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At The Drive (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.

Season 4 Episode 13: Eggs 04/01/2024

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 elected on, even though the purposes may have slipped out of reach. Bumper music; The Afghan Whigs - The Temple Hello Mary - Rabbit Ty Segall - Eggman Alain Johannes Trio - Making a Cross (live) The Dandy Warhols - Hard On For Jesus /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/30632898

Season 4 Episode 12: Cheque Yourself Before You Rent Yourself 03/03/2024

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 multi-millionaire landlord rule makers. Meanwhile the in order to get their daily bread. And the imminent demise of Newshub looks set to change the New Zealand news media landscape forevs. There's some movies out, some music out, and something in Glasgow that is as yet uncategorisable... Bumper music; Elbow - Balu Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Just Another Rainbow Primus - Pure Imagination /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/30210288

Season 4 Episode 11: Buraeudivergent 02/06/2024

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 - Scotty Doesn’t Know Electric Six - Down At McDonnelzz Manga Saint Hilare, MoreNight, P Money & Jme - Alarm Bells Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/29831343

Season 4 Episode 10: Trespassed and Present 01/07/2024

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 and goodwill collide with all. Bumper music; HEALTH - DEMIGODS Peter Gabriel - I/O Issey Cross - Bittersweet Goodbye Skepta - Love Me Not (feat. Cheb Rabi & B Live) /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/29371323

Season 4 Episode 9: Nactpoleon 11/28/2023

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 some it's a drama, to others a comedy, and to horses a horror. And a ceasefire-of-sorts in Gaza in even parts celebrated and lamented. Technical note, there's a weird thing going on with the RSS update frequency if using . instead pulls episodes as soon as they're available. Bumper music: Micky Dolenz - Shiny Happy People Chase & Status & Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee) The Afghan Whigs - The Getaway The Beaches - Cigarette /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/28833168

Season 4 Episode 8: Negotiation Nation 11/15/2023

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 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 And the movies! Napoleon is getting a movie. Perhaps the Reading Cinema complex will rise to meet it. /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/28650373

Season 4 Episode 7: Solid Foundations 10/31/2023

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 is coming. 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 Twins - We Have Met Before /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/28480673

Season 4 Episode 6: Chris Cross 10/12/2023

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 & stargaze - Define Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone - Are You In Peace? Enigma - The Return to Innocence /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/28304102

Season 4 Episode 5: Deb8er Boi 09/20/2023

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 Segall - Void Jeff Rosenstock - Rainbow /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/28089557

Season 4 Episode 4: The Supermarketplace of Ideas 08/23/2023

Season 4 Episode 4: The Supermarketplace of Ideas Hi, National's most 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. De La Soul) Mitski - Bug Like an Angel /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/27826830

Season 4 Episode 3: Hollywood Square 08/09/2023

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. . 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 Empire /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/27700566

Season 4 Episode 2: Presidential Powder 07/11/2023

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. 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 - You Know My Name Massive Attack - Teardrop /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/27430839

Season 4 Episode 1: Anti-Hero 06/28/2023

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 it. Bumper music; Charly Bliss - You Don't Even Know Me Any More Sting - Russians Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/27310152

Season 3 Episode 39: Techno Toilet 04/21/2023

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 The Devil The 1975 - Chocolate /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/26610699

Season 3 Episode 38: Bank Sank 03/16/2023

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 Spotlights - Sunset Burial Mitksi - Happy /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/26246559

Season 3 Episode 37: Balloonacy 02/25/2023

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". Plenty more! Bumper music; The C.I.A. - Inhale Exhale Feist - In Lightning boygenius - $20 Duke Garwood - Lion on Ice /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/26044173

Season 3 Episode 36: Red Head Resignation 01/23/2023

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 Harry's book, Spare, which we give our undivided attention. Bumper music; Peter Gabriel - Panopticom Sofía Naara - Las Torpezas 2nd Grade - W-2 /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/25695807

Season 3 Episode 35: Jingle Polls 12/06/2022

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 The Bee - Christmas Without The Queen Oasis - Whatever SSVU - Suzanne Ciani /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/25235826

Season 3 Episode 34: Check Please! 11/14/2022

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 Joy - Happy Bleeding /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/24999147

Season 3 Episode 33: Life is Speechy 11/05/2022

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 /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/24913614

Season 3 Episode 32: At The Drive Thru Love Almost Everypun 10/17/2022

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) /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/24707760

Season 3 Episode 31: Gummsy 10/03/2022

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 music; Big Thief - Red Moon Lonely Guest - Pre War Tension (feat. Joe Talbot & Marta) All Them Witches - Silver to Rust Bjõrk - Fossora /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/24564147

Season 3 Episode 30: Down to Crown 09/18/2022

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"! 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 joke Dan made which I managed to kill accidentally in the edit where he said that last song is a kind of a mask. If you're a legend who reads podcast descriptions to the end then I guess this is your gift. /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/24412596

Season 3 Episode 29: Sum of all Mayors 09/05/2022

Season 3 Episode 29: Sum of all Mayors Howdy? After much consideration we deliver our conclusion on the upcoming local body elections; no. The 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 Stone Age - First It Giveth /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/24274314

Season 3 Episode 28: Divine Right of Kings College 08/12/2022

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 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 all had to learn about of late. Links to stuff mentioned; Morgan Godfery: What Makes This Song Stink Bumper music; Carly Rae Jepsen - Beach House POLIÇA - rotting Big Thief - 12,000 Lines Mitski - Working for the Knife /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/24033474

Season 3 Episode 27: Bluedo 07/21/2022

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 of human damage. Funeral for a computer. Catastrophes and the economic order. Breakfast. And our leaders' international conduct with both Ardern and Luxon talking it up large overseas. Bumper music: Simple - Dog Food (feat Denzel Curry) Dead Cross - Reign of Error The Mars Volta - Blacklight Shine Silversun Pickups - Scared Together Perfume Genius - Eye in the Wall /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/23814308

Season 3 Episode 26: The Boris Johnstown Massacre 07/09/2022

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 mayoral candidates and we try to care. Since we last talked the expected Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs Wade came to pass - what this animating bigotry clings to in our psyche. Bumper music; Prodigy & Andy C - Firestarter (Andy C remix) The Bobby Lees - Dig Your Hips Daughters - Our Queens (One Is Many, Many Is One) Feist - The Bad in Each Other /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/23691731

Season 3 Episode 25: Gull War 06/12/2022

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 and local government; we solve the lot. Bumper music; Georgia - Running up that Hill Hand Habits - Concrete and Feathers Perfume Genius - Describe Buke & Gase & RAHRAH GABOR - Taste Up /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/23402567

Season 3 Episode 24: Mother Beer 05/29/2022

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) pushing frothies to the fillies? Or is alcohol marketing just an omnipit of villainy with no rhyme, reason or gender politics? With special thanks to for the website which is in the process of being deployed and may be what you're looking at right now! Bumper music; Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind The TImelords - Doctorin' in the Tardis Bob Vylan - Take That /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/23262221

Season 3 Episode 23: Fair's Fear 04/22/2022

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 the Ardernocracy's largest non-covid legacy. Luxon's National Party stand in opposition, to this, that, themselves and everything. But are consistent arguments really lacking if they don't matter? Bumper music; Hifiklub & Alain Johannes - Make Up The Wolfe Tones - The Men Behind the Wire Silencer & JME - Matrix Nokia 3rd Secret - I Choose Me /episode/index/show/theegonomist/id/22882844

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