ZM's Bree & Clint - Bree's dad Big Steve, our official Apple Correspondent

Episode Date: June 13, 2026

When it comes to apple news we know we have to go right to the tippy top of the apple tree, and who better to report on breaking apple news than Bree's very own father, Big Steve. And we're talking real apples, not the phones and laptops. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ZM's Bree and Clint Pop Podcast It's our radio show But wrapped up in a neat little package just for you It's ZM's Brie and Clint podcast Geez, big Apple news At the moment isn't there? Big Apple News. You've hooked me in, you know I'm a big Apple feed.

A one in a million apple With two distinctly different harbbs Has popped up at a fruit shop in Christchurch The owner of Sunshine Corner Market And Mighty Ho in Christchurch spotted the unusual looking apple and a regular deliverer of Brayburn apples. It is, oh God, I hate Brayburn apples.

But the apple is dead centre, 50-50, 50% is red, 50% is green. I've never seen anything like it. It's called a chimera apple. It forms when the genetic mutation occurs. And yet, it's usually a perfect split. So the one that we're looking at, one half is perfectly shiny red. the other half is perfectly shiny yellow.

How rare is this? One in a million. One in a million. But that's a good question. How rare is it? To find that out, I thought we would go live to our resident Apple expert and your resident father, Big Steve. Good afternoon, Big Steve.

Good afternoon, guys. How are you? We're all right. Sorry to only get you on to talk about apples. I know you're more than just apples. It's a favorite subject of mine. Okay, good. He always says, he always says,

went on a quiz show, you know, where you had to have like a specialty subject, apples would be his. Then we've got the man for the job. This is the man, yep. Steve, I want to start. Sybil, have you seen the apple? Has news of the one in a million

chimera apple made it across the Tasman to Australia yet? No, not at this point. I haven't seen it yet. When you guys see it, you'll claim it as yours. That's what you guys do. You're like, that's Australian, that apple. That's true blue, that apple. Have you ever had one of these apples before?

You would have farmed more than a million apples in your lifetime. Have you ever seen one that's perfectly split down the middle, color whites? I haven't seen it perfectly 50-50,

but I've seen two-thirds-one third. Really? I've seen it quite a few times, to be honest. And obviously that varies a bit too,

so it might have been 60-40, but exactly 50-50. I can't say I remember one, but I have seen... Oh, you wait, Dad.

Oh, you wait. I'm going to take a photo of this. I'm going to send it to you. It's going to blow your apple, Steve. And Bree's looking out. Now, you can see

where the sticker is, right, Bree. It's perfectly 50-50. The stem, it's literally the 50% is right on the stem. Okay, wow. That's pretty cool. It's pretty unusual, I'll have to say. So the people of

Sunshine Corner Market in Christchurch will be listening to this breakdown because this is big news, Steve, here in New Zealand. It's huge. It's actually front page news. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. What do you reckon they're looking at here? What do you reckon it's worth this chimera Apple. If you had to put a dollar value on it,

what do you think she's worth? I think it'd be priceless, wouldn't it? Well, if Brayburn's going for $4.99 a kilo, what's one of these worth? Yeah. Oh, you have to be, what? $200 a kilo? I mean, it'd have to be, surely.

Oh, people go nuts for this thing. $200 a kilo? That means this one apple's got to be worth at least $7. Might be the most expensive Apple ever. Come on. Probably only weighs 300 grams.

That's what I'm saying. It's worth about 600 bucks. Oh, okay. That's not how math works, but yeah. Wait, if it's $200 a kilo and this weighs 300 grams. I'm thinking of the novelty values. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. In all seriousness, though.

Yeah, yeah, so that's what I was thinking of. What are you guys talking about? They're using this Apple as a tourist attraction. They're bringing people into the store. They need to put it in like, they need to like. So yes, they want to preserve it, Steve. They want to preserve it. What's your advice for them?

How can they make this special chimera, what in a million, Apple last as long as possible? They're going to have to make a clay model of it because unfortunately nature is going to take its course and you can keep it in cold stories for so long, but then eventually. What if you put it in like a resin? Oh. Yeah.

You know, you like suspend it inside. Yeah, yeah, and like a glass bricks. Yes, and you put resin around it and it preserves. But you can't have any air in it or else it will rot inside the resin. Imagine you put it in that resin and there's a worm in there and the worm's still alive. And then the worms, once it's in case, you see the worm trying to get out and he's like, ah, let me out. I'm sure there's no worm in there.

You never know. I've got the, guys, I've got the idea. I know what they have to do with it. Like William Tell, they need to get someone who is willing to put that apple. on their head, and they need to find... The Commonwealth Games are coming up. We need to get New Zealand's best archer. The best archer to pull that arrow and hit it straight down the middle 50-50.

And we need to get the owner of this fruit and veggie store to put the apple on the head. And it'll be the ultimate Instagram video. And it's a real arrow. And they go, hi, I'm David from Sunshine Corner Market and Mighty Ho in Christchurch. If we call this place and I ask if we can have the apple. And I'll say if you're willing to put it on your head, Clint's... willing to put it on his head to film this video,

then maybe they'll give it to us. Maybe, yeah. Clint doesn't seem keen. Yeah. Stay out of that one, mate. Yeah, that's why I said maybe. Don't worry, Steve. She'll forget about it in 15 minutes.

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