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At The Drive Thru

At The Drive Thru

At The Drive Thru (formerly known as The Egonomist); your premier source for rants, raves and arguments on topics from Politics to News to Social Trends, with a focus on New Zealand but with an eye to the world. Each week Dan and Dave will bring you new episodes. Sometimes deep and philosophical, sometimes filth and vitriol, we aim to be a voice of informed malcontent.

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01:19:40

Season 2 Episode 30: Lose Yourself a Court Case

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2017/10/29

Hey, how's it going? For a parcel of rogues, lashed together by fate and circumstance, this new government sure makes it look easy. But not all are so happy. We run down this Spinoff article on why National's message is needed now more than ever. It's not. In other news, National lost the copyright case brought against them by Eminem's publishing company. Ha ha. Max Key to the rescue. Also fast food, personal failings, terror, woe, gardening. Bumper music; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; "Even The

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01:32:33

Season 2 Episode 29: Blended Scotch

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2017/10/20

Hell yeah. It finally happened. We go over how wrong we were, how worthless our analysis has been, and why we're now totally right. Electoral victory is only half the battle, if that, and the Doing Of Politics is far from over if anything's gonna be done. But that's not to say there isn't room for a little celebration right now. In related news; the NZ commentariat and it's relationship to culture, the NZ commentariat and it's relationship to social media, the NZ commentariat and it's relationship

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01:44:11

Season 2 Episode 28: KKKMart

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2017/10/08

Ey, So Duncan Garner wrote a thing. Nominally about immigration and infrastructure, it's been widely decried for being racist and he's roundly enjoyed the ensuing martyrdom a couple dozen naysayers have delivered him. Theories abound - lazy writing, dim thinking, or something more sinister? Don't read it - read Stephanie Rodgers instead. Or the NZ Human Rights Commission tweeting a concerned face emoji about it. In other news! We had an election and now we know who won? Winston Peters still sucks

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01:31:05

Season 2 Episode 27: Petering Out

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2017/09/27

Hello! We had an election and that's the last we'll have to say about who governs us for a while. We name the blights against our democracy, from Winston Peters to the media Winston Peters makes his bread and butter denouncing. Also, Trump vs the NFL, Clinton's new book fittingly reviewed by proxy, Snoop Dog, the politicisation of humanitarian crises, the hell we call Earth. Bumper Music! Camp Lo - Luchini (This Is It) The Datsuns - MF From Hell Carly Rae Jepsen - First Time The Mutton Birds - As

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01:37:54

Season 2 Episode 26: Antifa(rmer)

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2017/09/18

Hello! The mobilisation of (some) farmers to protest illustrates a deep divide in NZ, just not the one being protested. Farmers are thought of as National's original rock, but with the last week acting as a highlights reel of decades of politicisation, misinformation, scaremongering and shortchanging, is this relationship healthy at all? Meanwhile, Auckland airport goes kaput due to fossicking. Oh what a to do. And there's an election going on, so we need to talk for perhaps the last time about

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01:22:28

Season 2 Episode 25: Mess With A Wellington...

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2017/09/11

Hello! With all the to do this election campaign we try and keep this short and snappy. One out of two ain't bad. National's hits on Labour appear to come from all directions but is anything sticking? The finance test was passed easily, the moral equivalence test was reported as a stuff-up right away. Is this working - is it supposed to? Recent elections have been about the unthinkable - NZ 2017's unthinkable result is the Green party leave parliament. What now that that may happen? Is celebration

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01:31:52

Season 2 Episode 24: Poll Things Bright and Beautiful

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2017/09/04

Hey! Since we last yakked, Labour topped the polls, there was a debate we watched and one we didn't, scandal aplenty and the world went to hell. Jacinda Ardern is on the warpath and English kind of looks like a div. Can a man and a woman just have a discussion about the economy or is our political language to ripe a minefield for subtle gendered snipes? Meanwhile, Antifa are smeared, Winston Peters gets down, and nobody has the right amount of money - not the poor, not the rich, and not Steven

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01:45:30

Season 2 Episode 23: Gloat Compass

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2017/08/27

Hello! Charlottesville is the unvarnished truth of America. Has the idea that sectarian clashes only happen to other people been one long PR job? The experience of seeing the world for what it is and not what its statues, stories and structures suggest is jarring. Peter Dunne runs away. Are the dead rats swallowed in his ejection now to be regurgitated? That's an unpleasant sentence. The questionarification of New Zealand elections is a thing. Gareth Morgan is still a mondo plonker. Bill English

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01:38:20

Season 2 Episode 22: Mike Check

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2017/08/13

Hey! Here are the links to Stephanie Rodgers and Leilani Momoisea on Metiria Turei, whose story is hard to see as anything other than an indictment of so many of this country's attitudes. Also, hey, nuclear war. In other news, a dude from Google puts the man in manifesto. Te TOP launch their bad campaign which is bad and they are bad for doing it. And in this time of uncertain leadership, can Mike Hosking reunite the nation? This was recorded Saturday 12th NZ time so prior to the murder

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01:45:15

Season 2 Episode 21: Emotional Labour

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2017/08/04

Hello In a bit of a week, the unthinkable happens for the fourth or fifth time as Labour suddenly loses its leader. But has it gained a saviour? Turei is still a goddamned hero, end of. We discuss the recent Black Hands podcast sensation. And what of our masculine culture is upstream of our abstract economics? Dan got cat piss on him. TOP are bad. And you can die in this country if you have the wrong address. Bumper Music! Dead Cross - Idiopathic Björk - Thunderbolt SWIDT - Player of the Day Alanis

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01:37:49

Season 2 Episode 20: Benefit of the Lout

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2017/07/22

Hey! It's a politics bonanza with the Greens' conference managing to outshine New Zealand First's one to the point we forgot to even mention it here. Metiria Turei's shock admission that she found it necessary to lie to Work and Income in order to avoid depriving her child came as a surprise to literally zero people familiar with our welfare system. National, unable to really criticise people not working for a living or claiming housing expenses, left it to proxy rules-hardout David Seymour to

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01:48:22

Season 2 Episode 19: Year Fanta Zero

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2017/07/09

Hello, The bloody rugby! Am I right? Dan and Dave talk sport. Here's a link to a look at the future of football. Does rugby really influence domestic NZ politics? The impalpable moral landscape of Bill English gets a feeling out from the media as drug decrim/legalisation appears on the horizon. Brands and conservatives talk the talk at Pride events but do they walk the walk? Gareth Morgan appears on every visible surface like that scene in Malkovich while his political party advocates raising the

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01:25:29

Season 2 Episode 18: 2017; A Tape Toddyssey

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2017/06/25

Hi team! It has not been Bill English's day, week, month, or even year. When gunning for leadership Bill told caucus he'd be much better at it this time as his parenting days are mostly behind him, so how did the actions of his 20-something greasy protege suddenly lead to calls for his resignation? Grenfell Tower is a crime scene. We try our best here at ATDT but we goofed the audio on this section. Not wanting to re-do a segment on such horrors we've left it as is. It is, technically,

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01:49:53

Season 2 Episode 17: Orange is the New Blue

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2017/06/13

Hahahahaha Did you see the UK elections? Did you see the result coming? Did you see the state of the bloody thing! In other, lesser news; terrorism and civil liberties, why aren't the Greens the Nats (for the 50th time), neighbours at war, Katy Perry vs Taylor Swift, immigration policies, and Gareth Morgan's glib charity posturing.

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01:47:49

Season 2 Episode 16: Orb Things Bright and Beautiful

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2017/05/30

Hey! Trump's World Tour. The tragic Manchester attack. KFC. UK's election. Wonder Woman? Can't type more, gotta sleep. Bumper Music: Millionaire - Body Experience Revue Nadia Rose - Tight Up Happy Mondays - W.F.L. (Think About The Future mix) Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling

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01:31:49

Season 2 Episode 15: Fox News

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2017/05/21

Hey! Chris Cornell's tragic passing and what it might mean for our culture's attitudes to mental health, big pharma, ageing, art and the catharsis believed to be at the heart of alternative music. Also Dan hurt his foot again which touches on a lot of the same stuff. Corbyn is actually putting up a fight in old blighty just as the tories push for the violent killing of red dogs - coincidence much? And Trump in Saudi Arabia - same as it ever was. Assange is slimy. Russia is a thing. Bumper music;

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01:40:27

Season 2 Episode 14: Blaze Ya Fed Comey

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2017/05/10

Hey! We struggle, really, to make sense of the breaking news that Trump has fired the guy investigating him. Does fascism require a certain deftness of efficient political control or is it all just grifting mobsters in sharp uniforms? France has an election, which is more than can be said about some people, South Korea excepted. Dan heroically watches Shipley and Clark's 9th Floor episodes. We celebrate Tax Freedom Day, which is a dumb day for idiots. And the Government does everything it can to

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