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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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