The Edge Breakfast - FULL SHOW - uncle's secret family

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

Clint, Meg, and Dan chat about a short-week Thursday and missing New Music Friday for Matariki, plus upcoming releases. Cal reveals 11.5 hours of phone screen time and shares a rabbit hole about eels traveling to the Sargasso Sea and mysterious breeding theories. They interview 82-year-old marathon-running, early-morning swimmer Don “Gaga” Alexander, nominated as The Edge’s Biggest Crush for his kindness and former-vet help. The show discusses high-security celebrity wedding invitations, long-weekend plans, CEO compensation “more or less,” and gives away “Take the Edge Off My Life” cash for a hotel room and a turntable. They debate Afterpay debt and share dramatic family bombshell stories, including DNA surprises, secret families, and a faked death misunderstanding.

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. Happy, well, somewhat of a Friday, right? Kind of. Well, it is. It is Friday in a way.

It's a short week. And today is Thursday of a short week. Which is kind of also sad in a way because we don't get New Music Friday. I know. I thought that too. It's a good one this week, of course. That's what happens. they didn't sit and they go, oh well, should we not release them?

Because it's Matriki on Friday music. They really should think about Matriki over in L.A. where most of the music is made. Yeah, and I'm sure we make a big dent if they don't listen to, you know, us. You know what? I refuse to listen to any new music on Matariqi. Really? Yeah.

I thought it was all about new things. Yeah, but I won't be listening to any new music from overseas. Oh, from overseas. Oh, from overseas. Oh, yeah. What are you looking forward to hear tomorrow from Al Therro? Well, he won't be hearing anything. but I'm looking forward to role model, Cody Simpson.

Oh, yeah. I think we might be getting another Gracie Abrams before she releases her album. Who else is. I wonder if Render Grande is going to drop a new album, I mean, a new single before the album, because the album's here in like two weeks. Oh shit, really?

Yeah, hopefully another single from her. Tomorrow I'll just be listening to the New Zealand National Anthem in the Todayo version. Clint Megadaleigh, Go! All right, you know how yesterday we were talking about my screen time because I just kind of sat in my bed and watched reels the whole day and it was nine and a half hours and you guys were like, that's insane. I mean, nine hours is at the point where I think it needs an intervention, Cal,

and we need to go, look, you're on your phone too much. Well, yesterday was a whole lot better. 11 hours and 30 minutes. Oh, it'd be a bad way. There's no way. There's a bit of way. There's a bit... 11 hours and 31 minutes on my phone.

You can't have been on your phone that much. No, I was because I feel like when you're covering, you know, the breakfast show, it's like, I don't have that same. I'm not used to it, right? So I'm just, get home, I'm tired, I don't want to do anything. So I just sit my bed and watch reels. And this is this why I saw a thing of you yesterday talking about, you got into a deep hole about eels.

Oh my God, can I tell you about eels real quick? I mean, I've already heard about it. You don't know how they breed, right? We all know that. Well, no, like, they're absolutely insane. And someone commented and added to the theory. So every single eel, unless they're, like, trapped. But all eels around the globe in their adult life,

they stop eating, their body start to change, and then they get into the ocean. They all travel to the Sargasso, sea to which they disappear. No one's ever seen adults. They track them there, they go to the Sargazzo Sea, and then they disappear. They have never seen eels mating in the wild, and then all of a sudden eel babies, like little larvae pop up out of nowhere.

Apparently, they dive so far down that the pressure from the ocean crushes them, and they turn it to nothing, and then the eggs come out. How insane is that? Well, that's the going theory at the moment, and I was like a huge rabbit hole. These poor people, these poor people, eels swim to the, bottom of the ocean, it's so deep and so pressurized that it crushes them, but their eggs survive. And that's how they

marded themselves to their kids. Yeah. Is that crazy? And electric eels are not eels. What are they then? I don't know, I can't remember the word. Well, this has been another episode of David Chattonbury. Yeah, thank you for that cow that's been really insightful.

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. It's interesting. Your screen time, really, 11 hours. It's just diabolical. Let's see how I go over the long weekend. Who's watching eels that in here? deeply that they're finding out all this information. Shouldn't they be looking at other more important stuff that eels?

Well, like, it's because the eels are the only thing that's, well, not the only thing, but one of the major things in the universe that isn't explained. Yeah. They should be investigating like, why Donald Trump's skin is so orange or, you know, like, what is actually in space, not what's eel, what an eel's doing. But don't you thinking we should figure out what's going on our own planet before we look elsewhere and other planets? Especially the ocean, we only know about 10% of it.

Apparently someone told me once that we know more. more about space than we do about the deep ocean. Yeah. You know, NASA actually, was originally about ocean exploration. And then the theory goes that they saw something down there. It was like, oh, we're not going back down there. Is that what you saw unreal? Yeah.

Probably. Meg, I think Meg believes they never went to the deep ocean, though. No, no, no. They just filmed it on. Yeah, they filmed it in a pool. Stanley Kubrick directed that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Clint, Meg and Dan.

Yeah, thanks to Canadian Club. We are looking for New War the Edge's biggest, crush. You can nominate them online and we've spoken to a lot of the finalists this week. The winner gets $5,000 and the title of being the Edge's biggest crush. Yeah. Meg, so far we've spoken to people we haven't met before. Although today we have met this person on the phone. Yeah. Well, you did. I never got to meet him because I was on the tune to leave.

Yeah. Please welcome to the Edge. Don Alexander. Good morning. Good morning. Now we've spoken to you before. We've spoken to you as Gaga. That's your nickname and your granddaughter Danielle nominated you this morning. You're 81 years old. You still run marathons. 82. 82? She's got you wrong. When did you turn 82? January. January. Wow. 82 years old and you still swim every morning at 6.8? No, I swim three days a week. Okay. Three days a week, which is still pretty good for 82. What else about you, Don, in your nomination is your biggest green flag

is that you always lend to hand whenever you can you love the song in the background. You used to be a vets. You still look after people's animals when they need help. Is there anything about that that you feel like, well, I've retired and I would hate it for people to bring their animals to me anymore, but do they still do it or do you like doing it?

No, they come to me. I'm quite happy to see them, and I need to give them, do they need to, do they need to go and see the vet or do they need to just say, hey, wait and just see what will happen? Oh, so you're like the nurse before you go into the doctor. You go. Yeah. I'm in the triage centre.

Yes, exactly, exactly. Danielle also joins us on 0800 The Edge. Morning, Danielle. Hi, team. How are we going? Yeah, good. I mean, you speak very highly of Gaga. We've spoken to you many times about how incredible he is.

Oh, 100%. And like, I don't want to cry again, but he's my best mate. We're very, very close. And he, there is not a thing he would not do for anyone. He will just bake. He bakes. He comes to every sporting event of my kids. He, honestly, when we were younger, it started even when I was, like, you know, going to parties.

And he'd say, just call me any time I will come and pick you up if you ever need it. You know, just anything. Wow. So truly, if he needs. to win this because he genuinely is just someone ever in love. And you call anyone, they'll say the same. Well, you were the finalist for the Edge's biggest crush, thanks to Canadian Club, Gaga, so good luck.

Are you guys? How you guys might need to help me. I need help, I think. Oh, why? What's happening? Well, I'm running these marathons, but I have trouble with speeding tickets. Oh, you're a good one. He's going 16 and a 50.

Rick James is spilling the beans on his invitation to Travis and Taylor's wedding when he found out and how he got the secret anonymous text message. And I looked at my phone and the invitation had come through. I'd been booked on the same day as Graham Norton. The only other person publicly invited. I said, we should have a chat, shouldn't we? And he went, yes. And it was like the traitors meeting in the tower.

They were going to meet at a restaurant and then they ended up just decided it was best to go around to Graham's house and they had a meeting about this anonymous text that they got and figured out that they were both invited. So it has come out since with her wedding that people got anonymous texts and then they got like a location that it had to be Manhattan on a certain day and then to arrive

at the wedding they got an Uber at 4am in the morning they got a QR code with a directions for their taxis or Uber's to go in this. They didn't go and they had exact directions they weren't allowed into the building. Wow, that's so cool. High security. Because they had to park all the cars underneath the MSG

so they could get escorted in without paparazzi. Without people seeing them. Wow. And we've got a big new music day tomorrow, even though we won't be here. Of course I said yesterday, we're going to have role model and Cody Simpson. Benny has just teased this one.

And Gracie Abrams also is teased that this will be out soon. I think she fixed the audio quality. She played it through her phone into a phone, so I can't look a little more secret, I guess. That sounds like a good, like a good song. Yeah, so the lyrics in that one are, if only I had a good reason, if only I chose you instead of me, which I'm guessing is like somebody saying to her, like, why did you leave me? And she's like, oh, if only I didn't put myself first.

Wow. Relatable. Clint, Megan Dan. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, first call of the day, we're wanting to chat to someone. What are they doing on the long weekend? Renee joins us. Renee, your plans?

My plans. My plans, I have to work tomorrow. That's okay. I'm an in-home support worker. Nice. And I love my job. Nice. I meet lots of lovely people.

Oh, do you always get offered a cup of tea and a bickie? I do. What's your favourite bickie to get offered? Oh, I do like dunking a ginger nut. Oh, such a good. You're my type of lady, Renee, because a lot of people don't like ginger nuts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, nice. Cup of tea and ginger nut.

You know what I like doing with a ginger nut? You might disagree, Renee. But I like to have a nice cup of tea, a little bit of ice. say a whisper of milk. A whisper of milk. A whisper. A whisper. Gotta have a strong cup of tea.

Oh yes. Yeah. So I have an Earl Grey or a English breakfast tithing. I put a whisper of milk. And then I have a ginger nut. Instead of just dipping it in there, I just drop it in. Oh, no. Oh, God.

No, I haven't done that. No, no. We've lost it there. We're all up. We're worth them to the whisper of milk. And then drop it a whole bickie into it. Yuck soggy bickie. No, yeah.

I actually like a soggy biscuit. I do love soggy biscuit in the morning. But I will say this, by the end of the cup of tea, you get to the bottom and what you've got there, Renee, is a gingery treat. Oh, no, sorry. You get, you get bits of biscuit crumb in your mouth, no. I was really hoping you'd be with it. I feel like we were really browing down, Renee.

We were getting there, but not quite. Nothing. Okay, well, this is great. This is great. And more about Renee, obviously you do have to work tomorrow, but you're one of the battlers, you drive a Mazda 3, you're single but not on the apps. Oh, good on you, girl.

How long have you been single? Oh, gosh. A long time. About 10 years. Do you think you'll stay single forever? You're happy like that? I think I will. I'm so used to it now.

I'm so dead in my way. Yeah, yeah, God. Imagine somebody coming into your life and suddenly changing up your routine and be like, sorry, that's my cup of tea in Bickey time. Yeah, no, no, can't do that. No man's going to ruin your existence, Renee. No way, no way. Yeah, good on you.

Well, Renee, I hope you have somebody to take to the movies with you. We've got a double pass to go and see Moano came out in the cinemas yesterday. Oh, thank you. You're welcome. I'll take my friends. I'll take my friends to young kids. Oh, that'd be great. Oh, my God.

You sound like just the most delightful person. I know. Because she's got time. She's got no man in her life. I love you guys in the morning. I listen to you guys every morning before I go to work. Oh, we love you, Renee. We love you, Renee.

Thank you. And now every time you have a cup of you can think of Dan and how he has a soggy biscuit at the bottom of it. It's not. It's far worse than soggy. It's completely disintegrated. Clint, Megan Dan. It's time for some more or less. Yes.

All right, we're doing CEO's salaries. Oh, yeah. This is going to piss me off. It is, it is. Now, look, the way I've done it, sorry, it's based on recent reported total compensation packages. So the only one I could find that was like the most up-to-date was like the 20-24, 20-25 year.

So it's not this year. So if there are some people that have lost their job since the past year, then maybe, you know, just ignore that. So it's not so much, I guess there's a correlation though, but it's not so much how much the brand's worth. No, no, it's more or less a total annual compensation for the CEO. So it's their salary? Yes, the salary.

Right, okay, yeah, that word was confusing me. Yeah. Tim Cook of Apple or Satya Nadella of Microsoft? Who wins more? So Tim Cook has stepped down. Yes, yes, since then. I would say he would be up there as one of the highest salary earners for CEO, so I would have voted Tim Cook there. No, Satya earned more $79.1 million a year to be the CEO of Microsoft.

Bob Iger from the Walt Disney Company or Jamie Diamond from J.P. Morgan Chase. J. J.P. Morgan. That's huge. No, Bob Iger of the Walt Disney Company. $41 million is a salary. Wow. And that's, I guess, U.S. dollars.

Yes, it is. This is all US dollars. Brian Nicol of Starbucks or David Solomon of Goldman Sachs. Oh, Goldman Sachs, you go. But Starbucks have franchises everywhere around the globe. I don't even know what the Sandy Sachs was. I'm sorry, but I don't really buy Starbucks. It's not as big in New Zealand as it is overseas. Absolutely not.

Some cities you go to and it's like the only good coffee you can get. That's true. So which one are we looking at? And we're looking at the CEO of Starbucks or the CEO of I'm going to go to Starbucks. I don't know what the other thing is. Goldman Sachs is like a bank banking thing. Oh, okay, that.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, well done. All right. Sundar Piquet, which is Alphabet Inc., which I think is a huge, like, just global company. Or Mary Barra, who is General Motors. Well, Mary Barra is a woman, so I'm going to vote for the man there, unfortunately.

No, I go to the woman. Mary Barra, a 29.1 million. Oh, good on it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go, Mary. on her. And what about

Andy Jesse of Amazon or Mark Benioff of Salesforce? Isn't amazing we hardly know any of these names apart from the very famous ones? It's got to be Amazon, right? I guess I'm just going for what I love the name of.

Bezos, he's out of it now even though he was the CEO and the owner of Amazon. I think he's now out of it. So Salesforce is the world leading cloud-based customer relationship management platform. I know nothing about that, so I'm going to say the other one. Yeah, Amazon.

No. Mark is doing very well at $55 million a year. They are very close, but, yeah, apparently when it comes to conversations, salaries, bonuses, stock and the rest of it, Mark does go ahead of Andy, who's got $40 million for Amazon. Wow. Well, there you go. I think a lot of them who deserve how much they get,

because being a CEO, I'd imagine, would be... Do you know, think CEO is a lot of delegation? Yeah, right? Yeah, but again, but the buck stops with you. If the whole company starts tanking, people look to the top, don't they? And they go, that's the reason, you know? Yeah, the CEO is the person. and that knows who to tell what to do where, I feel like, confidently.

Yeah. Not like Wendy, our CEO. She does an incredible job. And if the company starts tanking, people go Wendy. Do we wrap it up with one more for celery? Meg or Dan? Yeah, who wins more? Well, I've just asked for the equal salary to Meg and Mike.

Clint, Meg and Dan. Oh, my gosh. The edge helps you. Take the edge of my life. With cash and Clint McGon Dan. Oh, yeah. Second to last one. Yeah, we're doing this for a lot.

while, haven't we? It seems like, what? Three months? Three months? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been nice. And it's nice to think about all of the ones that we've done, the butterfly effect that would happen now that these little things have been ticked off. Yeah, and sometimes it just takes a little bit of cash just to take that edge off. Absolutely.

So let's see and call this person now, just double-check in every single time. I can't believe out in this whole time I haven't called the wrong person. I know, I'm surprised me. Good on you. Take the edge off my life? Yeah, yeah.

Good morning. Kate, is that you? Carina or Kate? Yeah. Carina. Carina. Carina. Carina.

It comes up as Kate on our phone for some reason. Now, Corina, this is an interesting story. You want $250 towards a hotel room? Yes. So the story goes that you, last time you had a night in a hotel room, your parents ended up walking, or your in-laws, ended up walking in on you and your partner. Yes.

Christ. How does that happen? Well, you know, you're staying together and yeah. Right, okay. Got you're chatting? All right, well... $250 for you. Yeah, go and get a hotel room, lock that door and know that nobody can come in. Awesome, thank you. Thanks, mate.

Thanks, Karina. Clint, Megan Dan. Now, can I just preface this next bit and have it as a caveat and I want it to be clear. I love my wife. And you know what? She is perfect in almost every way. A part? And she is a great cook.

Okay. What's her best dish that she makes? Oh, God. Where do I start? I think she makes a beautiful risotto. Oh, nice. She does a great mac and cheese. Right.

It's crazy. You've just, two of them are both like just things in a pot. But I can't want to do it. Okay. She does a great leek pie. Oh, that's never thinking of pop. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Great, but anyway. But, but anyway. But. But. I've listed some great dishes there

but she has a couple of signature dishes which I, every time she goes, we're having that tonight, I physically cringe. It's like, it takes you back to being a child when you go, Mom, what's for dinner? And she goes, oh, it's like roast beef. And you go, oh, God. Or you come home and the clock pops out.

For me it was when my mum used to say fish pie for dinner. I just physically gag. And my mum will stand by that. There was always a meal, wasn't there? When we were grown up with our parents, that were like, oh God, no, it's not that. And for my wife, Hannah, she's a 10. But every now and then, she makes chicken drumsticks.

Now, I spoke about this yesterday. Yeah. And I've got beef with chicken drumsticks. I hate them. I think they're the worst part of the chicken. I think chicken drumsticks are overrated. When I get them at KFC, I say, I always go, don't give me a drumstick, give me a wing. And as a vegetarian, for some reason, that blows my mind.

I would have thought that people like the drumstick, because it seems like it's got more meat than a wing. No, the wing's got more. And I think a drumstick is easier to eat. Yes, because you just hold it and eat it like a piece of corn on the cob. But why is it bad? Why don't you like it? Especially a homemade one.

Like, so you can kind of get away with it because it's like delicious. But like a homemade jump stick, she's just like, oh, so boring. She'll do a chicken drumstick and then on the side some, you know, veg and stuff. I go for the veg first because I can't stand the drumstick. That's rare. That's crazy. The other thing she does, which also I hate, I hate, and it's her favorite thing, is she gets the box crumbed fish. Oh, yes, that's my bag.

My favourite thing, too. The box crumb fish. She'll call it Friday night Fish and Chips. I'd rather go to a fish and chip shop than had the crumbed hokey fish and then some chips on the side. It's like unbelievable.

It's like every time that we can't think of something to make, we're like, right, we'll just have frozen fish and chips and some peas. It's always the same. Okay, so we're going to play a game of they're a 10 but? Yeah, they're a 10, but and for me, it's my wife.

She's a 10, but she makes box fish and chips and chicken drumsticks too regularly. Okay. Clint, Megan Dan. Let's go! You entered, this could be you that we're calling if you answer the phones.

There we go. Okay, I'm just, every time. Double-checking that number. And feel free to say something while I do this and that go. Well, this one, I'm reading through what this person wants to take the edge off their life. A niche one.

It's a niche one to finish up on, if I'm honest. Let's hope they answer. Remember, they have to say, take the edge off my life. Take the edge off my life Oh yeah Final one was a pass

Letitia good morning Morning James Morning Latisha So it says here that you fell off A scooter and hurt your knee real bad No no no that is not her Leticia is here saying I peeked too early and I got Olivia Dean vinyl

Oh that is niche as well I know How can we get two niche options Wow So wait she she bought a vinyl but doesn't have a vinyl player Oh, I see, I see, I see. Oh my God, that's like Lily in the office. You know what? A lot of people are doing that, Letitia.

They just buy the vinyl and then just put it on their wall and display it and don't ever play it. It's a nice novelty thing to just have. Yeah. Yeah, that's basically what it is at the moment. It's just collecting dust on my shelf. Yeah, so did you ever want to play it or were you going to become a collector? I think I do need to play it the Olivia Dean album and just literally obsessed with her. So it would be nice to listen to it with some good quality.

Okay, so you need a Mali turn table so you can play the vinyl, $250,000 heading your way. Amazing, thanks so much, guys. And can I just say that the hook musical loved it. Thank you so much. Were you there live or did you watch it? Yes, I was there live. Oh, really? Oh, wow, that would have been a fever dream.

Yeah, my daughter likes to watch that, and I've heard that Ashlandon's son watches it on repeat too, so that's an interesting upbringing for them. You know, Letitia, I showed my sonies too. I showed the video of it to him and he didn't seem that interested as he was watching it but then recently just in the last couple of days he said to me, Daddy fell off the stage

and I was like, what are you talking about? And then I realised it was him referring to me falling off the stage as hook which just happens in the show. I'm really pleased. Thank you so much for, where are you from? You're from Hamilton? Hamilton, yes.

Oh, well thank you for driving up and watching that absolute atrocity of... It was hilarious. We loved it. And well done for being the last winner of Tate the Edge off your life. Yes, it's so epic. I'm so excited.

Let's go. Enjoy your final player, Leticia. Clint, Megan Dan. Afterpay. I feel like it's brilliant until you start to rely on it. I think it's great for, you know what, if you've got a little something, something you need. Need. Yeah.

And it's a backstop. Great. But when you're using it when you just don't have money and you're buying, you're frittering it away on like DoorDash and Uber. I'm using it for $5 sushi balls. All those bits and pieces. Okay, so are you worse, better? We want to know what the situation with afterpay is at the moment. Going straight through to Sarah.

Sarah, what is the account balance on your afterpay? Currently, it is, you know what I'm going in the app, 2150 and 70. Oh, my goodness. So what's that bill weekly, is? This week, it is $469. Now can you afford that? Because I genuinely don't think I could afford that payment.

I can, but only just. And what are the things, do you look back on any of the things when you look at that $400 payment or that $2,000 that you've spent? You go, I didn't even really need that or want that or it's gone. Now I don't even use it anymore. Well, most of it's for my kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Usually it's like

Why did she me bet $70 make-up thing Yeah This is the thing This is why I don't get it Thanks Sarah, I feel candid Because I'd be like that I'd just be buying stupid stuff Because I can because it's not my money

And then I realise, oh no, it is my money Yes I just got a bill I'm in after pay recovery at the moment I was really bad thousands of dollars Like every week it was like 600 bucks coming out And I just Yeah

I have to stop myself now That's like Max seen her text and saying I after paid $6,000 of tattoos. I've cancelled that account now. Yeah, see? Because it seems so cheap. You're not spending money. You're just tapping a thing and you don't see anything come out. And then two weeks later it's there. Wow. Okay. Kim.

Morning Kim. We're talking about after pay? Hi. Hi. What is the amount you owe? $2,285.65. And what percentage of the stuff within that total are things that you need and stuff that you've just stupidly brought? They're probably not as such need. It's just things that obviously my partner and I bought.

Yeah, yeah. And do you buy it? Are you one of those people that gets the instant gratification? You buy it and then you get at home, you're like, I wish I'd never bought that. Or do you just enjoy it? I think it's just sometimes it's just easy just to do that, then put your card details in all the time. You just go straight to after pay.

Yeah. Maybe it's just the new credit card. Like, do you have credit cards as well, Kim? Yeah, I don't have any credit cards, no. Yeah, see? So maybe it's just the new... Yeah, because you actually don't pay interest on it, I guess, unless it gets to the point where you are then paying it late,

and then I'd imagine there's late fees and stuff. I guess it makes sense. Because I don't have a credit card, and I used to be... I don't have a credit card because I used to be so bad with it. I didn't realize you were meant to pay it weekly off. I thought I just did a credit card, and then every now and then whenever I got some extra money,

I'd pop it on, and then I'd get... Oh, that's how I thought they worked. Yeah, I thought that's how they worked, too. But really, you're meant to be like after pay and paying it off every week like a certain amount. I never did that. text through a wise thing. I'm a firm believer

and if you can't afford it at the time you can't have it. And I think that works a lot of the time. It's when the kids need school uniforms or they need stationary or stuff and they actually need it and you can't afford it. Then I think after pay becomes a very useful tool.

I honestly think when you're doing it for Uber Eats, that's an issue. That's a problem. Have a sandwich. Yeah, sure. Clint, Megan Dan. Oh my gosh. Talking about family dramas

after, or family bombshells, really, after we found out that one of our listeners thinks that her dad's Robbie Williams. And he very well could be, because mum apparently shagged him or a security guard in the back rooms. We don't know. It could be one of the two.

I mean, that security guard needs to be doing more security work and less shaggy work. For sure. So family bombshells, you can call us, 0800, the edge. Texas 3,343. What was yours? Yeah, there's been a study done, apparently, over in America, of family drama, of 10,000 people were asked

what was the family drama. And the most common one, people discovered that through DNA tests that the man, it's always the man, in it, who raised them, wasn't their biological father. More cases were people found out that the person that always called mum was actually their grandmother. Wow. And so their older sister was actually their biological mother.

Wow. On more than one occasion, families learned of their grandfather, had secretly had another wife and children. in another city for decades. Several people discovered that they had secret siblings from a DNA test. I found out, in fact, just a few years ago that I had a sister, half-sister.

My dad had a kid before I was born. That was a bit of a bombshell, to be fair. Wow. Some texts coming in. We thought my uncle moved away for a quick emergency. Turns out he lied to ghost his girlfriend and his secret adult son literally showed up on a doorstep out of nowhere.

Apparently my uncle hated my grand so much. By the end, he put a strict clause in his will demanding to be buried at the opposite end of the graveyard. Talk about my new graze. Wow. And then this one, I'd love to talk to this person that's text through saying, my mum's brother, tried to fake his own death. Wow. It would be so shocking, eh. Like, tried to, I'm guessing he wanted to start a new life.

That's crazy. Like, to be the sibling or related to somebody and know that they so badly never, ever, ever want to see you again. They want to pretend to pass away. Wow, that's bad. That is nuts. Yeah, something went wrong there. Family bombshells are always... There's another person that says through just now.

My granddad had a whole second secret family. So that was one of the ones that came through on the study. An absolute man-man. Named those kids the exact same names as my mum and her brother. So we didn't have to get them mixed up. He's like, I know I've got a Julie and I know I've got a Steve. What did that mean that would mix them up more? But he doesn't, yeah.

He's not... He accidentally calls him a different name. The daughter's definitely called Julie. I mean, dick-ha-ha-ha-ha. kind of genius. Wow. No, because if you ever got a text saying, hey, it's your daughter.

Yeah. Julie. Wow. That's insane. disgusting, really. Family bombshells, they never fail to deliver, do they? Clint, Meg and Dan. Oh, my gosh. Talk about family bombshells,

family secrets that you've found out throughout your life. And every time we do this, it's like an endless well of content, isn't it? People, everybody's got a bit of family drama. This one is interesting. Found out my great grandpa in 1945 was actually majorly gay.

Now, I don't think you need to say majorly. I think you could just say gay. He paid my great-grandmother to be his wife, I guess. They've used the word bears, to raise their kids just so he could stay in the closet. And I guess that would have been quite a common thing back in those days when it was frowned upon. I tell you what, if she was happy with that,

if she was genuinely like, oh, I am just happy to have somebody that helps to pay the bills, you still help raise the kids. I don't need to have any sort of sexual relationship. It sounds like a beautiful loving partnership in its own white. Levernda marriage, they call it now. And he just heads out to have a bit of a laugh with his guy mates. Yeah, lavender marriage. And yeah, comes home and parents the kids.

All right. Maybe that worked. Vanessa, morning. Good morning. How are you guys? Yeah, good for Nesda. So what was the family bombshell for you? Okay, so the bombshell was in, like, in 2018, I found out that I had one half

sibling. And I was like, okay, sweet. This is on my dad's side. And then, like, three years down the track. So, like, here to, like, um, not last year but the year before, I found out that I had another half sibling, and then

four months later I found out I had another one and I was like, damn. Damn, but they're all like older than me. Yeah, all my dad's side. The oldest one is 49. Wow! And so are these all these different, separate people, are they all to the same woman? Or is there

separate people? No, all different. Wow. Holy moly. He's not like my prediction. When you find that out, do you then, like, start a group chat with them? Like, what's the relationship like? I have, yeah. So I put it'll be like, because I'm the youngest.

So I thought I'll be like the bigger person and be like, okay, let's just like, you know, see, because I got one who lives somewhere in the middle of Middle Highland. Then I got another one who lives like outside of Auckland. And then I got one in like in Dunedin with me. And so they're all like sprees. It's like, but it's cool because one of them's, I think she's going to hang me when I say this, but she just got into the police academy and into college. And so I'm like, oh, that's actually kind of cool.

And so, like, she's got me into running toe as well. So it's, like, pretty cool. I think that's all just, but you've seen it as more, like, the more than merrier. And I think that's a really good attitude you do have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So she's so late in life trying to now build those relationships that usually somewhat would be really close.

Yeah. I think sometimes you could turn it into a negative, couldn't you? Like, what more siblings? Yeah. And then we have Anna. Anna, Anna, her mom, so her uncle, I guess, her mom's brother tried to fake his death. How old was he when it happened? Oh, I couldn't tell you, maybe like 40, you know.

Wow. And what was the reasoning for this? Did he want to just get rid of the family and so he wanted them to think that he was dead and he started a new life? Like, what happened there? No, well, so my mum lived here in New Zealand and her family's in Thailand. I think it was just a way to try and get money. But so when his wife called to say he'd passed away of a heart attack,

she jumped on the first flight over there. They kind of tried to keep up the lie for a couple of days, but she was starting to suspect. It wasn't like they were lying. And then ultimately he ended up walking in on her having a conversation and he didn't realize she was there. And she was she killed him without her. Oh, what? Because she was just so shocked, like, because he, you know, tried to pretend he was dead and wasn't. She's so angry.

Oh, my goodness me. And so does she, there's so many questions. Did you say that she murdered him? No, she was just wishing that head died for real after putting his through. Oh, my gosh. Your phone cut out for a sec, and it made it sound like you say, so she killed him herself. Yeah. No, sorry, I'm trying.

Oh, wait, but you should have seen the faces in the bus in the studio. Oh, my gosh. She has gone rogue. My goodness. Okay. That makes good for you. That makes sense. I would also be like to that point of like it would hurt so much that you'd kind of wish it happened.

I get that. Wowee. And I would have led with my mum's a murderer, not my brother faked as I dead. I feel dizzy. I actually feel dizzy. Oh, wow, that was outrageous. I still have so casual about it too. She's like, oh yes, she just killed him.

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