The Anxious Conservatives
By Anxious Cons
The Anxious ConservativesApr 22, 2021
Give me liberty or give me something else
Liam - forgetting to plug his mic in - has a long, rambling chat to Damien Grant about how he justifies what we are reliably informed is his determination for as many people as possible to die of covid.
Golden Boy on Covid 19 and the Lockdown
The 7 year old itch
Portrait of a five year old in lockdown
Chris Penk 2: Penksgiving
Liam and Mon catch up with National defence spox Chris Penk MP.
Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here. Outro by Joseph McDade.
On the perfidious Christopher J. Bishop
Liam and Monique record a lockdown podcast but are too depressed to do anything but laugh to keep the tears away.
GMOs and very delayed shows
Liam talks to Ben Peters, spokesman for genetic engineering for The Opportunities Party, on what the current political scene is like, what the opportunities are and how to prevent a zombie apocolypse.
NOTE: Something went badly wrong with the audio at Liam's end. He has cleaned it up a not but there is still a bit of random feedback here and there. Sorry!
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Mental health and government wealth
Liam and Monique are joined by Matt Doocey, MP for Waimakariri, National Party mental health spox and one of the legit good guys. Mental health continues to worsen in this country but what would National actually do differently? Why is it so important to take at least some of the politics out of the issue?
Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here. Outro by Joseph McDade.
Bereavements and underachievements
Liam and Mon catch up for the first time in a while. They talk about the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, the National Party leadership and Mon\s Billy Bowden symdrome. Mon swears just the once and warning for mild Ben Thomas content.
Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here. Outro by Joseph McDade.
Bonus: Speech on media bias
Liam was asked to give a talk to an audience in Feilding on the subject of media bias following his smash hit appearance getting beaten up by John Campbell and Emma Espiner on election night last year. Here are his prepared remarks.
Labour bros and party woes
Jewish states and ancient hates
Liam and Mon are joined by Juliet Moses to talk about anti-Semitism in New Zealand and the rest of the world.
Histories and mysteries
Outfit suggestions and listener questions
Liam tries to lighten his mood with some Green Party bashing while Monique goes off about children living in poverty. Regret is expressed at the West marriage breakup and who knows what sinister things are happening right now?
BONUS: Family farms and reducing harms
BONUS: Second boys and background noise
BONUS: Mums and chums
Bonus: Baes and ways
Vaccines and Housing Dreams
Liam and Mon talk about housing prices, vaccine hesitancy and their ambitious and probably doomed attempts at self-improvement.
Kmarts and Book Smarts: Bigger, longer and uncut
A longer, extended and largely unedited version of the podcast for hardcore fans.
Kmarts and Book Smarts
Liam and Mon talk to Danni Julian, New Zealand's premiere Sean Spicer expert, about media coverage of the prime minister and also how there are no Kmarts in Wellington.
Fruit cakes and Christmas takes
Liam and Mon talk Christmas and other things with five or so very special guests. Intro and outro taken from This is Christmas by Scott Holmes Music.
Joes and Schmoes
Liam and Mon are joined by @ascroft_joe to talk about taxes and the economy and whether taxpayers should shell out for the woes of office-holders.
Music taken from Good Times by Scott Holmes Music.
Drug tests and special guests
Liam and Mon are joined by the shadow Attorney General to talk about pill testing and, of course, their phones.
Neckties and good guys
The 'casters talk about their voicemails, some big changes, dress codes, climate change and will Mon meet her future husband at a wedding tomorrow?
Pilot
Liam and Mon talk about what made them anxious this week in the world of politics as well as real life.