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No Straight Answers

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by Suran Dickson and Clayton Carrick-Leslie

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The agony-aunt podcast where your hosts, Clayton and Suran, dive deep into dilemmas and conundrums. With thirty years of friendship, almost a century of life experience and zero years of relevant training, they’ll hopefully make you feel less alone. Each week they tackle the big, small and ridiculous questions - from parenting meltdowns and partner clashes to dopamine addiction, workplace disasters, midlife crushes - always with humour, honesty and no straight answers. Send your comments, conundrums or AMAs to dilemma@nostraightanswers.org

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Recent Episodes

July 1, 2026

Geriatric I.T., Making Love, and the Haughty Slag #8 Season 2

It's the Season 2 finale! Jo from Wellington has become the unofficial IT support for her 85-year-old mother, who has early-stage dementia. Clayton and Suran get into the funny side and the heartbreak of caregiving, the way anger about a malfunctioning device is rarely actually about the device, and how you keep showing up for someone you love without losing yourself in the process. Private Pete has been with his new partner for a year and she is wonderful. She also documents their relationship on Facebook with too much enthusiasm and refers to sex as 'making love,' which Pete finds immediately deflating. Clayton and Suran wrestle with consent and privacy in relationships, whether public declarations of love are about the person you're with or the audience watching, and how to ask someone to dial it back without hurting their feelings. This week's AMA: Suran's worst habit, and what superpower Clayton would choose.

June 24, 2026

Affairs, Accidental Tinder and Moments of Joy #7 Season 2

This week Clayton and Suran go back and forth with two letters about situations that are COMPLICATED.Mark has been having an affair for nearly three years. His partner says she'll leave her husband when the time is right, when things settle, when the kids are more stable. Will it ever happen though...A senior leader writes in about an accidental Tinder swipe. She matched with someone junior to her at work - he's been giving her a look and she has been catastrophising ever since. Clayton and Suran talk her down from the dating ledge.Plus Clayton asks Suran about the small things that bring joy, and Suran asks Clayton what people get wrong about him.

June 17, 2026

Faking It, Losing a Mate, and a Boner Story

This episode deals directly with suicide and suicide bereavement. If that's not where you're at today, give yourself permission to sit this one out or come back to it when you're ready. Support details at the end of these notes. Clayton and Suran are back, and this week they cover a lot of ground. Millie is 47, happily partnered, and has been quietly faking orgasms to end sex when she's tired -- not because anything is wrong, exactly, but because her partner can go all night and sometimes she simply cannot. Now she's stuck in a pattern she can't walk back without a conversation that will make him mentally replay everything. Then there's a letter from a bloke who lost a close mate to suicide not long ago. He's carrying the grief, the shock, and real anger. And then guilt about the anger. On top of all that, he's somehow ended up as the strong one with no obvious place to put his own feelings. In the AMA, Clayton talks through his sliding door moments -- the chances he didn't take -- and Suran considers the stereotype she least wants to become. If this episode has brought anything up for you, please reach out:Free call or text 1737 any time for support from a trained counsellor.<ul><li><a href="https://www.depression.org.nz/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Depression helpline</a> (24 hours a day, 7 days a week): free phone 0800 111 757 or free text 4202.</li><li><a href="https://www.lifeline.org.nz/services/suicide-crisis-helpline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Suicide Crisis Helpline</a>: free phone 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO).</li><li><a href="https://www.lifeline.org.nz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lifeline</a>: free phone 0800 543 354 or free text 4357 (HELP).</li><li><a href="https://www.samaritans.org.nz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Samaritans</a> crisis helpline: free phone 0800 726 666 if you are experiencing loneliness, depression, despair, distress or suicidal feelings.</li></ul>

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What is No Straight Answers?: The agony-aunt podcast where your hosts, Clayton and Suran, dive deep into dilemmas and conundrums.

With thirty years of friendship, almost a century of life experience and zero years of relevant training, they’ll hopefully make you feel less alone. Each week they tackle the big, small and ridiculous questions - from parenting meltdowns and partner clashes to dopamine addiction, workplace disasters, midlife crushes - always with humour, honesty and no straight answers.

Send your comments, conundrums or AMAs to dilemma@nostraightanswers.org
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Information about guest appearances is not available.

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