Gone By Lunchtime
by The Spinoff
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We are all covered in ash and yearning for the ocean
Oct 16, 2026
44m 52s
Were we watching the same debate?
Oct 6, 2026
38m 05s
The debate explosion
Oct 2, 2026
41m 02s
Why won’t Christopher Luxon go on Q+A? We asked Jack Tame
Oct 1, 2026
8m 50s
What is this election really about?
Sep 25, 2026
51m 11s
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- 🇳🇿New Zealand · PoliticsHOME#323K to 124K
- 🇮🇩ID · Politics#331.6K to 8.6K
- 🇹🇷TR · Politics#77270 to 1.4K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Politics#146258 to 1.4K
- 🇦🇷AR · Politics#81246 to 1.3K
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52K to 275K🇳🇿90%🇮🇩6%🇹🇷1%+2 more - Active Followers
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/16/26 |  We are all covered in ash and yearning for the ocean | Three weeks to go and Chris Hipkins has put his finger on it: this campaign does have some of the post-apocalyptic survival energy of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas gather for some group therapy, to assess the performances in the TVNZ multi-party debate and the NZME leaders' debate, the controversy over pics of Green and Te Pati Māori MPs hanging out with the Mongrel Mob, and the re-emergence of the bitter fight between Winston Peters and Christopher Luxon over the New Zealand position on the war in Iran.Cast your vote for Gone By Lunchtime in the Listeners' Choice category in this year's NZ Podcast Awards:https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominateWatch Toby's interview with Winston Peters here:https://youtu.be/gseBfePQzMM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 44m 52s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  Were we watching the same debate? | Round one of the Chris v Chris debate season played out last night on TVNZ. Ben Thomas was in the pundit capsule. Toby Manhire was in the studio. Annabelle Lee-Mather was in bed. The morning after, they assemble in the Spinoff pod studio to share their assessments, and at times they seem to have been watching very different events.Did Hipkins out-debate Luxon on the cost of living and the economy? Where were they on the morality of the billionaire? Who fared better on education, on health, on te tiriti? Were the real winners the parties that weren't in the room? And how about Jack Tame's wall?Plus: the scene was set for the encounter by two polls that tell a striking story: Labour and National are both going to struggle to hit 30%. Is that locked in, or can they claw their way back? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 38m 05s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 |  The debate explosion | The Kingmakers’ Debate is the highest-profile of a burst of events in the first full-throttle week of the 2026 campaign. How did the party leaders do in the Press-Post thing, and what happened to the worm? Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas gather at the roundtable to exchange their piping takes. Plus: What does new polling tell us about the way Māori are planning to vote? Now that John Key has knocked it down, is Harry Mowbray’s overhang campaign a serious thing? Who are the breakout stars of the election to date? And a word on Adrian Rurawhe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 41m 02s | ||||||
| 10/1/26 |  Why won’t Christopher Luxon go on Q+A? We asked Jack Tame | Here’s a taste of our new podcast, At Large with Toby Manhire: this week Jack Tame came in to talk about how he’s preparing to host the first leaders’ debate in 2026, how the campaign is taking form, and the struggle to get the prime minister (and others) to talk to him on Q+A. Watch the Mt Albert debate in full here: https://youtu.be/LZO7gu6rhQg Watch the debate debrief with Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Hayden Donnell here: https://youtu.be/1KewN5ilXtc Watch the full interview with Jack Tame here: https://youtu.be/RYOI7d16ApQ Follow At Large with Toby Manhire now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your pods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 8m 50s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 | What is this election really about? | Parliament has disgorged its politicians ahead of a Super Sunday of campaign launches, with just a month and a day until advance voting begins. Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas leaf through the brand new Ipsos Issues Monitor, which reveals which issues matter most to New Zealanders in election season, which parties they consider best equipped to tackle those concerns, and where people rank out of 10 the government’s performance. Have the competing parties successfully shaped their campaigns to meet a mood in which voters are very exercised about cost of living and increasingly worried about the health system?Plus: Nicky Hager has published Dirty Work, the third in a trilogy – what does the book tell us? And how alarmed should we be about a flagrant subversion of the Official Information Act in the curriculum overhaul project at the Ministry of Education? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 51m 11s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 | Fifty days out, the campaign ignites | Just when you thought the two main parties were fixed on a do-little election, the National Party bursts out the triangulator and gazumps its Labour rivals with a pledge to pursue a breakup of the Foodstuffs group of Pak’nSave, New World and Four Square. Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire race their trolleys to the studio to ask: will Nicola Willis’s bold call cut through the blancmange like a Smeg blade through an Ooshie? Will the popular appeal outweigh the pushback from local businesses? Are the KiwiMart Greens, NZ First and their "copycat" pals National now natural partners? Where does it all leave Labour? And does Annabelle deserve more respect for her "menage-opoly" bit?Plus: The report on the four-year ordeal for the Phillips children has been released and it's a horror show. What are the lessons for agencies including Oranga Tamariki and the Police, and is New Zealand suffering from an “accountability sink”?And what to make of the moves to wind down the Waitangi Tribunal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 36m 43s | ||||||
| 9/4/26 | tax policyelection campaign+4 | — | Te Pāti Māori | — | taxelection+5 | — | 39m 12s | ||
| 8/27/26 | localismpolitics+5 | Wayne BrownJoel MacManus+1 | National | New ZealandAuckland | localismChristopher Luxon+7 | — | 7m 22s | ||
| 8/21/26 | politicscaucus+4 | Chris Penk | Te Pāti MāoriOpportunity Party | Kaipara ki Mahurangi | Christopher LuxonChris Penk+4 | — | 40m 14s | ||
| 8/12/26 | politicsleadership+3 | Annabelle Lee-MatherBen Thomas | The Spinoff | — | Christopher Luxoncaucus+4 | — | 31m 30s | ||
| 8/7/26 | National PartyChristopher Luxon+5 | Annabelle Lee-MatherBen Thomas | National PartyLabour+2 | Rotorua | Christopher LuxonNational Party+5 | — | 43m 20s | ||
| 7/23/26 | politicsresignation+4 | — | NZ FirstAct+1 | — | Stuart NashWinston Peters+6 | — | 54m 46s | ||
| 7/8/26 | Opportunity PartyNew Zealand politics+4 | Ben ThomasToby Manhire | New Zealand FirstOpportunity Party+1 | — | Opportunity PartyNew Zealand politics+5 | — | 52m 53s | ||
| 7/3/26 | election yearpolitical parties+3 | Lyric Waiwiri-SmithJoel MacManus | The SpinoffSpotify+3 | — | electionpolitics+6 | — | 3m 54s | ||
| 6/24/26 | election 2026political commentary+5 | Annabelle Lee-MatherBen Thomas+1 | NZ FirstGreens+2 | — | election 2026Simeon Brown+5 | — | 53m 16s | ||
| 6/23/26 | UK politicsKeir Starmer+4 | Richard Adams | At Large with Toby ManhireJane Austen’s Persuasion+1 | — | Keir StarmerAndy Burnham+4 | — | 29m 06s | ||
| 6/5/26 | climate actionlobbying+4 | — | Labour Party | — | climate courtlobbying+5 | — | 48m 41s | ||
| 5/28/26 | budgeteconomic forecasts+3 | Bernard Hickey | The Spinoff | — | budgeteconomic forecasts+3 | — | 34m 31s | ||
| 5/21/26 | electionpolitics+3 | Tova O'Brien | TVNZ | Auckland | electionpolitics+3 | — | 1h 05m 45s | ||
| 5/18/26 | SuperannuationKiwiSaver+3 | Jane Wrightson | NZ on AirBSA+2 | — | SuperannuationKiwiSaver+6 | — | 43m 04s | ||
| 5/12/26 | criminal justiceNew Zealand+3 | Asher Emanuel | The Valley: Crime and Punishment in a New Zealand City | New ZealandHutt Valley District Court | New Zealandcriminal justice+5 | — | 39m 16s | ||
| 5/6/26 | political coalitionforeign policy+3 | Annabelle Lee-MatherBen Thomas+1 | National PartyUS-Israel | IranIndia | Luxoncoalition breach+7 | — | 56m 15s | ||
| 4/22/26 | political leadershipconfidence motion+3 | Ben ThomasToby Manhire | LabourNational | — | Christopher LuxonStuart Smith+3 | — | 47m 48s | ||
| 4/9/26 | politicselections+4 | — | State Department | New ZealandIran+2 | Donald TrumpIran+6 | — | 40m 32s | ||
| 4/8/26 | US foreign policyIran conflict+3 | Anna Fifield | Marco RubioFinancial Times+1 | NZDC+3 | US foreign ministerWinston Peters+5 | — | 29m 26s | ||
| 3/26/26 | fuel crisisgovernment response+5 | — | Labour PartyTāmaki | New ZealandIran+1 | fuel crisiseconomic response+8 | — | 1h 09m 00s | ||
| 3/11/26 | New Zealand politicsChristopher Luxon+4 | — | NationalTe Pāti Māori | New Zealand | Christopher LuxonNew Zealand+6 | — | 59m 08s | ||
| 3/3/26 | local governmentpolitics+3 | Wayne BrownAndrew Little | Luxon government | WellingtonAuckland | WellingtonAuckland+5 | — | 55m 03s | ||
| 2/10/26 | wastewater crisispolitical analysis+4 | Ben Thomas | Te Pāti MāoriLabour+2 | WellingtonNew Zealand+1 | Moa Pointwastewater+5 | — | 58m 38s | ||
| 1/27/26 | electionclimate adaptation+4 | — | New Zealand First PartyWorld Health Organisation | New ZealandAustralia+1 | Christopher LuxonWinston Peters+5 | — | 47m 57s | ||
| 1/13/26 | Jacinda Ardernfilm analysis+3 | Madeleine Chapman | A Different Kind of PowerPrime Minister | — | Jacinda Ardernfilm+5 | — | 45m 40s | ||
| 1/6/26 | New Zealand politicseconomic reforms+5 | Jim BolgerRuth Richardson+6 | NZ On Air | — | New Zealandpolitics+7 | — | 51m 02s | ||
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Chart history for Gone By Lunchtime
Peaked at #3 in New Zealand, top 10 in 2 of 11 tracked markets, currently #3 in New Zealand.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| ID | — | #33 | #33 | — |
| TR | — | #77 | #77 | — |
| AR | — | #81 | #81 | — |
| AE | — | #116 | #116 | — |
| ID | — | #138 | #138 | — |
| Australia | — | #146 | #146 | — |
| HK | — | #158 | #158 | — |
| BE | — | #165 | #165 | — |
| TH | — | #190 | #190 | — |
Chart Positions
11 placements across 9 markets.
Chart Positions
11 placements across 9 markets.