ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM’s Bree & Clint Podcast - 13th August 2025

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

When did complaining pay off?  Trends that you bought into and regretted.  5 things to do to set your day up right.  We have an in-studio maths comp.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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ZM's Brie and Clint I change your life if you just live underneath the life Hello everybody and welcome to the Brie and Clint show on this happy hum No Bree, she is like I saw going up the side of the mountain, going skiing. She said to us before she left, she goes,

if my brother thinks I'm going up that mountain skiing every day, he's got another thing coming. And I think she's been up that mountain skiing every day with her brother since then, so. Hello? Are you there? Did you see her story this morning? Oh, she lost a ski?

She lost a ski on the chairlift. What do you do in that situation? I guess you have to make them stop because you can't just one ski. off it. Did you guys know that I'm actually a qualified chairlift operator?

Do you have to take a class for that? Yeah, I'm a qualified chairlift operator. Do you have a certificate? Is it like a night school? No, not a night school. It's a learn on the job

type thing. When I worked at the Luge in Rodrua obviously put people on and off the chairlift but one of our jobs was to walk the line underneath the chairlift and pick all the helmets up that people had thrown off.

But the bad part of that job is as you're picking up, kids would throw more helmets at you. Rocks at you? They'd be like, what are you doing? I'd be like, picking up all the helmets and they'll go, loser! You want another one?

Yeah, that's exactly what they say. You want another one? That's very funny. You know what they say, though? People throw rocks at shiny things. Is that what they say? Taylor Swift's lyric. Taylor Swift said that.

Oh, did she? Yeah. Is that an actual Taylor Swift? It's a lyric. Oh, yeah. If you know, you know. It's from the tortured poets. Society.

It's department. Yeah, nice. Is it? No. It's much older Hey We've got 50 bucks cash up for grabs To kick the show off with Trady versus Lady

The lady's a way ahead They've won every game this week But that's okay Still a lot of games left to go And it's within touching distance It's like eight points in it So if you're keen, 0800 dials at him Play Zatems Bree and Clint

It's Trady Versus Lady Three two one Let's go Welcome back in to a fresh round of Trady versus Lady where the scores are 60 points Trady, 68 points Lady. Our lady is playing as a team today with a fella, they're from Tohanga.

They're both 27 and they're both left-handed. And today is international left-handed People's Day. So please welcome to the show, Tyler and Nikita. Hi guys. Howdy? We're going to try and make the ladies 69 today. Tyler. No, no, we're four. We're four.

Very good. Okay, you're taking on our tradies today from Christchurch. He's 28 and he's got two kids under two. Busy man, welcome to the show, Rocky. Hello, hello. Hello, Rocky, you're what's standing between Tyler and Nikita in a wonderful 69 this afternoon. Are you the man for the job? I'm pretty confident. Pretty confident, fairly confident, fairly confident, semi-confident.

Okay, let's do it. We'll make it a threesome. Yeah. Very good. Walked right into that one. Rocky, your buzzer is Trady. Tyler and Nikita, your buzzer is lady.

And the first team to give me three correct answers is going to win 50 bucks cash from KFC. Good luck, guys. Here's question number one. Which artist announced their upcoming album The Life of a Showgirl yesterday afternoon?

Trady. Trady. Rocky. Taking a guess. here we'll go pink? No, not pink. Free guest, Tyler and Nikita?

Sorry, can you repeat the question? No, she's pretty famous. Olivia Rodriguez. No, not Olivia Rodriguez. Taylor Swift is what we were looking for there. No points, anybody. Question number two. Which famous YouTuber has announced

that he's bringing his chain of burger restaurants to New Zealand? Nikita? Nikita? Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast. That's right. You can get a Mr. Beast burger sometime soon.

One point, ladies. Question number three. Who sings this song? Bonkers. Lady. Rocky. Dizzy Rascal. Just confirmed to headline Rhythm in Alps, 2025.

One point each. Question number four. What Formula One team does Kiwi, Liam Lawson, Rocky? Lady, Lady. Rocky. Red ball. Red ball. Oh, ladies.

Tyler and Nikita. V-Carb. These are app cash racing bulls. Yeah, V-Carb racing balls. Well done. Yeah, that part of Red Bull, and he did use to drive for Red Bull, Rocky, but I couldn't give you Red Bull, unfortunately. No. Two points, lady, one point tradie. Question number five.

What side of a ship is known as the Starboard side? Lady Tyler and Nikita Left No Rocky Right Yeah

We're all tied up This is for the win What mountain is Sir Edmund Hillary Famous for climbing first Rocky Rocky Rocky Mount Everest is correct

That is an unlikely Trady victory The 69 will have to wait and Nikita, sorry about that. Sorry to put a dampener. I mean, don't let it stop you. Don't let it stop you, but it won't be on the scoreboard,

is all I'm saying. Does it mean it doesn't count? Yeah, no, it doesn't count. Hey, Rocky, you're a tradie versus lady champion. Congratulations. Thank you. We'll take the pub. We'll take it.

ZD.M.'s Bree and Clint podcast. Our producer Claudia, very bravely revealed to us that she went full Karen mode earlier this week, didn't you, Claude? That brave. That's just who I am as a person. You know that. I have that deep in my soul. I think I know you have it deep in your soul, but I didn't think that you were bold enough

to actually come out and complain about something like this. True. You know, I feel like you would grizzle and gruzzle inside, but to actually pick up the phone and call the customer feedback line and complain about this thing? See, that's where I drew the line. I sent a strongly worded email instead of picking up the phone.

Very different. Because I'm terrified of phones and I would never do that. Tell us what you complained about and why. So I buy a lot of chocolate. I feel like I'm a chocolate connoisseur. And the one that I chose the other day, it was supposed to have like a lovely hazelnut filling. Okay.

Yep. But when I bit into it, it was solid. Like, it's supposed to have a thin shell and nice little creamy centre. But it was like 85% solid chocolate and then maybe 15% soft, yummy centre. You got shrinkflation on the hazelnut filling. Yeah, I totally got shrinkflationed. Okay. And I saw it as a great opportunity for me.

to maybe get something out of it and for the company to know that the product's not up to scratch, right? I think more of the former, less of the latter. Yeah, a bit of both, bit of both, you know, 50-50. So I did go to the website, find the little feedback form and fill it out.

And did you include photos of your... Yes, they asked for so much information. They needed the barcode and the expiry dates and where you bought it and your home address. And I was like, well... A picture of you eating it? And a picture of me not enjoying it. A live review.

You. Some feet picks. Some feet picks. And my cell phone number. Your height, age and weight. Yeah, who you're dating. Your preferences. Yeah, exactly.

No, that's crazy though. Like, I get complaining. But that amount of effort, I just, it puts me off. Well, Ellie, you don't know yet. Because Claudia, what came of this complaint? Right. So, first of all, they sent an email just acknowledging, but then asking for more information.

Christ. Okay. I was like, okay, I'll give it one more and see what happens. But they replied this morning and they're going to send me a gift card. How much? I have no idea. They said it's to go towards your next purchase. Towards the next purchase.

Yes, which they're not going to send a gift card that's like five bucks. Surely not. If it's 50% off your next block of chocolate and you use it. It's a $3. That's humiliating. That's not worth it. I would use it. I don't even reckon I'd do it for one block of chocolate.

Really? Out of principle. I'd be like, nah. Well, if you get a voucher, I'll take it. You get a $2 voucher. Chocolate company. Oh, I'm so interested to know what the compensation is. Because I don't think you're the only one who complains

And I think there are people out there who complain For the sake of complaining Or because they believe they'll get something out of it Like the product was fine And they're like, if I complain I'll get another one Like the people who eat half of their takeaways And then take it back up and they're like, it's cold It's gonna be my next side hustle

Because the endorphins I've got Complaining Yeah, okay I think some people on their birthdays Go around and get all that free stuff That was me as well Okay so you do that But you also do the grumpy Grinch stuff

Yeah well the ultimate version and if that is go to the restaurants that give you a free meal on your birthday, eat it, and then complain about the meal and say it wasn't good enough, so you get another free meal on top of that free meal. But I would demand a voucher because I'm full. I want it later. Yeah, of course. 0,800 dial ZEM.

We want to know this afternoon, when did complaining pay off? What did you complain about and what did it result in? Did they give you more than a refund? Did you, I don't know, did you end up coming out better off than you were in the first place? Legitimate complaints only, but if you want to share them, 0,800 dial Z-M, or you can text your complaint into 9-6-9-6. Just not about us. We're not asking you for feedback this afternoon.

Zed is Franklin. Sorry to the Karen's out there for calling Claudia a Karen. Maybe we should call it a Claudia from now on. I'd love that. If you choose to complain about something minor. Claudia didn't get enough hazelnut and her hazelnut chocolate, so she complained to the company. And they're sending her, quote,

a voucher towards her next block, which we're not even sure if it's a full free. block. I feel like my expectation is $10. Is it? Yeah. Because $5 feels like a waste. How much was the block? Or $4, I think. So you want 250% compensation. Yeah. It's totally fair. So we're asked, when did you complain and did it pay off? Someone said, I bit into a slice from my local bakery and it was moldy. I went back to complain. Thank God I got my $4.50 back. See, I'd want a little bit more. If I've put mould in my mouth, that's when I employ the Claudia system and I want a little bit more. Yeah, that's not compensation. That's just a refund. That's just a

refund. You're right. I had two, look, I'm going to name the company here because this is a good outcome. I had two berry and biscuit Whitaker's blocks that had no berry. I'd done the polite complaint on their site and I received 10 blocks of chocolate and a gold letter from James Whitaker himself turn up, which is crazy because I thought James Whitaker was either dead or mythological. So that's crazy to receive a letter from him. What a great outcome. Let's talk to Kate on our 800 dials at him.

Hi, Kate. Hi. What'd you complain about, Kate? Some fruit bars that I got, and they were a bit moldy. Oh, yeah? And so I emailed the company, and he was really happy I'd actually told them, and he sent me a heap of free stuff from them. That's good.

That's a good outcome. He was talking that I told him. Yeah, and I think a good business will be happy to have it brought to their attention, right? because they don't want to sell moldy garbage, do they? Exactly, exactly. So I did feel like a little bit of a care and complain. But you've got to get over that, right? You've got to think of the greater good.

You've got to go, I'm helping people here. Yep, exactly. Or at least that's what you tell yourself. Thanks, Kate. I bought a flake ice cream and it didn't have a flake in it, so I complained. Fair enough. If there's no flake in your flake, you complain. Probably by email, I got a $10 tip-top voucher.

There you go, Claudia. $10, that's in line with what you're expecting, so that's a good omen. I complained to Wonka as a child, and they sent me a check for $5 to buy another bag of Sherby's. Five dollars, and it's a check. And as a kid, that's huge. Yeah, that's fair. But you've got to bank that. You've got to go to the bank and put it in, but yeah, fair enough.

As a kid, if you got five, yeah, okay. Oh, this is a serious one. I ordered a 2025 Toyota RAV-4. When I picked it up, they gave me a 2024 RAV-4. I complained and returned the car. Hell yeah. If the car's a whole year older than what you're expecting, you definitely return it.

Someone else said, I ordered a drink from a fast food restaurant. I asked for no ice. They gave me a drink with ice. I told them, I said no ice. So they made me a new drink with no ice. Then I asked them, what are you going to do with that drink that had ice in it? And they said, they would throw it away. So I said, well, can I just have that drink as well?

You didn't want it in the first place. They rolled their eyes and said, okay. So I ended up with two drinks Honestly, that's a life hack No, it's not a live hack I'm gonna do that That's petty With like an oat mocker

You made it wrong Oh we're gonna go No no no no that's the wrong attitude No I want a big fat Big sandwich or something From a cafe They make it It's wrong

You want two sandwiches Two full one No that's not what we're encouraging That's not what we're encouraging here Okay ZDN's brain and clint Time for the tea This is the tea

Mr Beast He's been here a couple of times recently He's selling his chocolate in New Zealand And now he's coming to launch a restaurant, Brooke He's slowly washing up onto our shores So as of August 29 There is going to be a Mr Beast burger In Tamakipato, Auckland

Buzzy And they are looking to launch it Into other places like Wellington Christchurch Maybe even Queenstown too So it's going to be in Freeman's Bay Is it a full-time thing Or is it like how In-N-Out burger come and pop up for a day?

I'm not sure, but it's a virtual kitchen. So it's a ghost kitchen. No one's cooking on site. They order apps through apps and like business partners. They order the food to Mr. Beast's Burger, and they all hang out and eat it there. Oh my God, I hate it. It's been done before.

Do you know that this is actually something people do, like a ghost kitchen? No. There's a few other places that do this. So do you go to the restaurant? Not to the restaurant that you're ordering from. You go to Mr. Beast burger. Yeah.

And you get the. the food there. Delivered to you? Yeah. So you can't go to, there's not like a drive-thru? No. Right, okay. Food prepared an existing kitchen and then delivered through the apps via restaurant partners.

It happens at Peter Pituit. They do eggs, which is like an off-brand that cooks at Peter Pituit. They use their kitchen. I don't mean to be a hater, but if there's one thing New Zealand doesn't need, it's another burger franchise. Like, we must have the most burger franchises per head of capita outside of America. Yeah. Have you been to Mark Wahlberg's burger chain?

No. Mark Wahlberg's got one in Auckland. No. It's called Walburgers. Even if my favourite person put out a burger, I wouldn't go to their... I wouldn't go to Charlie XEX Burgers. No, I feel like you would. Yeah, I would.

I downloaded Letterbox because she was on it. Exactly. Exactly right. Well, there you go. If that's your jam, Mr. Beast Burgers coming to Auckland and then maybe the rest of the country soon. Dead Am's Brie and Clint podcast. I was heading up for work. this morning, lunchtime, leaving the house.

And I walked past, it's been well documented on this show, my home gym that I set up over summer. Are you going to gym? I got a bench press. No way. Got some weights. Are you gyming? Yeah, I got some exercise bands.

I got everything. I bought all the gear, all of it. And I looked at it covered in dust and leaves. I had all the gear, no idea. Yeah, it's got my gardening gloves on it at the moment. And I thought, oh, that's right. I was going to, that was a trend I got into. I was going to be a gym guy.

And then I come in today and Claudia is sitting here regretting a major trend as well. And I've got post-trend regret. I've actually fixed the situation too. I bought into a trend and then I've sold it. So I've washed my hands of it. Yeah. Did you get your money back? Yeah, I did.

Did you make any money? No. No. That's okay. That's okay. Yeah. Break even as a win in these things. What is the trend that you bought into and then sold out regretfully?

Well, we actually learned about this on the show yesterday. I got sucked into the Labubu trend. No, you're not already off the Labubu bus, are you? Yeah, so it brought me a lot of joy when I first bought it. I got the one I wanted, and it was like the average price, not the extortionate price. I was like, cool, and spend too much on it, had a bit of fun. But then I was like, realistically, in another month or two, when this trend dies down a little bit, I'm not still going to love it.

So I'm just going to get out now while I can sell it on. and break even. How much did you pay for your Lububu? I bought it for $39. It is outrageous. And how much did you sell it for? $39. Okay.

Yeah. And I sold it to this lovely mother and she's buying it for her child. I'm like, it's in a good place, it's in a good home, and I've broken even. Oh, you could have given the poor lady a discount. Yeah, yeah.

On your dirty use, Labubu. It's still too hot right now, you know? That trend's still in. It does have an outfit as well. It does. It's got a little overalls. I feel like you've got off early, But I guess that's the only way to get your money back in these things, right,

is to get out before they tank. I put it on my bag and I was like, this is silly, it's too big. And my bag's really small, so it was like the same size as my bag. So it just looks really silly walking down the street. And it's raining a lot. I'm like, if this thing gets wet. Yeah, right. Oh, heaven forbid your $39 Labubu gets wet.

I have to buy it a little umbrella. End of the world. I do this, obviously, with the gym stuff, I've done it with lots of things. My wife is in the process of doing it at the moment too. Lucy just bought, I got home the other day and she goes, I have a new hobby. I've just bought a knitting kit. Great hobby.

She ordered it and it arrived. She opened the courier bag. It is sat unused in the courier bag on the end of our bed for about two weeks now. Oh no. And I feel like this trend that she's bought into is over before it's even started. She's waiting for inspiration to strike. Do you have a fireplace? No.

Oh, see, that's what it's missing. You need a rainy day in a fireplace. And a cup of tea. Or mulled wine. It's not the same knitting in front of the heat pump, is it? No. No. What about iPad took and Bitcoin, spent about $10,000 on it.

You did not. No, I bought it in FT, a monkey photo. Did you? No. Stop trying to be a part of this, Ella. You're not. Actually, there's a trend I want to hop on. Yeah.

The beaded one. Have you seen beaded embroidery? No. So you embroider, but you put it. put beads on the thread and you make really cool key rings and blah blah but that's the thing you buy all this equipment and then what it hits so close to getting into like rug tufting as well oh that's a good one but you have to buy the big machine for it we want to know this afternoon the trend that you bought into hard you got everything you got the subscription you got the membership you got all the equipment and how long did that last is there now a pile of

equipment from the last trend that you got into just sitting there gathering dust or you sold it or you lost a bunch of money doesn't matter if you want to tell us the trend that came and went for you we'd love to hear about it this afternoon oh 800 dials at m or you can text your story into 9696 and we can read it out for you the zm podcast network my home gym's gathering dust so is this the cautionary tale is this um motivation to tell people never get into anything ever don't get a hobby, don't get an interest, you're just going to hate it eventually and it will cost you money.

Kate, what was the trend that you bought into big time? When mindful colouring was first starting, I bought all the colouring books, like, you know, the really tiny intricate ones and all the books and all the pens and I thought it would be really nice and relaxing, but all it did was stress me out because it wasn't perfect.

That's so good. That's so good. That's so relatable. Was mindful coloring a bit of a lockdown thing? I think it was even before lockdown where it first started. I've seen it on Instagram and stuff

and you're right. When they do it, they're perfect, right? And you go, oh my God, I could create something like that. Yep. No. No. Okay. Good to know.

There's a pile of mindful colouring books up for grabs at Kate's place if anybody is looking. Yes, Ella. Oh, I'll have it. You want them? Yeah, I've been researching the right pens to get. Okay. And like you could go 10 bucks on T-Mood.

or like spend a hundred dollars. How much did you spend on your pens, Kate? I bought the like fine tip, like, I can't say it, but like Faber Castell ones. Yeah. Very, very excessive, yeah. Well, I'll buy them off you. Ella will give you ten bucks for the whole lot. Thanks.

Someone texted and said mini-disc players and then MP3 came out. Oh my God, throwback. My best friend Adam went so hard on minidisc. He converted his entire CD collection to minidisc. and then that same year the iPod came out and no one ever used minidisc ever again. Jason's here. Hey, Jason.

Hey. What's the trend, bro? What did you get into? Well, it was about 10 years ago and I bought spear fishing gear because I wanted to get some big snapper because we couldn't get big ones. Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's a lot harder than you think, especially when you see sharks. So the week later, I spent $1,200 and a week later sold it all because sharks are just too much. Because you're down there face to face with the actual creatures themselves. Well, it's quite funny because they don't even do anything.

They just swim past you. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, there's still that risk, and I don't want to risk it. I'm going to lose my money. I follow a couple of guys on Instagram and TikTok who are spear fishermen and go out there and they go spear fishing. And they're so good at it that they can go pro themselves while they're sparing fish down there. And they make it look so easy, right, Jason? Yes.

Was that Darren Shields? Because he's the one that sold me on it. Nah, it's Louis Davis. Oh, okay, no, I don't know that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But everyone's got someone. Everyone's got someone who's like, oh, they can do it, I can do it, actually. Yeah, it's, I can't even hold my breath.

There you go, cautionary tale from Jason. Someone said I spent a couple of thousand dollars on fake flowers, greenery and wood to make flower walls during COVID lockdowns. I ended up selling my first one and then I got a message from that person to say it smelled like cat piss. Sure enough, my cat had pissed on it. I gave up after that. Yeah. Yeah, that's hard to come back from that one. Although, you just have to inspect your flower walls before you send them out for cat piss.

Yeah, it's got to give them a sniff test. Definitely. But I get it, I get it. You're high, it's an endorphin rush. Like, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good. It's shit. I'm never doing it again. I've spent a small fortune on my horse.

Yes. Yes, big one for the horse people. And unless you're rich enough to have your horse on site at your house. Oh, then you're travelling as well. Then you're going to travel to the horse. Hey Hey The saddle

Come on Keep going The helmet Are we whipping the horse No Oh okay Don't you squeeze them To make them go faster

Yeah the bit Sugar cubes You dress up like Finnic From the Hunger Games And give it a sugar cube Feed bags I spend a shitload on University

I'm still in it Many dollars gone Many words written Many years to go That's a popular trend with a lot of people. I spent $500 on nail stuff to save my money.

I get that. That's why I put the home gym in. That's why I put the home gym in. I was like, well, if I spend $1,000 setting up this gym, it'll pay for itself. In gym memberships eventually, I spent 500 bucks on nail stuff to save my money and do my own nails.

Nearly gave myself contact dermatitis. I went to my old nail lady who was shaking her head while removing them. She said it's one of the worst jobs she's ever seen. Fast forward six months now and I'm still going to her while I'm too ashamed to even look at my gel

nail polish kit. It's stuff like that, hey, you think it's easy and then you try it yourself and you're like, oh, there's actually a lot of skills. That's why they get paid professionals to do this. This is why I'm paying good money for this. It's like the lady that we talked to the other week who was doing home Brazilians on herself. Do you remember?

Yes. I think it was a lockdown thing. She had a really bad time. And she was like, I'm not going to not have a Brazilian. So she did it herself, but she got stuck and she had to get her partner to come in and finish it off for her. She gets stuck to the toilet seat? That's, that's right, yeah. I don't know

doing her in Brazilian as a hobby, but I'll give it a go. Try anything once. It's ZAM's Brea and Clint podcast. Welcome to our second ever installment of Brooke Explains. Brook Explains. Every day this week we're setting Brooke a challenge to go deep on a topic and explain it to the people.

It's often like a semi-fringed topic or something that is like bubbling away in the zeitgeist. Yesterday we attacked Labuboos. Yeah. Real hot topic. Real hot topic. Which a lot of people would have gone, duh, how do you not know about Labuboos? But at the same time, a lot of people would go, why do I keep hearing about Labuboos? Why is everyone talking about Labuboos? So that was yesterday's one.

Today is the same because this person is all over my feet at the moment And yet when we were putting the show together today Our producer Ella goes Who's the Ibiza final boss? Oh Ella No literally I thought we were talking about the country Ibiza Well he's there Yeah yeah yeah

First of all are you Ibiza or Ibitha? I'm Ibitha Ibitha Baby Yeah you have to be chronic I feel like you have to be chronically online To know the law of Ibiza He's kind of new He's very new

He would have been around for two weeks and his star is going to go way up and then it's going to come crashing down really fast. Yeah, I'd say a few rungs under Hock Tour. Totally. Yeah, yeah, he's not quite global like Hock Tour. Yeah. Because I don't think the Americans get the Ibiza rave scene thing.

No, they don't get much outside the country. He's very Eurocentric. Yeah. But let's start with the facts. What is the Ibitha final boss phenomenon? Okay, so a club over an Ibitha posted a video. Anyone know who this lad is? And it was this guy with the bowl card.

thick glasses gold chain he just stood stood out in this crowd and turkey teeth as well and turk and veneers he had the most perfect set of veneers too perfect yeah yeah and i thought initially the word that popped to my mind chav yeah yeah yeah that is what i thought that was jack he's 26 years old he's from newcastle and it's just popped off you know how someone can just post a random video and it just gets so much attraction yeah that's what's happened to jack his whole life has been turned upside down because he's been deemed the Ibitha Final Boss.

We've heard him talk in recent days and he is Jordie A.F. Like if you watch Jordie Shaw back in the day, that's him. He's from Nucasal. He's a little bit of Ibitha Final Boss's real voice. Abitha, I'm on me where.

That's all we can get out of him. He's signed to the same agent as Joey Essex. Okay. So that's the round. Okay. Like that's the things that this has landed him. Yes. Yes.

He's got, like, hotels are wanting to book him to come over and stay in Ibitha again. Brands are wanting to do deals with him. He's getting private jets. Yeah, yeah. He'll be in Ibitha every weekend for the next. Oh, I reckon he's got at least the summer in him. He'll see the summer out. Do you know what he is the male equivalent of, that girl who was like,

it's 9 o'clock on a Friday, get up, we're going to hide. Yes. And then Hyde hired her to come and say that at 9 o'clock every Friday night for a summer. There's very few people who have been able to turn this kind of 15 minutes of fame into a lasting career. People were hopeful for the hock tour girl. They were like, she's the real deal. And she got the podcast and she got the cryptocurrency.

And now it's over. She sold her Instagram account. Did you know that? Oh, man. Nah, but that's the right thing to do. Oh, because it's over. Rock bottom. I do feel like we're going to find out something terrible about Ibiza boss.

Like no one's done their research into, you know, that meme where it's like, Like, why do we keep making the wrong people famous? Yeah. No one knows this guy's background. No. No one knows. No. But, well, we do a little bit because his girlfriend,

so he was seeing someone called Alicia, a long time girlfriend, they had just broken up because of his partying, of his Ibitha. Yeah. But comes back, now Jack's famous. Everyone knows Ibitha final boss. And now things are rekindling between the two. Bad, no, that's a wrong way to do it, Jack. You think the breakup gods that you broke up.

when you broke up because that way you didn't leave your girlfriend when you got famous No, you were in a vulnerable stay. You had a breakup and then you became famous. And then you were in undated.

And then you're free to be a... Ibitha boss till you die! Playboy International, private jet flying, Ibiza boss, albeit for three months. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it will be the time of your life. You've got to milk it.

And he is. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, there you go. If he comes up on your feed now, I feel like we know a lot more about him after that. I think people are doing their own variations as well of final boss. Okay.

Like, concussion final boss. Or, you know. What are you? Can keep secret final boss. Secret sound, final boss. Secret final boss. There it is. That's Brooke Explains.

Brooke explains. If there's something you're dying for an explanation on, text it to 9696 and we'll put Brooke on the case tomorrow. It's ZM's Brinklin podcast. I saw this clip today of this person pretending to be someone that they're not, but in a funny way. Have a listen to this. This woman just came up to me and she was like, Sandra, oh my gosh, I haven't seen you since high school. I was like, I'm a bit bored, so I went along with it.

And I was like, I know, how have you been? And she's like, you're used to with John? Yeah, I am. She's like, how is he? And I saw I was out the front of a podiatrist. So I was like, he's not too good, actually. He's got a really bad fungal infection in his foot and they might have to amputate the pinky toe. He's not in two good spirits. He'd probably really appreciate a message from an old

friend, which is like, oh yes, no, definitely I'll give him a message. Anyway, if you're John and you're getting a message from a woman that you haven't seen since Haskell about your amputated pinky toe, this is why. So good. It feels like a victimless crime. You know, it feels like mass confusion in that tech circle, but she's never going to have to deal with it. You'd just be devastated. You'd never see the outcome. You're like, oh, set this up and I'm never going to see the conclusion of it. You imagine the back and forth though when she does text John and she's like, hey, sorry to hear about your foot.

And he's like, what about my foot? And I saw Sandra earlier today. She said that you're having your toe amputated. And he's like, we broke up 10 years ago. What are you talking about? Yeah, Sandra, Sandra, she's dead. She's gone, man. She's not dead.

I just saw her outside the podiatrist earlier today. What are you talking about? And then he calls Sandra going, what the heck, why are you telling people these things? No, Sandra's dead. Okay, well he talks to her ghost We want to talk to people Who pretended to be someone that they're not This afternoon

I once pretended to be Irish on New Year's Eve To get a patch Did you? But that doesn't really count Because that's just a fake accent How long did you keep it up for? And why Irish? And can you give us a little taster?

No, I've fallen for this before I'm not doing it Someone told me that chicks dig Irish guys Of course Yeah, straight facts I went with it Well it's true, come on, let's hear it Did it work?

Not doing it. Skittly, diddly potatoes. Come on. Give us your best. A friend of mine once got mistaken for Dan Carter at Eden Park. Oh, compliment. He was at like a club rugby game at Eden Park. He was watching and some kids came over.

And they said, Oi, Dan Carter, can we have a photo? And Mitch goes, what the hell? Sure. Yeah. So, yeah. Of course. So there's a video. So one of our friends saw this happening and decided to video him getting photos with these

kids who thought he was Dan Carter. Oh, those poor kids. Our friend Mitch is very good looking and athletic, but he's not Dan Carter. No. Is it Elijah Wood and Daniel Ragcliffe who used to get mistaken for each other and they would just sign with each other's name? Oh. It was either them or another set of celebrities that look really similar and they would just go

along with it. They're like, yeah, that's me. Why not? Yeah. I think, yeah. The Rupert Grint and share in effect, isn't it? Exactly that. But at least when you were signing those autographs, at least you are a famous person.

That's true. You've at least got someone's face. famous person. I'm thinking like you vaguely resemble, I don't know, Natalie Portman or something. And they come over and like, oh my God, I loved you in Star Wars and you're like, oh, thanks. Thank you. This has happened to me. Someone

seriously stopped me on the street thinking I was Beyonce. And they're like, oh my gosh, Queen Bee! Yeah, Ella was a blackface at the time. No, don't stop it. I was wearing a hat, you see. You know how celebrities wear hats? Oh, that's what it was.

You were wearing your Beyonce. And I did the single dance ladies for them. The single dance ladies. Oh, 800 dial Zidem, if you have pretended to be someone that you're not. Do you, did you go to like a court appearance for your sister and you guys look strangely alike? Do you have a twin and you went on a date with someone who your twin was dating? I don't know. If you've got a story about pretending to be someone you're not, we'd love to hear it.

We asked you guys to call before with stories about when you were pretending to be someone that you're not. Stupid me, the lines are absolutely jam-packed with people trying to get through for secret sounds. So we're going text only on this one. Someone said I was on a Royal Caribbean cruise and I had a little kid tap me on the arm and asked if I was Nicholas Cage. I looked at him and said, yes, you should have seen how happy he was. Absolute gold. Again, that's a victimless crime, right? That kid thinks he met Nicholas Cage.

You got to experience what it feels like to be Nicholas Cage for five minutes. Win, win. Someone said, I got mistaken for Lord when I was in town one night. Some girls said, oh my God, Lord. And I said, no, I'm not Lord, but they still asked me to sing for them on Snapchat for their friends. Were they like, that's not Lord? You are Lord, sing for us. Or were they like, oh my God, let's get this girl who looks like Lord to sing.

I can't figure out which that is. someone said I fake named a guy once at the pub and I didn't think anything of it I guess fake naming is where they go you just give them a pretend name right like fake phone numbering someone I bumped into him a few times again and kept up the pretense

we ended up dating and it became too awkward to admit the truth my real name I actually dated him for a whole year and the few friends of mine that he did meet went along with it I'm not proud of this do we believe that you kept up a fake name with someone you were dating for a whole year

and got other people in on it what if someone slipped up oh that's my middle name I'm pretty gullible but I think that's true I think they did do that I kind of think it's true I think I want it to be true I pretended to be a twin to get out of a date when I met him I had curly hair in the following week I had my hair straightened and he tried to chat me up again and arrange a date again and I pretended I didn't know anything about it just to get out of the date

So you're like, oh my God, you must have been talking to my twin sister. I'm not her. ZM's Bree and Clint Podcast. Chapel Rhone on ZM. She got away. She got away. It's called The Subway. It's new.

It's her song about moving to Saskatchewan, which is a place in Canada. I saw an interview with Chaparone that Zane Lowe on Beats radio did overnight. Chabarone said she's never been to Saskatchewan She's never been there at all So Apparently, Claudia told me this fact So you can actually tell it It's your fact

Allegedly she wants to move there It's called the subway She doesn't want to see a girl on the subway Saskatchewan does not have subways Oh is that way she wants to go to Saskatchewan Yeah right It might also just be because it's real remote And far away

No he asked her He said why Saskatchewan And she goes oh because it rhymes Oh That's her green cleanse Sometimes it's not that deep. This is birthday banger where we tell you the number one song on your 16th birthday, and Stacey's here.

Hi, Stacey. Hello. How's your hump day been, Stace? It's been good, thank you. Yeah? You're on your way home? I'm on my way out for dinner. Ooh, la, what's for dinner?

I'm going to a restaurant, a Chinese restaurant. Delightful. Okay, Stace, let's get you to that restaurant with a birthday banger. what is your date of birth? The 13th of August 91. Okay, Stacey, you were 16 on the 13th of August 2007, and on that day, on your birthday, this was number one. Oh, that is funny.

You've got to be happy with a bit of furggy furg. Yeah, absolutely. Love it. It's good, eh? Also, happy friggin' birthday, Stacey. No wonder you're on your way out to a restaurant. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. I love this song.

There's three of us here that put this thing together. Usually four when Bree's here. And sometimes all four of us miss the birthday phase. I don't know what day it is, all right? I can't believe it were in August. I thought it was much. I know, the years gone real fast. Happy birthday, Stacey.

Happy birthday, Stacey. We were just building up this suspense. Wait there. We're going to do a birthday banger for another, Stacey. Hi, Stacey. Hi. Is it your birthday today? No, mine's April 13, 1978.

Okay. And I'm actually from Saskatchewan. Get off the grass! No, I'm from Canada, but you're on, not Saskatchewan. Get off the fricking grass, Stacey. What are the chances? I don't think we have in the eight-year history of the show, I don't think we've ever talked about Saskatchewan.

And then the one time that we do... Wow. Stacey, are there subways in Saskatchewan? Definitely not, no. Yeah. Plausible fact. Nice. Imagine if she just debunked Claude's fact.

She's like, by the way, Claude's full of shit. Okay, Stace. So when did you say 13th of April 78? Yeah. Okay. You were 16 on the 13th of April 1994. And on that day, this was number one. Banger.

Ace of bass and the sign. Do you remember it? Yeah. Definitely. It's a banger. It feels fresher than 94, but... It should. Yeah.

Because pitch perfect did it. Oh. Yeah, you remember? That'll be it. No. Oh, you haven't watched it. Wait there, Stace. We've got one more birthday banger to do for Kitty.

Hi, Kitty. Hi. How's your day been? Pretty good. How about yours? Pretty good, apart from most forgetting Stacy's birthday, but we got there in the end. You did. Well done.

Thank you. What's your date of birth, Kitty? Let's do your birthday banger. 6th of December, 1976. Okay, Kitty, you were 16 on the 6th of December 1992, and this is your birthday banger. And I will always love you. Huge. Absolutely huge.

You can't not love you. Whitney, right, Kitty? No, definitely not. And actually, Dolly Parton's version, also pretty good, to be honest. Isn't it fantastic? Yeah. You can only have one. You have to erase one from history.

Which one are you getting rid of? Oh, that's a difficult question. Yeah. I can't answer that. No. Because Dolly wrote it and Whitney owned it. Exactly. Okay, wait there.

Wait there, wait there. That is an excellent song that usually wins birthday banger. But there were three excellent songs today, and there's one deciding factor. for me, and that's that it's Stacey's birthday. Any objections? No objections. No objections. It's the right choice. Especially from you guys who forgot her birthday. Stace, have a great dinner out. You're the winner of birthday banger.

Thank you very much. Happy good night. Happy birthday, mate. Brian Clinton, it's Zim. Furgy Furg on Z.M. Brian Clinton, the winner of birthday banged for Stacey, whose birthday is today. That's from the year 2017. We were talking to other Stacey about, are we talking to her? No, we're talking to Kitty about the, um, Whitney Houston. I will always love you track. And she pointed out that she also loves the Dolly Parton version. And I know there were some people out in there and their cars going, wait, there's a Dolly Parton. version of this song there is Dolly wrote it

this is a cover this Whitney Houston version is a cover Is this news to you Ella yeah So she didn't just write it She also released it And then Whitney was like

Yo can I cover it Whitney Whitney fight it Yeah hard No way This is the Dolly Pardon version Oh that's more singable will always love you It's a whole different vibe

Oh, I like it But it is very beautiful Country Country, yeah, yeah, yeah So there you go, that's a fresh episode of Clint Mansplains music Can you do that again? This needs to a segment, yes

Okay, we'll look into it. Like covers that overtook the original song Oh yeah, okay That's good But about the Shenade O'Connor Nothing compares to you Save that for tomorrow Save that for tomorrow

ZDM's brain and clench No Bree this week She's back with us on Monday She's currently hitting the sloops Carving up the pow-pour So what snowboarders say or skiers Carving up the pow-pow Hey some of the country's

brightest secondary school students have over the last week been competing in maths competitions around the country. And it's very confronting when you realize that you're worse than something as an adult than a child. You know, it happens semi-regularly when you have like your once-in-a-generation stars come through like a Lydia Coe or a lord. But when you realize that there's entire competitions of kids out there who are smarter at things like maths than you'll ever be, it does make you take a little look at yourself in the mirror and go, could I have tried harder at school? I should have been better. Could I have done more?

We're going to try our best this afternoon. I think we go Claudia versus me. And Ella, you can be the headmaster. Yeah, because we all know I would get 0% on this. No. I mean, not. No, you're good to bother things. I totally didn't cry in my math exams, not in all.

And I totally didn't purposely put my tear stains on the test so they knew how much pain I was in. Of course you didn't. Nah, so I'm the host. Welcome to my math show. Woo! Hello everyone! It's great to be back on this sexy Wednesday evening. I have two players here. Clint Roberts and Claudia Sykes, ready to go head to head. Ready.

Ready. All right. Ladies and gents, we're going to start easy and we're going to ramp up to double digits. I'm quite double digits. I'm nervous now. But I can do it. I'm cool, calm and collected. Let's go, headmaster Ella. Here we go. Just yell them out. Don't even buzz in. Just yell out the answer. Six times four.

24. Claudia got that. Wait, I'm going to do a point system. Claudia and Clint. Okay. Claudia got one point. Thank you. Eight times seven.

Um, eight times seven. Wait, 28. 456. Okay, that's another point for Claudia. Is it? Oh. Nine times three. 27.

27. 27. Claudia got that 7 times 12 Wait, slow down 7 times 12 17 14 84

Wow, Claudia got that 5 times 5 25 Come on I give that to you 5 times 0 0 5 times 0

5 got that too Yeah Okay Now we're going to harder But I actually thought this would be easy So I don't know how this will go It's been easy so far 14 times 12.

This is bad. 12, 12, 144. You're distracting me. 14, 12, 24, 12, 24, 14. 168. Distracting me with all these numbers you're throwing out. It just gets harder from here on out. 25 times 16.

Oh my gosh. 375. No, that's particularly wrong. higher than that. What was it, 25 times 16? I'm going to ask chat GPT for more easier ones. 250.

250. 300. It's 400. None of you get it. It's 400. It is 400. Oh, of course it's 400. All right, chat GPT is giving me more

simple digits. Two times three. Six. What do you got that? Four times five. 20. Yeah. Six times.

to 12. Okay. Is that quick? Are you here? Yeah. No, I can't make fun of you. It's hard. It's hard.

I hate times tables. Do you like fractions or division? You know what? I like working out a maths problem. I don't like to do it under pressure. Yeah. Like I like sitting there and working out my own way of working it out. I don't perform well under pressure in this situation.

So I wouldn't be a math late. Do you say, would you say you don't perform under pressure full stop? It has been said, yeah. Anyway, congratulations, Claudia. Thank you very much. You are smarter than me. Yay, we all knew it. Put that on the mental face.

We'll see you next week on Mathletics. Yay. I read a story today on stuff, I think, which contained the five things that you should do every morning to set yourself up for the best. best day possible and I thought we could go through these five things and see how many of them we're doing to see if we're setting ourselves up for the best day possible I wonder I'll put the bets in and say I'm doing the least of these do you don't think you've got a good morning routine

no I don't I genuinely don't I have a terrible non-existent routine I don't know which one's worse out of us too yeah so we'll find out yeah let's find out there's a five things that you can do every day and if you do all five you're going to give yourself the best chance at having the best day this is good the first thing you should do is you should choose what's called a pleasant anchor. Choose one thing that you enjoy and do it every single morning, whether it's like your morning coffee moment, a warm shower,

listening to your favourite radio show, reading a quote or poem, it suggests, or going for a brisk whip around the block with the dog. Any of us doing those things? I'm doing multiple of those each morning. Yeah, you've got a really good routine down. I'm reading a lot of poetry in the morning.

I always get up and make a cup of teas. You do the first thing I do. I quite like that. Do you look forward to it? Yes, I do. And when I have my dog, I take him on a little hiccoy around the block. Oh, you've got shared custody of the dog, don't you? Yeah.

Okay, yeah. You can count it. Number two, you should believe, this is a bit woo-woo this one, but they swear by it. You should believe that something wonderful is going to happen. You should believe it so much so that they recommend. standing in front of the mirror and saying something wonderful is going to happen. I can't do that stuff. Something wonderful is going to happen.

If you say it three times, does it become true? Well, that's the idea, is that it's mind over matter. The point is being intentionally positive. That's what I like. Yeah. I have heard the power of positive thinking, but. I've read into it a bit where they talk about your brain being quite stupid. Correct.

Your brain will believe what you tell it. Yeah, right. So if you keep saying to your brain, you're like, I am happy, I am grateful, I am hot, whatever. Your brain will be like, yeah, yeah. But you need to believe it for your brain to believe it, I think. You do that, you look at your bum and you go, I got a good bum. I do, I look at my bum a lot. Then you're good.

Number three, the third thing you can do every morning to set yourself up for the best day. Get dressed once. So when you dress yourself, make sure that's the outfit you're going to be happy with. Don't get dressed, walk around the house and go, oh, I hate this outfit. You can't control that, though. What if you're not feeling that one that's... The fabric feels off. So, they've got advice for that.

Because I agree. Sometimes you put some stuff on and you're like, I thought this is going to be good. This looks shit. Yeah. They say, if you're susceptible to that, you should lay out your outfit the night before. But what if you've done it the night before

and you're like, yes, this is the one. This is tomorrow me. And then you put it on in tomorrow you is not the same person you were last night. Or the weather's not quite right. You're too cold. There are a lot of variables. I agree.

You've realized there's a stain on it. I agree. Maybe the advice is just get dressed once and be happy with it. Don't look in the mirror. True. Get over it. You know those people that don't have a full-length mirror in their house? Oh, I couldn't handle it.

No, that used to be me for ages and then finally I got one, life-changing. You're like, oh my God, that's what my legs look like? Yeah, yeah. Party. Fourth out of five things you can do every day to set yourself up for the best day ever. Attack chaos with the one-minute rule. The one-minute rule suggests doing all the tasks in your path if you can do them inside one minute. So like cleaning up, your space.

Yes, do a one minute clean and just do as much as you can in a minute. Yeah. Or if there's dishes, just do as many of the dishes into the dishwasher as you can in one minute. That's quite good also because you don't realize that things are going to be so quick. Like I put off emptying the dishwasher. Realistically, it only takes a couple of minutes. It's so quick. Yeah, I know. I'm the same.

Yeah. It's like a 90-second job. Yeah, it's so quick. That's really true. Reply to as many emails as you can in one minute. Oh, but that's my day job. It helps you feel more productive, less. overwhelmed and more serene.

I don't see how because that sounds like the most stressful minute of my day. If you get a flurry of poorly spelled emails for me in the morning, just know I'm trying something new, okay? Just know that she's attacking chaos with the one minute rule. I'm setting my day up for success. The fifth and final thing you should do every morning to set yourself up for the best day possible is prioritise legs and lungs. It says people don't have time for a full body workout before work, most people.

we do but it's a different we're different so instead you should focus on legs and lungs your legs are your stability and your lungs are your life force so if you're short on time you should stretch your legs do some squats

and fill your lungs with a few deep cleansing breaths when am I working on my biceps in your own time at night yeah yeah yeah in your own time yeah no you got a solid routine that's your after work session I like I get what it's saying

It's basically saying self-talk is important. Don't overthink e-mails or the dishes. Some exercise is better than no exercise. It's kind of a no-brainer. And give yourself something to look forward to. I think that's the big one. So if you've got something to get out of bed for, then that's going to help. It would be my coffee.

I just got a little filter thing. It's awesome. Treat yourself. Yeah, hell yeah. Hopefully that helps. And send us a video of you saying something wonderful. is going to happen in the mirror, if you dare. We would love to see it.

It's ZM's Breenclint podcast. Thank you for another fun afternoon. We can now reveal that tomorrow special guest, co-host of the Brian Clint show will be none other than rugby world cup champion Ruby Toey. Ridiculous stuff. I'm quite nervous to meet her. Have you never met Roobes?

No. Oh, she's awesome. Come in, but we were like, I can't talk to her. She's too cool. Really? Yeah. Well, she's very nervous, too. Okay.

We can bond over that. We can boss her around. Or she would boss us around. No, we can boss her around. Okay. No one needs to boss anyone around. Oh, yeah, let's just do that. We could all just have a fun time.

Yay. I didn't know you were close with her like that. It's pretty cool. It's her first time doing a full radio show. So everyone would be nice. I already know she's going to be great. She is. That's why I asked her.

Do we have any rules? No fart chat. That's to me. and gently. Yeah, either in slowly and nicely. But the main fart is not here, so we're all good on that front. Ruby Tui joins us for a special edition of the Bree and Clint show tomorrow. We'll catch you guys then.

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