ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM's Bree & Clint Podcast - 24th January 2024

Episode Date: January 24, 2024

Did you get caught lying to get a sick day? Life hacks.  Things you're convinced people are just pretending to enjoy.  Weirdest insurance claims of 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. ZM's Brie and Clint. G'day everybody, Brie and Clint. Good afternoon and welcome to the show. Good afternoon guys, happy hump day. Happy hump as we say on this show. Happy hump. Happy hump.

Not long to go now, Clint, till our first Thursday, Taylor Thursday. Is that what it's called? Yeah, I think so, yeah. Taylor Thursday? Taylor Thursday. Is that what it's called? Yeah, I think so, yeah. Taylor Thursday? Taylor Thursday. Taylor Thursday, yeah, that sounds right. Taylor Thursday. Taylor Thursdays on ZM.

When we give away Taylor Swift tickets on a Thursday. Flights, accommodation, the whole kit and caboodle. It's tomorrow. Tomorrow, the first one. Yeah. Someone is going to win the whole package. On a Taylor Thursday. Thursday, Taylor.

Taylor Thursday. Taco Tuesday. Taylor Thursday. Taylor Thursday. Good, we've cleared that up. We can focus on the rest of the show today. We were going to give away $300 worth of New World vouchers just after 3.30 again today. If you know your recipes, you're going to ace this.

It's super easy. You've just got to pick the ingredients in today's New World recipe. Just after 3.30, we'll give you the chance to play that. First up, tradie versus lady. The ladies are one point in front, but it doesn't mean anything. $50 cash if you want it. Give us a call now. 0800 dials it in.

Bree and Clint. It's Tradie versus Lady. It's the game we all know and love. It continues for another year. The deciding year. The Lady so far on four wins. The Tradies they're just behind on three.

Our Lady is calling from Greymouth today. She's 41 years old and she only does things in odd numbers. Welcome to the show. It's Kate. Hi, Kate. Hey, how's it going? Can we have an example of what you're doing in odd numbers?

Oh, I love number 13 and I've only lived in houses that you can add up to an odd number. Interesting. The two numbers in the letterbox have to add up to an odd number. Yeah, well they actually have. They actually probably have House Omen now is the only one that doesn't add up to an odd number, yeah. Oh, I bet you hate that. Did you say 13's

your favourite number? Yeah, 3, 13, 30, yeah. So are you a Swifty then? Yeah, actually not really to to be honest. But yeah, my brother's the same. I just found this out recently about my brother that he's actually, he's got 13 tattoos on him and I didn't even know that.

So do I. There you go. You guys need to start a gang. 13's big in our family too. You're taking on our training today. They're 23 years old from Christchurch and they taught their cat how to shake hands. Welcome to the show, Liam. Hi, how's it going?

Good, thanks, Liam. We love that. What type of cat and what's its name? I have a ragdoll and her name is Cedar. Cute. Cedar the ragdoll. Ragdolls are the sweetest cats. Okay, Liam.

Yeah, they are. Your buzzer today is tradie. Kate, yours is lady. The first one of you two to answer three questions correctly will win $50 thanks to kfc good luck here we go guys question number one which country are you visiting if you go to the taj mahal tradie yes liam thailand no not a bad guess kate india is of course, India. Apparently an amazing spot. One to the ladies, question number two. Apparently an amazing spot.

It is. I was looking at photos. It's incredible. Well, I went to Buckingham Palace. People said it's amazing. Turns out pretty average. What is the main difference between Bikram yoga and regular yoga? Lady?

Yes, Kate? The heat? Yeah, it is. Nice. She's on the board again with two. You need this one, Liam, to stay in it. Question number three. Buzz in when you can tell me who sings this song.

Brady? Yes, Liam. Who's that, Liam? Usher? No, it's not Usher. It's a good guess, though. Kate? No, I don't even know.

No, I don't have an idea. I don't. It's a huge TikTok trend at the moment. That was Chris Brown. It's back on TikTok. Many moons ago now. I want to say like 15 years ago. I will not be attempting this dance challenge.

It's real difficult. It is the hardest dance you've ever seen. Lance Sibali does it well, though. He does it very well. All right, guys. Still two to the ladies. Question number four. What is the name of the tool commonly used to grind substances in a mortar? Trady. Yes, Liam. A pestle? Yeah, a pestle. Yeah, close enough. What is used to grind substances in a mortar? Tradies.

Yes, Liam. A pistol. Yeah, a pistol. Yeah, close enough. A pistol. Nice work, Liam. You're on the board. We are 2-1 to the ladies.

Question number five. There's a new Shrek movie on the way. What number in the Shrek series... Yes, Liam. Four. Kate. Four. Kate. Five. I think that's correct.

The answer got deleted off the... Oh, no. No, four, trust me. Is it four? Yeah, yeah. Hold on. Sorry. I think...

The movie is coming out. Trust me, it's four. Shrek 5 won't hit the big screens until late 2024. Oh, it's five. Okay. That's what they're saying. All right, and then that's a win to the ladies. And that's a win to the ladies.

Is that a controversial end, possibly? She's a lady. Oh, oh, oh, she's a lady. Claude's fact-checking it for us. It was right? That was right? It's Shrek 5, isn't it? Yeah, number five.

Number four is called Forever After. There we go. Congratulations, Kate. I mean, do they need to make any more? No. That was right. It's strength five, isn't it? Yeah, number five. Number four is called Forever After. There we go. Congratulations, Kate. I mean, do they need to make any more? No controversy there. Nice work, Kate. Great win. And we'll get that $50 out to you.

Oh, fantastic. Half of that goes to my nearly nine-year-old because every day he asks me to ring up to do this. Oh, how great. Well, he's going to be stoked. Thanks, Kate. Bree and Clint. An Aussie woman.

You might have seen it just before Christmas, but it's now going global around the world after she posted a video to her TikTok about a life hack she uses and has been using for a long time. Okay. So she goes by the handle on TikTok, Asian.Barbie, and the video takes place in the front seat of her car. Okay.

And she shares this life hack that maybe some people listening might think is a good idea. Take a listen. Why do you have tongs in your car? Great question. You know when you come up to those gates for the car park and they've got a little ticket machine? I can never get close enough to the ticket machine.

Whip out my handy dandy little tongs. Got the ticket. There's a person behind me. They always laugh at me. I watch them in the rear view mirror. But you know what? I'd rather be that weirdo with the tongs than that person who's like doing this, you know, unbuckle and open the door. How embarrassing.

Tongs for life. She must have really short arms. She said she's not the best driver at the start of the video. How embarrassing. Okay. Songs for life. Cute. She must have really short arms. Yeah. She said she's not the best driver at the start of the video. Yeah, and she's scared of getting too close. And she's scared of getting too close and hitting the curb. So she just keeps this pair of tongs. She'd have little itty-bitty arms like producer Ella.

Ella, you've got such short arms, you could get like those barbecue tongs. You know the really long ones? The real long ones. So you don't burn your hand on the barbecue. We could keep a pair of those in your car. Do you want to keep going? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. And then. So you don't burn your hand on the barbecue. We can keep a pair of those in your car. Do you want to keep going? Yeah. Yeah?

And then you could use them to get your drive-through orders. Tink, tink, tink. Just grab it. Yeah. Anything else? Don't go in on this. Sorry, I got wrapped up in it. I got wrapped up in it.

My arms are normal. Look at them. You could store them under your little booster seat when you're driving. All right, I've had enough. She's turning her mic off. That's a good idea for a product. I wonder if anyone's made a product. Car tongs.

Yeah, but it doesn't have to be tongs. It can be like a little duvawacker. A little grabby grabby. Yeah, for like the car and you just like slip it down into the window. Tongs are good because I've seen her ones. She's only got those little serving tongs. They're not like big salad tongs.

No. They're just little ones and they can sit inside the cup holder. Yeah, and they're pink. I love that they're pink. I mean, it's not a bad life hack. Of course, Asian.Barbie has pink tongs. Yeah. What other colour is she going to have? Exactly. You've got to have the pink ones.

For sure. I love a good life hack that has a practical application and you go, oh my God, I could actually do that. Yeah. Do you have any that you like use every day? Yeah, I do. And I figured this one out over summer. It's real boring, but it's going to save you having a lot of like paper and like receipts around the house.

Gotcha. These days, the AI in your phone is so good that if you've got a receipt that you need to keep or a business card, you know how people, like if you get someone around to fix something and they leave their business card, where are you meant to keep all those business cards? I don't know. Just take a photo of it and then forget about it

because the AI inside your Google Photos and I think inside Apple Photos as well is so good now that you can just type in a word that is on that card or on that receipt and it scans all of the words inside the picture. So if you've got a receipt from Mitre 10, for example, just take a photo of the receipt and then go into your photo album and type Mitre 10 and it will bring up all of the receipts or whatever it is.

So any paperwork that you need to save, so long as you can remember a word that's in it, just take a photo of it. That one came back to bite me in the bum actually on the holidays. Did it? Yeah, because I was talking to these people over the holiday break and we were talking about our dogs and she showed me a picture of her dog and she was like,

oh, show me a picture of your dogs. And I went and did that and I typed in dogs. Dogs, yeah. And I'd taken all those photos of my dogs doing poos for my dog poo calendar that I'm making. And she goes,

why do you take photos of your dogs doing poos? That's weird. It's not weird. I'm making a calendar. And then she goes, that's even weirder. Bree and Clint from iHeartRadio. This is the latest live from LA with Dean McCarthy.

Dean, the full list of Oscar nominations came out today and what is the movie that has been snubbed? Oh, I tell you what, it painted the whole world pink. We loved the $1.7 billion Barbie flick. But sadly, our own Margot Robbie was not nominated, nor was Greta, the director of the almost $2 billion movie. Now, the reason I keep saying that is because it was one of the most successful films of the year,

one of the most successful films of many, many years. Barbie did get eight nominations for an Oscar. Oppenheimer got 13. You know, Poor Things got 11, which was starring Emma Stone. But the reason we're so devastated because Barbie, you know, directed by Greta, obviously, and starring Margot, who was exceptional in that role, and the reason she did so well was because of those two women, really, and they got snubbed.

And so I'm not okay about it, and many of us in Hollywood are not okay about it. It's crazy that the highest grossing movie of the year can't crack into that category, right? Well, I think what people are trying to, what people are kind of upset about today with the nominations is that it did get nominated for Best Film. Oh, okay. Best Picture of the year. And got, like Dean said, a bunch of nominations.

Ryan Gosling got nominated for two awards. He got nominated for Best Supporting Actor and also his song I'm Just King got nominated for Best Song but the two main people who put that film together Margot Robbie and Greta

obviously got snubbed. No nominations for them. It is strange to nominate a picture for Best Picture but not the person who directed the best picture

for Best Director. You know? Like it just seems wrong. Who makes the movie? It seems really wrong. And people are now saying that that was literally the whole plot line of the film. Oh, manifest, it's come true.

Yeah, and people are just up in arms about it and they're not happy about it. Dee, are you still hoping to audition for Barbie 2? Are you going for a Ken role in Barbie 2? I think so. Look, every year, every year there's snubs. Every year there's people

that were nominated that probably shouldn't have been and then there's people that weren't. It kind of happens every single year but I want you to imagine when you go into the big room

of all the people that vote, like, it's kind of like, I wouldn't call it the most, like, modern, like, diverse group of people. Yeah, yeah, I got you. I hear what you're saying.

What I'm saying, I'm not trying to be mean-spirited at all, but I'm just trying to say, like, people with the finger on... I wouldn't call them the most finger-on-the-pulse people in the room. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Yeah.

Yeah, when they don't nominate Margot Robbie for Best Actress in the movie that grossed the most money all year, like, it's the reason. Like, do the math. In my opinion, they've missed the mark, most money all year. Do the math. In my opinion, they've missed the mark, Dean. They've really missed the mark. You can't have the highest

performing film of the year and then it gets nominated for Best Picture but then misses out in areas where women are in those roles. They're just snobs though. They never award the people's favourite movie the award. They always go for the one which is critically acclaimed and seems the most artsy and fancy.

It's not an award for the people, is it? That is true. But it's also not the award. It's the nomination. Like, even just to be nominated. Anyway, anyway. That's The Goss, live out of Los Angeles, with our Hollywood correspondent, Dean McCarthy.

Thanks, Dean. We appreciate you. Thanks, Dean. Bye, guys. Bree and Clint. Look, I think we need to have an honest conversation and I want people to put it all out on the table,

which is what I did. I think it was last night or the night before with my partner where I finally said, I honestly think you are pretending to like sparkling water. Oh.

I can't understand it. I can't get around it. Yeah. Maybe it's like coriander and some people are born with the genetics that it tastes horrible and other people aren't. That's what I truly believe because every time I taste it, I'm like, I don't get it. So can I just get it clear?

Do you think sparkling water is overrated or do you actively dislike the way it tastes? I dislike it. Really? Yeah. Oh. I don't like it. I like normal water, like cold, normal, flat water

over the sparkling water any day. What if you go to a fancy restaurant and they bring out the fancy, like, the green bottle of San Pellegrino? What a waste of money. Really? Waste of money. Oh. Like, the taste I don't like. I don't like how it makes me burp.

I just don't understand it. You don't drink a lot of fizzy drinks either, though, right? No, I don't. But I like a fizzy drink. Yeah. Like I don't mind like, you know, a soft drink. But I don't like the taste of sparkling water. I'm convinced people are either pretending

because it's the trendy thing. Yeah. Or maybe I'm born with the gene kind of like coriander where it tastes horrible to me. I'm drinking like a SodaStream bottle of sparkling water a night at the moment. I hate it. So does my partner.

For me, it's like a substitute for the beers during the week. My partner loves it. We go through a heap of it. Our SodaStream gets a workout, but it's not from me. Okay. I feel the same way about a few things, including low-carb beers.

Like whenever you hear someone go, these are so good, I'm like, are they? Are they? Or are you just pretending to like this low-carb beer because you know you need to be on a low-carb beer? So you've convinced yourself that it's nice and that it actually tastes good? I see what you're saying. I don't mind the Heineken Silver. Oh, no, I don't mind the Heineken Silver. The Heineken Silver's good. But I feel like that's the Heineken Silver. The Heineken Silver's good.

But I feel like that's the first one. Yeah. Before that, all of the other ones that people were having, I'm not going to name the names of the beers. They hadn't got it quite right is what you're saying. I just think that they just tasted like... Not that great. Pretty close to nothing.

You know what else? I bought this low-carb bread the other day. Why did you buy low-carb bread? Because I eat quite a bit of bread and I was like if I can save a few carbs here and there like on the bread, may as well. Worst bread I've ever had. Never again.

It tastes like gluten free bread. I feel like the main flavour of bread is carb. It tastes like cardboard. That's the joy of bread, right? God, don't get it guys. Don't be sucked in. Claudia, is there anything you think people are pretending to like? Brie, just you wait until you hear about Lotato's. Oh, Lotato's.

What's a Lotato? Low-carb potatoes. No, you don't mess with the potato, the best vegetable in the world. Lotato's a great marketing name, though. It's so good. It is a good marketing name. Anyway, the thing that I feel like people like, that I just don't get you know when you hop in someone's car

and they have a brand new air freshener and the smell just punches you in the face? Yeah. I can't deal. I see what you're saying. Like the air fresheners that you little hang on your mirror, it makes your car smell like a strawberry. I feel the same about air fresheners in the toilet. Oh, I don't mind those. It's better than the alternative.

Is it? Sometimes. What about that product? Because sometimes it just smells like a mixture like a cocktail of the toilet. Oh, I don't mind those. It's better than the alternative. Is it? Sometimes. What about that product? Because sometimes it just smells like a mixture, like a cocktail of the two. Like a bad air freshener and a bad thing that's been done in the toilet, like mixed up and then forced up your nostrils. Yeah, it's Poo-Pourri. Poo-Pourri.

That's a product. Poo-Pourri. Have you seen that product? No, I've seen the one VIPoo. It's the same. It's the same. Poo-Pourri and VIPoo. I reckon the people who came up with Poo-Pourri, VIPoo and Lot It's the same. It's the same. Poo-pourri and VI Poo. I reckon the people who came up with Poo-pourri, VI Poo and Lotado,

they're all working for the same marketing company. Ella, do you have anything that you convince people of pretending to like? Maybe it's because I'm salty. I wasn't there. But festival photos on Instagram. Festival photos? You don't think people like festival photos? No.

I feel like everyone's pretending. Oh, yeah, lovely. Nice to see that you're having a great time. Don't care. You don't think people like festival photos? No, I feel like everyone's pretending. Oh, yeah, lovely. Nice to see that you're having a great time. Don't care. I don't care. But don't you think the people are posting their festival photos for themselves? Who's doing that? As their own memory?

Yeah, but we're all pretending to enjoy it, but we don't care. Ella's pretty salty. She got COVID at a campground over summer. She's not happy about it. No, I'm sure. A few texts coming through. A lot of people saying that they're with me on the sparkling water stuff. I reckon it could be a gene.

Some people are saying, I'm with you, Bree. Sparkling water. Bloody hate the stuff. Someone else said, I hate it too. Sparkling water tastes like fizzy salt. I agree. You get salt out of it. Maybe you need to replace your bottles. Someone else said it tastes

like static. I feel the same way about all those seltzers. You know how everyone has got a seltzer now and it's like, it's got a whiff of watermelon in it and then there's some vodka in it and the rest is just sparkling water. Yeah. I'm convinced people, if you're

saying those are your favourite drink, I reckon people are lying. You reckon people are pretending. I reckon you're pretending. Pretending to like it. You just missed the taste of a full vodka cruiser, but you know it's not good for you, so you can't drink it. I hear what you're saying. Someone else said coconut water. Convinced people

are liking that. Avocado. Green, weird, mushy, nothing. I mean, they've got a point, but guac is elite. But they do have a point. Someone said even flavoured sparkling water is trash. They never put much flavour in it, do they? Yeah, I'm so glad there's people out there who agree with me. I just can't get around it.

Let's open it right up. The phone lines are open now on 0800 dials at M or you can keep texting them into 9696. We want to know the thing that you're convinced that other people are pretending to like. They can't possibly like it. It can be anything. It can be food based. It can be

exercise based. It can be music. It can be movies, TV shows. Justin Bieber. I think it's a conspiracy. Bieber-ceracy. We're talking about things you reckon people are pretending to enjoy because I'm convinced people pretend

to like sparkling water but for me it tastes terrible, I don't like it and people are just on the bandwagon. I'm convinced people pretend to like Love Island just so they can talk to their friends who watch Love Island and they go, oh yeah, I'm't like it and people are just on the bandwagon. I'm convinced people pretend to like Love Island just so they can talk to their friends who watch Love Island and they go, oh yeah, I'm definitely watching it. Yeah, I love it. I love it.

It's great. Someone texted in and said I'm convinced people are pretending to like Taylor Swift's music. It makes me gag. She seems all good though. I can't call in because I'll get death threats from the Swifties. It's good that you know that. Well, you know.

Let's go to Keenan on 0800 dials at M. Hi, Keenan. Hi, Keenan. Hello, how are you going? Good, thanks, mate. Tell us, what are you convinced people are pretending to enjoy? So I'm kind of with you on the sparkling water thing, but I think it's because it's refreshing, but lifestyle blocks.

And I might be calling out Vaughan on this one a little bit too, but the maintenance and the work. And then if you own animals, like sheep and stuff, you've got to dock them and you've got to treat them and stuff. No, they hate it. Too much work. I know what you're saying. The lifestyle is...

This is literally Vaughan that we're talking about. The lifestyle you're signing up for is work, isn't it? Yeah. It's a lot of work. You've got a point, Keenan. You've got a point. But not as much work as a farm, but that work could sustain you and give you an income.

A lifestyle block is like all the work and none of the income. Yeah, it's true. It's very true. Good take, Keenan. We appreciate it. Thanks, ma'am. Thanks, Keenan. Someone texted her and said,

Hey, guys, I think people pretend to enjoy the NRL during the state of origin, and it annoys me because you can't just join the party for three days of the year and ignore the rest of the footy season. You either commit or go away. Up the Canberra Raiders and New South Wales, baby. Sorry, Mama Di. So that person does like the league, but they don't like other people pretending to like the thing that they like.

Yes. They don't like the bandwagoners is what they're saying. This is a good text. Someone said, I think people pretend to like beer. I think it's all disgusting. And I'm a Southland farmer. I'm meant to have beer in my veins. I mean, it's like that ad where the guy's sitting around and he brings beer.

Canadian Club. Yeah, and he goes, oh, I don't really like this. And she goes, why do you bring it? And he goes, oh, because everyone else drinks it. I thought I had to. Yeah, he goes, I thought I had to drink this. Let's go to Katrina on 0800 DALES. Hi, Katrina.

Hi, Katrina. Hello. Hi. Tell us, mate, what are you convinced people are pretending to enjoy? Well, there's a lot, but the main ones are hummus and beetroot. And then there's chilli. There's just no way you like beetroot. Wait, wait, wait.

Did you say hummus and beetroot? Yeah, yeah. You're convinced that people are pretending to enjoy hummus, beetroot and chilli? Yeah, yeah. I've heard of the anti-beetroot crowd before. They've referred to beetroot as red dirt. It tastes like red dirt. Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah. Katrina, it is literally the moist maker in a burger. No, no. I put it down in dietary requirements for weddings. Like, no beetroot. No beetroot. No beet dietary requirements for weddings. Like no beetroot. No beetroot. No beetroot. Your dietary requirement is no beetroot.

Thanks, Katrina. We appreciate it. I believe people are pretending to like whiskey. I know some people would genuinely enjoy it and develop a taste for it, but I'm convinced that most people hate it and just drink it to seem sophisticated and manly. It tastes like mildew smells. I kind of agree with him. Whiskey.

Yeah, I kind of agree. But I do believe people do develop a taste and will genuinely like it, but most people are like, oh. Bad whiskey tastes bad. Oh, here we go. You're one of them. Well, if I could educate you on whiskey for a second,

actually, yeah. Sheila's here on our 800 dials at M. Hi, Sheila. Hi, Sheila we go. You're one of them. Well, if I could educate you on whiskey for a second, actually. Sheila's here on our 800 dials to dim. Hi, Sheila. Hi, Sheila. Hi. Tell us, mate, what are you convinced people are pretending to enjoy? Energy drinks. Energy drinks?

You think people are faking it? Oh, my God. You know, I've had a colonoscopy before, and the bowel prep you have to take for that tastes better. They're absolutely disgusting. If you need caffeine, have a damn coffee. Have a coffee. I see what you're saying, Sheila.

I feel like there's definitely some energy drinks that I definitely can't get around. They taste a bit like medicine, don't you reckon, Sheila? Oh, I don't know what they taste like, but it's nothing from this earth. That colonoscopy thing was such a good call. Thank you, Sheila. What are people pretending to like? Someone said asparagus rolls.

Look, look, give asparagus rolls a chance. I know on the face of them they seem disgusting. I love them. There's something magical about an asparagus roll. When they're done right. It needs to be soggy. Floppy asparagus. Yeah.

And white bread with the crusts cut off. Chia bread is like real good with it. Chia bread asparagus. Yeah. And white bread with the crusts cut off. Chia bread is like real good with it. Chia bread? Yeah. Okay. Has little chia seeds through it. Okay. Someone texted her and said, my partner is driving, but he is desperate for me to text

in and tell you that he's convinced everyone pretends to like pickles. He said he's destroyed many dinner parties with the theory that McDonald's has influenced people to like them. I couldn't disagree more. I couldn't disagree more either. I love pickles. Pickles are great. I was drinking pickle juice last night. But you probably wouldn't have liked them.

I reckon McDonald's has influenced people to like them more, yes. Yeah. But, I mean, pickles on their own are great. I love that you think there's a pickle, your partner thinks there's a pickle conspiracy. And he starts the conversation. And the whole world is in on it, and he's the only one who can see the light.

And he's starting conversations at dinner parties about it. Well, there you go. You're not alone if there is something you hate. Hopefully there's someone in there that you're related to. Someone else said oysters. I have to agree. Bree and Clint. Right now we're playing Google Down.

Do you feel lucky? Well, do you? It's time for Bree and Clint's Google Down. Punk. A game where we endeavour to find out who is the fastest Googler and they're playing for you. So if you have texted through Clint, Claudia or Ella, then stick around.

You could pick up 50 KFC chicken dollars. Here's how it works. I've put these exact questions into Google and I'm looking for the most common or the first answer that comes up for these questions. If you yell it out first, you'll receive a point. First of three points wins the game. Are we ready to play? We are. And I just want to say, so that it's a level playing field.

Yes. I've got a brand new phone. Oh. Like, brand new phone. Okay. Brand new phone. It's a week old. Cool.

Do you know how to use it? This might go in our favour, to be honest. She burnt you bad, man. I've got a 5G connection. Oh, no, I'm on the 5G. Just update it. Get off 5G. Thank you.

And I have some very fat thumbs. Let's do this thing. Let's do this thing. Okay, producer Ella's first game back of Google down as well. Let's see. I've prepared for this all summer. What she's got. Question number one.

What was the highest grossing film in the year 1998? Titanic. Clint's out. Did you all say Titanic? Well, cooch, cooch, hot, hot, hi. Armageddon. Claudia. Everyone said the wrong answer and then Claudia said the right answer,

so I'm giving it to Claudia. Armageddon. That was really weird. What year did the Titanic come out? 1998. Hey, was there points for that one? Well, that was the answer when I typed that question into Google. That's wild because Titanic did $600 million

and Armageddon did 201 million. I'll take the point though. Thank you very much. Next question. That's weird. I wrote that question a while ago. The goal of the game is to find the answer that Brie got. So we carry on.

Well, it's you. I'm very usually like wrong. Like not usually wrong. You're very usually wrong. Stop. You guys are getting in my head. I'm not playing. You guys are playing. I'm going to check this afterwards. Question number two.

Who wrote the musical Rent? Yeah, that's what happened. Jonathan Larson. Nice work, Claudia. I love Tick Tick Boom. I'm so gutted. Jonathan Larson is correct. Wrote the musical Rent. Claudia, off to a flyer with two.

Question number three. One questionable. When was the first FDA-approved Botox? 1989, December 29th. Oh, Ella was stumbling all over it. I've got to give it to Clint. 1989 was the first year that FDA approved Botox. All right, two to Claudia, one to Clint.

Question number four. Which animal that is still alive is the closest living relative to the dinosaurs? Chicken. Claudia, I'm going to have to give it to you because it is birds and chicken is a bird. She's taken out Google Down this afternoon, which means, Becky, you've picked up 50 KFC chicken dollars.

Awesome. I had never had any doubt she'd pick it. Yes. She's back again. Claudia takes out Google Down this week. Anyone but Clint. This is a brand. Oh, God. This is a brand new phone, guys.

This is a brand new phone. It might take you a few weeks. Yeah. It might take you a few weeks. Still bringing it in. Well done, Becky. We'll get that 50 bucks. Nice work, Becky. KFC Jigging Dollars out to you.

Bree and Clint. Albert Cho is the man behind Eat Lit Foods. His content is so good. We love his Instagram, his TikTok. We've actually had him on the show before. He judged your Nona's tiramisu before. He gave it a thumbs up. Did give it a thumbs up.

He's made news this week after opening up about his addiction to cosmetic procedures. And he joined us on the phone to talk about it now. Hi, Albie. G'day, Albie. Hello. Hello. Love that video that you made about talking openly and honestly about the procedures that you said you had become addicted to.

What specifically were you getting done for people who haven't seen it? I was getting filler on my nose, bring it higher, filler on my cheeks to even out the nose that became higher from the filler before, elongating my chin with more filler, and then getting some Botox in my forehead. Oh, my God. So you were getting a bit injected into your face, Albie. Well, I went in just for my cheeks,

but then the surgeon was like, is that all you're going to get? And I was like, what do you want me to get? Really? They upsold you? Yeah, they upsold me to the max. Oh, my God. Okay, so lots of people do this. Why was it They upsold you? Yeah, they upsold me to the max. Oh, my God. Why? Okay, so lots of people do this.

Why was it a problem for you? It was a problem for me because I ended up being in a vicious cycle because not only do you have a warped perception of yourself because of the mental side of cosmetic surgery, but physically you actually do start needing more and more filler because your face starts to deflate. So to fill that back up, you actually need it. So it's basically, it's actually pretty genius marketing, if you ask me.

But I fell into it. You talked about it because actually when you put stuff in there, it actually stretches your skin. And then if you don't go and get more, you get saggy, baggy-ass face skin that needs to be pumped up with more stuff, right? Yeah. So I think that's what a lot of people don't realise, that when your skin is suddenly plumped up with a foreign substance,

it's a real shock to your skin because it stretches. Yeah. And then it creates a need to having to fill that extra stretched out skin more and more. Yeah. Albie, you say in the video that lockdown was the thing that kind of broke the cycle for you. Do you get anything done like these days? No, I don't touch my face anymore.

I think I really need to give myself a break because I started so young. I started when I was 19. Wow. Yeah, I think I just need to... Your face is still like finding its final form at 19. You know, like you haven't even lost, most people haven't even lost their puppy fat

or anything like that at 19. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I see a lot of young kids doing it these days, especially on TikTok. It's such a casual thing now. It's in their daily routine. That's why I liked your video so much. What would you say to those kids, Albie,

if they're listening, if they're thinking about, you thinking about getting filler or Botox? I just think right now kids look at a certain type of beauty with very specific facial features and that's what they strive for but that face doesn't work for everyone. You have

your own face for a reason. People are getting rid of the natural qualities that they already hold to attain a certain level of beauty that's not necessarily right for you. Yeah. Instead of like fitting into this prescribed beauty, you kind of should find your own. You're growing up.

As you said, your face is changing all the time. A lot of those photos and pictures and things like that are unrealistic and aren't real anyway. A lot of them are retouched, right? Yeah, a lot of them photos and pictures and things like that are unrealistic and aren't real anyway. A lot of them are retouched, right? Yeah, a lot of them are retouched. And so kids, you know, look on social media or ads or movies and they think, I want to look like that. But it's actually not realistic. Whereas a lot of the photos that Albie shared in his video were not retouched.

And boy, it was brave of you to share some of those photos. Because you went to a dark place with some of that cosmetic stuff. My dad said I looked like an electric fan. Huge face and a tiny body. Oh God. Good on you, can I say, for being so upfront and honest.

It's not easy to do, especially these days, but I just applaud you for that, Albie. Thank you. How's the restaurant going, by the way? You're in charge of a whole ass restaurant on Ponsonby Road these days, but I just applaud you for that, Albie. Thank you. How's the restaurant going, by the way? You're in charge of a whole-ass restaurant on Ponsonby Road these days. Yeah. It's called Toby, and there's that little plug, but it's going good. It's going

good. I'm so keen. Very busy, which is a good blessing to have. That's the one. I'm so keen to come in there for a look. Please do. Yeah, we will. We definitely will, won't we, Clint? There you go. That's Eat Your Lip Food. Albie, we appreciate your time. Thanks, man, and congratulations on the big life change and the video and all the honesty. It's so refreshing.

Thanks, mate. Thank you, guys. Bree and Clint. Bree, you got insurance at the moment, or are you just still winging it? Nah, mate. Finally am full-blown adulting. Yeah.

Got insurance for everything. I feel like I've got insurance For my My bum at this point Well do you? Do you have health insurance? Oh that's the one I don't have Have you got life insurance? Nah Have you got

House insurance? Yep Have you got contents insurance? Yep Have you got vehicle insurance? Yep I have three out of five We're getting there

We're getting there I can't believe the one that you literally didn't have. Oh, wait, wait. You asked me this one more. Have you got pet insurance? Sure do. Yeah, nice. As long as your pet's bum is insured.

Then I'm good to go. What's going to go wrong with yours? No, I really need to get onto the life insurance thing, I think. Well, they do fix your bum for free. They don't fix a dog's bum for free. Well, that's the thing. State Insurance has released its list of the weirdest insurance claims of 2023. I'm so interested in this.

And there is some weird stuff in there, so let's have a quick look at them. Someone claimed for crashing their car into their neighbour's garage because their jandal got wrapped around the accelerator pedal in their car. I can see that happening. You shouldn't drive in jandals, eh? Being an adult is knowing you shouldn't drive their jandle got wrapped around the accelerator pedal in their car. I can see that happening. You shouldn't drive in jandles, eh? Being an adult is knowing you shouldn't drive in jandles. You shouldn't, but we do. Like, oh, should you drive in Birkenstocks?

Same problem, I think. Just kick them off. Just kick them off. Nah, I reckon Birkenstocks... Kick them off, slip them under the seats. ...more sturdy. It's like the sturdy version. If it doesn't have a strap on the back That it's a risk

The sport strap Yeah Crocs are fine if they're in sport mode Yeah right One customer's vehicle was hit by a dog driving another van Wait what? The dog managed to release the handbrake in a van And the van rolled backwards down a driveway

And it smashed into a car parked on the other side of the road. But all the person saw was a dog in the driver's seat as this van ploughed into their car. So they said to ring their insurance company and go, what happened? Well, a dog hit me. That's amazing. A tradie had to claim after loading all their tools

into the back of the ute at the end of the day and then forgetting to close the tailgate on the ute, they drove home and none of their tools were still in the back of the ute when they got home. Can you imagine? It was like Hansel and Gretel, but they left behind a bunch of power tools. Makita power tools. Yeah.

With that one, I always go, that's devastating, but you're going to get new tools. Oh, man, it's a good point. Get new tools. Yeah. One customer claimed for their stolen teeth. They took their false teeth out at a cafe and they slipped them into the pocket of their jacket

and then they ate their meal. And while they were at the cafe, they went to the toilet. And when they came back, someone had stolen their jacket off the back of the seat and inadvertently stolen their teeth. I was going to say, who steals a pair of fake teeth? But that makes sense. Take my jacket, not my teeth.

Must have been a nice jacket. Yeah. Who steals a jacket off the back of a seat? Who puts their teeth in their pocket? Well, I guess we can't comment because we don't have fake teeth, so we don't know. But the whole idea of false teeth is that you would eat with them too. Isn't that why you get false teeth? My nan used to have false teeth and she used to eat with hers.

But then she used to take them out when she wanted to scare us. Same. Yeah, it was creepy. When she wanted to scare the grandkids. She looked like that character from Futurama. Oh, the lobster-looking one. The lobster one. And one customer's pet peacock climbed in the window of their bathroom,

and when it saw itself in the mirror, the peacock attacked the rival peacock that it could see, which was, of course, itself. And broke the mirror. Causing significant damage to this person's bathroom. But I mean, this is a risk you take when you get a peacock, right? Peacocks can be wild.

I wonder if you have to have special peacock insurance when you get a peacock. Pet insurance, yeah. I wonder how much it costs to insure a peacock. Yeah, I wonder. And do the males cost more than the females because you know they like to peacock around. They've got all the feathers and shit. They're more likely to knock a vase off a shelf when they walk through your house.

What do you reckon a peacock sounds like? I don't know. I'm pretty sure. Does it sound like a turkey? We had neighbours. Claudia, quickly find a peacock sound effect. When I say neighbours, like they live so far away from us, but they had peacocks and used to hear them from like miles away

and I'm pretty sure it sounded like this. Coo! Coo! Something like that. God, that wouldn't get annoying, would it? It was quite annoying. Claudia, how are we doing at the peacock desk? You managed to find anything for us?

I feel like Bree crushed it. Did I? Hold on, I'll find you something. Give me one second. It's quite a haunting sound. Really? Yeah. If you don't know what it is.

In the still of the morning. Yeah. You're like, what is that? And a peacock starts coming through. What the hell is that? Any luck? I want to see if I'm right now. One, two, six.

One second. Let's try this. Oh, here, six. One second. Let's try this. Oh, here we go. That one's in labour. Not bad. There it is. And they do that to each other. Oh, there you go.

For hours. Katy Perry got it so wrong. What's that? Like, she didn't put any of that in her song, Peacock. Oh, there were no Peacock sound effects in the song, yeah. Well, ensure you're Peacock's, everybody. Bree and Clint. Bree and Clint. All I want for my birthday is a birthday banger.

Time to get birthday banging for a Wednesday. Number one songs when you turn 16. Let's start with Bella on 0800 Dials at M. Hi, Bella. G'day, Bella. Hi. How's your week been so far, mate? Oh, pretty hot.

Pretty hot. Whereabouts are you? I'm in Christchurch. Oh, has it been real hot in Christchurch? It's scorching down there, eh? Very. Yeah, it was 42 degrees in my kitchen on Friday. You're kidding me. Have you got air con? Oh, yeah, but degrees in my kitchen on Friday. You're kidding me.

Have you got air con? Oh, yeah, but it's a kitchen. It's not going to work, obviously. Yeah. Well, you know what they say, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Into a cooler room. Hey, Bella, what's your birthday, mate?

25th of April, 2004. All right, that means you were 16 in 2020, Bella. And let me take you back to your 16th with this one. Go right foot up, left foot slide, left foot up, right foot slide.

Basically, I'm saying... Some Drake. Some lockdown era Drake. Tussie Slide. What do you reckon? Oh, my gosh. Oh, that takes me so much back to lockdown. Does it? Yeah. I think it was, it was big on TikTok,

wasn't it Bella? It was huge on TikTok. Yeah. I even did it on TikTok. Oh, you did the dance. Mate, we had a lot of spare time.

Everyone was doing it. Lockdown was the best thing for TikTok, eh? Yeah. Like it blew it, blew it the hell up. Okay, wait there Bella,

we're going to do Angie's birthday banger. Hi Angie. Hi Angie. Yeah. Like it blew it the hell up. Okay, wait there, Bella. We're going to do Angie's birthday banger. Hi, Angie. Hi, Angie. Hi. How's your day been, mate? Fabulous. Oh, why so good? Oh, I won't tell, but it's been really good.

Oh. Oh, now I really want to know. Can you give us just a one-word hint? Self-care. Self-care. Self-care. I like that. I like it, Angie. Say no more.

And now we'll let everyone's imaginations run wild. Yeah, sorry about that. Well, if she can't say, it involves self-care. To find the time. Anyway, Angie, what's your date of birth? 29th of March, 1980. All right, mate, you were 16 in 1996. And on that day, this was at the top.

Every drunk person's favourite song. Banger from Oasis, Wonderwall. Do you like it, Angie? Yeah, it was a good one. Yeah, it was. Because he sings how drunk people sing. It's a great one. It's the perfect song.

Is that my boo? Okay, wait there, Angie. Love it. We're going to do one more birthday banger for Lucy. Kia ora, Lucy. Hi, Luce. Lucy. Hi.

There she is. Whereabouts in the country are you, Lucy? I'm near Timaru. Oh, Lucy. Hi, Luce. Lucy. Hi. There she is. Whereabouts in the country are you, Lucy? I'm near Timaru. Oh, lovely. Okay, well, thanks for calling through. What's the weather been like? Is it hot there? Oh, no, it's a bit cloudy here.

Okay, good. I'm glad we're tuning in to our official weather girl. Close to Timaru. For near Timaru, not Timaru. For near Timaru. Because it doesn't get talked about on the news enough. No, they don't update near Timaru enough. Exactly.

Hey, Lucy, what's your... No, they don't. No, they don't. See, Lucy, she's up in arms about it. What's your date of birth, Lucy? 19th of April, 2005. All right. She was 16 in 2021.

And Lucy, this is your birthday banger. Tune. Little Nas X. The song's called Montero. Do you like it, Lucy? Yeah, it's good. Yeah, I think it's a great birthday banger. That song was huge for him, wasn't it? Huge. I am not going to vote for that, though,

because I think you still hear it pretty regularly on the radio. I agree. Still a big song. I am going to vote for Oasis, though. Me too. Are you? Yes! Are you joking?

It's Oasis, Wonderwall. Well, you weren't going to vote for Tussie Slide, were you? No. Hey, Angie, on your self-care day of bliss, you've also just won birthday banger. Yay, thank you. God, everything's coming up, Angie, isn't it? What a climactic end to your day, Angie.

Oh, good on you, Angie. See you, babe. It's going to be the day that they're going to throw it back to you. Bree and Clint. Zed and Bree and Clint. The winner of Birthday Banger today for Angie. From 1996, that's Oasis and Wonderwall. Someone texting, yay, millennials. That's a great song.

That's a great song. Doesn't feel like something that would have come out in 1996. Yeah. That's ages ago. Or like early 2000s. Yeah. Anyway, it's a classic. It's a great birthday banger. So well done, Angie. There's a woman that has posted a video online. Her name's Layla and it's quite an awkward situation. So here's what went down. She said she got carried away while booking flights before checking that she had enough leave to travel.

Oh, okay. Enough leave, annual leave for work. Annual leave at her job, yeah. She said rather than using a day of her precious holiday time to travel, she did the decent thing and pulled a sickie. Yeah, okay. So that's what's happened. Don't pretend you haven't done it. She messaged her boss to call in sick.

That was all good. They said, no worries. She gets on her flight and who is on the flight? Her boss. Oh, what are the chances? Her boss is a couple of rows. I think maybe six rows in front of her. But she spots him straight away and goes, oh, no, this situation,

not a good time. Nah. She's then put on a mask, sunglasses and a hat and a scarf. Like Carmen Sandiego. For the entire flight to try and avoid being seen. Isn't it weird that you can still recognise someone when they've got a mask and sunglasses on? Like it's so weird.

It's the hair, I reckon. It must be something about their entire like silhouette. Their mannerisms. That your brain is like, I know that person. Yeah. Whereas you think you're recognising their face. It's just everything. She wouldn't have enjoyed a second of that flight. She wouldn, I know that person. Yeah. Whereas you think you're recognising their face. It's just everything. She wouldn't have enjoyed a second of that flight.

She wouldn't have been able to. Nah, she wouldn't have been able to relax. But, oh, man. Get away with it? I'm pretty sure she did. Oh, sweet. She said, I think it was the full PPE disguise that got me through. You've got to commit, eh?

If your boss is like, Brie, what are you doing in here? I thought you were sick. You've gotta be like, me no speak English. Me no comprehend. My name is Mrs. Inglesias. Me no Brie. Mrs. Inglesias. Ah, sorry.

Mrs. Inglesias. Have you ever been caught doing a singing before? Kind of. When I worked at this pub as a bartender slash waitress for a long time and I'd put in my leave for this particular weekend and then it got approved and then maybe a week out, the boss comes to me and says, I didn't approve that leave. It was the other manager and you can't have that night off because of this, this and this

reason. We had too many people off. You have to work. And I said, and I, at the time, I think I did get a little bit like, why? That's not fair. Got approved. It's my leave. Anyway, eventually, I was just like, okay.

And then I called in sick. On the day. On the day. And I'll never forget it because I was at this party and it was a good friend of mine's party and I get this phone call and I'd had a few, I'd had a few shandies by that stage and I've accidentally answered it because I was just like, oh, who's that going to be?

And it was my boss. And I was like, hello. And he's like, where are you? And I was like, I'm at a party. Where are you? He's like, I'm at work. Don't come back. You're fired.

Did he fire you? Yeah, fired me. And to be honest, my time there was done. He's like, I'm at work. Don't come back. You're fired. Did he fire you? Yeah, fired me. Oh. And to be honest, my time there was done. It sounds like a toxic work environment, babes. You're better off. You're better off. Technically, I don't think he fired me.

I just never went back. Because it's too awkward? Yeah. Yeah, that's a good way to leave a job. Yeah. That's why your hospitality career never worked out. You know what, though? I've done my time.

I feel like... You're ready for something else. I was ready for something different. I was going back to uni. It was all good. It was fun. Let's take caution, people who got caught out on their sickie this afternoon. When did you chuck a sickie and it blew up in your face?

Yeah. Maybe someone knocked on you. Maybe your boss caught you. I don't know. Maybe you said, oh, I can't come in your face. Yeah. Maybe someone knocked on you. Maybe your boss caught you. I don't know. Maybe you said, oh, I can't come in. Grandma's died. And then six months later when Grandma died. Oh, no.

You had to be like, oh, I've got good news and bad news. Good news, she came back to life. Bad news is she died again. You always pick a relative that has already passed away. That is the key. Ah, okay. Then you don't have that problem. Or also, can you call maybe you were the person that caught someone out in a sickie lie?

Yeah, definitely. 0800 dials at M or you can text us on 9696. You can remain anonymous. Brian Clint. So we want to know, have you been busted pulling a sickie before? Emerus is here. Hi, Emerus. How's it going? We're know, have you been busted pulling a sickie before? Emerus is here. Hi, Emerus. How's it going?

We're good, thank you. Tell us, mate, did you chuck a sickie and get caught in the lie? Yeah, I don't know if I got caught, but I had a, I just wanted to have a day off when I was a young fella. And I ended up saying that my already passed away grandfather had passed away. You used Bree's advice, got to use a dead one. Yep. Yeah, yeah. And my apprentice managed to bring in the eulogy from the funeral. So of course it was

a fake funeral. So I ended up spending my entire day that I was supposed to be relaxing on the computer trying to make up a fake funeral, so I ended up spending my entire day that I was supposed to be relaxing on the computer trying to make up a fake eulogy. Making a... Oh, you poor bugger, Emerus. No, I can just imagine how panicked you would have been. Did you head down to

Officeworks and print out... We are stationary. I had to go on Google and find a photo of like an old person and I went in like the Tauranga newspaper to find a date. Wait, wait, you didn't even use an actual photo of your dead grandfather? Nah, no way, I didn't have one. That would be sacrilegious.

How long had he been dead? Oh, yeah, like 10 years. Oh, right. He was well gone. So there wasn't a copy of the funeral program lying around. Everest, he was well gone. He was well gone. So there wasn't a copy of the funeral program lying around. Emerus, he was well gone. He was well gone.

I had to make like a pretty little border on it and come up with some songs. You committed, man. I would have just gone, no, I won't be doing that. I'm grieving. Thank you very much.

And then hung up. Yeah, it was the most stressful day. And did he buy it, Emerus? He did. He looked at it it, Emerus? He did. He looked at it and he ended up pulling it off. I'd be so stoked, though, Emerus, when you hand it over and you're like, yeah, suck all that. Wait till my already dead grandma dies next month.

Let's go to Amber on 0800 dials at M. Hi, Amber. Hi, Amber. Hi. Tell us who pulled a sickie and got caught in the lie. Oh, it's a good one. So, um, I called him sick to work and, um, one of the girls mentioned that they had seen

him on Snapchat in Hamilton Town. Okay. Okay. So we kind of like followed him around on Snap Maps for a little bit and then I went quite far and I managed to text our head chef to see, because he knew the guy, to see if he had his mum's number. Yeah.

Right. And so I got this kid's mum's number and just texted her and was like, hey, like, just checking if so-and-so's feeling better. Like, really sorry that he's sick. And she rang me and was like, what do you mean he's sick? He's at work. And I was like, oh, no, he called in sick today. And he's in Hamilton with his friends.

We've seen him on SnapMap. So she drove all the way to Hamilton, picked him up, he called in sick today. And he's in Hamilton with his friends. We've seen him on Snap Map. So she drove all the way to Hamilton, picked him up, and dropped him back into work. Amber, you mega-knock. You went all the way to his parents. I know. I know. It was next level.

But he'd done it a few times, and we were just a little bit over it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fair. Oh, can you imagine? I can't. Can you imagine Amber calls up his mum? That's a boss move. That is.

A literal boss move. A literal boss move. Yeah, it was. You're ruthless, Ava. I would miss far out. Someone texted through and said, I work in HR, so I've seen heaps of these. There was a person who called in with back issues

and then posted a photo on Facebook on a jet boat. There was also a guy who said his mum had died. His boss took around flowers and his mum answered the door. You can't say your mum's died if your mum hasn't died. You can't say your mum's died. I caught in sick.

It's an auntie. Say an auntie's died. I caught in sick on New Year's Day about 13 years ago and my boss sent me to alcohol counselling. Oh, no. Oh, no. My sister took a sickie and went out for lunch. The place that she went, all of the team leaders from her work

were having a lunch too, including her team leader. Got it. Someone else said I faked a sickie and spent the whole day at home, relaxing, doing absolutely nothing. The next day I went into the office and my boss said to me, oh, you look terrible. You must have been real sick. What a way to boost my confidence.

This person wants to be anonymous. Anonymous, your husband tried to pull a sickie. Yeah, yeah, that wasn't me on this one. It was a few years ago now, but we wanted to go up the mountain snowboarding, and so he called in for like a Monday sickie, and all going well until about midday, and his boss called him up wanting to use the work car,

and she said, it'll be fine, we'll just come around and pick it up from your house. And we were three hours away on a chairlift up the mountain with the work car. With the work car. Oh, no. Yeah, you can use the work car. That's fine. You just need to collect it from the top car park at Mount Ruapehu.

Yeah, yeah, no problem. Oh, God. So what happened? So he just had to, yeah, he had to fess up pretty quickly and she wasn't too happy. She was pretty surly about it. Do you reckon the boss actually wanted to borrow the car or just had a sniff that there was a lie going on

and so used that as the hook to find out? No, it was pretty legitimate because they had two work cars and the other one was in getting some repairs. And so it was normally his car, he could take it home and personally it was fine but they did need to use it for one occasion.

The one day that he's ever done anything. Oh, the poor guy. I feel bad for him. I bet it would have been the fastest run of the day, though, once you got off that chairlift. Straight back down the mountain.

Well, make sure you use your sick days, everybody. You've got them for a reason. You can't cash them in at the end and they expire, so you might as well use them. Just get better at your excuses. My advice, the less detail, the better. Yeah, keep it simple. I don't feel well.

I'm not coming in today. Explosive diarrhea. Full stop. Ladies, keep it simple. I don't feel well. I'm not coming in today. Explosive diarrhea. Full stop. Ladies problems. Yep. Your male boss will never ask another question if you just say women's things. He'll go, take all the time you need. Please don't text me. Why do

men freak out so much? It's honestly like you've told them that there's a snake in their boot That there's a bomb they need to defuse And they're like, full panic, full panic I knew I shouldn't have hired all these women What?

Brianne Clint I can't remember if it was yesterday or the day before We were talking about the list that staff released Talking about the best and worst email sign-offs Oh yeah, I think it was the spin-off. Oh, the spin-off. Sorry, the spin-off. Excuse me.

Great article talking about the best and worst ones, and then you and I were coming up with different email sign-offs. I don't necessarily agree with it. They said that just your initial is the best way to end an email. I don't like it. Thanks, B. That'd be yours. Mine would be, thanks, C.

Sounds like I'm swearing at you. Yeah, not ideal. Thanks, C. Not ideal. Anyway, off the back of us talking about it, one of our podcast listeners posted in our podcast family page on Facebook, and I thought the story was very funny and we should share it. Sure. So Sean on the

Brian Clint Podcast family page said following on from the chat about how to end an email I set my phone's name to the C word. Oh. So when I asked Siri for my name it would say hello. C word. C word. Little did I asked Siri for my name, it would say, hello. C word. C word. Little did I know, my phone automatically signed my emails sent from C word. I sent off loads of emails at the time because I was trying to get work and I got a reply from a potential job informing me that my emails

are signed off with this bad word. That would explain failed job attempts. Oh, my God. You had no idea. That's brilliant. Because we've all done something like that before. You're like, oh, this will be funny.

Watch this. And then you forget to change it back. What a dumb C word. Oh, God, Sean. Your emails wouldn't even get through to everybody because it would filter it out to spam because it's got an expletive in it. God, I love that story. You really shot yourself in the spot.

Can you imagine Sean when he's realised? Gutted. Have you been emailing, like, your family members or your mum? Just everyone just being like, what is this guy up to? Anyway. I guess ending an email on just your initial, not so bad. Not a bad idea. Not so bad after that.

Brie and Clint. Brie, did you know the country's in the grips of an Apple crisis at the moment, an Apple shortage? I did know, being the Apple expert that I am, I was up to date on the Apple crisis. Brie is the daughter of an apple orchardist and the apple of her father's eye. Cute.

Not me, that's my sister. Oh, yeah, right. I'm more the potato. You're the potato of his pelvis. Yeah, there is no apples at the supermarkets except for those ones in the plastic tube, like the tennis balls. They're weird.

And I am morally opposed to purchasing those. Why would you put them in a plastic thing? They've got a protective skin on them. I hate them so much. I hate the whole concept of them. I see them and they infuriate me. Why are you putting them in plastic? The reason that we have an apple shortage

is that the majority of our apples come from the hawks bay and they got completely munted by cyclone gabriel this time last year did you know that the hawks bay lost 200 000 apple trees this time last year that's so devastating 200 000 those poor people like i can't even imagine. Like, honestly, and the thing about that people don't realise about an apple tree is that, here we go, some apple facts, is that if a tree cops, you know, obviously a really bad storm or a really bad hailstorm, it can take a number of years for them to actually produce fruit again.

They have to go to therapy. They have to go to apple therapy. Sometimes some trees actually produce fruit again. They have to go to therapy. They have to go to apple therapy. Sometimes some trees never produce fruit again if they go through bad trauma. So yeah, that's obviously why we have no apples. This time last year during the hurricane, 24% of the apple harvest was washed out into the Pacific Ocean. Wow.

God, you can't even imagine the livelihood of those people. Literally everything that they have, like all of their money is just washed away. I don't mean to mansplain how apples work to you. Go on. But I actually didn't realise this. This is me sharing a fact that I learnt today. Okay. From February to April is when we harvest all of our apples.

Depending on what variety, yeah. And those are the apples that we eat year round. The apples that we harvest. Have I taught you nothing? How many times? Oh, I'm going to get so mad. Have I taught you nothing over the last five or six years? What have I said to you?

There's no such thing as a bad apple. If it's flowery, it's because you should know this. Because it's old. Yes. Thank God. I was so scared to get that wrong. I felt like I'd been stood up during like a pop quiz in the class and the teacher's like, we've been over this.

Remember I told you it's because. Yeah, you did. Yeah, I just didn't put it two and two together. Just the reason we have no apples is because we ran out. We ate all of our apples that we had. All of our apples were gone in December. And a lot of them obviously washed out and gone. So there wasn't as many.

Yeah, I said that, but. Oh, did you? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Anyway, it's almost over. It's apple harvesting time. So we're about to get some more apples.

Yeah, I can't wait. I can't wait. All right, that's Apple Chat. Okay, you're lucky you got that right. I know. Very lucky. Sweating bullets. Bree and Clint.

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Go get them right now. I'm always so interested to get messages because there's people from around the world that listen to the podcast. And remember how I was saying to you, a woman named Hannah, who's from the UK, messaged me the other day on Instagram and she's back in 2019 listening. Oh my God, we haven't back in 2019 listening. Oh, my God. We haven't even got COVID yet. No.

So she said it's so weird listening, you know, from the 2019. She's like, because I'm going to listen all the way through. Yeah. And I said, what stage are you at? Like, what's happening? And she said, currently, I'm in the Hot Mess Express era. Oh, we're DJing. Yeah, and she said, I can't wait to see how it turns out.

So she doesn't know. Like, she's listening. Wow. Like, way back then. And I was like, mate, wait till you get to the Friday Oki era. God, shit's about to get real grim, too. We're about to go into lockdown for a very, very long time. I probably should message her back and say to skip, like, all of 2020.

Yeah. Can I go back and skip all of 2020? I wish we could. That was a nothing year. Like that Adam Sandler movie? Click. When he's got the remote and he fast forwards his life and then he finds out at the end

that he's missed all the important parts of his life. That movie's so sad. It's got a good message though. It does have a great message. Life is in the detail. Detail. The small things are the big things. Live

in the moment, not for what's next. Live, laugh, love. Yeah, boy. Alright, no, no, we'll leave, it's okay. Yeah, we'll leave now. See you tomorrow Bye Bye