ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM's Bree & Clint Podcast - 16th March 2026

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

Announcing... The Roast of Bree and Clint! Live in the Comedy Festival.  What was your ride or die moment?  How bad was your sports team?  NZ's Unofficial National Anthem round of 16.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZDM's Brie and Clint, the podcast. Zidems, Bree and Clint, thanks to KFC. ZDM's Brie and Clint. I change your life if you just live on me tonight. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the Brea and Clint show. Gidey guys.

Happy Monday. How's a fuel crisis going, everybody? You know, I went past my gas station on the way to work today. Yes. It's sold out of 91 and 95. What, completely. There was nothing left. Yeah.

Because you can tell when they have, and you'll see this driving around at the moment, they take the numbers off the board. So there's just, there's 91, it's blank. Diesel, they had diesel, and then they had 95, blank. I have never seen that before, ever. It's Cisbury. Once again, we are living in unprecedented times. Well, I'm sick of living in unprecedented times.

Me too. When can we live in precedented times? Bring back precedent. Please, that'd be a good political slogan, eh, for this election that's coming up. I'll bring back precedent. And it rolls off the tongue. Yeah. Hey, we've got a big announcement on the show today at 5 o'clock.

What do you think it is? I mean, I have an inkling. Yeah. Because I actually know what it is. Yeah, well, it's actually your idea. Yeah. But it is a big announcement. Wait, are you trying to distance yourself from the idea in case it fails?

No, never. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Before we even announce it, we are a team. Both of our names are on the show. If I go down, you go down. No one on this show is getting on the door. Both of us are in that freezing cold water and we're sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

Oh, God, damn it. Okay. It is a big announcement. I am contractually obliged to be a part of it. And it is something that we have never done before as the Brian Clint show ever. It is very scary, but also very exciting. It's definitely going to put us outside our comfort zones. That's for sure.

And maybe our egos will never recover. You can be a part of this too. That's the exciting part. And we will reveal all in our big announcement, 5 o'clock on the dot. Plus, we've got an Alex Warren double pass to give away to his Auckland or Christchurch shows after 5 o'clock. Plus, we're still looking for the alternate national anthem,

the unofficial national anthem of the country. So it's all happening. have got our foot on the gas pedal and we are not slowing down. We'll go to Trady versus Lady first. Score update as of Friday the Trades were on 16 and the ladies are on 23. Play ZDEM's Bree and Clint. This is the main event. Trady versus Lady.

Another week of Trady versus Lady where the ladies are still quite way out in front on 23. The Trady's on 16. Our ladies in the Garden City. She's 18. Her mum played Tradyverse Lady twice last week. She was the one that we had to bring back in that controversial game. Gemma. Gemma, yeah, that's right.

Please welcome to the show, Maya. Hi, Maya. Hi. Were you proud of your mum's redemption round last week? Yeah, it was. It's funns that she lost it first time. God, your house will be doing well if you take this one out, Maya. So good luck.

You're taking on our Trady's. today from Wellington. She is 22 and she's a four-time gold medalist for the Special Olympic swimming team. Please welcome to the show, Nina. Hi, Nina. We always ask for a fun fact from someone. A very fun fact. That's a genuinely amazing fact. Can we ask Nina, what types of strokes are you doing? I mainly compete in freestyle. Okay, wow. I do the races I compete and normally 50 metres, but they could be up to 1,500 metres. Whoa. You're doing the 1,500?

Yeah, the 1,500 sometimes. Well, it's an honour to have you on the show, Nina, the gold medalist. Your buzzer is tradie. Maya, your buzzer is lady. Actually, let's go with names today. Nina and Maya, those are your buzzers. And the first person to three correct answers gets that $50 cash from KFC. Here we go, guys.

Best of luck. Question number one. What is our show sponsor, KFC's slogan? Maya. Nina. Maya just got in there. Finger looking good. Well done.

It is finger licking good. Well done. One to the ladies. Question number two. Which of these teams did the Warriors beat on Friday? Was it the Broncos? The Raiders or the eels? Maya.

Raiders. God, they spanked them too, didn't they? Smocked them. In that second half. Two to the ladies. You need this one, Nina, to stay in at. Question number three. Buzz in when you can tell me who sings this.

Maya. Mena. Ali Golding. Wow, what an absolute barnstorming win for the ladies today. You had all the answers, but Maya, you were just too bloody quick. Thanks so much, Maya.

That's another win for your family in the lady column of Trady versus Lady. Are you guys going to quit your jobs and just do this for a living? I think we might have to. I think you need to, yeah. And Nina, don't worry, you have four gold medals from the Special Olympics. Yeah.

You've got that to rest on, you know? Much better than a winning tradie versus lady. Arguable, yeah. ZDM's Bree and Clint Podcast. What's the big announcement that you guys keep talking about? Okay, okay, okay, okay. I don't think I'd be this nervous. It's been in the works for such a long time,

and it's been a secret that I don't think. I mentally prepared myself where I'm like, oh, that's right. And then we're going to announce it. And then we have to do it. And then we're committed now. Someone just texts in and said, guys, I hope you are about to tell us that Westlife are coming to the country. Well, prepare to be disappointed. It's not that.

Look, we have, and this is all locked in. There's no turning back now. on May 8th of this year, we will take part in a comedy show in the Comedy Fest titled The Roast of Bree and Clint. At first, I thought this was going to be about us roasting people. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It'll be you and I on the stage and we will be. the ones getting roasted by the best comedians available at the time from New Zealand

one by one they will get up on stage and take their best shots at us. And you might go, oh, what a fun idea, Brian Clint. That'll be a fun thing to do in the radio studio. No, no, we've booked a venue. And you might go, oh, cool, it's your first time doing this. Maybe you'll get a little venue like the classic or, you know, just something small.

Something small. The loft. No, no. We have booked a 400 seat theatre for the roast of Bri and Clint. It's the big one. 400 seats. Q Theatre, the big hooer. We went there the other day. Yeah.

A lot of seats. Very big theatre. A lot of seats. Some of the comedians we've locked in already, very excited. Yeah, and I'm really interested to see how hard they go roasting us. Because the stage is theirs. Once they get up, we will be there. We will be on stage.

And we won't have a microphone. We don't have a write of reply. You guys have seen this on TV. You've seen the roast of Justin Bieber. You've seen the roast of Tom Brady was a big one on Netflix recently. That was recently. That's the model. Yes.

That's what's happening. That's what we've signed up for. So we need to, over the next however many weeks see our thick our skin is. We need to just, you know, test it out just to get, you know, game ready. Yeah, yeah. We're very excited about it. We've never done anything like this before. We're excited and scared.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's a couple of things to be scared about. It's a huge theatre that we have to sell out. And we're going to be ripped apart by comedians. What could go wrong? What could go wrong? The tickets for this are going to go on sale this Friday.

Yes. From Comedy Festival.com.n. And you'll be able to get your tickets to be there. Like we said, on the 8th of May. We've put it on a Friday evening so that as many people can come to this. as possible. Yes. And we would love to be you to be there, one for the show and also for moral support, I think.

A bit of both. Yeah. A bit of both. We're going to, over the next however many weeks, drip feed you the comedians that are in the lineup. I'm excited to reveal some of these comedians. Which is pretty exciting. And some other bits and pieces that we've got planned, but it's, yeah.

Can I ask people a favour? If you can, if you have an idea of who you think would be a great comedian to invite to this roast because we still have a few spots. Can you go and post it on the Instagram post? Yes. The poster has just gone up on our page right now. If you jump in the comments and tell us which comedians or even tag the comedian that you think would be great to be on this roast.

Who would you like to see? Who do you want to see? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not nervous laughing. Tickets go on sale on Friday. That's the roast of Brian Clint. That is Brian Clint.

If you have missed it, I recently got engaged. And very exciting time. My fiancé and I. Yeah, we're still engaged. Yeah, no. Still engaged. Why would you ask that? Oh, free will.

What? Just don't know. For who? For her? Me or her? Why did you say her first? Mainly for the thing you were about to talk about. But, you know, I'm happy for you.

Explain the story you're about to tell. And then tell me I'm a bit. bad guy for asking that question. No, I think the story I'm about to tell is nice story. It's a story of loyalty. It's a story of trust and a story of boundaries being pushed. Ride or die vibes, you know? I know for a fact, I'm engaged to my ride or die because over the weekend, we were in the city. We had a nice little brunch and then we had to go pick up a birthday present for our little niece because we're going to her birthday party.

And so we were like, oh, I think there's a warehouse close to where we were and we can go pick up, you know, a toy from the warehouse. And so we went down into the city and, you know, we'd been out the night before for our symphony warm-up party. That's right. And so I'd had, you know, I wouldn't say I was hung over, but I had a few drinks the night before. Yeah.

A little bit dusty. And at a certain point when we walked into the warehouse, I was like, oh, I'm. no, I need to go toilet now, like right now. And I said to her, I was like, I'll leave you here, I need to go find the toilet, and that's kind of... Do the warehouse have a toilet for public consumption? This is the thing, I don't think so. Yeah.

Well, this one did not. Right. But I wasted about two minutes looking for one around this warehouse. And when I realized, okay, there's no toilet in here, it became pretty dire because then I've walked back into the, like, where we were, it's like kind of like a shopping centre, and then I knew that there was a food court. So I was like, that's where I need to go. Because there has to be a toilet near the food court.

I think legally there has to be a toilet near the food court. And then, so I made a mad dash for the toilets for the food court, but then I couldn't figure out which escalated to go down and things. It was a nightmare. Anyway, eventually I made it to the bathroom and got there in time. It was all good. but it was when after I'd been to the toilet, I had this thought where I was like,

oh, it would be quite funny if I pranked my partner and I sent her a text message and said, hey, I didn't make it to the bathrooms. Can you please buy me a pair of undies and bring it down to the toilet? The stages set. She already knew that you left in a mad panic. Exactly. And that wasn't put on.

That was real life panic. And she is at the home of emergency undies, the warehouse. Yeah. So, I mean, this stuff writes itself. So I've sent her this text and she has texted back saying, oh, oh, no. Yep. On it. So I knew she was going to the underwear section at that point.

She didn't ask any questions. She just sprung into action. Just literally. In your hour of need, she was there. I'm going to be there for her and I'm going to just do it. exactly what she says. Anyway, at this point, I've made my way back from the bathrooms back to the warehouse.

And so I've looked up at the signs and I've realized where the underwear section was. And I was like, I'm going to go up there and film her. Picking out some emergency undies for you. Some emergency undies. And here's what happened. You're so mean. I know you were serious.

There you, my. And she's funny. That's right or die right or die. Ride or die. That is right or die behaviour. She's a keeper. She is a keeper. No questions asked.

She just went straight to that underwear section and bought me a black pair of undies. I really, as much as I think that is risky, that's a risky thing to try with your partner. I do kind of want to know how my wife would react. I would love to know. Because do I believe that she would get me emergency indies in my hour of need? Of course she would. Absolutely she would. Yeah.

But would she have made it as seamless and as guilt-free as your partner did? I don't think she would. Probably not. I think she would have let me marinate both metaphorically and physically for a little bit. She would have made you sweat down there for a bit. Yeah, 100%. But it's a good test of if your partner's a ride or die or not, I think. Oh, yeah.

You know? Uh-huh. If they will go to the underwear section and buy you an emergency pair of undies. Yeah. Yeah. I thought we could ask this afternoon, what was that moment for you in your relationship where you were like, this person is my ride or die? The thing that happened and they were just there for you.

Yep. They just sorted it out. They understood, they got it and they took care of it, you know? Which is exactly what you need in those moments. It may have entailed a bathroom emergency? Might have. It may have not. But if you have an example you would like to share of your right or die moment in your relationship,

We'd love to hear about it this afternoon. 0800 dials at M, or you can text your story to us on 9-6-9-6. Who's got your back? Why and when? How much were the undies she was getting in? Oh, this is the cheap pair. Yeah.

I feel you. ZD.N's Brie and Clint. I really tested my relationship on the weekend, and my fiancé passed with flying colors, Clint. Bree texts her fiancé from the toilet saying she'd had an emergency and she needed a replacement undies. and she went to buy them for you. No questions asked.

Not a question asked. No question to ask. She was like, yep. Someone's raised a really good point on the text machine. They said, Bree, do you think you may have activated the cry wolf scenario? Which means that should you have a real toilet emergency in the future, she's going to see the text where it goes, help, I need replacement undies. And she's going to go, not this time.

And she'll just put the phone back in her bag. And she'll go, not this time. I'm not falling for the phone. that again. Well, what is the saying? You pooed in your undies, now you have to wear them. That is, that is the saying. That is the saying. That is the saying. That's the old saying from the 20th century. That's what they used to say back in the day. Back in the 1800s? Back when they did. You pooed your undies? You pooed those undies? You wear them. You wear them. And they did back then. They didn't even have washing machines or the warehouse. We want to know what was the thing that

made you realize your partner was a ride or die. Beth's on the line. Hi, Beth. Hi, Beth. Hello. Walk us through it. What happened, Beth? When did you figure that out?

Well, actually, it's my best friend relationship. Oh, okay. Yes, that can be a ride and die relationship as well. Yeah, yeah. So she'd messaged me. She'd gone into labor. And so I went around to her house and kind of cleaned up all the pre-birth situation, shall we say. Did you really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she could, you know, come back with baby to a nice clean house. God, that you are a true ride or die. Beth, are you calling through to nominate yourself as a ride or die? Yes, she is. I realize I am, yes. That's okay, that's okay. But she's my ride or die because I would do anything for her, I guess.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And you can do anything now, can't you? Yeah. And she'll have to clean it up. She, to be honest, she was at my birth and I made her take videos and photos of everything. Okay, you guys are even. Yeah, you guys are even.

That's good. I like that. Sam's here. Hi, Sam. Hi, Sam. Hi, how you going? Good. Are you the right or die or is your partner the right or die?

I'm the right or die. Okay. What did you do? How do you know that you're the right or die? So this was before my wife and I got married. But we were on a night out. I had a few too many juices. And she felt like she was dying.

But she was a bit too scared to do a tacky. So I ended up putting my fingers. down her throat to give her a tacky. Sam. For those unfamiliar with the street lingo, Sam, a tacky is a tactical vomit, isn't it, to keep yourself going? I believe it's

formal name is a tackyak. Oh, attack yak. Yeah, yeah, right. And you were willing to do that for her, were you, Sam? Yeah, must have been the moment I knew I was going to marry you, so who knows. You should have proposed. You should have proposed in that moment. You should have gone... I really should have.

Will you marry me? That's so romantic, Sam. Can I ask how long into the relationship was it when this all happened? Good question. That was literally a year and a half. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're in the safe zone. Yeah.

You're in the, you know, what's the zone where you can get the yik, you reckon? Six months, Sam? Yeah, probably six months. The six months zone, eh? Yeah, yeah. Before the shine comes off. Yeah. Once the shine starts to come off a bit, then you can do these things.

You can make each other. If you make it past a certain time frame. Tack yak. Yeah, the eck is off the table. My partner delivered our first. We asked you, how did you know your partner was a ride or die? Someone said, my partner delivered our firstborn on the side of the road, on the way that the maternity suite,

hugged our newborn, then hugged me, and I realized that that man had our back through anything. I've got goosies. That is so cool. That's awesome. You also giving him a lot of the credit. You birthed the baby on the side of the road. road.

He was from me looking at you too going, she just had out, she's incredible. She just had our child on the side of the road. Yeah. She's my ride or die. That would definitely bring you closer together that moment. Yeah. Wouldn't it? Yeah.

Thanks, guys. That's a good chats. Ella has a story that she wants to share about, in her words, carking it on the weekend. She goes, guys, it's funny. Okay. Have you fallen over again? Maybe. We'll hear about that after the break.

Also, our Hollywood correspondent, D McCarthy,'s got the Goss from the OS. Giz. On Z-M's Breed and Clint podcast. Our producer Ella's not been very well recently. She was down a couple of days last week's sick. And then she said to us that she carped it over the weekend. Yeah, whoopsie daisies. What happened, Ella?

Well, guys, as you know, I am a bit of a fainter. Well, I didn't really know that. I've never seen you faint. No, I've never done it at work, touch wood. No, I picked you for a fainter, though. You know, people have got big fainting vibes? She does have fainter vibes. My wife is a fainter.

Is she? You give fainting energy. Yeah, and that's the three things I've noticed in my life. When I do faint, you have to have food, sleep and water. And if one of those things are missing... Fainting time, baby. What do you think are the characteristics of a fainter? Low iron?

No, like, you know when you say, oh, she's got the energy of a fainter? Oh, okay. Like, is it just vibe? Is it like physical appearance? Like what, like, is the beacon? Yeah, I don't mean it in a terribly disparaging way. It's just a fainter to me. Like, you're not a fainter.

I don't think so. You are robust, you know? Are you calling me weak? You're strong as houses, you know? Yeah. Okay, I appreciate that, I think. Ella? Yeah.

She's more of a delicate flower. Oh, take it. That's how I would describe Ella. Like a strong gust of wind would just knock her down. Damsal in distress. Shut up. You know? Highly capable.

Yeah. But at the same time. Apart for a bit there is... A bit flimsy. Well, this won't help my case. So what happened was I was like, it's time to get my nails done again. So I went to my first, like a new nail lady place. And I was like...

Oh, you had that nail disaster last time. What happened last time? Yeah. Wasn't that the place that you got ripped off? Hmm. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah.

Nothing happened at the last nail appointment. Anyway, sorry, I'm distracting from the story. Anyway, you've gone to a nail place. Gone to a nail place and my goodness, just sitting there again, the three things weren't there. Food, sleep, water. So I'm like feeling quite hot. And then I'm like, oh no, I can't see. Wait, did you just faint at a nail appointment?

Yeah, I had to stand up and go, oh, sorry, I'm fainting. I can't see. And lie down. But the reason why I'm telling the story is what happens after. Okay. My husband Ryan, bless him, usually does anything I ask for of him. He goes, I can't pick you up, babe. I've just had a big, big run.

I cannot run to you. It was a seven-minute drive. So I was like, can you run to me, please? He doesn't pick me up. And I'm not capable to drive. And so guess what happens? What happened? The Nails Lady boyfriend drives me home in my car.

And the nail lady, who I just met, follows behind us. So she can bring her son home. My description of damsel in distress, I think, was spot on the money. I would, I would, I would rather, I would rather die than ask this person I'd never met if her boyfriend can put me in his car to drive me home. No, in her own car. Oh, in your car. The boyfriend drove Ella's car. Oh, nah.

And the nail lady followed in the other car. Why didn't you just get an Uber? I thought that too, but she offered and I was like, the weirdest bit of it. walk home. We've literally just stopped. We've literally just finished talking about ride or dies. I know.

Your husband wouldn't travel seven minutes to pick you up from the nail appointment and just said, nah, get the lady's son to drive you home and stay. No, well the poem is is they have one car. Yeah.

So he would have to run there. And I said run, please. It's seven minute drive. And then, Clint, think about it. He's just been on a big run. They're both vegans. So then he would have fainted. Oh, I didn't think of the double fainting potential.

And then the boyfriend of the nail salon lady would have had to drive both of a home. Honestly, the drive, by the way, was so quiet. I tried to make small talk. Yeah, what are you going to talk about? Honestly, I said, oh, so you've moved to Auckland. How's that been?

Also, we were Mapsing to go back to my place. I don't know why I was Mapsing. I know where I live. My goodness gracious. Have you had food? What have we said? Yes, I have had food. You need to buy some iron tablets.

Please, for the love of God, I will buy them for you. Yeah, please. I will. Okay. Just buy her a kilo of mints. No. Tofu.

We'll get us some iron tablets. We'll get those into her. Hopefully you'll be less fainting. I don't know how I'm more disappointed in this, I'd be honest. Less damseling, for God's sake. I love that. I'm a little princess. Next minute, you'll start.

So I was up in this tower. Brecklen is Harry Styles. The ZDM Podcast Network. Let's get to L.A. for the Goss on the Oscars. The Tea, live from L.A. with Dean McAfee. Dean, it's Hollywood's biggest day. What's going on over there?

Oh, my goodness. It is wild here in Hollywood today. It's been an incredible Oscars. They're just about to announce Best Picture. And it is, I'm so happy. Let me talk about some of the winners already. Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor, which I'm so excited about. Jesse Buckley won Best Actress for Hamlet, which is obviously so well deserved.

The K-pop, I've always got blank of the name, the K-pop Demon Hunters, yeah. Yes, and they also won best original song as well. A bit of an awkward moment when they were doing their acceptance speech and the music people and the lighting people just cut them off. It's a bit awkward. Oh. That's going to be in the headlines tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Timothy Shalamey sitting there next to Kylie Jenner, was not impressed when he didn't win. But you know what? That's pretty fair, pretty normal. And literally, as we speak, hold on one second. Let's see if it's actually being a nice. They had just about to announce. They've won.

One battle after another has one best picture. Not surprise. Right now. Well, there you go. Leonardo DiCaprio was up for best actor for that one, but Michael B. Jordan got up for sinners. That was the one that Chamalais was up for as well. And there was all this controversy around it, right, Dean,

because he's been targeting, he wants this Oscar so bad. He's outwardly said he wants the best actor Oscar. And then he was disparaging towards the arts and the lead-up to the Oscars. And people said that ruined his charm. Yeah, yeah, he's, yeah, you know, it's a whole, there's a whole campaign that goes into winning me. It is a whole strategy that takes about a year. So just like you said, when they, when they go rogue or they, they off-put people, it can definitely work against them. So, yes, that is what can happen.

I mean, he'd be pretty gutted because he said he trained for 10 years for this movie, for the Marty Supreme movie. 10 years of his life. I don't think he... That's what he said, isn't that? I haven't seen... Yeah, I haven't seen the film. But should a ping pong movie win it over... I've seen the film.

Is it good? That's all right. It doesn't kind of go anywhere or really have an ending. Yeah. Which I, you know, it's a long movie too. Crazy security around the Oscars this year as well, isn't it, Dane? Oh, wild security.

There were helicopters everywhere today. I was trying to do radio crosses, and you couldn't hear a thing because there's helicopters, chapering everywhere. Yeah, security ever. In fact, I'm I'm dressed right as we speak in a full tux. I'm going to the Elton John after party. Yes, Dean.

And what you have to do is so wild. We have to go to this like, not secret location, but it is kind of a single location. And they have to give us this pass for our cars. And it has to go in the window. And then you have to swap cars into one of their, like, you know, those escalates, like an forward drive. And then they take you through like a security thing.

It's like you can't just go in your own car. It's a whole thing. God, I'm surprised they keep inviting you back to these things, Dean, with the amount of insider goss that you tell us. Well, this thing is... It's a bit tomorrow in Australia to talk about what happened. You're not allowed to talk about what happening there. So this may be our last cross ever.

Wow. Wow. They can ban Dean from Elton John's after party. It doesn't matter. Dean's got access to the back door. He can just get him. Yeah, sure get it. And also, Dean, all the best.

All the best and good luck with Elton John hopefully adopting you tonight. Thank you. I will be hitting on his husband, David, Spanish. Very hard. That's the T. With our man in the know, Dean McCarthy. It's ZM's Brea and Clint podcast.

NZ's unofficial national anthem. We're on a quest to find the unofficial national anthem of New Zealand, and our plan is to play it on stage at Symphony Festival. this weekend in front of 35,000 people. Yes, to celebrate. And we expect everyone to put their hand over their heart and sing it with us.

We started out with 32 songs, which was hard enough to get the list down to 32. Over the weekend, those songs have been going head to head on our Instagram story, and you've been able to vote on all of them. And we have removed half of those songs already. Just gone. Like that. No coming back. See you later.

Yeah. Some of them I thought were obvious. Some of them I was like, yeah, those are both great songs, but there's no way that song is beating that song. And some of them, a bit more controversial. And look, I understand. I know there was one battle you were particularly upset about. I understand.

I'm not refuting the democratic process. I'm not Donald Trumping it and saying throw out the election results. But I would like justice for Dane Rumble. Dane Rumble got smoked by Tiki Tani. Didn't even get it looking, really. 70-30. Yeah. So.

It was pretty definitive. I was looking forward to getting, I was actually about to message Dane and get him on the show this week. And thank goodness I didn't. Producers, did you hear the name drop from Clint there? Did you hear it? Oh, we're Instagram. We're Instagram friends. Well, guys, I was going to message Dane and ask him to come on the show, but I can't now.

We're boys. So, you know, I'm not going to do it now, am I? It's just embarrassing. after telling me lost to Dickie Dane. Anyway, justice for Dane Rumble, cruel. I also have to say justice for one of my favourite New Zealand songs ever. I'm going to say that as a statement, in colour, shape, shifter. I've taken down by Fat Freddy's Drop.

I also love. Yeah, I love that too. But not as much as this. Told you we should have gone with Electric Dream. No, it's this one. This is the one. This is a great song. Justice for Shapeshifter.

Justice for Shapeshifter. Love that Fritties drop. Justice for Shapeshifter. Claudia, what were your feelings about the voting that went down over the weekends? There's one song that I love that just never stood a chance in the competition, just the way that things were matched up.

But like, it's an anthem in itself. So it doesn't need this title. But Ben Lammis is, they can't take that away. Gone to, sir. We did take it away. He may have won New Zealand Idol. He cannot win the title of the unofficial national anthem. To be honest, he was on a hiding to nothing against Dave Dobbins loyal.

Yeah. Not his fault because it is randomly selected that he was put up against one of the biggest juggernauts in the competition. Oh, does that be malicious if we did that on purpose? Did you see the numbers on it? Yes. What was it? 93% of the vote We're talking thousands of votes here

Thousands and thousands of votes And Dave Dobbin got 93% Ben Lomas got seven Still a winner in my heart Someone messaged Dave Dobbin He's gonna love these results Isn't he? Yeah

Ella, how are you feeling about the results? I know there was one song you were particularly keen on To be our unofficial national anthem Yeah absolutely gut it mate Sitting over here Hoping ever more running Would take the win

And it doesn't even get through The first round Oh, justice for Evermore. What? How good. What was it up against again? Was up against 660. Don't forget your roots.

I mean, dumb. David versus Goliath, really. This was also an absolute humping. Evermore lost... Well, no, I should frame it positively. Evermore managed to secure 20% of the vote. Hey. I even made a fake Instagram account.

Better than 19. Did you? Yes. Did it better than Ben Lammis. Got it. Nothing, nothing in this has done as bad as Ben Lammis yet. Oh. But you're justice for Ben Lammis.

Justice. No, it's pretty good. You know who's not in this competition? Michael Murphy, so. God, some of those battles, the second round that went up on Sunday, God, there was some close battles, because it just finished about 15 minutes ago. Yeah, the Brooke Fraser battle was particularly tight from memory.

That was real tight. Brooke Fraser something in the water. What was it up again? Stan. Stan Walker's Alteiroa, that's right. Anyway, it's closed. Thank you for voting. We're going to get a fresh round of voting up in the next 20 minutes.

It's the round of 16. Tomorrow we're into the quarterfinals. We've got 16 songs left, so eight battles today. There'll only be eight songs left in this competition tomorrow. So if you don't vote, you too will be saying, oh, justice for... Something or other. Yeah.

There are some mega battles going up today. Yeah. You wait to see who Tina from Turner's is up against. Tina from Turner's, she's safe. Yeah. She's safe. We didn't say justice for Tina for Turner's. She made it through.

Because she's through to the next round. She is through. It's Tina 660 and Dave Dobbin. It's a three horse race. Basically. Yeah, yeah. A ZM's Brinklin podcast. We want to know when your sports team got absolutely downtroud.

They got spanked. It's happened to the tall ferns. against the USA, and it's okay, all right? It's okay. I wonder how many points Caitlin Clark scored in that game? Oh, single-handedly. Yeah. Like, did she score like 70 points or something crazy?

It would have been like in the early days when teams saw Jonah Lomu. And they're like, no, no, you can't play him against us. It's not fair. That's not fair. Yeah. That's not fair. It'd be like when you're at school and the kid who's like three years older wasn't allowed to play, you know, because it was just too unfair.

Yeah. Or they held him back. in year 13 so he could stay on the first 15 for a couple of years. You're like, he's not allowed to play. He's got a full beard. We want to know about those stories.

Hi, Andrew. Hi, Andrew. Hello, brilliant. Clint. How are you? We're well. Level with us, Andrew. What was the sport

and how badly did you get smoked? Well, firstly, I'm a first time caller too. Oh, whoa. We got another one. We got him finally. Good to have you on the show, Andrew. Tell us about your sporting failure. I played Senior Reserve Rugby back in the late 80s.

Our team played a team called Waikaka from Gore. And by about the 70th minute, we asked the ref if we could call the game off. It was 100-0 at that stage. The main matter's worse. We turned up to the game and we're a player short. Oh, no. So they loaned just one of their players. and the poor guy got targeted by his players the whole game.

Unbeknown to us at the time their team consisted of their forward pet was mostly ex-eastern Southland players. Yeah, wow. And the back-to-back line was ex-eastern Southland players. So you didn't stand a chance, Andrew. Farrow. You never stood a chance. No, they absolutely killed it.

You had the ref take mercy on you and call off the game? He did, yes. Oh, thank goodness. I thought he would be like, nope, you take your punishment. Yeah, no, you called it off, you know. We had a good trip home, though, I can tell you that. Oh, yeah. I bet you did.

Oh, yeah. I'd like to believe that the player that they loaned you, sabotage your team, and that's why it was such a high end. Yeah, Andrew, yeah, blame him. Oh, you know, he tried as hard as out. He actually ended up going off injured towards the end of the game when he got killed by two of the players. It sounds like he was actually injured.

It sounds like his team belted him. Thanks, Andrew. Great call. Someone said, for rugby when I was at school, we drove three hours to lose 96-7. Why bother? You know? I love this text. When I was an unfit 20-year-old, some friends of mine who were equally unfit decided to enter a team in the summer soccer league in Howick.

How fun. We lost every match by six or seven goals. Oh, no. But during one particular game, we ended up against a rep side in their off-season. By the time they hit 20-0, we were chairing for them to see how high they could get the score. Oh, no. Someone said, high school girls rugby.

We won 100 to zero. We had to stop scoring three quarters of the way through the game, so it stopped at 100. Oh, just call the game off. If you're not allowed to score. Yeah, just stop. Because what are you going to do? You're going to run to the tri-line and then...

You know, you know in softball, because obviously I grew up playing a lot of softball, you know there is a thing called the Mercy Rule. Is there? Yeah, so I think it's after a certain amount of innings. Yeah, you can request it. No, no, it just happens. It automatically happens. Oh, okay.

I believe the Mercy Rule is it's after a certain amount of innings. So let's say it's after like four innings. Or I think it changes as depending on how many innings you played. Like if you score more than seven. runs ahead, then it's just the game's off. Someone said, you know you're losing badly when the other team starts mucking around and they still smash you. Yeah, that's not a good sign, eh?

Someone said, I played junior varsity soccer when I should have been on the senior team. We lost every single game. My younger sister played for varsity and they were undefeated. Oh, that would hurt so much. I've been with my partner for three years. His brother plays for a local footy team. I'm yet to hear of them winning a single game. Imagine.

Not the shade from the sister-in-law. Yeah, no, I love it. Someone said, I would have put money on Clint playing soccer or hockey. Did he misspeak when he said first 15? Excuse me. It was a low bar at my school, okay? Our first 15 played against the boys' high third 15. That's sort of weird.

Right, that was the level. We weren't a rugby school, you know. Yeah. We were more theatrical. We were strong in the, we were undefeated in the drama competition. Yeah. You guys really outperformed the other schools in Fiddler on the roof, hey? Actually.

Yeah. You were in that, were you? I was in that, yep. Yeah. Oh, there we go. Someone texts her and they said, the softball mercy rule. So you have to be 15 runs ahead after 13 runs ahead after 3. three innings,

10 runs ahead after four innings, and seven runs ahead after five innings. Yeah, right. So they do, there's no coming back from that. So they're pretty much saying, guys, you're never going to come back. A mercy kill must be the ultimate way to beat a team. A mercy kill.

Yeah, so if you're on the winning team, you'd call that a mercy kill. 100%. That's got to be the way to win. You'd be like, we dominated you so much that the rules said you were never going to come back from All right, well, thanks for sharing everybody. It happens to the best of us.

Play ZDM's Brie and Clint. Bree and Clint's small town, big deal. Yes, it's our quest to find out who is the bigger deal from their small town? Yeah, exactly right. So far, me. Because one dentist in Rotorua knew who I was, or at least claimed to. Luminow good afternoon, George speaking. I just wanted to ask, if you've ever.

ever heard of the person Clint Roberts? Yes. Where have you heard of him? I don't know. On the radio, I would say. That counts, that count! We've got to give it to you. She didn't seem all that happy about it though, did she? No, she was like, get off my phone.

Last week we called the main attraction in Stanthorpe, Australia, where you come from, it's a giant apple on a stick, and they had no idea who you were. Do you know a local girl from Stanthorpe there by the name of Brianna Thomasel? Brianna Thomasel. Brianna Thomasel, yeah. Her dad grows apples and Stanthorpe. Oh, I can't say I know her personally. So it's 1-0.

God. Well, it's your turn again this week. Let's see if you can go two up on me. We're going to call someone from your small town in Rotarro, and I have picked the lovely tourist attraction. I've done it. You've done it. The Redwoods Tree Walk.

Oh, okay, yes, yes, tree tops. Yeah, I know the one. It's a great time. Let's see if they've heard of big deal Clint Roberts. I don't have high hopes. Is my gut feeling? No. Good afternoon.

Redwood Treewalk, Graham speaking. Hi, Graham. Hey, can you do me a favour, Graham? I've just got a simple question, and I just want a yes or no answer from you. Have you ever heard of the person Clint Roberts? Clint Roberts. Yeah.

No. Perfect, Graham. None. You've been a legend, Graham? No, Graham, the guy from the radio. No, that's all we need. You know, Z-M with Brian Clint. You know Clint, remember Clint from John Paul College.

Don't listen to him, Graham. You know me, don't you, Graham? Yeah, oh, Clint, Clint. Yeah. We used to go to Laver Bar together, eh, Graham? Don't blow smoke, Graham. We got the answer we needed, mate. Thank you.

Okay, I see you, bye. Boy. See, I know what you've done there. What? You've stopped, you've limited the information. Well, I just feel like maybe you had an advance. I gave them the radio crap when we called the Apple Place. Hey, we're not even on air in Australia.

Not even on the air. At this rate, we won't be on air in Roderoy for much longer either. Anyway, no points. Still one, no. We just announced the roast of Bree and Clint taking part in the International Comedy Festival this year. May 8th Q Theatre in Auckland. Bree and I will be roasted to a crisp by some of New Zealand's best comedians. There are people asking now if they can roast us too, people who listen to the show.

Which I mean, it's not a bad idea. We could go on a quest to find one listener roaster. Someone said, damn it, can this please be open to members of the public? I really want to address Bree shitting in the ocean in front of a live audience. Nothing is off limits. That's so coming up in the roast. Nothing is off limits. So, yep, that's probably going to come up.

Leave that with us. All the details that have just gone live on our Instagram page at Brian Clint. You can comment and tag the comedian you think should be a part of this roast. We'll start revealing the comedians that we have lined up later on this week. And tickets go on sale on Friday. Tickets go on sale Friday. And we're just talking about they will be cheapest chips, those tickets. Yeah, tickets go on sale very soon.

I came across this interesting study that I thought we should discuss. And a lot of people listening might be interested in this because I feel I feel like in long-term relationships, it's quite interesting to think about how you kind of match up to other people in long-term relationships. Oh, you want to know if you're normal? Yeah, like is your relationship normal compared to, you know, everyone else? And so the study is quite interesting because they followed a bunch of different couples throughout their long-term relationships, right?

And they asked them a bunch of different questions and I've got the results. Okay. So if you want to see how your relationship matches up to the average couple, then listen in. So the first thing is I'm going to ask. And producer Ella, do you want to take part in this? Okay. You're in a long-term relationship? What about me, guys?

Are you in a relationship? No. I got a deasy round. One day, Claudia. You've been dating someone for a couple of months. Yeah. Yeah. You are the definition of honeymoon period.

Yeah, so this doesn't count. You've got a smoke screen. You've got rose-colored glasses on right now. I'll sit this one out. The first thing I was going to ask is how many minutes slash hours do you think you guys have of meaningful conversation with your partner per day? It can be minutes. Okay.

Are we discussing things that the children need? No. Does that go? No, I guess that. Does it count? it meaningful to you or is it like oh he's picking up the kids or is it admin is it might be admin or is it admin yeah yeah admin's not meaningful oh yeah okay um two or three okay two or three three well ella i was going to say before bedtime but i fall asleep pretty quickly it's like 20 minutes

20 minutes but if i could i do it all the time i was two or three minutes by the way oh yeah yeah i don't really know it changes from day to day but according to this study the average couple has two to four minutes of meaningful conversation per day. I'm average. I'm average. You're in the average bracket. Okay, good. Ella was so bullshitting about her 20 minutes.

No, I'm serious. If I could, and when I am on my period, all the time. I need to talk about everything. Me and Ryan stay up for a D&M on Sunday night. We do. I like talking about a few years. That's a first year of marriage thing. Okay, cool.

Next one. The next thing, 67% of couples report a drop in relationship satisfaction in their first three years. What does that mean? So as in like... No. Oh, okay. Just how satisfied they are in the relationship.

I'm very satisfied. Which I think that makes sense to me because you do go through these real like big like highs and lust and honeymoon period like we were talking about before. Oh, that's different. This is overall relationship satisfaction. Oh, then you probably, I mean if you're in that category, you probably shouldn't be with that person.

Yeah, I don't relate to that one. If you're not satisfied. Put me in the 33%. Okay. The average couple have, they said, the average couple indoor gardens one to two times per week. Okay. Which not, I mean, you guys don't have to. I'm not revealing my stats to you.

I'm good. Bree? You don't have any stats, do you? Yeah, I do. I got stats. I'm probably, I'm, I think that's a bit of. bit high, depending on the week. But that's me, like two times a week?

Oh, who's got time for that? I'm not revealing my stats, but that's high. So we're like on the same page. The last one was, what do you guys think is the average amount of years that the average couple waits before they seek therapy when something is wrong? Does the average couple get therapy? according to this study well according to this

this is something that they tracked. Are you getting therapy in your relationship? No. Ella, are you getting relationship therapy? No comment. Oh! Yeah, see, Gen Zetas. They're bloody, you know,

forward thinking, way in the future. I'm not, I'm not... I'm not judging it at all. And to be honest. I'm just saying I don't think the average couple does. But I think it should become more mainstream. Yeah, actually, no, I'm going to comment.

Yes, and I think it's healthy to do that. I agree. Good for you, Ella. I agree with you, Ella. I agree. If you can't afford it, if it's free, go figure it out. And maybe that's why she didn't think the one to two times a week thing was high. You know, maybe that's a bike.

Exactly. And maybe it's because they're putting them work in therapy. Apparently it's six years. In which case, a couple. Clint goes home. Hey, do you thought about therapy? I've found this person and I'm willing to pay for it. I've got a good person, Clint.

I've passed their number on. Oh, good stuff. Anyway. All right. Well, hopefully, do you want to be average? I think you want to be average. I think, yeah, if you're in the general ballpark, I think that's fine. It's healthy.

I think ultimately what it comes down to is, as long as you're happy. You don't have to be the same as everyone else. No, of course not. Just so long as you guys are happy. Yeah. Just launched the roast of Brean Clint. It's going down on the 8th of May at the Q Theatre as part of the New Zealand. International Comedy Festival.

There's details on our Instagram. There's details on the ZDN website and those tickets for that will go on sale this Friday to be there. Yes. You heard correct. A roast, like the Comedy Central roast, like the one where they did on Justin Bieber, David Hasselhoff did one?

David Hasselhoff got roasted. Tom Brady got roasted. Essentially we're going to be ripped as shreds in joke form by comedians. Voluntarily. Yeah. And we put our hand up for it. So come along.

Yes, we'd love to have you there. Tickets on sale Friday, like Clint said. But first, let's get to your birthday bangers. Number one songs when you turn 16. Kate's going first. Good afternoon, Kate. Afternoon, Kate. Hi.

Hi. How's your day being, Kate? Pretty good, thanks. That's good to hear. Hey, what is your day to birth? 16 to June, 1989. All right, that means you were 16 in the year 2005. And we've done our calculations, Kate.

Here's your birthday baggain. Bangar from the Black IPs, don't funk with my heart. What do you reckon, Kate? Yeah, no, that's a pretty good one. Yeah. I mean, it was all Black IPs in 2005, wasn't it? That was their big year of comeback, wasn't it? That's when they got Fergie.

It was enormous. Yeah. Okay, that's a good one. Let's go to Tash for a birthday banger. Hi, Tash. Hi, Tash. Hey, guys, how you doing? Good, Tash.

How was your weekend? Oh, it was fantastic. Thank you. Monday rolled around, unfortunately. Yes, I hear you, Tarsh. I hear you. Hey, what is your birthday? It's 21st of October, 1977.

All right, that means you were 16 in 1993. And in 93, this was at the top. The meat and the loaf. R-I-P life. What do you reckon, Tash? Oh, I think I might be voting to the black-oed-pe. I always wondered what the thing was that he wouldn't do.

Oh, is that for him? Well, I don't know. And now he can't even ask him. Let's go to Karma for a birthday banger. Hi, Kama. Hi, Kama. Hi. How was your weekend, Kama?

What did you get up to? Not a lot, but I'm an early childhood teacher, so today was full on. Oh, straight back into it, Kama. Yes, straight back into working, yep. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Are you super resistant to bugs and illnesses, or are you always? sick. I always wondered that with early childhood teachers.

I'm just getting over a cold at the moment. Yeah. Due to the children because I work with the unders. So yeah, I get sick quite often. What does the unders mean? How old? So under two. Oh, geez, the real bubs. You need to be going to work in one of those yellow hazmat suits, Karma.

Yeah, pretty much. It's hand sanitizer all day long. I bet. Hey, Karma, what is your birthday? 18 for the 12th, 1981. Right, that means you were 16. in 1997 and back on your 16th birthday this was number one

Oh my good Oh my God That's good karma isn't it I love them They were on my wall And when I was that age Oh I just saw them in Las Vegas

Oh really Over the Christmas break at the sphere They were unbelievable karma Oh that is so cold I've still got it Okay wait there We've got to decide Between Backstreet Boys Meatloaf

and Black IPs and Backstreet Boys. I think, I don't believe what they say now. What? She wasn't a bitch at all. You're not sick of that one. You're not sick of that one, Carmen. The time I also get Carmel come back and bite you on the ass. And do you?

I do, yes. I'll be careful of me. Well, let me know because I'll have my cheek ready. Well, I'm not risking it, especially. with the bugs she's got. I'm voting karma. Yeah, I'm the same karma. I'm with you. We're on your side. Okay, Karma?

That's cool because I'm also a first-time caller. Oh, we'll get you at the end. We'll get you in the end. Now, here it is. From the year 1997, Karma's birthday banger, as long as you love me on ZM. ZM's Branclint. From 1997, that's Karma's birthday banger. Are you still with us, Karma? Of course I am.

I sensed you were. Because we've got a bit of T's and Cs we need to get through with you. What's that? Well, you need to, let's go through the motions. You said that you were a First time call it. Long?

Close enough. Thanks, Carmel. We appreciate you. We love you. Thank you. You're welcome. Love you, say it back. Love you, bye.

I knew she was a good bit. Z&M's Brea and Clint podcast. We're searching for the unofficial national anthem of this country. NZ's unofficial national anthem. We started out with 32 songs. 32 great songs, all Kiwi songs, which could potentially be our unofficial national anthem. Half of those songs are gone already, Bree. Just like that.

Knocked out in the first couple of rounds. The round of 16 has gone live. on our Instagram story right now, and you can vote on it. What I want to know is from your gut which one you are choosing. Okay, don't think about the results as they stand. I just want to know if you are voting right now, what are you voting for? Are you asking me? Yeah, I'm asking you.

And I'll vote too. Oh, in these battles. In these new ones, yeah, yeah, yeah. So these are the battles that have just gone up. These are the 16 songs that are left. Okay. Our unofficial national anthem is in this group of songs. Yes.

Is it out of these two, is it Poire? For the exponents. Poiette. Yeah, I agree. I'm just going with my gut. Yeah, same. I love both. I love both.

Claudia's not happy because the exponents was her suggestion. And it's a great choice. Hard battle, though. It's a hard battle. Are you picking the exponents over Poirier? It's not a vote against Poirier. Racist. No.

Just love the exponent. Racist. Racist. Okay. I don't vote for it. Just out of these two. Out of these two, are you voting for bliss? Which again, very hard song to go against.

Is it a tough battle who webs up against Bliss? Or she had. Bliss. Bearing in mind, without this, She Had song, we would have no idea what to do with our clocks at Daylight Savings song. Still voting bliss. Still voting bliss. Love She Had, still voting bliss.

Okay, what about this one here? This is the third battle that's just gone live. Are you voting for Fat Freddy's Drop? As our unofficial national anthem? Well, Scribe stand up. I'm a Scribe stand up. Oh, me too. I love that song from Fat Freddy's drop.

And I feel like Fat Freddy's drop is a massive sound in New Zealand. Absolutely. You know, like I just feel like I'm in New Zealand when I hear it. But, I mean, I can't go past this. But Scribe is like a rally call. It's like I'm ready to go into battle when I hear that song. And everyone feels it in the room when it happens, you know? As soon as scribe comes on, everyone's like,

play that song on the ship as we go off to World War III. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, a few more battles. What about 660? Don't forget your family. Don't forget your family. Or crowded house.

Don't forget your roots. I think I'm going crowded house. Are you? That song has got. so much history. Yeah, I just feel like 660 for me is quintessentially Kiwi. Whereas like crowded house and I grew up in Aussie obviously. Oh God, she's going to say it.

But they're half and half. It's fair, it's a fair statement. Okay, this one, this is a truly hard battle. Are we voting for our mate, Kings? We don't worry about it. As the unofficial national anthem. Or are we voting for that song from that ad for a car dealership? Sell us your Honda.

Ronda. Sell us your Ford. Lord. I really want to get Kings take on it. Yeah, like who's King's voting for? Is he voting for himself? Or is he voting for Tina from Turvers? I'm obviously voting for Kings.

I'm not voting. for a fictional lady from a car yard. No. I'm voting for kings. It's an ad. It's got to be kings. Are you voting for royals? And we'll never be royals. Or loyels. Oh, I'm going to get hate for this.

I'm voting for Lord. And I'll tell you why. You won't get hate for that, but why? Well, I think that song, Royals, yes, it's been overplayed. It's been done like a dinner. I think she's got way... better songs that I love more. But that song might be one of the most successful songs ever to come out of this country.

And so Dave Dobbin, that's not his front runner. And he's got two in the competition. Plus, plus. Plus bliss. So it swayed me to have some difference, you know. And that's why I was like, I think I've got to go royals. The elder millennials and older amongst us will also remember when that loyal song was used on a losing. America's Cup campaign.

And it's never truly been the same ever since then. And slice of heaven is still coming. Yeah. So let's look at that. Slice of Heaven. Quintessential Dobbo. Yeah.

Or Tikitane. It's Slice of Heaven. It's Slice of Heaven, I agree. And there's one battle left which is currently Livestan. Or Sir Savage. And no offence to Savage. But if we're talking anthem,

unofficial anthem, I have to vote for the Stan song. I'm going savage all day. It's the unofficial Warriors anthem. When I hear that, I just like feel New Zealand running through the notes. You know, you've sent it at the Waz game.

You've seen it at your own week. You've seen it everywhere around the country. And I do love that song from Stan. But I just love this song. The process is not meant to be easy. It is controversial and that's why we need you to vote. If you go to Atbri and Clint on Instagram right now, in our Instagram story, those eight battles are currently live.

Eight of those songs will be gone tomorrow. Yep. And then we'll be down to eight. There'll only be four battles tomorrow. By Friday we'll know where the unofficial anthem is of New Zealand. And then on Saturday, you and I are going to play it to 35,000 people at symphony. How fun. So please vote.

We would love it to be as definitive. a result as we can possibly get. The ZDM Podcast Network. Does having a dog make you live longer? Well, there's some data out and research suggests that having a pooch, the dog, not the little thing on the front part of your tummy, can possibly make you live longer than people without dogs. Depends what type.

Depends what breed, I reckon. Depends on a lot of things. So it's a pretty big study that they've done on millions of people. and they found dog ownership is linked with a lower overall mortality risk and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Yeah, well, you walk your dog every day. Exactly right. So it makes sense, eh?

Research also found single people who own dogs had a 33% lower risk of death compared to those living alone without a dog. Protection? Protection and companionship. Because loneliness. They're such good company. Yeah.

Like dogs are the best company for single people. Dog owners. also showed about an 11% lower risk of heart attacks or heart related diseases. Again, walking. Exercise. Yeah. Right?

Yeah. And probably like oxytocin. Like, just... Probably. Just feeling unconditional love. And de-stress, I mean, except when the dog costs you a lot of money at the vet. Or throws up on the carpet. Or won't stop barking.

Or choose your favourite shoes. But most of the time, they should be getting for lowering the stress, right? So, yeah, they've cited the exercise. They've cited the exercise. loneliness thing, but they also said there's possible biological effects as to why a dog will help you live longer. Okay. Because dogs are dirty, right?

They are dirty. They said exposure to microbes from dogs may influence the human gut microbiome, potentially improving your immune health. What? Kind of like you get, you get like, constantly exposed to grubby stuff from the dog, so your body builds up a resistance to it. Immunity. Like when my dog accidentally, like when I don't want her to lick my face.

but, you know, sometimes they get you. Yeah, exactly right. And you're like, oh, yuck. Or you've been patting them and then you forget to wash your hands. Yeah. Or you eat all of their hair during the night because it's floating around the room. Exactly right. You said what type of breed?

Yeah. There is a breed that was linked or a couple of breed, no, a type of breed that was linked to the biggest health benefits for their owners. Okay. What do you think they were? What type of dog? Probably a well-behaved dog. Yeah, I'd say these are well-behaved dogs.

Yep. Oh, you know what is a good vibes dog That's always happy And so happy that it has a smile Is staffies Oh, cute Staffies are so cute Not staffy

The type of dog that is linked to The biggest health benefits are hunting breeds Like retrievers and terriers Oh really? Yeah Because I feel like my terrier is taking years off my life Whitney Houston She's a teratoria

Yeah yeah Whereas I've got a golden retriever And Does he retrieve a lot of stuff? Absolutely nothing He doesn't even bring the ball back Yeah I throw the ball

He runs to the ball Bites the ball And then puts the ball down And walks off Honestly He's never retrieved a single thing I've been asking my dogs To pay rent for years

But not Freeloaders Anyway the scientists are quick to point out that this is just a link that people with dogs report these health benefits but they said the opposite could be true. It could be that healthier, more active people are just more likely to get a dog in the first place.

So the study is superfluous then? No. Not if you're trying to convince your partner to get a dog. Oh, that's true. And if you are, just don't tell them that last bit that I said. Yeah, just leave that out. And you'll be sweet. Yeah.

It's not lying. No, you just leave out the fine print. It's just withholding part of the truth. Yeah. Is Taylor Swift on ZM. Play ZM's Brian Clint on Insta, Facebook, TikTok, and live weekdays from three on ZM.