ZM's Bree & Clint - Bree & Clint's After Party - 1st May 2024

Episode Date: May 1, 2024

Phones have come so far in our lifetimes - so far that Bree remembers having a rotary phone! This is the podcast to take with you if you ever learn how to time travel, to tell the people of the 90s how the world is now. It's also Bree & Clint's demo tape for their future stint in talkback radio...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Someone get the home phone! Hello? Dad! I'm on the internet! Hi everyone, welcome to the After Party. Can we recreate a phone call from the 2000s when you were calling from your family home line to your friend's family home line

but you had to go through the parent that answered the phone. Okay. And how you used to handle it. Okay, you calling. I'll be the parent. You're calling your friend. You're making the call. Okay, hold on.

Hello, Jones residence. Yeah, hi. Is that Mrs. Julianson? It is. Is that Brianna? Yes, it is. Mrs. Julianson It is is that Brianna Yes it is Mrs. Julianson Would Sasha be there I really need to talk to her Absolutely Julian I'll just go and get her for you

Oh no you're Brianna I'll just go and get her for you That was a 10 out of 10 phone interaction That's what my parents used to teach me to do Yeah You greet the other person Yes You acknowledge them Yes

And then you ask For who you want This shit doesn't exist anymore And this is why This is why Ella's generation Are too scared to answer the phone I love it Not you specifically

But you know Ella's pretty good Oh it's annoying It's become like a personality trait now Where people are like I don't answer phone calls It's so annoying My friend hates it

She gets anxiety From picking up the phone Oh that's the most pathetic that's the most pathetic thing i've ever heard in my life you've got anxiety from answering the phone so annoying what for why why do you have anxiety it's the who who is it if they don't know who it is or what do they want yeah you know with a message you can like pre-read it. This is so me. I get really bad phone anxiety. Why? I hate calling out. I don't mind answering here because I know exactly what's going to happen.

I'll respond to your text with a phone call. No, you're fine. Friends are fine. Because she knows you. If I know you. But if she doesn't know the number or what's going to happen. Even if I know, like I had one recently, I got a chip in my windscreen,

so I sent a little online message to be like, hey, I need a book in. And then they called me back the next day. But because I wasn't prepared for it, I missed the call and I still haven't got it fixed. That's crazy. I just, I can't remember. Caller ID.

Caller ID's probably the issue. That's what's changed it. Because back in the day, we didn't have caller ID. No. And then when we got those Uniden cordless phones that had a little screen on them, you could pay monthly for an upgrade to have caller ID so that the number would show up. We had a little separate box which you'd plug in the back of the phone and it would sit next to the phone. We had an illegal home line for many years.

Why was it illegal? How? So when I was really young, I remember there was the kitchen and there was a phone in the kitchen. That was obviously the main landline. The phone. That was the phone. It's still a cord one because this was back in the day. And then in my parents' bedroom, there was this bright red dial.

You know, we had to go like a rotary phone bright red rotary phone okay in the bedroom and um i said to mom because i think it's when we had renovations done to the house and then for some reason the rotary phone didn't make it through the renovations and i said to her i was was like, oh, where's the red phone? And my mum said, oh, we got found out. We hadn't been paying for that extra phone line in that room for like 10 years. And then when they, like obviously stuff had to be moved around for the renovations and they were like.

So why would you bother to have the kitchen phone that you pay for if you're getting a free phone in the bedroom? Because it was more convenient. Because then it wasn't a cordless phone. You have to remember. True. True, but then you've got two phone lines, so two phone numbers. No, no, no.

Same, same. No, it must have been a different number. Must have been a different number. Must have been a different number. Because it was free to have as many handsets. You just had to have the jackpoints in your house. Must have been a different number. Isn't it crazy how much life has changed within our lifetimes?

And we're not even out of our 30s yet. And it sounds like we are talking about the fucking prehistoric ages. I had this thought the other day when I went to Newmarket, the shopping centre. Have you guys been there recently? Yeah. It's incredible, yeah. And I was there with my mum and dad and I was walking through like the food court part and we were trying to get up to where Woolworths was to get some groceries.

And as I was walking through there, I was like, because it looks real futuristic in there. It does look quite like, you know. It's huge. It's huge and everything is just like quite like flashy and shiny. And I was like, imagine if you time travelled from the 90s to there. Like you time travelled from a shopping centre into this shopping centre. You'd be like, whoa. It would really feel like the future.

It would. But then if you were in the 90s and you talked about, this is the perspective, right? Like I feel like it hasn't been that long. But if you were in the 90s and you talk about the year 2024, I go, phew. Flying cars. So what is the equivalent of that?

What is 35 years from now? That's 2060. What? 2060. 2060. Oh, gosh. Shit, man. There has to be flying cars by that point.

Well, if we're a year off Tesla robots. Are we just never getting flying cars? Do we want flying cars? What about flying taxis? Do we want them? Do we want to be more like... Pollution. Well, no, you'd want zero pollution ones.

Yeah, good. Like electric ones. Good. But do we want to be that more mobile or do we want to live in smaller communities in the future where you don't have to go from the north of Auckland to the south of Auckland every single day? One of the buzziest fucking movies I've watched in a long time

and you guys tell me if you've seen it, Downsizing. Oh, I watched it the other week. How buzzy is that concept? for people that haven't seen it? I've seen no movies, but I've seen that one. Have you seen it? Yeah, God. What a strange cast too.

Yeah, really strange cast. And so essentially the concept is that it's kind of like living in today's world where obviously we're killing the planet. There's so much rubbish. There's so much CO2 emissions. There's all this stuff that's going wrong. Obviously, it's the exact same. And so they've come up with this idea where in this process

where they can shrink humans down to be tiny and you live in these miniature worlds. But to you, it's big. But to you, it's all normal. But it's way cheaper because it's tiny. Yeah, because you take over your money and then you can have like a mansion and all this stuff. It's an interesting concept, eh?

Like, obviously, it would never happen because we can't be shrunk. It's a good movie. The twist on what the guy's wife does. Yeah. What would you do? There's nothing you can do. It's irreversible. Your miniature.

Yeah. It's a good movie um i just last thing on the on the future verse thing yesterday i parked my car at a car park in the city and i had this moment where i realized how terrifying doing things like going out in public must be for the older generation like people who are fine in their 80s if they have to go and do something. I pulled into this car park, which is a very normal thing to do, and I had to pay for my parking, and I went to where the parking machine was, and the parking machine has been replaced with a QR code. Oh, I've seen those ones.

So now instead of being able to – so it's already gone away from you having some coins and being able to pay for your parking. You can't do that. And then you could use your EFBOS card. And then you could use your phone with the pay wave. Now, you literally have to have a camera-capable smartphone that has the internet so you can scan the QR code and go to a website and then put in your credit card details. It is bullshit. Just to be able to park your car.

I think about that all the time because I always stop and help older people when I see they're having problems because even though I'm not any good at it, but obviously I have to use it more, so I always stop and help them because I'm like, imagine how terrifying that would be. That cafe that we go to, and it is great, but they don't take cash. Yeah. My parents, you should see them because we like, we've been to, you know, like when you go to a restaurant with your parents or, like, do things,

my parents lose their shit when they see that it's a QR code and you order on your phone. I hate it. I love those. I hate it. My parents hate it. I think it takes the entire point of going out to a restaurant out of it. I could QR code myself some food at home.

Like, you know, talking to someone and having that service. Learning about the establishment that you're in, finding out what they're cooking. Yeah, I hate it. I hate it. But then do you have to have it for people like Claudia who want it? Do you have to have it there as an option these days? Yeah, I want the quiet service. You get phone call anxiety.

Do you get waiter anxiety? No, I'm fine if I'm sitting at the table but we did go out for brunch the other day and I was the first person to get there and it was really really busy and I just kind of walked in but I was like, there's no one there to greet me do I find myself a table, what do I do? And apparently my partner found me and I was kind of cowering in a corner. Oh, that's just bad service. I thought I was trying to be rude. Because they have to tell you how the thing works. Yeah, it was their first day opening and they were absolutely slammed. It was on Anzac Day.

They were like the only cafe open and there was like two staff on. I walk away now if it's shit service and no one greets me or I don't feel welcome. I walk away from somewhere. My parents and I walked up to this fish and chip shop the other day and we're in the middle of doing you know, doing stuff in the yard and we're like, oh, let's just go get some fish and chips. And I'd never been to this place before.

Walked up to this place and I'm not joking, this guy looked at all three of us and then we stood there for, I reckon, five minutes and I went, let's go. I'm not. Yeah, fuck them. Nah, yeah. Even if they go, hello, we'll be with you in a minute. That's fine.

That is completely fine. That's all you need. Hi, guys, we'll be with you in a second. I'm just organizing some stuff. Thank you for coming to my business to spend some of your money. Did not even acknowledge us. That sucks. And I just felt unwelcome.

And I was like, I don't want to buy stuff from here. This conversation is so good. And it really backs up for me that when the time comes, you and I are ready to I don't want to buy stuff from here. This conversation is so good and it really backs up for me that when the time comes, you and I are ready to move over to TalkBack. Should we get the call up? Should they need to replace Kerry or Simon or James or Marcus? We are ready, willing and able. I would love to see that.

Is this the demo tape? This is the demo tape. Send this to Stano. Be like, guys. But then also, we've got to do some pop culture references in case they were not ready for us and that we're still relevant here. But man, how good is MP3 music from iTunes? I love paying $1.79 per song.

I love that Google Drive. That'll do it. Ella, you want to add anything in? Timogotchi's Nice I'm having a party A party for two We'll go out on some nice top 40 Shania

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