The Edge Breakfast - FULL SHOW Dans weak bladder

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

This podcast description was blatantly written by AI...Join Clint Meg and Dan with Ash London in this lively episode where they kick off with humorous discussions about quirky OnlyFans content. They also dive into some listener shout-outs, including a heartwarming birthday surprise for an 8-year-old listener. The team debates the oddities of song lyrics, the expense of groceries, and even touch on the economics of parking fines. Special guest economist Brad Olson offers insights into why food is getting so pricey. Later, they discuss the best toasted sandwiches in New Zealand and share funny and bizarre labor stories. An unforgettable interview with Alex Warren wraps up the show, featuring a prank and some candid moments.00:00 Start of the show!01:11 Birthday Shoutouts 04:56 Parking Fines and Life Hacks09:56 Brad Olsen on Grocery Prices and Economic Insights13:20 Dans Urine Sample Mishaps19:47 The Biggest Loser Controversy25:30 Alex Warren fan brings ashes to his concert33:39 Dan's Google History 38:03 Lewis Capaldi's Awkward Moment with Calvin Harris39:47 Celebrity Rejections: Who Left You on Read?40:13 Embarrassing Celebrity DMs41:03 Left on Read by Celebrities44:59 Easy Money Game: Can You Win $10,000?47:30 The Best Toasted Sandwich in New Zealand53:14 Interview with Alex Warren!58:41 Hilarious Birthing Stories01:11:07 Michelle Williams' New Baby and Surrogacy Discussion01:16:58 Conclusion and Farewell

This is a podcast from Rover. Come for the chat, stay for the trauma bonding. This is Clint McGinn-Dand-Dan's only fans. Podcast, that is. If you're not slightly aroused or mildly offended. Are you even listening? It's The Edge Breakfast. Clip me and Dan with Ash London.

Kaila, good morning, good morning. Wednesday, welcome to the show. We appreciate you joining us nice and early. First, your first choice. Happy hump day to you. My hump, my hump, my hump. Could get a little bit of that going for the old 6am throwback? We could, yeah.

I don't like that song though. I've always wondered. It's a weird thing to call you lady bits your humps. Isn't it really? My lumps. Yeah, humps, I think, is more ass though, isn't it? And lumps are boobies. There's nothing sexy about a lump.

Lump sort of feels like some sort of ingrown hair that's gotten infected and it's got really raised and red. Go to the doctor. Go to the doctor. Yeah, absolutely. Don't flaunt it in a song, that's for sure. No. We've got a mammogram, baby. Maybe it is an ad for mammograms.

It should be. That would be so funny if, like, the people did that. People being the, like, the Breast Cancer Awareness Association of Alteroa. Yeah. Then maybe they're needing some ideas. The Clint Meg and Dan podcast. First call of the day. First call on the day.

We got a message yesterday, didn't we, guys? Yeah. From, is it Tiffany? We'll just call her the birthday girl's mother. Yeah, the birthday girl's mother. Yeah, the birthday girl today. Paisley is turning 8. Oh, I remember my 8th birthday.

Yeah, say hello. Happy birthday, Paisley. Thank you. Thank you. Eight years old, babe. Have you got your birthday present yet? Yes. What did you get?

How about me? A purse. I mean, Danny got me a bracelet, and, uh... $100.00? $100, that is a... And Nana got me, um, watch and that's a watch. Oh, my goodness me, that is like... That's like $1,000 adult dollars when you get like $100 kid dollars.

Well, happy birthday, Paisley. I hope you have a fantastic day today. Are you off to school right now? No, we're getting off to that dog. Oh, best birthday ever! Wow! How good. Oh, yum, I want macas too.

That's so awesome, Paisley. You have got a wonderful mum who obviously loves you so much and wants to make the day special for you so much so that she reached out to us and said, can you guys call Paisley? We said, of course we can because you were such a special girl. So you have a wonderful day and enjoy your Macas and we'll speak to you for your 9th birthday next year. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. We're also going to send you Pasea voucher so you can go spend and store at Z, buy whatever you want.

Hot chocolate. Yeah. Double shot latte. Whatever you want at your birthday, okay. She has eight years old now. She can have double shot lattes. You're welcome, baby. I actually think I had my first coffee when I was eight, and it changed my life.

I had a coffee a day ever since. Yeah. Yeah, if you're hungry, you can head to Zed and grab a combo for only nine bucks, pie and a drink. A shout out to Atticus. He's turning five today. She's got a text through. She has a birthday with young Paisley. Yeah, good on you guys.

Five to eight-year-olds are, I think, are our core demographic. Yeah, core demo. These five and eight-year-olds that are up at like quarter past six on the road already. They're going to have, like, serious lives, eh, when they're adults?

When are they like, win the morning, win the day? Well, Atticus didn't text in. His dad texted in. So Atticus might still be asleep. Yeah. If Atticus had a phone at five, there's something wrong with that parenting. Yeah, he's...

He's going to have some issues and dopamine issues. So happy birthday to everybody who's got a birthday today, including Demi Lovato. Yeah. Oh, yes, we're sharing with Demi. All right, hey, coming up, we will give you a chance to score yourself $10,000 at 7. I don't know, it's just me, or it feels like we're getting closer. We had an 8 out of 10 yesterday at 7 and at 8 o'clock. Yeah.

We're just going to pick up the pace. Yeah, absolutely. We're getting there. Come on, this week. Good luck. Coming up also, how you can. I guess the alternatives that we have to start doing to be able to let our money go a little further

when it comes to go into the supermarket. Yeah, life's getting really expensive. We're feeling the pinch. We know you guys are feeling the pinch too. So we kind of want to get to the bottom of it. I want to figure out some solutions, not just problems, guys, some solutions. And it's there light at the end of the tunnel

because we keep getting told that, you know, the recession's coming to an end soon. Is it, though? Interest rates are going to go down. Are they, though? Well, economist Brad Olson will tell us in 20. Flint, Megan Dan. Stinky Boo.

What do you think the average New Zealand pays on parking per year? Place your bets. Oh, I know the answer. I was going to just ruin your segment. No, well, I think it's... Some people would pay more than this figure, and I think a lot of people, like you said before,

Asht, that live in, like, Parmy or, you know, smaller places around New Zealand would pay much less. So the average is $250 a year, on average. I think that's pretty good. 20 bucks a month? I guess, yeah, I guess it is, but that was more than I expected it to be.

to be here. As an Aucklander. Yeah. No, jeez, I thought it would be way higher, but then you've got to factor into people who aren't paying anything, I'm supposed, to bring the average town. That's the thing. You're either paying for parking or you're not. You're rather a driver or you're not. So a lot, I think most people, if we just surveyed

people with cars, it'd probably be about 500 bucks a year. Yeah. I don't pay for parking, and here's my theory. Okay. I do park, and I park in paid areas. So this is not including, like, you will, car parks where you have to pay to go in under the thing.

I'm talking about side of the road parking, parking where you can drive in and park and you can maybe do the app thing, you know, or pay one of those machines. Just don't pay. And every now and then, obviously you're going to get a parking fine. And how much is the parking fine? Well, I got on the other day and I was pinged and this is the first time probably in 18 months I've been pinged and it was $70, which sounds like a lot. But when you compare it to the average amount people are paying per year, $250,

So you can get three a year and still be coming out on time. It's kind of like gambling. Sometimes you're up and then sometimes you're down. Because stuff the parking people, stuff the council. You pay enough rates. Here's my theory. You drive around, you park your car wherever you want, okay? And sometimes, yes, you will get a fine.

That's what you're gambling. But more often than not, in my experience, you don't get a fine. I'll do it if I can see my car. It's like some weird thing in my mind. But I can see my car. That's why I don't need to pay. Not because it's like I can see if there's an inspector coming. It's nothing to do with that.

It's more just this idea that I'm so close to where my car is parked. It doesn't count. It doesn't count. So there's this noodle place that I go to once a week near my house. It's like fried vermissili vegetable noodles with extra MSG. You can make a sate. I am getting side track. I am getting side track.

So I can usually snag a park out the front of the noodle joint. And if I'm there waiting for 10 minutes, minutes for my noodles and I'm four metres from my car. Don't pay. In what universe do I need to pay? Yeah. Amen. So look. Is it because of the parking warden shows up? You're like, oh, hold on. I was just grabbing some... It's nothing to... It's not even that. It's just that I don't feel like

you should pay if you're that close to your car. Yeah. Like, I'm pretty much still in the car. It's like if you drop someone off somewhere and you're waiting for them and you're in the car, you don't pay for parking, obviously. Yeah. It's the same thing. I'm so close. I'm pretty much in the car. Yeah, you're on board. And I think everybody should be on board. We need to do this as a universal thing.

You know what it needs? It needs to tell you what the fine is. Like on the parking meter, it should tell you what the finest, because then you go, 20 bucks, my roller dice on this. Then you can make an informed decision about whether you want to do it.

I once as I'm trying to get out of something, I think it was a cancel or some sort of subscription, I had to call up. And the girl, her whole job, was someone who's paid to stop people from letting go of their subscription. So she was a real chatter.

It was so ridiculous in the end that Adrian was like, give me the phone, anyway, I put her on the outspeaker because she was such a talker. And at this point she was talking about something similar about how that we have too many fines in this world and we get taxed too much. And she's like, what if we all as a country just decided to stop paying the fines?

Wow. And if no one paid them, what are they going to do? Put us all in jail? Yeah. What are they going to do? Is that the time you tried to get out of your only fan's account and they were like, no. Was that the lady from that?

I don't have a family family fans account And if I did I would keep it Because I love it And she was so persuasive She was like Ash we need you We need you doing those swap picks Someone's just texted The AT Park guys are installing cameras

To replace parking ward And so they'll get you every time I tell you who doesn't need any money Mr Wilson That guy He got into car parking many years ago And he has got a lot of money He's in Oz too

Is he? It's a multi multi country conglomerate. Well, if you're strapped at the moment, and in particular, you're feeling the pinch mostly when it comes to buying food, maybe not so much with the parking. Economist Brad Olson is going to join us and let us know

what New Zealanders are doing now, what they're having to do, to try and, I guess, fight inflation at the moment before prices start to come down. We're going to ask him why the hell is butter so expensive? Is there why? It's got to be a reason. I'll also ask him, should we stop paying for parking? Yeah, go on risk it and fines. And stop paying taxes.

Yeah. Clint, megan, Dan. Food is expensive. Oh, amen, brother. Yeah, it's getting to the point where a trip to the supermarket that used to be quite a fun thing to do. Now it becomes a lesson in quick maths. You are having to do mental gymnastics to try and figure out the cheapest way to get your shop done. I went and tried to buy stuff the cheapest way to make a lasagna for a family of four.

And I'm talking, like, skipping on stuff. A home brand. Home brand, everything, $59. It's crazy. I saw a TikTok the other day that someone was buying two things of mints and two butters, and it was $70. Yeah, of course, because butter's over $10 for a stick now. Shocking.

Crazy. Well, we have economist Brad Olson on to tell us why. Morning, Brad? Good morning. We are so excited to have you here. I'm going to get straight into it with the question of the day. Why the hell a grocery is getting so? expensive?

Well, unfortunately, part of the reason for it is that we're doing better economically overseas and we're seeing better export prices. That's why all of the good stuff, your dairy and your match is continuing to go up. We know, for example, I mean, butter seems to be the thing we're focused on at the moment. We are, yes, spending a lot, but we're still exporting even more expensive butter overseas. Global prices for that sort of product have increased because everyone is liking dairy, but There's not quite as much of it in the system. So supplies down, demands up, and those prices are going higher.

Now, of course, for New Zealand, yes, we produce quite a lot of dairy here. But if you went to a farmer and said, well, you can sell it overseas for more or you can sell it in New Zealand for cheaper, what do you think the farmer's going to do? Yeah, of course. Oh, of course. I think a lot of people have this idea that the supermarkets just put a huge premium on everything because they can. Is that, is their truth in that?

You look at the likes of meat at the moment, you are seeing much higher prices that are being charged by the meat companies through to the supermarkets. And so there's generally sort of an increase across quite a lot of the supply chain. Beef mints, beef steak, you know, lamb roasts and similar are all going up in price quite a bit. One item that hasn't increased quite as much was pork. And so we're seeing a few more people that seem to be leaning more towards pork and sort of not having other cuts of meat. Right. Okay, so people are changing their diet and what they need to try and save money. Is there a price decrease in any particular food category that you see happening before others?

I think, I mean, the area that's probably got a bit more potential, depending on how, you know, the weather goes, is when we look at the likes of fresh produce, coming into summer, I think you'll see some slightly better deals appearing because people are going to be out in the fields. They're going to be producing a whole lot more fruit and veg. that's going to start to emerge. So I do think we're seeing a lot more

of that sort of seasonal shift at the moment. Brad, thank you so much for your time. You could be a radio host, Brad. He's great. Are you related to Mary Kate Nationally? When I was at school, I sort of had to joke to a few people that I was, and they took me seriously for a couple of years.

Yeah. Fake it to you make it, eh? Good on you, Brad Olson. Infometrics.com.n. If you want some more insights like that one, appreciate your time this morning, mate. Thank you. Cool.

All right, your chance to school yourself 10 grand with easy money coming up in 20 minutes, that cute a call. And Dan's got a naughty, 640 for us next. He did something that Ash and I definitely did not. Well, it's something that a lot of people would do, and it's a cautionary tale. I guess when you're giving a urine sample, that's all I'm going to say. When was the last time you gave a urine sample, Clint? I don't even remember. Is it something you're supposed to do?

You should be doing it quite often. I do my bloods like yearly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a special, how early is it? There is a special way that women, and every woman listening right now will know what I'm talking about when I say there's a special thing we have to do when we give a urine sample that makes it very messy.

I'm not going to elaborate it on when we discuss about this. I'm not elaborating any further. Every woman knows what I'm talking about. Now I'm trying to imagine. Yeah, and it might be worse than actually what you're talking about. Clint McGinn, Dan. I thought I had a UTI. Well, I even told you, you did.

have a UTI because it wasn't burning when you were weeing. It was just a lot of weed. I didn't know. I went on Google and it was like you'd probably have an UTI. Because Dan was like, oh, I'm always busting. I've got to go to the bathroom all the time. And I said, check your blood sugar. Do they check your blood sugar with your ear and something?

Anyway, yeah, I went to the doctor. Maybe you just have a weak bladder. Like your bladder's small. Oh, that would be so on brand for Dan, wouldn't it? A weak blooder? Yeah. Yeah. No more trampoline parks. That's the thing that I think the next thing we're going to have to go to because my I went to the doctor I said that I've started

weeing more than I have traditionally like in the night time at night like I get up at night sometimes twice yeah that is a problem and that is generally a red flag yeah and so he was like let's get some tests done and then we can cancel out you know all the the bad things are cancer and all that stuff so I went along yesterday to uh the donation center where you go and I had a blood test fine happy days I didn't even feel the prick go in sometimes they're so good she was Amazing Fantastic. I once had, sorry, I wanted a lady from Africa

He'd been in Africa doing volunteer work for like years So she had to learn to do blood tests On the darkest skin where you couldn't see the veins Oh, that must be tricky So she learnt to do it from touch only And again, didn't feel the needle gone Unbelievable Anyway, continue, I'm so sorry

This lady, so then she handed me this big cup And she said we needed a urine sample from you How big was the cups, I need to imagine it So the cup itself was Dan would have needed a pretty big time Imagine like a big, I guess, yoghut, punn it. Okay. Yeah, like sort of that kind of vibe.

Square shape. Oh, so I'm like, they're giving a little one. Yes. And a little tiny thin test tube. So very, very tiny thin. And so you're given this box to essentially wee into. And then another thing to tip that, said urine into. That's clever.

And so it fills up. Now, she's like, go down there. There's a bit of a cube, but go down to the toilet. And this is the most awkward moment I think I've ever had in my life, standing outside a toilet everybody knowing that you're going in to do urine sample. So there was a lady in front of me she was doing a urine sample, there was a man

behind me eventually that I think was doing a stool. And so there was like no one's talking. You're like your cup looks bigger than my cup and what are you doing in yours? And so we're all saying and not a word said between anyone. Everybody knows what you're going to do in there.

They should just have a numbered sister. I know number seven and you're like that's me. I know multiple toilets. I can't believe there was only one in this whole facility. When people are literally coming to give samples. Amen. And so the lady in front of me goes in, she's in there for a good five minutes, so we're just standing there and then the toilet flushes.

She's in there for five minutes because of what I told you before about how women have to do something very specific when they give a urine sample that makes it very tricky. Yeah. And so I'm already stressed. I'm going in there. I'm shaking. I'm like, I don't want to be five minutes because they're knowing what I'm doing.

I know, can you just imagine him, like how I would pay to be a fly on the wall to watch Dan's awkwardness while he was in line to give the urine thumb. I had by like hood up and everything I can imagine just in case people

recognise him from Edge breakfast Oh god no no and so I went in I'm shaking so imagine this I'm stressed

I get the John Thomas out and Are your hands still shaking shaking and you know when you were nervous you can't wait so I had to really

coax myself into I'm like talking to myself I'm like come on Dan just to imagine you don't want to do that in the cup and so then I I imagine I managed to just get a little bit out, a little bit comes out, and it's in this big cup.

And then I have to tip it into the small, tiny beaker. Did they not give you like a funnel? No, no funnel. Why didn't you just stick it straight into the tiny funnel? It did cross my mind. I will say this cut out the middleman. Straight on him. And so I ended up tipping it because I was shaking.

And so I ended up tipping it because I was shaking. it went all over the floor, like half the thing, I got enough in, and I put the little cork on the top, put it in the little thing, and then there was nothing more to grating in a man's life than having to wipe up your own urine off the floor of a public toilet. Good on you for wiping it, though.

A lot of people wouldn't, they'd just leave it. Can you imagine, I mean, I'm hoping they've got cleaners twice a day in there, because if you've done it, at least 50% of the other people are spilling urine on the ground when they're trying to do the poor. Or their little beakers, like wet on the outside? You know what that is? Although, you know what you're supposed to?

is do it over the toilet. And so then it just falls into the toilet, not the floor. I was too nervous for that. And so then I had to click the door open. There's like another four people waiting outside. And so then I had to walk down and like, I'm holding my own urine and have to put it in this little thing. So look, always go and get checked, but just know that, you know,

just be quick and be accurate with your pouring. And bring a funnel. Bring a funnel. Yes. I think a funnel's a good thing to bring. We were once on a road trip with my friend Ryan and he went to. We went to McDonald's, and he went to the toilet. And he was standing at the urinal, and this kid came and stood next to him.

And there was a sound of something that happened over Ryan's shoulder. So we kind of turned over his shoulder while he was weeing and accidentally weed on the kid's foot. But the kid didn't see it. So Ryan was like, oh gosh, he zips himself up and goes. And then he watches the kid come out. And the dad was like, oh, mate, you've weed on your shoe. And he's like, and watched this kid get berated by his dad for weeing on his shoe.

And it was Ryan's wee. Wow. Thank you. you're in serious trouble doing that sort of thing. Luckily there was no children there yesterday. Yeah, it could have been worse, babe, could have been worse. Clint, Megan Dan. Lesh, go!

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theme song to The Biggest Loser, which was probably one of my favorite TV shows growing up. I think I've cried more watching Biggest Loser than any other show I've watched in my life. What was the premise of Biggest Losers, so that it would be overweight people, obese people, and they'd lose weight? They'd go to effectively, well, I guess the contestant's called like a Fat Camp. And they'd have challenges and stuff, because it was still TV and it was meant to be reality TV and entertainment. And people would, like, change their lives by losing all this weight and getting their life back. I'd like cry when they'd be on the scales and they'd lose like 12 pounds

and they'd work so hard to get what they got. And week by week was it the person that lost the least was voted off? Yeah, the bottom two that lost the least amount of weight would be up for elimination and the rest of them could decide who they were going to get rid of. That's brutal. I didn't like it for that reason and also they vomited all the time from overexation.

Yeah. Well, that's the crazy thing because this docker now goes back and interviews the contestants about what it was really like and how maybe it wasn't all as inspirational and as heartwarming as we thought watching it back. More than 10 million people watched the finale. That's crazy.

It was huge. I lost 239 pounds in six months, three weeks, and five days. I won the biggest loser. I was the world champion of weight loss. I knew everything. Apparently not. Because here I am. And it cuts to a shot of him, and he's bigger than when he went on the biggest loser.

Now, to break it down in New Zealand terms, because pounds is always a bit tricky for us, he was 195 kilos, he lost 108 kilos. You're kidding this. So he was 87 kilos in the finale. In six weeks? In six months. Six months. Yeah, so I've worked that out.

He was losing 15 kilos a month for seven months. Oh, my gosh. That can't be good for you. Almost 200 kilos, and he was 87. and now he's put it all back. And there are a lot of people that have actually talked about gaining the weight back since getting off the show.

I looked at some of the people from two, three, four seasons behind me and they had gained a lot of the weight back. We were gaining weight while we were even working out, and we knew something was up. Yeah, it ended up becoming a story on the New York Times. Biggest loser bombshell. It's all part of a new diet study first reported in the New York Times. In a recent study, a group of scientists,

followed 14 of the 16 contestants from one season of the biggest loser. They found that all but one of them gained the weight back. Four of them even reported being heavier now than at the beginning of the show. Is it because the methods they were employing to make them lose weight was so inhumane

that you cannot replicate it, I would imagine at home, but also like it's traumatic what they went through and the self-hatred and being told you're a piece of you know, like work harder, lazy, you're lazy, and it finishes and you're left with the mental scars.

Yeah, well, I think they were, a lot of them were on 800 calories a day. Oh, my gosh. Which is like nothing, I think, like Nothing. I think you're sort of sitting around two, two and a half thousand calories for like a normal person, I suppose, woman, male, female? 68 kilos. Someone my weight on like

1,400 calories a day I would lose weight. Yeah. So they'd be on 800 calories, but keep in mind, they're also training six hours a day, seven days a week. And they actually reckon that they ruined their metabolism from losing weight so unbelievably quickly that their metabolism was so done that when they went back to normal life, they put all this weight back on.

That's sad. So many them were like, I thought it was the greatest thing that was ever going to happen to me, being selected to go on the show, and it was actually the worst thing that ever happened to me in my life. Do you think they gave them any, like, counseling or therapy? Because if you are that size and you're used to being in the world at that size, and then it, everything gets changed. Like, there's a lot of kind of, like, a mental change

that happens with that as well. And a lot of people, if they're getting up to, like, two, 250 kilos, there is often, like, mental, you know, like, not issues, but, like, it's a different mindset. And things are going on internally that need to be figured out and spoken about. So to just put someone something and go,

just like, exercise and don't eat. It's not really addressing the problem. And then kick them off and go, all the best. See you later. See you. See you. Don't call us.

We'll call you. That's what the contestant was saying. There was no psychological help or no post help off the back of the show and trying to deal with this life. But we've all worked in TV. We know how cutthroat it is and that the producers behind the scenes are doing anything they can just to get the TV moment. Nothing else matters.

Well, if you want to watch it, it's a three-part mini-doc-o series on Netflix, charting number one in the country at the moment. Fit for TV. Clint Meg and Dan is Alex Warren, who we caught up with yesterday evening. Oh, my, my, you're taking me out. Lovely guy. Yeah, and that's Ed Shearing's favorite song. Imagine Ed Shearing, one of the biggest pop writers of our time,

saying that a song you wrote is his favorite song. Wow. So sick. Yeah, he's got like 20 million followers on social media. I think his wife, it's got almost just as many. And they're just cruising around New Zealand at the moment. Living their best. Yeah.

Two shows at the Auckland Town Hall as well. There were so many people in the rain yesterday again. Absolutely stopping wet. If I would have gone home in an Uber. Can't be doing this. One of the things that he was handed on stage, though, at one of those concerts in Auckland, was I'd say,

not many people have been handed this on stage. Yeah, like bras and panties. That's pretty normal. Teddy bag. Yeah, we see that a lot. Someone's ashes, though, would be rare. Yeah. Yeah, that's what happened when somebody had a sign saying, hey, my mum would love to meet you

with a Ziploc bag of ashes. And this is our Alex's response. who, keep in mind, has also lost both his mum and dad. Go straight there. In a Ziploc bag, I brought my mom with me. Let me see her. Okay, this might be disrespectful. Can I see her?

Oh my God, our parents look identical. What a dark, honey. And that's his stig. I've seen a couple of interviews with him where he will happily have a laugh about the fact that he's part of the dead parents club, which I think is, and what else he's going to do? so cute. The girl that brought the ashes along made a promise to her mum that said every time she does

something fun she'll take her with her. Isn't that so cool? I'm from working in content for so long. I just don't believe anyone. Or I just think they never had that agreement. She's just... What, do you think of some breadcrumbs or something? No, it may still be her mum. But did she, you know, like, did she

promise her? Like you slid into Taylor's DMs and lied about your wife being in hospital. True. People do crazy things when it comes to wanting a moment with someone they love. You're right, Ash. We've all been there. No, just you and maybe this girl. Yeah, and I'm sure she's not lying. I'm just saying it's my initial response, which is so bad. I'm so jaded.

People do lots of weird things with ashes, though. Like, my grandma recently died and she's been cremated, and we're still debating as a family what we do with the ashes. Did she not have, because some people will have a request going, when I die, I want to be scattered or put here. No, she didn't. She didn't have a request. So I don't even think she, she wanted to be

cremated, but that's as far. as it went. Me too. Where would you guys what, what would you want done with your ashes after you passed?

I'd be blown out of like a cannon or cannon or something like poof. A bit of fun. Just out, you know. But somewhere cool. Yeah.

Yeah. I want to be scattered across Kuiui Lakes. Beautiful. Yeah, we've been going there since we were like kids and my parents

have been going there since they were kids. And I'm going to cry. Yeah, and it's like it's like about three hours north of Auckland about 30 minutes

from where a lot of my family all grew up. That's so nice. I had a friend who did that I think it was in the Horeki Golf in Auckland, their mum loved it and they scattered her ashes out and they took the boat out and then they all like dived into the water

with her after they'd scattered the ashes and he got some of it in his mouth. Disgusting. I mean it's carbon or whatever it's not like, but it's weird. Conceptually, it's strange. What did you do with the ashes? What did you get asked to do with the ashes? Because I'm sure there are some interesting people out there with very interesting requests

of what they would like you to do after they're gone. Or maybe you don't know and you're just staring at the ashes day in, day out on the mantelpiece like I've got to do something with those things. Yeah, maybe you've still got the Ashes and we could help you do something with them. Ooh, a bit of fun.

We've got the budget. No, we don't, yeah. But, you know, we've got the means. Yeah, we go. We know some people that can send them into space. Call Cabezos. All right, what to do with the ashes? 0800 the edge of 3, 3, 4, 3.

Cliff, Nick and Dan. Alex Warren, who's going to be on the show after 8 o'clock this morning. We managed to catch up with them before his gig at the Auckland Town Hall where a fan at his gig ended up having a sign saying, I brought my mum with me

a Ziploc bag full of ashes and he has a bit of dark humour having lost both his parents saying our parents look identical. Yeah. So we are talking about what you did with the ashes and I just remembered my beautiful auntie lost my cousin

I think a couple of years ago now and her husband is a like a diamond guy a diamond, a jeweler, a wholesaler. And you can get the ashes. You know how now you can make lab diamonds? Oh, yes. You can get the ashes made into a diamond.

So it puts it in the mix of the carbon or whatever they do to make the diamond. And the ashes will go a certain colour. They'll make the diamond a certain colour. And you can't control it. You just have to see what colour the diamond comes out. That's cool. Yeah, so my cousin, she put his ashes into a ring and I believe it came out as a blue diamond. and she wears the diamond.

Is that amazing? That isn't creative. It wouldn't be as pure, though, would it? Like, if you took that, you'd get valued, they'd be like, I've got a bit of ash in it. You're not going to get it valued and sell it, Dan? Oh, why would you sell your mum's... Sell the diamond!

Sorry, mum. I'm so strapped for cash at the moment. I'm going to have to let you go. Because you'd be kicking yourself, wouldn't you? Have you got your mum in there? And it's like, oh, it's not worth much now. You know, anyway. You're going to regret saying that when you drive home today,

I don't remember that and go, I shouldn't make you get any. What about this one? Someone texting my mate's dad was scattered on the harbour bridge As they drove over it Seems a bit dangerous They must just wound down a window and let them out But when you do that doesn't it come back to hit you in your face generally? Also what was this like infatuation with the harbour bridge?

You know, is that a special? But maybe he helped build it or something I don't know, maybe that was it Or maybe it was just because it was over the ocean Yeah, yeah, yeah This is an interesting one. My uncle was one of the biggest drug dealers in Sydney And on his deathbed

He asked to be racked up like a lion. We didn't do that. Loll, we buried him in Timaru where he grew up. You know Keith Richards, the guitarist of the Rolling Stones? I've read his autobiography, and he snorted his dad's ashes. What? Yeah. Like his dad died and he got cremated.

Well, I hope that that's how he got his dad's ashes. Yeah. And then he racked up a little lion and snorted them. It's a famous story. Don't do that if you're listening. That's not a great idea, and we do not condone it. Yeah, and then he got the rest of the maid into a diamond. Someone else says I sometimes run my fingers through my husband's ashes.

And then when I get them on my fingers, I wash it off into the house plant with water. God, I don't know. Maybe it makes the plant like grow because there's a little bit of him inside the plant. Maybe. Oh God, Adrian can never die. If you're listening, babe, don't you dare ever leave me, ever. Until we're like 110. And we die together like in the notebook holding hands.

I've told my wife if I die before her, I need to be stuffed in the corner of her bedroom looking. so she can never cheat on me. Like taxidermy? I'll be like a bear. One of those beers just like, ah, in the corner of the room. One of those ones that doesn't want your partner to move on?

Yes, yeah. She's a catch. She'll be like, for you. Coming up at 8 o'clock, you can hear the interview we did with Alex Warren. We did a bit of a tag team interview. So two of us had headphones on. We couldn't hear what the other one was saying to Alex

to see who did the better interview out of the three. this is what he said after chatting with Dan My security thought it was real He thought it was real and we like I walk over and he goes Okay let's go Starts leading me down We're just kidding

So Dan did some sort of a prank Classic again Ash and I Not entirely sure we'll find out a eight Because we had noise cancelling headphones on Yeah and Carl was playing the filthiest song Of all time in my headphones Same disgusting Filth filthy lyrics

What are you listening to us In one of my songs I was like unlikely You don't want to know. I was assuming to Alex Ford. Yes. All right, so then it's coming up at 8 o'clock this morning. Clint McG and Dan. Oh, my gosh.

Let's get into Dan's Google History. What's in Dan's Google History? Isn't sexy, isn't weird? Will it solve a great big mystery? What's just something you would fear? He does it every Wednesday. Hands over his phone unlocked. And he doesn't even stand, like, behind me and look over my shoulder.

He just willy-neilly hands up. over which I think says a lot about you as a person in a good way. And I trust that if you did come across something really bad you'd not say it on the airways but then I don't know. Maybe. Well the first, there's kind of, there's three lots of Google tangents

that I want to explore today. The first has already been explained away by what you thought you had a UTI. Oh yes. And you went and got a urine test. So it started off with is it normal to wee five times a day which is the first thing you do when you're bit worried. If you're drinking a lot of water I think.

Apparently that's low. Because I was doing, I average about five tons of down. It was like seven times you should be doing it. Really? I wonder how many times I would have no idea. How many times I have weeds? Because it's just such a natural thing. And then how many weas is too many? And then small bladder.

Because maybe you wondered, do I have a small bladder? Because that's what the doctor told me. He was like, you could just have a small bladder. It's quite common. Doesn't that feel very unmanly to have a small bladder? Oh, there's nothing. Is there any correlation between the size of your bladder? This size of your feet.

I don't think there's been a study for that one, Clint. Okay. It was going to be the first. And then ingredients of urine. Why did you want to know what's inside your ways? Because I got the test results back and then it had all these like MCG, DWS. And I was like, what it? Like it had the levels of all of them.

So I'm wanting to know what those ingredients were. You know your wife is a doctor. You could just ask her. I did. And I handed it to her and she said, you're all good. I don't think ingredients is the right word. Yeah. Like chemical makeup.

Yeah. Ingredients is more like if you're making cake. It sounds like, yeah. I'm not Stephen Hawking, guys. It sounds like you want to make weed. Yeah. If I wanted to make we, how would I do? All right, next up, how do people get into Scientology?

And then do Scientologists celebrate Christmas? What was that about my life? You want to get into it? Because my family member used to be not Scientologist, the other one. Is it a cult or a religion? What's the other one? Mormon. Jehovah's Witness.

Very different to Scientologists. And they never got Christmas presents. I was like, as a kid, I was like, that sucks. No birthdays, no. No, they don't do that. But Scientologists apparently love it. They love Christmas still. Yeah, don't become a Scientologist.

No. Don't do it. How do you convince a kid to be a Jehovah Witness? Like when the deal breaker, surely for most kids, there's no birthdays and Christmas, that's a hard sell to a kid. Because they probably believe in an eternal damnation or something. And they're like, well, what do you want? To go to hell forever or get Christmas presents. I'd still be secretly emailing Santa.

I'd be like, you're coming to me no matter what. Just don't tell them. And Santa, because he's such a good guy, he would. send a person. Okay, next up, before I tease this, I said, what does real beep taste like? Am I allowed to say this word on the radio? I don't know what you're talking about.

Now it makes me nervous. Cogame. Oh, yes. Because I was watching a TV show and the guy like puts his finger in the cocaine and goes, that's real stuff. And I was like, what is it? How does he know just by tasting? Well, you'd only know if you had a very strong history and knowledge of the substance.

What was the answer? Do you remember what it tastes like? Apparently it's like sweet. Really? Yeah, Clint told me that though. I did not. No. I wonder if you tasted if it, anyway.

Next up, okay, this I want to talk about. Best side hustle job. Yeah. And then it got to singing jobs in New Zealand and then wedding singer jobs, Auckland. And then I want to start a business as wedding singer. What's so? I think it's

sexy, is it weird Will it solve a great thing mystery? I think if you read Between the lines I'm not making enough money here And so I need to

supplement my income Leon, if you're listening The Big Dog, the boss I mean either you give this man A pay rise Or he's going to start Being less available Yeah, I'll be stressy

Because I've got gigs That's coming out Leon's like, let's just wait And see how many weddings He books first Anyone? There's two coming up Apparently they're looking for a wedding singer.

I reckon there'd be definitely some people listening with an upcoming wedding. He would love to have you sing at their wedding. Clint, Megan Dan. Lewis Capaldi is the man we're talking about. And I didn't think he'd be the type of person that would do what he has done. Very, very cheeky chop. So he did an interview over the weekend with a UK radio station. And if you've ever left someone on red or you haven't replied to a question because it was too awkward

or you haven't had a conversation with someone that you needed to have, but it was just too hard basket let this make you feel better because it even happens to famous celebrities I would love to do some of Cameron has there is one that exists but it's not for public consumption not at this present so basically

yeah I mean Calvin put in a song together I'm a avoid conflict or avoid any confrontation or avoid any sort of letting people and people play that but the problem that I found with the Calvin thing yeah was I never replied to Calvin telling him that I didn't like it He then messes me like two months later saying, hey, question mark, grew up idolizing Calvin Harris, and now I have to tell him I don't like a song that we've done.

So I just ignored that as well. And to this day, I haven't replied to it. I have seen him since. I would love to do Cameron Harris song, but he also has to sing on it. Go on him. So wait, him and Calvin Harris, Lewis Capald and Calvin Harris got in the studio, recorded a song. And then he said he'd go, here man, here's what we got. And it was so bad that Lewis just backed away slowly and just closed his phone and just never got back. And then Calvin Harris, a couple of months later, followed it up and said, oh, I'm presuming you hated it.

And giving him the out, giving him the opportunity to say, yeah, bro. Wasn't what I thought it was going to end up there. And Lewis is like, nah, too hard basket. And just never replied again. Good on Calvin, I reckon, for shooting a shot. Because I think you're right, Ash, you shoot your shot with celebrities. No, but Calvin is more of a celebrity than Lewis Capaldi. I shoot my shot all the time with celebrities.

Yeah, but... And to be fair, this should make you feel better. that like even the likes of Calvin Harris are being left on red because you've been, who's left you on red? Like it's a very long list but can you just give us the highlights?

You name them. Like mainly I've done it to get them on the show like for work stuff so I'll message them and go I'd love to get you on the show. So I messaged this is six months ago to Luke Combs saying hey Luke love the new album Keep it up. We'd love to have you on the show.

Nothing. Because Luke Combs is in charge of his media schedule. He personally, he personally sits down on an Excel spreadsheet and decides. Have you got the one to Calvin Harris? I have messaged Calvin Harris before because I was doing a DJ I was learning to be a DJ

And I missed this to Calvin Harris I don't know if you'll be able to put with that It's a voice memo Hi Calvin Just Dan here I'm just wanting to know if you could Give me a bit of coaching I'm going up against Meg tomorrow

In a little bit of a battle DJ-wise I thought you could just You know show me your spinning techniques Brath Anyway I sent a similar message to David Gether too So shame Calvin Harris got a little taste

of his own medicine after he left you on scene Shane Calman. I also asked Pink if I could come on stage and sing, raise your glass with her one night. That is outrageous Dan. Left me on scene. It's so embarrassing. Okay, we'd love to know. Who are you still waiting on a reply from?

I messaged Channing Tatum and said, loved you in magic mine. It's the gayest thing ever. No, because it was for Meg. I was wanting to try and surprise her and then I followed up and said, could we get you on the show? I mean, it shows how secure you are in your sexuality, that you're happy to send a DM to a man who did a stripper movie and say,

I loved you in that movie. He's never seen it anyway. And then three eggplant emojis. Okay, your cuticle for easy money is coming up in four minutes. But first, who are you still waiting on a reply from? Clint Megan Dan. And we're wondering who you're still waiting on a reply from after Calvin Harrison, Lewis Capaldi did a song together.

And then after hearing it, Lewis Capelter just stopped getting back to Calvin. Just left him on scene. He reached out twice, giving him an out in both times. Lewis was just like, nah, turn the phone off, throw it across the room. I think you should always just reach out to you, even if you're not a celebrity yourself. You shoot your shot with a celebrity. One day, someone will reply to you. Is it worth it, though, for the 48 attempts that make you, like, that, you know,

that people don't write back to you. It's so embarrassing. Yeah. Is it worth it? Caitlin says I got Chris Stapleton's hat tattooed on me, and I sent him a pick of it. No reply. Oh, yeah. But even if they don't reply, no skin off your nose.

Don't feel ashamed. Someone else is DMing Namer, Brazilian football player on the gram. Favorite player wanted to see if you'd reply? Nah. Nothing. No. Yeah. The worst one I've ever had was I got left on scene by the Neck Minute guy.

I've messaged your mind. His name's Levi. I said, hey, bro, we'd love to chat you on the radio this afternoon if you're available. Nick Minutes. Nothing. Nothing. What has he got on that's making him so busy? I don't know. It was three or four years ago. I've messaged Liam Lawson recently, the Formula One driver, saying great race, bro.

He's not your bro? No. Leave me on scene. What about Mark? Good morning, bro. Hey, man. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear back from you, actually, Clint. I messaged you a few years ago about Survivor. Oh, surely not.

Anyone who wants to talk about Survivor, I got all day for that. Clearly not, man. Clearly not. What's going on? Maybe Clint just gets... It was about season 40, and we're heading in 50 now. Okay, what are you the thoughts on that, mate? Was it, did it go to my, like, an other photo, or did it say scene?

It says scene, man. Oh! I'm going to find you right now. I know. I'm embarrassing. And me and you're going to vibe... I was even talking your language, bro. I called you ooze, and, yeah, nada.

I've never heard Clint in his whole life say ooze. Never. Really? The lads he does. No, I used to say, also a lot. It was before your time. Daniel? Yes.

You know I'm more than me. People saying I wasn't Samoan enough to use it. So I didn't want to offend anyone. You know what I am going to do, Mark? As a make-good, as an apology, I'm going to send you a double pass to Naked Gunn, which is in cinemas tomorrow. Oh, cheers, guys. I'm happy to. That's awesome.

I'm happy to hang on the line for the 10K if you like to. That's right. Respect, nice. Shoot your shot. You did say you going to shoot your shot. Okay. Will you stay there, Roos? Yeah, yeah.

Okay. I do that. Actually, I do like that. Because what happens, Mark, is that it's so hard to take calls just for 8 o'clock because everyone's just calling for easy money. It would be nice to reward the people that are actually contributing to the show by giving them the chance to play. Or does it encourage?

If you guys got paid for every time I've heard Carl's voice on hold, you guys would be able to quit your job, seriously. Oh, okay. Well, there you go. Thank you so much, Mark. That's all good. I'll be on hold. Okay, Liam Lisa.

He's letting us know, I will be on hold. You'll hold there, my Uso? No, not when you do it, though. Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, naked gun and synonymous tomorrow, rated M sexual references, violence and offensive language. Sorry about that. Okay.

Clint Megan Dan. Win $10,000 right now with the H-10K-E-T money. All right, let's get into it all thanks to BNZ. $10,000 to give away if you can give us 10 answers starting with the letter that Ash gives you inside 30 seconds, no repeated answers. And if you need a pass, Do it quickly, and if we've got time, we will come back to it.

And playing this morning, Clint's biggest fan, Mark. Good morning. Dave, fortune favors the brave, buddy. Guys, oh my gosh, thank you so much. Far out. Incredible. Come on. Come on, come on.

You can do this, Mark. I have faith. You can retire. You can retire the segment after this. Okay, we might have to. Okay, Mark, my sweetheart, you shot, you shot, and now you get it, your shot. It's a double shot. That's a double shot of...

Your letter today is K. K for ketamine, a drug for horses. Are you ready to go? Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, let's go. Beginning with K, a way to show affection. Kiss.

A country. Yeah. A girl's name. Tessie. A body part. Oh, gosh. An Australian animal. Kangaroo

Something in a salad kale A four letter word Just Keep A male music artist Uh Keep up

Something that swims Uh All time You were so good my That was the closest We've been in a long time Knee Kidney knee

Knackle Oh my God Oh my God That was We were on our feet I mean, Kay, the fact that he got kale so quickly. I thought you have to be. Oh, Mark, I love you.

Maybe, you know, on Survivor, how they have, like, the best competitors come back to play again? If we ever do that for easy money, we will get you back on to be one of the contenders that needs a second year. Easy Money All-Stars. Please, please. Okay. Any other letter, oh my gosh. Oh, my. Thank you.

Love you, Mother. Thank you. All right. All right. All right. Mark. It's the worst feeling. It is the worst feeling when you, like, genuinely love someone.

Like, you would grow so close to the men's their 30 seconds at you together on the radio. Clint, Megan, Dan. Bash London. Dan just hit us with a pretty hard-hitting news story. Yeah, what is the best toastie in New Zealand? I bet you want to know. I actually do want to know. I know we're making fun of you, but I would love to know.

A toasty is really underrated. I quite often go for a toasted sandwich. Who's over, who's going around saying? No, but I think when you see it on a menu, like when you have like burger, you have a nice salad, sometimes it's just a classic toastie gets overlooked. This is what I think. A toasty isn't a dining option.

It's a takeaway option. Yeah. Now, here's another little hack. If you're ever in birth care in New Zealand, birth care is where you go after you've had to give a baby. Oh my God, the tootsies are in so good. They do all night, toasties. So if you're at 3 a.m.

breastfeeding your baby in birth care, you just pick up, no one knows about it. And you just pick up the phone and dial the number. and they'll bring you a toasted sandwich any time of the night. Did the midwives make it? I don't know. There's a chef there that does it every, all night. I would be getting toasties every hour on the hour.

Unbelievable. I love some, sometimes I put a bit of bechamel sauce in my toasty. Yeah. So the best toasty in New Zealand, the finalists, there was so many finalists in 2025, the dipper longroom in Auckland. Does it have what the toasty is? No. Oh.

There's a McChickel and bacon at Toast on the Green in Auckland. If you're in Ruta Vegas, Hoggut's Duck and Belt Lime Cafe in Rotorua Taupor has the pooled in the paddock Which is a pulled pork one So that it'd have some like Some beef and some pork

Yeah Is that what that means? Like surf and turf Oh right Pulled in the I don't know My favourite is I think simpler the better

Like a three cheese And then some sort of an onion relish Or like a red onion or mustard New Zealand's top toasty. The best in the country. The land of the long white cloud, Ataroa, is the McClure's Bread and Butter Pickles and Pesto Pickle McChickel bacon.

Far out. Could I please have the Pickle? The light is so long, so long as how long it takes to order it? Let me read that again. McClewers, Bread and Butter Pickles and Pickle Pesto, the McChickel and Bacon by Toast on the green. So it's like a fried chicken, with some bacon, with bread and butter pickles and some pesto.

Yeah, and that's it toast on the green. Don't hate it. A place, a new market. Can I give you the best tip for making a toasty at home? And everyone says butter the outside to make it crispy? Wrong. That's what peasants do. Really?

Mayanays. I've heard this hack. You put mayonnaise on the outside and then you toast it. And it's a better, crispy. Does it caramelise on the outside? Yeah, it does. And it just adds, as a dead. the flavour you don't get from butter.

What's going to be next? We have the Pie Awards. Now we've got the Toasted Sandwich Awards. We're just obsessed with different food awards. What's the next one? There'll be Burger Awards already. I think there is one. Yeah, so if you want the best one in New Zealand,

you have to go to New Market, Auckland, that toast on the green. Mike Shank is the chef. Shankar! Yeah. Shank-a-licious. There's only like 15 minutes from here. Yeah.

We should go and try it. I mean that Uber eats it. I haven't got the energy to go all the way there. Eat the best toasting sandwich in the whole country. She's like, yeah, a 15 minute drive, man. Neenny! Oh my God.

He! Oh, we were out on our fuck. Oh my God. Oh my God. The fact that he got kale. I mean, I thought I was here. So quickly. Mark, I love you.

I mean, also you don't want Survivor how they hackley. Macle did it is come back to like the best campaign if we ever do that. And Mattie Mark will get you back on to be one of the committee. We all deserves a fee. You can't visit money. Please. Go, please. All stars.

Oh my gosh. Okay. Any other letter. Oh, my. Love you, brother. Thank you. Nothing. That's my good.

Thanks, Mark. All right. Worst feeling when you like, just feeling. It is. Like, you grow so close to them and they love some. Ready. Throw together. 301.

Yeah. That's, London. Just. Ready. Roll. Prud. Pretty hard hit us with a, yeah. Yeah, what is the best.

News story. And I bet you want to know. Steen the New Zealand. I know we're making fun of you, but I do want to... Toasty is really under... Love you see it. Tonight. Go for a toasted.

Quite off. Who's going around saying over tonight? Who... You see it on a menu. Like, when you... But I think you have... You have a nice salad, like... Burger.

Who's the classic toasty gets over? You have... Who think a toasty isn't a diner? This is what I have. Look, way option. It's a take-off. Yeah. You have another little hack if you're...

Now, who... Here, Zealand. Birth care is where you go after and... You have... Oh, since they're a song! They've got the... Night Toasty Dukes. Or you have a.m. breastfeeding your baby in birth.

So if you're at three... Who? No one knows about it. And yeah, you do you... You have a number and they'll bring you a toasted sack. Take up the phone three. Who? Do the mismake wife's cat? Any to you have... There that does it every... all night.

Or there's a shit of a beer... Every hour on the hour. I'm bel. And to... I love some... Sometimes I would... I put a bit of bitch. Get toasty. Yeah.

So the... Chimmer. You have in New Zealand. Uh, the... Toasty. A be... finalists in 2025 the discs there was so you have Oakland does it have what the toast lorum in finals eau oh there's a so many so no bacon at wick toast on there's a mcreen

Brooklyn on Vegas hot and all if you're bacon belt line mcass uh taupor has in rotorua in hattuck which is a pool pork one pork in the so that it'd have some like uh i've had some pork and the beef afa what that means I think, yeah. Oh, right. Cool and, I don't know. And pool is that a better? The Clint Meg and Dan podcast.

Give it up for Alex Warren. Set out the one who's wanted. Oh, the fights you started for. And his wife are in the country at the moment. They have a combined TikTok following of 35 million. It's crazy, eh? Power couple, those two. What do they get for a sponsored post, eh?

I know. I would have loved to have asked. At least $500. Yeah. Maybe $600. Man. Okay, so we, if you just turned in, we did like a bit of a tag team interview. Two of us were wearing noise-canceling headphones.

The other would have two minutes with Alex. And then when you heard the bell, you had to swap places, chuck the headphones on. Dan went last. Yeah. You two did. What I would say is a traditional sort of interview. Boring. Dan went last because he wasn't sure, I think, if his bit was going to work.

And if it didn't work, at least he was at the end. Yeah, and the least Alex could say, well, we've got two little good interviews first. Yes. We'll get the label to email later and say, delete the footage from the last interview. So we pick it up. You guys are putting on the noise-canceling headphones. I'm stepping into the hot seat to interview Alex Warren. I have got a filthy song playing in my ears.

Put your headphones on. It's my turn. Please tell you. I can't hear you, darling. Quickly, put your headphones on. Now, just so you know, we're about to prank these two. Okay. Okay.

So what's going to happen is you're going to pretend that I've just said the most offensive thing anyone's ever said, okay? And you're just going to stand up and walk out, okay? Angry look on your face, like you're offended by me, you don't like me, whatever, okay? And then I've said something, and you just walk out and come back in in like a minute or so, okay? Okay, okay, we need, we need Joel to play in on it, though,

so Joel, you're going to have to, like, tell him, like... Maybe he can come in, and then you can, like, take you out. I'll look at Joel, and then Joel will shake his head and then... Okay, yeah. So, tell me, Australia or New Zealand. Who's your favourite? Thank you, thank you guys so much. Very good.

What happened? You didn't even hold two minutes, I didn't think. I knew. What happened? What did you do, Tom? Nothing. I asked him, I feel like, is he joking? What did you do?

What happened? I asked him if he'd like Australia or New Zealand veteran and he, like, walked out. No, you didn't. No, you did it. Is this a bet? No, I swear... I don't believe it's a bit... Oh, Lily, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

Bring him back, bring him back, come on. I'm really sorry about this. Come on. I swear! I don't believe you, you're so full of shit. So what you're hearing there is hook, line and sinker. Ash London, egg on her face. Now, Alex's acting was top-notch, but you're acting.

You overdid it, darling, and unlike you. One of the best performances of all time. know what to say. Ash was shaken in her boots. What you needed to say was that I just asked him and then you had to think of an inappropriate question that would have made us think, oh, maybe he did walk out. So then we had to reveal it with all a prank

because otherwise Ash was going to have a... We were shocked. Oh my God, the relief from Ash and I when we saw him come back. Oh, I can't explain it. Hey Alex. Yeah, yeah, okay. You're a great actor.

You failed your dog. That's really good. You were with you too much. You did I have a wreck? You were great. Damn it. What's so funny is my security thought it was real. Oh really?

He thought he was real and we like... We literally... I walk over and he goes, okay, let's go. And then it starts leading me down. We're just kidding. He starts gagging. One of them was like, right, we'm gonna bash that guy after. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So now you need to make the judgement who was the better interviewer. I'm probably out of the question, so it's between these two. But you committed to a big bet and I respect that in a man. Yeah, like if we're a wrestling, team and we're all tag partners who made who did the put on the most damaged oh i think the most fun was you like you were definitely funny where the like when we were interviewing you shocked me like i was genuinely like that's awesome like that's hilarious what's beautiful feedback you are someone where if my PR team said who do you want to go interview i think i would pick you because i think you would have

you talked more about the music oh yeah okay but fun wise you and that was you you sold He reached to the stars. Yeah, it was very offensive. No, that was a fun, that was fun though. It's been so awesome meeting you. Dude, I feel like we know each other already from the interview and stuff, but it's been such a blast.

We've done the tour bus. We've done the town hall. Alex Warren, we adore you. We're so happy here, Naltiero. Thank you for hanging out with us today. Good love for tonight. Thank you so much. Really lovely guys.

I actually think a security guard was really dark with us after it as well because he was very short with me. Didn't want us to have a photo. Yeah. But Alex, nicest guy in the world. He's very nice guy. He actually disappeared because they were rushing him backstage. And we were like, oh, yeah, he's gone.

And I brought my kids because my wife was working and can't leave children at home, under 10. And then he came back up for seas and he goes, oh my God, I'm so sorry. Did your kids want a photo? Did he? And I was like, they would have loved a photo, but you were busy. And he goes, no, I got time. Oh, that's nice.

And he took a couple photos with him. Oh, he'll be a good dad. I hope he. The security guard had me in a headlock at that point. Yeah, you deserve that. I got out of it, though. Clint, Meg and Dan. Oh.

Oh my gosh. Come on. Push. Push. You've got this. I was in labour. Well, they were. What? Oh, there's always stories. How many people are in this country? Four million? Five million. Five million. It's not a lot of people. So I keep thinking, well, surely we're out of stories.

Surely not this many birthing partners are this useless. And yet. Here we are. Here we are. And Callum is one of these people that is called through from Christchurch. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Good. Now, is this, are you dobing yourself in here? Yeah, I kind of am, yeah. Oh, we don't get that too often. Good on you.

At least you can see. Yeah, I love it. Tell us a story, Cal. Okay, my partner was well pregnant, and there's a day which you guys used to, like, help celebrating, which is International Talk Like a Pirate Day on the 19th of September. Yeah, well, I used to run a bar and get fully dressed up like Jack Sparrow. I mean, top-notch costume and everything, the beard, the little scar on the cheek and the whole bit. And, yeah, I was at work and got the text saying, we have to go to hospital now. And I'm still dressed 100% looking like Jack Sparrow.

Brilliant. Trying to rush home. And, yeah, so if you can imagine, that's a little. The little beard, the hat, the jacket, the boots, the whole bit. Like, yeah, it was a definitely why's the rumble way it's gone type thing. Do you have photos of you holding your baby dressed as Jack Sparrow? Not my baby, me, but I've definitely got, I've got photos of me, but not with the baby. Yeah, I know that clip was meaning you dressed your newborn child up as a pirate as well just to match you.

They're a fun for a birth. That's great. I mean, you could have probably just done a quick change out of it or taken a lot of the pirate stuff off, but I like that you didn't. Yeah, I respect it. And also no one can get angry at him. It was a sense of panic, really,

of making sure I got home in time. That's so good, though, because you're right, if you're a kid's entertainer or you're a clown, there must be a lot of people, and they get the phone call and they're like, oh my God, I don't have time to go home and get changed. I'm just going to have to show up.

I don't have people are rushing in from work and what if your work is as a Princess Elsa drag impersonator. Yeah, true. Especially if you're giving birth as Elsa, that's next level. Yeah. Tony, good morning. Good morning. What did your partner do while you were given birth?

Well, I was in labour pretty much all day, the day before, and in the morning I get this. I'm going to go to the gym and get me. sorry, not the gym, the hairdresser, and get my hair done. And I'm like, well, I've been laboring all night. I feel like I really want to just go to the hospital and get this over and done with. And he was like, oh, no, well, I'm going to get my hair done. And then I'm going to come back and our real estate agent that's going to come and sign some papers.

And I'm like, oh, I just really just want to go to the hospital. And after that, he's like, okay, we can go to the hospital, but I just need to go up and check out this property. I would have left him. Oh, what the hell is wrong with this? Are you still married to him? Yes, it's been 12 years long now Wow, okay Yeah, he was very trying at the time

And we turned up to the guy to look at this property And he's looking at me like What are you doing here? Because my partner's like, you know, we're, yeah, we're having a baby And I'm like having a contraction right here and this Wow Oh my God Maybe it was like a coping mechanism

Like some people in moments of stress They do what they can to get through And maybe he was like I'm about to have my first child We need to live somewhere So how do I provide a house for my future children? We'll go and look at one now. The only thing you want to make it worse of that whole time

he's dressed as Jack Sparrow. Yeah, that would have been too far. One bridge too far. Clint Meg and Dan. Come on, push, push. You've got this. I was in labour while they were. A lot of male partners, especially dropping the ball on the big day.

You cut them sometimes a little bit of slack on baby one because there's a lot going on, you've never done it before, you don't know if it's going to be as long or as fast as you think. I disagree. I reckon you cut the first one you should be on your best behaviour. It's the second and third you maybe let it slip. It's also just very overwhelming, and I think a lot of men don't know what to do

so they kind of freeze or just do something ridiculous because they haven't got all of their brain power firing. And I think you can definitely be cut a little bit of slack, like if baby comes six weeks early, because you still think you've got time like the dude who was going duck shooting, and then went to his mates to watch the many Pachial-Floid May with a fight and was toasted as when he got the phone call.

It's like a double-header. We did get one text through from Ange. Now, this isn't so much about something your partner was doing, but really a pretty insane every parent's worst nightmare for going into labour. So, Ange, tell us this is crazy. What was happening when you were having your bobbah? It was very crazy. My son was suffering really bad eczema, and I was 14 days overdue, so I was going to be induced on the Monday.

My son wasn't in a very good way on the sedice. I thought, right, I'll take him over to the A&E in the morning, but 3 o'clock in the morning, and I went into labor. And the contractions were really, really close, and we were an hour from the hospital. Yeah, got in the car, contractions were thick and fast, got to the hospital, I was like, I need to sort my son out, like, I can't, yeah, I can't just leave him at A&E, so I had to organise family members. And funnily enough, my contractions actually, like my daughter must have known, I needed to sort my son first because the contractions died down for a while. And yeah, so he went into A&E, they quarantined him in case something had happened to his skin.

So I had a baby girl and a son in hospital that I couldn't see for three days. Oh, yeah, that's rough. Yeah, because you want to be there for your other child that's got terrible eczema, but you can't be. Was your partner able to be with your son while you were with the baby? Like, how did that work? Yeah, I had family. My niece and my mum came and stayed with my son. Yeah, it was just such a hard time.

Like, I wanted to be there for my boy. I mean, he nearly looked like a burn victim. Yeah, my goodness. Just like that out of hand, yeah. And that is so much parenthood in life, isn't it? It's holding the joyful and the tragic at the same time and having that kind of balance. Oh, that's so crazy.

Amber, your partner, I don't think too much fold of his own was zero help to you when you were giving birth by the sounds? Yes, he was, when we were walking into the hospital to get induced with our twins, He was already injured two weeks before Snap and he snapped his Achilles and he slipped over on the only wet piece of floor in the hospital. Oh yeah.

He managed to find it. And we were walking in. Yes. So he asked up and here I was like massive with my twins and he was the one offering a wheelchair and puffed over so we were in the room and he was just up in the chair in the corner. Did he complain at all about the pain he was experiencing with his Achilles? Oh, I'm sure he did.

She can't remember She was too busy delivering twins into the world Okay and lastly Vicky just to wrap us up Your birth plan Was probably not what ended up happening I imagine No It was a bit of a

I guess a happy Happy ending I would say Don't hemmed to those I'm going to continue Alright Okay Okay

Good choice of words School run Vicky School runner So what was your husband doing when you were in labour he was sleeping and I was working through my contractions in the bath I had run myself a bath I told him because we had been waiting for a full day thinking well my wife had told us that she would come early but she didn't come and my contractions weren't getting closer so I said to him look you know it's middle of the night go to sleep I'll run myself a bath and I'll work

through it. This is our second child, so I was pretty sure about it. Okay. It sounds like it. And while I was looking for a bath, contraction got closer and I was timing them. They were getting to about like three minutes, so I told

my husband when I was like, wake out, you know, it's happening. I think you have to let Michelle memo know that it's happening. We have to go. So it's, okay, cool, I'll get ready. It's sort of still half asleep. And they got closer like to two minutes. And and then one minute, and then 30 seconds, and then what happened?

I think, I think she's coming now to feel the pressure in my, um, down there. Yeah. And I was like, I think she's going to come. Like, I was standing in the bath. I was getting out, and he's like, oh, hey, let me get the robe, let's get in the car. With everything ready, I was like, no, no, no, she's coming now. And he was like, oh, let me just get your robe and get you in the car. And I was like, no, no, she's coming.

And he popped back in. he saw her head pop out of my suitor. He delivered your baby in the bath. Oh, shit. And yeah, and two squeezes, two pushes, and she came out, and he came just in time to catch her. Okay. Wow, what a legend.

Longest labor ever. Oh, my gosh. That is crazy. The story was, wow. Water all the coaster. I felt like I was there. Thanks, McKee. My goodness.

Wowzes. You save all the hassle And the travelling and all the other stuff When I asked her when you were in labour What was your husband doing I expected her to be like Delivering the baby Clint Meg and Dan

Oh my gosh Gossip of Entertainment Scandal Clit me and Dan with Ash London Scandal I just want to point out that Dan is wearing Edge promotional sunglasses You've got some new pink ones out

They're like pink hue And so when you look at Everything's rose-tinted when you look through them Is that why you get wearing them? Because they look ridiculous. Yeah, but it makes you two look much more attractive. Okay, we'll keep wearing them. Yeah, I will.

So Michelle Williams, who we love. She was in Dawson's Creek, and she was in Brokeback Mountain, where she fell in love with Heath Ledger and then had a baby together, Matild. He was now 19 years old. Can you believe it? It must be so...

I often think about her because I loved Heath Ledger as an actor, one of my favourite actors all the time. And it must be so difficult having a dad that was so prolific and he's everywhere now. Like if you watch the dark night, if you watch any of his work. But I think it's not like if he was a normal person, it's not like you forget the person that you lost.

So it's not like, it's like my dad died and people will sometimes bring up dads or ask me about my dad. And I saw my bad passed away and I go, oh, sorry. And it's like, well, I didn't forget and you just reminded me. So I think it's like whether they're famous or not, it's, you know. But do you think it must be hard when you watch them in a movie? I mean, I don't even know. Would you watch their movies?

Well, it's like we don't have any home videos. right of like our generation parents grandparents because we didn't film things so having all of that kind of video footage of someone at their best I just know that my son of five a pass away he's got about 27 hit the spots he can look back on isn't that true but it's true in the more I think that's a great call that's your legacy baby videos we've put up online of your Google history oh god delete those off okay we promise if you pass away in honor of your legacy for Georgie we'll Just keep the hit the spots that you get, right?

We'll delete the ones that you stuffed up. And maybe we'll delete the Taylor Swift one of you in the showgirl outfit with and then when it comes off at the end and we're to blur it, we'll delete that. It's actually quite a few videos that and I need to get deleted. Yeah, a few hooters, Dan. You make us a list. So, Michelle Williams was on the Jimmy Fallon show, which has been guest co-hosted by Tiffany Haddish,

and she announced the birth of her fourth child. This last baby did not come through my body, but the miracle of our little girl is thanks to Christine. Maybe you're watching out there. Thank you, Christine. Thank you, Christine. Yeah, but I have, thanks to Christine, three under five at home.

Three under five? Three under five. Yes, yeah, everything's good. Wow. Before that, we see now, she says she had a, she was like, girl, you're good. And she's like, yeah, no, I didn't.

Yeah. I can't do because of Christine. So can you imagine that? And I know a lot of people listening, probably do have three kids under five. But yet the youngest three have been delivered by surrogacy, which is like, I don't know, I guess it's an American you can do it. You can pay someone to do it.

I always take my hat off to be women that do that, because you get attached during the process of being pregnant. I think that's why the rule is you have to have had your own children already. Yeah. You know what I mean? So you have to. What do you pay a surrogate? Is there a flat fee or does it depend on what everyone wants to charge personally?

I don't know if this is a real thing, but my understanding is that the ballpark figure in the USA is $100,000 US dollars. Oh my gosh. But in, I only know the Australian laws because it's something I kind of got a bit obsessed to. I just find it so interesting. You're not allowed to pay somebody and you can't ask anybody. So you have to wait until someone offers. So what do you say?

You're at a cafe and you're like, oh my God, we'd love to have another curb. But I just can't unless we find someone to do it for us. Because otherwise, how would they even know you're looking if you're not allowed to ask? This is something maybe we could talk about later in the week on the show, is, if anyone listening has offered to be a surrogate or has had a friend, because often it's a best friend or a sister, someone that's, you know, close that then makes the offer. They say, I've had my babies.

I would love to do the same for you. And if there's multiple, is it like the first two full price, the third one free? There's no payment in, you can't pay someone. And also, obviously, there's a lot less effort involved for guys who are sperm donors. But, yeah, when you're giving someone the opportunity to have children and the detachment that I guess you probably need to have from that child and whether you're able to. Let's talk about it later in the week.

Sperm, like, sperm donation, not like at a sperm bank, but to somebody you know or surrogacy. Because, oh God, I think it's such a wonderful gift, but God, I'd have some questions. But yeah, that's a really interesting chat. Yeah. Clint Megan Dan. Dan just hit us with a pretty hard-hitting news story.

Yeah, what is the best toasty in New Zealand? I bet you want to know. I actually do want to. I know. I know we're making fun of you, but I would love to know. A toasty is really underrated. I quite often go for a toasted sandwich. Who's over, who's going around saying? No, but I think when you see it on a menu, like when you have like burger, you have a nice salad,

sometimes it's just a classic toasty gets overlooked. This is what I think. A toasty isn't a dining option. It's a takeaway option. Yeah. Now, here's another little hack. If you're ever in birth care in New Zealand, birth care is where you go after you've had to give a baby. Oh my God.

The Toasties are in Zung. They do all night toasties. So if you're at 3 a.m. breastfeeding your baby in birth care, you just pick up, no one knows about it. And you just pick up the phone and dial the number and they'll bring you a toasted sandwich any time at the night. Did they midwives make it? I don't know. There's a chef there that does it every, all night. I would be getting toasties every hour on the hour.

Unbelievable. I love some, sometimes I put a bit of Bashamil sauce in my toasty. Yeah. So the best toasty in New Zealand, the finalists, there was so many finalists in 2025. the dipper longroom in Auckland. Does it have what the toaster is? No. There's a McChickel and bacon at Toast on the Green in Auckland.

If you're in Rota Vegas, Hoggut's Duck and Belt, Lime Cafe in Rotorua. Taupor has the pooled in the paddock, which is a pooled pork one. So that it'd have some, like, some beef and some pork. Yeah. Is that what that means? Like surf and turf. Oh, right.

Pulled in the, I don't know My favourite is I think the simpler the better Like a three cheese And then some sort of an onion relish Or like a red onion or mustard New Zealand's top toasty The best in the country

The land of the Long White Cloud Ateoroa Is the McClure's bread And butter pickles And pesto pickle mchickle bacon Far out Could I please have the Pickle mitchell

It's like the light of So longs, how long it takes to order it? Let me read that again. McClure's Bread and Butter Pickles and Pickles and Pickle Pesto can make chickle and bacon by toast on the green. So it's like a fried chicken with some bacon with bread and butter pickles and some pesto. Yeah, and that's it toast on the green.

Don't hate it. A place, a new market. Can I give you the best tip for making a toasty at home? You know everyone says butter the outside to make it crispy? Wrong. That's what peasants do. Really? Mayanays.

Matt, I've heard this hat. You put mayonnaise on the outside and then you toast it. And it's like a better, crispy. Does it caramelise on the outside? Yeah, it does. And it's just, and it just adds a depth of flavour you don't get from butter. What's going to be next? We have the pie awards.

Now we've got the toasted sandwich awards. We're just obsessed with different food awards. What's the next one? There'll be burger awards already. Burger awards. I think there is one. Yeah, so if you want the best one in New Zealand, you have to go to Newmarket, Auckland. It toast on the green. Mike Shank is the chef.

Shankar! Yeah. Shankolicious. There's only like 15 minutes from here. Yeah. We should go and try it. I mean that Uber eats it. I haven't got the energy to go all the way there.

Eat the best toast and sandwich in the whole country. And Ash is like, yeah, a 15 minute drive. Holy shit. You made it the whole way through. If you want more, find them on Instagram at Edge Breakfast. See you tomorrow. And then if that's not enough, check out our Only Fans. Podcast, that is.

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