The Egonomist

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Nobody knows exactly when we will next get to vote.  It could be thrust upon us at a moment’s notice.  You could be at home, you could be at work.  You could be out, it might be dark, you could well be drunk.  So it pays to think CONSTANTLY about how you’d vote or else you might get caught out and end up voting for the wrong people in a kind of panic.  In this episode we moan about there basically being nobody to vote for, identify who we think are the “Most Egonomist MPs”, Dan outlines precisely what it will take to get him to vote Green, and Dave reminisces about ripping off his shoddy neighbor‘s unsecured wireless internet.

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Back in August Paula Rebstock, a former commerce commission head and therefore the most appropriate person to make these sorts of life-and-death decisions, released her welfare working group’s issue paper which set us off like a firecracker in episode 50 (highlight here).  Rebstock is back this week, with her group’s recommendations.  Claiming our economy cannot support our society, she makes the dual mistake of forgetting that it’s our society that should come before our economy in that sentence, and that economies do tend to behave rather catastrophically when you base them on bullshit figures.

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Hillary’s been here for a visit.  Which was nice.  Pity her country went completely to shit while she was away from it.  Noam Chomsky has a yarn about shenanigans, Dan and Dave triumphantly enter parliament on visitor’s open day to check out the naughty chair.  Also: q) what’s fun to do while drunk?  a) almost anything but especially throwing things in the harbour.

We’re trying something out with the audio settings so that you can listen to us without pumping your volume to the max and then forget to reset it to a painless level when you go back to listening to your raps.  Taken us, what, 82 episodes to figure that out?  Not like anyone involved with this studied audio engineering or anything.  Best podcast ever.

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Episode 2 with Darren Watson in the hotseat.  Local elections results are in and EVERYBODY IS STOKED:

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In this episode we slander interview an absent guest, partake in the great tradition common to all enlightened cultures of forcing eachother to admit who we voted for, and reminisce about a time when BP could combine every sin on the books and yet still get it right.

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Join us as we try to set Dan up with Deborah Hill Cone.  Have a look at her sterling wit here, just before John Campbell has to actively resist punching her in the face.

But mainly we take a look at Andrew Little – can he be Labour’s Don Brash In A Good Way Don’t Get Me Wrong Here?  Can he save us from the horrors we so accurately predict (will be Bill English’s fault)?  It’s all a bit of a downer – BUT!  Comedic relief is here in the form of a brand new ACT MP!  Hurray!

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Bit of a busy weekend so I haven’t had a chance to listen back to this one yet, but better get something out before you all forget we exist.  Will add in tags and a blurb later on.

update:  HEY!  well it turns out we talked about ACT again!  Specifically David Garret and his online dating conquests, among other things.  Hurrah.

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Corporate crime, personalised plates, stolen cars, the Auckland Crime Highway, and Dave’s attempts to learn to drive.  We’re having a CAR EPISODE! toot toot.

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NEWMAN!

Today we recap our interaction with the Coastal Coalition, and the steamy depths of wacky beliefs held by other, smirking, ACT party affiliates, including their boners for stuff like Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally and Ayn Rand, homicide groupie, because to people who hate other people, apparently this video is sublime:

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How to completely infuriate a Frenchman.  Show him this photo:

Then play him this episode, in which we list the reasons France has no right to complain about anything ever at all.  Not even the above picture.  Or America.  France started it.  Shut up, France.