ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM’s Bree & Clint Podcast - 19th January 2026

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

Tradie vs Lady is back for 2026! Bree & Clint both went to A&E over summer.  Clint is mad about the Backstreet Boys.  Bree's started taking part in a new app.  Producer Ella's no-spend week.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZDM's Brie and Clint, the podcast. ZDM's Brie and Clint, thanks to KFC. KFC Summer Bucket is back, a free reversible bucket hat included while stocks last. Zetzdeme's Bree and Clint. Hey, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to a brand new Brie and Clint show for 2026.

Happy 2026. Did everyone have a good break? A great break, yeah. Great break. Yeah. Got some good days in terms of, weather. Some all right days. It's been of an average summer. It was a mixed bag,

wasn't it? But the break itself has been great. I saw someone comment on one of our social media videos over the week. Jeez, these guys have more days off than teachers. No, we don't, okay, because we don't strike. Teachers aren't back yet. No, teachers not back for another two weeks. Two or three weeks. Yeah, yeah. Four weeks.

Teachers not back until mid-March, I think. I think actually now it's like mid-May. Mid-May, is it? Yeah, they've pushed it out to mid-May. Yeah, then they've got a long. weekend. Because they got to do some more prep to get ready to come back to class. And then they have that two week holiday for the, for the, um, breaking day.

Shout out to our teachers. We love you guys. Hope you guys are having a cocktail. Good afternoon to our producers who are back as well. Claudia and Ella. Good day, girls. Hey guys. Still here.

Still here. You're back. Bree's just been up and cleared the scores for Trady versus Lady because it's a brand new year. If anyone wanted a reminder, 108 tradies, 101. ladies. Yeah. But I mean, we started fresh today.

It was a bit of a choke from the ladies, to be honest. They led all year and then fell off in the last four weeks kind of thing, five weeks. Devastating loss for the girls. Yeah. But hey, it's a brand new day. It is a brand new day, brand new year, which means we got 50 bucks up for grabs. We do. It's thanks to our mates at KFC.

If you would like to be the first lady in the first tradie of 2026 to take on this game, maybe you get the first points of the year. Could be you. Play ZDM's Breincland. Time for Trady versus Lady. It's Trady versus Ladies. Oh yeah, it's good to be back, guys. Another year of Trady versus Lady.

The Trades took it out last year, but we start afresh today. Zero, zero. Our lady is calling from Auckland. She's 38, and she went to Ed Sharon and Auckland on Saturday. Welcome to the show, Laurel. Hi, Larell. Hi. What did you think of Ed?

Oh, amazing. I think that's the fourth time I've gone to see him. I was going to say, he's been here so much. I looked at that stadium, and there was multiple nights and more shows to go. I was like, man, how many people have seen this guy two, three, four times by now? People gone back to back. Totally worth it. You know what I was amazed by Larell?

Because I was there on Saturday night as well, is he talked about how, because this is like the start of the tour. Yeah. He's been here for a month. Is he? I know, and he hasn't, I haven't seen any... I know. He lays low, doesn't he? God, I've got to say, we were saying it's been a bit of a poo's summer.

Probably the best summer for a ginger to be in New Zealand. You know, for a pale ginger, he was like, few, thank God. You're taking one out Trady today from Invercargill. He's 32, and this is his tie-breaker game on Trady versus Lady. He's won one, and he's lost one. Welcome to the show, Lennon. Hi, Lennon.

There you go. What do you reckon you're going to do here for the tie-break? I reckon I might draw Get one of each Yeah, nice I like that Or DNF, do not finish Laurel, your buzzer is

Lady, Lenin, your tradie First to three correct answers Gets $50 cash thanks to KFC Good luck team Here we go, question number one What huge global Sporting event kicked off in Melbourne Australia this week?

Lady Yes, Larell The tennis? It was The tennis and is the tennis. Sorry, Australian Open kicked off, I believe, yesterday. One of the ball kids fainted. Yeah. Straight away.

That was scary. It was too hot. Too hot. And it is too hot. Can I just say? If Melbourne's listening, 42 degrees is unacceptable. Yep. I think wait till February.

Unacceptable. Way too hot. One to the ladies. Question number two. Name the former All Blacks coach who lost their job this week. Tranny. Yes. Lenin.

It's Razor. It's Razor. Scotty. Fraser Robinson. He's been moved on. Who will be the new coach? Jamie Joseph. Have they announced it?

Not yet. Your bets on Jamie Joseph. Okay, one a piece. Question number three. Buzz him when you can tell me who sings this. Oh, Lennon for the steel. Lennon? Ed Shearne.

Ed Shearne. It is Ed Shearin. Tough on Larell, the four-time Ed Shearin fan. Here we go. Question number four. Speaking of Ed Shearan, which NZ City is he playing this Wednesday? Lady. Yes, Larell.

It is Wellington. She wasn't going to miss that one. We're all tied up here. What a game to kick off the year. Lennon was right. He said he was going to tie. And we're at tie break. You could just well be tying, Lenin.

Should we call it now Lennon? Yeah, you go on 25-eats, let's go. He'd be happy with that. All right, question number five. This is for the win. Rupol Charles is best known for what? Lenin. Drain queen.

Drag queen. I did not know the invocardial-based tradies were so big on Rupol's drag race, but there you go. You've taken that, Lennon. Now we do. You crush that, Lennon. I mean, look, technicality, he is the queen of drag, not a drag queen, but we will accept it. It's got a potato, potato. Hey, thanks, Larel, you almost got there.

Laurel, excellent. My husband will be so. Thanks, a pretty. All right, how good. ZDM's Brie and Clint podcast. Guys, it is good to be back from the holidays.

I was over the holidays. It feels like we never left, I was like, I need to be back at work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My happy place. I actually found myself doing radio shows in the mirror. It's got a hairbrush.

God, can I get the podcast for that? I got my dog, and I put a wig on it, and that was Bree. God, you really needed to be back at work. Dog had better jokes than you, actually. Oh. Yeah.

Anyway, this is good. Yeah. No, it's great to be back. The dog had terrible mic technique. Smell better than me too, you said. Yeah. At least I know how to use a toilet. The dog, less humpy.

I've been told that actually. Only when I'm on heat. Anyway. Less molested pillows. I, over the holidays, spent quite a bit of time visiting my family back in country, Queensland, Australia. Yeah.

Which I'm from a very small town, as we've talked about on this show. And one of my favorite things when I go back home is hearing all of the small town gossip. You know? Because when you're from a small town and people only from a small town will understand this. Yeah. And there's the gossip that goes around and it kind of gets more and more exaggerated as it passes through people. And it's currency too. Yeah.

Because there's nothing else going on. And I imagine your mother is abreast of all the small. town gossip. What'd you say about my mother? You're not be talking about my mother's breast. Your mother's breasts are the gossip of the small town. No, I reckon she's a cross at all. She is she's a huge town gossip.

She's a former hairdresser. Yeah. Like she would be back in the day, she's basically Facebook. She knows how to get the gossip. She knows how to redeliver the gossip. Yeah, yeah. Redistribute. It all goes through my mum's breast. She's the gossip filter. Exactly.

You go and suckle on the gossip breast of I'm a die. I had a little suckle on my mum's gossip teat. And I think I've come up with a new segment for the show. Okay, sure. It's a segment, wait, are you going to play that or am I going to sing it? Well, do you do whatever you want. Okay, I'll sing it and then you hit that thing.

Okay, cool. Okay. A segment I'm calling Small Town Gossip, every town's got it. Small Town Gossip today. Small Town Gossip. That works super well. That's good, yeah. I think seamless.

First day back, no bumps. We want your small town gossip this afternoon. And it might be that you live in a small town and there's hot goss going on right now. Or it could be like Bree, that you went home to your small town for summer and you got filled in on the goss. Was there any when you were there? Yes. The biggest, or the gossip I loved hearing about the most. And look, I don't know if this is true or not.

That's why it's gossip. But the gossip going around my small town was there's this one guy who's playing for. for one of the local soccer clubs. Okay. Right? Yeah. And apparently he got done for match fixing. They were, there was like some underground betting ring.

Yeah. Right? And turns out he was getting these other people to bet for him. And you know how he was fixing the matches? How? He was the goalkeeper on one of the local teams. So he could let the shots on. Yes.

If that gossip is true, that is good gossip. Who's betting on small town country Queensland soccer? Times are tough. Yeah. But I guess you would think as a match fixer, you're like, no one's going to check. Yeah. No one's going to check. And that's maybe why.

I mean, who knows if it's true, but that's the gossip I heard from my small town. We want your small town gossip. Sexy gossip. Salacious gossip. Family gossip. Illegal gossip. The only thing we can't do is names. Yeah, no names.

But if you've got some goss for us, we'd love you. to hear it this afternoon. You can remain anonymous. You can drop it on the text machine on 9-6-96. What is your small-town gossip? The hottest story popping off in your small town this summer. Let us know who's doing who and where and why. Wearing what. Oh yeah. Dead end Franklin. New segment potentially launching right now. Small town gossip. Everytown's got it. That's right. We want you small town gossip. You know, the gossip that goes around small towns and you're like, did you hear about such and such? I can go home to my small town this summer.

So I don't have any of the goss. No, I didn't get any of the goss. My mum didn't bring me any over summer as well. Oh, come on, Colleen. So we're leaning on yours at the moment. Country Queensland. Rumours of match fixing in the local soccer competition, which is juicy. Very juicy.

That's real juicy, because that's a blight on the entire football club. It really is. That is true. So we've asked you to share the Goss from your small town with us this afternoon. No one willing to go on here with it, but we have had some good texts come through. Yeah, there's been quite a few good texts. We'll kick it off with this one. Someone texted and said, in my small town, there was a bunch of anonymous complaint letters that were being sent to the council.

They were from everything about noise, parking dogs, you name it. There was a complaint letter about it. Turns out they were all being written by the same person, and they hadn't been caught out because they were reporting. their own house to throw people off. What a weird scam. That's so strange. Can I just say as someone who... Loves to write a complaint?

Doesn't mind the odd complaint. Yeah. No one will take your complaint seriously if it doesn't have your name on it. Yeah, right. No one's interested in an anonymous complaint. They're not. As soon as you put your name on it...

As soon as you put your name on it. It gives more power behind it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone else's texting we asked for your small town gossip. They said, I live in a place called South Head. My mate found his missus was cheating on him with his cousin. Whoa!

And then they've text through with a typo in that text. Wait, wait. Sorry, she was cheating on him with her cousin. I was going to say, was it his cousin or her cousin? She was cheating with her own cousin. That's way more scandalous. That is some small town gossip. That's gross.

What about this one? That's gross. Many years ago, we had a teacher at our high school. that was pretty young and kind of hot. The rumours were that he was in an adult film. Everyone started talking about it, and there was a nickname that went around the high school. After graduation, someone found the link to the adult film.

Turns out it was true, and his adult film name, we can't, well, I can't read that out. No. I don't think you can go into teaching if that's... Obviously, we need teachers. We need good. teachers, so we need people who are passionate about the job. Maybe it was his twin.

Oh, like Phoebe's twin. Could have been his twin, and then, you know, why should he not be able to teach? Was it Ursula? Is that Phoebe's twin? Uh-huh. The pornster? Yeah. There's a small town gossip.

Someone's texting and said, there's a local dairy somewhere around here that is definitely selling weed. People grab it with their milk. Wow. What would that dairy be called? I don't know, but it'd definitely be a code word, right? Like, oh, can I get some fresh greens? Can I get some skunk milk?

No, that's just kind of blatant, isn't it? Yeah, that's different, yeah. Can I get some weed? Yeah. Someone else ticks through. This is small town gossip. They said the Baptist preacher was indoor gardening with the green grocer's wife. The green grocer was indoor gardening with the mayor's wife.

The Baptist preacher's wife was also indoor gardening with a bunch of random. Where? Where? Where? Where is that place? Thanks for your goss, guys. Hey, thanks for trusting us with your goss. We appreciate. Small town gossip. And you want to send, Bree wants to get the link to that high school teacher's video if you've got it. Yeah, just if you've got it on hand. Yeah. That'd be good.

ZDN's Brian Clint. Huge news in the name community. Big news for Cairns, actually. Oh, poor Cairns. Because they got painted with that brush. How many years ago? go now. It's been a number of years. I reckon it's been close to a decade. Yep.

Whether the Karen's want to talk to the manager, to be a Karen. And it was the meanest thing too because they couldn't complain about it. Yeah. Because we're like, oh okay Karen. See, we were right. See, we told you. It's not all Cairns. Hashtag, not all Cairns. We love most of you.

Cairns. Yeah, correct. It's just a couple that ruined it. But you've got some good news for them. Some great news. Because turns out, according to some studies, there is a new name that is on the chopping block to become the new Karen. Okay. So Karen's going to fall off into the distance and just become a normal name again. Karen can retire now. Well, what they're saying is, because I've done quite a bit of research into this actually,

because Karen was the name given to that certain type of person for the boomer generation. Yeah. So the name that is now emerging is what. they're saying is the Karen for the Gen X's. Oh, okay. Yes. Because they're moving, you know, into that category now. And of course, there hasn't been a baby born with the name Karen.

For a long time. For a long time. And this trend doesn't help either. Turns out the new Karen. So the Gen X version. Jessica. Jessica. It's me.

Jessica. Jessica Jessica Jessica Most people are saying They believe Jessica is the new Karen Right

What are your thoughts on that Thoughts and feelings First of all Think about a Jessica you know I'm trying to I can't think of one I can think of one It's a name that has really fallen off

It fits There's no babies being born Called Jessica is there Yeah Because we're talking We're talking Gen X There's Jess and Jessica But I don't know if there's any Jessica's.

Okay. I can think of some, like a Jessica I know. Jessica Simpson. Oh yeah, Jessica Simpson. Jessica Simpson. Jessica Elba. Jessica. Yeah, she doesn't really have that vibe to me.

No, they don't. Yeah, okay. I've also done some more research because this is the, obviously, the story that's doing the rounds on the interwebs today. Jessica Beal? These are all hot Jessica's. Yeah, I know. Jessica's are hot.

Jessica chest day. They're all hot. They're all hot. They're all smoking hot. What would be the millennial version is what I've tried to do some research into, and I think I might have it. I think I've got it too. Should we only?

Okay, let's see. I'm sure we've got the same name. Okay. On the count of three. So the millennial version of Karen. Yes. Three, two, one. Ashley.

Oh. Whoa, whoa. That was a bit art from you. How dare you? Oh, stop. No, just hear me out. Oh, stop being such a Claudia. See, she gets it.

Ella gets it. I mean, it has a ring to it. It would just make me think of Claudia just raging. Imagine you work in Hospo and you've got some millennial woman. Oh, we've got a Claudia around the floor. Oh, I've got a real Claudia on table 12. No, I don't think it's got the right ring to it. Definitely Clint does.

Yeah, Clint does. Oh, Clint kind of does. Nice come back, guys. What a Clint. It really does. A good Clint. Silly Clint. Yeah.

A dumb Clint. A hairy Clint. I can never find Clint. Enough, ladies. Enough. Oh. Good times. The star from Kath and Kim, Magda Zabanski, obviously awful news last year when she told everyone that she was battling a very rare and aggressive cancer.

Now it gets even sadder. It gets much sadder, Bree. So I want to give you guys an update on this. So people scammers, I don't even know how you would describe these type of people. They have been online pretending to be her, pretending to be Magda Zabanski, right, and asking for donations toward different treatment. So people are falling for this. You know that one photo, in fact, is so intense that Magnus Zabansicah. Herstaff actually had to post this on her own social media and say, guys, this is not me.

This is not me asking you for money. If anyone's asking you for money, it's definitely not me. This Instagram is the only place you'll hear from me. And if you want to talk to me, you talk to me here, but anywhere else, it's not me, and that people are trying to scam others. This does happen. There's been quite a lot of athletes that have had to deal with this. as well and it's just so dark, isn't it?

I saw Reese Witherspoon spoke out this week about how her likeness is being used in like a dating scam and it's sad to think that some people would truly believe that Reese Witherspoon is on a dating app asking for money. They just never would. No celebrity would ever ask you for money online. These things are scams and the people that do them are just predators. It's just awful. I think they're the saddest of them all.

Like who's using a situation like Magnus's. Banski, like, battling cancer and then going, oh, here's an opportunity to scam people out of money. Yeah. You know, it's just awful. Like, go get a real job. Hey, happy New Year, Dean. How's your New Year going? Oh, my goodness, happy New Year.

I haven't been scamming anyone. I've been pretending to be me online or anything like that. I saw I've been looking at your Instagram story. I saw you got scammed out of your shirt in Miami. No shirt for Dean in Miami. My clothes got stolen. Yeah, I was riding along. Clothes got stolen.

Dignity. Left that at home as well. I couldn't find that either. Yeah, no, I didn't really. I thought Dean was doing the 2016 challenge, but no, that's just his face now. He just hasn't changed. Yeah, it doesn't move also from 2016 to now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good to have you bag, Dean. You can't wrinkle if you can't frown. That's the T with Dean McCarthy, our own personal Kindol and Hollywood correspondent. The ZDM Podcast Network. We're back, baby. And there's news today

that over the summer break, someone took a bomb to the airport in Wellington in the summer holidays. A bomb breeze. Please tell me there's like some funny, zany reason why. This isn't like a heavy story. No, it's not heavy because I don't think it was a planned thing. So let me give me the details, okay?

What do you mean it's not a planned thing? They accidentally took it to the airport. Listen to what you're saying. I know. I accidentally bought a porcupine with me to the airport. It's one of my fatal flaws, Bree. I want to believe the best. I want to see the best in everybody.

Yeah, but also use your common sense. On December 27, so like the busiest week for airports, airport security found, in Wellington, found what's called a practice bomb inside a passenger's checked bag. What do you mean a practice bomb? A practice bomb. So it was an aircraft practice bomb. It's described as a non-explosive dummy designed to replicate a lethal military explosive in training scenarios.

So what it is is it's a bomb that doesn't explode. But it looks like a bomb. It feels like a bomb. Sounds like a bomb. It weighs. No, it doesn't sound like a bomb because it doesn't go off. Does it beep or anything, though? I don't know.

But it weighs the same. same as a bomb. It's made to look exactly and feel exactly like the real thing. And if you were the, if you were the guy looking through the x-ray machine, you would automatically think that that is the real thing. There's no difference. There's no difference. And you wouldn't even hesitate.

No way. That looks like a bomb. It was in the guy's checked bag. So it didn't even go through that. It was like going under the plane kind of thing. There is no way. Jet Star is letting that thing. on because it's over eight kilos for sure.

Exactly right. You know? Exactly right. Like these already stuffed up there for one. It's made of lead. It's real heavy. This bomb. It looks like a bomb. It looks like a cartoon bomb. Like it just... So what happened? What did say to him? So they

didn't shut the airport down. They didn't evacuate. They called in Da Bomb Squad and they dealt with it. And I guess the guy's getting in trouble or something. I don't know. Is he in trouble or was he just transporting it to like where he needed to take it? I don't know.

You were in trouble for transporting it wherever you needed to take it. You took a bomb to the airport. It's as bad as it gets. Yeah, put it in the mail. Oh, that's probably not a good thing. I don't do that. How do you get it to where you need to take it? How do you move a bomb?

You know, like let's say if it's the training bomb. Yeah. Like that people need, you know, like the bombs squad train with these bombs because they need to. Yeah. Like how do you transport that thing? Well, put it in the back of an army truck and have an army person drive them. I guess so. Something like that.

I don't know. It sounds like something that you just should automatically know not to pack in your bag to go to the airport. Like I went to Las Vegas over the summer break and I was nervous about flying with my power bank. Like my battery pack thing that you charge your phone with. And I was like sweating bullets. I was like, am I going to get pulled up for my power bank? Power bank and... This guy's got a bomb in his bag.

And a bomb. Same thing. Yeah. Well, I guess Pete, some people would argue power banks can turn into a bomb-like thing. Well, that's what I was concerned about. That's what I was concerned about. It's the worst case scenario of that feeling that we all get when we go through airport security where you go, actually, do I have any explosives? Yeah.

You've never touched them. You're like, actually, do I have a handgun? Do I have a knife? Yeah, yeah. Do I? Do I? You're putting your bag there, like, could there be a brick of cocaine in my work bag? Do I have eight kilos of Marigewana in my bookieboard bag?

Am I carrying methamphetamine? I don't know now. The guy's like, oh my God, I can't believe I left a bomb in my bag. I'm so sorry. I'm such a dips. Oh my God, I was meant to take the other bag and then I ended up grabbing this one because it's got the extra pockets. It's my husband's bag.

I'm sorry, it's his bomb. No harm, no foul. We do want to ask you this afternoon because it does happen. I know the bomb thing is not a relatable example. nor the handgun. But the knife, probably. If you're a hunter, there's a chance that you left a large knife and you carry-on bag, and it went through security.

I was joking before my partner's a nurse. Yes. And no joke one time she took her work bag as her carry-on. Yep. And we were kind of in a rush and her bag got pulled up at security. Eight pairs of scissors. I'm like, eight? Nurses go through a lot of scissors.

A lot of scissors. Did you know they're one-year-old? use only. Bleu my mind. Crazy, yeah. Yeah, friend told me that. Single use scissors. At the hospital, you can only use a pair of scissors once and they chuck them out.

Your partner is not letting those scissors go to waste. He's like, those are perfectly good scissors. I'll take that mine with me. 966, that's how you can text us. Or you can call us for free on 0800 dial ZM. Our question for you is, what was accidentally still in your bag when you went to the airport? Oh no. We can keep you anonymous if you want

Yeah, absolutely It's Z-A-M's Brea and Clint podcast Can I just be clear? B-O-M-B, bomb Oh, I thought you were saying bong So many people thought I was saying bong, B-O-N-G No, not bong Although I don't think you can take a bong

Through the airport either I think if there's no Marijuana residue Oh, you can say it's a vase Yeah You can say it's a snorkel Yep Well, no, it wasn't that

It was a bomb. It was a military training bomb. It went through Wellington Airport over the summer holidays. And we want to know, what did you accidentally leave in your bag when you went to the airport? We got a lot of messages about this. Let's go first to Michelle. Kura, Michelle. Hi, Michelle.

Hi, guys. Happy New Year, mate. What did you leave in your bag accidentally when you were going through the airport? Hunting knife. My partner left a pig hunting knife in the bag when we went to a concert in Auckland. How many inches? Oh, I don't know, actually Was it smeared with pig blood?

No. Okay. No, unsickable hunting trip, obviously. Was he gutted? Because they would have to confiscate that and throw it away, right? No, but the pig was. Yeah. That's quite good.

Thanks, Michelle. Very good. Let's go to Paula. Hi, Paula. Hi, Paula. Hi. Hi. Tell us, Paula.

What did you leave in your bag? Well, we've been camping around Europe, Mencaps. Oh no, we've got a dodgy Paula line. Wait there, Paula, we'll try and come back to you. Caden's here. Hi, Caden. Hi, Caden.

Yeah, hey, good afternoon. Good afternoon. What was left in your bag accidentally when you went to the airport, Caden? Well, I was actually moving from Auckland down to the West Coast, and long story short, I had a decommissioned rocket launcher. In my bag. A decommissioned, so a legit rocket launcher that has fired actual rockets, and you decided, you were like, I'm going to take this to the airport.

Yeah, well, I was moving islands, and I don't want to leave it behind, so... You can't go to a new island without your decommissioned rocket launcher. Where were you going from? You were going from the west coast of the South Island to where? No, sorry, so I was going from Auckland down to the west coast. Oh, no, I would have thought that would happen in reverse. I thought the coasties would have the rocket launcher, but... How much does a decommissioned rocket launcher set your back, Caden?

Well, I actually got it from a friend, so... This is sounding more and more dodgy. friend in Al-Qaeda? Who has a friend with a decommissioned rocket launch? Thanks, Kaden, you mad man. So many good messages on this. The thing that was accidentally in your bag when you went to the airport, someone said a cutthroat razor for my little brother's 21st present,

like Sweeney Todd. Yeah, probably not a good idea to take that and you carry on. Someone else said, I recently traveled overseas from Auckland and I went into the transit lounge in Brisbane, was looking through my bag for my mints, when I discovered I'd left a whole lot of weed in my purse. Oh. No.

Imagine. That one goes straight up the bum, doesn't it? But you already have flowed? Like you've already gotten away with it? Yeah, yeah. So you're feeling a bit arrogant. Yeah, so do you risk it? I don't know.

No, you get rid of it. My partner accidentally still had nangs and a nang cracker in his bag coming back from Australia. He just got a telling off and was made to put it in the bin. That's fine. You just say that you're looking to make a cake. You know we talked last year about that person who made pasta on a plane? You just say you're looking to make a cake on the plane. You're looking to ice a cake.

Yeah, you just say I'm a travelling chef. Exactly right. I'm a travelling private chef. I accidentally took a syringe and needle on the plane. Again, for context, I'm a vet nurse and it was in the pocket of my jacket. Wow. Are you flying in your vet jacket? Yeah.

Well, I guess it was a nice vet jacket. Someone said, um... What's a nice vet jacket? You know, like just a classy vet jacket. Like a vet jacket that can take you from day to night. Yeah. Yeah, okay. You know, ones with the patches on the elbows.

I think you're getting it confused with a professor. Oh. Yeah. No, you'd ever watch. There was a show in Australia. What was it? There was this guy and he wore a cheese grater hat. Yeah.

And he had one of those jackets. Like a tweed jacket with the leather elbows. Yes. And he would travel around and do house calls to people's dogs and stuff. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, maybe it was him. It could have been him.

My stepdad packed a bro. brick of washing powder taped up to look like a brick of cocaine in my mum's suitcase. Mum and her sister were off to Aussie for a trip. Yeah, it didn't go down well. That is a classic dad joke gone real bad. I don't know if I'd forgive someone for that. Like you could be put on all kinds of lists for jokes like that. Because ultimately the joke has paid dividend, like it's done what you wanted it to do.

Your partner has been hauled aside at customs because they suspect her of having a brick of cocaine in her luggage. Like if I had a cavity search done, depending on my mood, I don't think I'd forget that. I don't think I'd forgive that joke. Because she also can't go, oh no, no, no, that's washing powder because she has no idea that it's in there. They don't know. So she pleads innocence, she goes,

I have no idea what that is. And they're like, sure you don't. Can you imagine the pure terror you would put your partner through? Because you're right. They don't know where that's come from. What about this one? This one's wild. It says, I went to jury service. So they've gone to the courthouse with half a bag of nose beers left in my purse. I'd gone through security and the X-ray machine and was in the waiting room trying to find my

AirPods and there it was sitting right there in the first pocket looking up at me. I felt so sick and I panicked. I felt a lump in my throat than to make things worse. I was the third to be picked for the jury. They're like, you're in, but you're not in the jury. box. We're putting you in the bit where the, where the, where the, where the criminal sits. It's now your trial. Congratulations. You get a trial. It's yours. Another weed one. And this might be the most Kiwi story you'll ever hear. It says, I accidentally took weed in my bag to the airport.

I got to customs and I saw the guy about to wave me through. And it flashed through my head as I realized it was still in there. So I just had to run back to the bathrooms and get rid of it. The funny thing is, the guy in customs was actually the one who gave me the weed for my birthday. That's outrageous. That is such, you're right, that is such a quintessentially Kiwi story. Doesn't get more Kiwi than that. One more. Someone said, not accidentally, but my mum took a car bumper to the airport and checked it in for my uncle.

So embarrassing. That's Bogan. No way, that's that's Kiwi too. That's bogan. If your mum is transporting a bumper from one end of the country to the other on a plane. putting it on a plane. I wonder if the bumper had its own seat. You know?

Yeah, yeah. What about this is the last one? I accidentally left a pair of hairdressing scissors in my bag in November when I flew to Auckland. As they were searching, I was panicking because I also had an adult vibrator and something else in my bag. And I thought that's what they were looking for. Can you imagine? Imagine when they pull out the scissors and you're like, oh, thank God. Oh, thank God.

Well, they pull out a big knife and you're like, Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God. They pull out a decommissioned rocket launcher. You're like, oh, thank God. Don't look at the side pocket. I thought you're going to find my dilt. A ZM's Brain Clint podcast.

Something I tried to do on the holidays, Clint was get off social media. Try to not be on social media. And I was literally off my phone way less. You were off your phone way less. Of my phone way more. Oh, that's good. Yeah, no, that's that. Yeah.

I thought you were trying to trick me. I also. I also. You try and trick me. Yeah. I was also, I was also off my phone way less. I doubled my phone usage. It was great.

I got a personal best. I tried to be off my phone. But I came across this new social media app that just drew me back onto the phone. A new social media? A new one. Well, I can't say that it's new, but I've just... New to you. Yeah, it's new to me.

Am I on it? There's no way. I'd better hunt. hundred bucks that you're not on it. Okay. Because I don't think this app is for you. Right. Like if there's one person that this social media app is not for, it's you.

Oh, now the competitive part of me wants to be on the app. Whereas I think it is the perfect, it might be the only social media app that I should be on. Perfect for you. Awful for you. Awful for me. Yes. What do you think it is? I'll give you one guess.

Well, I can't say the thing that I think it is. Don't do those gestures around the producers. I don't know, something to do with ADHD? No. Did you imagine that? The app that I am now on, my latest social media app, is called Letterboxed. Oh, I know it.

You know it? I'm not on it. Oh, producer Ella's loving it. But am I right, though? Awful for you. Great. letterboxed the app where you log the movies that you've watched, right? And you put your own little reviews in there?

Correct. Yeah. Funny you say that. Because I watched, the gag here, if you're new to the show is I haven't seen any movies. You haven't seen any. But I am actually on a quest to see all the movies. And so over summer, I probably watched six or seven movies. God, you made a huge dent.

And I, like, six seven or six seven? And you know what I considered getting this? On my third or fourth movie, I went, I should get that Letterbox app, or I should get the IMDB app. What would you do on the app? Post my reviews? For what, the three movies you watch a year? No, I've actually, no, I'm doing more now.

Okay. How many do you reckon on average? How many movies do you watch a year? I think I'm doing one a month at the moment. I don't think bother. You shouldn't bother. No, but how good would my reviews be? because I'm quality over quantity.

Like it has to be really good. I'll keep that in mind when I follow you. It has to have been reviewed by at least a thousand people before I'll watch it. Far out. You know what they need? They need another review from me. That's what the world needs. Because one of my favourite things is you have to pick your top four movies.

Oh, yeah. So that people, when they start following your profile, they get your vibe if they want to follow you or not. I know what your top four are. Okay. Erin Brokovich. That's a great film. Not on there.

Oh. Shawshank Redemption. I actually didn't put that on there. I kind of, I think it's my four favorite at the moment. Elf. Elf? Nah. And this is, these are correct, by the way.

And, oh, the Lady Gaga documentary. But that was actually quite an average documentary. Boom, rack it up. Producers, you have one guess each. That baseball one. Oh, yeah. She's the man. Oh, no, with the wee lesbians.

Yeah, that one. No one is a lesbian on that. Oh, no. Wait, what? Rosie, Rosie Adonimo. Oh, sorry. And Madonna, who's not a lesbian, she's also in it. She's Madonna. Yeah, she's Madonna.

No. The Katie Perry documentary. Oh, yeah, part of me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. None of you are invited to follow me on Litterbox. You love Inside Out too. Oh, no, no, I know what it is. I know what it is.

I know what it is. Fifty shades of grey. No, it's the one where curse. and Stuart takes her girlfriend home for Christmas. I do love that movie. I do love that movie. Good stuff. Yeah, that is a solid movie.

But not on my list. I shouldn't have asked you guys. What else can it be? He just opens myself up to be absolutely grinned. The greatest showman. Oh, you talk about that a lot. I guess we'll never know. Yep, hit the ads.

No harm in trying to make the best of a bad situation. Play ZDems, Bree and Clint. Can I just do a quick poll around the room? Christmas tree. Everybody's Christmas tree. Still up or down? Oh, she down. You had a real one though, right?

Had a real one, had to get rid of it. It was dropping pine needles like no tomorrow. Down and dead. Oh, you know, when we took it down, it wasn't dead. But is it still lingering around the property? Yeah, it's sitting in the front yard. Yeah, it's dead. Yeah, I've got to get my chainsaw out and get rid of it.

Okay. What? Can you video that? Yeah. What, are you questioning whether I actually would get the chainsaw? No, that's hot. Yeah. Okay, I'll send you a private DM.

Yeah. What are you, Christmas tree? Mine is still up. Is it? And that's just due to laziness. That's not because I want it up. It's not because you're holding on to the last Christmas joy. Because they're coming up a month.

Yeah. A month since Christmas. And I put it up really late too. So that's just sheer laziness. Okay. Ella, Christmas tree, up or down. Didn't have one this year. Okay, Grinch.

But you were overseas though. Yeah, I was. Oh yeah. I put a picture on Instagram of us taking down the tree on the second of January. That's fine. Instagram story. And I was like, I could handle it

being up a bit longer, but I was going overseas for like nine days. And my wife was like, can you please take it down now? Because I don't mind it now, but it'll be really over it by like the 12th of January.

So I packed it away. Someone messaged, and I was like, is it a bit early? Someone messaged me and said, our mum had our Christmas tree down and packed away by 10.30 a.m. on Christmas morning.

What? On Christmas morning? Their mum packed up the Christmas tree and put it away, put all the decorations back in the box, and put the Christmas tree away for another year at 10.30 a.m. on Christmas day. I didn't. Wow. I replied with...

What's it like having the Grinch as a mother? Well, she... It's a weird juxtaposition because she's... 10.30 on Christmas day? She's Christmassy enough to have a Christmas tree, but she can only handle it. In no way is that ever okay. I said, what?

And they said, my sentiments exactly. I was having a mini nap because, you know, we're up early, Christmas Day and all that stuff. And then I came back and the Christmas tree was gone. Way to spread Christmas cheer. I said to them, what was mum's reasoning for taking the Christmas tree down so early? And they said, my mum's exact words were, I'm sick of seeing it. Like boxing day, I could wrap my head around it. Even boxing day, I'm like, chill it.

Yeah, I get it. I could wrap my head. head around that. Yeah. But there's no circumstance where taking it down on Christmas morning is appropriate. Chris, I agree. Boxing day is the earliest. That's the earliest.

Because you're getting rid of the wrapping paper. Getting rid of the boxes from the presents and stuff like that. You're cleaning up and you go, well, we might as well pack it down. People used to say, I think it was my mum that used to say that it was bad luck to have it up past New Year's. Okay, my mother-in-law said, it might be an old wife's tale, though. It's traditional to have it up until the 6th of January. Okay.

What, that's like the day. That's when it's meant to come down. Yeah, I don't mind that, 6th of Jan. 10.30 a.m. Christmas morning. I can just picture that, ma'am. Just being like, I do everything for Christmas. I set it all up. I take it all down.

So I'll bloody pack it up when I want. God, how lazy does Claudia seem compared to that person? That person, like... Yeah. Maybe you need to... Maybe you need to get together with someone like that. You need their mum. Yeah, do you want to hook up with their mum?

Ask if their mum's single. Ask if she's single. I'll ask if she's single, Claude, for you. Are you just dating me so I'll pack up your Christmas drink? No. No, we'll keep you that idea. ZD.M's Bree and Clint Podcast. Both Bree and I, independent of each other,

spent time at A&E over the summer break. I've been to A&E a lot over my time in the summer holidays. I lost a tooth one year on Christmas Eve Eve. I concussed myself with a fridge door one year, opening the door because it opened the opposite way to what I thought and kudunk into my head. And then just to keep the tradition running this year, I was at A&E on, I think, the 23rd.

Again, the 23rd of December. Right. Me personally. I'm excited to hear yours too, but I'll go first. Okay, no, I want to hear yours. I was, this is what makes me think that maybe I, do have ADHD. I was putting the rubbish out

and then I saw the hedge and I was like, oh, that needs a trim. So I grabbed the hedge trimmer and I just started trimming the hedge. Just, I was there to do one job, I started doing another job. Yep.

Put the battery in, started trimming, didn't have any long pants or safety gear on. And I put the electric steel hedge trimmer into my thigh while it was running. And it's the one with the teeth that go back and forward like that.

Not a chainsore. It's a hedge trimmer. And I went, into my teeth. my thigh and cut my thigh open. I don't think, you know, some people, how do I say this? Some people are born to use power tools. Yeah.

And some people, maybe it's just not for them. I mean, it's a hedge trimmer though. Are we really giving it the title of power tool? Exactly. Imagine if it was an actual power tool. The good thing about it is, hadn't had much use, my hedge trimmer. So it was very clean. and the risk of infection was low

but I still had to go to A&E because I needed stitches I didn't even want to know what that looks like but there wasn't enough skin left to stitch because I'd cut a flap it's like a V-shaped flap so they popped some stare strips on me and they put a bandage on me I wasn't allowed to swim

Oh devastating I wasn't allowed to swim over summer Yep that is the worst time to get an injury like that Yep I had to get a whole bunch of wound pads Cleaning a wound all Christmas, hey? I've been clean my wound. What did you get for Christmas? A wound.

Wound paired. Got some gauze. I also had a trip to the emergency room. I can talk about it now because this has been awful for me. But last Thursday, I was playing some tennis, as you do on the holidays, playing some tennis. My partner's hit a ball across the net. I've went to hit the ball back. and it's come off the edge of the racket

and ricocheted directly into my left eye and it was going so quickly that I didn't have time to react or even close my eye. So I've copped a tennis ball at speed directly to my eyeball so much so that I lost my vision. This is not funny. I lost my vision for like five minutes and I couldn't get it back and I was freaking out like scary.

and then I've gone back to the place where we were staying, looked in the mirror, and my pupil has gone so tiny. I barely even had a pupil in the eye. It looks so creepy. Went straight to the emergency department. I went to an optometrist, actually. They were worried that my retina had detached at the back of my eye. But turns out I just had multiple abrasions across my cornea.

So great news. Why are you laughing? 15 love. I was just many of you to stop talking so I can do my joke I don't get it Can you explain it

Well because your partner's hit the ball to you And then it's come off the edge of your racket Into your eye So obviously you haven't returned serve Yeah I was just a 10 Oh yeah yeah yeah

She's up 15 love Yeah And that's the end of the game Right I thought there was some sort of eye tie in 15 love Why are you doing it Like a rapper now

Advantage Anyway, Turns out I went and had a proper... So it's very traumatic, but... No, like legit traumatic, but yeah. I went for an actual eye test with a specialist. Go and look at Bree's Instagram story from today.

It's creepy, man. And so she's been to the eye doctor today and they've blown her pupils up. You nailed it. I was going to say it before you said it. You look like Mr Burns on that episode where he gets high. Is it the one where Maggie shoots him?

Is it the same episode? I think so. Yeah, yeah. They think he's an alien. Yeah, yeah. I bring you love. Yeah. That's what you look like.

It was so weird because she had to put this stuff into my eyes to make my pupils dilate so she could check the back of my retina. And I got into the car and I actually couldn't see, but I was like, holy hell. Yeah. I was like, I look weird. Well, good summer for us.

And we want to know from you this afternoon. 100 dial Z-M. Why were you in A&E over the summer? Maybe it was a fish hook. Fish hook? To your scrotum or something. Could be in. New Christmas present related injury.

Yeah. Like a electric motor bike to the scrotum. Just anything to the scrotum is what we're after this afternoon. Scrotum-based calls go to the top of the list. Obviously, we want all body parts. But Claudia, please prioritize any scrotum-based calls for this. They're first and then everything else is secondary after that. Imagine a hedge trimmer to the scrotum.

It's not. We get caught up in all its skin. It's a good job of trimming in the bush, though. We want to know why did you end up in A&E over summer. I put a hedge trimmer into my thigh while it was running. Bree took a tennis ball to the eye socket. Yep, almost detached my retina. Yeah.

But multiple corneal abrasion. Someone on the text machine said, that's so crazy. My nephew also went to the ER with an abrasion to his cornea. The doctor said it's extremely painful. painful but heals quite well. Oh, that's good to hear. We've asked that any scrotum-based injuries be prioritised for no other reason than it's funny, I guess.

And we've got one. Kirsten's here. Hi, Kristen. Hi, Kristen. Hey. Is it your scrotum? No, I don't have one. Right.

Oh, okay. Who's scrotum? My partners. Right. Oh, what happened to the old partner's scrotum, Kristen? So he was chopping up some wood for our fireplace. and then my nearly two-year-old came along and decided to help out and grabbed one of his slightly smaller axes and I'm just glad that he took at the flat end rather than the sharp end that he took an axe to the to the pelvic area

so I guess my son doesn't want any siblings and he ended up with a what is it it's a tendon was ruptured. Oh my God. So he caught the blunt part of like a hatchet axe to the pelvis. I'm just glad that it was the sharp side of the hatchet because then that would have been a whole separate box of frogs. Yeah. They can't.

And he definitely wouldn't have been against siblings. They can't stitch that back on. I mean, I've heard of an axe wound, but that's something else. Kristen. Oh, that's awful. Frozen peas and a bit of time on the couch and he's all good. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Had some convincing to get him to go to A&E, so.

Kristen, the next time you want to save money... I'm firewood. No, the next time you want to save money on a vasectomy. Oh, yeah. Just think about it for a second, okay? Okay, we asked for a scrotum-based injury, and we got it. Now let's go to Mike. Gidea, Mike.

I'm Mike. Hi, how are you? Good, thanks. Were you in A&A over summer or your partner? My partner was. What happened, Mike? What's the story? I arrived to where we're building a house

And went looking for her I had a look in the shipping container And the caravan didn't find her And eventually strolled over And noticed the right on mower wasn't there So I went to the worst place it could be And found it at the bottom of a 10 metre Up and down with her next to it

No, Mike Your partner fell off a cliff on the ride on lawnmower She went backwards off a cliff Three or four metres sheer drop And then cracked through a few trees Okay Well, please tell me she's okay. She was okay.

The team at Kawakawa Hospital were superstars in an hour and a half x-rays and all the checks. God. I think the concussion and the head check we'll see what it found. She married me, so it can't be all that good in the head anyway. Yeah, yeah. I tell you what, Mike, you are never, ever getting out of mowing the lawns

ever again. Jeez. Well, the irony is, is only about a few weeks after that date. The diggers turned up and tore up the entire lawn anyway. Oh, my God, it didn't even need mowing. Wasn't even worth it. Oh, God.

She's so lucky, Mike. I'm so grateful for you guys. Oh, my God. Yeah. How's the lawn mower? It went in and got some repair work done. I was going to say, should have got a John Deere. But you wanted to get rid of the two trees that she snapped out of the eyes.

And should have used the axe. Should have used the axe. Yeah, Mike. Thanks, Mike. We asked for Scroden Base injuries and we've got another. Someone said a large treble hook to the crotch whilst fishing, thanks to my 10-year-old. What is it with kids? And I guess they're at, I guess they're at Nether Region height, aren't they?

Yeah, I feel like it's probably around that area. We kept on fishing for another four hours before stopping at A&E on the way home. That's hardcore. I feel like I want to know where that person's from. I could guess. The NACI probably. Do you reckon? Yeah, probably.

My father dived into a paddling pool and messed up his neck for the whole of summer. We had to go to A&E together. He often asked if I would stay with him if I turned out to be a paraplegic, silly, silly boy. Yeah, the diving into a paddling pool thing is a classic drunk dad move. It's just so silly. Someone said, my friend stuck her fingers underneath the running treadmill and crushed them. Yeah, that's a quick trip to A&A. I reckon, and someone do I have to confirm this first.

I reckon they see a spike in people over summer at A&A. Yeah, people... Is it because we've got more free time? Is that what it is? Yes, and then you put alcohol with free time. And it equals stupidity. Thanks, guys. Thanks, your messages. We're going to do the first birthday banger of the year next.

If you'd like to know the number one song on your 16th birthday. Do people just get silly over the silly season? Yeah, that's why it's called the silly season. ZDN's Brinclent Birthday bangle Greenclin All I want from my birthday is a birthday Banger

First birthday banger of the year It is good to be back If this is the first time You're hearing this Your birthday Is the number one song On your 16th birthday You call us up

Tell us your birthday We figure out the rest And then we'll play our favourite one Out of the three First up's Vaughn Good afternoon, Vaughn Hi Vaughn Gahe, long time listener

First Time Caller Wait a new I knew someone was going to say that, but they've deleted the thing off our page. So we're going to have to do a manual one for you. Are you ready? What? My kid's so disappointed. Pumapoo!

First time caller. First time caller. Colla, calla. How's that, Vaughn, disappointing? It was beautiful. Oh, nice. You know, when you have like a crush on someone and it finally happens and then you're like, oh. Wasn't what I thought it.

Yeah, what a let down. Yeah. Oh well Vaughn, let's pick it up with your birthday banger. What's your date of birth? 21st, 1879. All right, Vaughn, that means you... There it is. I think we kind of nailed it.

What would you rather, Vaughn, that or the manual version we gave you? I like the manual version. Yeah, yours was bespoke. No one else has that. Yeah, that's a one-off. Yeah, yeah. All right, Vaughn. All right, you were 16, Vaughn in 1995.

And on your 16th birthday, this was at the top. Oh, that's going to be hard to beat. That is a bang of Vaughn. That is a good way to kick off 2026. The kids all love that too. The kids are in the car looking at me. I'm sure they are trying to dance. What are your kids' names, Vaughn?

That's Chloe and Zach. Hey, Chloe and Zach. Hi, Chloe, hi, Zach. Wait there for us. Guys, we're going to do Michelle's birthday banger. Hi, Michelle. Hi, Michelle. Hi, name.

How was your holiday break, Michelle? Yeah, it was pretty good, apart from the weather. Yeah. Let's not, let's just breeze past that, Michelle. Now, I can see from my notes here that your birthday was only a few days ago, so happy birthday. Thank you. What exact day are we talking?

16th of January. All right, that means you were 16 in 2005. And on that day, Michelle, this was number one. You should let me love you. Let me be the one to give you everything. Mario, let me love you. You like an R&B slow jam, Michelle? Yeah, I'm doing.

Yeah. That's a real throwback. Famously written by Neo given to Mario. Yeah. And Neo regretted it. Yeah. Because it was such a big hit. That's a great Neo song.

But then a lot of people think that this is Neo too. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. That's a goodie, Michelle. Wait there. It is a good one. One more for Cecilia. Hi, Cecilia.

Hi, Cecilia. Hey, guys. Well, how was your break, Cecilia? Good. Good, and it's still going. I got one more week. Oh, yeah, girl. God, everything's coming up, Cecilia.

Are you a teacher? Work and a school. Yeah. Nice, Cecilia. Nice. What is your birthday, mate? 23rd of November, 1989. Another 89, baby.

You were 16 in 2005, but at the other end in November, and here's your birthday bang. Oh, yeah. God, that isn't a bit of a fight then. What do you reckon, Cecilia? Are you a fan of that one from Madonna? It's all right, but I feel like that first one. Coddney Joe. Coddney Joe.

Okay, wait there. We're going to choose between the rednecks, Cod and I Joe. Mario's Let Me Love You or Madonna's hung up. No offense to Mario, but it's between Madonna and Codney Joe for me. Same, because they had the vibes. Madonna is cooler. Codna Codna. Joe is more fun. What are we feeling?

I think it's Cotonai Joe. I think it might be. I think it might be Vaughan and the kids, Cot and I Joe. Vaughan and the kids, congratulations. You guys have just one birthday banger. Excellent. I'm a little bit more disappointed my wife with Sydney singing along to Mario. Oh.

Well, it's not her birthday banger. It's yours. Yeah, luckily. First time, cool. Oh, we're not going to do it again. Just one time. From 1995, Here's a birthday banger for Vaughn Cod and I Joe by the Rednecks on ZM.

Z&M's Brian Clint, podcast. It's the winner of birthday banger today for Vaughn from the year 1995. Such a weird song, but still good. I can't believe that band is called the Red Vex. Kirkcabain had only been dead for one year. This is the music was coming out. This is the kind of stuff that happened.

you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from Cutting a Do? Hey, if you missed it, Brie and I are launching our own potato chip with Heartlands. Blame the Lab. I don't know about you, but this has been my dream for a long time. Ever since I first got into radio, it's every radio announcers dream. Have their own chip. To launch their own chip flavour. Yeah, we're becoming

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You can come and eat as many chips as you like. We should do an all-you-can-eat-chip buffet. Oh my God. That's a great idea. Isn't it? Can we have dips as well? Oh, yeah. They go hand in hand, don't they?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a good time. Shout out Heartland. The ZDM Podcast Network. I had what I would call a spiritual experience over my summer break. I feel like I went to church. went to church at this event and I came out of it a changed man.

No way. I attended. You got baptized. I did. Well, I kind of got baptized a little bit. You're baptized in the river of. Backstreet Boys. Yeah.

I was in Las Vegas over summer. I got to go to Vegas for like a week. And while I was there, the Backstreet Boys were playing inside the sphere, which is that big dome thing, which is covered in video screens on the outside. And on the inside, it's like, 270 degrees of screens.

They go all the way around you. It is the single most incredible concert venue I've ever seen in my life. It's the first of its kind in the world. It's the first of its kind. Everything is geared towards just the most insane production. And I got to see the Backstreet Boys there. On the last show they're doing before they take a break and then they're going back to the sphere to do another residency.

And I would say that I was a Backstreet Boys fan when I was like 10. Oh yeah, who wasn't? And then all of a sudden it wasn't cool for a boy to like the Backstreet Boys anymore so. I put that away. That's so sad, eh? Whereas the girls, we kept on loving the Backstreet boys. And all of a sudden I was back, baby.

Backstreet was back in a big way. I put some videos of this up on my Instagram and even, and the videos, you can't get a bad video inside the spear. Those videos are incredible. It does nothing to give you an idea of what it's like inside there. Like, you know what it's kind of like? Yeah.

I think, like watching the videos, it's kind of like, you know, in 2011 when they released like a 3D TV. Yeah. Similar. Yeah. I'm joking. Times like 50,000 maybe. 3D TV is ask a bit of this. It just, it genuinely blew my mind.

And I went alone because I was in Vegas alone. Yeah. And so I went to the Backstreet Boys alone. I sat next to this. Didn't you say you snuck some fireball? shots in? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I bought those single serve fireballs. Nice.

From Wargreens. Hell yeah. Put them in my undies. I didn't want to get frisked and then lose my backsted boy's seat because I was smuggling drinks in there. Can I ask when you're smuggling shots of fireball in your undies into a back street concert? There's a sentence.

Do you put the fireball in the front of your undies or do you put it into your crack? In the front, either side of my junk. Okay. Yeah, because I figured if they're going to frisk me, they weren't. go as high as the balls. Because like for us ladies, like where do we put it? Okay, can you stop focusing on that part?

Can we talk about the Backstreet Boys concert? I'm just thinking about for future reference. Like if I'm going to smuggle it down the front. Yeah, okay. On the back. I sat next to this lovely mother and daughter that were there to see the Backstreet Boys. Right.

Everybody goes dressed in white, just like a Backstreet Boys video. And, oh, it just... Who's your favorite? It costs a lot of money that show. If you had to hook up with one of them, who would you hook up with? Probably Kevin. Kevin's pretty odd. Yeah, they're all looking very good.

Yeah, they all look great, eh? They're all looking really good. I think that's probably a key part to that whole thing. Yeah. That they're all there. They're all looking good. And then you're in this amazing venue. Like, I mean, it doesn't get better than it.

Do you want to know how much I paid for my ticket? Oh, yeah, that's right. You haven't told us how much you paid for the ticket we've been asking. and he hasn't told us because he was embarrassed about how expensive it was. Don't lie too because we will find out. I'm not embarrassed because I don't regret it. Okay.

But it was a lot of money. Because you were like right in the middle too. I bought the ticket on the day of the show. So it was kind of like an impulse thing. I'd been thinking about going. Surely you get like a deal last day deal? And I thought I might get a good price because I was sitting alone. Yeah.

So you've got to fill in, you've got to plug the gaps in the crowd. You'd think so. Um, my ticket, my ticket cost after the conversion. So I was like, I'm going to convert it. It was like $400 odd US plus booking fee in taxes. So how much altogether? US, how much? I thought, I thought when I did the conversion and I was, I was sort of rationalising it with my wife.

I was like, should I do it? I said to her, babe, it's going to cost $700, New Zealand for the. this Backstreet Boys ticket. Okay, how much American? Just do it. Just do it. It's a once in a lifetime chance, just do it. I checked my credit card when I got back from Las Vegas, and my Backstreet Boys ticket cost me $850.

But I regret nothing. It was one of the most incredible shows I've ever seen. And you got to hook up with Kevin, so it's all good. No regrets. $850. It costs more than my Elton John ticket. I mean, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It's a once-in-lifetime experience.

I mean, you can't put a price on that. Or you can't, it was over 800 bucks. You can't put a price. It's just shy of $1,000. Anyway, they're going back there in February. If you are anywhere in the United States in February, you have to go to that show. I just want to go to the sphere.

Yeah. I just want to go, I mean, imagine even, like, you know, put a home movie on. So during the day, they show the Wizard of Oz in there. Oh, see, that would be epic. Yeah. And that's only $150. Just put that llama video on, you know.

in the sphere? Yeah, that's a good idea, too. It's Z-Ams Bree and Clint Podcast. We said before that our producer Ella is experimenting with her fiancate, oh, sorry, husband this week. So it's all legit, they're married, don't worry. They are spicing it up. They are married before the eyes of the Lord.

They can do whatever they like. Trying something different. Something you guys haven't done before to keep things interesting. Ella, what is it that you and your husband are doing this week? We're doing a no spend week Oh boring We thought it was sex stuff We thought it was like fun raunchy things

No spend week That sounds so lame It is so lame And I'm mad about it Because I like buying things Yes Explain to us I mean it seems pretty self-experitory

But tell us how does a no spend week work Basically It's like just trying not to buy Anything that's just unnecessary Is it trying or is it not? not buying. Well, not buying. Not buying.

Has your card been taken off you? No. Can you buy petrol? Yeah. So that's like... Can you buy groceries? Yeah. Can you buy a coffee?

No. So no coffees. No lunches because I love sushi at lunch. Yeah. I can't pre-order the new Harry Styles album. Okay. That's not a big deal. You know?

Like I would do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but you're going to get the album anyway. Yeah, that's true. But like a cat hammock, I want to... A cat hammock. You know when you just think...

A cat hammock. You just like, I want to buy this thing. Whatever will you do? So is it Monday to Friday or is it a seven-day thing? No, Monday to Monday. See, that's harder. Yeah. Because it involves the weekend as well.

So you can't spend money on experiences. You and Ryan can't go to a movie this weekend. So what do you do on the weekend? You can't go to a cafe together? Oh, do you have to talk to each other? Yes, I know. Or he said read, which I'm trying to, but now when he tells you to read, I don't want to read. But you can't buy a book.

No, I've got a cobo now. Can you watch TV? Yeah, that's great. Like with the streaming service? Oh, yeah. for that? Okay. Don't tell him that, but yeah, that should be fine.

Well, no, you're already subscribing to it, so surely that doesn't count. Yeah. But, like, we just did it because I'm spending a lot of money on dumb unnecessary things, and I want to see if I can actually do it. I think the principle is good as, like, a financial reset. Yeah.

And also, I mean, if you take a week spending out of your month, that's pretty good. The issue for me is it's the same as crash dieting. It just will never be more sustainable. or going really hard at the gym, you're going to, out the back of this, have a blowout. You're going to go seven days without spending any money.

And then at the end of it, you're going to go, oh, that was so hard, we should treat ourselves. Yeah, let's go and buy all the things. That's so true. You know what a great goal I think, Ella is and a goal I set myself last year is I was like, I just don't want to buy lunch at when I'm at work. Yeah.

You know, that's a really, like, reasonable, good goal where I'm like, don't buy lunch for five days a week. On the weekends, I buy, you know, some lunch maybe. But when I'm at work, I bring my lunch. Yeah, agree. I think we can scale it down eventually just to that. Also, if you're thinking about buying a cat hammock, say it out loud to somebody.

And if they laugh at you, maybe reconsider that purchase, you know? Did you see that girl that's on TikTok and everyone follows her and she does this thing where she can only buy one thing a month? Like in terms of her wardrobe In terms of clothes She can only buy one clothing item a month Yeah That sounds like torture to me

Well it sounds like what most people do How many items of clothing do you think You've got a problem with buying clothes No I'm curbing that this year One thing a month sounds quite good Yeah but Like then do you What if I need undies?

You have 60 pairs of undies That's true But also I feel like You can never have too many. I feel like it's like groceries. Undies would fall outside the scope of this. Undies are an essential, you know? I used to buy that.

Another pair of sambas, maybe not essential. No. They're not for me. They're from my mum to my partner for her birthday. They're not mine. Bree, can you buy me a cat hammock this week? Okay, what website? I'll send it to you.

Well, good luck, Ella. Play ZM's Brea and Clint on Insa, Facebook, TikTok, and live weekdays from three on ZM. Thank you.