Plus: what unites Darleen Tana, Andrew Bayly, Richard Prebble and Mike King? They’re all on the slate in our latest pod.

In a new edition of the Spinoff’s politics podcast, Gone By Lunchtime,  Annabelle Lee-Mather reveals why she doesn’t care who wins next week in the US, while she, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire all pick who they think will win.

Then it’s back to Aotearoa and a whistlestop tour of recent headlines. Darleen Tana is bounced out of parliament by peg-nosed Greens. Richard Prebble is appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal. Andrew Bayly’s chilled out entertainer routine backfires dramatically. And Mike King says some puzzling stuff about mental health and booze as a “lifejacket”. All that and more in the latest odyssey across the political landscape.

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