Del...

Season 4 Episode 17: Bullet with Shutterstock Wings 20.08.2024

Hi! We're back to discuss everything; drug lollies, the Olympics, riots in the UK, and everything that's happened stateside since our last episode from the Trump missassination to Kamala fever. Technical note; you may have had difficulty reaching our beautiful website recently, www.atthedrivethru.co.nz. These problems should be over thanks to minds far more advanced than our own. Bumper music; Cha...

Season 4 Episode 16: Chunnel Vision 10.07.2024

Hello, Snap Election Szn in Wztn Europe leads to one highly predictable result and one quelle surprise. Glastonbury occurs and nobody seems too pleased. Luxon visits the USA. The Greens' latest debacle. David Seymour's social media habits make him at best a total weirdo worthy of scorn. And in bonus celebrity news the Mazda Demio stuns in new  road rage video . Bumper music; MonoNeon - Full Circle...

Season 4 Episode 15: Shake Shake Shake 07.06.2024

Hi, How about a few drinks? NZ Police and their alcohol policy goals. UK politics gets milky. Killer whales at the party. We've had a budget. Our bright collective future. And Trump guilty. Bumper music; Sasami - Honeycrash The Kunts - Rishi Sunak is a Rat-Faced C**t D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better Olivia Rodrigo - bad idea right?

Season 4 Episode 14: A New Cope 12.05.2024

Hi, The Green Party faces fresh scandal and the polling boost to boot. The Atlas Network apparently controls NZ elections. Taylor Swift has a new record out. Drake vs Kendrick. The campus protests and Macklemore. And dating advice. Bumper music; Justice - Generator Tallah - The Hard Reset Lesbiandrama - Muchacha Desquiciada Macklemore - Hind's Hall

Season 4 Episode 13: Eggs 01.04.2024

Hi, Long weekend; long episode. The rolling atrocity and spiritual debt of the Gaza genocide. Chocolate eggs made it through the Red Sea after all. Sydney Sweeney as the mysterious lightning rod of all discourse. And the government embarks on brutal mathematics to enact the methods they were elected on, even though the purposes may have slipped out of reach. Bumper music; The Afghan Whigs - The Te...

Season 4 Episode 12: Cheque Yourself Before You Rent Yourself 03.03.2024

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...

Season 4 Episode 11: Buraeudivergent 06.02.2024

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 - Alar...

Season 4 Episode 10: Trespassed and Present 07.01.2024

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 - Bitte...

Season 4 Episode 9: Nactpoleon 28.11.2023

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...

Season 4 Episode 8: Negotiation Nation 15.11.2023

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 D...

Season 4 Episode 7: Solid Foundations 31.10.2023

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; Charl...

Season 4 Episode 6: Chris Cross 12.10.2023

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

Season 4 Episode 5: Deb8er Boi 20.09.2023

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

Season 4 Episode 4: The Supermarketplace of Ideas 23.08.2023

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 tha...

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