All Episodes

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