All Episodes

Jamboree season in an election year

Unhappy families

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

Hardcore lobbying and the emotional senior staffer

Budget special with Bernard Hickey

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

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

The book everyone, politicians especially, should read in 2026

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

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

The force majeure election

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

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

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

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

Ben Thomas reports from the shitstorm

Are Peters and Luxon on a collision course?

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

Summer Reissue: Juggernaut 2

New Year special: 2026 in NZ politics

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

Breaking: everything is good now

The Luxon conundrum

The Police and the bad apple thesis

Good news: NZ is back on track

Meltdown in Te Pāti Māori

Peters delivers Palestine decision in New York

Te Pāti Māori wrenches defeat from the jaws of victory

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

Bonus ep: Thoughts on the Jacinda Ardern film and book

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

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

We have issues, many issues

New Zealand punches above its tightrope

Polling, ex-PMs, dickheadery and a goat sacrifice

Budget special: When The Facts Change x Gone By Lunchtime

House of C****

Really, really urgent

Australian election special with Ben McKay

Christopher, champion of the free trade world

Live in Auckland with special guest Rebecca Wright

Home and away with Christopher Luxon

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

The Curious Case of Christopher Luxon's Hosking Equivocations

David Seymour and his Prince Hal epoch

Winston wants a word with Mr Brown

Bonus episode: The Waitangi special

Luxon launches reboot for 2025

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

New Year special: the year ahead in NZ politics

A plan to have a plan about some ferries

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

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

Chris Luxon's big first birthday boil-up

The hīkoi and the bill

The American election and everything else

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

The one-year stocktake

The big hill and the tax boulder

David Seymour's refettled zombie utopia

The King and us

Luxon, the bus, the wrecking ball and the poll

Mercury rises in Crown-Māori relations...

Shining a light on the sorely neglected story: US politics

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

The Green Darleen fever dream

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

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

Is New Zealand a C-list country?

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

Disentangling the census data / Te Pāti Māori claims

Budget day special

Live! The six-month performance review

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

Luxon's mojo machine misfires

Aukus ruckus: the scrap over NZ independence in foreign policy

A conversation with Grant Robertson at the cricket

Numbercrunchawamba

An untimely case of entitleditis

Ia manuia lau malaga, Efeso Collins

Waitangi spiders and the Winston scriptures

The three-headed taniwha

2023: A year in review

The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2023

Luxon and the rizz

The Weet-Bix coalition

Big rock energy and coalition talks

Post-election special: back on one track or other

Election night special: a debrief

Panic at the Briscoes

Chris Hipkins is relentlessly positive

Winston Peters? I don't know her

Megapod 22: Can Annabelle, Ben and Toby make it out alive?

Megapod 21: The Real Pod x Gone By Lunchtime + The Worm

Megapod 20: Bernard Hickey – the man, the myth, the machine

Megapod 19: All hail Policy.nz

Megapod 18: Youth Wings revisited

Megapod 17: Raf Manji says Top is still in the game

Megapod 16: Grant Robertson on Labour’s record and the mood for change

Megapod 15: Andrew Geddis on how to make a government

Megapod 14: David Seymour on why he despises political TV drama

Megapod 13: Ben McKay on the Voice vote in Australia

Megapod 12: Brooke Van Velden on the battle for Tāmaki

Megapod 11: The hot seats in election 2023

Megapod 10: Chris Hipkins reveals he has read a book

Megapod 9: The foreign affairs debate we’re not having in election 2023

Megapod 8: Erica Stanford on the minister she wants to be

Megapod 7: Lara Greaves on polling, the Māori roll and harassment

Megapod 6: James Shaw on the climate change election

Megapod 5: A conversation with Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Megapod 4: A special Auckland Central debate / shock moderator walkout

Megapod 3: Michael Wood on a hellish year and the campaign ahead

Megapod 2: Highlights and lowlights of the first leaders’ debate

Megapod 1: The first TVNZ leaders' debate, assessed

A conversation with Act leader David Seymour

Is Chris Luxon the new Paul Newman?

Bonus episode: Everybody was Prefu Fighting

A conversation with Green leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw

From the gelateria to the murder house

Live from Word Christchurch with special guest Lianne Dalziel

Man bites underdog

Live from Boondogglepalooza

Bonus episode: Steven Joyce on how to win elections

Bonus episode: A conversation with the prime minister

The giant hole election

Bonus episode: Kiri Allan resigns

Hipkins scratches the switch

One hundred days to go. Or is it?

Bonus episode: Direct from the Great Hall of the People

Bonus episode: Chris Hipkins and the China Challenge

Wet, Whiny and Gangward-looking

Bonus episode: Electoral review chair on the recs and the wreckers

Wood's stock: a very sloppy festival

ChatGBL and the blowback budget

Budget special: Bernard Hickey and Toby Manhire binge on bread and butter

Coalitions, coronations and chaos

Emergency podcast: Meka Whaitiri defects from Labour

Big Tax Energy

Three Waters? Never heard of it

Cross Chris'll make Stu jump

Cosying up next to the policy bonfire

We will not be neutered, declare Annabelle, Ben and Toby

Ben calls in from Wairoa, the town torn apart by Cyclone Gabrielle

Blame it on the Wayne

Bread, butter, Coke, Pepsi: on PM Hipkins

EMERGENCY PODCAST: Jacinda Ardern resigns

Bonus Episode: Predicting the 2023 election date

Bonus Episode: The days that defined NZ politics in 2022

The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2022

Performing a check-up on NZ's political parties

The fog of Orr

Kiri Allan, Erica Stanford and Chlöe Swarbrick on five terrible, glorious years

Good cop, bad cop, dark cop, anxious cop

Labour girds its loins

Raf Manji on TOP 3.0

Star-studded live Tauranga special

Local election super-wrap special

Phil Goff special: on a life in politics and idealism v pragmatism

Around the poll campfire

Charles III, king of Aotearoa

King Charles III special

The cost of living cudgel and political chocolate

Chris Finlayson on the rule of law and the fear of winning

Gaurav Sharma and Sam Uffindell, suspended

Auckland mayoral election special, with the doyen of Super City journalism Todd Niall

James versus Ron for Greens co-leader

UK politics special: The Boris Johnson implosion

Andrea Vance on Blue Blood: The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis

Relentlessly negative and around the world

Strike raptor Gib board taskforce

Gareth Hughes on Jeanette Fitzsimons and the future of the Greens

The president, the Pacific and a platinum jubilee

The squeezed muddle

Budget 2022: Reaction special

Chewing the budget pastry

Australian election special: Albo v Scomo

Christopher Luxon and the giant melancholy kiwifruit

Aotearoa joins the war in Europe

Is it the beginning of the end of the Covid response?

Simon Bridges on his shock exit from politics

What next for the parliament occupation?

The parliament protest and Trevor's iPod

Opening up

Summer reissue: The end of the Collins era

Summer reissue: Podathon 2021

Summer reissue: The stuck ship era

The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2021

The great 2021 Gone By Lunchtime Christmas quiz

Luxonmania

Who wants to lead the National Party next?

Ordinary Kiwi Christmas

Traffic lights

Podathon 2021

Every Covid plan reviewed

The unofficial epidemic response committee

Judith's Wednesday wobbly and David's terrible tweet

Another late night lockdown extravaganza

Lullabies for the team of five million

High-level political vibe discourse

Howl of a podcast

Vaccines, Karens and the UNDrip

New Winston Peters dropped

The Phantom Menace of political summits

The first and only pundits to weigh in on Budget 2021

He Puapua, Te Tiriti and Judith Collins

The end of DHBs, local government and Selena Gomez

45 minutes of silence

The housing package and the stuck ship

In loving memory of landline polling

Rethinking MIQ, Australia and businesswear

Welcome to 2021, the tribute year to 2020

Summer reissue: The morning after election night, with Chlöe Swarbrick

Summer reissue: Mervmania

Summer reissue: Politics in Pubs with Simon Bridges

Summer reissue: Emergency Toddcast

The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2020

End of year special with Jacinda Ardern

The Golden Handbrake Awards 2020

Lustful frothing as parliament returns

A rummage through Labour's new cabinet

The morning after election night, with Chlöe Swarbrick

Bonus episode: On the road with Alex Braae

The final countdown to Election 2020

Judgement day beckons after the third leaders' debate

The second NZ leaders' debate, assessed

The best and worst of last night’s debates

Welcome to Middelburg, Aotearoa

The Gone By Lunchtime apology special

Late night lockdown politics with the Alert Level Three

The Gone By Lunchtime guide to political edging

Mervmania hits the 2020 election campaign

Why Auckland Central is 2020's most exciting electorate

Politics in Pubs 3: Simon Bridges on National Party upheavals, politics, and post-yak life

Politics roguecast: A bombshell poll for Judith Collins and National

Politics podcast: Judith Collins and the hot air Falloon

Emergency politics Toddcast: The National Party after Muller

Politics podcast: The slogans have landed. Plus: a formal apology

Politics in pubs podcast: Chlöe Swarbrick and Danyl Mclauchlan

Politics podcast: The week the Covid-19 response went downhill

Politics podcast: The bloody battle for the National Party leadership

Politics in pubs podcast: Danyl Mclauchlan, Andrea Vance and Neale Jones

Politics podcast: Gone by lockdowntime

Politics podcast: Covid-19 and its political dimension

Politics podcast: The many circles of donation hell

Gone By Lunchtime: positive, factual, robust, stable, genius

The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2019

Politics podcast: live from the Gone by Lunchtime Christmas party

Politics podcast: Peter Jackson is not the mayor of Wellington

Politics podcast special: Livin’ la vida local

Politics podcast special: On Sarah, the Labour staffer, and the botched party inquiry

Politics podcast: Simon Bridges, you, and the Ihumātao groundswell

Politics podcast: We shall reshuffle you

Politics Podcast: The Wellbeing Hack

Politics podcast: Reliving the 2017 election with Jacinda Ardern

Politics podcast: Gone by Slushy Time

Politics podcast: the aftermath

Politics podcast: Good-time tax chats with your pals

Politics podcast: Ardern promises delivery, Bridges prays for deliverance

Politics pod: Unchained Mallardry, MAGA Barry, ILG damned and the stars of 2018

Politics podcast: Will the Jami-Lee Ross saga leave lasting damage?

Emergency podcast: Jami-Lee Ross declares war on Simon Bridges

Gone By Lunch Time Special: Jacinda in the studio

Politics podcast: Jacindamania, one year on

Politics podcast: did Bridges' spadework turn a little leak into a big hole?

Politics podcast: Breaking news, the prime minister had a baby

Politics podcast: waka jumping, fuel taxing and rumour mongering

Breaking Astoria in Curran affairs

Dawn of the age of Simon Bridges, king of the National Party

Emergency podcast: Bill English is gone by morning tea time

We're back for the New Year with new takes on the week in Politics.

The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2017

A completely comprehensive dissection of 2017

The first day back at the office blues (feat Paddles content)

Politics podcast: A whole new government edition

A post-election special feat. some more predictions

Our 100% correct predictions for election 2017

SPECIAL EPISODE: The 1st Spinoff Great Election Debate

A dramatic and devastating podcast with 10 days to go

Fire in the debate disco, fiscal holes and child poverty surprises

Winston Peters latest to be engulfed in election perma-scandal

A classic hits election with one month to go

Politics podcast: Greens post-Metiria, return of the bootcamp and war with Australia

Labour so blissy, Greens so messy, English so texty

Emergency politics podcast: Andrew Little gone by brunchtime, cometh the hour of Ardern

Metiria Turei's Winz confession, Labour's alt-budget and the Māori seats

Winston the racist rock star, Gareth Morgan's own goal, and Guy likes the Greens

The Gory saga of Todd Barclay, Labour's intern storm, and Hone Duterte

Blighty ripples, immigration debate, and Sir Knight Sir John Sir Key

Eminem, Winston, Willie Jackson, Winston, Brownlee boosting and Winston

W-Town: an important new podcast about a troubled man stuck in the south

Bill's big super bang-bang, the rise of Jacinda and timeless Winstonian truths

Episode 12: How Donald Trump saved Waitangi Day for all New Zealand

Emergency politics podcast: in DC, Ben Thomas watches Donald Trump become actual president

Episode 10: The Gone By Lunchtime Christmas Party 2016

Emergency podcast! John Key is gone at lunchtime!

Episode 8 Farewell to Parata and Cunliffe, hello to PM-for-a-day Bennett

Episode 7: mayoral thrills, byelection spills and Aaron Smith’s cublicles

Episode 6: Andrew Little naked, the immortal Winston, the Māori King & more

Episode 5: Auckland, Māori Party vs Helen Clark, kiwifruit and sheep

Episode 4: the Brexit effect, Paula Bennett's bad month and Hone Harawira's return

Episode 3: Key and NZ as tax haven, Labour’s woes, and Helen Clark UN bid

Episode 2: Pharmac, the flag and the Auckland shambles

Episode 1: the Key at Waitangi will-he-won’t-he, TPP and leader speeches