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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 Harry]"

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

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

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

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

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

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 - HIJA DE RUTA Ebony Lamb Michael Logie Alphabethead Dateline - It's All Downhill From Here Castlecliff Lights OdESSA Oasis Bumper music; Oasis - The Shock of the Lightning Lucy Patané - LAS DUDAS Y LAS DEUDAS

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 the Funky Homosapien & Statik Selektah - The Return (feat. Aesop Rock, Blu, Chino XL, Kool Savas, Planet Asia, Twigy, Vast Aire & 2Mex) [Remix]

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; Charly Bliss - Tragic Ben Gerrans & EV - English Lad (Midnight Dance Party Remix) Tom Waits - Chicago HEALTH - ASHAMED (feat. Lauren Mayberry)

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 (feat. Mavis Staples) Alain Johannes - Not On This Earth Elbow - things I've been telling myself for years Dua Lipa - Levitating Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car

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?

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

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 Temple Hello Mary - Rabbit Ty Segall - Eggman Alain Johannes Trio - Making a Cross (live) The Dandy Warhols - Hard On For Jesus

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 diving shifts at the cocaine retrieval factory in order to get their daily bread. And the imminent demise of Newshub looks set to change the New Zealand news media landscape forevs. There's some movies out, some music out, and something in Glasgow that is as yet uncategorisable... Bumper music; Elbow - Balu Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Just Another Rainbow Primus - Pure Imagination

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 - Alarm Bells Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

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 - Bittersweet Goodbye Skepta - Love Me Not (feat. Cheb Rabi & B Live)  

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 parts celebrated and lamented. Technical note, there's a weird thing going on with the RSS update frequency if using https://atthedrivethru.co.nz/rss. https://feeds.libsyn.com/69850/rss instead pulls episodes as soon as they're available. Bumper music: Micky Dolenz - Shiny Happy People Chase & Status & Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee) The Afghan Whigs - The Getaway The Beaches - Cigarette

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 Dandy Warhols - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Katie Kim - Day is Coming Supergroove - Scorpio Girls And the movies! Napoleon is getting a movie. Perhaps the Reading Cinema complex will rise to meet it.

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; Charly Bliss - I Need A New Boyfriend Happy Mondays - Step On Black Grape - Shake Your Money The Gutter Twins - We Have Met Before

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

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

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 that eh. Bumper music; Pixey & Tayo Sound - Daisy Chain Speedy Ortiz - Scabs DJ Shadow - Rocket Fuel (feat. De La Soul) Mitski - Bug Like an Angel

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 Gordon - Planet of the Bass (feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms Biljana Electronica) Big Thief - Vampire Empire

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 White House, and we talk about Nutrigrain. Bumper music; Bodega - Doers Noizu - Summer 91 Chris Cornell - You Know My Name Massive Attack - Teardrop

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-Hero

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 - Lion on Ice

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 Sofía Naara - Las Torpezas 2nd Grade - W-2

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 - Silver to Rust Bjõrk - Fossora

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 Carly Rae Jepsen - Talking to Yourself Cardi B - WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stalion) There was a great dirty joke Dan made which I managed to kill accidentally in the edit where he said that last song is a kind of a mask. If you're a legend who reads podcast descriptions to the end then I guess this is your gift.

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 Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Strangers (feat. A$AP Rocky & Run the Jewells) Wet Leg - Oh No Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth

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 challenge. And the ethics of online ethics policing and working in the military industrial complex, as we all had to learn about of late. Links to stuff mentioned;  Morgan Godfery: The protective embrace of being part of the in-group What Makes This Song Stink Ep. 7 - Machine Gun Kelly "Emo Girl" Bumper music; Carly Rae Jepsen - Beach House POLIÇA - rotting Big Thief - 12,000 Lines Mitski - Working for the Knife

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 leaders' international conduct with both Ardern and Luxon talking it up large overseas. Bumper music: Simple - Dog Food (feat Denzel Curry) Dead Cross - Reign of Error The Mars Volta - Blacklight Shine Silversun Pickups - Scared Together Perfume Genius - Eye in the Wall

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 overturning Roe vs Wade came to pass - what this animating bigotry clings to in our psyche. Bumper music; Prodigy & Andy C - Firestarter (Andy C remix) The Bobby Lees - Dig Your Hips Daughters - Our Queens (One Is Many, Many Is One) Feist - The Bad in Each Other

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 - Concrete and Feathers Perfume Genius - Describe Buke & Gase & RAHRAH GABOR - Taste Up

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, reason or gender politics? With special thanks to Ian for the website which is in the process of being deployed and may be what you're looking at right now! Bumper music; Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind The TImelords - Doctorin' in the Tardis Bob Vylan - Take That

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, themselves and everything. But are consistent arguments really lacking if they don't matter? Bumper music;  Hifiklub & Alain Johannes - Make Up The Wolfe Tones - The Men Behind the Wire Silencer & JME - Matrix Nokia 3rd Secret - I Choose Me

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 Age - A Song for the Dead UNKLE - Looking for the Rain (feat Mark Lanegan & Eska) Mark Lanegan Band - Strange Religion  

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 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Hero of the Soviet Union

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 Barkmarket - Undone

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  

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! Bumper music; P Money & Whiney - Buss the Red Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy - Miracles (feat. Ty Segall) Cat Power - Nothin But Time

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 missing from any of our debates about this deadly pandemic, hinged or un.  Bumper music; Aim & QNC - Takin' Shots (Feat. Dimes) Wet Leg - Chaise Longue Ovlov - Eat More Phoebe Bridgers - Day After Tomorrow

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 Dur Dedi General