The Edge Breakfast - OVERTHINKERS it's not cancer

Episode Date: May 17, 2026

Meg kicks things off with an absolute health anxiety crisis after her doctor dropped a casual "can't rule it out" bomb about a bump on her nose. Then things get totally unhinged as Dan reveals his wife has him insured for a casual $900k—making us genuinely concerned she’s going to push him down the stairs—and Clint literally loses his entire house to Meg over a basic geography debate. You’re not ready for this level of chaos, mate. [00:00] Meg’s "it's not cancer" doctor visit   [02:30] Dan's suspicious $900k insurance policy [04:47] Exposing Ash London’s legendary studio air purifier drama [06:05] The great geography debate  [08:34] Is Meg actually smart?

This is a podcast from Rover. This is the Overthinkers podcast. What's happened? I missed that. Now, Meg's that. Oh, I think two things. Okay, look, you guys know I have health anxiety. Two things happened last week. I went to my doctor.

One, for the first time. And I said to her, I was like, do we think I have cancer? That was a really random question. But I am health anxious. And we had recently done tests. And she goes, I'm just looking through your blood test. And she's like, no. I don't. She's like, well, I can't roll it out.

And I was like, I felt like you were able to do that. But apparently not. And I was like, that's fine. It's good for me, for my health anxiety. Nothing is showing that I have cancer. Fine, go about my day. I have to get a mold sheet. My first ever mole map.

And I've got this little thing on my face that just recently showed up. And I assumed it was like something I scratched myself. Oh, is that that thing there? Right there on my nose. I've been looking at all morning. Thanks. It's like a third eye. So I get all my moor's.

And you guys, good, good, good. It's my first experience of it, just sitting there in your undies. wait wait wait there's no for you to get naked to show him a bump on your nose no no no she's doing the whole thing I got a mole map

I don't think you went to a real doctor he's like take a top off I got a whole mum map so I can see your face better and then he saw the thing on my face and he said let me check that and I thought it had nothing to do with anything so checking away moles the moles are good

he looked at the thing in my face he goes let me just check that I'll say okay it's a pimple he looks he goes Well, I don't think it's cancer Brilliant Oh my God He's obviously never met someone with health anxiety

Because instantly knowing you Meg You'd go oh my God it is cancer Now And so he'll do many goes We're going to get you book back in in four weeks Just to make sure it's not I would have gone Well I'm fucking here now

To check the stuff So why can't you check it now Because otherwise I'm going to wait four weeks for you to do what you could be doing Right now while I'm in your office He's like if it goes away Not cancer But if it grows

We'll get it Cancer And it's still there Not looking good It's not looking good at the moment. And I'm like, what do you mean you don't think it's cancer? Like, how sure is the think? Is it 80% you don't think?

One of the ten, where we're. It's like going, you're not going to be fired from this job at the end of the year. Yeah. You know, but unless shit goes really badly, you might be, you know? Yeah, right. So it's that type of thing. That of all the things you're going to compare Meg's cancer to, you decide to compare it to her losing her job. Yeah, sorry, just kick a while she's down.

Just all the things that I worry about. But anyway, so now you've got to wait another... Four weeks. And book another appointment. I've already booked in. And pay again. I've got full insurance. Oh, that's good.

Don't worry about it. I'm Meg, you need full insurance, though. I know, and I was actually recently thinking about canceling it because it has gone up so exponentially over the past few years. It is insane how much health insurance full is my whole family. How much is that? Because I think mine, because I never had insurance until we talked about it once in this podcast.

I convinced you to do it. Yeah, and you're like, you don't have insurance. And so I think it, we're like, up but it's like $380 a month? Yeah. Mine's more than that. Okay. Oh, but close about 400 a month.

Yeah, I've got full cover with all four of us. Yeah, because I was wondering, do I have full cover at that money or not? Yeah. I think, but yeah, so it is good for me, but I was thinking about keeping it just for the girls and then we recently did this and I was like, great, two times I've been told I might. I most probably don't.

I think the worst thing to do is if you have it, cancel it, because Murphy's Law, the day you cancel it is the day you get something, something, well, cancer. I don't know, like something, you know,

where you need to pay for it. So I'm keeping it locked in. He said, like, you know, cancel it any time. He said you can cancel it anytime. If it does just go,

I'll be fine. Just do that. But I thought I would rather that. Those are the doctors I genuinely actually like, which sounds crazy because I'm a health-actious person. I've been working really hard on it.

It's actually my health anxiety is more around my kids than it is around me. I think my kids are going to die every time they're sick, not me. But I like doctors that are honest with me because then I believe them

when they tell me something that is fact. I would rather her be like, oh, I mean, I don't think so. Like, nothing is pointing to that rather than like, definitely you don't, don't worry about it. Get out of here, you crazy gal. And I'd be like, but did you check everything? You know, I'd rather.

My wife, Hannah, she's like you, Meg, and not so much health anxiety, because she's a doctor, so she sort of knows a lot of stuff about health and stuff. But she's very risk adverse. So, we're insured up to the fucking eyeballs. To the point

where we've got another line of insurance. It's like for disability. So we've got another thing where it's like disability. So if I'm, for whatever reason, get hit by a bus, I am paralysed or whatever. I can't do my job. Hannah gets $900,000. Just like that.

And sometimes I'm like, what's stopping here? No, no, no, you can pay different scales. We can wheel you in here and you can chat. You're fine. Oh, God. I'm like Stephen Hawking. You'll be fine.

No, but don't tell that to Hannah. If you us to tap away every word, that'd be a long voice breaks. Yeah, and it'd be hard for get the kicker every time, eh, if I'm having to type it out. You'd be so angry. Producer Carl? I know, like, producers have to get coffees and stuff like that, but shotgun not taking him to the bathroom. That's ridiculous. You have to wipe my bottom.

Ender's a colossomy bag. We have to get Nipia back. Yeah, Neepie can come back. He's going to come back. He's going to come back to wipe his arm wiper. He's been. gagging to wipe Dan's That's an entry level job, eh?

Media works. You're like, I've got an internship at the edge they're so excited to go, it's actually just a wipe Dan's ass and it's just a butt in the door though, and it? There's a hand in the ass, that's what it is. It's not a foot in the door,

it's a hand in the house. Anyway, right. No, but I worry sometimes that she's going to push me down the stairs and she'll get 900K. Because I do think that. What about your life insurance? What have you die?

How much does she get? Less. Isn't that odd? I was like, shouldn't we match it? and she was like, oh yeah, we probably should, but we just never get around to it. I think she only gets like 60K if I die. She's like, if I have to live with him.

Yeah, but I'm like, yeah, $900,000 because that's supposed to cover for all the treatment and everything as well. And also... It's 60K if you die. And so when it's like, it's 60K if you die? I think it was something, but maybe it's more than that. But it's something like that, yeah.

Wow, so if she puts you down the stairs, she's got to make sure it's not fatal. I think she's like, I do not want to care for that man monetary-wise if he falls down. But if I die, she'll just marry a Richard man, you know? So that's, I think... She'll do it differently next time, Radee. Yeah, we don't have life insurance.

Somebody told me that was, like, mental. So if I die, then she... You should get it. Then your wife would have to sell the house and the kids have to move out because she wouldn't be able to cover the mortgage on her own. There's heaps of different ones as well. There's, like, job-loss ones as well

that you can get, which we've got, which is like a... If you lose your job for something, whether it be health-related, or I think there's other criteria as well which you can pay extra for. They'd give you your salary. It'd take a lot...

It would take a lot for us to be unable to do our job anymore. Like in terms of injuries and stuff, like if my old man was a concrete contractor, if he was in a wheelchair, he's buggin't, right? Whereas we could still do this job without the use of our, I'd need my hands,

otherwise I just couldn't anchor anymore. As long as you can still speak, you know, as long as you're still about you, you'd be alright. And you can use your tongue for the faders and stuff you get in there with your mouth. Find a way.

Ash London wouldn't want to use it after you though. All over the dials. She was about anxiety and like germophobes and stuff. Yeah, we kind of first thing we bonded on, which is nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's like honestly like Meg Neger never left when Ash came and covered. She was a little, yeah, different, a bit of...

But same. Producer Carl, sorry, Carl, Brady and Kel who does the show up there. He walked off and he left and then I just see him slowly walk back with his mouth agape like, the fuck. You can't say that. I mean, the thing is. Everyone knows I actually pushed very hard for Ash to cover my seat, so I know how amazing she is. I didn't say amazing.

She was fucking terrible. In terms of the similarities in their health stuff, it was genuinely, she's worse than you. Oh, definitely, yeah. In terms of like, she brought an air purifier in one day. No, not one day, she brought in a lot, but the problem is... Like to purify the air? It would be, so it would go red, and then when it had purified it,

go either green or blue or whatever. But it'd be red, and she'd have it on full bore to the point where it was right. next so that when the mics run I could hear this moh like and it was bringing in the answer. And the boss who's her husband had to come in and be like yeah she can't keep bringing her you can hear it. I love her. So I'd have to like I'd have to turn it down so I was like it's still on

but it's at least turned down because it's ruining the quality of the audio. One of you was sick like what was the reason for it? No just day one she came in with this thing and then anytime anyone had been sick it came back like it didn't stay here 24 seven afterwards. You'd keep talking and this is what it sounds

Okay, so we're just talking about how you can win. It's like a mosquito. The Nutrita Bolt. Or is that Dan if one of the news hit by a bus? You're that's the noise to handmates now. We're like, you know what, Dan? We can probably do it without you, buddy. Appreciate your contribution.

It's all good, Dan. Oh, the thinkers. Haven't pulled out at the country that is no longer in the running for the merch pack. There's only like nine countries left, by the way. We started with every single country that had someone who podcast this show in the jar. And over the last, I don't know, a few months, Meg's been pulling one out. Finland's gone.

Oh, I was really hoping Finland was going to win it. Really? Yeah, I love Finnish people are lovely. Canadians. I love the Canadians. I'm rooting for the Canadians too. Canadians are always very nice, aren't they? Yeah, Canadians maybe France. I don't know how many French people I've met via the podcast or anything.

It's going to be interesting because they do say that many people listen But yeah, sometimes when I ask like, are you from Ecuador? We've never had anybody go, that's me. Ecuador. Ecuador. Ecuador. Is that what the equator is? Is that a dumb thing to say?

Fuck. Is Ecuador near the equator? Is that really dumb? Yeah, that's what I thought. The funny thing is Meg, I couldn't tell you. That's what I thought. That's why it's not called Ecuador because of the equator? No, I mean, I would probably.

my house on it being not true, but it could be one of those things you Google, and then we go, what the fuck? But I put my house on it, no. Where's that spot that you go to the equator and you can almost let you don't know which way to lean. You don't know which way you can lean that you fall backwards or something, isn't it?

What? This is all brand new information. Wait, does the equator make you feel funny? Oh my God, Clint, you're never going to read about it. The equator cuts directly through Ecuador. She's fucking right. But that's not why they called it Ecuador, is it? I don't know.

It is initially named after it. Shut up. The Ecuador means equator. She's done it. She's like, I swear on my life. Yes, it is literally named after it. The Spanish word Ecuador means equator and the country is the worst. Honestly, you guys make me, Sheila, I'm so dumb and I'm not.

And then if you go to the equator, you weigh slightly less. The sun rises straight up and down. You don't wait less. You less there. Oh, don't fucking trust. I make me say, I'm dumb now. You just lost your house. Clint, hey Meg,

if you rewind back to when you said that fact, and I fucking believed you, I backed you, he's the one that doubted you. Well, I said, I put my house out not being true, but then again, this could be one of those things,

and it happens. More often than you think, where Meg would be like, oh, I'm an idiot, and then we laugh, and it turns out she should have backed herself because we've checked in, it's right.

But we never go back, we're like, oh, Ford momentum, Ford my media. We check off here, but we never on here, but we never on here, clarify that Meg was right. Yeah, no, it's all good.

Good on you, Meg. I really do back you sometimes. Sometimes. Yeah. I don't even think, you were saying that you backed me before. I don't think you did. I think you just said I'm too dumb to know. Yeah, but I didn't say you're wrong.

Definitely didn't. Anyway. Wow. Yeah, there you go. You learn something every day on this podcast. There's south and north and there's right in the middle of the world. Huh. And that's in Ecuador.

Isn't that incredible? Well, it makes sense, doesn't it? A little bit. Yeah, that's why they both have eck at the start. That's what I thought. Equal. But then there's also one of those things in Nelson in New Zealand at the top of the South Island.

And it says this is the centre of New Zealand. But it's right at the top of a mountain. I said to my wife, well, it's as close to the centre as they could put a plaque. But it's not exactly. And my wife goes, no, it says it's the centre. I was like, what do you think the chances are that the exact centre of New Zealand just happened to be right at the top of this mountain?

I was like, no, it's roughly in this vicinity and they put it at the top of the mountain. Sometimes do you just not question stuff and just enjoy it? I always question everything. Yeah, but sometimes just don't question it and just enjoy it for what it is. I went to that same place and I didn't think once about that. I went out there and I went, oh, this is amazing. We're on a romantic walk to the centre of New Zealand.

I didn't go, this isn't it? How can it be? You're a cantankerous. Yeah, I mean, it's one of my, it's like my overthinking. Well, I guess they come hand in hand. It's probably why. Yeah, there are three kind of points. There's no exact centre, so you are correct on that.

Yeah, I overthink everything. But then that's the problem is I'll drive myself insane, inside my head. I don't think about much at all, really, sometimes. Don't think what, enough. So to get it, if we put a head together, we'd think the right amount. I've been trying that because you guys know my word of the year is peace. So I've been trying to just be like, just stop. Piece of cake?

I ruminate over and over and over, not piece of cake, Dan. Fucking hell! I'm just saying. I've actually been the smartest on this one. I'm still treated like an idiot. Yeah, that is mean. Meg said off here during the show. If anyone was just tuning in today or just this week to the show,

they would think, man, that girl's dumb and... Ugly and fat. And Dan said, you're not ugly. But I didn't hear you say fat. I would have said you're not fat and ugly. I would have said that. Which means you've still left dumb on the table. Well, she can't hear everything.

You can't have it all, babe. You can't be not bad, not ugly and not stupid. No, I'm not bringing you down. In fact, I'm bringing you up. How are you bringing me up? Just not right to the top. You're not going to the top floor, are you? I just had a fact that nobody else had.

And it was a good one. What would I have to do to make you think I'm smart? A brain. No. What would you have to do? I don't think you're smart. I've not once if I said, I think you're not smart. I think if Meg went on the chase and won it,

I'd be like, fuck. Yeah, that'd be fucking awesome. Because we already know, A, it's hard. B, few people win. So if you did do that, it's like, there's no question. You can't turn it. I go, oh, which is probably fluked. Easy questions.

Oh, you guys would say that, though, I feel. Like, if I won the chase, you'd be like, that were the easiest choice. Put it this way. The fact that you even have to ask that question proves you're not smart. I am smart. You would never have heard Albert Einstein go, what do I have to do to prove that I'm not dumb?

But I'm, but I literally am smart. It's like... English is... I have not said you aren't. English is my second language. I think I do very well with that. What's your first language? I didn't understand the question.

English is my second language. Does make people think I'm really smart, though, would I say that? Actually, that's true because if you are all considering she had to learn English. I'll tell you what, her first language definitely isn't Tereo. Let's not forget, Tudatawa. Again, I'm sorry. Got it always on call. The Tudututatawa.

Who has she said that? Get out. E. Right. Is this long enough? Yeah, 20 minutes. Thank you for tuning in. I have lots of just, like, things that are funny just sitting here just in case.

Like the time that, um, um, what's her face? Didn't know who Dan was. What's her name? Hilary Barry. I don't know you, Dan. Oh, right. Oh, right. That really cut me deep because I really liked Hillary.

and we call it. We still do. Hillary is amazing. She's iconic, Mother of the Nation. It was so awkward. We never actually played that full call out on air. I don't know now. I used to like her, but now that she's been to me... Because she doesn't know you. God, you're arrogant. Yes. Now we're equal. You're dumb. I'm arrogant. What's Clint?

Fucking perfect. Let's be honest. Amy, let's be honest. Thank you, Dan. You can you get him. You can't get him on him. Thank you, Dan. That's so nice of it. Overthinkers Rover, music, radio, podcasts.