Is it a long episode name? Too long? Possibly. But when it was said it was determined it was perfect and I'm nothing if not a completist so here we are. Enjoy this mailbag chat Fwends! We hear about Kyran and Rhys's holiday in Queensland, some spectacular sculpture, and truly the best spontaneous night out in London that Georgia could possibly have dreamt up. CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of cours...
Aug 15, 2025•41 min•Season 8Ep. 14
In this episode, Rhys, Kyran & Georgia have a lovely little chinwag about charming bits and bobs, before getting rather carried away on the topic of, well, the state of music and comedy. Enjoy! CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd love you to leave a rating and a review. In whatever podcast app you're in right now, just throw down the...
Aug 11, 2025•43 min•Season 8Ep. 13
In this episode, Kyran (back from the dead), Rhys & Georgia interrupt chat about nose hairs to announce they're included in Apple Podcast's BEST OF 2025 SO FAR list, how incredibly exciting. Other than massively raising the stakes to get on the best of 2025 list come December, we're pumped. We also get to some of your mailbag, but honestly gasbagging gets in the way, as always, enjoy! CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Aust...
Aug 07, 2025•36 min•Season 8Ep. 12
In this episode, Kyran is still a sick boy... So Rhys & Georgia have a good old ramble about anonymous gossip, the idea of an NDA podcast, the trials and tribulations of making a record, being pooed on by a bird, and we receive our very first celebrity Fwend Question from none other than the glorious Celia Pacquola! CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed ...
Aug 04, 2025•37 min•Season 8Ep. 11
Kyran is in bed with a sickness, so in this episode, Rhys & Georgia make their best attempt at a Mail bag by themselves. Unfortunately Rhys couldn't remember the password to the email account so it's mostly reading one text and talking a lot around that. CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd love you to leave a rating and a review. In ...
Jul 31, 2025•29 min•Season 8Ep. 10
In this episode, Rhys, Kyran & Georgia discuss very old sharks, subliminal podcast messages, all-staff emails, and bring back fwendship questions (!)...which soon becomes fwendship court.....which soon becomes mawwiage counsewing... enjoy! CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd love you to leave a rating and a review. In whatever podcas...
Jul 29, 2025•40 min•Season 8Ep. 9
It's time for a little mailbag with your ol' pals Rhys and Georgia and also Kyran. We do eventually get to some texts on the burner phone but to be honest it's mostly us gasbagging about dry july and morning espresso martini's (unrelated) as well as a bunch of other stuff. ENJOY! CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd love you to leave a ra...
Jul 24, 2025•39 min•Season 8Ep. 8
In this episode, Rhys, Kyran & Georgia discuss Kyran's new hat, making bold fashion choices, cars and appliances getting uglier, vacuuming the dog, dog park etiquette, and whether or not you have to be fwends with your fwend's partner. Oh and the whole Coldplay CEO cheating situation, of course. CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd lo...
Jul 21, 2025•35 min•Season 8Ep. 7
It's Mum's Mailbag! Although with no mags, maybe next time... Rhys and Georgia run the show today as they pick through your texts, emails and ACTUAL MAIL! Yes that's right, we dropped into the PO Box. CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd love you to leave a rating and a review. In whatever podcast app you're in right now, just throw down ...
Jul 18, 2025•39 min•Season 8Ep. 6
Well, it's the end of our first collection of interviews! And so for a little while, we're back to just us thwee. In this episode, Rhys, Kyran & Georgia discuss Launceston's monkeys, big snakes, teenage drinking games, grown-up drinking games, fake IDs, sexy restaurants, and... ahem... bloody AI. CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd l...
Jul 14, 2025•38 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Rhys is on tour and swept off their feet, so Kyran & Georgia discuss Mushroom Lady (new rule of podcasting apparently you must mention the mushroom lady), tram scheduling, how much you leave home with, your mailbag messages and more! CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd love you to leave a rating and a review. In whatever podcast app you're in ...
Jul 10, 2025•37 min•Season 8Ep. 4
Well, it's the end of our first collection of interviews! And so for a little while, we're back to just us thwee. In this episode, Rhys, Kyran & Georgia discuss drag queens, greek islands, ex-husbands, the wisdom of older women, Kyran's solo episode, delicious nuts, embarrassing chemist purchases, romantic poems and more! CONTACT Text - +61 (0)431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the ...
Jul 08, 2025•42 min•Season 8Ep. 3
Slight change for today's mailbag - see if you can hear what's different!! CONTACT Text - 0431 345 145 Email - fwendspod@gmail.com Mail - PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Vic, 3001 RATE AND REVIEW Of course you've already subscribed or followed the show, now we'd love you to leave a rating and a review. In whatever podcast app you're in right now, just throw down the 5 stars. Will make our day, and help to get the podcast into more people's ears (which will ultimately mean even bigger name guests for yo...
Jul 03, 2025•10 min•Season 8Ep. 2
Well, it's the end of our first collection of interviews! And so for a little while, we're back to just us thwee. In this episode, we Rhys, Kyran & Georgia discuss a slightly lacklustre cliffhanger, podcast loose ends, a Fwends restaurant, dinner and a show, fairy bread, speakeasies, fancy dress parties, Rhys' Truman Capote-style future fortieth, Kyran's newfound plumbing skills, and we announce a very special thing... Fwends With Benefits! Ooh la la! CONTACT Text - 0431 345 145 Email - fwen...
Jun 30, 2025•37 min•Season 8Ep. 1
It's a mailbag episode! We read your emails, texts, and wish upon a star for a gift in the PO Box. Send us your thoughts, on that or anything else, to... 0431345145 on the burner phone fwendspod@gmail.com via email PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 for the Mailbag YOUTUBE Soon you can watch clips of the show on YouTube, click through and hit subscribe now: Fwends Pod YouTube SUBSCRIBE Please hit follow or subscribe or whatever they call it in your favourite podcast app so you never miss a ...
Jun 26, 2025•41 min
Zan Rowe is a beloved presenter, music journalist, and podcaster. Best known for her work across triple j, Double J, and ABC TV, she currently hosts Friday Mornings on Double J, the Take 5 podcast, and is creator and host of TV series Take 5 with Zan Rowe . She's also a fwend of Fwends! In this episode, Zan talks about the octopus and the turtle (this will become clearer), the need for constant investment in friendship, the importance of friendship over romantic relationships, when friends have ...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Season 7Ep. 19
It's a mailbag episode! We read your emails, texts, and wish upon a star for a gift in the PO Box. Send us your thoughts, on that or anything else, to... 0431345145 on the burner phone fwendspod@gmail.com via email PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 for the Mailbag YOUTUBE Soon you can watch clips of the show on YouTube, click through and hit subscribe now: Fwends Pod YouTube SUBSCRIBE Please hit follow or subscribe or whatever they call it in your favourite podcast app so you never miss a ...
Jun 19, 2025•40 min
Marc Fennell is a Walkley-winning journalist and an AACTA-nominated filmmaker. He is the creator of the popular television series and podcast Stuff the British Stole on ABC Australia, BBC Select and CBC Canada. He has also hosted over 400 episodes of SBS’s iconic nightly quiz, Mastermind. Marc has won awards, written books, hosted telly, and created podcasts and documentaries aplenty. Thank goodness he's a bad friend, is all we can say. In this episode, Marc talks about being a somewhat absent f...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Season 7Ep. 18
It's a mailbag episode! We read your emails, texts, and wish upon a star for a gift in the PO Box. Send us your thoughts, on that or anything else, to... 0431345145 on the burner phone fwendspod@gmail.com via email PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 for the Mailbag YOUTUBE Soon you can watch clips of the show on YouTube, click through and hit subscribe now: Fwends Pod YouTube SUBSCRIBE Please hit follow or subscribe or whatever they call it in your favourite podcast app so you never miss a ...
Jun 12, 2025•50 min
Benjamin Law is an Australian writer and broadcaster. He’s the author of two books, The Family Law and Gaysia , and has written for over 50 publications in Australia and worldwide, including Good Weekend, frankie and The Monthly. Benjamin is also an AWGIE Award-winning screenwriter. In this episode, our new fwend Ben talks about queer friendship, intergenerational friendship, late-night spirals, avoiding bullies by being funny and filthy, friends whose values change, realising life is short thro...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 56 min•Season 7Ep. 17
It's a mailbag episode! We read your emails, texts, and wish upon a star for a gift in the PO Box. Send us your thoughts, on that or anything else, to... 0431345145 on the burner phone fwendspod@gmail.com via email PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 for the Mailbag YOUTUBE Soon you can watch clips of the show on YouTube, click through and hit subscribe now: Fwends Pod YouTube SUBSCRIBE Please hit follow or subscribe or whatever they call it in your favourite podcast app so you never miss a ...
Jun 07, 2025•39 min
Luka Muller is a Melbourne-based comedian, radio presenter, writer & podcaster who has performed all over Australia as well as headlining shows in Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Singapore & Kuala Lumpur. He co-hosts the Breakfast show on Triple J and, well, he's a very good boy. In this episode, Luka talks about friendship in country towns, accidentally befriending a bully, friendship through tragedy, his first comedy friends, the importance of scheduled catch-up time, and ...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Season 7Ep. 16
It's a mailbag episode! We read your emails, texts, and wish upon a star for a gift in the PO Box. Send us your thoughts, on that or anything else, to... 0431345145 on the burner phone fwendspod@gmail.com via email PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 for the Mailbag YOUTUBE Soon you can watch clips of the show on YouTube, click through and hit subscribe now: Fwends Pod YouTube SUBSCRIBE Please hit follow or subscribe or whatever they call it in your favourite podcast app so you never miss a ...
May 30, 2025•36 min
Alexei Toliopoulos is a writer, comedian, podcaster, film critic and technically, an internationally acclaimed investigative documentarian. Currently, Alexei utilises his unmatched encyclopaedic film knowledge and infectious passion to celebrate cinema on The Last Video Store. In this episode Alexei chats about being friends with movies, being plonked with a family friend who became a forever friend, the begrudging magnetism of Aussies abroad, his favourite film Looking For Alibrandi, the influe...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 7Ep. 15
It's a mailbag episode! We read your emails, texts, and wish upon a star for a gift in the PO Box. Send us your thoughts, on that or anything else, to... 0431345145 on the burner phone fwendspod@gmail.com via email PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 for the Mailbag YOUTUBE Soon you can watch clips of the show on YouTube, click through and hit subscribe now: Fwends Pod YouTube SUBSCRIBE Please hit follow or subscribe or whatever they call it in your favourite podcast app so you never miss a ...
May 22, 2025•54 min
Michelle Brasier is an actor, singer, comedian, screenwriter and author. While best known for her work with sketch group, Aunty Donna, Michelle has appeared on myriad TV shows and has performed her solo comedy shows Average Bear, Reform , and Legacy internationally, earning multiple awards. Her memoir, My Brother's Ashes Are In A Sandwich Bag , was published in September 2024 and has most recently been named Apple's Books Best of 2024. In this episode Michelle talks about being a really good fri...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 7Ep. 14
It's a mailbag episode! We read your emails, texts, and wish upon a star for a gift in the PO Box. Send us your thoughts, on that or anything else, to... 0431345145 on the burner phone fwendspod@gmail.com via email PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 for the Mailbag YOUTUBE Soon you can watch clips of the show on YouTube, click through and hit subscribe now: Fwends Pod YouTube SUBSCRIBE Please hit follow or subscribe or whatever they call it in your favourite podcast app so you never miss a ...
May 18, 2025•36 min
Ben Shewry is the award-winning head chef and owner of one of the world’s most celebrated restaurants, Attica, famous for its groundbreaking approach to Australian cuisine and its culture of collaboration. Ben’s story of resilience, leadership, and creative excellence was featured in Netflix’s Chef's Table, and is explored in his acclaimed memoir 'Uses For Obsession'. Ben is also, as it turns out, an extraordinary friend. In this episode, Ben talks about the meaningful bonding experience that co...
May 15, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Season 7Ep. 13
It's a mailbag episode! We read your emails, texts, and wish upon a star for a gift in the PO Box. Send us your thoughts, on that or anything else, to 0431345145 on the burner phone, or via email fwendspod@gmail.com or you can pop it in the mail to Fwends, PO Box 24144, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 YOUTUBE Soon you can watch clips of the show on YouTube, click through and hit subscribe now: Fwends Pod YouTube SUBSCRIBE Please hit follow or subscribe or whatever they call it in your favourite podcas...
May 08, 2025•39 min
Erik Jensen is an award-winning journalist, biographer, screenwriter and poet. He is the founding editor of The Saturday Paper and editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media. He's written a bunch of incredible books and it's very likely he spells "friend" correctly in all of them. On today's episode, Erik talks about struggling to make friends as a child, Nan School, being almost exclusively friends with older ladies, making friends with people from magazines, cold-calling people out of the phone book, l...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 35 min•Season 7Ep. 12
