The Ned & Josh Podcast

From Charlie Bucket's suspicious golden ticket survival to the government somehow ending up with the Wu-Tang album, this episode covers the kind of topics you didn't know needed covering. Josh has bought a vibrating wristband alarm clock, it hasn't arrived yet, but he's already confident it'll fix his mornings. While the guys debate whether Roblox is just Miniclip for a generation that missed out. The DJI Pocket 4 dropped and the Facebook Marketplace listings for the old model are already an embarrassment.

The boys dig into the Dua Lipa vs Samsung lawsuit and whether a celebrity's face on a TV box actually sells anyone a TV (it doesn't). Ned confesses he was lurking silently in a former workplace group chat for months before a visit reminded them he existed, and they promptly removed him. There's also a conversation about AI-generated nostalgia clips tricking everyone into brief patriotism before revealing a toddler eating chicken, and why the Conan O'Brien 2000 Olympics segment is required viewing for any Australian.

A Friday episode arrives with Daniel Sloss, which means Ned and Josh immediately use the opportunity to discuss sharks, tuck shop snacks, mascot suits, and whether adults should be socially allowed to dress like superheroes. There’s Daffy Duck, Rumrun, Chuck E. Cheese, Mako shark passion and one very reluctant co worker dragged into aquatic small talk. Carrie diagnoses a bow tie injury before being asked, Ned learns Los Alamos is not the Alamo and a three metre phone charger becomes the most dangerous item in the bedroom.

Somewhere between a mum's friend giving a thirteen-year-old a deeply inappropriate shirt and the question of who really buys the oldest-sister merchandise, this episode goes places. Josh's golden retrievers are space-themed, Cosmo is jealous, and the groomer who lectures him every visit has been quietly posting dog content without a release form. The Last Dance made the Chicago Bulls compelling to people who had never watched basketball, and that's apparently the bar for a Jackass documentary. Jim Cummins also deserves yearly payments to keep his Lion King mouth shut.

Ned and Josh return from their new sofa based headquarters with questions about what really broke the world, whether soda fountains mattered more than history admits, and how badly a man can ruin his own hands. There’s Batman fashion theory, ACT bin conspiracies, animal kingdom nonsense, public toilet laws and a reminder that sports fans are basically cosplayers with better PR.

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This week, we're talking about a chicken chippie creation that its inventor believes deserves a place on every fast food menu in the country, and the cold-and-sweaty weather phenomenon that apparently has no adequate name yet. A Ford Raptor parks in a small car spot, a passive-aggressive note gets written, and the whole plan backfires spectacularly. Meanwhile, AI is out here drinking all the planet's water, and apparently the best proof you wrote your own work email is a well-placed typo. We also workshopped a Hollywood movie about three friends, a bear costume, and the dumbest insurance fraud scheme ever attempted.

Tupac's hologram was meant to be the future of live performance — so why did nothing come of it? The boys dig into that, and then move on to a man named Bill whose wife recreated him via AI for a post-death Q&A at his own wake. Kermit dating another pig straight after Miss Piggy is covered with the gravity it demands, Josh recounts getting called out by a teacher and responding by telling him he'd ruined the family's evening, and a Chinese patent for an in-car toilet raises questions no one asked for. The mystery of why the radio station sits on Television Avenue gets a full investigation, and the phrase "caught red-handed" turns out to have origins nobody is totally comfortable with.

What happens when a conductor gets a little too into it and knocks a priceless 18th-century violin straight out of a violinist's hands? That's the chaos we're unpacking this week, alongside the genuine moral question of whether it's acceptable to shame a stranger's misbehaving kid in the supermarket with nothing but a stern headshake. We also get into the Finnish Air Force's most entertaining flight exercise on record, the weird territorial drama unfolding at one very specific power box on a dog walk, and why AI recipe videos are genuinely broken as a concept when the cake goes into the oven without a tin. We touch on the sneakers-with-jeans fashion debate, the environmental cost of AI data centres, and a 91-year-old woman in Ohio who was absolutely not in danger — she just had a great kill streak going.

This episode lurches from parents enabling romantic weekends to people roaming public toilets barefoot, which is not the same vibe at all. Along the way there is Harambe fallout, a cheeseburger scandal involving missing pickles, a workplace reading conversation gone sideways, and a discussion about what sport we secretly think we could dominate with zero evidence. There is also candle reward conditioning, name ratings, Magic the Gathering field research, and a fiercely committed attempt to determine the correct bacon to egg ratio on a roll.

A global comedy heavyweight drops by for a chat that somehow swings from parenting reality checks to late night legends and robot battles that sound borderline illegal. Daniel Sloss joins us ahead of his new show Bitter, sharing stories about touring life, Conan O'Brien, and why three days away from your kids feels like a holiday before it absolutely doesn’t. There’s also a very important Australian cultural detour and a surprisingly intense discussion about AI that may or may not come back to haunt him. If you like your comedy sharp, honest, and occasionally unhinged, this one delivers.

Daniel Sloss – Bitter - Canberra Theatre, 22 April 2026

https://canberratheatrecentre.com.au/show/daniel-sloss-2026/