ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM's Bree & Clint Podcast - 24th March 2025

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:27 plasback.co.nz You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZM's Brian Clint, the podcast. ZM's Brian Clint. Cheers to Max, available on Neon. Stream now from just $12.99 a month.
Starting point is 00:00:44 What happens at 3pm? Stays at 3pm. Stream now from just $12.99 a month. Hi, everybody. We're back. Did you miss us? Hi, we're back. Hi. It's been two whole days. Did you miss us?
Starting point is 00:01:05 Good weekend? Yeah, great weekend. God, the weather was on whole days. Did you miss us? Good weekend? Yeah, great weekend. God, the weather was on, wasn't it? Mm-hmm. Weather was on. Mm-hmm. What else did I do? I went and played tennis. Did you? Had a hit of tennis. Okay. Which was quite fun. I don't think you're a tennis person. Tennis or pickleball? Tennis. Yeah, right. Yeah, just
Starting point is 00:01:22 went down to the local free courts. Have you got the ankles for that? Follow left and right. You know, a lot of side to side. We're not that hardcore. Oh, okay. So, yeah, my main best part of my game might be my only part is my serve. Right.
Starting point is 00:01:39 And so my tactic is to just ace after ace. You're like, we're not that hard out, but I will ace you on the serve. I did hit quite a few aces yesterday, so that was pretty good. What about you? Good, I survived. I think it might have been my last stag do. What, from all the friends? Yeah, I don't know how many are left, but each one that comes along now,
Starting point is 00:01:57 I'm like, surely this is the last stag do I'm going on. Yeah, right. How many people on there? How many? No, really nice. Just 12 guys who didn't all want to kill each other. It was actually quite an enjoyable stag do. A little bit older now.
Starting point is 00:02:09 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your friend group. So probably as the, you know. I actually want this guy to enjoy his day. Oh, who would have thought? I know. A good friend of mine. You actually want them to have an all right time.
Starting point is 00:02:20 The only crime he's committed is deciding to marry the woman that he loves. Maybe we'll go easy on him. Maybe we'll make sure he has fun today too. So yes, good weekend. Isn't it funny? Like a hen's party. The difference is monumental. The hen is the queen bee. She is the princess.
Starting point is 00:02:40 Everyone just does everything for her. Wants her to have the most incredible day. Whereas the stag do has to have the rule, nothing above the neck, guys. Yeah. No damage to his body above the neck. And hopes that he doesn't end in the hospital. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:54 Wild. Stupid. Wild. Let's get into the show. We are going to play Tradie vs Lady to start it off. If you're keen to play with us, we're looking for you to call right now on 0800-DIAL-ZM. Go on.
Starting point is 00:03:04 The score, the tradies on 18, the ladies on 24. We kick off another week. Give us a call. Play ZM's Bree and Clint. It's tradie versus lady. 3, 2, 1, let's go.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Alright, welcome in, welcome in. Tradie versus lady. We're kicking it off for another week. The score update for the year. The Lady's ahead on 24. The Tradie's on 18. Our Lady is calling from the City of Sales. She's 45, and today is her 13th wedding anniversary. Welcome to the show, Donna.
Starting point is 00:03:38 G'day. How's it going? Donna, did you get any little special gifts? You going out for dinner for the anniversary? My husband's actually cooking. No way. Do you know what little special gifts? Are you going out for dinner for the anniversary? My husband's actually cooking. No way. Do you know what he's making? His signature butter chicken dish.
Starting point is 00:03:52 Love it. Love it. Fun. Well, congratulations, guys. You're taking on our tradie today, also from Auckland. He's 40, and he is the builder that doesn't need a spirit level. Welcome to the show, Ed. Ed, I do recall you playing this game
Starting point is 00:04:07 and we questioned you on whether or not you get it right every time and you said most of the time. It depends how my day went before. So if it was a weekend, I could be off a little bit. Yeah, right. There's a certain part of my kitchen where if you put like a rolling pin on the floor, the rolling pin rolls to the wall and I reckon you may have had a hand in building my house, right. There's a certain part of my kitchen where if you put like a rolling pin on the floor, the rolling pin rolls to the wall. And I reckon you may have had a hand in building my house, Ed.
Starting point is 00:04:29 I may have, yeah. It's a signature, Ed. It's an Ed. Yeah. It's a signature he puts on it. All right. Ed, the lopsided tradie. Your buzzer is tradie.
Starting point is 00:04:40 Donna, your lady, the first of three will win tradie versus lady today. Here we go, guys. Question number one. In what year did the Berlin Wall fall? Was it... Tradie. Yes, Ed. 1980.
Starting point is 00:04:54 1981? I'll continue, and Donna, you get a free shot. These are your multi-choice. 1980, 1989, 1993. I'll go with 89. Well done. It was 1989. Well done.
Starting point is 00:05:11 One to the ladies. Question number two. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond were famous. Freddie. Yes, Ed. Top gear. Well done. That is on the money.
Starting point is 00:05:21 The rest of the question was were famously hosts of which TV show? We're one apiece in this game. Question number three. You would have had to accept the Grand Tour as well, wouldn't you? Yes, technically. If it was which one was better? I mean, oh, hard pick. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:05:38 It's a hard pick. Depends what seasons. Okay, question number three. Buzz in when you can tell me who sings this. And I... Go ahead, let it. Ed just got in there. Celine Dion. Okay, question number three. Buzz in when you can tell me who sings this. Eddie just got in there. Donna, you can swoop in here. Whitney Houston is on the money.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Ed's kicking himself. Sacrilege to get that one wrong on this show, Ed. I know. I'd rather you not use a level. All right, we are two to the ladies, one to the tradies. You need this one here, Ed, to stay in it. Question number four. How many teeth does a typical adult dog have?
Starting point is 00:06:17 Yes, Ed? You know, I should know this because my dog just got some teeth out. So I'm going to say 30. You always buzz in before I give the multi-choice. Such a hard one to guess. And if you had have got that, I would have probably given you multiple points. Okay, here's your multi-choice, Donna, for a free one. 36, 42, 46. Let's go 42.
Starting point is 00:06:48 She's got it. Is that the game? That's the game. He's kicking himself. She's a lady. I like how Ed would try and guess the hardest questions and then Donna would just be like, oh, is it that one? Just throw it up.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Good game, Donna. I'll get you next time. like, oh, is it that one? Just throw it up. Good game, Donna. I'll get you next time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you came in hot with the Berlin Wall, I was like, oh, man knows his history. He knows. You were off by nine years. I know. Yeah, but the 80s were a crazy time.
Starting point is 00:07:18 Am I right, Ed? Oh, yeah. You can see how I'm good with a level that way. Yeah, yeah. Nine years, nine degrees. What's the difference? Call way. Yeah, yeah. Unlucky, Ed. Nine years, nine degrees. What's the difference? Call back for redemption any time. But well done, Donna.
Starting point is 00:07:29 We'll get that 50 bucks out to you. Nice work. Thank you. Sweet as. I just want to say at the top here, I'm not saying that everything we're about to talk about is 100% true. Okay. But there are theories floating around at the moment about the pyramids.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Uh-oh, Bree's gone down a rabbit hole. And I am just entranced by it. It's got my attention. As in the Egyptian pyramids? Yes. Right, okay. As in the Egyptian pyramids. Have. Right, okay. As in the Egyptian pyramids. Have you seen any of this stuff?
Starting point is 00:08:07 No. And look, I don't know how much of it is spot on, but there's a lot of people theorising at the moment. Right. And I thought we could talk a little bit about what's going on. So apparently they've just made this huge discovery where they've done these radar scans on the pyramids.
Starting point is 00:08:27 So this technology that's never been as good as it is now and they've scanned the pyramids and underneath the pyramids. And essentially the latest scan they've found what seems to be these huge structures underneath the pyramids. They're so big, they reckon they go down two kilometres in depth. Two kilometres? Two kilometres in depth underneath the pyramids. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Claude, I haven't sent you the article. Can you try and Google? I know that people listening can't see it, but I want Clint to get an image of it so you can kind of grasp what they believe they're looking at. I also want to see what website this has come from. Look, there's a lot of different websites. Any websites that I want to mention?
Starting point is 00:09:20 No, because it's all brand new. It's all brand new. Essentially, they reckon there's these huge structures underneath the pyramids and then there's these eight giant cylinders that have what looks to be like a thing
Starting point is 00:09:36 spiralling down them all the way down two kilometres into the earth. Claude's brought up a thumbnail from a YouTube video. You can see it now. They reckon the cylinders are about 648 meters tall yeah from top to bottom and at the bottom so this is like two kilometers down into the earth at the bottom they reckon that there's two giant identical cubes at the bottom of these cylinders. Yeah. Okay? And they reckon that those cubes span 80 metres by 80 metres.
Starting point is 00:10:13 So this whole thing is all underneath all of the pyramids. So it's not just under one pyramid. So that's how big this thing is. Yeah. They don't really know what it is, obviously. Well, have you seen Transformers? It'll be the all spark, won't it? Well, people are saying that it could be like a giant energy hub.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah. And that's why they've built the pyramids a certain way and we explain all these different things as to why the pyramids are so perfect because it needs to be, et cetera, et cetera. You've got to be real careful with this stuff, but there's something crazy about the pyramids that people don't understand.
Starting point is 00:10:48 Well, this is the thing. They have always fascinated me, the idea of these structures which nobody can explain how they were built. Is that just a tomb for some rando, you know, Egyptian dude? Yeah, yeah. I don't think so. They're not doing all of that for some random... Well, the bit that I've never understood is how they can move those blocks
Starting point is 00:11:08 into position. Well, that's the thing. They weigh tons. Yeah, hundreds of tons. Hundreds of tons. And how do they get it so perfectly that that pyramid is so spot on? It's wild. Will, I wonder if they'll let them like dig underneath.
Starting point is 00:11:26 Well, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Do you want them to though? Like do you want? What if it's some incredible technology? What if we're not meant to know? What if we are meant to know? Well, okay, good answer.
Starting point is 00:11:41 What if we are? What if we are meant to know and what if it can like move our civilization forward? Like there's some sort of technology down there that can move our civilization, you know? Or what if it's a curse and we do it and it brings on... It brings on... Well, then we call up Brendan Fraser. It brings on COVID-2025. You call up Brendan Fraser, the mummy chaser. Bring him out
Starting point is 00:12:05 of retirement. Yeah, bring him back and he'll sort out all the, you know, scary mummies and stuff. Fascinating. Just promise me, and I am interested, and I am going to do some digging into this, excuse the pun, I'll do a bit of research. Just have a look. Just promise me you didn't get this from TikTok. No, no.
Starting point is 00:12:22 I got this from the New York Times. Oh, you read that now? Good. Okay, I was just checking. It's on my daily daily reads. Guys, sound the alarm. The Women's
Starting point is 00:12:39 Day alarm. Do we have a Women's Day alarm? Yeah. There it is. Women's Day alarm. Do we have a Women's Day alarm? Yeah. Wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo, Women's Day alarm. There it is. Because one of us have made it into Women's Day. And for once it's not me in a red turtleneck. That is why you want to do this.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Clinton Roberts. That's why you want to do this. Because it's not you in Women's Day for a change. Has made his way to the glossies. And we're very proud of you. And the article is entitled Get to Know Clint. Something like that. Something like that. Get to Know Clint a Little More.
Starting point is 00:13:16 I think it's 10 Things You Don't Know About ZM's Clint Roberts. He's obviously read it a couple of times. Can I just say it's very hard to write 10 things that people don't know about you. Especially when you're a radio announcer. And it's your job is to share things about yourself. I was like, God, what don't people know about me? They don't know that thing about the towel and the... They do, because you won't stop telling people that story.
Starting point is 00:13:41 But that is not in the Woman's Day article. Involved a razor and a towel. Excuse you. I thought... Producer Claude is in the Women's Day article. Involved a razor and a towel. Excuse you. I thought, producer Claude is in the studio. Women's Day alert. She's got the article. And I thought, and you're off the hook, mate. We could put me to the test to see how well I know you, Clint Roberts,
Starting point is 00:14:05 with the 10 things you don't know about Clint Roberts from Women's Day article. I've gone through it. Here's a big word for you. I've extrapolated some information. And I've written some questions for you, Brooke. Okay, great. So these are all the things that people aren't meant to know about you. And let's see if I know them from working with you very closely.
Starting point is 00:14:25 Well, I hope you do know these things. I should know them. I'll start with a really easy one. Brie, where was Clint born? Rotorua. And a follow-up question, where did he work there? Ooh. I know he worked at a gas station with his dad
Starting point is 00:14:41 and I know that you had a paper route. Both correct but not the answer that I gave Women's Day. Not what I'm looking for. Does that mean I get it wrong? No, you get it right. Okay. What was the answer you gave Women's Day? Aluminium factory. I've never heard that. Actually, the luge. Oh, is that
Starting point is 00:14:59 the one I gave them? Oh, God. How well do I know Clint Roberts? Okay, here's a harder one. What meal did Clint's nan make for him to take to his first festival, the big day out? What meal did your nan make? I knew this one, so I feel like you should know. A bunch of scones?
Starting point is 00:15:19 It was a whole roast chicken. A whole? No. RIP, Nan. What a GB. I know, what a GB, but I couldn't take a roast chicken chicken. Oh. No. R.I.P. Nan. What a GB. I know, what a GB, but I couldn't take a roast chicken in. Why not? She got up early and roasted a chicken for me.
Starting point is 00:15:31 I was like, oh, Nan, it's a festival. People don't take whole roast chickens. Yes, people will be having pancakes. I know. I should have taken that. Yeah. I should have sucked it up and taken that roast chicken. And you should have eaten the entire thing.
Starting point is 00:15:42 I should have. In your bachelor's handbag. Okay, here's another one. Which celebrity... Sir, is that a whole roast chicken in your cargo pants? Yes, it is. Just happy to see you. Which celebrity did Clint get so starstruck by
Starting point is 00:15:55 that he couldn't speak? Katy Perry. Correct. And there's a photo of him and he's bright red. Like a tomato. Okay, here's a left field. True or false? Clint went to a concert in the Bermuda Triangle.
Starting point is 00:16:08 True. I did, yeah. Through a radio station promo. Yeah, I did, yeah. I fully just didn't think you could go there. No, you can. Yeah, they put you on a private boat out there. I was like, you'll disappear if you go there. I know. That was part of the fun of it. Will you come back? That sounds fun. Who knows? Okay, here's a really
Starting point is 00:16:23 hard one. Who did Clint and his ZM co-host Bree fly to LA to track down? Oh, God. That is a difficult one, but I believe I was listening to the Bree and Clint show at that stage. I think it was Channing Tatum. Dominic Bowden, sorry. It was one or the other. Follow-up question, did they manage to track that person down?
Starting point is 00:16:48 No. No. Still no luck. Channing or Dominic? Channing Tatum. Channing Tatum. Channing Tatum. It's still up in the air, though.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Yeah, yeah. It's still open. We'll get him. It's still open. We'll get him. We'll get him. Last question, which celeb's mum did he meet and get a backstage tour from? Ooh.
Starting point is 00:17:09 Which celeb's mum did he meet? We've got a good one here. A good one? Yeah, it's a good question. It's a good answer. Can I have a hint? Yep. Sailor Twift
Starting point is 00:17:25 Ah, Ed Sheeran Taylor Swift's mum gave us a backstage tour on the Red Tour Should we be Taylor as well or just the mum? No, just the mum That's whoever I'm wants to meet anyway Andrea? Andrea Swift You remember her name in everything I'm big to meet anyway. Totally. Yeah. Andrea? Andrea. Andrea Swift.
Starting point is 00:17:45 You remember her name in everything. I'm big with the mums. That's why I'm in this week's edition of the New Zealand Women's Day. Pick one up at your local newsagent or shopping centre. For a few years in the 1970s, the Mr Asia Syndicate made millions. Heroin creates its own market. It acts like a form of plague. Until jealousy, betrayal and murder brought it all crashing down.
Starting point is 00:18:12 Clark would have threatened him. Go and kill him. If you don't, I'm going to kill you and your wife and your son. This is Mr Asia, A Forgotten History. All episodes now available on iHeartRadio, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. ZDM's Brie and Clint. I want to talk about this situation I was reading about online between two sisters, and then we can discuss who we think is in the wrong.
Starting point is 00:18:36 Sure. Okay, so this woman, she's 29. She's getting married to her fiance in a few months. It's been a bit of a circus getting everything planned and organised, but they're finally at the point where they're like, sweet, I think we can relax a bit. It's all sorted. That was until her younger sister, who is pregnant, decided she would ask her sister if she could have a bit
Starting point is 00:19:02 of a gender reveal at the wedding reception. At the wedding? Yeah. So apparently the little sister has put to her older sister a plan of when they go to cut the wedding cake, it's either blue or pink and then it turns into a gender reveal for her baby. What? Is she trying to save money on a gender reveal cake?
Starting point is 00:19:29 Yes. Right. So apparently the little sister has said, hey, all of our loved ones are going to be there. Yeah. It's all organised. Spirits will be high. Why not just tack this on to the end of your wedding?
Starting point is 00:19:42 Yeah. Boom, done. Does she know, like is she aware that you actually don't have to do a gender reveal? That there's two other kinds of gender reveal you can do. You can do one at the ultrasound where the sonographer just tells you what it is. Pretty exciting. Or you could do it the old school way in the birthing suite where the baby comes out and the doctor tells you what it is.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if the little sister is aware that you don't have to do a gender reveal. It's gotten to the point now where essentially the older sister who's getting married talked to her fiance about it. Neither of them are keen on it. They're like, this is our day that we're spending all this money on. Can't you just... Why didn't she just told her sister? Why didn't she just go, nah?
Starting point is 00:20:29 Apparently she did. Apparently she said to her sister, hey, we would prefer you not to do that, but I can help you organise an afternoon. That's thoughtful. And make a cake for you. So she's giving her other options. The little sister's not having it. And now the parents not having it and now the parents are involved and apparently the parents are on the fence and they don't know. They're like, oh, it could be a nice memory.
Starting point is 00:20:51 They're doing that thing that some parents do. They're like, oh, just let her, okay? It'll be less hassle if you just let your sister do a gender reveal when you cut your wedding cake. God, I hate when the parents do that. I'm like, can you just have an opinion? Could she, if she's desperate to do this, could she do it at the day after barbecue? Like after the day after the wedding?
Starting point is 00:21:12 That would be more acceptable. Because the loved ones are still going to be there. Or how about just not make it about yourself for one weekend and give your sister the grace of just having her own wedding? You know, you're right, actually. I've changed my mind. I think that sister got pregnant on purpose because she knew that her older sister was having a wedding.
Starting point is 00:21:30 I just think it's a bit of a shitty thing to ask. Yeah, it is. You know? Yeah, yeah. Like, the sister's offered to help organise a gender reveal afternoon for you, but no, you want to do it at her wedding? I know the solution. You wait till the end of the wedding
Starting point is 00:21:44 when the couple is about to drive off in the limo with the just married on the back of the car and you get those gender reveal burnout tires. Yeah. And you get the wedding car to do a burnout as it leaves the wedding to reveal the gender of the baby. Classy. Classier.
Starting point is 00:22:00 Classier. It's nice, yeah. ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. Time to head to L.A. with D It's nice, yeah. ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. Time to head to LA with Dean McCarthy for the tea. The Tea, live from LA with Dean McCarthy. This is a weird one, Dean, but who is the rapper who says he's the man to heal the beef between Prince William and Prince Harry? It is a weird one, but I think if there's anyone that can do it,
Starting point is 00:22:23 it is he, Snoop Dogg. Now, let me just explain. Dean, why is Snoop Dogg wanting to mend the relationship between Prince Harry and Prince William? Let me explain. He has actually known the royal brothers for many, many years, actually. And he shared that Harry actually asked Snoop to perform at William's bachelor party, but he couldn't perform. He had something else on. I don't know what else he could possibly have on that would be a bigger deal than
Starting point is 00:22:49 that. Anyway, he's been friends with them and he's done an interview over the weekend and shared that he would like to perform for them, right? Snoop wants to perform for the two boys and be the one that links them back together. He wants them to reunite. I think we all kind of do, in a way. But he wants to bring them back together through a performance. I don't think it'll be like an interpretive dance or anything. It'll be like a typical Snoop Dogg performance.
Starting point is 00:23:11 Yeah, it'll be a Snoop Dogg show. Yeah, yeah. We always... Dean, we always have asked the question over the years, how many blunts are too many blunts? And finally, we have that question answered here today. Nah, I think he's right. I think Snoop Dogg get up there and he's like,
Starting point is 00:23:31 if you love your brother, drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot, if you forgive your brother. Honestly, look, when Snoop Dogg was there at the Olympics last year, as a commentator, I was getting around it, but now I just don't know. And then when he had the cooking show with Martha Stewart. Love that. Again, I choose to be optimistic if he can reunite the Royals, then maybe
Starting point is 00:23:54 he can end the war in Ukraine as well. Hey, well, if that is true, then why not? Maybe he's the man for the job. Snoop Doggy Dogg. Too many blunts. That's the latest. It's The Tea with Dean McCarthy live out of Los Angeles. The Z Doggy Dog. Too many blunts. That's the latest. It's The Tea with Dean McCarthy live out of Los Angeles. The ZM Podcast Network.
Starting point is 00:24:09 There is a theory that has been going around for a number of years and it's resurfaced, so to speak. It's come back to this forefront and I thought we could put it to the test here this afternoon because we have the means for it. Sure. So I've asked, I've enlisted the help of our millennial listeners.
Starting point is 00:24:27 We have five millennials on the phones right now. Standing by. Standing by because I want to test the millennial mole theory. Millennial mole theory. The millennial mole theory. Millennial mole theory. That's the one. Okay, got it.
Starting point is 00:24:46 If you don't know what I'm talking about, I've taken a piece of audio from a fellow millennial who was discussing the theory. I just read this whole thing about if you are a millennial, then chances are you have the millennial mole on your forearm. How did this happen? How did we all wind up with a mole in the exact same spot look i will be the test number one because we have three millennials in here yeah absolutely
Starting point is 00:25:16 okay so we'll start off with me yeah so usually from what i've seen it is on the left arm. Okay. But I feel like you could go right arm either or. And if it's on the upside of your forearm and about halfway down, you tell me if you can see. There. Right there. So I'm one. We've got one. I would like you to take a look at my forearm.
Starting point is 00:25:52 Right there. I can see it through all your hairs. There it is. That is a millennial mole. That is it right there. Claudia, please raise your arm. It's right there. You've got it. It's right there in the middle raise your arm. It's right there. You've got it.
Starting point is 00:26:08 It's right there in the middle of your forearm. Not on the left, it is on the right, but it's right in the middle of my forearm. We'll take either arm. Oh, I've got one on my right too. On my left and my right. Clint's got both. I'm an ambidextrous millennial. I think I've got one on my right as well.
Starting point is 00:26:22 Okay, let's go through the phones. Millennial Moles. Let's bring Sarah to the phone lines. Hello, Millennial Sarah. Hi, Sarah. Hello, guys. How's it going? Good, thank you. Before you reveal whether you have it, do you understand where the Millennial Mole should be placed?
Starting point is 00:26:35 Okay, I just did a quick Google while you guys were talking because I did not know what the Millennial Mole theory was. Oh, really? This is your first introduction. It is. Top side of your forearm is your first introduction. It is. It certainly is. Top side of your forearm, basically smack bang in the centre. On the left arm.
Starting point is 00:26:50 On the left arm. Please reveal, Sarah, do you have the millennial mole? Do you have it? Yes. Yes. There we go. Sarah, we appreciate your service. Next one, Lydia.
Starting point is 00:27:00 Hi, Lydia. Hi, Lydia. Hi. Do you know where you're looking? Well, I have a lot of freckles, so I'm kind of confused, but I think so. No, a freckle counts. Freckle, Lydia. Hi, Lydia. Hi. Do you know where you're looking? Well, I have a lot of freckles, so I'm kind of confused, but I think so. No, a freckle counts. Freckle, mole, same thing. Yeah, freckles.
Starting point is 00:27:11 A freckle is... Do you have it? Yeah, I do. Oh, see. Are we... How many is that now? Three, four, five. We're five from five.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Bryce is here. Hi, Bryce. Hi, Bryce. Hello. You're a millennial? Yep. Okay, four, five. We're five from five. Bryce is here. Hi, Bryce. Hi, Bryce. How's it? You're a millennial? Yep. Okay, perfect, mate. Drumroll for you. Do you have the millennial mole on your forearm? The freckles
Starting point is 00:27:36 count, I do. Yeah, we'll take it. He's in. He's in. He counts. Thanks, Bryce. Kim's here. Hi, Kim. Hi, Kim. Hey. So, on the top side of my forearm, I have a shit here. Hi, Kim. Hi, Kim. Hi. So on the top side of my forearm, I have a shitload of freckles. Yeah. However, to be different, I do have the mole on the underside.
Starting point is 00:27:54 Oh, you've got it on the underside? I've got it on the underside too, yeah. It's gone straight through your arm, Kim, and it's ended up on the other side, so we'll take it. Yeah, we'll take it. Thanks, Kim. Thank you, Kim. Last one, let's go to Emily.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Hi, Emily. Hi. Emily, please don't let us down on this millennial mole theory. Do you have the mole on your forearm? I do. I thought we were going to get to the last one and she's going to go, nah. Nah.
Starting point is 00:28:21 I felt like doing this. You should have, Emily, just for the gag. I wonder if it could be a tattoo trend. You know, maybe Jin Zids will go to the tattoo artist and be like, hey, can I get the millennial mole tattoo, please? Someone just texted her and they said, if you want to get technical, it's the clone theory. Oh.
Starting point is 00:28:40 What, they were all clones? They were all clones. A lot of people texting through, freaking out, saying that, oh, my God, I? They were all clones. A lot of people texting through freaking out, saying that, oh, my God, I have it too. Yeah. Text us on 9696. It is hard for us freckly semi-gingers, though, because I'm sure we do have it, but at the same time,
Starting point is 00:28:57 there's a lot of freckles in there too. So I am a freckly-like person. I do have a lot of freckles. And you can't deny, a lot of freckles, but I have one. Yeah, that's a mole. And that one is a mole. Yeah. Yeah. And that one is a mole, and that one is a mole, and that one is a mole.
Starting point is 00:29:14 You know what? This is probably a good opportunity to say, wear sunscreen and go and get your skin checked. And get a millennial mole map. Millennial mole map. If the Skin Institute are listening, you can pay me for that idea. Yeah. It's a good promo on that.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Honestly, a mole map, the most soul-destroying thing I've ever done. Oh, yeah. But important. But important. It's ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. Is anyone watching that show on Netflix, Adolescence? No, not yet. It's a fairly new one on there.
Starting point is 00:29:45 Yeah. My partner and I, we started watching it last night. Interesting show. And the reason why it's so interesting is because there's four episodes and each episode is about an hour and a bit long, like an hour and five minutes maybe. But each episode is done in one single shot. Right, okay.
Starting point is 00:30:14 And by that, if it's hard to wrap your head around, is one camera guy with one camera shoots the whole thing and it does not stop. It doesn't stop. So the shot is constantly moving from different people to different rooms, but it's one camera and it's essentially like a play. Does that mean it's kind of like 24 as well and that each episode, if it's an hour-long episode, everything happens within that same hour because it doesn't break?
Starting point is 00:30:41 No, well, yeah. Yeah. It's that hour. It's that real time. Yeah. Weird. Yeah. It's that hour. It's that real time. Yeah. Weird. Exactly. I always think when you see things that are shot in one take,
Starting point is 00:30:50 and I've never heard of a whole television show being shot in one take, the pressure on you as an actor or a cameraman or even an extra to get it right. Because if you stuff it up. If you stuff it up. And so I always think the person who's in the end of that scene, imagine you're the person who's in the end of that hour-long episode and you're like, uh-oh, what's my line? Yeah, you're screwed.
Starting point is 00:31:12 You're screwed. Because you've stuffed it up. So I've looked into how they actually did it. So it's essentially one-take episodes, right? So the cast would rehearse for three weeks beforehand. For each episode? I think so. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:28 To learn the script and how everything, literally walking. Moves, yeah. Like timing from where you walk to one spot to the other. Like it all has to be perfect. Yeah. And then on the final week, they'd have ten chances, so two per day, to get the episode in the can.
Starting point is 00:31:48 They recorded the episode 10 times? Yes. Whoa. So they'd do it 10 times and then they'd obviously pick the one that had the least mistakes. And there is parts in the show like there's, I think it's in episode one or episode two where the camera ends up flying up in the air and everyone's like, oh, well, it can't,
Starting point is 00:32:10 that can't be the camera guy walking around. How they did it because the scene finished at one spot in the town where they're shooting it but they needed to get it over to this other part to finish the episode. So the camera guy, as he's moving, they attach it as he's filming. So he's still filming this one scene. They're attaching the camera to a drone and so he's still filming
Starting point is 00:32:39 and as he finishes, he lets go and then the drone takes the camera. And it's still rolling. And it's still rolling and then it takes it over and flies over to where they're filming this last scene of the episode and then another camera guy takes it and they unhook it and he films that last part. That's incredible. What it also shows me is how hard it has become
Starting point is 00:33:00 to impress people these days. Yeah. Because we live in a world of content, content, content. Everybody is a content creator. The bar is so high now. There's so many different things that people have done and tried. Like on the flip side of that, I saw a scene on Instagram the other day from the first episode of Shortland Street.
Starting point is 00:33:20 Yeah. And it is the most budget, janky looking thing you have ever seen. And at the time, people were like, this is fantastic drama. This is amazing. This is fantastic. Because I think, was it Birdman? Yeah. The movie with
Starting point is 00:33:36 what's his name? Batman. Yeah. What's his name? Michael Keaton. Michael Keaton. Famous, real famous, amazing actor. That movie I'm pretty sure is shot in one take. No. I think so.
Starting point is 00:33:54 Not the whole movie. It says here Birdman employs long takes and seamless transitions to create the illusion of a single continuous shot. They make it look like it. So they've tried to create that illusion. God, I hated that movie. There's a famous scene in, what's that real dark police show that's on Neon? True Detective.
Starting point is 00:34:18 Oh, yes. There's a famous scene in True Detective where they go into like a gang pad and then there's a fight and then they go out the back and they go over a barbed wire and it's one continuous shot yeah but you're not expecting it and you're like oh my god why was that so why did that feel so strange watching that and then you go oh my god that was one non-stop shot that's wild eh yeah just the the amount of moving parts that go into that quite amazing anyway um tv show's called adolescence if you wonder what the show is that we're talking about.
Starting point is 00:34:45 Someone texted her and said, did we know that the kid, the main kid in it, has never had any acting lessons either? That makes it even harder. It's even harder. The kid isn't an actor and you're like, okay, you have to do this entire episode in one take. I guess it sets him up well for his next job because he's like, oh, I'm used to doing it in one take.
Starting point is 00:35:04 Yeah, this is piss easy. Yeah, yeah. It's ZM's Brinklin Podcast. How many? How many? How many? How many? That's a good amount.
Starting point is 00:35:14 Welcome to How Many, where if you've got the most, you will win. Producer Ella usually has a go at running this, but she's not here today. Are you going to take care of business, Claudia? Yeah, she fumbled it last week, so she decided not to come back. Swooping in after her job and throwing shade. Pour things on her deathbed with the flu and we're like... No, only high praise. She did a great job.
Starting point is 00:35:37 You lose. No, no, you're right, Claudia. You're right. Treating me and keeping keen. She did a great job. She just forgot to say the key part. She was in charge of the rules and she forgot to say what the rules were. The shade coming from Claudia.
Starting point is 00:35:48 I would say it to her face too. Mickey's here. Hi, Mickey. Hi. Are you ready to take part in the smoothest how many yet? Yeah, sure. Yeah, okay. How good.
Starting point is 00:35:58 Claudia's going to tell you how to play. I've literally not thought about the rules until this very second. Oh, don't screw it up then. Okay, the aim of the game is to have the most of today's topic. So, Mickey, you're going to go head-to-head against either me, Clint or Bree, whoever you think would have less than you the topic today. How many draft emails do you have? So you can take what you know about us, if you think we organise people or not,
Starting point is 00:36:22 and pick one of the three of us who you'd like to go against. Let's start with you though, Miki. How many draft emails do you have there on your email app? I have 23. Ooh, okay. 23. 23 drafts. Who do you think
Starting point is 00:36:41 would have less draft emails than you? I'm going to go with you, Clint. Me? Yeah. I love briefs, but our brains work in the same way. Say no more, Mickey. Say no more.
Starting point is 00:36:57 The old hot mess sister vibe. And I will say that was smart from you, Mickey, because I've got 98 draft emails. Holy. And none of them will probably ever get sent. It was a good decision there, Mickey, first up. You've also eliminated Claudia, though. Claudia, how many draft emails have you got?
Starting point is 00:37:20 I have got a humble 35. 35. 35. Still would have lost though there, wouldn't you, Mickey? Have you made the right decision? Well, so far, yes. Because you would have lost with either Claudia or myself. What was your number again,
Starting point is 00:37:37 Mickey? 23. 23. Bree, can you reveal how many draft emails I've got there on that little sidebar? 317. You're kidding. I have 317 draft emails, Mickey. See, we're honest about not having our shit together
Starting point is 00:37:58 where Clint hides it. I'm hiding in plain sight. Give her the neon. Oh, yeah. Go on the neon. Oh, yeah. Go on, Mickey. You want to watch the last of our season two, don't you? I really do. All right.
Starting point is 00:38:10 Perfect. You got it, sister. Deal. Three months of neon coming your way. Just don't get me to send it because it might sit in my drafts for a while before it gets to you. He's got a few to get through. Yeah, no worries. Play Zed Eames' Bree and Clint.
Starting point is 00:38:24 I saw this story today about James Corden. Remember James Corden from Carpool Karaoke? Doesn't ring a bell. You've forgotten him already? No recollection. British guy. Oh, Alan Carr. No, the other one.
Starting point is 00:38:37 Graham Norton. No, he's Irish. No. Well, I'm sure some people out there do. James Corden from Carpool Karaoke is in the news because his neighbours don't like him. Really? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:50 He has left Hollywood. It was real weird. He got Ellen DeGeneres, didn't he? He got cancelled, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And no one really knows what he did, but no one really knows what Ellen did either.
Starting point is 00:39:03 It's like... Yeah, like, I think they both got cancelled for the same thing. What's that? They became a little bit... Mean? Big for their boots, and I think they lost their manners a little bit, and they became a-holes. Yeah, right, okay. Well, maybe that's what's going on here, too.
Starting point is 00:39:20 James Corden's neighbours have given two reasons why they don't like him. Okay. Number one, they don't like the renos that he's doing on his house that he paid £11.5 million for. Holy hell. Yeah. And the other reason they don't like being James Corden's neighbour is because he plays the drums and they're sick of listening to it. Where is this house?
Starting point is 00:39:44 It's in London. Oh, this is in London. So they probably do live quite close together. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I assume it's in London. It's in the UK anyway. Well, he moved back.
Starting point is 00:39:52 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Close enough that the neighbours are looking at his Renaults and hearing him play the drums. Yeah, right. I mean, I do understand drums can be. Yeah, and it's very stepbrothers, isn't it? And you know what I'd be annoyed at?
Starting point is 00:40:08 Like James Corden can afford to soundproof a room. He can afford those electronic drums where you put the headphones on and people can't hear you playing them. Yeah, like you can afford that. But again, at the same time, I sympathise with drummers because where are you meant to practise? Soundproof room. Oh, soundproof room, right.
Starting point is 00:40:27 Or the electric drums. I had a friend at high school who was, okay, a friend from high school rather, who was like a heavy metal drummer and that's loud. And he had to rent like an industrial warehouse space so that he could practise his drums. Yeah, it's a wonder we have any drummers left. Exactly, yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:49 I had a neighbour who was learning the violin at my last, where we lived previously, and they were learning the violin. They didn't play the violin, they were learning the violin. I can one-up you on that. When I lived in Brisbane, I lived directly next door to a violin teacher. Right. Who taught violin at home. Like a whole school of bad violin players.
Starting point is 00:41:11 And I was at uni at the time, so I was at home studying. And I actually ended up turning it into a game where I'd record them and then you'd have to try and guess. What the song was. Yeah. Yeah. It was a very difficult game because they were all so shit. They were so crap.
Starting point is 00:41:29 Well, like it's following me around. That was at the previous house someone was learning the violin. Someone at our new house where we live now, someone about three houses back is learning the bagpipes. Oh. Yeah. I was going to say, what would be worse? The tuba.
Starting point is 00:41:46 But the bagpipes are up there. For me, bagpipes played well. One of my favourite instruments. Yeah. Bagpipes played badly. One of the worst. Yeah, correct. Even then though, and I've offended bagpipe,
Starting point is 00:42:01 the bagpipe community on this show before. Do you not like bagpipes? I do, I do. but there's a limit. I love the bagpipes. Like I like to hear them at a parade or a funeral or something. And that's it. But I don't want to listen to hours of bagpipe music. I reckon we get them at the Waz Games.
Starting point is 00:42:18 Do you know what I found out the other day? That there's a bagpipe festival coming to Eden Park. I'd go to that. Yeah. Can you imagine how pissed off Helen Clark is going to be? Oh, she's going to be fuming. She doesn't like regular concerts. Imagine a bagpipe festival at Eden Park.
Starting point is 00:42:35 Yeah. That might drive her out finally. Once and for all. Might drive her out of Eden Park. And then we could follow her down the street with a pipe band. Yeah, send her off in style. That'd be good. We want to know, like James Corden's neighbours,
Starting point is 00:42:49 why do you hate your neighbours? What's the thing that your neighbours do? It doesn't necessarily have to be noise, but it could be. What's the thing that they do that just drives you and your family or flatmates insane? God, there's some neighbour wars. I was following this guy. I think he's an Aussie guy
Starting point is 00:43:06 but he was on TikTok and he got into a fight with his neighbours because he parked his Tesla in the visitor's car spot but it's only because he couldn't find a park and he wasn't parking there all the time. Anyway, parked there one of the neighbours has obviously got
Starting point is 00:43:21 annoyed and has keyed it from top to bottom. From front to back, sorry. Back has keyed it from top to bottom. From front to back, sorry. Back to front, whatever you want to say. Anyway, the Tesla obviously records it. It's got cameras all over it. And then he's had to go door knocking and finally found him. And he goes, you've keyed my car.
Starting point is 00:43:36 And the guy goes, no, I didn't. He goes, is this you on this footage that my Tesla's recorded? And the guy's like, I'll go get you money. Yeah, exactly. God's hard bigger Tesla right now at the moment. like, I'll go get your money. Yeah, exactly. God's hard-beggar Tesla right now at the moment. Copping it from all angles. We want to know, 0800 dials at M, why do you hate your neighbours? ZM's Brie and Clint podcast.
Starting point is 00:43:57 We've touched on a raw nerve here. Yeah, what did you think was going to happen? I didn't realise. Neighbours warring with each other is a very touchy subject. James Corden's in the news. His neighbours don't like him. Apparently he's doing a really ugly reno on his mansion in the UK. And also they don't like him because he plays the drums.
Starting point is 00:44:24 I don't know why I find James Corden badly playing the drums in his own house so funny. It's very relatable. But I do. I find it funny. You know? So why do you not see eye to eye with your neighbours? Emily's here. Hi, Emily.
Starting point is 00:44:35 Hi. Hi. With the neighbours, Em? No, but I just don't think my neighbours like us. Why? Well, they don't like you. But my cat's kind of a dick. This is a speaking house. He's done with it. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
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Starting point is 00:45:02 Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? at the last hour. Your cat... He just sits there. Hey, Emily, your cat's not named Suki, is it?
Starting point is 00:45:06 No, his name's Tag. Oh, because we have a cat in my neighbourhood named Suki that will do that to my dogs. Oh, well, I'm in Christchurch.
Starting point is 00:45:14 That's my name. Okay, oh, bugger. But yeah, no, he sits there and the dog, they've actually got a fence. So it stands on their back deck
Starting point is 00:45:21 and the cat will sit on our back fence and he just sits there like, ha, haha, you can't get me. And he was up there for hours. That cat knows what it's doing. That cat. All cats know what they're doing. 100% knows what it's doing. But it's not your fault,
Starting point is 00:45:36 Emily. You can't control a cat, can you? What are you going to do? I mean, I could. Reality, I could go and spray him with some water and it would deter him. Oh, okay. That's how we got him to stop scratching things, was and spray him with some water and it would deter him. That's how we got him to stop scratching things, was just spray him with water and then he stopped. Okay, so why don't you do that? Because the neighbours
Starting point is 00:45:52 haven't actually said anything to us, but they do give us dirty looks. I'm like, if you want to be an adult, you can come talk to me. But at the moment, this is not my issue. You are the human version of your cat, Emily. I will put on my Yui Boom and not have to listen to your dog bark. There you go.
Starting point is 00:46:06 Okay. But you will. Thanks, Em. Thanks for your honesty. We appreciate it. Someone texted her and they said, our neighbour decides to start up his lawnmower early on Saturday mornings when my partner and flatmate are still asleep.
Starting point is 00:46:19 The other starts up his boat, wakes everyone up. I need to know what time. Me too. Round the room quickly. How early on a Saturday is too early to start the lawnmower? Three, two, one. Before eight. Yeah, I was going to say 8.30.
Starting point is 00:46:32 Yeah. Claudia, she's on the phone. We'll just pretend she agrees with us. My crazy neighbour Gladys is the lawn police. She asks us every day, how's your lawn care going? Look, it's mown and the edges are done. What more can a bunch of three female full-time healthcare professionals do? She will ring us
Starting point is 00:46:52 during a work day to ask us how our lawn looks. I don't know Gladys, you're at home. Why don't you have a look at it? Oh, Gladys is lonely. And she obviously just wants to chat. And then it's turned into I'm going to complain about the lawn when she could have just went
Starting point is 00:47:10 you girls want to come over for a wine? Yeah. You want to have a lawn mowing party? Why not? A lot of animal poo texts coming in. My neighbour's god damn chickens are constantly in our yard pooing on my driveway. Yep. My neighbour has like 20 cats and they're always pooing on my driveway. Yep. My neighbour has like 20 cats
Starting point is 00:47:25 and they're always pooing in my garden. What about my neighbours are drug dealers and goddamn it's annoying. I don't hate them, but once I heard an incessant buzzing noise coming from my neighbour's house. I peeked through the fence, being nosy, and I saw five skinheads sitting around,
Starting point is 00:47:43 shaving each other's heads and passing around mirrors to check out their fresh do's. It was an adorable boys self-care day and it made me giggle a lot. That is so funny. Very funny. I mean, someone else said my neighbor's three dogs bark nonstop. They bark at everything. The owners just let them bark. The smell of dog crap is intense. That would annoy me. Because I mean I'm a dog owner but I feel like I'm
Starting point is 00:48:12 a responsible dog owner because if my dogs are barking I bring them inside. And do you pick up their poo? Yeah. If the poo is so bad that the neighbours can smell it. We don't want to smell the poo so we can pick them up. It's yuck.
Starting point is 00:48:27 There you go. Good luck, everybody, with your bad neighbours. It is Brinkland. Birthday banger time. Brinkland. All I want for my birthday is a birthday banger. All righty, let's do your birthday bangers. These are the number one songs when you turn 16,
Starting point is 00:48:41 and we'll play our favourite. Sienna is going to do Mum's birthday banger first. Hi, Sienna. Hi, Sienna. Hi. Hi. How old are you, Sienna? Nine.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Okay, perfect. You can play in a few years, but let's do Mum's now. What's her birthday? 24th of March, 1985. That's right. That means Mum was 16 in 2001 and on the 24thth of March 2001, this was at the top. Maya. Case of the X.
Starting point is 00:49:14 Banger. Do you like this, Sienna? Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one, Sienna. What's Mum's name? Hannah. Hannah. Okay, wait there.
Starting point is 00:49:25 Hannah could be our winner. Maddie's going to play. Hi, Maddie. Hi,? Hannah. Hannah. Okay, wait there. Hannah could be our winner. Maddie's going to play. Hi, Maddie. Hi, Maddie. Hello. How was your day, Maddie? Good, good. Just at work, you know.
Starting point is 00:49:33 Yeah, I know. I feel you. Good Mondays, eh? Yep. Yeah. Anyway. Thanks, Garfield. What is your date of birth, Maddie?
Starting point is 00:49:45 24th of September, Maddie? 26 September 2002. All right, that means you were 16 in 2018. And we've done our calculations. Here's your birthday banger. George Ezra, shotgun. It's a good one, eh, Maddie? Yes, banger. Yeah, okay. George Ezra. Wait. It's a good one, eh, Maddie? Yeah, okay. George Ezra.
Starting point is 00:50:08 Wait there, urgent business. Let's go back to Sienna for a second. Sienna, is it your mum's birthday today? Yes. We almost missed it. I was going to miss it. Couldn't you say happy birthday to her from us, Sienna, please? Happy birthday, mum, from Green Command. Aw, that was nice from us, Sienna, please. Happy birthday, Mum, from Green, Kowai.
Starting point is 00:50:25 Thank you. Aw, that was nice. Thanks, Sienna. We appreciate that. Okay, that was important business to address before we got to Jarton. Hi, Jarton. Hi, Jarton. Hi, how are you guys?
Starting point is 00:50:36 Good, thank you. What have you been doing today? Yeah, just finished one work. I'm about to go to the second work. Oh, you're doing two jobs? Yes. Okay, well you deserve this birthday banger then. What is your date of birth?
Starting point is 00:50:49 It is 9th of June, 1993. Alright, that means you were 16 in 2009. And here's your birthday banger. Kerry Hilsen knocks you down. Banger. What do you reckon, Jarton, the Mahi man?
Starting point is 00:51:10 Yeah, not bad. It's a tune, eh? Yeah, can't go wrong with some Kerry Hilson. Okay, wait there. Jarton gets Kerry Hilson. Maddie gets George Ezra. Sienna and Hannah get Maya, case of the X. It's not a question for me.
Starting point is 00:51:24 I know who I'm voting for. I'm going to vote for the birthday girl. I'm voting for case of the X. It's not a question for me. I know who I'm voting for. I'm going to vote for the birthday girl. I'm voting for Case of the X, Maya and Sienna. You've won it for mum for her birthday. Yay! Thanks for listening to ZM guys. Here's your birthday banger from the
Starting point is 00:51:41 year 2001. Maya and Case of the X. Bree and Clint on ZM. ZM's Bree and Clint. ZM, Bree and Clint. A birthday banger today for Sienna's mum, Hannah, whose birthday is today. Happy birthday to Hannah. Good on you, Sienna's mum, Hannah, whose birthday is today. Happy birthday to
Starting point is 00:52:05 Hannah. Good on you, Sienna, for calling through. What a nice birthday present for mum. Happy 40th birthday. Is it her 40th today? Yeah, if you're born in 1985, you're 40 in 2025, right? She probably wouldn't do it. Oh, breeze over that bit. Or celebrate it. Happy mystery birthday,
Starting point is 00:52:22 Hannah. We'll never know. Fun fact, my case of the X, you know who, what other song she was on, obviously. Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? Lady Mama Lodge. With Pink, Lil' Kim, Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott, and Maya was the other one. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:43 Yeah. People often forget Maya when they go through that list, don't they? She had just as much of a part as the others. What a banger though. What a banger. ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. I was reading about this thing called single tax today. And whether it's more expensive to be single or in a relationship
Starting point is 00:53:08 like what costs more to exist at being a single person or being in a relationship um the article was by my favorite economist if we're going off their name you have a favorite economist well i have a famous economist? Well, I have a famous economist, period, which is Brad Olsen, Bad News Brad, who helps out here on ZM. But if we're going off just how fun their name is to say, it's definitely Shumabiel Yakob. Yeah, yeah, I know who that is, yeah. He's the one they always get on the news.
Starting point is 00:53:39 Well, they've been getting Brad on the news a lot more recently, but for a long time Shumabiel was the guy. You're not up to date with your New Zealand economists? I don't think I've ever been so bored in a conversation for a while. You've gone straight over me. Right. Well, try saying it. It's a bit more fun if you try and say it.
Starting point is 00:53:55 How do you say it? No, we're moving on now. He's upset. In 2025, they're talking about a thing called single tax. Which is if you're single, you're obviously, there's more costs tax. Which is if you're single, you're obviously, there's more costs that come into it if you are single. Yeah, according to this,
Starting point is 00:54:12 single people spend 50% more than people in couples on accommodation. Oh, well, I guess you're not sharing a room. They spend 40% more on communication, which is like your phone bills and your internet bills because you can't split one of those. Oh, yeah, you're paying for it yourself. Interestingly though, we spend the same amount on food because I thought that being single you would have to buy half as much food, but actually it's about the same.
Starting point is 00:54:35 Why? Because things always come in a two or they, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Is that probably what it is? Whereas cooking for two I thought might bring down the cost of things. I don't know. Anyway, overall, they say a single person living alone in a major city in New Zealand will spend approximately $4,300 a month to exist.
Starting point is 00:54:56 Wow. That's across all their bills. Food, gas, rent, power. Just to exist. Internet, insurances, healthcare, entertainment, socialising, that sort of thing. $4,300 for a single person, where a family of four might be able to exist on $6,400. And that's a family of four people. So only $2,100 more for a family of four to exist compared to a single person.
Starting point is 00:55:25 God, those numbers are depressing, aren't they? We have a single person here, recently single, Claudia. So you have memories of your budget from happier times. From when I could share things. What's your take on it as a single person? I always staunchly believe that being single is cheaper because if you're spending normal, it's probably, on it as a single person? I always staunchly believe that being single is cheaper because if you're spending normal
Starting point is 00:55:48 it's probably, I don't know how to explain this there's more expectation when you're in a relationship that you're going out for dinner, you're going on dates, there's more chances to spend money, whereas for me as a single person, I'm like, well I'm not going out for dinner, I'm going to do things as cheap as possible and if I don't feel like
Starting point is 00:56:03 cooking, I'm not going to. Well, that's an interesting point. Yeah, if you don't... You're the only person you have to worry about. It's harder to just say, I don't feel like dinner tonight when you're in a relationship. Whereas you can go, probably toast tonight. Toast and TV.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Claudia, what was that life hack you told us yesterday about? You said that you've just been going on, like when you have been low on money. Oh, yeah, so you organise a bunch of dates. She just goes on dates and gets them paid for. And they pay for it. Yeah, I see.
Starting point is 00:56:34 Yeah, good idea. So that's also a big money saver for Claudia. Are you really socialising less now that you're single? I would have thought now you'd be going out on the drinks and the dates. She's not at that point yet. No, but even just with friends, because you're not a boring, coupled-up person anymore. I guess, but outside of that, I feel like I'm spending a lot less.
Starting point is 00:56:50 Yeah, right. I've also moved closer to town, so there's less transport costs. That's true. That's good. And I'm also trying really hard not to spend money. Yeah, okay. Actively, really hard. You are quite the frugal individual, aren't you?
Starting point is 00:57:03 And there's no one to hold you back now. Yeah. You're like, I'll be as frugal as I like. Okay, And there's no one to hold you back now. Yeah. You're like, I'll be as frugal as I like. Okay, well, that goes in the face of what I was reading, but interesting. Maybe if you are, that's probably good advice. Maybe if you are struggling financially right now, leave your partner.
Starting point is 00:57:18 Leave to the city. But you didn't hear that from us. Eat toast. If they're eating, then you just cut out, you know. Yeah, stop eating. Stop eating. Stop showering. That could save a few bucks. Sabrina Garvinter's busy woman on ZM.
Starting point is 00:57:36 And that's the end of the Brian Clint Show. We are out of here for a brand new episode of White Lotus on Neon tonight. How good? I do love Monday. So much good television and White Lotus is aton tonight. How good? I do love Monday. So much good television and White Lotus is at the top of my list. Do you reckon the brothers are going to do it tonight? Ew.
Starting point is 00:57:52 You look at me like that's a weird thing to say, but last week two brothers hooked up with each other on White Lotus. Yeah, my partner fell asleep before that part, so it's going to be interesting watching this episode. Oh, the jump. Yeah yeah seeing the look on her face what do you do if you have such a big night which they did on that episode that you wake up in the morning and realize you hooked up with your own brother in no world in not a single
Starting point is 00:58:19 universe would i ever have that big of a night? Anxiety is one thing. Realising you hooked up with your brother is another. Yeah, what do you call that? Incest, I think. Anxiety? Anxiety. Siblingxiety?
Starting point is 00:58:42 Siblingxiety. It doesn't matter which way you cut it. Messed up is what youibling... It doesn't matter which way you cut it. Messed up is what you call it. It doesn't matter which way you cut it. It's not good. And if you want to watch it, White Lotus. With that recommendation, White Lotus. White Lotus on Neon.
Starting point is 00:58:56 On Neon tonight. New episode. See you guys tomorrow. Bye. Bye-bye. Play ZM's Brianne Clint on Insta, Facebook, TikTok, and live weekdays from 3 on ZM.

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