ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM’s Bree & Clint Podcast - 18th July 2025

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

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You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZM's Breanne Clint, the podcast. ZM's Breanne Clint, cheers to KFC. KFC's cult favourite Hot and Spicy is now available nationwide at KFC. Oh my God, it's Friday. Make some noise for the original. ZM's Breanne Clint. Hey, make some noise for the original. Sadness, Brie and Clint.

Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Brie and Clint show. Not to bring down the mood for a Friday. On that go on. But how good is a really solid yawn? Oh, okay. I just had one just before we came on air. Very satisfying. Like it's nice. I'd say one just before we came on air. Very satisfying.

Like it's nice. I'd say up there with a very good sneeze. Yep. Up there with a really good earbud to the ear. Oh, yep. Any bodily function executed well, very satisfying. Oh. There's something about yawning over drum and bass,

which is just strange. It's quite cool. Do you reckon anyone else is having a yawn now because they heard that? Yeah, absolutely. They're contagious. I'm surprised I didn't yawn. Oh, wait, wait. There it is.

Oh yeah, get it son. Get it. Was that nice? It's nice, yeah. Producers, have you gone? Go! I'm trying, can't force it. It was going!

No, I'm not. I'm just opening my mouth. Nah, it's not hitting. Oh, it's halfway there. I hate when you get a yawn stuck in. Clint's gone again. He went twice. He sent me out. Might be the two beers we had with lunch, but yeah. Oh Clint's gone again. Twice. Yeah. He sent me out. Might be the two beers we had with lunch but yeah.

That was a good one. Let me tell you the big stuff that's happening on our show today and there is some big stuff. Of course we're putting you in the draw to go to Fridays Live in Sydney every time you hear a Fridays Live artist. Those artists in case you need a refresher are Pitbull, Mariah, Wiz Khalifa, Jordan Sparks, Lil John, EVE, any of those you get through you're in the draw for the tickets. We're giving the tickets away at 5 o'clock. We're giving away the tickets to Las Vegas at 4 o'clock. Wait a second, did you mean when you said EVE do you mean Eve?

Yeah. Okay. EVE let's get it, get it. Just checking. Yeah yeah. Just checking. We're giving away tickets to Las Vegas for ZM's World Tour at four o'clock and we're giving away three double passes to Lorde's World Tour here in New Zealand. Every time you hear a Lorde song, if you're the first person through on 0800 dollars at M you can have a double pass to see Lorde in

either Auckland or Christchurch. I don't know if we've had bigger and better stuff to give away on a show. Like I can't remember the last time. I don't want to curse it but is the recession over? This show definitely says yes. It feels like it doesn't it? We're giving away trips left right and centre, concert tickets. Are the good times back? The good times roll am I right? Did Daddy Luxon fix the country? He may have.

Daddy Luxon. Not if he takes away our extra sick days. Oh yeah, dead to us if you hear that. Yeah, dead to us. Let's get into the show, shall we? Tradeiverse lady time. Scores are 54 tradies, 57 ladies. If you want it, 0800 dials at him right now.

Here we go. What's the scoreline? 54 tradies, 57 ladies. Tradies due. Are you listening? Not really. Need to take some riddles. Take it and get me a bit too.

Be more interesting and I'll pay attention. Play ZM's Bri and Clint. Time for Trity vs Ladies. It's Traity versus Ladies. Score update for the year. The Traitys on 54.

They were staging a comeback, but have gone a bit quiet the back end of this week. The Ladies on 57. They peaked at one point behind. Yes. Or have they? Are they just timing their run? Our lady is in Marston, she's 27 and she loves the smell of dog's paws. Welcome to the show Mandy. Hi Maddie. Hi. Would you

say your dog's paws smell like Doritos? They smell like popcorn. Yeah popcorn Doritos. They smell like popcorn. Yeah, popcorn Doritos. Isn't it yeast? It is. It's yeast, isn't it? It's yeasty Maddie. Probably, yeah. Yeah. Don't ruin Maddie's one bit of joy in her day.

I'm recently become a dog person. I've never sniffed the paws. Haven't you? No. Yeah, you should give them a sniff. Okay. Everyone needs to at least once in their life. But scared to now, but I might give it a go. You're taking on our tradie from Te Amutu. He's 43 and

it's his first time, he's the first time player whose son helped him get on Tradie versus Lady. Welcome to the show John. Hi John. Hey how you going? Good thank you. What's your son's name? Tom. G'day Tom. John and Tom. Good solid Teiamutu names. Alright John and Tom, your buzzer is Trady. Maddie, yours is Lady. The first to three correct answers will win $50 cash thanks to KFC. Good luck guys. Here we go, question number one. Kiwi author, Lindley Dodd, wrote the famous kids book Harry McCleary from Donaldson's Dairy. What colour was Harry McClary? Maddie just got in. Black. It was black. One to the ladies. Was your dog a Harry McClary dog? Technically Harry McClary was a bitzer, so it was a bit of everything.

Isn't that bitzer Maloney or skinny and bony? I'm pretty sure Harry McClary was like a mix of everything. But my dog looks very similar. I entered my dog into the Harry McCleary look-alike contest. She didn't win. Question number two. Which Avenger is the only one that could calm the Hulk down? Any superhero fans amongst us? It's a female Avenger. It was the Black Widow was the only one that could calm the Hulk down. No points there. We move along to question number three. Buzz in when you can tell me who sings this.

Maddie's in. Is that Britney Spears? It is of course Britney Spears. Two to the ladies, none to the tradies. John and Tom, you need this one to stay in the game. Question number four. In the context of email, what does CC stand for? Trady.

John? Trady. Yeah, John? Carbon copy? Yeah, well done. Carbon copy is correct. One to the tradies, two to the ladies. Question number five.

Which artist sang the most recent James Bond theme song? Trady. Yes, John. Was it Rihanna? No. That's a great guess, but no. Maddie, free guess. Oh, God.

Um... No, no idea. Nah, it's a tough one. Billie Eilish. And she won the Grammy for it. Mm. Okay. I think they generally do.

The Bond songs. Mm. Yeah. Adele's one was good. Skyfall. Alicia Keys' one was good. Yeah, that was good too. Yeah.

Okay, I think- Madonna's one was quite good. Um... Die Another Day. I loved that one. That was was good. Yeah, that was good too. Yeah. Madonna's one was quite good. Die Another Day. I loved that one. That was so good. Okay, two to the ladies, one to the tradies. Question number six. In what country was the first ever Olympics held?

Trady. Yes, John. Italy. Oh, she was so close. Maddie? Italy. Oh, she's so close. Maddie? Um, America? No.

It's Greece. Greece, Athens. Athens, Greece. Okay, no points there. We move on to question number seven. What colour car do the Wiggles drive? Cratey. Yes, John?

Big red car. Big red car. It is the big red car. Well done. Question number eight. What colour car does the Wiggles drive? The Wiggles. The Wiggles. The Wiggles. The Wiggles drive? Trady. Yes, John? Big red car. Big red car.

It is the big red car. Well done. Question number eight. What is the name of Batman's butler? Trady. John, for the win. Alfred. He's got it.

Alfred's correct. Well done. Ding dong, back and forth battle. But John and Tom, you managed to come out on for me, yeah, man. Ding, dong, back and forth battle, but John and Tom, you managed to come out on top. Well done, guys. Yeah, awesome, thank you. 50 bucks, coming your way. And good work too, Maddie, that was a fun game.

Yeah, very well done. Thank you. Sweet as, guys, tradies get a much needed win to end the week, they go to 55, ladies on 57. ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. There's a new season of that TV show, The Summer I Turned Pretty out. Do you watch that show?

I feel like it's one of the shows that goes to the graveyard for me. Like you started it and fell off? The TV show Graveyard. Oh yeah, my wife's quite excited about The Summer I Turned Pretty. I think it's one of those trashy watches. I feel like I watched two episodes and then got bored.

That's fair. Yeah. It's gotta grab you, eh? Yeah. Ellie, you're a The Summer I Turned Pretty fan, aren't you? That's one of those trashy watches. I feel like I watched two episodes and then got bored. That's fair. Yeah. It's gotta grab you, eh? Yeah. Ellie, you're in The Summer I Turned Pretty Fan, aren't you? That's one of your shows. Yeah, it's like a guilty pleasure show.

That's what I mean. There's a very familiar storyline in this new season, and that is, is it okay to hook up with someone else when you and your partner are on a break? A la Ross and Rachel from Friends. That's the most famous example of that, isn't it? Very famous example. And that debate raged on for ages.

You're either team Ross or team Rachel. No, the debate for that was were they on a break or not. Not whether you could sleep with someone on a break or not. Oh, they were on a break? Actually, have we checked what our opinions are? I don't know. I believe they were on a break. You?

I don't know. I've always been on the fence about it. You guys frenzy enough to have an opinion on this? Yeah, I don't remember the exact situation, but I remember being like they were broken up. They were broken up. You were on Ross's side. No, I don't remember the exact situation, but I remember being like, they were broken up. They were broken up, you were on Ross's side. No, I don't think they were broken up. Oh, I don't remember the situation, to be honest.

It's been so long since I've seen it. It's hard, because if you go on a break, you obviously need a break. I think, this is what I think. And I mean, I've watched it like 20 million times. I think technically, yes, they were on a break because they decided, like Rachel was like, we should take a break.

Because if you don't know why I haven't, Ross hooked up with the photocopying chick. Yes, during that break. But it wasn't a break where the terms and conditions of the break were discussed enough that he should have went and done that on the same night that they decided they'd be on a break. I forgot the detail that it was on the same night. Same night.

Was it the night they went on a break? Yes. Oh no, put it back in your pants, Ross. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not on the same night. So it gets a bit messy. We wanted to talk this afternoon.

You had the idea of asking people if a break was actually the right thing for your relationship. Yeah, did it save your relationship? Was it, you know, like, because people talk about them like it's a bad thing and if you have a break, it's a really bad sign. Yeah, sometimes it works for people. Look at producer Ella. Yeah, Ella, you and your now husband went on a break. I mean, if you classify one week as a breakup. Well, you broke up.

Oh, was yours a breakup? Yeah, so that's the thing. It as a breakup? Well you broke up. Oh, was yours a breakup? Yeah, so that's the thing. It was a breakup. We weren't intending really to get back together. But. I've never seen someone so miserable. For seven days. For seven days.

You were like laying on the floor crying and it was pretty much your idea. Ross was giving me counselling. I was on the ZM couch. But the rollercoaster, you've never seen someone so happy the following week when they were back together. Oh snap, straight back into it. Which was really awkward for us,

because we had to spend the whole week going, you're better than him. You don't need that loser in your life. Well it wasn't really about that, was it? It was about finding yourself, exploring, having different experiences what it was about. So that's the thing, we didn't really have that chat of like hooking up and stuff. No, because you were broken up.

But that's the thing, what if he did get with someone in that week break? Then that's fine, you were broken up. Oh, I'd hate that. Have you asked? Yeah, of course. I'd have been hurt. Do you reckon he lied? No, of course not. He's Ryan, have you met that cute guy? No, he would never lie.

If you ask, I believe what he told you. We want to know if a break saved your relationship this afternoon. 0800 DIALZM, or you can text us on 9696 with your example, how long was the break? And did you guys set any rules for that break? Yeah, and were the rules followed? Abided by?

Unlike Ross and Rachel? Or did you both go and have a massive rum springer, get it out of your system and then come back and go, oh right, I'm ready to settle for you. I guess we can do this now. Fill us in, did you have a break in your relationship and was it the best thing you guys ever did? That is Franklin.

So let's talk to some people who say that a break saved their relationship. This person wants to be anonymous. Hi anonymous. Hi anonymous. Hello. Did a break save your relationship? Yeah definitely. We were teenagers. We were 15 when we got together so totally different people. What age was the break? Just before 18. Okay and then when did you guys get back together? It was probably about six months Um, just before 18. Okay. And then when did you guys get back together?

It was probably about six months after that. And how old are you now? 26. And still together? What? What's that, sorry? And still together? And still engaged, yeah.

Oh wow! So it actually paid off. So in that six months, would you say you, you both kind of went off, did a bit of soul searching, kind of figured out what you wanted and then came back together? Yep. Absolutely. Did you pass anyone when you guys were on a break? Yes. Yeah. Did they? Did they? Yes. No, but I mean, it's a break.

You gotta go. Did you put rules on it? Was it a break or did you guys break up? No, it was proper breakup. Okay, so no rules? No, no rules. But with a break you can have like the rule that you can go and do whatever you want. Yeah, you can.

You can. But you still have to talk about it. But what I'm saying is you wouldn't set rules if it was a breakup. No. You just go, we're not getting back together. Yeah, totally. And then plot twist. Okay, thanks Anonymous. That's great. Steve wants to talk to us about their break.

Hi, Steve. Hi, Steve. Hi guys, how are we going? Good, thank you. Did a break save your relationship, Steve? Oh, definitely it did. So, me and my ex-partner Matt, we both come from different walks of life where my family is very religious, his family wasn't, so being who we wanted to be was different. Our way of growing up and he was always great when it came to my family being the way families are. There's a reason we have, I live in another country now.

Yeah, gotcha, I hear you. And so he was always trying to be there for me and telling me ways I could fix it or ways I should deal with my family. And it was like, yeah, I understand, but sometimes you just need to sit with yourself and- Figure it out on your own, right? String. Figure it out on your own.

And and having someone there was just leading to anger and resentment towards them for being good. And I literally said, if you stay in this house any longer, I'm going to kill you myself. I just need a break. I just need to be by myself away. And he thought it was the end. But it wasn't three weeks later. We realized why we it reinvigorated those feelings of why we were together and how much we were there for each other and yeah. Three weeks isn't a super long break but I mean three weeks is all you

needed obviously. Oh well three weeks was long enough for me to deal with the family. This feels like a silly question to ask seeing as you've got such a mature and enlightened perspective on all of this. But we asked the last caller, so did either of you hook up with anyone else in that three weeks? Yes, both of us kissed off. I think we both talked about it a while later. We both kissed someone else during the time and both said it just felt weird.

Yeah. about it a while later, we both kissed someone else during the time and both said it just felt weird. Yeah, yeah. But isn't that good that you had that experience to then be like, now we definitely know? Exactly, and that was the thing, when it just doesn't feel right because it's not that one person, well the heart wants what the heart wants. And then you know, geez, you boys don't muck around do you, three weeks? Yeah, what can happen on three weeks? Steve, great call. Someone texted her and they said, my husband and I went on a break after our first baby. Now we have two more kids and we're married. So obviously the break worked out. Lol. A post-baby break? Yeah. I've not heard of that one. I've heard of

people breaking up, but to go, all right, we've got this baby now, let's have a break. Another similar one. I moved out for five months with our kids due to my, oh this isn't similar, due to my husband's affair. We both reset and we decided that we were better together and that was nearly eight years ago now. We are stronger than ever, 20 years together. If the Coldplay concert CEO is listening, there's some bit of light at the end of the tunnel for you. Kerri's our last one. Kerri, did a break save your relationship? This is actually my friend, but her break did save her relationship. Her and her partner had been together since they were 12 years old. Whoa! Yep. And to give you an idea, we're both 34 years old now.

Yeah, and to give you an idea, we're both 34 years old now. Yeah, okay. And they went on a break when they were 22. So yeah, 12 years ago now, and they took three months away from each other to go travelling in separate countries. God, I feel like if you've been together since you were 12, you need longer than three months. You need three years. Yeah. They've never been, apart from that three months, they've never been adults separately. They've never been apart from that three months, they've never been

at all separately. No, never been apart. It's kind of sweet. It's kind of terrifying. Yeah. Kerry, do you know if they're travelling overseas and, you know, for three months, did either of them hook up with someone else? She said, both of them say they didn't, but I don't believe them.

I'm a bit cynical. I've got so far while he was away, he also had two stags to go to. Oh, come on. They've got it out of their system. Yeah, and they were on a break. Yeah, they were on a break. And they get it together and they both agree we never talk about the break. We both lie to each other to avoid any further conversation.

And they got married last month. Oh, that's lovely. Perfect. Thank you, Kerry. Great call. Well, there you go. If your relationship's on the rocks, how about a break? Little break. Little three-month holiday in Europe. Even if you've just had a hard week, why don't you say to your partner, how about we have a break this weekend?

Yeah. Have a little mini break. No rules. Everyone can do whatever they want. ZN's Brain Cleanse. Question getting thrown around the gym this morning at my gym was, is going to the zoo as an adult without kids weird? A random question to ask.

Yeah, and then not so random because we were discussing Weird. A random question to ask. Yeah. And then, not so random because we were discussing it over lunch today before the show. And producer Ella goes, yeah, you know our friend Liam who works in the building? He goes to the zoo every Sunday.

Every Sunday. He has a annual pass and he goes to the zoo every Sunday. Are you saying every single Sunday? Literally every single Sunday. I went with him once. Religiously? Yeah.

Wow. I think it's a bit of the tism. He says not officially. It's a comfort thing for him. It's all good. Oh go off, he knows what he likes. Every Sunday as well, the man has no kids by the way for the record. And just to be clear, you don't have to have kids to go to the zoo. We know that. The zoo's fantastic.

It is. But... What? But there's so many other things to do. It's like a routine though I think for him. Yeah. You know, you go to work, you da da da da da, so we can come Sunday. Let's be real. Going every Sunday as an adult is weird. Full stop, there's no discussion.

There's no discussion. The last three times I've been to the zoo will have been with my children and kids have short legs and you don't see everything. But I feel like by the time you've been to the zoo two or three times as an adult by yourself, you've seen everything, haven't you? Yeah, I think-

You've seen it all. I added in this morning at the gym, I added to the conversation my brother and his wife were visiting me a few weeks ago and they went to the zoo. If you're in a new city you visit their zoo. I think if you're a tourist, different. Very different. Like imagine going to what's the zoo where they killed Harambe? Cincinnati? Cincinnati yeah it was. You would? Yeah. Or you go where that baby hippo is Fiona? Oh that hippo is so cute. Yeah yeah I don't think she's a baby anymore but you'd still go. The next part of the question um was does it make it more

weird or less weird if it's a date? Less weird, in my opinion. The zoo is like a thing to do for a date. That's what I said, makes it less weird. Yeah. You guys, Claudia, if one of your Tinder matches said, I'll take you to the zoo to see the meerkats. I would honestly love that. Would you? It's nice. You'd be into it.

Because there's something to look at and do while your conversation ebbs and flows. Yeah, for sure. You get your steps in. Better than just a walk. Oh yeah you hate a walk date. I don't want to just go on a walk date. You can do that for free. No it's not COVID. We're not going on walk dates.

No. Maybe in COVID that was appropriate. Wait, walk dates. What about a coffee? You walk to the coffee shop, take away coffee, then you start walking. Do we live close together already? Or do I drive to your house and then we walk to the cafe? You drive there.

Then no. Okay. No. No, you walk there and meet me there. Unless we both have dogs. Oh yeah. And we walk our dogs, get a coffee, that's fine. But then you might as well be at the zoo.

Then you've got animals there. So, you know, that's the difference. I think the zoo is just nice. Like you kind of reset your week, walk around, ponder myself. But I love that. Reset your week? Yeah.

Like on a Sunday afternoon, you do your meal prep and you go to the zoo. Are you telling me that you're on the, you're on the yes, it's a good idea to go to the zoo every Sunday as an adult with no kids? Not entirely that sentence, but I'm saying it's not weird for my friend. I get it. I get his brain and I get that for him it helps him set up his week. Refresh

himself. Let's say I said to you, I have been going to the zoo every Sunday. By herself. By myself. What say you? Feels like a cry for help. I say, sure that's interesting, but you do you. Empathy. What if it's your husband? Okay, you do you. And he wants you to go with him. I guess it's like church. Yeah, it's like church.

Yeah, yeah. It's like zoo church. You know, you go every Sunday, you reset. I like creatures of habit. I really do. I just feel like that- Wait, can I, where? He's a value for money guy too. I like creatures of habit, I really do. I just feel like that... Wait, can I? Where? He's a value for money guy too. He'll be wanting to get his annual pass to the match. I know he has an annual, a season pass to the Warriors, which I'm all about. He goes to the Warriors every time they're playing a home game.

But you know the difference there is there's an on-season and an off-season. There's a break. There is a break and the Warriors are also playing a different team every week. It's different. Whereas the zoo save animals. Like they're not bringing in different animals each week. Yeah. Do you do anything that religiously? I don't think so. Yeah. I mean it's better than scrolling on your phone. Morning poo? Yeah that doesn't count. No. Not bodily functions. No. Like we're all different, it's fine. We're all different. It's fun.

No I love him, he's a good friend of mine, but I didn't realise that he... You should go with him. You should go with him. I'd love to go with him. Not every Sunday, I'll go once. No you should just go this Sunday. If the four of us as full grown adults went as like a little show hang, would that be weird? Does he live close to the zoo?

No, he lives on, well, yeah, no. It's even weirder. It's even weirder. What do you want to ask people here? Do we want to ask about the zoo question specifically? Or do we want to ask, what's the thing? Yeah. What is the thing that you do as an adult,

probably by yourself, that people might think is a little bit strange. That they're like, oh really? You choose to do that every weekend? Or every week? Are people doing things every weekend? I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah. I don't know. What's your thing? What's your special thing? And we won't judge. We won't judge you. We'll just get a bit of an insight. Unless it's going to the zoo every Sunday.

ZM's Bree and Clint podcast. We're asking the question, is it unusual to go to the gym, go to the zoo as an adult without kids? It's unusual to go to the gym for us. Yeah, especially me. And what's the thing that you do all the time that people are like, really? That's your thing? Yeah. That's the thing that you're always doing? Alice is here on our $800 at M. Hi Alice.

Hi Alice. Hey, how you going? Good thanks. What's the thing for you Alice? I'm going to the Botanical Gardens. Oh, okay. How often are you going to the Botanical Gardens Alice? Maybe once, twice a week.

Once or twice a week. Do you live close or is your work close where it's like easy to like head down there for lunch or something? I'm just like a 10 minute drive. Okay. But I mean, it's nice. It is nice, what is it?

Does it give you a sense of calm? Do you get your exercise in there? Why do you do it so much? Just, it's a nice walk. I get it, I's like yeah part of your routine it's like a walk that you do. Yeah it's much nicer than walking on a treadmill at the gym. Totally. Well the same could be said for the zoo couldn't it it's quite a long walk around the zoo. Exactly that's why I was like that's normal he could spend an hour at the gym on a Sunday. That's why you get to see monkeys and hippos as well. And some fresh air. And some fresh air, thank you. Someone said, Brie, going to the zoo with no kids,

what if I'm trying to catch a date with Robert Irwin? Yeah, that's different. I don't think that's the zoo. Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast is the one where you wanna be. This person wants to be anonymous. Hi, anonymous. Hi, anonymous.

Hey guys, how's it going? It's weird, good. It's your husband that does something religiously all the time that you think could be a little bit weird? Well, I feel like there'll be a couple of people that might relate. I suspect he's got the tism as well But he gets up and watches YouTube videos of tractors going around and around in packs every morning He had to stay with some friends while he was working away and he got her partner in on the act. So they were getting up every morning in their breakfast watching characters go round and round. So I have someone that gets it now. It's like a calming thing, isn't it?

Yeah. My friend, he won't mind me saying his name, Nixon. I think he's got a bit of that too. He every day plays this game where he just mows a paddock. It's just him going back and forth and back and forth. He's got the PlayStation controller and that's all that happens. He just mows this paddock every day. Every day. And it makes him happy. Yeah. He says it calms his brain down. That's like the game Gardenscapes on my phone. Yeah it's the same thing isn't it? And we asked what's the crazy thing you do all the time and someone said, crazy, I show up and teach children every single day. Someone said, we met a lady at Hamilton Zoo who

bought an annual pass and would just walk around. She said it was better than walking the streets of Hamilton, which is kind of like, you know, a different type of zoo walk. Isn't it? Yeah, depending on where you are. You're safer in with the lions. Yeah. Not me, but our guide, our guide on a South African safari told us that he has a client who comes for two weeks every year and all he says is, I want to see my pussies. He sits at the front of the truck with a box of beers and only wants to see cheetahs. No other animals just cheetahs. The cheetahs are great. I bet he tips well that guy too. So he goes what every year for two weeks? Every year for two weeks. Yeah interesting, eh?

I do cross stitch from 7 p.m. onwards every night. If you want me to do something you better have planned it way ahead of schedule. This is my routine. I love that one. I love it. Because you you're also like making something in the process. Why is that one okay but the zoo one vexes you so much? It's just because the zoo one you don't live close there. Yeah. So you're, you're traveling somewhere to go to something that in my brain, I think it's for me, and it's probably because I've got ADHD. Once I've done something, that's it. It's done.

I get bored and I don't want to do it again for a long time. So I can't understand, you know know like my brain can't comprehend it. But what if the zoo was your thing? What if there was just something about it? Yeah I just every weekend is the thing I can't wrap my head around. Like have you been to Auckland Zoo? Yes. Yeah oh yeah we filmed that thing there with the giraffes didn't we? That wasn't me. Oh. Who was that?

It definitely wasn't me. Who? Here's Pipple. Who was that with? Not me! Awkward. I'm gonna message Sharon Casey. That bitch. I feel like the guy at the Coldplay concert. You literally are. The ZM Podcast Network. But first, the One Second Song Challenge. We're playing for free KFC. Joining team Bree is Kate. Hi Kate. Hi Kate! Hi!

Happy Friday! Yay! Happy Friday! Joining team Clint is Erin. Kia ora Erin! Hi Erin! Hello! I'm sure you guys are all familiar with how the game works but just as a refresher let's go to producer Claudia who's going to run the show. Hello I've got the spiel so this is the one second song challenge.

We're starting the songs from the beginning. You need to buzz in with your name and I'm looking for the artist and the name of the show. Hello I've got the spiel so this is the one second song challenge we're starting the songs from the beginning you need a buzzer with your name and I'm looking for the artist and the name of the song so the first team to three correct guesses will take home the win the theme today there's always a theme as we have been putting people in the drawer to go to that Friday's live event and we've been playing songs from the artists these are all artists from that lineup so if you've been listening throughout the day, you may have a leg up. And since we're going to be playing the songs,

technically that means that Aaron and Kate, you're on the line when they play. So we're going to have to put you in the drawer as well. Oh, yeah. How bloody good for Kate and Aaron. You could win 50 KFC chicken dollars and a trip to Sydney to go to the show. So, boom. All right, Claudia. So, Bree and dollars and a trip to Sydney to go to the show. No. Boom. Alright Claudia. So Bree and Clint you guys are gonna go first and show us how it's done buzz in with your name if you know it here's your first song.

CJR. Bree. I was hoping you would keep playing. What's the name of it? Pitbull? Mr Worldwide? Clint? Yeah. Pitbull Don't Stop The Party? Yes it is! For a second there I thought it might be the men in black one. What's the men in black one? I don't remember. So the one where he's just Mr Worldwide? Yeah. Or the one where he's just Mr 30. OK, that is one point for Team Clint. So Aaron and Kate, this next one's for you. Buzz in with your name if you know it. Aaron. Aaron. I like Jordan Sparks.

No air. You got it. Woo. Nice, Aaron. Bring back Jordan Sparks. Yeah, bring back Jordan Sparks. I mean, she's coming, so. Yeah, she's going to be epic. Yeah bring back Jordan Sparks. I mean she's coming so. Yeah she's gonna be epic. Yeah they're literally bringing her back. No but bring back more music from Jordan Sparks. Yeah. Maybe this will spark something in her. Oh okay. Anyway that is two points for Team Clint. So Bree you really need this one to stay in the game. Okay. Bree and Clint this is for you. Bree. Holy Bree. Lil Jon! Um, and... We played it earlier. We just played it, yeah, yeah. Um, to the window, to the wall.

The sweat dropped down my balls. Oh, ski, ski. God damn. Oh, ski, ski, god damn. Um... Let it keep going because I haven't got it yet. What is it? The window to the wall. Just before he says that he says something else. Let me play with your pandy line. Yay! Okay! What? No, we can get it.

Yeah, you can get it. You know it, it's in there. Ooh wee! No, no, that's the other, that's the Peppa song. Can we go to our teammates? Yeah, do you guys know what it is? If Kate can get it because Bree is still on the buzzer. Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate,

Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate-ee! No, no, that's the other, that's the Peppin song. Can we go to our teammates? Yeah, do you guys know what it is, Erin or Kate? If Kate can get it, because Bree's still on the buzzer. Kate, do you know it? Kate, can you get it? Uh, no, but I literally called my name for Jordan Sparks, it's like the split second

it came on. So I didn't know if you guys could hear me or not. Oh, maybe we didn't hear that one, but oh god, we're here now. So you just, just to be clear, just to be clear, you don't know the little John song name. No. Can Aaron have a go? Do you know it? For the steal.

I know the lyrics off my heart. Yeah, same. Um, nah. This doesn't do a bit more. We're gonna get this. We're gonna get this. This is his biggest song. Yeah, of course it is.

Oh wow! Shame the intro's so long. Yeah. Very long intro. We've done this for Fridayoke before. Oh yeah! Oh! Get low! Get low! Get low! Get low! There we go! There we go! Of course it is! Looks like we're at no risk of being moved to flavour any time soon.

It was a good effort. Two points for Clint, one point for Team Bree. So Aaron and Kate, we're back to you. Here's your song. Kate, Kate. Can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you. We can hear you. We can hear you. You're a little bit scratchy, but we can hear you. Good luck. Okay.

Aaron. Aaron. Let me just check. Before you say it, Aaron, you didn't buzz in, did you Kate? No, not at all. Aaron. Is that Wiz Khalifa? See you Kate? No, not at all. Erin? Is that Wiz Khalifa? See you again? And that's the win, well done!

Would you have accepted Charlie Puth? Uh, technically no, because he's not on the Fridays lineup. Oh, that's rough. Well, we don't have to go there, because it didn't happen. You're lucky. Kate, don't worry, you don't win the KFC, but you are in the draw to go to Sydney. Amazing!

Boom! And Erin you're having KFC for dinner, congratulations! Yeah, thank you. Sweet ass. It's ZM's Bree and Clint podcast. Yesterday it was reported that Hermione Granger, aka Emma Watson, has lost her driver's licence for speeding. She wasn't speeding by much, she was doing 11kms over the speed limit.

Yeah nothing crazy, but it obviously wasn't her first offence. It's come out today that it was her fourth driving offence in two years. Were they all speeding? Didn't say, didn't say. But that was strike four, so all the demerit points were gone. Would you believe this? Like some kind of simulation, today in the news another Harry Potter cast member has been banned from driving. I know who this is I saw it it's that bloody scoundrel Al Hedwig. No not Hedwig. Drink driving again. No not Hedwig. No. Drinking. Hedwig has an advantage of flying so doesn't need to drink. Hedwig loves to loves to drive. No not Hedwig

anybody else want to guess who's lost their driver's license alongside Hermione Granger. Was it Luna Lovegood? That blonde one? No not Luna Lovegood. Dumbledore. No not Dumbledore. Malfoy? No not Malfoy. The Harry Potter. Ugly ugly individual. Which one? Hey, what's the guys? Voldemort. Ugly. I thought you were going to say Ron. I was like, rude. Harry Potter cast member who has lost their driver's

license is Quidditch referee Madame Hooch. Oh, Hoochie. Hoochie was on the Hooch. She was in the first movie, Madame Hoochie. Hoochie was on The Hooch, eh? She was in the first movie, Madame Hooch. She's been caught doing 46 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour zone. Oh, that's nothing. She was what, six miles over? Six miles over, 10k's over the limit. So same as Hermione, 11k's, 10k's.

What's obviously not her first offence. Again, she had three strikes against her name, this was the fourth one. It's just a worrying trend, you know, because that's two in a row. Because you- Do we have eyes on Daniel Radcliffe? You always pride yourself that you've never been caught speeding, haven't you?

No, remember I came on this show and admitted to getting caught speeding earlier this year. I was being facetious. Oh. If anyone's getting done speeding... Are you saying I'm throwing rocks from my glass house? If anyone is getting done speeding on this show it is you. All of us are nano drivers and then there's you who loves to put the pedal to the middle. I've been in the back of

your car Clint. It's scary. Slow down. Yeah. No. I've got a fast car, okay? This was in a work car. Remember when we drove to Hamilton? No, Tauranga. Remember? And Ella goes to me, Ella texts me and goes, can you please tell Clint to slow down? I'm scared. I reject these allegations. This is slander and much like the Coldplay CEO, I will be releasing a statement in the next 10 minutes. Will it include any lyrics from the Fast and the Furious movies? It will be the lyrics of Speed of Sound by Coldplay. The biggest story in the world today is the Coldplay cheating scandal. The CEO of the American company that has been caught cheating on his wife with one of his employees on the

Coldplay kiss cam. Not one of his employees. It was the head of HR. Yes. Which makes it even juicier. Oh my god. The camera looks at them and they quickly duck out of shot just in case you've managed to avoid it today. And then Chris Martin goes, oh, either they're really shy or they're having an affair. And they were having an affair. Having an affair. People have pointed out that if they had just played it cool,

no one would have ever seen this footage. It probably wouldn't have went viral. Nobody would have seen it. Yeah. And they would have got away with it. But in the moment, they freaked out because... And it's gone global. They were having an affair.

The guy's name is Andy Byron. He's the CEO of a tech company called Astronomer. And he is in a world of hurt right now. The thing is, right, is he's now released a statement and it might be the worst statement in history. Let's go through it and then talk about why it's so bad. Okay. So the official statement from Andy Byron CEO of Astronomus says, I want to acknowledge the moment that's been circulating online and the disappointment that it's caused. What was supposed to be a night of music and joy turned into a deeply personal mistake

playing out on a very public stage. I want to sincerely apologize to my wife, my family and the team at Astronomer. You deserve better from me as a partner, a father and a leader. This is not who I want, or who I want to be, or how I want to represent the company I helped build. Just a little plug in there for himself. He helped build the company. Yeah, I helped build it just to remind everyone in case you're wanting to fire me.

I'm taking time to reflect, to take accountability, and to figure out the next steps, personally and professionally. I ask for privacy as I navigate that process. Yeah you asked for privacy now but you were cheating on your wife in front of 30,000 people at a concert. In public. In public. In public.

You made it super public. This is the bit where the statement gets bad, or worse. I also want to express how troubling it is that what should have been a private moment became public without my consent Why are we bringing consent into this? Are we really bringing this guy's an idiot? He literally in the last sentence talked about taking accountability and then literally in the next breath He's trying to blame it about yeah, he's trying to blame it on someone else. I literally in the next breath, is trying to blame it. Yeah, he's trying to blame it on someone else.

I respect artists and entertainers, but I hope we can all think more deeply about the impact of turning someone else's life into a spectacle. So now he's blaming Coldplay. Wow. So that was a dig at Coldplay, who Coldplay weren't in charge of the camera,

Coldplay didn't post it to social media, Coldplay didn't in charge of the camera, Coldplay didn't post it to social media, Coldplay didn't cheat on their wife. No, you need to take accountability for your mistakes, you're the one that went out and did it. And this is the most suck-ass line of the whole thing. Wait is this the Coldplay quote? Yeah but the way he refers to them he says, as a friend once sang, lights will guide you home and ignite your bones and I will try to fix you. I literally just throw up in my mouth. Fix who? And also are you saying that you're that's your that you're are you claiming to be personal

friends with Chris Martin? Is that what you're doing? Are you name-dropping Chris Martin? Oh my god. What a disaster. It's one of those classic ones, and you see these from time to time, where he has to release a statement, he's felt he needs to release a statement, and he thinks the statement will make it go away. It's like the Prince Andrew interview that he did. Made it 10 times worse. He has poured fuel all over this whole thing,

and he's reignited it for at least another 24 hours. Yeah, because he obviously hasn't learnt anything. He's trying to blame other people for things that he did. No one's perfect, okay? Shit happens. No, mistakes happen. But that's not the way you handle it. Mistakes and bad decisions, none of us are perfect,

but obviously he hasn't learnt anything. You step down from your job for a bit, you apologise. You just say, You see if your wife will take you back I'm messed up or whatever and oh god The good so crazy that it's with the person who runs HR. What is she gonna do discipline herself? Knowing the way 2025 is going It'll end up this guy calling out Chris Martin at a charity boxing match to be like, let's sort this out in the ring.

Play ZM's Breanne Clint. It's time for a Friday Oakey. Ladies and gentlemen, Breanne Clint's Friday Oakey. We back. We back for another week. We back, baby. This week, Breanne's Choice, would you like to talk us through what you've chosen? Yeah look, I love this song so much. I think her voice is beautifully unique.

And that's why I chose this one from Duffy. You got me begging you for mercy Why won't you release me Because I thought to myself, it'd be hilarious listening to you and I try and recreate this. Which actually is often the criteria for picking the song. Yes, absolutely. Is it topical or is it funny? Funny.

So, it's done. We've each spent 15 minutes with a professional audio engineer and you're about to hear the results. You're going to go first. Sure am. You ready for it? Yeah, always ready. Alright, you get to hear both and then you help us pick the winner. Here's Breeze Mercy for Friday O'Kee.

Good luck. Thank you. I love you, but I gotta stay true My Mara's got me on my knees, I'm begging please Stop playing games I don't know what this is, cause you got me good Just like you knew you would I don't know what you do, but you do it well I'm under your spell You got me begging you for mercy Why won't you release me?

You got me begging you for mercy Why won't you release me? I said release me. What? Good work. I'm pretty happy. Were you doing a Duffy impersonation? It's just what came out.

Yeah, right. Like I wasn't trying. Like you were doing a Duffy impression. Like I wasn't trying. Like you're doing a Duffy impression. Like I wasn't trying to but it's just what kind of came out when I sang it. I was pretty happy with a couple of notes. I mean it was weak in some areas. It's a very hard song. Mate.

She's gravelly, she's deep, she's high. For my abilities I'm pretty happy with what I got. I don't know that I'm going to the same feeling, but here it comes. It'll be good, it'll be good. Okay, okay. Bear with us. Good luck, best of luck. Once you've heard both, you can pick the winner.

I love you, but I gotta stay true. My morals got me on my knees. I'm begging please, stop playing games. I don't know what this is Cause you got me good Just like you knew you would I don't know what you do But you do it well I'm under your spell

You got me begging you for mercy Why won't you release me? You got me begging you for mercy Why won't you release me? I said release me There last night I sounded like a balloon deflating. I thought it was not bad. I thought it was pretty good.

I couldn't, you know how in that last one she goes, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, Who do you guys think did the better Duffy this week? Who's our winner? We're looking for five people to cast a vote right now. On the phone we need you to call us to cast that vote on 0800DIALZM. We always welcome feedback on the text machine on 9696 also. Yeah good and bad, we can take it. Good and bad, whatever you want to say. This is week 305 of Fridayoke. You think we haven't heard it all by now? We've heard most of it. ZM's Bri and Clint podcast.

Fridayoke! This week it's Duffy. You just heard Bri do Duffy. You got me begging you for mercy. Why won't you release me? I said Up the duff. Up the duffy? Yeah, up the duffy for me. And you heard me do duffy.

You got me begging you for mercy. Why won't you release me? You were down the duffy. And I'm down the duffy, yeah. Jess is going to vote first. Hi Jess, happy Friday. Hi Jess. Hi. Do you like a bit of duffy, Jess? She vote first. Hi Jess, happy Friday. Hi Jess. Hi. Do you like a bit of

Duffy Jess? She's alright. Do you like it like that? Do you like that flavour of Duffy that you just heard? Oh I love Brie's flavour, she's on. Stop it Jess, did it do things to you did it? Sorry what was that? I said did it do things to you? Oh, you got me laughing. Can't wait to leave me hanging. I was going to say. I'll take the point though. I'll take the point. God, that was awkward for me.

Imagine being me. 1.3, let's go to Leela. Oh no, 800.0. Hi Leela. Hi, my name's Leela. Leela. Leela. Hi Leela.

Hi. What do you think this week, Leela? I'm sorry Clint, but it has to be Bree. It has to be. There's no way it could be Clint. Yeah. Love you Leela. You too.

Thanks Leela. Do you reckon it's cause I called her Leela? Could have been. Yeah. Carmen's here. Doesn't called her Lila. Kura-Bane. Yeah. Carmen's here. Doesn't like Futurama. Yeah yeah. Carmen. Hi Carmen. Hi Carmen.

Kia ora. Kia ora. What did you think of our Duffy renditions this week Carmen? I was honestly just listening to the radio in the background. I was like oh what's this version? I like this. Okay. And that was pre. And you're about to turn to go, that's what this is about.

Thanks Carmen, I'll take it. Sorry, Flynn. No, no, you're okay. Thank you. Well, you've got the win and you've so far you're three nil. So we have to see if you get in the full downtrial. Maddie, who are you going to vote for? Bri.

Oh, thanks Maddie. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. And Riley, who are you going to vote for? Bri. Oh, thanks Maddie. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. And Riley, who were you going to vote for? Um, Bri. Bri. No way!

But Clint was a close second. Oh, I agree. Clint was very good as well. I appreciate that. I think it was pretty easy. You got me begging you for mercy. Yeah, yeah. Why won't you release me?

Yeah, yeah. I'm happy with that because I smoked a whole packet of cigarettes just to get that vibe when I recorded that. We should do Winehouse next week. Absolutely. What song would you pick of Winehouse? Probably Rehab. Oh yeah, that'd be a bit of fun.

Back to Black. Back to Black would be fun too. What about Valerie? I think we've done it. Back to Black would be fun too. What about Valerie? I think we've done it. Yeah. Surely we've done Valerie. I think we've tried to forget it.

True, we've blocked it out. Yeah. All right, thanks for your votes. We're going to do a birthday banger next. That is Brinklund. Brinklund. All I want from my birthday is a birthday banger. One more birthday banger to finish off the week. Number one song when you turn 16.

Lincoln very kindly is going to do their sister's birthday banger. Hi Lincoln. Hi Lincoln. Hi. How old are you Lincoln? I'm 11. 11 so we can't do yours yet but how old's your sister then? She's 16. Okay perfect so she can just do hers. Exactly what date? 16th July 2009. Oh, it's this week. She literally was 16 a couple of days ago, two days ago.

And we've done the calculations, Lincoln. Here's your sister's birthday banner. birthday banger. We just played it, mainly because it's the number one song right now, Lincoln. Your sister gets Alex Warren in Ordinary, do you think she'll like it? Yeah. Yeah. What's her name by the way? Jamie. Jamie. Shout out to Jamie. You're a good brother, thanks for doing that. Leah's here to do birthday banger. Hi Leah. Hi Leah. Hey, how are you going. You're a good brother. Thanks for doing that. Leah's here to do birthday banger. Hi, Leah. Hi, Leah. Hey, how are you going? Good, thanks. What are you doing this weekend?

Oh, just gone down to Roto Vegas listening to your show the whole time on the way. Oh, lovely. What are you going to do in Roto Vegas? Oh, just visiting my partner's dad. Oh, nice. Good on you. Good on you. Well, thanks for listening. What is your date of birth? 11th of October 1999. Right that means you were 16, Leah, in 2015.

And on the 11th of October 2015 this was number one. downtown you don't want no beef boys so I run the streets boys Matt Clemore and Ryan Lewis, downtown. downtown Banga. Absolute banger.

Do you like it? I was hoping for something even better, but I guess it's all right. OK, fair enough. At least you're honest. Yeah. Wait there. We're going to do one more birthday banger for Sersha.

Hi, Sersha. Hi. Sersha, you're going to do Dad's birthday, aren't you? Yeah. Okay, perfect, Sersha. What is Dad's birthday? His birthday's been 19th of January, 1928. Good job.

That means Dad was 16 in 1994, and Sersha, here's Dad's birthday bangers. Boom shake, shake, shake the room. Boom shake, shake, shake the room. Boom shake, shake, shake the room. Tick, tick, tick, tick, boom. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Okay, Will Smith, they both went on to be on that show, the Fresh Prince. And this was their first hit. Do you like this song, Sersha,

or do you think Dad will like this song? I've never heard it. Yeah. I think Dad might, or do you think Dad will like this song? Um, I've never heard it. Yeah. I think Dad might like it. I think Dad will like it. 31 years old, that song. Is that? Yeah.

Okay, wait there, Saoirse. We've got to make a decision between Matt Clamore, Alex Warren and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Why don't you pick it? What are you picking? I'm picking DJ Jazzy Jeff. Boom Shake the Room. Good. Yeah, Boom Shake the Room. I almost chickened out. Nah, it's a good choice.

Sersha, you're dead. Just one birthday banger. Well done. I like that. Woo hoo! ZM's Brian Clint. Banga, well done. I want to talk about professions that make bad spouses. Oh, OK. I've gotten this off Reddit, where the question was,

what professions make bad spouses? Strip club manager. Yeah, could be. Could be. CEO. CEO of a tech company. These were the ones that got the most votes. Should we go through them? Yeah. The first one on the list, a drug dealer. Really? Drug dealer makes bad spouse. Well yeah obviously. Might go to prison. Obvious reasons. Might get shot. Is it

actually on the list? On the list. What's the criteria? I don't think there's any criteria. Yeah, right. Just shit people to be in a relationship with. Yeah, these are the people that profession normally... Why didn't you expect a drug dealer to be a listed profession? Yeah, on this list it is.

This is Reddit. This is the world of Reddit. Okay. Someone said, any type of actor. Oh, why? Because they have to hook up with other people. I think they're also... Are they good at lying? Well, I think they also are either working for super long periods of time

and like an hour commission because they're so busy or they're not working at all. But they're often hot. Yeah, they are often hot. Bartenders were another one. Terrible hours. That's what it says. Horrible hours to actually hold down a real relationship.

Terrible for their health, terrible for your relationship health. Yes. The next one was horse people. Ugh. Always buying horses. Yeah. Yeah. Another one on the list was it says corporate attorneys oh what's wrong with corporate attorneys it says skeezy any

high-powered entrepreneurs sometimes they never clock off okay their phones always on yeah someone else said according to my divorce attorney friend, female nurses are by far the most common demographic. He sees torpedo their marriages by cheating. The distant second is male firefighters. As the partner of a female nurse? Yeah. How does that make you feel?

Not good. Nah. Honestly, this is... You should get a firefighter on the side. This is the most secure relationship I've ever been in. Like I don't have one single worry. All the people I know that are nurses, great people. Yeah. I don't agree with that, can I say? I don't agree with the nurse comment. Yeah. And the nurses that I've met really value

their home life because their work life is so chaotic. Yeah nurses are really loyal people, super loyal. Should we defend drug dealers as well? Drug dealers, they've got initiative and good in a crisis and they've got heaps of little bags if you need something to put your earrings in. Yeah, politicians, let's get through this list. Politicians, these are all professions that apparently don't make good spouses. Yeah, politicians are terrible hours too.

Yeah, horrible. Comedians. Yeah, we're trying out their new jokes on you. Yeah, it says if you value your privacy, don't date a comedian. Yeah, they'll write a bit about you. Someone said anyone in the film business, they're either unemployed and home all the time

or at work for like 16 hour days, if not on location. Yeah, what's worse? Someone else said chefs, horrible hours. Terrible hours. Professional musicians, not celebrities, but the folks who have to gig all the time to survive unless you're also a professional musician. Terrible hours. High-powered lawyers. Terrible hours. Insurgents. Oh okay. Do I say pilots? Pilots is definitely on the

list as well. Pilots the risk is they've got a secret family. And it's easier to have a secret family. Oh yeah. You know, cause they're flying all over the world. Yeah, or they've got a flight attendant on the side. Yeah. I've seen it happen. Also flight attendant, not a great profession to date. If you're single, best job in the world. I can imagine though, if you have a family,

very hard profession to have. Yeah, you'd want to get transferred to the, I think that's when you get transferred to domestic, don't you? Oh, okay. And you just fly over down the country. International would be impossible. Oh my god, yeah. It'd be so hard.

So hard, yeah. Good, glad to see Radio DJ is not on the list. Um, I would definitely put us on the list. If you value your privacy, don't take one of us. Fantastic hours though. Yeah, not bad hours. Pretty good hours. 20,000 readers of the newspaper The Telegraph in the UK, pretty big newspaper,

have voted on what they believe is the best country in the world. And the only reason I bring it to the table is because New Zealand's right up there. Ooh, interesting. Otherwise, I'm not really interested, you know, unless we feature, I'm not really interested. New Zealand, they do this every year. New Zealand has been number one every year on this poll since 2012, except for last year when we got knocked off our perch by South Africa. Really? Yeah. Okay, interesting. They reckon it's because we shut the country. Oh. And so all the Brits couldn't come here.

And so they were holding a grudge. And so then that was the hangover from that. They did their voting the year before and then the results came out in 2024. Anyway, good news. Results are out. We. Anyway, good news, results are out. We're back baby, we are number one. Back on top. We are the best country in the goddamn world. What are the factors? Good question and we can rate New Zealand

on these factors if we agree. Criteria include natural beauty, definitely. Oh, top of the list. We've got natural beauty and spades. 10 out of 10. Have you seen those videos where the guys on the computers go on Google Earth and they go randomly dropping into places in New Zealand until I find somewhere ugly? And it doesn't exist. Yeah yeah. Everywhere is beautiful. Like downtown Auckland or something. Yeah. There's nice parts of downtown Auckland.

There is nice parts, there's some grim parts though. Most of it's road cones. Yeah. It's nice parts of downtown Auckland. There is nice parts, there's some grim parts though. Most of it's road cones. Yeah. Friendliness of locals, definitely. Yeah, 100% up there. Food and culture. Yep. Up there. Food and culture's having a hard time at the moment.

Food, a lot of restaurants are closing down. But. There's some good food in New Zealand though. It'll come back, it'll come back. You can still get a good pie. Yeah. Value for money. It's a not great. I wouldn't say we're value for money. Well you get your money's worth and coming to

New Zealand like it's lovely but it's not like a cost-effective place to travel it's not even a cost-effective place to live. Do you get your money's worth? Like the saying goes you get your money's worth is the price. Versus what you get. Yeah. Yeah. So you've come from the other side of the world, you've spent heaps already. I imagine you do feel like you get value for money by the time you get here. Do you think?

Nah. You know why? You know what I think it comes down to? I think it comes down to food. And that's how I always gauge if I travel to a country. If I feel like I'm getting my value for money, I'll gauge it on food and food in New Zealand is out the gate expensive. That's true. It's not like Japan where you know you can go and get a cheap bowl of ramen

and know that you're having some food from that culture and saving some money because you're travelling. Yeah, you can't do that here. You can't do that here. No. Well, you go to a bakery and get a pie. Yeah. Again, pie, that's all I come back to.

It depends what bakery you go to. You could pay $8, $9 for a pie. Other criteria included, ease of travel. Yeah, it's pretty easy. Just get a car and drive down the country. Yeah. You can drive the whole country. I wouldn't give public transport a great rating.

No, that's different. Ease of travel, you're travelling. Oh, travelling's easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Travelling's good. Accommodation quality. Well, it depends where you stay. Yeah, there's some great places to stay.

There's some great places to stay. Bri and I have stayed in some interesting places. Terrible places. But do your research. That place where we got Tinniea from. And overall satisfaction and enjoyment is the other criteria. Top of the list.

Top of the list. There's so many things to do in this country. The list is weird. Obviously, we're number one. I said that. Number two is Japan. And number three is India. OK, yeah.

But then I guess you go natural beauty, yes, friendliness of locals, yes, food and culture, yes, value for money, yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But I just look at this list and I'm like, us of locals yes food and culture yes value for money yes yes yeah yeah but I just look at this as I'm like have you guys been to Italy have you been to Italy's pretty good at least if we're talking best country in the world Italy's pretty amazing yeah but anyway have you been to puzzle world in Wanaka

oh see that's you know that's what tips New Zealand over the edge have you been to the Big gumbo in Taihepe? Yeah. Yeah, it's our leaning tower of Pisa. Have you been to the big sheepdog made out of iron? Have you been to Wellington where the water just comes up through the streets? Have you seen the real life wizard in Christchurch? Oh no, we had to get rid of him.

Yeah. What about his predecessor? Oh, his successor. I'm not a hundred percent sure actually. Remember how there was a successor? Yeah, he was getting a new one. A younger one. Well actually, I won't speak out of turn. He could be around. He could be fine. Yeah. The ZM Podcast Network. I found this girl who has come up with a theory about rating a man's attractiveness. She says it's her life work. So let's take it seriously. And I think there's some merit to it.

Okay. So here she is explaining her theory. My theory is that there are four main categories for male attractiveness. Hot men can be cute, pretty, handsome, or sexy. One question I often get is can anyone be all four? Some people fit very neatly into one of the categories. For example, Timothy Chalamet, pretty.

But there are very few hot male celebrities that get a clean sweep. Pedro Pescal comes pretty close. He can be cute, handsome, and sexy at various various times but I think his features are a bit too rugged to be called pretty. Oh interesting. Very interesting. Um, Chamolais could be cute and pretty, couldn't he? Yeah, he could be cute and pretty. For sure.

Interesting. I thought we could, I'm gonna put up some male celebrities that I mean are rated very highly by the public as some of the best looking male celebrities and then what we're looking for is the the quadruple win the cute pretty handsome sexy because this woman reckons it is pretty hard. Yeah, okay, go for it. Okay, let's kick it off with the Aussie heartthrob, Chris Hemsworth. Is he handsome?

Yes. Is he sexy? Yes. Is he cute? Can be. Not traditionally. Wait, Chris Hemsworth. He's too manly to be cute.

Is he in that movie with Dakota Johnson, Materialist? No, that's Chris Evans. Is he pretty? Yes, he's got long hair. He's too manly to be cute. Is he in that movie with Dakota Johnson materialist? No that's Chris Evans. Is he pretty? Yes, he's got long hair. He's quite pretty. Yeah, he gets three I think. Okay, he's got three Okay. Sorry Ella for skimming over you not knowing Chris Hemsworth, but that's unacceptable. Yeah, that's wild. That's diabolical from you Okay, next on the list Henry Cavill. He's handsome. He's handsome. He's sexy. He's sexy. He's not cute or pretty. No Okay, he gets two. Yeah, Henry Cavill is not for me. So I think you get zero but This is one of your weirder takes. Yeah I don't know the guy from 50 Shades of Grey is not hot according to

Yeah, don't get that either and they kind of look the same so maybe they're just not my type. Next on the list Bradley Cooper is how many is he out of the four? Oh is he cute? No. No? No. Personally no. Okay is he pretty?

Yeah he's quite pretty. Is he handsome? He's handsome. Is he sexy? Yeah. He's three. I think he's sexy and handsome. Okay we'll give him two then. Yeah

Next on list Hugh Jackman. Oh Hugh Jackman. Is he sexy? Yes No, what no, what? Was muscles are you joking? Yeah, yeah, no, not for me. Okay objectively fine. He's my hey, what do you think? Yes? He definitely is sexy He's sexy and handsome. He's sexy and handsome. He's my Henry Cavill. Clint, what do you think? Yes. He definitely is sexy. He's sexy and handsome. He's sexy and handsome. He's not cute or pretty.

He's too hairy to be pretty. Nah, he's not pretty. He can be cute though. What about when he does like the dancing and stuff on stage? He's quite cute. He's a cutie. Okay, I'll give him three. I won't give him four.

That's fair. I like Hugh Jackman. I like Hugh Jackman. He's not going to be our first four. No, no. Okay, what about Channing Tatum? Oh, that's a good one. I like Hugh Jackman. I like Hugh Jackman. He's not gonna be our first four. No, no, no. Okay, what about Channing Tatum? Oh, that's a good one. He's definitely sexy.

Yeah, he's definitely handsome. He's definitely pretty. Have you seen his eyes? He is pretty. And I would say he's cute. I, this is our answer. Because he's funny. He's cute.

He's cute. He does comedy and it makes him kind of cute. He's likable. I think we found our four. He's a four. Wow, he's so cute in 21 Jump Street. Yeah. I think you got to give him all four.

Yay. Well we did it, we found the perfect man. We didn't actually find him. We flew all the way to Los Angeles to find him and we didn't find him if you're a longtime listener of this show, but we've identified him. Identified him. Yeah.