ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM's Bree & Clint Podcast - 23rd June 2025

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

Childhood nicknames that stuck.  Producer Ella refused to say to Clint in public.  Can Guy Montgomery get a hoyeah?  Why you should put your phone away.  *Note: no Bree and no After Party today xSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZM's Bri and Clint, the podcast. ZM's Bri and Clint. Cheers to Max, available on Neon. Stream now from just $12.99 a month. Tonight, we are going to witness the most anticipated show in the history of professional radio. ZM'sie and Clint show without Brie for a week.

She's off on secret business. Welcome to text in and fear eyes as to where you think she is. Do girls know where she is? Did she tell you? I've had a couple of rumours. Yeah, same. She's stuck in her toilet at home. She can't get out.

For a whole week? Yeah. Bad burrito. I was gonna say the door's actually locked. But you know, maybe. What do you eat first if you're stuck in the toilet? The toilet paper or the soap? Mmm, paper.

You could make a sandwich out of it. You wouldn't need to, you'd live off toilet water for a while. Yeah, for sure. Actually, on that note, just question. I went to Rotorua on the weekend. Hey, do not use Rotorua and toilets in the same sentence just because it stinks there.

You're sensitive about that. I love the smell. At the Airbnb, there was free extra toilet rolls by the time we were done, so I took one home. That okay? To nick a toilet roll from the Airbnb there was free extra toilet rolls by the time we were done so I took one home. That okay? To nick a toilet roll from the Airbnb? Yeah! One's fine right?

I feel like you can take the one that you started. No I took a newer! Did you leave some behind? No! Don't refill it! Surely it was an $80 freaking cleaning fee! The thing is an Airbnb is not a hotel so that's someone's personal toilet paper but you were Airbnb-ing at a motel so it's a bit different so yeah. Yeah, heck yeah. Well that's what I got up to. Don't ever know that you didn't just use it all. Nah, we just had the run.

I was also in Rotorua for Matariki and yeah she's as pungent as ever. Oh yeah. It's my hometown though it smells like home to me It's not my daughter's hometown and every time we go somewhere they go Do they not get it yet? I guess not. Nah What's to get if you're not from there? It's just But yeah, if you're from there it does smell at home Anyway, Kia Manake Tanga to all of my fellow Raurua faithful. Let's get into the show today we're going to give you the chance to see Lord live at Red Rocks which is one of the most amazing venues

in the world at four o'clock you can play What Was That and let's play a round of tradie vs lady right now where the tradies are only five wins away from drawing level with the ladies 44 to 49 if you want to represent either team 0800 dials at M right now. That's right thanks to Arepa sponsoring the game this week you win 50 bucks cash and a box of Arepa ginger drink as well. No Bree this week so let's see if I can manage to not cock this thing up by myself. Our lady is calling from Christchurch, she's 30 something and she once dyed a dog rainbow from head to toe. Welcome to the show Kirstie. Hey. How do you dye a dog rainbow? With a lot of

patience. Yeah right what kind of dog? Like a Bichon, a white fluffy thing. Oh yeah yeah dirty white dog. Yeah. Yeah yeah. How long did that take to come out? Well it was quite a process, it started off really vibrant and then it got faded it went to like tie dye and pastel and it was really cool. Yeah all the colours would mix, yeah right. Yeah, it was cool. Fun, you're taking on our tradie today, they're calling from Dunedin, they're 24, and they're a long time listener, first time caller, welcome to the show, My Young!

We've never had anyone jam it in there, Fun fact, My Young, that's new. Yeah, that's pretty Madison, eh? Yeah, yeah. Nice. Okay, guys, My Young, your buzzer is Trady, Kirsty, your buzzer is Lady, and the first person to give me three correct answers is going to win the game. Are you ready for this? Yep. Alright, Claudia, you keep score. If I was eating a panneau chocolat what type of food would I be eating? Lady. Yes Kirsty. Croissant. A croissant, we'll take it. Chocolate croissant, correct.

One point ladies, question number two. Which team won the super rugby final on the weekend? Lady. Kirsty. Crusaders. Crusaders. My young, you still with us? Yeah. Yep. It's not over okay? Yep. It's not it's never over unless you get this one wrong in which case it will be over. Question number three who sings this song? You make me Lady Kirsty for the win Katy Perry Katy Perry downtrash She's a lady

Whoa whoa whoa she's a lady That wasn't to be my young, Kirsty's too good Too easy Yeah she's too quick Oh don't rub it in Kirsty I was giving you props and you're like that was piss easy. We got 50 bucks and a box of arepa coming your way well done. Thank you. Sweet as, perfectly formulated to help you beat the 3pm slump. Give the arepas a go.

Bree and Clint. That ends Bree and Clint podcast. No Bree this week. Matariki long weekend just been. there would have been a lot of people doing road trips, extended road trips around the country to go and visit family. We went from Auckland to Rotorua. I know Ella you did a roadie over the long weekend as well down to... Correct, I followed you down to Rotorua. Not together by the way. Sure.

Why didn't you invite me? Yeah right. I didn't get to go. I got to hang out with your family. It was lovely. Yeah no, we did not see you. Come on, we are best friends, you can tell everyone. We...

Not ready. Yeah, you keep that in the D-Low, it's fine. You're my best friend. Thank you. You're my only friend. You never said that. I wanted Claudia but I couldn't get her so I settled for you. My children, who are four and five years old have just

discovered I Spy, so we're only just starting to play in-car games, but it's not just a kid's thing. Anytime you're on an extended road trip, you can't look at your phone, you'll get carsick, you can't read, there's only so much conversation you can deal with, unless you're gonna all listen to a true crime podcast. I feel like in-car games are quite important. Yeah, agreed. They make the trip go faster. My daughter's, like I said, they're doing I Spy, but only the colour version. They can't do the letter version yet. So it's I Spy with my little eye, something beginning with green. Oh my gosh, cute!

But, when you're driving through the rural Waikato, you run out of things to spy pretty quickly. There's only so much green grass, brown tree, yeah blue sky, a red car, brown fence. No you can't do car because they're too fleeting. It just disappears. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So what are the other games? What are the new games that people are playing in cars these days that we can adopt? I'm stuck on this too, cause again, yes, on the road trip back home, there was I Spy,

just extreme hard version, cause we're all older. What's an extreme hard version of I Spy? Shadows, that's a good one. As your answer. Shapes. Yep. Shapes. Yeah, cones.

I Spy with my little i something beginning with triangle what like that no no no like if the word shapes yeah because that's one oh nah bro nah nah nah nah disallowed if you said the thing you spied was shape yeah we've done that i did valley that was a really hard one thank you mm-hmm yes we go hard and like really yeah but other than that what yellow car like I don't know any other games spot did you guys play spot a mini what's that oh you see a mini and you get to punch the other person whoever sees the mini first gets to punch the other person that's a way to ruin a car trip

with kids yeah um corners was a good one. I love corners. Oh, we lean into each other. You lean into each other, which is good if you've got a big family or a lot of friends in the back seat of the car. I did that a couple of weeks ago. There was like three of us smashing the back seat and we were like, we have to.

You're going through the windy road. You have to. It's either this or feel sick. Do Uber drivers like it when we play corners in the back of the Uber on the way to town? Surely. Surely. Ask your Uber driver if he

wants to play I Spy. Oh that's fun. Fun. That could be cute. Break the ice. They've either never been asked that question before or they've heard it a lot and they don't want to play. That's very true. But corners would be fun if you're in a car trip with your crush. Cause you're like, oh I'm falling into you. Don't worry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe. Being stuck in the back seat of a car with your crush would be fun. Heck yeah. Unless one of you gets gassy. True.

It's the wrong place, wrong time. That's a fun game. Silent fart and then you fart and then you wait for someone to sniff it. I don't want to go on a card trip with you. You've got the wrong crowd. I've changed my mind. You're not my best friend anymore. 0800 DIAL ZM or text them into 9696. A bit late to be doing it the day after the long

weekend but we'll get another one. What are the new in-car games that everyone is playing that's not corners, that's not I Spy, that's not Punch Buggy or Spot A Mini. What's everybody playing these days? We'll get the list on here. That is Brinclint. The long weekend, a lot of road trips going on over the long weekend and we realized in our car that we need new games. We need new in-car games to play to hurry the trip up. So what are the games that people are playing today outside of iSpy and Corners? Jordan what is it for you guys? So when I'm on the road with my mates we play a game called Don't Get Me Started, where someone will give someone else a topic by

just something mediocre, uninteresting, and they have to start off by saying, don't get me started, and rant about it, and say everything that's wrong with it. Like kind of give a monologue about it. Yeah, so it could be something simple like... Let's give it a go. Can you give me a topic? Alright, let's go with premium 95 petrol. Oh don't get me started on the price of premium 95 petrol. Is it even

any different to 91? How would you know? Like has someone tasted it to see if there's a difference or is it just the 91 petrol coming out of a different pump and you pay more for it? Is that the idea of the game Jordan? Yeah that's perfect. And then you keep going until someone stops you. I like it. You keep going until someone stops you. Yeah so I've had some going like 10-15 minutes. If you can keep going you keep going. Yeah yeah if you're the sort of person who likes the sound of your own voice that's a pretty good game too. Yeah exactly. Yeah nice. Okay thanks Jordan love it. Let's go to Simon on the 800 dial. Is that him? G'day Simon. G'day mate how are you? We're good up here. What's the

game that you're playing in your car on a long road trip? We always say car cricket. Car cricket? How does car cricket work? On the driver normally and I just, as each number plate comes up I read the last letter or a symbol. And it's a one, two, three, four or six. So the runs you get. Okay. Five, five, seven, eight or nine, you're out. Right. Yeah, the first time's on plate, you get a free life. And do you get a car each? So the first car is yours,

the next car is the next person's? No, you keep going until you get out, pretty much. You keep going until you get out. How do you get- Yeah, well you might say five, have one innings, which is five I guess. How do you get out? The number is over six, if it's over six then you're out. Or a five, a five, seven, eight or nine. Oh I see, I like how quick it is.

That's pretty cool. Yeah okay that's good suggestion. Thank you, appreciate it. Ian say goodday. Ian, we're pulling game ideas together for the next long weekend or the next road trip people are doing. What's the game you guys play in your car? It's called Highway Heat. Okay, talk me through it. So it's pretty much at the control of the driver. You lock all your doors and windows as you go along and you turn your heating right up

to full bore. Yeah. Then the person who loses is the first person who starts to take off their clothing. Are you allowed, let me get the, I want to get the rules straight on this, are you allowed to sip water during highway heat? No, of course not. Are you allowed to complain about how hot it is in the car during highway heat? You can complain it however you want, you're not allowed to pull on the seatbelt of the driver though because that's a little bit unfair. Like you can't choke them while they're driving?

Yeah, that's not cool. Yeah, that seems like a pretty standard rule to me. Do you play in whatever clothes you have on or do you have to pull over and everybody put on the same amount of clothing as everybody else in the car? You pretty much agree to what you got on at the start, but yeah. I like this game, I like this game. It's weird, I like it. It reminds me of the time where the dad driver would lock the power windows and then let one rip in the car and kind of just... Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you could add that to it. That's adding a bit of spice to highway heat isn't it? Yeah, cool. Okay, thanks Ian, I appreciate it.

That's fine, that game, because you just give in, right? Eventually you just give in and then you drop the windows and it'll be all good. The problem would be a real stubborn car full of people where no one gives in and eventually people start passing out inside the car. I'd be very happy to lose that game. I'm like, I don't care, let me out. But if you're in a car of four, the others still need to know who wins so you can lose. Oh yeah.

You'll just have to sit there getting more and more naked in the back seat of the car while they continue to play. So be it. Good suggestions everybody. Thank you very much. We appreciate them. Have I talked much about how I've got a dog? I've talked a lot about having a dog. Wait, you have a dog? Yeah, I've got a dog. Gosh. When did you get a dog? I've talked a lot about having a dog. Wait you have a dog? Yeah I've got a dog. Oh my gosh!

When did you get a dog? I'm a hashtag dog dad now. You did immediately become a dog guy eh? It was quite cute. It's like I was always meant to be a dog guy. We've been telling you this though, get a dog. My first dog, in my mid-30s? You can say it, 40s.

Shut up. Never had a dog. Didn't grow up with a dog. Oh, you didn't have one as a kid either? No, I had cats, guinea pigs, rats? and goldfish.

My parents let us get every pet except a dog. Did they just not want to commit to a dog? And fair enough? Yeah, it was for them. Yeah, they were like, we do not want the responsibility of a dog. Probably the right choice. But then I've had free will for my entire adult life,

and I've also chosen not to get a dog So it's not their fault. You didn't know what you were missing out on though I didn't know what I was missing out on anyway in case you missed it I have a giant golden retriever whose name is Manny. He's about 40 kilos changed my life Mostly because I have to walk him every morning now. I get to walk him. Yes I get to walk him and I'm a responsible dog owner who always picks up dog poo. And today, I went one step further. We were at the dog park up the road from my house.

Actually, not a dog park, just a sports field where I walk my dog and he did his leavings and I picked them up. And then I saw him sniffing around and I saw there was another pile of dog leavings there. Oh, yuck. No. On a sports field. and I always think about it when I'm picking up his business.

I'm like, ugh, imagine you're playing rugby or something and you're at the bottom of a rock and you're- You go for a tackle. Oh, and your face gets smushed into a pile of dog turd. So grim. I can't think of anything worse. So what I did was I picked up someone else's dog poo today. Wow.

I busted out a second bag and I picked up the other dog poo. Much more disgusting picking up cold dog poo than it is picking up warm dog poo. I would have thought it'd be the other way around, that the warmness would be the disgusting bit. But no, the warmness is kind of comforting. It's like weirdly comforting, eh? Especially on a cold morning, you're like, this is disgusting. So I pick up these cold turds that didn't belong to my dog

and I was kind of feeling pretty good. Like a hero? Like a hero. Yeah, I always do that when I pick up rubbish. I'm like, I'm a tidy kiwi. Yeah, I'm better than you. Did you feel that? And then I had the thought,

how do I know that these are dog poos? Oh no. No, no, no. How do I know that these human sized... You're joking. No! Well what is the difference between a big dog poo and a human poo? And as I walked with this bag, I mean odds on it was dog. Yeah the chances are...

Odds on it was dog. But also it was a long weekend, people could have... It's West Auckland. People could have... People... Late at night. When nature calls. Yeah I don't know.

There was bush around, I feel like they would have gone into the bush, but some... Some men just want to watch the world burn. How big was the poo? Because we're talking about human poos. Yeah I reckon my dogs... Big dogs have big poo. Big dogs, big poos. Yeah, I reckon my dogs. Big dogs have big breathing. Big dogs, big poos. I said he's a 40 kilo dog. I mean, I haven't examined mine up close,

not to the same level that I've looked at his, but I reckon they'd be pretty similar in size, texture, colour. Oh. What you need to do, just assume the best. Yeah. Just for your own mental health. Yeah.

And, oh. Yeah, I double hand sanitised when we got back to the car, put it that way. Yuck. You should have gotten your dog to sniff it and see what he thought. Oh, he'd be happy either way. Yeah, I was gonna say,

what would be the telling factor of that? I feel like a dog poo is like sniff, sniff, tail wagging, getting all the information about that dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Human poo probably wouldn't care, right? Human poo, I don't know, dogs are pretty disgusting, I've learnt. It might be like, oh, nice. Oh, doggy jackpot.

Well done to you, you tidy kiwi. Thank you very much. Don't think about it. And if you did number two's at Crumb Park in West Auckland over the weekend, shame on you. Shame on you. ZM's Bri and Clint podcast. Shows brought to you by NEON. You can stream the brand new season of And Just Like That that sticks in the city spin-off on max on NEON right now. This is the tea. Big Lord of the Rings news out over the weekend. We've got at least one Lord of the Rings news out over the weekend.

We've got at least one Lord of the Rings fan in the Brea and Clint show. And you right Claudia? Absolutely. Oh Ella's got a hand up too. Are you like Lord of the Rings? Heck yeah. Oh good. I hate when people rip on Lord of the Rings.

I'm not the biggest. Have you seen it? I have. Oh I thought you hadn't. I'm not like wild, I'm not like a super fan. But I'm not a super fan of many things, but Lord of the Rings becomes something to hate. They're like, oh nerd. Yeah, you think that and then you watch it and you're like, I get it. And then you watch it and it's incredible. Well, this is big news for Lord of the Rings and for New Zealand.

We are getting a new Lord of the Rings movie, a real movie too. Not one of those cartoon ones recently. I tried to watch that recently on the plane and I don't know if it just wasn't the right environment for it. I think you've got to be a big fan to enjoy that one. I am a big fan and I love anime as well. You do? Yeah and so I was like this is so up my alley and I just like, eh. Remember we're not allowed to say nerd.

Yeah, you're not allowed to say that. Anyway, this is a proper live action Lord of the Rings film, just like the original trilogy. And the most exciting bit is they're going to shoot it here in Middle Earth in New Zealand. Do they need extras? They will, they absolutely will. It's my time. Like how they bought the Amazon Lord of the Rings TV show to be shot here and then they

left. Yeah, that was really disappointing. And they went back to England. This will be shot here. Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the original films, he's gonna direct this Lord of the Rings movie. That's very cool. He's gonna direct and star in the movie as Gollum slash Smeagol. So is it focusing on him, Smeagol? It's called Lord of the Rings, The Hunt for Gollum.

Peter Jackson is involved. He's gonna produce it. I never know what that means is involved he's gonna produce it I never know what that means but he's gonna produce it. Means he pays for it right? I think so I think he's gonna bankroll it. Weta Workshop will work on it again so it's all good. It's all good yeah they're gonna start shooting here in the middle of next year and this might be your chance to be in a Lord of the Rings movie. Guys, I'm gonna be in a movie! Seriously, we should. Was it your dad that was in Lord of the Rings? No.

But he'd love to. Where'd I get that from? I have no idea. I don't know. He signed up for the Chase. No. I honestly thought your dad was in Lord of the Rings. Oh, fun.

As what? An elf? I don't know. What was everyone... An orc? Oh, he'd actually play a good orc, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch out for that. It's on the way. Brand new Lord of the Rings. What, an elf? I don't know, what was everyone else, an orc? Oh, he'd actually play a good orc, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Watch out for that, it's on the way.

Brand new Lord of the Rings. The ZM Podcast Network. I went home to Rotorua for Matariki over the weekend, spent some time with my family, and I saw my younger sister who has always had a nickname. It's always been her nickname growing up. I haven't seen her for a little while but I dropped the nickname in the chat just before we caught up and I was hit with do not call me that anymore. She's rejected the name. She's rejected the

name which I don't know if you get to do that. I don't think you can legally reject your childhood name. I don't know if you're allowed to remove yourself from your own nickname especially the one that your siblings gave you. Ooh. That one's sacred. In fact, pushing back on your nickname, probably what makes the nickname stick even harder. Oh, heck yeah. You know? Oh, you don't like that nickname. That's definitely your nickname.

Ooh, that's hit a nerve. It's sticking. Anyway, she'll hate it being broadcast, so I will not tell you that- I was gonna say! No, I will not tell you that my sister Lana's nickname was Lana Pumama. It still is as far as I'm concerned. It still is. How dare you, how dare you whitewash our history Lana Pumama? She's 10 years younger than me. Dare I ask how she got it? No, dare you not.

Oh yeah. No, I don't think there's a story behind it. It's just a good nickname. It's just a good rhyming nickname. I do like that. And you run through these things with your children, I think, before you name them to see what are the rhyming couplets.

But I don't think any parent could have seen off Lana Pumama. Oh right you do the... is this... Yeah yeah like your parents if they were if they were responsible they would have gone Ella Smeller Claude Fraud. Nice I want to I'll give you my baby name that's Smellis. Claude Poo Lord. That worked. Claude Stink Lorde. Oh no.

Yeah. It's so smelly. No, I want to name my kid Wilfred. Wilfred. But then Willie gets called up a lot. Is Wilfred a boy's name or a girl's name? Either. Is it any sex name?

I just don't want it to be Willie. Is Wilfred a name? Yeah. A boy's name. Oh girls, Wilfred. Fred, my granddad, Fred. Willie is a nickname for a girl, it's quite cute. Oh that's kind of cute.

Is it just me or is that quite cute? I don't know Willie, I don't know about that. Like Willamina, Willie, Willie, Lil Willie. See, she get bullied, so I'm probably going to avoid it. Big Willie style. That's kind of cool. Did you have a nickname growing up, Ella? Not really, Shrimpy kind of stuck around for a bit

because I was small. Is that what turned you vegan? Yeah, how do you know? growing up Ella? Not really, Shrimpy kind of stuck around for a bit because I was small. Is that what turned you vegan? Yeah, how do you know? And then an intermediate pocket rocket for two years stuck around. Oh yeah, because you were small? Yeah. And fast? And annoying and just like blah blah blah blah. Oh right. Crazy gal. How about you, did you have anything? I don't think so. Come on, you got something right? Um, I used to have a really, really, really strong centre part, like curtains. They used to call me Clinton part your hair.

Aww. Um, which cut deep. Aww. I had an earring and they used to call me Gabo as well. But you know, that wasn't really a nickname. That was more of just... More of a lifestyle. More straight up bullying to be honest. Did you have a nickname that was more of just Did you have a nickname as a child Claude? I had a really cute nickname so obviously my name's Claudia and my brother who's pretty much the same age as me as little kids

He couldn't pronounce it. So they're like this is Claudia and he was like do we yeah? Oh, and so it was do ya and then they called me Dewey We don't know you was Dewey-er and then they called me Dewey. So cute. Oh, that's cute, but it never stuck. We don't know you as Dewey. No. Well, it stuck around until I think I was a teen. I was either Dewey or I was Bubbs. Dewey Pooey. And I was like, either way they're so cute.

Dewey Pooey, Claudia Stinklord. Or Claudia Mord was the other one. Yeah, see that's nice. I don't really want that. I want the nicknames that you resisted that stuck with you. I had a nickname on my Kentucky once because we had hoodies printed and our names were on the back. But my name for some reason, there was a space after the C and before the L. So it was Sea

Lordia. Sea Lordia. So I was Sea Lord. Ahoy! Oh fishy Sea Lord over there. That one literally stuck for the entire six weeks we were there. We want to know, I know at 100Dial ZM, did you have a childhood nickname that stuck more points for the ones that you didn't really want? You know, it's cute if you've got a

baby name that you still get every now and then, that's cute, but I want to know the nicknames that you got that you ideally wouldn't have had and it has stuck with you until you're an adult. It's ZAM's Bre and Clint podcast. Spent some time with family as most people, a lot of people would over the Matariki weekend and you get reminded of your childhood nicknames don't you? So we wanted to know what's the childhood nickname for you that has stuck? You haven't been able to shake it. Someone texted and said at school my dad had a mustache exactly like Borat so that was his name and because of that I got called Borat too. That's rough to

suffer a nickname as a girl of Borat because of a mustache that your dad has. That's very nice. Far out, that would not be the first time they've heard that joke. Thank you for that. Someone said, my nickname growing up was Squirt, which became, when I became a teenager, it was really inappropriate. Why? I don't understand why. Someone said, one of my family members has the nickname Spud. When he was young, he got burns to 50% of his body so afterwards when he healed he

looked like a baked potato hence spud. That is just horrifying. I know you want to make light of a bad situation sometimes. Sometimes I'll just say it to their face and not just behind their back. When it's cold and they put on a coat they become a jacket potato. Stop it! Sam's here, hi Sam! Hi! What's the nickname that stuck for you? So I was a rather large kid at school and so my nickname was Sammy the Sea Lion. And everyone used to go around school making seal noises at me. No! No! Sammy the Sea Lion, I mean Sam, they made sea lion noises at you as a child.

Yes, I'd like be walking down the like school corridor and everyone be like, oh, oh, oh. Now for anybody listening who may be experiencing similar bullying, let's just call it what it is at the moment. Did it make you a stronger, more resilient person with a wonderful personality in the long run? Yeah, absolutely. I work in a workplace that we've got 60, 70 people in now and I think it's made me way more resilient in a work life really having to deal with that at school. Yeah you shouldn't have had to

deal with it but you know long game right? That's what happens though right? If you don't laugh you cry and I think that's the mentality that my mum and dad showed me back then and it's so useful nowadays because you have to laugh in lots of situations. You have to and if you can't laugh at yourself then there's a problem right? Absolutely. Thanks Sammy we appreciate it. No worries. Someone said my name is Tiffany and my sisters always called me Fanny. I'm 36 now and they still call me Fanny. That's nice I feel like that's nice. Someone texted and said my surname was Pollock but everybody called me little bollock and I'm a girl. We're talking about the

childhood nicknames that stuck. Haydn's here. Hi Haydn. Hey. What's the childhood nickname you gave your sister that stuck? So we used to call her Fanny Hands because she frequently forgot to wash her hands after going pee-pee in the toilet. Okay, how did that go down? How did Fanny Hands like that? It's still Fanny Hands, yeah she still gets called every now and then. I bought her a, you know, those moustache cookie pies that you can get and you can put some lightning on it. I bought her one of those for her 21st and I said happy birthday Fanny Hands. Happy birthday. Does she like it now? Is it like, you know? Because my sister won't let me use her nickname. She won't let me use hers. Does your sister still let her use Fanny Hands? Yeah, I don't know if she lets me. Yeah, true. It's not about that, is it? When it comes to your siblings.

It's not about permission. Alright, thank you Hayden, brother of Fanny Hands. My brother's name, my husband's name is, surname is Finn, they call him Dorsal, that's quite good. Moose, it was the ugliest animal my brother could think of. Now even my mum calls me Moose. Wow, the origins of that are insulting. But Moose as a nickname is quite fun, maybe. Someone said my name's's David. At school, everyone called me Gavid. Kids are so famous. It's so obvious, hey, it's right there. David, more like Gavid. Got him.

Not me, but we used to call my brother Dildo. We had to stop when my son started talking about Uncle Dildo at Kindy. His name is Dylan. Oh! That would turn some heads though. My name's Rebecca and my sisters used to call me Rabies. Now my nieces and nephews found out that if I was a boy I was going to be called Richard so they call me Auntie Dick.

She can't win can you? Rabies or Auntie Dick? What would you prefer? Someone just texted Big Balls, no context. Did you give yourself that nickname? I like that. My brother's name is Jacob, we call him Jacobf. Nice. I worked with a guy that we called Fecal Fingers because he kept going number twos at work. Alright, we've gone too far. It's a normal thing, pooing at work.

Alright. Alright, Fecal Fingers. Shut up. No, no. Save it for your lunch break. Pooing on company time, baby. If you can't get through on the phones you know Ella's in the bathroom. It's ZAM's Brinklin podcast.

We were talking before about childhood nicknames that stuck. Someone said my nickname is Hobbit but it's absolutely fine because I am one. I'm short and I'm fat and I also happen to be one of the Hobbit extras in the Hobbit movie. I was also born on J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday. That is meant to be. That's written in the stars. You are. You are your nickname. You know, you've perfectly embodied it. So we give the news before earlier that there's a new Lord of the Rings film going to be shot here in New Zealand. Surely you're a front-runner. Surely

you're a sitter to be in that. How many? That's a good amount. And welcome to How Many, the game you win if you have the most of the thing. And Josh is going to play today. Hi Josh. How's it going? Good, how are you?

Pretty good. We said today that... Monday done. Monday done? Yeah. Clocking off. Clocking off. What do you do? Ah tradie. Oh you got a good chance at this. Or you either got a really good chance or a really bad chance because today to win you've got to be wearing shoes. Are you wearing shoes? Yeah I'm

wearing work boots. Work boots. Don't tell us but it's gonna depend on whether these are slip-on or lace-up work boots as to how you go because Ella, today we want to know how many... Holes are in your shoes, aka holes for your laces. Aka eyelets. Is that what they're called? That is exactly what they're called. Eyelets.

The bit you put the laces through, the eyelets. Why not just holes for the laces? It doesn't really roll off the tongue. Because hole in your shoe sounds like something else. It's not that, it's the bit you put your laces in. So Josh are you wearing slip-ons or lace-ups? Lace-up work boots. Yeah boy! Okay I know what these look like. Mainly because Vaughan wears them to work every day. Oh he does doesn't he? He wears work boots to work every day. He's a workman. Yeah, to do work on the radio. Josh, how many eyelets are there on your work boots? There's eight.

Eight on each boot? Yeah. So we're running 16 holes in total. That doesn't sound like many. That's four on each side. You've only got four on each side. Eight on each side, sorry. So 16 per boot. One many, that's four on each side, you've only got four on each side. No, eight on each side, sorry, so 16 per boot. So one row, there's eight.

So 16 per boot, so 32 holes in total. Wow. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. You've got to pick the person you think you have more than. Is it Claudia, Ella, or me, Clint, who could also be wearing work boots?

I'm going to go with Claudia. Or me, Clint, who could also be wearing work boots. Ha ha. I'm going to go with Claudia. Claudia's got a small pair of lady shoes on with not many eyelets in them. Yeah. Well, I can tell you right now, you would have beat me. I've only got 12 in total. No. In total? No, no, no. I've got six. 12, 24. I've got 24. Okay.

Guys, that's hard to work out. Six. Six each, six each side. Yeah, same, same. You're a six each side? Same, yeah, yeah, I've got 24. Okay. Gosh, so hard to work out. Six. Six each side. Yeah, same. You're six each side? Same, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Alright, Claudia, before we go on, what sort of shoes have you got on?

Shit, you're not wearing those massive Chuck Taylor high tops you've got, are you? I sure am. I got my big clompers on today. And how many eyelets do you have in your Chuck Taylors? I'll say early on, I do have more than Clint and Ella so uh oh. Shit Josh. So my number to beat is Josh's row of eight. Yeah. Which you can you know go from there. Eight and eight, sixteen, sixteen and sixteen, thirty two. Thirty two. I have got... Twenty eight. So I'm doing rows of seven. Josh you you've done it. KFC for dinner, brother.

Just. What brand of work boots are you running? John Bulls? Nah, Blundestone. Blundestones! Oh yeah, those ones! I've heard of those. They're good, they protect you.

You don't know. I'm trying. Only me and Josh, the workmen, know. Oh, you can't talk. You wear jeans to do the garden. We'll get that KFC out to you ASAP, Josh. Thanks, bro. I'm going to go and get my hair done.

I'm going to go and get my hair done. I'm going to go and get my hair done. I'm going to go and get my hair done. I'm going to go and get my hair done. I'm going to go and get my hair done. I'm going to go and get my hair done. I'm going to go and get my hair done. the workman know. Oh you can't talk, you wear jeans to do the garden. We'll get that KFC out to you ASAP Josh, thanks bro. Perfect. Alright, he's like what the hell have I walked into. Play ZM's Bree and Clint. Matariki long weekend, I went down to Rotorua to see my family and producer Ella you also went to Rotorua separately to see your family not my family to see your Nana. Not yours even though we're best friends. We were talking before the show because we joked about like oh what if we bump into each other

well should we go and do something together huh spend every day together but should we? I offered to babysit your kids. Yeah that was quite nice but I didn't see you in Rotorua but you said before the show that you saw me. I did see you in Rotorua. But you said before the show that you saw me. I did see you Clint and I brought this to the show because I made the executive decision in the moment to not interrupt and say hi. Okay. But now I want to know did I do the right thing. Right. I'm so intrigued as to where you saw me. I saw you on the Friday night. Yeah. Eat Street. Oh yeah, where the restaurants are. Yeah, yeah. All the restaurants. Yeah, it's the strip. So we're walking down the strip just trying to find

dinner. Yeah. And I look into one of the restaurants and you're there with your family. Yes. Like mid convo, mid eating. I don't know. You're like looking at this yellow lollipop thing. I don't know what you're doing. Yeah. And in that moment it like, oh, there's Clint. Oh, nah, I'm not gonna say hi. Because, now tell me if I'm wrong or right. Because I couldn't be bothered doing the, oh, hey Clint. And then you're like, oh, hey. And then you're like, here's my family. And I'm like, oh, hey, nice to meet you.

Here's my husband and my mom. And just that awkward. My husband? Oh, you, your husband. Oh, yeah, yeah, right. I was like, I don't have a husband. But you know, like I'm not in the restaurant that like my husband. Oh you your husband. Oh, yeah. Yeah, right. I don't have a husband But you know like I'm not in the restaurant that you were in. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know like is it a hug Well, like we don't hug at work

Wow, you really ran a lot of situations through your head in a short amount of time You know what I'm just let you be I get it you see me all the time at work I get it. Yeah, and I have to say I think I would have in the moment, do you know what? I'll just let you be. I get it. You see me all the time at work. I get it. And I have to say, I think I would have done the same thing. That's right. Because there's no need for us to catch up. Nah.

The only novel part about it is that we're both in Rurua. Yeah. You know? Hey. Yeah, plus you would have had to meet my dad and he's real awkward. Oh my gosh, no! He's real awkward.

Damn, I didn't know your dad was there. dad and he's real awkward. Damn I didn't know your dad was there. Oh he's an awkward hugger. So that's the thing, would I have gone into the restaurant, interrupted your whole family's meal. Hugged everyone at the table. Hello, yes I work with Clint. My dad had just dragged some tables together

which we didn't want to have happen and so dad was actually getting told off so you might have walked in on a bit of a family drama to be honest. Nah I think I would have done the same because... Yeah. Yeah. What if it was a slightly different... I might like snapchat the person and be like I see you. He has a picture of you. He has you.

What if it was a slightly different situation and you take the restaurant out of it, you're both like kind of in the same place at the same time. What if we're walking towards each other on the street and I see you and you see me. Do you hug? Do we acknowledge each other or do we just heads down, power forward? Yeah, just a wave, what's up? It would have been easy in passing, oh hey bye, see you on Monday. But nah, it would have been probably a long combo, this is Ryan, this is my mum.

Yeah, I mean my kids always ask about you and they meet you that time and they always ask where you are and how come you don't come round anymore. But that's fine, if you don't want to see my children, that's fine, that's all good. I have been offering to babysit your darn kids for years, Clinton. They're coming into work on Thursday.

Shut up! Yeah, yeah, so, surprise. Oh my gosh! But we're not going to talk to you, so. Fair enough. ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. I saw a clip today about how your phone is making you dumber. Ironically, I saw it on my phone, but you know, I'm addicted. What can I say?

That statement in itself might not surprise you, but the way that this person says your phone is making you dumber is quite fascinating. Angela Duckworth is a psychologist who's given a speech, like a university valedictorian speech about it. I think it's a pretty big piece of work that she's done about how exactly you are being made dumber by your phone, particularly if you're a student and you're studying at the moment.

Where you physically place your phone just might be one of the most consequential decisions you make. Seeing your phone and then forcing yourself to ignore it saps mental energy, leaving you with less cognitive bandwidth for the task at hand. Researchers found that when taking an IQ test, having your phone within sight, even if it's face down, lowers your score, while keeping your phone in a bag or in another room raises it. Fascinating. Just the mental fortitude and brain power and

energy it takes to resist checking your phone lowers your IQ. So if you're doing a test or you're studying or you're working on an assignment or you're working on something at your job that requires a certain amount of brain power just putting your phone off to the side, even if it's face down, just resisting the urge to try and touch it, makes you dumber. Where's yours right now? Next to me. It is never more than 30 centimeters away from my body. I usually put it on the table when I sit down. It doesn't live in my pocket. I know yours lives in your butt.

Lives in my butt, yep. Pocket? Butt pocket, yes. Yep. Back pocket. Back pocket. She talked about the willpower element. Willpower is overrated.

In study after study, psychologists like me have found that achieving what you want out of life has very little to do with forcing yourself to act in one way or another. Relying on willpower to rescue us from digital distractions is downright foolish. It's not our fault. It's not our fault.

We're wired. We're weak. Honestly, we are, no, I find myself wanting to read and then I get into the zone of reading and I'm like, go me for reading. Yeah, yeah. But then my phone is in the room. And so the mental capacity of trying to concentrate on my book, but then my phone's

right there and TikTok's so much easier to like get into. I don't even watch TV without my phone. So what's the solution? Put it in a bag? It's pretty simple yeah it's put it in a bag no not the bin. So what do we use instead? Something smarter, situation modification using physical distance to create psychological distance. put it in a bag What about my another room? I've found that if I really want to focus on a movie, which is pathetic that I can't even You know, like you used to it used to be watching too much TV. Well, it was the bad thing now I'm like, oh, I wonder if I can concentrate long enough to watch a whole movie

I found if I put my phone in my bedroom if I go and put it on charge in another room, I won't think about it. Oh, you don't. No, there's a bit of itching that goes on at the start, but it kind of subsides after a while if it's a good movie. What about when you need to figure out who that actor, like what movie that actor is? Oh, I know, because that's... Yeah, I know. You just have to talk to the people around you. No, you get that dusty encyclopedia out of the bookshelf

and you find it. We did talk about raw dogging movies. Do you remember? To raw dog a movie is to watch an entire movie from start to finish without your phone, without checking any people that are in the cast. And then when the movie finishes, you get up and go to bed. You don't Google the movie

You don't Google reviews. You don't Google the plot line on your phone regardless or go on your phone at all You don't check your messages. I know a reddit deep dive Or like what people think or the I like googling like the symbolism symbolism of certain things after the movie. So that's kind of like productive and knowledgeable. It's the tech top that gets ya. Tech top. Anyway, if you've got something you want to achieve, or maybe just

give it a go. Put your phone in your bag. See what difference it makes. What kind of bag are we talking? Zip lock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See through. You can still touch all the buttons. That is Franklin. Our producer Ella came to us earlier today and said that she had a near-death experience over the weekend, but hasn't told us what it was yet.

No. Was it over the weekend? Yes, it was yesterday. I nearly died. What happened? I'm not even joking. No, no jokes. No, like this isn't a radio hahaha.

Yes, I'm talking about it now. But- Damn, I love a radio hahaha. You know, like a, ooh. I've built my career on a classic hahaha. That's our bread and butter damn, I love a radio. Ha ha ha. You know, like a career on a radio. Ha ha ha. This is real guys.

Listen up. OK. Yes. I've been Ulysses in life because nearly died. We were in the car coming back from Rotorua to Auckland and Google Maps was taking us down some weird streets to get back onto State Highway one. So we end up at like a T-zone where it's connected onto State Highway 1.

Wait, you didn't go to Hamilton, did you? Is that your near-death experience? How'd you know? No, we drove past that. The T, is that what it's called? A T intersection? Yes. State Highway 1. Car's going fast. So we're waiting and waiting and waiting. Terrifying. I'm not driving, my husband Ryan was, and he's trying to take a right turn. With cars backed up behind us. So a right turn, you're going out across a lane of traffic?

Yes, correct. So it takes a while to wait for a free moment. We thought that moment came. And yes, there was a car coming, but we felt safe so he takes it but what he didn't kind of calculate was that he's going a hundred K this car also the distance you need is bigger yeah anyway so we nearly get t-boned and spinning and all of that like it was it was like is it maybe a second it was a heart-pumping whose side of the car would it have hit so we did dissect what would have happened yeah and it would it have hit? So we did dissect what would have happened and it would have probably hit Ryan and then we could have spun out but then another car

could have definitely... I find driving on the open road, when you think about it, one of the busiest things that we as people are allowed to do. There is a line of paint in most places that separate you from another. So you're doing a hundred kilometers, they're doing a hundred kilometers, that's a 200 kilometer an hour collision being separated by a bit of paint and also the trust that this person that you've never seen before and will never see again is doing their bit. Yeah, it's like fine, sober. It's kind of the perfect example of a functioning society of cars.

Like traffic lights. But yeah. You know, like we all just trust each other. That's our turn to go. Yeah. So it was, it was a moment of, wow, that was a close call. So you got across. Yes, thankfully.

And then did you pull over after that to sort of catch your breath? Did you scream? I had such a fear actually of getting hit by cars, so it was a heart-stopping moment. I think Ryan felt really bad, but he kept driving just like, he was just very quiet for the drive home to process what happened. So we didn't pull over, but it was definitely like shaky. My friends got t-boned at an intersection. Quite badly. What? Quite badly. They were okay. Oh my gosh. But I reckon it changed them. Yeah that's what I'm gonna, yeah. And

they broke up. Yeah. What? Are you sure you're gonna live with that part? They were married. Sheeeeeet. And they're no longer married. It doesn't mean anything. Do you think that was because of that moment? I don't know. I've thought about it because one of them changed as a person and I often wonder if that is the thing, that was the moment where they went, God life is short. Life is not guaranteed. No, tomorrow isn't guaranteed. No, tomorrow is not promised. And that's the realisation I'm having now.

Why am I wasting it with this woman? Yeah that's a bit... You know, but it's just a possible way of looking at it. Yeah. You said it has made you reassess your life. It only happened 24 hours ago but what's it changed? It's changed my outlook yes on how I live my day-to-day life. Okay what's changed? Because we have time in the morning. Yes. And I don't really do much with it. Yeah. So I get up I'm gonna get up early now and I did this morning. I went for a big walk around the neighbourhood.

What time did you get up on your lease of life? 8am. Shut up. That's early for me. Because I don't do anything. Life is fleeting. Better sleep until 8am on a Monday. I don't have kids, man.

Even if I woke up at 8am I didn't almost get to eat. Wouldn't you want to see a sunrise? If you nearly died, wouldn't you want to see a sunrise? I saw the sunset, same thing. But got up early. No, no, no, no. The sun sets at like half past five in the afternoon at the moment.

Yeah, but I still know what a sunset looks like. OK. And I'm now taking control of my interests. I'm going to foster kittens. And I called the kitten place today, Lonely Meow. Yeah. Any other things I should do? Well I don't know, it's a pretty comprehensive list so far. I thought this was a safe space, Clint. This is a wasted near-death experience. I feel like you need another one. I don't know. Quit your job. I'll set some alarms on her phone. Yeah, I don't know. Well time is sunrise. Quit your job. I'll set some alarms on her phone.

Yeah. I don't want you to leave but... I do want to travel. Shake shit. Move out of your mum's house. I have! I live in my friend's basement now. Friends expensive but you know what?

Share with us. Look this is good. Ella needs some inspiration. Oh yeah. Share with us what you changed about your life after a near-death experience. Maybe it was a health scare, maybe it was a car, plane, boat situation, electrocution, I don't know. Did you get cooked? On a fence?

I don't know, in a plug socket, whatever it was. Were you burnt by lightning? If you were faced with your own mortality and out the back of it you completely changed something about your life, we would love to hear about it this afternoon, 0800 DAILS.M You were faced with your own mortality and at the back of it you completely changed something about your life. We would love to hear about it this afternoon. 0800 DAILS.M or you can text it to 9696. One because we want to hear about it and two because Ella desperately needs some inspiration.

That ends Brandy and Clint. Breeze away this week. She's back on Monday. Our producer Ella had a brush with death over the weekend. Nearly got T-boned at a t-intersection on State Highway 1. Not just you, the car you pulled out in front of had a near-death experience as well, did you think about that? Oh gosh, yeah actually, because he was honking. And of course he would have been a bit scared. I know. It's not fun. The road's on, especially like a long weekend. Just everyone's tired

and traffic and oh yeah. I'm not having to go. It shakes you up. Oh heck yeah. So Alice says she has a new lease on life. She's now getting up at 8 o'clock in the morning instead of what? 9. 9. 30. 10. People say radio announcers don't do any work and that is not helping. Nah gee. I feel like you can do more so I've asked what was your near-death experience and what did you change in your life as a result of it? Someone said, I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my lung

and I actually lost a bit of my lung. I always wanted to do an Ironman, so I trained hard and completed my first 70.3 Ironman. That's incredible to be able to do with two fully formed lungs. Yeah, right Ironmans are like 12 hour things. Ironmans are wild. So good on you Someone said I had a car crash by the windmills in Pummi and I didn't change anything. Crazy. Fair enough. Fair enough

Someone else did say on the same sort of area same line that they nearly had a near-death experience but because of that they didn't want to change anything does that make sense no okay continue they had a near-death experience they didn't want to change anything yeah no okay what do you mean it gave them a didn't give them an appreciation for their life as it is currently. That's it! Right! So you do get what I mean. Right, so they doubled down on how they were already living. Well that's a sign of you living a good life, isn't it? Maybe.

Death by embarrassment, perhaps my bikini bottoms came off while water-skiing in front of the whole Kaiteiri beach. I have not bought a bikini since. one piece outfits for me until the day I die there you go that's life-changing fair enough maybe I don't get in the car again no no you've got to get back on the horse I know just drive better maybe you're only your husband drive anymore yeah I got into a tractor crash and it completely changed my outlook on how stuff can get real really fast and now I drive especially the big things extra cautiously and make a more calculated decision whenever I'm on the roads.

That's good. Ella and her husband are going to do that too, eh Ella? Yep. Yep. Someone said driving home from work after a split shift I was woken up by the sound of a horn of a truck coming directly towards me me I was on the wrong side of the road and I pulled back with about three seconds to spare I quit my job the next day. Oh there you go. I wonder if you are because you're working split shifts Obviously, it was just wrecking you. Yeah, that is terrifying. I've got friends who drive trucks for a living Yeah, and they said that that happens more than you would realize. The fact that people are either drowsy or distracted and you see it all from up there in the truck.

You see it coming towards you and there's very little those truck drivers can do about it. Someone said I haven't had a brush with... Oh this is it Ella. I haven't had a brush with, oh, this is it, Ella. I haven't had a brush with death, but I'd like to think that if I did, I'd consider myself lucky and blessed and wouldn't want to change a thing. If I changed my life and that brush with death, what if I changed my life and that brush with death actually becomes death? Well, yeah.

Right, so like. Changes the path you're on. Yeah. I honestly think based on that Iron Man text, maybe there's something deep inside me that's like a dream, right? Yeah, yeah, what's your dream? That you pursue.

Yeah, what's your dream? I need to figure it out. Interviewing Lord. You're so right though. You're so right. The idea that this clarity comes directly after a near-death experience. It's not always the case.

Have you had something that's shaken you up like this? Probably, but again it doesn't come to mind. I impaled myself as a four-year-old. I learnt not to eff around with sharp things. Yeah? Oh yes. Be careful. Oh my goodness. Anyway we're glad that you are all still with us. Thank you for your messages. We're gonna do a birthday banger next. If you would like to know the number one song on the day that you turned 16 you can call us right now on 0800 DIAL ZM. ZM's Bree and Clint podcast.

Bree and Clint. All I want for my birthday is a birthday banger. Right now though a birthday banger, the number one song on your 16th birthday and Natalie is gonna go first. Hi Natalie! Hi, how are you doing? Good, how was your Matariki? It was fabulous and full of aroha. Oh, thank you very much for asking. How was yours? Beautiful, it was relaxing, it was nice, spent some time with family. So yeah, love that holiday, love that new tradition that we've got. Let's do your birthday banger Natalie. What's your date of birth? 25th of March 1981.

Okay Natalie, you were 16 on the 25th of March 1997 and on that day this was number one. Gwen Stefani and the No Doubt. Love of Gwen Stefani and the No Doubt. I love Gwen Stefani. Best one. Yeah. Yeah. This is really great.

This is, I remember this, this is very 1997 as well. Oh she's a superstar. She was a superstar then. She launched herself and then she had even bigger hits. Absolutely. She's still around right? She's still around. They're still touring No Doubt.

Yeah, absolutely. Wait there. We're going to do a birthday banger for Char, they're still touring, no doubt. Yeah, absolutely. Wait there, we're gonna do a birthday banger for Charmaine. Kia ora Charmaine. Hi, how are you? Good, how was your Matariki? Oh, it could have been better, I was homesick, but I might have made it a good one.

Oh nice. Yeah. It sucks being sick on a holiday, eh? Yeah. You're like, can I be sick on company time? Can I? I know, yeah, eh? Yeah. You're like can I be sick on company time? Can I? I know. Can I use a sick date? Yeah. What's your date of birth Charmaine? 10th November 1985. Alright Charmaine you were 16 on the 10th of November 2001 and on that day this was number one.

Oh that's a good one. That's a good one Banger. It's a Banger. Yeah. Kylie. I'm happy with that. Can't get you out of my head. It's kind of timeless this song. To me this song sounds as good as when it came out and it's 24 years old.

Oh yeah true. Okay wait there we're going to do one more birthday Banger for Brittany. Kia ora Brett. Hi how are you? Good how was your Matariki long weekend Brittany did you do anything? I was moving house could have been better. Well Matariki and the Māori New Year is about fresh starts it's about reflecting on the past like your old house and looking forward to the future like your new house right? I didn't think of that, I loved that. A little bit of symbolism to go with your shitty moving weekend. Yes very good. What's your date of birth?

18th of the 8th 97. Okay you were 16 in August 2013 and on your birthday this was number one Hey there we go Avicii One of the greatest songs of the 2010s Can't beat Avicii, oh my gosh good I saw him live once Did you? Yeah, it was amazing. Oh, so jealous.

Okay, wait there. We need to decide between Kylie Minogue, No Doubt and Avicii. I've got no breath. So we'll go to our panel of experts. What are we feeling today, Claudia? I'm leaning towards Kylie, but I could be swayed towards honestly any of them. No doubt. Ella. Who's feeling no doubt? I was kind of feeling no doubt,

but I didn't know if I had the people behind me. Well, I'm behind you. Are you? In this game, yes. Not physically, metaphorically. Metaphorically. Ella's behind me. All right, we're united then.

Natalie, you won birthday bang, congratulations. Really? Really. Wow, that is incredible. Get it in ya, here you go. Thank you so much for picking me. You're welcome. I live with a girl at university that's just like her,

so it's made my day, my week, my year so far. You lived with a girl who was just like Gwen Stefani? Just like, I spoke to her on, she still lives in the UK, but I spoke to her on FaceTime message this morning. Yeah, it was meant to be. Much like Matariki, it was written in the stars. God bless. Here we go.

There's no doubt on ZM. You and me. The ZM Podcast Network. No doubt. She's the winner of birthday banger today. For Natalie that was number one in March 1997. I bloody love No Doubt. They are so good. So if you haven't deep dived No Dou doubt, there's something for you to do. And your free time.

Sorry, Ellie gave us some really spicy cauliflower and it's really not sitting well with me. I kind of wanted to prank you because I knew they were spicy and you can't handle spice. I'm kind of struggling to talk. Yeah, I can't think straight. But I really stuffed up when your job is to talk. Not good producing. Here's some no doubt for you to listen to in your own time. Okay I'm gonna have some milk and then we're gonna get Guy Montgomery in studio.

My throat is closing up. It's ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. Our next guest has just walked into the studio watching basketball on a laptop while charging his phone from that same laptop, which I imagine is tethering the wifi for the laptop. Please welcome to the show Guy Montgomery. Thank you so much, both for having me and for describing my technical setup. It was one of the more chaotic entrances. Oh really? Well there's just a lot going on. I've never seen someone watch basketball on a laptop in a walking situation, like mobile.

I would understand if you were sitting at a cafe. Can I tell you why? I was so punctual, because I knew I wanted to watch this game of basketball. Yeah. That I arrived early and so I've been in the reception of the building here watching, you know, without anyone noticing, anyone critiquing, observing my technical setup. And then admittedly, I could have packed it away. You want the jiggers up. I could have put it in the backpack. I could have walked in and just given you face to face.

But it's a game seven of the NBA finals. What do you want from me? You've been pulled in all directions. And you're also doing a show in Auckland coming up which is what we're here to talk about. That's right that's what we're here to talk about. I've noticed so many things it would be unfair to keep them to myself to her. Yeah. As I list off observations that I've made about you it's only fair. That's right yeah I mean you've got that innate comedy bone you've got that nose for a joke. So basically what stand-up comedy is, is noticing things and then relaying the observations to

strangers. And I thought why am I hiding behind any other title? Why not label it for exactly what it is? One show at the Kiri Te Kānaua Theatre. One and done baby. It's the end of the tour. It's been, I would say, with respect to Australia, comprehensive. And in New Zealand terms, I'd call it pretty thin. I did a show at the Wellington Opera House during the Comedy Festival, and this is the final date. So this is the exit strategy. No, you can't say the final date after having only done one show prior. I've done 55 shows in Australia.

So this is the final date of a trans Tasman tour. Do we get the dregs of Guy Montgomery now? You get the best of Guy Montgomery. Are you kidding me? You get the final one. You get the triumphant send-off. You get the confetti, the streamers, you get the elation and relief as I set this baby on fire and push it out to Harvard. The gag is on the 15th of August. We have a double pass up for grabs. Oh my gosh. I know. I did not baby on fire and push it out the harbor. The gag is on the 15th of August we have a double pass up for grabs. Oh my gosh I know I did not sanction this. It's a must. I demand the deep-pocketed listeners of ZM's Drive show to purchase their

tickets with their hard earned. It's a non-negotiable on the Brian Clint show. So you can win that if you text Guy and your details to 9696. Before you go, we have a challenge that we have been giving all of the comedians who have been coming through this show recently. Okay. Are you willing to take it on as well? I must. You have to. Yeah. It's called Can I Get a Whole Year? Your challenge is to call... It's a talk bed and everything. Call a store and all you're allowed to say to that store is can I get a and to win the game the person must respond with oh yeah. Tony Lyle gave it a red hot crack. Hi, did you want to speak to Matt and Tyler? Can I get a... Sorry? Can I get a...

Public. No good at News Talk ZB. We had David Kourios call Burger King to try and get a high year. Oh, come on, surely. We're calling Burger King Custom Care, speaking with Patricia. Can I get a... And today, Guy Montgomery, you will be calling a guys store for a whole year you're calling Helenstein Brothers.

Okay. Are you up for it? Yeah makes sense. We'll see how Guy goes with his whole year. Hello Helenstein, can we talk? I was just hoping I could get a... can I get a... I was just wondering if you've got any... Any what phone? Can I get a... That was a horrible feeling. One of the worst in the history of the game.

I was just wondering if I could get a... Yo, I thought I'd butter them up, alright. These other guys, they're plunging straight in and I thought I'd give them some context. Can I ask, because I'm not up to speed with pop culture, can I get a whole year? Yeah, it's a thing. It's a thing. It's a phrase in the popular vernacular.

Not by my research. I was calling around Hellenstein's recently, and I tell you what, made me feel pretty alienated from the staff there. If you want to see Guy Montgomery live at the Kiri Takanawa Theatre, you can find details at Ticketmaster right now. Play ZM's Brian Clint on Insta, Facebook, TikTok, and live weekdays from three on ZM.