The Real Pod

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. The team is back to give it a good old Kiwi try across the seas this week, perhaps one of the biggest reality TV weeks of the year. Dancing With the Stars NZ had one explosive finale, complete with rugby balls and Julz Tocker doing a rambunctious jive, with Manu Vatuvei being crowned the...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week the pod has been cursed with an almighty stench, but that won't stop us recording our first full-length international podcast. It was an explosive semi-final week on Dancing With the Stars NZ, containing everything from smooth sax, non-consensual bum-drumming and a terrible cov...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on The Real Pod, we've absolutely Real Pod-ed it. It was throuple week on Dancing With the Stars NZ, but we were struck with a nightmare trio of our own: technical difficulties, geographical changes and a series of unfortunate events. The result? This micro-pod below. We are so...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. It's an extremely emotional episode of The Real Pod, as Jane farewells her podmates Duncan and Alex for a life of glitz and glamour in Los Angeles, USA. Never fear, though, your weekly dose of reality TV and real news will continue via video link across the ocean. Besides, someone's got...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. It's Jane's second to last podcast in New Zealand and we have pulled out all the stops: a fire hazard, a cheesy bread cake from Nando's and some incredibly interesting analysis of everyone's favourite dancing show. There's an injury sustained live on pod, there's a brief monopod about be...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on the pod we are absolutely snowed under with exciting news from the reality TV world, the real world, and the Nando's world. There's a 24 year-old sheep knocking around, the old Milo formula is the new Milo formula and Jane accidentally bought Andrew Jury's vacant tattoo spac...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. You asked for it: we're all back in the same room, at the same time. Kind of. Alex is 20 minutes late and Jane got the time wrong, so Duncan starts an eight minute monopod. There's much to cover in the news this week, from the dog that lived for 51 weeks in the wild to the woman who thin...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. With Duncan in Thailand, Alex and Jane (and occasionally Tina) shoulder the burden of recapping the past week in reality TV and extremely real news. There's a bloody big cat on the loose in the South Island, there's a goat in the supermarket and there's Mi Goreng in bougie toasties now....

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week Duncan is cavorting around Melbourne so Jane and Alex meet at the dining room table to talk about another hot week on this dance floor we call life. Need all the celebrity goss from the Avengers premiere? We've got you covered. Want to know how bad Cadbury Buttons eggs are now?...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in reality television and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. In the hangover of Married at First Sight Australia, we are overjoyed to shimmy onto the shiny lino of Dancing With the Stars NZ. Well, two of us are. Duncan only watched Laura's dance on Instagram. Which celebrity is the frontrunner? Why wasn't Jude allowed to whip Matt? And what in the...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the final week of Married at First Sight Australia, with special thanks to Nando’s. It's been a long and emotional journey full of highs, lows, onesies and toaster pizzas, but Married at First Sight Australia is finally over. Join us as we try to make sense of the final explosive dinner party, and the reunion to end all reunions. Why is Sam such a coward? Are Ines...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect Married at First Sight Australia and the Dancing With the Stars NZ cast, with special thanks to Nando’s. We know we've said this before, but this episode is a proper chaos pod. Fuelled by lollies and the promise of Nando's, your friendly podmates plough through the final single dates on MAFSAU. Heidi and Mike hit choppy waters in more ways than one, Mark makes a h...

This week on The Real Pod, we've got two weeks of MAFS madness to recap. Billy and Susie went to hell and back again, and then Billy had to come back one more time to get his fish oil. Ivan the Terrible was the nail in the coffin for Nic and Cyrell, Michael is rocking his long hair like Fabio and Ines is saying some truly outrageous things in her Instagram stories. There's also Jessika and Dan's e...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the sixth week on Married at First Sight Australia, with special thanks to Nando’s. If we told you this wasn't a rude pod, we'd be lying. What more can you expect from such a rude week on MAFS AU, complete with naked calendar shoots, brazen buttcracks and passionate party pashing? Jessika has finally dumped mucky Mick, Suzy has exploded at Billy over a Splenda nig...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the fifth week on Married at First Sight Australia, with special thanks to Nando’s. It's another chaotic week on the pod, complete with phone calls to Nasser from the last season of MAFS, Duncan getting cancelled live on air and many, many Haribo lollies. Why is Jessika trying to sleep with everyone's husbands? Why has Mike tattooed his bald head? Why is Dino reco...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the fourth week on Married at First Sight Australia, with special thanks to Nando’s. Your favourite Married at First Sight Australia experts are back to look at a week on MAFS that may or may not have gone too far. Innes and Sam have gone full steam ahead in the sauna (allegedly), Heidi and Mike are starting to crumble and Ning and Mark are absolutely miserable. A...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the third week on Married at First Sight Australia, with special thanks to Nando’s. The real Married at First Sight Australia experts are back recap a truly diseased week on the good show. There were waxed buttholes, there was a cheating scandal, there were many, many chicken pox. Sam and Ines have finally gone to the dark side, Nic and Cyrell are serving us Punk’...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the second week on Married at First Sight Australia, with special thanks to Nando’s. Your friendly podmates zip up their Australia onesies and dive into the tumultuous second week of Married at First Sight Australia. This week we met the last of our hopeful newlyweds, including a 29 year old virgin, a jillionaire stripper and a Kim Kardashian clone. There's a dinn...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week on Married at First Sight Australia, with special thanks to Nando’s. Join us as we recap the first explosive week on Married at First Sight Australia, objectively the greatest show on Earth. Jules and Cam are the love story of a generation, Jessika and Cyrell have the scariest brothers this side of Underbelly, and Ning has so many walls up she might as we...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the last few weeks in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. The dream team is back together to cover all the breaking news topics you need to know this week. Which Aladdin star was spotted at Laneway? Which of our favourite celebrities made cameos in Jane Yee's 40th birthday video? And what the hell have Cadbury done to their blood...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the last few weeks in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s.   This week on the podcast, Duncan returns from the wilderness with a Jersey Shore tan and having watched zero television like the useless co-host he is. This, coupled with Alex's absence doing real, important work, meant Jane carried a very heavy load, recapping five show...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the last few weeks in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. With Duncan still basking somewhere on a desert island, Alex and Jane reconvene in The Spinoff studio to pick apart the past week in local weird news, pop culture and reality TV. We had a glittering evening at the premiere of Aladdin with every New Zealand celebrity ever,...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the last few weeks in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. We're back for 2019! Well, Jane and Alex are. Join us for a sprawling chat about this summer in celebrity news, sightings and scandals. Sam and Tayler's MAFS journey has come to an end, press release and all. Mike Puru had a chicken burger nightmare, the Fiji Water girl is...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect 2018 in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Happy New Year! Before you get started on those resolutions, why not join us in looking back at 2018 in reality TV? It's time for the beloved* annual** Real Pod awards, where everything's made up and the categories don't necessarily matter. Why will take out the gong for eyes of 2018 Wh...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night, for The Real Pod has stumbled upon a Christmas miracle: a full-length podcast with the King of the Cranny himself, Colin Mathura-Jeffree. Joining Jane, Duncan and Alex for a Christmas extravaganza, Colin brings a swag of gifts and hot...