The Edge Breakfast - OVERTHINKERS freestylin

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

When a news story broke about amateur freestyle rap blowing up in Europe, Dan and Producer Carl took it as their personal invitation to spit bars live on air. It turns out that improvising over a beat is way harder than it looks, and the attempt spiraled into absolute chaos, absurd lyrics, and uncontrolled laughter ridiculously fast. You are definitely not ready for how off-the-rails this attempt gets.

This is a podcast from Rover. This is the Overthinkers podcast. Morning, you got Cal with you still. Sorry. Hey, this is a podcast, Cal. It could be the night by the time they're listening to this. It could be middle of the morning, could be early hours. You could listen to a podcast anytime. I don't care.

But welcome along to the show. Still no Clint and Meg, but they are back. I have it on good authority that they're back tomorrow. Oh, both of them? Yeah, I believe. Well, I think definitely Clint, who knows about Meg? I think she hopefully will be back tomorrow as well. Just looking through the news this morning.

And I came across the story, which I wish I'd come across earlier, because we've been doing this thing with Meg called, what do we call it, Carl? Freestyle Fridays where Meg would rap a song. Freestyle, and we'd give her a topic. There's a news story that's come out of, I think it's out of France, saying that the freestyle rapping game, or the amateur rap game in France, is on the rise

and in Europe more people are starting doing rap than any other genre of music which is telling them that rap is going to have a massive resurgence in the next few years

I feel like rap's pretty bad has it but it's pretty big I think it's just not as I mean we're on the edge we don't really play much rap music but rap is sort of one of those things like classic rap

like I guess you would say Eminem's a classic rap artist you don't really have rap artists anymore, do you? They're sort of clouded in like R&B and hip-hop. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, but like rap is sort of like a early 2000s thing. Yeah, yeah.

And also, like, it's one of those things where I feel like when you think of it, like, oh, anyone could be a rapper because you don't have to have like a good voice, you know, you just have to be able to spit bars, but arguably way harder. It's so hard. Meg's proved it, and I can't, I don't prescribe to be any better than Meg. I wish we had

some audio of one of Meg's previous attempts freestyle Friday. Oh, we do, actually. Here it is. Oh, do we? Hang on a second. Here, here it is. This is Meg. Can you hear it? No.

Oh, here we go. My name is Francis. I go to Fungeroy Boys' High School. I've got heaps of meats. I live in Fungeray. I love this guy. And I grew up on Taupo. Pia!

They almost got a million. 630,000 views. I love Francis. Francis was a pioneer. Oh, he was so good. And you know what I liked about him? is his he didn't care about rhyming. You know, at last, there's a rapper that took rhyming out of it

and just said what they thought. And that's what I love Francis. Well, there's also the argument that raps don't need to rhyme. It's more just about kind of poetry. But I feel like if you're an amateur, you need a rhyme to have some kind of rhythm. So I thought we could try this on the Oethinkers podcast today, Cal. I know this is good or worse. I know, but neither am I.

Neither am I a good one. Do any part of me look like I'm a good rapper? Freestyle. I could write some lyrics and rhyme it and be fucking good. But make me freestyle it and I'm like, honestly, the shittest. So I reckon you go first. Okay. So we've got like a generic beat.

I'm going to give you a topic. I'll give you something really easy to talk about. I just like, I don't think I could do a rhyme. How long? Like, okay, do I just like do my best? Just honestly push through. If you stuff it up, keep going. I want at least 30 seconds a wrap.

Okay. Your topic this morning, Cal. as being cool. Oh my God. Okay? So you could do anything. Just talk about being cool. Yeah.

Uh, yeah. Yay. I'm cool. I don't need to go to school. Yeah. Dan, stop looking at me. You fucking fool. Uh.

School. Keep my name out your mouth. Uh. You're not cool enough. What a spout. Eat my ass. Oh. Oh, God.

Touch some grass, yeah. Uh. Got some. I don't think any rapper in the history of rap has gone. Eat my ass. Touch some grass. Yell. Okay.

It's hard, man. It is hard. That's not easy. It is hard. Props to Francis, man. I think you'll get a chance of redemption shortly, but I'll get a go. Here's a go. Okay.

So maybe the same thing and then give me a topic. Okay. Your word that you are starting with is... Oh, no. I want a topic, not a word I start with, because then I have to make up a whole thing. Just give me a topic. Okay. Well, you fucking gave me a word.

Cool. No, but it's a topic, isn't it, about being cool? Yeah. All right, here we go, yeah. Eating chuff. Yeah. I don't know it wasn't slither in. I was in Hufflepuff.

That's because I like eating lots of chuff. That's not bad though. That's not bad. Yeah. Yeah. You think it's an ass? I'll give that a pass Cause put it in my mouth

I'll have a lot Puff, puff, puff I call it chuff I'm going Toot Toot honk honk Come at me now I want to Oh nah

Nah No I can go You go on something Toot blah blah Something now Yeah Some people Wait what we could try

What we could try Is do like one It's so hard Honestly, I feel sorry for me because he made her do that for a week and it's so fucking difficult. Why don't we try one where like we go back and forth? Okay.

Yeah, okay. Carl, give us a topic. Okay, so Cal and I'll go back and forth with a thing. That's a good idea, Cal. I don't think it's going to be any easier. Right, so this is, yeah, okay, cool. Beef burgers. Okay.

What the fuck rhymes with burger? We don't have to just... So much rhymes with beef, though. But you don't have to say, just start with beef burger and then we go on from it. Oh yeah, okay. All right. Who wants to start?

I'll start. Oh, God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm so hungry. What do you want? Yeah. I'm hungry. I'm famished.

I'm so hungry I might commit a murder. Oh, I'll get a beef burger. Yeah. Oh, cheese and peasant. Nah, keep away your dickles Lettuce, tomato, cucumber You know, fucking, oh fuck What'd you say? Cucumber

Oh bitch, give me your number I like to take your whole man fucking your thumber Oh, I'm so, honestly, Scott. We suck. Dude, that's just hard, bro. It's really hard. And you can see the people that are doing it online, like those people that

they'll do his stand-up comedy. There's that one guy that does it and he goes up on stage and he asks like a whole load of questions of people in the audience and then he writes a, he does like freestyle a rap about it. It's incredible how he does it. Wait, is that the guy that is the auditude singing or it's a rapper? No, it's a rap. He does

rap. I mean, I'm sure there's other people that do it. But just thinking on your feet, I mean, I should be good at it. We should be good at a cow because we do radio. And unfortunately no, not the case. That's actually really, really hard. That was hard. That was hard listen that last one. Yeah, sorry about that.

Brilliant. Anyway, Megan Clinton are back tomorrow. We'll shut the fuck up. Thanks for listening. And if you stuck through it this far, you are honestly a saint. Good on you. Goodbye. This is the Overthinkers podcast.

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