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Hi everybody, welcome to the Brie and Clint podcast with Maddie where I need a bit of fashion advice.
First of all, thanks for my new hats, by the way.
Claudia and Ella, my special birthday present, my special new hats.
Looks really good. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, they look great. It's fashion, my special new hats. Looks really good.
Yeah, thanks.
Yeah, they look great.
It's fashion.
I was covering that off.
I see.
You're not here about the hats, though.
No, I'm not here about the hats.
I've got a wedding to go to this weekend.
Yep.
A friend's wedding.
And late last year, I bought a new suit that I wore to your wedding.
It was great great suit.
Thank you.
And it was meant to do, I justified the investment in the new suit
because I was going to wear it to three weddings.
Right.
I was like, I can do this, I'll get wear out of it.
I don't really wear suits, but I've got three weddings at the start of the year.
Special occasion outfit.
Get it done.
Your wedding, friend's wedding, brother's wedding.
Then, just on Monday, five days out from the wedding my wife lucy says to me oh by
the way the dress code for the wedding is um beach cocktail what what does that mean what does that
mean in five days out like you need a year to figure that out beach Beach cocktail. What the heck? So this suit that I bought
is not beach cocktail.
It's not beach cocktail.
No, it's formal.
Do you just trim them into shorts
and take the jacket off?
Yeah, you could do that.
And jandals.
Put some shells on them.
Or some nice sandals, surely.
Maddie's Googling what beach cocktail is.
I am.
But without Googling it,
what do you guys think?
Like when you hear beach cocktail,
what do you think that is?
If you were to wear a dress, it would be either floral, but like flowy.
I feel like short is fine.
Long, fine.
But like not formal.
It would be lower than formal.
I think I know what it means to you.
So the dress part doesn't help me.
I won't be wearing a dress.
Okay, and for a man, I think shorts would be appropriate.
No. No, shorts are not appropriate for a woman. Okay, and for a man, I think shorts would be appropriate? No.
No, shorts are not appropriate for a woman.
Yeah.
But it's on a beach.
Shorts.
But like fancy shorts.
It's not on a beach.
Oh, it's not on a beach.
It's just the vibe.
Yeah.
Then you're going a linen suit.
Linen pants.
You're going a linen pant.
A linen suit with a button-down crisp white shirt.
So where do I find a linen suit with a button down crisp white shirt?
In my size.
I was going to say, what size pant are you?
That's a personal question.
Do you have some?
Well, yeah, I've got a bunch of linen suits,
but I don't know if they'll fit you.
I'm a 32-ish.
I'm 32-ish. I'm on the upper side of 32 not the lower side
yeah same okay it would be the height thing that would get us yeah i don't mind showing a bit of
ankle you could just cover it with socks do you want me to bring in a couple of my linen suits
and see if they fit you um yes yeah i can do that okay oh might be the greatest. We might have pulled this one off.
Yeah.
Okay.
Are you guys work besties now?
Are we twins?
There you go.
That was an easy fix.
But it's not an easy fix.
Do you wear a jacket or you just go shirt?
You wear a jacket.
Okay.
I don't need anything about this fashion.
I reckon loafers as well.
I've got some.
Nice boat shoes.
This is what comes up.
Yeah, boat shoes. This photo is what comes up. Yeah, boat shoes.
This photo is what comes up when I Google beach cocktail menswear.
Okay.
Oh, that's nice.
And it's pretty much what I described.
Yeah.
It's like a tan-
A creamy colored linen suit.
A creamy colored linen suit with a white shirt.
Yeah.
No belt.
Okay.
Well, I don't-
Oh, really?
I reckon a brown belt.
Nah. Huh. Don't need it
See this is where
Thanks guys
This is the fashion critique
That I needed
Do you wear a big hat?
No do not wear
Those ugly hats
You can wear the big one
But not this
If it's beach fashion
You wear a straw hat right?
Don't wear a hat
I don't think there's anything wrong
With wearing a hat to a wedding
Did I tell you about
What happened to our mutual friend
Who was staying out By the venue on the night of our wedding?
And they were running quite late.
Got out there in the afternoon.
He went to get changed into his suit and realized that he had forgotten his belt at home.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I talked to this person about that.
He drove from the venue into West Auckland about a a 25-minute car ride, one way.
Minimum.
One way.
Yeah.
And bought the belt and then got stuck behind the bus that was driving the other passengers out to our wedding.
And he still wasn't changed.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Because I thought being stuck behind the bus is perfect.
You're going to arrive the same time as all the other guests.
No, he still needed to get back to the house he was staying at and get changed
and then get to the ceremony.
And then we said, belt, just go without.
If you're wearing a blazer, can you see the belt anyway?
No.
He's very slender, this mutual friend of ours.
Yes, but he did say that the pants fit him perfectly.
Oh, just go beltless.
Exactly.
Just find a shoelace or something.
Yeah.
Or just do that thing where you get a shoelace.
Put that between the two at the back.
Tie the two of the bits together.
Yeah, right.
Okay, well, crisis may be averted.
Tomorrow I'll do a MediSuit fashion parade.
Oh my gosh, love it.
And we can pick an outfit together.
Great.
Okay, perfect.
Beach cocktail.
I'm coming in
Well howdy pilgrim
Zed in's Brie and Clint
Welcome to the show everybody, Brie and Clint with Meddy
Hi Meddy
Hi
What about the cocaine in the ocean?
It's wild
There's the craziest story to come up this afternoon
So many crazy elements to it as well What about the cocaine in the ocean? It's wild. That is the craziest story to come up this afternoon.
So many crazy elements to it as well.
One, how does it just end up floating in the ocean?
Three and a half tons of cocaine.
This is so much. How does three and a half tons float with a lot of boys?
Yeah.
Okay.
They're after the cocaine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also, I love the fun fact.
Well, yeah, fun for me It would last a year in Australia, that amount of cocaine
It's a year's supply of cocaine for Australia
30 years supply in New Zealand
Is that on population or is that on like rates of consumption?
It's very narcos, isn't it?
Truly
I heard that the Navy guys, they took about four or five days to get it back to shore.
They found it, but it took a while to get it back to shore.
It's a good question.
What do you do with all of that?
What do you do?
Oh, we laugh.
What do you do with it?
How do they destroy three tons of cocaine?
You can't flush it down the toilet.
Just go to a big
rake. Can you imagine if a shark got into
it and just ate some
of the cocaine? Imagine a grey white shark.
Imagine cocaine sharks. On a bender.
That's like, what's that movie, Sharknado?
It's like that, but...
Damn!
There's a
shark in the ocean and he's listening to Darude.
Alright, let's go, everybody.
Let's play Tradie vs. Lady.
We'll kick things off.
It is 8-all.
We are all tied up in Tradie vs. Lady.
So where's our tradies?
Where's our ladies?
We need one apiece, one of each to play,
and we're going to do it next.
We're just talking about the three and a half tonnes of cocaine
police have found floating around in the ocean
off the coast of New Zealand.
And we were theorising what happens to it.
Like, once they bring it in,
how do the police dispose of three and a half tons of cocaine?
I said, they can't flush it down the toilet.
They can't. It's too much.
Yeah.
Well, you could.
You just have to do it over a very long period of time.
There'll be a lot of flushes.
And you know, you've got to wait for the tank to fill back up
before you can press flush again.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know the Auckland water reservoirs are finally full again.
Oh, not that full.
Someone who knows their stuff has messaged us and they said,
regarding the destruction of narcotics,
what happens is it's photographed, a small sample is taken,
and then paperwork is done.
Then, funnily enough, it does go into the sea and get washed away.
Oh, cocaine ocean.
Wild.
They just wash it out to sea.
So does that mean that you could feasibly be ingesting cocaine
every time you take a mouthful of salt water?
I don't know.
I don't know how that stuff works.
Like, I've seen the amount of salt they take out of it. I'm sure it would get very, very diluted
very quickly, but still.
You think those fish have got big
eyes now. Exactly.
Just wait.
Alright, time for Tradie vs Lady.
Free and Cleanse.
Tradie vs Lady.
Is that Benny?
Good question.
It is Benny.
Benny just walked into the studio.
Weird place to work, a radio station.
You just have like award-winning artists just walk through.
She looks amazing.
Oh yeah, I was down there and seeing her up close.
Yes, it's definitely Benny, I can confirm.
Why do we second guess ourselves? I don't know.
Okay, let's go to Tradiverse Lady.
I can't see the names of the callers and it is my fault.
So Claude, can you please introduce our contestants,
starting with the top one, the orange one?
I absolutely can.
So playing for the Tradies, he is from Christchurch, he's 21,
and for some reason he doesn't like roasts.
Introducing Sam.
What the hell, Sam? Sam, you're a South Islander who doesn't like roasts. Introducing Sam. What the hell, Sam?
Sam, you're a South Islander who doesn't like roasts.
Yeah.
I don't know.
That's actually, that's, no, I'm sorry.
That is psychopathic behaviour.
What about a roast beef?
Nah, I'll have more.
Checking if it's like, not dry, but I don't know.
Just chuck some leather and gravy, mate.
It's so good.
I don't think you've had a good roast
Let's meet your competition
She's a lady
She's calling from Tauranga
She's 50
I got it now, Claude
I can see
I wanted to do it
Oh, you do it, yeah
Okay, she's from Tauranga
She is 50
And she is going to Vegas, baby
Introducing, playing for the ladies
Sandy
Put it all on red, Sandy
Hi, Sandy
Put it all on red
Hi
Red
Black Red What am I? Black Why black? Black Sandy. Put it all on red, Sandy. Hi, Sandy. Put it all on red. Hi. Red.
Black.
Red.
What am I?
Black.
Why black?
Black.
Once you get black, you never go back.
All right, Sandy, you go and put it on one of those two and then let us know who the winner is, all right?
Yeah, split it with the person who got it right.
Okay, Sandy, your buzzer is lady.
Sam, yours is tradie.
First to three correct answers gets 50 bucks cash from KFC.
Let's do this thing.
Question number one. Police have found 3.2 tonnes of cocaine
floating in the ocean. True
or false, early bottles of
Coca-Cola actually can contain small
amounts of cocaine. Sandy.
Lady. Sam.
True. It is true.
Yeah. Yeah. Really
small amounts, but yeah, early, early bottles in like the 1930s had a little bit of coke in it.
So when you see one that says original recipe, just beware of what might be in it.
Question number two.
Rita Ora has talked about when she knew Taika Waititi was the one.
Which Marvel action hero franchise?
Yeah, Sam, have a stab.
Guardians of the Galaxy?
No.
I'll finish the question.
Which Marvel action hero franchise has the Kiwi filmmaker directed?
Any guesses, Sandy?
It's the one with the hammer.
Yep.
Captain America.
No, no.
That's a big shield.
It was Thor, yeah.
Oh, yes, of course.
Yeah.
Question number three.
Spanish authorities spent $400 million building new trains
only to find they didn't fit through the country's tunnels.
Name a city in Spain.
Sandy.
Barcelona.
Well done.
Nice.
We'll take that.
Barcelona.
One apiece.
Barcelona.
Barcelona.
Question number four.
The Super Bowl was taking place this week.
Which sport do they play in the Super Bowl?
Sandy.
Ladies.
American football.
Got it.
Two to the ladies.
Sandy, you can take it right here, but there's still time, Sam, all right?
Yep.
Question number five.
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has said the filming schedule of the Blockbuster franchise
was suffocating.
Which Harry Potter character did Rupert play?
Lady.
Sandy for the win.
Weasley. God win. Weasley.
Oh, God.
Which Weasley?
Oh, my God.
I've just lost it.
Sam, you want a free guess?
I guess it's Ron.
Or Weasley.
Nice.
All right.
This is going to...
This is the decider.
This is the decider, yeah.
This is for the win, guys.
Question number six.
What Zodiac sign is represented by the ram?
Lady.
Sandy for the win.
Aries.
Well done.
She's a lady.
Oh, oh, oh, she's a lady.
Well done, Sandy.
Congratulations.
You've just won $50 cash and 1.5 tonnes of cocaine.
Okay.
Thanks, dude.
Just kidding.
It's some cash.
It's thanks to KFC.
Congratulations.
Thanks, dude.
Bree and Clint.
Flight attendants have revealed the thing they hate about you the most.
It's when you get on a plane and you don't even say hi
and you don't make eye contact.
So we've asked you, what industry do you work in
and what do you hate about us?
We didn't mean us literally, by the way,
for the people that are texting in going,
um, you play the same songs too many times.
No, I meant like the collective ways.
Us.
Us.
Society. Us. Us, the customers. Okay, I meant like the collective ways. Us. Us. Society.
Us the customers.
Okay, but thank you for your feedback.
We accept it. We take it on board.
Maybe I'll take one of the Sam Smith
unholies out of our show today, but only one.
What do you hate about us?
What's your industry? Someone said,
I'm a nurse. I hate people with their
runny, snotty nose, sore throats
coming in and they say, it's not COVID, it's just a nurse. I hate people with their runny, snotty nose, sore throats coming in and they say,
it's not COVID, it's just a virus.
I don't want your virus, you numpty.
And COVID is a virus.
This one's great.
When people ask for a long, black, extra hot,
bro, it's a coffee shot in boiling water.
Would you like me to nuke it in the microwave afterwards?
Working in the beauty industry and someone walks in on their phone
and doesn't even greet you.
Careful, sissy.
We could really mess up those brows of yours.
I'm a barman in Wellington.
I hate with a passion when someone orders a beer
just by pointing to it on the tap
and puts the cash on the bar.
Yeah, that's rude.
That's rude as well.
Let's talk to Alicia, who's called up on 0800-DIAL-ZM.
Hi, Alicia.
Hi there.
What's your industry, first of all?
I'm just retail assistant.
All right, and what do we do collectively as a society,
not just me and Clint?
Besides the rude customers,
it's when something isn't scanning
and someone goes, oh, it must be free then.
It's like we hear that multiple times
a day and it's not original.
Yeah, I can see that. And everyone
who does it, they think they're being
cracker, but they're also kind of being like, oh, you
could just slide it my way. Just
once in a while, you don't find it funny and
you're not going to give it to us for free, right, Alicia?
No, definitely not. Cool. Well,
it wasn't clear until now, so thank you for finally clearing that up.
Oh, good.
Speaking of lame jokes, someone said, I'm a painter, and everyone thinks they're hilarious
when they say either, you missed a spot, or look at my paint-covered clothes and say,
did you get any on the wall?
I used to work at Macca's, and we had this one customer who claimed she was allergic
to white marshmallows.
Only the white marshmallows drove me mad.
Let's talk to Michael on 0800DilesAtM.
Hi, Michael.
Hey, mate.
How's it going?
Very good.
What's the industry that you work in?
I work in a call centre.
Okay.
And what do you hate about us?
When people ring up and the first thing they go,
no, it's not your fault, but,
and continue to just go absolutely nuts.
You just agreed it's not my fault,
so why are you going nuts with me?
You're the face of the company,
you're the voice of the company, though.
They need someone to vent to, right?
They do, they do.
Do you ever mute yourself while people are going off
and put them on speaker so your workmates can hear
and say what you really think about that person?
No, at a previous job I did that once
and accidentally didn't push mute,
so I decided never to do that again.
Do you ever record, because it says at the start,
it says your call may be recorded for training purposes.
Do you ever take those recordings
and email them to your workmates
and go, listen to this piece of work?
Or listen to this dumbass
who doesn't know how to turn their router on and off again?
Cores can be brought up like that sometimes, yep.
Yeah, interesting.
Okay, thank you, Michael.
Thanks, Michael.
We appreciate your honesty.
And that's it.
We're here, ready to receive your feedback.
Yep.
Constructive criticism.
I'm a female who works in the automotive parts industry
and it doesn't happen
so much nowadays
but guys would ask
to see a male
as they were the ones
they thought knew
about the parts.
Oh.
That is just offensive.
Let's talk to Dylan.
Hi Dylan.
How you going team?
We're good.
Good Dylan.
What's the industry
that you work in Dylan
and what do you hate about us?
I'm a drain layer.
And the hate thing I do is when there's a blocked drain
that's cruising that,
and you say you're going to go up to the customer,
you let them know,
oh, just please don't use the toilet for a couple of minutes
while I just hook this up.
Nine out of ten,
you're going to see some stuff coming down that drain,
whether you tell them or not.
Oh, they go and use the toilet while you're unblocking the pipe?
Yeah, you'll do the cut, cut over the pipe,
and nine times out of ten, you'll see something coming down it.
Oh, that is disgusting.
That's disgusting, Dylan.
Dylan, because you're in the industry that deals with this stuff,
I just want to read you this text message.
Someone said, I work at a motel,
and what really pees me off is when people do number twos in the shower
and hide it down the shower track.
It's my world.
Surely no one does that.
Surely no one does that.
No, we get all sorts.
So, hey, if you've got to go, you've got to go.
In the shower.
I wouldn't agree with it,
but I'm just a dude who unblocks them and lays them.
Not lays them, lays the puns, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not like any other stuff.
Thank you for your honesty, Dylan.
We really appreciate it.
There you go.
We cannot even begin to get through all of these.
We are the worst.
We truly are.
Brian Clint from iHeartRadio.
This is the latest
live from LA with
Dean McCarthy. Never fear, Dean
is here and Leonardo DiCaprio
has a new girlfriend, Dean.
Okay guys, shock. This is going to shock
everyone. She's gorgeous and she's 19.
I know. I didn't see this
coming at all.
Got a leopard can change its spots, Dean. Yeah, he's gone younger. I didn't see this coming at all. Got a lipid can change at spots, D.
Yeah, he's gone younger.
I just like him.
He's trying new things.
I love it.
You know what I mean?
He's trying new things.
He's really out of capra.
It's time for him to make a change.
So she's 19 years old.
She's an Israeli model called Eden Palani.
You've never seen anyone so gorgeous.
This girl is drop dead gorgeous.
They've been photographed together.
There are rumours that they are dating.
And, of course, as you can imagine, the internet going crazy
because there's this thing, right, as you probably already know,
that Leo only dates people up until they're 25.
He hasn't dated anyone older than 25.
He was linked to Gigi Hadid recently, who's 27.
Ooh, whoa.
Try a new thing.
Look at you.
But in this case, this 19-year-old stunner is very much within that age bracket.
A 19-year-old would have been born in 2004.
Leonardo DiCaprio was born in 1974.
He's 29 years older than her.
Wow.
Am I passing judgment?
I don't know.
Possibly.
I will come out
and say I think it's too far.
I mean, if you weren't born
when Titanic was
released and you're dating Leonardo
DiCaprio, there's something wrong. They say
half your age plus seven, but yeah, his cutoff
should be, did you see Titanic in the
cinemas?
I saw a really good
meme the other day because it's the 25th
anniversary of Titanic and it said
Titanic is now 25 years
old, which means Leonardo DiCaprio
is no longer interested in it.
Okay, well
good on Leo.
Good luck to him.
Good luck to her. Good luck finding...
Good luck to her.
She's only got five years and then she's out.
Good luck finding something to talk about.
I'm looking forward to seeing him in the background of her TikTok dances.
Bree and Clint with Maddie.
That's the latest.
Thanks to Dean McCarthy.
We're back after this.
Bree and Clint.
Maddie, have you ever ended up in the wrong place?
Not that I can think of, but I know people that this has happened to before.
By that, I mean you intended to travel to somewhere,
and then when you got there, you're like, wait a second.
No, but I know a friend of mine who was meant to go to a wedding in Indonesia
and accidentally didn't properly read the invitation
and turned up to Thailand.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
That's way off.
Way off.
Well, that's actually exactly the same as the story right here.
This is an American guy who wanted to go on the trip of a lifetime to sydney australia
beautiful he did not end up in sydney australia have a listen to this talk about a vacation
nightmare a new york man booked his dream vacation a cruise in sunny sydney australia
or at least that's what he thought it turns out he actually booked a flight to sydney montana
something he didn't realize until his plane touched down in Billings.
Montana didn't have kangaroos, it had carols.
And that was good enough for me.
What a dumbass.
What an absolute moron.
In fairness, when you're booking flights,
you know you type in the destination on the app
and maybe it just, the pop-down menu didn't quite click on what he wanted to click on.
He's 62.
His name is Kingsley.
And he said, I saw mountaintops covered in white snow.
At that point, I knew I was in trouble.
It was that point?
It wasn't the fact that your flight only took you an hour?
He said he prioritised getting the cheapest flight over, I guess,
getting a flight to the right place and flying to Sydney, Montana.
It's about S-I-D, by the way.
Right.
S-I-D-N-E-Y.
That's the one that he went for.
He said it's the acronyms, that's the one that he went for. He said it's the acronyms that's the issue. It's S-Y-D, you know, every place,
A-K-L for Auckland,
S-Y-D for Sydney, Australia,
S-D-Y for Sydney, Montana.
Easy mistake to make.
Easy mistake.
Gutted.
Gutted.
If he was already trying to save money,
and now he's got to book a flight back from... And he's going to forfeit his cruise.
He's not going to be there in time to get his cruise.
Do you remember the person that we know
who was meant to go to a 21st,
at a mutual friend's 21st in Palmerston North
and called everybody... On the day. On the called everybody on the day
on the evening of the 21st
saying, hey, where is the bar?
I can't find it anywhere.
And we said, where are you?
And she said, I'm in New Plymouth.
She'd driven
from Auckland to New Plymouth
instead of driving from Auckland
to Palmerston North.
But again, acronyms, N-P-P-N.
N-P-P-N.
Claude's got a friend who was in a similar situation
than this. What happened, Claude?
But they really followed through with their
mistake, didn't they? Yeah, it was a phone call.
She was trying to get a teaching job and had
applied for a role and got a call
being like, yeah, we want you. Can you come
to Wellington? And she was like, yeah, of course.
Didn't realise until after
they hadn't said Wellington, they'd said
Winton, which is a bit
further south. A bit smaller.
I think
it's like 45 minutes outside of
Invercargill. Tiny little town.
Shout out to Southland, but if
she was expecting the bright lights
of Wellington City,
the capital,
she got Winton.
Although Winton,
as you pointed out,
Claude,
three pubs.
Three pubs.
Good pubs too,
I've heard.
What are they called?
One's called Upper Pub,
one's called Middle Pub,
and then one's called Lower Pub.
Where are you headed?
Probably Middle Pub.
Middle Pub?
Yeah.
Upper Pub for me.
I'd go Lower.
Yeah, I get that vibe from you.
Yeah.
We want to ask the question this afternoon.
When did you end up in the wrong place?
Where did you think you were going?
And where did you end up?
This could be a long shot, this one.
It could be, there might be nobody who is silly enough to have made this mistake.
But between us, we know three people.
The three of us all know someone.
Yeah. So this happens. This has got to have made this mistake. But between us, we know three people. The three of us all know someone. Yeah.
So this happens.
This has got to have happened to other people.
You had intentions of going to one place.
For one reason or another,
you ended up somewhere completely different.
If you can relate to that,
we'd love to hear from you on 0800DIALZM.
It's reminiscent of that episode of Full House
when the daughters,
I think it's,
is it Michelle?
Michelle and Stephanie. And Stephanie
think they're flying to Auckland,
which is across the bay from San Francisco,
and they fly to Auckland, New Zealand.
It was so exciting.
It was so exciting to hear.
We got a shout out.
We got a shout out.
We got a shout out.
On TV in the 90s.
Bree and Clint.
When did you intend to go somewhere and end up somewhere completely different?
I thought that was a long shot.
No.
Turns out this happened to a lot of people, including a friend of Dylan's.
G'day, Dylan.
Hey.
Your mate screwed up the wedding location.
Is that right?
Yeah, yeah, big time.
He was supposed to be heading to Whangamata, Coromandel,
and instead ended up in Whangarei.
Where did he start from?
Where was he travelling from?
Just south of Auckland.
They're completely different directions.
Completely.
They're completely different motorways.
And that's the kind of thing I'm imagining
you maybe travel up the day before the wedding,
but often you're travelling the morning
off. Did he miss the wedding?
Completely, yeah.
Did he have a nice night
in Whangarei though? Did he hit danger danger?
Yeah, he ended up staying there the
whole weekend because he pre-booked accommodation
Yeah, he's got to commit. Yeah, he's got to go for it.
Thanks Dylan, we appreciate it. Someone
texted and said my dad
flew to Monaco instead of, and said, my dad flew to Monaco instead of...
Oh, no.
My dad went to Morocco
when he was meant to go to Monaco for a boys' trip.
Brilliant.
Oh.
Brilliant.
All your mates are in Monaco,
maybe there for the Formula One or something like that,
and you're in...
I mean, Morocco sounds delightful, but...
Totally.
But if you're looking for a lads, lads, lads trip
and you end up solo, it's not quite the same.
We've had a lot of people correcting us
because we talked about Claude's friend
who thought she was taking a job in Wellington
but actually took a job in Winton outside of Invercargill.
Claude, it's not Upper Pub, it's Top Pub.
Well, I've never been there.
Top, Middle and Bottom.
Those are the names of the three pubs.
Bottom pub.
Bottom pub.
One of them's closed too.
Oh no, which one?
They didn't say which one.
Oh, it's probably middle pub.
They can only close middle pub
without having to rename the other two.
That's the only one that could go.
Because if bottom pub closes,
then middle pub becomes bottom pub.
True.
Oh, that's a logistical nightmare.
I have changed my mind, though, because I said I'd choose the lower pub.
But now that I know it's top, middle, and bottom, I'd prefer a top.
Oh, okay.
Let's talk to Bridget.
Hi, Bridget.
Hi, how are you?
Good, how are you?
Good.
Did this happen to you or someone that you know
in terms of going to the wrong spot?
This happened to me.
Oh, no.
What happened, Bridge?
I was having an argument with my husband at the time
because I found out he was basically the tindler swindler.
Oh, my God.
And I was driving to Timaru to pick up our son
and ended up in Mount Cook.
Taranaki?
I was looking at the mountain.
It was so close.
Wait, no, where's Mount Cook?
No, I'm thinking of...
No, Mount Cook's in the South Island.
That's in the South Island.
How did you make that mistake, Bridget?
I must have turned left at some point
and went about two hours inland. You do not sound like you were
in much of a mental space to handle a detour like
that. Did that really tip you over the edge? Yeah it did.
I had to go and contact my daughter and she
talked me out of the area of Mount Cook because I didn't even know where
I was.
Brage, that sucks.
Sorry to hear that.
I hope you made it there eventually.
Someone said,
my wife tried to get to Westfield Mall.
She ended up going to Westfield Meatworks all by train.
Yeah, I don't think,
I don't think they would have had what she was looking for.
Unless she was shopping for a meat dress.
True.
Yeah.
Lady Gaga stars.
Someone said,
I booked an overnight train ride to the wrong Barcelona.
Who knew there was one in Italy as well as one in Spain?
Who did know that?
Luckily, I noticed before falling asleep and I was able to get off two hours into the train ride.
There's two Barcelonas?
I never knew.
Kelly's here.
Hi, Kelly.
Good afternoon.
Did you end up in the wrong place?
Yeah, I did.
I was in England for my OE, and I wanted to go to Windsor Castle.
And so I'd look up all the directions and stuff to get there.
This was a while ago, so before Google Maps.
And I had to take the tube and all these train rides and bus stops and everything.
I'm like, this is really a hard place to get to.
I get off, and I'm looking around. I'm like, this is really a hard place to get to. I get off and I'm looking around.
I'm like, how hard is it to spot a castle?
Yeah, where's the castle?
But I'm standing outside a pub called the Windsor Castle.
No!
Was it in Windsor, though?
Like, was it close?
It did take, like, another hour or two or something
to get to the actual place I wanted to go.
But, like, I'd seen so many castles, I can't even remember.
They would have, honestly, they would get so much business out of it.
But I remember the story, right?
Yeah, you wouldn't be the first one to do that.
Yeah, for sure.
They'd be like, well, you've come all this way,
you might as well come and pressure it.
Thanks, Kelly, we appreciate it.
Getting a lot of correspondence on the Winton pub situation.
So we were trying to figure out whether it was top, middle or bottom pub
that is closed.
Someone said it's top pub, but I think they're wrong because almost everyone else says definitely bottom.
Bottom pub.
And apparently a really, really good closing down party.
At bottom pub.
At bottom pub.
Someone said they just drove past bottom pub and it is definitely closed.
Closed bottom pub.
All good.
You and I were talking yesterday about
our partner's spending habit.
That's a nice way to put it.
Right?
Yeah.
And you said that Ryan is a,
would you say he's an impulse purchaser
or does he just get obsessed with things?
He gets obsessed with things.
But he does tend to make the odd impulse purchase.
The latest one was one of those,
the like Bissell vacuum cleaner things that's,
you know, they use on couches and stuff.
Oh, those things are great.
Amazing.
Did you see the video of Vaughan Bisselling the...
Yeah, I did.
She is disgusting.
The dirty, especially if you've got pets,
the dirty, shitty water that comes out of your couches.
I know.
Disgusting.
But yeah, when Ryan puts his mind on something,
it's really hard to change it.
He is still, still begging for a jet ski.
We talked about the jet ski last week.
We did.
I'm trying to get him an engagement jet ski.
Because that's what he said.
He got me a ring and he needed me to get him a jet ski.
But I know what will happen.
I hope he's not listening because I need to say this.
Actually, I hope he is listening.
Ryan, you're not a jet ski guy.
You're not a jet ski.
You're a horse guy, but you're not a jet ski guy.
You know?
From one non-jet ski guy to another non-jet ski guy.
Totally.
There's so many things to unpack about wanting a jet ski.
One, we live in an apartment.
We're just going to put it.
Yes.
Two.
In a city apartment.
He doesn't even have a tow bar on his car.
So how is he going to get the jet ski to the water?
Three, I guarantee two uses and then it would just sit there unused.
Does he want to fish off it or does he want to just
boost around on it?
I think he just wants to
hoon round the harbour.
His latest obsession
and I hope he doesn't
mind me saying this
you said he wants a pizza oven.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're moving into a house
We're moving into a new house
and he wants a pizza oven
and I love the idea
but I said to you
will it get used?
Would you actually
get use out of it?
They're not cheap pizza ovens too.
This information might be helpful for you.
Okay.
This is a list of what not to buy really by month of the year
put together by the website Price Spy.
So they looked at the price of everything, 52,000 items across the year,
and they figure out when these things are most expensive,
at what time of the year,
and that's when you shouldn't buy this particular thing.
The worst items to buy by month.
I love this.
Okay, so let's see if pizza oven is on.
Okay.
That might help you dissuade your husband, Brian, from that.
So in January, you shouldn't buy a baby stroller.
Apparently, according to Pricebuy,
that's the most marked up thing in January.
You'll pay, on average, $195 more for your baby stroller
if you buy it in January than if you do it
any other time of the year.
And I can't figure that out.
I don't know why that would be.
It's not like that's a Christmas purchase
or something that you'd buy in the new year
to go back to work or anything like that.
If you're pregnant, you're pregnant.
You need a baby stroller.
The babies are conceived at New Year's.
That's why everyone's born in November.
So I would have thought it would be then.
Totally.
October, whatever it is.
Great maths.
Thanks, man.
Not like I've had two kids or anything.
February, this month that we're in right now Yeah
The worst month to buy a barbecue
Which I wonder if that covers off the pizza
Pizza other than things for health
You'll pay $136 more for a barbecue
Because they're at premium
It's meant to be barbecue season
Well, but it often is
Because summer is not December, January anymore.
Summer is February, March.
Same thing.
In March, you'll pay more.
That's the time of year you'll pay the most for a lawnmower.
$277 extra for a lawnmower in March?
This list could be very boring,
so let's race through them.
April, toasters.
Don't buy a toaster.
Don't buy a fridge freezer in May. Don't buy a fridge freezer in May.
Don't buy a coffee machine
in June. Don't buy a DSLR
camera in July.
Don't buy a TV in August.
A tent in September. A smart
watch in October.
Lego in November. And a
graphics card for your computer in December.
If you do want to know the best thing to buy right now,
because I've done that too,
February is the best time of year that you could buy a fridge freezer.
There you go.
So maybe talk Ryan into a new fridge freezer instead.
I know you want a pizza oven.
What are your thoughts on a fridge freezer?
Tell him the dream.
It's still,
believe it or not,
new year,
new us.
Great.
And we're on track
with our New Year's resolution.
Sure.
Aren't we?
Yeah.
I know that the girls
and I,
we all committed to
quite rigorous,
and Brie actually as well,
quite rigorous fitness goals
for 2023,
didn't we?
I wouldn't say rigorous.
What?
Well, you two decided to start going to the gym together. Yeah, but like
You sent the world's sweatiest selfie
through to the group chat. How dare you?
You both looked like you had been on the
surface of the sun. It was the worst
idea. What's yours?
Get ripped, get rich. Great.
Get retired? Yeah. Yeah. So that
involves exercise as well. Yeah. How's it
going? Achievable. Well, I'm not rich.
I'm not rich and retirement is not in sight.
But it's a process.
It's only February.
Yeah.
And Maddie, you said that you want to run a half marathon yesterday.
No.
Oh, Maddie!
No.
Did anyone film that?
What I said was I wouldn't mind getting back into running.
Maybe a half marathon could be on the cards.
Okay, can I sign you up?
My boyfriend runs half marathons, so he can be your coach.
Yeah, you get some cool Oakleys.
After last year's news resolution where I swore I was going to learn
to play the guitar by the end of the year
and the guitar sat in my boot for an entire year,
I've decided I can't do it.
I can't make news resolutions anymore. Yeah I can't make New Year's resolutions anymore.
Yeah.
People say that New Year's resolutions are a bad idea
because you are just setting yourself up to fail
like really early in the year.
You're just giving yourself something to be disappointed in
like in the very near future.
Yeah.
Because everyone makes a drastic one.
And they're like, this is the year that I'm going to do this.
This is the year that I'm going to do this. This is the year that I'm going to do this.
So it doesn't sound like
yours are as on track
as we thought.
Terrible.
The girls,
you guys don't sound like
your New Year's resolution
fitness goals
are as on track
as we thought.
It's on an upward trend,
but it's starting
from the bottom.
See, we call them intentions.
You know,
we just intend.
Right.
And then if we don't do it,
it's okay.
Well, I went to the gym
at 5 30 this
morning did you all right all right yeah yeah well done everybody likes hearing that from somebody
5 30 i never do that it was packed that's gross turns out the gym is packed at 5 30 in the morning
don't don't you don't don't you you're better than me you don't need to be one of those people
and the people that are there they look like they know what they're doing too.
Like they're real.
They have their little areas set up
and they're very intentional with the exercises.
You're on an afternoon radio show.
Why are you going to the gym at that time of the morning?
Change things up.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Early bird gets the word.
No thanks.
I thought maybe it might be the key to it.
Anyway, I enjoyed it.
I don't know that I'll be able to
keep it up but I've googled today
what is the best time for your body
to exercise? Like
is there a time that is better than others
for you physically, for I don't
know, for
metabolism or
gains? Is there a time?
This is what I found on the website
WebMD. Oh, great. It says
exercising at
7am or between
1 and 4pm helps
your circadian clock
fall back in time, making
it easier to wake up
and easier
to wake up.
Making it easier to wake up.
So that's it.
7am or between 1 and 4pm.
Any of those tickle you pickle?
No, they're terrible times for me.
First of all, I'm on air at 7am,
so that doesn't work.
And between 1 and 4, I'm on the couch.
I'm having a little kip.
Yeah, right.
So my circadian rhythm is screwed.
So that's no good as well?
No.
Okay.
Producers, any good for you guys?
If we go at three o'clock tomorrow for the science,
like that's all good, eh?
That is when we are working.
It's healthy.
It's for my health.
Giving you that information is not me trying to make you go,
by the way.
It's trying to give you more like excuses so you can go,
oh, missed my window for today.
I guess there's no point in doing it.
I can't go now.
It'll ruin my circadian rhythm.
Oh no, I slipped in.
It's not the optimum time.
Why do it?
Why bother?
Bree and Clint.
Time for a birthday banger.
It's my birthday.
It's my birthday.
Bree and Clint's birthday banger.
This is the part of the show where we figure out
the number one song on your 16th birthday
and we put them all together.
We do three of them and we play out the very best song on your 16th birthday and we put them all together.
We do three of them and we play out the very best one.
And we're going to kick it off with Kate today.
Kia ora, Kate.
Hey, guys.
How are you going?
Great.
How are you doing, Kate?
Awesome, thank you.
Whereabouts in this beautiful country are you calling us from, Kate?
Oh, I'm currently in sunny Queenstown.
Oh, sunny Queenstown.
Dreamy.
Maddie's hometown.
That's where I grew up.
You'll be getting a Ferg burger on the way home, won't you?
Oh, I don't know if I can boggle with the lines.
You'll be heading to Winnie's for pizza tonight and they'll open the roof.
Is that how it works?
Yeah, yeah, sure.
On a Wednesday night.
Yep.
And you start your morning with a bungee jump. With a bungee jump, yeah.
Catch the shot over jet to work.
Perfect.
Okay, Kate, tell us your birthday.
We'll tell you your birthday banger.
3rd of April, 1995.
Nice, Kate.
You were 16 on the 3rd of April, 2011, and this was the number one song.
Banger, J-Lo.
Was this 2011? Yeah. What do you reckon, Kate? Do you, J-Lo. Was this 2011?
Yeah.
What do you reckon, Kate?
Do you like J-Lo?
No, I don't mind that.
Have you guys seen the videos of her very clearly telling off Ben Affleck at the Oscars, at the Grammys?
Yeah, and it's not the first time that there's been videos like that as well.
He's been a bit of a sad sack and you can see it.
There's no microphone on them, but she clearly is just she's like up your ideas pull yourself together okay wait there kate we're going to do
a birthday banger for hannah kia ora hannah hi there where are you calling us from i'm from
pokokoi oh good beautiful potato country yes all right hannah are you keen to find out what your birthday banger is? I am. I'm the 28th of January, 93.
Awesome.
So you were 16 on the 28th of January, 2009,
and this was the number one song.
Banger.
That's OG Gaga.
That's Fame Monster Gaga, isn't it?
It's the first album.
Yeah.
You like that, Hannah?
Yes, I do.
Very much a banger.
What a time to be 16.
Totally.
Yeah.
You know?
Perfect music.
Perfect music.
Okay, wait there.
We've got to do one more birthday banger for Mark.
Kia ora, Mark.
Kia ora.
How are you going?
Where are you calling us from, Mark?
I am in sunny Wellington today.
Is it sunny Wellington?
Oh, very.
Oh, delightful.
You know what?
This just came to me, but I don't know if you've ever heard this, Mark,
but you cannot beat Wellington on a good day.
Oh, never heard that before in my life.
They should make that the slogan.
They should.
They should absolutely, positively make that the slogan They should They should absolutely positively make that the slogan
Get us off the radio
Mark, what's your birthday?
10th of July 1986
Oh nice
You were 16 on the 10th of July 2002
And this is your birthday bang.
Elvis Presley.
Love it.
This is such a tune.
This is an Elvis Presley remix that was done for the Football World Cup in 2002,
I think.
I think.
And Mark, did you know who the remix was by?
Did I hear you say that?
Yeah, Junkie XL.
Oh, you know it.
He knows his stuff.
You genuinely know it.
I just thought it was JXL, but you know the actual name.
Okay, Mark from Wellington.
Wait there, we need to deliberate.
Lady Gaga, J-Lo or Elvis?
Matty, you go first today.
Do you know what?
I'm an 86 baby myself,
so that was my year for turning 16.
I'm going with Mark.
I'm going with Elvis.
You want Elvis Presley?
Jake's out.
I quite like that J-Lo song.
It's a great song.
Trust your gut.
I'm going to go with J-Lo.
Mainly because J-Lo's my birthday banger as
well.
Not that song.
A little bit older
than that one.
It means we go to
split vote.
We haven't given it
to Ella for a long
time.
So Ella, what is the
winner of birthday
banger today?
You can choose Lady
Gaga as well.
I think today I'm
going to go against
both of you and go
with Lady Gaga.
Come on.
It's a good song.
Do you like it?
Yeah. Clint's not
happy. Well, you just, you went against both
of us, but that's fine. Can I, I
can do that? Yeah, you definitely can. Okay,
good. Thank you. Don't expect us to like it.
You just have to live with the consequences.
Hey Hannah, you've won birthday banger. Congratulations.
Thank you, Hannah.
This is a banger. It's from 2009.
Brian and Clint with Matty ZM.
As we've talked about, I am on Treasure Island once again.
Fans versus faves.
You're currently team leader.
I am on the captain.
God, with great power comes great bloody responsibility.
And a great amount of tears.
So many. Yeah.
And more are yet to come.
Lucy and I watched it last night and we both commented
and we were like, God, he takes it seriously.
Way too seriously, right? Yeah.
To the point that it's clearly upsetting you.
Like the stuff that went down last
night with Josh Cronfeld,
I could see that it really upset you.
Yeah, so last night, so what happens is if you don't watch,
every episode we go up against the other team in a face-off
and the winner of that team face-off,
their captain has to put two people up for elimination.
They choose one person from their own team
and one person from the opposing team i
have we have won every single team face off uh since the first since the second episode so i've
been responsible for putting everyone up for elimination and last night i had to make a pretty
tough decision to put someone up from my own team i'm so sorry to do this to you again, mate, but Joshy, I'm putting you in tonight.
Oh, I'm putting Josh up.
I'm stunned.
Especially when Matty said I won't be putting you up again.
If he was going to put me up, he should have
told me beforehand. Joshy,
two out of three elimination
battles. How are you feeling?
Well, I wasn't expecting it.
I looked at him, and he didn't even look at me.
He looked down.
You know, he looked away.
And I am pretty fired up.
Josh Cromwell, big baby.
Big, all black baby.
Nah, in the moment, I get it.
And man, it was a hard decision to make
because I'd already put him up once before
and I had to put him up for a second time.
Yeah, and you told him you wouldn't put him up again.
Yeah.
So yeah, I do kind of get it.
Yeah.
But that's the game.
It is the game.
That's the game.
It is the game.
But I'm always curious to hear
what people who watch the show think of it.
And I messaged you last night after watching it
and I said, it's not your fault.
He's been a big baby.
He's having a big sookie-la-la.
Because, spoiler alert, he goes home
and he does not shake your hand on the way out.
He does not.
No, he does something else with his hand, actually.
But here's the thing that has fascinated me
is all of these people who I didn't think
would be fans of the show are coming out of the woodwork.
Like who?
Well, one person came into our studio this morning on breakfast who I never in my wildest
dreams would have thought would watch this show.
Yeah.
National Party leader Christopher Luxon.
Is he a Treasure Island fan?
He's a massive Treasure Island fan.
Really?
Well, he's playing a real life version of Treasure Island, isn't he?
With the National Party.
Where he's like, please don't eliminate me.
You've eliminated six leaders in six years.
Please don't eliminate me as well.
He's making alliances.
He's cutting deals.
Judith Collins is like, I'm putting you up for elimination.
But he said something to me
which I've been thinking about
all day
he said to me mate I am loving you
on Treasure Island
and he said you are brilliant
you are so Machiavellian
okay
and I thought I've heard that word before
I know what it means but the way he said it I thought I've heard that word before I know what it means
But the way he said it
I thought
Well that's
Nice
It's a flex to use that word
In a conversation
It is
Yeah
Like you're showing
Your extensive vocabulary
I could not give you
A definition for the word
Machiavellian
Well neither could I
So I had to go and
Google it
Okay
Right
And he was saying it to me
As a compliment
Okay it does sound
Complimentary
He said I'm loving you on the show.
You are this thing.
It sounds suave.
It sounds cool.
Machiavellian.
What does it mean?
Cunning and scheming.
Oh, okay.
So he's...
Yeah, okay.
So he's kind of siding with Josh Kronfeld
and saying you are being a bit...
Machiavellians are sly, deceptive, distrusting and manipulative.
Right.
They are characterised by cynical beliefs,
are striving for money, power and status
and the use of cunning influence tactics.
Right, right. So he's saying you're a crafty of cunning influence tactics. Right.
Right.
So you're saying you're a crafty bugger.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's saying I'm a... So is it a compliment?
Because that's not how I see you as a person.
Well, the way he said it made it sound like he was delivering a compliment to me.
I don't know that I want to be...
Maybe it's a value that Christopher Luxon, like, maybe that's a characteristic that he values.
And so by that, it is a compliment.
I guess in the world of politics,
maybe that's exactly how you want to be.
But I don't know that I...
I'm used to being described as like...
Lovely.
Lovable.
And a ray of sunshine.
I don't know that anyone has ever called me
sly, deceptive, distrusting or manipulative.
Chris Luxon's like, if that doesn't work out, man,
there's a place for you in the national public.
We've got a big fight ahead of us.
We've got to take down that ginger guy.
We thought we were home and hosed when Cindy hung up her boots,
but geez, this chippy guy's got a bit of pep in him.
We're going to have to sort him out.
I will wait for my phone call.
I've just seen an article as I Google Machiavellian
that says 15 signs you work with a narcissist, psychopath,
or a Machiavellian.
Yeah, right.
So it's a backhanded compliment.
Completely.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
No.
All right.
But I don't believe that he meant it in a backhanded way.
No, I don't think he did either.
But now I don't know how to take it.
Do I say, great, thank you so much for describing me in that way?
Not everybody who delivers a backhanded compliment
intends it to be backhanded.
They don't necessarily mean the undertones to it.
No.
So I reckon we'll get some people call through with this,
this afternoon, who have received a compliment.
The person giving it to you, maybe they intended it in a nice way,
but actually you're like, hang on a second, that's a real backwards compliment. The person giving it to you maybe they intended it in a nice way but actually you're like, hang on a second
that's a real backwards
compliment.
Maddie has been referred
to as Machiavellian by
the leader of the National Party, Christopher
Luxon, which at the time you didn't
know what it meant. I knew I'd heard the word
but I definitely had to, I kind of
smiled and nodded and then
had to Google what it meant
after he left the studio this morning.
And Machiavellian's a sly, deceptive, distrusting
and manipulative.
Yeah.
He was referring to my time on Treasure Island.
He wasn't just saying I'm like that in my everyday life.
Not as an interviewer on Breakfast TV.
Someone said that they would not,
because we're like, does he mean it as a compliment
someone said it's not nice
to call anybody Machiavellian
and
they don't think
they know that a politician
wouldn't think that
that was appropriate
so maybe he did know
what he was saying to him
I don't know
maybe he
yeah maybe he never
meant it as a compliment
maybe he doesn't know
what it means
maybe I took it as
as a backwards compliment
and actually it was
just a criticism.
He had to Google it afterwards too.
We've asked you what's the backhanded compliment
that you've received from someone.
We've got a text here that said,
my mother-in-law is Indian.
She came to visit and bought me an Indian suit.
When I tried it on, she told me it looked beautiful
because it hid all my fat.
Mothers and mother-in-laws are so brutal.
Someone else has said from my own mother who said to me once,
you know, you actually have a pretty face for a fat girl.
No, that's no.
You can give it to mum straight too.
You can go, hey mum. Mum, not okay. Cut it out. Someone did say, I once
was... Also mum, I look like you.
I once was complimented, I think
someone has texted in. Same situation
it was delivered, as mine
was to me.
The person said, you're such a minx.
At the time I didn't really understand
it, so I just said, oh thanks. But later discovered
the definition of minx is derogatory,
an impudent, cunning or boldly flirtatious girl or young woman.
Oh, would you take it as a, in sort of someone,
I know that's the literal definition of it,
but if someone said, oh, you minx.
Yeah, I don't think it's meant as a, I don't think it's meant as a criticism.
Yeah.
But that's the whole point, right?
It's a backwards compliment.
As men in 2023, we don't go around calling any woman minx, by the way.
It's not best practice.
Jeez, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of weight-based ones here,
which they're not even backhanded compliments.
It's just someone commenting on your weight, isn't it?
Someone said, you look good for having three kids.
Don't even.
Don't even.
Yeah, right.
Well, if you want to see Matty's Machiavellian performance, he'll be back on Celebrity Treasure
Island tonight.
Fans vs. Faves from 7.30.
The pandemic has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?
I'll say.
A lot.
I've missed two Elton John concerts now.
Although the second one wasn't really the pandemic's fault.
In the first one, he definitely had COVID.
Are we saying that yet?
I think so.
Are we saying Elton John brought COVID to New Zealand?
Well, I mean, you could.
It's either him or DJ Dimension.
If you put allegedly after anything.
Allegedly.
You can say anything.
Allegedly.
Yeah.
You've missed your chance, by the way.
Elton.
Oh, he's not coming back.
He's not coming back.
No.
No, it's over.
But one of the interesting things that I hadn't even thought about that has been changed because
of the pandemic is friendships in the workplace.
How so?
Well, I guess because so many people are doing online,
you know, they're working from home, they're online a lot more,
they're not in the office, they're not spending as much time with people.
Although this is the year that your boss is going to force you back into the office.
Yeah, although.
They're going to go, we're paying for this big ass building.
Totally.
And I don't know what you're doing at home.
You never answer my phone calls, so you can
come back. I know, but employees
are finding they have more and more power.
So if you go to your boss and go,
I don't know, the other workplaces
have more flexible working arrangements.
But it was really
interesting, they've done a study in the US
that found only two
in ten workers
would say that they had a work best friend.
Oh, okay.
Only two.
Yeah, I feel like you need someone in the workplace that is your rock,
your person that you goss to.
Totally.
Go for coffees with.
Yeah.
Someone mainly just to bitch and moan about stuff to.
Exactly.
It's a real venting job, isn't it?
Yeah, I get that. Yeah, two in ten. That's not many. Surely It's a real venting job Yeah I get that
2 in 10
It's not many
Surely it's more in New Zealand
Yeah I think so
Maybe in America
Because they're massive corporations
They're a lot more
You know head down
Ass up kind of thing
Yeah okay
There's one way to find your work bestie
Common interests
Oh you Okay yeah we should talk There's one way to find your work bestie. Common interests.
Oh, you.
Okay, yeah, we should talk.
But it got me thinking.
I think I've seen you on the apps.
Yeah, that looks similar to the photo.
But it got me thinking, do I have a work bestie?
Do you?
Well, I don't think I do. I think you do.
I think you do.
It's Jack Tame.
Yeah, but he's my out-of-work bestie
who just happens to work in the same workplace.
True, cop-out.
Yeah, that's a cop-out.
I mean, he is,
but I don't know whether that's...
I'm thinking of someone who's specifically tasked
with being my best friend at the workplace.
Yeah, and it has to be reciprocated, right?
Yeah.
If they're your work bestie,
it has to be... They have to also? Yeah. If they're your work bestie, it has to be,
they have to also, you have to be theirs.
Exactly.
So now I've really got to think about,
A, do I have one?
And B, if I don't, who do I want to be that person?
You could hold an audition process for her. I really could.
Yeah.
Do you have a work bestie?
Well, I'd probably say Bree.
Yeah.
But we can't reach her at the moment to confirm that
I have a backup work bestie
Okay
And it's a bit lame that it's the boss
But it's probably Ross Boss
And do you think that's reciprocated?
I hope it's reciprocated
Because he's got a lot of employees
And I know how friendly he is
With a lot of the other people in this office
Should we call him and find out?
Let's do it
I've worked with this man on and off for the last 15 years.
Hi, Ross Boss.
Hello.
Hi, it's Clint and Matty.
Hello.
Hi, Ross.
What are you doing?
The radio show that you pay us to do.
Working very hard.
Duh.
Duh.
Anyway, what's up?
Anyway, we're talking about work besties.
Yeah.
Do you have one?
Not you.
But also, not anymore.
It's quite tragic, really.
Okay, forget that bit.
Why not me?
Why so obviously not me?
Do you want me to, where do I start?
Well, let me start.
We've worked together on 2000 and on and off since like 2006.
So do you remember when we worked together and then I left
and then I came back a few years later
and you had been sitting at my desk that time?
Yeah, I got your job.
And then I took it back.
But then you went to ZM and I followed you here.
We're meant to be together.
We're like star-crossed lovers.
We're best friends.
But when I came back after three years, I opened up my drawer
and the same things were still in there from three years prior.
You hadn't done anything.
Well, you didn't do anything in that job either.
You found the stuff in that drawer as well.
That's true.
There were some good pins in there.
So, Ross, I don't want to make this awkward between the two of you,
but when I asked Clint who his work best friend was, he said it's you.
Oh, really? Yeah.
That's weird, because also, Matty,
I was going to ask you if you wanted to be my best friend. Yes!
Yes, I'm looking for one. You only want him because
he's the shiny new thing. You're only
interested in him because he's new. This is like
a classic relationship. You don't
dislike me, you're just bored of me.
Yeah, but I'm desperate, so I will
happily take that. Clint, you need to get a bit of me. Yeah, but I'm desperate, so I will happily take that.
Happily take that.
And Clint, you need to get a bit of TV show on.
Maybe I'll be interested.
You mean get our TV show?
All right.
Thanks, Ross.
Have a good life.
Bye.
Bye.
That's it.
That's the end of the show, everybody.
Thank you for joining us.
I've just been thinking, you know how we talked earlier about how Leonardo DiCaprio's got a
19-year-old girlfriend?
Yeah.
Do you reckon he'll need a special exemption to stay over at the uni halls with her?
This year when the RA's like, I don't care who you are, rules are rules.
He's like, I'm the goddamn wolf of Wall Street.
I don't care if you're The wolf of Wall Street
I am
Get out
Curfew's at 11
No visitors
I don't forget
What her name is
But
It's a 19 year old
Supermodel
It's very on brand
Very
But imagine he shows up
And they're like
Say her name's
Say it's Jess or something
Jess
Your dad's here
No that's not my dad.
That's my boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Imagine if Leonardo DiCaprio showed up at your toga party for O-Week.
He would, too.
He would.
I can't think of a place that would be more up his alley.
Playing flip cup with Leonardo DiCaprio at the frat party.
I'm going to O-Week in Dunedin this year for a ZM thing.
And I feel uncomfortable.
He's like 15
years older than me
anyway good on him
good on her yeah don't
yuck someone's yum
unless they're a 48 year old dating a 19 year old
have a great night and we'll catch you
guys back tomorrow on the Brian Clint show
with Maddie. Bye.