Paid To Talk with Leigh Hart
Leigh Hart and Matt Ward are Paid To Talk, you're not paid to listen. Get the podcast every Wednesday as they host a full-on assault on your sense of humour. Every show, they explore the big topics of the week, and you never know what's going to happen next... get ready for the surprise in the middle of the podcasts. We'll be back in Feb 2026!
Episodes
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Leigh & Matt chat Spotify Wrapped disasters, Christmas party carnage and Leigh’s deeply unhelpful boating advice.
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Get even more Paid To Talk, with the best bits from the radio show on Hauraki.
Get set for a full-on assault on your sense of humour as Leigh and sparring partner Matt Ward delve into the big topics.
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Get even more Paid To Talk, with the best bits from the radio show on Hauraki.
Leigh casually reveals the time he ended up in a French aquarium, fought three police officers with a mop and still made it home for coffee.
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Vinyl Friday, the Epstein files and a wind‑turbine tech who may or may not have been taken out mid‑call.
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Leigh & Matt spiral from rugby chat into a completely unhinged hypothetical involving World Cups, win percentagesand… supermodels.
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Leigh & Matt chat to a Roswell local who claims he’s had “several” encounters of the intimate kind.
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Leigh & Matt gear up for Joe Parker’s big fight with Fabio Wardley, and somehow end up chatting drinking training plans, shirtless Dublin rumours, and the return of Mister Chang’s highly questionable massage techniques.
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Leigh & Matt kick off spring racing chat before spiralling into the now legendary Vegas desert‑wee yarn, a listener’s lift confession and some deeply questionable taxi etiquette
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Leigh & Matt pad frantically after multiple celebrity guests cancel and spiral into hotel bar tab confessions that absolutely should’ve stayed off‑air.
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Leigh & Matt chat the bizarre things they’ve woken up to, a deodorant can in a very unfortunate place, and a near‑disastrous night at the Eco Lodge involving a burning “log” that definitely wasn’t firewood.
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Leigh & Matt almost give away twenty‑five grand, debate how many beers fit in the Bledisloe Cup and accidentally hold a business meeting in a bar with a very misleading name...
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We take a deep dive into the catastrophic implosion of Leigh’s band - a saga that, in no particular order, involves Jimmy Barnes, mop fights in jail cells, the nightclub fish tank incident, frosty run-ins with French police, bourbon and a deportation or two.
Catch more Paid To Talk, every Friday at 3pm on Radio Hauraki. Get set for a full-on assault on your sense of humour as Leigh ...
Leigh and Matt do a deep dive into the art and science of making a podcast, plus while they’re on deep dives - your chance to win Leigh's regifted sex toy!
Catch more Paid To Talk, every Friday at 3pm on Radio Hauraki. Get set for a full-on assault on your sense of humour as Leigh and sparring partner Matt Ward delve into the big topics of the week.
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Leigh & Matt caught up with Jeremy Corbett in the city public toilets for a quick & impromptu chat.
Catch more Paid To Talk, every Friday at 3pm on Radio Hauraki. Get set for a full-on assault on your sense of humour as Leigh and sparring partner Matt Ward delve into the big topics of the week.
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In this final deep dive into Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet, we meet a man who claims to have had sex with aliens in Roswell, and we learn that the final disastrous alcohol-fuelled shoot in Miami ‘probably’ became the inspiration for the blockbuster movie The Hangover.
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Ahead of Joseph Parkers big fight in London, Leigh and Matt take a deep dive into the world of boxing. They discus ‘abs', more specifically Joe’s, and Matt is once again embarrassed as Leigh attempts to shoehorn his own dubious boxing career into the conversation!
Catch more Paid To Talk, every Friday at 3pm on Radio Hauraki. Get set for a full-on assault on your sense of humour as Leigh and sparring partner Matt Ward d...
For the first time since it’s disastrous production, Leigh Hart opens up about the ground breaking, yet controversial TV show Mysterious Planet. He discusses getting a lifetime ban from the Bigfoot conference, getting kicked off an Egyptian archaeological dig and substance abuse by the crew that included everything from alcohol to snake ant-venom.
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Paid to Talk is joined by one NZ’s most available guests, the boys chat to their mate Mike Lane. They discuss his youth, his vasectomy, starting the ACC, general circumcision chat, Leigh’s £3000 London bar tab and Cancer!
Catch more Paid To Talk, every Friday at 3pm on Radio Hauraki. Get set for a full-on assault on your sense of humour as Leigh and sparring partner Matt Ward delve into the big topics of the week.
...It’s mating season at the ecolodge - luckily not with Leigh, Matt or our guest Jordan Mooney. This week we cover disasters, including but not limited to this podcast, plus we discuss acting gigs with Jordan Mooney, like playing Jordan Luck, his new film that just came out and taking Karl Urban's dog hostage.
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Matt and Leigh are once again out of their depth as they interview Kiwi/international country music sensation Kaylee Bell. She talks about her NEW album, and as usual Leigh pulls all the stops to shoe-horn his own musical career into the conversation.
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