Problemz

This week on Problemz, the gang is joined by comedian, actor and all-round legend Kura Forrester (Taskmaster NZ, Brunch, Golden Boy) while Bailey is off galivanting overseas.

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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This week on Problemz, Catherine is joined by a very special guest: comedian, improviser, actor, writer, clown, and all-round icon Kara Forrester.

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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This week on Problemz, special guest problem solver Chris Parker joins the gang once again, as a simple problem about saying no while sick quickly derails into food poisoning, hat anxiety, and absolute alpha-energy chaos. We debate whether wearing a cap makes you look like a child, descend into a deeply cursed hat shop, and attempt to solve how to unfriend someone who randomly made you a bridesmaid after 12 years — naturally ending in a wedding, a betrayal, and extremely dangerous cosmetic surgery. No solutions, plenty of nonsense.
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This week on Problemz, the hotline goes fully off the rails as we’re joined by very special guest Chris Parker — improviser, comedian, content creator, Speedo evangelist, and outspoken critic of teenagers who “run the pools”.

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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Happy New Year, Prob-Goblins!

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.
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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