ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM’s Bree & Clint Podcast - 17th November 2025 - Part One

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

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We're 50% back. Bree, ideally, back tomorrow. And if she's not back tomorrow, then I think the rumors really start swirling. I reckon we really start, you know. we could start the rumors about where she is if she's not back tomorrow yeah what have you got um that she's gone to work for the for the other guys oh good rumor well the rumor was that you guys went to couples counseling

yeah you started that rumor yeah that's the rumor that is for us no man bruce sweet ass so she's still there but anyway bollah i'm back from fiji and claudia thinks i've got a tan yeah like if you look really close yeah you're like half a show darker. Glowing. Or half a shade less light. Less white, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bula. It's a good day for me today. I've only had to delete one former post from my Facebook memories page. I go through it every day. That's my way of sanitising my Facebook history. I go through it every day.

And I look for the ones that go, oh, that hasn't stood the test of time. That can come down. You'd only have to do it every day for a year, right? And then you're kind of thought it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it racist? But it's good to keep checking.

No, not racist. It was just me in 2008 complaining that Movember was a bit hard. Oh, yeah, right. And I could not grow facial hair in 2008. It's looking good now. Thanks, girl. What about my tan? Yeah.

Yeah, it's definitely present. You went to Fiji? We have got a double pass to RNA to give away to someone somewhere around the country today. At 10 to 4 this afternoon, we'll play an RNA track. You need to hear that. At 5 to 4 this afternoon, I'll reveal the location of the ZDN Black Thunder. And if you're the first person there, you can have the two tickets to go to R&A in the Cadrona Valley this New Year's Eve. So be listening.

I reckon be listening from about quarter to four if you want to be a part of that this afternoon. First, though, we'll crack into a fresh round of Trady v. Lady. Scores a 91 Ladies, 95 Trades. And we need one of each on our 800 dials at M right now. Play Zatim's Bree and Clint. It's Trady versus... Ladies Three, two, one, let's go.

And this is Trady versus Lady Where the scores are 95 Trades, 91 Ladies. Did you guys play this game last week? Has it carried on? No, we did like a bootleg version of it. North versus South, so North Island versus South Island. Oh, I like it. Turns out South Island smarter.

Eh. In that game. Debatable. Last week, specifically. You know I love you, South Islanders. You do. dig in your own grave here. Let's go to our lady on our $800 at M.

She's in the North Island because she's in the city of sales. She's 35 and it was her three kids. Oh, there are three kids in the car with her. Welcome to the show, Cecilia. Hi, I've actually got four kids. I forgot we had one of the friends with us today. Oh, you forgot that one? Yeah.

She's in the car, though. Oh, that's all the matters. That's the main bit. As long as they're in the car, then, you know, no harm, no foul. Play on. You're taking on our Trady today Who is in the South Island They're in Invercargill, the 32

And he got extremely sunburnt yesterday Have you got sun in Invercargul Already Lenin? Yeah, it was like 14 degrees yesterday It was tropical 14 degrees, geez Take one of your swan drys off Yeah, I reckon

Yeah Alright, your buzzer is Trady Cecilia, your buzzer is lady And the first person To give me three correct answers is going to win $50 cash from KFC. Good luck, guys. Question number one.

Who did the All Blacks lose to over the weekend? Lennon. England. Don't bring it up, Lenin. Why'd you bring that up? Why'd you have to bring that up? Question number two, closest guess wins, so you can both chuck one out there.

You don't need to buzz in. How many days until Christmas? 39. 39 for Lennon. 38. 38 for Cecilia, and you're not going to believe this. It's 38. You are on the money, Cecilia.

So, well done. That's one apiece. Question number three, tell me who sings this song. I'll give you a clue. They're brothers. Oh, lady. Cecilia. The Jonas Brothers.

The Jonas Brothers is correct. Well done. Two points, ladies, one point tradies. Question number four. Which rock star who also plays sinner in the Hunger Games played in Auckland over the weekend. I'll give you a clue. Anybody need a clue?

He is Zoe Kravitt's dad. Oh, lady. Cecilia for the win. Lenny Kravitt. Lenny Kravitt. She's a lady. Oh, oh, she's a lady. Thank you, Lenny.

Well done, Cecilia. That's a win for the ladies this afternoon. And for the North Island as well, actually. So we'll chalk that one up. Ladies go to 92. Trady's stay on 95. Still in the lead. ZDM's Brie and Clint Podcast.

Bree's back tomorrow. That's what we're hoping for. I've just got back from a week in Fiji. Very lucky to be able to go for a family holiday to Fiji. And we were having dinner on the beach one evening. And we could see the sun going down. And it's incredible in Fiji where if you're out on the islands and you can see the horizon and it just stretches for ages.

and ages and ages. You get to do that cool thing where you watch the sun disappear below the horizon and when it hits the water it goes quite fast and there's a moment where you can swear

that you can see the sun moving and then it dips and it's like someone's turned a light switch off because it's gone. Do you see the green flash? No, I didn't see the green flash. Sometimes it's a little like just as it disappears

is a green flash. And then there's a glow around the ocean where it is and that's where my six-year-old Tui, my daughter, she said to me, um yep son's gone into the hole what and I said what

and she goes the hole the son's gone back into the hole and I said what hole she goes the hole where Maui

and his brothers fought the sun and I went oh my God you you believe Maui and the sun the legend to be factual

the school that we have sent you to is teaching you the legend of Maui as as as as as as um fact and i didn't know whether i wanted to break that or not yeah did you yeah what do you

i did and then we had to i had to i struggled with explaining the difference between um i had to explain what a legend is right to a six and four year old oh gosh and oh my god they're very smart kids but even i struggled it to oh yeah like if you tried to explain it to me and then my and then my four year old and then my four year old goes so dad is maui real and i said oh oh You're like, no comment. I think he could have been. It's like Jesus. I mean, he could have been.

I mean, I wasn't there. Who's to say? Yeah, and we didn't get into the comic. Because that's when I realized that Tui also believes that, and I mean, why shouldn't she? That Maui fished up the North Island. Oh, yeah, that happened. That one did happen, didn't it?

That one definitely did happen. Yeah, yeah. What? But I, you don't know that one? You don't know that one? You don't know that one? who Maui and his brothers row out. No, I know that story.

In the South Island, that's their waka. Yeah. And then they used the jawbone to fish up the North Island. But that's not true, true. It's a legend. It's a legend, yeah. Okay. Wait, what, Ella?

I'm so confused. They didn't actually do that, did they? Ella. What? I feel like I'm at dinner with the six-year-old ago. I'm so really confused. Carry on. Here's what you've got to remember listeners is

Ella also discovered. this year. Oh, shut up. Ella has led quite a sheltered Christian upbringing and learnt earlier this year that dinosaurs were real. No, I knew they were real. Did you? Claudia, what's your memory of it?

I think it was that she didn't know we're related to monkeys. Oh, was that it? That one. That still blows my mind and I'm still not 100% on that. Okay, I know this one is true. Ella learned this year about the Big Bang. That's true But again

I still feel a bit weird about it Because To be honest Ella The Big Bang is just a theory That's why they named the TV show after it But you know Like again we weren't there No

But it's nice to learn Like you learn about one side Of what your family believes And it's nice to learn both sides And like think about it for yourself And I'm reading a really good book About this space You know the moon's not made of cheese right

What? Claudia One thing in a time Okay Her head will explode Okay, I told my daughter's about the truth about Maui and the sun one day We just tell her one thing at a time too.

We can conquer that tomorrow. 0,800 dial ZM or you can text us into 9-6-96-96 like my 6-year-old Ella and my 6-year-old Tui and my 25-year-old Ella. What's the thing that you believed was true probably for way too long? And now you're like, oh my God, I'm such a dungy,

I can't believe that I actually believed that. we would love to get you on we'd love to hear what yours is I was telling the story before about the teaching moment I had in Fiji with my six-year-old and now I'm not sure if I taught her an important lesson or if I just ruined the legend of Maui for her Did she find your version of it interesting?

Nah because then I had to explain the whole globe situation and how the sun actually doesn't move and it's the earth that turns and she did they're a flat earther or I'm a boring story tell her because she tuned out very quickly. So we wanted to know from you what's the thing that you believed for way, way, way too

long. Like this text, oh my God, I believed that Genovia was a real country. I only found out after being confident playing at a bus stop with kids when they were singing the song from the Princess Diary, that's the place in the Princess Diary, isn't it? You're telling me that's

not real? Shocking. I haven't seen it, so I was just trying to relate to that. But yeah, I guess. Sarah's here. Hi, Sarah. Hi, mate. What's the thing that you believed for way too long? Now, I have to preface this, I swear to gosh, this wasn't me. But this also happened in Fiji, so as you might know,

you can hire the snorkels. You know what I mean? You're standing in line waiting for the snorkels. I'm standing in line. There is a growing man, an American man. He is in the front of the line. He is having an intense discussion with the little bit of Fijian lady because he is asking her how long it will take

to snorkel underneath from one side of the island to the other. Get off the grass. Underneath. He believed that the island was just floating and he thought he could go underneath to the other side. Now so did I as a child believe that the islands were floating. This is a grown man. But you're talking about a grown man.

And why would a snorkel help you with that? Even if it was possible to swim beneath the island to the other side, you'd want scuba gear, not a snorkel, wouldn't you? Correct. But the thing is, to this day, so I had to leave the line, because I was laughing so hard I had to leave. Yeah. I still don't know to this day if that lovely Fijian lady actually got through to him in the island.

So he may still believe that he should play. He's going, oh, there's obviously some kind of language barrier here. Let me find someone with a brain who can tell me how long it will take me to snorkel underneath the tropical island, man, that's good. I had to leave. It was too funny. But, yeah, grown man. That's perfect example. Thank you, Sarah. Corrie's here. Good day, Corey.

Good. Was it you who believed the thing? No, no, it wasn't. It was my ex. Okay, what did she believe? Go on, chuck the X under the bus. She believed that the gorilla on the Cadbury ad was actually trained to play the drums. Oh. Oh, I mean,

credit to the Cadbury Chocolate Ad company, if they were able to fool your girlfriend and I kind of help eager on a bit but you know it was a very convincing gorilla the nose like the nostrils flared and the and the eyelids opened and closed but it was

the perfect drumming of Phil Collins in the air tonight which was the dead giveaway for me yeah she believed that for about two three years hey Courtney has brought it up on the screen now the gorilla's wearing headphones the gorilla's got in-air headphones on what planet is that a real gorilla

You know? How old was your ex-girlfriend at the time? Oh, 33-ish. Geez. You should let her. You should have just let her believe it, you know? I let her believe it for about two to three years, and I couldn't keep it in one day when she was telling her friends about it.

And, yeah, I just cracked up and had to tell her. Especially if you knew the relationship was on its last legs, and you're like, this isn't going to last. Then you go, you know what? I'll let the next person deal with that one. I might let that one go through to the keeper. Thanks, Corey. Very good. There's some great text on this.

We asked, what's the thing you believe for way too long? Someone said, I believe, that chocolate milk came from brown cows. That's a classic. Someone has dobed their friend in and said, Peter Van Dam thought that Swiss cheese came out of the cow with the holes in it at age 25. Shot Peter. Until I was 10, I believed that one booby had milk in it,

and the other one was juice. Was quite embarrassed to find out that they both had milk. How convenient would that be if one had juice in it? Someone said we asked what's the thing you believe for way too long that if you step on a snail they don't lose their shell and become a slug they just die. I learnt that this year when I turned 40. So you've been going around stepping on snails to convert them into slugs for 40 years

thinking that you were doing a harmless act. Someone said I thought fish fingers were just really long chicken nuggets. I didn't know that they were actually fish. Well, debatable how much fish is in them, but I learnt that at 19. I thought, I think for way too long I believed my mum when she would call the Mr. Whippy van the sausage truck so that we didn't want any when it came down the street

playing the noise. The sausage truck is diabolical. And someone said, I remember when I found out that WWE was choreographed, now I call it dancing just to piss my partner off. That's good. ZDN's Brinclent. The T, live from L.A. with Dean McCarthy.

I like this story, and I feel like you're the perfect man to talk to about it, Dean. Paris Hilton is in the news today, claiming to be a self-made woman. Yeah, so, okay, so let's, I know I can barely get the words out without having a little bit of a giggle here. But look, no shade and no hate. But let's talk about, you know, her company's worth about $1.7 billion. New Zealand dollars, right? You know, she has fragrances and she has Paris Hilton stores all around the world. All this time, I think she DJs.

She told the times when they were doing an article on her that, you know, I've done this on my own. I've never been given anything in my entire life and that she is, quote, a self-made person. She said, you know, I work harder than any other CEO that I know is what she said, and she used her grandfather, Barron Hilton, as kind of like her... Oh. Did she have no help, though? Yeah, that's crazy to call yourself self-made, and in the same breath, reference your grandfather,

the man who started Hilton Hotels. You know, like, even if she wasn't given millions of dollars to start out with, which I feel like she was, you're still starting on second base by virtue of the fact that you are a Hilton? You know, like that opens doors. That books TV shows, like The Simple Life, that gets you DJ gigs.

You know, it's the same as, it's the same as, and call me salty, call me shady, call me jealous. But it's the same as people who call Kylie Jenner a self-made millionaire, a billionaire. Yeah. I'm like, you might have, you might have gone out there and started the company and done all those things, but you're literally one of the Kardashians. You know, you were born a Jenna slash Kardashian. That's, that in itself is, you just, you just forfeit the right to be called. self-made. Don't you, Dean? Don't you agree? Yeah, no, I totally. I 100% agree.

I think of a self-made billionaire as someone who just started like an regular normal family and then went and built a company from nothing. Like Carly had a TV show that had international audiences when she launched her. I'm not trying to be hateful, but I just don't ever see self-made. I don't think you can be self-made if you've never been poor. That's the thing. But again, call us haters, Dean. We're just hating from outside the club, aren't we? We can't even get it?

That's the tea with... Little bit of Daddy's over here, aren't we? Right? Stupid Paris Hilton. That's the tea with Dean McCarthy. ZDEM's Bree and Clint podcast. Around 25 years ago, I know that because it has to do with the turn of the millennium. ZDem did this competition where they, from memory,

and I remember this because I was listening to it while I was at high school, and it was one of the first radio competitions I heard, and I was like, that's a crazy idea. They booked out an entire hotel. They invited couples to come to come. this hotel for the night and the idea was you get pregnant and try and give birth to the first baby of the new millennium. Yeah. So it was like they did something like it was obviously nine months before New Year's Eve and the idea was can we get a baby? Because New Zealand

is the first country in the world to see the new millennium. Can we get the first baby of the new millennium? We have one of those babies on the phone with us this afternoon. Welcome to the show Cade. Hi, how are you? I'm good. So tell me, were you the first baby born in the year 2000? I wasn't. I was pretty close, so December the 27th. December 27, 1999?

Yeah. Oh, your parents would have been gutted. I mean, obviously happy, but also guttered at the same time. Yep. So it's too close to Christmas. Is that how they have explained the competition works to you? They showed up to some hotel with a bunch of other randy couples and they all went off to their rooms and did it on the same night

in the hopes of having the Millennium baby? Yeah, pretty much, that's what I've been told. That's pretty weird to know exactly when and where your parents did it to make you, isn't it? Yeah, it's pretty out there. Yeah. Do you know, from memory, if they ended up, the Z&M competition ended up getting a Millennium baby? Did we get a baby that was born on the first of the first 2000? I'm not sure.

I have to check with Mum. I don't actually know that. We got an email from you this week because you, Millennium, baby Cade have just had a baby of your own? Yeah, sure have. What's their name? What did you get? A little baby girl called Aster.

I was born on August 28th. And you've sent through a photo of Aster in the ZDem Millennium Baby onesie, which is a very cute, full circle moment. Yeah, I made sure to keep it until I had my own kid. Yeah, I feel like we should get you a new one. We should refresh it for you and send you out a new one, or at least a ZM hat for that baby or something like that. Yeah, I think we should get some of shirts or something like that.

Something like that, or at least a bumper sticker to stick on the baby. Yeah, yeah, on the pram. Oh, well, congratulations, Cade. That's such great news, mate. And thank you for sharing it with us here. Thank you. No problem. That's Cade, the almost millennium baby.

And I thought this afternoon we could ask people the question, were you a special occasion baby? And by that, I mean, were you born on a significant date? Like, were you born on your mum's birthday? Were you born on 9-11? Were you born... I'm choking here, guys. I got nervous and said 9-11 way too early.

What's some other dates of significance? Were you born the Day the All Blacks won the Rugby World Cup in 2011? That's very good. That's better than 9-11, isn't it? Yeah. 0-800 times ZM or text us on 9-696. If you were a baby born on a special occasion.

The ZM Podcast Network. We just talked to someone whose parents entered a ZM competition 24. years ago to try and make him the first baby born in the new millennium, a whole hotel booked out by ZDM, all the rooms filled with lusty couples who are looking to conceive, and he missed out by, what do we work out, Claudia, about three days. I think he was born on like the 28th of December. 27th, 28th, yeah, not quite there, but pretty close. Anyway, our Zem Millennium baby has now had a baby, and we want to talk to people who were

born on days of significance, and there are some great ones coming through on the text machine. But first let's talk to Haley. Hi Haley. Hi, how are you? Good. Your sister was born on a day of significance and I believe it's one of the ones that I rattled off before. It is. That's what made me send a message. She was born on the night that the All Blacks won in 2011. The Rugby World Cup? Yeah. Your sister was born the night of the Rugby World Cup. Yes. And my dad makes it very clear every time we talk about it that he's very upset. He missed the game. Yes. Yes, because how dear your sister she could have been born the morning of the rugby world cup and then that would have been that probably would have been the single greatest day of your dad's life you know

to get a daughter in the morning and a rugby world cup in the afternoon you know yeah yeah but that's a good one that's a good one at least he would have been able to i probably couldn't even go to the parade the next day that wouldn't be the right thing to say to the to your um the mother of your new child hey i'm just going to pop out and have a few beers on queen street with the fellas you're good with the with the baby thing um thanks haley that's a great one we I want to know if you were born on a day of significance. Kyla is here. Hi, Kyla.

Hi, how are you? Good. What's significant about your birthday? I'm actually born on the Leap Day, the 29th to February. Oh my God, I love Leap babies. So how old should you be and how old are you? So I'm 21 and I am technically five and a quarter. So instead of a 21st birthday party, I actually had a fifth birthday party.

On your 21st? friends on my 20th. Oh, wow. All my friends got dressed up in like five-year-old costumes, like fairies and mermaids. I love that. Bull rush and did pass-a-pastel and stuff. You as a leap baby can just three out of four years, you can just make up your birthday. So you just chuck it anywhere you like?

So I usually celebrate on the 1st of March, and my mum said it because she wasn't in labour with me on the 28th. Yeah, fair. Yeah, that makes sense. All right, well, good luck turning six. Thank you. in like, what, three years or something? Yeah, 2028. Thanks, Kyla, that's great.

Dan's here. Gooday, buddy, how are you? Good. Your mum and brothers were born on a significant day. Is that right? Yes, it is. Well, my mum was born in 1949, and she was born on Labor Day. Yes.

My older brother was born on 1969, and he was born on Valentine's Day. Okay. My younger brother was born in 1979, and he was born in 179, and he was born. he was born on Anzac Day, and I was born in 1973, and it's my birthday in 29th of November. Hang on, what's significant about yours? Nothing. But I'm the special one. You're the special one because yours doesn't have a nine and a public holiday in it.

That's right, and I'm the middle child. Hey, get this, Dan. You'll love this text then that's just come in. Someone says, my mother was born on the 4th of the 4th 44, and her mother was born on the 10th of the 10th, 1910. Wow. That's a 4-4-44 and a 10-10-10. And did you know this, that the 44 number is our family's special number? Get off the grass, Dan.

What is going on here? I know, right? Have we entered some kind of parallel dimension right now? No, that sounds like it. Yeah, okay. What's the next significant one that's coming up? What are we? We're in 2025.

We can't have a 25-25-25-25. We can have a 25-25. no, can't have 2,5-25. Look, we'll work on this, Dan. You and Emil works on this after the show, okay? All good birth. Okay, meen, thank you. Some great texts about birthdays of significance.

I was born on my mum's birthday, which just so happened to be 9-11 as well. Yeah, let's focus on the mum's birthday, but that sounds a bit better. I was born on my brother's birthday, which is April Fool's, two years after him. We were both due on my older sister's birthday, which is the 26th of March.

And you know what that says to, me about that, that your parents only do it on a very specific day of the year. They, when they, when they decide that they want to do the thing that means that you will be born, they must do it on exactly the same day every year. There must be, is it dad's birthday? Go find out what your dad's birthday is and see if that is nine months before April Fools. I would put money on the fact that it is.

I was born on the day of the moon landing. Yes, that does make me one of your older listeners of ZM, but I still love you guys. We love you too. Thank you very much. My daughter was born on the 8th of the 8th of the 8th, which is great, except her birthday was three months later. And speaking of spooky things, that's today.

The day, we're talking about birthdays of significance, and this person's daughter's due date back in 2008 was the 17th of November. and we're talking about that right now. Someone will find that spooky. I find that spooky. I had a son that was meant to be born on the first of the first 2000, but because he had to be a C-section and everyone was worried about the Y2K bug

and they weren't sure if the power was going to stay on, they pulled him out early on the 30th. That's good. Anybody who's old enough to remember the Y2K bug, that was a real thing. Our family had like six two-liter milk bottles filled with water in the garage because nobody knew what was going to happen.

That would have saved you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you think would happen? We had some boxes of wheat books. What? Everything was just going to stop. They thought the world was going to end. They thought planes were going to drop out of the sky.

But it's not like, we didn't know how technology works. No, we didn't know. They were like, can computers do zero zero? Yeah. Oh my gosh. My brothers and I were born on Halloween, but three years apart. Spooky. Yes, that is spooky.

I was born on my granddad's 50th birthday That's nice for your granddad And you know, it's good symbolism I was the first grandchild too My nine-year-old daughter was born on What would have been her great-grandmother's 80th birthday The day after Ireland beat the All Blacks For the first time her Irish grandfather referred to her

As a lucky charm Yeah, okay, I remember that day And I was born Oh, this is a good one Oh, why is Dad not here anymore? We've got someone who was born on the 5th of the 5th, 2005, or 555. Yeah.

And lots of mums that were born on Mother's Day, which they said sucks now that they're a mum because they have to share their birthday and Mother's Day. But only once every seven years, because it moves, doesn't it? Rolls around. Play ZM's Brie and Clint on Insta, Facebook, TikTok, and live weekdays from three on ZM.