The Edge Arvos Podcast - FULL POD #81: 1000 hugs for OUR Ginga day! 🧡👨‍🦰

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

It's Finally here! Hug OUR Ginga day, it was a jam packed day here are some of the things we got up to on today's show: EZ Money Live  Hug Review  5 Star Fact in chch  Harrison father in law on what he thinks about hug our ginga day  Harrisons Ice Cream taste test Biggest Support to hug our ginga day! 1000 Hug Winner  Town Yarns  Top 3 Love ya! Sean, Steph & Harrison x Follow our new insta @edgearvos

This is a podcast from Rover. Live in Christchurch for the first ever hug our Gingaday. It's the Ajavas with Sean Stefan Harrison. Hey everybody. Hello. Oh my goodness Christchurch. We are obsessed with you. We've been here all day.

Harrison, what was that little noise? Because it's so bloody cold here. He's such an awkward now. Come on, Hastings, boy. I know. Come on. But no, it seriously is cold and I can't really feel my toes. But Harrison, you've been keeping a little bit of.

warmer than the rest of us because of all these hugs you've been getting. I know. It's so good. It's been amazing. Andy Not's crazy. We're currently in Rollic and Gelado. We are. In the city.

We are. And for an ice cream parlor, very warm. So cute here. It's so amazing. I can't wait to stuff my face full of these delicious ice cream flavors. We're going to be here all afternoon all the way through until 6pm. So come down and say hi. Give Harrison a hug because the 1,000th person that hugs you, Harrison gets $1,000.

Yes. And can I say how many we're at? Yeah. Just over 500. Yeah. So come on now. It's getting time. Calm down.

If you're wondering where the heck, Sean is, well, we're actually wondering the same thing. He just went to the toilet, but he's been near a long time. It's a long time of the toilet. And you know what's so funny is like sometimes you make jokes about, you know, radio hosts being to suck on the toilet and stuff. Genuinely, like we promise that's where he said he was going and we haven't seen him since. And that was about 20 minutes ago.

He's right. Yeah. We're probably almost done with this. Oh my God, Sean. We thought you fell in. I'm so sorry. I honestly got lost. It took me so long to get out of Riverside Market. That place is like an escape room. Labyrinth.

Unbelievable. Honestly, could not. I did Google Maps, to find which way out. It took me like 10 minutes to get out of that place. Well, Christch, we are here. We are inside of your glorious city. And for the rest of Altero, the show goes on.

And you could be getting a whole bunch of free stuff later on. We've got $250 Jet Star vouchers. We've got Peter Pit Vouchers to dish up. later. But we will be playing Easy Money with a local Canterbrian next. Two songs to go. We're going to find someone who comes on down to Rollic and Ice Cream right now on the Christ Street CBD. What can you get if you come here? You could get Mandarin sorbay. Yes, free Mandarin sorbay. Also get free $10,000. Well, for one person, yes. For one person, yes. If you are today's easy money winner, 30 seconds, 10 categories. Answers all started.

with the letter we'll give you next. So come on down if you want to play. Your avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. We are live from Rollic and Gillado in Otahe, Christchurch, for Hug Our Gingaday. I won't give any updates because it's getting close to that thousand hug marks. I'm going to stop saying how many hugs we've had on here. But the thousandth hug will win a thousand dollars.

So make sure you come down here and give Harrison a hug. But right now, it is time to play Easy Money. The Edge 10K. Easy Money. Actually more money to give away right now with easy money. If we give away this 10K, it will really undermine our whole thousand dollars of the Hanging, our Ganga Day, I think. Oh, that's a bit might.

I reckon. We put a damp on it. Anyway, if you've never played before, easy money, we give you a letter between E and Z, 30 seconds on the clock. 10 questions, answer each one with a word of that letter. Win 10K. Yeah, we play every afternoon at 3, every morning, 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. And Brian is a big edge fan. and you listen every afternoon at 3 o'clock and more to try and get through.

Have you ever played before? Never played easy money before, but tried very, very hard to get through and the lines are always jammed. What would you do with $10,000, Brian? Definitely a holiday with this cold weather. It would be off to Fiji or something like that. Fiji, Boulevardaca. Oh, bollivanaka.

You know, it's quite chilly, quite chilly in Christchurch. Freezing, you could almost say. You've got a footwear you're rocking, Brian, because I made this huge rookie mistake. Just the flats. Oh my goodness. Could be jandals, mate. No, honestly.

Okay, Brian. 30 seconds. Your letter for easy money, which you were just telling me off here should be called hard money. Yeah. Because it's not so easy. The median do. Is the letter F? F for Freddie.

F for Freddie. Yeah, we go. F for flower. F for far out. It's cold. Finggo. Sure. Okay.

Okay. Brian, you can pass and hopefully we'll have time to get back to it. No passing. You cannot repeat any answers. Harrison's going to be judge. He'll be listening out for any answers he doesn't quite like. And your time will begin when I say the end of the first category. And then the timer will start. Okay, okay.

Are you ready? As ready as I'll be. Are you nervous? Oh, you're nervous. 10 grand. You're nervous. The ginger is nervous. I'll give him, Mark.

I'll give him. Here we go, Brian. With the letter F, please name for us an animal. An animal, pass. A musical instrument. Flute? A place in New Zealand. Frankton.

A profession. Flora. A fruit. Uh... Oh fruit No, no Pass

Clothing item Fock Car brand Ford Something you have at a party Oh Oh so sorry That's hard

That's hard It's really really hard It's hard money Sorry I shouldn't have asked you if you were so nervous I think you made it more nervous You got five mate The one you missed was an animal Animal

Fox I did say flamingo at the start Frog You also missed a fruit which you could have said. Fijowa. Fiawa. Fijua.

Fig. Fig. Yeah. Oh, sorry, Brian. Did you know what? It's tricky when you're on the spot, eh? It's pressure. Any advice to future easy money players out there listening?

Just, yeah, it's hard. Like, just, yeah, you've got to try and start with a blank to your mind. Because I think that's the hard thing as thinking about what you're going to think of. Exactly. And when you see if you, like, yeah. A wise guy. Hey, bring it in, brother. Bring it in, brother.

Give it my hug. Great job. And you know it also is hard, trying to get a thousand hugs in Christchurch. Although we are almost there, a thousand hug gets a thousand dollars. We're going to keep taking some hugs next. Live at Frolic and Gelado in Christchurch.

Sorry, rollic and gelato. We have F on the mind from our money there guys. Can you please not have F on the mind? It's highly inappropriate. I apologize. Apologues. Your avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge.

The Edge. Hugout Ging a day. The goal of today, it's not hugger Ginga Day, the one that happened back in the down on the edge, is hug our Ginga Day. We're trying to get Harrison, Al Ginger, a thousand hugs. I think we're close. We don't know what number we're at. If you come down to Rollican gelato in Cashel Street in Christchurch, come and give him a hug.

You get a free ice cream, but also the 1,000 hug will win $1,000. We're thinking it's going to go in the next hour, not too sure. Yeah, so Christchurch has been such a treat to be in today. God, we love it here. It's been so cool meeting everybody. but to get here we flew after the show yesterday we flew from Auckland and Harrison didn't really see much of you

at the airport in Auckland when we were waiting for our flight to cry church because Sean and I were messaging calling you worried about you were going to have dinner on the work credit card you called a lot yeah Harrison where are you man we're travelling together bro we're a show I was so I was busy on my laptop working I couldn't talk to you guys on the phone so Harrison apparently is a businessman and has to fly Kourou which is, if you don't know,

the rich place that people, the rich people go to before they bought a flight where all the free food is and all the businessmen are there. Can I just say, I did buy this. Once I started doing my vibes dancers last year, I travelled to one location. I was so hungover.

I just got paid from another thing and I bought a Kudu Club membership and go, this is going to come in handy one day. And it is come in handy so much. Oh really? Do you know what my screwed up part of it is? I haven't told you guys this yet. We both hop down

the Uber at the airport at the same time. Why didn't you yell out and say hello? Because you were like 50 metres ahead of me? No. I was like, oh, I want to go through to the Kudu Club, so. No, I get that. I get that. It wasn't bad.

Why are we doing a day where people can hug you? No, no, no, no. Hang out all the time. I'll see them in there. Then you go, I saw a short of McDonald's. Were you a McDonald's? No, we were deciding on where to go. He was a McDonald's, all the way over there.

Shame me. I'm just going to go straight to the, so that's what I did. Actually, unbelievable. I think you're out of touch with the common man. I agree. He's having a thousand people. He's got his own shirt. He's got his own face on his shirt.

He's on a youth. He's in Kourou Lounge. Thanks he knows everybody because they're all hugs. But last night we did miss you as you were kind of like drinking a lot of wines in there. We're very jealous. And then we thought, you know what? If he's going to have a lot of fun without us, we're not going to let that happen. And so we, our plan was to go.

So when you go into Kudu, there's like, there's like, roster doors so like people like us can't see in. So we're like we've got to get through the frosted doors and then go to the desk and our plan was to tell them that our friend is in there somewhere but he's ran out of battery and we have to get in touch with them. Harrison hates the name Annie because it's Ginger

and someone on this film set called him Annie. Okay Annie. Like the orphan ginger from the movie. So we've got the audio here of exactly what happened when our plan was to get on the loudspeaker and ask for Annie to come to come the front desk. Yeah. Do you have a loudspeaker?

We did. Can you the page? Mr. Harrison, Keith. The Harrison Keith. Harrison Keith. Yeah, but could we pull him Annie. Annie Keith. He responds to it.

You guys wait over there. I have a massive key. Oh, sorry. Oh, no. Did he say any? You can hear it in the background there. So you can't really hear it because he's telling us to move because he's a massive queue of people at that point and we're not actually.

He could tell by looking at. asked that we did not belong in the Kouroulaund. But you heard it. Well, create your crazy thing. I then, you know, went out to you the cheap seats after our flight was called. We walked in together. I saw you guys and Steve, you were like,

oh my God, did you hear they said Annie Keith? Because you didn't come. We waited for you and never arrived. I know. But I literally, I remember, like, I took me headphones off. I said like, Annie Keith, Keith, shouldn't love me my cousins in here. I honestly thought that, but because I'm so out of touch, I was like, oh, can't be bothered catching up with a cousin.

Oh my God. Why are we doing? a whole day for you around. But it's crazy I heard that. And do you not but the can have one redeeming factor, Kourou Club, you can bring in one person. I called Steph and said, you can come in or Sean and come and pick who you want to come in. You guys decided to stick together.

Yeah, and that's the type of friends we are. So I offered to bring one in the wind. Okay. You know how much to like free stuff, man. You just missed that. No, no. I was like, you get up on it tonight. It's okay.

We'll leave Steph. We'll go on there. I want to know how the other half of it is. Oh, yeah. Sweet. I've actually, oh, I think they only applies to like the Auckland airport. Oh, shut up! Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison.

The Edge. The Edge Hugout Ging a Day. Live Rollican, Christ, shit, is where we are. Rollican gelato is the name of it, in Cashel Street. Harrison's outside. He's hugging people as we speak. But can I just say, this ice cream parlour, Rollican is like my favourite new place that I've ever been to. It's such a vibe here

And the flavours are so good And I've also heard amazing things about the brownie by the way Apparently the Jerry Brownie is like the greatest thing ever Jerry Brownie's funny I'm gonna get one of those later But come on down because of course the 1,000th person Who hugs Harrison for Hug Our Ganga Day Wins 1000 dollars

And we have Mandarin sorbet that we're dished out to everybody as well Guys I think there's a bit of an emergency as well What's going on? What's going on? There is a train stuck in the middle of the road over there Oh my God, do you need my help? No I don't know what's up with that? know that about me? What? I am really, really strong and I can go and move it if I need to.

You can go and move the train? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why is you having a train in the road? Did you not hear this about me? No. I've moved so many trains. I haven't said, I didn't know this at all. Are you joking me?

Do you not know? It's a thing. It's such a thing. Wait, wait, wait, way, way, how big is it? Is it a tram? What do you mean? Is it the tram or a train? I don't know what a tram is.

If it's a train, I can't even move a train. It's all good. I told you. That was me. I think someone was just getting off at Steph. Oh, it says... It just stops. It's like a bus. I don't think it was broken.

You know the scurial was to walk out to the car and see there's a train stuck in the middle of the road? Far out. Hey, warn us. You need to be here? Okay. We're all a bit delirious, by the way. Hug our ganga day is what we're doing. We're trying to get Harrison a thousand hugs.

He's just hugged another person out. We don't know what number we're at. Mitch, our promo guy, is clicking away in his pocket. Thanks, James. I'm Moyer. Hi, Moya. What did you think about the hug? Great hug.

He's Jeff. I put some effort into that. I can tell that it's been like fine-tuned over the day. Yeah, it's been a lot of practice more than you. One of my friends came for a coffee this morning, so. What does she think or they think? She thought it good hug. Good hug and good coffee.

What about the scent? Because it's been a day of hugs for Harrison. He hasn't reapplied. Oh, she's giving him enough. It was for scientific purposes. Perfectly reasonable, nothing outlandish, nothing crazy. What a relief. Good.

And I've had a lot of people. Hundreds. So, you know. Oh, there you go. Close to 1,000. Come down to Rolla Kinjolato, and we caught up with a listener earlier today, who's such a big supporter of Ginger's and Hagao Ginga Day that she had this to say. Do you support Haggau Ginga Day?

Perhaps flipping Lutely, who wouldn't? She's saying, you're a ginger yourself. Yes. And you're so pro-Ginger. Yeah, we did an ultimate, there was an ultimate Brisbane tournament, and we did a Ginga team. All together, Ross on Y in the UK a few years ago now. And we got all the Gingers together who made it into the top ten in the tournament.

It was awesome. How many players is that? The next team? You have seven aside on pitch, but it's rolling subs. So I think we had about 15 in the team. All gingers. All gingers. Of all different shapes and varieties of ginger.

That's amazing. Any strawberry blondes? Oh, we had strawberry blondes. We did allow them in. Okay. Off the bench, though, aye. Oh, no, no, no. They still burn like the rest of us.

Wow, that's so cool. It's amazing. Someone needs to make a sports documentary about this team. I love them. And Ultimate Frisbee, what a niche sport. Oh, man, I hope they were sponsored by a sunscreen company because that would have been running around in the sun like that. Dangerous.

Yeah, Navia should have really jumped on board. Exactly. Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. Also, every room we've been today, we're giving away different free things. Like free gelada right now if you come to Frolican. We're giving away coffees earlier, donuts, fantas. How have you found today? Harrison?

Have I found today? How you found today? I was really nervous for today. Yeah, you were. I was genuinely, I was talking to you guys last night, I was very nervous about today. It's been one of my favourite days ever. What were you nervous about? I don't know.

Smelling? I was nervous about people smelling or me smelling or I was nervous about no one hugging me. Oh. Which has been the complete opposite. Well, we can confirm. We won't give you a live telly just right now, but we have had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people hugging Harrison today. Like Sean just said, the 1,000th hugger gets $1,000. But throughout hugging, I mean,

And we were worried, Sean and I, Harrison, not going to lie, that you're hugging maybe wasn't up to scratch? Really? Yeah. Honestly, it was a concern. It was a concern and we were like, you know what? We didn't say it to your face because you were nervous, but we've talked about it relentlessly behind your back.

So not to the face, but have you back to have me. I appreciate you guys. But listen to this, because I asked a few people this morning while you were hugging people who had just hugged you how you went. And honestly, Harrison, I think you're going to be proud of yourself. Listen to this. I found it was quite a warm hug. It was pleasant.

It could have had more, but it could have had less, so I'm okay with that. Yeah, it was a good morning hug, I would say. Yeah, I'm just all set for work now. He's a great hugger. Nice and tight. Big, big hug. Jody! It was wonderful.

What was wonderful about it? It was a ginger. And so you hugged Harrison for a little longer than maybe standard, you know, length of hug. It looks like he needed. I know it's cold day, so he's out there. Yeah, he's cold. So I just give him more love. There you go.

Sounds like good form. I always said you needed to be a bit handsier, but you sound like you're nailing it. No, it was a very positive day. Everyone was very positive and happy, so it's nice to hear some positive feedback. Well, right now, we are in the CBD of Christchurch at an ice cream shop. A gelato shot, rollic in gelato. Yeah, exactly, giving away free Mandarin sorbet. Oh, because it's orange.

And we have Kayla and Georgia here who literally, you just hug, Tarison. Let's hear a live kind of feedback report. It was a great hug. Best hug up had all afternoon. Oh my gosh. So excellent. And actually I was working from home today, but Georgia said she had such a good hug this morning

that I had to come into the office to get a hug from Harrison this afternoon. Georgia, you came back for two hugs today? I did indeed. Wow. That's amazing. So needy, Georgia. Like so sad, but amazing. So keep on coming down.

We're going to be here all the way until 6pm. And the 1,000 hugger will win $1,000. If you're not in Autotahee Christchurch, don't worry, we've got plenty of other goodness to give you. Jetstar vouchers. We've got Peterborough. We've got movie tickets. We've got a whole bunch going on. But next, Sean. The five-star fact. Actually, do you guys want to hang around? We always need a judge for the five-star fact. If you're in a rush, that's all good. But we do need a judge for our five-star fact next. Basically, I provide a fact that I think's worthy of five stars. There's quite a harsh judging criteria.

We'll run you through it. But the five-star fact, come in. up next. Your avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. Hit the judge. Hit the John's five-star fact. Woo! He's never been able to achieve this before. You don't have to say it like that.

Well, you haven't, Sean? That's a fact. That's a five-star fact. But today, we're in Christchurch. It's good vibes. We're feeling the love. We're spreading the hugs around. So maybe today's a different story.

Now, we are your judging committee. Myself. My name's Steph. You? Giot up, Harrison. And we have some honourable. Honorary judges joining us today, some local Cantabrians. We've got Georgia.

Kiyohra. We just spoke to before. And Kayla. Kaila. And guys, I've just given you a little debrief off the year. But for everyone else listening, we're going to take our judging job very seriously. We're looking for a number of things, including a good performed fact. We're looking for a fact that's original.

And we're looking for a fact that's shareable. A fact so good you can't wait to tell everybody about it. A few other things like good rhythm and good mana. Yeah. But a key of kaha in there, that's a thing as well. Some shock factor. A big thing for us, since you guys knew, judge chemistry. So we all need a, you know, how we perform together, positively, negatively, whatever it is.

Yeah, it's a key part in the judging criteria. No wallchat, no numbers, no meltdowns, because he mounts down sometimes. I had a meltdown once had a meltdown. It's terrible. And there's so many more about, yeah, I can't think of the amount. What about topicality? Is that important for a fact? Oh, it'll be considered.

It'll be considered. And no backchette. It's another one too. Huge one. Huge one. Okay, Sean. Good luck, mate. Today's fact is about you, my friend Harrison, about gingers.

For Haga Ginga Day, 2025, did you know that redheads never go grey? It fades to blonde and then to white, but never will it go grey and never will it go to that salt and pepper stage? So ginger's age like a fine wine or a orange rosé, if you will. Oh, he even did a little bow then. Wow, good performance. Guest judges, what did you guys think? Georgia? Well, I had never heard that before, and I have a lot of red-headed family members.

So now I'm mentally picturing, actually, have I seen a grey hair amongst them? A good originality. You could share it with your family. I will. Oh, okay. Kayla? Wow, that was a fresh fact for me as well. I'd never heard that one.

Yeah, questioning the validity. but it's valid. Yeah, we'll have to see. Steph? Look, I loved it. I think it's topical. I think it's relatable to a lot of people listening right now who are redheads.

We're celebrating you today. And the fact that you feel seen right now, I think that should be taken into consideration. 100%. There's one thing I didn't love about it. Go on. There was not much eye contact. Which we forgot to mention John.

is a huge part of the judge. There are four of you. I tried to split my eye contact. Can I just say... You know how needy I am? I heard this fact for the first time probably a couple months ago. And I was shocked. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. And then there was gingers today with white hair.

And they're like, I used to be ginger, you'll grow white. I was like, I just learned this. Yes. And then you've just brought this forward. It's an amazing fact, but I've just heard it before. Not original for you. So, mate, I'm sorry, but I'll give it a... I'll give it a four and a half.

Georgia? I think a solid four. Solid four. Yeah, four it is. Oh, Sean, it was a high score, but no overall five stars today. Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. And $1,000 cash to be given away soon, live from Rollic and Jolato in Christchurch for Hug Our Gingaday.

The Edge, Hugout Ginga Day. We're trying to get Harrison a thousand hugs, thousandth person wins $1,000. But while we are here, every person who hugs Harrison will win a exclusive Mandarin gelato, tastes delicious. So good. Steph, I think you like it a bit much there? It was honestly one of the greatest things I've ever put in my mouth. No, that's an insult.

Yeah, swing past that one partner. But Harrison, we've got a challenge for you right now. You know how when you go into an ice cream shop? Yes. And you're waiting there looking at all the options and it's overwhelming. Yeah. And you go, can I try that one? And they go, yep.

And then you go, can I try that one? And they go, yep. And then you go, oh, I can't try anymore because that's already, I've already pushed it. Yeah. how far we can push it. Guy, can't just remind you. That story I told a few weeks back at the United Place in Auckland, I tried

to, didn't want to get anything, snuck out, the lady chased me out. Remember this? Yeah, but that won't happen here because the flavours are looking good, like, real good, real good, and we've already tasted the Mandarin, and you know how much I love that. So, your mission,

Harrison, sorry, Sean. Cheers, Steph. Sorry. Don't worry about it, Sharon. Oh, cheers, Nick. Thanks, Nixon. is to try as many tests as possible without them being like, oi, can you stop eating all of our food? Okay, so we're right up to the counter now.

They can't hear us, so this is fantastic. Okay, so go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. So I was asking. You're just asking for as many test as possible. And just name all the flavors. Just be like, oh, yummy, and then go on to the next one. Hey guys. Hey, guys.

Can't please have a taste of moon beam ice cream? Bent some boots on. Okay, they said coming right up. Okay, and now the little test is coming on the cute little ice cream. That's good. Thank you. Just going to narrate here. Okay, and you're telling...

Of course it's really good. And now it's on to the next one, though. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Excuse me. Can I please have a taste of the moon beam ice cream? Yes, I asked for that one. Yeah. It's the same one you just have.

Different flavor, different flavor. No, I like the strategy. I love the strategy. I love the strategy. I like the moon beam ice cream. Wait, how many of the same flavor can you ask for? No. Keep asking for the moon, babe.

Oh, God. Okay. You can also speak. I see a mint chocolate chip over there. Wait. Go for one, man. Hey, mate. Can I please get a dip of the moonbeam ice cream please?

Moon beam ice cream please, yeah. So just to taste. Just a taste. Just a taste. Just a taste. Just a taste. Just a taste. Just a taste.

Just to taste it to decide if you want to buy it. Thank you. Okay. You don't want to try any other flavor though. That's three of the same one. I feel like we might get kicked out. Can I please have a bonofi? Sorry.

No, the one next to Bonofi. The moon beam ice cream, please. Sorry. Wait, it must be really good. Men still watching this from the other side of the tomato shop. I don't think they have any idea what I'm doing. He's smiling and handing him a fourth one. Let's ask.

Can we ask? Hi, has this ever happened to you before at Roller? Someone asking for testers of the same flavour over and over? Not quite the same flavour, but maybe a mix of flavours. What's the most amount of mixed of flavours? What would it be? Maybe four before we've sort of... Sorry to interrupt, mate.

Can I try the moon beam? Sure. Can I try the moon beam, please? And my mate here wants one more moon beam. Okay, we're going to get back to the hug. Guys, I'm currently outside. I've actually ditched. You guys just, you sort it out.

He's running away. He's running away. Bravo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. But on the show, every day, Harrison does a segment called Yes No Maybe. Yes No Maybe. Now, if you haven't caught this before, is where Harrison just picks a topic, throws out a few things to Steph and I. A bit of a sounding war for social situations.

Hard hour, because I need a bit of hat with that. Guys, get a little bit anxious. Today's Yes No Maybe is ways to greet people. because a lot of people are greeted me today a lot of people to hug me and I've just kind of stood there received all these hugs but I've seen some interesting ways

of people greeting me so I might take some of these ways and I'm just going to pitch them to you to see if I should start doing it to people yeah sure good okay shouting from the distance or something like that rang out

did someone say that to you today yeah how did you feel? Yeah like from far away Is that okay or no that's all right but if you far away it was his father-in-law You're yelling out of hair colour If I just say,

put that to you. No, I don't like that. You don't like that? No, it's not calling out a hair colour. It's not that personable, isn't it? So it's like, I want someone to be like, Steph, or if I'm in danger, stop! True.

What about, oh, girl? Yeah, no, I hate that. Oh, girl? No. Okay, put those maybe. Running with your arms open. A lot of people run up to me with their arms open. It's been quite cute.

It's cute slash aggressive? I worry that they're about to trip up. That's why I, no, but it feels I'm going to be tackled. Yeah, true. Mix messages. So if I did that to people, would that scare you guys if I ran out with my arms open? A fully grown six foot three man running at you with his arms open is different to it. Six foot? Is that how's all you go?

Six foot, but thanks, Lee. Oh my goodness. Wow. Wait, six three on Tinder, am I right? So I put it as a yes thing because that sounds cool. One that kind of ties into that sprinting up to someone and stopping one in front of their face. So running as fast as you can than just stopping just before they hit you, that's happened a few times. That would give you a fright. Yeah, but do you like the fright?

Oh, you're a bit excited. by the fright. No, you don't like that fright. Yeah, I don't think so. Okay, maybe. Lasso pull me in to people, you know, do a physical, invisible lasso and then pull someone in and see if they jump over to you. Love that on the D floor.

Maybe don't love that just walking down a footpath. I don't know. It just seems like you need some drinks for, to appreciate the lasso. Yeah. I'm going to say yes, because it feels very me. Two more, walking up to me on your hands and knees. Wait, who happened a few times today? That does not happen today.

Yes, I think... Who crawled up to you? I think one was a lab And the other was a poodle. Oh, those are dogs. And one was a guy called Brian. I do remember Brian. I do remember Brian.

Yeah, so yes, do that? Sure. Were you into it? Yeah. Okay, then yes. Then yes. Last one, slap on the bum. Again, I think it needs to be consensual.

If you're into it, then give them the wink. And that... A slap into the bum into a... Hello. Signals are all good. What a bit of kind. Hello, like a kind, gentle hello after that. Does that make it okay?

All right, it's a little slap. What's your name? No. Okay. No. I'm going to put that down as a yes. That implies you don't know them and that is bad, Sean. What is your name?

What? You can't. You need to know someone before you slap them on the bottom. I've told you this, Sean. Well, Harrison, we're both learning today. Far out, guys. Thanks, guys. Thank God I'm here.

I'm more confident with greeting people now. Right, get on down. Rollic and Gillado, casual street in Christchurch. If you're not in Christchurch, we have another beautiful flight voucher from Jet Starter giveaway very soon on the text machine. In fact, text now 3343. Who's celebrating Hug Our Ganga Day virtually right now? Let us know if you're loving it and we could be hooking you up.

But a thousand dollars for the 1,000th hugger. We're so close, you guys. If you're in Christchurch, Roller congelato on Casual Street, get here now. Your avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. The Edge Hug Out Ginga Day. The thousandth person to hug our ginger, Harrison will win a thousand dollars.

Will I? Sorry Harrison. It's important that I say you will not want a thousand dollars. Why are we doing this? The person will win a thousand dollars. Someone else win it? Yeah, they were. You guys should have made that way clearer for me.

I thought I won a thousand dollars a hug a thousand people. Harrison, you get to meet a thousand new friends. That has been pretty good. It's been amazing. We've been in Autu Tahi Christch all day doing this. And guys, we have been counting. Has anyone ever had done a ferry or some kind of place

where you're counted with a clicker machine? You mean the boat? Yeah, a ferry is a boat, Harrison. Well, it's a mythical creature, but yes. Oh, okay, no. F, E, R-R-W, Ferry. Cool. Okay, so we've had one of those,

and we haven't been across how many clicks are up to, how many hugs you've had, Harrison. That's been up to our promo guy, Mitch. And Mitch has given us the word that we are so close to that 1,000th hug. Someone in the line right now at Rollerkin, Jolado, on Casual Street here in Christchurch is about to win $1,000 be that close.

I make some noise. To win a thousand bucks by just hugging Harrison Al-Ginger. So how do you want to do it? Are we just going to go down the line? Harrison just hugs everyone. We're going to go down the line. You'll get a voucher. Ask your name and then hug and then we'll see from Mitch

if it's a yay or nay. Basically. Oh my God. He's got the click on his back pocket. Do you know what we're up to in your head? Okay, nice what we're up to in his head. Good luck everybody. Name?

Ashton. Ashton. Ashton? No, it looks like a nay. No. Krista. Krista. That's a big hug, Krista.

She's got a click. Krista, no, sorry. It is not used. Enjoy some free ice cream. Anna? Anna. Not Anna. Sorry, Anna.

Oh my God, this is so tense. Nicole. Is it Nicole? Going for the hug. Doing a tight squeeze, Mitch. It's not the goal. Nicole's not a lot of thousands. What's your name?

Micah. Micah. Mika. Is it Micah? Mika. Imagine if it's Micah, the six-year-old boy won a thousand bucks. It'd be amazing. Amazing.

What's your name? Jeff. Is Jeffrey? It's not Jeffrey. I've got a comical earhorn here ready. Amanda. Is it Amanda? It's not Amanda.

What's your name? Bree. Bree? Bree's going in for the hug, big squeeze. Is Bree? Is it Bree? Well. Being a ginger.

That's amazing. What are you going to do with the thousand bucks? She doesn't care. She's going for another hug. You can't win another thousand. It was a one opportunity. You're being greedy. You're being greedy.

I don't know. I'm actually, I don't know, I'm shocked. Might buy a new pair of shoes. Yes, girl. Yes. Oh, congratulations. There go, Harrison. A thousand hugs. We've given away $1,000 to our 1,000th hug of Brie.

Congratulations, massive. Is that your mum over there? Yeah. Oh, hi, mum. How much money do you want? Hello? No, it's all for her. She's a beautiful girl.

She deserves. Oh, amazing. Oh, well, congrats, Bree. This has been so fun. This is huge. We're still here and still giving away free gelato at Rollican in Christchurch. Your Arvo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison.

We are live from Christchurch. From Rollican gelato specifically on Cashel Street for Hug our Ganga Day. Harrison put his body on the line today. A thousand hugs he has had. And a thousand hugs happened about five minutes ago when listener pal Brie won a thousand dollars. Did you forget her name, Sean? I didn't, yeah.

Are you okay? What are you looking at? I was like, what are the chances that we, you know what? This is definitely a thought. It doesn't matter. Here's the audio of someone winning. Is Bree our winner? Is it Bree?

It's Brie! Congratulations! Thank you so much. Yeah, the 1000th hugger. Was there a dog in the background going up to the chew toy? That was the squeaker toy they used here at Rollerkin for their scooping challenge. Oh. Which we're going to do later on the show, which I'm excited.

about Harrison that involves you trying to scoop as many ice creams in 30 seconds as possible. So brace yourself. But yeah, Bree, she won $1,000 for being our 1,000 to hug a Harrison. You've done an incredible, but how we're all delirious. An incredible job today. For context, sorry, we flew around a crisis last night. We've been up since 6 a.m. Hugging people non-stop.

Non-stop. We didn't see any of this. This is literally a thousand homes. We have to hug more people since Bree won. We did not stop. We did not stop. We're going to be doing the show. It's been the least prepared radio show of ever.

done in my entire life. All the way through until 7pm, but other people are about to entertain you because we have a challenge where we are each going to go and find someone a local. I can't say Brian here in Otutahi, and the person that can find someone that has the best yarn wins. It needs to be a story that can be told quickly, concisely, but the best entertainment we've ever heard. A story like we've never heard before.

So our job, the three of us, needs to go now while the next couple of songs are playing. and find someone that can provide such a story. Winner will get a $250 jet star voucher, by the way. Oh, how good. Yeah. Which one goes? So we can all tell a yarn, but do we have the ability to scout someone who can tell a yarn? Your Arvo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison.

The Edge. For Hug our Ginger Day, 2025, Harrison had a thousand hugs. We just wrapped that up. $1,000 was given away. But right now, since we've been travelling the country a lot this year, we thought we'd do a new game in every town that we've been. we go to where we try and have a competition between the three of us because we can all tell a good yarn. You'd know that if you listen to the show. We're good storytellers.

We're kind of crazy things happen to it. Sorry, we're the best storytellers in the country. We're very tired. It's sounding arrogant, but it's true. How good are we at spotting other good storytellers? How good are we at spotting someone who can spin a yarn? So we've had a few songs to go and recruit some local cantabrians to share an epic yarn from their lives. Thank Graham Norton Red Shears style. Exactly. And I'd like to go first. You're sure you want to go first?

Yeah. Okay. I'd like you all to meet Gertrude, who have just met here at Rollerkin Gelado in Christchurch. Hi, Gertrude. So Gertrude, tell us about your epic story from your life. Thanks for us. One time I was walking down the street.

Okay, guys, I couldn't find anybody. Time-wise, you're just doing your own impression, so that we're going to have to move on, you're disqualified. You're fair, sorry. Steph sat on the couch until like two. minutes before we had to do it and she goes, have you guys found people? Oh, I'll go find someone and then got rejected twice. Five times. I'm so sad. Anyway, okay, so Josh is here with you Harrison. What's the story? I've got Josh. Josh, what's your story, bro? So a couple years ago, I was at 21st.

Just your average night and I thought it would be funny to smash her champagne flute in my mate's head as a joke, obviously. And then the kicker is, he threw me under the bus and dove me into the cops. So I spent the night in the cells. And then he felt bad so he bailed me out in the morning. But that's about that. So you assaulted your friend? No, I was consensual. But then he...

Doesn't sound it. He changed his mind about the consent. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Wow. Who was it the mate of the 21st or another guy? No, it wasn't his 21st. No, but he was, um...

Yeah, we're all good now. Like, what's that? I tell the key detail. He found a video in the morning of the consensual. smash that he had to go back and show the cops because... Wow! That's Josh's partner there, dobbing in on the story. Wow.

Okay, so it's Josh representing Harrison for the yarn. Good job, Josh. As we said, a $250 jet star flight voucher up for grabs for the winner. And my story representative this evening is Zoe. Take it away, Zoe. All right, now picture this. Okay, last year I'm at the university halls. I've got this crush, right?

Okay. The way I thought that I could get through to my crush, We were up the mountain at Mount Hutt, skiing beautiful Power Day. All I had to do, I've done everything right, okay? Wipped out all the techniques, all the stees looking good. Now we're driving down Mount Hutt. I'm driving my beautiful, big, sexy 2005 Toyota Prado, okay? It's looking good for me.

Crush is in the back seat. Okay, we get about halfway down. I've down to Red Bull before I get in so that I can be awake on the drive. Very important. Drive safely, everybody. Have you had one now? Anyway, suddenly I get down to the bottom of the mountain. I've got to pee.

Look, I'm playing at nonchalant. I don't want to be embarrassing and have to pee outside next to the car. So I'm like, okay, I'm gassing it. We're gassing it back to the University Hall. I get all the way, all the way to the street that the University Halls are on, right? I see a Z. I'm like, all right, this is my chance, this is my chance. I'm busting.

I'm busting. We pull into the Zed. I thought I had it. Man, I jumped out the door. Car still rolling. I'm running towards the petrol station, pissing my pants as I go. My crush in the passenger seat has to yank the bloody, the handbrake as I'm running, pissed streaming down my leg. But listen, most embarrassing day in my life, I'm in the bathroom crying, calling my friends telling them what's happened.

But look, it ends on a good note. We've been dating for eight months. All I'm saying is, ladies and gentlemen, if you've found a good one, they won't look past it. Piss yourself, you've got them for life. Wow, Zoe. Zoe. What a young. to go to an impartial judge right now.

What's your name? Malika. You heard both of the stories. Who deserves the Jet Star Flight Boucher? Zoe. Oh, great play, John. Sorry, Gertrude. Sorry, this time.

Oh, it was okay. Sorry, Josh. Great story, mate. Well done. I'm going to hook you up with a $250 Jet Stuff flight voucher. Epic stuff. Maybe you would buy so much. Josh and his girlfriend can't.

So they're home empty-handed. A couple of donuts, maybe. Is that all good, guys? Yeah, it's all right. Okay. Sorry, guys. Sean, Stephan Harrison Harrison. with Sean, Steph and Harrison.

The Edge. And we are live from Rollic and Jolato here in Christch for Hug Our Ganga Day. Delicious ice cream, Steph. Oie, it looks so legit. I mean, we've been stuff in our faces all night with the Mandarin sobae, which has been so delightful. But these flavors look so, oh, I also try. Harrison, what was, Harrison, Harrison, what was the flavor of the yogurt?

One that you gave me? Top beer. Yogi beer. Yeah. And it was top. It was delicious. Oh, yeah, it was delicious. So if you didn't know, Harrison has done a lot of careers in his time.

What have you done, bro? I worked at a mechanic, a doctor, a veterinarian. But another thing I used to do was actually gelato scooping back in Hawks Bay. He's been talking all day about, oh, God, I could scoop a faster ice cream than these people. He's been really, really talking up his ice cream scooping game. Yeah, I dropped out of school, primary school, at age of six, went to seven doing gelatislaping, so yeah. So we're, okay, we're going to do the Rollican gelato scooping.

scoop off. You Harrison are going to be versing Verity that has four years experience scooping. Four years, yeah. So we're going to set a 30 second timer and let's see Harrison versus Verity who can scoop the most gelato. Who's your money on? I'm putting heavy favourites on Verity. He's been known to spin a yarn. It's not the same show that's a bit offensive. You just met Verity to say? Yeah. Yeah.

How much experience did you say you had again? One, and that's all you need. One experience. Four years. Well, okay. All right, guys, this is going to be your buzzer. She dropped it here. That's going to be your buzzer, and you'll have 30 seconds when you hear that.

Are you ready? All right, count them down in three. Oh, I'm sure. Sorry. They're off. They're off. They're scooping. Verit is up to number one.

Harrison's number one. Okay. Harrison's first scoop fell off the cone. Okay. They're both up to number two. Pretty neck and neck, actually, at the moment. Verotee's number three. No, okay, Verotee is up to number four.

Harrison is not nailing the scoop. Now, you work here at Rollerkin. How would you describe Harrison's ability? Well, first study, he's grabbed the wrong flavour. He's meant to be doing the orange flavour. He's scooping chocolate, Harrison. We don't give a joke. Oh, he's mixed the chocolate into the mango.

He's cross-contaminated three flavors. Contamination. Sorry, Harrison. Regardless of how many of scoop, this is disqualifiable. You also dropped your food. a scoop on the floor. Nobody prefers we met to go over the orange one, so I did about six chocolates.

We've been giving away Mandarin all day. It's a Ginga Day. Can you make it a bit clearer? Oh my God. It's not even worth going to the scorecard. Veredi destroyed him. Congratulations. The goat of ice cream scooping.

Your avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. The Edge. Hug out Gingaday. And we have been. here, people have been hugging Harrison all day long in Otisthi, Christchurch, and we just had our 1,000th hugger. Her name is Bree.

If you missed the moment before, she was waiting in line here at Roller Canceladro on Cashel Street, and she was the 1,000th person. It was super exciting, and she told us off there that she's going to put that towards a trip with her mom to go to Bali, which is going to be beautiful, making great memories as a family, so I think that's so, so cool. Now, earlier today, Harrison, you might not have heard that. this audio that we're about to play for you, but do you remember a person that you hugged? I mean, there's literally been a thousand of them, but by the name of Tanya?

The lady who kissed me heaps? Ah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I remember her. What you like? Okay, so basically, Harrison's been hugging everybody today, and a beautiful lady by the name of Tanya loved hugging you, Harrison. You actually said she was the best hugger of the day, and she said this. Tanya, what a hugger.

My God, Harrison, was that the best hug of the day? It was the best hug of the day, honestly. Tanya. She sneaked a kiss in there. Oh, yeah. You're going to give her. Oh, she's going for me. Beautiful, Tanya.

Hey, thanks so much for coming down today. My first question is, will you be pressing charges? No, she was very lovely. So lovely. So, you know, she was. And that's something I want to take away today. Crush Church, thank you for not being creeps. Thank you for not making me feeling uncomfortable.

Everyone was very lovely. Very consensual. I honestly, I'd do a thousand more. I've never seen so many smiles. I've realised this about hugging today. You can't hug someone grumpy. You can't hug someone with like a neutral face. You have to smile.

And literally to see so many people joyful and smiling with us today, it's just been so heartwarming, isn't it? It's been nice. Because they need it, but you can't force anyone. It needs to all be consensual. So the people who do it want to do it. Yeah. You know, so it's really cool.

A thousand hugs. Oh my God. Are you exhausted? The crazy thing. My legs are sore. I think just from standing up, bending over, going back and feeling like my legs are so sore from today. I'm pretty tired. Sean will give you a rub.

No. No, please I encourage him. I'm sorry. Don't do me like that. I'm sorry. I've offered you a deep tissue massage. You didn't take it and it's okay. See, there we go.

Your avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. It's that time of the day. The time to get your news. Brought to you by... go to the movies and then the person that you hand your ticket to goes, hey, enjoy the movie and you go, you go, damn, they're not even seeing a movie. Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! And presented by...

Tanya, the woman who hugged Harrison today and then kissed him on the mouth. No, it wasn't a mouth kiss. It was side of the mouth. But it was a very close call. It was too much. It's the Edge Top Three. The Top Three Today, Topical News Story, the best spelling family in the world. The Run Harwers turns out their children, all three of them, been in the US spelling be final eight years in a row as of this year. Family.

F-A-M-I-L-Y, family. It must be genetic, A. Three children from a family. Genetic. G-E-N-E-T-I-C. Genetic. Free, F-R-E-E-E. I feel like I don't want to say other words now.

Why are you saying free? Because I said that. Free in the family. Anyway, this family are so good at spelling. And I have the top three hardest words to spell that we use on a daily. Three, T-R-E-E. D-O-P, top Top three, hardest words to spell

on a day-to-day basis that we always use. Ah, as an R-Data basis. A. Damn it. Got it wrong. Number one, rhythm. R-H-S-M. R-H-Y-T-M.

Wrong, bonguey-T. Oh, yeah, it's such as no word to spell. Yeah, it's got two H's. And two. No, because I always do this for Hangman. R-H-Y-T-H-M-M. Yes. That's a necessarily hard A.

No, it's a good one. To me, it sounds like it should be spelled R-I-T-H-M. Yeah. Oasis, O-A-S-I-S. What? Just a hard word. Depadol. D-A-I-F-F-I-T-O-L.

I regret doing this as the top three concept. Okay, number two, on the hardest words that you have to spell on a day-to-day basis. V-A-C-U-U-U-U-M. Wrong. Close. What was it with Harrison Triget? V-A-C-U-M. Wrong.

V-A-C-U-M. Wrong. V-A-C-U-M. V-A-C-U-M. No, you're both wrong. Well, you're a M. 1-C-2-U's. Oh, I said that I feel like.

Cheeky. And the third, see, this is good that you guys all struggle with these because I don't turn. The third hardest to spell word that we use on a daily basis, receive? R-E, C-I-E-V-E. Wow. That I-E, that'll mess you up. It'll get you. Yeah, because they say I before E, except enough to C, but then in that case, it is.

after see. Dumbroll. Confusing stuff. Anyway, that was the edge top three. We're live from Christchurch. Sean Stephen Harrison. Rover. Music, radio, podcasts.