The Edge Breakfast - FULL SHOW MC/DC is official!

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

This Podcast caption was blatantly written by AI... Join Clint, Meg, and Dan as they navigate a humorous yet frustrating journey of trying to buy a fish. The gang also dives into an exclusive chat with Taylor Swift tribute act Shannon Barford and her exciting New Zealand tour. To top it off, Meg's candid and heartwarming interview with Gracie Abrams explores the singer's admiration for Lorde, her songwriting process, and more. Stick around for laughs, revelations, and as always, a bit of chaos. Don't miss it! 00:00 Introduction and Morning Banter06:12 Radio I Spy and Listener Engagement09:26 Celebrity Crushes and Music Tours13:24 Listener Stories and Radio Interaction14:16 Band Auditions and Mitch James19:04 Grace Before Dinner and Mario Kart Miracles26:25 Gracie Abrams Interview36:07 Band Name Selection41:34 The Impossible Subway Guessing Game46:53 News Stories and Sleep Deprivation58:44 The Fish Saga Continues01:10:24 Taylor Swift Tribute Act Interview

This is a podcast from Rover. Welcome to the podcast equivalent of a You Up text. Messy, slightly regrettable, but you'll still come back for more. This is the Clint Beck and Dan podcast. As the nation slowly wakes up from their slumber. These three have been awake for hours. Crafting their finest content. Preparing the latest in music and celeb news,

restocking the prize cupboard, and sharpening their wit. And now, they're ready. Put down your coffee, fasten your seatbelt, and turn up your radio. Because it's time for Clint, Meg and Dan. Yeah, it is.

Good morning. Bang on six o'clock. Wednesday, 30th of April. Pump day. The first long week in a while. And we're getting through it, guys. We're getting through. Is that why I'm struggling?

Yeah. That or you're 40 now. You know when Clint says he sits down in the shower when you know it's going to be a bad day when he's sat down in the shower. He's got one of those little seats that has signs. No way. For disabled people. Yeah, he's got that installed in his house.

He's got the bars installed in the shower. I just sit down. This morning I was like, I need to get out of the shower. And then instead of getting out, I was like, I'm just going to sit down for a couple of minutes. I have never once sat down. What a depressing thing to do. Have you never?

Do you not? Of course I have. Have you? Yeah, when I'm feeling, yeah, depressed. When I'm feeling really sad, I sit on the shower. That would be, if I sat down on the shower. Normally cry. I'd have an out-of-body experience and I'd go, you sad little man.

Well, that's what happens. That's what you do. Yeah. You cry. It's good to just feel sorry for yourself for a few minutes and go, oh my god, I feel like death. And then I start going, how much longer can I keep doing this for? You get in a spiral and then I'm like, I need to get out of the shower.

You mean life? Should we worry about our friend? I think we need to be worried about our friend. He does this every morning. And then I'm just like, no, he'll get to work. Have a moussachi, you'll be fine. Have a pre-workout without any of the workout. It does make me quite itchy behind the ears.

I'm not sure what that is. Well, something to cheer you up today. Meg interviewed Gracie Abrams yesterday, and we've got the interview today. Yeah. Seven and eight. Wow. We'll play a different bit.

We're playing it twice. Well, I think there'll probably be enough there that we can play different bits across both hours, sure. Producer Nip is listening through it now, so he's going to find the bits he needs. Yeah, we're getting all the gold. Yeah, all the gold. Also, after this song, we'll kick it off with Alex Warren.

After this, I think quite possibly the greatest 6am throwback and reason to be playing this song we've ever had. Meg came up with it, literally just plucked it from her head. Yeah. And I was like, oh, my God. Amazing what sits in there. You are brilliant. Yeah, if you're sitting down in the shower right now listening,

you'll be straight back up stiff. Yeah. And we're about to get into a 6am throwback. Early morning throwback. Are you excited for your Wednesday the 30th of April? And we were like, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? We passed the ball to Meg

and she literally ran through everyone, fended off the defenders. Yeah, did a field goal, kicked it off her foot. Well, she's got to score first. Oh, right. Yeah, she waved through the line, dove in the corner. Yeah, did a field goal, kicked it off her foot. She's got to score first. Oh, right. Yeah, she weaved through the line, dove in the corner, scored, and then she converted her own tribe with this one.

Yeah. How often do you think this happens, boys, where I have an idea, you're like, actually, that's really good. I think this is the first one. No, surely one other. I can't remember. Surely one other.

There's got to be two. There's got to be two somewhere in there. It's the second time. And Meg was like, oh, my God. And then she did that thing where you're like, oh, my God, I'm so amazing. And I was like, you know what? Fair this time. Wow, I think you sort of ruined it for her because she celebrated too much.

No, but I'm like, if it's justified, I don't mind someone celebrating what they've done. If you go, yeah, fair enough, it is actually worth you tooting your own horn for. I thought it was weird when she kicked her heels. This is the one time in the show that we get to play like a proper throwback that our boss has given us like complete access to, the whole system. And today is the 30th of April, which means tomorrow it's going to be May. I think I do. Never think enough for you. Tomorrow It's gonna be May How good I wish you'd given that a little bit more gusto

Do it again Do it more like Could you come in with me? Because you know Okay So today is the 30th of April Which means It's gonna be May.

I was just gonna say tomorrow first. Oh, you wrecked it. I think you wrecked it. It's gonna be May. Tomorrow, so... Yeah. Not today. Yeah, so if you're tuning in halfway through,

you're like, what the hell's going on there? Yeah, May tomorrow, 30th of April today. If it was May, though, it would be... It is May. It's not as good. Watch out for your mates that still get into the old pinch and the punch too. Tomorrow. Yeah.

Meg's one of those people. Meg's one of them to the point a month though. We will all hide in the bushes at like 5.30 in the morning still waiting for Meg to pull up so we can all jump out and go It's gotten super serious. We can't do that now though though, because she's pregnant. You guys still do that.

You did it last month. Yeah, but now you're quite heavily. It's kind of like, I just watched this movie recently with my kids, Tag. Yes, I love that movie. And that's based on a true story. Yeah, at the end of the movie, they show, like, there's actually, like, maybe 12 or 14 guys that since high school or, like, maybe primary school have done this tag game.

Oh, I love that. In the movie, in the month of May, you can be tagged, but you can't take your master. So if it was, say, the team here with Producer Carl and Producer Neeps, during May, Dan, if I put my hand on you, you're now it, and whoever at the end of May is it loses and has the shame for a year.

But I can't tag you back. You can't tag him back. And that seems kind of normal, Dan, if you haven't seen this movie. But what these guys did in real life, they lived overseas from each other. They would fly in, they would dress up as bosses,

they would go to funerals, they would like... Oh, wow. One of them applied for a position at his friend's work as a janitor, in the movie at least. I don't know how true that is. So that when he's going past him at work

as a janitor, he'd tag him. So they've gone... It was amazing. You just wish you were in that friend group. Yeah, and I wonder if... I mean, that's kind of where we get with just the first of each month trying to get Meg. Yeah, okay. Trying to tag her. So good.

I was in a taxi yesterday, and it was at the same time... Old school! It's retro. No, you're right. It was an Uber. It was an Uber. Why did I say that? Do anybody still get a taxi? No, no. Only if you're like, I was an Uber. It was an Uber. Why did I say that? Do anybody still get a taxi? No, no. Only if you're like, I think, after like a concert. And you just take what you get.

And they're like, taxi. You're like, yeah, sure. I just need to get out of here. Clint's got taxi energy. And I was sitting in the back seat. We didn't say anything. I'm not a chatter. But that's not me trying to be rude.

I'm just not a big chatter in Ubers. You hate plebs. And I noticed that this person was listening to the Edge Drive show. So the Edge Afternoons with Steph, Sean and Harrison. Great show. And I let the show know. I was like, oh, hey, my Uber driver's listening. It's always nice to know when you're just...

Abe. Yes, Abe. Steph, the... Was he in a Honda Odyssey? No, it was the Toyota Prius. Oh, okay. That would have been my guess. Missed the joke? What is it? Oh, it was the Toyota Prius. Oh, okay. That would have been my guess. Missed the joke?

What is it? Oh, it's just a video gaming joke. Abe's Odyssey. Yeah, yeah. One for the millennials. He was listening away, and we didn't speak or anything, but I started messaging Steph from the Edge Afternoon Show, and she started asking me to describe him in full detail.

So I didn't get to see it but they play this little game called Radio I Spy to see if anybody meets the criteria that they're saying like who's driving an orange car

who's a receptionist and his name's Stacey and if they get it you get a prize. So I described this man in the fullest detail. Great. White cap

grey and white polo he has a thermos that's peeling that's got a black lid and I went I'm just like white cap, grey and white polo. Here's a thermos that's peeling, that's got a black lid. That's so good. I'm just like, she messaged me. The man didn't call us. Can you believe it?

Can you believe it? Come on. I was like, oh, my God, what an incredible moment for him to be driving around. I wasn't even in the car anymore, so he could have called someone. Driving around going, that's bloody me. The peeling drink bottle would have got me. I would have been like, yeah, I'm an Uber driver, yes, I drive that car, but hold on,

I've got a pearling drink bottle. They described everything he was wearing, everything that I could see in the car, and still didn't get him. Some people, which made me realise, some people just won't call radio stations. They'll listen, but they're just not calling. You've actually stitched up the game to tailor it specifically to this one individual, and he's still

going, nah, not today. No, it didn't. It's quite amazing to me when we do a first time caller. Or like when someone will call and they're a first time caller and you're like, wonder what it was about today that made you go, I'll call them today. True. Yeah. I actually, but I work on radio, but I actually don't think I'd have the guts to call a radio station. So I always take my hat off to people that do.

Even if you're completely destroyed. Because I don't want to. If I'm a normal, like if I'm a person that's going about my day, I don't want to talk to three wacky personalities, you know, especially at this time of the morning. I called Newstalk ZB years ago. About Serena Williams? Yeah, it was like a long weekend.

I was talking about how Serena came here and just threw the game because she lost in the first round. They were like, she just came here for the appearance money. And I was like, the appearance fee was like 15 grand do you know how much Serena Williams is worth she definitely would not have done that

and I got so angry I called and I was sitting there like shaking like I was so nervous I was like oh my god I'm on the radio

everyone's gonna hear me it's a boomer move so I get it when you're like I'm too nervous to call I get it poor Abe Abe one day

one day Abe will call Clint, Meg and Dan. Oh, my gosh. What are you guys fangirling over? Oh, Meg's just got a crush on Role Model.

Got a new crush. It's very exciting for me, everybody. Meg just realised as well, Role Model, who's, I think, is his name Tucker? Tucker Pillsbury.

Yeah, he's got a lot of patchwork tattoo as well. Yeah. It's more his, I've just been watching his personality and I really like him. He got Bo and Yang upwork tattoo as well. Yeah. It's more his, I've just been watching his personality and I really like him. He got Bowen Yang up to be Sally in his song.

He normally gets a person from the audience to be Sally during his bridge. He got Bowen Yang who's from Wicked and I just, them dancing together has just sparked something. He's got his upcoming tour with Gracie Abrams. But obviously didn't come to New Zealand because Gracie played last night. So it says his... I think he's doing North

American dates with her. Epic. Epic. Great. His upcoming tour with Gracie Abrams. So she must be opening for him. No. He's opening for her. She's huge. Give me a time. Really? Yeah. Maybe more so overseas. I think Gracie is still, like she was amazing. The concert was

crazy last night by the way. Sea of girls, or women, outside in the rain, lining up to see her hours before it opened. And she's been around. I guess Royal Monarchs only just really popped up on the scene, like, this year. So, yeah, it would be crazy if Gracie was opening for them, actually. We're blocking the candle with Meg.

You're a sexist pig, Clint. LaQuinta Parnell, a brand new hotel in the heart of Auckland City. We come for an adventure collide. Book your stay today at laquintaparnell.co.nz. Any guesses on who made Ed Sheeran Jam? You guys should be able to get this. It's a sitter. Come on.

Is it Taylor Swift? Yes. Yeah, okay. Of course it is. I didn't know she made jam. Oh, if anybody were to. She's an artisan person. If anybody were to make a jam, it'd be Taylor Swift, surely.

I'd love to eat some of Taylor Swift's jam. I bet she makes a good jam. Delicious. Raspberry? Yeah, it looks like raspberry, actually. It does. It does. Yeah, he posted up some throwback photos this morning,

which I thought was really cool, on his Instagram. Did a big throwback saying, put the sound on and have a listen. I got rid of my phone 2015 and moved into email full time I just turned my phone off December 15 and that was it when I got sued

the judge made me go back through my phone and that's remember he said in the interview that's why he wrote that song that he turned his phone on and found all these

texts from people that had passed away it looks like he's now uploaded some of those photos which include photos of him with Taylor from 2015 him with Benny Bl Taylor from 2015,

him with Benny Blanco from 2015. Also just some notes in his phone. Fourth of November, he wrote this note. One friend left to sell clothes. One works down by the coast. One had two kids but lives alone. One brother's overdosed. Ringing any bells yet?

Yeah. One already on his second wife. One barely is just getting by. These are my best friends we were raised by. And so obviously that became the castle on the hill. That's so cool. I love that people like Ed Sheeran just open their notes up and just like jot something down

and it becomes that massive song, you know? Yeah, yeah. He has a little, look at this tiny little like insert in a magazine. It's a little photo of him when he was still just beginning. And it says Ed Sheeran, his career bit flying, but Ed's admitted all he really wants is a girlfriend.

And now he's like a dad of two and stuff. Must be really cool to look back over those things. One of the photos is a photo of some jam that Taylor Swift gave him and it has a little note on it saying, yo Ed, I'm really happy for you and I'm going to let you finish but this is the best jam of all time. That's so cool. Which is nice to see that back then

she was joking about it because that is the speech Kanye West did to interrupt her all those years ago. Now imagine, just for a second, imagine if he'd kept that jar of jam now, how much it would be worth. That would sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's only worth what someone's going to pay for it. Do you think someone's going to pay hundreds of dollars for it?

Because it's got it handwritten on the front of it, that iconic line, Taylor Swift has written it and signed it. It's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wouldn't, but some person would. I mean, I think you're right. I think the note and her having a joke at something that was like hugely like a pop culture moment in history,

it makes it worth more. Hundreds of thousands? Yeah, definitely. Didn't somebody pay hundreds of thousands for a piece of toast that looked like Jesus? Yes. Yeah, that'd be all right. That's what makes me think that's worth more. How long do you reckon you could go without your phone, you know, when Ed Sheeran just decided to turn his off for however many years?

How long do you think he'd turn yours off for? I think I'd like to, but my anxiety of thinking that somebody had passed away or was trying to call me, or like about to pass away, they had a crash, and they go, I need to call me, get my last words to work. That's words to her that's honestly when i'm missing a call that's what i think it is yeah i think if i didn't do this job i would not use my phone i think i could if i had to i think i could go without it for a week and then i think i think it would change the habits of your relationship with your phone after like a week it almost like reset or reprogram your brain and then maybe your relationship would be different. Yeah.

I do love a YouTube scroll though. Oh God, I love getting into a deep dark scroll when it's good, when it's really good. Oh, a dark scroll. But his phone, old phone, I think it's coming out this Friday, so a couple of days till we get to hear it. The Clint, Meg and Dan podcast.

If you didn't know, we're starting a band and yesterday we auditioned for Mitch James. Take a listen. We should start a band. Clint, Meg and Dan are on a mission to see if they can start a band with zero prior music experience. The problem is, Dan, just one teeny tiny little issue. None of us play instruments.

The instruments were decided. Meg on the drums, Clint on the lead guitar and Dan playing rhythm. Oh my God, it's clearly me on drums. Hold on, wait, wait, wait. What's easier? Rhythm guitar's easier. Oh, I'll take rhythm. Nicholas is going to do that funny phrase with his face.

I'm more than happy if Dan takes that easier option. Rhythm doesn't get to do solos though. Then we caught up with Max James and he may have let this slip. I haven't booked an opener. Just saying. That's exciting. If we really want to make me look good, I'm pretty down. You know what I mean?

So the challenge was set. We headed away on holiday to practice on the axe and the skins all holiday long. And that brings us to today, our official audition for Mitch James. So we did that yesterday and Meg got the highest praise for Mitch James. Wish us luck. So we did that yesterday and Meg got the highest praise from Mitch James. Are you ready to hear back your audition to Mitch? Because I think it's different performing to hearing it back. I do think I was a little shaky.

I don't think I did my best performance. You know when you do your best at home alone and then you did it. I wasn't so happy, but he seemed happy with it. Now. Oh, shaky, wait. It's the machine. It's the machine.

The band drummer always blames the drum. Here she goes. I think some of it turned off. Oh, yeah. That sounded good. I've heard worse. I've heard worse. I've heard worse.

Okay, yeah. Yeah. Okay, so my little fill in the middle, I definitely didn't do enough. I know where I went wrong there, but... Fills are hard, though. Fills are hard. I was very nervous. You know what?

I don't think that sounds like somebody that picked up drumsticks for the first time two weeks ago. Yeah. I'm proud of that. I agree. Okay, then there was Dan. His score was slightly lower than Meg's. I think Meg got a 6.5. Dan got a 5 from Mitch.

Ready? 3, 2, 1, go. Oh, shit. Here we go. 3, 2, 1. Come on. Meg on the drums. This is chemistry here.

This is chemistry. Oh, not really good. It's pretty good, Dad. I mean, you're hitting all the notes. Yeah. It was, look, I was happy. I think, like Meg, I was happy with my performance. I've done it better.

Done it better. The nerves got to me. Okay, and I've definitely done it better. I got a two from Mitch out of ten, and my daughter must have been listening on the way into school because she said to me, she goes, it wasn't bad, Dad. It wasn't bad.

You've definitely done it better, but it wasn't bad. And then I started thinking maybe Mitch did me dirty, and I'm about to hear right now if he did or not. Oh, she's lying or not. I don't know. All right. No pressure. Okay.

Only my entire show, last show, career depends on it. Oh. It's worse and worse and you sort of lose your way. And that was, I think that was the fourth or fifth time. I think producing

is in your real service there. Yeah. Because that was when we're like, we're going to go to a break and come back and let Clint try again. That was your best performance of the day. Yeah, yeah. So I think we've clearly got a weak link

and we know the places to work on, Clint. So we can only go up from here. Produce Carl. Sorry, I'm just writing some notes here. What song did you do again, Clint? Nirvana. Oh, is that what it was? Smells like teen spirit.

You'd never know, would you? Yeah, we will have to decide on a song. We need a name, though, eh? Oh, yeah, we need a name for the band. We're going to lock that in after seven this morning. Okay. And we're going to need, like, an actual song, because we're all playing different songs.

I think it'd be nice to see how we gel as a unit. I've got faith. I genuinely do. Like, and I don't want to sugarcoat it, but I think we've got this, guys. Once we know the song we're playing, once we have a band name, I think it's going to feel real.

Clint, Megan, Dan. Let's go! This bit that we're about to do on the show wasn't prepped. It wasn't sent around the team. It was literally just an off-air conversation that... Believe it or not, I'd like to think that people wouldn't think that this was prepped and planned because it's not happy stuff. The fact that we're doing this is an act of God in a way.

Yeah, someone just texted Jesus, Clint, and it made me think about this story. I think they were talking about my guitar playing. Anyway, it got me thinking about last night we were having dinner and my wife says to the kids, would one of you like to say grace? Do you say grace before dinner every night? No, we haven't

in a long time, which is strange why just last night my wife just decided, hey, kids, do you want to do grace? So my little guy, Ty, who's eight, he goes, yeah, I will. So he does thanks for the food and thanks for my mum and dad and my sister. And then he goes, and Lord, please, after dinner, let us play Mario Kart. And please, Lord, let mum win because she's not as good as us. Oh, yeah.

And I was like, well. God's got lots of nothing else to be doing. So much bedtime. Honestly, so much bedtime. There is nothing happening in the world that could do with the God's grace at the moment. And he goes, oh, hold on a second. Sorry, I'm just...

I'm at the famine over in Africa. The famine? There's always a famine. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Something's coming in. Wait there, young child that's been starving for years. Ty Randall wants his mum to play Mario Kart over in New Zealand. So I'm just going to leave you there.

I'll pause. I'll come back. I'll come to the genocide later as well. And I'm just going to go and play some Mario Kart. Well, you'll never believe what happened. My wife sucks at Mario Kart, right? She's awful at it. Because she doesn't play.

And I always win. And I beat the kids every time. I'm not going to go easy on them just so that they can win because when they do beat me, when they do beat me, they're going to be like, oh my God, I beat Dad because it'll be legit. Right? And so I take my wife on my team and

the kids play on their team because So you're like, you've got the shit player. I've got the shit player but I'm going to like help Jay win, you know, because I'm good enough that I can average out her shitness. Maybe Jesus needs to put a little side work on Clint's humble. Yes, you work on his humble. That's what he should do. So anyway, we get into the marathon, choose our players.

Don't know what the hell happens. My wife comes in first in the first race, and I'm like, what the hell happens. My wife comes in first in the first race. And I'm like, what the hell? So we play again because I'm like, okay, she can't beat me twice. She beat me twice. She won the first race. I can second twice to her. So God granted Ty's wish and also worked on your humble.

Yes. Both at the same time. Multitasking. It's good. Yeah. Hopefully he was. Yes! Both at the same time. Multitasking. It's good. Yeah. Hopefully he was doing the other shit with the family as well. Yeah, as well, as well, yeah. So obviously, like, the kids got smoked

because Mum and Dad were coming in first and second. And my wife looked at me and goes, that's weird, eh? That's weird. Because she's never won a race. She won two back-to-back off the back of Ty's little prayer. Maybe your wife just needs a bit of confidence boost from her family. Yeah, I think God was anything involved.

It's got nothing to do with that. So now we're opening the phones. Oh, wait, under the edge. I'm not religious, but how do you explain this? Oh, for goodness sake. If you've got a, if you had something happen going, whoa, that's crazy. I'm not religious, but. Could they be religious though?

Maybe they are religious and this proved it. Okay, we can do both. I am religious and this is why. Or I'm not religious, but how do you explain this? Yeah. Maybe because your wife won Mario Kart.

Twice off the back of like a prayer from my son during dinner that we'd get to play and that she would win. The weird thing is Clint hasn't been to church in years. I hope you go back to your happy clapper place this Sunday. Get a free coffee that they give away. Always if it's your first time.

Right now we are taking calls. I'm not religious but how do you explain this? After my wife asked my son if he'd like to do grace and after he thanked the Lord for the food, he said, I also pray, God, that we can play Mario Kart after this,

and Mum could win a race for once, and she won the first two races. She never wins. How shit was she before this, though? Like, if she was always first, second, top three. She'd be lucky if she finished seventh. You know, she's like tenth, ninth, eleventh. she finished seventh. You know, she's like 10th, 9th, 11th. How do you know?

No, God damn, please. You think God's got enough spare time to grant Jamie? Well, put it this way. The only time I've ever prayed is when I lost my cat, Kimmy, and he was gone for a week. And I prayed one night and I said, please, God, give us back, because Clint said do it, give it a go, so I did it. And the next day

I walked into a bush and found him! God! Yeah, but what did you give to God in return? Because I know when Clint got his neck, you know, saved, and that's how he got reborn again, you said that you would go to church and believe in God if he fixed your neck, right? Well, what did you say to God as your barter in for saying if you saved

Kimmy? Oh, oh. What were you going to do? He hasn't asked. Dan's waiting. Would God be like, one day I'm going to ask? I'd do anything. I think I said to him, I'd do anything for you. So God's waiting. He knows he gets one big ask from Dan.

He's like, I won't waste it. I'm going to find the perfect thing for him. He's going to get Dan to name the second son, Jesus. I'll do it. Okay, we have Ruby on the edge. Ruby, you're not religious. But how do you explain what? So I'm not religious, but a couple years ago,

I put my puffer jacket on and I found a $5 note in the pocket. Praise the Lord. And I hadn't worn it for like a year. Praise be. Oh my gosh. He is. I know. He knew I was down that day

and he really pulled through for me and I appreciated that. That is proof in itself. Wow, and the last time you wore the puffer jacket was at church? Uh, no. No, okay.

That just means she forgot to put her tithings in that day. Thanks, Ruby. Thank you, Ruby. Hey, if you hold that, Ruby, we'll send you outings in that day. Thanks, Ruby. Thank you, Ruby. Hey, if you hold that, Ruby, we'll send you out with a voucher. Thanks, our show sponsor, Zed, you can spend in store. We also have Sarah.

So the Lord is providing us still. Yes, he is. Hi, Sarah. Hi. My thing's similar to Dan's, so I've not really been a believer, but my cat had been missing for about two days, and normally if he goes missing something's wrong and I was at work that day I'm just like please God just give me a sign of where to look and then I got a phone call from

my partner at the time saying hey the dog's been barking like up and down the side of the house for the last half an hour like real insistently so I got home and I looked under the house and sure enough, he was, like, peeled up in the corner, injured. God! Jesus walks among us! Sarah, you hold there. We're going to give you a voucher to spend in store at Zed

as well. My God, really? Yeah, two vouchers, Dad. The fact that the... I was going to say, we're sponsored by Zed, mate. They're coming out of our ears. The fact that the dog started barking I was going to say, we're sponsored by Zed, mate. They're coming out of our ears. Yeah. The fact that the dog started barking like Jesus acted through a dog. You know, like he's possessed that dog.

He's gone inside it and made the dog bark. He's a busy guy. Yeah, yeah. He's inside dogs. I think he cares about the big things and the small things. Yeah. So, man, if only we had time to... I think the only way to prove it fully is go home tonight,

play Mario Kart again, and if Jamie sucks... Yeah, yeah, OK. ..it was just a one-off anomaly. Hey, do a sneaky little prayer to God saying, hey, can you make a shit again? Yeah. OK. Let's all hold hands now and just pray for you.

Please make my wife shit again at Mario Kart because I'm sick of losing to her. Amen. OK, let's see how it goes. The Clint, Meg and Dan podcast. And very, very exciting. Me caught up with Gracie Abrams just before her gig

at Spark Arena last night. Please welcome Gracie Abrams. Hey, this is Gracie Abrams. I've heard the risk is drowning but I'm gonna take it. It's so true. So just let me be close to you Yeah, she's got a song with Taylor Swift. She opened for her Ears tour.

She opened for Olivia Rodrigo's tour, Sour. Billie Eilish has sung her praises about how incredible she is and I was lucky enough to chat to her last night. Now we've got the polished part one of the interview to play for you right now, but I also have some raw audio that producer Nipia has given me. What is this?

Excellent. I swear to God, I just coughed and I wet myself. Guys, this is Gracie. Hi, Gracie. Is that you? Is that you saying, oh, guys, I just wet myself and then like 0.5 seconds later,

Gracie's people were like, here she is. I had no idea my mic was on and it was 100% happening. I truly let out like a proper bit of wee because I coughed and I'm heavily pregnant and that sometimes just happens.

And I just told my wee girl about like privately, I didn't know that my mic was switched on. That's how much of a pro Meg is that she did a whole interview. Anyone else want to hear that again? Yes, please. I swear to God, I just coughed and I wet myself. Guys, this is Gracie.

Hi, Gracie. I wish, I hope she heard you say that. I hope she did. I don't think she did. I don't think she did. She was on the other side of the room, thank God, when she walked in. All right. Did we get into it?

Okay, yeah, I think this is just a part where I had actually... We yourself. No, thank God. I knew that she'd liked Sod and Vinegar Chips, and I was talking to her about TikTok and how there's a trend on TikTok that I didn't know if she'd seen yet or not because she seems to have deleted it. So I think we start around there.

Cool. All right. Take a listen. Hi, this is Gracie. Hi, Gracie. Welcome to the label. Thank you for your time. Oh, thank you for your time. Pleased to meet you. I don't know if you've managed to have a—

you probably haven't seen outside the Sea of Bows, by the way. No, I haven't, but that is— Sea of Bows. There's always—yeah, I feel like whenever we're on our way to have a, you probably haven't seen outside the Sea of Bows, by the way. No, I haven't, but that is, Sea of Bows. And there's always, yeah, I feel like whenever we're on our way to the venue, we like catch a solid handful. It must be like so surreal,

like so surreal and cool to just know that that's something that has come from you. You know, and it's such a nice thing too, bows. Can't claim it,

but I appreciate being a part of the, I don't know, but I mean, I've been to many concerts and i've never seen more bows so it feels like it feels like a greasy thing that's nice it feels like a greasy thing um i've also noticed you haven't been on tiktok for a wee while have you deleted it again or are you like a lurker i got off you're done when it got weird i've been off for i've been off

yeah yeah yeah so you're like know, see you later for now. I think I'll like maybe every once in a while pop back in. I mean, the thing is, your songs obviously go so viral on there. So it must be tempting to somewhat go and see what people are doing with them. I feel like I rely on the algorithms of like my friends to send me things that they find like funny and not you know soul sucking yeah that's good you've got good friends if they're like willing to like filter out they send me all of the hate um yeah so I'm a little bit like yeah yeah well I don't know if you had seen then um I know you're into salt and vinegar chips yeah big time big time what's the news on tiktok well the news on tiktok uh is salt and vinegar carrots instead okay sure that sounds

like it's probably better for you head on i mean but if you want a chip you want a chip i don't know i actually went to make them for you i made them for you at home what and then i saw i haven't got them don't worry you did i didn't know't. Yeah, but I didn't bring them because then I had this, like, moment where I was like, don't bring crazy everything. That's so nice of you. Oh, my God. I hope someone in your household. No.

First of all, I would have eaten them on camera. No, she wouldn't. Okay, there's no way. I swear. I wouldn't have made you because you're sitting on camera and here's this weird girl you've just met. You have to understand. No, I immediately trusted you when I walked in this room.

The overalls are too good. I wanted to talk about how women supporting women feels like it's, like, such a huge part of, from what I can see, of you, your career, who you are. How has it shaped you personally and professionally to have women, like, just absolutely lift you up from what I can see, at least. I honestly, like, it's such a privilege to grow up in a time where, like, that concept even is being celebrated, you know what I mean? Because I feel like when I was younger, even,

before I started making stuff in a more legitimate way, like, even just, I remember tabloids and shit like when I was little there's it was so much pinning women against each other all the time and like most laughable like most bullshit ways you know but that being kind of like the driving force behind talking about women you know in the same industry that's why it's so refreshing to see things like that yeah and I think behind talking about women, you know, in the same industry. That's why it's so refreshing to see things like this. Yeah, and I think, like, you know, I have the privilege of standing on the shoulders of women who have come before me in this industry, period.

The fact that I get to do this and the fact that I get to, like, so comfortably write about my feelings and experiences and relationships. Like, that alone is so lucky that I feel empowered to do that kind of a job. So that's part one of the chat with Gracie Abrams. We'll have part two for you at 8 o'clock this morning. Meg, the salt and vinegar chips that you made for her. Well, salt and vinegar carrots, yeah. Oh, carrots, sorry. Did you bring them in?

No, I went to do that this morning as well and then I forgot again. So they're not meant to be. They taste awful, don't they? I can't imagine they would be good. It's just carrots were sold in vinegar on them

and I had them in the tupperware and I was running around the house getting my daughter ready for bedtime. I was like, I've got to eat my carrots for Gracie. And it was this little moment

and I was like, that's going to be an odd thing to bring up out of my bag, out of my little like handbag is some carrot, like wet carrot. And she wouldn't have eaten them.

She would have gone, thank you. Imagine, because she'd be like, what has this person done to these carrots and I've got to go on stage and what if I start hallucinating

because, you know, this person thought it'd be funny to. Please suffer saying that she would have eaten them but I'm glad I didn't take them. Clint, Meg and Dan.

Right, we are throwing together a band. How far can three friends without musical experience get? I think pretty far. I think so far, let's be honest, we've been practising for a week and we've already learnt sort of half a song each. Now we just need to put our instruments together. Half a song, we've learnt like 15 seconds. Sorry.

I'm trying to pick a song. No, no, no, you're good. I'll get it. Sorry. We can learn a song. Yeah. And we'll be able to play it out. We just need a name first because that makes it real.

Hmm. Okay. What are we liking that's being suggested? I, you know, run DMC. Yeah. DMC, I like our initials. So I thought about Strum DMC or drum DMC okay

that was an option that I thought could work I like it because the D's first so my name's first which would argue that I'm the lead singer

you're the best I had a suggestion of a text that Meg didn't like and actually when she pointed it out I was like yeah Fia

you know the band 5 with the number Five IVE. I was like, what about Three, the number, T-H, wait, no, Three, H-R-E-E. But that's like TV Three, the station. Exactly, that's taken. That's what Meg pointed out, just looks like Channel Three. So I was like, yeah, okay, no, we won't do that. So that one's gone as well. I did like the Poo Fighters.

It's a bit of a play on the foos, obviously. I liked White Sabbath. Yeah. I like the shirt stripes. I do. I do, I do. It's very close. Depends how this might happen.

We had a few suggestions on Instagram when they saw the photo of us all dressed up in our band gears. They, them zone, someone text them. That's very... I think it's like, you know, pronouns and stuff, instead of boy zone, maybe. Up with 2025. Yeah, I like that.

Because we've been playing it this morning, instead of in sync, in stink. Yes. Oh, there's another one. Yeah, no direction. No direction's quite good. No direction. That is probably my favourite.

No Direction. And what our boss was saying to us yesterday is that we should have a name that reflects the fact that none of us can do two things at once. So instead of the multitaskers, it was like one thing at a time. Yeah, one-trick ponies or something. One-trick pony. Because you guys can't sing the same time.

You play your instruments. Yeah. Yeah. Dan can sing and play a little bit of guitar, but trying to do them at the same time, and I'm very much the same. It's one or the other. I haven't even tried yet,

so I could be amazing at it, or I could be terrible. Okay, why don't we do this? Why don't we each write down on a piece of paper our name suggestion that we would be happy to be called? Okay. So you do one, Meg. You do one, Dan.

I'll do one. And then we'll throw it in a hat and then we'll pull it out and that is the band name. Okay. So last minute attempts to change our mind on what you think the band name should be on 3343 because I kind of have what I think it

should be but obviously I could be persuaded in the next three minutes. Could you be persuaded Meg or are you locked? I'm pretty no, no, I could be persuaded. I've got an idea of two, so if there's one that comes in that trumps both of them. Okay. Oh, that's quite good. The plain white threes has just come up.

Yeah. Okay. I think we can do better, though. Okay. We'll throw three names in a hat and we'll pull out our band name officially. No going back. Next. We should start a band.

Clint, Meg and Dan are on a mission to see if they can start a band with zero prior music experience. The problem is, Dan, just one teeny tiny little issue. None of us play instruments. The instruments were decided. Meg on the drums, Clint on lead guitar and Dan playing rhythm. Oh my God, it's clearly me on drums. Hold on, wait, wait, wait.

What's easier? Rhythm guitar's easier. Oh, I'll take rhythm. Oh, my God. It's clearly me on drums. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait. What's easier? Rhythm guitar's easier. You're playing chords. Oh, I'll take rhythm. The question is, who gets the funny face when they go with this? Yeah.

I'm more than happy it's Dan's place. Rhythm doesn't get to do so well. So the challenge was set. We've given away on holiday to practice on the axe and the skins all holiday long.

And that brings us to today. It's time to name the band. All right, it is time to name the band. A few people were texting saying the random name generators are good ones. Supposedly Childish Gambino did it. I haven't heard that, but I have heard Post Malone did that. Because I got Post Malone from just putting my name

in a rap name generator, like in high school. When I was researching, I was like, hold on. So that's Post Malone. Yeah, so I just used this one that I think he used.

So it's one of the biggest band name generators in the world and it asked you a whole load of questions about the band and it spat out like 20 different names.

Should I give you a few of them and I'll write our favorite down as my suggestion. Yeah, because we're each going to put one suggestion in the hat, pull it out. That is the band name.

This is my favourite that it suggested. Mega Drums. Where's our name? Meg's got hers. We don't have... It's Meg's like the drummer. Mega Drum. Mega Drums.

Okay, you don't like that one. How about this one? Megan Sons. That sounds like she's our mum. Yeah. I mean, I am a mum, but I don't... Yeah, she's not our mum. She's our mum but in Sons, but...

Okay, Meg's Dev Drums. I only put her name in, so it's only suggested... Okay, for God's sake. Idiot. Absolutely idiot. Okay, okay. This is my suggestion for the band. This is going to be...

We've got a one in three chance of being officially called this. MCDC. Oh, but then you get two Clint's in there. Wait, so hold on. So it's me, Dan. No, it's like ACDC, but it's like Megan Clint and Dan and Clint. Right. MCDC.

I'm sorry that there's two C's in ACDC. I don't hate it. MCDC. Okay, My official is the Shite Stripes. Oh no. That's my official vote. The Shite Stripes. Okay.

And I'm going for a similar vein. Oh no. The new skids on the block. Two poo-based band names. Do wait to producers. What about Nippies in the band? We've got ballers in the band. Do we all put in a piece of paper each?

No, just let us know out of these three, what you're hoping comes out of the hat. Producer Nippies on bass. I really, Dan's is, I've only just recently heard Dan's one, so I'm going to go with your one, Dan. Oh, really? You skids on the blow. And Webkill Baller, you are on keys.

What is your... Do you even know new kids on the block? No. Okay. She's too young. Okay. I'll go with Dan's one. Really? Okay, everyone give me your things. I'll put them into the hat. Clint, give me your hat.

Oh, you want my hat? Okay, there you go. Okay, I'm going to make them all the same. Okay, give it a really good shake up. Yeah. Okay. Richard's just said walk DMC. I'm just in front of DMC. I quite like that.

Walk DMC because it's still got our initials in it. Oh, walk DMC game, it's so late. What about limp DMC? Because we're just limping along. Walk DMC. Yeah. I've got three in here now. Do you want to put in one listener's suggestion?

I reckon walk DMC. Walk DMC. Richard, you made it in, buddy. Well done, Richard. Okay. Richard's made it in. So we've got walk DMC, MCDC, the white stripe. The white what?

The shite stripes. Oh, the shite stripes. And you skids on the block. Oh, God. Okay, I've got them all in there. They're all the same size. There is no way that I can even try and figure out who's a zoo. The official band's name is...

I want Richard Stewart. Hurry up. MCDC. MCDC! Yes! Yes! Yes! You've been on the street!

That means you're going to have to sing this song. So bad, Clint. MCDC, I got my initials in twice, baby. Hey! Megan Clint and Dan and Clint. You have to explain it every time. You have to explain it every time. By the way, it's my name twice.

And it's also, it's meant to be ACDC, but it's a gag because we're a shit band. That was like our initials. To be honest, I actually am glad it's not one of the shit-based ones because then it's just setting us up to fail, right? So we're MCDC officially. Everybody. Everybody Alright that's it It's done

It's done MCDC Is our band name It's our band name Clint, Meg and Dan We have The impossible guess Three ingredients

In this Subway sub And the woman in front of me In the line Six inch Italian herbs and cheese. I'll give you that much. The ingredients include all the sauces, the cheeses, the meats, everything. You must be specific.

1,300 possibly. 2,300 possibly. And no ingredient doubles up. So there's not two sauces or two cheeses. No. What we do know though is I think it's a weird combination of ingredients. Like if this person

had just got ham, lettuce and tomato, I don't think Meg would have, you know. Yeah, you'd go, that's a waste because you're paying the same but you wouldn't have

thought about it for two weeks. I'll give you that much. Now we've had, every day I choose my closest guess. One of them was mozzarella, capsicum and olives.

Do you think that's the closest of all time so far? Um, no. It was the closest on Monday. Yeah, closest on Monday. Second, Tuesday was lettuce, smoked cheese and carrot. Okay, they sound like a vego. Because I keep putting salami or something and it sounds

like they're a vego with cheese. I just find it hard to believe that anybody would go and get a Subway thing and not get some sort of protein on it. Okay, and the prize continues to get better and better if you can work out what these three ingredients are. At the moment, Meg's going to buy you something from the vending machine. That's where it started. Yes, and then movie tickets, and then we've also got cash now.

We've lost the cash. Wow, so it's really jackpotting each day. It's jackpotting each day, yeah. Okay. Who would like to have a stab at what the three ingredients that have been keeping Meg up at night are that went on this lady's subway? And I'm also going to, you have to be on the air, right?

Otherwise, because we're getting so many texts in, do I, like, do I, if somebody gets this via text, do I call them back, or do we say it has to be on air? I mean, it's your game. I don't know. You make the rules, Meg. This is your little thing. It's not that little.

I'm quite invested. There was one chick yesterday who's moving overseas next Tuesday, and she was like, I need to know, Meg. So Meg told her off air. So she's the only person in New Zealand that also knows now. I'm going to pick it. I'm going to say no one's ever going to guess. No.

Surely eventually. I think it's... Eventually. I think Meg said... I think mozzarella cheese is one, and I think the other two are salad-based options. I think we're getting close. So you think, could you, can you give us...

I'm not giving you anything, Dan. You keep trying to get clues. Let's go to someone else. Let's go to Nathan. Hello, Nathan. Hey, how are you? Hey, we're very good. What is your guess for the three-ingredient sub

that was in front of me? Mozzarella, cheese, tomato, and garlic. Like a garlic sauce. Right. Oh. Garlic sauce? Yeah. Incorrect.

Is that a clue? Oh! Meg with the point. It's a little game there. Yeah, it's a little dominant, Palden. Emma, what is your guess on the three subs? Three ingredients. Jalapenos, beetroot,

and I'm going to change it to mozzarella cheese. Okay. So everybody's leaning into the mozzarella cheese. That is awful, and that would keep me up at night. Do they always have beetroot? I never noticed beetroot in the thing. They do have beetroot, yeah. That is incorrect, Emma,

but I will say it is a good guess. Oh, Emma might be the closest. Okay. Go to Big Nick. Hey, Big Nick. Hi. So my guess that would keep me up at night would be Swiss cheese,

olives, and mayo. That's an awful sub. That is disgusting. That is an awful combo. That is disgusting. That is an awful combo. That is incorrect, Big Nick. I'm sorry. So from what we can, maybe Emma was closest. Is that what you're saying?

It's hard to know what close means. Emma feels closest in the, like, cursedness of, you know, the sub. But was she close with the ingredients? Because I would say if you guessed jalapenos and it was gherkins, I'd say that was close. That very close is a vegetable. You know, like that's how far off she was. Okay, Dan and I will get a guess as well.

And then Meg always says who was the closest guess. Okay. So over time, you have all the closest guess from each day, which should help you narrow it down. Okay. I'm going to go. Boss needs to put some serious money. I reckon every day he should jackpot the prize.

Yeah, I'm going to say it's 50 bucks. Today, tomorrow, it'll be 100. Okay. I'm going to go. Boss needs to put some serious money. I reckon every day he should jackpot the prize. Yeah, I'm going to say it's 50 bucks. Stay tomorrow, be 100. Okay. I'm going to go. I'm going to imagine they're just one of these people that doesn't like vegetables. So I'm going to go salami, ham, and mayo. No cheese.

I'm thinking there's no sauce, which also would make me go, what are you doing? It'd be the driest sandwich. That isn't incorrect, Dan. Okay. I'm going to go mozzarella cheese, gherkin, and carrot.

That is incorrect, Clint, but it is the closest of today. Oh! Okay, come on. Now Dan's picking. Gherkin, carrot, mozzarella cheese is the closest. Is it the closest guess of all time, or just today? Yes, it, come on. Oh, now I'm dead speaking. Oh, man. Gherkin, carrot, mozzarella cheese is the closest. Is it the closest guess of all time or just today? Yes, it is the closest guess of all time.

Oh, yeah. I'm cracking the code, baby. If this game keeps jackpotting the way it is, at the end of the year, we could be giving away more than Lotto. Yeah. Okay, jackpots again. Should we put it at the same time tomorrow? Yeah, and if Subway wants to get on board,

if you come back, Subway, if you get on board, I'll stop mentioning Jared. That's the deal. Until then, I'm mentioning Jared every day. Clint, Meg and Dan. Meg and Dan's. All right, a few stories we need to chuck on your radar for the 30th of April.

If you're someone that gets a lot of interrupted sleep, turns out two nights of bad sleep in a row can actually make you feel four years older than you actually are. Jesus, do the maths. I haven't slept two nights in a row for three and a half years. Makes the oldest woman alive. Oh, my God. She's 120 years old.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah, so if you have a big Friday, scientists say you shouldn't back it up with a massive Saturday because then you're going to feel four years older come Monday morning. Yeah, I can see how that works.

Yeah, that makes sense. I went to bed at 1am the other day because I'd been out partying. Partying? No, I'd done stand-up and I'd done two things and I didn't get home till 1am and I genuinely felt like death the next day. I felt like I hadn't drunk any alcohol or anything

and I felt like I was hungover. You gotta tell me when you're gonna tell stories like that, Dan. Are you wishing the lyrics cut a bit quicker? I wish there wasn't an instrumental. That would have been better. Bad boys, bad boys. Bad boys, bad boys. What have you got?

I've got a tourist, a woman that was touring around America in Illinois, bought a ticket at a little local store and ended up winning $3 million American dollars. But what I learnt in this story is that, I don't think this is a thing in New Zealand, but in America, the store that sells the ticket gets 1% of the prize. Really? It's a 1% bonus of the prize amount. So the little store, which was Cornwall Wine and Liquors in Chicago, It's got to do the math, 1% of $3,000. $31,000.

That's cool because it gives incentive for them to sell more tickets. Actually, if you do own a dairy or a lotto store, whatever. Do you get that? Yeah. Is there a bonus

if you end up having a First Division winner? Could you text us, let us know? I thought that was cool because America has some huge prizes so there could be

some little stores getting millions of bucks. Yeah. And other news, if you've stuffed up at work recently, this is going to make you feel better

because the US Navy has, they've got the aircraft carriers, the boats, the planes go on at war and they take off from the boat. Oh, yeah, we've seen Top Gun. Yeah, Top Gun. Yeah. And accidentally, someone in the US Navy just recently dropped an F-18 Hornet, Super Hornet, off the side of an aircraft carrier.

Guess how much that F-18 was worth? F-18 Hornet, Super Hornet, off the side of an aircraft carrier. Guess how much that F-18 was worth? F-18 Super Hornet. It's like a fighter aircraft from Top Gun. So a big fancy plane got dropped. Yeah. And it's at the bottom of the ocean now, losing the US government how much money. How do you even do that? How do you even do that?

Okay. They dropped a plane. Thank God it wasn't over people. No, no one was injured. It just fell off the side of a boat. Oh, well, I would ask the starfish that, Dan. I'm sure that they wouldn't have liked to have a bloody fighter jet plane. Thank God it wasn't over people. No, no one was injured. It just fell off the side of a boat. Oh, well, I would ask the starfish that, Dan. I'm sure that they wouldn't have liked to have a bloody fighter jet plane

fall on them. Okay, um, God, I wouldn't know. A million dollars. $100 million. $100 million just slipped off the side of the boat. Has anybody else shook that that's how much a fighter aircraft costs? $100 million. That's like the same amount.

I did some research into this. The same amount of money that the New Zealand government spent on classrooms last year. Just slipped off the boat to the bottom of the ocean. One plane from the US government slipped off the boat. Money's crazy, isn't it, when you think of things like that? That's mad. Unbelievable. I just Googled as well.

We just brought five C-130 Hercules to the New Zealand government. Who's we? The New Zealand government, brand new planes. They're worth $1.5 billion, five planes, $1.5 billion. $300 million for a Hercules, and we needed five. I did not. New planes are expensive. That sounds like my wife has started

working at the Air Force. She's like, if we buy five though, we get a deal. You actually almost get the fifth one for free. If we bought four, it would have been $2 billion. Clint, Meg and Dan. That's Google History. What have you found this week, Meg? Well, it's all a great big mystery. But there's something new in there. That's Google history. What have you found this week, Meg?

Oh, jackpot this week. I haven't been a while since we've done this, so you've probably got all my holiday Googling as well, which really concerns me. No, I just spent the last couple of days. Jesus. I haven't gone back to the holidays. Oh, God.

Does anybody else like me, text me at 3343. I just Google everything, eh? I chat GBT everything. I'm addicted to Google. Okay, so lots been going on in this wee man's head the last couple of days. One, you've been, I don't know why you've been doing this actually. You looked at average weight of man in kgs and then you found the average weight of six foot man

and then you put 180 pounds into kgs and then you found the average weight of six foot man and then you put 180 pounds into kgs. Because he gave him pounds and he didn't know what it was. I know why that would have been because someone said, and I'm not going to say

who it was, but it really cut me deep. They said, you're one of those skinny fat people. Who said that? I'm not going to say. I will find them.

Who said that about you and about my friend? What does that mean? Like that I'm, I guess that they meant that I'm not necessarily overweight, but I've got like... It's called skinny fat. Normally girls get called

skinny fat. Am I interpreting this wrong then? I had a guy who was very skinny, but I think he... Unhealthy. Yeah, if you're eating just like boxes of shapes all day, but you're someone that should be bigger, but you're tiny. No, skinny fat is normally more like your body size is kind of small,

but there's a bit of pudge everywhere. Oh, okay. But again, nobody should... So I'm just... A bit of pudge. They didn't go that deep. Jesus! There's a bit of pudge everywhere.

She's explaining what people mean when they say... Which they shouldn't be saying about anybody's body. Everywhere. Okay, so Dan was feeling maybe a little bit down about that. I wish there was a bit of pudge in a few places that I don't have. There were three things that he obviously did to try and perk himself up. In a row, Clint. Pedicure near me.

What watch does Harry Styles wear? And how to know if your boss likes you. I'm getting into watch collecting. I don't know if Casey likes me. He always gives me mixed vibes. What was the other thing? The pedicure near me. You want to get your toes done?

I just sound like treading myself. Okay. And as he just said, he's getting into watch collecting. We've noticed this, haven't we, Clint? We call him the Empire recently. The Emperor. Emperor, sorry. Yeah, because the Emperor's new clothes, if you know the movie.

Because Dan just keeps bringing new clothes into work every day. There are a lot of searches for new watches. He also Googled cost to become a pilot, but then straight afterwards, how to block charity direct debit. Yes! Mr. Watch Collective doesn't want to give to charity anymore. No, no, no.

You've got to cancel too many and one needs to go. Really? Yeah. Sorry, it's either my flash watches or you children starving in Africa. No, the children are staying. It's the animals that are a bit of me. Clint, Meg and Dan. Please welcome Gracie Abrams.

Hey, this is Gracie Abrams. One of the greatest things about this job is when you do get to interview people, you actually get to kind of, I know some people can have good days and bad days, but you do get a vibe of, is this person that I look up to, support and like actually a good person? Also, I think a testament as well, though, to you, Meg, to make somebody feel comfortable enough to be really lovely. Because some people can be probably nice people, but a little hostile in interviews because they just don't necessarily get a good vibe from the person chanting.

So maybe you two would just click that. It is definitely a tough thing to do because you think about like she's 25. I think about 25, right? I'm 10 years older than her. I'm 33, 34 years old. And here I am. And she knows it's like almost my job to get something from her for my, you know, for my job, for myself. Yeah.

And after many years of being in the industry as a young woman, a young person, anybody that's in the industry, Justin would have gone through this. You're probably excited at the start of your career with interviews and you get to a point you realise these people just want a piece of flesh. They're using me. Yeah. And all they want is a grab or something good. So I think you can go, you can go on quite defensive because you know that all they want from you is something.

Some people are just assholes though. Yeah, exactly. Especially in the radio industry. You're not really helping promote her gig and sell tickets because she was performing

that night an hour after you spoke to her. So you're right. She's giving you something. I guess we're helping promote Gracie and the incredible artist

that she is. And I think if you like somebody, you naturally gravitate towards their music more as well. Yeah, so I am very, very happy to let everyone know what we already kind of know. She is a really nice person. She seemed genuinely thankful that I had the time to talk to her. What a joke.

Meg having time. All right, Meg hit her with a few quickfire questions. This is part two of our chat with Gracie. to talk to her. What a joke. Me having time. Alright, me hit her with a few quickfire questions as part two of our chat with Gracie. If you want the full one, you can just text Gracie

to 3343. Okay, your most loved lyric that you've written. I've got two choices for you. Oh, I loved writing,

I put out this live version of a song called Death Wish. Sorry, I used to pretend that it didn't feel evil your life. Yeah, I love that line.

A million suns burns through people. Yeah, I love that line. Thanks, thanks man. Yeah, I love that line. A million suns burns through people. Yeah, I love that line. Thanks, thanks, man. Such a great thing for a narcissist. Thanks, yeah. That is a, yeah.

I loved writing that whole song. I kind of like went to that weird like blacked out place and then when I finished it reading it back I was very happy. You were like, wow.

I love the writing in that song. Yeah. Are we going to get a studio version of that? Absolutely. A song that you wish you wrote? Liability. By Lord. Yes, of course. Of course, great song. Yeah. Are we going to get a studio version of that? Absolutely. Song that you wish you wrote? Liability. By Lord.

Yes, of course. I guess it's a great song. A song of yours that feels most misunderstood. Is there one? Oh, interesting. Interesting question. I think it's always

really funny when people like try to, well, whatever. I think they're, how do I say this? Misunderstood uh people understand them how they feel yeah right see fit and i appreciate that so coming from a successful family what does

success look like to crazy right now um working with people who make each other better and um yeah like all boats rise with the tide type of thing. So, yeah. What's the last thing you chat GPT or Googled? Asking chat GPT what period of time someone's face belongs in. Wow, what's yours? It was like Victorian scary. It looked like the picture looked like a dead person. You know what I mean?

I was like, ooh, I need to get some sun maybe. What are you binging? Are you was like ooh I need to like get some sun maybe what have you been doing are you watching anything any time to watch I just finished re-watching Breaking Bad which was so sad again

have you watched your last one yet I haven't yet which is not like me because I think I would love that I think I'll love that show are you a gamer

no I'm not but I grew up my brother like that was a big one yeah yeah yeah and last one what's a new calendar

you're most looking forward to at the moment um well honestly this tour we've been not to be corny about it but we've been really excited to get here and um and this past week was was that thing in my in my calendar so so much came from our time here already and i just can't wait for tonight thank you grace thank you i'm so happy to meet you. Thank you so much. You're the kindest. She sounds lovely, doesn't she? Yeah, so nice. Really, really cool, nice person

who you can see why has had so much support from other people in the industry. Yeah, and cool that she wishes she'd wrote Lorde's song. Yeah, which is funny. I'm going to be talking about the coming in scandal because she ended up singing that last night. Really? Yeah.

What is it? Clint, Megan, Dan. I'm about to talk to you about one of the most difficult things you will ever try to do in your entire life. I think getting a driver's license is easier. I became a celebrant and married Megan, her husband, years ago. That was a process, but I still think that was easier. Really? Getting a black belt.

I haven't got one, but I imagine it might be easier than trying to buy a fish for your children or yourself. If you want a couple of fish, just swimming around in a tank. You buy a tank, you think you throw some water in it, and you go and buy the fish. No, you don't. Yeah, I think from what I've heard, and all I've heard is you complaining, is that it's harder to buy a fish than it is, say, a dog or a cat almost.

Yeah. Which you would argue, and maybe I'm wrong on this, a dog and a cat would maybe have more feelings and... Well, I think that's wrong in the way that I'd like to think that most places you do have to prove a safe place of home. I mean, I know with our dog Nala, they had to come and inspect our house and stuff. No, I went to the pet store and I just put my name down for a black male.

That was a long time ago. How long ago did you buy Benny? That's very different now. Go to anyone's house that's had a litter of cats and just take one. Not need to ask first. I mean, you know what I mean? That's terrible though.

That's where Kimmy's from, my cat. Someone, a friend of ours just had a litter, and they're like, do you want one? And we're like, yes, please. We'll have him. And then it's your responsibility to get your act together once you've got the cat, not with fish. You've got to have your act together before they hand you a fish.

And I imagine the little plastic bag full of water. I don't know because I'm still yet to experience what it's like to leave the pet store with a fish. We had been three times prior to this. I've spent over $100 in the store buying different things, minus

all the tank and stuff. Like paraphernalia to make the water good. Yeah, like I even bought a piece of wood because she said it would help with the pH. It was like $25 and I had to store it in half so it would fit in the tank. And then still didn't do anything. And I went back with another water test and they gave me some stress drops.

I've put so much, I've put so many stress drops into this water. It's the most stressless environment ever for a fish, but no fish lives there. Maybe you need to drop some down your mouth. Like to stop you from being so stressed. Yesterday, we were going to the pet store for the fourth time and we'd done all the things with the water that we were going to the pet store for the fourth time

and we'd done all the things with the water that we were supposed to do. And I was picking up my little guy and he was waiting on the corner where I always pick him up after school and I'd already got water in a container. And I was like, today we're getting fish and I'm going to surprise him. And this is what happened. How are we going, Dad? We are going to get fish.

Oh, look, I've got the water here. Wait, wait. Oh! Today's the day, mate. Fourth time lucky. The fourth is probably lucky. Do you think they'll let us have fish this time? Yeah.

I think I'm feeling good about this one. I'm tight. I'm 50%. Oh, you're okay. I think I'm feeling good about this one. I'm tight. I'm 50%. Oh, you're okay. I'm 50%. You're getting used to the disappointment. Now I feel like today's the day we're going to go home with little fish sitting on your lap, ready to put in the tank. But Dad, if you decide, say you can get fish now, which one do you want?

Let's call Cam and Mum because they have that, both of them have to decide on fish. Yeah, Mum said she definitely wanted a gold orange fish. Dad, I wish we could get angel fish. We just need to eat them. So we started talking about all the different fish. I'd already picked my fish. We'd picked out the names. I kind of have to think you were kind of getting his hopes up a little bit there. Oh, it all the different fish. I'd already picked my fish. We'd picked out the names.

I kind of have to think you were kind of getting his hopes up a little bit there. Oh, it was the fourth time. We'd done all the things. And then whilst Ty was, my son, picking the different types of fish that he wanted. Yeah. And I saw the lady do the water test. They do like five different colours. And then she said, hold on, just wait here one second.

I was like, uh-oh. I was like, maybe they bring all the staff from the pet store and they all celebrate you when you finally get your water right. Turns out, no, they brought a second lady over to break the bad news. What I want you to do, do you have a little bottle like this? Yeah. I just want you to dump the whole thing in. Okay.

We just want to give your tank just a little boost of, yeah, that good stuff. Okay, so that one daily and then dump the quick side in the whole lot and then how many days do you reckon it'd be to come back in and do a test to get a good reading in whole about a week cool thank you so much guys we will get there okay see ya i must say because you guys know I'm like the animal nerd, I like that they're caring about fish. You used to just be able to go, I'll have that one, put it in a plastic bag,

and then chuck it in a bowl. It would be dead within a week. I like that they care enough. I do, but then I think there's a line where it becomes a cash grab. She started selling me stuff that she sold me last time because I've already got that lady. Yeah, it's like they're going, we just sell them about $250 worth of stuff before you give them.

They saw you coming. She gave me fish food last time. I'm putting fish food in a tank daily with no fish to eat it. Is that to, like, build the algae and stuff? Oh, that's what she told me, Meg. So then, obviously, very disappointing when we got back in the car. Honestly, Ty, if you needed to swear right now, I'd understand. Because I feel like swearing too.

Well, I don't. You don't? How many times do you think we'll have to get turned away before you'll feel like swearing? About next time. Next time. Yeah, me too, actually. I think there's going to be some S words next time.

And what else? F word. Yeah, I know. I think so. If we don't get fish next time, I think we're going to have to use? F word? Yeah, I know. I think so. If we don't get fish next time, I think we're going to have to use the F word. Yep. We stand by that.

A week from now. And then you'll do all this and the fish will be dead within a week. Sorry, a week. Can I suggest an alternative? Just really quickly. Go. Bypass the pet shops.

Go to a little place I like to call Goat Island with a net. It's not a very... It's only a 30 litre tank. Dan, what is he going to do, put a snapper in there? Yeah, that's a good, I'd come over and see that. Can we have like a new fish owners supporters hotline? If you are someone who's in the same boat as me and they won't give you a fish.

All right, we are right now offering up a new fish owners supporters hotline for anyone who's been trying to get a fish and has realised that it's one of the most difficult things you can do in your life. I've done four water tests and I've been turned away every single time with no fish. And the problem is, you're right, me and my little guy, Ty, who's eight, have already chosen the fish we want. I want the black ones with the big eyes.

The big, ugly eyes. Have you got a name for it? Kevin. How did I know you already have a name for Kevin? Yeah. Kevin. He's just swimming around, one eye going one way up, one eye going the other way. And we're, like, so excited.

We've got the names. But they won't let us have them. Surely there's some sort of backdoor, you know, place where you can go. It's like a fish breeder. Of course you would be looking for the black market fish sellers. Yeah, yeah. You're wanting a black fish, a black market.

Yeah. There must be a breeder out there that will do it. Okay, we do have an expert on the phone. Olivia is a fish expert. Kia ora, good morning. Fish supporters hotline. How can I help?

Hello, guys. Hi, Olivia. I wonder what was happening. Hey, so I work for one of the big pet stores here, Clint, and I do understand what you're going through because I do keep fish myself. So what they're trying to do is they're trying to build up your nitrogen cycle, my dude.

Yeah, they talked about that. Yeah. Okay. Which is to keep the fish alive, right, so that Clint doesn't come back a week later and go, hey, my fish is dead that you sold me. And they go, yeah, well, there's no nitrogen in your bloody water. Quick question though, Olivia.

Once I get the cycle right and the tank's all ready, when I put the fish in, is it going to be that much of a nightmare? Like every week I've got to keep testing the water? Or is it like I've now created an ecosystem in which they can thrive? Technically, you would have created the ecosystem, dude. So it should be all good from there the only thing that I would recommend as long as you're doing consistent water

changes, you'll be fine And so there's no error of any sort of upselling in your opinion Olivia you're not trying to get Clint to spend a bit more money? No, in fact we're always more concerned about the animals welfare than upselling on products.

Good on you. And I also imagine it would be a nightmare, Olivia, if you did just sell a fish, and then people would come back every week going, my fish died within a week. And it's like, this is why you need to set it up properly. Get a good morning. Fish supporters hotline.

How can I help? Jesus. This is Leanne. Leanne, how long did it take you to get fish? It took us nine weeks. Oh, my God. Nine weeks. I'd give up.

I'd give up after two. It's a fish. And then you think about this, Leanne, the absolute pinnacle, the climax of owning a fish is kind of just looking at them up close like you do in the store. To be honest, I ended up just staring at them when we ended up getting them. It was a process

and we had a whole fish saga check in at work. Yeah. Yeah, just with some updates on how we are getting on. And how are you enjoying your fish now? Yeah, they are good. Jesus.

It's fine. Okay. Wow, imagine the celebration after nine weeks when they finally said you can buy the fish. Clint, we really need to think about it because it is just another mouth to feed at the end of the day. And I think I'm going to get trigger happy and I'm going to buy, I'm going to be allowed fish

and I'm going to buy like 47 of them or something before they change their mind. Tom is needing the hotline, Clint. OK. Kia ora, good morning. Fish supporters hotline. How can I help? Yeah, good, how's it going?

Yeah, good, Tom. You've been scammed, Tom. What's going on? You've been scammed, bro. So I own one of the largest tropical fish pet stores in the country. I've got 110 tanks at home. I've got 100 and something

tanks in my store. And I also import my own fish from overseas. He's a backdoor importer. He's the man I was talking about before. Wow. Okay, so...

But obviously, you must want people to get the water right before you sell them a fish. But do you think... Exactly, man. But dumping a whole bottle of anything in your tank,

even a small one in 30 litres, is going to crash the nitrogen cycle that the other person was talking about. Oh, don't do it. Oh, I've already emptied the entire tank twice. Yes, once it's crashed,

then you have to start again. Can I just take my tank into you, Tom, and you get it all up to speed and do all the stuff? Are you in Auckland? And then call me when I can put fish in it. I'm in Tauranga, sorry, guys. There you go, Clint.

So drive your fish to Tauranga. Will it fish last in a plastic bag for. I'm in Tauranga, sorry guys. There you go, Clint. So drive your fish to Tauranga. Will it fish last in a plastic bag for two hours drive to Tauranga? Hey, I drove my fish from Queenstown up to Wellington.

Okay. Over the ferry, everything. I get fish from Indonesia into New Zealand, no worries at all. Oh my God. Wow. That's a long trip.

Do you have a black one with goggly eyes that Clint can hold, Kevin? We've got almost everything you could imagine. There you go. Bay Aquatics. I've even got Nemo and Dory.

Oh, I want a Nemo. Then I've got to get a heater. It's very hard to look after. Don't get a Nemo. No, you want cold water fish, Clint. So it's either Tom or Goat Island, Clint.

Goat Island's closer. That's all I'm going to say. Okay, well, the lady told me, although maybe I'll get Tom's number. She told me I had to put fish food in the tank that has no fish, remember, for four days. Then he did 25% of the water.

Then fill it back up and then fish food for another three days. And then I can go back like Tuesday afternoon. So this time next week, we'll have an update. Oh, God, I'm already over it. I don't even buy the fish. Nightmare. I almost want to like strangle the fish out just because of it. So many questions.

Taylor Swift's tribute act, Shannon Beresford, she's a Canadian. She is in the country and kicks off her tour around New Zealand tomorrow in Auckland. She's hitting quite a few spots. We've got tickets to give away. It is the closest 99.9% of us will ever get to seeing a Taylor Swift concert after we were snubbed on her Eros tour. And she joins us on the show. I'm not sure whether to call her Taylor or Shannon.

Morning. Good morning. How's it going? Good. What do you prefer, Shannon or Taylor? I mean, my real name's Shannon, but for 90 minutes every night for the next few nights, I will be Taylor. So whatever you want.

Yeah, so how did this. So whatever you want. Yeah, so how did this start out for you, Shannon, in the way that how did you have the idea or did somebody say to you, you know you look or sound a little like Taylor, you should try this? Yeah, it kind of came about that the group that I'm with now, they were planning a Taylor tribute and they approached me and asked if I would do it. Because yeah, I do like, once I get the makeup and the hair done, I do resemble her

pretty closely. Yeah, you do. And locally. So yeah, and I said sure. Yeah. Like,

you've picked a good place to come because Taylor was supposed to be here not last year, the year before. And she didn't come to New Zealand.

So there's a lot of people I'd imagine in New Zealand that are hungry to see, have a little bite of that Taylor Swift pie. I hope so, because we're so excited to be here. And yeah, I feel for the people of New Zealand. They didn't get an heiress tour. So we are going to do our best to bring our version of the heiress tour to them. Yeah, when it's called Taylor's Story, I don't know, does it tell a story of Taylor in between or is it just like, not just, but is it like a concert?

All of the bangers. We're playing all the bangers, of course. But no, I think we're kind of doing it in a way that there's something for everybody if they're a Taylor fan. We're doing it in chronological order by album. Yeah. So we're starting off with debut

and then we're going all the way through to Midnight. So it's kind of just, in a sense, it's the story of her development as a songwriter and as a musician and as a person. So we're kind of following that track with the show, which is really cool. Obviously, I talk a little bit in between and engage with the audience

and talk about Taylor and the songs and things. But it's definitely musically very much following a development of her life, which is basically her story because she writes so much about her life and her music, right? And speaking of, have you met Taylor Swift before? Does she know that you do a tribute act

and that you perform her songs around the world? It's so funny. I don't actually know if she knows I exist. I know her management knows that we exist. Right? And they're okay? Like, they don't mind that you're going around pretending to be Taylor doing Taylor's songs. So imagine they're either really like it's a compliment or they end up

doing a cease and desist. Yeah, we haven't been told to stop anything yet. Their management basically was like, you do you, go have fun, but just don't tell anyone

that you are friends with Taylor or associated with her in any way. And you see this like... Yeah, I haven't met her personally, but her management

knows about me, so that's kind of fun. And it's like, why would Taylor Swift not want you to do that? It's like, you're going to places like New Zealand that haven't, that have got these. And it's like, why would Taylor Swift not want you to do that? It's like you're going to places like New Zealand

that haven't, that have got these screaming young girls that desperately want to see Taylor Swift perform in this, and you're getting them as close as you possibly can. And also, seeing you, Shannon, is like an add-on to me, rather than like, I would go instead of. You know what I mean?

So I don't think it would take away from Taylor's tickets, per se, but I also, do you find the audience, So I don't think it would take away from Taylor's tickets per se. But I also do find the audience, because I've been trying to imagine it, and I reckon there's a lot of people that are just Taylor fans that want to go and listen to the music. But I also imagine there must be some really sweet young kids that... Think you're actually Taylor. Yeah.

Is that lovely? Yeah, it's kind of like, yeah, it is really lovely. And it's kind of like, yeah, I feel like a Disney princess or like Santa Claus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, the little, little kids really don't know if I am Taylor or not. But that's the fun

part about doing the tribute is like, it's kind of our job to leave people questioning at the end of it if Taylor didn't just come and do a surprise costume. Yeah! That's the cornerstone of a great tribute act. I just think people like going in with the right attitude. If you're a Taylor fan and you go with your mates and you

go and you see Shannon perform and you get into it, it's going to be a hell of a fun night. If you're going on to be like I'm going to sit here and see how close it is which I'm still thinking will be amazingly close and you're incredibly talented. But I think go on with the,

like with the attitude of having a great night with your girlfriends or your guy friends or whoever and have a blast. Like take a listen to this. This is Shannon as Taylor Swift on stage. It's so, it's uncanny. Like, if you played me that audio and you didn't tell me that it was you playing it, I would assume that was Taylor Swift, and I guess that's the point.

And you've got the moves as well. You do all her mannerisms. It's a full act. So great. Yeah, it's right. It's right. All right, well, Ticketmaster, we can get you tickets. Shannon's going to be touring all around the country, starting with Auckland tomorrow,

but you can also text Taylor and your name and city to 3343 because Shannon's been lovely enough to give us tickets to give away to her shows. Yeah, Auckland, Whangaparoa, Hamilton, APN, Kapiti, Wellington, Marsden, Dunedin, Christchurch, if you're in any of those areas and you want to go there, text them because we could be calling you back. I think it's safe to say Taylor Swift has never even been to Whangaparoa.

No. Thank you, Shannon, so much for your time and all the best touring our beautiful country. Have a blast. Thank you so much. I'm excited. Kia ora. Aw, Kia ora. Clint, Meg and Dan.

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Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. Haven't heard of it yet. It's got 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a very good score. Might have to check that one out. Another one texts in saying season two of Andor is out on Disney Plus now. Season one was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. Nice.

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None of your business, Clint. You get the hotel room next to me if you want to hear. Oh, no thanks. Oh, I don't want a baby moon if you guys are in the next tour. Yeah, I'd want a discount if that happened. I'm like, Dan was keeping me up for like three to four minutes. And he's only in there by himself. Okay, guys.

Don't send that to the client. Jesus. Oh, Nat, can you not? But that was the one I was saying I want a baby moon. And now we can't even send that to the the one I was saying I want a baby moon. And now we can't even send that to the client. We can go out for dinner, mate. Okay, yeah, I chatted to Gracie Abrams last night before her show.

She was amazing. And something I learned about her that you may already know or not is that she's actually genuine, huge Lord fan. Not just somebody that sees it because they're in New Zealand and that's like our person, but somebody who has known her and loved her before Lorde was famous. She I like love with my whole heart and soul. Yeah? I mean, I've loved her forever before we were...

And Mellow Drum was so great. Yeah, it's just like, you know, I feel like Pure Heroine, I saw her at the Fonda in LA, which is this tiny venue the week before Pure Heroine came out. Wow. It was this like really, really, really tiny show, and it was just her on stage. I'll remember it forever. Her hair was so long.

She wore this black dress, but it looked more like a cape, and there was just this overhead spotlight on her. And I was so little, but so was she. We were two years apart. It was so inspiring. I'd never until that moment seen someone perform and think that like,

maybe I could one day find a version that felt like me in the way that that felt like her, you know? Yeah, so Lorde, I guess, sparked that whole kind of passion and fire inside Gracie

when Gracie would have been about 12 and maybe Lorde was about 14, 15. Wow. Incredible. And just the fact that remembering that Lorde was doing that at 15 years old is amazing, really. Yeah.

And then I asked her in a quickfire round what song she wished that she wrote. I thought it was going to be a Taylor one because I know she's a huge Taylor fan. What song did you wish you wrote? Liability by Lorde. And then she surprised the show last night and sang it. She's got that really deep, like, thing that Lorde does, eh? She does it quite well.

You're right about Lorde, though. And the fact that she was so young when she first hit fame. And you'd think she'd have some clanger songs, you know, from when she was young. Like, you know, Justin Bieber and Baby. It's considered, like, his kind of kid song. She was very mature for her age in terms of songwriting. This was a mellow drummer, so she was a little bit older.

But it's such a nice song. If you haven't listened to the lyrics of Liability, it's about after a breakup. And when she says, I'm going to go home to the only girl that has ever loved me and it's to herself and she's like kind of like

finding herself again and looking in the mirror and realising she's only got herself it's a lovely song it's a lovely song text Gracie to 3343

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