The Ned & Josh Podcast

Merlin the Duck has somehow become one of the biggest stars of the World Cup without setting foot inside a stadium, and Ned and Josh spend a good chunk of this episode working out exactly why he's banned and whether he's at risk of spotting a relative on a dinner plate. From there it's straight into a review of the new Supergirl movie, with both hosts defending the leads against some harsher revie...

Josh's new hobby of photographing planes at the airport earns a polite but firm cross-examination from Ned, before the conversation turns to the Croatian pony named Mile who was abandoned at birth for being too small and is now recovering from surgery while living in a fourth-floor apartment. Backrooms gets pulled apart alongside a crash course in creepy pasta internet history, and Ned reflects on...

A learner driver in an L-plate car full of laughing family members went through a McDonald's drive-thru this week and looked absolutely terrified, which is correct, because drive-thru kerbs are scuffed to hell for a reason and the pressure of ordering while also steering is real. Josh has started calculating what calibrated driving speed makes him look responsible enough to be trusted with stepson...

The boys open with a correction nobody asked for, turns out that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding rumour might have been a swing and a miss. From there it's straight into the World Cup, the Socceroos' rough outing against the US, and what it's like watching football fans from around the globe experience America for the very first time. The TSA has had to weigh in on ranch dressing as a carry-...

Magic the Gathering has a Ninja Turtle crossover that's either the best or worst thing to happen to card gaming depending on who you ask, and Ned is firmly in the best camp. Somewhere in the middle of all that, a mother from Virginia decided to name all six of her kids after American states, a woman without a right hand got fined for using her phone, and a flight full of Knicks fans lost their col...

Josh recounts a near-disaster involving a stray cat, his partner, and some very questionable advice given while half asleep. The conversation then shifts to Indiana Jones and a quick look at just how violent the franchise really is, before landing on the bizarre real history of Ötzi the prehistoric ice mummy. There's also a check-in on the current "ebb and flow" of Ned's relationship with his Amer...

Ned and Josh kick things off riding the high of the Knicks' first NBA championship win in decades before things take a turn when Josh confesses his step-sons gave him a brutal new nickname after catching him mid-photoshoot for work. From there the boys debate whether Ned is a coward or a cool guy, before diving into why YouTube Premium's $29.99 monthly fee might just be the most ballsy subscriptio...

Ned and Josh try, and immediately fail, to become cool, a bejewelled payment wand gets debated with more intensity than it deserves, and Josh reveals his deeply specific career goal of voicing a poker machine. A rumour about Taylor Swift getting married at Madison Square Garden sends the boys into the Harry Styles rafters problem, and the question of whether you'd invite Scooter Braun to your wedd...

This week the boys are navigating public holidays, long weekends, and the very specific psychological damage of going back to a five-day working week when three days off felt like your actual natural state. Somewhere between debating whether a four-day week deserves a salary sacrifice, deciding what life stat you'd want confirmed at the pearly gates, and working out whether a brain chip is a medic...

An out-of-office reply becomes a full charity fundraising pitch, and the boys debate where the line is between being absent and just showing off. Producer Michael gets roped into a pronunciation test to settle whether South Australians genuinely say a word a way. Somewhere in there, someone skied in Japan without knowing bears existed there, and someone else is quietly vibrating at their desk afte...

If you live in a Scandinavian country and you're wondering what the ACT's public holiday situation looks like, this episode is practically a tourism brochure. Sardine maxing promises great skin but guaranteed social isolation, and someone in this podcast is prepared to argue that the Amish are living their best life off-grid. The Boaty McBoatface naming saga gets a proper post-mortem, Ned manages...

The Enhanced Games have kicked off in Las Vegas, essentially a steroid-friendly Olympics with a $25 million prize pool, and the boys are curious whether it's the future of sport or just a very jacked experiment. There's also a deep dive into BBQ Shapes seasoning inconsistency, a revisit of whether taking the high road is actually worth it, and the Lego Batman game gets a full review from someone p...

The Michelle Obama mantra sounds great in theory but there's a reason people need to be told to follow it. This episode also gets into YouTube being increasingly taken over by AI narration that can't always handle abbreviations, the pliers-versus-hair-laser debate in airport security (which gets surprisingly heated), and the cursed dollar store amulet Josh is planning to hide inside a wall of his...

The structural genius of a dog's nose, specifically the ridge that creates a snot delivery tunnel, was always there; we just weren't paying attention. This episode also makes time for the inflatable furniture era of the 1990s, which was physically dangerous and spiritually freeing, and for the charity auction experience category, where the corporate box to see Bruno Mars turns out to be very much...

In a week where three podcasts somehow got made, the boys kick things off with a wolf-emblazoned jumper that's receiving more compliments than anyone is comfortable with, a 60-year-old woman who absolutely lost her mind, and a dog groomer who once again had some very strong feelings about Cosmo's weight and work ethic. They also get into the hairline anxiety that hit one of them harder than expect...

From Charlie Bucket's suspicious golden ticket survival to the government somehow ending up with the Wu-Tang album, this episode covers the kind of topics you didn't know needed covering. Josh has bought a vibrating wristband alarm clock, it hasn't arrived yet, but he's already confident it'll fix his mornings. While the guys debate whether Roblox is just Miniclip for a generation that missed out....

The boys dig into the Dua Lipa vs Samsung lawsuit and whether a celebrity's face on a TV box actually sells anyone a TV (it doesn't). Ned confesses he was lurking silently in a former workplace group chat for months before a visit reminded them he existed, and they promptly removed him. There's also a conversation about AI-generated nostalgia clips tricking everyone into brief patriotism before re...

A Friday episode arrives with Daniel Sloss, which means Ned and Josh immediately use the opportunity to discuss sharks, tuck shop snacks, mascot suits, and whether adults should be socially allowed to dress like superheroes. There’s Daffy Duck, Rumrun, Chuck E. Cheese, Mako shark passion and one very reluctant co worker dragged into aquatic small talk. Carrie diagnoses a bow tie injury before bein...

Somewhere between a mum's friend giving a thirteen-year-old a deeply inappropriate shirt and the question of who really buys the oldest-sister merchandise, this episode goes places. Josh's golden retrievers are space-themed, Cosmo is jealous, and the groomer who lectures him every visit has been quietly posting dog content without a release form. The Last Dance made the Chicago Bulls compelling to...

Ned and Josh return from their new sofa based headquarters with questions about what really broke the world, whether soda fountains mattered more than history admits, and how badly a man can ruin his own hands. There’s Batman fashion theory, ACT bin conspiracies, animal kingdom nonsense, public toilet laws and a reminder that sports fans are basically cosplayers with better PR. Find us on socials...

This week, we're talking about a chicken chippie creation that its inventor believes deserves a place on every fast food menu in the country, and the cold-and-sweaty weather phenomenon that apparently has no adequate name yet. A Ford Raptor parks in a small car spot, a passive-aggressive note gets written, and the whole plan backfires spectacularly. Meanwhile, AI is out here drinking all the plane...

Tupac's hologram was meant to be the future of live performance — so why did nothing come of it? The boys dig into that, and then move on to a man named Bill whose wife recreated him via AI for a post-death Q&A at his own wake. Kermit dating another pig straight after Miss Piggy is covered with the gravity it demands, Josh recounts getting called out by a teacher and responding by telling him...

What happens when a conductor gets a little too into it and knocks a priceless 18th-century violin straight out of a violinist's hands? That's the chaos we're unpacking this week, alongside the genuine moral question of whether it's acceptable to shame a stranger's misbehaving kid in the supermarket with nothing but a stern headshake. We also get into the Finnish Air Force's most entertaining flig...

This episode lurches from parents enabling romantic weekends to people roaming public toilets barefoot, which is not the same vibe at all. Along the way there is Harambe fallout, a cheeseburger scandal involving missing pickles, a workplace reading conversation gone sideways, and a discussion about what sport we secretly think we could dominate with zero evidence. There is also candle reward condi...

A global comedy heavyweight drops by for a chat that somehow swings from parenting reality checks to late night legends and robot battles that sound borderline illegal. Daniel Sloss joins us ahead of his new show Bitter, sharing stories about touring life, Conan O'Brien, and why three days away from your kids feels like a holiday before it absolutely doesn’t. There’s also a very important Australi...