The Edge Breakfast - OVERTHINKERS radio award speeches

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

This is a podcast from Rover. This is the Overtinkers podcast. Hi-a- Welcome, Clint McGee and Dan. Overthinking everything in our normal day-to-day life, so why not do a podcast? Oh, gorgeous. And I'm not overthinking too. Can I kick things off for something I've been overthinking a little bit lately? Probably me get of a better perspective on this than perhaps Dan.

But let's say you wear a certain type of piece of clothing, and I like it. I think it makes you look. great, makes you look hot. And I go, man, that's really cool. I like that. Yeah. I'm going to buy that for my wife. Am I allowed to buy a piece of clothing for my wife

that I know looks good because I've seen another chick look hot wearing it? Is it the lightning and queen shirt Meg's currently wearing? I don't think it's that. I think I know who you're talking about and what you're talking about. I would say, no, if I'm being honest, if my, it depends on whether you thought it would look cool or hot, totally different things. Really?

If my husband said, I saw this girl wearing this really cool outfit, and I asked where she got a t-shirt because I thought you'd like it because that's your style. Absolutely. In fact, I'd be like, honored that my husband would like do that and think, oh, that's an epic outfit. Meg would love that t-shirt. Versus guy thinking, fuck that girl's hot.

Like, she is so attractive. I'm going to go and buy that t-shirt so she looks like that girl. Which one is it? Is there a middle one? A bit of both. Why not both? Why not both? Because I don't know.

Because you thought she'd like it because it's her style. No, I don't think it would be something that my wife would normally buy for her, but I do think my wife would look great in it. But I'm buying it because I think it looks hot. What is it? And who was the person originally wearing it? It's actually a Billy Bones. It's an Australian label, and I already own some stuff from them.

And then I saw this really cool shirt on this lovely looking girl. Who? And she said it was from Billy Bones. I love them. So I've been trying to find it to buy it for my wife because I already know it's cool. but they're out of stock and so I'm like do I keep looking for it or I drop it

I mean it's been months since you've seen it yeah but I just saw an ad come through for Billy Bones and I was like oh that's right I was meant to buy that shirt for my wife and so I've just thought about it again I definitely think it's intentions like if you think

oh my wife will look hot in that it's a really cool t-shirt then yes but if you would like it because then you can imagine your wife being that girl should we call Jamie and ask her what she'd think Do you see what I mean? Like, there's a difference.

Yeah, I just think my wife would look hot in it. Yeah, okay. Well, then there's totally nice and fine. Absolutely. Yeah, but if you're doing it to dress your partner up like Meg Mantle. Yeah, yeah. Well, if you want this Lightning McQueen shirt, I think Guy got this for me. Oh, that's nice.

Yeah. Anna, your daughter would have loved it too. She hasn't seen me in it yet. So I think she's got a bit of a big day today with the doctor and a surgeon. Not going to surgery today, but we've got a point about a surgery. So I thought she would like it past war. You always wanted to have a smaller nose, eh? Yeah, no, we're getting her plastic surgery,

my four-year-old. Before her fifth birthday, I just thought before school photos. Yeah, because you're getting her ears pierce and everything at the same time, aren't you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's getting a tattoo and stuff. And that hair that you see on Instagram, it's extensions. I've had them in since she was one. Oh, so cute.

Actually, speaking of a tattoo, somebody texts in on our radio show this morning talking about. I saw that. Yeah, take the edge off my life, a promo we're running. If you're overseas at the moment, you just go, right, this is the financial burden that I have at the moment. And we go, cool, let us get rid of it. you can get on with it. Somebody, this isn't a burden maybe as much as it's something

that they just really want to get done but it's expensive. They said, Clint, me and you should go to Bali together and get full body tattoos and they say what they do is they put you under and then six guys will tattoo you all at once so that you only have to go through all the healing

and all the rest of it and all the time spent on the chair one time rather than going back and fall in back. I'm sure they've studied and stuff. I would be worried how your body would react to like that much needling and ink at one point. The body eventually will reject it. I'll be more concerned about the

qualifications of the anesthesiologist that's doing, putting you under because like that is at one of the hardest jobs with surgery is putting someone under and keeping them at the point where they are under and not too under. Yeah, anesthesiologist is an incredibly difficult job. It's very difficult.

Also, I mean, I don't know, just while I'm under and knowing that I've got six guys that are all trying to tattoo me in different spots to try and get it all done. They can't ask your opinion when they go, is this how you wanted it? Yeah, and then they're kind of like, I don't know, flipping you around and then some guys trying to work on your neck or another guy's

working on your thigh, you've been all twisted and... Sounds like your dream. Not for me. Not for me. It just sounds like Clint's dream for six guys working on him. Turns out, Dan, the anesthesia's like worn off, but Dan's just all trying to pretend he's asleep. I'm just going like... Oh yeah?

And then they go, wait on, I think he's woken up. How long did that take? Four minutes. Yeah, 40-odd seconds. You started it. We're not doing a sexual one today. No, no, it's not going to be, from now on and here on and.

Completely clean today. Good. Good. Today on the Overtinkers podcast. We're overthinking. How are you boys doing with your outfits for we're having the New Zealand Radio Awards next week? Dan is up for it. Well, the whole show is, but I think Dan's kind of up for a couple of biggies.

Oh, no. Obviously it is, but it is also not. The hit spot is up for one of the biggest awards of the night. Actually, it's nominated for, I think, four different. Is it four? And then also the Mime video that I did of Neo, that's up for video of the year, up against hit the spot. Leo, Usher.

Usher, yeah. Is Neo on that song at all? No, it's just Asher. Usher, uh... And Pitbull, maybe. And what was the song? No, it doesn't matter. Yeah, but those three up against each other,

so I guess it's a bit of a win-win. So the chances of them winning are quite high, because there's only four nominees. Yes. Have you ordered your outfits though? Because I know that you were looking into... Well, I have emailed my agent about maybe getting a free one. Did you?

No, but I haven't heard back. Oh, but it's been cricket? It's been cricket. Because every year at the Radio Awards, I don't go all out because I've never really been not... I have won best producer once when I was many years ago when I was... Yeah, when I was a producer. But here's a sad thing.

They don't leave you go up on stage for that. No, they don't. It doesn't really matter too much what you're wearing if you're just going to sit in the theatre. Clint's been the only one that's been up on stage, right? No, I've been up on stage for best show when I was a producer. Just me then. Although I have hosted it. Have either of you hosted it?

True. And you know what? I would say that's got to be one of the scariest fucking like emce jobs I could ever do. Yeah. You're literally... Knowing you now, Meg. How did I do that, eh? Like, I honestly don't know how you. You must have been fucking dead with fear.

Imagine the greatest broadcasters and communicators in the country all in one room. And Meg's up there emceeing. I'm so proud of you to hear that. But I fucked it off in the moment that I literally got up there and I stumbled on my words, my first words and then I said, I'm so nervous. Which is great because it broke the eyes straight away.

Yeah, I would just like, I was literally tears on my, I was so, I was absolutely petrified. Did you get paid for it? No. Oh, good, mate, I would just, the only thing I'd be thinking of is to think of the money, think of the money, and it wasn't Eddie?

I thought, I kept thinking, think of the honour, think of the honour, like, um, I was very lucky to I don't think of honour or money, Clint. I prefer money to honour. Yeah. But no, you know, I looked back, I wasn't taking too much notice because I didn't know how scared you were. I didn't know you as well back then. Yeah, no. But knowing you now, I think that was an incredible thing for you to do.

Oh, thank you. Yeah. Like I didn't know that you would have been nervous. I would never have guessed that when I was watching. Really? Oh, God. Oh, God. And it was such a kerfuffle with my dress as well. So I got only got, it was a dress that was made for me. And I only got to try it on the day before and it wasn't right. And then I, I didn't know what to do.

I got in a lot of trouble actually. because I said to the girl, yeah, thanks, I love it, I love it, because I felt like I had no other options. You know, when you have a hair cut, and it's done, and you're like, well, it's fucking dumb, what am I going to say? I hate it.

You know, I got a dress. I had to try it on the night before I was on stage. She never said, like, do you like it, or, like, is anything you want to get changed? It's like, here it is. And I put it on. It didn't fit me right. I thought I looked awful.

And I went into the car, and I bore my eyes out. I called my agent because she had set it up. And then my agent rang her, and then she was really angry because she's like, why didn't you say something at me? Now you've made me look unprofessional. Blah, blah, blah.

Oh, God, awkward. It was really, it was such a core memory. So I had to go and take it to somebody to try and get tailored the night before. And I had a split in it. You guys know what a split is? It's meant to go up to maybe thigh and it's just a split. You see a bit of leg. A bit of sex.

Unfortunately, she did the measurements of the split wrong. The split went to my belly button. Oh, my God. I've got photos. No word of lying this. And I got the dress back on the night. I'm doing it. So I have a split up to my belly.

Yeah, I love that. You can see all my vagina. Lovely. Thank you so much. I had to put nude-colored spanks on. And then I was safety-pitting at about seconds before I went out on stage with Megan from John Owen being helping me. She was co-hosting it with me. And that was one of the major things as well because when you, I think it would affect you guys just as much, when you're feeling uncomfortable in whatever you're wearing,

whether it's too tight on something that you don't feel right in or Clint, I don't know. I can't imagine you being self-conscious. but I'm trying to think if you're like this isn't right, I don't feel good in it. Like that time I went shirtless under a suit jacket. And when you're at home, I thought that was kind of cool. And then as I got out, I was like, I don't know about this. It makes it so different right.

If something fits wrong, so I was just, I had no confidence walking on stage, as was because I was thinking, my dress is so held together with safety pins. Wait, did you go to radio awards with a suit jacket and no shirt underneath? Worst, TV Awards. What you did in? I was nominated for a TV personality of the year

and I lost to Brie Thomas out of the bitch And you're sitting there with no shirt on What a loser And yeah Bree wasn't even We're good friends now But she came round to my house This is the first time I ever met her

And she messaged me and goes Hey look I'm in the running for TV personality of the year Along with you Can I come around and we can like film a skit together And I was like oh yeah okay cool so she came round and the skit was she'd bundled me up in the garage and tied me to a chair and gagged me

and then got me to do a video being like, I'm Clint Randall and I endorse Bree Thomas Al for TV. Oh yeah, yeah, fun, fun, yeah. And then she actually wasn't even in the room when they were doing the announcement because she didn't think she'd win. And then the winner was Bree

and be where to go up and like, Brie, you won! She's like coming, running back into the thing to win and she said she was pretty steamed because she was like, there's no chance and had to go up on stage. except an award that she hadn't prepared a speech for and was pretty steamed to do.

That's the best thing to do, I reckon. It's just, oh, I didn't think I was going to win, so I didn't prepare a speech. The worst part was... You look like a good bastard because they're like, oh, yeah. I found out early in the night the bread won, so I already knew that I'd lost. And I was like, cool, whatever, fine.

I was just stoked to be... I was just stoked to be in the running with a few other, like, you know, big names. And I was like, that's cool. But the table I was sitting at with TV3, and I'd done a few shows with them with the... the Masked, Singing, Dancing with the Stars and Heartbreak, so I'd been busy. Okay.

They, I was, like, in bed with them at the time. I don't think they know my name anymore. But they had lost almost everything that they were in the running for. So they were nominated every award. They're like, lose, lose, TVNZ, TVNZ, TVNZ, TVNZ. And they were like, that's all right. Clint's going to win it for us. Clint's going to get it done.

He's going to get the award for our table. And I already knew I'd lost. So I'd be like, wow, guys. It hasn't been our night. So chances are it's probably. not going to be mine. Yikes. Let's not put any wages on this.

Oh, man. Yeah, and then, so thankfully I didn't have to go up on stage in my shirtless suit attire. Did you write a speech? I'd love to hear it. His like speech if he had won. I honestly can't remember, but I probably would have rehearsed something in my head.

Yeah, because that's the thing where I was just thinking about how even though you're meant to go off, man, I can't believe I've won, I shouldn't have, what, this is crazy. But if as soon as you pull out a piece of paper, you look like a wanker. Even though you, in theory, you've nominated so there's a chance that you should have a speech ready.

And if it's important to you, you would put the time in. Yeah, but right, but you look like such a wanky, you pull out a piece of paper to read what you've written. Yeah. I'm not going to write a speech. Are you going to write that down? Oh, God, no. I don't know. I'd be very surprised if we do win.

But I mean, if we... It's a video. It's a video. Dan, just turn a long Pinocchio knows. No, I shouldn't say that because it'll jinx it. Which is worse, though, Dan, not having a speech and fumbling your words and sounding like a fucking idiot on-stop. I have something in my head that I would say,

but I'm not going to pull out a fucking cue card. Jesus. Who are you going to think? Is your mom going to be watching? Oh, thank. Oh, it's not that sort of award. It's not like I've won, hit the spot, and I go, thanks my mom.

Well, you have an ironic gag about how normally you do struggle in life to hit the spot? This is the first time you've been celebrated for hitting the spot? Yeah, that's the gag I was going to do. Just to stop ruining it. But, yeah, and then I was just going to thank the edge and thank Clinton. you know, move on. Oh, fuck you.

We've made this game before, right? And, yeah. Oh, thank you guys. Ash London, who was, who covered for Meg. I'll probably go, thanks to Ash, who's not up here, but she's great. Meg's better. And Carl, the producer. Who's always incredible.

And the best ball producer in the game, because there's a couple of producers with hair that are better than him. But I'd say he's the best bald one. The best ball one, absolutely. How funny would that be? I actually think if you thanked everybody and they're like, Anne, I think, no, that's everyone. and you left and everyone knew you missed Meg as a gag.

I think that would actually be more important Meg ironically because everyone's like, no, he's missed Meg. And then, you know, you get your spotlight quietly in a humble type of way. What a funny sense of humour you have. What a sick, fucking twisted. Sick man. Like, what a weird friendship you have with me. Sick individual.

No wonder he didn't win hottest personality because he's a prick. What kind of friend thinks? That would be funny. Kales wants to say something. One of my favorite things to do, you know, when you're like emceeing and you're like introducing, or thanking people. And you get up and you just like,

I just want to, you know, think we've got this incredible team. They put so much hard work in, you know, we really put the hours in. And Meg's here too. So thanks, everyone. And have good much. That's great.

I hope we don't win. I hope you don't win. No, you know, to be honest, I think there'll be a bit of me inside if I don't win. I'll be like, phew, I don't have to make a speech. Yeah. Because I hate speaking of public speaking

and just me as well my words. But, you know, like. Wow, wow. I couldn't put a bit of myself, mate. No, I was doing a gag. I hate speaking in front of people. Because I think when we do the radio show, even though I do muck up my words all the time,

we're just in a room. It's just the three of us. It doesn't feel like we're talking to you, the people are listening right now. People don't always assume that we like speaking in front of people because of that. No, no, no, no. It's the opposite. No.

Why don't you do your speech as one of the greatest broadcasters who always wins every single time my cosqueen? Come into a mind. That'd be awkward because he's there. You just go, hey guys, God, I don't know what to say here. Let me channel somebody who's good at speech. What would Mike Hosking say in a moment like this? And do your speech, because your rendition is so good.

He's going to end up to it. I can already tell he's going to fall back on to it. Everyone would love it. I was going to do a little bit at the end and go like, and in the words of Mike Hosking, Happy Days, News Talk, ZB. Or I could go, it's not enough. You need longer. The only reason I've done this is because one day I really hope to be, like,

Mike Hosking on News Talk ZB saying 27 parts of date. Thank you. But I think people will be like, oh, a bit obnoxious if I do that. I reckon. This is going to be so cringe if we don't win. We've been 20 minutes talking about how we are. Let's stop talking.

Okay. But don't lose yourself and do Mike Hoskin having sex with Michael Kane. No, God, no. No, no, no, no. Because we're being gliblet with slowly just sort of walk off the stage. I'll start playing the music and people be like, get him off, get him off. No, I would run off stage. They like pull me off the stage.

Like the two ashes come down. I'm like, oh, my, I love you. I love you, boy. There was the first thing time that Dan even made me laugh my ass off was when he did that. We're in a hotel room and I wet myself. Oh, wasn't that? Please rephrase that, because you just said we were in a hotel room together

and you wet yourself. Sounds like we were doing. I think it was safe house. No, no, no, no. That was the second time. The first time we went down to Dunedin or Christchurch. We were in this little motel room and Dan was very new to the show. It was Dunedin, I think.

Yeah, and we sat in there. It was me, Carl, Katie. I think you were there, Clint. And we're all having drinks, we all sound them and just watch the Dan show. He just literally stood up and started acting out Michael Kay and having sex with my horsekin. It was the first year of the show. He was fucking brilliant. So it was like February, it was the first year I'd ever joined the show.

And we went down for O week. That's right. I remember, and we're into need. And I think Meg was still a little bit unsure if I was welcome on the show. She hated me at first. And I remember I remember I remember thinking I'm going to have to win over Meg. How am I going to do? Oh, my mic on mic.

And he did. Yeah, it was brilliant. That would have been a lovely of since. Mike squared. Mike squared, yeah. Yeah, and if you miss that and you want to know what that sounds like, his little teaser.

Oh, I'm not doing it lie. God, no, no, no, it's not very good. I have to be a little bit trucked to do it. You weren't right, though. You had a cup of tea. It was like 7pm. This news talk said to be 27 past 8. He's been a fantastic actor of many, many years now.

He's been in the Batman movies. He was in Cars, the second movie there. And he joins me on the phone right now from his London home. Michael Cain. Morning. Good morning, Bo. How are you? It's an absolute pleasure to be on to show with you. And it's absolute pleasure to have you on, Michael. In fact, he's not, he's in the studio right now.

Oh no, see, I can't do it. He's in the studio, come on. Okay, he's in the studio. Oh, God, it's so hard to do you care. It's really hot. It's really hot in here. It's really hot in here, isn't it, Michael? Oh, but, it's so odd. I've taken my pants off.

Not your shirt Oh And I'm going to bed over right now Just to pick up my car keys And if you Have you happened to slip as well Mike I'm not going to I'm not going to protest

Put it that way You're only supposed to blow my bloody doors off Well don't tempt me Don't tempt me Michael Because you know I'm a professional broadcaster Oh my Jesus That's one hell of an

A defamation or something I reckon We're facts You're not winning now mate Even if it was yours The change in it They can't risk it to go live I have a good reputation of broadcasting in New Zealand

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