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

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Season 2 Episode 64: Plots and Plans

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  

Season 2 Episode 63 Gone to the Dogs

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 party in deserved disgrace for their apparent wilful mishandling of sexual assault complaints within their power structure. National sucking at just regular politics.  Bumper music; Pixvae - La Fuga JME - Don't @ Me  

Season 2 Episode 62: The Chicken's On The Other Foot

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 talk talking, eating, and ASMR. Bumper Music; Chance the Rapper feat. Death Cab For Cutie - Do You Remember Lucy Patané - En Toneles Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

Season 2 Episode 61: Kashmir If You Can

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 that was there from the start. Dangerous times all 'round. Bumper music; Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Half Manne Half Cocaine Nas - N.Y. State of Mind R.E.M. - Man on the Moon

Season 2 Episode 60: Moon in July Stuff

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

Season 2 Episode 59: MilkShake, Prattle and Troll

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 colonised it would pay to mind how insidious what we got truly was. And the UK is going to be run by somebody. Strange but true. Bumper music; Chase & Status ft Cutty Ranks - Retreat2018 Tim Heidecker - When I Get Up Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands - I Study Horses

Season 2 Episode 58: Authority Karaoke

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 - Blown to Bits

Season 2 Episode 57: Well Well Wellbeing

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 Higher   Ps; if the last episode felt familiar, I uploaded the wrong audio initially so you may have ended up with an episode from a few months ago. Delete that and redownload to get the real deal. I suck at this, I just started.

Season 2 Episode 56: Golden Arcs

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 music; Mark Lanegan Band - Stitch It Up Little Simz - Boss Rain Phoenix feat. Michael Stipe - Time is the Killer

Season 2 Episode 55: Gains of being Pure of Heart

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

Season 2 Episode 54: Cullen Me Softly

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 wars it has precipitated before. Luckily there are punchable billionaires in the frame to anchor you to the hellish reality. As Brexit starts to resemble the sort of thing David Blane would do to himself in public we take a look at British exceptionalism.  Also! Lime scooters, Capital Gains Tax, and the www.righttoselfid.nz campaign. The Taiping rebellion was the deadly one in the 19thC and the Boxer rebellion was the less deadly one in the 20thC. You don't need to write in about that but feel free to write in I guess? It would be nice to hear from you.  Bumper music! Princess Nokia - Biohazard Butterfly Capone-N-Noreaga - Y'all Don't Wanna Carly Rae Jepsen - No Drug Like Me

Season 2 Episode 53: Sandernistas

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 contained to New Zealand as Democratic party infighting in the states highlights the never ending layers of ridiculousness engendered by the two-party system. And we, noted Venezuela experts, know exactly what is going on in Venezuela.  Bumper music; Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold Re-TROS - Hailing Drums Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town

Season 2 Episode 52: Cheese Sizzlers

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 - What the World Needs Now Daughters - The Hit Marianne Faithful - They Come at Night

Season 2 Episode 51: G-H-W-B A Smooth Operator Operating Correctly

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 paint a very bleak picture of the world (and this was recorded before details were known about the Pittsburgh shooting, or much about the pipe bomb mailer, and before Brazil's election - the list goes on...) Bumper music! Hatchie - Bad Guy Maribou State - Turnmills Millionaire - I'm On A High

Season 2 Episode 50: Sex, Lies and Voice Memo Apps

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