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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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01:46:40

Season 4 Episode 8: Negotiation Nation

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2023/11/15

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

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02:23:07

Season 4 Episode 7: Solid Foundations

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2023/10/31

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

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01:53:02

Season 4 Episode 6: Chris Cross

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2023/10/12

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

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01:46:54

Season 4 Episode 5: Deb8er Boi

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2023/09/20

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

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01:43:29

Season 4 Episode 4: The Supermarketplace of Ideas

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2023/08/23

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

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01:52:45

Season 4 Episode 3: Hollywood Square

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2023/08/09

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

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02:12:54

Season 4 Episode 2: Presidential Powder

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2023/07/11

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

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02:03:38

Season 4 Episode 1: Anti-Hero

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2023/06/28

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

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02:00:05

Season 3 Episode 39: Techno Toilet

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2023/04/21

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

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01:43:37

Season 3 Episode 38: Bank Sank

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2023/03/16

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

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01:40:54

Season 3 Episode 37: Balloonacy

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2023/02/25

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

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01:48:15

Season 3 Episode 36: Red Head Resignation

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2023/01/23

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

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01:43:23

Season 3 Episode 35: Jingle Polls

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2022/12/06

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

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01:35:10

Season 3 Episode 34: Check Please!

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2022/11/14

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

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01:32:06

Season 3 Episode 33: Life is Speechy

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2022/11/05

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

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01:31:20

Season 3 Episode 32: At The Drive Thru Love Almost...

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2022/10/17

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)

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01:32:14

Season 3 Episode 31: Gummsy

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2022/10/03

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

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01:24:46

Season 3 Episode 30: Down to Crown

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2022/09/18

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

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01:24:00

Season 3 Episode 29: Sum of all Mayors

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2022/09/05

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

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01:21:54

Season 3 Episode 28: Divine Right of Kings College

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2022/08/12

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

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