The Edge Breakfast - FULL SHOW what did you do on my face?

Episode Date: December 14, 2025

This podcast description was blatantly written by AI... In today's episode, we start off with fun banter and updates, leading into Ash London announcing her exciting new Drive Show for 2026. Clint shares his son's amusing DIY fashion, cutting sleeves off shirts, clearly inspired by Clint himself. Our 'Hall of Fame, Hall of Shame' segment showcases wild Christmas party stories. We also explore Robbie Williams' list of celebrities you wouldn't want to mess with, discuss Taylor Swift's generous bonuses, and a surprise 'Hit the Spot' performance by Dan. Plus, an exclusive sneak peek into the drama on Shortland Street's Christmas Cliffhanger. Stay tuned for laughs, surprises, and some heartfelt moments! 00:00 Podcast Introduction and Banter01:59 Kanye West and Music Controversies02:32 Spice Girls Nostalgia04:29 Ash London's Future Plans07:27 Tom Cruise's Coconut Cake Tradition13:11 First Call of the Day: Brianna the NICU Nurse17:42 Clint's Son's Fashion Statement21:43 12 Days of Christmas Faves: Crochet Penises40:38 Christmas Song Delays and Updates44:52 Taylor Swift's Generosity49:12 Best Boss Stories56:31 Hit the Spot Challenge01:01:50 Ash's Announcement and Farewell01:06:38 Robbie Williams' Top 10 Celebrities Not to Mess With01:16:08 Shortland Street Christmas Cliffhanger

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. Clint Megan Dan with Ash London, the edge bricky. It's harder in Auckland. Do you stop. Last Monday, baby.

Christmas just around the corner. I, for one, would happily continue over the break because I love to work. And I don't need a holiday. Just kidding. I'm desperate for one. Because we need someone to do weekends. Sold. I'll be home in Australia.

I'll be lying on the couch while my mum takes care of my child and I do no parenting. I'll tell you what. Thanks to technology, Ash, you can do the show from over there. I sure can. You're not wrong, baby. Isn't that the best feeling, though, when you, like, go into a family event or you go and visit parents for any of the just, like, hand your child over? And you're like, I'll see you in seven days. Yeah.

I'll be drinking martinis. What a joy. It's such a great week. I mean, I know it's like, yeah, we're all still working. But it is, the anticipation for fun is still fun. It's so true. And like started wrapping presents, doing fun stuff. It hasn't even crossed my mind.

I started doing this thing as well. You'll probably see it going around on Insta where you, because my kids were like, have we only got, are there more presents going under the tree that you haven't wrapped yet? And they obviously are gearing up for more gifts. You asked the kid, what did I get you last year for Christmas? They don't know They can't even tell you And that's proof that you don't need

For 10 gifts It's privilege Yeah I thought you're smelling my kimchi Yeah I was like sorry I'm like sorry I can say this only at 6am

Because I know Adrian's not listening I was looking for our passports yesterday And I stumbled upon a secret present for me I'm devastated that I found it Oh is it a Johnny Mitchell CD You know you know Very good Clint Meg and Dan

Oh, my gosh. Kanye West. Oh, sorry, that's Ray on the edge. It's four by six, God. Kanye's change. But Kanye West is in the system next. Us versus the playlist. We can't be playing Kanye in 2025.

Yeah, is he done, done? Yeah, he's done. I think so, yeah. You can't be saying Hitler's a good guy than still getting ready. Otherwise, we're going to have to bring back Michael Jackson. All the horrible people. Yeah, and then there's that song,

The World's Greatest, that R. Kelly sings, God, it's a great song by a piece of, you know. Yeah, you can listen to that alone in your room. Yeah. Okay, well, Dan, one of the Spice Girls for some reason. Yeah, because in 1997, on this day, music history, the same year that Princess Diana passed away. The Spice Girls movie was released.

It was the premiere today. The movie? Yeah. Spice World. Yeah. Did they play themselves? It was like a documentary. No, no, no.

It was a movie, like a feel, like a fictional, but they played themselves. Yeah. It was not good. No, I mean, it was, it was huge, though. It was like one of the highest-grossing movies of the decade. But, yeah, if you watched it now, I'd imagine it wouldn't be great. So we can play any Spice Girls song today. I wouldn't mind Spice Up Your Life.

It's a good spice-up song, isn't it? Yeah. For the final week for a lot of people. Do you remember that song that is... Mama, I love you? Beautiful South. It's not in our system, by the looks. They only had a very short couple of years of releasing music.

It's amazing that was so, like... so influential. I think they were actively active in their first spell for four years. And then it was done, pretty much. Yeah. It was good. They must have rinsed these girls,

they just try and make every dollar out of them that they could. A movie. None of them could even act. I know. They don't need to. It's funny. Half of them could sing. Apparently each... That's been offered a billion dollars for a reunion. Shut up.

A billion. They would all be doing. Even Victoria Beckham. Melby, be like, come on everybody, just do it. The Clint Meg and Dan podcast. That is your 6am throwback. So last week with Ash. Last week, yeah.

I reckon when Meg comes back, you'll still do the with Ash London for a couple of days. I did it with Meg on the show. I did the Clint Meg and Dan with Out Ash London today. Lucky she's a legend. Some girls would be like, oh, funny about that, but she's cool. She was so good to fill in for me or not really fill in for me to do her show for I mean, well, it's confusing. Even I'm confused.

I suppose we'll chat more at 8 o'clock, actually, about the fact that you'll be sticking around there next year. Maybe. Yeah, no, we'll. Not on this show. Yeah. Yeah, she's producing us. Carl's leaving.

Imagine me as a producer. Oh, my God. I'd forget everything. It'd be time to get callers and I'd be gossiping with Bella. And then you'd be like, have I not done enough? Why do I have to do it? Do you make a good coffee? I do make a good coffee?

I could do coffees And I could do like vibe But Carl That's the problem Carl does a good coffee Yeah true Not today But I also miss phoners

Because I'm gossiping with Ballas So it'd be pretty much to say You actually wouldn't really notice Yeah No I could never ever ever Ever ever produce the radiation I'm so lazy Yeah

He hasn't made a good coffee this morning I had a great coffee He said he was gonna make you I made one for me It was delicious Yeah I made one for Ash Oh Maybe I'll have one

The star of the show gets her coffee Although I didn't bring my mushrooms today Yeah I'm medicinal mushrooms. Yeah, so I have a little bit of an announcement, I guess, after 8 o'clock about what Ash is doing next year, if you don't already know. Hasn't been leaked?

Have you leaked anywhere? No, a post went up, but I haven't done anything yet. I'm going to post about later, you know. Oh, yeah. So just, what, if we don't count today, any four more days? Yeah. Are we doing a big, like, see-you-later thing? Nah. Because it's a mega show.

Yeah. So I don't want to be the person saying, I'm going to miss her. Yeah, but we won't cry, but you... Oh, ball. Yeah, we want you to cry. And then Meg's going to come in for a lot. Me and Meg will cry. And then you guys will just sit there and look like statues.

A couple of G-Sys. A couple of real men. We have to take our concrete tools that day, Clint. We were trawling through the last six months of working with Ashulmos to try and get some highlights together. And we've got two. Oh, that's good. We'll be able to scrape. We've got one, but we'll be, Carl City will scrape together another one.

Another two. With AI. Yeah, yeah. It won't be you. It'll sound a little like you I just can't wait for my last time with me and mega hugging and bawling and you guys are just sitting there all goodly

I'll be like So is the show finished yet Do we get to go? No, it's been a joy It's been a joy Yeah, we'll have more to say later in the week Yeah, yeah, yeah Okay, um

Clint's written a song for you and everything So I've got easy money Still kicking on at 7 o'clock this morning I feel like we could give away $1,000 this week the week just before Christmas. Come on, we're getting close. We've had a lot of seven and eights out of ten.

Just need you to be a little faster. Let's do 2,000. Why not? Let's do every day this week. Someone wins 1,000. Well, that's the idea. Yeah. Let's do it then.

It's also not up to us, is it? Yeah, I know. Yeah, she'll make it real easy for seven, right? In the meantime, she's prepping a scandal for you. Let you know what's going on in the World of Entertainment next. Oh, no, I do have one because Meg sent some stuff last night. Okay. Thanks, Meg.

Love you, Darlene. Great. Clint, Meg and Dan. Lesh. Scandal. Quite a scandal. Scandal with Ash London. So, Tom Cruise, a contentious human, shall we say.

Yeah. I mean, great actor. I mean, just take him on face value of his movies. Yes, absolutely. And everyone that works with him raves about him. But then, you know, obviously he's one of the most powerful people at a problematic cult. And his daughter doesn't rave about him, I don't think. And his daughter doesn't see him because she's got a Scientologist anymore.

Anyone who's a bit of a crap dad, I'm always a little bit sussing out. Agree. Anyone that chooses religion over their own family is... And then, I know the story about she. Anyone that then seems to weirdly go above and beyond and other areas of their life to look good. I'm like, what are you covering up? That's a really good point. Yeah.

So, you know, there's this famous coconut cake every year. And it's like, um, it's like a coconut sponge. It's absolutely then covered in coconut cream and like coconut flakes. It looks absolutely heaven. That's weird. Like, if all the things you'd think Tom Cruise would do, coconut cake's not one of them. True that.

But, hey, it's niche. You know, it's niche. Because no one really wants a Christmas cake. Yeah, no one likes to Christmas cake. I'll have a coconut cake. They're dark, like, fruit cake with the red and green bits in it. No, thank you. So, do you know the new girl?

Yeah, a new girl. Yeah. So the guy on that Nick, not Schmidt, neck, like the main guy who, like, you know, his name is Jake Johnson. he was in a film with Tom Cruise in 2017. So he made it on to the list. Oh, it's a coconut cake list? The coconut cake list.

What are how many he sends out at Christmas? That's a great question. Does he make them? No, he orders them. Coconut cakes does Tom Cruise send out. Because that would be incredible if he made them. That's incredible. Yeah, but even if he only sent out like 50 and you're one of 50?

Yeah. It could be like 400. So it's three to 400 cakes he sends out to people, which is pretty badass. So Jake Johnson has just shared in an interview yesterday that years and years after doing this movie together, he was still on the list and he was delighted. The only problem is he's dairy-free, gets sick, can't have lactose. Oh, he can't.

Tom Cruise doesn't know this. It doesn't know, which is awkward in itself. And he didn't want the cake to be wasted anymore. So he mentioned it to Tom. He said, I understand if you want to take me off the list. I can't have the lactose. Can't have the creamy cake. No.

And then that year and every year since, the boogiest gingerbread house you've ever seen with Jake's daughter's names engraved on the roof. This looks like a $500 gingerbread cake has arrived at his house. Isn't that so classy? He must have done some really dark stuff that we don't know about.

Do you think he's on the I'm... Maybe he was on Epstein Island or something. Maybe he has been doing some dark stuff. I don't think Tom Cruise. I don't think Tom Cruise would do anything that's like, how do you say this? Anything he's done will be so... No, I don't want to say anything.

The coconut cake, the company that makes them... So back to the cake. Do they sell them as the Tom Cruise coconut cake? Because I'd love to order one just to see what it's like. Even if it's not from Tom, can I still order myself like? I would imagine you can, yes. Because I remember seeing in the show Hacks, they talk about the cake, and he goes and orders the cake,

and it would have done amazing marketing for this company. Sure, yeah. Like 400 cakes at $130 US a pop. He's spending $50 grand on cakes every Christmas. Apparently, the place that does it is called Cake by Courtney. And they do it every year for Tom Cruise. It's a place, and they do other cakes, obviously, as well. Very, very good reviews on Google, five stars out of 761 Google reviews.

I just love the idea that one day, 20 years ago, Tom Cruise had a cake that he loved. And he was like, you know what? I'm going to buy everyone I love one of these cakes every Christmas. And then getting a little curied out. He'd have to have a full-time cake. organizer. To get 500 cakes courier, that's a lot of admin. But he's not doing any of that admin.

He's going, I want to be sending it to Ashclin. Yeah, I know, but so technically he's not doing anything really, is he? He's sending an email for it. He's sending an email and, yeah, a bit of paying. Well, speaking, you're paying for it. Later on the show, we're going to discuss Taylor Swift and those bonuses. Have you heard the rumor? $750,000

a dancer. They got as a bonus. Imagine opening an email. Wait, is this new? I thought because she was doing her documentary movie thing, we'll We'll get to. I thought it finally came out when she gave all of the truck drivers like 100 grand. We knew about the truck drivers. But that's not what this is in reference to.

The dancers as well. Because when you think about $197 million, you know, if, you know, truck drivers got $100,000, where's the other $150 million? You know what I mean? So it's the dancers who were like labor intensive by her side for 140 shows. And musicians. Like the band. Can you imagine that?

Even after paying tax on that, you're walking away with 400 US. You know what? quite tasteful and I don't know if when you actually go see the movie if they give you the actual number but in the trailer what I saw online they bleep the number that she goes and I like that's like I won't be able to know that I'm looking after my staff

but not know the monetary value doesn't need, it's not a look at me. Yeah I just love it. Yeah, all right I don't think there is a scandal sponsor Scandal brought to you by... It's brought you by Ash London and Tom Cruise and his coconut cake yeah we should see if we get one

so we see we get one here by Friday I know. I'll try and make one. I'd rather have the proper one. I'm a good cook. I am. I'm not baking, though. I'll take a free coconut cake.

I'll try. I'll try and get a recipe for it. Oh, thanks, one. First call of the day next. If you wanted to be you, 0,800 there, we'll so you out with a voucher to go spend in store. At Z, especially if you haven't scored, I mean, picked yourself up lunch.

You haven't got it sorted this morning. Dan, what am we going to do? Call us. We'll sort out for you. Yeah. The Clint Meg and Dan podcast. First call of the day. First call of the day.

And Brianna. Morning Brianna. Good morning. In Wellington this morning, you're a NICU nurse, you're a tourist, you drove a twirder, a corolla, and where you once fell off the toilet and face planted. Now that's what I want a zero win on there. What's the backstory?

That involves alcohol, surely. I think I was about 10, and my auntie told me to pull forward to empty your bladder, and I went a bit too far and facepland. until it hurt my teeth. Yeah. Oh my God, that would be painful. At least you're a child and not an adult.

Two of those things. And children are like drunk adults a lot of the time. We used to do that, like drunk or toddler. And you'd hear a story you have to work out if it was the kid that did it or a drunk adult. It's fun game, that. It is. How's it being a Niku nurse? You just get to hang out with little little babbers every day.

It's fun and tough. Yeah, because I'd imagine you'd hear some horrible. Yeah, I'd hear my way there now. Yeah, and see some horrible stories. And so the mums have to stay in hospital with their babies until full term, is that right? No, they stay for a couple of days after delivering the babies, but then they do go home. Oh, so obviously the babies stay there, but mum's normally there every day, moms and dads, I suppose, like visiting and...

What percentage of mums are like, I can't go home? I'm going to stay here constantly, or do you make them go home and get rest? I feel like most of them want to be there the whole time. Of course. And how do you take care of your own... I don't know, like well-being. I imagine that that would be a very hard job

to disassociate from once you get home. I spend a lot of time fishing. Nice. I'm going outdoors. What type of fishing? Just like snapper fishing. Surf casting for all sorts of species. What surf casting? Excuse my ignorance. The beach.

Oh, sick. Yeah, so you like cast over the waves, basically. Yeah. Or do you got one of those like torpedoes? torpedoes so you can set out a long line and send them like two or three Ks out to sea. Well, that's called cheating. Yeah. Yeah.

That's like people that can't cast very far, Clint. Come on. Yeah. It's like those little torpedo that my brother's got one. And then you hook it up to a long line so it'll send out like 40 or 50 hooks. So you've got to bait them or whatever. Send it out about 2Ks and then hooks around and comes back. No, that's not fishing.

I'm with Brianna. That's challenging. Yeah, that's not fun. Yeah. What you do, Brian, is you send it out. Then you do some surf casting. And then if the surf casting day sucks, when the torpedo comes back, you go, oh, well, at least we've got seven.

Yeah, you've got to pack up. It's not a complete waste of time. Now, we have talked about at nauseam about how much our, like, there's only a wig left to work for a lot of people. I'd imagine you'd be working through. If who doesn't sleep, I'd imagine. Yes. Yes, and no time off for me.

Yeah. What happens on the stats, though? I guess there's time and half day in lieu. Carry on. It's actually a bit more than that. all pay. Oh, that's good. Yeah, it should.

I'll be working Christmas Day, that was the case. And at the farm we get to wear Christmas scrubs. Good. Love it. I'll try and keep it fun. Yeah. Well, Brianna, we love you, darling. Thank you for all your hard work.

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas period with your barno. Stay safe and well. Yeah, and catch some fish. Yeah, I hope you get some good fish for Christmas or for New Year's. Thank you. All right, you hold there. We'll get a voucher out to you that you can go spend in store at Zia. Taste the Refreshing Feezer and lime iced tea.

They're available at your local Z. I've got my niece and nephew from Australia. Teenagers, they've discovered L&P. Oh, yeah? They can't stop. They cannot stop. They haven't lived until they've discovered. Why have they not exported that to Australia?

I know. That's what they said you can get it, but it's real hard to find, they're real expensive. Really? Yeah, maybe they could smuggle some into Australia. That's what they want. They're going to explain to my location.

There are the Maliys that go over to Aussie. Why has one not just been like an exporter of L&P? They'd have to hide it somewhere, though. Oh, no. I'm sure there's easier ways to get it over there, Dan. I meant in their bag, where were you thinking? Well, the way you lifted off your seat, suggested. Yeah, I keep my bag under my seat.

Okay, alright. Oh, well then my bag is it looked like you were shoving out of your unos. Help me Lord, Jesus, it happened. Clint, Megan Jan. Oh, I don't know if I have been naughty or not. If you have to ask the question, Clint, usually it means yes. Well, I did it and I'm allowed to do it because I'm an adult. Don't know if my son's allowed to do it because he's only eight.

I had to call Santa last night. I've got this special app Oh really Call him It's the closest we've gotten Direct line Direct line Because old mate

Would not stay in bed Well My wife thought my son was being naughty I was kind of proud So it's hard Because I can't really tell him off Okay what happened But my wife said he can't be doing that

And I'm like well If he wants to let him What's he doing Don't embarrass you cat I'm just going to preface this by saying Have a thing Does I want this story shared on the radio Oh Clint there's no issue

was embarrassing, especially his son Ty. No, he wouldn't be embarrassed. I was proud of him. I was like, that's my boy. He must have seen me do it on Friday. Did he pinch Jamie's ass? No. Hey, boobie.

Did he go, oh, go on her boobies. Hong, honk, get him. I walked into his room, door closed, and I was like, what's going on here? Because the kids, we're like, hey, we don't shut doors. Yeah, yeah. Open the door. And I'm like, what's he doing? And he's, like, huddled on his beard.

And he sort of looks over his shoulder. And I was quite young. And I go, hey, what are you doing? He turns around and he looks at me. He's got a pure scissors. He's cutting the sleeves off his t-shirt. Oh, my God. Clint.

For more guns? Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. That sponges, my love. And so I had a shirt that I didn't really wear and we were going on our Christmas party thing on Friday after work. And I was like, this would be a cool vest.

So I cut the sleeves off Thursday night. for Friday because I was just like oh that'll be fun and it'll be sunny and I don't want to wear a dress shirt so he's obviously seen that you know that you just want to show your body up

yeah yeah yeah you love you know if anything I'm trying to recycle my wardrobe come I love it and he's obviously seen that and gone yeah I want to do a bit of that so now he's cutting his off so I was like let him

modify his clothing if he wants and Jay's like he can't be cutting the sleeves off all of his t-shirts This one is allowed. I reckon we need an intervention with you because Clint now doesn't really own a shirt with sleeves anymore. And at our Christmas party on Friday, he brought scissors and was offering to cut sleeves off people.

He was pestering you saw him, Ash. He does get very pestery after a couple of drinks. What were you doing in my face? I was really to murder you. So I was sober. We were hanging out the weekend and I came late, so I was sober. That's actually my biggest regret of the night.

My daughter and I do this thing where you like rub your hand around and around someone's forehead, take it away, and then slap it? He just kept doing it to me. And I woke up, I remember, I was doing it to my daughter as we were going to bed. She tries to get me, I try to get her. And then I had that flashback moment and I was going, who was I doing that to? That wasn't her.

And then I was like, oh, I was doing it to Ash. And you were like, go away. I was like, Clint piss off. Like I was listening to. But the problem is if you don't get a nice clean slap on the forward, you've got to start again. And I kept trying to start again. I was like, hold foolish. Yeah.

I finished like three beers because Clint came out to me. like, Dan, finish your beer, I'm going to cut your sleeves off. And so I had to drop a beard. Nightmare, he did. He was trying to gnaw them off with his teeth. That's what I heard. No, I just thought it would be fun for us to be like, you know, vest buddies. But isn't that just proof that, like, our children just are always watching us?

Yeah, because my son's got sleeves all on his clothes. Because he's always watching me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And he always wears a rash shirt at the beach. Yeah. Is you a nashy? Still out, and it's still in transit. It's coming from Singapore.

Imagine if you were being, if you got, scammed. And Dan thought he was buying a nashie, by the way, as a dress shirt that you can wear in the water that dries super fast. Brilliant invention. Imagine if he got scammed by this product that doesn't exist. Nothing would make me happier. Because, and they just scam like loser. Loser guys.

I'd have to come back on the show for that. It's just like me and a whole lot of other losers to like wear around nashies. You just get an envelope in the mail and you open it up and it just says, Loser! Loozer! high school years. Clint, Megan Dan. Looking back at our 12 days

of Christmas faves. Some of our favorite moments from this year that we may have forgotten. And one of those moments was when we were offering our services and platform to promote somebody's little side hustle. And Josie has a business

where she crochets little cute penises for like key rings and stuff. Yeah. And we selected Josie and said, yeah, we'll put together an infomercial Happy Day is all good. I think Meg was off the day that we found Josie. Yeah, she was off for some reason and then we decided we'll write a little script for Meg to read

because she's great at reading the script, you know? And she would be the perfect face for little penises. Sure. And she's a crafty girl, you know, she's a crafty crochet. And so Meg, it was a bit of a hospital pass when she arrived to work the following day and we'd written a script for her and we just said, hey, read this as a team

where we're getting in behind Josie and her Willie Willey. I think willie-willies was like a name that we'd sort of come up with, but she hadn't landed on it. The way you say it sounds the same to me, those two words. Wooly-Willis? I'd say Woolly-Willie-Willy, and you're like, Willow-O-Lay. Okay, well, we threw out a few other different names and stuff. Oh, cool.

Can't wait to hear it, guys. This is such a treat for me. Okay, here's our win. I haven't even seen this in for virtual. All I've seen is these two losers giggling, their little asses off in that break. Okay, here we go. If you've ever wanted a crocheted penis as a gift or for yourself and you're a little unsure and you haven't quite given your credit card details over,

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But we're bursting at the zipper in all other colours and sizes. It's time to say OK, crochet to Josie's Woolly Willys. Place an order before 10 a.m. today and Josie will go to work. On your willie right away. Yes, you will. So... Get in quick. Why not get a load for Christmas?

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Already have. Already have. What do you think, Josie? I have died. That is so good. I'm literally crying. Another satisfied customer. Yeah.

That's why it's good Meg's coming back to her show Because I would have given up two lines into that I'm not doing this She's a real team player I'm like I don't want that on the internet My Australian friends will see that Is that why they call you two lines Ash Clint Meg and Dan

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but no repeated answers. Those are the rules. She's in Wellington. She's a kindi teacher. Morning, Katie. Morena. You're ready to win a thousand bucks? Hoping so. I think the occupation that goes the best in this game are teachers. So already we're feeling excited for you, Katie.

Thank you. If you can have any letter today, darling, what would it be? Oh. Maybe E? Okay, well, it's not E. Sorry. It is M. which is a great letter. Oh, it's the other, it's the next best.

M from Merry Christmas. Are you ready to go, Katie? Yep. Beginning with M. Can I please have an occupation? Mother. A fruit. Mango.

A board game. Monopoly. A four-letter word. More. A type of cuisine. Moroccan. A famous musician. Um, par.

Something in the bathroom. Mirror. A musical instrument. Pa. You're doing so good. Up until the musician. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Missy Elliott. We've had a real spate of just not quite quick enough though, you know.

But smart, but not quick enough. Yeah. I mean, yeah, Katie got the first five and then there was just that. Oh, yeah. Good on you, darling. Oh, thank you. Yeah, sorry, mate. Have a wonderful day with kids and a safe and wonderful Christmas with the farno, darling.

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I don't like his chances to fixing a windscree. No, it's actually quite a specialised job. That's why Novis has a great. I've got to, you know, set up off eBay. I can do it myself again. That's that. There are. Clint, Megan Dan.

Last Monday for most, although you are toughbuggers working all the way through. The farmers. We see you. The ambulance officers, the police, the firemen. Supermarket workers. Yes. And all of those, you know, farmers and things like that, probably don't even get a Christmas party either, I wouldn't imagine.

What's a Christmas party? You're a farmer? Hang out with the cows. Maybe the girls will throw you a little, little soire. I go, mm, thank you. Merry Christmas. Nice. They'd appreciate that.

Yeah, Hall of Fame, Hall of Shame. Where does your Christmas party go? Bridges Nipa was telling us about, is it your mate? Yeah, my flatmate, John T, he works at like a building suppliers place. And the boss said, oh, sorry, fellas, we're not having a Christmas party this year. We've got a Christmas ham coming, though. And the Christmas came ham, and it was quite small, so they just got a wee sandwich each. Oh, got a ham.

Doesn't make you feel very special, does it? It's always left of ham. How small was his hand? It was tidy, and it was a big office full of fellas as well. I remember this company where years, and this is not Christmas parties, We used to get like a little bit of a present, remember, like every year. But they've stopped doing that now. We used to get like a little, maybe it would be like a gift card for a supermarket or something.

Not anymore. I will never forget my old in Australia. We had a big night. We didn't know that the GM had been made redundant. But we were like, man, Jeremy's going off tonight. He was like out so late. Like 15, 15 of us were left over, took us all out, like late night food, kept drinking. Two nights sleep, rock up at work the next day, like on the verge of dying.

and KFC delivered like 50 boxes of chicken. Oh, how good's K-Friol? Oh, yeah. And we just, all, there's like 100 of us in the office, just sitting on the floor all through the office, just eating KFC with our hands. And it was the best KFC I've ever had in my life.

Oh, how good. Yeah, I was definitely doing that on Saturday because Friday we had a few drinks after work. And then it's sort of wrapped up here with the edge crew at about 8.30. And then I was like, I don't know why. I was like, I don't know why, Aziz. I just didn't want to go home and to be done.

So I was like, what are we doing? So I was like, oh, Mrs. My wife and see if we can do kick-ons at mine. Can I just ask? What percentage of her was expecting that text? In my mind, 95% of her was like, he's going to be texts. She's tidying up all afternoon knowing full well. Well, yeah, because I was like, it's going to have 95% chance. Not a chance, right?

But I said everyone act just real chill. And so on the bus, I'm like filming everyone and they're like pretending to sleep. Some are reading books. and we look very sophisticated and very behaved. I send that to my wife. Except the person that went, oh, yeah. That was you.

And then my wife was like, I'm not even home. I'm out having drinks with one of my girlfriends. So she goes, do what you want. So I was like, yo. So I was like, oh yeah, 8.30, a couple of hours at mine, and then done. I think the last person left at like 2 a.m. Jesus. How was Jamie the next morning?

Because Hannah would not be happy, I don't think. I she ended up joining the party, so that's why I, you know, I was fine, I wasn't in trouble. How many people ended up nude in the pool? No, I don't think anyone was nude. Oh, Carl's thing, too. I'm two or three, I think it was. Who were the nudes? Who was nude? I would not say.

No, I don't think anyone was nude. Yeah, it was pretty, it was fine. It was just like the next day. I was just like, oh, what a do to myself. Yeah, so Hall of Fame, Hall of Shame, Christmas parties. How did yours go this year? or if it's still to come, what's it looking like? How's it shaping up?

Is everyone first? Or is everyone very dark on the plan? Because some businesses, you know, money's tight. They don't have the budget for a big lavish. But sometimes budgets are big, and then you rock up and you're like, how is this rich-ass company throwing such a povo party? Yeah. Is that how they're so rich?

They don't spend money on anything. Did Dave from accounts ruin it for everyone last year, and so they had nothing this year, you know? Yes, it's true. In Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame work parties for Christmas, has the boss decided to splash. out and treat staff, or did they skimp like this one that says, last day of work in 24, someone said it was pretty crap having no Christmas function.

So the boss sent someone off to buy two 1.25 litre bottles of gin. We then sit around our work table, the lunchroom table, with filthy tea-stained mugs drinking straight gin. Brilliant. Oh, that's sad. The only time I'm willing to drink warm, straight alcohol is as a tenth drink. You know what I mean? I'm not doing that as a first go at it.

Yeah, no, that's when you can't taste it so much. Someone's sex or I work for one of the biggest law firms in Australasia. Oh, rich. A memo was sent out recently that the team events are encouraged, but managers should pay for their team themselves, or team members should self-fund the event. Isn't that a shame? That always happens with my husband.

Here we out with, like, work, and I'll get a text, or he'll say when he gets home, oh, by the way, but, you know, bought a couple rounds. And I'm like, here's the best boss at shouting out, stuff. But we went out for breakfast out today. You just paid for it. Oh, no, you did, Ash.

That's me. Yeah, but that's his money as well. I said thanks, Adri. And he was like, yeah, it was from the joint account. She's just taken all the glory. Yeah, but anyway. I took no glory.

Undisclosed work location. This one's from Philippa. 10K bar for 100 people. That's pretty good. 100 bucks a poll. Actually, Hayden Allen's just texted reminding us. That's what we got that year, Clint. They gave us energy chocolate bar saying thanks for your energy this year.

What a kick in the guts, saying, what a kick in the guts. Give me nothing. I'd rather nothing. Because anyone can now just bitch about the chocolate bar rather than being like oblivious to the fact that they missed out. It'd be fine if you get nothing. I think that's better. Philip has text through. This is what her Christmas party consisted of, okay? Undisclosed work location.

So obviously they've been like, it's a secret place. Yeah. 10K on the bar, 100 people. How much is that per person? Yep, great. $75. New World Voucher. Oh, take it to a bottle of milk and some butter.

Bucket of cookie time, Christmas cookies. Oh, yes. And a handwritten card from the manager. That's very Taylor Swift coded, isn't it? That's fantastic. Vera, that is good. That's a good place to work, Philippa. Someone else said that work for the council on our last Friday

the year, our Christmas fun consisted of a two-hour session at work, making mood boards. No. To represent our hope and aspirations for 2026. Wow, wah, wah, wow. And there was a promise of pizza. It never arrived. I would have made the most depressing mood board and then shoved it up my boss's ass.

I just remembered something. Out of his ass. Why does it have to be out? Ouch. Why did it be his art? Why are you just assumed the boss is a man? No one would make you do that. Because we'd feel guilty.

Yeah, they wouldn't. I'll never forget that. Years ago, when I was working in radio back in Australia, our boss was very generous on air talent. And there was no money for, like, Christmas. bonuses or anything, but I got delivered this like, I can't describe how boogey it was. A fresh floral Christmas wreath. It would have been $400.

Wow. And it got delivered to the office with a note from my, from our boss just to me saying thanks for all your hard work, this. And I was mortified. Like all of my team were looking at me like, and I... It's actually a real good way to stitch up a mate. If you go and buy a really expensive gift and then just order it, like say you or I did this stand and then we just got it delivered for like one of the producers.

Oh, Power Play. Yeah, and it's not even from the boss. Yeah. And then the other two are just like, oh, that is good actually. Oh, Lou's texted through. We used to always got a $100 perisi card with some chocolates. Yes. They see, they've gone in and taken them all out of the packages and we're just getting chocolates.

Oh, see, that sucks when that happens because it's really noticeable. Oh, Nate's brother said the company he works for took helicopters to Waikere. Must be nice. Must have been a good year. Helicopters? I mean, we went to Waheki. We went on that beautiful fairy. direct. I thought that was better than a

helicopter. Yeah, I had to go on C-Link the next day. Shout out to C-link, but it wasn't going to no, this is fine. They goes much slower with the vehicles on it. Well, hopefully the boss looks after you this year. You deserve it. You deserve it.

But as always, health and happiness is the greatest Christmas present of all. Oh, no, I want a Christmas party. Shut up. Yeah, I want a pretty card. Yeah, that's what the boss is not throwing Christmas party says. At least you're healthy, piss off. Load up my pretty card for cash, maybe. Clint Megan Dan It's Clint Megan Dan's

All right a few stories We want to chuck on your radar for Monday 15th of December Who wants to go first? I can kick it off with the most popular baby names for 2025 I love this show This always comes out at the end of the year Doesn't it? The most registered maybe This is worldwide

So I think maybe the New Zealand one will come out Maybe start a next year But we'll go into the boys first Number five, Mateo Worldwide Number four This Italian Matthew Yeah Elijah

I love the name Elijah. Hannah and I have definitely thought about that if we have another boy. Oliver, always in the top five. Liam and Noah is the number one most popular boy's name. I was going to be Liam if I was a boy. You'd be a good Liam. I agree. Mom told me I was going to be Crystal.

Oh, that's a stripper. You said it not me. You were going to say it. A stripper. I said to all crystals listening. Sorry about that. Isabella, number five for the girls name. Hey, nothing wrong would be a stripper.

Yeah, they're making more money than us. Emma, number four. Sophia number three, Amelia and the number one girls name worldwide in 2025. Will you skip number two, Dahl? No, Amelia. So it goes Isabella, Emma, Sophia, Amelia. Emma is back. Yeah.

Cute. Yeah. And the number one, Olivia. They all descend in eight. I know, true. Amelia, Olivia, Emma, Sophia. Both buddy wasn't in there. I know a couple of Olivia's actually. My niece is called Olivia. I love that name. I'm just pleased George isn't on there because he was like number one last year.

Yeah, I love the name George. Yeah, Jack was another popular. one a couple years back and we bailed on it actually by the time we came round because everyone was jacking um okay uh do you want to go next because yours is a little bit heavier yeah so um you would have seen the news by now on absolutely horrible uh they're now classing it as a terrorist event took place yesterday evening in bondi beach for those who don't know bondi beach it is like the epicenter of sydney pretty much if it's a hot day everyone's at bondi beach um so there was a Hanukkah event where families were coming down to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah to

gunmen opened fire, vile, evil pieces of shit, opened fire on families. The death toll is currently standing at 12, including one of the shooters. I do want to highlight one pretty amazing bit of footage that's kind of making the rounds online at the moment, a man by the name of Ahmed al-Ahmed, who is a fruit shop owner from the western suburbs he's crouching behind a car and he sees a gun one of the gunmen kind of on the other side of the car on the footpath holding a shotgun and this man with armed with nothing runs up and tackles a man with a gun and rescues and gets the gun out of his hands some of the live footage this is the vision of one of the gunmen being tackled I believe by a hero

a civilian, not a police officer, not a paramedic, but a civilian. The craziest thing about that is, because he takes the gun and apprehends the guy, I would not want to be the guy who's holding a gun when police are on their way to the scene and all they hear are there are two gunmen and I'm holding it.

I know. But so, you know, like, what do you do? There were, like, dozens and dozens of police snipers watching the event take place in real time. Oh, right, okay. So they would have known that the watch right sure guy is the good guy. But you watch, he grabs the gun, he points it at the guy. As soon as the guy is, like, cowering, the guy, like, puts the gun against a tree and holds

his arms up. Like, I'm surrendering. Like, I've got the gun off him. It's just, like, I've got, you know, like, I've lived there for five years. I've got friends, one of my best friends. I called her as soon as I heard and she answered that she just said, I'm okay, we're okay. She'd just been at the beach with her two little boys, got home to their Bondi Beach apartment where she hears the gunshots. Such a joyous place usually, isn't it? Absolutely. A lot of us would have been to Bondi at such a lovely spot. And for it to happen at a Hanukkah event where people are coming to celebrate their community and their faith.

It's just, there's nothing more evil in the world. And is this not the second big, like, attack in Sydney? Yes, and in Bondi. In the last couple of years. Yeah, in Westfield, there was a, yeah, a lone kind of attacker, but we and our family should be safe in this world. And it's just, I just don't understand. how anyone could be so evil. I don't get up.

Yeah, and why two people who have obviously premeditated have thought about it have had many opportunity to decide, oh, actually, maybe not, to just go on open fire and innocent people. I don't understand what their agenda is there. No, something wrong with the world, isn't it? Anyway, we'll push on there.

Clint, Megan Dan. The original Christmas song, Santa's Christmas, being debuted. Wednesday, Thursday? Yeah, hopefully as early as we can get it, obviously there's been some delays with artists getting their voicing to us, but I'm not stressed about it at all. And it's good.

Yeah, it's going to be out, yeah, later, later, let's just say later this week. I've tried to write a song that will bring a little bit of joy to people. I haven't gone joky this time. I've gone, like, feel good. Hopefully it'll get some tears flowing. Ah, but there'll be a joke in there somewhere, isn't there? No. Okay.

There's literally no one joke in there. I guess, yeah. The only sort of really main joke maybe will be, I won't say it, but Meg's vocal. That, no. Take that back. She knows. She knows. She's a better singer than you give her credit for.

And I think that you're a go-to-heart on her. Because you think she's real bad now because you guys keep telling her she's so bad. And then I heard her and I was like, she's not bad. No, she's not bad. She's just not good. But, I mean, it is, she's done a valiant effort and her vocal will be in it. She's also got a little surprise for the middle of the song. Cute.

Which involves her and her beautiful daughter Daisy. Okay, so not that secret. No. You just ruined a secret. That's just a surprise. Oh, bugger. But anyway, we've got Borderline who have just sent through their vocal.

We've managed to... This band. I love that. Very talented. I hope if Teddy swims while he was here in New Zealand. Incredible band. Oh, yeah. The boys are...

Yeah. The kill race. Very good. And they jumped on a Postco playlist for North Shore, Auckland. Yeah, they did. Earlier this year. Yeah, they were very good. So they've sent through their vocal for the song.

We've managed to kind of, now this is not the final edit, but we've managed to sort of cobble the song together with their vocals. So have a listen. Well, we're going to hear the whole song now? No, just a little bit of their bit. Okay. Yeah. I could have started a little bit later.

I like the intro. 12 days till Christmas, tingle bells ringing. away Santa Claus is coming at town He's ready for the day He's making a list And checking it twice He's gonna find out

If you're naughty and nice For Santa only has one Christmas wish Is that you doing backing vocals or them? Clint That's Clint there's You and me I don't think your vocals work together with him Nah

I think it's just You should produce it I think what's happened Ash is that we've all just sung all the lines and then grants at the moment just laid them all I think on top of each other but we need to work out who's going to do what lines and you need to have his vocals in your ear

and sing along with him in the same intonation and we're just getting laid on top and on top so I think... It's all right boys I'm going in the studio today. What we thought would happen was he'd do a line then Guy Sebastian would do one and then Delta Goodroom would have the third and then we might all jump in on the fourth but old bad guy Sebastian hasn't got back to us

and Delta Badrum hasn't sent us any audio. Mitch James, said he was going to do it on Thursday. We all know that you really want to call Delta, Delta Stillwoodrum. I don't think she even knows who Clint is. But anyway, so, yeah, there's a lot of people that have said no, but there is a few years. There's still some more surprises before the end of the week. It's always time for Christmas miracle as well.

Yeah. That's true. Yeah, so I look forward to that. I'm going to aim to have it out Wednesday, and you'll be able to download it from Spotify as well and listen to it. Oh, sure. That's sick. Producer Carl? Oh, no, I was just going to say, like, there's also a lot of people that said yes, but just haven't come back to us.

Yeah, Alton John's one of those, prick. Veda, he's off the list. Screw that guy. Often John's Christmas song, Merry Christmas. I've had it in my head all week. It just makes me so happy. Yeah. My God, they look beautiful.

Merry Christmas. Oh, you're going to, maybe we won't get Asht to sing on it. If that's your audition. You know what? You're not the gatekeeper of who's a good singer in this world now. No, I'm not actually. No, I'm not. Hey, I'm speaking of, I'm singing in surprises.

go on for Dan, actually, after eight that he doesn't know about. Clint, Megan Dan. Oh, oh my gosh. Taylor Swift, hell of a person to work for by the looks. When is her, I say movie, it's really documentary, isn't it? It's out, four episodes out already, and then I believe there's another few coming out soon as well. On what platform? It's on Disney Plus. Oh, yeah, of course.

So it's sort of behind the scenes of the era's tour. And one of the parts of the documentary, she goes into bonus day within the documentary where she gives a whole load of her staff, dances, truck drivers, backstage staff. A bonus. Bonus day. Bonus day is so important because setting a precedent with the Ares Tour is really important to me because people who work on the road, if the tour grosses more, they get more of a bonus. And these people just work so hard and they are the best at what they do.

So every single person on the crew, I've handwritten them a note. It's important to kind of note that in different parts of the tour around the world, you'd have different crew for a lot of the time. Very few of the crew would be there on every single, you know, date. So the band and the dancers, they're kind of some of the few people that would have done every single day around the world, been away from their families for a year and a half with Taylor.

And the roadies and stuff would maybe change if it's an international gig or a North American gig. But then Taylor Swift, it took her about a month, I think, to write handwritten notes for each and every staff member that worked underneath her. and she gave them bonuses. Here's one of her people reading out the note. The tour has done really well.

Thanks to all of our hard work. So if you will kindly read this message. There's Cam. We've traveled the world like we set out to do. We've dazzled the crowds, but we've missed family too. My full gratitude doesn't come from a thing, but here's... I'm... Oh, it's just to see things.

Love you, man. So to paint a picture, they're all standing in a circle. It looks like it's pre-show before they go on stage. They all get handed this note. The rumor is, for the dancers and the musicians within the tour, 750K each. No. US dollars.

Three-quarters of a million dollars. She gave away $197 million in bonuses, US. To the whole of her stuff. Truck drivers, who was announced. that I think earlier this year or late last year that they each got 100K. So they were just on the North American tour, by the way. And they wouldn't even met Taylor?

Yeah. There's no world in which they're hanging out with her. You know what I mean? And it's like strangers pretty much. It's driven trucks full of her. She's giving them 100 grand. And it was 60 trucks as well. So it's 6 million.

Yeah. Around the country. Clint's face. Three quarters of a million dollars. And it has like footage in the documentary going around all the like people that have just opened the... Can you imagine getting it? just over a million New Zealand dollars, by the way,

just into your bank account like that. And they're like crying, hugging each other. You know the worst part that probably didn't get talked about? She should have given them that money when they were doing the toy here in New Zealand. Because in America, you get taxed on that. You get taxed on it because it's a gift. Even if it's in New Zealand, you'd get taxed on it.

You can give a monetary gift and they don't tax you. If I gave you, if I gave you $200,000 as a gift, you don't get taxed on that. But then Taylor's not using it as a tax write-off if she's given it as a gift. So you can give that 200 million bonuses and then get tax credit. Well, I'm just thinking, I have to tax this. Yeah, but you know, you've paid tax on $750,000?

I would imagine there's probably some sort of tax laws around how big a gift you can give an employee before it's clasters. It would have to be written into their contract that will be this plus this X amount bonus. You can't just like gift someone a million dollars. In Survivor, when they win a million dollars, they've come out and said that they come out with about 550,000. Oh, sorry, 500, yeah, 550,000 from a million dollar prize. Who's got a better boss than Taylor Swift? I've got one, our boss Adrian. She gave her staff

750K. What's he giving it? He waited at the end of the ferry for us when we arrived in Waikiki the other day. Yeah, he was waiting at the ferry for you. And he was waving and shit. That's as good as 750s. He didn't have any freezing cards on him, but I mean, it was a lovely moment. That was nice. Yeah, it was really lovely. My heart fluttered a little bit when I saw As we look back on the year that it is being, what is the greatest thing your boss has ever done? Oh, I love this one. Hmm.

I'm trying to think. Oh, yeah, when I got dumped real bad once and my boss was really good to me because I kept crying on air. And he said, why don't you just go home, Dahl? Thanks, Jase. Go home, no one wants to hear that. No one wants to hear you cry over Dell again.

The Clint Meg and Dan podcast. We want to know who's got the coolest boss. What's the best thing that they have done for you this year after Taylor Swift gave her backup dancers a cash bonus. Allegedly the rumor is $750,000. Yeah, that was for the stage, for the musicians and the dancers.

Yeah, I doubt anyone that is going to call up and beat that. Nah. But hey, imagine if you're like the headlighting guy and you only got it 200k and you're like, why the dancer, I do way more stuff. Next year, I'm lighting you, Taylor. Over the break, you see him like learning to dance. Or just not doing lighting very well.

Yeah. This one's a person to text through. My boss is the best in the world. crashed the forklift and ruined 60K worth of stock. He took the blame and said it was him. What a guy. What a guy. It's so like everyone wins when their boss is good. You work

harder, you're happier to be at work. And arguably that's better than giving money. Like he's putting his job at risk in behalf of someone else. This one said I had a skiing accident that meant I couldn't drive. My boss picked my kids up every day at 3pm for me for two months. What? What a good bugger. People are the best.

Boss of the year I adore my manager. She's like a second mum to me and she's young at heart, 71. Love it. It's my favourite. We had a boss that let us do whatever it was we wanted because he knew that we knew he was embezzling the company funds

and we'd turn him in on a dime. Wow. Oh, that's the best. Can we talk to Jen? Yeah, we're trying to get her on. But she, I don't know if maybe we should, no, she's not an answer. Yeah, read it out. It's pretty amazing.

My boss offered to help costs with IVF treatment in the new year. It still makes my eyes water thinking. That is incredible. Because that's sort of got nothing to do with them, right? That's better than 750 grand, helping someone have a baby. And then she's going to have to go on mat leave. So it's going to cost the company even more.

So that is really selfless. This is my favourite, though. It's not the thing you forget, though, eh? Like when someone comes and taps you on the shoulder, trying to get you to go to their company, you go, no, no, mate, I'm loyal to this guy forever. Absolutely. As my favourite text has just come through. Shout out to my ex-wife's boss.

He was so good to her. Her and my kids now live with him. Hashtag blessed. That can't be real. That's someone taking the peasant, I love you for it, guys. Let's see, it's a little bit of sarcasm. Let's get away some cash next. Clint, Megan Dan.

Lesh, go! The Edge. 1K.E. Z. Practice makes perfect. And now you can play anytime online. Thousand bucks if you can give us 10 answers. Starting with the letter Ash gives you in 30 seconds. You can pass.

If we've got time, we'll come back. But no repeated answers. Morning, Deb. Morning. How are you, mate? How's that? Good, how are you guys? Good, how's Tearoha?

Oh, I've actually moved to Auckland. Oh, so you used to be in Tearoja. Oh, how are you liking it? Yes. I'm loving it, actually. The weather's fantastic. Oh, it has been, buddy. But you're all right?

Your heart's still in Tearroha, right? No. Oh, right. She hates it. She's a proper jeffin' now. She's like, I love Auckland. All right, Demi, your letter this morning is F, F of Friends.

Ready to go? Okay. Just double checking you don't have four-letter word in there again? Um, no. No. Yeah, remember what the last time. That is risky. Okay, beginning with F, can I please have a girl's name?

Fiona. A movie. Pass. Something you eat for breakfast. Fried eggs. A body part. Singer. A band.

Pass Something that smells nice A chocolate A chocolate A type of bird A cinch A something you wear Very good time, Debbie

You got through eight You got six correct A movie could have been frozen Forrest Gump finding Nemo and a band Fleetwood Mac Foo Fighters Of course Hey Debbie you know what

Who needs a thousand bucks You know It would have been good, but hey, never mind. Yeah, it would have been good. It would have been nice, but hey, you've got... You've got Auckland, you know? That's what you got now. Yeah, good on you, mate.

Hey, thanks, Debbie. You have a Merry Christmas. You too, see you, bye-bye. All right, back again at 3 o'clock. As a foreigner, does Tearroha mean love? Like a place called love? Aroha. Isn't that like love?

Yeah, the love. It's like a town. Like a whole place called Te-Roro. Isn't that cool? Still not as good as Auckland, Kunda, Dibb. Yeah, she's like, that place sucks. Every novice glass job helps plant native trees And so far they've donated over 20,000 of them

I can't get over a place called love I think it's a lovely part of the country as well So I don't know what a beef Got love on the name I went to a fancy So Unrelatable Pre-Kids Fancy health retreat called Aroha in Queenstown

It was the richest I've ever felt You're Unrelatable Nice And the skinniest They'd wake up at 5am with sound bowls, like bong for yoga. You're unrelatable. They really are unrelatable.

Man. Jesus. I don't know if you can pay me to do that. I'm going to a retreat. I've got to wake up at five on holiday. Yeah, Jeff Bezos was there the time Ash was there. They became really good friends. I'm not friends with Jeff Bezos.

He's a dog. Okay, next on the show. We've got a little surprise for our dam. Oh, Christmas. I don't even know what this is. That's how we've checked out. Is this a present? Have you got a present card for me?

Oh, it's a present of sorts, just not for you. A Christmas bonus. Um, kind of. It's in every corner wins. No. Oh, every listener might win them. Well, yeah, that is a win. Yeah.

Clint Megadhan. Lesh go! If you missed it, on Friday morning at 9 o'clock, we crowned the greatest song of the early 2000s with now that's what I call knockouts. All right, who's it going to be the greatest song? The biggest and best throwback of the 2000s is. Sake? No way!

Sake! Natasha Bettingfield is your champion. It's unridden. Wow, I actually quite like the twig of that guitar. Oh, Jesus. This is good. It's the edge. Hell of a song.

A bit of fun from you, Randall. It actually, unwritten, I think, was like 60-40. So it wasn't actually all that close in the end. And who won the staff sweep? I think it was Josh. Oh, Joshy. I got third in the end. Yeah, managed to get a few points right at the end there

Neep's got second, I think. Yeah, I was gutted by one point I lost it. Oh, boo. You know what? Gutted. What did you say you would do, Dan? A couple of times, actually, if that song won. Yeah, but we didn't have time.

I know what you're talking about. Yeah. But the moment's passed. I don't. It needs time to prepare a hit the spot when you're the king of the hit the spot. We hit it, hit it, hit the spot. I do sometimes do a lot of preparations. Nah, not for this one, babe.

Dan said that he would hit the spot with Natasha Beningfield if it won because it has a part in the song that really lends itself towards a great hit-the-spot moment. This? At the blank page before you open up the dirty window that it's time to illuminate the ones that you can not find reaching for something in the distance. Now here's the part, you've got to be careful. There's a bit of a gap, ready?

Feel the rain on your skin. We bring back up. Come on. Now it is a great. It is a sitter. A what? A sitter. I said a scissor.

I was like, no, it's not scissor. It's Natasha Benningfield. Let's do it Monday. Oh, I have a bit of it. Oh, no, I can't. It is Monday. I agree. Let's do it.

No, you said let's do it Monday. For Monday. Good. Okay. Okay, because this is our last minute. So, Dan, the Shibuzi song we're about to go into is three minutes and ten seconds. We're going to give you the whole three minutes and ten to practice. You can't do it.

Don't be a downer on yourself, darling. Can we all come in at the end? Whatever. Yep. Yeah, mate, if you want us to finish it. Okay, hit the song, I'll have a practice. Hurry up. He always finishes, sorry.

Okay. Shaboozy is nothing like a bit of Shibuzi to get in the mood. Yeah. Hey, don't you, we're all down buzz now. 3, 3, 4, 3.3, text through your messages of support for old mate. He's got his glasses on, got his sunny's on Dalyne. Daniel, good morning. Morning, how are you guys?

Yeah, good, Danielle, you're ready for an impromptu? Hit the spot. I am so excited. I was just about to text in there. I didn't want to cry for a Monday, but I guess I might be because it's my favorite segment. I love it. Okay, well, hopefully you're crying for good reasons and it's not because I've missed the spot. Yeah, and there won't be the bells and whistles today.

It's very much an impromptu. There's no choir, there's no costumes There's not even any rehearsing This is the stripped back one That we were going to do with Define Gravity Where instead of stripping it back You got a full choir and a full costume and lighting And 100 people were out of a lot

The problem is Dan Like you really went out on a high And we thought we'd finish the year with a win And then this one sort of popped up Because Natasha and Beddingfields are unwritten Ended up winning Now that's what I call Knockout The Greatest Song of the Early 2000s on Friday

And Dan said oh I could do this song if it wins So now we're back So you're going to end the year year on a high or on a loss? Well, let's just see. Let's just hit the jams, Clint, see where we go. I don't really know the lyrics.

I've only just started learning them. So let's just see how we go. Do you need us to do anything? I think you're coming at the end. I think we all go, I'll wave you in, feel the rain on your skin. That's where we hit it. Coming in on skin. Okay.

Wait, we're coming on feel the rain or coming in on skin. Yeah, you come in on feel the rain. But you're going to hit the jams. Okay, oh, shit. Okay, are we all right. All right, 3, 34, 3, 4, 3 on the text sign. He can only do it if you send in your messages of love and support my family, my people. Okay, Dan has had less than three minutes probably to rehearse.

Oh, look, the booths filling up with people and the producers. Get Joshie out of here. I don't want Joshy in here. He won the, that's what I call knockout. Staff sweep and stole the victory. Get out of here. I can't look at that face. Just kidding.

I love Joshie. Rosie said you can do this. Susie, send in love. Lisa's send in love. Come on. You're new to the show. Dan's going to do. sing along to the clip, I'm going to pull it down.

It's going to be playing silently in the background. Down will go to go Acapella. Bring it right back at the crescendo. I don't think he's going to do it. I reckon it's going to be real bad. We don't want negativity in this room. Sorry, darling, you've got this. Yeah, if you're off, be miles off.

It's always the worst when you're like half a second off. We don't know whether they're like celebrate or not. Oh, yuck. Sorry, darling. Sorry, darling. All right, good luck, buddy. He's so serious. He's so busy at me.

I hate us off. I got. Come on, Dad. staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty window. Let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find reaching for something in the distance,

so close you can almost taste it. Release your inhibitions. Feel the rain on your skin. Come on. Natasha Bill! I'm ridden. I love life. I didn't think I was going to do it that time.

I didn't think you were going to be. That's amazing. The Clint Meg and Dan podcast. Congratulations, Daniel. Way to finish the year. Well, we all came in together, didn't we? It was a unison moment. I love it when we come together.

Yeah, that is the best. You know what? Sometimes I reckon that. it's better than the other thing. Yeah, because sometimes you come first and it's like, oh, more we do it together. Yeah, what a moment. Anyway.

Yeah, I'm unsure that way to be an absolute sure of a week after that. What else we got? Well, I've got a bit of an announcement. I'm doing my announcement now. Yeah, go on. Yeah, people might have missed it on, was it, Thursday. Ash is leaving us.

Yeah, well, I was always going to be leaving here in four days. Yeah. So, for a bit of context, and people might not know this, but I was actually like the fifth choice to even do this filling none of it was ever kind of meant to happen could we talk about the other options we had oh no that's a bit you know

all we need to say is I wasn't the first choice no but you were the best choice thank you so much too but it's just a funny way that life works is what I'm trying to say right like you know I moved to New Zealand think I'm just going to chill write another book next minute

filling in on a breakfast show with you guys who I didn't know from a bar of soap after Oprah turned it down obviously yeah that was she was the other option And he thought, who's like Oprah, but not as expensive? Lando. So I got to come in in July and do this show with you guys. And honest to God, the most fun I've ever had on radio.

And I've been doing this for like 12 years. And I have you to thank for a lot because I thought I was kind of done. I didn't know if I had much more to offer. I thought that kind of like I had this great career and I'd done it all. And now I could just cruise and I'd done my thing on radio. And then very unexpectedly did this. fill in and I have kind of re I don't know like fallen in love with radio again found your mojo yeah and you boys have like I don't know brought out the best in me and like reignited a love

of something that I thought was gone so I have you to thank for that well you've been an absolute joy to work with you've spotted in perfectly you've been amazing and you almost just hit the ground running yeah you made it very very easy so I'm really excited to announce that even though I will be leaving the show the breakfast show on Friday um in 2026 I will be hosting the new drive show on the edge. It's called The Ash London Show. It's a music show, and I will be joined by Harrison and Yaz, two of the most, the biggest young talents in this country,

two people that I think are so wonderfully talented and exciting, and I feel honoured that we're going to be bringing something new to the airwaves in 2026. Yeah, I'm stoked that I think Clint as well. We're so stoked that you're sticking around because it was going to be a bit crap if you had to leave. Yeah, but I'd still like see you around. And hopefully you'd look at me and stuff. And we didn't want to have to pretend that we used to hang

and it's not different even though we know it is. Well, Clint said if you had to, if you would leave the edge, you'd be dead to him. So, and he's like that with JJ, his whole co-hosts. Yeah, if he saw me, he'd try and run me over in the Tesla. The Vash has to go. Dan's like, we're, Dan's like, I'm going to. Right, Clint? And I said, I'll see you, Dan.

Yeah, yeah. He's like, Mick's coming back because I'll be all good. So it feels like so wonderful that, yeah, we get to hand the show back to Meg who has been so gracious. You know, it's not easy. having someone fill in for you. Like when you have a baby, it's the most vulnerable time in your life.

And for her to be so gracious in having me fill in and, you know, we're good friends. And I just think she is so wonderful. And I know everyone's so excited to have her back. So it's going to be great to have her back and she's going to be in on Friday. So we can hand the mic back to what's right for Lona. But, yeah, 2026.

I'm really excited, Edgifano. I've fallen in love with you guys. All you amazing listeners, such a joy getting to know you. And you've been so welcoming and so loving. to me, so thank you so much. Yeah, you're the best. Yeah, people are texting in as well.

I think they were all worried that you were going to disappear and they wouldn't get to hear you again, so that's really cool. Yeah, we'll have more to say on Friday, I think. Yeah, yeah. And quite a different, um, shut up. He's written a poem. Quite a different. It's very short.

Ash, I like your boobs. Please. How to be the whole. I'm still working on the rhyme and chat. GPD's helping me. But it'll be a very different show, I think, to what people are used to, right? It's a music show. Yeah, I love music.

It's kind of where I cut my teeth in music, radio, doing interviews, and really celebrating the joy of music. So it's, I'm going to be less talk and more just like playing good tunes, having a bit of a party, keeping the vibes good and light and fun. And you can flex your superpower of interviewing people as well, because I feel like that is one of your... Yeah, it's what I love to do the most. Yeah.

Having six minutes with someone to sit down that you've never met, before and they've already done 10 interviews and you've got a couple minutes to get the gold and relax them and I love to do that. And one thing we haven't really talked about much on the show is that every time you interview someone a lot of the time, big A-less celebrities, they become you're like, mate. Like not many

times do you interview someone and they become friends. Well the cool thing is I've been doing it for so long that a lot of these artists I interviewed them when they were like in the country to play a 400 person gig, you know, and when you treat people with respect early on when they've got nothing to offer you, they remember.

Well, the good ones remember. So look, I'm really, I feel so lucky. And I'm really excited for Harrison and Yaz to come along on the journey. I know you guys listening. Love them both. So we're going to have some fun next year. Yeah, can't wait.

All right. Next on the show, Robbie Williams. I love this song. Has come out with his list of the 10 celebrities he would never F with. And I think he might have missed a couple, but he definitely nailed a few that should be on, I think,

everyone's top 10 lists. Is this a ditty on his list? Did he's number two? Oh, good. I hope he didn't miss him out. Robbie Williams' compiled the top ten list of the people he would never eff with. I feel like Robbie Williams.

Don't know why. I wouldn't F with Robbie Williams. Really? Yeah, because he's got a smart mouth. You know what I mean? It's that Liam Gallagher. You know, you mess with him. He's going to insult you so bad that you'll never forget it.

You just don't want to mess with anyone who has money and time. A bit of pettiness. You know who he did. doesn't have on his list that I think should be there. Elon Musk. I reckon... He's a piece of... If he didn't like you,

you don't want to piss off the richest man in the world. No. He literally... But also, it would be an honour for him to not like you because the man has no morals. Yeah, so if you didn't like you, it'd probably because you're a nice guy. Exactly, and I'd be like, fine.

Come at me. Yeah, I think people who have a lot of money is scary because it becomes principal for them for them. So who's on his list? What was the context in which he shared this list? I think it was because P. Diddy and 50 cent are beefing at the moment, right? And Diddy spent all, and then Fiddy spent all that money to make a documentary.

Rather than a disc track, he made a documentary and got it on Netflix. So P Diddy, sorry, Fitty Sent was behind it all. Marlon Wands, who was one of the brothers in White Chicks. He weirdly has been dying on this hill of like, not support for P Diddy, but he's trying to throw Fiddy Send under the bus, being like, bro, I've got photos of you hanging out with Diddy. And so now Marlon Wands and Fiddy Cent are going back and forth. But Fiddy just is the type of guy you don't want to mess with.

I think because this is all happening at the moment. He's at the number one spot of Robbie Williams's list. P. Did he is number two. And then he just compiled the eight other spots. Just randoms. So some notable ones were anybody from the Wutang Clan, apparently, he says, don't yet with them. Phil Specter, who you don't want to, you can just Google what he did. He's a really, really bad man.

Yeah. He also put in there, Taylor Swift. Oh, you don't want to mess with Taylor? He just said, no one effing with Taylor. No. And I think that's me, he's made that for a couple of it. is it, yeah. Beyonce was mentioned

as well, saying that you don't want to cross Beyonce. So those are like the notable... Powerful and beloved. Yeah, and I think if you cross Beyonce, she could just make your life

a living hell from there and career-wise. So yeah, those were the ones, those are sort of the main ones that he has... I wouldn't want to mess with Eminem either. Remember that time Machine Gun Kelly before he's cool now?

But when he was like picking beef with Eminem and Eminem would like rip out a disc track every 48 hours that would absolutely kill. Yeah. Is it like, you just do not. Wouldn't there be the most horrible feeling being MGK

when one of the greatest rappers of all time is just consistently releasing fire death traps? What are they called? Distracts on you? Like, you'd be at home, like, fretting. And then you'd be like, now I've got to respond, but he's going to come back again. Yeah, it's not going to be as good.

I think Chris Rock notably found out that you don't eff with Will Smith. It was his wife. Especially when you're in front of him at the Oscars. Oh my gosh, I've got the ultimate one for, for you that you don't want to mess with, Ricky Jervais. Oh, yeah. He don't want to miss him.

But he's, but he's, I reckon if you F with him, he would like that almost. Oh, yeah. Like, I think he calls it out. Yeah, it's like, it's like, it's like, Ricky Javis isn't scared

of being cancelled. He's like, look, I've got enough money, I'm living my life. Like, cancel me, whatever. Like, who cares? Yeah. And someone that doesn't have any fear of disappearing. Yeah.

It's always going to be a little scary. He'll go, and they'll go hard. And be so funny. Who are missing, though? Who's a celebrity that you wouldn't mess with that it'd be on your top 10 list 50 cent would be right up there for me as well

And it can be whether you know they're going to retaliate in a way that's like going to embarrass you or whether they're just terrifying to you Oh yeah definitely I can't believe I'm dictators

I can't believe Seth Rogan and what's his name did that movie where they were taking the piss out of him and he never would have seen that I know I can't believe they did that Do you know that that was that he heard about it and it was taken out of cinemas right

quite early into its... I don't remember. Yeah. So I'd step clear of him. Yeah. Chuck Norris, another one that's coming through on Texal already. Chuck Norris, you definitely don't want to F with that guy. Okay, who's Robbie Williams missed in his top ten list of celebrities

that he just decided to post over the weekend saying, I wouldn't mess with these guys. Robbie Williams has gone and posted a list of the top celebrities that he would not F with. At the top was 50 cent. down the bottom, I think coming at 9 or 10 was Beyonce. You?

I love for me, Willis. I think he's, I love that he's just so outspoken. He doesn't really care what he says in the media. I've interviewed him a couple times, and every time he's been so funny and so relaxed. He's really funny, eh? He just has nothing to prove. He's not, like, he's just there to have fun,

and it makes it such a pleasure as an interviewer. And he seems like he's in a really lovely relationship as well. Yeah, they love. Yeah, they're like really in love. They've been together for a long time. He missed Connor McGregor. Oh, I mean, he's very lippy. Yeah. Very lippy.

Speaking of lippy, actually, there's a couple of actors which I want to highlight that I wouldn't want to F with, especially on the set of a movie, the first of which is Christian Bale who played Batman in the Christopher movie. He's also the machinist. He's done a lot of roles.

He did one of the last Terminator movies and apparently something happened on set, and he blew his lid. Have a listen to that. I want you off the fucking set, you p. Sorry. No, don't just be sorry. think for one second

what the fuck are you doing? Are you professional or not? Yes, I am. Do I fucking walk around and rip that? No, shut the fuck up, Bruce. Do I want? No! No! Don't shut me up. I keep it goes on for like three minutes

Was it something to do with safety? No, there was something to do with like they weren't set up enough and he was ready and he was in character and he was just like really angry. Tom Cruise did it with a thing. Maybe he's trying to stay in character. Was he playing an angry guy? Yeah.

Did Tom Cruise do? Yeah, this was Tom Cruise on the set And I think this was to do with safety Or something like that and he blew his lid. I don't want to see it again. Ever! And if you don't do it, you're fired. I see you do it again, you're fucking going.

That's fair enough. I would never speak to anyone like that. But if it's like the kind of stunts he's doing are like life-threatening, you need safety to be. But if anyone yells at me, that's me done. I can't. I hate it.

I hate it when they're yelling. It's really scary. Susie said, Lily Allen wouldn't mess with her. She wrote... David Harbour, learn the hard way there. You know, another one I wouldn't mess with because he's got a massive platform and I think he's just a very intelligent guy.

Joe Rogan. Oh, yeah. True. You're on my list, I mess with Joe. Yeah. He got money too. I mean, to be fair, anybody with a big platform because they could easily just sully your name.

I do think Tom Cruise is a big one though because he's got so much power in Hollywood but it would be really under the table. Like, he wouldn't be overt about it. He wouldn't, like, yell at you or come out and do bad, you know, press about you. But he'd, like, speak to all the biggest movie heads and you'd never work again. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah, there was a Rihanna text coming through saying she's ruthless. Oh, really? Jamie Lee's got a good one. Morning, Jamie. Morning, Jamie. Good morning. Who's the celebrity that you wouldn't F with? Oh, Gordon Ramsey.

Yeah, terrifying. But also a nice guy. Yeah, yeah, just a bit hot-headed and I would, I'd probably just cry. But sweary. Especially if you're a chef. Have you seen those memes that that person's made of Christopher Luxon putting his head on all the people while Gordon Ramsey's yelling at him? Oh, it's very funny.

No, but... It's very funny. Hey, Jamie, we're going to saw you with a double pass to a must-see movie Anaconda. It's in cinemas on Boxing Day, the funniest most thrilling must-see movie this boxing day. It's got Jack Black and it. It looks like a bloody good time if you haven't seen the trailer. Oh, thank you guys so much.

And I just want to wish you all a really Merry Christmas and a happy new year and Ash, all the best on your new gig for 2020 6. You guys have been absolutely amazing this year. Oh, thank you. Darling, that's so sweet. Thank you, sweetheart. She's complimented us

after the prizes. Normally they complainers and then we give you, you know. Thanks, Jamie. I wasn't accepting a prize, so thank you guys. It's made my day. Yeah, and thanks for your texts and calls the share. We love you. Yeah.

Thanks, Dan. You guys have a good one. You too. I enjoy. Yeah, so yeah, there's a lot of celebrities out there. I can keep naming them. Oh, go on them. Chris Warner from Shorten Street. Oh, no, you'd mess with him.

You want to stuff with him? Nah, he's in big trouble with him. I think he's really sick. He's got that really bad. The virus. Yeah, Christmas cliffhangers coming, man. I'm going to watch it. Yeah, yeah.

My first ever episode of Shorten Street is going to be the Chrissy Cliffhanger. Yeah. It's the best one to go in. Hey, speaking of, we have Beck's on the show telling us about the Christmas cliffs. My sister-in-law, she plays Dawn. It's been on about six, seven years. See, I did that on purpose, a bit of a segue. Oh, is that where you?

you were doing. Professional, but really? Round of applause for Dan, guys. It's been so good at this joke. Clap in himself. Thank you. Are you sure you didn't mention just Sean Street and then I saved your ass? Play a song, Clint. Okay. Oh well, actually we've got to do ads first.

Clint, Megan, Dan. Stinky Boo. Christmas Clifinger is on tonight. The biggest episode of the year, Shorty Street. God, it's been running for a very long time. And for over half a decade, my sister-in-law, Rebecca Randall,

She married my brother a few years back has played Dawn on Shulner Street and she joins us in studio to tell us about her. Hey, Bexie. Good morning, everybody. Yes. Hi, Mom. Can I ask first, if you died in the show,

would you tell Clint or would you wait for him to see it live and then he'd be like, what? And you'd be like, ha-ha. Well, here's the thing. I could probably tell Clint, but his wife, Jamie watches and then his mum, my mother-in-law, also a big fan of the show. So I wouldn't want to spoil it for them.

Gotcha. That's nice. And Ash, as a person from Australia, you probably don't know that every year about this time of year there's a cliff hammer. I just learned. That's so dramatic. It's so spicy.

We've had some great ones over the years. Like some really iconic ones. The first one that comes to mind is the Ferndale Strangler. I can't believe there's a strangler. He was just out of Strangler people. You'd be moving out of Fern Day. I'd be like, oh, we've got to strangle up. I think it's my time.

It's my time to go. It's my time to go to Ramsey Street. You've even as a character, because you've been on Shorty now, what, five years? Oh, no, it was seven before I left. And then I've just gone back and done some filming, obviously with them, hence being on air at the moment. So, yeah, long time.

That's a lot of cliffs. What's sort of the craziest... A lot of clips. What's the craziest storylines that you've been a part of your character's being involved in? Everyone knows Dawn is iconic for anything super sexual and random. So at one point I was like making cash on the side, your phone set.

I have, I tried out being lesbian I fell in love with my gay best friend Sleeped with most of the men on the show At one point Which my poor husband My brother, yeah Bex's husband, loves It's like a really good time for him He's like, who you're shagging now, babe?

Where are we out at the moment So we can try and piece together What could go wrong? Okay, at the moment there's a virus in the hospital And we all know after COVID How crazy a virus can be So we've got that going on We've also got Hendricks on the loose.

Oh, God, done again. He's a bit crazy. We've got to keep an eye out for him. And then I'm pretty sure there'll be a few more little bonuses in the Christmas Club as well. It's a really cool act. When we shot it, which was actually sort of June, we didn't know if the show was getting renewed or not either. Oh, emotions were high.

The stakes were so high when we were filming it. It's a really good one. Oh, Chris Warner just goes straight to the end of his script. just being like, oh, my God, I'm not dead. They're going to keep me on for one more year. Well, the thing is, is that the end of the scripts ended on the cliff, the same cliff that you guys are going to watch. So we didn't know, are we coming back?

Are we not? Do we die? Chris Warner is just going to be, if you see him in the street over somewhere, just walk around stress, not knowing if he's going to get another year. Well, funny you say that because I saw a promo for it the other day, and Chris Warner's not looking well. He's all, he's all sweety and stuff. What looks like he has, I don't know.

Maybe he's, yeah, I'm not sure how much you're going to be popping up. Well, in the near future, with Shorty, because you're about... You're about to burst with a new bubba. I am. We got five weeks to go before baby number two arrives, which is very exciting. And you don't know what it is. It's the best. Don't know what it is.

It's a girl or a boy. How hard was it hiding your baby bump when you went back to film the Christmas cliff? Actually, no one, apart from two of my co-stars, knew I was pregnant because it was so early on, but I was throwing up morning and night. I was so unwell and filming and trying to hide it. So I didn't actually have a camera's on you. Sweety Hot Studios. But you're a good actress, you would have used that sickness feeling to channel into good acting.

Maybe she's got the virus. Maybe she's got the virus. And they passed it because she was sick and sweating. People are going to be like, she's really such a good actress. We don't even need to give her makeup. She's sweating herself. She looks like shit. How good.

Thank you very much. 7 p.m. TV2. It's an hour long special and you don't want to miss this one. Does someone die? You have to wait and see. Thanks, Vicks. Thanks for having me. See you, mate.

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