The Frog & Cheetah

The Frog & Cheetah
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The Frog & Cheetah is a Brokenwood Mysteries podcast in which hosts Rebecca and Amelia provide a detailed analysis and commentary on the latest goings on in New Zealand's most crime-loving country town: who's been blopped, who's been thwacked, who's drowned in wine and who's been administered a big old dose of a substance that's been banned since 2008.

Episodes

  1. 03/22/2022

    Spleen Says Gay Rights

    Welcome to S03E02: the poetry, fake your own death, embezzlement, Cluedo, Persian rug, DNA test, boating reprise episode of The Brokenwood Mysteries, featuring homosexualism, St Judas church and Amelia and Rebecca's friend's brother as a grave digger. If you knew you were going to die, would you pre-record yourself reading a poem to play at your funeral, or would you get the local florist to do it for you? If you ran a funeral home, would you let a coffin slide out of a hearse onto the road? If someone came from San Francisco to play a role-play version of Cluedo with you and they disappeared, would you assume they just went back to San Francisco again? If you got a tattoo of your own name, would you choose the font Lucida Italic? Things have got complicated. Jared's an orphan. Everyone who's ever died in a Shortland Street Christmas cliffhanger is here. And in Logs On, we find out what was in Fern Sutherland's beauty bag in 2016. Follow us on Instagram: @frogandcheetah

    1h 35m

  2. 03/11/2022

    Blatting Along on Wonderful Great Horses

    It's been a rough week for Amelia and Razz, with sickness, technological issues, failing to acquire 'very legal DVDs' of Brokenwood Season 3 and being negged in the New Zealand books media, but the gals are back and focussed on the only thing that really matters: S03E01 The Black Widower. Ray Nielson is more than just the proprietor of the Frog & Cheetah, he's also the owner-operator of Ray's Tours: a knock-off Lord of the Rings tour company that swindles non-English speaking tourists into paying outrageous prices for a close up look at Rivendella and Helmet's Deep. But what really brings them in is the special lunch. What doesn't bring in the tourists? Ray's wife Debbie being found dead wrapped up in cobweb suit as part of a recreation of Biblo Baggins' famous battle with Shelob the giant spider. In other news, Jared's a horse guy now. And Kristin won't stop asking Mike about his drowned wife. All of this and more! Amelia's been on Shelob the spider's Wikipedia. Rebecca thinks that Brokenwood needs a German consultant. We also hear the backstory of how the podcast came to be but more importantly, a fascinating anecdote about when Amelia got bullied after seeing Revenge of the Sith in 2005. Karawhiua.

    1h 38m

  3. 02/22/2022

    Filling Me with Love's Blindness

    Howdy y'all, it's the country music episode and Amelia. . . is having an existential crisis about being a podcaster during humanity's downfall. Luckily Razz is here to move her swiftly along into what really matters: the Season 2 finale 'Blood Pink'.  Mike Shepherd's favourite country music star Holly Collins has been found dead in a motel bathtub holding an electric guitar. Her boyfriend Waylon Strings has gone missing. The bassist Slim Fingers has gone missing. The tour manager Keith has gone missing. The roadies have gone missing. A child called Choosie Choo has gone missing. The only people left behind are a superfan called Celia who left her husband behind in San Francisco because he was too into brass band music, and the band's drummer Jesse James who'd just gone to get some Twisties. Will Mike and Kristin ever get to the bottom of this? And can they do it without holding problematic views on drug rehabilitation and men wearing pink t-shirts? (No) Stay tuned for all this and more, which here means Amelia's triumphant return to being dryballs with some info about guitar electricity, a trip down memory lane with colour free iceblocks, fictional hospital Shortland Street's transition between private and public healthcare, New Zealand's plastic money, which breakfast radio DJs would be willing to expose a plagiarism scandal, and the DVD that taught the gals about the struggles of interracial marriage. And you'll never guess which historical figure Amelia calls a pissy little bitch. Yeehaw!

    1h 46m

  4. 02/08/2022

    The Gin Palace

    Is The Frog & Cheetah your favourite aspirational podcast, but you wish it had more detailed information about the duties of New Zealand fisheries officers ? Well, well, well! In S2E3 'Catch of the Day', Jared's gone out for a surf at Brokenwood Beach and found a severed hand in a crayfish pot. It's pointing at him like Des the Devil used to point at him before his fishing boat blew up five years ago. Could these incidents be. . .related? The cray pot does have a 66 on it, which we all know is an abbreviated version of 666 the devil's number. It looks like Mike and Kristin will have to pull a few late nights to get to the bottom of this one, looking at old timey nautical maps and trying to remember which page of The Gold Bullion  was marked before Mike yanked the bookmark out for no reason. And avoiding threesomes with the victim's wife, of course. Just another day in Brokenwood. In Logs On, Amelia and Rebecca are using artificial intelligence to come up with new Brokenwood plot ideas and relaying anecdotes about their dads. Amelia worries she's dry. ** Note: the Australian programme about sex workers is called Satisfaction (2007 - 2010) and the boring game Rebecca describes is called Captain's Coming. The rapper Scribe is Samoan. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @frogandcheetah

    1h 29m

  5. 01/25/2022

    Smelly Nelly and the Trans-Possum Partnership Agreement

    Guess who's back in the house, it's Amelia and Rebecca, here to bathe in the soft wisdom of the English language's greatest poet – Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd. All the world's a stage and all the men, women, asthmatics and asexual people of Brokenwood are merely players. But what, ho! Did someone say the name of the Scottish play in the theatre? In S02E02, To Die or Not to Die, a 21-year-old orphan has died all over the stage during an amateur production of Hamlet. And not from an arrow of outrageous fortune, nor from tripping over a hardback copy of Infinite Jest either. So, what happened? A plague on both their houses would get the show cancelled, surely. Was it a happy dagger or something else? Mike and Kristin are on the case. Now that Kristin's decided the victim has actually died and wasn't just. . . milking it on stage. This episode is incredibly gay and contains discussion of The Matrix, review culture, queer and trans representation, the amyl nitrate ban and the Ellen sitcom. In Brokenwood Logs On, a reporter at the Manawatū Standard thinks Brokenwood is on too late and also has some reckons about 'high speed porn'.  Follow us on Instagram!: @frogandcheetah CW: brief mentions of sexual violence and self-harm

    1h 53m

  6. 12/21/2021 · BONUS

    Festive Brokenwood Fanfiction Bonanza

    Ho ho ho it's Christmas! And don't you want to have Christmas on Brokenwood Island?  In today's Very Special Episode, Amelia and Rebecca read out some Brokenwood-based holiday fanfiction for your listening pleasure. Why is it snowing in Brokenwood? Will Kristin and Breen kiss in a cloud of weed smoke on New Year's Eve 2005, or will the lavender deodorant be too off-putting? Also, Rebecca relays a tragic story about a high school performance of Titus Andronicus and Amelia thinks that it's normal to cook a chicken on Christmas morning. Plus special bonus content: an extended discussion on when The Killers first made it big in New Zealand.  Happy holidays!

    1 hr

  7. 12/07/2021

    The Brokenwood Tipping Point

    Content Warning! This episode of Brokenwood Mysteries contains transphobia and suicide.  Audio Warning! Rebecca's microphone was not recording. This episode contains laptop audio. We reach the Mariana Trench of Brokenwood episodes this week with S02E01 Leather and Lace – a tale that combines the topical 2015 Rugby World Cup with a horrible hate crime.  The Brokenwood Cheetahs have lost fifty games in a row and now their coach has been found murdered. Was it one of Mrs Marlowe's cheese rolls that did it? Or Brokenwood's sexy new librarian? Or, uh, one of the number of players who said they would do it at the pub just before it happened? Could it all be something to do with. . . composer Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)? Amelia and Rebecca are suffering. This episode is bleak. But they must power through for their loyal listeners. Includes top notch discussion of what men get up to when they're not sawing on top of a hill or playing a snare drum, Amelia's camera phone, Sheepworld, the person who invented tomato sauce bottles shaped like tomatoes, and what level of detail to go into when discussing plant diseases. Rebecca enjoys a praline. It's only up from here!! Follow us on Instagram: @frogandcheetah

    1h 39m

  8. 11/23/2021

    Jacked Up

    Load up on guns, bring your friends: as Season One draws to a close, we set our sights on the unexpectedly tyre-focussed S01E04 Hunting The Stag. It's all gone wrong in the lead-up to gun enthusiasts Kelly and Hayden's wedding, but who shot the groom with such precision, in a gully Amelia and Rebecca do not remember the name of? And why does everyone work at the Brokenwood Tyre Centre now? Listen in to find out all the latest in Brokenwood action, including Mike's trip to the bakery, whether Frodo gets busted for the roach, Kristin's newest workplace bullying incident, Breen's Facebook drama, and Jared's personal philosophy that driving like a 'maniac' is a form of expression.  Plus thrilling bonus content: Rebecca's Australian accent coaching corner, a deep dive into buying cigarettes, some hot takes on cheese rolls, and Amelia calls the listeners 'Merchants of Venice'. Follow the podcast on Instagram! @frogandcheetah

    1h 39m

  9. 11/09/2021

    He Died From Being White

    Head on down to Golf Club Inc. as Amelia and Rebecca take a swing at Playing the Lie, Brokenwood's most golf-based episode. Traipse around the green with them as they try to decipher this odd and meandering episode (which still slaps), in the process creating their own odd and meandering podcast (which might also slap).  Topics include: crimes against bees, the mighty Vodafone Warriors, whether women can be farm managers, whether Amelia still has a chance to become a sulky teen, friendship in a glass and the inner workings of the travel industry. In Brokenwood Logs On: Amazon DVD reviews. Disclaimer: Rebecca does think that Twila should have won Survivor Vanuatu in 2004 and Judy Brownlee was not murdered by the Ferndale Strangler (she moved to Australia with her motorbike boyfriend).

    1h 37m

  10. 10/29/2021

    The D. H. Lawrence Extended Universe

    After Episode One's uncanny approximation of Brokenwood, S01E02 Sour Grapes comes through with a classic TBM tale of viticulture vitriol. And thank God, real Jared is here to lead the way.  Also, a bit of a content warning for this one as we discuss the characters' terrible hot takes on autism. Looking at you Detective Sims. Topics discussed include: grapes, failed ambitions, Boxcar by Jawbreaker, Art v Science,  Doctors v Scientists, what's au fait in commercial radio, when is a spade a kayak paddle, and the one thing everyone can agree on (Australian fascism is bad). Sponsored by Bright Valley Wines.

    1h 25m

  11. 10/29/2021

    BLOPPED!

    Rebecca and Amelia start at the beginning with S01E01 of The Brokenwood Mysteries, 'Blood & Water', in which a local farmer is blopped while enjoying a cosmic event on an unnamed rural bridge. Topics discussed include lamp collecting, female aviation, crunch time, blind rage, panel beating, the definition of an amphitheatre and Tanya's Mysterious Accent. Sponsored by the Brokenwood Courier.

    1h 27m
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The Frog & Cheetah is a Brokenwood Mysteries podcast in which hosts Rebecca and Amelia provide a detailed analysis and commentary on the latest goings on in New Zealand's most crime-loving country town: who's been blopped, who's been thwacked, who's drowned in wine and who's been administered a big old dose of a substance that's been banned since 2008.

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  • Creator
    The Frog & Cheetah
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022 The Frog & Cheetah
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