The Edge Breakfast - FULL SHOW firetrucking
Episode Date: June 8, 2026Meg is off after her daughter gets sick, so Clint and Dan run a promo-packed Monday with cash giveaways, a Scary Movie “Wazzup” battle, and Take The Edge Off My Life winners, including mon...ey for walking shoes and a divorce filing. They play McDonald’s 50-years-in-NZ More or Less, announce tickets for Dan’s teenage-written Hook musical (June 29 in Auckland), and reveal Clint’s lie detector results. Bella shares her boyfriend wetting the bed after the Radio Awards, Dunedin fights to save its iconic dinosaur slide. 00:00 Meg Off Sick Update 00:41 Monday Promos Preview 01:48 Jamie Grinch Nose Story 04:52 First Call Morgan Schwass 07:43 Kids And Fourth Baby Debate 08:31 Pop Culture Quick Hits 10:04 More Or Less McDonalds 15:43 Naughty 640 Tattoo Disaster 18:35 Scary Movie Wazzup Battle 22:57 Take The Edge Winner 24:28 Hook Musical Tickets 27:21 Overdubbing Megs Singing 30:04 Tickets and Text Line 30:19 Guess the Loop Game 32:52 Reliever Teacher Memories 26:11 Bella Boyfriend Bedwetting 37:24 Relationship Red Flags Texts 41:32 Take the Edge Off Call 42:56 Paying for a Divorce 44:38 Lie Detector Setup 47:10 Clint Lie Detector Confessions 52:06 KFC Lie Detector Promo 52:53 Save the Dunedin Dino 01:01:54 Wrap and Podcast Plug
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This is a podcast from Rover.
If this podcast was a person, it would be banned from family gatherings.
Oh, piss off, Uncle John.
This is the Clint Meg and Dan podcast.
Good morning.
No Meg today, she's ill.
Oh no, it's not her.
It's ill.
It's her daughter.
Yeah, Miller.
Yeah.
Miller's unwell.
So babies that are unwell will keep you up during the night,
which aren't very conducive to being ready to roll when you get up at 4 a.m.
And the alarm goes off.
Yeah, we got a message at like 2 a.
this morning
saying
she's still up
so I said
Meg take the day off
please
did you
yes yes
I said you know what
she turned the car
around
and went back home
the boss said
I could stay
yeah
hey um
being a Monday
is a whole bunch
of brand new
promos
a kick off
the easiest
way that you
will win
$250 cash
before 7
I think we look
after our 6am
is
easier than
answering the
phone
and saying
take the edge
off my life
I think it's
easier to win
because you have to
be selected out of the thousands of entries, right?
We'll take the edge of my life. This one's just
a call up and you...
You've got a 50-50 shot.
Okay. You be another listener.
And then thanks to A&Z, we've got another chance for you to win
500 bucks at about quarter past
7 this morning. Not to mention, yeah,
they take the edge of my life at 7 and 8.
And after 8 o'clock this morning as well, one of us
is hooked up to a lie detector.
Any question is fair game.
The first cab off the rank is Clinton Randall,
little liar.
They were for a game, but they're Meg Vito one of mine.
I know, yeah, that was just one.
But she's not here today, Clint.
You're all mine, big boy.
Monday with the boys, says James.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
We can't be too ladsie, though, because we got told off that one time, remember?
Yeah, you'll be right.
You'll be right.
Yeah, I'll be good.
It's the edge.
Clint, Megad, Dan.
Lesh goal.
My wife's still recovering from surgery.
I don't know what they called it.
She told me, but that's sinus, some sort of.
of sinus surgery.
I was thinking she had like a
nose, where they
take it down a couple of notches, but I didn't think she
had a bit of throat. No, you know what? It took me
five days to work out who she looks like because she's got
these stints in her nose while it
heals and it kind of pushes
her nose up a bit higher so you can see
in her nostrils and it's
from the bloody, the Grinch
and you know the town.
The hooves?
All the hooves and they have their noses
sort of pointing up high. You can see
their nostrils. Oh my God. That's
what it is.
She looks cute.
She's on a lot of drugs, obviously, recovering.
And I was home on Friday after work, and I was just standing there in the door, and
I was like, do you want anything?
She's in the bed just watching TV, which isn't really like her, so she's getting a bit antsy.
Like, I need to get out, I need to do something.
I'm like, yeah, but then you're exhausted, so I'm standing there, and she goes, you look
so good today.
And I was literally just wearing this jumper.
Right.
And I was like, oh, thanks.
Because it looks good in anything.
that pisses me off.
And she goes,
you just
look so stylish.
And she's done a crude.
Oh, bless her.
And she's,
I was like,
what?
She's like,
you just look
so stylish
and so cold
and I'm just
near a beard
like a loser
and I was like
Oh poor Jamie.
I'm going,
whoa,
whoa,
okay,
you've got to
give me the bag
of drugs
because I don't know
if you're keeping
to your little
schedule or not.
Now you know
how Megan I feel
when we see you.
We're like,
oh,
it's so stylish.
She was like burst into tears.
And I'm like, that's weird.
They remind him he was giving me flashbacks of when my wife was pregnant
and would just like burst into tears at the drop of a hat about anything.
And I found that quite humorous.
All moans are horrible things, aren't they sometimes?
Yeah.
But I mean, when it's directed in the right way and just like, yeah.
She was just probably feeling really horrible about herself as well
because she's sitting there with things stuffed up her nose.
Still in her pajamas.
And you're wearing your stolen girlfriends club jumper.
Even I'm feeling a little bit
Like I'm gonna burst into tears today
So anyway
I'm just wearing a track suit
Look at me
I may as well have stuff stuffed up the nose
Pathetic
Yeah well
I'm hoping that when the stints or stents
Or whatever they come out
The nose drops down
Because I did say to what
It's amazing what a different nose
Will do to somebody's overall appearance
As it made her nose look bigger
I don't think anybody's getting a nose
She looks like a completely different person
with this like nose currently in the way that it is.
So it just shows, mate, yeah, just what a good nose does
to the overall aesthetic of a person's face.
You don't hear of people getting a bigger nose, do you?
You're always getting a nose reduction.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, no one's going and fro like bigger nose.
Yeah. Daniel's text, no, Meg today.
No, no, she says, she's quiet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Woman, a few words.
Yeah, she's sick.
Her daughter's sick, so she's home today.
She'll be back tomorrow.
She lives by the rule.
You've got nothing good to say.
Don't say anything.
and Dan.
First call of the day.
First call of the day.
It's my favourite first call of the day.
Yeah, good to catch up and see what's going on in your lives rather than, you know.
And from the Bay of Plenty this morning, Morgan Schwess.
Is that how I say it?
Yeah, pretty close, mate.
What an incredible name.
Shwuss.
A lot closer the most people get.
Yeah.
Yeah, what do you get?
What are some of the alternatives you get?
Oh, pretty much just from variations, like Shwam.
Shwaz.
Shwaz.
Yeah.
You drive a rev four.
That's not why you rap, though, I've heard.
What's that?
That's not why you rap.
No.
No, hell no.
And a tourist, same as me.
So you're very determined,
although people like to call a stubborn,
but I think determined is better.
Yeah, probably in a way.
I like to think of them determined.
Probably a compliment, I guess.
And as a job, you're an operation technician.
So is that a medical thing?
or are you more of like an operations manager on a work site?
It's kind of more like a work site,
so I work in like renewable, geothermal tonnet energy.
Oh, nice.
Oh, do you work in one of those places
where all the white smoke comes out?
Yeah, something like that, yeah.
And everybody goes, oh, I don't know what to do here.
It's harmless, so it's all right.
We'll have to go and talk to Schwarz.
He'll know what's true.
Yeah, we all think it's harmless,
and then Mr. Schwarz, we find out like 20 years from now
that stuff causes all.
lots of trouble, eh. You've got a second head growing out of your neck.
Nah, you'll be right.
Yeah, stuff to look forward to.
Yeah, good on you.
Yeah. And married with two kids. How old are your kids?
Four and a half and three and a half pretty much.
You're still in the thick of it, bro.
But although only probably a couple years out of the trenches, perhaps.
Yeah, yeah. It's good.
As it's times, but...
Yeah. Cude age.
Nah, whatever any other way.
way, it's bloody good.
I really like three, but once they start getting into school and they can sort themselves out
and all the rest of all that.
Dan, how old's your little guy?
He's to my, my ones too, full in the trenches.
Full in the trenches.
Oh, yeah, good fun.
But you'd know that, Shwasi.
Anyway, we'll let you go because we don't want some sort of geothermal explosion happening
while you're talking to us.
So all the best, have a good rest of your week.
Awesome, guys.
Yeah, and we'll sort you out with a hundred-dollar mock about your furniture design for New Zealand
home, so go sort yourself out with something good.
Oh, beauty, mate.
Must appreciate it.
Thanks, mate.
Very welcome.
I wish I had a cool last name like Schwarz.
Webby just doesn't cut it for me.
Oh, I was thinking of Schwarzkoff.
Yeah, I know, Shwaskoff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We'll get into more or less.
Next, it's a McDonald's themed one.
Producer Carl's going to look after that one for us in Meg's absence.
If you're wondering why she's quiet today, her little one's sick.
Speaking of babies, and now he's thick that out.
My mate was just messaging me literally this morning.
He's got three.
I think his youngest is like four.
and his wife wants to go again.
And he's like, I'm so done.
And she's like, no, we're not.
They just have to have a conversation.
It's not an easy conversation.
Who wins, though?
Who wins if one of you is like,
I'm definitely done with three.
I don't want a fourth kid.
And they're like, I definitely want a fourth kid.
I think you're better to,
you need to both be on the same page
and if you're not, don't do it.
No, but yeah, that's what I mean.
So if you're not on the same page
of the person who doesn't want kids wins.
Unfortunately, they do, yeah.
But it's better than having one parent
that doesn't want that kid.
Yeah, true.
You know?
The one that pines after one more.
It's like, don't be greedy.
You've got three, man.
Three's better than none.
Clint, Megan Dan.
American Olympian superstar Simone Biles
is recovering in hospital
after almost dying, quote,
with a short illness.
She's given no more details
than what that illness was on her Instagram.
And Kim Kardashian has been at the Monaco
Formula One Grand Prix
to support her boyfriend, Lewis Hamilton.
Yes, they're official.
And has ignored lead Formula One
commentator Martin Brundall after he asked her a question on the grid.
Kim, Martin Brundle, Sky F1.
How are you today?
Yes.
No, don't know.
You don't need to push me, mate.
Yeah, normally people will have a quick chat with us.
Are you enjoying F1?
Yeah.
I couldn't do that.
She's just standing there like full, just blanking her.
Not even like, oh, I'm not interested in a clue.
And we've talked about this before about whether or not, it's like,
hey, I didn't say I would give you an interview, so I'm not.
but if you're on the grid, there's this unwritten rule
that kind of says that you are open
to being approached by media.
Yeah, it's like a full open media situation.
There's like reporters from all around the world on the grid.
She's damned as she does, she damned as she doesn't.
So she does it's a story.
And if she didn't, it's still a story.
She's dating Lewis Hamilton.
You'd think that she'd at least give some sort of comment.
It seems odd.
Hey, nice work there, bro.
It'll be careful.
You don't want to do that too well, mate.
You'll get scandals.
No, I'm no, Meg.
It'll be a new responsibility for you.
I'm no, Meg.
It's kind of like in football.
If you don't have a goalie and you go, go on, I'll wear the gloves for a game,
then you have a great game and goal.
Guess what?
Catch all the balls and then you're like, oh my goodness me.
You've got a new position.
Maybe I am the best.
All right, coming up next, more or less, McDonald's edition.
How Producer Carl's been running around behind the scenes to get that one sorted for us.
No idea what's going on.
Oh, I had McDonald's on the weekend.
Is it not just the most satisfying food?
My kids are always wanting McDonald's.
Always.
Quarter pounder.
Extra gherkins?
Oh God, the gherkins, get on me.
You always pull them off, you lie.
It's the edge.
The Clint Meguen't Dan podcast.
Megaway six today, so we got producer car looking after.
More a less voice this morning.
You're a slightly more facial hair, Meg Bancel.
Just a little bit.
Yeah. Like just a little bit.
Yes.
Yeah, it's McDonald's thing because McDonald's is 50, is it?
Yeah, McDonald's is turning 50 in New Zealand.
Yeah, I think it's older internationally, but it's been in New Zealand for
50 years. Right, okay, it makes sense. Yeah.
So we got sent a, um, we got sent like a cool press release
the other day about McDonald's and all these
cool McDonald's facts. I was like, mean, a McDonald's themed
from the press release. Um, more or less. So, shall we hit with
number one? Can I just say, I cannot imagine a world
with no McDonald's. Like 50 years ago, you were just
driving down to like wherever, on a holiday, you weren't
driving past a McDonald's? Even the other, even on Saturday, like,
you know, we were just running around doing some errands and I was like,
man, a little bit peckish. You're driving past and arches and you're just going to,
Just grab some chips in it.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
It's crazy to think.
Anyway.
Okay, question number one.
Which is bigger?
The amount of free-range eggs
Maccas buys every year
or the total number of buns, bagels and wraps
baked for them annually.
I'd think the buns and the bagels
because they'd cover hamburgers as well,
whereas the eggs is just breakfast.
Yeah, okay, I agree.
You'd be right, Dan.
Well done.
Yeah, 10 million eggs, but 100 million units
of buns, bagels and wraps.
Incredible.
Number two.
Back in.
in 1976, which of these iconic lunch items would have drained more cents in your wallet?
Okay.
The Big Mac at launch or the cheeseburger at launch.
Ooh, now this sounds like it could be a trick question.
I know, because you just think it has to be the Big Mac because there's more patties and stuff.
Double, double the paddy.
Let's go, should we go Big Mac?
Go on.
Yeah, Big Mac.
Yeah, you would actually be right.
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, it's just a bit of inflation since then.
75 cents for a Big Mac and 40 cents for a cheeseburger.
Incredible.
Ooh.
Number three question.
Which of these historical runs lasted longer in New Zealand?
The time the legendary apricot pie, do you guys remember that?
Yes, yeah.
Spent as a permanent menu item or the total years, Ronald's Make It Click campaign.
Ronald, make it click.
You must remember every time you're in the car,
and it makes no difference if you go in there or far.
Why is no one singing with me?
Well, because I think you had it sort of.
If you're in the front seat or if you're in the back, click.
Goes your seatbelt before you hit the track
Make a click
Yeah
So I'd think that'd go longer
You reckon that one?
Yeah
Should have been
It was a tie actually
30 years each
30 years
A year?
Abrecht by that was about
29 years too long in my opinion
Have they got rid of Ronald
Because you don't see much
Ronald anymore do you
Like does he scare kids
Yes
What's the issue there
Maybe there's like a fair of clowns
And it's I don't know getting
No all the McDonald's characters
You don't really see them anymore
No hamburgling's frowned upon
these days.
We cancelled it his ass years ago.
Back in the 70s, you're doing it, willy-nilly.
Oh, man.
Okay, question number four.
Which milestone happened further back in New Zealand history?
The opening of the first drive-through window,
like drive-through window,
in Lower Heart and New Lynn,
or the grand opening of the first Maccafe on Queen Street?
Oh, what happened first?
Yeah, the drive-thru.
Yeah, it was the drive-thru.
Yeah, it was a bit of a street.
That was quite a squeeze that one in?
I needed a fourth.
But was the first time they'd ever done a drive-thru in Lower Heart
and New Lynn, Auckland.
Yeah, in 1978.
Wow.
Yeah, and in the first Macafee,
I actually thought they hadn't been around as long in 1998.
Yeah.
Okay, fifth question.
We're on an absolute heater here, bro.
Yeah, yeah, this is good.
He's made it easy for us, clearly.
Very easy.
He's not here.
The dummies are here.
Okay.
Okay, which of these massive New Zealand menu events
have them first?
The debut of the beetroot-packed Kiwi burger
or the highly anticipated return of the iconic Georgie pie.
So what happened first?
Yeah, Kiwi Burger or did Georgie Pye?
Remember when they bought it back?
Yeah, they bought it back from a moment of time.
So are you talking about the return of the Kiwi Burger or when it just debuted originally?
When it debuted.
Yeah, Kiwi Burger first.
Yeah, it was actually the Kiwai from 5.
Clean sweep.
Do you know what that's so funny with the Georgie Pye were like, bring it back, we all won it, we all want it.
Then they brought it back and we had one and we went, eh.
Yeah.
I don't think it was the same.
The nostalgia's the same.
Also, there were a dollar when they left and then when they came back there like $4.50
and we're all like,
honestly,
there's something to be said for nostalgia.
It's like the spy girls.
You don't really want to see them come back, do you?
I don't.
I just don't.
I'd rather have them in.
I disagree.
Like a Georgie pie.
The only pie that hasn't really moved with inflation,
I think, depending on where you buy it from,
is the big bean pie.
You can still get them pretty cheap in some parts.
And I agree with Lewis, who's text through.
Let's check out the reason why Ronald McDonald doesn't exist anymore.
Let's get to the bottom of that.
I want to know what's happened to Ronald.
Conspiracy theory.
Investigation.
I'd love to actually talk to the guy who played him.
I think there was multiple.
Of course, I'm just one man.
He would have been super busy.
All right, got a naughty, 640 up next.
Just a wee whistle.
Dan's got a little thing for you.
I've saw this one doing the rounds on the internet, actually.
My wife took a while for her to get this one.
Yeah, the question is,
you had to go and get a colonoscopy.
Guess you could say I had a,
and then it's a photo of Cameron Diaz.
I'll leave you with that one.
Sam Fice.
Clint, Megan, Dan.
It's time to get naughty at 640.
This is a guy.
very naughty of the son
even though him and his mum
both knew what they were signing up for
I think when they went on a TV show called
Tattoo of Us. They must have a good
relationship though mum and son to be able to
Oh they used to? Oh really?
You have a listen. I mean they hug it out at the end
but God I would not want to be in the car
or that Uber on the way home.
So the tattoo of Us show if you've never
seen it or heard of it before it's where two people
usually it's like friends, isn't it? Go into
and one of them tattoos
something else on the other person's body.
The person getting the tattoo doesn't know what it is.
Until the reveal at the end.
Charlotte from Geordie Shaw,
she hosts it if you remember her.
This is the reaction of the mum
after she sees what her son has designed
and she's just spent four hours in the chair
having tattooed on her outer right thigh.
What the fuck is that?
Oh, Lou, you're a fucking woman.
They're disgusting.
I can't even talk to you.
What if...
It's not banter.
It's disgusting.
I'm my mum.
That's disgusting.
She's propaganda.
That is, yeah, that's hard to listen to her because she's obviously...
But then don't go on the show.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
You're a stupid, stupid person, right?
Okay, so what is the tattoo and what's it based around?
It's based around an embarrassing situation that happened to his mum one time.
He explains it here and then your imagination.
I'll do the rest.
So, Lewis, what was?
was the story behind the tattoo?
So she was
hanging and washing out and
it was a bit ill and thought it was just a bit of
wind.
And it wasn't.
I mean it is quite funny.
Yeah, so it's a photo of the mum hanging out the
washing, she's pegging some stuff on the line
and she thought it was a part
and said she sharted.
And it's a lot of like poo shooting out
from under her dress, going all down her legs
and onto her pink heels.
That's vulgar though, isn't it?
Like that poor mom, she raised you, she went through nine months of pregnancy and you'd do that to her.
It's a terrible tattoo as well.
For some reason, the tattooist has decided to do like blue all around the outside of the tattoo just to make it really stand out on her right thigh.
If you want to see, you can text TAT, T-A-T to 3343.
It's worse than you think.
So whatever you're picturing, it's so much worse than that.
The tattooing is awful.
The producers must have been rubbing their hands together when they found out that that's why.
what was going to be going down.
So did she do him as well?
Yeah, so what did he get?
In the clip, they didn't show it,
because I'd love to see how hard she went.
Because the son definitely missed the mark.
James, you're not going to get the bounce back.
You've just text tart.
It's tat.
Remove the R and you'll get it.
Okay, we've got $250.
Cash did your way this morning to celebrate the release of Scary Movie 6.
We're going to be putting two listeners head-to-head
in the ultimate WhatsApp battle,
if you haven't seen Scary Movie before.
You.
Wazah!
Yeah, then you won't know that's...
Bronwyn, you're not going to get it either.
You've just text toot.
So it's tat.
T-A-T.
Someone else is text T-Q-T?
Yeah, no.
We thought we made it as simple as possible for you to see it.
It's three letters.
Producer Carl?
Do you want me to simplify the spelling on maybe the bounceback?
Yeah, we just text T.
Someone else is text top.
No, it's tat.
Fuff.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Tad to 3343 if you want to see it.
But if you want to win $250,
it's got to be the easiest way.
There's a was-up battle going back.
forth to wherever we think is the most gusto
and puts in the best effort
will win 250 bucks cash.
Give me your best one now, Clint, just for an example.
Wadda!
That was lackluster at best. You can do better.
Yeah, but I've got no competition, so I win by default,
surely.
Waddy!
Oh yeah, okay. But then I'd go again,
and then you'd go again, and eventually you'd run out of steam, I reckon.
I'd get you on endurance.
Oh, yeah. It always gets me on endurance.
I wait under the edge if you want 250 bucks cash.
Pisses me off.
Click Scary to 33443 right now to play the
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and a double pass to Scary Movie.
The premise is simple, isn't it?
You just have to go back and forth with another person doing
Whazab!
Which is a famous catchphrase, would you call it,
from the first scary movie?
Are they still doing it in Scary Movie 6? I hope so.
Surely if they're wanting us to do a promo on it,
maybe it does make a return.
Yeah.
So first cab off the rank is Briar.
from Wellington. Morning Briar.
Good morning.
So do you know what we're talking about?
You've obviously seen the first scary movie?
Yes, I do.
I'm so excited for the new one.
Okay, so this is good. So you know what you're doing.
And the best part is that you don't leave
empty-handed. Of course, you'll score a double pass
to see Scary Movie 6.
Both of you and Matthew
will get the double pass, but whoever leaves the
$250,000 is the person that we feel
has the most gusto and the most energy
the best delivery.
Okay, so, Briar, you're going up against Matthew from Rolliston.
Morning, Matt.
How's it going, right?
Yeah, bloody good, bloody good.
So, okay, so you're going to be going up against Briar.
Since she was first on, let's, should we let her go first, Clint, with the first buzzer.
Okay, when you're ready, the floor is yours, Briar.
Okay, I'm ready.
Okay.
One, two, three.
Wazza!
It's a solid start.
Over to you, Matt.
Waza!
You know, I feel like they're both equal gusty.
Oh, okay, we're going to have to go back.
Back to Briar Hart.
Right, we're going to have to up it here.
I want to hear full gusto.
Go.
What's that?
Better.
I hope no one else is in the house with Briar.
God.
Okay, Matthew.
I'm actually at work.
Go help me.
Okay, go, Matt.
Okay, go, Matt.
What's a?
There was so much better than this first one.
Yeah, but I still think Brian has got, let's give Briar one.
Oh, you're so sad.
Oh, God.
Oh, my God.
I think if you can amper it up one more time, Briar, it's yours.
Okay, but we need full commitment.
Full commitment.
Okay.
Ready.
Listen for you, Matthew.
Was it!
Did we give it to her?
Oh, no.
She had three, Matt, only had two.
He came out of the block slow, man.
Bri, how many people are at your work right now?
The delivery driver just worked in, so he didn't hear me.
So, nothing suspicious yet.
Okay.
All right.
Let's give it to her. Briar, it's yours.
I'm sorry, Maddie.
Yeah, Matt, you still got a double pass to Scary Movie Six, mate,
so you can go check that one out whenever you get a set.
Oh, good, keep up.
No worries.
Have a good day, everyone.
Oh, you too, brother.
And Briar, $250 cash going into your bank account,
a double pass as well.
Oh, what's that?
Worth the embarrassment, that's a few hours of work, no doubt.
Yeah, that delivery is not coming back.
I don't have to another six hours for cheap.
See you, mate.
You're double pay today, probably.
Cliff, Megan Dan.
Yeah, let's see.
if the person that we've chosen this morning
actually answers correctly would take the edge off my life.
Otherwise,
unfortunately the money goes back into the prize pool
and you can win your share of 30 grand.
Now the person this morning is wanting $350,
Clint.
Okay. Nothing to sniff it.
Because something in their life needs an update.
Oh no.
When it goes past the fourth ring, I worry.
Take the edge off my life.
He's done it.
Yeah, get in.
Maddie from Gisd.
been good morning.
Hey, mate.
How are you?
You're still, you sound like you haven't been up long.
No.
No, just waking up, mate.
Oh, how good.
Well, you've already made 350 bucks to start in the morning.
I'm just...
Oh, me.
So you needed $350 for a new pair of walking shoes, which is interesting.
I don't know about walking shoes, you can just walk in sneakers.
But then I'm looking at your current walking shoes.
They are, they look like they've been through a zombie apocalypse.
Oh, real?
Genuantly, they look like they stink.
Push them to the max.
Yeah, well, that Nike say,
why did I get my monies mess out of this?
Oh, Jesus, I can tell you what, Maddie?
You got your monies worth, mate.
Yeah, well, we'll get that money into a bank of account
as soon as possible.
Man, you go buy yourself a fresh new pier sometime this week.
Oh, man, cheers, guys.
You're welcome, brother.
And another chance to take your job for your life at 8 o'clock this morning.
Yeah, if you haven't registered or you want to register again for something else,
go for it.
Don't be shy.
Just text the word, Edge to 333.
4-3.
Coming up next,
Meg is,
she's not here today,
but she is directing
a musical that I wrote
when I was like 15 years old.
We found it in my mum's attic,
the script.
She has put it together
and tickets are going on sale next.
If you're wanting to come along,
it's later this month in Auckland,
where there's possibility
of maybe taking it to Christchurch later,
but currently we're going to be
putting tickets on sale
for the Auckland show.
More details next.
How quick does it sell out?
I hope it sells out instantly.
I don't think it will.
We'll see. It's there.
It'll be interesting.
Flint, Megan Dan.
Hook, the life and times of Captain James Hook and the people of Neverland.
Yeah, Dan, when he was 15, wrote a script for a Hook musical,
and then it just got filed away to collect dust in his mum's attic like all of our stuff does.
But then one day, the day does come when you get a text for a mum.
And she says, hey, do you want to come and collect all your crap?
Because I'm moving, and I don't want to keep hoarding it.
And so we did, and we found the script.
And as great friends, we decided that we would put on this musical in our adult life to support slash maybe embarrass our friend Dan.
But in the process, I think we're all going to embarrass ourselves.
Yes. Oh, definitely.
And we've got a date.
So it is happening.
We haven't rehearsed.
We haven't really put the show together yet.
But there will be something happening.
It's going to be like nothing, nothing, nothing.
And then it's going to dominate our lives for about five, six days.
So it's happening Monday, June 29th starts 7 p.m. in Auckland.
Clint, it's locked in, and tickets are on sale now.
We've had a whole load of people, and God, it blows my mind that the people are actually wanting to come to this.
Because so far it's been a shocker.
Meg's playing Smee, I'm playing Hook.
Clint, you're playing Peter Pan, and our web producer Bella is playing Tinkerbell.
Yeah.
You can text Hook.
H-O-O-K to 33-4-3 will send you back the link to buy tickets.
They're $10.
And that's just to cover costs.
We're not making any sort of profit with this.
It's a bit of a token amount so that if you're first.
financially committed, then you don't on the day to say,
yeah, maybe not. And then we've empty seats
because there are only 150,
160 seats at capacity.
Yeah. So, first and first served.
Yeah, and once they're sold, they're sold.
We can't go to a bigger venue. We can't
do anything like that. So, yeah, you need
to get in quick. Rod, Norman,
Lucy, Jono, Tony,
Amanda, there's a whole bunch that have
texts already looking to get tickets.
There'll be a few other surprises
on the night as well. There's talk of us recording a podcast.
There's talk of doing other things.
So it's going to be an extravaganza.
I think Meg's husband guy was going to sell merch
and then found out that the theatre takes a cut,
so he was just going to sell them out of his boot in the car park.
Think of that.
We're a successful radio station, you would have thought.
You'd think we'd have the budget to pay the theatre
a little bit extra money so we could sell them inside the theatre.
No, we're selling them out of a boot of a Honda Jazz.
All right.
Now, here's another little idea that Dan and I have,
quietly been talking about behind Meg's back.
And because she's away sick today,
I thought maybe we'd let you in on it.
And it's really an opportunity that we're giving Meg
that no one else is getting.
So it's quite nice of us.
Because I would love to be given this opportunity.
Personally, I would love that.
To be honest, I would as well.
And I'm okay with what I'm doing.
But you may have heard Meg singing.
And I sit away.
There's a little bit of a rehearsal.
There's a
Of this pirate ship
And doesn't know
Where my hands were grown
And let me say this
When he's grey and old
We love me
She's incredible in many many ways
Too many ways to count live on air right now
But one of her strong suits
It's just not singing
She loves it but she's just not very good at her
We wondered if we could find a singer that sounds, has a similar tone to Meg,
it sings in key, and we could record her song and give Meg the honour and the exception
of being able to lip-sink her song on the night.
Because it'll make her look better.
Do you remember, like she's the star of the show, we don't want her to be the laughing stock?
Do you remember when Phoebe goes and does an ad for Smalley Cat?
And then she thinks it's her singing, but it's actually somebody else and she's just kind of lip-sinked over the top?
Yeah, it's an incredibly old reference.
but thanks for that Clint
and I think it's something
that could relate to me
and I think genuinely
she will probably be a little bit miffed at first
and she'll go I wanted to sing
righty righty righter she'll bang on her
but she'll be able to like focus on her dancing
and all the other thing
I'd love to be able to lip sync on the night
same so I'm just putting it out there
if we could find a singer
that is similar to Meg's similar tone
believable in the character of Smee
do we just let them overdub her
she's not here today
I think we need her permission
I don't think we can just start muting her mic and playing the track on the night.
We definitely need her permission.
But let's get the song recorded, then present it to her so she can hear the song.
And then if she's on board, great.
And if she's not, well, also good for her, I guess.
Someone sticks through saying, don't worry about the overdubbing.
Meg just needs to be drunk to sound good.
I don't know, Dave.
It's risky.
Drone performance on night one.
That's the other way around we all need to be drunk for Meg to sound good.
Is that what it is?
I think maybe that's an all I'm correct.
from day.
Okay, well, let's just, behind the scenes,
let's get the song recorded, presented to Meg.
And if it sounds a little like her,
she might go, yeah, no one's going to know.
I don't think she'd know if we just muted it.
She'd just think she's singing on the night.
Don't tell her.
Maybe you tell her, because I bet's not.
But if you do want tickets, remember,
there's so many people texting through,
but you can get them first and first serve $10.
Text hook, H-O-O-K-33-4-3.
Clint, Meg and Dan.
Oh, my gosh.
Bella joins us this morning as well.
Good, guys.
Morning, Dow.
Now, Bella, we've spoken about it quite a bit, haven't we, on the show,
that Bella's got a new boyfriend.
How new is it?
It's six months now-ish.
Oh, January, I think we have made it officials.
February, March, April, May, five.
Five months.
Still in the honeymoon phase, I would say.
How long does that last the honeymoon stage?
Well, I think it's over now.
Yeah, I definitely think that the act that your boyfriend, Jaden,
who has been on this station before, on Sharon and Jaden,
the thing he did recently, I would say, if it was me, if I was you,
I would have dumped his ass.
See, I disagree, obviously, because I'm still with him.
Yeah, yeah, but are there cracks now?
Are you like, I think it's made us stronger?
Wow, that's crazy.
That's crazy.
Okay, so explain to the nation listening right now.
So as everyone would know, we had Radio Awards on Thursday night,
and both of us got a bit silly, him a bit more than I.
We went to bed on Thursday night, woke up Friday morning,
and he'd fire trucked in our bed.
Yeah.
As a grown-ass man.
Yeah.
And how old is he's 20?
29?
Yeah, late 20.
And you were in the bed as well.
Did you notice he fire-trucked?
Or did he notice first and then tried to sneak you out of the bed ASAP?
He noticed first.
It was like 5 a.m.
And he woke me up and he's like, babe, I've pissed the bed.
Brilliant.
What a thing to wake your partner up with, eh?
My babe, sorry, I've found.
Yeah.
But had it sort of absorbed into your side?
Or was it just his side?
Well, he had combed out when we got home, so he was on top of the duvet.
Oh, God.
The Fener Duve
My Nana's Crochet blanket
Oh no
So it had gone through everything
All the way through to the mattress
And is your Nana still with us?
She's still with us yeah
Oh good so she could crochet another
She can yeah
You gotta have to message her and go
Nana my boyfriend pissed on the one you made
Can you please make me?
Can you do another one please?
Now Dan had a very interesting take on this
behind the scenes
Because if you don't break up with them
and you stay it puts you in a power position
It does
Because I said if this was
If the tables had turned, and this was Hannah, my gorgeous wife, it would never happen.
But if she did, oh, I'd milk that shit.
You'd be dining out on it being like, whatever, you vacuum.
You pissed the bed last month.
She'd go, you're on dinner tonight, and I'll be like, but you pissed the bed last week, which makes you on dinner tonight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, I pick up the kids in sports practice.
You pissed the bed last year.
You do it.
Yeah, exactly.
You're dining out on it for a year.
My goodness.
I can sometimes get a bit too silly on the lemonade, but now it's like nothing compared to that.
You'd never do that, would you?
Never done that, ever.
I had a friend, I won't name them, but they are another person that has been on the station before.
And they, a similar situation, had a few tins, got up in the middle of the night and they were a sleepwalker and urinated.
It was at Christmas time over all the Christmas tree presents.
So the kids wake up Christmas morning and our dad, what?
I don't think it was Christmas Eve.
Smell like wheeze.
Monster jam.
I remember when John did that.
No, I'd say it's brought us closer together.
Okay.
Yeah, because if I did it, I think he'd be pretty all good about it.
I was all good when he did it.
It's fine.
Oh, I didn't do the edge text three, three, four, three.
What was the thing that happened in the relationship that made you second guess it?
Yeah.
Doesn't mean you pulled the pin.
Maybe we can guess whether you did pull the pin, but you went,
okay, that's the type of person I'm with, okay.
Do I lean in or do I bail ASAP?
Someone's text through saying stop calling her web girl, Bella.
No, they're saying stop calling her weird girl.
Bella. It's web. Web because she looks after
all about digital stuff. All
the Instagrams, the videos you see, that's our
web girl. Yeah. Weird
Girl Bella sort of suits it now.
We're talking about this situation. It also fits, yeah.
Okay, yeah, well, what was the thing that happened
in your relationship? Early doors where you
started second guess and going, I don't know if I
want to stay here or not. Good for you though.
Thanks, guys. You've got a line and he hasn't
crossed it yet. I was
pretty close to the line, surely. Did you at least
tell him off? Give him a little telling off.
I think he almost cried in the shower.
I didn't want to tell him off anymore.
I wait under the edge.
Clint, Megan Dan.
Oh my gosh.
Our web girl, Bella, joins us because her boyfriend of five months
accidentally fire trucked the bed after a boozy night.
We want to know what happened early in the relationship
that caused you to second guess whether or not you should be in it.
But you didn't second guess at all.
I didn't actually, no.
Wow.
There was not one little iota of brain power in you
that was like, maybe this isn't the relationship for me.
No, I was just full strip the bed mug.
Let's just go back to bed.
Good on you.
God, you're a good person, Bella.
I love this text.
This is the moment they second guest, the relationship.
He didn't like horror movies or slushies.
Yeah, but if you're really into them and passionate about it, you know?
That's so niche, though.
Like, I understand not even one likes horror movies.
I don't know anyone that doesn't like a slushie.
What if he'd just like horror movies, but we could take or leave the slushie?
Would that still be a game changer?
It's such a weird reason to break up with somebody.
This person's always also text for saying,
Game Changer for me was finding out he had multiple short films on the hub with his previous
partner.
Oh, that'll do it?
But do you think because it was a previous relationship, but maybe he's a different person
now with you?
I think it depends on the person, and if you care about that stuff being out there or not.
This one I think would get me second-guessing, not breaking up, potentially, depends on the
person.
I looked at his email inbox and he had 47,000 unread emails.
I got pure panic.
Started rethinking our entire future.
You're someone who has that many...
Like, if you're never going to read them,
select all, delete all.
I've got 17,000.
Oh, gosh.
It just says to me, you don't have your life together.
But it all it is, is...
You're not an admin guy.
I need an admin person.
It's those spammy ones that you get,
like Rebel Sport, Hellenstein Brothers, Zoom.
They might have some good deals.
Publicity stuff.
You wouldn't just select all and delete
and get yourself at least back to being on top of this.
Yeah, but then when I do select all and delete,
I get nervous that I'm going to delete something important.
But you're not going to go back and read.
The ones that are important.
Mark is red.
Yeah, okay.
What's another one?
We ordered pizza and he ate it from the crust inward, like a psychopath.
Oh, nah.
Who raised this kid, I was thinking.
To be honest, I don't mind that, though, because you're eating the worst part first,
so you're saving the best till last.
I do that with other meals.
Like, if I have a steak and chips and, like, broccoli and peas,
I'd go peas, broccoli, chips, steak.
True, I do the same thing, actually.
Yeah.
Really?
Save the best to last, so you're always looking forward to the last.
But, Jessica.
No, but that you want to do you want to.
to eat the steak first, so you eat the best part while it's hot, so it's at its absolute best.
Oh, when you put it like that, I guess, I do sound like a crazy person.
My boyfriend Firetrucks, oh, here you go, Bella, just like your boyfriend.
My boyfriend Firetruck and then vomited on my mum's cream-coloured carpet after a sister's wedding.
And if it's early doors in a relationship, like first six months, oh, that's bad.
Yeah, that's...
We've been married 15 years!
Someone else said, did I hear that Bella is dating Jade and from the old E Javos?
You heard correct, Kristen?
Yeah, they're a happy couple.
How a couple.
Somebody else was during a game of Monopoly,
hiding $500 bills under the board
and ended up having a bit of an argument over it.
That's funny.
Anyone that's like one of those board game like crazies,
it's like, mate, we're not playing for anything.
I do say, though, if you want to test a relationship
early in the time you've been dating, play Monopoly.
And get one of you to be the banker.
They can get heated.
Yeah, really heated.
And last one, here, he, Dan's done this.
He clapped when the plane landed.
Not for a deer, wasn't polite.
It was loud, passionate.
He did a standing ovation.
In that exact moment, all my romantic feelings just evaporated.
Yeah, mine was for a deer.
I've also said to the air hostess,
could you have my compliments to the pilot's great landing?
Breakfast hits harder.
With Clint McGinnett.
All right, taking your job my life next.
If you've registered, we could be calling you
to give you the cash that you've asked for.
I've just got to do what was his name did it?
clock this morning and answer would take the edge off my life.
The one we're going to call...
Matt? Yeah, Matt from Gisbon.
If we get them on, this is going to be a very interesting chat with this person
because the money they're wanting to use this thing for is the first we've had from this.
Yeah, because we get a lot of people wanting to pay up for mechanic bills,
dentist bills, a lot of grocery stuff, but haven't seen a request for this before.
It is life admin, but a very deep type of life admin.
We'll get to it next on the edge.
Clint, Megan Dan.
Take the edge off.
Take the edge off my life.
You could be winning whatever you need to take the edge off.
Do you have an expensive weekend, Dan?
I wouldn't say it was that expensive, Clint.
No.
Yeah, my wife is recovering from surgery.
So you had a pretty quiet weekend at home.
Save a lot of money when you don't go out.
Yeah, although I did have to fill up my car.
That's a bit of a mortgage thing in it at the moment.
You have to remortgage the house to be there.
But we're about to call a person that I think,
I mean, this is a first for us what we're paying for here.
True.
We see a lot of people requesting money for a lot.
of things. Not this.
Going to Christchurch this morning, hopefully she answers.
Take the edge off my life.
Take the edge off my life.
Glenda.
Well done.
Now, this is interesting because I've got your application in front of us.
You've obviously got the bunny because you've answered with the right thing.
What are you wanting to use $242 for?
To divorce my husband.
Wow.
How long have you, obviously, you've been separated for a...
a time? How long?
On the 19th of June, it will be
seven years. So you're
a little bit like my mum and dad, because my mum and dad
split up very many years ago
and they didn't officially get divorced, I think,
for over 20 years. They only just did it a couple
of years ago. Wow, I couldn't
last that long, they're great people.
Wait, why seven years? Because you only have to wait, too.
We're just leaving the door ajar just in case
you know, change their stripes?
Definitely not. I just couldn't
get them to go, you know?
Stage 5 Klinger.
Right, so then the 240 bucks you can finally file the paperwork,
get on with your life officially.
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
No worries, Glendell, get that sorted out for you.
Oh, Glenda, are you doing a divorce party?
I hear of those happening more often.
Yeah, I do.
Do you want to do one for me?
No, you've got your $242.
Okay, I'll put on a barbecue then.
Let us know.
Let us know what it is.
Yeah, we'll bring some snacks.
Clint will come along an MCN.
for you for free. Pro bono.
Oh, perfect.
There you go.
Tori might be thinking about it. She's just text going,
is it only 242 bucks to divorce someone?
I thought it was thousands by the big deal everyone
makes. Yeah, I think it is depending on
what the court stuff is. Like, who gets
the furniture, who gets the microwave,
all that stuff. If you can both agree
on your terms, happy days, you go
your separate ways pretty quickly. Well done, Glenda.
Coming up next, we are doing
one of the, I think Meg was
very, very nervous about this.
It's time for Clint, Meg and Dan.
lie detector results.
Yeah.
You can ask,
you can ask obviously anything.
And I think sometimes
when you're strapped up to a lie detector test,
not answering,
is just as bad as answering.
You know, like, so you've got to be a little bit careful
that we didn't stitch each other up
and we kept all the punches above the waist.
And this is the one you, like,
you've heard lie detector tests being done on radio before
where it's this wacky thing you brought from Timu
and it just measures your crappy heart rate.
This is full-on, like, detective sergeant person,
strapping up to a heart rate monitor.
There was like a blood pressure thing
hooked up to our fingers.
It was legit.
Yeah, the guy was saying
that he'd been a detective
for many, many years.
So I was like, okay.
He was wearing almost like
some sort of a cowboy hat, though.
Yeah, I think he was like
a real old school detective.
Right.
I don't think they wear cowboy hats anymore.
No, not that common.
All right, you might learn a thing or two.
Next.
And there are a few times, honestly,
I thought I could beat the system, yeah?
Just keep my breathing nice and slow.
Of course, you thought you could beat it.
Megan Dan
Let's go
It's time for Clint
Megan Dan's
lie detector results
I'm kind of glad
Meg's away today
Yeah
Well just based in this part alone
Because she doesn't get to take more shots
What would you ask
Your best friend
If they were hooked up to a
legit lie detector
Like a full professional
detective controlling it
Heart rate monitor
Blood pressure
Yeah because they had like a green
A blue and a red line
That were bouncing all over the place
I don't know what they were doing
But every time they started bouncing
You knew
that a lie was about to come.
And I thought I could probably
keep my heart right down,
keep my breathing steady,
and get away with a couple of cheeky lies.
That's so classic Clint.
I mean, throughout this week,
we're going to be taking turns in the slide detector.
The first cab off the rank is Clinton.
Sometimes, though, when you're asking a question,
it needed context.
It wasn't just a yes or no.
It's too hard to just be like, yes or no,
without being given more information.
So let me paint the picture.
You're in this dark room.
There's a man, an elderly man,
who was, I think all I could say is he's maybe like a retired detective or something where he's,
he's maybe a private investigator.
Dressed all in black and then had like a cowboy hat, some sort on.
The cowboy hat made him seem scarier.
And he was man a few words as well.
Like he was had no, he was not cracking any funnies.
He just sort of turned and he'd look and shake his head like, nah.
Yeah, we had all these wires going out of Clint.
And Meg and I are standing there asking questions.
This was the first question that came up for Clint.
Do you dye your hair to get rid of the grey?
No
I didn't
I didn't
Oh my god
That is the biggest
I didn't used to
Now I do
So the lie detector said he was lying
Yeah
Again like I said
It's not why I used to do it
I just noticed now
I didn't even know what my natural hair colour was
anymore because they died so often
We then started to ramp up the questions
To a little bit more serious
In your opinion Clint
When did your life peak
Three years ago
four years ago
four years ago
that's when he wasn't on the edge
Drew
like I was like living on a beret
like on the beach for two months
doing reality television
I mean you know
I wasn't getting up at 4 am
I was only working like three days a week
it was the best
you're still doing a cushy job
and he's still not happy
he does have to work with me
the hardest part was that my family
because it was COVID weren't able to come
so I just missed them terribly
on a similar vein to that question
I thought I'd ask a little bit of a follow-up
question or I think Meg asked this one actually
If you were offered a TV role tomorrow
Would you quit and take it?
Oh
It depends on the role
No
No, I wouldn't
God, he's only lied
I honestly don't think I win
I genuinely think I'd
I genuinely think of the
I'd juggle both
Just like I did with the Fiji game
Nah
If they came back and said the Masked Singer's coming back
It's either radio or the Mask Singer
You'd be straight away
No he's been more
Mass Singer in a week
He's nowhere thrown away
Your Career Radio for
And
This was the question I think
could have been the most scandalous one.
Do you have a favourite between Meg or Dan?
My goodness, okay.
That's the one that surprises me, the world.
That was mean.
That was mean that.
We've got the answer next.
And there's a few more Curlies as well that are coming up.
If what you wish for, we'll ask off.
It's time for Clint Meg and Dan's lie detector results.
I'd like to do this with my partner, even though there might be some like...
Home truths.
truths coming out. At least you can't hide.
I don't know. I think ignorance is bliss sometimes.
Really?
Yeah. Like, as I will think certain things,
and my partner may or may not say,
but the reality of knowing that you're right or that you were wrong,
it's different.
Well, each of us is going to sit in the hot seat this week.
Clint was the first cab off the rank.
We left you with this little caradangler,
a question that I think Meg asked.
Do you have a favourite between me, Godin?
No.
It will never know.
Why can't I make this thing?
We could ask the follow up, but I feel like that too now.
It will break the whole show up.
Is it dad? No, I'm just trying.
Ignorance is bliss on that.
Yeah. I think Clint likes the person that turns up to work
and Meg's not here today.
No, I think it's one of those ones.
It's like kids, you know, when they ask if you've got a favourite,
you say no, but your favourite probably changes from day to day.
Yeah, whoever's less mean to you on the day.
This was another question which I think is very telling of you, Clint.
This is, honestly, this one is where.
when I started thinking this lie detector wasn't legit.
In your opinion,
are you wasted at the edge?
No.
He's done my...
Honestly,
Jesus Christ.
Oh, no.
He's all over the man.
I'm not trying to beat it.
Have you could see his heart rate monitor there?
Because I was looking at the screen
where it's measuring all his vital signs and stuff.
It was like a volcanic eruption
had just happened.
I think the rick to scale would have...
No, but yours are just getting nervous
because you go, oh, here we go,
I'm going to get stitched up here,
and then you try and calm yourself down.
It's already going mental,
and I haven't even said anything yet.
It's like it knows I'm going to life.
Where do you think you could be if you were at the edge, Clint?
I think he could be in a boy band or something.
And this was another question that I think...
I think he sort of...
He blew cover here.
Oh, but I think fair, though.
I think that my answer was fair.
Have you ever heard one of Meg's ideas
and thought it was awful,
but stayed quiet knowing she hit to fall on the sword herself.
It's a team show.
We should all have our ideas.
I can't poo-poo everything.
Okay, same question.
Have you ever heard one of Dan's ideas
and thought it was awful,
but stayed quiet knowing he has to fall on his sword himself?
Yes.
I want to know what the ideas were.
That's why he thinks he belongs somewhere else
because he's sick of all our shit.
Dan, we've been working together almost four years.
Megan I've been working together tent.
There's bound to be one idea
that you guys have ever up gone.
Yeah, I don't know.
Well, the good news is,
You could try this for yourself because it's part of a thing KFC's doing, right?
Yeah, they're driving around in this blacked out van,
and they've got this lie detector test that they can hook you up to.
It's part of their fan feed menu, which is KFC's limited time game day offering,
which you can get amongst the fan feed menu.
So we appreciate you guys letting us jump in and have our fun with it.
And Meg Mansell, the gorgeous Meg Mansell, she's back tomorrow.
She's going to be in the lie detector tomorrow, this time tomorrow, on the show.
Maybe just text through some questions that you'd want us to,
ask her. Yeah. What would you like to know about our Meg Mansell?
What have you always gone? I want to know if she's lying about that.
And Danedan, we need to hear from you next. You feature in small town news with a bit of drama
that's going on in your city next. Clint Megandandan. Clint Megand Dan, small town news, see?
With an asterisk, not a small town. It's a big city in Danedan, but I guess it is small news
within the city. Although not if you talk to Andrew Sims, who is the Dunedin City councillor.
The famous Deneidan dinosaur
in the old playground
that could soon become extinct.
Isn't that sad?
I mean, we went down to Deney
a couple of years ago, Clint for something,
and we all slid on the slide.
And I do remember
it smelling a little bit urinary.
And the thing is,
when something starts to smell like urine,
do you keep it?
Well,
or do you throw it out.
Well, I mean, you can always give it a clean,
I guess, if those are the options.
A good water blasting.
Morning, Andrew.
Morning, guys.
How are you?
Yeah, good, thanks for George.
us on the phone. Are you the same Andrew Sims
that does Mitsubisies?
Yes, I am.
Oh, great. I bought a car off you once.
Great deal.
You got a lot of hats.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate your business.
It was a great deal.
Now, you, correct me if I'm wrong, Andrew,
one of the first down the slides back in the day.
Oh, yes, I was.
I remember in 1969,
queuing up with about three or 400 other kids who had to queue for hours,
the day it was opened.
Right.
Wow.
So nearly 40 years ago.
And when was the last time you slid down it?
I slid down it on national television on last week.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I made a complete fool of myself on national TV,
but it's worth it to save the dinosaur.
Yeah, good on you.
So you're a full advocate for saving the dinosaur.
Do you think it's...
100%.
Do you want to keep in its original state,
or do you don't mind like an upgrade
as long as they kind of keep the essence
of what makes the dinosaur great?
I think it's really important.
I think the nostalgia attached to it is really important.
It's been there for nearly 60 years.
We've got people contacting me that went there as a child.
They've then taken their children there, and they're now taking their grandchildren there.
So I think those things are really important.
It can be repurposed, can be retained.
You know, there are some that say replace it, but I think, you know, we're far better.
You know, those sort of memories are really, really important.
I'm looking at a photo of it now, Andrew.
And I must say, since the 19, when it was built, I think there's been more research done on dinosaurs.
and I don't think they had a staircase on the back of them in real life.
But I think, you know what, it is a beautiful thing.
I think it's got an air of kind of nostalgia about it.
And I can imagine someone like you that's lived in Dunedinian for many years
and it's just been a staple.
It'd be sad to see it go.
You're 100% right.
When it was built and it had a ladder.
It was about a three metre ladder up the back of it.
He had to clamber up to get up and then slide down.
At some stage, the council obviously decided that it was probably a little bit dangerous.
So it's now got the enclosed staircase coming up to it.
That's why it looks like it's been built in two bits.
But he is, look, he's developed a personality over that time.
And I think that preserving, that's really important.
Yeah, well, if they're going to be spending, it says it's a multi-million dollar upgrade.
Yeah, it feels like they could just give him a new paint job
and kind of like keep him as part of the new playground, I think.
It'd be like if Auckland Zoo got rid of the dragon.
You know, I've got photos of myself when I was a kid in.
inside the mouth and now I've got photos of my kid inside the mouth and crawling along in the
You were the opening day wasn't it was built before the war but Clint was there.
I will say though like it is.
It seems like a lot of money for a refurbishment of a dinosaur.
Million dollars?
No, they're doing the whole playgrounds and they're just working out whether to keep the dinosaur or lose them, right?
Andrew?
Yeah, it's $4.6 million to do the whole playground into something pretty spectacular.
Yeah, cool.
And look, council has picked up that some of the designs didn't have the dinosaur in it.
and that's what we've responded to saying
no, no, no, whatever we do, we've got to keep these
historic structures that
have been a part of our childhood
and have been a real, real part of the need for so long
and they absolutely can be repainted, refurbished,
made safe, repurposed
and incorporated, I think,
within what the playground designers want to do for the whole park, absolutely.
Well, that's great.
Well, thank you very much, Andrew.
You've been great, and if you do want to cheat Mitsubishi,
great deal, he's your man.
And so how to Charlie and Harper for us,
hear they're big fans of the show.
They really are.
They listen to you every morning on the way to school,
and they really appreciate the shout out.
Oh, morning, Charlie, morning Harper.
We love you guys, thanks.
I want to hear more of Clint, Meg and Dan,
but completely unfiltered.
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