We tackle a listener who’s been brutally left out of the family group chat, spiralling into theories, confrontations, and some truly cursed family dynamics. Then it’s onto a workplace identity crisis, where being the “old one” in the office leads to painfully unfunny jokes and some desperate attempts to fit in.

🎤 Got a problem? Send it in.

🎟️ We’re also LIVE at the NZ International Comedy Festival — May 7th, 9:15pm at Q Theatre Loft. Tickets are $23: https://www.comedyfestival.co.nz/problemz

Full episode out now. Come for the problems, stay for the terrible advice.

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The team dives into a listener who wants to be vegan… but also eat eggs, someone trying to figure out how to tell their mother-in-law she’s not invited to the birth.

Full episode out now. Come see us live at New Zealand Comedy Fest!

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No Brynley Stent, no Bailey Poching, and no improv - just Catherine Yates and Vincent Andrew-Scammell joined by special guests Ella Hope-Higginson and Milo Cawthorne for a full chaos hang.

There's some flatting horror stories, genuinely terrifying late-night stories and a bunch of conversations that probably should’ve stayed off-mic. We will do better next time.

It’s less “advice podcast” this week and more “four people absolutely derailing for 50 minutes.”

Full episode out now.

Got a problem? Send it in — we might actually get back to solving them next time.

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This episode tackles some truly important questions:

Is having a rotational towel system normal or deeply cursed?

Is it embarrassing to walk back to your table with a Ponsonby Food Court pager?

How early is too early for dinner with your parents?

And if you’re messaging someone called Gina for relationship advice… is that cheating?

Expect ridiculous improv scenes, terrible advice, and the kind of problem solving that probably shouldn’t be trusted.

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Catch Hamish @hungrypeachboy on Instagram! Also, check out his sketch comedy YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@fuqboiz

Another also, grab your tickets to the Fuq Boiz live show, The Greatest Showboiz at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival here: https://www.comedyfestival.co.nz/fuq-boiz-the-greatest-showboiz/

And the Problemz team on:

@problemzpod 

@vinny.tawera 

@Brynley.stent 

@cathrineyates

@broozer_

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So obviously we handle it with maturity and restraint.

This episode spirals from a very real school dilemma into talent quest stand-up revolutions, failed Peter Pan auditions, intense Berlin theatre training, Otago flat inspections, choir nationals, ram raids (contextually), and the emotional damage of never getting cast in the school play.

As always, we solve listener problems using pure, unfiltered improv. No prep. No plan. Just chaos and occasional accidental wisdom.

If you’ve ever been laughed at in class, failed a drama audition, lost your bond in Dunedin, or thought about confronting someone with “why are you laughing?” — this one’s for you.

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Also featured in this week's ep- has the team been pranked?? Or are these gnomes up to no good! The team also helps a listener decide when and how to resign from their job, even when boss seems to be pretty decent.

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As usual, through the power of improv, the team solve nothing. But they do discover the true meaning of life: Knowing what season to dress in.

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We tackle some truly unresolvable issues, including:

- Whether a relationship can survive when one person insists on using a top sheet and the other absolutely refuses

- How to deal with a astronomical water bill.

As always, the problems are real, the advice is questionable, and the solutions may create more problems than they solve.

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Kara arrives with a problem of her own: she’s 25 weeks pregnant, it’s summer, and she is running hotter than the Titanic’s furnace room. Together, the girls unpack the perils of pregnancy overheating, emotional combustion, and the urgent search for an iceberg-shaped fridge.

Plus: a listener writes in with a truly baffling issue - why does their cat insist on dragging them into the bathroom every time it wants attention? What secrets does the bathroom hold? What trauma does the cat have? And can love survive a cat named Mouthwash?

Expect improvised scenes, exes at the pub quiz, evil stepmothers with opinions about New Zealand, and a surprising amount of toast-based evacuation planning.

As always: send us your problems. We’ll solve them. Probably.

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Together, the gang attempts to solve:

• What to do when a coworker has called you the wrong name for THREE AND A HALF YEARS (accident? power move? alpha dog behaviour?)

• And a domestic dispute spiralling out of control as one husband becomes dangerously obsessed with buying bark - cubic metres of it - in the name of garden maintenance

Along the way we encounter: glass offices that are definitely soundproof, Toyota executives with identity crises, workplace pornography disasters, haunted bark suppliers, colonial tree lore, guillotines in France, cursed playgrounds, and the eternal question - when does the bark become more bark than land?

As always, four friends (plus one star guest) attempt to solve your problems through the power of improvised comedy - with extremely mixed results.

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We’re kicking off the year with resolutions, reflections, and absolutely no self-control.

This week on Problemz, the gang tackles:

• A very awkward run-in with a mysterious, nameless church (is it a cult? is it just meetings? will we be sacrificed at McDonald’s?)

• Whether you should apologise for asking too many questions about someone’s secretive belief system

• And a heated domestic dispute over Blu-ray ownership, shelf space, plastic waste, and the noble quest to own 2,000 physical movies before the streamers collapse

Along the way, we uncover cult coffee orders, workplace cinema etiquette disasters, cassette-tape survivalism, builders confronting actors, and a surprise visit from Ronald McDonald himself.

As always, four friends attempt to solve your problems through the magic of improv — with wildly mixed results.

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We attempt to answer important questions like: Is it okay to be a flirt and at what cost? And can you still have a fun roadtrip if you're also required to courier medical waste?

Expect airbending nihilism, ice powers in cafés, chaotic mechanics, improvised medical procedures, suspicious brothers, laser tag alliances that collapse instantly, and a band conductor who's had enough.

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We attempt to solve what to do when you say “I love you” to literally everyone, but you’re suddenly in a brand new relationship. And what to buy a 16-year-old edgelord cousin for Secret Santa without making Christmas a true crime documentary.

Expect awkward cafés, emotional birthday cards, chairlift confessions, long-distance “relationships”, cancelled Christmas vibes, and a family that has officially outlawed the word love.

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It’s a very special Christmas episode of Problemz Podcast - the fully improvised comedy podcast where four friends attempt to solve your problems through the magic of improv.

This week we take on: dogs buying Christmas gifts; adult-babies; romance in a bubble tea shop; and a British wizard story that is not at all inspired by Harry Potter.

Submit your problems, grab your milk and cookies, and join the absolute nonsense.

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Characters such as, Batman, Stuart Little and a family of cows, come to life through the art of improv, in the aid of finding the answers you people require.

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The possible solves? How about a silacous Spider-man, a self-checkout, a strictly ballroom DVD and medieval duel perhaps?

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In this ep, the team give advice on rawdogging life, putting your phone on silent, and being the weakest link in your a cappella group.

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If you have a problem and want us to somewhat help - fire through a voice message via any of our social channels: https://linktr.ee/problemz.podcast

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If you have a problem and want us to somewhat help - fire through a voice message via any of our social channels: https://linktr.ee/problemz.podcast

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We bounce around from a busy crosswalk, a dragon's journey through adolescence, the etiquette of buying new bedsheets and how to deal with social anxiety!  

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We flit from The Court Theatre to Catan, and meet Lisa Chapel, the Hoyts Children, Shepherds, and Dracula. 

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We take you on a trip to Chemist Warehouse (not a plug but could be?), Allergics Anonymous in Wellington, and also throw in some Orcs to see if that helps solve anything. 

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First episode is out on Wednesday October the 29th!

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