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!

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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.

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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. 

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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 

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.

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Blackstar - Re: definition

Shygirl & slowthai - BDE

Dizzee Rascal & Ocean Wisdom - Don't Be Dumb

Powderfinger - (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind

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 history...\

Bumper music;

Portugal. The Man - Steal My Sunshine (feat. Cherry Glazerr)

The Avalanches - Running Red Lights (feat. Rivers Cuomo & Pink Siifu)

Colleen Green - Highway

The Felice Brothers - We Shall Live Again

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.

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Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u

Quicksand - Emdr

Z-Ro - Crooked Officer

Wesley Willis - Rock N Roll McDonald's

NZ back in Covid lockdown! Afghanistan! Music! Sean William Scott! Chats and bants! 

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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!

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Korn - Freak on a Leash

Merdian Dan, JME & President T - Teachers Pets

The Offspring - Self Esteem

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