At The Drive Thru

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! Bum...

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...

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...

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 -...

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 hi...

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 O...

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 - Teache...

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

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...

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 a...

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 Mar...

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......

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 R...

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 pa...

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...

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...

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 colo...

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 - B...