Emily and Josh attempt a hot take on the Budget but get so bored that they pivot to smutty gay fiction and the podcast instantly becomes 1000 percent better. Also: the bud-shit, lolly scrambles, kittens in blenders, Emily advocates for destroying the lives of retirees (but only the rich ones); Josh calls for full-blown communism (actually a UBI); Emily gets giddy about Kim Hill; and there is an extended discussion about gay kitesurfing brothers who ply their trade in waters infested by crocodiles and deadly jellyfish. Then they invent a new smut series on the spot and come up with a way to make politics actually interesting.

Plus: a guided restaurant meditation!

In which Emily and Josh crash out about how the Government are hell-bent on replacing humans with lying robots, how the government's finances are nothing at all like a households', and why the Reserve Bank's job is to make sure some people don't have jobs. We also discover some brand new words like "synthetic quotes," and "jorkin' it," the latter arising somehow in the context of the movie Sheep Detective.

This week on Emily Josh Pod: how parenting babies is harder than parenting teenagers; parental memory loss, how parenting babies is harder than parenting teenagers, parental memory loss, how easy it is to raise teenagers vs babies, parental memory loss. Also recapping NZ political news, including the sheer number of New Zealand politicians with pee-related incidents, delays to (terrible) new Government initiatives like the new curriculum and the under-16 social media ban; more weird dudes saying unhinged stuff online, the impacts of online misogyny and racism. Also: A meditation, and Emily discovering that turkeys are real and potentially more parental memory loss, we don't actually remember long enough to type up show notes.

In this episode one of us finally gets enough sleep! Find out who. Also: fighting over chores, teenage BO, Lynx Africa & Impulse Vanilla Kisses, the horrible anniversary of the death of pay equity, "this grisly coalition", the attempted hatchet job on Bloody Samoan, and flag burning in bogan incinerators.

And, as always, a soothing meditation.

In this episode of Emily Josh Pod: the cat came back! (Just not the very next day.) Also: we lurch from one crisis to another, someone would like to speak to Emily's manager as she has had quite enough human misery (we haven't) why are adults stopping kids from raising funds for other kids in certain countries (we know why), the weird and quite malevolent forces behind the social media ban, and being distraught because the Free Speech Union is right about something. Also, as always, a calming meditation to end your week.

In a game-changing world-first, this week Emily and Josh record the podcast in the same room! Discussions include: how Pete Hegseth and fellow evangelicals haven't read the Bible, what God told Ezekiel to do to prove his mettle, RFK's propensity for dismembering roadkill, and how Pathological Wealth Accumulation should be in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Also, Chris Luxon's absolute confidence in the numbers, which he has, and which he's not at all worried about, our replacement for representative democracy, universal basic incomes, winning Lotto, and moving to the Commune. Also a LIVE MEDITATION.

In which Emily and Josh are traumatised by the news cycle, as is everyone else in the entire world,

Also covered: modern case for stoicism, the Serenity Prayer, Death Cult Christianity, what to do if you're experiencing a crisis in faith, what queer community can teach us, and how leftists are all super annoying.

We also discuss nostalgia for the lost, lamented Georgie Pie, the country's greatest pie (the Keri Pie) doing stuff with Bush Boys on familial waterbeds in Tokoroa, Emily's driving skills as evidenced by her duct-tape car, industrial-sized nangs, and how Emily got a guy with a weirdly-named goat to vote Green.

Plus a free meditation.

Emily and Josh discuss some politicians' extremely specific fetishes (giant tiddies, room temperature milk). Also analysed is the Joy of Tramadol, the cure for ADHD, what meatheads get right, the living nightmare that is Simeon Brown, what's wrong with David Seymour's face, and how we wish that libertarians would all just make good on their threat to move to the middle of the ocean. We also talk about Emily acquiring a green spandex suit for Armageddon and "bedroom roleplay purposes' and close with a dubious meditation.