The Spinoff revisits pop culture past with new podcast

 The Spinoff’s longest running podcast The Real Pod has launched a new series called Remember When which takes listeners on a trip down memory lane to revisit Aotearoa’s bizarre and brilliant pop culture history.

With a new episode out every Thursday Jane Yee, Alex Casey and Duncan Greive will dive deep into a different pop culture moment from our past. In the first episode they turn the clocks back to the moment in 2015 when Natalia Kills and Willy Moon blew up X Factor NZ.

The Real Pod has been a bastion of local popular culture since 2015, when the trio began recapping the first season of The Bachelor NZ. Since then they have analysed Dancing With the Stars NZ, Married at First Sight NZ, The Real Housewives of Auckland, Celebrity Treasure Island and The Block NZ, while still covering all the bizarre local celebrity news from our beloved gossip pages. 

The Real Pod will still be recapping present day reality television shows over on Substack, but the team felt a growing urge to pay attention to a simpler, pre-pandemic, pop culture era. A time when Chris Warner pleaded about penises, when Justin Bieber sulked live on C4 and when the life and times of Goldstein in the ASB ads was the biggest drama on television. 

Remember When will also look beyond television to the world of sport and film, food and politics. Remember when BlackHeart divided the nation? Abstain for the game? When the country went crazy for The Lord of the Rings, and then even crazier for a posh chocolate milk collab? And how could we ever forget when the election was ruled by a digital worm? 

Listen to the first episode of The Real Pod presents: Remember When now! Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to The Real Pod Extra on Substack

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