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We are all covered in ash and yearning for the ocean

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Were we watching the same debate?

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The debate explosion

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Why won’t Christopher Luxon go on Q+A? We asked Jack Tame

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What is this election really about?

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Fifty days out, the campaign ignites

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Only 64 more days of tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax

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Luxon vs Brown, and how the govt fell so violently out of love with localism

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Post-coup chat, with guest star Chris Penk

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Emergency pod: Do you get déjà coup?

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What is Mr Luxon doing?

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Someone take away Stuart Nash's phone, please

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Are the Oppies unstoppable?

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Jamboree season in an election year

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Unhappy families

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At Large with Toby Manhire: Britain’s great big prime minister problem, continued

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Hardcore lobbying and the emotional senior staffer

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Budget special with Bernard Hickey

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Live at Auckland Writers Festival with Tova O'Brien guest star

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Jane Wrightson on Super squabbles, Seymour and the state of the media

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Asher Emanuel on The Valley: the book everyone, politicians especially, should read in 2026

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The deepest breach in the Luxon coalition, and a National reboot

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Luxon stares down rebel moan squad across 100 white-knuckle hours

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The force majeure election

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Special ep with Anna Fifield on the US, Iran, and Winston in Washington

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Is NZ getting the fuel crisis right? Here's your timely, targeted and temporary analysis

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We don't know how to be any clearer, guys

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10th birthday special: Live with Wayne Brown and Andrew Little

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Ben Thomas reports from the shitstorm

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Are Peters and Luxon on a collision course?

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Summer Reissue: Bonus ep - Thoughts on the Jacinda Ardern film and book

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Summer Reissue: Juggernaut 2

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New Year special: 2026 in NZ politics

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Summer Reissue: Emergency politics Toddcast - The National Party after Muller

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Breaking: everything is good now

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The Luxon conundrum

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The Police and the bad apple thesis

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Good news: NZ is back on track

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Meltdown in Te Pāti Māori

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Peters delivers Palestine decision in New York

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Te Pāti Māori wrenches defeat from the jaws of victory

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Pulse check, pub quiz & predictions: live from WORD Christchurch

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Bonus ep: Thoughts on the Jacinda Ardern film and book

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It’s all fine apart from butter, Trump, netball, etc

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‘The one thing they could blow up the government over’

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We have issues, many issues

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New Zealand punches above its tightrope

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Polling, ex-PMs, dickheadery and a goat sacrifice

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Budget special: When The Facts Change x Gone By Lunchtime

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House of C****

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Really, really urgent

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Australian election special with Ben McKay

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Christopher, champion of the free trade world

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Live in Auckland with special guest Rebecca Wright

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Home and away with Christopher Luxon

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A conversation with David Parker about the world and NZ’s place in it

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The Curious Case of Christopher Luxon's Hosking Equivocations

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David Seymour and his Prince Hal epoch

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Winston wants a word with Mr Brown

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Bonus episode: The Waitangi special

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Luxon launches reboot for 2025

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Summer reissue: Live! With special guest Kim Hill, 40 years on from a seismic NZ election

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New Year special: the year ahead in NZ politics

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A plan to have a plan about some ferries

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Meet James Meager, the man left holding the treaty principles bill

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A special edition of The Fold: The future of The Spinoff

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Chris Luxon's big first birthday boil-up

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The hīkoi and the bill

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The American election and everything else

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US election special: Todd Muller on why it matters and who will win

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The one-year stocktake

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The big hill and the tax boulder

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David Seymour's refettled zombie utopia

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The King and us

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Luxon, the bus, the wrecking ball and the poll

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Mercury rises in Crown-Māori relations...

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Shining a light on the sorely neglected story: US politics

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Live! With special guest Kim Hill, 40 years on from a seismic NZ election

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The Green Darleen fever dream

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Blowout in Britain, boilover in France: Henry Cooke on two big elections

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The rust-bucket powder keg that could spark a China-US conflict

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Is New Zealand a C-list country?

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Listen Now: episode one of Juggernaut – I Love You, Mr Lange

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Disentangling the census data / Te Pāti Māori claims

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Budget day special

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Live! The six-month performance review

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Introducing Behind the Story: If you love a dog, you must also love disposing of its sh*t

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Luxon's mojo machine misfires

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Aukus ruckus: the scrap over NZ independence in foreign policy

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A conversation with Grant Robertson at the cricket

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Numbercrunchawamba

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An untimely case of entitleditis

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Ia manuia lau malaga, Efeso Collins

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Waitangi spiders and the Winston scriptures

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The three-headed taniwha

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2023: A year in review

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2023

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Luxon and the rizz

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The Weet-Bix coalition

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Big rock energy and coalition talks