The Real Pod

SUPERPOD is back! Hosted by Gone By Lunchtime's Toby Manhire and featuring Jane Yee and Alex Casey from The Real Pod, Duncan Greive from The Fold, Gone By Lunchtime's Annabelle Lee-Mather, Simon Pound from Business Is Boring, Bernard Hickey from When The Facts Change and The Spinoff Podcast Network's Te Aihe Butler and Samuel Robinson, SUPERPOD 2023 is the crossover to end all crossovers. From intense discussion of government policy to figuring out what the heck a skibidi toilet is, we celebrate the best and worst of what has been a rollercoaster year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time. The Si-nal countdown has hit zero and our very last episode is upon us. Join Jane, Alex and Duncan for a feature length nostalgia extravaganza and revisit the greatest hits of The Real Pod over the last eight years. Hear clips from our very first episode, cursed footage from some very late nights, and a very special clip from a very special guest. In the words of the Max Key corner sting, we'll never forget you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the final week of both My Kitchen Rules NZ and The Real Pod and we are feeling wobblier than Matt and Kurt's panna cotta. Join us as we recap the weirdest comedian dining experience ever captured on camera, and the dramatic finale that saw the best (men) chefs in the country help to decide the $100K winner. Also: Duncan fell asleep in public again and Alex embarrassed herself in front of a reality star again. The Real Pod! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you ever stay up extra late, one hand hovering nervously over the remote, waiting to catch a tantalising glimpse of nudity on TV? You were not alone. Join us for the final episode of Remember When as we reminisce about the good ol' days of the 90s. When Sky 1's raunchy after-midnight programming, captured the attention of likeminded viewers across the nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The stars are out to play this week and we aren’t just talking about Mike Pero at the Christchurch show. Celebrities descended on MKRNZ to judge a six course degustation, which resulted in some of the horniest feedback this podcast has ever heard. There’s also a lot of new radio shows being announced, yet still no invite for Big Mum, Lexie and Dunc? Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when you mix fancy artisan milk with yummy chocolate? Lines round the block, security guards in supermarkets, and Chelsea Winter stepping over her own aunty of course! Join us as we remember the release Lewis Road Creamery chocolate milk in 2014, a product which instantly created a black market, national chaos, and global attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s been at least three months since we last made a Big Announcement, so we’re due for another and here it is. Please listen to this short chat and if you have any questions afterwards visit: https://thespinoff.co.nz/trpquestions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Things are starting off a little differently this week, and we're not just talking about Pascal and Vikki's gin-soaked salmon. After a very big little announcement, it is back into MKRNZ for the final instant restaurant and a big public barbecue. Gatecrashers! Tuna! And the truth about Jim Corr! We're sorry so much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who the hell puts tinned spaghetti on pizza?! In April 2017 that cry was heard the world over after then prime minister Bill English casually posted his spag-covered pizza on Facebook and asked the internet to ‘like if you agree’. Was it a clever distraction tactic at a time the PM was under intense scrutiny, or an innocent play at connecting with the voting youth? Only Bill knows why he shared his controversial pizza piccie, but we’ll all remember it forever. Join the Real Pod community! Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back in the kitchen this week and Jane has some judge's feedback on last week's smorgasbord of errors. Then it is over to Emilie and Anya's for dry sausage and runny choux, before Julia and Matthew face a cavalcade of kitchen nightmares. Plus, who is the real villain of MKRNZ? The answer may surprise you… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you thought Erin Simpson's theme tune was rocking, wait till you hear this. Join Alex and Duncan as they look back at a very special 2010 episode of The Erin Simpson Show, in which a Christchurch death metal band played to a mosh pit of children on the after school kids' show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time to leave the island and head into the kitchen as we sharpen our knives for the first week of My Kitchen Rules NZ. Join Duncan and Alex as they discuss the power of a good bisque, Manu doing a manu, as well as some real news about The Project NZ and Toni Street’s star-studded birthday party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jane, Duncan and Alex are joined in the studio by the freshly crowned winner of Celebrity Treasure Island 2023 to talk about the highs and lows, the secret alliances and the beauty of sleeping in the finalist yurt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2005, one groundbreaking makeup product emerged that promised to fix every one of our problems in one sunkissed swipe. She was a bronzer, a blusher, a contour, a foundation, an eyeshadow and a lipstick, and she came with an iconic jingle that basically defined what it meant to be a woman ("mobile, hairstyle, lingerie, PDA"). Join Jane Yee and Alex Casey as they remember the glowing heyday of Thin Lizzy 6-in-1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The collapse of the comedian coalition has sent shockwaves through camp in the penultimate week of our favourite silly little game. We started the week waving farewell to Big Bopper Steve Price, and ended it with Laura sending Eli back to the flat after defeating her bestie in a game of topply card sand baggie balance. Now just five castaways remain while we perch precariously on the edge of our seats to see if one of the comedians can conquer, or if the treasure be unearthed by powerhouses Turia or Nick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2003 we were paying $30 for CDs and mainlining music videos. The internet was a bit slow, so there was huge demand for music videos on the telly to see the not many, if any, dudes who could roll like this. Juice TV had been plugging away on Sky, but then C4 entered the chat offering endless music videos that were free for all, and a slew of top notch hosting talent to boot. As C4 celebrates its 20 year anniversary, Jane and Duncan remember the glorious arrival of our last great music channel while simultaneously realising we didn’t know how good we had it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Water levels rose at the lake this week as the tears flowed and the eliminated rode (off into the sunset forever, RIP). The individual game is here and it's brought out a ruthlessness in our castaways that we never saw coming. And the biggest shock of all? Not even aliens could protect Blair from topply blocks in the elimination arena. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahead of the incredibly tense 2011 Rugby World Cup, Abstain for the Game was a Telecom (now Spark) ad campagin using former All Black captain Sean Fitzpatrick, in a tuxedo, driving a pink dodgem, asking a tightly wound nation to keep it in their pants. It was an extremely odd ad, and created a furious response from a humourless public. Within days it was withdrawn with heavy apologies. But the ad has aged well, and as The Real Pod remembers when, they also ask – did we get this one wrong? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The dictator, James Mustapic, joins us this week to recap the week that was on Celebrity Treasure Island: Te Waipounamu. A week that saw comedians causing chaos, teams being cleft in twain and two powerhouse players heading for home. It’s already been an iconic season, but we’ll never forget the moment that guy from Shorty Street Uno-reversed Eli’s mercy card with the kind of sensational block Mark Richardson could only dream of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 7 o'clock in December of 2007, after a six-month-long mystery, families gathered around their television sets to discover the identity of the serial killer responsible for murdering several female Shortland Street characters. What ensued was one of New Zealand television's most iconic moments. Join us as we remember the Ferndale Strangler, Joey Henderson. Join the Real Pod community! Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It wasn’t a good week in Te Waipounamu for anyone whose name begins with M. After losing captaincy to James, Matilda beheaded Mary (with a little help from slippery Jordan) before succumbing to the guillotine herself at the hands of one Sir Blair Grylls. Our beloved Tāme bowed out on account of his lovely old bones, leaving a gaping hole in the spirit of Tohorā and, quite frankly, the whole nation. It seems the early game niceties have come to an end as alliances form, trust is broken and a certain someone doesn’t share his cheeseburger. Last week we had a lovely telly show, but this week we have a game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October 2000 TV3, in partnership with BP, Pizza Hut and KFC, brought the global marketing phenomenon of Tellydots to our shores. Captivated by the promise of prizes such as Holden Barinas, portable CD players, and even $333,333.33 in cash, we had nothing better to do than stick a small piece of plastic to our television sets. Join us as we remember the Y2K Tellydot promotion. If you enjoy this podcast and are hungry for more, sign up for The Real Pod Extra on Substack. There’s plenty of free pop culture content there and if you upgrade to a paid subscription you’ll get a bonus episodes of The Real Pod every week (featuring reality TV recaps and pop culture gossip) along with other exclusive perks. Join the Real Pod community! Subscribe to The Real Pod Extra on Substack Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an act of utter madness, Gone By Lunchtime (long term rival of The Real Pod) did a 12 hour livestream last week featuring a list of high profile MPs, political commentators and… Duncan and Jane. Taken from the eleventh hour of the Election 2023 Megapod, join us for the chaotic crossover episode nobody asked for. We discuss the intersection of politics and reality TV (read: Dancing with The Stars) and collectively Remember When the worm ruled our televised election debates. If you enjoy this podcast and are hungry for more, sign up for The Real Pod Extra on Substack. There's plenty of free pop culture content there and if you upgrade to a paid subscription you’ll get a bonus episodes of The Real Pod every week (featuring reality TV recaps and pop culture gossip) along with other exclusive perks. Join the Real Pod community! Subscribe to The Real Pod Extra on Substack Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Alex heads off to eat, pray, love, 18 celebrities land on a lake to starve, cry, vomit. That’s right, Celebrity Treasure Island is back baby, and we couldn’t be more excited. Week one didn’t disappoint as our castaways looked for a loo, brokered alliances and battled the windiest wind that ever did wind. The beans are soaking, the comedians are joking, and Steve Price is Bloking. Thank God for this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It harnessed the power of a new website called "Facebook" and it helped launch the careers of our brightest comedy stars in Rose Matafeo and Guy Montgomery, so why did TVNZ pull the plug on TVNZ U? Join us as we remember the most chaotic and groundbreaking youth channel the country has ever seen. Join the Real Pod community! Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It all started in 2001 when Pieta Keating jumped from winning the first season of normie Treasure Island to hosting the same show only jam-packed with Aotearoa's finest early 00s celebs. Now, with the show about to enter an all new season, join us as we remember when Celebrity Treasure Island began. Join the Real Pod community! Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this extra special emergency episode, we dissect the strange new supertease for the upcoming season of Celebrity Treasure Island which includes Matootles in tears and Tāme Iti calling someone a dumbass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Celebrity Treasure Island starting next week, it's time for a good old chaos pod. Why is The Hoff everywhere? Why is Mike Puru leaving? And what does a post "come box" New Zealand look like? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It began with Justin Bieber's hat being stolen and ended with the popstar being doused in L&P and not knowing what German is. Join us as we remember when Biebermania hit Aotearoa during his chaotic 2010 press tour. Join the Real Pod community! Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive as they discuss the final week on Three's murderous reality show, including meal of eyeball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this extra special emergency episode of The Real Pod, we reveal and react to the incredible star-studded cast of Celebrity Treasure Island season five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was set to be the most talked-about reality series of 2012, until a little brown mouse ran into the middle of Sally Ridge's kitchen and blew it up into a nationwide scandal. Join us as we remember when The Ridges used a stage mouse to make television history. Join the Real Pod community! Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week, Below Deck Down Under was rocked by a serious incident on board that made headlines around the world. In this bonus episode, Duncan Greive and Alex Casey discuss what happened, how the production reacted, and what it says about how far both reality TV and society has come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive as they dissect week four of Three's murderous reality show, including a blackmail, a kidnapping and a curious character called Zugaballantyne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did a silly yacht race prompt rumours of sniper rifles and sports heroes being called traitors by grown adults? The ad exec behind the Goldstein ads got carried away and created a campaign which escalated into terrifying intensity and made international news in 2003. If you enjoy this podcast and are hungry for more, sign up for The Real Pod Extra on Substack. There’s plenty of free pop culture content there and if you upgrade to a paid subscription you’ll get a bonus episodes of The Real Pod every week (featuring reality TV recaps and pop culture gossip) along with other exclusive perks. Join the Real Pod community! Subscribe to The Real Pod Extra on Substack Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive as they dissect week three of Three's murderous reality show, including wine barrel drama, sheep herding and sacrificial lambs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some might remember 1999 as the year Helen Clark became prime minister. We remember it as the year Carlos Spencer and his abs promoted choccie biccies in a racy campaign that saw pearls being clutched the nation over. Join Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive as they look back on the iconic ad that paved the way for future All Blacks to strip down to their undies for a paycheck. Join the Real Pod community! Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive as they dissect week two of Three's murderous reality show, including the pajama alliance, Paul Henry's (un)birthday party and the tears of Darth Vanda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a doppelganger in our midst". Join Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive as we look back on the suit-based X Factor NZ scandal that stopped the nation in its tracks.\ Join the Real Pod community! Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dust off your fedora and polish your cane, it's time to dive into the delicious deception of The Traitors NZ. Join Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive as they dissect week one of Three's big new reality show, including the sun-soaked New Zealand setting, the devilish hosting style of Paul Henry and the welcome return of our godhead Colin Mathura-Jeffree. If you enjoy this episode and are hungry for more, then become a paid subscriber on our Substack where you’ll get one of these bonus episodes of The Real Pod every week, along with other perks. Join the Real Pod community! Subscribe to The Real Pod Extra on Substack Join The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Join our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before we get to our massive bombshell, there's some thrilling celebrity news to get through including Jojo Siwa's southern sojourn, Kourtney Kardashian's pregnancy and Erin Simpson's chook-hungry baby. Also, Jane had a handsome bum doctor, and Alex had a scandal queenie at Cirque on Ice. We also recap the latest on Love Island UK before dropping some very big news about the future of the pod. Whatever could it be? You'll have to listen to find out. Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The juggernaut reality series is back on TVNZ+ and has switched up the format a bit. Girls AND boys mingling at the start? Levitating contestants? Turkey teeth? Jane and Alex dissect their first impressions of the show and the cast, and Duncan ponders a new set of gnashers on his upcoming trip to continental Europe. Also, there's another Bachelor baby on the way, Shortland Street is about to drop a massive three-night cliffhanger, and Below Deck Down Under is coming back! Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is Love Island launch week, and we could not be more excited to return to the villa! Alex got to chat with Iain Stirling ahead of the show's debut, but you'll have to wait until the end for that clip. First, we've got to get through our bungles of the week - Jane's excited about Pete Evans' bold new hairdo, the truth about Tina from Turners, plus some behind-the-scenes gossip from Tracked, and Duncan's review of the new season of I Think You Should Leave. Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allow us to take you inside the glitz and glamour of the Voyager Media Awards, in which MC Mike Puru delivered an incredible media-themed musical number to a standing ovation (from Alex Casey and Duncan Greive). We recap all the gossip and celebrity sightings of the week, and Jane Yee botches a hang with Dame Susan Devoy. All that, plus the bleak return of the Kardashians, a promising Taskmaster cast and a look back at Treasure Island, which premiered 26 years ago this week (we thought it was 25 but alas we cannot count). Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The trio are finally reunited in the same studio for a true chaos pod. In the Real News, the Cornies have come through with beautiful IRL interactions and beautiful gifts, there’s been a dearth of celebrity sightings for Jane and an embarrassment of riches for Alex and Duncan. Here’s a reality check: Paris Hilton’s chihuahua is dead at 23, Honey Boo Boo has finished high school and Sophia Grace has had a baby. Also: we look at the new season of Selling Sunset, Three’s new reality show Tracked and Mike Puru’s incredible selling show on the NZ Herald. Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook Go here to chat on our Discord server And go here for your very own Wonder Weeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another week, another new reality franchise washing up on our shores. But as we discuss, Three’s Couples Therapy NZ is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Plus, the fate of the Sheep Shagger mug is revealed, Duncan and Evelyn from the latest season of Married at First Sight have finally gone public and Al from season nine has announced that he maybe got throat warts from doing a shoey. Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the biggest reality television event of the year (apart from the Married at First Sight reunion), King Charles finally took the throne over the weekend and it could not have been weirder experience to recap. Then, we are joined in the studio by a very special guest from television history who recounts his unbelievably shocking experience being apart of a New Zealand reality show in the mid-2000s. Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this extra special episode of The Real Pod, Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive don our silkiest tracksuits and go all the way back to spring 2004, when Dei Hamo's 'We Gon' Ride' exploded onto the New Zealand airwaves. As you can read about now in The Spinoff's oral history of the song, this was a time when hip hop in Aotearoa was at its peak, music video directors were hot property, and kids were still buying CD singles. So how did Sani Sagala, a former musician working in a South Auckland bakery, find himself in the centre of the hip hop storm with the highest selling single of the year? You'll have to listen (or read the story) to find out. You can read the full oral history of 'We Gon Ride' here. Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pour yourself a cuppa in your favourite novelty mug, because Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive are back for another week of pop culture gossip. We investigate why Suzanne Paul is promoting everything from Liquorland to Burger King in the lead-up to the King's Coronation this weekend, and which Pussycat Doll is performing at the Coronation concert. Also, the teams for Tracked have been announced, Jason Momoa is mainlining Mainland cheese and Jane is still battling a flea problem. Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back by popular demand (a single one star review) Alex Casey, Duncan Greive and Jane Yee are back with more local popular culture and reality TV gossip. Harry Warner is coming back to Ferndale with a new face, the Briscoes Lady isn't going anywhere and Paul Henry is coming back to host The Traitors, the most anticipated reality show of all year. All that, plus encounters with fleas, wizards and former Married at First Sight contestants blowing up our phones. Join the Real Pod community! Go here for The Real Pod Corner on Facebook And here to chat on our Discord server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices