Producer Hamish is back on the mic and the Sin Bin has three confessions in it.

A man's whole apartment building thinks he's a bird expert. He's been using a phone app for two years. A flatmate waited till his mate was asleep, then binned the "lucky" interview jacket he'd bombed eight interviews in. His mate got the job. And a guy stole one edge piece from his flatmate's 2,000-piece puzzle nine years ago. The flatmate framed it with the hole in it. He still has the piece.

Plus: the UN says killer robots are close, The Sopranos is getting a 4K box set, Timberlands are back, Jay-Z is touring solo for the first time in nine years, Shaboo's BBQ fried chicken hack that took three days, Macklemore got dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour and every other opener quit, Dolly Parton, Millie Bobby Brown's second baby, cockroach milk won an Ig Nobel, a ram called Rambo got stuck in a pipe, LED face masks from L'Oréal and Shark, an AI device that prints makeup onto your face, someone paid US$600,000 for 20kg of coffee, and a Christchurch café is selling a $100 cup. Shaboo's verdicts on all of it.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:14 Welcome, producer Hamish is in the studio
00:51 Whangārei, the dog, and the spring clean that won't end
04:47 Today's agenda
04:52 Robots are getting ready for war
08:40 The Sopranos, 19 years on
12:11 Timberlands are back. Or did they ever leave?
15:08 Jay-Z's first solo tour in nine years
16:47 The best concert you've ever been to
19:33 The A$AP Mob after-party, and almost meeting 50 Cent
22:45 The BBQ fried chicken hack that took three days
24:33 Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and the openers who quit
27:59 Dolly Parton
31:22 Millie Bobby Brown is a mum again
34:29 Would you drink cockroach milk?
37:35 Rambo the ram
40:42 The L'Oréal LED mask you can wear on the couch
43:58 The AI device that prints makeup onto your face
46:55 Shark's LED mask, and Shark vs Dyson
50:20 Someone paid $600,000 for coffee
52:14 A Christchurch café is selling a $100 coffee
55:19 THE SIN BIN — SINNERS OF THE WEEK
55:53 Case 1: The bird guy
57:45 Case 2: The lucky interview jacket
1:00:44 Case 3: The puzzle piece he took nine years ago
1:03:47 Wrap

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Producer Hamish is on the mic and the Sin Bin has two lustful tarts in it.

A groom let ChatGPT write his wedding vows, then told everyone at dinner. A girlfriend of ten years called the activity host "gorgeous, tall, muscular, tanned" with her boyfriend in the back seat. A married mum has been having secret coffees with an old school friend while her husband works away. A man in China bought 50 insurance policies from the same agent and admitted to 180 hotel nights with her. And a Perth woman told a Bali waitress to keep the change. It was a $7,000 tip.

Plus: Auckland's $5.5 billion rail link caught fire on day one, an Aussie food writer says our pies are too good for them, butter was $1.88 in 1991 and it's $9.70 now, KiwiSaver providers took $978 million in fees, and every cop's phone could soon scan your plate. Shaboo's verdicts on all of it.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:13 Producer Hamish is in the studio
01:26 Cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning
02:06 Three bottles of champagne and the Saturday scaries
03:50 Kill Tony and the robot-vacuum poo sensor
06:46 Leave your hate comments, it feeds the algorithm
08:05 Foreign drivers should sit a Kiwi test
09:50 Why electric cars are so quick
11:19 The folding iPhone
11:58 Side hustle no. 43: hand modelling
12:19 🗞️ THE SHABOO TIMES — Hot Topics of the Week
12:40 $5.5 billion, and it caught fire on day one
15:24 An Aussie says our pies are too good for them
16:10 Australian pies taste like cat food
20:53 Butter was $1.88 in 1991. Now it's $9.70.
22:25 Baking is a bourgeois activity now
23:28 $2,000 in school fees that were optional
24:41 School uniforms are daylight robbery
28:42 KiwiSaver hits $40k. Fees take $978 million.
31:15 Kids on footpaths, scooters in bike lanes
32:46 I can't ride a bike or swim
34:12 Every cop's phone could scan your plate
37:16 Your hairdresser could pour you a wine
39:58 $17,000 a month to eat Snoop Dogg's ice cream
42:19 Tip Top has gone downhill
44:18 Aussies would outlast us at the apocalypse
45:40 The end-of-world ciggy
46:44 🙉 THE SIN BIN — SINNERS OF THE WEEK
46:58 He got ChatGPT to write his wedding vows
48:42 His girlfriend called the host gorgeous, boyfriend in the back seat
50:04 Verdict: lustful little tart
52:18 The in-laws with millions who want Christmas at yours
54:56 His birthday dinner was his own leftovers, microwaved
58:38 Married six years, secret coffees with an old school friend
59:26 Emotional cheating is still cheating
60:25 The maid of honour who booked her own makeup artist
63:28 50 insurance policies and 180 hotel nights
66:31 She tipped a Bali waitress $7,000 by accident
68:09 The boys who quit showering on purpose
70:52 Get yourself some Protex
74:45 Wrap

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Hamish is back in the studio and the Sin Bin is full.

A bride planned a whole wedding, charged her bridesmaids $750 each, took the gifts, and was never getting married. A husband bought his wife the one flower she'd spent seven years telling him she hated, and she filed for divorce that night. A woman knitted her brother's girlfriend a merino blanket and found it in a charity shop weeks later. A couple flew their guests to Italy for the wedding, then made them cook dinner for fifty. And a man sent a $40 payment request, via LinkedIn, for a single drink.

Plus: the living wage is now $29.90 an hour, a politician on his way out the door wants us working till 68, interest rates went up again, and 10,000 public servants walked off the job.

Shaboo's verdicts on all of it.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:14 Hamish is back in the studio

00:43 Staying in my cocoon till summer

01:08 Harley the husky comes to stay

01:55 Walks on the North Shore

03:00 Kids on dirt bikes, a McLaren out front

03:58 Shout-out to Portofino

04:51 I baked the banana bread and got none of it

05:38 A migraine, a car accident and acupuncture

07:14 Summer's coming and so is the boat

07:50 🗞️ THE SHABOO TIMES — The living wage is now $29.90

10:40 Why is our own meat and dairy so expensive?

12:10 Earn $300k a year and you still need help to buy

16:18 Interest rates went up again

18:51 They want the pension age at 68

20:54 I will not be working till 68

21:29 10,000 public servants walk off at 1pm

23:50 The DIY country that ignores the rules

26:00 Go and be a tradie

27:12 Kiwis never text back

29:03 🙉 THE SIN BIN — SINNERS OF THE WEEK

30:04 He sent a $40 payment request for one drink

30:54 If he doesn't pay on the first date, run

32:41 The maid of honour who hates the groom

34:11 She faked her whole wedding for the gifts

36:48 She found the blanket she knitted in a charity shop

38:42 Twins, one cake, one name

41:01 The boyfriend who eats her meal

42:18 His mum killed the proposal

44:15 He bought her the flowers she hates. She filed that night.

47:22 Fly to Italy for the wedding, then cook for 50

51:10 Twenty years, one tree, and a saw

53:23 Wrap — Submit Your Sins

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Shaboo's got a rap sheet this week, and nearly everyone on it already lost in court.

A tenant asked AI how much she was owed, filed 316 pages of robot homework, and the tribunal gave her $80 for a dryer. A jeweller argued, in an actual hearing, that Kiwi marriages only last about 12 years, so the ring had done its time. A company boss proposed with a $45,000 diamond and then took his ex to court to get it back. And one landlady's mother let herself in one time too many.

Plus: the Boks got us back in Cape Town, New Zealand's greatest sport mullets ranked, Powerball quietly made it harder to win and called it good news, Winston wants your backyard fireworks gone, and thousands of seagulls have moved into a Christchurch Pak'nSave.

We also say goodbye to Dolly Parton.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:14 Welcome back - spring has sprung
02:35 I stepped on a toad in Brisbane
03:18 Breakdancing is back
05:58 A new segment idea - send us the price gougers
06:54 Do you plan your whole life around dinner?
07:17 A whole sea perch on the barbecue
09:32 Tonight it's katsu fried chicken
10:19 The creamy potato bake hack
12:31 The banana bread that tasted like mochi
13:05 Trying to spend less time on my phone
14:00 We watched The Counselor
16:16 Cooking videos are coming
17:49 ⭐ HOT TOPICS OF THE WEEK - THE SHABOO TIMES
18:35 The Boks got us back: 33–26 in Cape Town
20:34 New Zealand's greatest sport mullets, ranked
23:37 Trapped between two landslides? Time for Lord of the Rings
25:20 Is summer moving? The seasons aren't where we left them
26:55 The eight hours of sleep rule was never real
28:37 Powerball adds four more balls - your odds just got worse
30:23 Winston wants your backyard fireworks gone
32:17 Dolly Parton, 1946–2026
34:05 Come for the cheap groceries, stay for the seagull show
35:36 ⭐ THE SIN BIN - SINNERS OF THE WEEK
36:10 She asked the robot what she was owed. It said $40,000.
37:59 The ring built to outlast your marriage - statistically
41:08 He proposed with $45,000. Then he wanted it back.
43:01 The bailiffs kept coming - and they weren't after the tenants
44:56 The juice boss who answers to a higher manager
47:02 The form that forgot Australia
49:01 The landlady's mum who kept letting herself in
50:49 Wrap - Submit Your Sins

Shaboo's gone full media mogul this week: the website is live, a vlogging camera is on the way, and the Shaboo Times is hot off the press.

On the front page: Kmart finally admits the middle checkouts were a trap, the booze websites sending underage clickers to Toyworld, and mince at $24.40 a kilo, dearer than chicken breast now. Then the Sin Bin gets busy: Eminem loses a fight with two blokes selling togs, a landlord caught running an Airbnb out of his tenant's spare room, a diver who took 1,869 pāua "for the family", and Boohoo's sales that were secretly price rises.

Plus: is an AI girlfriend cheating, the four-year catfish, and the boss who sacked a woman for resigning too politely.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro

0:13 Welcome back — the week that's been

1:32 The great mattress debate

4:02 The hotel steamer hack

4:27 India, Korea and the next getaway

5:21 New vlogging camera incoming

5:51 First Table: gold membership

6:47 shabooshow.com is LIVE

7:36 SWAT vest walks

8:58 The organic cotton era

12:07 What we cooked this week

13:15 The Shaboo Times: Hot Topics

13:31 Kmart's checkout trap

15:42 Booze sites send you to Toyworld

17:01 Mince hits $24.40 a kilo

18:45 Renting everything

21:33 NZ sport's big weekend

24:49 The wine festival after-party

26:27 Bürgen was never German

28:38 Virgin's revenge toastie

30:01 Is an AI girlfriend cheating?

31:45 Buying cars without driving them

34:02 ⭐ The Sin Bin

34:16 The man who sued over a ute

35:39 The Airbnb landlord

37:15 1,869 pāua "for the family"

40:19 Eminem v Swim Shady

41:22 The Block's own goal

42:47 Sacked for resigning nicely

44:24 The fake five-star reviews

46:42 The four-year catfish

48:39 The cigarette that "wasn't lit"

50:25 Boohoo's fake sales

52:32 Your sins: the skateboard

53:27 Wrap

Cake-cutting fees, council parking grabs, a builder whose legal defence was

"I'm not a builder", and a 67-year-old bottle shop legend who got sacked for

stopping three thieves. Plus: I want to be buried in a tree.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open

0:49 Winter in a 120-year-old villa

2:30 The leftover roast chicken pie

4:53 Why I clean other people's houses

6:08 Asian fusion has gone too far

8:10 Stop putting a Kmart rug under mid-century furniture

9:32 The man who buried his dog at sea

10:21 I want to be buried in a tree pod

12:51 Electrolytes before coffee

15:36 NEW SEGMENT: The Shaboo Times

16:36 City Rail Link opens after 103 years

20:16 Wellington's first snow in 15 years

24:27 Silver Ferns strike gold

26:21 The councillor who Zoomed from her bathroom

28:02 Kmart's $99 spy glasses

32:46 Kiwi rapper cracks the US charts

34:30 Most Kiwi drivers would fail their licence test

37:29 Sydney Airport picks a fight with coeliacs

40:42 The $2.50 flat white coffee war

45:17 Op shops, bugs and brand prices

46:07 Dubai's robot wedding

48:15 Lorde headlines Lollapalooza

49:24 The billion-dollar Michael Jackson biopic

50:42 The Pak'nSave postcode lottery

54:55 THE SIN BIN

55:50 $8,870 to park outside your own house

57:00 The $110 cake-cutting fee

58:48 The builder who said "I'm not a builder"

1:01:01 The three-year hole in the front door

1:02:26 The world champion and the parcel

1:04:34 The office admin who stole $850K

1:07:14 The sacking of Wendy the Enforcer

1:09:56 The straw-licker of Singapore

1:12:13 Wrap up + Submit Your Sins

The flu took us both out, so this week we got our lives back in order — and Shaboo has opinions on exactly where your money should go.

Five things she reckons are worth every dollar, a chicken hack that changed how we cook, and a Sin Bin stacked with companies that got caught this week: City Fitness

and the $6.99 membership that wasn't, a Wellington landlord who skimped on heating, and HelloFresh making 1.2 million cold calls to people who'd already cancelled.

Plus: why NZ houses aren't worth their money, petrol up 27.5%, and the only thing on earth allowed to tell you to go back to your own country.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:17 The bug that took us both down

01:32 The series we binged, and what to watch next

02:56 Yellowstone, and why every woman wants a Rip

03:29 Tuna poké, cookies, and why home baking never survives the night

04:42 First Table at El Corte

06:43 The cold pan chicken hack

09:44 5 things actually worth your money

10:09 1. A coffee machine with a grinder

11:06 2. Heated seats

11:32 3. A monthly massage

12:06 4. Quality steak

12:34 5. A sauna

13:34 IShowSpeed hits 60 million

14:58 HOT TOPICS

15:19 NZ house prices are falling

16:39 "New Zealand houses are not worth their money"

17:11 Shaboo's House Reviews

18:47 Petrol is up 27.5%

22:25 Are Teslas giving people migraines?

23:02 Banning under-16s from social media

24:34 The earthquake in Japan

26:43 Winston Peters and the crocodiles

30:00 2016 vs 2026

32:24 The AI that broke out of the sandbox

34:16 ⭐ THE SIN BIN

34:47 City Fitness and the $6.99 that wasn't

36:57 The Kilbirnie landlord with no heating

39:02 HelloFresh and 1.2 million cold calls

41:58 The Queenstown street fight

44:39 Your sins: the Christian school doorstep

47:29 What you'd break in a sibling fight

48:57 Wrap

Op shops are charging $400 for coats that were donated to them for free — and

that's just one of the sins this week. We also get into the $500 winter power

bill, the two supermarkets that have us over a barrel, school camps doubling in

price, and the 105-year-old who jumped out of a plane for his birthday.

Plus: the missing bird in my neighbourhood, why cabbage is criminally

underrated, and the most feral thing I do the second I get through my front door.

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stays anonymous. DM me on TikTok or Instagram, or email us. Dating dilemmas,

work dilemmas, cooking dilemmas, postman dilemmas — give it to me.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:20 The flu that took out the whole crew

05:50 There's a missing bird in my neighbourhood

09:20 Grooming a husky is a two-hour war

11:11 When "mild" is absolutely not mild

14:49 Duck Island, and how cabbage won me over

19:09 HOT TOPICS

19:22 Two Kiwis just split $40 million

22:38 Left behind by the bus at 74

23:45 Do the supermarkets have us over a barrel?

27:45 School camps have doubled in price

30:34 Could you feed a family on $5k a year?

33:40 E-scooters: menace, or just bad riders?

34:51 Politicians, showgirls and "it's showbiz, baby"

37:02 Japan invented a human refrigerator

39:23 The 105-year-old who jumped out of a plane

42:58 You can now rent a bloke to do your BBQ

44:56 CLIP FARMING

46:30 My $500 winter power bill

48:13 Nobody looks after you when you're sick

49:03 The most feral thing I do at home

50:28 THE SIN BIN

51:14 A Sunday surcharge on sunglasses

52:28 Fined for parking outside his own house

56:45 The op shops that got greedy

58:24 The "very, very viral" influencer

1:00:33 Submit your sins

1:01:35 Wrap

Shaboo's first ever guests! Tanis and Kayz from the Strong Comms podcast pull up to the studio — how two mates became brothers, the party years, becoming dads, going viral for the wrong reasons, near-death stories, and the great boil up debate.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold Open & AI Theme Song

2:55 How Strong Comms Started

7:04 Kids, Family & The Name

10:18 Hobbies, Cooking & Heritage

15:45 How They Met

19:19 Party Years To Fatherhood

25:19 Going Viral & Cancel Culture

39:39 Podcasting Real Talk

46:41 Near-Death Experiences & Adrenaline

56:01 Travel Talk & Korea

1:01:25 Saying No To Gambling Deals

1:04:08 Hot Topics: Golf & Aussie Moves

1:12:05 Scam Stories

1:18:04 Burger King AI & Fast Food

1:28:14 Pints, Drinking Culture & Clubbing

1:42:38 Boil Up, First Table & Wrap

Shaboo almost ran over Russell Crowe, cried three times at an AI elephant, found an $800 million painting in a Ponsonby antique shop, and paid $45 to watch a 10-second Conor McGregor fight. Just another week on The Shaboo Show.

This week: silent reading trauma, a full run through the week's biggest Hot Topics (NZ + the world), a rapid-fire round, Shaboo's perfect smash burger recipe, and the debut of THE SIN BIN — where we judge the sinners of the week.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome back — Episode 4

2:14 My Notes: silent reading trauma

5:35 Is the TikTok Creator Fund in NZ?

9:41 My $800m Ponsonby painting

12:27 Can you pick your baby's sex?

17:34 I almost ran over Russell Crowe

20:41 Hot Topics (NZ + the world)

48:17 I cried at a fake AI elephant video

1:08:34 Why are flamingos actually pink?

1:10:25 Clip Farming — rapid fire

1:13:32 My smash burger recipe

1:15:19 Food: fake-aways & the Nando's hack

1:19:01 The Sin Bin — Sinners of the Week

1:34:35 Conor McGregor cost me $45

1:37:08 Wrap up