The Real Pod

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MAJOR REALITY TV SPOILERS, TAKE HEED It's our last proper episode of The Real Pod for the year, nicely timed with the end of every reality TV show ever. Join us as we dissect the glorious finales of Project Runway NZ, The Great Kiwi Bake Off and House of Drag....

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on the Real Pod, we suck back an ice cold taurine fizz and tackle another week of reality television. Both Project Runway and Bake Off are in their semi-finals, MKRNZ has finally come to an end and House of Drag had a rap battle because who cares anymore. Beyond that, we r...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on the Real Pod, the gang is back together to recap another thrilling week on reality TV and in real life. Duncan brings all the inside gossip from the Mediaworks launch, Jane provides lollies from Japan and Alex recounts a chilling encounter with a personal poonami. Beyon...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on the Real Pod, Duncan phones in on the way to the Mediaworks launch, and delivers breaking news updates that are now definitely old news. There's a lot of hard-hitting news about big cows, tradie woes and Jim Hickey's new gig, as well as exciting live reveal of a new Rea...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on the Real Pod, we power through a delicious week on Bake Off, a bridesmaids scuffle on Project Runway NZ and a huge showdown on House of Drag. Jane and Duncan share their hilarious proposal stories, and Alex eats a nice biscuit. Beyond that, we asses Max Key's exciting n...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on the pod, we are still fizzing after our incredible first Real Pod meet-up, A Very Corny Christmas at Nando's St Lukes. Which notorious cornies showed up? Did anyone step 'in it''? And which reality TV stars braved cornucopia? Beyond that, we recap the week in real news...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. It's a huge week for the almighty pod as Jeff's eyes on Bake Off are officially not as blue as they used to be. Ploughing through another great week of reality TV, we ask more big questions of Project Runway NZ, The Great Kiwi Bake Off and MKRNZ. How horny was the guest judge on Run...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on The Real Pod, we assemble with armfuls of Halloween candy to talk about the past week in reality TV and real life in New Zealand. MAFSNZ is over, so what did we learn? Jeff from Bake Off visited Tara from The Spinoff in her own home, but what colour were his eyes? And h...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Call the police, because it's time for a CHAOS POD this week. Cracking open a couple of ice cold Red Bulls, your friendly Real Pod team dissect all the real news and reality TV that you need to know. How good does TVNZ's new season look? Why is Matootles not coming back to foot isla...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on The Real Pod, we are finally reunited... kind of. With Duncan coming and going from the studio as he pleases, we are momentarily joined by Hayden Donnell, host of the Lightbox exclusive docuseries Get It to Te Papa, to talk about unearthing the forgotten dorky treasures...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. With Duncan holidaying in Fiji, we are joined once again by noted celebrity influencer JT Muirhead to dissect the week in reality television and real news. And what a week it has been, with the badger botching up The Bachelor Australia, Married at First Sight NZ boogie-boarding into...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. This week on The Real Pod, Jane remains in the city of angels so Alex and Duncan are joined by honorary corndog and Survivor NZ superstar JT. Together, they mow through a huge week in reality television including the endlessly weird live finale of The Block NZ, the first four Marrie...

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One winner. The same three losers. The final episode of The Fantasy Suite, featuring Jane Yee, Alex Casey, Duncan Greive and a special guest – only the winning Bachelorette MATILDA RICE. We have reached the end of The Bachelor journey, and celebrate accordingly with no Lindauer, no baking and no real plan. Matilda helps us to dissect the drenched week of Bachelor news, quashing rumours and reveali...

The huge ring has been given out, the fluorescent lights have been dialed up to 11 and Mike Puru has sunken into his enormous studded chair. It's time for the After the Final Rose special of The Bachelor NZ. Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive pop a Lindauer and chat about the somewhat disappointing aftermath of The Bachelor NZ. With Jane and Duncan attending the 700 hour-long filming of After...

We celebrate the end of our quest for Forever Love with a Forever Podcast. Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive finally get their long-sought after Lindauer sponsorship, and drank it watching a landmark television event: the end of New Zealand's first ever Bachelor franchise. It promised much and delivered more, from bad bottom animals to mouthy mums to Gollum-esque jewellers. We loved every rid...

Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive gather again to the Fantasy Suite to discuss the hometown visits week of the Bachelor NZ, and farewell the wonderful Poppy, farted her way into our hearts all those weeks ago. We discuss Alysha's big straddle, Dani's doorway pash and Matilda's adorable old dad Ken. It's an emotional episode, with just one week to go, not helped by the fact we finally forewent...

Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive recap week six on the #TFSPod, returning to the sunny BOP to watch Art and his merry mistresses fly helicopters and planes, row boats and catch fish, and pash like animals. We start to get a bit too deep this week, talking directly to the Bachelorettes, and Art's mother, and spend a long, long time – yet not nearly long enough – discussing New Zealand's new f...

After three long weeks the original gang is back together. Alex is back from Melbourne and Duncan back from dinner with his mum, while Jane's busily raising her babies, as always. We drank a bottle of Lindauer Fraise – not our favourite – and ate a lot of lollies, then talked about this week's Bachelor episodes. Jane got hung up on Danielle B's shorts and Duncan dreamed of Greenie – while Alex beg...

With Alex battling to complete her power rankings ahead of a trip to Melbourne, Duncan and Jane had a one-on-one in The Fantasy Suite (not like that) to discuss the week's Bachelor NZ action. Topics covered include a week of not kissing, Natalie's failure to launch and the dramatic showdown between Alyssa and Chrystal. All washed down with a delicious bottle of Lindauer 'Summer'. Note: we still de...