The Edge Arvos Podcast - FULL POD #194: Producer Harrison strikes again..!🫣😆

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

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This is a podcast from Rover. Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. Sean, there's been down some harrowing stats came in today. Oh no. I mean, you know, that Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year's, exciting times. Love it. Three of the biggest events of the year.

I don't know if Boxing Day is in there, but that's pretty up there. And stats just come out today. New stats. New stats. Okay. It's a true stats. 60% of breakups are in January. I mean, that just can't be true, but point taken.

I promise you it's true. 60% of breakup. It is. Okay, I'm sure there are a lot in January. 35% of couples start couples counseling in January. That's a lot. Over a third of couples start couples counseling. I didn't realize it was such a lucrative industry.

Yeah. Okay. You know why? Why? Because Christmas time. tense time for people. Real stressful, all the stuff to do. Family arguments.

If you're sick of other people's families, oh my God. You hate your girlfriend's parents, all that kind of stuff. New Year's, you know, cheeky kiss with somebody else. Oh, but it's New Year's, babe. Come on. So, you know. Hate when that happens. Your father-in-law's kissing you under mistletoe.

Oh, but it's mistletoe, darling. Oh, come on, mate. Yeah, that's quite common. That's quite common, eh, when that happens. Yeah, kids not getting gifts they want because dad spent on too many bears, you know, that kind of stuff? Yeah. So I think that you and I,

that's all true, I don't make any other side, that was all written down as well. So I think that we should give some advice of how to prevent breakups from happening around that time of year. Do you not think if, but sometimes breakups can be good. Yeah?

Because sometimes the relationships have reached its end. But you're saying no, no. Stick it out? Well, no, it's been an old school mentality when it comes to that, eh? You're just like, till death to we part. 100%. Let's just try and break the stigma of it all breaking up.

Okay, well, there's a few options I've got. I've heard that, for me, something that's really tested my relationship is when me and my partner have built a flat pack together. Yeah. So I'd say around that period, buy some piece of furniture

and put it together together. Nice. It'll bring you closer. I like that. Now, that's great actually. Now, family's quite hard. You don't always love being with your partner's family,

so they could be a bit tricky. Yeah. Um, so my idea, my dad used to this growing up, Lakeside Cabin. So he'd book a Lakeside Cabin around Pou, and he'd just pick one kid a year to take with him. He wouldn't tell them about it. And nobody knew where he was, nobody knew how he got there, and he'd just go off the grid, just for the week. It's a bit Todd Phillips. They've been together for 40 years.

And he just up and leaves with a child once a year. Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess whatever works for them. Yeah, it was a good time. If they say the absence makes the heart grow fonder. 100%. Roleplay?

Around this time of year, there's some great sales that look sharp, Black Friday, you know, hitting into Boxing Day. Yeah. Just pretend to be someone else, you know? Yeah. Oh, hey, babe, can you pretend to be Madeline's netball coach? You know, kind of things like that. Okay. Maybe not roleplay as people that you know in your life

that can get a little messy, but, you know, maybe a farmer. Yeah. Farmer, we're going to plow the fields. Okay. Yeah, I like that. I'm going to do. a couple more, a bit more realistic. Okay, sure.

Open it up. You introduce a third party to the relationship? Yes. I think at that point, not to say anything against Thruples, but... It's probably over. I think it's, because my second point, make them jealous. So I think if you open it up, you'll find out that, you know, maybe she does really love you.

Maybe you do really love her. A soft launch for that, and that's to get into a separate relationship with an AI chatbot. Because it's not as bad, is it? Yeah. Like, people are getting invested emotionally in A. chatbots, but everyone's like, oh, it doesn't feel like you're cheating because it's a computer.

Yeah, so if you could get them jealous that way. Yeah, and this is my final one for the younger people like there, especially the R&Vs and stuff, New Year's Countdown. If you're there with your partner and you see someone else, you know, attractive and you're quite interested in them, bring them into the kiss. Hmm. Because then it's like, you kissed her.

It's like, well, you kissed her. So we're all in the even playing field. Obviously, the person would have to be into it. Yeah. Okay Your Arvo's Head Harder With Sean, Steph and Harrison The Edge

I'm very, very excited about this Harrison Mumford and Sons are coming back to Altairefong Were you a big Mumford and Sons guy Back in the day? Yeah, I loved a bit I remember a few years ago They were coming to Auckland

And they cancelled their show It's a few years ago So I was gonna go see them Oh, okay I saw them at Western Springs Back in like 2016 Oh yeah A bit earlier

Oh it was a great show man I was stomping and clicking. They are great. Great boy. I love them. I used to busk. I think I've told this before when I lived in Christchurch

at University. I'd go and busk at the container more. And I'd play a lot of Mumford and Sun's songs. And one day I was playing this song here, actually. And a lady from the local bank came out and said, you've got to stop. I can't hear you play this song for the fifth time. Yeah, I'm not.

I stomped and clicked and kept playing. I didn't hear you, but the singing for that is quite tough. It's just tough to hear it. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, back to New Zealand. England. Next year, May 2nd, Spark Arena, and Live Nation presale kicks off 10 a.m. Thursday, December 4th. General tickets, the day after 10 am. You score a double pass. Right now, 0800 the Edge by being the guest judge in... The Edge 5-star fact. Brittany from Fonger day. Welcome to the show, my friends.

Hello. Hey, Brittany. Brittany, what kind of fact are you looking for today? You make up the criteria for Sean. I would like either a food fact or maybe like a dog fact Okay And as this fact Do you want it to be like shareable

Like you want this fact It'd be so good You'd bring it up this weekend Yeah definitely Okay Sean's a food fact A dog fact That Brittany wants to be able to say

To her friends and family this weekend You know I don't have either of those I don't what is it You know you said to me earlier I said because we're going to give away The Mumford and Sun's ticket Should I do a Mumford and Sun's fact And you said yes to a mumfitting

Mumford and Sons fact. I said, what if I can't find any good facts about Mumford and Sons? And you said, don't worry about it. We're giving away tickets. They'll be happy anyway. And now I've prepared quite a mundane Mumford and Sons fact. That's okay. Brittany, is that a good pivot for you?

You're okay with that? Yeah, I'm happy as. Brittany, look, I'm going to start this off by putting a sweetener in the pot and saying, congratulations, you are going to Mumford and Sons. Thank you. Now, hopefully. The least he could do, right? Geez.

Now know that I could take those tickets back from you. If you don't rate my fact high enough. Not that I'm blackmailing or that I'd ever do that with in the segment. You're threatening. Threatening, maybe. Today's five-star fact is Marcus Mumford is not the father of his bandmates. That's not it. That was a joke fact.

That was a joke fact. Today's fact is really Marcus Mumford, who's the main guy from Mumford and Sons, right? The lead singer. He met his wife, who's an actress, actually. She was in Pride and Prejudice. Very famous actress called Kerry Mulligan. They met when they were children. Like Ed Sharon and his wife, little kids.

They were at church together, but then they reconnected as adults when she went to one of his shows on a date with, get this, Jake Gyllenhaal. And that's how they reconnected. She reconnected with the singer, started dating, got married, have had kids. So the fact today is, Marcus Mumford met his wife when she went to one of his shows on a date with Jake Gyllenhaal. Wow. It's a lot to digest.

So he, she dumped Jake Gyllenhaul for a banjo playing hipster. Correct. That's a pretty good fact. Ready come by it. What do you think, Brittany? I think that's a pretty cute fact, actually. Oh, it's cute,

that's cute that they knew each other as kids. I think that's always cute. Freddie, how would you rate that out of five stars? I think it's cute, but I would give it a 3.5. Do you want the tickets, Brittany? Yeah, a 4.5. Yeah, thanks, Bradford. Thank you.

That's good. That's good. We'll take that. We'll take that. Harrison. Sure, I give it a. the four. I quite like that. Oh, thanks, man. And producing us, Sam.

Yeah, give it a 3.5. Oh, you know. I can't hold us. I don't know where. Your Arvo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. I want to talk about how embarrassed I am to be in New Zealander this week. Oh, why? The IKEA thing.

Oh, the IKEA thing. IKEA is coming to New Zealand. You've probably heard about it. Now, if you're outside of Auckland, This week it's coming into Auckland It's a little bit out south In Sylvia Park area And there have been

You know those lights above the motorway That say like There's a crash ahead Take a different route This road works Yeah yeah yeah yeah All week it's been saying Prepare your travel on Thursday

Ikea store opening Like they're so worried about it affecting Auckland traffic That IKEA's opening Yeah it's so dumb What is it like a furniture shop or something like a Kmart. Yeah, kind of.

It's a furniture store. And we're all going to go crazy for it. People are going to travel to Auckland to go to Ikea. For weeks and weeks, you won't be able to get in there. There'll be... For furniture. People will camp around the block for it. Because Ikea's finally in New Zealand.

I've got to try the meatballs. And then... We'll get over it. I will get over it quick. And eventually, it'd just be another store. Like Costco. And this is... Thank you.

No one cares about Costco now. This has happened over and over and over again in New Zealand. And I think we're a cool country. New Zealand is a cool country. When Australians, like, cool a younger brother, call the younger sister, and then this happens. We get a new store and we go crazy and we block traffic and everyone freaks out and camps outside.

And it's happened before. I want to draw your attention back to, as you said, Harrison Costco opening in 2022. People camped out overnight. We have to go to Costco. Now you don't hear that much about it. Popeyes opened last year. Oh, yeah. Everyone was like, Popeyes is coming.

Is it going to be bigger than KFC? Oh, we're going to go crazy for Popeye's. Everyone tried Popeyes and was like, yeah, that's all right. Yeah, it's like people will still go to it. It's still busy enough, but it's peel back a bit. Taco Bell. Let's go crazy for Taco Bell. And now it's just here, it's another thing.

H&M, Zara, when they opened, there was, like, lines. People camped outside H&M when it opened in New Zealand. And now it's like, just like going to glass ones. Kiwi, this isn't a store, but like I remember, like, Whitaker's chocolate milks, the Lewis Road Creameries. Exactly. They had to put signs up going, hey, just letting you know, you can only buy two per visit. and there were lines around the whole supermarket for it. So it's chocolate effing milk, you bastard.

A text that's coming here. I appreciate those. The same people that panic brought toilet paper. Yeah. That's it. All I'm saying is New Zealand, I think sometimes we get a little carried away. A little bit. We get very excited.

And it's okay. It's okay to be excited. We get too excited that it's a bit embarrassing. Yeah. And can we just tone it down a little bit? Agreed. But before we do that, I want to see if anyone will admit, that they went a little bit too hard

when a store opened in New Zealand. Oh, 800 the edge, or text to 3-3-4-3, do you look back now and go, I probably was a bit excited about that. Safe space, safe space. That's all good. Come clean. Did you camp outside Sephora for a day?

Did you? What about that shop that open up and overpondon? That sports shop, like L-SKD or whatever? Oh, yeah, yeah, L-SKD, man. Huge lines about it. People go crazy for that. I was like, what is that? Activeware.

Yeah. Cool, man. Oh, 800 of the edge, 3-3-4-3, And we've got a prize up for grabs, actually, a bargain chemist fragrance pack for the best story. Because I know it's hard to admit. It's embarrassing to look back and go, look, I got too excited about Carlos Jr. coming to New Zealand. And it's all eight for a week. Your avos hit harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison.

The Edge. Now, New Zealand, rain it in, is what I think I'm trying to say. Pull it back. IKEA is opening this weekend in Auckland, this Thursday, sorry. And there are like road signs on the motorway telling people to prepare. and change their travels that day for their lives to pick up their children and go to work because a furniture store is opening and New Zealand loses their mind whenever we get a new store in New Zealand.

It's just like, yeah, it's a bit much. It's a furniture store. Yeah. I get that things at Popeye's exciting. Big American chain. Costco, everything's big. I guess that's exciting. IKEA?

I still don't really get what it is. It's a flat-packed furniture, A. That's all it is. Who gives it? Yeah, that's crazy. All these businesses, amazing that they've come to. in New Zealand. I think our point is the hype eventually dies down. We look back and go

a little icky. Oh yeah, Lauren just texted. Builder Bear, when it first I went to Builderbeer when it first opened. The day was insane lines were all down the street and non-stop people the whole day. I remember Builder Bear opening was huge. Lucy Texan, I've flown from the south up to Auckland

twice to go to Costco. Lucy, what's the point? You can't bring anyone on the plane. Yeah, that's true. And Chennai said Sean sounds a little butt hurt about not being invited to the IKEA party. Shanae, this is unrelated. Come on, Shanae. Probably. James, from Christchurch, welcome to the show, James.

What did you get a bit excited for when it came to New Zealand and now look back on? So looking back on it now, it's probably a bit ridiculous, but used to line up for, like, the new iPhone or iPad outside the Apple store. Oh, yeah. And that was, yeah. We're looking back now, total waste of time and total waste of money. Yeah, there is a bit of a waste of your time, mate. You can just do it all the line now probably as well.

Yeah, but no, James would be the first one to get it in his hand. And that one or two hours, James, would have been sweet. Yeah. Yeah, for that half an hour. Yeah. Great a memories man, you know. Enjoy it. How many people were lining up to get a new iPhone, James, when you're there?

Are there a few people camping out for the night? Like, the original ones, like the iPhone 3G or iPhone 4, there would have been a line of, because for the iPhone 4, I was in California at the time, and there would have been a line of probably, I don't know, 1,000 people. I actually don't mind. So James is saying he was one of the first people in the world to get the iPhone when it first launched. That's quite cool. That's quite cool, actually.

Nowadays, loaning up to get the new one, it's like, it's the same thing. Are those in New Zealand at a spark store or something? Yeah, yeah. That's quite different. James, get that out of it. I was on telecom and, like, 2005, cool, man. Amber from Christchurch, what did you get really into and then look back on and go, probably didn't need to be that fan heavy about a store?

The Krispy Creens had a pop-up shop here in Christchurch, in Rickett and Mill. And the first 100 customers got, I think, a free donut, and I went there like three hours before, and I tried to line up, and I was too late. Yeah, well, it's a bloody donor, Amber, come on. Yeah, it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing.

And I'm saying there were so many people there already, three hours ahead that she didn't even make it. Yeah. See, Amber, I'm glad that you weren't part of that. It's embarrassing for us. It's embarrassing for Christchurch. How many people would line up for literally hours to get a free donut?

Yeah, come on, guys. We're better than this, guys. We're better than this, Amber. All right, Amber, I'm going to hook you up with our edge must have, all right? To make you feel better about missing out on the donut. Thank you. Thanks so much.

Your Arvoh's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. I know Steph today. Digital Girl Clara is filling in to help us out with Sean Stephen Harrison's scandal And I'm sorry just quickly Sorry to do this to you Clara I know it's just me and you in here

People can't see this Harrison is in the producer's booth today He's got the little headset on And he's just learning to be a producer Hi guys to the window Hey Harrison over here So Harrison's been learning Behind the scenes

Clara how to do some of the producing stuff Just in case we ever need them to you know Do we not offence to you Is this an okay idea Well this is all last time I did it It was a bit tumultuous. That's a word. So this time I've got Sam with me to kind of look over and just guide me through all of this, which would be good.

Yeah. Okay. So you could, pretend he's not there. Sam, he's just going to learn how to produce. Sorry, Clara. Sam, you have to know he's there. But Clara, just keep going on with your scandal. What's going on today?

So Kiwi icon Lord has revealed that she only watched about four or five TV shows or movies this year, including the White Lotus. It's good, eh, when we get Clara to come and do scandal. Like, I'd rather just death do it. Yeah, it's all good. I'm just speaking there. Your mic's on. Oh, yeah, the mic's on, yeah, yeah. You'll turn that off.

It's all good. That's... As you were. It's all good. That's fun. Half of the TV show rehearsal, a TV show it was a quick... Oh, Harrison, if you play sound effects through there, man, we can hear them on ear. You can hear that?

Yeah, so if you... Yeah, we can hear that as well. You can hear that as well. You don't need to fire those off. Leave them for me, bro. So she watched on there a few TV shows this year. Yeah, and a TV show as well called the studio. It's cool.

That's good. Do you remember that? You've played that in, like, PlayStation. You're playing crazy fraud. I know, yeah, yeah. Stop it. Turn it down. But it's coming through, is it?

Yeah. Yeah, cool, cool. Can you turn that down? Can I turn it down? Yeah. Sorry, Clara, what are you saying? Hey, no, it's all good. It's just when you're breathing in my neck, like,

that I feel claustrophobic? Yeah, I know, but it's just like if you're going to... Yeah, but if you're going to do that, it's like, you may as well... Harrison, turn the mic off. Yeah, it is off. Okay. That was quite loud. Lord's watched three TV shows.

You know, a bit of TV shows. Keep going on. Ignore him. Just power throw. And she also said her favorite TV. Sorry, I'm kidding. Can you get me able to live? I can't afford lunch with my mom.

I just put my hand up and get this out of the vending machine. I couldn't even pay for it. Keep going, just pass her. Marks you're on there, sham. And Lorde revealed that she loved the incest storyline on the White Lotus, saying that we're all prudes and... Yon. You thought that storyline was yon?

Yeah, no, sweet. You just got to really tell me. the muck's on and off because it's actually embarrassing me at this point. Surely he had no at this point. Yeah, I think he might be doing it, but I can never tell with Harrison. So she enjoyed the two brothers hooking up with each other. Yep, she did. It's not weird, isn't it?

I think it should have broke me that Clara's ring a see-through top. Office culture. Oh, shit. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Probably now they think about it, yeah. Maybe not the best, but maybe that's an off-air conversation that we could have had Harrison. Okay, Lord likes incest. That scandal, apparently I'm wearing a seat on the top. It's his scandal on the radio.

I thought there was only things that we like don't off the radio. We don't know if we could talk about that. All right. Harrison. And it's only the second crazier's part of us. No, I'm done with that. I'm sure I'm going to do it on. Okay.

And scandals thanks to Woolworth. I'm sure they'll love to be associated with that. They've entered the final countdown to the final countdown. Don't touch me. I have to sit here to make sure you're doing it right. Thanks so much, Clara. Your Arvo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and. Harrison

The Edge We talked about this yesterday on the show Harrison had a bit of an awakening watching Jessica Simpson It's ridiculous

She's going to live birds and made of a walk and she washes a car into a canny That's ridiculous Yeah I had quite an awakening as a young boy

And my mum banned me from watching that video ever again I mean that's not the phrasing you used yesterday I got a little excited In the basement

You know what I'm saying No Oh you don't actually We have a basement at home, do you? I was a campsite and I was pitching a tent. Gotcha. That's what you said yesterday. Yeah, I was trying to beat around that.

But I didn't beat around it at all. Got right into it. And so I was banned from that. And it made me think, guys, what about movies? Has anyone banned from any movies? I read an article today online saying that this mum is outraged, taking her kids to Wicked 2. And I was like, oh, why would you be offended by Wicked 2?

She goes, because apparently there's like a sexual scene in there. Oh, okay. Well, no, there's like kissing, but they talk about laying in bed next to each other. Scandalous. And song, scandalous. And then another mother came out and said, I feel like Wicked 2 is casting legitimate spells in my family. That's a real quote from someone in America.

It sounds like it came from America. So I didn't realize this is the thing, but parents banning their kids from watching Wicked 2. Yeah. It's quite a big thing. So I was like, one another was like, man, What have I been banned from watching? What movie?

I remember when I as a kid I got banned from Wayne's World. Yeah, that's a funny movie, kind of like an 80s movie, which is a bit inappropriate, and I think parents forget that. Yeah, like Friday. It's kind of all about drugs. Oh, yeah, Friday. But it was to a point, my dad, because my dad would always show me these movies. Police Academy, there's a few boobies in there.

And my dad showed me all these movies, and my mom confiscated all the videotapes and gave them to her, friend and said hold on to these until he grows up. Oh, so it was the problem. Your dad was showing you and then your mom wouldn't allow us. Yeah, so he's like, oh, I forgot that's in there. I was, I'll be honest. I grew up in quite a religious household, as I've talked about in the show before. And I was, as a child, I wasn't allowed to watch Harry Potter. And I think that's normal for some people in New Zealand. Other things, like ultraviolet stuff

wasn't really allowed to watch. I imagine you being one of those kids who watched, I could name what it is, but you'll know exactly what it is when I say it. You would have watched the the, um, the vegetable show. Oh, Vegetatales. There we go. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Veggie tales. Chris, I got it's what I'm about veggies tales.

Yeah, I had Christian's cousins and I was like, man, you guys got Friday or Wayne's will. We haven't got veggie tales. It's like SpongeBob, but it's vegan. Yeah. And it says religious undertones. Yeah. And that's what every child really wants from their cartoons, isn't it? Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison.

The Edge. Producer Nurse Sam, you recently tried to show your child a movie. Oh yes, my 15 year old I wanted her to watch Was it stepbrothers But we didn't get far in Before I saw her face And thought oh maybe she's not ready

What did you So you started watching it What did you stop it on I can't remember If it was like a bunch of swear words Or like a sexual I bet it was the balls on the drum kit Like real early that movie

He gets his balls out And rubs them on a drum kit That's visual too So no It was perfect age for this Kind of Not for the balls on the drum kit But just like

Stepbrothers She's more into sports than like I don't know, talking about this kind of stuff. I just could tell by her face that it was maybe not, yeah, I was got like a big whack in the face for her. Oh, right. Good call, good call.

Good call to pull that back. A lot of texts in here. I wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons growing up. That's a tough one. But I went to Springfield School and won a competition and all the Simpsons came to school. That's pretty good. Pretty cool.

Not that you know who they were. No, I've been to Springfield School just out of, Christchurch. Oh, yeah? I've been to the school, but I've been through Springfield. There's a donut. Oh, that's quite cool.

Just like that's a big one. Liya, liar, I remember that one. American pie? A lot of American pie techs coming through. Yeah, American Pie is a classic for that gross stuff. A lot of people are being banned from watching horror movies, the ring, the grudge. That's fair.

You watch them, you have nightmares once, and your parents are like, we're not doing this again. Yeah. Rocky or a picture show, someone said, yeah. That's weird. It's weird, freaky. That would give you nightmares. Let's go Hamish in Rotorua, Hamish.

What did you get banned from watching? Hamish, Hamish, how are you? What did you get banned from watching? Good, mate. Sausage Party. Ah, yeah. How old were you in Sausage Party? Came out?

I can't remember the exact age, but I would have been probably at 12 with 13, getting into it. Pretty graphic movie. It looks like a kid's film. They had a lot of backlash because it looked like a Pixar movie The very end of the movie

Even I watched it a couple years ago I watched the very end I was like, geez, not the one No, there's like a, it's crazy They're all, let's just say They're all having a dance together At the end And partners, but a lot of them

Are you know what I'm saying? It's disguised heavily As a children's movie So that's, I get that one, Hamish Rangy, also from Rotarroa Rangy, what were you banned from watching? Oh mine sound really done now. Hannah Montana

and Sweet Life was Jack and Cody. Hey, why? Because she's two-faced? Because, yeah, she was lying. There was drama. There was boyfriend. I came from a small town community that we all spoke to our Māori and that wasn't encouraged.

I know someone who went to school with me who also wasn't allowed to watch Disney Channel because they all had like boyfriends and girlfriends and their parents thought it was going to encourage them to like kiss people. Yeah, I went to school with my cousins. That's gross. Yeah. Yeah, it's true.

You don't want to be doing those things with your cousins. Hadam Montana, that's crazy. And then when my cousins did get boyfriends or girlfriends from other schools, we're like, ew. Yeah. Oh, keep it in their family. Oh, sorry, Rangeney, that would have been a... It's a great show. Have you watched it back now?

No, it gives me, like, cringe, like, an ick when I see something. I was like, oh, that's a bit gross. Well, Rangy had to be like eight years old to watch it. It's probably passed now for you. Yeah, it used to be good. I used to be good. I used to 10 dollars at sleep when they would have played, so I'd sneakily watch it. Nice.

Your Arvo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. I've talked a little bit about this, but you made me save the story to tell you on the radio, but I missed out on a job today, I think. So that makes it sound bad. Then I'm like, oh, he missed it on a job? Yeah, save it for radio, I'm going to have a laugh. No, no, no.

I started telling Harrison. He's like, no, it sounds like a good story. Save it and tell it on the show. And the thing is, I was interviewed today, Harrison, to be the emcee for the Blues Super Rugby team. See, and that's incredible. Can I just it? That is incredible. That's why I wanted you to tell on the show.

That's why I tickled my pickle because you auditioned. I did audition. Essentially, it's an audition, right? Explain what the MC's job is? Well, the MC's job is to, at the home blues games, Eden Park, right? This is where the All Blacks play. Massive stadium.

And your job is to hype the crowd up, to intro the players, and then to be on the big screen at the stadium and do the halftime competitions and stuff with the clients. Yeah. Like at the Wazzi, you do the Pukana. Cam. Exactly.

Yeah, yeah. But not with the blues, but yeah. Yeah, well, you've picked a different sport there. Yeah. But, yeah, no more or less, you've kind of nailed the brief of it. And it's like, oh, some clients doing this. And they actually gave me a script that I had to do, which I got, I didn't read in my emails, but I should have about doing a, like a real, half-time relay. And I had to do a performance.

Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. Right before I go into this interview, I get a call from my partner, my beautiful fiancé, who reminds me that there's something I was meant to do this morning that I didn't do. Right, let's not get into the schematics of it Quite serious thing Quite seriously So I was quite nervous going into it And I was like oh sorry I've got this interview thing now Sorry I've got to go

And I hung up the phone immediately had really clammy hands So I'm at Blues HQ I'm panicking about having clammy hands And having to introduce myself to someone So I go to their kitchen I probably shouldn't have let myself into their kitchen But I walked in there And I start washing my hands

And I'm drawing it with a teetow And they come out and they go Sean here And I was like oh yeah Sorry I'm in the kitchen And she was kind of like oh Helping yourself And I was like, no, I just, I want to wash my hands. Helving yourself.

So it started a bit badly. She thought I was making a coffee or something. Yep. And so I go into the interview, I got a couple clammy hands. I get in there and I thought it was just a one-on-one thing where like, hey, what kind of interview? What kind of emcee experience do you have? You know, do you like the blues? I could not be further from it.

There were four people there in a giant room. Think of like a school classroom. Okay. Four people there. And then a fifth person on Zoom. And there's nothing worse than like half the people in the room, one on Zoom. And they have to keep going, sorry. Sorry.

Can I talk here? Can I talk here? And they were kind of, they fired a bunch of questions at me, like real, real interview-y stuff that I had not thought about. Why do you want to do this? That's something I should have thought about. Why do you want to do this? Yeah, I was like, I'm making fun.

Quick buck on the weekend. What do you expect? Go to the rugby for free. Fun, yeah, watch them. Yeah, those are my thoughts. And they're like, oh, that's not quite what we want to hear. And then they're like, what did they expect? There's people like, like, you'll go and audition for this stuff.

So they go, hey, so obviously you got the script that we sent you? And I was like, oh, yeah. Have you got a printout? And they're like, yeah, we've got to print out. I was like, what's the script to quickly look at? And they wanted me to perform a half-time show for them about how I would even see a half-time show. And they get all this client information and everything in there.

Right. And so he's like, okay, well, take it away. And I was like, do I just pretend you're the crowd? Whatever you want? Whatever you've prepared? You've prepared, nothing. Nothing, man. So I get up there and I was like, hey blues fans, welcome to the Auckland Blues.

It's not, we don't call it the Auckland Blues. Like, it's not, we don't call it the Auckland Blues. We just call it the Blues. That was in the guidelines. I was like, ah, okay. But you didn't read the guidelines? I didn't read the guidelines. Anyway, I'm running out of time, but I did some jokes throughout it that I tried.

Jokes did you? I tried some jokes. What kind of jokes? I thought it might maybe stand out from the crowd. Okay. The essence of it was, I had to emcee a relay between 10 junior rugby clubs. And I made a joke about what they could be spending the money on. What did you say?

want to go any further than that. I don't want to go any further than that. But I made a joke that I realized at the time was probably a bit inappropriate. Yeah, thousands of people, eh? Yeah, yeah. And they said to me afterwards, they said, oh, thanks, mate. You won't hear from us for a couple weeks. Just out the gate. And I was like, oh, no worries. So don't panic. But yeah, we'll let you know. Well, that was quick to say you won't hear from us. They said you won't hear from us. They said you won't hear from us for a couple weeks, which I don't think is a great sign. I don't think it's up in the air, man. Well, done. Good on your missions are hard. And they're probably the worst things in the world, so you nailed it.

Yeah, I could have done more prep. Yeah, always learning your script. Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know. If they send you a script and even send an email, feel free to learn it or not. Learn the script. Always learn it. Or if you see me at a blues game this year,

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