The beacons are lit! On the brink of their longest run yet, Hannah gets vulnerable, and Missy goes full therapist mode, she quotes Tina Fey from Mean Girls, but is unable to say ‘insubstantive.’ This episode is all that and a half as Missy talks at length about the Great Wall of China. Hannah gets moo-ey with it, and she rings on about cow bells (the ding-a-ling kind). “Up the Chiefs!!!” And “Up the Mooney’s!!” as they gear up for a 6-hour running event! See you on the other side. 

This week, Missy sounds gross, looks gross, and feels gross. Hannah tries not to say ‘like’, but instead proclaims “mime!” around 6:38 minutes into the episode for no clear reason?? There’s a passionate ode to the GOAT of every Kiwi kitchen: the humble kettle. Hannah pours forth some ‘fun sentences’ and steamy chat. Feat the rendition of ‘I’m a little teapot’ you’ve all been bubbling for. Then it’s a hop, skip, and a jump into Missy’s triple jump chat. Does she foul or does she fly? We’ll let you decide. Missy doesn’t edit real life, but thank goodness she edits this podcast, because wow. It’s a loose kettle of fish.

This week, Missy and Hannah take a hop, skip, and a jump into the curious corners of the mind. Missy explores one of psychology’s most iconic methods—the Rorschach test—and how our brains find meaning in inkblots (callback to the pareidolia ep). Meanwhile, Hannah brings the riddles, the enigmas, and the conundrums, challenging us to think sideways - “If I say pineapple, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?” This episode is far from perfect bilateral symmetry and just like the Rorschach test, it lacks reliability and objectivity, but go on, give it a listen. It might just tickle your fancy. (Feet a sneaky toe update at the top).

It’s a dressing gown situation served with yet another side of foul foot chat. These sasspots are in full swing (what the quokka is going on) as Hannah meanderthals her way through some left-handed chat, prompting important questions such as do platypuses have hands? And could a cat throw a punch?Never mind the gasbagging, this episode is gaslamping because Missy lamps it rip on the ever silent sentinel that is the street lamp. Is it gasbagging or gaslighting? Either way, it’s lit.A bulbous episode brimming with chaotic babble and nonsense. Irreverent. Illuminating. Questionable. Just how we like it.

“When I think boa, I think Britney Spears” - I mean, who doesn’t? Buckle up and knuckle down for some supreme side-chat this week. Hannah’s got a dongle, and Missy (severely invested in a documentary theatre tangent) eventually gets to the point. First, Missy has a hoon at the Rhyme as Reason Effect, and Hannah says “brain” 200 hundred times as she wiggles her way through the mystery of being ticklish. If one contends that truth is related to coherence, probs best not to believe a word of this podcast. However, what goes around comes around, and sure as Hannah will get the giggles at 2:30 pm, Thoughts on a Run always has something to tickle your fancy.

This episode is a tip-top, top-tier, tea-rific tea time. Hannah flippers, floppers, and flappers her way through the surprisingly rich history of swim fins, ending up in a side quest involving pinball flippers. Missy can’t quite remember her point, but rain or shine, she’s got plenty to say about umbrellas, including the classic superstition that opening one indoors supposedly invites bad luck. And somehow (miraculously) we make it through the whole chinwag without breaking into Rihanna’s Umbrella (ella, ella... you know the rest).Also featuring: the update absolutely no one was waiting for—Hannah’s toe.

Kia ora x6 this week because apparently our memories are shorter than a goldfish’s. Never mind ‘Hot to go,’ this episode is Croc to go. Switch those bad boys to sport mode and lock in as Missy gives the goods on the world’s most popular “plastic hoof”. You can’t spell Mooney without moo, and the steaks are high as Hannah claims to deliver a “real brief” history of chocolate milk. You heard it here first! The post-run choccy milk is udderly amazing. As per, we’re milkin’ it till we’re making it.

A mate you don’t know is just a mate yet to be! (but you gotta earn it). It’s happy Fridays all round! Hannah tries to read her notes and turns her spotlight to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That’s right, “you’re gonna be a star kid.” Missy brings us back down to earth as she pontificates about Pareidolia. Have you ever thought that your heat pump, a house, a wall socket, or a tap looks like a face? That’s Pareidolia, which is a very common phenomenon and doesn’t really mean anything. This episode, there’s lists, legends, laughs, and looking for faces in inanimate objects, buckle up! PSA: for the record, Hannah’s market-going toe doesn’t have a foot fungus.

Hannah may hate the word ‘foot’, but this episode is a massive feat. Missy has a groovy gasbag about everyone’s favourite large hairy mythical creature (not Missy) but old mate Bigfoot. Quick question - how many subways long is Bigfoot’s foot? Hannah tries to speak Welsh as she harps on about every girlie's best gridle cake, the classic “spongey holey treat” that is the crumpet. Crumpets have a loose batter, and yee-haw do these Mooney’s have loose banter! “We all want something extraordinary to believe in.” So, go on, believe in this podcast. Warning: the word ‘smear’ is uttered in this episode; for this, we would like to formally apologise.

Absolute scenes this week as the hoony Mooneys announce their next running challenge. Missy, for no apparent reason rattles off her lentil bake recipe which is followed by some elite random prattle including more cursed clown chat (why/how does this KEEP coming up and when will it end!?!?!?). Anywho, Hannah trip-tumbles through her thought and puts the pieces together with some jigsaw jabber. Things get heated as Missy offers some piping hot, hot water bottle chat. Wrap up warm and get this round your ear holes, and remember ... .there's give and take on the mountain.