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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Prendegast’s campaign material showed photographs of her literally burning ratepayers’ money*, people voted in droves for her, and now Wellington’s through the roof at securing the rugby sevens in Wellington for another 6 years after she had earlier turned down the opportunity to host them permanently.  You haven’t got a clue, have you?  Meanwhile, local hero Terry Serepisos shares some get-rich-quick wisdom: Don’t pay your bills ever at all.  And certainly not your tax, dummy.

Plus; ROYALTY:

Also: Why We Vote on a Wednesday.  We being Americans and Wednesday being Tuesday because Dave’s mind is all wrong.

*Fireworks.  I’m clever.

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Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins.  What does that have to do with anything?  Eh?!

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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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SPORTS!  The Delhi Commonwealth Games is upon us and it’s covered in shit.  How will our athletes fare in the scatological fallout as John Key dares them all to a game of ‘poo chicken’?  In that vein we delve back into other shitty sporting events like the Montreal Olympics where New Zealand pissed off all of Africa, the 81 Tour that John Key doesn’t remember, and celebrate the legacy of Eddie the Eagle:

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“Obviously not a huge amount has changed since our previous episode”

“We are risking it, talking about current events,because for all we know something way more ridiculous than this has happened since.”

This is what we get for prerecording episodes.  Enjoy this episode about… Paris Hilton and drinking.

…Never been so embarrassed. Oh well, at least we’re not:

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Welcome to our shitlist, Mr Boscawen:

And the rest of ACT, too – you’re all dicks.

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Tonight, a very special presentation on the seedy world of lawn bowls, following this man’s 10 year ban from the sport…

…for getting his dick out.

Also on the agenda:  Dave buys a TV finally then whines about it, plus we navigate the choppy seas of alternative operating systems/fucking time-vampires.

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Ecstasy deaths, the perils of the aristocracy in getting themselves KFC, the impending crippling labour relations in the UK, gigolos, and, of course, donk.

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Hahaha, we just totally talk about pizza for like the entire time.  Ok, that’s an exaggeration, we do get around to talking about real stuff:  The pathology of the right wing, the crimes of Labour governments past, morality, tea and , of course, coffee.

This was recorded before the Chris Carter debacle.  The next episode is going to be all over that.