ZM's Bree & Clint - Bree & Clint’s After Party - 27th June 2025

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

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ZM's Bre and Clint podcast. Play ZM's Bre and Clint. No special guests on the after-party today. They're in bed. No crying from us then. That was so cute. I actually had tears in my eyes, Clint. They're very cute, aren't they?

They're such well-behaved girls. They're growing. They're very sweet. They come? Oh my goodness. They're such well behaved girls. They're growing. They're very sweet. They come out of their shell a bit. Oh Maggie would have always been fine but Tilly would have been too shy to do that a while ago. Well I thought farts would be fun to break the ice. Farts are funny.

Thank you. Do you like farts? If you're four and five. No. I don't know. It was cute. It was very, very fun. Yeah if you that, my daughters were on the podcast yesterday. They were the podcast yesterday. Free podcast. We didn't have to do anything.

Easy peasy. So what are we doing now? Yeah, just talking shit amongst ourselves. How's everybody's week been? It's been a busy week. Oh, fun. You have smashed it, Clint. You've come in with video ideas and obviously you chatted on air, you let us chat on air. I did some chatting on air. Unlike you usually do. You're usually pretty quiet and reserved.

It's been fun. We've had a fun time though. It has been fun. It's always funny when you're lopsided, when you're a foursome and one person is missing. The vibe is definitely different. It's very different, aye? I was thinking, it's really hard because obviously Claude and I did come in a bit more.

Like, it's hard to do what you guys do. And I'm not giving you lots of compliments, but just I can acknowledge in the moment, like Bre has some one linings. You have one linings. And it's just keeping up a lot. Yeah. It's weird.

Yeah, I mean, but it's reps. It's like, it's not hard, but you need to do it a lot for it to come naturally. I'd never like to pretend that this is a hard job, but it is hard on a cold start. If you do it every day, if your job is chatty banter, you get a rhythm. If I have nothing to say, I don't say anything. And I'm like, you can't do that. But that's generally what you're supposed to do. But it's not what you can do in this job. No. People teach you, if you have nothing good to say,

don't say anything at all. True. For us, if we have nothing good to say, still say something. Anything will do. Still say something. You fill that silence with whatever you can. For four hours, still say something. And it's like, what would Bree say in this moment? Because obviously she's not here and

when you're away, Clint, it's vice versa. But then I'm like, no, I'm not meant to do what Brie does. No, that's the worst thing you can do. Because I'm not Brie. No. But then the show's missing Brie, so we don't want people to be like, we want Brie, and vice versa when you're away. Anybody who listens in and goes, we want Brie, is not going to be satisfied with a Brie impersonation from Ella. Exactly. No offence.

No, that's fair. So it is like a week of a different vibe, but it's still fun. Well, Brie's back on Monday. Yes. Thank God. She's had a big week doing secret business and she'll be back on Monday. Lots of big business. This is very niche.

It's Auckland only, but have you guys guys are you guys familiar with the I hate the Dominion Road boy Facebook Instagram page no you know the Dominion Road boy I hate the Dominion Road boy you guys should check out this Instagram page it's very funny there's a enormous statue of a boy walking down Dominion Road. It's got to be like 20 feet tall right? I actually hate it. Actually it has to be. It's huge.

It's glossy and creepy. He's wearing a red and white striped shirt and little blue shorts. He's wearing clothing that a child from the 70s would wear. It looks like a Squid Games character. I feel like it's the most tasteless installation I've ever seen. I lived like two streets over when it got installed and the first time I saw it just walking down the road I was like, why? Whose money went towards this?

And the answer is mine. And also I hate to sound like a woke broadcaster but it's got weird sort of cultural implications when that part of Dominion Road is very, very, very multicultural. It's the closest we've got to like an international food at least area. Yeah, a lot of great Asian food there. Such amazing food, Indian food,

there's all kinds of food on there. And then they just installed this enormous white kid just strolling towards the towards the food area. Mm-hmm. I don't know that's what I took out of it anyway. I was like you could have put anything up there. Now there's anything wrong with being a white kid that's not what I'm saying but he's 20 feet tall. Is there a Facebook page, are they trying to get rid of him or are they just hating on him? There's an Instagram page they're not trying to achieve anything they just hate him. It's funny. It's called I hate the Dominion Road Boy at I hate the Dominion Road boys very funny

And they just post about how much they hate him what and they've like I hide him and made him like move and stuff I don't know what the symbolism is cuz that's my scared thing I'm scared that it's an honor of this beautiful child that died of an illness, you know, like fuck right? Okay, hang on I'm finding some info now. The first post is just a picture of him and it says, I hate this guy so much. It's very shitty. Oh, second paragraph.

The inspiration for the sculpture was drawn from the artist's 1995 series of black and white photograph prints currently held in the Museum of New Zealand, blah, blah, blah. One of the photographs, a single figure of a child walking through a New Zealand landscape into an interior has remained with the artist. So it doesn't really have any meaning to that location, it's just based on a photo of a random person. The act of moving forward the development of position of the child are both positions of

constant transition. This might be a controversial thing. I hate it. I don't think it is. I hate art. And people reading into art. Fuck yes this is your take. I hate it. I don't think it is. I hate art. And people reading into art. Fuck yes, this is your take. I hate it. This is breeze, bread and butter. When it's like, this means this because this and blah blah blah. Like I went to, in New York, the Museum of Art. The MoMA. The MoMA. The Modern, whatever it is. Museum of Modern Art. That's the one. And the whole floor was just covered in like, yellow pollen.

And it was like, this means this because like pollen in life and blah blah blah and I was like it's just fucking pollen on the floor. It's the same reason I hated English class because the meaning of like they're wearing white because they're innocent and I'm like I hate it. I think I'm a too literal of a person to like get the metaphors. Not to be that guy but you did feel something. I think I'm a too literal of a person to like get the metaphors. You know? Not to be that guy but you did feel something. I felt anger.

What about that banana? You philistine. Do you remember that banana thing? Oh just little banana peel? The banana tape to the thing, yeah. Honestly. See I like photos. That was purely to evoke a reaction.

That's why that existed. I mean art is interesting like a nice painting. I can appreciate a nice painting art is in the eye of the beholder I like art in a like that's amazing that you created that but when it gets into like this means this I'm like it's too airy-fairy I don't like it so what do you have I'm not saying you're wrong mm-hmm I think a lot of people feel like that I think a lot of people feel like alienated by art. They're like, oh, it's too smart for me. It must be shit.

Or you're just trying to make me feel dumb, that kind of thing. What do you have hanging on your walls at your house? I have got three hand-drawn pictures of my dog. One of them was from Ella and she did in crayon and I love it. It's the most prized possession. I've got a queen poster.

Three hand-drawn pictures of your dog. Are they put together as a series? Yes, yep. Okay, oh that's good. They're displayed beautifully and all framed. I've got a photograph that my mum took in a beautiful silver frame. So stuff that mean like personal stuff to you.

Yeah, stuff that mean stuff to me, but generally if it's art, it's photos rather than art. So you like photography. it's photos rather than art. I guess. So you like photography? I like photography and I like, like pop art. Where it's just like little symbols rather than like, here's a deep painting of a lake. Well great, great.

And I have a lot of plants. So you don't hate art, you don't hate art. I hate artsy art. You just like what you like. Yeah. You're just not open minded. Yeah, I'm very close minded and not willing to adjust. And that's okay. Yeah. You're just not open-minded. Yeah, I'm very close-minded and not willing to adjust. And that's okay.

Yeah. Guys, are you done? I'm just researching the stupid boy thing again. The Dominion Road Boy, yeah. Apparently it was an 18 month procedure. 18 months? The artist Van Hout devised a concept for Auckland Council. Google Dominion Road Boy if you don't know what we're talking about.

My biggest issue with him is I hate his outfit. I really hate his outfit. $550,000! Jesus. Oh he's made of steel. I really yeah I can't. I wish he was wearing long pants. There's something about his little shorts that I'm like yuck. I'm sorry. Why is he wearing that? He's a blight on the landscape as far as I'm concerned. Should I sew a giant shirt for him and put it on him? No, can we bolt it down? I'll go in there in the middle of the night and dress him differently and then maybe I'll be happy with it.

Knock it down. No, you can't vandalise. It's not vandalising. Oh, whoops, it just fell. Oh my God, I pushed him, I'm so strong. Oh my gosh, it was a tsunami. I tripped and he did too. Well, look.

I've never felt more angry and passionate about something. I'm glad this has been brought up. Thank you. Any aspiring artists who want to change our mind. Please get it gone. Text us. And you can't even climb him. Email us.

Put a ladder on him. Tell us how we should be consuming this art. Show me your art but don't tell me what it means because I don't care. Yeah. Alright, see you guys next week. Okay.