The Real Pod

Hosted by Gone By Lunchtime’s Toby Manhire and featuring representatives from The Real Pod, The Fold, Nē? and Dietary Requirements, SUPERPOD 2021 is the crossover podcast event we’ve been waiting all year for. Join us as we relive the highs and lows and heroes and villains of the longest, shortest year in living memory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about...

For the final episode of 2021, Jane and Duncan try to remember all the reality TV they’ve talked about on The Real Pod this year. From Sam and Gonzo going at it across the MAFS AU dinner table all the way to Alby’s matcha-fuelled GKBO win, including Popstars, The Bachelor/ette, The Apprentice Aotearoa, Drag Race Down Under, The Block and Celebrity Treasure Island – what moments have lingered in th...

In a truly X-rated episode of The Real Pod, Duncan and Jane try out a Rude delivery and spend many minutes dissecting a naughty mug. Elsewhere, two people on Twitter are cross about the Great Kiwi Bake Off finale and an old friend reclaims his corner of the pod. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Would you rather get snowed in at a Danish Ikea or a British pub with an Oasis cover band? Does the Briscoes Lady have the perfect work-life balance? And what happened when Jane tried to do a Great Kiwi Bake Off technical challenge at home? All this and more with Jane and Duncan on your home of real news, real life and really good times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jane and Duncan are counting down the hours until they can eat cheesy garlic pita again. Also on the agenda this week: the cast of this year’s Great Kiwi Bake Off celebrity special has been revealed, a rude bouncy castle has been unveiled, a hairdresser has gone rogue and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

Duncan and Jane dip their toes in TVNZ’s show lineup for 2022, try to figure out how the government’s Covid policy applies to sex with strangers and offer some style advice for all that extra lockdown hair you’ve been growing. There’s also crypto chat, a new caking-meets-sports show and some as-it-happens literal breaking news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn mor...

Join Jane and Duncan as they celebrate an almost win at the NZ Podcast Awards, debrief on The Block NZ auctions and reveal what their very first in-store purchases were at level three, step two. Plus there’s a terrorist possum on the loose in Dunedin, a duck has run a marathon in New York and Taylor Swift has her fans seeing red. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn m...

In a very special The Fold / The Real Pod crossover episode, Jane and Duncan delve into the first ever Discovery upfronts, in which Three’s new owner just announced a bunch of new shows, two new channels and a very reality TV-heavy new direction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Camilla Parker Bowles won’t stop talking about Joe Biden’s "long fart", it’s raining cats and logs in Windsor, lady condors are birthing chicks without gentleman condors and a journalist reckons you can cook a steak in a dishwasher. Join Duncan and Jane as they discuss all these stories, along with a tale of mistaken hand sanitiser identity that will have you looking twice before your next squirt....

Fresh from watching the final episode, Jane and Duncan recap the last week of Celebrity Treasure Island – before being joined by Chris Parker for a truly emotional kōrero. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Jane and Duncan for a flick through the realest of Real News, including some whopping big veg and some second-rate Dunedin Bird News. They also face a Real Conundrum surrounding the Celebrity Treasure Island finale. Brought to you by Nando's! Vote for The Real Pod in the NZ Podcast Awards! Visit nzpodcastawards.com to vote. Nominations close this Friday, November 5! Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Meet Jane and Duncan on the beach at dawn as they form an alliance to recap week eight of Celebrity Treasure Island! It’s strategy city this week as the remaining celebs manoeuvre to make it to the final.  Vote for The Real Pod in the NZ Podcast Awards! Visit nzpodcastawards.com to vote. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Jane (cross-legged on the floor) is joined by guest host Chris Parker (lying on bed) to trawl through the week’s Real News and everything else. We’ve got tiny villages of vegetables and spoons popping up on Auckland berms, The Wiggles are playing R18 bar gigs now, there's peacocks on the loose in Johnsonville and more. Vote for The Real Pod in the NZ Podcast Awards! Visit nzpodcastawards.com to vo...

Gather up your pirate gold and smash an egg on your forehead, it’s time to recap another week of Celebrity Treasure Island. Join Jane, Alex and Duncan as the treasure hunt continues and we farewell another celeb.  Vote for The Real Pod in the Listener's Choice category at the NZ Podcast Awards! Visit nzpodcastawards.com to cast your vote 💕 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

Join Jane, Alex and Duncan as they continue to lose their grip on reality. Also this week: big MAFS baby news, illegal sprinkles, cat refuses to flush the toilet, more Dunedin bird news, The Blocktion, a corny easter egg in The Great Kiwi Bake Off, Barkley Manor and more. Vote for The Real Pod in the NZ Podcast Awards! Visit nzpodcastawards.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

The CTI-heads pore over the increasingly complex web of alliances and farewell some major celebs as Celebrity Treasure Island enters its sixth week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jane’s back from sick leave this week and – word of warning – begins the episode with a disgusting big phlegmy snort! It gets better from there, but only marginally, with Real News featuring a classic grody combo of fart-proof sheets, fart-positive ancestors, flushed undies, slug chat, an abominable rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Join Alex ‘Candy’ Casey and Duncan ‘Buck’ Greive as they revel in all the tactics and subterfuge of this week’s Celebrity Treasure Island, spend their pirate gold at the Pirate Market and chuck around some grapes.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Confusion reigns on The Real Pod this week. How do Alex and Duncan record the pod without Jane? How are the new outdoor catch-up rules going to work in practice? Who’s the latest Masked Mountaineer? Plus all the usual real news and real bits, from a chicken who went for a walk to the logistics of Hilary Barry’s choccy fish bribe.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn...

It’s another corker of a week on Celebrity Treasure Island – Richie’s gone rogue, Angela’s playing four dimensional strategic chess and the battle braids are down. Join Jane, Alex and Duncan as they recap all the action from sunny Northland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lockdown delirium has struck The Real Pod in a big way this week. Join Jane, Duncan and Alex for a Zoom chat covering the mysterious new dating show TVNZ is casting, The AM Show’s musical chairs, the rude leggings of LulaRich and some real talk about lockdown mental health. Plus: Alex reveals the results of last week’s Masked Mountaineer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

This week on New Zealand’s most upstanding Celebrity Treasure Island recap podcast, Jane, Alex and Duncan discuss undie longevity, consider never using toilet paper again, anticipate a potential Worksafe reckoning for New Zealand’s reality TV and relive all the latest action from the latest set of celebrity challenges as three teams became two. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

It’s all about the numbers this week on The Real Pod. Join Alex and Jane as they do the maths on one Covid test, two grey hairs, three lightning strikes, four masked mountaineers and many many scrotum frogs. Plus someone’s flushing their unmentionables and breakfast telly takes yet another weird turn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

Week two on Treasure Island sees our celebs hungry, tired and jonesing for the win. Honu find themselves in the middle of an alliance tug-of-war, Katipo’s desperation for some kai reaches fever pitch, and a forced leadership change rattles the usually unflappable team Repo. Deals are been brokered, toes are being broken, fish are being caught and dances are being taught. Join Duncan and Jane as th...

Big reveals on The Real Pod this week as Duncan and Jane go under the Real News sheets to find all sorts of alarming matter. Which celebrity is 'gramming their Covid journey from MIQ? Why has an unearthed recording of a duck from 1987 hit the headlines? And where the hell is Alex Casey? In Real Life Jane enjoys a significant Big Wash and Duncan's wife drops a filthy bombshell that leaves hime reel...