Thoughts on a Run

Mere weeks out from the Kirikiriroa Marathon, the running is going down as we head into taper town. History was made at the 2026 TCS London Marathon and Thoughts on a Run wants a slice of that sub-2 barrier breaking pie. Missy’s been witching since way back and winds her way around the Thames, giving the goss on the worlds most popular marathon. Hannah tries to get her bearings and invites you “come with me for some compass chat” - it’s magnitising. Feat a haunting sing song or two, a shameless plug for Pic’s peanut butter, and a shout out to all the Mum’s.

Hannah is swell and quite spiffy as a person, Missy is resplendent, and this podcast is an embarrassment in a podsitive way ;) GOATs are on the menu this week as Hannah gets some epic Black Ferns chat over the line. Women’s rugby isn’t ‘the girls version of the sport’, it is rugby and Han gets really in her feelings about it - as she should!. Missy then does a stand up job on the SAT (yapping about it not taking the test). Ultimately, we could keep waffling on but better we just put this episode to the test - go on, try, tackle and scrum this in your ear holes.

Hannah has her hand up and gives side eye while Missy doesn’t cut it out and stands corrected. This week is swish and is the equivalent of disco ball, because thoughts on a run turns any room into a party. Missy prattles on about processions pounding, prancing, and perambulating the pavement as she marches through some parade chat. Hannah moves and grooves and as praises the magic of the mirror ball. We live in a world where sometimes we need a parade - this podcast will have to do…you know what to do - pop your bangerz on!

This week’s episode starts out gross but fun (you’ve been warned). There’s nothing sadder than a half deflated bouncy castle, but worry not! You’ll be jumping for joy after Hannah’s bouncing babble on the nostalgic joys and dangers of the birthday party GOAT that is the inflatable bouncy house. Buckle up, strap in, lights out, and let’s go racing! After sitting on the toilet for a while, Missy’s revved up and ready to zoom through some pole position Formula One chat (shout out to Netflix series Drive to Survive). Don’t DIY a bouncy castle but DO get excited about rainbows - they’re just cool!

Guess what? We’re super intense. It’s fancy running shocks and shout-outs galore this week because it takes a village to raise a podcast fam. Space travel, it’s not a walk in the park and Missy tells you all about it with some out of this world chat about the the Apollo 11 moon landing. Hannah is a passenger princess and you didn’t ask, but she's fizzing to tell you about the soft and slightly messy cake of nostalgic renown either side of the Tasman. That’s right, it’s time for some desiccated and dedicated lamington yaps. You can’t get nasties from the moon, but you bet these Mooney’s are nasty (winky face). Tune in for the yap and stay for the thoughts (you know the drill).

Hannah does not strive to learn but she sure does strive to chit chat. This week she pushes the zazz with some ink-redible, tatt-tastic, and spicy but manageable tattoo talk. Missy’s thought similarly leaves a lasting impression as she journeys through the amazing efforts of WWII hero and badass Andrée Eugéniede Jongh and the legendary Comet Line. Ordinary people doing extraordinary, brave, generous, and kind things for one another is what makes the world go round! So, celebrate the small wins and collect the good moments. For the past 30 years (Happy Birthday, son) Missy’s brought the truth while Hannah laid down the whimsy, and this episode is no different. So, grab your hot cross bun and slather it in ya ear holes (the podcast, not the festive baked goods).

Hannah has pep in her step and Missy could out-sweat you any day of the week. Following a magical, mystical, fantastic morning run Missy calls back to the origin of Aotearoa’s nation-wide Emergency Services number - that’s right, one-one-one for episode 111. Hannah squeezes out a spiffing good job with some dripping juicy jabber all about juice! (served with a sneaky smoothie on the side). Shout out to Dad, happy 75th birthday to one of the best girl-dads out there. How many PSAs is too many for a single episode? Give this a ding dong in your ear holes to find out.

Ding, ding, ding, Hannah Mooney is giving that PB bell a jolly good ring-a-ling following a blistering effort at the Harcourts Hamilton Half marathon. What a run! A bad tech rehearsal means a good show, and golly do we put on a show for you this week. Following some extensive running event dissection, Hannah lets it rip on the fartlek training method with some tooting good chat. Missy is phenomenal as she casts her mind this way, that way, forwards and backwards in her attempt to get to the bottom of the collective false memory theory known as the Mandela Effect. Feat a side serving of parallel realities *spooky music plays*. It’s a slippy, trippy, dippy good time.PSA(s) - please keep left and fart is a funny word.

It’s balloon season and, on the brink of the Harcourts Hamilton Half Marathon, Missy’s ear causes Hannah discomfort. Don’t worry, we’ve got enough carrots redibly available. Missy buries the lead with some tasty treasure chat, but stikes gold (or tinfoil) with some searching and scintillating metal detector dialogue. Hannah feels like the internet is lying to her but still gives it all that with some Go-GURT chat. Is there anything more tasty that a deep dive into the lore of squeezable yogurt tubes? We’ll wait. Lastly, a moment of silence for all the accidentally binned tea spoons and kiwifruit spoons of our childhoods.

Gasps abound this week as Missy smashes, cracks, and hoons a new Parkrun PB. Cold wash is key, but jeans in the freezer, myth or life hack? Hannah gets down and dirty and cleans up with some thawtful chat about how to clean your jeans (spoiler alert, it’s not in the freezer compartment of your fridge). Missy goes massive with some colossal convo about everyone's favourite terrible lizard, that’s right, this is the dinosaur episode! “Life finds a way” and so does this podcast (it’s a really good hoon on the spoon). Hurry up and wait, get this in your ear holes and hang your washing out, it’s sure to tickle your fancy.

Your best ding dongs are back with the same old silly sing songs. If you make it past an extremely laborious story, Missy absolutely sends it with some roaring good rhetoric and cool convo about arguably the most underrated Olympic sport: curling (yeehaw let’s do it!). Hannah gives it the old jingle jangle and get’s chattering about chatter rings, a Kiwi classic that is not only practically indestructible but also immediately entertaining and peak annoying (just like this podcast). Grab some cinnamon and give this a hoon in the pan.

What’s ridiculous but super earnest at the same time? You guessed it, this podcast! Hannah does a bit of faffing about (which is on brand) and Missy’s a smelly, moody, broody, cover goose. Tall flopping figures, chaotic flailing, and undulating tall boys, that’s right, this is the inflatable arm man episode. Crazy inflatable arm Han flails through her thought (jk Missy is a big fan). Then, love is in the air, when Missy gives the goss on everyone’s fave 3rd century Roman Saint, Valentine. She serves all the spicy, or should I say vinegary, details of his martyrdom while Hannah sings intermittently and concurrently. There’s also a sneaky, cheeky, and very exciting running announcement this week that’s just waiting to slip n slide down your ear holes.

Two years of this! Happy second birthday Thoughts on a Run! We had the best time clip-clopping (running) from Hamilton to Cambridge. This week, Missy gets monumental and a little bit inspiring as she gives it all that on the Boston Marathon - specifically the women who claimed their spot in one of the worlds oldest races.They ran so we could run! Hannah brings up the rear with some scintillating sequel theory chat (it’s part of the point of the podcast). Does she pull it off? Jury’s still out. Whether you’ve been here since the beginning or have just started listening, we’re grateful that you’re here, thank you. If there’s one thing we’ve learnt in the past two years it’s don’t slip over, but go on, slip this over your ear holes.

What’s black and white and red all over? A stingray eating a pie (with tomato sauce). What has that got to do with this week’s episode? Very little. Hannah’s astonished that she made it to the end of the balls. More importantly, on the eve of Thoughts on a Run’s 2nd birthday, it’s twins all round and absolute scenes because Hannah and Missy have THE SAME THOUGHT! It’s tangy, it’s saucy, it’s gloriously glossy, it’s the Ketchup vs Tomato sauce episode. Brace yourself for copious condiment chat and a surprise cooking segment that (for once) doesn’t feature jacket potatoes. Be good and we’ll ketchup later.

Happy FriYAY, the old bags are back. Stutters and misspeaks galore this week and Hannah has clippy eyes. Missy gets sweaty as she smokes through some fragrant perfume prattle. Head notes, heart notes, base notes, that’s right, we have an accord! Hannah rolls on into some piping hot chat, getting loud and windy as she drones on about the legendary bagpipe. Whether you're striding highland hilltops or AC/DC -  bagpipes get the job done. Remember, perfume ya pits and get this in your flapjack.

This episode we take it to the limit and then surpass it. Incompetence, idiocy, arguments, babbling, muttering, rectangles vs oblongs, patent vs patent - there’s something for everybody!  Hannah didn’t stop her tracker till she was sitting on the toilet. She also spins a mean yarn and whirls off some fast facts about everyone’s fave ‘handhold’ toy - fidget spinners. Missy has a rootin’, tootin, nootin good time as she honks on about our best mate and anthropomorphic emperor penguin Pingu - it’s elite. Noot this in your ear holes and listen for however long you want.

Dive head first into this week’s episode (but please don’t fang it headfirst down a slip n slide). Happy to be back and giving it all that, Hannah won’t let her crockery joke end and doubles down on her dumb little explosion hand following a fist bump. Enigmatic as ever, Missy has a yarn about the best known, most visited, the most written about, and most parodied work of art in the work; the Mona Lisa. Hannah then slips into something more comfortable as she slides into some kōrero on the classic, chaotic, historic, iconic backyard banger that is the humble slip n slide. Don’t put all your incredibly expensive eggs in one basket, but to pop this badboy in your ear holes.

Happy 100th episode! Your singing sillys and beanbag besties are back with the beans, beans, nothing but beans chat you’ve bean waiting for. All hands on deck as Hannah baffles (heavily) with some sloshy-washy, groovy snoozy, vinyl bladder, waterbed chat. Missy continues her literary tear and drops the wonderful on the most-seen film in cinematic history, The Wizard of Oz. It’s magic and mayhem; Dorothy needs help and cries a lot (but don’t we all?!), but just like this podcast, it’s a film for the ages. Sometimes you have stink face, but this inane babble is sure to put a smile on your dial.

Get under a table, unlock your ears and start your year with something sweet. Puzzle possession, pouring rain, Parkrun PBs, the Black Eyed Peas, this episode has it all. Happy Birthday 2026 and Happy New Year, everybody. Some might say we’re in our golden age of podcasting, and this week, Missy lets it rip (literally) on the golden age of detective fiction. She’s Missy-marpling out and is on the case of the locked-room mystery. Hannah comes in hot - you'd better sit down, strap in, and buckle up for some grape chat, as she tries to convince you that just you, a table, grapes, and the chime of the clock will bring good fortune at the turn of the new year. Whodunit? We done it! Howdunit? You’ll have to listen and find out!

This week, we have created a monster. It's an emotional time for Missy as she works through the fact that Hannah has run more KMs than her in 2025, and Hannah mispronounces several words. Over 300kms later, that’s a wrap on the advent challenge! And the Hooney Mooney’s bang out some stats from a MASSIVE year of running. Name bigger red flags than a sea-faring vessel called ‘Cyclops’ and a pilot described as a ‘disoriented flight instructor’, we’ll wait. Hannah sets sail on some sensational storytelling as she gets to the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle. Missy is three sheets to the wind as she gets down with one of the greatest Gothic novels of all time. That’s right, this Frankenstein yap. Stay safe, be kind, and we’ll see you next year!

Hey, puds, want to hear a trifle and a brandy snap argue about whether you can peel off a sticker using a coin? We thought not, but either way, this is the podcast for you! Don’t waste your candles on vibes, but do giddy up jingle bulbs and twinkle all the way as Missy gives some incandescent chat on fairy lights. Hannah lowers the tone with some tip tap toilet water waffle - specifically, she settles the debate around whether it’s gross to fill your drink bottle up using the bathroom tap. Feat. an unnecessarily long and detailed lecture on how to put fairy lights on a Christmas tree (vertical lines NOT horizontal wraps!). Run, don’t jog, and get these potable jollies in your ear holes.

That’s a wrap on Thoughts on a Run! Just kidding, akin to a Hills Hoist clothesline, this podcast will survive the apocalypse. Following some running advent challenge chat, lollygagging and lollies in the shower, speculation on the worst-kept secret of Missy’s real name, and a cameo from our slammy kitchen door, Hannah gives the stats on Spotify wrapped. Does anyone play the pod to their pets or plants? And, remember, Spotify doesn’t count scones. It’s hoists ahoy as Missy gives a full rotation to Australian icon of suburbia, the humble Hills Hoist (more than meets the eye). A simple backyard staple or status symbols?? #tistheseason #grimefivetimes

As a grown-up, you don’t get many lucky dip opportunities, except for this podcast - it’s a risk every time. The Hooney Mooney’s have hedged their bets and are running every day of Advent, and by golly, is it an event (absolute scenes!). If you make it out of the labyrinth that is our opening chat, come hither and thither to somewhere that’s green. Reward gratification validation of notifications and subshrub, undershrub, and shrublets are on the menu this week in Missy’s tip top topiary chat - Like a sculpture but made of tree. Hannah, delves into the depths of nutrient poor bogs and gives the snippy snap on the Venus fly trap - hinged lined lobes and all. It’s a rambling, brambling aMAZEing episode, knot to be missed!

This week, “yeah, it was a kerfuffle.” Hannah is not a professional, and Missy can’t say the word ‘visualisation’. Learn about Hannah and Missy’s next running challenge (hint - it’s festive)Then it’s a jingling, jangling, towering good time as Hannh topples some jolly Jenga chat. Missy’s thought has nothing to do with butterflies or colours. Instead, picture an apple in your head…. That’s right, folks, this is the aphantasia episode! No mental images and/or inner voice, no worries. Even if you can’t see this podcast in your mind, you know it’s bangin’. And remember, for the love of all that is good in this world, keep your poles to the left.

This is not a drill! The beacons are lit, and the Mooneys are coming to your aid! The gals have a good ole chinwag post Round The Bridges feat., cow bells, PBs, a cheeky code yellow, and a Bunnings sausage. Following a round of running-event bingo, Missy emits some towering chat on everyone's best stripey pole, the lighthouse. Hannah gets her bits out with some steamy, foaming, fizzing, bubbling babble and explosive chatter on “the bombdiggity of bath time” that is the bath bomb. Full foghorn, get this in ye earholes and sea what you think.

Wanna re-live a sibling spat? Neither, but here we are. This week, Hannah walks the wrong way with confidence, and Missy has a heck of an embarrassment update. What do ham and quicksand have in common? Not much except they’re both slippery. What are Newton’s laws, and how does quicksand actually work? Well, Hannah slips, slides, sinks, stutters, and gets stuck in some (quick)sandy chat. Missy’s flying high as she airs the mysterious disappearance of the queen of the sky, aviation legend, and feminist icon, Amelia Earhart. PSA: giant coconut grabs have entered the chat. Go on, get this in your Earharts.

Firstly, “Can you hear the tap dripping?” It’s a fawking good time this week. In a truly dynamite episode, your best mates go bananas in pyjamas (and wearing the same new running shoes). Baring both their teeth and souls, Missy gets murky in the undercroft of Parliament as she uncovers the infamous gunpowder plot of 1605, i.e. the origin of Guy Fawkes night. You’ll continue to see stars as, tonight, Hannah, gives the goss on the hit 1990s and early 2000s television smash hit that was Stars in their Eyes. Featuring some unexplained echo and technical difficulties (aroha mai for this whānau). It’s a banging, whizzing, fizzing, popping, booming, and explosive time. And, in case you’ve forgotten, Hannah is here for the vibes - not for the research.

It’s a graveyard smash this week as Missy-magic teams up with wolf-Han Houdini for the ultimate Mooney-mash. Expect the usual tangents - birds, shoes, horses, and spontaneous singing - plus Hannah gobbling with the best of them as she sinks her teeth into some biting-good werewolf chat. “Nek minnit, you see the moon and transform into a wolf.” It’s a howling good time. Missy declares the beast inside Hannah is actually a Hen, while Hannah reckons Missy could moonlight as a magician after her unmissable, unbreakable, and inescapable articulation of the man, the mystery, the legend: Harry Houdini.

It’s a swell time, it’s a swole time! This week, we kick off with some tales of embarrassment, confusion, and awkwardness (pretty standard at this point). It’s spooky season, and Missy has a frightfully fearsome and ghastly, ghostly gasbag about haunted attractions - It’s a-maze-ing chat. Hands up if you wanna come to Spookers with us and watch Hannah wet her pants. Then, from Twisty the clown to Twister the hot spot, Hannah spins a good yarn and knots a jolly pretzel about a family favourite physical part game - Twister (also known as ‘sex in a box’ 👀😬). Shout out to Patricia Arquette and remember, go Han!

Is there anything more sinister than a washing line laden with sheets, creepily twisting in the wind? Missy singing an excerpt from The Sound of Music on this podcast for the 80th time, or Hannah saying ‘guesstimate’ just because she knows Missy won’t like it, could be serious contenders. This week kicks off with a detailed Parkrun update that no one asked for. Missy then spends waaaaay too long trying to guess what Hannah’s thought will be, but by golly gosh, is it worth the wait! Following Missy’s truly glowing guess, Hannah brings the salty chat and shines a light on the humble salt lamp. Does it have healing powers? Nah, but it’s got the vibes, so take the win. Future hybrid rockstar Missy Mooney rocks it with some high-octane chat about everyone's favourite fitness fad and global phenomenon, the HYROX. You can count on us to bring the silly-billys and dilly-dallys, but more importantly: ALWAYS count down: 3,2,1, GO.

Hannah’s run route isn’t super efficient, and neither is this podcast… But who cares! You’re not here for efficiency - you’re here for vibes, which are a-plenty this week. Once more, Hannah can’t do maths or maps, but she brings all the razzmatazz. When she’s not editing out a swear word, Missy has a jolly jovi-al jabber about crayons (Hannah’s spirit art utensil). Hannah turns up the heat and blows some hot air around about Airfryers, serving up some crispy chat. This episode just makes scents, so, get down to business and colour this in your ear holes. 

This week, Missy is brave and starts in the front pack of runners at Parkrun. The honourable Hannah Hooney shakes it out, shakes it off, and shakes it up with some shake out run chat. Missy has no objections and lives out her law degree dreams as she takes you on a journey through jury service. Shout out to our lawyery listeners (if we have any) and everyone else who’s hooked and cooked on TOAR, we appreciate you! And, as we enter spooky season, everybody scream for gluten-free lemon loaf and Spooktober jump scares!

The Cambridge Half Marathon was a bit windy – and this episode similarly gets your fave hooney half-mara Mooneys all of a flap. Missy has a mad dash into the mystery of the EM dash – and its over-saturation in AI-generated content. She even drops in some sneaky NATO phonetic alphabet along the way. More importantly – if you were a piece of punctuation, which would you be? Whisking right along, Hannah whips up some chat about the correct topping order for scones – hammering, or should I say Hannahing, home that whipped cream is light and airy. The kōrero is tasty – and just like a pie from the BP after a big run – it’s waiting for you to gobble it up.

If you survive the pointless prong (projected, pointed, parts) prattle at the top of this episode,  followed by lengthy ‘runners rage’/ Parkrun chat  - well done.Slinging the shout-outs and emanating good vibes, Hannah chips in with some sodium chat. Na, she’s really letting it rip about chippies! Crisps, chips, chippies - whatever you want to call them, these salty snacks (not Missy) can help you regulate the fluid inside and outside your cells (depends on the sweat rate, though). Missy then brings the mystery and murders some mean Cluedo conversation, a game that has extended beyond the bounds of its board - it’s an institution! Go on, give this tasty chat a hoon and think fast thoughts for us!

Lock in, cash up, and cheque out this week's (safe)cracking episode. TOAR has often been called ‘the Swiss Army Knife of podcasts’ (that’s a lie, no one calls it that), and this episode is no different.Key points:Special bank vault concrete has zero slump, and this episode is equally solid.Nothing is more trustworthy than a round door, BUT you don’t want a saggy vault door.Hannah can’t say the word ‘submarine’ correctly.Missy gives some gold goss on Bank Vaults, unlocking a wealth of facts that you can bank for later. Hannah excels herself and explains IT poorly…Just kidding, she has a jolly good go at celling the value of Microsoft Excel - the GOAT of all spreadsheet programmes. It’s a sheeting good time. Steal a few minutes and give it a listen!

We ran… and ran… and ran. Six hours and 50 kilometres later, the hooning Mooneys are officially ultramarathoners! In this episode, Hannah and Missy unpack the absolute scenes from Laps at the Lakes—their biggest running challenge yet! There were highs, lows, and some serious character-building moments. Along the way, they tackle the age-old question: is a hotdog a sandwich? (Spoiler alert: Hannah gives it a go, but Missy has strong, possibly unchangeable, opinions.) Somehow, things spiral from sandwiches to golf, with Missy swinging hard into some golf chat. From club sammies to golf clubs, this episode really has it all. Smash it in your ear holes, it’s a hole in one.

The beacons are lit! On the brink of their longest run yet, Hannah gets vulnerable, and Missy goes full therapist mode, she quotes Tina Fey from Mean Girls, but is unable to say ‘insubstantive.’ This episode is all that and a half as Missy talks at length about the Great Wall of China. Hannah gets moo-ey with it, and she rings on about cow bells (the ding-a-ling kind). “Up the Chiefs!!!” And “Up the Mooney’s!!” as they gear up for a 6-hour running event! See you on the other side. 

This week, Missy sounds gross, looks gross, and feels gross. Hannah tries not to say ‘like’, but instead proclaims “mime!” around 6:38 minutes into the episode for no clear reason?? There’s a passionate ode to the GOAT of every Kiwi kitchen: the humble kettle. Hannah pours forth some ‘fun sentences’ and steamy chat. Feat the rendition of ‘I’m a little teapot’ you’ve all been bubbling for. Then it’s a hop, skip, and a jump into Missy’s triple jump chat. Does she foul or does she fly? We’ll let you decide. Missy doesn’t edit real life, but thank goodness she edits this podcast, because wow. It’s a loose kettle of fish.

This week, Missy and Hannah take a hop, skip, and a jump into the curious corners of the mind. Missy explores one of psychology’s most iconic methods—the Rorschach test—and how our brains find meaning in inkblots (callback to the pareidolia ep). Meanwhile, Hannah brings the riddles, the enigmas, and the conundrums, challenging us to think sideways - “If I say pineapple, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?” This episode is far from perfect bilateral symmetry and just like the Rorschach test, it lacks reliability and objectivity, but go on, give it a listen. It might just tickle your fancy. (Feet a sneaky toe update at the top).

It’s a dressing gown situation served with yet another side of foul foot chat. These sasspots are in full swing (what the quokka is going on) as Hannah meanderthals her way through some left-handed chat, prompting important questions such as do platypuses have hands? And could a cat throw a punch?Never mind the gasbagging, this episode is gaslamping because Missy lamps it rip on the ever silent sentinel that is the street lamp. Is it gasbagging or gaslighting? Either way, it’s lit.A bulbous episode brimming with chaotic babble and nonsense. Irreverent. Illuminating. Questionable. Just how we like it.

“When I think boa, I think Britney Spears” - I mean, who doesn’t? Buckle up and knuckle down for some supreme side-chat this week. Hannah’s got a dongle, and Missy (severely invested in a documentary theatre tangent) eventually gets to the point. First, Missy has a hoon at the Rhyme as Reason Effect, and Hannah says “brain” 200 hundred times as she wiggles her way through the mystery of being ticklish. If one contends that truth is related to coherence, probs best not to believe a word of this podcast. However, what goes around comes around, and sure as Hannah will get the giggles at 2:30 pm, Thoughts on a Run always has something to tickle your fancy.

This episode is a tip-top, top-tier, tea-rific tea time. Hannah flippers, floppers, and flappers her way through the surprisingly rich history of swim fins, ending up in a side quest involving pinball flippers. Missy can’t quite remember her point, but rain or shine, she’s got plenty to say about umbrellas, including the classic superstition that opening one indoors supposedly invites bad luck. And somehow (miraculously) we make it through the whole chinwag without breaking into Rihanna’s Umbrella (ella, ella... you know the rest).Also featuring: the update absolutely no one was waiting for—Hannah’s toe.

Kia ora x6 this week because apparently our memories are shorter than a goldfish’s. Never mind ‘Hot to go,’ this episode is Croc to go. Switch those bad boys to sport mode and lock in as Missy gives the goods on the world’s most popular “plastic hoof”. You can’t spell Mooney without moo, and the steaks are high as Hannah claims to deliver a “real brief” history of chocolate milk. You heard it here first! The post-run choccy milk is udderly amazing. As per, we’re milkin’ it till we’re making it.

A mate you don’t know is just a mate yet to be! (but you gotta earn it). It’s happy Fridays all round! Hannah tries to read her notes and turns her spotlight to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That’s right, “you’re gonna be a star kid.” Missy brings us back down to earth as she pontificates about Pareidolia. Have you ever thought that your heat pump, a house, a wall socket, or a tap looks like a face? That’s Pareidolia, which is a very common phenomenon and doesn’t really mean anything. This episode, there’s lists, legends, laughs, and looking for faces in inanimate objects, buckle up! PSA: for the record, Hannah’s market-going toe doesn’t have a foot fungus.

Hannah may hate the word ‘foot’, but this episode is a massive feat. Missy has a groovy gasbag about everyone’s favourite large hairy mythical creature (not Missy) but old mate Bigfoot. Quick question - how many subways long is Bigfoot’s foot? Hannah tries to speak Welsh as she harps on about every girlie's best gridle cake, the classic “spongey holey treat” that is the crumpet. Crumpets have a loose batter, and yee-haw do these Mooney’s have loose banter! “We all want something extraordinary to believe in.” So, go on, believe in this podcast. Warning: the word ‘smear’ is uttered in this episode; for this, we would like to formally apologise.

Absolute scenes this week as the hoony Mooneys announce their next running challenge. Missy, for no apparent reason rattles off her lentil bake recipe which is followed by some elite random prattle including more cursed clown chat (why/how does this KEEP coming up and when will it end!?!?!?). Anywho, Hannah trip-tumbles through her thought and puts the pieces together with some jigsaw jabber. Things get heated as Missy offers some piping hot, hot water bottle chat. Wrap up warm and get this round your ear holes, and remember ... .there's give and take on the mountain.

“My body can do it, but I don’t want to.” Lucky for you, you do want to listen to this daft podcast. Missy elevates the chat, lifts the spirits, and raises morale with some hefty yabber about lifts. Crumpet the clown (Hannah) brings up the rear with some tasty pasta chat. Both lifts and Pasta can move people, and this episode moves Hannah to tears (of laughter). Feat. An Archimedes side quest, far too much silly laughter, and, most importantly, if you were a type of pasta, what pasta would you be? We’ll say it on 3. 1….2…

They did it! The Mooneys got hoony and absolutely smashed it at the Kirikiriroa Marathon.What! Can you believe it?! As Hannah articulates so eloquently, “I reckon we looked a sight”, these munters got the mahi done and now you get the treats. Hannah’s thought is short and sweet as she flies through the origin story of Jet planes - the lolly kind, not the aerospace engineering kind. Missy rocks an ultra-thought as she loops, laps, and loves the challenge of the backyard ultra; one 6.7km loop on the hour, every hour until the last person standing. Brutal, but we love to see it. Don’t dangle around, chomp this in your ear holes.

These Mooneys are about to get marthony with it. On the precipice of the biggest run of their lives, Hannah and Missy kick things off with some irrelevant clown chat (but like, what WOULD your clown name be??). In a monster episode this week, Missy dives into the mysterious myth of the lurkings in Loch Ness and unlocks some of the lore around the Loch Ness Monster. Hannah unpacks the savoury custard sensation that is our pre-race tradition of hooning a quiche, and just like a fancy fishy quiche, there’s a lot going on in this episode. Some might say it’s a rich and decadent feast. Others might deem it too much, we’ll let you decide.

This week is a truly jingly, jangly, bangley and revolutionary episode. Hannah realises that the Moon is not a planet (spoiler alert, it’s a moon). While the gravitational force on the Moon is less than Earth’s, Hannah’s Moon(ey) facts have some weight to them! In addition to getting a bit pitchy with her musical interlude, Missy weaves in some chat about friendship bracelets. As per, there are many pointless side quests, e.g. if the Sun and the Moon wore hats, what kind of hats would they be?