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Hi, Major industrial action in the city of stars. What does our entertainment and labour universe look like in the seasons to come?  An election looms with the major parties nodding along or frowning seriously at the tone set by the minors. Retail politics is confusing. Eurodance is back, in parody form .  Bumper music: Carly Rae Jepsen - Anything To Be With You Killer Mike - Spaheship Views Kyle...

Hey we're right on time. Massive Attack's Mezzanine is 25 years old this year, and while at this age it is now eligible for lower car insurance premiums, at the time of its release things were much less predictable.  Aforementioned article. Tory Whanau, who is Wellington's mayor, had a spot of bother on the fizz one evening, but whom amongst us has any ounce of grace? And they found cocaine in the...

Hello once again. In the news this hour; where we've been like it's your business, the Russians are revolting a ha ha ha, big big Invercargil news, Kate Hawkesby vs a normal holiday, the National Party's AI dreams and the federation of Taylor Swift fans who have the power to end life as we know it. Bumper music; Charly Bliss - You Don't Even Know Me Any More Sting - Russians Taylor Swift - Anti-He...

Hi! Dave's back from Japan which is interesting. We talk assassination, trains, nuclear power and the mythic power of heavy industry conglomerates. Bullying in parliament, the 1975 show, lots more, surely. Bumper music; Hello Mary - Evicted Tower of Power - What Is Hip? Killer Mike - Don't Let The Devil The 1975 - Chocolate

hi! Richie Hardcore gets a form of Women's Day comeuppance but is he the real problem or is it the forces that engage him? Yes. Banks take a beating. Luxon's losing war of attrition. The Oscars, and more! Bumper music; Caroline Polachek - Blood and Butter Thievery Corporation - Sound the Alarm Spotlights - Sunset Burial Mitksi - Happy

Howdy. Literal tragedy with Cyclone Gabrielle causing death, damage and mayhem to much of the north island but not us. The curious cases of really-quite-identifiable-flying-objects getting exploded by the American Air Force. Trump's re-ascendancy. Jimmy Carter and the myth of a "good president". Plenty more! Bumper music; The C.I.A. - Inhale Exhale Feist - In Lightning boygenius - $20 Duke Garwood...

Hi, Jacinda Ardern quits outright, rather than say doing a bit of prime ministering every other weekend for sporadic bursts of a handful of months at a time. Chippy Hipkins takes the mantle. And we're back to routine politics with no superstars on the court. And Dan's listened to all of Prince Harry's book, Spare, which we give our undivided attention. Bumper music; Peter Gabriel - Panopticom Sofí...

Hello, Polls polls polls abound as we head into an election-year-eve-christmas. Is our fiscal relationship to state power going to get a squeeze in the name of freedom? And the politics of being wealthy and dim, or insane, and how it shapes one's worldview, one assumes. Bumper music;  The Bird And The Bee - Christmas Without The Queen Oasis - Whatever SSVU - Suzanne Ciani

Hello! The music and the TV of our 1990s looms large. Elon ushers in Twitter's Robert California era. KFC and hate crime, Dan hit by a car again, lions on the loose and the midterm elections! Bumper music (pun intended) Pile - Loops The Dodos - If Aimee Mann - You Could Have Been a Roosevelt No Joy - Happy Bleeding

Hey! So; hate speech legislation in NZ. The end of another UK PM and the semi Boris resurgence. Political violence. A few drinks, a nice time, a sneezing fit. Great audio! Bumper music: Wu-Lu - Times Sasami - Say It Julia Holter - Vasquez JME - 96 Of My Life

Hi, The results are in from the local body elections we said didn't matter. Liz Truss is just spectacular. Albums, movies, good times man. Bumper music; Alvvays - After the Earthquake The Afghan Whigs - Jyja Momma - Speeding 72 The Dandy Warhols - The Last High (Are Sound)  

Hi there, Local body elections turn sinister with urine innuendo and none of us being particularly bothered enough to engage with it. The UK experiments with kamikaze economics. Dave listens to Simon Bridges' podcast and we check out more Clinton TV. And the Uffindel report is concluded? Bumper music; Big Thief - Red Moon Lonely Guest - Pre War Tension (feat. Joe Talbot & Marta) All Them Witches -...

Hello, Well it happened. With the Queen dead there's a lot to discuss about the power and the drama of the institution she embodied. Also NZ's covid mitigations are no more - are we saved, done for, or a secret third thing? And we watch the Clinton gal's foray into entertainment "Gutsy"!  Apologies to Simon Mayo Bumper music: The Mars Volta - Black Condolences Jim Parker - House of Cards theme Car...

Howdy? After much consideration we deliver our conclusion on the upcoming local body elections; no. The Fire and the Fury documentary is compelling and skilfully made and almost has as good a website as us, but is it the complete picture it claims to be? Plus: Farewell, Boris? 20 years with Songs for the Deaf. The death of Mikhail Gorbachev. Gastro. Bumper music; All Them Witches - Tiger Pit Dange...

Well, well, well. Our freshest MP turns out to be one of the rottenest as Sam Uffindell's bully past comes to light. The National Party exchange scandal at the top for the bottom. National dominate headlines for some deliberate reasons too with their conference policy announcements targeting welfare and some new poll results. Meanwhile the Greens have their turn at a bizarre form of leadership cha...

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 lead...

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 overturni...

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 - Conc...

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, rea...

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...

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...

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...

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 Barkma...

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