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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 H...

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 mu...

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 war...

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 conta...

Hi, Seeing a word cloud about yourself  must rank as one of the more unusual tortures, even when it's a nice one. This is the latest in our irregular saga on when and how Simon Bridges is going to get a clue. I'm honestly never going to get sick of this and hope he sticks around forever. George HW Bush died, which was a surprise. The Grace Millane tragedy shames all men. Bumper Music; Cart Power -...

Hi. The Jami-Less saga got incredibly dark incredibly quickly, and the only winners in the equation were those too slow to get their reckons off in the midst of it all. What began as a popcorn event turned into a picture of abuse and decline right before our eyes, ears and microphones. In other news the Saudi regime butchered a journalist. Just cut him up. This and the run up to the US midterms pa...

Hello good citizens. New Zealand First had a conference where they unveiled their "One Of The Good Ones" immigration policy. Simon Bridges had yet another week, begorrah. And plastics! Also Dan takes on city hall with a home brewed vendetta against the mayor. Watch out for Dan's appearance on Balls After Dark Bumper Music: Joe Cardamone - Out of Road Beck: New Pollution Broadcast: Come On Let's Go

Hi, sorry about that. Dan's "read" another book, this time it's presidential. Find out what bits made him fall deeply in love with the Donald. Meanwhile, to Simon Bridges, Trumpism is both a slur and an ethos where you can denounce your not-like-him opponents for being like him then also be like him yourself in the same breath. Things are going great for Simon. Britain sucks. And we explore for pr...

Hi. Dan's read a bit of a book so we talk about that book. Also; rebranding ACT, Winston's tenure as PM, National's conference, the wrong shoe size, USA democrats, the whole shebang. Bumper music; Don McGlashan - Bad Blood Taylor Swift - Bad Blood Massive Attack - Voodoo In My Blood

Hello. Since we last talked about the odd issues kicked up by the mooted alt-right talk in Auckland, a gaggle of the more reprehensible bullshit slingers in our nation have managed to come up with an even worse opinion and several tens of thousands of dollars to back it up. Amongst these idiots, noted nominal leftist opinionhaver Chris Trotter's position is the most pitiable. This speech is so fre...

Hi Wellington has been visited by a giant sea creature and everything is pretty much OK. Auckland council so no way to some alt right numpts. Peters is PM and nobody much is bothered. And scientific pseudobeef causes a national meltdown, good grief. Bumper music; Jorja Smith - On My Mind (Preditah VIP mix) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Stove By A Whale The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go

Hey, The PM's baby is here and that's rad. It has unfortunately caused a lot of politics which has caused noted bad at politics people like Simon Bridges to talk about it. We welcome an old friend back to see how bad the takes can get. Plus; the latest horror and hope from the states, civility, and a shocking allegation certain to scandalise the dog community. The Bruenigs on retirement;  https://...

Everybody knew meth testing houses for use was a con - the only thing that changed was the government. Now everybody involved has to grovel their way back to humanity by explaining how they turfed people out of mouldy houses over molecules of P. Abortion is in the news and there's a fight coming, probably. Also; international power, the press, the president, the horrors of USA's immigration system...

Hi Budget time! Labour's first in a bit and it manage to confound and meet expectations, silence and incense critics, make and not make sense. Because we sure didn't read the thing it serves best as gauging a combat profile of the opposition who have to talk about why it's bad. This didn't go well. Also; Royal wedding! Israel, Gaza and reductionism. Korea(s). Fear. Bumper Music! Big Freedia - Rent...

Hey, Everything's gone to hell and you can't even pretend to make a t-shirt in NZ these days. What's the worst type of rich person? Grimes and Elon raises eyebrows. Shoes. Korea's peace, Iranian war. DJ Khalid.  Incel terrorism and the associated reckons. Those Clarke rumours and the little cesspit that spawned them. And Bridges just can't catch a break. Bumper music; Wiley - Bar Speedy Ortiz - Ba...

Hey, Tonnes is up. In all the talk of the first 6 months of the new government, there's still plenty of post-mortem to do on the previous one. Was the health crisis a beat-up? Is Collins waging a war on snowflakes? Who's in charge of this crowd? Also; Kayne West is Kanyesque. The final Anzac day of the WW1 centenary has been. Which war was your favourite? Bumper music; Aimee Mann - Sugarcoated Dr....

Hello, Cogent war opinions are above everybody's station and ability - maybe that's the point. Many's the time I've talked my face off about this injustice or that and later remembered I'd forgotten to also add that the whole sorry state of slaughter and waste makes sense when you remember this conflicts are the first look some other countries get of weapons they're considering buying. This is one...

Hello! Sorry for the delay. In this episode; never bet against the popular sentiment that airlines can eat dirt and cry about it. Political intrigue abounds with clandestine coffees and inarticulated Ruskie scares in the air.  The internet has already taken a few bites of this, but Dan has read Jordan B Peterson's 'Twelve Rules For Life'. This book has been widely criticised for its gender politic...

Hey! Things move fast when you're slow. English is out and *checks notes*  Bore Smidgins is in. National now face either the complete unknown or a spiral of well-worn tedium - no in-betweens. Donald Glover, Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton are all coming to New Zealand, which is nice. And Seven Sharp make the oddest video about political memes, but we're the last people to get to this , literally ....

Hello! Ha ha, it totally happened; Bill English quit two weeks after saying he wouldn't. Now a gallery of ghouls compete for his place for the honour of leading a divided party to defeat and another round of soul-searching in 2020. Plus related-to-various degrees; allegations of dimwittery regarding an MP's use of snapchat put the world's worst detectives on the hunt for an antagonist. Trump and R...

Hello! Stephanie joins us to talk Jacinda's baby news and what this might mean for representation in politics in the years ahead, and all of politics ever. Also the TPP or whatever it calls itself was signed to next to no fanfare or opposition. One of the lightening rods for political dissent under the previous administration just whistles home under this one - what gives? Also, the weather still...

Hey! Sorry for the long wait, but here it is! Our annual end-of-year roundup with Mike from Riot Radio. 2017 was an amazing if puzzling year for music and there is PLENTY to talk about. Witness our bonus length Best of 2017 Spotify Playlist which is only the songs we absolutely couldn't do without. Honest. Playlist goes: 1st third Dave (Dandy Warhols to UNKLE  feat Mark Lanegan) 2nd third Dan (Jap...

Hello! Dateline; the fricken desert or something. The weather is fricken oppressive and good god we're all dying. In other news as the weather heats up; upon which miscommunication will this government fail? Don Brash has a go of it. Do petty local government concerns warrant comparisons with Naziism (that's an easy one). But mostly this is a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fan show now, so we talk a lot abou...

Hello, Modern Australia is a bizarre mix of cosmopolitan western liberalism and hellhole deathcamp paranoid racist wasp fundamentalism. They're weird and we're sick of them. The Manus Island situation is criminal and the fact our new PM appears to agree, well, that apparently doesn't go down well in some circles. In domestic news, procedural whoopsies sort of mar the incoming government, I guess,...