ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM’s Bree & Clint Podcast - 20th November 2025

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

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Z.M's Brie and Clint Podcast. It's our radio show, but wrapped up in a neat little package just for you. It's ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. Zem's Brie and Clint, cheers to HBO Max, available on Neon. Sign up now at neontv.com.com.com.com.com. Yeah, hello, good afternoon. It is Bree in Clint away. I'm back for two days and then he all of a sudden has a day off. People are going to start thinking we don't like each other.

Yeah, you can't be in the same room together. I know. No, he will be back tomorrow that time of year. You know, we're tired from working three hours a day. It's four. Four, sorry, four hours a day. Give or take. I was just Googling something interesting.

Have you guys ever heard of an eyebrow cowlick? No. Oh, no. can imagine exactly what that is. So I am a long sufferer of a double hair cowlick. And your eyebrows. No, double crown. No, I've got a double crown. Different thing. But similar. The crown's the spiral? Yes. And I've got two of them. Billy Eilish, apparently, has a cow lick eyebrow. And it's like where the middle part of your eyebrow kind of looks different to the other side of fans out. Is that like Charlie Puth? That might be. That's a scar. That's a scar.

But hey, kind of. Did you know if you've got a double crown, this is all my double crowners listening, that the theory is that you're reincarnated and it was two souls joined together when they created you and that's why you've got two crowns. So you're a set of twins in one body. God, it's annoying though.

When you want to bloody style your hair, am I right, my double crowners? Anyway, more double crown chat on the show, I'm sure. Can't wait. We're going to talk unique Christmas family traditions. You know the stuff you do that's just weird? And you're like, I don't even know why we do this in our family. We've just always done it that way.

We always have. But first we're going to kick it off with Trady versus Lady. The scores sit at 96 for the Trades, 93 for the ladies. 50 bucks up for grabs. If you want it, you've got to win it. Play ZDEM's Bree and Clint. It's time for Trady versus Lady. It's Trady.

versus ladies. Three, two, one, let's go. Oh, we do love it, don't we? The tradies versus the ladies. 50 bucks up for grabs. The score currently sits 96 to the tradies. Ladies on 93, let's see what they can do here. We'll introduce our lady first.

She's from Timaru. She's 21. Actually 42, though. Her favorite quote is, don't judge a book by its cover. Please welcome to the show, Rebecca. Afternoon. Afternoon, Rebecca. You're big reader, or you just like that quote?

No, it's more to judge myself than anything, care. Oh, good on you, Beck. I like it. I like what you're putting down. Let's see who you'll be taking on this afternoon. Our tradie is from Christchurch. They're 41, and his favourite drink is Spots. Welcome to the show.

Adzi. Gidey. Hey, mate. God, a spates will be going down well this summer, won't it, Adam? Oh, well be. God. 50, 5, 4.30 today. Hey, it's a Thursday.

It's basically Friday, right? Oh, every day is a Friday, isn't it? Yeah. Hey, if you can make it a Friday, then do it, I say. Let's talk rules, guys. Rebecca, your buzzer will be lady. Adam, your buzzer is tradie. When you think you know the answer,

buzz in, first to get three correct, takes home the 50 bucks cash. Are we ready? All right, guys, best of luck. Question number one. Wicked for Good came out in cinemas today. Which pop star stars as Glinda the Good Witch? Yes, Rebecca. Ariana Grande.

It is Ariana Grande. Nice work. You're off to a good start. One to the ladies. Question number two. Olympian Gemma McCaw is married to which other famous... Yes, Rebecca. Ritchie McCore.

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Lady, ladies, ladies, ladies. Rebecca for the win. Adele. It is Adele. God, Adam, you didn't even get a look in, mate. She was too quick. She was awesome, wasn't she? She was.

play tomorrow. Rebecca, very good game from you. Is this your first time playing? Yes, and first time caller, so, yeah. Wait a second. First time call. Go, Beck. God, you nearly missed your opportunity to say that, Beck. Hey, really

appreciate you finally calling through. 50 bucks, all yours. We'll get it out to you, mate. Thank you very much. You are welcome. The ladies go 94. plays the Trades 96. ZDM's Brie and Clint

podcast. Clint away back in tomorrow for a Friday. And yes, Friday Oakey will make its triumphant return with that song by Ray, where the hell is my husband? That is going to be an absolute disaster.

And yes, we're doing the fast bit. The rap where she goes, really fast it's going to be awful so I'll look forward to that exactly today I don't know if you guys realize but it's five weeks till Christmas exactly five weeks

that doesn't make me feel good 35 days that doesn't feel good 35 days till Christmas That's not enough days It's very soon isn't that I've done nothing to prepare Neither have I Zero percent

Absolutely zero One of my favourite things about Christmas I think is all the weird and unique traditions that families have during Christmas time and a lot of the time they're unexplained. You don't really know why but there's just these certain things

that become traditions in families and that's what makes Christmas Christmas. One really comes to mind that I know that your family does. Yes. We always have to play the Elvis Presley Christmas album. That's not what I was thinking of but fabulous. When we open presents,

no present can be open. Until Elvis is on. Until Elvis the Christmas album is on. Until Elvis is in the building. Oh, you're talking about the other one that you guys say is weird, but I think is normal. Yes. Christmas lasagna?

Christmas lasagna. Every Christmas, there is a lasagna. I think that's pretty normal. I've never met anyone else that does traditional, like lasagna as their Christmas meal. I like it though. Yeah. Hey, try it.

It's actually fantastic. You're going to say I don't know many Italians? Yeah. Because that is also true. Also true. I was doing a bit of research, and I've come across a Reddit thread where people were talking about their most unique family Christmas traditions you want to hear. There's some absolute beauties. This one says, my grandma always thought it was sad that there wasn't any presents to open on Boxing Day.

So she would get us all a small present that was a gift from the tree, the Christmas tree. That's really sweet. It was wrapped, placed under the tree with Merry Christmas. from the tree and we opened them on Boxing Day. She's gone now but we still do tree presents every year in her honour. That's really sweet. I like that. Really cute.

What about this one? When prepping the turkey, my dad would put the turkey neck through his fly in his pants and casually walk around the house, traumatising everyone. I'm sorry, you what now? After he died, my sister took over the tradition.

I love that. That's hilarious. What about this? My boyfriend's parents make a nativity scene in their garden using whatever is around. The first year I saw it, one of the wise men was a T-Rex. Joseph was Darth Vader and baby Jesus was a little plastic spider. I love that. That sounds like something I started doing where I just had this pathetic little Christmas tree, like so tiny. But like decorations look silly on it, so I just used whatever was around.

So I covered it in like favorites, the chocolates one year. I just put them all over but then I started eating them but then I put the wrappers back on because I needed something on the tree and like bottle caps as you're like you have a beer put the bottle cap on the tree

mate I can buy you a Christmas tree no I love my tiny tree we've gone through a lot together what about this one an exes family did this truly bizarre hunt the Christmas present game one of my exes parents

would every single Christmas morning get up early and go hide all the presents in the house and the garden and then everyone would have to go on a hunt for them. Are they designated presents? Like you're looking for one and it's got someone else's name on it? So you have to leave it?

You just get what you find. I feel like they've mixed up Christmas and Easter. Like Easter egg hunt. This one was pretty good too. We got to the point where all the kids were teenagers and just getting money. Instead of it being boring, we let them open each individual card. And when the money would come out, we would all chant money, money, money, money. Money. It's funny to us, but my friend came over for Christmas once, and they probably thought we were all absolutely feral.

The whole family's chanting, and you're just like, money, money, money, money. One more weird and unique Christmas traditions. We make Christmas pigs made from a lemon, two almonds for ears, two raisins held in with pins for eyes, and four matchsticks for the legs. No idea why we do it. No idea why or how it's Christmas. that has been happening for a few generations. That's so cute. What do you do with the pigs afterwards? You eat them. They're full of matchsticks.

You take the matchsticks out and you eat them. On Christmas Day, I'm eating everything in salt, including the Christmas lasagna. I thought we could put it out there. 0,800 dials at him. What is the unusual or unique or weird Christmas tradition you have in your family where you don't really know why? But it is just what makes Christmas Christmas. We're talking unique, unusual Christmas family traditions.

You don't know why, but for some reason, everyone dresses up like chickens on Christmas morning and pretends to lay an egg. I don't know. Is that something you do? No, but it sounds like fun. It's never too late to start. It's pre-on Christmas morning. Sounds like a good time. Oh, and I lay the presents.

Oh, it's genius. Might do that this year. Start a new tradition. Let's talk to Emily. Hi, Emily. Hi. What's your unique Christmas tradition? So my partner's family, because I spent my first Christmas with them last year.

Okay. If you give someone a voucher or money, you have to give them a toy with it. Ryan, to make it more fun? Yeah, I think it's the idea of, like, I'm not just giving you money. Like, I have actually put thought into this. Emily, as someone who hates vouchers, I love this idea, because at least they have to do something. Yeah, we got, last year, my partner got a voucher,

and he got magnetic googly eyes, like huge googly eyes, and they live on the French. Oh, that's fun. They're like from typo. It was like a little bit like it could be like a water pistol or just like something kind of silly. Yep, no, I love that idea. And then now every time you put food back into the fridge, it's like you're feeding the fridge. It does feel like you're feeding the fridge.

We need a math this year, I think. Yeah, mouth magnet. Good idea, Emily. That's great. Genius. If you're on the text machine, someone said, we have to play the high five Christmas album. It's all summer themed Christmas songs. and my daughter loves it now.

I've bought it to my own family. Cute. It's a bit cute. Someone said, have you guys heard of the Santa Pub Crawl in Hokitika on Christmas Eve? No. It's worth a Google.

Christmas Day isn't the same if you're not hung over. God, that pub crawl sounds like a good time. Someone else said, hi, our unique Christmas tradition is a cocktail making competition and we judge on taste and presentation. I can imagine that getting quite heated too,

competitive. That's a good time. Let's talk to Shan on 0800 dial ZM. Hi Sean. Hiya. What is your unique Christmas tradition and your family? So my nana, she had nine grandchildren. And every year, she would give us a Christmas card. And inside the Christmas card, a $2 coin would be taped inside. And if you got a partner, she split it into two, $1 coins. Because she was a very fair lady. Nobody got more. than anybody else. I love that. Yeah, she's actually been gone 20 years now, but I can't be able to spend the two dollar coins,

so a lot of them are still taped into the cards. Oh, so you still have them, all his memories? Yes, and then a freaky thing a few weeks ago, this car drove past me, pulled over, and this lady, I've never seen her before in person, comes out and looks at me and goes, God, you look like Marge, and that's my nana. No.

And it turned out she was a cousin. And she obviously does it Did she know you? Obviously not. She must have known sort of who I was But she took one look at me and went I know who that is. Like Marge. Wow.

Yeah. That's Marge's way of telling you that she's around for Christmas, Sean. 100%. So I better make sure my garden's on point. Yes. You better bloody make sure go home and mow it straight away. Hey, thanks for the call, Shard. Appreciate it.

One more that's come through on the text machine. It says, Christmas crackers in our family. Instead, we have scratchies on the table as it was a tradition that my Nana always used to do. And since she's gone now, we're still doing it. Cheers, Josh. I'm just hearing that nannas have the best traditions. Yeah. Which you should start your chicken tradition. And then when you become a nana, that'll be nana's tradition. No, my nana just used to stuff her pants full of lollies, her underwears, and then she'd go into the good room and sit there and eat them. I'm sorry, what?

Yeah, she'd usually fall asleep with her hands down her pants. Okay, you should continue that then. The trifle had a lot of alcohol in it. Z-Dames, Brain and Clint. Right now, it's time for the latest. This is the tea. Formerly known as the latest, now known as the tea.

Don't know why my mind just did that, but it's been called that for a while. Here we are. Hey, very exciting stuff. The Wicked Part 2. for good comes out in cinemas today. A lot of very excited people. Obviously, Ariana Grande plays Glinda the Good Witch and she has been doing press for the movie in the lead-up. And one of the things she did was she went on Amy Poehler's podcast, which is one of my all-time favorite podcast. It's called Good Hang podcast. And it was a really cool chat and they talked about

Ariana Grande and the upcoming tour that she's doing and how it might be her last tour for a long, long, long time. Take a listen. I don't want to say any definitive things. I do know that I'm very excited to do this small tour but I think it might not happen again for a long, long, long time.

Sure. You know, so I'm going to give it my all and it's going to be beautiful and I'm so grateful that I think that's why I'm doing it because I'm like, one last, hurrah. Perfect. Because now. No.

For now. For now. I feel like she is definitely on that kind of track of acting and she wants to really probably focus more on that. But she had such good bangers as well. She's not done, I hope. Forever. Yeah, she'll just take a break, come back into it.

I believe that tour that she's doing, there's dates for America and the UK, but nothing for New Zealand. nothing for Australia and don't get your hopes up. I don't think there will be because she has said that it is a small tour. And no one likes us anyway, so. And no one remembers us down here, you know, in New Zealand. So anyway, Ariana Grande could be retiring for music.

Z&M's Brie and Clint podcast. Right now, want to talk about a simple thing that you learned that changed your life in maybe a small way, but it changed it in a big. way as well if that makes sense yeah sure you know small things all added up together big change yeah i saw this woman talking about uh what the thing she learned that it was super simple but it changed to the game for her what's the most simple but weirdly effective thing you've ever tried that fixed anything for me it's this like tiny study i saw about long humming humming for about five minutes to deal with like sinus and throat congestion

and now I do it every time I start getting that sticky, icky feeling and most of the time it clears it right up. It's like, mm, for five minutes. Wait, so if you're like congested

and you do that for five minutes, it clears it away. I guess it makes sense because you're making vibrations, right, and it would just move everything down. I used to love my mum, like when, I used to love my mum. You used to love your mum. Still love it.

Still love it. I used to love when my mum did this thing. Like if we had like a, like, you know when your cough goes down onto your chest? Yeah. She'd be like, oh, it's gone down onto your chest. And you'd have to, she'd sit down and you'd lay on her, like face down across her lap. And then she'd just hit your back. And she'd just hit.

I'm going to get things moving here. That's exactly what she was trying to do. And it felt so nice. I still sometimes make her do it. Not when you're a coffee. Yeah, no, I don't even have a cough. to feel something. I've pulled a few more that people have commented with

because I found some of these actually mind-blowing. Someone said the small but very effective thing that I learned was brushing my teeth with my non-dominant hand to create new neuro pathways. How does that? What do you mean? So if you're brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand, I think it like, yeah, opens up like different parts of your brain. Does it mean your hand works?

Better. Or does it mean your teeth are cleaner? I don't know. Fascinating. That's genius. Someone else said putting affirmations into your work password. You type that so many times a day, so you're just... I did that. Did you?

Yeah, and then I felt like a nerd. You're about to give out your password? Yeah, but it was years and years and years ago. Was it Live Laugh? Love? It was close to that. It was kindness. And then I felt really nerdy and silly.

Nah, that's nice. That's nice. Someone else said whenever I'm anxious about something and can't, sleep. I just tell myself that I will worry about it at a very specific time the next day, like 252 p.m. It never happens, but it immediately gives myself permission to move on so I can sleep. I like that. That's good. That's pretty good, eh? This one is genius. It says, I'm not allowed to put on my deodorant until I've taken my medication of the day. Now if I can't remember if I've taken my medication that day. I do a sniff test and I know the answer. That's really good. That person

definitely has ADHD. Someone said I put my clothes away on hangers in outfits so I have outfits to choose from rather than just pieces of clothing. I like that. I know people that they plan their outfits like all on a Sunday and then they do exactly that. They put them all on separate hangers. You just grab them in the morning, put them on and go. But I would hate having to put them all together. But then every day it would be so nice. But then the day comes around and you're like, I don't want to wear that. It's like meal prep. I don't want to eat that now.

I honestly can't understand how people can eat the same thing all week. No, neither. That's why if I were to meal prep, I'd have to make like two different meals and then alternate that. Yeah, well, you could do that. Yeah, that's not bad. Yeah. Because I couldn't do five days of the same thing. If you were going to do that, you'd need to learn how to cook.

Yeah, that's the problem, I. I got a little hack. though. Buy a husband. Find a husband that can cook? Like you did? Yep, I did. But no, when I can't get to sleep,

I mean, I do fall asleep in like five minutes. But if I'm struggling 10 minutes later, my husband pats my eyes like a dog. And for some reason, it does get you really sleepy. So try that next time you're struggling to sleep. Okay, that's a good one. My hack when I can't sleep, I picture what it feels like to be on an airplane

and how uncomfortable I am when I'm on an aeroplane and then I always think how grateful I am to be in bed. You did the little leg, snuggle kicks. And then that normally like relaxes me and be like, be grateful. Reminds you how comfortable you are. So much nicer. I thought we could take calls this afternoon. I'll 800 dial Z&M. What is the super simple but really effective thing that you learned

that changed something in your life? The ZM Podcast Network. Role model, Sally, when the wine runs out on ZM. Sorry, I just bit my tongue. Bad. What? It bit my tongue, really bad. I was thinking about how they've written a song about Sally,

but there's already a song about Sally. Mustang Sally. Oh. I feel bad for the Barbaras. There's surely songs about Barbaras. Barbar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar Bar. Yep. We move on.

I've asked this afternoon. What is the simple but really effective thing that you learned and you've now implemented that into your life? Let's talk to Haley first on 0800 dials at M. Hi, Haley. Hi. What's the thing for you, Haley, that you learned that you now do? I struggle with keeping up good eating habits.

Okay. So I've got dogs and they would never go without. So when I'm slacking, they're not allowed to eat until I've eaten. Oh, and obviously, you know, you want to keep your babies happy. Yeah, so they never go without twice a day. So if I'm flaking, I just jump on and they're not allowed to eat. If I'm about to feed them. Yep.

I'm not allowed to. Oh, that's good. That's smart. What are your dog's names? Indy and Little Bear. Oh, cute. That's a great one, Haley. Thanks for calling through.

Let's talk to Casey. Hi, Casey. Hi. What's the simple but effective thing that you do? So I tend to clean my fireplace glass door with the ash from within the fire Like when it falls down with a little bit of water. I saw this, yeah, and it actually really works. Yeah, it's so good.

It comes up like if it was brand new again. Yeah, I wonder, I mean, obviously there's science behind it. But where did you learn that? I think it might be one of those like TikTok trend things that came up or something in my other of them Yeah I think I saw the same one Oh well that's genius

That's a beauty thanks Casey Let's talk to Sarah Hi Sarah Hey You've got a simple but effective hack for hiccups Now I feel like there's a million Hacks for getting rid of hiccups But you think this one really works

Works for me every time Okay what do you do So every time I have the hiccups. I take a sip of drink and hold it my mouth. Okay. Swallow twice and then on the third time swallow the liquid and they're gone. Wait, wait. So you take a sip of water

Yeah. And then you swallow without swallowing the water that's in your mouth. Yep, twice. How do you do that? Hold on. Wait. Wait. It takes focus but it works. That sounds painful. Oh yeah. You can actually

do that. I never realize you can do that. And so on the third time you swallowed the liquid and it gets rid of the buzzy, Sarah. I'm going to try it. I'm going to try it. Okay, thank you, mate. Appreciate it. Someone said that last year they learned a really good one. It's called the one touch rule.

Only touch things once. So if you get home, don't just take your shoes off. You put them away at the same time. If you walk in with the shopping, you put it all the way at the same time. If you're folding washing, you just put it away in the same motion. Basically, if you touch it, you deal with it. It saves clutter and jobs for later. It's very organised.

It's very organised. Far too organised for me, I think. But I think it is a great system. I'm just going to have to figure out how I can get things, I can move things from room to room without touching it. Yeah, I prefer a no-touch system, actually. Just leave it where it is. Yeah, me too.

Is that in your relationships as well? No. Okay, just checking. It's ZDM's Brie and Clint Podcast. Let's play, What's the Plot? Once upon a time, there was a girl. She was smart, debatable, talented, eh, athletic, not really,

but picking a movie title based on just the plot line that she can do. It's our movie guessing game where you go head to head with me, your arch nemesis when it comes to movies. And today, if you can guess two movies before me, you'll win $1,250, Melanie. Hello, I'm so excited. I've played you before.

How'd you go, Mel? I got one right. Oh, not bad, Mel. You can build on that today. you could potentially get to and take out the whole thing. Oh, it'd be so exciting. Okay, well, I'm rooting for you, Melanie, but I'm not going to give it to you. Deal?

Yes, deal. Okay, deal. Claudia, you will be running the game as Clint's away today. Yes, I will. And this is how it works. I'm going to read out a movie plot line. You need to buzz in with your name at any point. Don't wait for me to finish.

And the first person to give me two correct answers will take home the win. The theme today. This may or may not help you. but much like the Bree and Clint show these movies all have character names in the titles so one or more character name is in the title of the film

gotcha is anything coming to mind James and the Giant Peach Interesting okay Is what came to mine Was that one of them No it actually was not But I think I did that a couple weeks ago

And that was the only reason Okay so I'm going to start reading the plot line Buzz in with your name Here is your first plot Best of luck Mel Thank you. Good luck. Our hero is a likable sad sack

who is hugely upset when his girlfriend of five years dumps him. Melanie. Melanie. For getting Sarah Marshall. Beginning Sarah Marshall. Well, John Mel.

And I've watched that movie a million times. It's good from you, Mel. Really good from you. Very good. That is one point to Mel. Movie number two. When the children of a wealthy and uptight family are faced with the prospect of a new nanny

Brie. Mrs. Delfire? Mrs. Delfire. It's incorrect. Melanie for the steel. Nanny McPhee. Nanny McPhee. Nanny McPhee.

Also incorrect. Brie. Mary Poppins. It's Mary Poppins. Oh my God. Oh, how can I get that wrong? Oh, my God. Turns out that plot line quite similar to a lot of movies.

Yeah, right? Okay, I'll give you another one. This one is for the win. Okay, here we go. I'm going to give you a harder one, I think, because you guys are both very good at this. Okay. Oh, my God, I can't believe about that one off.

Movie number three, for the win. An army captain takes his men. Bree. Saving Private Ryan, got to throw it out there. Saving Private Ryan is correct. Oh, my God. Well done. Melanie, you're an incredible player.

Well, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. My business, my name is, my name is Melanie Poppins. You're joking. I didn't get Mary Poppins. You're kidding. You and I talk on Instagram quite often, don't we, Mel? I know we do.

I know. I always congratulate you to this, and I can't believe I missed that one. Oh, I'm so gutted. You deserved it, Mel. It was right there. Hey. I will come back for you again. Yes, please. You are welcome to play any time, a very worthy opponent.

Sorry, we couldn't give you the money today, Mel. No, thank you again. I love it. No worries. Hey, hold the line. We've got a consolation prize for you. Don't go anywhere. Oh, thank you. Oh, that was tense. That was real tense. Yeah. I felt like it was going to go.

Me too. And now the price pulls at $1,300 next week. That's a good summer money just before Christmas. That is going to really help someone's Christmas. We've got to give it away before the end of the year. I'm actually really excited to give it away. Yeah, we're definitely going to, it's going to go before the end of the year. So that's going to be next week, $1,300 bucks. A ZM's Brinklin podcast.

I noticed something interesting about the musician, producer, Brut, not Bruno Mars, Perl, got Bruno Mars on the brain. Did you finally notice his giant hat? Yeah, remember those days where he wore that, giant ridiculous hat everywhere. No, obviously he's an incredible producer, and you might not realize... He's no Bruno Mars, but...

Yeah, no, he's not... No, Bruno Mars. You don't realize how many hits he played a part in. And I noticed something quite interesting for Farrell's Hayday, which was the late 2000s, 2010? Yeah, around then. He had a lot of hits. And earlier, to be honest.

And earlier. I mean, he's had a very... very long, illustrious career. Do you know how old he is? I want to say he's like 50. About that, yeah. I reckon he's about 50 years old. He's 52.

52, God, he looks good. He looks really good. So smooth. Day over 40. All his big hits have four count intros. Have you ever noticed that? No. So I've grabbed some examples.

The first one we're going to use is happy. I've got it now. Right? And they're so catchy and they bring you into the song straight away. If you don't believe me, what about this one he did for Tokyo Drift? Banger. What a great song. I love this song.

Reminds me in my first car where I had a subwoofer in the boot. I can imagine. Pump this song. They're like, oh, breeze coming. The mirrors were shaken. God, that was a good time. Blurred lines. Everybody get up.

Oh, it really brings you in, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Yeah. There's more. Drop it like it's hot. Another bop from Farrell. And don't wait, there's more. Kalees Milkshake.

I didn't realize he had a part in that song. Yeah, you produce it. He had a part in all of those songs. And that was his obviously secret source, the four-count intro. Well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Or change it. I mean, Jason DeRullo, he keeps singing his name at the start, doesn't he? Makes it memorable.

Play Z-N's Bree and Clint. I saw this trend that's happening on social media, and I just couldn't relate to it any more than I did. And they were talking about what your childhood trauma meal is. listen. Mine was Mongolian land because mum used to make the meat, like, it was like a cooked work boot and I choked on it one time. Baked beans. I hate baked beans. Beacon and garbage. Mine would actually be Irish. Tuna casserole. Anything in the slow cooker? I doubt always something. Shepherds pie, gross. There was some goodies in there. You know the meals that

your, your mum or your dad made when you were kids and you would just dread it? When you found, out it was for dinner and you were like not a fan. And then you get your plan in place okay I'll give some to the dog I'll chew some, spit it out, put in the toilet and the plant. Yeah. Yeah. What was it for you? Produce the court. The one that springs to mine is probably so relatable

to anyone around our age. It's like when you were, it was my grandparents they would boil the life out of every vegetable like peas and corn and broccoli or it was just mush. It was just like 90% liquid and then it was a bit grey.

Did spices not exist back then for them, eh? No, just hot water. Not for white people. No, no. No. Clearly not. But the other one that we had a lot, and like, I think it was more that I had it too much,

chicken catchetory. Such a classic from our childhoods. Chicken catatory. Everyone was making a bit. And apricot chicken. Oh, wow. A lot of apricot chicken happening. I wouldn't say apricot chicken is a trauma meal for me

because I still quite like it. Okay. I've never had it. Haven't you? No, I missed that one. Oh, maybe it was just the thing in my family. I don't know. Nah, people were having it.

I think it's common. Surely. What about you, Ella? What's your childhood trauma meal? There's a couple. Bless Mom. I think her mom, so yes, going back to Grandma's, it was always boiling.

It was always like no flavour. So poor Mom didn't have much to go off. And so it was snitchell, that was terrible. Risotto was from a box. Steak, personally, just not my face. favorite. So there was a few meals. Are you just naming everything your mum made you? No, she had some good ones.

My favourite was a Bitsy dinner. What's a Bitsy dinner? Well, we didn't have like a full shop or full pantry. So we'd like do little bits and bob, some cucumber on the side, like a bit of check-in. The original girl dinner. Yeah, it actually was. Bitsy dinner. I love Bitsy dinner. How about you, Bree?

Oh, this one's an easy one for me. Go on. And I know Mum will eventually, if she's not listening now, she will be listening to the podcast. Just sense it. As soon as you say it. You listen, you listen real good. Beef stir fry, specifically when there was udon noodles in it. Fancy.

What was bad about it? I just, at the time, like as a kid, I hated mushrooms. I love mushrooms now, one of my all-time favorites. But she would just, it was her go-to meal when she couldn't be bothered or she hadn't organised anything. And to be honest, my mum was bloody amazing and she made so many amazing meals and I'm very grateful.

When I come home, I'll eat anything you cook, mum. But the beef stir fry, I was never a fan. I think it was those noodles. I couldn't get around them. But they over-cooked. Yeah. The udons. And then there was a heap of mushrooms in it

and I'd be like, yuck! I'd pick through all the mushrooms. And then I mean, classic also corned beef. Oh, I was thinking like beef strips. No, but this is another meal Trauma meal. Corned beef. Like if there's no white sauce with the corn beef, like get in the bin.

Someone to text in meatloaf. Another classic. Meatloaf. Hey mom! You want some? Hey mum, meatloaf! I thought we could take some texts. Put them through now, 96696,

or you can give us a call if you feel really passionate about it. What is your childhood trauma meal? We're talking about your childhood trauma meals. The ones that you got so many times as a child that your mum or your dad would cook. And now when you even think about it or see it, you're like, nah. The texts are so good, they're really highlighting that there was like five main meals that everyone kind of had on rotation. Yeah, I feel like that was quite the thing.

Someone texts through and said, my nana absolutely destroyed curried sausages for me. I called it wallpaper taste And she had a knack for undercooking potatoes Which were in the dish as well On the side for other meals Like half is overcooked, half as undercooked Nothing like a raw potato

Nothing worse, eh? Kind of crunch Even when it's like in that in-between stage You're like, nah, no good No good Tracy, you also said curried sausages Yeah, mum was not a terribly adventurous cook And that was about as adventurous as she got.

And would she get it out of the packet, Trace? No, she made it from scratch, but it was bloody awful. Chase's like, that didn't help. No, for me and my brother, we just hated it. We could smell it as soon as you walked through the door and we just wanted to leave. It does have that distinct smell, doesn't it? Yeah. What was her best dish that she made?

She made an awesome roast. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can't go wrong with a roast. It was always nice. Oh, well, you take the good with the bad, don't you, Tracy? Yeah, she always put sugar in her pee, so that probably always made the gravy noise. Hey, there's a hot tip. Thanks, Trace.

Appreciate it. A lot of people texting through fish pie, like a heap of people. I don't mind a fish pie. I quite like a smoked fish pie. Did you have it as a kid? No, that's probably why. Yeah. Doesn't have the trauma related to it for you.

Yeah, I obviously grew up in country, Queensland, Australia, and my parents, I don't think they've ever even heard of seafood. Oh, yeah, it's quite inland. So we just had no seafood. Unless it was Christmas Day, then we'd have prawns. Ooh. But so seafood, I've had to, like, explore and appreciate when, like, as I've gotten older. Was there a pie on the menu at all?

Shepherds pie. Oh, yeah. Shepherds pie. Yeah, the classic. Is that the mashed potato on top? Yes. Yes. What about you?

I think we had a chicken pie. A chicken pie. Oh, and there was like a mum. would make a giant mince pie. Yum. Yeah, yum. Jordan, what was it for you, your childhood trauma meal? Mum like to call it, it's a bit for soup.

Oh, no. See where this is going. What was in that? It's a bit of everything. So kind of like a minstroni vibe, Jordan? Oh, no. I think a minestrone would taste a lot better. What was the weirdest thing that was in It's a Bits of Soup?

So it's a bits of soup changed every time. So it was whatever vegetables were left over in the fridge about to go bad. Yeah, right. Your mum would put them all in one pot together so you could enjoy them all at once. And then it was also whatever, like, meat was left over as well. So you could top that up. So it's kind of like stew vibe. Yeah, okay.

But somehow, somehow, there was always celery in it. Right. And the entire thing would just, because it got boiled, it would just taste like celery and I can't stand celery at all. Fair enough, Jordan. Salary probably because of this dish. But, yeah, to this day, like even the thought of that just makes me want to throw up a little bit.

Yeah, fair enough, Jordan. Fair enough. Thanks for calling through. Someone texts through and said, my childhood trauma meal, mum made a messed up curry with banana and saltanas in it. Oh, what? Yeah, that gives me trauma and I've never tasted that.

I don't love a hidden fruit and a savory dish. Not for me. Thank you. And I just hate saltanas in anything. Like if you're making an apple turnover, Oh, really? Like, have you ever had Apple turnovers? And then there's like, oh, Sultana's in there.

See, I don't mind a Sultana. Because I'm a grown-up, so. Whatever. Don't they bake them in little packets for kids' lunchboxes? Yeah. Had them too. Someone said, my childhood trauma meal was mum's steak. It was always tough as a gum boot.

I vividly remember nearly choking at least twice. I grew up hating steak until I had a decent eye-fillet at a restaurant. it's my favorite. That is actually the reason I went vegetarian when I was 12 is because I got one of those states that was so tough and I could not handle like the boot texture of it. What was it? Because my mum to this day loves her steak like burnt.

Like well, well, well, well done. I didn't even realize until I was an adult that you could have it like medium red. I'm like, oh, that's not a thing. She's like I like to really work my jaw on this food. Just gnaw at it. until you can break a little piece off. I like it to take 40 minutes.

Just outrageous. A few more texts. A lot of curried sausages coming through. Someone else said, I'll rank the worst in my household. Number one, meatloaf, number two, apricot chicken. Number three, deviled sausages, specifically from the Magi packet. Lifesavers, those packets, though.

Yeah. Someone else said, corn chowder and any stir fry was my childhood trauma meal. Someone else said, Devin and Tomato sauce sandwich. Devin's like luncheon, eh? Yeah. Like the circular meats. Have you ever had a Devin and Tomatoes sauce sandwich? No.

And I don't think I'm going to try it now. I quite like it. But I obviously didn't have it as dinner too many times. Not enough to traumatise you. Someone said anything in the crock pot was bad news. You see it on the counter when you go home from school? No. Why?

No, mum. Tuna bake, Brussels sprouts. A lot of fish pies. I feel like the fish pies. might have it. And then someone's written Beef Stroganoff. You leave Stroganoff alone. Uproar. I've been bringing back the Strongenoff. Appreciate all your texts on that one.

Right now we're going to do a birthday banger, aren't we? Oh, yes. If you want to know your number one song when you was 16, you can call us right now. Oh, 800 dials at M. We'll do three of them. We're just talking about your childhood trauma meal. And someone texts through and they said, my childhood trauma meal

is the fact that my mom ruined chicken for me. She would cook it for so long that it was as dry as the Sahara. She also cooked steak in the oven. What? It was like leather. You just dried it out. Someone else said,

my trauma meal was liver and kidney casserole. Oh, that's fair. I feel like that would be my trauma meal now. My adult trauma meal. Anyway, let's do a birthday meal. Number one songs when you turn 16, that's what we do here at Birthday Banger. And you can call up at any time we play this and we'll figure yours out for you. Harriet has called through and you're going to do Mum Janice's birthday banger.

Hi Harriet. Hi. How old are you, Harriet? I'm 11. You're 11. Okay, so we'll do yours in five years but right now we've got to do Mums. Do you know mum's birthday? Yeah, the 5th of May, 1982.

Great job, Harriet. You crushed that. Your mum was 16 in 1999, and here's her birthday bang-up. Ricky Martin. Does she like that one, Harriet? I have no idea. Have you ever heard that song, Harriet? No.

Yeah, that's fair enough. Hey, wait there. It could win. We'll talk to Abby on 0800 dials at M. Hi, Abby. Hi. What have you been up to today, Abby? Just working.

Yeah, and what do you do for a crust? I work in a contact center. Okay. Like a call center? Yeah, yep. Are people nice? Sometimes. It depends on how frustrated they are.

The time people are pretty good. Yeah, good. Oh, that's nice to hear. Hey, Abbs, what's your birthday, mate? 16, 11, 98. All right, that means you were 16 in 2014. And on your 16th birthday, this was at the top. Oh, a bit of Savage and Timmy Trumpet.

What do you reckon, Abby? Yeah, a bit of memes coming back for that one. Oh, absolutely. That goes off. matter where it's played. That's a bop that could win. Hold there for us. We'll do one more for Erie.

Hi. Hi, Bree. What have you been doing today, Erie? Not much just running around after kids. Oh, I see. How many you got? Four. Four?

God, you have your hands full and your feet. Yeah. I'm a long-time listener. First-time caller. Go Erie. Go, Erie. Go Erie. Oh, thanks for finally calling through.

Yeah, my kids are not in the car. They would be so excited if they were. Oh, okay, what are all their names? Leo, Joe, Hannah and Sophie. Leo, Joe, Hannah and Sophie. Shout out to you guys. Your mum's finally gotten through for birthday banger. Let's see if she can win it.

What is your birthday? April the 26th, 1984. All right, that means you were 16. in the year 2000 and on your 16th birthday this was number one That's a bop That's a bop

That's a bop From Madison Avenue Called Don't Call Me Baby Do you remember that one, Eerie? No, my personal preference Will be Ricky Martin Yeah, I mean You can't go wrong with Ricky Martin

You can't go wrong Madison Avenue, a duo from Australia, and I feel like that was their only hit. The only one I know of, for sure. Yeah. Hold there, Erie. You definitely could be in with a shot, but we need to deliberate. I like them all. I also like them all. Hmm. I would be happy with any, but I feel like that Madison Avenue song doesn't come up much, which makes me more inclined to play it.

It's a vibe. It's such a vibe. And Erie, long-time listener, first time call it. Yeah, do it for the kids. Even though she wants Ricky Martin, does she want to win birthday banger? What do you reckon, Erie? Yes, definitely. Go on, you've won birthday banger. Oh, yay, that's made my day.

You say hi to all the kids for us, okay? Oh, thanks, Bree. No worries. You too, Erie. This is a bot from the year 2000. Madison Avenue. Don't call me baby on ZM. ZD Ames, Brinclent

I belong to me, so don't call me, baby. Oh, so puff. That's Madison Avenue. Don't call me, baby, your birthday banger for a Thursday. God, that was going on. I really enjoyed that. I was loving every second of that. Took me right back to my jazz class days, where I tried to pitch that song and said, we should do this.

But we did the grease mega mix instead. I mean, it's awesome. So a great option. Also, a great option. Unless you're forced to play Danny Zucco because none of the other girls want to. So because you were the tallest. I think so. You have to be the boy.

You'd be a great, Danny, gutted. We'll do that again tomorrow, birthday banger. Dead Am's Bree and Clint podcast. I saw this interesting story where apparently Eminem, the rapper, is suing an Aussie company. What have they done? So it turns out Have they tried to do a silly marketing wrap? Like the government in New Zealand did.

Yes. It was embarrassing. Was it? Was it? Was it? I'm pretty sure Eminem sent a cease and desist. To the national party. To the national party as well.

He's back at it again. So he's taken legal action against an Australian beachwear company called Swim Shady. I see. I like it. Yeah, because Eminem Slim Shady. Yeah. No, no, I think everyone got that.

But good to reiterate. Just a case. So he said that the name was too similar to his trademark, trademark rap pseudonym Slim Shady. And so in September, he filed a petition to the US Patent and Trademark Office calling for it to be cancelled. Because they got it trademarked. And it got past this company.

Oh, okay. And then Eminem's like, I want it revote. Because he owns Slim Shady. Is that what you're saying? He's saying it's too similar. It's riding his coat tail. Exactly. He has the trademark of it?

He would. He would. Right. He would. Okay. I thought what we could do this afternoon. And, oh, look, I think it is pretty similar. But I mean, Eminem, let him have it.

It's also fun. You're millionaire. Yeah, exactly. Is that big of a deal? And it's an Australian company, right? Yeah. It's not like he's in the same country as it. No.

Let him go. They're not in music. They're not going to go over his territory. No. I thought what we could do, we could come up with other brand names, fake brand names for companies that Eminem would definitely want revoked if they were trademarked. Right. Okay? Yep.

Ella's confident about this. I understand might have gone a bit rogue. So. We'd expect nothing less than you. Exactly. Exactly. Okay. I'll go first. First company, this is for back massages. Yep.

And the company would be called Guess Who's Back? I like it. Very clever. That could be a radio game too where you guess who's back. True. Ooh, bank that. Yeah, Banked that. Write that down. Trade march to me.

Okay, who's next? I've got one. He would definitely sue my Christmas rapping stand, which I've named Rap God with a W. Like it. I like it. You guys are good. Very festive.

Seasonal. Seasonal. Yeah. He would sue a, you know how Ugs have sheepskin? And the sheepskin brand would be called Barba. He would sue them because of the la da da da da da. Do you get it? Oh my God.

That is a loose titan, but yes. Okay, should we move swiftly along? quickly. This is for a tiling business and it would be called 8 tile. Oh, I get it. Because 8 Mile the movie. Equally, a laundry service called 8 pile.

Yeah, I like it. Mate, yours was called Barba. I'm not saying anything. Okay, Claude, what are you got? He would definitely sue my mum's support group which I've called Marshall Mothers. That's good. I like it. Facebook group, I pitch

Yes, yes. My online support group. Yeah. Ella? Are you sure you want another? Go on, we'll give her another shit. No, there'd be a yo-yo company, literally called yo-yo's, selling yo-yo's. And he would definitely sue them because in the song, he sings,

This Opportunity Comes Once in a Lifetime, Yo. Oh, that's bad. That's really bad. Oh, no, man, I'm done. The explanation is so long. We're just going to move swiftly along. What about a dry cleaner's, like a dry cleaner company. And it would be called, picture this out the front on the sign.

Vomit on your sweater. It's good, yeah. It's good. You know, it says what they do. It's catchy. People are like, vomit on your sweater already. Go on, Claude. Yo, yo.

He would sue my umbrella company because I've called it my Rainers. Like, my name is. But rain. I like it. And Melinda there, ladies. No, go on Ella. Go on Ella. Oh, I just said it to Sue and Lizzie

because it's like some shady but the opposite. That was your best one. That was your best one by a country mile. I thought it was the worst. The ZDM Podcast Network. That's it, girls. We're all done and dusted for the day. Held down the fort.

Clint was off doing some photo shoot or something. Shady business. He loves a photo shoot that man. He does. He does love a photo shoot. Remember his fancy photo shoot where he got to pretend he was in Vogue for a day? I was like leaning into the camera. Honestly, we give him shit for it, but it was really good.

Like he felt like Harry Styles that day. Loves a bit of makeup, you know. A little bit of powder. A little bit of powder. A little bit of shiny. Anyway, we had a good time and hopefully you did too. If not, send all your complaints to clint.roberts and nzeme.com.com. He'll be back tomorrow, the show, full force, full flight, Friday Oki.

Oh, God. We're doing Ray. Can you give us a sample? Where the hell of my heart, baby? I went like a ring. Your husband is coming. Are you doing the real fast part? Yes.

You know, the rap part that everyone struggles to do? It's very fast. I don't have high hopes, but either. of us. I can't wait. But we'll give it a burn. We'll see you tomorrow afternoon. Be safe. Enjoy your night. Bye. Bye.