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At The Drive Thru
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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.
Episodes
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Season 5 Episode 1: Elite Biathlete
Hey, how's it going? We look back on a September of notable anniversaries. The relative rise of The Opportunities Party. The rapid disintegration of NZ First inductees. Statesman Luxon, Sheeran and scandal at the Winter Olympics. Bumper music Maseille - This Dream of Mine CZARFACE, Frankie…
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Season 4 Episode 48: Kisscam Kompromat
Hi! Epstein, Trump, Musk and wetting yourself - it is all go in the USA. NZ gets a new FBI office for some reason. Winston Churchill vs Jacinda Ardern. Local body politics in New York and Zealand. And the perils of concertgoing. Bumper music: Gardna & JayaHadADream - Fine Art The K's - Me and…
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Season 4 Episode 47: Terhan-o-Don
Hi everybody, A bonus length episode for a missed month. And not a slow news month either... Iran and Isreal, Kashmir, the toil of Empire, Trump's pacific travel ban, Oasis, Lorde, Sean Combes, Zoran Mamdami, Mr Bean. Bumper music! Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap Shygirl…
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Season 4 Episode 46: Vat Summer
Hi! It's a Popeover! The Budget occurred! Winston heckled, musicians investigated, AI and Andrew Little Mayor Apparent. Bumper music; Kneecap - Rhino Ket Elbow & BBC Concert Orchestra - An Audience With The Pope [Live] Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom Margo Price - Pay Gap
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Season 4 Episode 45: Cone Phone
Hi! Recorded Easter Sunday, before 'several events'. The Road Cone Hotline! The Trump Tarrifs! DOGE! The UK's supreme court decision, spiritual bigotry, and sheer dissapointment of the Billionaire TERF movement. Bumper music; Format:B - "Wrong Feels Right" Bilk - "Go" Sports Team - "Condensation"...
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Season 4 Episode 44: Sans Frontières
Hi, Lots on! "Careless People" and the new horrors of corporate america. Quoting Churchill can get you in two kinds of trouble. Citizens arrest powers, Andrew Bayley, Tamatha Paul, Donald Trump, electorate changes, Massive Attack and French. Bumper music; Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie Perfume Genius…
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Season 4 Episode 43: Write Collar Crime
Hi, here we are to make up for the wait. You've got cat-mail! Luxon's many photographs. Clubbing at Maccas. Phil Collins! The remaining two hours are Miscellaneous. Bumper music: Viagra Boys - Man Made of Meat Shygirl - Immaculate (feat. Saweetie) Sleigh Bells - Wanna Start A Band? Bone...
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Season 4 Episode 42: Gossferatu
Hello, We talk schisms in the right, the legacy of Jimmy Carter's legacy, Trump's territorial ambitions, and other vampires. Bumper music! Doechii - Denial is a River The Dare - Girls Sabrina Carpenter - Taste Chat Pile - The New World
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Season 4 Episode 41: Carols by Scandallight
Hi, sorry for the wait. We're back with a normal amount of things to discuss; the USA election, the treaty principles bill, New Jersey UFOs, the Pyramids, and not Syria. Merry Christmas one and all. Bumper music: JPEGMAFIA - don't rely on other men Elbow - Lovers' Leap Pile - Scaling Walls Loney...
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Season 4 Episode 20: Public Spooking
Hi, We deep dive investigate the Andrew Bailey sweary allegations. Prog music beach party, Lanewayses to come, band tees, and the like. Plus the latest to befall and befoul local body politics. Bumper music; Charli xcx - 365 feat Shygirl Sasami - Slugger Tool - Jimmy Christopher Owens - Beautiful...
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Season 4 Episode 19: Broasis
Hello! The second part recorded (first) on September 7th, due to somebody going on holiday. Music! It's all here and it's loud. From the surprise reunification of Oasis to several stunning local shows, music is a happening thing. We are the first people in history to ask "How can a city be dying...
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Season 4 Episode 18: Method in the Madness
Hello! Part one of a two-part session recorded September 7th. The DNC has wrapped and now we watch the polls. The part played in art by the unsexy drugs. Auckland's true crime phenomenon. And the dark Russian interference money flooding the podcast world. Bumper music: Cave In - Waiting on Love...
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Season 4 Episode 17: Bullet with Shutterstock Wings
Hi! We're back to discuss everything; drug lollies, the Olympics, riots in the UK, and everything that's happened stateside since our last episode from the Trump missassination to Kamala fever. Technical note; you may have had difficulty reaching our beautiful website recently,...
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Season 4 Episode 16: Chunnel Vision
Hello, Snap Election Szn in Wztn Europe leads to one highly predictable result and one quelle surprise. Glastonbury occurs and nobody seems too pleased. Luxon visits the USA. The Greens' latest debacle. David Seymour's social media habits make him at best a total weirdo worthy of scorn. And in...
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Season 4 Episode 15: Shake Shake Shake
Hi, How about a few drinks? NZ Police and their alcohol policy goals. UK politics gets milky. Killer whales at the party. We've had a budget. Our bright collective future. And Trump guilty. Bumper music; Sasami - Honeycrash The Kunts - Rishi Sunak is a Rat-Faced C**t D:Ream - Things Can Only Get...
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Season 4 Episode 14: A New Cope
Hi, The Green Party faces fresh scandal and the polling boost to boot. The Atlas Network apparently controls NZ elections. Taylor Swift has a new record out. Drake vs Kendrick. The campus protests and Macklemore. And dating advice. Bumper music; Justice - Generator Tallah - The Hard Reset...
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Season 4 Episode 13: Eggs
Hi, 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...
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Season 4 Episode 12: Cheque Yourself Before You Rent Yourself
Hi! 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...
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Season 4 Episode 11: Buraeudivergent
Hello there, 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 -...
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Season 4 Episode 10: Trespassed and Present
Hello, 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...
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Season 4 Episode 9: Nactpoleon
Hi, 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…
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Season 4 Episode 8: Negotiation Nation
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...
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Season 4 Episode 7: Solid Foundations
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.…
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Season 4 Episode 6: Chris Cross
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 &...
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Season 4 Episode 5: Deb8er Boi
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…
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Season 4 Episode 4: The Supermarketplace of Ideas
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…
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Season 4 Episode 3: Hollywood Square
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…
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Season 4 Episode 2: Presidential Powder
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...
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Season 4 Episode 1: Anti-Hero
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…
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Season 3 Episode 39: Techno Toilet
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…
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Season 3 Episode 38: Bank Sank
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...
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Season 3 Episode 37: Balloonacy
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"....
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Season 3 Episode 36: Red Head Resignation
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...
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Season 3 Episode 35: Jingle Polls
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...
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Season 3 Episode 34: Check Please!
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…
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Season 3 Episode 33: Life is Speechy
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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Season 3 Episode 32: At The Drive Thru Love Almost Everypun
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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Season 3 Episode 31: Gummsy
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...
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Season 3 Episode 30: Down to Crown
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"!…
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Season 3 Episode 29: Sum of all Mayors
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...
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Season 3 Episode 28: Divine Right of Kings College
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...
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Season 3 Episode 27: Bluedo
Hey folks, Andrea Vance's book "Blue Blood" has just been released and at time of recording Dave had read some of it. It's a humdinger whodunnit political true crime murder mystery, says I attempting to explain the pun on Cluedo in the title. Also; more on the assassin of Shinzo Abe. The politics...
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Season 3 Episode 26: The Boris Johnstown Massacre
Hi! The boys got covid! Our personal recounting of the physical tribulations of 2019's hottest viral disease. Ex-PM of Japan Shinzo Abe's assassination has shocked the planet. Boris Johnson's semi-resignation has confounded it. And what's more "planet" than local body elections? Wellington has...
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Season 3 Episode 25: Gull War
Hi! New information on the rising prominence of inner-city violence as Dan is attacked, on two separate occasions, by seagulls. Pride and the flag. DMT and soiling yourself. The holo-Queen's jubilee. Can Boris Johnson survive surviving a no confidence vote? And Luxon, by-elections, Three Waters…
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Season 3 Episode 24: Mother Beer
Hi, In the news; new Doctor Who and the whooping narrow arguments about media representation. Ardern in America. The nihilistic attitudes available to us in the sagging middle period of a government. And booze... for ladies? Is there something about this moment which has admen (and admen ladies)...
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Season 3 Episode 23: Fair's Fear
Hey! A new era of Covid mitigations and the social ripples inherent within. Dave has travelled, Dan has partied - what is the new world like? Fast food and militant Irish republicanism once found common cause in McDonalds. Dan with the deep dive. And in proper politics, Fair Pay Agreements may be...
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Season 3 Episode 22: Tales from the Deep
Hi, We give our review of Deep Water, the erotic thriller tasked with reviving the genre. Also; union building activity in the USA, and the music we are digging right now. Bumper music; Nas - Meet Joe Black Big Thief - Time Escaping Sasami - Tried to Understand Benny the Butcher - 10 More...
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Season 3 Episode 21: Mark My Words
Hi! In this episode; hospitality in crisis. Wellingtonians aren't undertaking their collective duty to private enterprise in the right way, apparently. War in Ukraine - the dark maths of the unexpected. Urgh. The protest at parliament ended with Dan eyewitness on the ground. And we note the…
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Season 3 Episode 20: Parklife
Unruly, uncoordinated, lasting longer than anyone expected or wanted; it's us back with another episode. The copy-cat protest occupation at Parliament is at once a harbinger of menace, pitifully sad, and a mirror to the city. No solutions, just urghhhhrgh. Also; Ukraine! Bikes and Cowboys! Bumper...
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Season 3 Episode 19: OnlyDans
So; Dan's credit card got stolen and used on OnlyFans. We discuss this impact of this on the new credit lending regulations causing misery across the land, and the proposed national employment insurance scheme. In blighty, Boris scandals on. Bumper music; DJ Format & Abdominal - Behind the Scenes...
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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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