Gone By Lunchtime: We are all covered in ash and yearning for the ocean
There are somehow still three weeks to go but fear not: we're here to give you the energy and optimism you need to make it to election night.
16 Oct 2026
More about the episode
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/nominate
Watch Toby's interview with Winston Peters here:
https://youtu.be/gseBfePQzMM
