ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM's Bree & Clint Podcast - 6th September 2023
Episode Date: September 6, 2023Does your job match your name? (7:18) Top 10 movies if you want to cry your eyes out (15:29) Matty's bathroom advice (34:54) Your hobby is not the vibe (47:33) AI predicts the world cup winner (58:41...) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A few months back, a man caused about 60 Ks worth of damage on the roof.
If someone tried to climb it now, they'd be zapped with 240 volts.
Nobody has more Taylor Swift tickets than ZM.
Listen to win yours today.
ZM, Brie and Clint.
With guest host, Maddie McLean.
Good evening. G'day everybody, welcome to another edition of the Maddie and Friends show with Maddie.
Maddie is the guest on the Maddie and Friends show.
What does that make me?
The facilitator.
Yeah.
You're the side piece.
Your rule, we established that yesterday.
Yeah.
That story in the news where Leo Malloy's put a 240 volt electric fence on the roof
of his Auckland Viaduct bar.
Is that a lot? 240
volts? It sounds like a lot
to me. Because I thought
they were going to say 240,000 volts
or something like that. Is that a
Can someone, I mean I asked
you but, can someone
truly rural text us and tell us if
240 volts is a lot?
Not that I'm looking to try and get on the roof of Leo Malloy's bar.
I'm just curious.
A 240 volt shock may not feel any worse than a 120 volt shock, but either voltage can cause injury.
Right.
So it sounds like it might be double what a standard electric fence is.
Is that where we think we're?
Possibly?
It's the one we use for bulls, maybe.
Someone said it's not a lot.
We run fences that are over 10,000 volts.
Oh.
Yeah, but where do you work?
What is that fence for?
Is that for animals?
Is that for prisoners?
Yeah, hard to know.
Should we go on the roof of the overlays bar? Later on this afternoon, Clint's going to test the theory.
Text 9696, which one of us do you want to scale the roof
of headquarters in the Viaduct this afternoon
to test out the electric fence?
Text Clint or Matty to 9696.
Today on the show, another dimble pass.
Our third to last, Taylor Swift dimble pass.
Oh, man.
Going at four o'clock. You can score that one.
Matty, you said you might be there
for the Taylor Swift shows. I'm hoping to be
there. You might get sent there for work. I'm working
on it. Must be nice. I'm putting
I'm doing the hard yards.
Yeah, he's on the graft. Yeah.
So that'll happen at four o'clock. Let's kick
things off with Tradie vs Lady and
give away 50 bucks cash right now.
I've got your questions ready to go.
The ladies are ahead,
but I reckon the tradies could claw their way back.
240 volts is your house voltage.
It would kill you easily.
Oh, God.
Okay.
It's not the volts that kill you, it's the amps.
Okay.
Okay. All right. Make sure you text Mad's the amps. Okay. Okay.
All right.
Make sure you text Maddie in to 9696
to go test that electric fence.
I'm a lot less keen.
Z-Ams for Franklin.
With guest host Maddie McLean.
It's Trady versus Lady.
Three, two, one, let's go.
Have you been updating the scoreboard?
I have.
You have?
Okay, sweet.
Because I haven't.
It's 72 points to the tradies
and 80 points to the ladies.
I take this very seriously.
Do you?
Oh, yeah.
Who do you root for?
The underdog.
So you're a tradie man?
At the moment,
but I'm fickle.
Okay.
All right.
I'll turn on a dime.
Let's see how we go then.
Let's bring our lady on from Kaia Poi.
She is 23 years old and she plays bingo every Wednesday.
Welcome to the show, Bailey.
Bingo is one of those things where I want to play because I think I would enjoy it,
but I never do.
Well, where would you play bingo in central Auckland?
Yeah, where would I play bingo, Bailey?
Is bingo great, Bailey?
It is.
Yeah.
And where do you go?
It's underrated.
Where do I play?
If you're in Auckland, I'd say there'd be heaps.
Maybe at the RSA?
Yeah.
Yeah.
How's your bingo wings?
Great.
Yeah, nice.
I might keep some money doing it. Oh, nice. What are bingo wings? You don't know what bingo wings? Great. Yeah, nice. I might keep some money doing it.
Oh, nice.
What are bingo wings?
You don't know what bingo wings are?
No.
I'm not going to explain it.
It's rude.
Let's meet our tradies today.
They're calling from Wellington.
They're 59 years old, and they've been trying to win Taylor Swift tickets.
Welcome to the show, Angie.
G'day there.
Would 50 KFC chicken dollars count instead, Angie?
That'd be handy, but, you know, I'm still going to play.
Yeah, you can win both today.
There's no rule against that.
It's 50 real dollars as well, by the way, thanks to KFC.
Bailey, your buzzer is lady.
Angie, your buzzer is tradie.
First to three correct answers wins.
Let's do this thing.
Question number one.
Actor David Hasselhoff has been spotted over on Stewart Island.
Name the 90s beach-based TV show he starred in.
Lady?
Yeah, Bailey.
Oh, what's it called?
Is it...
Oh, my God.
I just had it on my head.
I'll be ready.
I'll be ready. I'll be ready.
Slow-mo running down the beach.
Come on, Angie.
You must know this.
Oh, look.
I've got Knight Rider in my head, mate.
Pamela Anderson.
Red Togs.
Yes.
Seattle.
No.
Baywatch, guys.
Baywatch.
It's so easy.
I'm really disappointed in both of you.
But we'll continue on.
Question number two.
All-black Geordie Barrett is on the mend for the Rugby World Cup after a knee injury.
Name one of his rugby-playing brothers.
Trady.
Angie.
Bowden.
Bowden.
I'll take Bowden.
I would have also accepted Scott.
Yeah.
There's another one too, but I forget his name.
Yeah.
It's like the fourth Hemsworth brother, right?
Yeah, exactly right.
Or the fourth Jonas brother.
Question number three.
New Zealand's most expensive house just sold in Queenstown, $40 million.
Sheesh.
Is Queenstown part of Southland or Otago?
Lady.
Bailey.
Otago.
Well done.
It's one apiece.
Question number four.
Yes or no, is there a public holiday this month?
Lady.
Bailey.
No.
Correct.
It's two points to the ladies, one point to the tradies.
You can still do this, Angie, but Bailey, you could take it out here.
Question number five, name this song.
How do you sleep when you lie to me?
All that shame and all that danger.
I'm hoping that my love will keep you up.
Or just give us the name of the singer.
Sam Smith, lady.
Bailey, what is it?
Sam Smith.
Sam Smith.
Well done.
She's a lady.
Well done, Bailey.
She's a lady.
Thank you.
Tough game, but we got there in the end.
We did, we did, we did.
It's a lady victory.
Congratulations, Bailey.
Thank you.
And Angie, we'll talk to you at four o'clock
for those Taylor Swift tickets, yeah?
Yes, fingers crossed.
Yeah, it's written in the stars.
You weren't meant to win that one.
You're going to win the next one.
Okay, thanks, guys.
Perfect.
Bye.
See ya.
Brian Clint with Maddie.
Here's Doja.
ZM's Brian Clint with guest host Maddie McLean.
Just sidebar, Maddie and I are on a quest to get an All Black on the show this Friday.
An All Black each, head of the World Cup starting.
My All Black is just text and confirmed.
Oh, so you're direct to the source.
I'm direct to the source.
You've got said All Black's personal number.
Yeah.
I text them and I said, any chance?
I said, kia ora, bro.
Oh, very personable.
Any chance I could get you on the phone this Friday on ZM?
And they just text back and they said, yep, easy, brother.
What time? Easy, brother. What time?
Easy, brother.
So over to you, Matty.
My issue is I have a number of people I could try for
and I can't decide which avenue to go down.
Yeah.
Well, tick tock, okay?
You've got till Friday to secure your All Black.
Okay.
In the meantime, i was drawn to a
sometimes a headline will just lure you into a story right and this one just got me because it
has to do with a crazy story but also a really weird coincidence that goes with the story as well. Yeah. The headline reads, a woman named Mrs. Honeycomb
attacked by swarm of angry bees.
Wait, wait, that's not funny.
She's fine.
Okay.
So, yeah.
She's okay.
But it was quite serious.
She was stung more than 60 times
by a swarm of bees in the Channel Islands.
Jeez.
So she had to go to hospital and be put in an intravenous drip.
But she's fine now.
But then I just thought, how wild.
Like of all the people to get stung by a swarm of bees, Mrs. Honeycomb.
Yeah, it's almost like she was asking for it.
Couldn't happen to...
As a nurse in that hospital, you'd pick up the chart at the end of the bed
and you'd see the person swollen from head to toe with bee stings
and you'd look at the chart and you'd go, no.
Yes.
No, someone's having a laugh.
But this is true.
This really, really happened
Wow, yeah
The only thing that would make it more perfect
Is if Miss Honeycomb kept bees
Yes
You know?
Yes
And she presented to A&E
With a jar of her own honey
Mrs. Honeycomb's honey
From the bees that she was attacked by.
Which, ironically, is the perfect balm for the bee stings.
Mrs. Honeycomb's covered in honeycomb's honey straight from the comb.
We've talked about this before, and it's very funny
because some of the ones you get are too good.
Way too good.
Way too good.
We want to hear about those times where people's name matches their job or their situations.
Or what happened to them.
Yes.
You know, because there are so many, so many.
Do you have an electrician called Mr. Sparks or David Wire?
Oh, no.
Or was Mrs. English
Your English teacher
See that's better
Mrs. English
Did I have
Did I
Am I making that up
In my head
Did I have Mrs. English
I can't remember now
They'll be out there
That's definitely out there
Let's get them in
0800 dials at M
Or text them to
9696
Much like Mrs. Honeycomb, the bee sting victim.
When did the name match the job or the life or the thing that happened to them?
ZM's Brian Clint.
With Maddie McLean.
This is so good.
This comes off the back of a story about a woman in the US called Mrs. Honeycomb
who went to hospital because she was stung by a swarm of bees.
She's fine, so we can laugh at the story.
You're allowed to laugh.
We've been asking you for your examples, and my
God, are there some good ones.
My husband's grandfather,
Roy Flight, was a Spitfire
pilot in World War II.
He was Flight Sergeant Flight.
Flight Sergeant Flight
is so good.
I used to work in a butchery and my boss's last name was Lamb.
His brother was also a butcher.
The Lamb Butcher.
My daughter's food tech teacher is called Miss Buttery.
No way.
That's good. The head gardener at Hamilton Gardens' name is Gus Flower.
That's so good.
Kylie's here.
Hi, Kylie.
Hi, guys.
When did the name match the job, Kylie?
My dad was a milkman when we were little kids,
and his boss was Mr. Trim.
Mr. Trim.
Well, I thought it was funny.
He's made for the job.
100%.
Absolutely, okay.
Thank you, Kylie.
Let's talk to Paris on our $800.
G'day, Paris.
Oh, hello.
When did the name match the job?
So my boss at work is literally called Boss.
That's his first name.
Wait, the first name is Boss?
No, it's his actual first name.
Even on his ID, it says Boss.
So he was destined to become a manager.
Some would say different.
I hope he's not listening.
You're saying Boss is not cut out to be the boss, Paris.
It's a secret we'll keep between us.
Even if they demote the guy, the name tag will still say boss.
Yeah, it'll still say boss.
Thank you, Paris.
Let's talk to Dot.
Kia ora, Dot.
Hi, how are you today?
Good, how are you?
Good.
When did the name fit the job, Dot?
Well, we had a vet when I was younger,
and his name was Dr. Death.
Oh.
So I guess when it was putting animals down.
I don't want my cat to see Dr. Death.
No, that's grim.
I don't.
I'm sorry.
I'll skip that one.
That's grim.
Well, it was probably pronounced the-ath,
but when you read it, it's death.
The-ath.
Yeah.
Was he good at his job, though?
I would presume so.
Yeah.
You'd have to be, right?
Well, what qualifies as good when your name is Dr. Death?
But you'd work extra hard.
You'd be like, not on my bloody watch.
He's like, I am good.
I am really good.
Thank you, Dot.
We appreciate it.
When I joined the army,
I joined with a guy whose last name was Eyes,
so he was Private Eyes.
Oh, that's good.
Ryan, my husband, texted me and said my science teacher was called Miss Gas.
No way.
Yeah.
Jeez.
A lot of unfortunate professions that person could have gone.
Let's go to Alex on the phone lines.
Hi, Alex.
Hi, how are you going?
Good.
What was the name and how did it fit the job?
So back in intermediate, I had two teachers with names like this.
Cooking teacher was called Mrs. Ham.
Honestly, really?
Honestly.
Okay.
Honestly, no joke.
And an arts teacher called Mrs. Patton.
You had an arts teacher called Mrs. Patton? You had an art teacher called Mrs. Patton?
Yeah.
And they're both at the same school.
Did they laugh at the joke?
Did they get it?
Oh, yeah, they were pretty good.
You've got to lean into it.
You've got to lean into it.
Everyone else is laughing.
You might as well join the conversation.
Thank you, Alex.
Exactly.
We appreciate it. Ronald McDonald was our food the conversation. Thank you, Alex. Exactly. We appreciate it.
Ronald McDonald was our food and beverage manager.
No, he was not. He was not.
How stupid do you think we are?
But I do love this one.
We're the Lemons.
Their last name is Lemon, and we live on Citrus Avenue.
That's cute, that one.
Super cute.
My sister-in-law is a pharmacist, and one day she came home saying a lady called Fanny
was picking up cream or medication for her Fanny area.
That's a different take.
Hang on, isn't that doctor-patient confidentiality?
Isn't that a breach?
You're not allowed to.
You're not allowed to tell your sister about Mrs. Fanny's Fanny area.
Especially not when you're naming her.
Like, you can't put those two together
You know me, Clint
We've known each other for a long time
I am very much a wear my heart on my sleeve kind of a guy
Correct
But in saying that
It used to be very hard
To get me to cry in movies, TV shows
I would feel sad, sure But to get me to cry in movies, TV shows. I would feel sad, sure,
but to get me to actually shed tears in them,
it didn't happen very often.
It was very rare.
Really?
I feel like you cried during Desperate Housewives.
No.
When we were at university.
Maybe I did.
The gardener is just so hot.
He's so hot.
No, at university,
I was pretending
To really be
Into Eva Longoria
Yeah yeah yeah
That's right
We bought it too
Okay well maybe
Maybe I'm
Maybe I'm remembering
Things incorrectly
But what I do know
Is that the older I've got
The easier
I'm finding it
To cry in things
Me too
Especially since Having children Like I It only takes a spark I've got, the easier I'm finding it to cry and things. Me too, especially since
having children. Like I, it only
takes a spark ad about
Mother's Day, Father's Day
and I'm a blubbering mess.
Well guess what got me the other night?
What? Grand Designs.
The Kevin MacLeod edition?
The Kevin MacLeod edition. That's the good one, so I can see that.
It was just a beautiful story
about this couple that had been together for so long.
And Ryan, who is dead inside, just emotionless,
doesn't show emotion at all, looked over to me at one point
and went, you've got to be kidding me.
He's like, another television show we can't watch?
Yeah.
But I maintain that sometimes having a good old cry
is really good for the soul.
I don't ever look for it,
but I know people who will say, I need to have a cry.
I need something to have a cry to.
I don't look for it either, but sometimes once it happens,
like if I get to the end of the Grand Designs episode,
I'm like, oh, that was good.
That felt good.
So I thought for those of us who do enjoy a good cry from time to time,
I thought I wonder what the top movies to make you cry are.
That almost guaranteed to make you cry.
Almost guaranteed to get you to cry.
Well, I found the definitive list.
It's called the top tens.
Okay.
And it ranks the top tens of so many different things.
But this one is specifically the top ten movies to make you cry.
Perfect.
If you don't want to cry, especially if you're new to dating somebody, you're not ready to
cry in front of them.
These are the movies to avoid.
Yeah.
Don't watch these movies.
Perfect.
Number ten is Schindler's List.
Very sad,
very depressing.
Okay.
There's a lot going on.
And also not a date movie.
Hey babe,
come on over,
we're going to watch
Schindler's List.
Oh yeah,
what's it about?
Yeah,
cool.
Number nine
is a throwback
My Girl
Oh, no, yes
Macaulay Culkin
It was Macaulay Culkin, wasn't it?
Klumsky
Schlumpf
Schlumpfly
The Bees
The Bees
Yeah
It's a horrific movie
He's not wearing his glasses
He's gotta wear his glasses
Blood Brothers?
Yeah. Number eight
is Old Yeller?
That's an old movie. I know
about it, but I've never seen it, but it involves
dogs. It involves a dog.
A dog. And the passing of a dog.
Yeah. Spoiler alert.
It's an ancient movie, by the way.
Number six, an oldie but a goodie.
Ella, this is for you.
The Notebook.
She hasn't even seen The Notebook.
You haven't seen it.
Not yet.
But you want to see it.
Oh, is it sad?
It's sad.
It'll make you cry.
It's beautiful sad.
All I know is that it's a love story.
It's a love story.
But it will make, you will cry.
It's a love story to the end.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Number five is Toy Story 3. And I can vouch for this because I watched it recently, and I did cry in it.
Really?
I haven't seen Toy Story 3.
Pixar movies get me every time.
Okay.
Inside Out, cried.
Coco, cried.
Up?
Up, definitely cried.
Yeah.
Toy Story 3, bawled.
Shrek?
No. No. I don't think Shrek's... Shrek doesn't bald. Shrek? No.
I don't think Shrek's...
Shrek doesn't get ya.
Not a Pixar movie.
Oh, okay. Fair enough. Now, before
The Green Mile, starring Tom Hanks
back in the day, that is a
sad movie. Very sad
movie. I can imagine that. And now
we're getting to the top three. This one is
just universally known that it will get you
good. Marley and Me. Oh, that's the one that everyone
talks about. Yeah. I've never seen Marley and Me and I have no inclination
to watch that movie. Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Dead Dog.
Spoiler alert. Everybody knows. Spoiler
alert. And you should know going into that movie
Now number two
I haven't seen this movie
But I have heard it's very sad
But as soon as I told producer Claude
That I was doing this list
She said I know what movie is going to be on there
Number two is Bridge to Terabithia
It's devastating
I thought it was a lovely child movie
Like a kid movie,
and I was like, cool, I'll watch a little lighthearted film,
and I bawled my eyes out.
One of the kids dies, eh?
Yeah.
So number two.
God, Clint.
Sorry, but I feel like you should know going into these movies.
So definitely number two on the list, you'd say?
Oh, at least, yeah.
Okay.
What's going to beat Bridge to Terabithia?
I think we all know. Number one. The number one movie to, at least. Yeah. Okay. What's going to beat Bridge to Terabithia? I think we all know.
Number one.
The number one movie
to make you cry.
Titanic.
Titanic.
Fair.
But at least they include
that little bit of
comic relief
where the guy's,
he jumps
and the guy's head hits the propeller on the way down
and he starts doing a 360 as he goes down to the water.
Bring the mood up.
No, just me.
I'll never let go.
She did let go, though.
She literally, as she said, I'll never let go.
She was in the process of letting go.
It's a metaphor, Clint.
ZM's Bree and Clint with guest host Maddie McLean.
ZM, banger, Taylor Swift.
Let's give away some tickets.
Taylor Swift, the Ares Tour, live in Sydney.
You ready for this?
I love this.
I'm going to be sad that we don't get to hear these happy screams every afternoon when this competition is over.
But we're going to have to find something else to give away.
And boy, have there been some amazing winners as well.
Let's go live to Ashley.
Hi.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, it started already.
Yay.
Ashley, was that a double scream?
Are you by yourself or are you with friends?
With my friends.
You're with your friends.
Okay.
Where are you right now? What are you doing? I am sitting on the couch in my friends. Yeah, with your friends. Okay. Where are you right now?
What are you doing?
I am sitting on the couch in my office.
Kind of shaking.
Brilliant.
Have you recruited your whole office to try and win these tickets over the last few weeks?
One of them has definitely been helping me every day.
Yeah.
Okay.
Does that person get to go to Sydney with you if you get these tickets?
That would be my husband.
Oh, fair enough.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
I'm sure they'll understand.
So, Ashley, this is the first step, right?
You've gotten through on the phone lines,
which so many people have been trying to do.
You've made it through,
but that doesn't mean the tickets are yours.
I know, yeah.
You've got to do the job.
I know, yeah. Ashley, got to do the job. I know, yeah.
Ashley, please give us the three Taylor Swift songs
that played on ZM today at 8 o'clock, 12 o'clock and 4 o'clock.
I Can See You, Exile and Welcome to New York.
Oh.
Oh.
Shit, this hasn't happened.
Hang on, Ash, this hasn't happened yet.
Can you just, what did you say the second one was?
Exile?
We're just going to, can you just wait there for just a second?
We're just going to have to check something just quickly.
And we're just going to defer to Ross Boss for just a second.
I'm just kidding.
Oh my God.
Ashley, you're going to Taylor Swift Oh my god
You can
It's okay to call him an a-hole
Ashley you can do it
I was so sweet
Did you believe me?
Did you believe me?
Did I sell that? Did you believe me? Yes.
Did I sell that?
I did.
I was like, oh my God.
Oh, I'm sorry then.
But I'm also not sorry.
That was funny.
Hey, congrats, Ash.
You and a friend are going to the Eros Tour.
You and your husband are going to the Eros Tour in Sydney.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
I want to know, is your husband a true Swifty?
Does he deserve to go to the Eros Tour with you?
He is.
We listen to him every night.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Brilliant. Congratulations,
Ash. This is so exciting.
Oh my God.
I hope you win the
grab-a-seat flights as well now to make up for that
prank. I'm sorry. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, honestly. This is
incredible. Congrats, Ash. Thanks for
listening to ZM and we'll see you in Sydney.
Thank you so much.
Another double pass up for grabs
tomorrow on ZM. You need to be
listening from 8 o'clock to Fletchford and Hayley
when they drop the very first Taylor Swift song.
Can you imagine if she turned around and she was just like,
oh, F you, Clint.
ZM's
Bray and Clint with guest host Maddie McLean. You and I are deep in a challenge this week.
You said it.
Yep, I did.
Because it's the Rugby World Cup this weekend.
Oh, I'm so excited.
The Rugby World Cup is my World Cup.
Oh.
Cool.
I love the All Blacks
and I love rugby
and every four years
I get so excited for this
so yeah the challenge is
who can get an All Black
on the show
not just any All Black
an All Black who has been
to a Rugby World Cup
that's our challenge this week
you've got someone already
I've got mine secured
they're locked and loaded
for 5.30 this Friday
they'll be on the show with us
I'm working on mine.
Yep.
Working on it.
I'll get it.
I think I know who you're going to get.
I'm not worried about it.
I think they're a good get, the person that I think you're going to get.
Okay.
I think they're a good get.
Okay.
I don't think they're better than mine, but I think they're a good get.
Oh, you don't?
No.
I don't think yours has won a Rugby World Cup.
Mine's won a Rugby World Cup.
Who do you think I'm getting on?
I'm not going to say.
Okay. Anyway, I've been
talking about it a lot because I've been
canvassing
friends, family
in terms of which path I should
go down to secure the win because you know me.
Very competitive. Very competitive.
Don't like to lose. Doesn't matter
what the challenge is. Matty will take
it very seriously. And
Ryan, my husband, joked, well
if things were
different, you could have just got yourself on.
And then I remembered
a story that I have told a number of times
and I haven't told it to you before
but I could have been
an All Black. Maddy teased this
in our meeting before the show today
and I'm so intrigued
to know how you could possibly have been an All Black.
So picture this.
High school.
I get invited to a birthday party
with a bunch of guys.
We go to the local park as part of the birthday party
and we decide to have a bit of a kick around.
I say we.
They decided and I reluctantly joined in.
Okay.
How old?
I would have been 14, 15.
Okay.
Yeah.
And one of the dads came to pick up one of the sons
and came to the park and saw us running around playing rugby.
And he came up to me afterwards and he said,
mate, you are really good.
You're quick on your feet and you're good with the ball.
He said, I'm the captain of the first 15 rugby team.
Would you ever consider...
Was he the captain or the coach?
The coach, sorry.
The coach of the first 15 rugby team at Meister High School.
Would you ever consider trying out for the first 15?
Which high school was it?
Whakatapu High School in Queenstown.
Okay.
Yeah.
And I said, I don't know.
And I said, when is it?
And he said, it's this particular day in a few weeks' time.
And I said, I can't.
I'm dancing in the smoke free stage challenge
in Dunedin
yeah
now I believe the story
and
forever
I have thought shoulda coulda
woulda what would have
happened if I had said yes
and gone along and tried out for the first 15?
Yeah, if your love of the theatre hadn't taken you away
from the rugby pitch, I could be sitting next to,
I could be sitting next to Dan Carter's best friend.
You could.
You could be texting me going, hey, man,
can we get you on the show on Friday?
Okay, yeah, wow.
Yeah, I believe you.
Cool. And I just, it's that quintessential thing of fate intervened
and took me down a different
path. Is that what the butterfly effect is?
Yes, yes.
Kind of? Sort of. The ripple effect?
Yeah, absolutely. Something like that.
One decision. It's a sliding doors.
It's a Gwyneth Paltrow sliding
doors moment. I had this moment in time where I could have chosen one way,
but instead I turned and went the other way.
And my life has been so different ever since.
It's a multiverse.
There is a reality out there where you are a retired rugby World Cup winning All Black.
I could have been New Zealand's first gay All Black.
You could have been.
You could have been.
Yeah.
What could have been?
Openly gay.
Openly gay, yeah.
Got to put that caveat in there.
We want to ask the question, much like Matty,
who was almost an All Black,
what could have been for you?
If something had gone another way,
what could have life been like for you?
Like the guy who left 660 to pursue his rugby career.
Totally.
It's the opposite.
He decided that he wanted to play rugby for the New Zealand Maori
and he achieved that goal.
But to do that, he had to leave 660 just before they blew up.
And now look.
He could have been in New Zealand's biggest band,
but he chose to go in a different direction.
And it might have been for the best.
Maybe fate intervened in a really great way.
I could have had two eyebrow piercings,
but I chose to leave Rotorua at the age of 18.
0800 dial ZM.
We want to know for you, what was the fork in the road?
What could have been?
ZM for Franklin. With guest
host Maddy McLean.
Maddy said when he used to be young,
he had the opportunity to become an
All Black. That's
definitely the way I'm choosing to
remember it. And you can
because nobody can say otherwise.
Nobody knows what would have happened.
I was asked to audition
not audition
try out
for
our first
15 rugby team at school.
Was it try out?
Yeah, I don't know. Is it?
It's not audition.
It's definitely not audition.
Alright Matty, show us what you got.
You walk out there with your cassette player.
Five, six, seven, eight.
And one.
And two.
There's not a lot of jazz hands in rugby,
but we're going to put you on the maybe pile.
So we've asked you what could have happened,
what might have been.
There's lots of relationship ones.
I think about the relationship ones a lot.
I know you and Ryan have got a similar story, right?
If you didn't come back to New Zealand for the opportunity
to work on TVNZ again and end your OE,
you and Ryan might never have happened.
I don't think we would have met, no.
So it was destined.
Is that destiny?
Do you believe in destiny?
Fate, yeah.
Yeah.
It's written in the stars.
What could have been for you?
Stacey's called up.
Hi, Stacey.
Hi, how are you guys?
Good.
How are you doing?
Yeah, good.
Thank you.
All right.
Talk to us about the fork in the road moment for you.
So when I was about 19 or 20, I decided to apply to a TV show.
It was called Missing Pieces back like 15 years ago now.
Yeah.
David Lomas.
Yes.
Yeah.
Another one. Yeah, David Lomas. Yes. Yeah, another one.
Yeah.
And if I hadn't been accepted to that,
I would not have met my husband and had our two kids.
Wait, did you go on missing pieces to find your husband?
No, but it turned out that that's how it happened.
Wow.
If you don't mind me asking, who were you trying to find?
My dad. Did you find your dad? Yes, but you don't mind me asking, who were you trying to find? My dad.
Did you find your dad?
Yes, but we've kind of lost touch now.
Right, right. But he was in Australia and I made the decision to move over to get to know him better and things.
And that's where I met my husband.
And about six months later, he followed me back to New Zealand and we were engaged
a few months after that and married the next year.
Wow.
There you go.
Wow.
That's, that's, that's meant to happen.
Yeah.
That's a beautiful story.
I love that.
That's what we look like.
We've been married almost 13 years now.
Oh, Stacey, congratulations.
Thank you. As you get David Lomas to do a like a, Stacey, congratulations. Thank you.
As you get David Lomas to do a like a where are they now special.
Yeah.
Let's go to Nicole on 0800 ZM.
Hi, Nicole.
Hi there.
What was it for you?
What could have been?
Oh, I had applied for university to get a Bachelor of Oral Health,
but I had also applied for the New Zealand Army at the same time.
So I received both acceptance letters,
and they were sitting out in front of me,
and I had to choose one.
That was my fork in the road.
Wow.
And which way did you go?
I went with the Army.
Right.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Can't you train to be a dentist or an oral surgeon
or something within the Army?
That's right.
Yes, so I ended up joining the army
and within a couple of years,
the army actually sent me to university
to study exactly what I applied for a couple of years earlier.
Only difference was that I left on graduation
with no student loan
and I actually bought my first house while I was studying.
You got paid.
You got paid.
You hacked the system.
I got paid to study, that's for sure.
It was best deal going.
All you had to do was go to war for a couple of years.
Fly into battle.
War on plaque.
Shoot some bad guys.
War on plaque.
Nicole, that's so good.
That's so good.
The call of the day.
I appreciate that so good. That's so good. The call of the day. I appreciate that so much.
All right.
ZM's Brinkland with guest host, Maddie McLean.
This is bold from Maddie,
but he said he has toilet advice for ladies.
Well, it's not ladies specific,
but it would tend to benefit women more than men.
Okay.
But men, it's timely advice for some men as well, not you or I.
No.
But some men can listen up to this advice.
Bathroom or toilet?
Toilet.
Okay.
Are you listening, ladies? Because a doctor in the US has said you should always, always,
this isn't even a you can sometimes, maybe you should.
This is a you definitely should always be doing this.
Tie your hair up when going to the loo.
Oh.
What?
Why?
Dr. Daria Sadovskaya.
Yep.
Always hard names to pronounce, aren't they?
Yeah.
A kidney expert claims going to the toilet with long hair down
can increase the likelihood of pimples due to the bacteria in faeces.
What does your hair being down have to do with it?
It can cause breakouts and irritation that most commonly appear on the forehead when you poop.
All the bacteria spread from the stool to the bathroom and onto your hair first.
Your hair is the first place the bacteria latches onto.
When your hair is down, it rubs against the skin in your face
and transmits all the germs to your face.
Ew, ladies, you've got poo germs in the hair.
Yuck, you guys are disgusting.
You're so gross.
And you're worried about us, like, peeing on the toilet seat.
Ew, poopy forehead Claudia.
Hey, don't start there.
How long do you think I'm sitting on the toilet for poo particles to float and nest in there?
I don't know.
How long are you sitting on the toilet?
I think we've talked before about the flush and how the flush, it aerates.
You're meant to have the lid down, aren't you?
You're meant to have the lid down.
I don't do, I'm not a lid downer.
Oh, really?
I don't do that either. But whenever I think about it. I don't do, I'm not a lid downer. Oh, really?
I don't do that either, but whenever I think about it, I go, oh Christ, I should do that.
And they say that you shouldn't have your toothbrush too close to the toilet bowl for that reason too,
because the poo germs can jump from the bowl onto your toothbrush head.
This is a lovely chat for 444.
I'm so sorry.
Well, women need to hear it.
They do.
So do you tie your hair up?
Have you ever considered this? I feel like my hair is up most of the time but I've never specifically
put my hair up. Would you wear
a hair net to go to the toilet? No.
Absolutely not. But will you
now consciously
tie your hair up when you go to the bathroom?
No, probably not. I will.
Pooey forehead.
Pooey forehead?
I think about people who have really long hair,
like down their back,
and if it comes close to, you know,
if it gets close to the butt crack.
It's like Incy Bincy Spider,
but a little poo particle climbing up.
Climbing up the ponytail.
And then the flushes the rain down came the rain.
Well, that's from a doctor, okay?
Don't come for Maddie.
What do doctors know, though?
What do doctors know?
I'm just passing on.
I'm imparting the wisdom onto you.
Do with it what you want.
If you want a pooey forehead, all power to you.
All the time I hear it from now on,
we'll see if my skin is magically clear.
What do doctors know?
What do doctors know? What do they know?
It's like Claudia didn't get the vaccine as well.
Clint!
I did.
She's only just been allowed back at work.
Oh, my God.
Be quiet.
Mandates are over.
ZM's Bree and Clint.
With Maddie McLean.
In news that they should have seen coming... That's very good.
A New Zealand psychic has had to cancel his South Island tour
because he says it has been interfered with by another psychic.
Not by spirits.
No.
But by a rival psychic.
A competing medium.
And these are not just any psychics, by the way.
These are New Zealand's foremost television psychics.
Sensing murder.
Sensing murder celebrities.
Did they ever...
Did they ever have a...
I think I saw an article that said,
sensing murder have solved zero murders.
Great.
Can I guess which ones?
Please.
Calvin Cruikshank.
For sure.
You're right.
And...
Deb Weber?
Oh, Deb Weber.
She was my favourite.
Yeah.
They're the all-stars.
Who was the third one? It wasn't Deb Weber? Oh, Deb Weber. She was my favourite. Yeah. They're the all-stars. Who was the third one?
It wasn't Deb Weber.
It's not Deb Weber.
It is the other one.
Yeah.
Sue Nicholson.
Sue Nicholson!
Yeah.
So Calvin Cruikshank says he had to cancel his South Island tour because an unnamed rival psychic
made a venue block out the six weeks
before and after this other psychic's date.
Right, okay.
And said no other psychics
are allowed to perform at this venue.
She said if you book me,
I need a window of exclusivity.
Yes.
Right, okay.
For six weeks either side of her show.
Right.
And Calvin has said that has made him have to cancel his tour.
He hasn't named Sue, but Sue has come out on her own Facebook page
and said she would like to clear the air of bullying
and discuss the issue with a venue in Greymouth.
Posting on her behalf, Nicholson's manager wrote
that we feel the truth needs to be said,
but that the psychic does not want to get involved
in this petty situation,
but then gets involved by continuing with the post.
They went on to note,
only one town was affected with this agreement
the venues have in place.
This town being Greymouth and Susho
is not sold out there,
as stated by the other medium.
The other medium only put a shop in this town
three days ago.
Jeez, they're at war with each other.
It's wild.
We took Kelvin Cruikshank
to the abandoned prison in Napier.
Bree and I did when we first started working together.
We had to go and spend a night in the abandoned prison
and we took him in to do a spirit reading.
And?
Oh, he said it was chock-a-block full of spirits.
I'm sure he did.
Which is what you want.
You don't want to book a psychic medium to come to a haunted prison.
There's nothing here.
Yeah, because we had to spend the night in there and he's like,
sweet as, man, this shit is good to go.
We were having dinner
and he turned to me
and he goes,
you got wooden floorboards
in your house?
And I said,
yeah.
He goes,
I know.
Wow.
Okay, man.
That is spooky.
People, he would get it all the time,
but everybody at dinner was just going,
do me, do me, do me, do me, do me.
And that's all he would get all the time.
And he's probably sick of giving it out for free.
So he's got to book these gigs, you know?
Yeah.
And Bobby Sue Nicholson has booked it up.
I don't want to be cynical about
what people do
for a crust, but if you're interested
in that sort of thing, he told me that if your picture,
a picture in your house, is slightly
crooked, it's the
ghost of one of your relatives visiting you.
Right.
And not just an off-centre picture frame.
No, not a picture you bumped into.
No, no, that's what it is.
There's more to it than that.
Absolutely.
Time for a birthday banger.
Sorry, Maddie and I just comparing our step counts for the day on our smartwatches.
How many have you done?
A pathetic 5,100.
Oh, mate.
I know.
What have you got? A pathetic 5,100. Oh, mate. I know. What have you got?
11,864.
You don't even walk to work anymore.
How did you get 11,000 steps?
I'm a very efficient walker.
Oh, you've got a dog walker.
Yeah, I do.
You've got a dog, sorry.
I did walk the dog today.
Yeah.
Remember I saw you mincing down the road with your dog
and I texted you.
I do not mince, I walk with purpose.
In the middle he said,
I don't mince, I walk with purpose dog I do not mince I walk with purpose he said I don't mince
I walk with purpose
anyway it's not about
our steps
it's about our
birthday bangers
let's get Mia on the phone
to do a birthday banger
Kia ora Mia
yes
that's me here
yeah
hi
how are you doing
doing good
good to hear
you want to hear
your birthday banger
oh yeah
okay
give us your birthday
so it's 5th of December year 2000 okay Mia you were the Good to hear. You want to hear your birthday banger? Oh, yeah. Okay, give us your birthday.
So it's 5th of December, year 2000.
Okay, Mia, you were the 16 on the 5th of December, 2016,
and this was your birthday banger.
Rag and bone, man.
Human.
What a great throwback to 2016.
You like that, Mia?
Oh, I love that.
Yeah.
I used to listen to that a lot.
He's got an incredible voice.
Oh, amazing.
I saw him live.
Did you really?
Yeah, Glastonbury.
Oh, okay.
Humblebrag.
Last year, this year?
No, years ago.
Years ago, years ago.
Okay, let's go to Dee for a birthday banger.
G'day, Dee. Hi. How's your day going, Dee? Good, thank ago. Years ago. Okay, let's go to Dee for a birthday banger. G'day, Dee.
Hi.
How's your day going, Dee?
Good, thank you.
Hump day.
Hump day, I know.
Just on my way home from work.
Oh, brilliant.
Happy hump.
What's your date of birth, Dee?
16th of December, 1982.
Dee, you were 16 on the 16th of December, 1998,
and this was top of the charts.
I can already tell what Maddie is going to vote for.
I like it.
It's good, Dee.
You get Jennifer Page and Crush.
My favourite.
What movie was it in?
Oh, good question.
I was going to say, was it on like the original Now CD, but that might
even be too early for that. It's not a Coyote
Ugly, is it? That song?
Hmm.
I'm struggling to remember. Anyway, we'll figure it out.
Let's do one more birthday banger for Ayla. Kia ora,
Ayla. Hi.
How are you going today? How's your hump day?
It's been pretty good. How are you? We're good. Thanks for asking. Thank you for asking, Ayla. Hi. How are you going today? How's your hump day? It's been pretty good.
How are you?
We're good.
Thanks for asking.
Thank you for asking, Ayla.
We're good.
Tell us what your date of birth is and we'll tell you your birthday banger.
It's 17th of September, 2001.
Ayla, you were 16 on the 17th of September, 2017, and this was the number one song.
The breakout single for Khalid.
Produced by
Kiwi boy Joel Little as well, this song.
Right. It's got a New Zealand
tie to it, Young, Dumb and Broke. I loved
this song. Such a good song.
Are you into it, Ayla?
Yeah, I love a bit of Khalid, actually.
Yeah, for sure.
Okay, wait there.
We're going to have to vote on this thing.
I don't even need Maddie's vote.
You don't.
Maddie's voting for Jennifer Page.
I'm definitely voting Jennifer Page.
And I'm not.
What?
I'm voting for Rag and Bone Man.
Wow.
Yeah.
I can't get it, the Jennifer Page thing,
but it's not getting my vote.
Okay.
So we're going to a split vote.
We're going to producer Claudia,
who also has Khalid to vote for.
You can choose anyone.
Your vote wins.
What is it, Claude?
I was really hoping you wouldn't come to me.
I think that I love Khalid.
I love Jennifer Page.
I'm going Rag and Bone Man, though.
Oh, my God.
I've always said that.
Claudia gets it.
She just gets it.
Hey Mia, you're the winner of Birthday
Banger. Congratulations. Oh my god.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Maybe I'm foolish.
Maybe I'm blind.
ZM's Brinkland.
With guest host Matty McLean.
Do what I can, don't put the blame on me.
Don't put your blame on me.
That's the winner of Birthday Banger here on ZM Today.
That's Rag and Bone Man and Human.
Matty has not talked to me for the last three minutes and 14 seconds
because I did not choose Jennifer Page, Crush.
I just, no, I'm going to move on because I don't like to hold a grudge but i'm i was mad
i know you were part it's partly i don't like to lose you know that about me and partly i just
think it was such a banger a little crush every time we touch It's true
Oh well, we talked about it earlier.
What could have been?
Not like everything I've been through
Don't look at Jack Tame.
He can't save you in this situation.
I guarantee out of all of those songs,
Jack Tame would have voted for Jennifer Page.
Crush.
Jack Tame has just entered the building.
I assume he's been up at Newstalk ZB.
Hi, Jack. We needame has just entered the building. I assume he's been up at Newstalk ZB. Got it.
Hi, Jack.
Jack.
We need you to settle something for us.
Yes.
If you was given the choice between picking between Rag and Bone Man, Human, or Jennifer
Page, Crush, which song would you have chosen?
Well, I can guess which of those songs you each are respectively backing.
Yeah.
But absolutely Jennifer Page.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
100%.
It's just a little crush.
Not like I'll be.
Every time we touch.
It's so good.
What does Jack Tame know anyway?
No, I mean, it's a classic.
You don't mess with the classics.
Hey, you can join us for this next
conversation actually because I feel like you might have something
to contribute. You wouldn't have
meant to be on here, but hi. Hi.
It's the threesome now.
It's good to see you. Whoa.
It's a freeway. The boys. The boys.
The boys are back in town. There's a story about
a knitting group in Napier
who were made to feel so unwelcome at their local bar
that they cancelled their booking.
The Knit Nook, that's the name of the knitting circle from Napier,
they booked a table for 12 people at...
12?
12, yeah.
Okay.
It's a large knitting circle.
Yeah, yeah.
They booked a table for 12 at the Good George Napier Tap House.
They were having their social night
of eating, drinking and knitting.
Sounds like fun. It does.
It does.
I mean, enough to get
12 people out in Napier.
The bar allegedly called
the group to discourage them from attending.
The manager
of the Good George bar reportedly
said, knitting is not the vibe we're going for. The manager of the Good George bar reportedly said, knitting is not the vibe we're going for.
The manager also told the group, we don't have much space.
You're only going to be able to do it on bar leaners, like bar stools.
And the lady goes, we can't.
It's fine.
We can knit anywhere.
We can knit in rockers.
We can knit on couches. We can knit on couches. We can knit
on barliners.
They didn't feel welcome, so they cancelled the booking.
You actually had them on TVNZ
Breakfast this week.
Here's a little bit from the
Knit Nook. And that was when I was told
that it was just not the vibe they were
going for. And so we kind of did a little
back and forth. I tried to understand
and i just
and in the end i i cancelled the bookings because i didn't feel comfortable knowing that we were not
really welcome to sit there and enjoy our evening so i didn't want it to be um a negative experience
what is the vibe that they're going for the bar the bar yeah because knitting is like i think kitschy strange hobbies are kind
of cool i think that's cool again now yeah knitting's gone full circle hasn't it knitting
crocheting yeah yeah cross stitching yeah all of that stuff's cool stuff that's not cool is cool
because of its uncoolness yeah yeah yeah if that makes sense it's like an ironic thing yeah but
all it takes is for one small town bar owner
to go, nah,
the bar's for cool people.
We're getting on the piss, mate.
But they would have got on the piss.
There's 12 of them.
They're not going to the bar
if they don't want to drink
while they knit, you know?
I think it's a missed opportunity.
That story had me in stitches, guys.
Oh, stop.
That's why they pay you the big bucks.
Teeing up.
Teeing that one up there.
Do you want me to leave now?
That's what 17 years of a media career will give you.
Your broadcasting degree coming in handy.
Did you get your broadcasting degree?
Did you not?
Am I the only one of the three of us that didn't get the degree?
I got mine.
Did you not get the degree?
Am I the least qualified man in the room?
That's a low bar.
Let's
start with you, Jack Tame. Do you have any
hobbies that people would consider
not the vibe?
I really love atlases.
So, yeah.
I read atlases and collect atlases.
I love maps. I love cartography.
That is exactly the answer
that we were looking for. I'm so glad you came on the show
The thing is that
others don't like it though, so it's just
me, so I'd be calling up the good George
and being like, can I have a table for one
but it's got to be really really big
because I've got this Macanta projection that's going to
blow your mind
I'm navigating the Suez Canal
tonight. Matty, do you have any hobbies that are not the vibe? No, because I am navigating the Suez Canal this night Matty do you have any hobbies
that are not the vibe?
No because I am
always the vibe
Your hobbies are the vibe
you reckon?
I'm the vibe
Well I don't even have any hobbies
No that's
I think that's the worst part
is I don't have hobbies
Let's get the list together
this afternoon
on 0800DIALZM
You call in and tell us about it
or you can text it to 9696
It doesn't mean it's not cool,
this thing that you do.
It's just people would probably consider it
a bit uncool.
It's a bit left of centre.
It's unusual, your hobby.
Would this bar in Napier,
if you tried to book a table
for 12 of you and your friends
to do your hobby,
would they consider that thing
not the vibe?
And sell Matty and me on it.
We need a hobby.
Desperately.
Yeah.
So get in touch.
0800 dial ZM.
Is this the Maddie Clinton Jack show?
Or you got things to do?
I've got to be on ZB, bro.
Oh, okay.
Hi, Brown.
ZM's Brianne Clint.
With guest host Maddie McLean.
So we're asking, is your hobby considered not the vibe?
But you think it's cool
and more people should do it.
Totally.
You're doing,
it's a great hobby.
People just don't understand.
Also sell us
because Clint and I
have come to the realisation
that neither of us
have a hobby.
We don't have hobbies.
I also have no desire
to look cool anymore.
No.
So I'd do anything
if you say it's exciting.
Rachel's here.
Hey, Rach.
Hey. What's your hobby Hey, Rach. Hey.
What's your hobby that people think is not the vibe?
So I paint miniatures.
Okay.
Like miniature figurines?
Yes.
Like army soldiers?
So I particularly paint mostly Warhammer minis,
which would be kind of what you're thinking of, I imagine,
and also D&D minis.
Okay. Right.
So do you have like,
what are they called?
Like a setting where they all
stand in the setting, like a field or something
like that? Is that the end goal for these guys
or do they all go onto a little shelf?
So generally the
goal is for them to get used in the game.
Oh yeah, okay. So it's D&D them to get used in the game. Oh yeah, okay.
So it's the end that they get used in someone's campaign.
Yeah.
And with Warhammer, I have a bunch of people who play Warhammer with me.
And we all get together and have our little Warhammer games following all the rules.
And so I guess, I'm guessing that for a certain section of
your life, it's not the vibe
but for a big section of your life
people go, oh this is
the vibe. Yeah, within your community
it would be cool AF, right?
Yeah, basically.
My parents and a bunch of people
just don't get it.
The people I surround myself, we all
absolutely love it. Do you spend a many, the people I surround myself, we all like absolutely love it.
Do you spend a lot of money on it?
Um,
you can.
I think Rach's partner is listening.
That's okay.
Thanks, Rach.
Nathan's here.
Hi, Nathan.
Hey, how you doing?
Good.
How are you doing?
Yeah, good.
All right.
What is your hobby, Nathan?
And what's the,
is it not the vibe?
So it was, it's actually the same as the previous caller, which is quite funny.
So I'll leave that there.
But I've actually got a second hobby, which is also not really the vibe.
It's called Star Wars X-Wing.
You make a list of Star Wars planes.
You put it on a three-by-three-foot board.
You've got little dials which tells you which way you can fly,
and then you roll dice to see if you can shoot them and your objective is to kill the enemy
team essentially and it's
really not the vibe. My wife has no idea
why it's 500 bucks.
Is it like battleships?
Yeah, pretty much.
But like Star Wars, it's all like
so you can fly pretty much anything you want
in a Star Wars universe.
I've played like Rebels, so I've got like X-Wings
and the Millennium Falcon.
My friend, he plays the Scum.
And you are married?
I am married.
Yeah, I know.
Crazy, isn't it?
I don't understand how that happened either.
Yeah, that's cool, man.
I love that you've got something that you're passionate about.
It's very cool.
Yeah, the other thing you guys should try is Airsoft, which is
just running around the massive field with BB guns.
Oh, BB guns, yeah, but the soft bullet so it doesn't
hurt. Yeah, exactly. No one dies.
Yeah, no one dies. That's always a bonus.
Thank you very much, Nathan. We appreciate
it. We're asking what's your hobby that's not the vibe.
Someone said, I'm a teacher who also
pole dances. Wow. Seems
very inappropriate as a primary teacher,
but it's great fitness and it's super empowering as well.
Someone also said, I was organising a World of Warcraft meet in Christchurch,
had people coming down from Auckland over from Sydney.
I got declined from one bar booking based on my description of the gathering.
That's what happens.
They wouldn't let you come in and have your World of Warcraft meet up?
Apparently not.
Wow. Not the gathering. That's what happens. They wouldn't let you come in and have your World of Warcraft meet up. Apparently not. Wow.
Not the vibe.
Someone said, for years, I've been ridiculed at work, at home,
by my friends and my family for being a diehard supporter of the Warriors.
Oh.
It was tragic and uncool to be so invested in the Warriors,
but not in 2023.
It's our year, baby.
Everybody wants a piece of the action.
Can I get an up the waz?
Up the waz!
Up the waz!
You're so right about that.
You're a day one and now everybody else is on the bandwagon.
We're grateful for you allowing us onto the bandwagon.
Absolutely up the waz.
It's the vibe.
ZM's Brinkland with guest host Maddie McLean.
The Rugby World Cup kicks off this Saturday morning at 7.15 in the morning.
The All Blacks take on France.
That's the opening match of the Rugby World Cup.
It's in France, so they're the host nation.
Did you know, fun rugby fact for you,
All Blacks versus France is the most played game in Rugby World Cup history.
No teams have met each other more in rugby world cups
than the All Blacks in France.
That is a fun fact.
I'll give you that.
And twice the French have kicked the All Blacks out.
Yeah, famously.
Yeah.
And once, once or twice,
the All Blacks have beaten the French in the final
of the rugby world cup.
And look, God, if there was ever a time to lose to the French,
it would be on home turf.
Home turf.
They're also up there as far as favourites go.
France are ranked third in the world.
All Blacks are ranked fourth in the world.
Someone has used AI to try and predict the outcome
of the Rugby World Cup.
We're going to give that to you very shortly.
But first, Matty and I are in a duel at the moment
to get the biggest All Black we can on the show this week
to celebrate the Rugby World Cup.
So this is happening Friday at about 5.30 we've decided.
Yep.
We'll bring our All Blacks to the air.
You've got yours ready to go.
Mine is locked away.
And it's a definite?
You're not going to change your mind and try for someone different
and drop said All Black?
That would be rude to my All Black. Yeah.
So no, I think I back my boy.
And I do back my boy. I will tell you, I'm not going to tell you
who I've got, but I do have a Rugby World Cup winner.
I have someone who
has won a Rugby World Cup before.
Do you want to have a guess? Yeah, I think
I've got a good idea. Who do you think
it is? I reckon you've got Izzy Dagg.
Okay, interesting. Yeah.
You don't seem impressed by that. No, I'd be very impressed.
He's a great guy. It's not up to you anyway.
It's up to Ella. She thinks it's impressive. Yeah.
She will decide the winner of this competition. I have
while we've been on air dropped a
few DMs to
get the ball rolling. Yeah.
Because I have left my run late, which is
just quintessential me.
Because my biggest thing was trying to figure out
who I was, what path I was going to go down.
But now I feel like it's
Wednesday. You've just got to get one. I've got to get one.
Okay, well good luck
to you. Thank you. Who's going to win the
Rugby World Cup? This AI has
been fed a bunch of information.
It has run 10,000
simulations on the
tournament to account for uncertainty
around expected outcomes.
So it's used all of the data.
It's taken emotion out of this.
It's used cold, hard data to try and predict who's going to win the Rugby World Cup.
Based on past performances, how they're playing at the moment.
World rankings, performances in World Cups before.
Right.
Scenarios regarding player injuries and things like that.
And I think you guys are going to be quite excited.
According to this AI,
New Zealand is the favourite to win the Rugby World Cup.
Wow!
33.5%.
That's the chance the AI is giving us of winning the tournament.
It's giving our nearest rival, South Africa, only 26%.
It's giving France, the host nation Africa, only 26%. It's giving
France, the host nation, only 20%
to win the World Cup. It's giving
the world number one team, Ireland,
who have never won a Rugby World Cup before,
only 11.9% chance
of winning the World Cup. It's giving
Australia a 2% chance.
And it's giving England
a 2% chance as well.
And then from there it gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller.
But we're the favourite.
It's our year.
According to this computer, we're the favourite.
Yeah, it's our year.
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