ZM's Bree & Clint - ZM's Bree & Clint Podcast – November 23rd 2020

Episode Date: November 23, 2020

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Hey guys, welcome to the Brie and Clint podcast, which today is going to sound like it's been filtered through a pair of dirty undies for the first half of it, because Brie has broadcast from home and the microphone she took was fucked. Well, in fairness, I didn't take it. I got given it. Oh, good trade. He doesn't blame his tools, mate. Oh, come on.

Anyway, we swapped it, what, halfway through? Halfway through. We got Soundkeeper Gary on an emergency mission out there. And it's much better. Much better. And will be better if I have to broadcast from home tomorrow. It's because of COVID. Everything this year is because of COVID.

Anything bad that's happened this year, blame COVID. That's what you can do. That's what the All Blacks should have done when they lost to Argentina last week. Oh, COVID. Should have blamed COVID. Yeah, COVID distracted us. Actually, they couldn't blame COVID because Argentina, half the team got COVID and they beat us.

Actually, they should have blamed COVID and said COVID made them into a super team. Like super hulks. Yeah. Yeah. Superpowers. Then the New Zealand media would have gone, well, if that's the trick, then the All Blacks should get COVID.

Yeah, let's not start that rumor, shall we? Yeah, true. That's not a good idea. Yeah. How are the producers going? I haven't seen them all show. I'll describe them to you. Anastasia's in a reclined position.

Looks like she's ready to knock off. That's her normal position. Yeah, have a vodka RTD and chill the eff out. And Ben's pretty highly strung, to be honest. We've thrown a lot of shit at him today to get this broadcast working. Poor Ben. He's still standing. Yeah, to be honest. We've thrown a lot of shit at him today to get this broadcast working. Poor Ben. He's still standing. Yeah, that's when he's stressed.

He's not physically standing. Oh, right. Gotcha. He's still alive. I was going to say, Ben paces when he's stressed. Yeah. Do any of you guys do that when you're stressed? Pace around?

I don't think so. Nah, neither. I like to lay. But Ben, how are you? You all right? I'm good. Yeah, he's good. That. Nah, neither. I like to lay. But Ben, how are you? Are you alright? I'm good. Yeah, he's good. That's always his answer.

Yeah. Even if he had half of his leg cut off, he'd be like, yeah, I'm alright. Yeah, I'm fine, okay? I'm fine. I'm probably like an eight and a half out of ten. Four days in hospital. Hey guys, I'm doing really good. So we're okay.

Look, we're okay. But just be warned, it's a a rinky dink old podcast today And feel free to skip today's episode You know Feel free to Feel free to just There was some alright stuff in there What was everyone's favourite part of the show today?

Go on Um Oh shit No you put me on the spot You put me on the spot You put me on the spot No I'm ready to go Yeah go on Anna

No no Bean go first Well you were so ready though Man saves the dog lives Oh really Well I got to see the video You guys didn't really get to see the video did you Go watch the video Put the video in our podcast group

Go hey here's the video And write that as the caption Hey here's the video With no context Can I say two things Go on And write that as the caption. Hey, here's the video. Yeah. With no context. And people know they know. All right, Anastasia. Can I say two things just because I had two things? Go on.

So the first one was because I didn't, well, I was at Friday Akie Christchurch, but I didn't experience what happened. Can I give away taste? Oh, naked man. Well, I didn't want to give a giveaway, but it was cool hearing that story. And then the other thing was talking about Christmas foods because fruitcake sucks. sucks can i just say it does god fruitcake get out trifle trifle does not suck i reckon no one under no one under like 30 should like fruitcake well no one under 30 does like fruitcake i know that's sorry yeah that's why why I like it Yeah It's a rite of passage

No one under 40 Should like fruit cake I have a I have a I have a mature palate Yeah Okay Very mature

I have I'm more I'm more There it is mate You're so close I'm more refined You can nearly say it Can I just say

One thing on the naked man? I saw his full dick and balls. Oh, that's gross. And, you know, not bad. Oh, really? What was the pube situation? That's a great question. I'm pretty sure he was trimmed.

I mainly focused on how he was covered in tattoos head to toe. Even his penis. Really? Oh, my God. No, I couldn't tell if it was on his Yeah, right. Even his penis. Really? Oh, my God. Nah, I couldn't tell if it was on his penis, but it could have been. I feel like it was, yeah, maybe. Just get a ruler tattooed on it.

Oh, my God. If it was a big one, you would do that. Surely there's someone in the world that actually has that. Yeah, I reckon. Or just like the number, like the link, like tattooed on. Do you think a lot of people get their privates tattooed? I've never seen it what would what would hurt more getting your vagina tattooed or your pain i've seen tattoos down quite close to the to the area oh my god my auntie told the most horrific joke to me over

facetime yesterday yeah so this is to do with what we're talking about Don't worry My Aunty Sherl goes to me She goes you know where you should never get a mouse tattoo And I was like Oh no where She goes near your vagina Because of a cat Aunty Sherl is cancelled Aunty Sherl is a good bitch

That's cool I love her so much She's so funny Shout out to Aunty Sherl is cancelled. What a hero. Arnie Sherl is a good bitch. That's cool. I love her so much. She's so funny. Shout out to Arnie Sherl. Yeah, the Sherl. You know who you are. Yeah, the Sherl.

You know who you are. Actually. Sherl the Pearl. Yeah. Quick story from Christchurch, our trip to Christchurch. We met Anastasia's dad for the first time. Oh, yes. What's his name? Do you want his real name or his New Zealand name?

I want his Dutch name. His real Dutch name is Marianus Antonius Maria Lufen. Dan, he sounds Italian. That's his full name. What's just his first name? Marianus, which is spelt Mary Anus. Mary Anus. So whenever someone rings up to sell something,

like a telemarketer or whatever, because my parents do have a home phone. Let me marry your anus. Can I please speak, in the New Zealand accent, can I please speak to marry anus, please? So we were there for our Friday Oki competition, our singing competition, and Anastasia's father, who is, he's extremely Dutch.

A character? He's an absolute character and a good man too. He wasn't as Dutch as what I thought he was going to be. Oh, really? That's the first time I heard that I thought he sounded Like Kiwi Like he's

I told him he sounded Like a Bond villain He would have loved that Anyway he said He came over to me He said I apologise to any Of our Dutch listeners

But I am going to Tee the Dutch accent And he said You know Clint Oh that was quite good It will get worse than that You know Clint No it got worse

I was going to sing No Nah it's getting worse He goes I was going to sing tonight I wanted to do Prince Purple Rain But I can't

Because I'm colour blind That's very good Oh that is a horrific dad joke You know what he said to me And he goes to me You should like that joke You're a dad And Clint goes Not that Not. You're a dad.

And Clint goes, not that much of a dad yet. You know what he said to me, Anastasia? I'll try and do the accent. He goes, Friday, I'll give you a nice. Was that good? That was. Yeah, it was good. Made a mess. That's spot on.

I literally thought he was here Thank you I appreciate that He was lovely by the way Lovely And you couldn't even tell he was wearing a mankini No One of his testicles popped out at one point That's my dad

I thought it was Bruno that was from Europe Yeah it's the man that was kicked out And I was like that's where Anastasia came from This chat is going right down the toilet Down the toilet Let's GTFOMF And Have a good night

Bye Ben don't forget to post that alligator video Right here's the video I'm going to say just that to you No No No I like

No I like Stop it Hey Google What's the time? It's 3pm Give or take a minute Alexa

Play ZM on iHeart Radio Playing ZM on iHeart Radio Hey Siri When are Brie and Clint on? Bree and Clint are on air in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. G'day everybody, welcome to the show, it's Bree and Clint. G'day mate. Oh, you sound funny.

Do I? Yeah, a little bit funny. Oh, probably because I'm broadcasting from my living room. Sounds like you're broadcasting out of the toilet. Does it? Yeah, are you sure you're broadcasting out of the toilet. Does it? Yeah. Are you sure you're not in the toilet? Could be.

Oh, you can see me, can't you? I'm fine. I'll come clean. I'm in the toilet. Good place to come clean. Broadcasting from home today, mate. Just doing my bit for the COVID. Got tested, so thought I should stay home and wait for the results.

How did you enjoy the test? Oh, it's a bit full on, isn't it? It's a bit invasive, eh? Yeah, I feel like they touched my brain. I said to Ross earlier today, I said, do you know that you don't have to have the nose one now? You can have one that goes, you know, up the bottom. And he goes...

Is that true? No, it's not true. No, no, right. Well, the bottom. Is that true? No, it's not true. No, no, right. And he goes, well, who would opt for that one? I know a few people. And you know what? It's a great point, actually. Hey, today on the show, we are going to give you the chance

to tell us a great cliffhanger after 4.30. If you've got a great story, it can win you free mobile fuel on the show this afternoon. Yeah, can't wait for that. Always ripping stories. A lot of good ones. Yeah, can't wait for that. Always ripping stories. A lot of good ones these days, isn't there? Yeah. And next, though, we want to know what you think of

when you think of Australia. Oh, God, I feel like this is asking for trouble. But there's a TikTok that's come out from the 1960s. Yeah, they had TikTok back then. Did they? Yeah, they had TikTok back then. Did they? Yeah, they did. And it's a video of someone asking people, Kiwis in New Zealand, what they think of when you say Australia. All right.

So if you think you know what they would have said in the 1960s, well, stick around. You're about to find out. We'll find out after 24K Golden and Ian Dior. This is Mood on ZM. Bree and Clint. Bree and Clint. find out we'll find out after 24k golden and ian dior this is mood on zm brian clint this might come back to bite me in the bottom uh but i saw this on tiktok and it was a video from the 1960s clint apparently they had video cameras back then um did they and it was iphone ones yeah i think it was an iPhone 1

actually. Anyway, it was a guy and he was going around interviewing people on the street and he was asking them, what's the first thing you think of when you hear Australia? Right. This is 1960s New Zealand. This is from the 1960s New Zealand. Take a

listen to people's answers. When I mention Australia, what's the first thing you think of? Kangaroos. Aussies. When I mention Australia, what's the first thing you think of? Oh, I'd hate to tell you. When I mention Australia, what's the first thing you think of? Kangaroos.

Oh, kookaburras. Australia, I mean. How do you think it might compare with, say, Wellington? Well, I've read and heard about it. There's a lot of sharks, though. I don't like it. I don't like the sharks. Kangaroos, kookaburras, it. There's a lot of sharks though. I don't like it. I don't like the sharks. Kangaroos, kookaburras,

sharks. That's what I got from that. Yep, that's what I got. And then one honest woman who said, oh, I don't think you want to know. I don't think we were pinging back as often as we are these days. I think Australia was still this far

off distant place that you thought was just inhabited by platypuses and kangaroos and snakes, which it is. I mean, it still is, yeah. But they've also got billabong outlet stores now. I feel like we need to do the 2020 version, you know, years later, and we can do that because we've got a radio show. And an Australian.

And an Australian. So I'm here to you know take the brunt of the comments let's kick it off with uh all of you guys in the studio what's the first thing you think of when you hear australia bloody stinking cheaters underarm bowlers stupid wallaby having sports cheating um lovely people largely that's what i think of when i think of australia that's yeah that's what I got from that, yeah. Producer Ben, you're up. I was going to say super dry, super hot.

Super dry, super hot. Super dry, super hot. Yeah. Anastasia? Probably just the deadly animals like snakes and crocs and stuff. Deadly animals. Just back to Ben for a second. Are you thinking of landscape or people when you answered yours?

You've got to clarify. When you say bushfire, are you thinking of landscape or are you thinking of people? Which one? Both. I feel like we should put it to the people, Clint. What do you think? Yeah, let's do it.

Oh, 800 dials at M. Yeah, what's the first thing you think of when you hear Australia? We want your honest comments. Call through now. You can also text your comments to 9696. We'll see what we get. Brie, are you there?

Sorry. I'm having all kinds of dramas at home. My laptop's bloody pooing itself. Anyway. Brie's broadcasting from home today and we are dealing with some serious gremlins at the moment. Let's just say that. We'll get it sorted, though. Just gremlins everywhere. We'll get it sorted.

Leave that to us. Okay, perfect. We're talking about this video that's come out from the 1960s and it's of a presenter asking Kiwis in 1960 New Zealand what's the first thing they think of when they hear Australia. Largely the people, apart from sounding like they're from 1960, just said kangaroos, sharks and was it kookaburras? Was that the other one?

Yeah, I think so. Kookaburras, yeah. And that was about it. So not much variance. So we thought this afternoon we could do the 2020 version of that. Yeah. It's quite nice to do it at the moment too because we can't go and see Australians. So we just have to think about them.

Let's get Brittany on. Hi, Brittany. Hi, Brittany. Hi. Okay, when we say Australian, what's the first thing that you think of? The ridiculous bloody road rules. We live in Queensland for a little bit. Yeah.

And just not having a registration is like $1,200 fine. Whoa. I can't agree with you more. How good is it here in New Zealand where you can do whatever you want? Yeah. And you've got 25 days. 25 days, yeah. Yeah.

And you can drive like 50km's over the speed limit here and you just get a $60 fine and no demerit points. Oh, God. Yeah, well, let's not encourage that. Maybe not 50km, but... Yeah, let's not encourage that one, Clint. Ruth's here. Hi, Ruth.

Hi, Ruth. Hi there. Hi. Struth! Struth, it's Ruth. That's Ruth there before. Yeah, they made... When we Yeah they mate When we say Australia

What's the first thing you think of? I've heard of thongs And swimmers Thongs and swimmers Oh yeah Oh yep You know here's an interesting fact for you Ruth The only people that call swimmers

Swimmers in Aussie Are from like Victoria I think Because in Queensland we call them togs You guys say togs as well, right. Yeah, we say togs. Yeah, right, okay. Who says bathers? Who says trunks?

No one says trunks. Someone says bathers. I think it might be New South Wales, maybe. Finally, Jasmine, what do you think of when you think of Australia? I think of chicken salt. Chicken salt? Mate, chicken salt. How good? Oh, mate. Yeah. Chicken salt. How good is it?

It's the best. Yeah, I had a pen pal who used to always talk to me about chicken salt, and then I moved to Sydney, and, yeah, it's all about chicken salt. You moved to Australia to specifically get chicken salt. We have chicken salt. That's solid effort. Yeah, but chicken salt's not standard here. It's like you've got to ask for it specifically,

but over there everyone just gives you chicken salt's not standard here. It's like you've got to ask for it specifically, but over there, everyone just gives you chicken salt. Oh, really? At every fish and chip shop, they have the option of normal salt, or do you want chicken salt? Yeah, right. I've got some hot fire techs here for you, Bree. When people think of Australia, they think of Eskies. Oh, yeah.

Good old Eskies. When people think of Australia, they think of cockroaches, flies flies and Levi's 501s. That's all very fair enough. Cockroaches are everywhere. There's like three texts here that say chicken salt. Yeah, chicken salt's like true blue Aussie, mate. Dingo Stole My Baby, the Hemsworth Brothers.

Yeah, it's far more diversified. Someone said gorgeous women like Brie. Oh, I'll bloody take that. Yeah, it's far more diversified. Someone said gorgeous women like Brie. Oh, I'll bloody take that. Yeah, right. I figured it out. I know what I think of straight away when I think of Australia in 2020. Yeah, what do you think of? Home and away.

Yeah, right. Home and away. You expect every town and every city to be home and away and there's a diner and there's an old guy and half of them live in caravans and everyone is dangerously good looking. Yeah, I actually, that reminds me, I've got to call my uncle Alf. And you've got a fake tan. And I've got a fake tan.

Bree and Clint from iHeartRadio. This is the latest live from LA with Dean McCarthy. Let's cross live now to Dean McCarthy who who's got news on celebrities, or actors, I should say, who had beef with each other whilst on set. Who is it, Dean? Oh, guys, I love this because, you know, they look so glamorous and so close in the movie and then they hit the red carpet and they're all besties.

We have found out some of the biggest celebrity kids, some you won't be surprised by and some you will be shocked to your core. Obviously, we all know that Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey, when they did American Idol together, hated each other. We know Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall. But did you know Dwayne Johnson, The Rock, and Therese Gibson hated each other? Oh, that's come out now, hasn't it, really?

When they did all those Fast and Furious movies. This one blew my mind. Jenny Garth and Shannon Doherty. This is one for the little bit older kids. 90210 hated each other. They had each other. Who else? Selma Blair and Charlie Sheen

had each other when they did that awful movie called Anger Management. They probably should all hate each other from that. I hate them for just doing it. And finally, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy

from Mad Max. I reckon I could tell in the movie that they hated each other. Two people I wouldn't have expected to hate each other, but Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. There you go. There's more, though. There's more in the works, for sure.

That's even more interesting when we look at that story you taught us recently about how Charlize Theron got overlooked for the next Mad Max movie, but Tom Hardy didn't. Yeah, and it's because she apparently was too old. Yeah. Wow. But if the stars don't like each other, one of them,

well, no, actually, be professional. Grow up, shoot your movie, and then go home. You know what? Imagine if you were on set and you had, like, a romance and then you ended up hating the person you're meant to be in love with. Yeah. Like, the movie or whatever. And you haven't filmed the lovemaking scene yet.

Oh, yeah. I didn't do it. I could not do it. That is the latest live out of Los Angeles with Dean McCarthy. Thanks to Cookie Time, celebrating 35 years of Christmas cookies. You can book a seller now at christmascookies.co.nz. Bree and Clint. It's Bree's life from home today.

And on Friday, we were live from the Garden City for the last Friday-oke of the year. God, it was good. They're such great nights, those Fridayoke live parties, aren't they? They are really fun and the Garden City turned it on. Yeah, we packed out the Carlton. We had a man named Kyle who did, I'm going to come out and say it and don't take this as an insult,

the most lacklustre Fridayokeaky performance we've had so far. Oh, speak for yourself. Okay, understated. Understated is what I should have said. I think it's a, yeah, it's a no Whitney Houston. It's a no Mariah Carey, you know, but I feel like the song brought the goods once he was into it. No, I don't mean the song choice.

I mean him standing there on stage with one hand in his pocket delivering the song and hitting every single note and getting the whole bar singing. But I don't think he moved his feet. No, he didn't. He was super casual. Yeah, there was no routine involved. He did A-ha's Take On Me.

We've got a little bit of it here. I'll be coming for you anyway. Take on me. Take on me. Wait for the big notes. Can I say, he hit that high note every single time, spot on. No wonder he won. Including the encore performance. Anyway, he took 500 bucks and the novelty trophy. It was fantastic.

It's what happened after that that is of concern and has some officials talking because directly after the event finished, Brie managed to get someone kicked out of the bar. I mean, look, no comment from me. I have been asked not to speak about this. Because directly after the event finished, Brie managed to get someone kicked out of the bar. I mean, look, no comment from me. I have been asked not to speak about this as it is still, you know, I'm still being questioned. Under investigation. Yeah.

Yeah, but you can talk to us. You're amongst friends here. Okay, fine. As long as you don't tell anyone. Is it true that you caused full frontage male nudity in the bar. Can I say I was a bystander in this whole thing? Not an innocent bystander though. No, I was a semi-innocent bystander in this whole charade. Because what I saw is a man get naked from being fully clothed

to being 100% naked. I don't just mean the bits out. He was 100% naked within about four seconds, and you were the person that he was talking to. So what happened in that conversation that caused a fully grown man to be 100% nude in an inner-city Christchurch bar on Friday night? I mean, look, I said, you know, get nude, and he said, okay. And that's what happened.

No, to be honest, he was standing next to me. I was talking to his boss and it was a work, it was a Christmas party. And we started talking about, they said, you know, I can't even remember the full context, but they were talking, his boss was talking to me about his employee who was standing next to me and he said, oh, he got kicked out of such and such the other week. And I said, for what? Why? What did he do?

He was a placid guy. He was sitting there having a few drinks and having fun. Yeah. And he goes, oh, he got fully naked. He has a thing where he likes to get naked. One of those guys. And I said, oh, right. I said, no.

I was like, what? Like, fall naked. One of those guys. And I said, oh right. I said no. I was like, what? Like fall naked. And then all of a sudden his boss turns to him and says hey, whatever his name was Paul, hey Paul remember when you got naked and you got kicked out? And Paul thought he said get naked. And Paul did.

Paul thought he said get naked and get kicked out. The best bit was the security guard walking up to him from behind while he was still naked and get kicked out the best bit was the security guard walking up to him from behind while he was still naked and tapping him on the shoulder and I couldn't see

I couldn't hear what he said but I could lip read and it basically said to me time to go man and you've never seen a man pull up his undies and then shuffle out of the bar with his shorts

still around his ankles before it was quite impressive it was quite interesting too because he had full tattoos head to toe and I was like oh he's just showing us his artwork, mate. Come on, give him a break.

He was showing you the artwork, all right. Yeah, he showed me all of the artwork, I'll tell you that. I turned around and copped a full eyeful of it. Well, thanks again, Christchurch. It was a bloody good night on Friday. Brie and Clint. Clint, sometimes, you know, you realise your full potential in life and I feel like producer Anastasia and I did that

on Friday night in Christchurch. Oh, you found yourselves. Yeah, we found ourselves and it was after, you know, Friday Oki was great at the Carlton and then we visited Fat Eddie's. Shout out to those guys. They're great. And just around the corner from Fat Eddie's, Producer Anastasia and myself and Producer Ben was there too, we were on our way home

and we thought we need a late night feast and we were deciding on things to get. And we landed on a pizza place and that pizza place was Sal's and we thought, you know, here's our moment to shine. This is where we can come into our own and we walked into Sal's, massive line, huge line in Sal's. By the time we got into the line and realised how long the line was, we'd already, our hearts were set on Sal's. You'd made an emotional decision. Yeah, you'd committed.

We'd committed. We'd been there for about, I'm not even going to lie, 25 minutes, and we hadn't moved one place. And we were quite antsy at this point, and Producer Ben, he was out. He went off to get us some vlaki, which is fair enough, delicious food. But Producer Anastasia and I didn't want to give up, did we? Committed to the pizza. Yeah, and we wanted a whole one and I didn't want to give up, did we? Committed to the pizza. Yeah.

And we wanted a whole one. We didn't want a slice. Yeah, I said to Anastasia, I was like, you know, if we're getting something, we're getting the whole thing because we're not here to play games. And she said, how about we go outside, we call the pizza shop, and then that way our order is a phone order and we bypass the whole line. And I was like, that's probably the best idea you've ever had.

I think that's one of the smartest fast food hacks I've ever heard in my life. My greatest contribution to the show possibly. Yeah. And that means you've passed your probation stage, Anna. Yeah, you can stay. You can bypass the, yeah, you're staying. Anyway, so we did that and they said, boom, 10 minutes, it'll be ready.

And we were like, oh, this is so good. Anyway, so 10 minutes later, we walked in. There it is, a fresh, giant, massive, half pepperoni, half chicken buffalo, Sal's Pizza. These pizzas, by the way, if you've never seen them, if you don't have a sales pizza where you live, they are enormous. Like, they are probably double the size of a normal takeaway pizza, right? One slice would equal two or three of your Domino's. Yeah.

One slice of this pizza is a meal. It's an American pizza. It's a pizza on steroids. Anyway, we decided we would walk this baby home and we got back to the hotel. Producer Ben is there at this stage. He's had his swig of Lucky. And we nearly ate this entire Sal's Pizza together, Clint.

Yeah, well done. The whole thing. And by nearly, you mean we left one slice because we didn't want the shame of saying we didn't eat the whole pizza. And so we can now continue to say, Anastasia, that we didn't eat a wholesale's pizza. We didn't eat the whole thing. It's fine.

I think what we've learnt from this is phoning ahead your drunk order to the place that you're going to get your takeaways from on the way home is the most genius thing anybody has ever come up with while drunk or sober. I think that's fair. And I mean, I've been doing this for a few years

and I'm assuming producer Anastasia's also done this. I order my Uber Eats in the Uber on the way to my house. Actually, a bit of an extra for experts because you've got to allow the cooking time if you've got the same Uber time. You've got to be up in the club a good three or four songs ahead of leaving. Sometimes. You've got to say to the girls,

all right, we've got five more songs than us and book that baby in. What do you want to eat? What do you want to eat? Even better, order the butter chicken to the club, enjoy it at the club and in the Uber and at home. Yeah, that's our better living, everybody. I've got a question for you. Is an entire pizza the

ultimate end of night meal? I mean, I think it's up there. It is up there for sure because it's not super messy. So that's always a plus, right, producer Anastasia? Wouldn't you agree? Yep. Yep. Very true.

It's greasy. So that's going to help. Fix that box. Yep. That's going to help tomorrow. And it's delicious. I think you're missing the key component. It tastes good the next day.

If you can manage to keep some for future you, it's an investment in your own future. A whole pizza is a pizza for you now and a pizza for you tomorrow. Did I eat that last piece the next day? Look, no comment. I hope you went for the pepperoni and not the buffalo chicken side. Oh, 800 dials at the end of this afternoon. Let's see if we can figure

it out. I support you on whole pizza, but I haven't heard all the options yet. What's the ultimate end of night meal? Oh yeah, I'm ready for these suggestions. You can text them in to 9696 as well and we'll compile the list and see if we can figure it out. I know it's a Monday

and it's probably a bit far to think about the end of Nightmare yet. Or maybe that's your lifestyle. Maybe you work in hospo and tonight is hospo night. Or tell us what you had on the weekend. Even better. 0800 dials at M

or you can text us 9696. Bree and Clint. We're doing the COVID shuffle this afternoon. Bree is live from her house. I'm live from the studio. And right now we're trying to figure out what is the ultimate end of the night meal? I mean, it is a big decision.

I'm not going to lie. It's probably the biggest decision of the night. Well, it impacts your night and it impacts your next day as well because get the meal right and arguably you'll feel better in the morning. That same night where you got a wholesale's pizza, I left early and I considered hell's pizza and I chickened out at the size of the line.

I thought, oh, I'll just eat some of those nuts that are in the hotel room. Oh, that is the worst decision ever. What are you doing with your life? Do you know what makes it even worse? Oh, what? There were no nuts in the room. There was nothing. There was nothing.

So I had a glass of water. You had to have a. So I had a glass of water and went to bed. Did you drink all the little milks that were in the fridge? Right. I was eating the cocoa powder out of the hot chocolate ones. Yeah, delicious. So we've asked you, what is the ultimate end of the night meal? Mike's called up. G'day, Mike.

Hello, good afternoon. How are we? Good, thank you. Mike, what's your ultimate, what do you think is the ultimate meal after a night out on the way home? For me, it's got to be meat on chips every single time. A snack pack. There are so many texts for meat on chips.

Mike, explain to those who have never had meat on chips exactly what it is. Yeah, so just from those kebab places and instead of getting it in a nice little wrap, you know, almost like a shawarma or a sivlaki, it's just loaded, you know, all that shaved meat loaded onto a massive chunk of fried chips. And then you get to pick about three different sauces. So I normally go for like a garlic mayo satay and like a chilli or something.

And then the whole thing is just drowned in like sauce and then you just chips and meat and it's just fantastic. We call them snack packs back home. Really? It's a snack pack. Yeah, a little snack pack. Okay, big vote for me on chips. Megan's here. Hi, Megan. G'day, Megan. Hi. So

I grew up in Durban in South Africa and there isn't anyone in Durban who doesn't know about Johnny's roti. And basically, so roti is like a really thin naan bread, right? And these ones are probably about half a meter in diameter before they fill them. Whoa. And it's got big chunky fries. And you have it with chicken curry gravy and melted cheese.

And then they fold it up the same way that you fold up like a kebab at the kebab shop. Yeah. Except that even once it's folded up, it's still probably just shorter than about a half a metre. They are huge. Half a metre of stuffed roti? It is. They are ridiculously huge because you take it home and like if there's a group of you, you'll probably cut it and see like four pieces

but normally you'll eat half of it yourself and heat up the rest the next morning. Oh Megan what are you doing to us? Nah Megan that's solid effort

I like that. I'm going to run you through some hot fire tech spray. Someone said you can't beat cold KFC. Surely you're getting the KFC hot

and then having it cold tomorrow right? You'd think so wouldn't you? Someone said it has to be Ferg Burger. Oh yeah, but there's the same problem with the sales pizza thing. There's such a queue for a Ferg Burger, so

you need to intercept your hunger at the right time to be able to last that time in the line, right? Yeah, that's so true. What about the text that says, my sister and I love Maggi two-minute chicken noodles after a night out. I mean, it's simple, it's easy, and two minutes.

Doesn't take long. Two minutes. Finally, you guys had the hack of ordering your Uber Eats to arrive at home at the same time your Uber arrives home. Someone's got one better than that. They said, order the Uber Eats to the club, and then get the driver to drop you home on the way. Yep, I mean, even better.

It's better living. It's better living, It's better living. It's better for the environment. It's better for the pocket. So, yeah, there you go. Man, I'm hungry now after all of that. Me too. I might order a pizza.

Well, you can. You're at home. You can Uber Eats one over to your place right now. Here's a question. I think I already know. You take your phone to the toilet, don't you? Yeah, I do, yep. I feel out of place if I go to the toilet and I don't have my phone with me.

It's something to do. It's like our version, our generation's version of reading the newspaper on the toilet. Yeah, yeah. Or a magazine. Yeah. Yeah. I always found it uncomfortable to read the newspaper on the toilet because there's nowhere to put the newspaper. Like, you have to, it's a big unfolded piece of paper and there's nothing to lie it down on. Unless there's a no toilet paper emergency true in which case well thank god i bought the new

zealand herald in here with me i know it doubles uh two two uses um well there's maybe a little bit of bad news for all of us who take our phones to the toilet because i I mean, I'll put my hand up and say, yep, I do it, where most of us do. And news has come out, and this is from Sydney gastronologist Professor Chris Burney, said that he had to perform an emergency surgery on a 23-year-old woman, which he thinks is due to her using her phone on the toilet. Really? Well, I mean, let's all just take this with a grain of salt

because there's no, like, solid evidence yet, Clint. There's no need for that, pardon. So apparently he's saying he believes that people who take their phone to the toilet are at risk of developing a painful condition otherwise known as hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids from taking your phone to the toilet? Yeah, he reckons that because we are more likely to spend more time on the toilet, you can develop, yeah, hemorrhoids. Interesting.

Yeah, and they're saying they're seeing quite a correlation with it as well. They're saying that they've done research with, you know, people in Gen Z or us millennials, and the more and more people our age are developing hemorrhoids earlier, and they're saying it could be from us spending 20 minutes on the toilet. Not going to lie, taking your phone in there definitely doubles the amount of time the toilet break takes because you treat it as a break for yourself. You know, you treat it as a little bit of you time.

Absolutely. I also read a study once that said because you're concentrating what's on your phone and you're not concentrating on the process that your body is going through at the time, you're less likely to take things that might be happening and signs that your body may be giving you that, hey, maybe you're not okay in this department and things like that too.

And that our phones are going, they're taking all of the attention. So you could have some downstairs crisis going on and you don't know about it because you're 15 Instagram stories deep. Yeah, well that's true. You're not concentrating as much on the task at hand, are you?

No. What do you do on the phone while you're on the toilet? Do you send emails? Do you FaceTime people? Yeah, it's mostly FaceTiming and I mainly FaceTime my mum. Yeah, coming up with new Instagram story content

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Because they are a part of the family and I feel like I would put myself in harm's way to save my dog. How much harm? Like if she was being attacked by another dog or something. I feel like I couldn't help but jump in. You'd have to. You do. You're right.

They become members of the family. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I would agree with you. I feel like I couldn't help but jump in. You'd have to. You do. You're right. They become members of the family. Yeah. Okay, yeah, I would agree with you. I feel like I would. So when I read this story today, what about throwing yourself in a lake with an alligator? Whoa. Well, first I would go,

how did my cat get to a lake with an alligator in it? I know. Well, don't think about that. Don't think about that. That would be the first logical question. Your cat is in an alligator's mouth. What do you do? Jeez. Look, to an alligator, the cat would look like a fluffy roast chicken. Oh, wouldn't it? It'd be like, oh, that looks delicious.

And if the cat was already in the alligator's mouth, there's probably not a lot I can do. Well, that's what you think. But a Florida man by the name of Richard Wilbanks swung into action, Clint, when he saw his little puppy in the mouth of an alligator. Right. Take a listen to this news story. This is legit from Florida of how a man risked his life to save his puppy. 2 at 11, a man risked his life to save his puppy.

2 at 11, a man risked his life to save his beloved puppy. Wildlife cameras captured the dramatic rescue in an Estero community. The puppy's okay tonight thanks to the quick thinkings and actions of his owner. Well, Richard Wilbanks says his adrenaline and his instincts kicked in, and that's when he immediately jumped into this pond right here behind me to go save his dog's life. This is the moment Richard Wilbanks wrestles an alligator to save his dog's life.

He just came out like a missile. Who's filming it? So they have, like, wildlife cameras to, like, protect the area and stuff. Oh, right. And it's captured this amazing footage. So this alligator has come out and has grabbed his pupper gunner and has dragged it back into the water. He jumps into the water, jumps on the back of this alligator.

In fairness, it's not a giant alligator, but it's an alligator. It's an alligator. And he pulls the alligator's mouth open so that the puppy can jump out and run away. Wow. Is that not insane? So this is not a reality I'm ever going to have to face because I'm never going to have my cats around a creature like an alligator. You, however, if Whitney the dog decides to go on a family holiday to Australia at some stage

and she gets nibbled on by a croc, would you wrestle a crocodile to save Whitney from a crocodile? Oh, yeah, that's a real good question. How big is it? Is it a little baby one? It's a crocodile. Yeah, I'd have to think about it. Ben's how well behaved the dog had been that week. Brie and Clint.

Brie's live from home. I'm live from the studio. Actually, where you are right now, Brie, you could go and whip up Nigella Lawson's latest recipe that she's copping a bit of heat for, actually. And in my opinion, Nigella can do no wrong, so please leave Nigella alone. But some people are saying she's gone too far with this recipe.

Look, I'm going to say I love Nigella. I think she's the goat, but this is a bit basic, I think. Nigella Lawson has reinvented toast. She has... She thinks she's reinvented. Her latest recipe is... Yeah, I'm just going to come out and say it's twice-buttered toast. But if Nigella says it's good, then it must be good.

Have a listen to her explaining the recipe it's twice buttered toast. But if Nigella says it's good, then it must be good. Have a listen to her explaining the recipe for twice buttered toast. I favour the two stage buttering approach. The minute this came out of the toaster and still lovely and hot, I spread it with butter and it'll give it a fabulous crumpety

bite in some golden patches on the surface. What I need to do is sprinkle some sea salt flakes over. God, she sounds good, doesn't she? Honestly, she could be smearing dog poo on a stick and I would be like, mmm,

pop that on a plate because I'm ready to eat. Let me talk you through that recipe for a second. Wait, the sea salt flakes are a game changer, maybe. So the reason she adds sea salt flakes is because she prefers to use unsalted butter. So the recipe is unsalted butter, which at the end

of the recipe, you have to salt. No, no. But what are you doing then? But who are we to argue? She's Nigella Lawson. So you butter the toast when it comes out of the toaster, when it's hot, so the butter melts. Like a normal person? Like a normal person. And then I imagine you let the toast cool a bit, which who's doing that? And then you butter it again so that there's butter sitting on top of the

toast, not melted into the toast. But then you have to eat the toast cold. Yeah. Oh, and then you add some. No one wants that. And then you add some sea salt to it. It's just, I think maybe at some stage. She's finally, Clint, Clint, it's finally happened. We've run out of recipes? She's run out of recipes. Brie and Clint. Brie's broadcasting from home today. We're doing the COVID shuffle here at ZM

and she's just been handed a brand new microphone. Brie, can you hear us? I can hear you. Oh my God, you sound fantastic. Oh, thank you. You sound like you've had a vocal transplant. That's the accent I'm putting on. There we go.

Okay, this next topic I think you'll be able to relate to quite strongly because you've had to do this before. There is a lady who lives in Australia who's from Germany who's been stuck in Port Macquarie. Where's Port Macquarie, by the way? Port Macquarie is in New South Wales. It's like a little country town. Yeah, right.

She has found it very hard to make friends as an adult. She moved to Australia as a backpacker two weeks before COVID blew up. Obviously, she didn't know that 2020 was going to be, obviously, the greatest year of all time. And she planned on backpacking around and meeting people that way. That's what she was going to do. Awesome plan. As soon as she got to Australia,

the whole place got locked down and she didn't have enough money to purchase a return ticket to Germany. She went, that was going to cost $8,000 because flights went crazy at the same time. Remember, everyone's trying to get home urgently

and then half the airlines shut down. So she's stuck and she can't travel and she doesn't know anybody. She gets some work as a au pair or a live-in nanny. So she's got some work and she's okay like that. But she said that she found it incredibly lonely only having kids under the age of 10 and men on Tinder to talk to.

So wait. So for a good period of time, however long people were locked down for, she could only see the family she was nannying for. Yeah, absolutely. Wow. Yeah, and they were obviously new to her. And it's good to have work at that time especially, and good to have someone.

It'd be better than being locked down alone. But you know when you just want to talk to someone who's on the same page as you? Yeah. Someone over the age of 18, perhaps? Always good. Also, she said the conversations with the Tinder guys were fairly shallow, small talk type conversations too. Yeah, they're not your mates.

They're after something else. Yeah, well, that too. That too. But every time you strike up a conversation, it's always like, so where are you from? What do you do? And also in lockdown too, that conversation can actually only go so far

because a lot of the time you wouldn't be able to meet up. Anyway, they're out of lockdown where she is and she's decided I've had enough. I really need friends. So she's gone on the local Port Macquarie community Facebook page. Oh yeah. And she's written, I need some girl friends to chat to.

I would love to catch up for a coffee, a day at the beach, a nice walk or a movie. I just want to make some friends. Feel free to contact me. I would be more than happy. You know what? This hits me hard, this one.

Because in radio, you have to sacrifice quite a lot of stuff. And I have done that in my last 10 years of life. I've moved around. I've said goodbye to friends. I don't have family around me because I was chasing my dream. I'm living my dream right now. But you have to say goodbye to a lot of people

and you're not in the same place as a lot of your really good friends that you've known forever or your family and you have to make new friends. So how do you make friends as an adult at school you just strike up a conversation with the kid in the same class as you it's easy when you're a kid or it's easier but how do you do it when you're a grown-up i've found it really difficult but it's something over the years where i've been like okay i actually have thought about like the last place i lived on the central coast i was like right how could i make some friends as an adult?

Because people think you're weird. They're kind of like, don't you have your own friends? Why are you asking me to hang out? Are you hitting on me? What's going on? I found, to be honest, one of the best ways to make friends is join a social sporting team. Right. It's such a good way to make friends.

And you're not weird because everyone's there doing the same thing and you're automatically hanging out with people and getting to know people. And having a drink afterwards too. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I feel like that's probably been one of my saving graces over the years, like playing some social sport. Yeah. You're right about it being weird because it's twofold.

They've probably already got all the friends they need, the people that you're talking to. Yeah, they've got friends. They're not actively in the market for new friends. And then they look at you and they go, well, what's wrong with her if she doesn't have her own friends? Well, exactly. You know what else is a really good idea?

Yeah. Pretend to be broken down in a car park. Because then people automatically come up to you. They say, do you need a jump? And then you'll make a friend who's got jumper leads. Exactly. And who doesn't want that? Let's take some advice this afternoon because it's not weird.

It's a normal thing to have happen. It's just there's no textbook for it. There's no how-to guide for how to make friends as an adult. We should start a speed dating service, but it's like where you make friends. You're not there to date, but you're there to make friends. Yeah. Speed. What would you call that?

Speed friending. Speed friending. We'll come up with a- Speed mating. Speed mate. Speed not. No, that sounds like something else actually. Maybe not speed mate.

Yeah. 0800 dial ZM or text us on 9696. How do you make friends as an adult? Free in Clint. A German backpacker who's stuck in Australia because of COVID, can't backpack and can't get home because the flights are so expensive, has come out and said it's really hard to make friends and she's really lonely. Because she planned to make her friends by backpacking,

which I understand. And instead she is just having to nanny for a family a great family she said but her friends are 10 year old kids those are the only people that she has in her daily circle that she can bounce her ideas off and you can't drink uh much with 10 year old kids can you no for lots of reasons a lot there's a lot of reasons yeah she's talked about how do you make friends as an adult she's put a friendship ad in the local community Facebook page, but we wanted to ask you guys, how do you make friends as an adult? It is hard.

I've had to do this quite a few times. I've moved my entire life multiple times, chasing my dream of doing a radio show, and I found the only way, well, the biggest way I made friends was just playing any type of sport. I joined up sporting teams, Clint, where I've never played before. Yeah. Speaking of sport, someone texted and said,

my husband had to move towns for employment and I was a stay-at-home mum. So I started playing Texas Hold'em poker at the local pub once a week. It's a great sport. And made lots of friends. You have a chance to make lots of friends and lots of money that way too. And you don't need to be fit. No, you don't. The risk of injury is much, much lower.

Which is always good. How do you make friends as an adult? Michaela's called up. Hi, Michaela. Hi. Hi. It's Michaela. Sorry, Michaela. Have you had to do this? Yeah, so I work in hospital and I usually,

you wait for somebody to sit down or you wait for somebody to come up to the bar and you notice that they're waiting for friends or waiting for their date or whatever. Yeah. And sometimes they don't show up or they're really late and I just kind of like walk over and I'm like, hey, look, I finished at like seven.

Do you want to like get a drink afterwards? Whoa. And I've actually made quite a few really good friends. Nicayla, do you ever make someone who's more than a friend? Yeah, it has happened.

Do you do this? Well done, Nicayla. Good for you. Do you do this because you feel sorry for them and they look lonely or are you looking for friends? Is it for you? Well, because I'm pansexual, so most people get really confused if I'm hitting on them

or if I just want to be their friend. Yeah, right. But majority of the time, I'm just a really outgoing person and I love to meet new people. So I was like, well, I don't actually have that many friends when I moved to Auckland. I am from Auckland, but I don't actually have that many friends from Auckland. What is the key difference between you being friendly

and hitting on someone, by the way? Yeah, how can people tell? I usually just kind of do the whole, like, put my hand on the back of their chair and, like, kind of, like, lean in to talk to them if I'm interested. It's a proximity thing. Right. And I like to get talk to them if I'm interested. It's a proximity thing. Right. And I like to get in their bubble if I like them.

Yeah, right. Okay. Nikayla, what I'm hearing from you is you swoop when people are vulnerable. Pretty much. Yeah. Somebody's got to do it, right? Yeah. Absolutely, because you're vulnerable going up to someone to make friends as an adult,

so why not, you know, you're in the same situation. There you go. There's advice from Nikayla to make friends as an adult. Pick why not, you know, you're in the same situation. There you go. There's advice from Nikala to make friends as an adult. Pick off the weak gazelle at the back of the pack. Erin's called up. Hi, Erin. Hi, Erin. Hi, how are you? Good, thank you, mate.

How do you make friends as an adult? I actually joined a club. I heard about this group of people who like weather as a hobby, mostly just people who like to take photos and stare at clouds, stuff like that. So, yeah, I went along to that group. And as it happens, it sort of led to me joining a storm chasing club. And I met my husband through that.

Oh, whoa. And that's how I came to New Zealand. So, yeah. Did you actually have an interest in weather when you joined this club or were you like, oh, God, there'll be a lot of people there. Hopefully I can meet someone and I'll just put up with the weather chat. No, I was definitely fairly lonely. But I, yeah, I had this very strange obsession with weather,

which I've had since I was very, very young. I was quite obsessed with snow when I was very little and then developed a very strange obsession with tornadoes. What do they call people who are passionate about weather? Are you called cloudies or something? Look, storm chasers is about the closest. Yeah, right. I mean, yeah, for people who actually do go out, yep.

Have you ever thought of a career as a weather girl? Funnily enough, yes, I did. But my husband is a meteorologist. Wow. And he was sort of doing all of the work and it was pretty full on because when he first started there was a lot of shift work and everything and occasionally he'd go on TV and do some interviews and things. Yeah.

And he was actually afraid that I would get a job as a weather girl because then I wouldn't ever be home. Yeah, right. He should stop raining on your parade, Erin. Yeah, good pun there, actually. Okay, so Erin's advice is join a club. That's a good one. I feel like she and her husband met through the plot line of the movie Twister.

Right. And finally, Kate, how do you make friends as an adult? Well, what you need to do, guys, is get pregnant and join an antenatal group. Get pregnant and join an antenatal group. You become real close real fast, I'm sure, Kate. Before we ask the question, how do you make friends as an adult? Serious question for people who maybe need to

grow their friends. There's lots of reasons. We had a text from someone who said they've been married for 30 years and recently split from their husband but they don't have any single friends. That'd be so tough. Right? There's nobody with similar interests of your age in your friend group at the moment. So we did ask the question,

just a couple more texts I wanted to cover off before we move on. Someone said that Bumble BFF is actually really good. We've mocked the idea of using dating apps to make friends before, but apparently Bumble BFF is quite good. And my friend has had a bad experience on that before. Oh, really? Yeah, she thought she was on there to date and the girl that she met up with

thought that she was there to make friends and it wasn't until like maybe 30 minutes into the date that my friend realised, oh no way. It was a friend date. It was a friend date. That is so awkward. If you don't want to go on the dating ones, apparently meet up, M-E-E-T-U-P

is quite a good one to use as well. Oh, interesting. Yeah, don't spell meet a different way because that's a whole different app altogether. You've got to be careful. You know you've got to be careful. Is that where you meet up with people to... Discuss meat. And find good butchers.

Yeah, that's what it is. Like good meat products. Interesting. Alright, let's do birthday banger. We'll get three people's birthdays and we'll figure out what was number one on their 16th. Hi, Emmy. Hi, Emmy. Hey. Hey, how's it going? Good, mate. How are you? Good, thank you. That's good. What's your

birthday, Emmy? 24th of October, 1992. Alright, you were 16 in 2008 on the 24th of October. And on that day, this was number one. Oh, yeah. Don't go on the Meetup app if your sex is on fire. No, go to the clinic. I love Kings of Leon.

I love Kings of Leon too, yeah. Love that song. Cool. Okay, you've got a really good birthday banger, Emmy to the clinic. I love Kings of Leon. I love Kings of Leon too, yeah. Love that song. Cool. Okay, you've got a really good birthday banger, Emmy. Wait there, let's get Phil on. G'day, Phil. Hi, Phil. Hi, Phil.

Hey, guys, how you doing? Good, Phil. Phil, did you just say, hey, Phil? No, I thought I was. I think you almost did. Oh, give me my break. It's all right, Phil. I do it all the time.

What's your birthday, mate? 15 February It's all right, Phil. I do it all the time. What's your birthday, mate? 15 February 1969. Good year, Phil. You were 16 in 1985 on the 15th of Feb, and here's your birthday banger. Born in the USA. Yeah. Born in the USA.

Bring it on. The boss. How can you be sad? The boss, Bruce Springsteen, and born in the USA, Phil. It's a banger, Phil. It's a banger. I love it. Love it.

You know, my mum went to a Bruce Springsteen concert recently in the last couple of years, and he didn't play it. I thought your mum had a restraining order from Bruce Springsteen. Well, that was after that concert. Hey, Mario. G'day, Mario. G'day, Brie. G'day, Clint.

Welcome to Birthday Banger, pal. What's your birthday? 6th of April, 1989. You were 16, Mario, in 2005 on the 6th of April. And in 2005, this went to number one. I love you. I love you. I love you.

I love you. Oh, three bangers. Three bangers. In 2005, this went to number one. Oh, Three Bangers. Three Bangers. Three Bangers, yeah. Stone Cold Bangers. It's a tough one. Yeah, what would you vote for, Mario? If you weren't you, which one would you vote for?

A bit of Bruce, of course. A bit of Bruce Springsteen. Yeah, who doesn't love Bruce Springsteen? Is Bruce Springsteen the vibe? Is that the one we're going for? I'm vibing it. Sex of Leon. Kings of Leon, really good. Sex of Leon. I like that one. Candy Shop by Sex and 50 Cent,

also really good. Oh, no, I gotta go. I can't not go Born in the USA, just because it's quite unusual. Don't think I've seen it in Birthday Banger before. Phil, from 1969, that's when you were born. You've done it. You've won Birthday Banger.

Oh, my. You can't beat Bruce Springsteen. Never, ever, Phil. Free and clean at City. Well done. No way. I was born in the USA I was born in the USA Born in the USA Now, got in a little hometown jam

So they put a rifle in my hands Send me off to a foreign land Said don't kill the yellow man born in the USA born in the USA born in the

USA born in the USA come back home to the refinery how a man said Son of a bitch was touching me Went down to see my V.A. man He said

Son, don't you understand now I had a brother I can't stop Fighting off And with it all But still there He's all gone He had a woman He looked inside I got a picture

Of her Down the shadow The pan Sent to me I found a Gas fire So the Fire breathed Down the shadow of the pen of the century Out by the gas fires of the factory I'm ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go Born in the USA I was born in the USA

Now I'm born in the USA now. Born in the USA. I'm a long gone daddy. I'm a USA now. Born in the USA. Born in the USA. Born in the USA. I'm a true rockin' daddy

I'm a do it instead Oh, my God. ZM Brent Clint, the winner of Birthday Banger, is from a smoking hot 60-something-year-old, Bruce Springsteen. That's born in the USA. Mama Di has tuned in from country Queensland and loving birthday banger today. She said it's made her day. God, there is a lot of instruments in this song, isn't there?

It's busy, yeah. Bruce is like, Hey, guys, if we can just get everything we've got And just bash everything at the same time That'd be great That's birthday bagger We do it every day at the same time We find out the number one song on your 16th birthday

Brie and Clint Clint, we spoke about making friends as an adult earlier Yeah And this may be a way to do it. I don't know. Okay. But this is a really heartwarming story. It's really lovely.

Thanksgiving, which is a holiday in America where people come together and they eat and, you know, you see your family most of the time. And this story is out of America and it's about a woman named Wanda Dench and a guy named Jamal Hinton. They're not related but they have spent Thanksgiving together every year since 2016. Okay. And the reason why is because Wanda accidentally text

a random stranger. She thought she was texting her grandson to come over for Thanksgiving and telling him the time and what time he would be coming around. And she accidentally text Jamal Hinton, who wasn't her grandson. Right. But Jamal replied. Right.

And Jamal said, hi there, I think you've got the wrong number. I'm not your grandson, but would love to come over. Can I get a plate? Anyway, Wanda texted him back and said, of course you can. Just bring, I think she asked him to bring a plate of food. Oh, sure. Okay, potluck. Yeah, and ever since 2016, they have spent every Thanksgiving together.

Isn't that nice? It is nice, but I think that is so unlikely to happen, especially in a country like America. For her to text a random number and for the guy to be in proximity of her to be able to come over for Thanksgiving, fantastic. Very unlikely. And then New Zealand's so small,

it will end up being someone that your sister used to date. You'll text her randomly and go, oh, you got the wrong number, but this is David. I used to date your sister. Well, it's funny you say that because I have an idea and I thought you and I could put this to the test this afternoon. Right. You and I are going on a road trip next week, aren't we?

We are. We're going to the South Island. We're going to the South Island. I thought I could text a completely random number in my phone and pretend like I'm texting someone that I know and say, hey, you came for the road trip next week and put a few like carrots in there and say, you know, we've got this, this and this plan.

Sure. And see if we get anything back. But are you going to invite them on the road trip with us? Yeah, why not? Well, invite them to come on the road trip with us. Yeah, maybe we should just invite them for a meal first. Can we start with, like, drinks? Can we start way, way, way, way less involved?

Because you don't even know who you're going to get. All right, I'm going to text a random number right now and we'll see what we get. All right, good luck. Hey, I want to tell you this story about a guy from Perth who's lost his driver's licence without drinking a single drop of alcohol. That's weird.

Yeah, his name is Tommy Keefe and he lost his driver's licence because he had too many rum and raisin balls. How many did he have? I think that's the important question. Jeez. Have a listen to this. This is Tommy talking about what's happened.

All because of his love of rum balls. Cakes are cakes. Who's going to question cakes? I've had plenty of rum balls before, and they haven't been used, cooked with rum or anything. It's like essence or something like that. If they weren't cooked with rum, Tommy, then they weren't rum balls. Yeah, it's kind of in the name, Tommy,

and you've got to be careful when you're handling balls. Everyone knows that. Absolutely right, especially when you're putting them in your mouth. He was at a friend's birthday party and he was eating the yummy, yummy balls that he loved so much, unaware of how potent they were. He was so oblivious to it that when he was pulled over by a police officer on the way home, he was still eating rum balls. He was still putting more rum and raisin balls in his mouth.

What's his obsession with balls? He loves it. Well, it's that time of year, I guess. It's festive foods. It's his favourite. Anyway, he's lost his licence for three months and he's got a fine for it. This happened to my Aunty Cheryl. Did it really?

Well, it wasn't rum balls. She's not too keen on the balls. She likes trifle. And we all know in an authentic trifle, sherry is involved. And my nan used to be very heavy-handed on the sherry, Clint. The same thing with Tommy, though. She would have had to have been very, very heavy-handed or your Auntie Cheryl ate a tiramisu to herself, you know?

She can pack away the trifle, that's for sure. Yeah, right. Rum and raisin and did you say tiramisu? Is that what it was? Trifle. Trifle. Classic Christmas dish. Christmas foods, dangerous Christmas foods.

I want to ask the question, what Christmas food has got to go? And not because it's dangerous, just if we're having a referendum on Christmas foods, are there any that don't belong anymore? Yeah, absolutely. Okay, you get to get rid of one Christmas food. What is it? I'm definitely 100% putting my vote behind Christmas cake.

Christmas. What even is it? You're only saying Christmas cake to rile me up because you know I'm a Christmas cake person. No, mate, I'm telling you, if you put that out on a platter of all delicious goodies and snacks, no one eats the Christmas cake. It's always left there stale, and it moulds over because no one eats it.

It doesn't mould over. It lasts for like a month in the pantry. Exactly. It's a magic cake. What's that telling you? No, well, that's your way. It's dangerous. Let's see how many votes you get.

Producer Ben, one Christmas food has to go. What is it? The mini mince pies. Yeah. No. I love those. Christmas mince pies. Horrible, mate. Terrible. I agree, love those. Christmas mint pies. Horrible, mate.

Terrible. I agree. With the iced sugar on top of them? Yeah. Don't do it. You don't even know what's in that. Is it mint? Is it fruit?

I don't know. It's fruit mints. It's raisins. It's not a real pie. Yeah, that's the same as, it tastes kind of similar to Christmas cake. I agree. Let's go to our Dutch Christmas desk, producer Anastasia. Dutch Christmas. What has to go?

If one Christmas food has to go, what is it? It's got to be trifle. It's soggy sponge. Get out of here. What's worse than sponge when it's soggy? No, if you make it right, the sponge stays hard. I don't believe you. The custard goes around the sponge.

I don't agree with that, Anastasia, either. I think that's blasphemous. Custard, jelly, sponge. All done. That's disgusting. This puts me in a tough position because I want Brie's Christmas cake to stay. I want Ben's Fruit Mints Tarts to stay. I want Anastasia's Trifle to stay.

Do you like all Christmas foods? You must dislike one Christmas food. Do you know I text my wife to ask, what is the Christmas food that I don't like? Oh my God, I hope she said fruitcake. Yeah, please. She said nothing. I think Christmas food is probably your perfect genre of food.

There you go. So I've had to make an executive decision because I'm not going to sit on the fence here. Yeah. And I think the Christmas food that needs to go is turkey. Yeah, I can take it or leave it. Because you only like turkey because it's Christmas time. Yeah.

Any other time of the year, it's just big dry chicken. You know what would be nicer than turkey? A nicely cooked roast chicken. Chicken. But you won't eat it on Christmas because it's a special day. We're just copying the Americans. We're just copying the Americans, yeah. Ben's family has pheasant.

Pheasant? Do you? Pheasant? No, it's a joke. I said that's what my family had and he'd never heard of it. Well, I think we've got the best one. It's Christmas lasagna. Yeah, right.

Bring it to every Kiwi family. Italian Santa, he's got a moustache. I want to talk about sad music for a minute. Right. And whether or not sad music actually helps you through some tough times. Okay, sure. Because me personally, I'm definitely someone who listens to some sad, sappy songs when I'm sad. What is your go-to sad, sappy song?

Oh, I go through stages. I went through, I remember this one breakup I went through and I listened to all of Ellie Goulding's saddest songs possible. Oh, yeah, right. And it was so sad, like ridiculous. Yeah. songs possible oh yeah right and it was so sad like ridiculous yeah i was talking about me i was so sad um but uh there's an article that's come out which talks about why sad music is so popular right and they truly believe that sad music actually helps you uh and helps your brain when you're sad. Does it?

How? Yeah. Well, they say that your brain gets used to the patterns of music and our brains absolutely love repeated patterns. Yeah. And sad music is something that is, that's exactly what it does. Right. And they say certain musicians have had the most success because of their sad music. And they talk about Adele as one of these people and why she's so successful.

So they say, specifically speaking, sad bangers can also make you feel happy within reason. A study done in 2016 said that the study found that the downbeat music can in fact elicit feelings of comfort and enjoyment, with the majority of people who were surveyed reporting that their mood had improved after listening to sad music. I guess you want to listen to something that reflects how you're feeling, right? You want music to mirror your mood. And that's why when you're excited, you listen to upbeat music. When you are getting geared up for a sport, you listen to intense music. Yeah.

And you wouldn't listen to a sad song when you were about to go out because that's not the mood that you're in. Absolutely. Oh, that makes so much sense, doesn't it? When you are sad, you need something that's in sync with you because an upbeat song is not going to sound good when you're sad, is it? Imagine you've just gone through a breakup and Darude comes on. You're like, whoa, what is happening?

There's so many emotions. Someone should try that, actually. A Darude breakup album. Yeah, give it a go. If someone's going through a breakup at the moment, can you chuck Sandstorm on and just text us the results? Let us know how that goes for you. That'd be great. Anything but listening to Adele again. I mean,

sorry Adele, I know you've got new stuff coming out. Hey, you leave Adele alone. We've just heard the old stuff so much. We just need a break. Jesus. The podcast with mobile smiles. Register, fill up. Redeem points for rewards. Easy. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Fletchborn and Megan a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app

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