ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM's Bree & Clint Podcast – January 13th 2020

Episode Date: January 13, 2020

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Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready, ready, ready. I think we're ready everybody. Welcome to the first podcast of 2020. Yay! We're back, bitches! Thank you for persevering with us if this is your daily thing. It's annoying when it is, isn't it? Yeah, but Ben did a great job of putting together some tied me overs. Yeah. Some really good, some themed podcasts. Nice work, Ben. He put so much effort into those and they were awesome.

Thanks, guys. Yeah, thanks, man. Thanks, mate. Take the rest of the week off. Thank you. So that's great, but yeah, some themed podcasts. Nice work, Ben. He put so much effort into those and they were awesome. Thanks, guys. Yeah, thanks, man. Thanks, mate. Take the rest of the week off. Thank you. So that's great. But, yeah, we're back. We're back.

We are back. It's all new. It's all fresh. It's not the first day that Brie and I got to see each other, though, because I saw you at your house at your surprise birthday party that you didn't know was happening. Yes, you did. Organised for you by your flatmate, Annabelle.

Hi, Annabelle. Gutter. Previously known as Iron Gut Annabelle. Oh, stop. No one's called me that in a very long time. I didn't know if that was offensive. I didn't want to say that or not. Iron Gut Annabelle.

Or Pasta Girl. Or Old Pasta Girl. Oh, aren't you Pasta Girl? Okay, mate. What was the cheesy dip situation as well? Oh, yeah. Queso Dip Girl girl she's also been known as that on the show to cheese you're infamous kinds of melted cheese you love cheese um you

can talk i just said me you can talk grated cheese from a bag for dinner girl i'd do it i'm probably gonna do that tonight actually so annabelle invites us to a surprise party at Bree's house for her 30th birthday because she's just turned 30 which means she entered her 30s. Good year. Screw you guys. I wanted to know how hard is it to organise a surprise party for

Bree Thomasale? It actually went down pretty good. Everyone had really great straight faces. The night before we did a joint flat dinner with another flat and everyone's like oh yeah probably see you again sometime before the summer ends really we're like seeing them the next way how long has this been organized for well when i knew you were flying back yeah so i was in liam that's why you kept asking me when i was coming home well no i missed you you then. And also, I didn't want to be nude when you walked into the door. That would have been a good surprise, though.

That would have been probably even better. So this is what you don't know. We were at your house waiting for you to come back. You had gone to the tennis with producer Ben. Great decoy, producer Ben. Thanks, mate. You're really doing good work here this year so far. Guys.

And then we were getting texts to know that you're coming back. I think they did a decoy, like, you wanted to get on the piss. And then they're like, nah, let's go home and make macaroni cheese. Yeah. And then, of course, I was lured in by that. I was like, all right. Again, cheese. We're back at cheese straight in.

So Annabelle goes, okay, the car's pulling up. Everybody hide. Everybody hide. What's going to happen is Bree's going to open the door. And then we all start singing happy birthday and people are like

oh no no no no aren't we going to jump out and say surprise you yell surprise don't you I know but then I was like god

your birthday was a week ago will she know what it is or just be confused I think I would have got it you standing there

with a birthday cape was a pretty big giveaway too so Annabelle's going oh you want to oh, okay, you want to say surprise? Okay, we'll say surprise. We'll say surprise.

Okay, well, she'll come in and you guys won't know when to say it. So I'll say sir and then you guys say prize. No, I was like, I was like, don't you just say it when the door is open?

That's so good. But I was like, how will they know? How will they know? So I'll say sir and you guys say prize. Oh my God. And you guys will come and was like, how will they know? How will they know? So I'll say sir, and you guys say prize. I'll go sir, and you guys will come and be like, sir, prize. You're an awkward son of a bitch, aren't you?

I'm really cool. I'm actually really, really cool. Anyway, we all jumped out and we all said surprise. We just went for it. Were you surprised? I was holding a jug of milk at the time because um i was gonna make myself a lot of macaroni and cheese um and i was i've never been like i've never had someone do something like that for me and i never thought anyone would ever and

i was so surprised and overwhelmed it was so nice it was honestly the best gift anyone could ever give me it's fun eh It's so much fun. And I was already halfway lit, so I was even more keen. Oh, you guys were chopped. Yeah, we were, yeah. It was hot at the tennis. Ben had his nice tennis outfit on. It was beautiful.

See, I was the only one that wore a shirt to the tennis. Yeah, I know. I was disappointed by the effort put in by others too. What's going on? Alan wore a denim jacket and Doc Martens in jeans to the tennis. He was like, I'm going to wear a T-shirt and jacket. And I thought he meant like blazer. I was like, yes, that'll be good.

No. No. Denim, don't lift it. Yeah, that was fun. So I just thought we'd just visit that. My first ever surprise party. I was stoked. Is that your first ever surprise party?

Yeah. Actually, I've never yet yeah, or, no, I don't think I've ever thrown one for someone either. Oh, that would be why you've never had one for yourself. I've got a weak bladder. All right, she's coming. Put a towel down. Quick, quick, quick, now.

Here's the podcast, everybody. Enjoy. Enjoy. Are you laughing? She's coming put a towel down? Did you mean to do that? No, I didn't mean to do that. Not again. You've got the baby batter on the brain.

Not again. I didn't mean it. I mean like she's coming through the door. Quick. She's coming. Put a towel down. It was like three seconds before Ellie went. Quick She's coming Put her down Down It was like Three seconds

Before Ellie went Oh god Here's the podcast Zero Hey Google What's the time? It's 3pm Give or take a minute

Alexa Play ZM on iHeartRadio Playing ZM on iHeartRadio Hey Siri Winner Brie and Clint on Brie and Clint are on air in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. That's us everybody. G'day. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the show, the first show of 2020. Good to be back. Hi Bree. Hello mate, how are ya? You look different. Why? Something's changed about you. Oh, I got my boobs done. No, it's not that. They look great by the way. Yeah, it's a push-up bra, that's what. Oh, I got my boobs done. No, it's not that. They look great, by the way.

Yeah, it's a push-up bra. That's what I meant. I've got them done. No, it's not that. There's something something, oh, like something has radically, something's changed. What are you getting at? Oh, you're in your 30s now. Oh, you! Happy birthday, everybody. Remember, we were going to say happy birthday to Bree. It was her birthday over

the Christmas New Year period, and you now have entered, as we enter a new decade, you enter a new decade. Remember, we were going to say happy birthday to Bree. It was her birthday over the Christmas New Year period, and you now have entered. As we enter a new decade, you enter a new decade. See, a year ago, I would have appreciated you remembering my birthday, but now I really don't like it. I know, right? No, from now on, I just turn 30 every year. This is the age where you know how you got your birthday on Facebook,

and up until now, it's had the year beside it. Now it's just the days. Oh, no, I took that off last year. Oh, did you really? In the hope that no one would notice this year. 30's great. Look at me, mate. Thriving.

Yeah, you got a kid. Yeah, I got a kid, yeah. Can't wait for that in my 30s. Yeah, you get... I'm just going to vomit all over you. You get these designer bags underneath your eyes. That's all good. Yeah, yeah.

So lots to look forward to there. No, it's been awesome. It's been... I feel the same. I've heard my mum say that before, so I think I'm turning into her. Nah, it's good. It's good to be back. Today on the show, lots of fun stuff coming up.

You, the first thing we need to address, though, is a, well, this is nice. At the heart of it, this is nice, because you've organised something for people. Yeah, everyone that listens to ZM. I thought I wanted to give everyone that listens to this show a gift from you and I, mate, and I thought I was doing a really great thing.

Turns out I'm a bit of an idiot. It's the thought that counts, but I'm excited that three minutes into our first show of the decade, we've had our first fail. I'm starting to think this show's built on failures. Every show needs a tagline or something that's unique about it, and we fail. That's what we do. You know what? We bring other

people up because it makes them feel good about themselves. We lower the bar. And I'm okay with that. So everyone else can just flop over it. Look, it is a nice thought, and you will still get something out of this listening to it. Yes, you're going to be able to win some stuff. Bree can tell you what she's done, what she's organised next. What?

A joke. This is five sauce, sit in. Some days you're the only thing I know. Brie and Clint. Oh, how good's holidays? How good's a holiday? It is good to come back to work, though, after you've had a nice break. And as I was venturing to the airport, Clint,

because I went home to Aussie, obviously, and you saw on my Instagram what I endeavoured to do. So back home in Aussie, I was going around the supermarket and I was buying snacks. And I came across, in Aussie, we've got all these like, you know how you guys have got like all your classic biscuits? Well, we have all of our childhood favourite classic biscuits. We've got like the Scotch Finger. The what?

The Scotch Finger. The Ginger Nut. Oh yeah, we've got the Ginger Nut, yeah. The Vovo. Yeah, Vovo, yeah. All typical Aussie names, right? But the cool thing is that they put all of those childhood biscuits and they turn them into blocks of chocolate.

This is the new thing to do, eh? Yeah. I love it. It's brilliant. So Arnott's did it and they're calling them like Arnott's chocolate blocks or something and I was like oh, reminisce, love this and you know how we always do obviously the taste

tests on our show. I thought I'd love to bring some back for you guys to give them a whirl. Yeah. Like a wonderful kai koha or food gift that you're bringing back. It's like you're sharing part of your culture through food with our culture. Yeah, beautiful idea, I thought.

Yeah, I thought so too. And then I thought, okay, so I'll get some for Clint, I'll get some for Producer Ellie, some for Producer Ben. What about everyone else that's in the Brian Clint family that listens to the show? Because obviously if we're tasting them, they're going to want to taste them. Yep. So I came up with a plan to just pack my suitcases,

chock-a-block. Well done. Yeah, that's good. Full of the Arnott's chocolate block so that everyone could taste them. And like I said, great idea, beautiful sentiment. Yeah. Loved what you were doing with it. And I was like, no one else, bar the Breen-Clint family,

are going to be able to try these. It said there'd be about 45 kilos worth of chocolate luggage. It cost me $400 in excess baggage. Which, again, is a lovely idea. I thought worth it, as long as everyone appreciated it. And you go $400, that's a small amount of money to pay for something you can't get in New Zealand. Exactly right.

You can't get it here, so I could maybe even sell a few on the side. I have received a few inboxes to my Instagram because this is where I put the journey that I went on the other day. Let me just

read one inbox that I've received this morning that I actually just read literally about an hour ago. Bree, I have some bad news. Look what I found in Countdown. Yeah.

It's the Arnott's chocolate blocks you were talking about. They're everywhere. Your timing could not have been worse. This is an email that I got this morning. Arnott's chocolate blocks are launching in New Zealand this week. Arnott's chocolate blocks are inspired by Arnott's classic biscuits. So it's everything you said. I'll just check, I'll just check,

because these are the ones they're launching in New Zealand, because you might have bought some that we don't have. So we're getting, did you bring a ginger nut one? Yeah, no, I bought the ginger nut. Yeah, we got the ginger nut, yeah. Did you bring the wagon nut one? Yeah, no, I bought the ginger nut. Yeah, we got the ginger nut, yeah. Did you bring the wagon wheel one? Yeah. Yeah, we're getting the wagon wheel one.

Yeah. We're getting the, you said Scotch finger? Oh, yeah, I bought all of the ones that are available here. No, we've got a special one, Jets. We're getting Jets as well. The Jets Crackers chocolate. No, I bought that one. You got that one as well.

Okay, cool, yeah. Hey, but you know what? You know what? It is still worth it because we can give away free ones on this show. Yeah, I assumed we would the whole time, and it doesn't change it. Free chocolate is free chocolate. Free chocolate. It doesn't matter that you could just go and buy it for yourself

from the supermarket. Forget about that. Forget about that for a second. It doesn't matter that I sat at customs for two and a half hours. In fact, we can give some away right now if it'll make you feel better. Oh, $800 at M. Would you like to win a special block of Breeze imported Arnott's chocolate?

You can also buy it from your local store. It's better than the stuff you can buy in the store because this one's been on an aeroplane. Fiona, hi. Hi, guys. I would love some of Breeze's amazing free chocolate. That's great news because we've got way too much. Thank you, Fee.

That makes me feel better. Wait there. We've got some chocolate for you. Logan, welcome to the show. Happy New Year, my friend. Would you like some Arnott's chocolate? Yes, please. Yeah, hook you up. We're hooking you up with some free chocolate

that's worth even more than the stuff you can buy here because I paid all the tax on it. Yeah, because of the customs charges. Yeah, absolutely. And finally, Rochelle, would you like some Arnott's chocolate? I would love some Arnott's chocolate. See, this is a huge raging New Year's success. Let's do all today on the show, our first show back,

every caller that gets on the air, we're hooking you up with free chocolate. Yeah, we don't have anywhere to keep it. Trust me, I've got enough. We've got a couple of blocks now too if you want some. You can call us on 0800-DALZIT-M. Well done. Thank you, mate. That's the thought that counts, mate. Don't worry about it don't worry about it it's our first show of the year it's our first show of 2020 we're

back um it's a brand new year and it's the part of the year where you start looking at your whole life and going oh this year i'm gonna do it better this is the year where gyms fill up yes and uh you can't get any machines because everyone is in there just trying to make themselves a better them. We're in the New Year's resolution part of the year and that only lasts, I feel, for January at most. I think by February you're pretty over your New Year's resolutions and you're just back to grinding away like you normally do. Mid-Feb you're able to get on the ad machine anytime you want.

Oh, yeah, because the queues have dropped off. Yeah, the queues have died down. Absolutely right. I heard a really good thing that Fletch, Vaughan and Megan were doing this morning. And it's a way, I guess, of keeping people accountable to their New Year's resolutions. I don't like New Year's resolutions as it is.

I think they're stupid. So they got people to contact them and share what their New Year's resolution was. And then they took down their details. And what they're going to do is they're going to contact those people in six months' time and see how their New Year's resolution was, and then they took down their details and what they're going to do is they're going to contact those people in six months' time and see how their New Year's resolutions are going. You know, see if they've stuck to them.

And if nothing else, maybe just give them a reminder, go, hey, remember how you said you were going to put some money into savings once a payday? How's that going for you? That sort of thing. Remember how you said you weren't going to call up a radio station and lie anymore? How's that going for you?

And I thought that's such a good idea that we should do it, that you and I should do it, that we should hold ourselves accountable. Yeah, no, I love doing stuff like this. And you guys too, Producer Ben and Producer Ellie, you can be in on this as well. We all share our New Year's resolutions. Okay. And then, Ben, you put a reminder in your calendar six months from today.

So July the 13th. July the 13th. Yeah. And we re-listen to what we've said here. Oh, I think I'm going to be away. And then we'll be able to check. Oh, you're not. Imagine how good you'll feel if you've achieved your New Year's resolution by halfway through the year.

No, but I know me and I don't think I'm going to feel good. I believe in you. Yeah, we all believe in you. All right, well, maybe this will hold me accountable. And I believe in you guys too. Let's start with Producer Ellie. Okay. Okay.

Producer Ellie, what's your New Year's resolution? To look after my health a lot more, but cut down my meat consumption will be the main part of that as well. Okay. See, yours is quite vague. So how much meat are you having at the moment? Oh, like, I'd have it Most meals You know like we all do

But I want to cut it back To 10% Like I don't really Even want to eat meat How are we meant to track this Yeah that's hard to track That's hard So at the moment

She's having it every meal Okay In six months time We'll find out if it's Every second meal Okay Okay Producer Ben

Your news resolution Don't really have one But I can quickly think of one Maybe You're out You've got to the end of this break to think of one. Bree, what's your New Year's resolution? I've got a few

or do you just want one? Actually, give us them all. Yeah, because I might want to use one. Okay, you can use one if you want. My first New Year's resolution I'm not going to straighten my hair for a year. So I've already straightened it so I've already kind of broke that one

is this starting tomorrow starting tomorrow yeah we'll know if that one's broken tomorrow i'm gonna wash my sheets more often that's one that ben could use you could you need that more than me yeah yeah again we need to be measurable so how often you're washing your sheets at the moment probably once every two weeks. Gross. Once every three weeks. I lied. Yes. Okay, yep.

I'm going to exercise less. No. You can't exercise less than zero. No, I feel like I could really do that one. And the last one that I'm going to really stick to is I'm going to eat more takeaways. I like these ones. Hey, you one said...

You're trying to rig the system. You said, what are they? No. These are the things I want to work on. Fine, then my New Year's resolution is to not get abs. That's what we're doing with this. Yeah, good. Ben, have you got a resolution over there yet?

Just maybe live a bit more fast and loose, you know? Just out of the blue, just like, I'm going to do something tonight. What? This is not what I'm talking about, Ben? This is not what I'm talking about. Ben. This is not what I'm talking about. I need you to be like, my New Year's resolution is to save $1,000.

And then in six months we can go, do you have $1,000? What are we going to do? Look back in six months and go, Ben, are you living fast and loose? Ben. What? Literally, I don't know if you can live any more fast and loose. On Thursday night, you were at Ponsonby Social Club with no shoes on. Brian Clint from iHeartRadio.

This is the latest live from LA with Dean McCarthy. He's back for a brand new year. Dean McCarthy, hello. G'day. Hello, everyone. Welcome back. I've missed you. I heard your New Year's resolution, Dean,

is to make your teeth even whiter so they can be seen from the moon. Teeth whiter and body tighter. I don't think that's possible for you. Dean, tell us who the latest celebrity is entering politics. Obviously, the United States is the place where you can do that. You've got a reality TV oompa-loompa as a president over there. But who's next? Okay, so look, he can become the president. Anyone can become the president. We might be looking at a President Cardi B in the future. Here's what happened, right? Go to her Twitter

and she's not kidding, by the way. She has tweeted that she wants to become a politician. She really loves the government. And she said, even though I don't agree with the government, she also tweeted that she's been watching war documentaries and how some people are patriotic and some people aren't. She said, I barely see people claiming that they love being American these days. So she's kind of gone on this Twitter rant about how she would like to be, you know, influenced and in parliament. And you know what?

If the reality star of the of it can, anyone can. Literally anyone can. I mean, if it's a choice between Donald Trump and Cardi B. I'd pick Cardi B. Then I'd choose Cardi B. Same. But at the same time, can we get some, like, proper, like, oh, I mean, I don't know.

Just because she's watched some water. It's not working over in Australia, so. Yeah, no, that's true as well. This is also a bit of breaking news, Dean, and I don't know if you've had the chance to cover this. We've just had word that you're currently on a date. I'm literally on a date, and he's looking through the glass right now

as I'm standing outside the Thai restaurant. Are you joking? Dean, can you go put him on the phone? Are you serious? Yeah, I'm being serious. I just want to ask him a question. Okay, he's inside. Let me grab him.

Okay. I'll grab him. One second. Hold on, one second. One second. Just hold there. How awkward. He's such a workaholic

that he will take our calls to report the entertainment news on a date. He's at a Thai restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard. Okay, so... Yeah. Okay, this is Sean.

This is Brain Clean. They're live around New Zealand. Do you want to say hi? Hey, guys. How's it going? G'day. Hi, Sean. This is Brain Clean. They're live around New Zealand. Do you want to say hi? Hey, guys. How's it going? G'day. Hi, Sean. How are you?

I'm doing good. Can't complain. How are you? You sound hot. You sound real hot. Typical. I mean, look at Dean. Call us over protective appearance, but we just want to know,

what are your intentions with Dean? I had no idea what you just said. I'm sorry. Can you repeat that? No, it's okay. We'll leave you guys to your meal. I'll say one idea what you just said. I'm sorry. Can you repeat that? No, it's okay. We'll leave you guys to your meal. I'll say one thing to you, Sean. I've got a lot of pocket knives and I've castrated a few bulls before,

so just keep that in mind. Okay. Just laugh. He doesn't really know. I don't think he really knows what you're saying. He's like, what did she say? She's speaking English? Yeah, what language is that?

Dean, this has been one of my favourite crosses we've done with you. We'll leave you to your meal and whatever you're having for dinner. That's Dean McCarthy, our Hollywood correspondent

live from Los Angeles. ZM. Bree and Clint. Oh my God. What? No way. I can't believe that happened. Oh my God, no. Are you f***ing kidding me?

Bree and Clint's Cliff Hangar. Basically, Oh my God, no! Are you f***ing kidding me? Bree and Clint's Cliffhanger. Basically, a story that revolves around, not a game that revolves around great stories. Exactly right. Those stories you hear, everyone usually has one where you tell it at a party where it captures everyone

and it's got a great, usually unpredictable ending. What we're going to do is we're going to get you to call in and tell us like three quarters of the story, and then you're going to hear three options for the ending. One of those endings will be written by Bree, one of those endings will be written by me, and one of those endings will be the real ending that actually happened to you, Logan.

Hello. Hi. Now, after that, you will have the chance listening to call in and see if you can correctly guess the real ending to the story. All right, everybody on the same page? Okay, I'm on the same page. I'm ready for the story. Okay.

Logan, when you're ready, tell us three quarters of your cliffhanger story. So, basically, for my 13th birthday, I went whitewater rafting and we came up to a seven metre waterfall. Stop. Nice. Right.

I'm going to read the three possible endings here, okay? Okay. And then as I looked over the edge to see the drop, I defecated in my pants. It was the most embarrassing moment of my childhood. Oh my God. The next option. And then my testicle got caught in the raft and as I fell out, it fell off. The third option. I fell down the waterfall, was trapped under the water for multiple seconds, but came away

uninjured. Okay. One of those is the real ending. The other two were written by Bree and I. We actually don't know who wrote which one as well. I don't know the real one. I don't know which one's the real one. I just know which one my one was.

But it doesn't matter what we think. Stacey's going to have a go at cracking the cliffhanger. Hi, Stacey. Hello. Come on, Stacey. Do you think you can pick out the two fakes? Oh, I'm not too sure, but I'll give it a crack. All right, so the rules are if Stacey guesses this right,

the real ending, you pick up the mobile fuel, but if you don't, Logan takes home the fuel. Okay, Stacey? Okay. All right. Is it the first one? What was the first one? The first one was, and then as I looked over the edge to see the drop,

I defecated in my pants. You're going to go with that one, Stacey? Yeah, I think so, yeah. The only person who knows for sure is Logan. Logan, what is the correct ending to your cliffhanger? Getting trapped under the waterfall for multiple seconds.

Sorry, Stacey! You should know that I'd write about poop. Okay, Logan, that means you win. You win your own cliffhanger. Congratulations. Yes, thank you so much. Nice work, Logan. I'm glad you're okay as well.

That would have been scary. I think this works as an idea. Yeah. I think we've made something up new here. I'm keen to hear some more good stories from you guys too. Yeah, okay. All right, well done new here. I'm keen to hear some more good stories from you guys too. Yeah, okay. All right. Well done, everybody.

Good work. Brie and Clint. Clint, what would you say is the most expensive thing you've ever bought off eBay? I've never shopped on eBay. You've never shopped on eBay? No, don't trust it. You're missing out. eBay.

Yeah, you use PayPal. Yeah, but this is New Zealand, mate. How's it going to get here? This is the problem. This is my real problem with eBay. This is my real problem with eBay. This is my real problem with eBay. I don't know if the currency that I'm shopping in is in US dollars or New Zealand dollars

because you weigh it up and you go, oh, yeah, I guess I'll pay that much. And then you go to checkout and then it says USD and then it converts and it's way more. And then they put shipping on. I don't get it. Okay, boomer. I found a list. You need to get, Boomer. I found a list.

You need to get with the times. I found a list. Who's shopping on eBay? I shop on eBay occasionally. You know my laptop case? Australia has eBay. You would have done it in Australia. New Zealand has eBay.

We do not have eBay. Yes, you do. Do we? It's all private people selling stuff from their homes. That's what I'm into. Yes, you do. Do we? It's all private people selling stuff from their homes. That's what I'm into. Yes. You would love it. I need to get onto eBay.

Get on there. So just quickly because we're selling some of Tui's baby stuff at the moment. You could put it on eBay. So does that mean like I want to sell her old bath at the moment? If I put it on eBay, does that mean that someone from America might buy it? Yeah. Okay, sign me up to eBay. And then you can like put extra shipping depending on where people

around the world buy it. Can I just make up the shipping? No. And then send it from work? That's called fraud. Oh, if you sent it from work. Don't ask me. Don't ask me.

Anyway, I wanted to tell you about this list that I found from the most expensive eBay purchases of 2019, which you're going to be shocked at some of these things because I didn't know you could buy these on eBay. Like when I think of eBay, I think, you know, laptop cases or like little trinkets or... Junkie stuff. Yeah, or clothes.

Selfie sticks. Selfie sticks, whatever. So in number 10 as one of the most expensive items bought on eBay last year was a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador two-door coupe worth $200,000 US. This is my thing. If you got $200,000 to buy a car, wouldn't you go to a dealership or something? Like I wouldn't be buying my car on the internet. My friend's dad bought a Porsche off eBay once. Yeah.

And he literally, I remember sitting there because I was at his house when he bought it. Yeah. And he goes, oh, no, I've just won. I've won that. Honey, I've won that Porsche. And then they continued to have a big fight. Rich people problems.

Yeah, right. It was like an older Porsche. He was pretty stoked. Anyway, all the way up until number five are all different types of cars. And then we get to number three of the most expensive things purchased on eBay last year. It was a Michael Jordan 1997 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems card. What? I'm assuming it's like a playing card. A basketball card Metal Gems card. What? I'm assuming it's like a playing card.

A basketball card. A basketball card. Yeah. Which went for $350,000. Holy crap. I've got to look that up. I want to see what that looks like. Coming in at number two was Tom Brady's

the year 2000 autographed Playoff Contenders Championship ticket trading card. Another playing card. Tom Brady, the NFL player. Yes. $400,000 that was sold for on eBay. Yeah. And their number one's really, I don't really understand.

Oh, no, wait. I think it's like you can have, it was like a lunch for charity with Warren Buffett, which is kind of cool. Warren Buffett, the finance guy. I think so, yeah. Anyway, it was the 20th annual Power Lunch, which is a benefit. How much for a lunch with Warren Buffett? That sold for $4,567,000. $4 million for lunch with Warren Buffett. That sold for $4,567,000.

$4,567,000. $4,567,000 for lunch with Warren Buffett. Yeah, jeez. I'd just go to Denny's. You'd hope they were serving a Buffett. Mate. I know something I did on the holidays, mate, was, God, I watched some television. Did you?

Oh, my parents have this new media room in their new house and I spent some time. We stayed at Lucy's parents and my parents-in-laws, is that what you say? Parents-in-laws. My in-laws. Your in-laws, yeah. I stayed at the in-laws. They've got a rule, no TV before four o'clock. Oh, no. No TV before four o'clock. Oh, no.

No TV before 4 o'clock, even on holiday. Who are these monsters? I know. It's where they live at the beach. Not on holidays. What do you want me to do? Go out and go to the beach or something? 4 o'clock's very late.

I know. I tricked him, though, because I said the cricket's on. And so I got him interested in something he wanted to watch. What? So there's exceptions? Yeah, the cricket. And the cricket is... Oh.

Okay, well, I guess it forces people to watch cricket. What are you watching? I was definitely, you you know into the netflix i was into all the streaming services they're all great um but the thing that caught my attention uh was a show called the circle yeah and it's a show that's uh been put up on netflix and it's a new reality show that essentially looks into social media and how people communicate through social media. Okay. Take a listen to this.

On social media you can be anyone. Let the games begin. And say anything. Okay, okay, let me think. So who would you be if $100,000 was on the line? Welcome to the circle. What's up, circle? A new social

experiment where players don't meet face to face. What? They only communicate through the circle. Circle. Circle. Circle, take me to my profile. Oh, man, this is better than Christmas. Okay. So essentially they put, I think it's eight people

or maybe it's not that many to start off with. It's about six people into an apartment building. But each person is in a different room which is filled with cameras. They never meet each other. They never talk to each other face to face. They can only talk to each other through the circle, which is essentially like Facebook Messenger. So it's like their own social media thing they've created. Exactly

right. So they get to upload at first only one photo and they can only communicate through messages. So the twist is that some people are lying and they're not playing themselves. So can you upload a picture of anyone? Exactly right.

So you can catfish everybody else that's on there. You can completely make up a character. And you obviously, you're just typing, you're not playing themselves. So can you upload a picture of anyone? Exactly right. So you can catfish everybody else that's on there. You can completely make up a character. And you, obviously you're just typing, you're not video calling each other? It's actually voice activated, but yeah, so it's all typing. It's not voice. Yeah, okay. But it's voice activated, yeah. And what's the goal of the game?

So essentially, it's kind of ruthless actually. They all vote on who are their favourite people. So you make connections and you talk to people and you base things off, you know, obviously photos and conversations you have through messages. Yeah. And essentially every like couple of days, two people get voted into influencer mode.

Yeah. And they get to vote someone out of the circle. Okay. And the aim of the game is to be the last person standing at the end as the most popular, as the most well-loved person. It's a popularity contest. Kind of, yeah. Yeah.

But it's without obviously it takes away, you know, obviously meeting someone face-to-face. Yeah, so you can be whoever you want to be. Exactly. You just have to try and create the most likeable version of yourself possible. Or be someone completely different if you think that will make you win $100,000.

It sounds kind of sinister. It's pretty juicy and like there's parts where obviously these people are talking to each other non-stop and like there's this one episode I was watching where this mum is pretending to be her son. So she's using all of her 25-year-old son's photos.

Oh, yeah. And they've been talking to this guy who they think is a 25-year-old lad. And she's trying to use the lingo? Exactly. She is and she has a book with all like the terms written. And then she gets voted out and the biggest part is she sends a goodbye message in a video and seeing the people's faces where they're like,

I can't believe it was a 43-year-old mum I was talking to. Okay, what's the show called? The show's called The Circle. And where can you watch it? You can watch it on Netflix. And do you recommend it? I recommend it. It's a good watch.

Yeah, okay. Would you agree that we're living in a review culture at the moment? Oh, everyone loves to have their say, don't they? Everyone loves to have their say, and then you will base your opinion that you haven't formed for yourself yet on what other people have said in the reviews, right? Absolutely. You'll look at it for movies.

You'll look at it for, like, booking accommodation, that sort of thing. Oh, love's a whinge. Yeah. The problem with that is that everybody gets an opinion, and there is no filtering of what goes up there. If you've been or even if you haven't been, you can go, like you could pick a cafe and go, I hate that cafe, even if you've never been there,

and you could go and write a poor review about it. Guilty. Have you done that? I have. That could ruin somebody's business. I can't remember exactly what happened, but it must not have been good. Right. Did you at least go to the cafe? Yes.

Oh no no no. So I'm talking about people. Oh you mean like you've never even been there. Yeah that's what I was suggesting. No if you had a bad experience you're welcome to write a review. And to be honest it was constructive criticism. And bad reviews are important because I mean bad business should be should be held accountable right? Well if I

would like to know if I was running a business, you know? The problem with it also is that you can review things that people have no control over, like national landmarks and things like that. See, I didn't know you could do that. My phone is, I have Google running most of my phone. And because of that, Google knows when you've been somewhere and it started sending me push notifications.

Like the other day we were in Whangamata and then when I got home it said, would you like to review Whangamata Beach? Google's talking to you now. Oh, it heard me. Sorry, you should be quiet for a minute. And who's giving a bad review to a beach? You know, that's the thing. Well, the beach might be dirty. This is an article

that has gone up about Alex Casey, the journalist, has gone through and had a look at some of New Zealand's main attractions and looked at some of the poorer views that has been given to them. Oh, who's in the, like, are we doing a top ten situation, top five? I'll just run you through some of them. Like the Sky Tower, for an example.

I love the Sky Tower. It's our biggest landmark. Yes. It is the thing that Aucklanders are most proud of, I think. It literally, I guess, makes the Auckland skyline different. It gives you a focal point. It does. It's like a big map pin and that shows you where the city is.

You can look at it and go, that's Auckland. Mr Worldwide has written, the floor and walls are covered in windows. Too revealing. One star. Oh, coolo. Tongariro National Park. We drove through there in the Venute. Oh, coolo. Tongariro National Park. We drove through there in the Venute.

Yep, I walked the Tongariro Crossing. You've done the crossing, right? I nearly died there. James Teague has given the Tongariro National Park a one star review with the comment, I hate walking. That's fair. It is quite heavily based around that. Have you been to Hooker Falls?

Yeah, beautiful. Just outside of Taupo. It's incredible, right? It's beautiful, yeah. Someone has written dirty brown water, definitely not worth a visit. One star. Who's giving Hooker Falls a one star review? Yeah, that's a bit rough. Splash Planet in Hastings.

It's kind of like our only water park in New Zealand. I haven't been there. Curtis has given Splash Planet a two star review, so slightly better. Why? Too many there. Curtis has given Splash Planet a two-star review, so slightly better. Oh, why? Too many kids. It's called Splash Planet.

This is the thing. And this is my problem with giving everybody the ability to review things. Why should Splash Planet's star rating be brought down by a guy who didn't expect there to be children at Splash Planet? It's like a 25-year-old who goes to the playground and goes, get off the slide!

Exactly right. And one in the South Island here. So Aoraki Mount Cook is New Zealand's, it's our tallest mountain. Right. It's an icon. It is a stunning taonga for our country. And yet Irvin Lee has only given Aorangi Mount Cook three stars. He wrote,

OK food, but the bushwalking was a bit long. An hour and a half to walk? No, thank you. Not for me. I thought he was going to write, well, it's no Everest. Kia ora, I'm Jane Yee.

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Was it after New Year's? It's just recent, right? It's just in the last couple of days that Harry and Meghan have decided they don't want to do that anymore. They don't want to be royals. They will never be royals. Royals. Yeah, but I mean, like, if you think about Harry, right?

What is he? What number is he? Sixth. He's sixth. So he's never going to get the throne. No. Is he? No.

So why do all the back end work if you know you're never going to get the throne? Yeah. You may as well just go. That's one way of looking at it for sure. The other way of looking at it is going his grandmother is the queen and it's a job that she was born into. She didn't ask for it. And she's looking for all the support she can get.

Obviously, some of her kids are truly awful, Prince Andrew. But then she's got some good ones like William and Harry. Harry, her grandson. Harry's awesome. And he's gone actually. So is Will. He's gone, you know what, Nanny? I quit.

She should be supportive of her grandson. Yep's awesome. And he's gone actually he's gone, you know what Nanny? I quit. She should be supportive of her grandson and say oh I understand where you're coming from I mean you're never going to get the throne. You don't want to do all this crappy work. All the back end work. It's not crappy work but you know. All the work that they obviously. All the appearances

they have to do. All the meeting of heads of state. Having dinner with Donald Trump, that sort of stuff. Sure, it might get taxing. Sure, you're worth $25 million. That's how much Harry's worth, by the way. But at the same time, it would get a little bit annoying. Yes, his grandma should be supportive, but do you think he should have told her

that he was leaving the royal family before he posted it on Instagram? I mean, I didn't tell my grandmas everything. You know, my grandmas don't know about a lot of stuff that I've done. Yeah, but if you said you were leaving the family, would you put in a call to Nona first and say, hey, Nona, I'm not happy at the moment. Also, Megan is keen to do some more acting stuff

and she can't do that at the moment. Like they're doing a suit season nine and she's real keen to get in on that. So we've got to go. So we've got to go to Canada. My nonna would probably do a lot of swearing in Italian. Yeah. She wouldn't like it. And maybe Lizzie would be the same.

Maybe Harry didn't tell her because he's scared of how she could react. I feel like Megan has maybe had you know, had an influence, quite a strong influence, and I say good on her. Yeah? I say, you know, it's 2020. You think she's gone in there, got her man. It's 2020. Why do the royals have to all follow suit?

I mean, Harry can go do whatever he wants. He should get into acting. Harry should get into acting. He could play the new Ron Weasley. The Harry Potter reason. Yes. Yeah. Okay. They're doing it. get into acting harry he could play the new ron weasley in a harry potter reason yes yeah okay they're doing it um there's actually crisis meetings going on at um at the queen's estate at the moment they're trying to sort something out but it's done once you've announced it you can't really go back on it like they're going to leave their official position within the royal

family the only thing i want to know is there any bad blood? Like do they hate each other? Do they not like each other or are they just saying we're stepping down from this but we'll see at Christmas time? From what I've taken they hate what comes with the job. But people have been saying that him and Will don't get on for a long time. That they've had some sort of falling out. I think it's Kate and Megan. But you never really

know. It's all... Kate and Megan, apparently last Christmas or a couple of Christmases ago, they had a few tequilas and Megan said to Kate, she was like, you don't know me. And she was like, you come here, I'll show you. Both of them reeking of long white. Yeah, it's just long white.

It's exactly like everyone else's Christmas. Well, this is what it is, right? We're seeing a family feud go on inside a royal family. Yeah, yeah. And so we've got a question for you. Is this more common than you realise? Because when I saw it first, I was like, you can't resign from your own family.

That's your family. What's it called when you get, you actually do? Conscious uncoupling. Is that what it is? Is that what that is? No, it's something like where if you're a kid you can like you can like

get rid of your parents or something oh yeah you can divorce your parents yeah yeah yeah yeah maybe it wasn't that dramatic but did you resign

from your family like have you gone I'm not part of this family anymore did you just say see you later I'm out of here I'm picking my own family

might be a scandalous reason might be a financial reason maybe it was a Christmas fight. Might have been a big fight that no one has ever got over. And you haven't talked to your family for years and years and years. We want to know the reason

and what's happened. 0800 dial ZM. The question for you is, did you resign from your own family? Brie and Clint. Harry and Meghan have decided they don't want to be royal anymore. And we'll never be royal anymore.

They're out, my G. They are gapsing it. They have announced a plan to become financially independent, which means they'd like to fund their own lifestyle. Wait, so how are they going to do that? Through Meghan's career? I don't know. She would have money already because she's been very successful. Yeah, I mean, she was very successful in admin.

No, suits. Oh, suits. I don't watch successful. Yeah, I mean, she was very successful in admin. And no, suits. Oh, suits. I don't watch either. Sorry, guys. My bad. And Harry was in the army for years, so he would have money. And they've both got those jobs. They could go back to those jobs if they really want to, I guess.

I'm calling it. I'm saying it's because, well, does that mean Megan and Kate's sister's-in-law? Yes. I reckon it's a sister-in-law feud. Do you reckon that's what's ripped the family apart? Well, I think that's what sparked it. Regardless of what it is, they've announced they're resigning from their family. So we want to know, is this more common than we realise? I

didn't know it was a thing you can do, but have you resigned from your family? I mean, I've thought about it. You would be reapplying for the position in your family annually. Thank you very much. Yeah, that's true. Each Christmas you'd be going home and saying, Mum, I'm sorry for another rough year.

Can I please have another 12-month contract in my family? Yeah, sorry. They've thought about resigning me multiple times. Jasmine has, though. Hi, Jasmine. Hi, Jazz. Hi. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. Did you resign from your family? Yes. Yes, I did. So what happened? Can you resign from your family? Yes. Yes, I did. So what happened? Can you tell us the story? Yeah. So basically I find all of my family members quite toxic.

Yes. And especially my sister, so I can't have her on any of my social media accounts because she would post inappropriate stuff on my social media about me. So I just did a full cull and even moved countries like Megan and I. I was going to say, because you've got an accent. Are your family, where are you from? England. Right, and they're all back home.

Yeah. Do they know where you are? Yes, they do. Sorry to hear that, by the way. It must have been quite a traumatic process to get yourself to a know where you are? Yes. Sorry to hear that, by the way. It must have been quite a traumatic process to get yourself to a point where you went, I need to annex my entire family. Has it been the right decision? Do you feel like you're a better person now that you've resigned

from your own family? The best decision of my life. What a strong person you are, Jaz. That's incredible. I would recommend it to anyone. It's not easy to begin with, starting off fresh, but I feel

it's very empowering and very good for your mental health if you're in a bad situation. Do you have a partner? Yes, I do. Are you married? Hopefully a ring will come my way this year. Is he listening right now?

One last question. When you got married, do you think you would extend an olive branch to your family? Would that be the moment where you said, hey guys, this is a big moment, you need to come to my wedding? Or would you go, nah, it's not worth it? Nah. No. No way. You are a strong

self... You know what's going on with you. Yeah, you're an independent woman. Good for you. Thanks for sharing with us too. Stacey's here. Hi, Stacey. Hi, Stace. Hi, how are you going?

Good. Give us the 411. Did you resign from your family, Stacey? I did resign from my family. My mother is a self-absorbed narcissist. Tell us what you actually think, though. Give us the honest description. Don't hold back, Stacey.

Yeah, don't hold back. She can't hear me. She's back home in Aussie. Yeah. It sounds like New Zealand might be the safe haven for people who have left their own family. Yeah, that's what I think. Maybe Harry and Meghan are coming to take up residence in Warnacup.

Yeah, they could be. Has it been, the last person said it was a raging success. Has it been the best thing you've ever done, Stacey, resigning from your own family? Oh, absolutely. Like, because mother basically turned everyone in my family against me, one by one, and I sort of slowly lost all that support. But moved over here to

hubby's family and they've just been nothing but supportive and yeah it's been really really good. Yeah if you don't like your family find a new better one. Yeah right Yeah pretty much. Thankfully I married into an awesome one so. Get yourself adopted as an adult. Yeah That's it. Hey good

for you we're really glad to hear from you too and we're glad that it's worked out for you When you handed in your letter of resignation God by the way Is that how it happened? Did you go to your mum and you go Hey I'm leaving Or did you just go?

There was a lot more expletives involved But yeah that was pretty much it Yeah right Okay So interesting It was a way less civil version of that Totally I think

Wow I mean sucks for anyone Who has to find themselves in a situation where they need to do that, but good that it's worked out for those people, right? Yeah, no, it's good to hear people who are happy and, you know, made the right decision for them. Bree and Clint. This is exciting. This is the first one of these for 2020.

It's my birthday. It's my birthday. Bree and Clint's birthday banger. If you're new to the show in 2020, we do this every day at this time and it's where you can call up with your birthday and we'll figure out what was actually number one, the number one song on your 16th birthday. And the best one that we find out each day gets played in full.

Exactly right. So there's a bit on the line with this. Playing today is Rebecca. Hi, Rebecca. Hi, Bec. Hi there. Just quickly first, we listened to Birthday Banger religiously and we tried so hard last year to get through

and my boys just really want to quickly say hi to Bree and Clint. Of course. Go for it. Hey, boys. Hello, boys. What are their names? Damon and Blake. Hi, Damon and Blake.

Now, I assume that we're going to be doing your Birthday Banger and not theirs, though, Rebecca. Yes, I'm way too young to have a 16-year-old. All right, what's your birthday, Bec? 8th of the 4th, 1992. All right, you were 16 in 2008 on the 8th of April, and back in 2008, this was number one. To my toes, makes me crinkle my nose.

Colby Calais. This is a tune. Pretty good. She won Hit Wonder? Maybe, yeah. Maybe? She might have had, and this was on SingStar. Was it?

Yeah, it was so good. That's to get the party going on SingStar. That's a good one, Bec. Do you like your birthday banger? This is for the first banger of the year. Yeah. Was that worth waiting a whole year to get on for? Anything's worth waiting for.

Yeah, nice. Oh, you're a sweetheart. I love that. Well, you're the front runner at the moment. Angela's here. Hey, Angela. Happy New Year. Hi, Angela.

How are you going? Good, and what's your birthday? Let's figure out your birthday banger. April 1st, 1974. All right. You were 16 in 1990 on the 1st of April. And back on April Fools in the 90s, this topped the charts. The icon, Madonna.

And by what year is this? 1990. 1990. Are you happy with that as your birthday bang, Angela? Yeah what year is this? 1990. 1990. Are you happy with that as your birthday bang, Angela? Yeah, pretty good, pretty good. Madonna's pretty good, isn't she? Yeah. Madge, I don't mind a bit of Madge.

From there, she was the biggest thing in the world. She was, yeah. At that time, for a long, long time as well. Okay, and one more, Tevita. Hey, Tevita. Hi, Tevita. Hey, guys. Good.

What's your birthday, Tevita? 23rd July, guys. Good. What's your birthday, Tevita? 23rd July 1991. All right. You were 16 in 2007 on the 23rd of July. And, Tevita, this is your birthday banger. I bet it's raining more than ever. No, there feels too heavy to take off. What a banger.

You can stand under my umbrella. You can stand under my umbrella. Hello. Hello. Hello. I can tell that you like it already. It's a good one, Tavita. Well done. Banger, mate.

That's an absolute tune. That was one of the biggest songs of 2007. That was the biggest song, one of the biggest songs of the decade. It was number one all across the globe. What are we going to play? What is the winner of Birthday Banger and the first winner of Birthday Banger for the year? I really liked that bubbly song, Colby Collet, but then I liked all of them, actually. We've

never done Colby Collet. No. And it's got, like, really big, like, throwback vibes. It is a good sing-along. That's why it's on SingStar. You're just a little bit trepidatious because it doesn't have heaps of energy, right? Yeah, but you know what? I think it's a good vibe to kick off the year.

I think we should do it. Rebecca, congratulations. You've managed to get through and you've won Birthday Banger. Woo! Yay! Nice work, boys!

Thank you. Speak to you boys when you're 16, alright? Oh, that sounds a bit off. Oh! Come, you know what I meant. I've been awake for a while now You got me feeling like a child now

Cos every time I see your bubbly face I get the tingles in a silly place It starts in my toes and I crinkle my nose Wherever it goes. I always know that you make me smile. Please stay for a while now. Just take your time wherever you go. The rain is falling on my windowpane. We are hiding in a safer place.

Undercover staying dry and warm you give me feelings that I adore they start in my toes make me crinkle my nose wherever it goes I always know that you make me smile please stay for a while now

just take your time wherever you go but what am I gonna say Take your time wherever you go. But what am I gonna say? When you make me feel this way. I just, mm. And the thoughts in my toes makes me crinkle my nose Wherever it goes, I always know That you make me smile, please stay for a while now

Just take your time, wherever you go I've been asleep for a while now You tuck me in just like a child now Cause every time you hold me in your arms I'm comfortable enough to feel your warmth it's hard to my soul and i lose all control when you kiss my nose the feeling shows cause you make me smile baby just take your time now hold me tight Wherever, wherever, wherever you go Wherever, wherever, wherever you go It's the winner of Birthday Banger for Rebecca Colby-Clay.

I've never heard anybody say this about a song that sounds like that before. But when we hit play on it Someone texts in And they go Yes Leshko That's how I'd describe it Does Colby Clay

Get a Leshko Yeah Of course Why not Again I like I like the song It's just It's much more chill

You know It's a much more Relaxing type song It is kind of mellow That's Birthday Banger By the way Like Bree said If you're new to listening to ZM this year, do it every day and we find out what was number one on your 16th birthday.

Bree and Clint. Just a question for you. Has anyone ever said to you in your life, you've got selective hearing? Yeah. It's a common thing that people usually say in relationships. Would you agree? Yeah, absolutely.

And? And I feel like it's usually targeted more often than not towards the males. Towards the males. Yeah. It can be. Which I don't know if that's fair or not. I don't know if it's fair. And this is the thing.

Is it fair? Because, I mean, they've obviously done studies, but there is a new study out about selective hearing. Yeah. And it tested obviously men and women and who it affects more and all that kind of junk you know um definitely affects you guys more you're the ones who complain about it well that's true that's true but this study's more i'm saying affects people with who have it worse yeah i, I know what you mean. I'm just checking. A new study, so this study has found that men on average ignore their partners.

Oh, that's inflammatory language. No, this is what the article says. Yeah, all right. I would say accidentally don't hear their partners. How many times do you think on average a year? Oh, over a year? That's what they've done. Oh, 365?

You're close, 388. So more than once a day. Yeah. Which makes them the most susceptible to having selective hearing. So when you say selective hearing, I assume you mean you choose which topics you want to be interested in subconsciously. Like you might be talking about,

like what's an example you might be talking about? You can get distracted. Yeah, putting the toilet seat up or... But then if I say... Taking out the rubbish or... Oh, yeah. Rugby. Yeah.

What did you say? What? Are we going to watch rugby? What? It's human nature, right? It's human nature. I think we all do it. Your interest is piqued by the things that are most relevant to you.

Absolutely. And we all do it. And it's something that can bring relationships down. And maybe what we can take for this study is that men have more interesting things to say. And that's why women hear everything that men have to say. Because everything we say is interesting. Yes, that has to be it. You've nailed it.

And maybe what we should take from this is that women need to up their banter. Because you're losing us 380 times a year. Is that really? Is that what you're saying? It's not an opinion that I want to share. It's just a deduction that you could make. This afternoon, because you seem so confident and you seem so knowledgeable about the topic,

I wanted to test you on your selective hearing. Okay. So in this study, it said that a lot of respondents said their partners were attempting to lip read. Some were good, some were bad. But the study said if the respondent was good at lip reading, they were less likely to have selective hearing. Okay.

So if you can lip read, you're not as bad at selective hearing. That's what this study said. Okay, that means you need to be looking at your partner as well as listening to them. Exactly. So I'm going to attempt. That's half the problem. If I'm looking at you, I'm listening.

But yeah, all right. So I'm going to attempt to say a sentence and you need to lip read what I'm saying. Obviously, people won't be able to hear me, but you need to relay to them what I'm saying, okay? Go for it. And I'll tell you how well you do. Okay.

Clint. Yeah, good. Has a small... No, no, no. Clint has a small... No, I'm not saying that out loud. That's entrapment what you're doing right now. No, I guess you've got selective hearing.

Brie and Clint. Clint, I'd like to launch a Brie and Clint investigation. This is a local one too. And I read this over the holidays, which it's quite an interesting case, which I was talking to you about it earlier, Detective Clint. And someone is committing crimes in the Te Atatu Peninsula area and they are committing crimes by playing Celine Dion out of their car speakers at all hours of the morning

through certain streets in that area. Yeah, and thank you for bringing this back to our attention, Constable Brie Thomasel. I saw this just before Christmas. And for those who don't know, Te Atatu Peninsula is in Auckland. It's one of the western suburbs. A little bit outside of Auckland. It's where Vaughan used to live.

That's right. He did live there. It's quite a nice area. It's interesting. Lots of families out there. Lots of people who would definitely be asleep. What time is this person blasting Celine Dion? Oh, it's all hours.

It's 3, 4 in the morning. It can be like 11 o'clock at night. They don't have a particular time. It's just any time. Yeah. But it's interesting. So the case involves obviously a couple of different songs from Celine Dion. The first one that apparently reports they love to blast is My Heart Will Go On.

Beautiful song. Do I want to hear it at 4am? No. Absolutely not. No. The second song, apparently they've only got a very small repertoire of songs they like to play and this was the

second one, Power of Love. Imagine. One of the greatest power ballads of all time, but again. Do I want to hear it at 1am on a Tuesday? Probably not. Do I want to hear it at 1am on a Saturday? Probably not. Do I want to hear it at 1am on a Saturday? Probably. Maybe.

Yeah. Have a guess how long this has been going on for. Well, I heard about it a month ago, so it must have been going on since at least mid-December. This has been going on for five years. And no one's caught them. They haven't been caught. The cops have been called a number of times.

Because from what I know about it, it's not just someone with a loud car stereo. They've got like a PA system installed on the outside of their car. They must. They must have some sort of, you know, modified. You know how kids are hooking up their speakers to the front of their bikes and that sort of thing? Yeah.

Yeah. It must be some sort of thing like that. But I thought, and you know, the thing is, is radio can be very powerful. You and I have the power, as obviously our own investigation has launched, to find out more details. Does anyone listening have any details on these people? You think a case, a five-year-old cold case, can be cracked with three minutes on the radio?

Can you imagine? Oh, we'd be heroes in the Te Atatu Peninsula region. But I just don't know if that's how justice works. If it can happen on SVU, it can happen on this show. Well, the lines are open. We'll leave them open for at least the next five minutes. If you have any information on the Te Atatu Peninsula Celine Dion, what, blaster?

Yeah, well, that's what we can call him. We'd love to hear from you. Any information. I mean, I don't know if we'll get anyone, but that doesn't mean we're going to close the case. If you're listening. We're not the ones to decide that. Yeah, exactly.

If he's out there and maybe it's a he, maybe it's a she. We're just looking for details at this stage. Yeah. 0800 dial ZM. We're detectives. Bree and Clint. We're in the midst of a Bree and Clint investigation. I do love when we can use this power

for good, and I feel like we would be helping a lot of people as we've launched an investigation, which was brought to our attention about a month ago, about someone, a criminal we're calling them, who drives around the streets of Auckland's Te Atatu Peninsula blasting Celine Dion. At all hours.

All hours. It can be whatever hour. And somehow five years on, no one's managed to catch this person. Exactly. Five years this person has tormented the residents and we were thinking we might be able

to solve this case. Like when Guy Williams found the Invercargill pool pooper. If we can do this, we'll be national heroes. We will. We do have a lead. We've put it out there already and we have a lead in our case. I don't know if this person

needs to remain anonymous, if our tips need to remain anonymous. Maybe we'll leave them anonymous. Do you want to be anonymous or you don't care? Yeah, I'll be anonymous. Okay, perfect. I like that. What do you know? What information do you have us on the Celine Dion Te Atatu Peninsula Blaster? Well, yeah, I don't know if it's the same guy or a copycat, but there's definitely another culprit out there

that rides around with a bike blasting music at all hours too. And where he lives, he blasts music at nighttime at strange hours, and it's like a 15- long, you know, section of a song. Extremely loud. And then it cuts out and you sort of, you run out to the road to look where they are and it's gone. And they've disappeared. Anonymous, can I ask, is it Celine Dion or is it some other types of music? It is Celine Dion.

It's definitely Celine Dion. That's so interesting because this article says that apparently they only ever play like the first 10 seconds and then they stop and then they replay it. This is the problem with popularising someone like this too is you risk creating a bit of a martyr situation and then copycat type people will go out there and pay tribute to that person

by also blasting Celine Dion. Well, we appreciate you calling through Anonymous. Oh, any time. You know, he's a danger to society and by all means, we must put an end to it. Oh, we must stop him. Yeah, there's thrusting sleep all over the place.

Do you have a nice front lawn? Like if Brie and I were to come into a stakeout, is that a good place that we could post up? I reckon you'd probably make some good headway on your investigation. We could put up a tent. Okay, thank you very much, Anonymous. Let me just jump out. I'm going to put it out there.

If he's listening, the Te Atatu neighbourhood Celine Dion blaster, it's a very simple name. Where are you at? Call us. Or are you at? Call us. Or are you a coward? You want to hear directly from them? We just want to hear you. Okay.

Why are you doing it? We want to know. We want answers. We can still keep you anonymous as well if that is you. 0800 dial ZM. We'll even play some Celine Dion on the radio

if you call through. Come on. Brian Clint. Taking the internet by storm. This story has owned the internet today. It is the A-list celebrity that has announced they're releasing a candle that smells like their... Can I just say it?

Can I just... Smells like their... Oh. No, okay. No, no, no, no, yeah. Nah, you can say it because it's a medical word, but you shouldn't say it in relation to scent. No.

I think you keep those things mutually exclusive, right? I think there's nothing wrong with it. No, there's nothing wrong with it. And of course it has a scent. I was just about to say something so off. Okay, so the candle is called, the candle is literally called, This Smells Like My...

What? And it's been released by Gwyneth Paltrow. Who else? I thought it was... Who else but Gwyneth Paltrow? She loves this type of stuff, doesn't she? She's all about it. I thought when you were talking about this earlier,

I thought it was going to be a mould of a... Mm-hmm. And that was going to be the candle. I didn't think she was going to go full scent on this. No, it's a normal shaped candle that comes in a cup, like a glass. How did they capture her Vahina smell? But on the outside of it says

this. So you could get away with it. People think it's a normal candle, except on the outside it says this smells like my Vahina. I need to know details. Does it actually smell like Gwyneth's Vahina? So the product description says that the candle has a

funny, gorgeous, sexy and beautifully unexpected scent. That's how I picture Gwyneth. To be honest. I mean she looks like a unicorn sliding down a rainbow most of the time. The scents that the candle emits are derived from geranium,

citrusy bergamot, and cedar, juxtaposed with damask rose and ambrite seed, none of which to me reeks of, oh, that's a wrong word, none of that to me suggests-

Stop. Stop. Stop. No. None of that to me suggests. Stop. Stop. Stop. No. None of it conjures up. No, no, no, no, no, no. None of it conjures up memories of. I know what you're about to say.

No, and good memories. They're all good memories. But, oh, hang on. Yeah, see, this is off. No, no, I don't. No, no, I know what you think I'm going to say it smells like and I'm not going to say that because that's an old joke and I'm not going to say that.

I don't want to hear you talk about memories of smelling. No, okay, yeah, that's fine. Yeah. But I definitely wouldn't go, oh, is that geranium? Like it's not. I think she's either taking the piss or it's a protest to go, my is a wonderful place and it should smell like wonderful things. It smells like a garden.

Yeah, right? To me, that's that. Time to plough it. Sounds like a really nice gin and tonic is what that's in. Oh, I see what you just did there, yeah. Anyway, if you're interested in Gwyneth Paltrow's... That was a bit of an awkward chat, wasn't it? Vahuna candle.

Vahuna? Can't get it. Sold out. We've just been through, obviously, the holiday season where there's a lot of gift buying and you have to buy something, you know, for every Tom, Dick and Harry. I like how you're starting to use my language, have to. I floated before Christmas that we cancel presents and you weren't into it and now I can hear in your voice that you might be keen for it. Well, no.

But this is why I'm not because I am going to help you out because I have new products that I've discovered on the internet that I think might be good presents for next year. This is literally the worst time to give me this list. We could not be further away from Christmas. To be honest, I feel like one of the products you will want to buy for yourself and then the other product I was thinking you could buy for me. No, we did your birthday.

Your birthday's already been. Hear me out. We got your birthday sorted. We bought you a selfie light. Yeah, I know. I love it. For your TikToks. I love it.

God, my TikToks are going to be on fleek. Is that what the kids are saying? So the first product that i wanted to pitch you that's brand new i've never seen it before i'd like i'd be interested to know if you've seen it is a solar hat no so essentially this product is um a cap so it's just like a normal straight bring straight brim cap yeah you know the new has it got a solar panel in it so you can charge your phone? No, get this. It's got solar panels on the top of the brim

that charge, that are able to charge your phone through the back of the cap. Not into it. No, I'm not into it. Why not? Because I'm not into, I don't like hybrid tech like that. It's never going to catch on.

I feel like producer Ben would really like this product. Well, it'd be good for him because he's tramping and he doesn't have anywhere to charge his phone. He would absolutely fizz for this product. Okay, solar-powered hat. It's called, if you want to buy one, they're called SolSols, S-O-L-S-O-L, and you can buy them for around $36 US.

Oh, that's a cheap hat. That's pretty good. You'd get it just for the hat function. Yeah, like does your hat charge as well? Like if you just want it there just in case. Yeah, okay. Would be good for people who vape, to be honest. Oh.

Can you imagine? Yeah. Sun smart whilst being, yeah, anyway. Whilst vaping. Whilst vaping. Yeah, okay. So that was the one for me. So that was the one for you So that was the one for you

And I feel like This would be for both of us I feel like you should buy this for me If you're a good friend So the new product That I saw on the internet That I thought was quite interesting Is called

The friendship bracelet Yeah And it's not just any Normal friendship bracelet So what do you think of When you think of that I think of that heart That's cracked down the middle

Bestie's heart And you get one side And I get the's cracked down the middle. Bestie's heart. And you get one side and I get the other side. Yeah, it's cute. I get bear, fruit, and you get st, ends. That's right. Really doesn't make sense, does it? Which I still love those. I think they're very cute. But this, I think, is the friendship bracelet of

the future. It's got a solar panel in it. No! This is for mainly if you're doing long distance with someone like a bestie or maybe even a partner if you wanted to do it with a partner uh essentially it comes with two connect points uh well it comes with a connect app so you put the bracelet on you both download the app and then at any point if i'm thinking of you or if i just you know want to say oh i'm thinking of you give you a you know a hug i tap tap the bracelet yeah and it makes your bracelet light up and buzz that's a sex thing that sounds like a sex thing

it sounds like is it not sorry if i made the friendship bracelet dirty. Why did you do that? It was a cute thing. Sorry, I didn't. Some people would definitely be using it for that. I definitely think that it... Did you watch the women's ASB classic tennis final last night? Serena Williams? No, I heard Serena had a great game though. She won. She's incredible.

She's the greatest tennis player of all time. I agree. Well, Roger Federer. I'd put them both out there. No, Roger Federer hasn't had to overcome everything she's had to overcome. Well, she's also had a baby in the midst of all of it. So she's just won her first title after having a child. Roger Federer's never done that. Well, he kind of can't.

She's had to come up and be as successful as she is in what is essentially still a male-dominated sport. The men still earn more money. I think it might be better now. And also, she's a person of colour. Exactly. And she dealt with a lot of crap back in the day. So in my opinion, she is the greatest of all time.

She's an incredible athlete. I can't wait to see what her children grow up to be like. Right? No pressure. Amazing. Yeah, I know. No pressure. They'll children grow up to be like. Right? No pressure. Yeah, I know. No pressure. They'll probably be lawyers or something, and that's totally fine.

She did something last night to further cement, in my opinion, the fact that she's the GOAT. So she goes from here to play at the Australian Open in Melbourne. So a lot of players use Auckland as like a warm-up. Yeah, it's like a bit of a – They get moving first. It's a smaller tournament. It's a great tournament. Players love to come and play here.

Yeah, it's awesome. And she, after winning last night, went on court and announced that all the prize money that she had made from playing at the ASB Classic in Auckland, she is donating to the Australian Bushfire Recovery Operation. That's amazing. It's a really nice gesture from her. And obviously she doesn't have to do that, but, like, you know, that's awesome to see that people like that are aware of what's going on.

She said that Australia has been really good to her and she has great memories of Australia. So it's only right to do that. Yeah, she does love coming to Aussie. I wouldn't be surprised that if she wins the Australian Open that she turns around and donates that money too. Well, let's hope she wins then. Yeah, right. I've found the whole celebrity donation thing really interesting because Pink started it.

She just came out with a tweet and she goes, I love Australia. Half a mil, wasn't it? I'm donating half a mil. Yeah. And from there, it's great because the snowball effect has happened and I've got a list here of not all the celebrities but some really well-known people who have donated

to the Australian bushfire recovery operation. Elton John has donated a million dollars. He did it at his Sydney show last week. On stage. Chris Hemsworth has donated a million dollars. You don't think of Chris Hemsworth as being big, because

he's just an Aussie bloke, as being big baller enough to just whip out a mil. But evidently, I guess he's Thor, right? He's Thor. And he also lives in Australia, in Byron Bay still. Flume, Australian DJ. Did he? $500,000, half a million dollars. That's huge.

That is massive. Flume is not worth the same amount as Chris Hemsworth. Absolutely not. And Flume is not worth the same amount as Pink. Yeah, that's awesome from him. Rebel Wilson did a fundraiser. She auctioned off lunch with her and she raised $100,000. Great.

Kylie Minogue donated $500,000. Russell Crowe walked into a rural fire service building with a check for $105,000. Awesome. So rather than donating it and waiting for it to get there, he went in there and he said, who's the captain? And the guy goes, I'm the captain. He goes, here's a check for $105,000. Go and do whatever you need to do with it. Nicole

Kidman and Keith Urban, Australians, $500,000, which is all good stuff. This is my take on it because you go, man, this is crazy. It's like a donation challenge, I guess. And so it should be because it's getting money out there. I think that if you in any way make money from Australia, then you should be donating to Australia at this time. Yeah, Gina Reinhart, where are you at? Who's Gina Reinhart? She's one of the rich – I think she is the richest person in Australia and she has donated, so I take that back.

She has donated apparently anonymously. Yeah. I get donating anonymously as well. Yeah. But, I mean, if you, like Pink, who has probably made more money out of Australia than any other touring artist. She killed it in Australia.

Which is fine. It's a fine thing to do. But it's only right that she gives back, right? Yeah. And she should be seen to be giving back. People need to go, oh, right, we love you and you love us too. Thanks very much, Pink. We really appreciate it. Which is awesome. I just want. People need to go, oh, right, we love you and you love us too. Thanks very much, Pink. We really appreciate it.

Which is awesome. I just want to take a second because obviously everyone has seen the fundraiser that Celeste Barber started. She's the comedian from Australia. I actually know her quite well and she's an amazing person. She started a fundraiser. It's raised over $50 million. Isn't it crazy?

And I just want to acknowledge that that is from people all around the world not celebrities no normal people normal people that don't have a ton of money um i had messages on my instagram instagram of people saying i just donated a thousand dollars like to do that and it's just an amazing thing and it actually gives me so much hope that there is so many good people out there. Totally. And I just want to acknowledge those people who are just normal,

everyday people who donated too. It's amazing. And if you have given something, then good on you as well because people don't have a lot of money, especially just after Christmas. And if it's $2, $5. You don't have a million dollars to chuck in. You're not Thor, but good on you if you've done something about it. $5 is all it takes.

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