The Real Pod

With her suitors dropping like flies Jane, Duncan and special guest Ben Thomas break down the last week of The Bachelorette NZ before Lexie hands out her final rose. From broken boats to broken hearts, team Real Pod leave no stone unturned as they reflect and dissect Lexie's journey to love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

Join Alex and Jane as they recap the second part of the MAFS Australia reunion special. This week everybody hits the couches for a lovely calm post-dinner party chat with the experts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join The Real Pod over Zoom this week as we learn the fate of That Vegan Teacher, discover a shocking fact about MAFS' Nasser and find out the truth about Michelle Visage’s L&P in Real News (3:48). Jane drops a bombshell about Squiggles in this week’s edition of Wayne’s World (12:18), Alex thinks Critter Corner (15:10) might need to find a new name, and we check in on Colin’s Cranny (17:34), the C...

In this bonus episode of the The Real Pod, Alex and Jane recap part one of the MAFS Australia reunion. Dinner is served and so is the drama as Nasser delivers his final speech, Cyrell loses her cool and her drink (all over Jessika's face) and Troy makes a play for Ashley with the frizzy hair. Join team Real Pod as they unpack it all and make a phone call that leaves them reeling. Hosted on Acast....

Team Real Pod gather around the pod table to bring you the latest in New Zealand reality telly and the stories that didn’t make the 6pm news. This week: Cats gone wild! Mittens gets kidnapped, Nero rides a train and Milo’s stealing fingerless gloves. In non-cat news, scientists work on the pressing need for veges to send emails, the powers that be in Texas send accidental alerts to the entire stat...

We’re back, baby! Jane, Alex and Duncan return to the studio to revive all the classic segments of yore – and review the brand new season of The Bachelorette NZ. This week: the first Real News in ages includes a furious sex arse tycoon, a tempting sausage, a boy who found $5 in the sea and sold it for $500 and Duncan recalling a Trade Me lemon nightmare. We consider the case for Tourism NZ to reun...

Pour yourself some eggnog and join the hosts of The Spinoff’s podcast network for our annual Superpod round up of the year that was. Representing Gone By Lunchtime, Dietary Requirements, The Real Pod, Papercuts, The Fold and On The Rag our hosts dive into the key events, issues, heroes and villains of 2020. From National’s botched election campaign to Ben Thomas’ take on TikTok, via the collapse o...

After more than a year of social distancing for Alex, Jane and Duncan, the Real Pod trio are back in the same room for an emotional reunion and the long-awaited analysis of a cinematic masterpiece. Approximately a thousand years ago, the idea of The Real Pod maybe, possibly, perhaps one day recapping the Twilight movie was floated. The people heard the rally cry, and a small but incredibly insiste...

The Real Pod assembles one more time to dissect the final week of The Bachelorette NZ, with special thanks to Nando’s. We've reached the end of our love journey in more ways than one, as this season of The Bachelorette NZ coincides with end of The Real Pod in it's current form. Lesina chose nobody, Lily chose Richie and Alex, Duncan and Jane have a lot of questions. Why did AMOG wear those shoes o...

The Real Pod assembles (virtually) to dissect the penultimate week of The Bachelorette NZ, except this time we are in a national lockdown.  The lads on The Bachelorette NZ knew all about what it was like to be in lockdown, so in a lot of ways we should have been prepared for this. Coming at you via our individual houses on day one of national lockdown, we have no choice to return to doing what we...

The Real Pod reassembles to dissect the seventh week of The Bachelorette NZ, with special thanks to Nando’s. The good news is that we are all back in the same country for the first time in a long time, the bad news is that it is definitely not because of The Right Reasons. In a snap decision, Jane left LAX for New Zealand 48 hours ago and recaps her journey home for us in these freaky times of Cov...

The Real Pod reassembles to dissect the sixth week of The Bachelorette NZ, with special thanks to Nando’s. In this trying times of global chaos and social distancing, we welcome you to join our digital gratitude circle and recap the last week on The Bachelorette NZ. These were happier times when the swimming was synchronised, the chicken nibbles were realistic looking and Michael's root vegetable...

The Real Pod reassembles to dissect the fifth week of The Bachelorette NZ, with special thanks to Nando’s. The boys have escaped jail for the Argentinian countryside this week, complete with rabbit hunting and a whole lot of prickles. Steve tries to serenade his way to a kiss, Liam goes on a jean short journey and Mike finally lets down those handsome walls. Logan is writing a rom-com, Jesse is wr...

The Real Pod reassembles to dissect the cultured fourth week of The Bachelorette NZ with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on The Bachelorette NZ, a burrito bust-up ends in anaphylaxis, Steve chows down on some one ply and the Buenos Aires hostel goes full Lord of the Flies. It's become abundantly clear that that the show is less about two women finding love, and more about a bunch of blokes sl...

The Real Pod reassembles to dissect the fourth week of The Bachelorette NZ with special thanks to Nando’s. Oi oi me homies, it's intruder week on The Bachelorette NZ and we are about as shook as a humble kūmara being wrenched from Dargaville's finest soil. Michael! Mac! Mike! Richie! Elliott (again)! The lad culture in the mansion is officially ruined, the cat has been set amongst the pigeons and...

The Real Pod reassembles to dissect the nude and rude third week of The Bachelorette NZ with special thanks to Nando’s. Two wonderful women and a mixed bag of lads jetted off to Argentina this week, one which saw a serious culling of the meek set of the herd. Conor, Flynn and Mr Wedge all departed, nearly joined by Tavita, who was only saved after his hernia was given a double shaka down at the ho...

The Real Pod reassembles to dissect the second week of The Bachelorette NZ with special thanks to Nando’s. The dramatic second week began with Lily walking in to the mansion and ended with The Mole revealing his true moley self to the bewildered men. Will the twists ever stop? Maybe everyone is a mole! The only thing we're sure of is that Glenn has continued to be weird and Aaron has continued to...

The Real Pod reassembles to dissect the first week of The Bachelorette NZ with special thanks to Nando’s. Blow your air horns and distress your jeans, the very first week of The Bachelorette NZ is over and we are absolutely amping. Join us as we recap the Tough Mudder group date, the romantic single dates up trees and on seas, and all the ways this season is throwing convention to the wind. Two Ba...

In this very special episode of The Real Pod, Art Green joins us to yarn about The Bachelorette NZ premiere. Brought to you by our friends at Nandos.  It's been five years in the making, but we finally got Art Green on our podcast. Joining us fresh out of episode one of The Bachelorette NZ, we recap every inch of the premiere from first arrivals to cocktail tensions. He tells us just how cold it w...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the summer in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. We're ba-ack! After a long cruel summer full of Jay Jay and Minou heartbreak, The Bachelorette NZ reveals and a mild case of ring worm, there is much to discuss. Why has Breakfast returned more sexed-up than ever? Will we ever see Minou again? And will Alex deliver on her shooey promis...

Spend your relaxing Boxing Day unboxing the Great Kiwi Bake Off finale with us. It was a Christmas-themed episode stacked with surprises, meringues and exploding tarts. But of course, most important of all is the fact that our ex-Navy ironman Trev came away with the trotie. There's also the penultimate episode of New Zealand's Next Top Model, where Wendyl Nissen drags the models to filth, a Nivea...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. It's the second to last week on Great Kiwi Bake Off and utterances of "don' like jelleh?" are ringing through the land. Booze jellies, udder jellies and ancient Egyptian jellies abound, our final four bakers pulled out all the stops just as Sue Fleischl pulled out her finest pair of deni...

Join various hosts of The Spinoff podcasts Gone by Lunchtime, On The Rag, The Real Pod, Paper Cuts, The Offspin, and Dietary Requirements as we look back at the car crash that was 2019. In this special end of year podcast hosted by Leonie Hayden, we dissect the country's response to national disasters, the highs and lows of MAFS, international literary scandals, the madness and tragedy of the 2019...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Sometimes you are just doing a podcast as usual and then Colin Mathura-Jeffree gives you a call and throws your world off its axis. In a very special edition of Colin's Cranny: Live, the man himself gives us a harrowing update on his rotten dumplings situation, one that put Mike Puru's M...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Are top sheets good or bad? Who is leaving giant dog poo piles everywhere? And why did Max Key delete his last Instagram post? Our investigative journalism continues as we try and get to the bottom of Trev from Bake Off's back story. He refers to himself in the third person, he definitel...