ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM’s Bree & Clint Podcast - 24th November 2025

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

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You tapped it, so we're playing it. It's ZM's Brian Clint, the podcast. ZDM's Brian Clint, thanks to the KFC hacker, a $499 snack box, $999 lunchbox, or two zingers for just $14.99. Go! ZM's Brinclint. Kriya, everybody. It's Brian Clinton. We're just discussing tax policy in the studio.

As we always do. We're just having politics Monday here in the Brie and Clint studio. People don't realize when we're not on air, we are very serious. Very serious. I couldn't even give a straight face. Yeah, I'm glad, actually. Is there more tax? Well, it depends who you vote for.

Depends who you vote for. So many taxes. Yeah. I just feel like they tax everything these days. X are going to tax every time we go to the toilet. If you vote for one of the Chris's. Tax on that? Yeah.

fun old show today for you guys. But first things first. Trady versus Lady. Claudia, I need you to work out exactly how many more Trady versus Lady games there are going to be this year. That is a great question. It's not so spread that the lead couldn't change a couple of times yet, but it could get that way. Well, there's four weeks left, right? So including today, 20 games.

But do you know that? Yeah, I think so. Do you know that? That's pretty quick math from Claude. 20 games Check the calendar Are we working all of those days? Yes

We are 20. Okay well there's 20 games 20 games to go To balance the scores back out Trades three in front at the moment Yeah Easily the ladies could come back

But easily Ladies could be ahead by Thursday The tradies could also run away with it Yeah yeah This is really important This is the main thing That this show exists to do It's to put the tradies

Against the ladies each day Yeah So we take it very seriously. Like once we're gone, yeah. Trady versus Lady will remain. Oh, and it will outlive us, absolutely. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Rename this show, the Trady versus Lady show. That's a guarantee. Yeah, yeah. So if you want to represent either side, 0,800 dials at M. Like Brie said 97 Trades, 94 Ladies. We'll have a round next.

Play Z-N's Brie and Clint. It's Trady versus Ladies Alright, let's do this dance For a Monday Who's going to take it out The trade is on 97 wins for the year The ladies on 94

Our ladies are operating as a duo Which we are fine with They are co-workers at Foodstuffs In Palmerston North Please welcome to the show Sherea and Jasmine Hey girls Hello

Are you guys on a break right now Or you're knocked off for the day Let's just, yeah, we're definitely on a break Not sitting in the office Yeah, yeah, yeah As long as you're not driving a forklift Okay, ladies Oh no, we're not

Okay, good, good, good, good You're taking on our Trady Who could well be driving the forklift He's in Dargaville, he's 19 and he loves the outdoors Welcome to the show, Cooper Hi, Coop. How up, yeah What's your favourite outdoor activity, Cooper?

Probably fishing. Oh yeah, it's a good one. Oh, yeah. Cooper, your buzzers, Trady. Sherea and Jasmine, your buzzer is lady in the first team to three correct answers gets 50 bucks cash from KFC. Here we go, guys. Question number one, name three products made by Apple Computers Company.

Ladies. Yes, the ladies are in first. We've got iPhone, iPad, iPad and MacBook. There you go. Nailed it. That'll do. One to the ladies, off to a good start. Question number two, who played Marty McFly in the Back to the Future Films?

I reckon Cooper Cooper, did you buzz? Because if you did, you just got in first Oh, you didn't buzz, you just made noise. Okay, Sherea and Jasmine. Is it Michael J. Fox? It is. It is Michael J. Fox.

You're off to a flyer. Two to the ladies. You need this one, Cooper, to stay in it. Question number three. Buzz in when you can tell me who sings this? I'll be righty shotgun underneath the hot. Shirea and Jasmine. Is that George Ezra?

It's George Ezra. She's a lady. Go, whoa, whoa, she's a way. God, I tell you what, the Dream Team, Shirea and Jasmine, you've got it done. 50 bucks, you can split it between you. Awesome, thank you so much. Sweet.

You're welcome. Back to work now, okay? Yes, yeah, we will. They never left. Yeah, yeah, they're multitasking. Ladies can do that, you know. We are. Good on you girls.

Call back any time. Ladies needed that. It's 95, ladies, 97 tradies. ZDM's Brie and Clint Podcast. We're going to talk about something that I can't do this afternoon. Yeah, you're shocked. Yeah, I know. Well, no, there's a lot of things I can't do.

You can't even tell you left from right, so I'm not shocked. I can't tell left and right. I can't cook. You have to look at your hands to be able to tell left and right. Yeah. There was something that happened on the weekend where that was quite an issue. What was it? Driving?

could be an issue. It was always an issue in sport. Like, we'd be playing rugby, and one of the guys would be that, on your left, on your left! And it's quite hard when you're holding a ball to then do the L signs with your finger, your finger and thumb. I don't understand. On your left, on your left.

You just go 50-50. I'll go that way. Far out. Anyway, the other thing I can't do, which was highlighted on Friday when we sung the Ray song, Where's My Husband, I can't woo-hoo. Mm. Like at all.

I can't whoop. I can't woo and I can't woo-hoo. Let's, I don't know. I think maybe you just haven't been taught. Okay. You know? I'm teachable. Yeah, I think you're teachable.

So I reckon, do you want me to put you through your woo-hoo paces? Yes, please. Yeah, that would be great. Okay, so let's just start with a real simple, woo. Woo! No, it's not, you're not saying it. It's from a different part of your throat. Okay.

So it's from the back. Woo! Woo! Okay, yep, we'll move on. This is genuine, by the way. And now you put two of those together for a woo-hoo. Okay, yeah. So it's like, woo-hoo.

Woo-woo. Woo-woo. Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo.

Woo-hoo. What do you call me? That's quite disturbing. That is a dying owl. in the studio. Woo-hoo! You're going like this. Woo-hoo!

No. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing that I'm not doing? I'm usually like the back of my throat. The back of your throat. Woo-hoo. Uh-huh.

Woo-hoo. You're going... This is what you sound like. Woo-hoo! Do you hear the difference? I feel like Hans Moleman off the Simpsons. Oh, yeah. I was saying boo-earns.

It's because I can't get up there. I can't get high. And that's where I struggle in things like Friday Oake is because my register is capped. Producer Ella. Well, on that note, if you can't go higher, just stay woohoo. Woohoo.

That's a bit better. Is it? Is it? Oh, yeah. Woohoo. Woohoo. Woohoo. You wouldn't make that noise on a roller coaster they, would you?

What would you make? You wouldn't be on the roller coaster going. No, see, the problem is. The problem is he's saying it, but a woo-hoo, you don't use that part of your mouth. I don't understand what you're saying. Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!

Okay, Channel, you're on a roller coaster. I'm on a roller coaster. And you're about to go up, up, up, up. I'm going up. And whatever comes out of your mouth, you're screaming down. Woo! Woo! That was a testy blowout, that one.

I think I just had puberty live. one here. I think you could have kids again. Woo-hoo. That's so weird you can't do that. I know. It's my one floor. Is there anything else where we use that part?

Do you girls know what I'm saying? I can't Charhu either. It's like right in a top show. Yeah, try the Charhu. It's all right. I feel like you could go higher. No, I just want to, you give it a go. Tahroo.

The first part was better, though. I know, right? The first part was better. At least you weren't saying it. At least you weren't going, Chahoo! Chahoo! That's not bad, yeah.

Can you do a lish goal? Yeah. Yeah, is there anything else where you use that part of your mouth? No. And wickhead, they go pretty high. Oh, yes, singing, obviously. Yeah, I can't think of it off the top of my head. Look, it's good to know your limitations, okay?

Because then you don't embarrass yourself in public. like this. You know, you don't go to do it and suddenly realize, oh, that's not a skill I possess. Are you speaking a woo-hoo? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. So we want to know, are you self-aware enough to know the thing that you can't do? Simple thing,

everyday thing, that everybody else can do but you can't do it. Yeah. No parameters on this, no limitations. If everybody else can do the thing that you can't do, we want to hear about it this afternoon. It's way more common that people can do the thing? Yeah. And you just

can't do it. We're being vulnerable, we're being honest, and I am owning the fact that I can't woo-hoo. You know? For too long I've pretended to be able to woo-hoo and just made the mouth shape when other people were doing it in a crowd, but no longer. Yeah, good for you. Thank you.

A lot of interesting feedback on the inability to woo-hoo, for honest. Someone said, can you yihar? Oh, probably not, but I'm willing to give it a go if we're being vulnerable. Yeah, go on. Can you give me an example? Yee-ha, I reckon, is about, yeah-ha!

Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. Obviously, I can't. Obviously, I can do that. Okay. Yeah. I need to get higher. People said try a higher pitch. Okay.

So do I, but then someone said start low and get high. I just go from high. Just go from high. That cowboy sounds like it's got amoroids. Someone said, not this shit again. I'm still scarred from the last time Clint tried to woo-hoo. Oh, God. So we're asking, what's the thing that you can't do?

Because everybody's got something. This person wants to be anonymous. Hi, Anonymous. Hi, Anonymous. Hello. Is it that embarrassing that you don't want people to know your real name with this thing? Yeah, kind of. I just want some of the, like, message me like, oh my God, can you not scream?

Oh, you can't scream, is that what it is? You can't scream. Also, I think I over-scramed, like, screamed, scramed, as a kiss, annoying my sister's. Sorry, I feel like really illiterate right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I over-screamed when I was younger, and I've just, like, maybe... Like, you used up all your screams when you were young or something? Yeah, yeah, 100%.

Wait, do you think you've damaged your vocal cords where you can't scream now? Oh, I can't, I'll show you. Yeah, can we see? Can we just know where you are? Where are you right now? Yeah. Outside the warehouse and in the car park. Someone's going to think something's bad happening in your car.

Someone's just snuck up on you and tried to grab your handbag. Go Anonymous. Well, that was kind of better. I've been practicing. I've been warming up the ball. Not blood curdling though. That wouldn't cause me to come out. I wouldn't be alerted that you were in trouble if you did that.

Anonymous. Okay, Anonymous. Happy scream. You've just won lotto. Same script. Same scream, yeah, same scream. Same scream. You know what I made?

It's not a scream, but it's something. Can you woo-hoo? Yeah, I should be able to. Woo-hoo. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, she can woo-hoo. That's a passing. Can you scream?

Can I scream? Yeah. Okay, give me some context. Anonymous. What am I screaming about? Anonymous? Someone's just nicked your handbag. Someone stole my handbag.

Okay. Ah! No, a scream. Ah! Ah! No, I can't scream. No. I don't think you're trying.

My daughter doesn't think she can scream either. You don't think I'm trying. You're not trying. Oh, no, that's a good scream. That's a good scream. That's solid. Can you girls scream, producers? Yeah.

They're talking to the producer. No, they're on the phone. That's okay. Thank you, Anonymous. We appreciate your honesty. We asked what's the thing you can't do. And I wish we could get this person on the phone, but we can't. They text them to say, I can't say,

minimum. Man, I want to hear them try. Minimum is a hard word, though. I reckon they're a minimum. A minim minimum. A minim minimum. That's probably my mum texting through. She can't say minimum.

Pam is here. Hi, Pam. Hi, Pam. Hi, how are you? Pam. Or Pam? Pam. Pan.

Pam. Yeah, Pete and the Pam. Oh, Pam? Yeah. Like Pan's labyrinth. Oh, like Pam. Malah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's the way. That's the one. There is. I got it in the end. Okay, Pam, what's the thing you can't do? I can't roll my ars, you know, when you do that sort of sound when you're kind of sort of, I don't know, I can't do it. So, you know, that's real. Like a warra-ra-ra-pa.

I can sort of do it when I'm saying it, but it's when they make the sound, you know, like when you're trying to make a funny noise. Oh, just like a r-r-r-you-can't do that one. Yeah, you can't do that, no. I feel like not everyone can do that. So you're not on your own, Pam. I think. Yeah. No, she doesn't get off that lightly.

We are going to need to hear her try. Yeah, we're going to have to hear it. Pam. Okay. That was a bee. That was rolling your bees. I think that came from your lips. Okay, thanks, Pan.

We appreciate it. It was Pan. Pan. I thought it was pan. I think it's pan. Producers, can you help with this pan, Pam situation? Definitely Pan.

It's Pan. Pan. Okay, guy. I never learned how to skip. Oh, I'd love to know which age you are. Oh, skipping is quite the art. It becomes embarrassing to have to learn how to skip. Are they talking about skipping with a rope or just skipping like,

you know where you just skip? Oh, like skip to the loo, my darling. Do know, both embarrassing. I can't say concrete. Clint doesn't squeeze his throat muscles enough. I can't say cinnamon. What about this one? Or soldier or shoulder?

I can't click my fingers. Oh yeah, lots of people. I know lots of people can't do that. Really? Yeah, yeah. I reckon Ella can't click. Ella, can you click? I can do a good loud click.

Ready? Yeah, that's nice. Yeah. My mind was blown when I learned that the clicking sound isn't from your fingers. It's from your like middle finger hitting your hand. slapping the butt of your palm, yeah. That's what the sounds from. I'm 31 and I can't hula hoop, me either.

Yeah, hula hooping's quite the art. Yeah, I reckon the older you are, the less able you are to hula hoop, too. A family member of mine can't lick an ice cream. What? Do they bite it? Oh, they're an ice cream biter, yeah. They exist out there. I can't roll my ars and I'm Māori.

Oh, that's got to suck. Your family are like, are you disrespecting your, yourself someone yeah what the hell someone said i can't burp whoa they just puffed up like um what happens you know in like maruka salt in the um charlie in the chocolate factory what happens if you drink like a soft drink where does it go yes produce ella remember sam who does our fridayokies he can't burp he can't you guys made him sculler sprite and for the rest of the evening he just had a terrible tummy yeah he said he has real bad acid reflux Good that we made him do that then.

Poor Sam. Z.N.'s, Branklin. The T. Live from L.A. with Dean McCarthy. The results are in for the opening weekend of Wicked 2. Wicked for Good, and it's outdone the original Wicked, Dean. Oh, my goodness. Talk about a phenomenal result.

They have made in the first weekend, internationally, $400 million New Zealand dollars. Whoa. To give you some context, that is the second biggest opening of the year. but it is the biggest ever Broadway musical adaptation opening it beat its own record the first one I think did like

270 million on its first weekend this one did 402 million on its first weekend now that is an insane number I'll tell you why so everyone was you know a lot of people say that the first act is better than the second act in Wicked that's a known thing

and but I suppose the success of the first one just meant people were dying to see the second one And obviously, Cynthia and Ari have done a huge press tour. They love press. They've been doing a lot of press. So that's helped. And, wow, hit it out of the park.

I haven't seen it yet. No, neither have I. You're so right about the first being better than the second, or at least people feeling that way anyway. Because I haven't, the first one, we were singing the songs before the movie came out from part one. There were all those viral moments from the interviews. This time, not so much.

And I don't know any songs from the second Wicked. That's because all the best, most famous songs. are from part one. Yeah, exactly. That's what I mean. But it hasn't stopped people. Because if you went to the first one... You've got to see how it ends.

You've got to see the second one, right? You've got to. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's exciting. I've had mixed reviews. Yeah. Have you?

Everybody I've seen, including our producer, Ella, who went to it, I've seen them come out of the cinema in tears, right? Ella, it got you. Yeah, yeah, I was sobbing, and I thought, okay, I'm sobbing, it's nearly over. There's like half an hour more. Oh, and it hits you again. You're just sobbing for ages. Friendship, man.

It's a salt fist. That's the tea with our Hollywood correspondent, Dean McCarthy. Every now and then, we peep in for a little look at our producer Ella's marriage. Have you guys had your one-year anniversary yet, Ella? No, that's in April 12th. Oh, my God, have you only been married for six months? Yeah, it's okay. You wouldn't remember you didn't come to the wedding.

Yeah. I definitely remembered, as Claudia did, because we were there. You were there. Yeah. Yeah, you're the only one not there. Yeah. It was really sad. Well, anyway, every now and then Ella brings us a little update on what's going on in the marriage, which I enjoyed.

Because I'm the boring kind of married. We're like eight years in, you know, kids, kids, dog, just going through the motions. Mortgage. God, you make it sound so exciting. So with Ella, they're still feeling each other out. You know, they're still finding their happy media. Here we are. Hello.

Hello. Feeling each other out, not up. Oh. Okay? Same thing to me, Ella. I'm sure they're doing that too. Ella, what is the unreasonable, in your opinion, rule that your husband wants to impose on the marriage? So you all know that I have recently researched my love for stranger things.

Oh, my God. I've re-watched all of the series coming up for season five. Yeah. And now... She literally won't show up about it. Yeah, you've done the... the prep work to get excited for this last and final season. Yes, exactly.

And it comes out on Thursday. I'm very excited. And Ryan says, by the way, Ella, I know that there's three episodes that are dropping on Thursday. Let's space them out like one week at a time. So... What, one a week? So instead of binge watching it, we have to wait week, week, week.

He's going to drip feed them to you. Yeah, what the hell? One a week? Yeah. When does the next batch of three come out? Is it in three weeks time? I think it's in Christmas. Okay, so not far off.

I think Christmas is like five weeks. Is it only six episodes, is it? I think there's three and then there's two and then there's one or something like that. So Christmas, then New Year's. I think there's three drops. Yeah. Right. Three drops.

Yeah. Which is annoying because you know they've got it all. Oh, totally. I want to binge watch it. I was, when Ella told us this before the show, I was really on your side, but I feel like I'm swaying to the other side now. Are you? No. Here's the issue is that everybody else is going to binge them.

Exactly. And so everybody else is going to know. And so you, as a Stranger Things fan, with the time to watch them, is going to have to go, no spoilers, no spoilers, no spoilers. Exactly. My husband won't let me watch them. And I am willing to compromise. I don't want to watch them back to back to back in one night. Yeah.

But I thought over three days you'd watch it. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good compromise. You do the processing and you think about it over the day and then you watch the next one. I do like the idea of spreading them out a bit. A little bit. Because it's a bit of a sugar hit otherwise, but...

I don't care. Here's the question for you. Okay. Are you willing to cheat on your husband and watch the other two episodes without him and then just pretend that you haven't and then re-watch them with him each week? Don't do that, Ella.

Take my advice, don't do it. I've tried to do that before and got caught in my lie. I don't think you're a good enough actor to do that. Yeah, don't do that. You'll be like, oh my God, it was the demogorgon all along. What the heck? I did think about it, but no, I couldn't do that. So he's just going to have to suck it up.

I'm watching it. Oh, you're going to put your foot down? Yeah. Oh, look out. I compromise, but not on stranger things. Okay, so you'll compromise three weeks. You'll give him three days. Yeah.

Okay. That's fair. We'll talk to you on Monday. I want to see if you stuck to that or not. Yeah, we'll see. We want to know this afternoon the unreasonable relationship. relationship rule your partner tried to impose? Was it around watching certain television shows over a certain amount of time? Was it around listening to certain music in the car? I don't know. What was it? Was it around only eating certain types of food a certain number of times a week? If you heard the rule and you're like, oh my God, I can't live like this. This is BS. This is like prison. Do you have any rules like across your relationship where you're like, I hate this rule? The rule in my relationship is just that none of my music is allowed to be played in the car.

The only thing that's allowed to be played in the car is what other three people want to listen to. I'm not going to lie. Your music, I have heard from time to time. It's quite an eclectic. Yeah, eclectic is the idea. Otherwise, all we listen to is Taylor Swift in the Moana soundtrack.

That's it. No, but there's more than Taylor Swift in the Moana soundtrack. But I've listened to your playlist before and it sounds like a playlist that someone has put together to seem hipster and cool. you know like when i hear when i've heard your playlist i always go yeah but does he really

like this that's just what that's just what my mind does my playlist is performative it's not working because i'm always listening to it alone no one else ever hears it you know this might be a good time to reflect on why that is i hundred dial zm or you can text the unreasonable relationship rule that either you or your partner imposed. The ZDM Podcast Network. We're talking unreasonable relationship rules because Ella's husband won't let her watch all of Stranger Things when it comes out. I got an update. Did you? Yeah, because he heard that. I told him to listen.

Yeah. Put my foot down. You told him to listen. Yep. And this is the messages. That's a good way to communicate when I say is through national radio. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just for context, the first three episodes that come out, he said, need to spread them over three weeks and you've said you'll give him three days and he has responded with okay all good is that it was it that easy i said oh he's mad at you i said i'm i ain't sticking to that he said okay oh that was easy that was easy turns out i just need to go on national radio

let's grow a spine call him out yeah yeah stand up for yourself amen calcy's here hi kelsey hi Kelsey hi Kelsey hi how are you we're good what's the unreasonable relationship rule in your relationship? Well, on Christmas morning, I have a rule that my entire family must be dressed and ready even before presents get opened. Can you quantify ready for us? What does riddy mean? Ready means everyone needs to be shower, dress, you know, makeup on, basically photo ready. Before presents? And what time are presents being opened, Kelsey? mid to late morning by the time everyone's ready. I mean, like, that includes grandparents, kids, everyone.

Kids? What's the, how old's the youngest kid? Five. That kid's not putting any makeup on. So he's got to wait for you to slather on a whole face of makeup and have your musely and yogurt and brush your teeth before they can open a present. 100%, yep.

No. I see where you're thinking, though, Kelsey, because then all the photos and the videos and the video, Everyone's going to look, you know, their best. Yeah, definitely. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know how you're managing to hold off a five-year-old from opening any presents. Or holding off my husband who just wants to get in there like he was when he was a child. Right. So the rule's not so much for the kids. It's for the Eagerbeaver husband, Kelsey. Yeah. Oh, interesting. Good luck.

And at least you understand, because we ask for unreasonable rules. At least you understand that it's unreasonable, Kelsey. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. No, I like it. Here's a text. Someone said, my husband, we asked about your unreasonable relationship rule.

Someone said, my husband likes to stay up at night and have his own little me time. Oh, me too. My rule is that he has to come to bed with me as we go to bed together, as we, as in we go to bed together from Monday through to Thursday each week. and then he can have Friday, Saturday and Sunday to himself. I think it's fair enough. What do you think? I need more details. So she's responded.

She said, we both have a normal eight to four job. So it's not like she has to get up early. And she said, and I like to cuddle. Well, here's my questions. Here's my questions. What time are you going to bed? And what time would he be going to bed if he stayed up to have his time? Yeah, yeah.

What constitutes a stay-up way? my next question is do you have a TV in the room and are you okay if he wants to watch something while you cuddle him? Yeah, and you can cuddle him but he also gets to watch his telly if he wants to. That's compromise, isn't it? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. They're my questions. I don't think that rule is unreasonable. I think maybe you're doing him a favour too because at least he gets a good night's sleep Monday through Thursday. But like if she's going to bed, at 8 o'clock.

Oh, we've got more. Oh, no, that's a different person. Sorry, no, we'll come back to it. Like, if she's going to bed at 8.30, which I don't think she would be, but let's say she is. Yeah. And he doesn't normally... I can't live like this. Yeah.

And he's like, he just lays there awake for three hours. Okay, we've got more information. She said, I go to bed at 10pm. Okay. He likes to stay up until 12. No TV in the bedroom, but he doomskrolls in bed while cuddling me. which I'm fine with. Okay.

Right, so it's a two-hour difference. Two-hour difference, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I wonder if she would be open to having a TV in the room because I feel like then he would be more enticed to be like, yeah, I'll come to bed. We asked your unreasonable relationship rules. We'll just finish on this text. He's not allowed to fart.

That's disgusting. My farts are just a natural bodily function, and I can't be blamed for them. But he is not allowed. to fart. Wait, so you're allowed to fart and he's not? We said unreasonable. That's quite unreasonable, isn't it? And that's unreasonable. It's ZM's Brie and Clint podcast. How many? How many? How many? That's a good amount. Welcome to How Many. We're our producer Ella, who invented this game. Over a year ago,

reckons she's finally figured out how to explain the game that she invented. Go on, Ella. So Ella, explain the game. We have a caller who, um, oh, hang on, hang on, let me start again. No, no, no, okay. Each week, there is a different question for a caller to answer. That caller, based on what they know about all four of us, can choose who to go up against. And this is the game where if you have the most something, then you win. That's it, Ella.

That's it. That's all it is. people in details. Too many details. The game. It's hard. Lori is going to play today. Hi, Lori.

Hi, Lori. Hi, how are you? We're good. Thank you. Lori, I did explain it to you well on the phone, eh? Yeah, but like, yeah. We can keep a nice and easy for you, Lori. You just have to have the most something,

and today it steps in your skincare routine. So, Lori, when you're doing your face in the morning or the evening, How many steps are involved with that? How many products are you using? Do I say it? Yeah, yeah, you say it. You say it. Yeah, you say your number.

Yeah, how many? Four. Four? Can you run us through the process? Well, it's pretty basic, to be honest. But just like a face, like a hydrating face wash. Okay. and then some boisteriser,

and then some, like, a face mask, and then some under-eye cream as well. Lovely. That's pretty good. That's a pretty good routine. So, Laurie, you've got four. Your job now is to pick the member of the Bree and Clint team that you think you have more steps than, okay?

So do you think you do more than Claudia, more than producer Ella? More than Brie, or more than me, Clint? I'm just going to say Clint. You're going to say me? Yeah, yeah. Okay, lock it in. I think it's a smart choice, Lori.

Let's start with Ella. How many steps in your skincare routine, Ella? First of all, does water count? No. Okay, so one. One. One. One.

You would have won with Ella. Which one? Yeah, which one? Just some foaming cleanser. You don't moisturize after? No, Ryan tells me to her, my husband. But, you know, I forget. You don't use sunscreen?

I do. Oh, sorry, two. Two. Two. Wow. Claudia? It's the only thing I have a good number of steps on is my skincare routine. I've got six.

Sex. Yeah, that's a lot. We talked about Bree's on Friday because it's outrageous. Bree, your number? I don't think it's that outrageous. I got eight. That's a lot. So you want a loss if you'd picked Claudia.

Says the 25-year-old. I don't know what that means. I feel like you say, Lori. I feel like you're safe, picking clean. You chose me, and if I have less than four, you win, I can confirm. I have a two-step, two-step skincare routine. I cleanse and I moisturise. Oh, nice.

And there's sunscreen and my moisturiser. So, Lori, that means you've won. Yay, woo-hoo. Lori's like, I'm still confused by the description. Ella confused her so much that she doesn't know whether to be happy or sad. You won. Yay, thank you so nice. You're welcome.

There were more steps in Ella's explanation than in her skin care routine. We know, Brian, I was like, oh, wait, what am I doing? Yeah, exactly, I know. Sorry. Yeah. She will put Laura in time out for five minutes, okay, Lori? Oh, no, I see you so much. Okay, fine.

Go and give her one more go. Okay, Ella, one more time. Explain the game. To have the most of today's item. A. Pretty good. Who said you can't teach it there? I can't teach the Gen Z's new tricks.

No, I don't know. It's ZM's Brinklin podcast. Big news, the big news in the music world today is this headline. One of the biggest pop bands of the 2000s is rumored to be reuniting. Oh, this tickles my fancy. They are one of the world's highest selling girl groups of all time, formed in 2003. and that band is the Pussy Cat Dolls Don't you wish your girlfriend was wrong like me

Don't you wish That's exciting Remember they broke up because they all hated each other That's right One of the Pussies has spoken out over the weekend And she said the girls have sorted out their issues And they are discussing a world tour for the PCDs Which let me break that down

Let me translate for you They all need a bit of money So they're going to get over their differences and just get on with it. And they've convinced Nicole to be a part of it. Yes. Biggest pop group of the 2000s, one of the biggest female pop groups. Oh, they were massive.

They had so many hits. So my challenge for you, three pop divas this afternoon, is name one pussycat doll other than Nicole Scherzinger. And I will give the person who can successfully do this $20 cash. I want to say, and this isn't just a guess, I'm pretty sure there was one name Melody. Okay. But that would be my best guess.

Okay, you're going to lock in Melody. Melody. Okay. Lock it in. Lock it in. Claudia, give me a pussycat doll. I'm going to say. Come on, they're right in your wheelhouse.

They're right in your youth. They're so are. You love pop music. The name Lauren is coming to mind. You want to lock in Lauren for a pussycat doll. Plausible. There could be a Lauren. Or you might be thinking of Fifth Harmony.

Yeah, you might be right. Yeah. There's more than one Lauren out there. Yeah, there's he's a lot of. Lauren. Lauren, sounds like a girl band name. Sure, yeah. Ella, born two years before the pussycat doll's inception.

Yeah. Name a pussycat doll for us. Weirdly, I grew up with a cousin who loved the pussycat doll. Really? Okay. So I can't, his last name, I don't know a last name, but I know the Ashley. You're going to go with Ashley? That sounds familiar. Okay, we're going to go with Ashley.

Yeah? So what have we got? Melody, Lauren, or Ashley? I will now run through the list of PussyCat Dolls past and present. Okay. We have Nicole. We have Carmit. Carmit.

We have Kimberly. We have Jessica. Oh, that would have been a... God, that was the other basic white girl name. We have Ashley. Yay. Forget it, Ella. We have Asia.

But how many were there? We have Sia. Sia with the hair. No, C-Y-I-A. Oh, see-ya. See-ya. And we have Melody. Oh, yeah.

I'm the loser. So, Bree, I have $20 cash for you. What? And Ella, I have $20 Fijian dollars. for you. Sorry, that's all I got left. I didn't expect you both to get one. You can have the 20, Ella. No, I cheated. It's all good. Oh!

I didn't want to accuse her of it during the game, but I had a feeling. Can I say I did not cheat? What was my one prerequisite before we did the show today? Do not look at any stories to do with the posterity. Do not Google. I just Google then. Can I say I did

not? You've broken my trust, Ella? I told you. At least she came plain. It's all in fun. Enjoy the rest of the show. on 50% volume. Ella, have I taught you nothing? Die with the lie. That was exhilarating. Well, the Ella can't hear you, sorry.

She got you. She got you good. Can't believe none of you guys got Asia or Carmet. Oh, Carmet's a classic. Yeah, Carmet. Carmet was my favourite pussy. Oh, we just love Ashley.

Anyway, watch this space. Brinklin. Welcome to middle name roulette. Here's how it's going to work. A list has been released of the most common middle names for boys and girls. Yeah. And all I'm going to do, we're going to bring the person on. And I'm going to run through the most common middle name list.

Yeah. And if your middle name's not on there, you win. All right, please. Welcome to the show, Savannah. Hi, Savannah. Hello. Do you have a double barrel first? First name, or is that your middle name that we're looking at on the screen there?

No, my first name is hyphenated, so it's Savannah Rose. Okay. No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't say your middle name yet. I'm going to run through the list. Hold your cards. Hold your cards, Savannah Rose. Yeah.

Okay. Are you ready, Savannah? If you hear your middle name, you yell out, stop. Okay. Louise, Rose, Grace, Jane, Elizabeth, Anne, May, Mary, Mary, Marie, Amy, Catherine, Victoria, Kate, Claire, Nicole. No, you didn't say it. You win.

You win, Savannah Rose. You have got Rose in your first name. And it is the second part of your first name. Hyphenated. Hyphenated, guys, remember hyphenated. Thank you, Savannah Rose. We didn't find out what her middle name was. Oh, Savannah Rose, what is your middle name?

It is Isabella. Isabella. That's such a good middle name. It's a classic too. Close to Elizabeth. Got to imagine if her name was Savannah Rose Rose. I'd love that. Harriet's here.

Hi Harriet. Hi Harriet. Hi. All right. Welcome to middle name roulette. Harriet. You tell me if any of these are your middle name, okay? Louise, Rose, Grace, Jane, Elizabeth, Anne, May, Marie, Mary, Amy,

Amy, Catherine, Victoria, Kate, Claire, Nicole. No. No. What's yours, Harry? Harriet. Ruby. Ruby, that's quite unique, I would say, for a middle name. Clint's rolling his eyes.

I don't know. I'm trying to figure it out. I'm not rolling my eyes. Like, think, have you ever heard of someone with the middle name? No, not as a middle name. No, not as a middle name. No. Okay, thanks, Harriet.

Thanks, Harriet. You win as well. Should we do a boy? Yeah, let's do a boy. Let's go to Joshua. Hi, Joshua. Hi, Joshua. Hey, yeah.

We haven't heard the list of most common boys. middle names yet. Do you think your middle name is fairly common or quite unique, Joshua? It's quite unique. Okay, well here's the list for you. This isn't going to go well. Okay, you tell me stop if any of these are your middle name. James, John, William, Thomas, David, Robert, Edward, Peter, Lee, Christopher, Alexander, Michael and Daniel. No, none of those. What's your middle name, Joshua? Warren. Oh, Warren. Warren. That's got to be your granddad's name, right?

It is. Yeah. Didn't we have a story a couple of years ago where they thought that the name Warren was going to be extinct? Yes, we did. Remember? Yeah, yeah. Are you going to hand Warren down to your children, Joshua? No, we didn't. Joshua's like, not a chance.

And that's why it's going extinct. Can we find someone with one of the middle names? Penny's here. Hi, Penny. Hi, Penny. Hi. What's your middle name, Penny? Jane.

Jane. It's on the list. It's on the list. It's on the list. It's on the list. Finally, we got one. Nice, Penny. Do you ever wish you had a more unique middle name or you're happy with Jane?

Well, Jane's my grandmother's name and now I have a granddaughter who's Nala Jane, so no. Oh, cute. You've got to keep it going, Penny, Jane. Yeah, I love that. All right, one more. Samantha. Hi, Samantha. Hi, how good thanks.

Good, thanks. What's your middle name, Samantha? I've actually got two. Okay. Oh, I hope they're both on that list. We are? No, only one. So, Esther, Ann.

Esther Ann. So we got one. Thanks, Samantha. Someone's texting to say, disappointed to hear my middle name May is so mediocre. No, that's not what it is. It's popular, okay? And things are only popular when they're good.

Basic, it's basic. How did my middle name Paul not make the list? Wait, did Paul not make the list? That's common as Mark, my middle name, isn't it? Yeah, Paul wasn't on there? Yeah. Weird. Someone's texted in and said,

Oh God, I hate the middle name conversation. My middle name is A-N-A-I-S. It's French. Please don't butcher it. Sorry, is it anise? Say it in French. Enis. I think it's a noose.

My name is Anus. Jemapel Anus. They're going to get another complaint. Is that all bag it? In my... Chikabar. ZD.N's Brie and Clint podcast. All I want to my birthday is a birthday banger.

Your birthday banger is your number one song. when you were 16, we figure it out here, and then we play our favorite one. We've just had a little preview of today's birthday banger, powerhouse. A lot of powerhouse birthday banners. Yeah, we'll start with Danielle. Good afternoon, Danielle. Hi, Danielle. Hi, Danielle. How was your weekend, mate?

Very good. I just have to say, we're long time, no, we're the long time, business. We're lucky. Yeah. and Cole, Danielle. Who else is there with you? Give them a shout out. I've got Miller, my son and Olive, my daughter. Hi, Miller and Olive. Hi, Miller. Hi, Olive. Hi, guys. Thanks for getting mum to call through. Let's hope she wins. Well, we tried to get through for the last name because we've got a unique last name, so that we didn't get through for that, but we got through for this. Great. Well, this might be a sign that you're going to win. Let's see. What is your birthday, Danielle?

20 years of the 11th, 1986. All right. That means you were 16. in 2002 and we've done our calculations here's your birthday banger oh yeah oh Danielle you can't go wrong yeah drop it low while you're making family dinner

Danielle you get Christina Aguilera and Dirty do you like it? Yes love it yes it's a naked what it's dirty X Tina Oh, sorry, X-Tina and Dirty.

That's a good one, Danielle. My bad. Wait there, we're going to do Alana's birthday banger. Hi, Alana. Hi, Alana. Hi. What did you do for your weekend? Oh, a lot of socialising, a lot of time in the swimming pool.

It's been a good one. Oh, how good. That sounds lush. Let's do you birthday banger. Alana, what's your day to birth? 3015, 1985. That means you were 16 in 2001. And on that day, this was number one.

Another turn of the millennium pop banger from Kylie Minogue. Kylie Minogue, what do you reckon, Alana? Oh, pretty good banger. I can't complain too much. I think it's good. I love a bit of Kylie. Yeah. She's an icon.

That's timeless for me. Wait there. One more for Amanda. Hi Amanda. Hi, Amanda. Hi, guys. How are you? We're good, mate.

What did you do for your weekend, Amanda? Oh, I just chilled with the kids and the family this weekend. It was pretty nice. Oh, lovely. How wholesome of you guys. How wholesome. What is your birthday, Amanda? I have the birthday of 23 February, 1987.

All right. That means you were 16 in 2003. And Amanda, on that day, this was number one. Tartu, and all the things she said. What do you reckon, Amanda? I mean, it's a great banger. There's some tough competition today. I reckon.

It's a good one, though, yes. One hit, wonder. All the girls, and all the girls playing today, too. We've got a banger from 2001, 2001, 2002 and 2003. I'm liking this. But what is it going to be? It's easy for me. No doubt, no question.

I've got to go dirty ex-Tena. Danielle Miller and Olive have done it for me I have to agree with you Yes Danielle Yes You're going to have to turn this one up for the kids

And give them a full history lesson Okay, you've just won birthday banger You're bloody ripper You guys enjoy that, hey? Birthday banger champions today Here it comes From the year 2002 number one

I just check it's not today oh no it was last week Christina Aguilera and Dirty on Zid M with Brinclin You ain't here to party Ladies Moor Gentleman

Greenclin That's the winner That's the winner of birthday bang of today For Danielle and the kids Dirty by X-Tina From the year 2002 True story

After this came out And I was obsessed with it Yeah Obsessed I went and got my nose piss Is that when you got your nose pierce Were you tempted to get the Was it braids or dreads that she had

Was it braids or dreads? They were dreads I think it was dreads Dreads with bits of like material in them to make them colourful I knew my limits, I thought, can I pull off a nose ring? Maybe. Can I pull off dreads? Absolutely not. You could have pulled off the bikini and cowboy chaps.

Yeah, no, the arseless chaps I wore day to day. Yeah, yeah. I've seen this to you before. I take real umbrage with the term arsless chaps, because aren't all chaps arsless? Yeah. If it had an ars in it, it wouldn't be a pair of chaps, would it? Yeah, but I just think it's more fun to say.

Oh, it's a nice bit to include. Yeah, it gives a bit of visual. It's like saying fingered gloves. Yeah. Arseless chaps. This is a dodgy territory. I think we need to be careful here. It's a Monday.

We've got four more days after this. They could easily take us off the year. We've just got to get to Christmas. That's our goal. Z-Ems, Branclin. All right, guys, be honest with me. Who's addicted to their phone? Oh, I'm beyond lying about it.

I absolutely am. Every week, I get that. You know the pop-up that comes up about your screen usage? Yes. every week my screen usage goes up by an hour and I don't understand how it can continue to go up by an hour every week. Like I could not be on my phone more and yet every week it's like you used your phone for one hour and five minutes more than the previous way. You're like how? How?

There's not enough hours in the day. Did they add an hour to the week? Yeah, it's quite concerning, isn't it? Producers, you're addicted to your phone? Yes. I literally try not to go on it in the morning and then I get that, you know, when you're addicted to something and you get the it. Oh, it's so bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just the do scrolling for me where I just get caught. Just the time wasting. Oh, it's awful. So we're always looking for, you know, different hacks and new ways to stop us going on our phones. Do you remember what the big one was a couple of years ago was to turn your screen black and white to make it less enticing? Oh, that's the one I've got today. Oh, is it? Well, it's gray scale.

Gray scale, yeah, yeah. Gray scale. If you look at my phone right now. Yeah. No. Do you notice? Yeah. So essentially...

So this is an updated version. They must have released an update because... So it's not black and white. It's not black and white. And I wouldn't call it greyscale either. It's just sucked all the vibrancy out of the colour. Exactly. So I've looked into the psychology behind this.

Yeah. So the theory is if you turn your phone to grey scale mode, you reduce your smartphone addiction and improve focus by making the screen less visually stimulating and less rewarding. Yeah. And less rewarding to the brain. Reward Systems. So I'm just having a look, because my problem was it made, like, things like Instagram

less exciting, which is the idea. Makes it way less exciting. So I'm just having a look through your camera roll now. Don't look at the, why are you looking through my camera roll? That's no, no, remember what happened last time? I, so, I know we joke a lot. I'm genuinely concerned about the amount of time I spend on my time. I know you are because you mention it so much.

I have tried this before. And did it work? So I believe it would work, but it will still require you breaking the addiction. That's the thing. Because your brain initially will go, man, this phone sucks, bro. Do you know if you go into your settings, you can just turn it back to how it used to be? Just do it, man. See, I've found my brain do that.

Just give yourself an hour. I've found my brain do that like multiple times since changing it. Yeah. And I've forced myself not to. And I genuinely think it definitely detours me from going on my phone as much because it's so boring. I need to be able to take my phone into the Spark Store and have them set it to grey scale and then lock it.

And then lock that setting down. And I think they should offer that as a service. Because I need to be saved from myself. You know what I've noticed since doing it? I mean, I've only had it for, this will be my third day. I find myself looking at the window more. Oh my God. I know that sounds real like whatever, but it's so much more.

Are you re-engaging with the real world? I think I am. Are you re-entering reality? Because like when looking at like a boring, you know, like grey scale, and then I look out the window and then I was just kind of like, oh, this is so pretty outside the window. I'm going to do it. Okay, so this is how you do it.

So it'll be in your settings app, and I think you get it through accessibility, if you're listening and you want to do this. So go to accessibility, select, display and text size and then in there it'll have something called color filters yeah and you can toggle on the color filters um to essentially you can do like 70% gray scale or 80 or you know depending on how much yeah depending on how dull you want to go yeah um i think i put mine at like 60 because ease yourself a no yeah yeah yeah like don't go too hard too soon so when you're coming

off the sigs you've got to go on the vapes for a bit. No, that's not good advice. That's why I can't, my addiction to my phone is how I know that I should never try hard drugs. I've got such an addictive personality. Oh, it's bad. Oh, my God. So bad. Like, I get addicted to, like, meals.

Like, I do. Like, I'll get addicted to a certain meal and I'll just eat the crap out of it for, like, every second days. You got addicted to sambas last year. You bought, like, eight pairs of sambas. I did not. You did, and then you went on DHG and you bought like three pairs of fake sambas because you spent so much money on sambas

that you ran out of it. You blew your samba budget, so you had to get some discount sambors. Remember that? I have ADHD. And then all of a sudden, Bruce shows up to work with all the sambas and she's like,

they're not cool anymore, guys. Who wants sambas? I gave him to Gloria. You gave me two pairs. Hey, this isn't about me. Is that the brightness

on your phone down? Z&M's Brean Clint podcast. My phone is on grey scale by the way. How's it going? Sucks. So boring, eh?

I'm looking at Instagram and I'm like, man, I can't believe this used to be my favourite app. It's like... It's so boring. Pictureing what they watched back in the day when TVs first came out. No, it's not because they didn't know how good it could be.

Oh, true. We do. Yeah, well, they kind of did because they could see real life in colour. that could be on their screen. Yeah, right. Anyway, I'm going to give it a go.

I'm going to give it a serious go. Give it at home. Okay, I'll give it at least the next 24 hours. Okay. And I'll report back tomorrow. I will. I'll report back tomorrow. Okay.

Over the weekend, I went to a funeral. You may have seen in the news, a friend of ours, Guy Williams, dad passed away. And if you have followed Guy's career, either on Jono and Ben, or when he was on the radio, or even on his New Zealand Today show, Gary Williams, his dad, Absolutely, jeaned. Yeah, just such a good bloke.

Such a good bloke. So funny. Yeah, you can see where all the kids got it from. Oh, absolutely. Very funny guy. There's such a great family as well. I was so gutted when I read this news because I was away and I couldn't believe it. Yeah.

Awful, awful news. Very sad news. Very, what's the right word? I don't want to say very happy funeral because obviously a funeral is sad. But, you know, everyone says they want their. celebration, their funeral will be a celebration of their life? I think you can describe it as it was a good vibes funeral. Oh my God, it was the best vibes at a funeral I have ever experienced.

And I don't mean that. I mean that with all respect. It just, I've never said this before. The funeral went off. Guy Williams' dad's funeral absolutely went off. At the end of it, I was sitting next to John O'Pryor and he said, you would have paid for tickets to that show. That was a good funeral. It was a bloody good funeral.

What did they all, did all the siblings get up and do five? Maria Paul from Taskmaster, Paul from Taskmaster, and Guy all got up. Because they're all comedians. They're all comedians. They're all super talented. Gary's dad's friends from school, also very funny as well. It was in a Catholic church, the priest, very funny. Anyway, I'm not trying to give personal details into what was a very personal day, but I guess

I just had, I didn't mean to. The bit for me was there's kind of been a running gag over the course of mining guys' friendships that we're morphing at least appearance-wise into the same person and ever since I got glasses that has not helped with this tall white guys with glasses

and stubble, you know? Is this why one of you got circumcised? Yeah, that's what we, yep, so yeah. Because you're morphing into each other. Jesus, Bree. Yeah, so our partners could tell us apart. At the funeral, I was standing with Sharon

at the door and it didn't help that we were standing at the door as well but more than a few guests who arrived and of course I thought you were Guy especially some of the older guests and they came over to me at the

door and they put their hands on my hands and they went and they went oh guy and I had to go no no no not Guy Clint and they went oh sorry after the third person mistook me for Guy

at Guy's dad's funeral Sharon goes Just go with it man Yeah don't say anything And I said no you don't go with it Yeah go with it No you don't accept somebody's condolences On behalf at the funeral

Because guys are going to get up and speak And they'll be like Wait there was a guy standing at the door pretending to be you That's not what he was wearing You can't just go with it They're not going to notice You just let him

Let him go out of thank you much appreciate. Well, it was a bizarre experience anyway. So I went and stood somewhere else because it did seem like I was greeting people in the place that I was standing. Yeah, well, you put yourself in that position, didn't you? Anyway.

You know what would have come in handy? What? You could have whipped your pants off. Oh, Brie. No, inappropriate. It's in a funeral, that isn't it? You know who would have laughed? Gary.

Gary would have laughed at that. Rest in peace, Gary Williams. RIP to the Great Man, Brian Clint. The Z.M. Guys, guess what I made last night? One of those macaroni necklaces. You slide the bits of macaroni onto the string. No, but I ate one of those once when I got stuck under the cupboard when I was a kid.

Did you? Yeah. Did you boil it first? No, it was hard. Ew. I pulled it off a card. Oh, okay. Yeah.

You pulled the necklace off the card. No, you know when we used to glue macaroni onto a car? Oh, that's different. You ate dry macaroni with glue on it. I was talking about a macaroni necklace. Okay, which has no glow on it. Mine, completely edible. Yours, still edible.

What, like you've never eaten glue before? Not on purpose. Don't recommend eating glue kids, if you're listening. Anyway, what did you make? I made, I don't know if anyone has seen the trend, but I made an onion boil. Oh, that sounds disgusting. That sounds like something that needs lancing.

No, it's yum. So good. So essentially you get a whole onion and you cut the tops off and then you like core out the middle and then you shove butter into the middle of it and then you put all these different spices on it Oh, it's going viral. So that sounds nice.

And then you bake it. Can I give it a more appetising name please? Yeah. There's also cabbage boil or lettuce boil. Oh, that's the next thing. Yeah, no, that's not for me. What are you vegans putting inside your onion boil? I was thinking that because I want to give it a go.

Yeah. You could do just like olive oil? Olive oil? Yeah, I don't know. I want it to be Because I love onion You could do You could do nutlex

Oh yeah Nutelex Oh is it called Nutelex Where you always called it Nutlex Korn in it Oh Quorn

Yeah yeah I love a good Corn And that's corn And that's corn with a cue Don't you guys make your pizza bases out of cauliflower You could put cauliflower in it

Hey don't knock it I quite like a cauliflower base You would No And that's the last bad thing That'll be said on the show today See you guys tomorrow Play ZM's

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