The Edge Breakfast - OVERTHINKERS survivors guide to Amsterdam

Episode Date: April 14, 2026

Sorry no video pod today! We’re spiraling into some heavy moral territory today, and honestly, I’m not sure we’ll ever look at Dan’s wife, Hannah, the same way again. We tackle the ultimate "Trolley Problem"—would you sacrifice 50 innocent people to save your own child, or in Dan’s case, save him from a literal train wreck?  Plus, we’re unpacking a listener's absolute disaster of a trip to Amsterdam. From accidentally becoming "disabled" by a brownie to hallucinating that schoolgirls in McDonald's are plotting against you, it’s a chaotic cautionary tale you have to hear to believe. 00:00 – Gym fails: The "running thing" and the "dumbbells with handles". 02:45 – The "Thick" debate: Is it a compliment or an insult?  03:40 – Hannah’s moral compass: Supermarket snitching and found cash. 05:45 – The Train Dilemma: 50 people vs. your own child. 07:55 – Hannah on the line: Would she save Dan from the tracks? 10:15 – Amsterdam Allegations: The brownie that sent Liam to the hospital. 12:20 – Mushroom madness: Why you shouldn’t go to McDonald's on a trip. 15:00 – Vending machine secrets: Matt and Summer join the booth. 18:15 – Friday's Fast Track keyword and the country elimination game.

This is a podcast from Rover. This is the Overthinkers podcast. Worthclam Meg and welcome. I appreciate you joining us. Good to have you here. Good to have you here. Good morning, afternoon, evening. What time do you think most people listen to this?

I think it's on their commute in the morning or in the afternoon in their drive home mostly. I think there'll be obviously people that are listening at different times, but that's when the lion's share of listeners will be listening. Yeah, well, like, gym, I used to listen to a lot of podcasts when I out at the gym. The problem is, if you're under a heavy bench press and you listen to a, podcast that's quite funny. I've been caught out a couple of times. You start laughing when the bar is like over-jured.

And it's really hard to get it to rack it up. I don't listen to us. Is that what, are you laughing when you make that noise when you're going, is that you laughing? No, that's like when you're in the middle of one of those and then when someone cracks a funny on a pod, you start laughing, you lose all strength. I remember that time we went to the gym with Clint that time

and he was like showing me how to do his tin and stuff, like play with his tin. I wasn't there when you asked. He was like a good, He was showing me how he was lifting, but he was like, do this and he was like, gee, that's such a light.

And I had to walk away, I couldn't, because people were like turning around going, I was on the, on the, shit, I haven't been to the gym in so long. What's it called the running thing? Drenble! What's that such a running thing that everyone does? Yeah, it's like a belt that spins around.

Bad sign me, go. Yeah, no, you go. Sorry. Yeah, so clip the, doing that, Abelries turning around. Well, Dan didn't call the dumbbells, dumbbells either. He said you're picking up the weight things. The two.

Fuck that, we need to get our shit sorted. Honestly. Yeah, honestly. So bad. What do you call a dumbbell with a really long bar? Oh, a barbell. Yes, Meg. I was gonna say smart bell.

What do you call a dumbbell that's like round and has like a weird handle at the top, but only like one handle? A kettle, a kettle bell. Kettle bell? Yes, Meg. A kettle. Okay? Anyway, let's stop doing this test because it's making me feel fat.

Okay. Not a bad thing, though. Not a bad thing. We don't want to put out that into the universe. No, you know. Just to be happy with the way you are. I'm not happy with it. No, I'm saying you can just be...

Yeah, well, okay, well, what's that then? You can be fat, but it's just when using it in a bad connotation of like, oh God. Because even if you're not happy, then other people, your size could be happy. That's just the descriptive word of somebody. It shouldn't be used as an insult. Hmm. Like when you say, um, I'm having

I'm being good today when you don't want to eat the donut. Yeah. There shouldn't be good food or bad food. And sometimes fat can be used as a compliment. You go like, oh, that, that looks fat. With a pH. Yeah.

Fat. No one really does anymore, though. Thick is probably the closest you get. You look thick, Meg. No, no, with two Cs. You have to say with two Cs, otherwise I look stupid. Okay. You look thick, Clint.

You look thick. You can say that ass is thick. You've got a thick. ass, me. There you go. Let's get on to it. Dan is being having trouble in paradise. Today on the Overtinkers podcast.

We're overthinking. Well, this is just a thing that Hannah and I were discussing yesterday, my beautiful wife, gorgeous wife. And she, as I've spoken about before, best moral compass in the world. Yeah. In fact, she's got such a true north for her is just constant, you know?

She's just a very good moral compass. So she found five grand on the ground. Hand it in. Actually? Oh, before you could even discuss it, She'd be down at the police station handing it. Really? 100%.

What about $1,000? Where you go, I don't know if the cops are going to be too worried about a grand, but it's a great amount to... Of course you'd hand it in. $1,000. I would not. She's by the book. Have you asked you any moral?

You bloody wouldn't either. I absolutely 1,000 million percent would hand in $1,000 if I found it. Okay, but it's not on a wallet with ID because that's different because then I know who's it belongs to, so me keeping it now I feel like I'm stealing. But if I just had a rubber band around it, it was just sitting there in the gutter. All I'm picturing is that. It's a little old lady who got some money out and I absolutely give it back.

But how are the cops going to find the owner of a thousand bucks that is un-monged? Because a little old lady would go to the cops and hope that some nice person like me or Hannah would hand it in. This is how different Hannah and I's moral compasses are. So we went to the supermarket the other day and George was winging like a little bitch. Like a little fucking two-year-old? Yeah, a little two-year-old.

And he was going, yeah, I'm hungry. I'm hungry. Like they always do at the supermarket. And so I got him a little musli bar off the thing and ripped it open. gave it to him. Yeah, when she paid for it, then. And I said to Hannah, as we're walking around,

I said, as a joke, I'm not going to pay for that. They get enough out of me, this company. God, I'm not going to say the company, but it was a big conglomerate. Yeah, like a war work. I said, well, you said it. And when we got to the thing, I said, I'm not going to pay for that.

And she, oh, God, she got her back up. And she said to the woman, if you don't say anything, I'll tell the checkout lady that that is it. And I didn't say anything. And she goes, by the way, there's a wrapper in the back of there. You need to swipe that. And the woman was like, okay. like swiped it.

She would never have asked. That's how good Hannah's moral compass is. She even threw her own husband under the bus. Anyway. Yeah, well that's stealing what you were doing. Whereas the thousand dollars, I found that. I found the music bar on a shelf. Right, what did you two discuss?

This is the only moral thing that I've seen that her sway her compass ever. So I found this thing yesterday. It was said, it was something along the lines of there's a train. Okay, and it's heading towards. Oh yes, I know this. A fork in the road. Yeah, and it's either your child or 100 people or something. Yes, we'll stop ruining my fucking bit.

You now have ruined the thing. Okay, well. Yeah, she's going to run out of the people. Everyone knows this. No, okay. We haven't got to the thing yet where I was going to say. What's the biddy's getting to me? It's either her kid or a hundred people.

So you're right. So your kid that you love is on one side of the thing. Okay, so the train could go that way. Okay, or you could pull a lever. Yeah. And the other direction is a bus. What's there? A bus load of people.

Let's say there's 50 people in a bus. You are there next to the lever that could choose who this thing runs over. Are you running over taking one life, your child's? Or are you pushing a lever and just taking, no one will ever know. This is a moral to lever, no one's ever going to find out that you did it. You're just making the decision. Do you kill 50 people or why? I'm saving my kid.

If I see a train going towards my child I don't even think I'd have to think about it My body would pull a lever To go stop that from hitting my child It wouldn't even think We don't know, statistically there could be a murderer In one of the friends Okay, it's a bus full of children

Oh Bus full of children is a really horrible thing You've just added in there But if I could I don't think I could Innocent people I don't think I could pull a lever Where I see it's hitting for people

And I go okay But me pulling that lever Is murdering my child Because I've made the decision For the train to hit them They actually did this scenario on the first season of Beast games where it was literally like you could take the train into the people you're competing against or run it into your Lamborghini that was given to you.

And I think the guy sent it into the Lamborghini. The Lamborghini is very different to human life. Obviously they're not going to die but they're eliminated from the game. I'm like, you've come on this game to win. Oh yeah. I was like you've come on this game show to win money and you've just won a Lamborghini. And he's trying to be a hero with these strangers. Well, anyway, Hannah's answer shocked me.

She did exactly what you'd do, Meg, and saved her own childhood. And brutally killed these innocent people in the bus. What does she do if we replace her child with her husband? Good question. Let's get her off. I don't know if she'll answer. Let's give her a bell and just ask. A train scenario.

Still 50 innocent people or children? No. about people. Okay. I think she's working from home. I think she'd sacrifice. She's working from home today, so she should answer.

She's screening our calls if she does. Hello, Hannah speaking. Hannah, just quickly, okay. There's a train, like we were discussing yesterday, there's a train coming towards a fork in the road, okay? Yeah. Except instead of it, there's one side, there's a car full of,

bus full of 50 people. Yeah, innocent people. And on the other side, there's me stupidly on the train tracks. So you got himself stuck. You have the power to change the fork in the road. Who are you choosing? Is the train going to run over me or the busload of innocent people? No one will ever know you did it.

Oh my God, I cannot answer that question. How can you ask this with me? You have to. We have to. We have to have our kids. If it was, Hannah, if it was our kids, we'd be choosing the busload of people over a child. Five, four, four, three. Two, one.

I mean, was it Dan's fault that he got stuck in the first? first place. Why are you an idiot sitting on the train tracks? Yeah, I fall, okay, let's just say I've fallen onto the train tracks. I've fallen onto the, you know, I'm flailing round. Climsy. Yeah, clumsy. I'm tricked over.

Wasn't paying attention. Yeah, I wasn't paying attention. And there's a busload of people on the other side. You have to quickly go, quick. What are you doing? Boom. Again, you should have looked where you were going, Dan. Come on.

Great. Because the twist here was that four of the 50 were actually mine and Meg's children. So you've made a career decision there. Thank you, Hannah. You're welcome. No worry. See you, babe. See you, Hannah.

Bye-bye. See, she's got, she had to have moral compass, hey. I had to... What was it your fault? Even she had to be like, was it his fault that he'd out? Imagine that situation. I'm Hannah. You're dead.

You're like, Hannah poor leave that. Hannah, I've fallen over. Ever why are you down there, though? I just didn't try my shoel lace, but don't see why that's a whole... I told you how many times you did tie your shoelace in? Then she's going, finally, shut the fuck up. Knacking it with Clint. You got mail.

It's very bad, never hurt. It started to smell like almonds. The wound is starting to smell like almonds, which is not good. You know how yesterday we were talking about the devil's lettuce and stuff? Our friends who went to Amsterdam, Meg, and they ended up having a bad trip. Well, Liam, an Irish listener, podcast our show, reached out. And he was saying that he's been to Amsterdam twice, had very bad experiences and we'll never do drugs there again. First time I got into a brownie.

Allegedly. And yeah, allegedly, he did say that a few times. What's a brownie? I just went to a cafe and got like a chocolate brownie. I thought you meant got into it like a fight and it was another word for like. Oh my God. No. No, just a chocolate brownie.

Yeah, I know. I thought like you know how you say like a biffle or something like a brownie. What are you talking about? He ate half of it and the guy said just go easy, don't smash the whole thing. So he ate half of it and was like, oh yeah, cool, cool, thought he was fine. It didn't really affect him, but he's having a bit of a good time. Then he started again, the munchies. He's like, what could I eat?

What could I eat? Brownie was like, fuck, good half a brownie left. Finish the whole thing. And reckons he became like disabled. Like he couldn't move and was just like stuck and was like freaking out. End up going to the hospital. They gave him orange juice, which maybe that's like a thing. The sugary orange juice meant to knock you out of it and bring you back.

That were as high as hell as hell it was medicine. Yeah, he was like it was just an orange-flavored drink. He said, we're like, no. It was fucking pabble. Antivenom. He literally got checked out of the hospital went straight to the airport because he had to fly home.

He reckons he rocked up. His mum picked him up from the hospital and he was still high. And his mom's like, what's up with him? And his ex-girlfriend at the time, but his ex-girlfriend at the time was like, oh, he's just tired. Anyway, he goes to the...

He goes to Amsterdam the second time. And now I'll let him pick up the story of when he tried to have another go with the substance. Liam, your fault. Because I guess it's legal when you think, well, I'm not breaking any.

laws and he was going to an Ed Shearing concert and decide to tuck into some mushrooms. But allegedly, myself and Emma went to Amsterdam, Emma was allegedly keen to do mushrooms and I was paranoid already because

the only time that I'd been to Amsterdam before that was a shit show because I had a fucking brownie. I was checking like, were they certified and were they tested and were they what sort of strength are there? And there was like, they go from like a one star up to a five star

and I think Emma got a three or a four star rating. She was feeling brave so she got a stronger dose of it and I got like the weakest one I was like the weakest one I was like a one star by the way is for any of the cuisine fanatics they're fucking disgusting they're dry and old bitter fucking things they're not nice at all. We went to like the

Heineken experience and stuff like this allegedly and it was the best fucking time of our lives. We had so much fun. It was fucking brilliant. We were like it just felt like we were kids again. Like it was fucking class. But it did turn to shit.

Like it did. It absolutely turned to fucking shit. We were heading back up the hotel, stopped into McDonald's allegedly and Emma needed to use the bathroom. I was just sat at one of the chairs. There was a full line of two Cedar tables. But they were taken up with like little schoolgirls and they were fucking giggling away.

You know what they're just fucking chit-chat. and laughing and whatever. I just felt like they were laughing at me, they're talking about me, they're looking at me. And I had my head in my hands and I was like, just ignore it. All the while in my head,

I was thinking Emma's been going to the bathroom for the last three working fucking days. She's probably been robbed. And you know when you think like high school kids are quite intimidating at the best of the time. And then he goes back to the hotel and he's turned the lights on,

then turn the lights off, then have a cold shout out, I'd have a hot shower. He's doing all the things. Drinking the orange juice to see if that worked again. He reckons it was the worst. That's incredible. I think they still made it to Ed Shearing,

but at the time he was like, Ed Sherron can fuck right off. Imagine going to Ed Sharon with that sort of stuff. Psychedelic. The drunk paranoia of thinking school kids were laughing at you. That would have been so shit. That would be so shit. I don't need to be high for that. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So then never again. Rickens his third time went to Amsterdam, he was like, nah, I'm doing it sober. I've heard so many stories about that. Yeah, I know that people like from New Zealand have gone thinking it's the same kind of stuff that you get here. Uh-uh. No, no, no, no. They're like expert level in Amsterdam.

Imagine if your mum did get some, because she was looking. Yeah, mum was looking for edibles in Amsterdam, but they just found them late, and then we're worried they were going to make a bad first impression with their Canadian friends. Yeah, yeah. But actually, if you actually do hit us up on the Overthinkers' feedback page on Instagram. By all means, drop us a voice note.

We'd love to be able to, like, you know, play your yarns rather than just read them out. Yeah, for sure. Actually, Clint, can I... Clint, you have done... Go on, a bit more. Thank you. Clint has done such an incredible job of keeping up with the social media

specifically on that page. Because we all know that Clint is very, very bad at being on social media Facebook. He's a bit of a technophobe, isn't it? It's because I'm not a boomer. And, you too. And we make jokes about it in our, you know, our family page on Facebook.

But if you want to get a hold of Clint, he's always checking those messages. I check them and sometimes you've already ridden back. Well, darn, Clint. That could have been me. I mean, I enjoy. He says Clint, definitely. Every time he makes sure they know.

Sometimes I sign off as Clint, but I just say controversial shit. I say, what a loser, Clint? No one's your opinion? Clint. That's actually a fun palplay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't mind checking Instagram. I'm on it.

Yeah. I'm just never on Facebook. Yeah, so, damn, you've never logged into it, have you? You wouldn't even know the password. Yes. I've got enough social media. I don't need another one. Yeah, he's too busy arguing with his wife over hypotheticals.

He's going to be saved or not. So, yeah, if you've got anything going on or, I don't know, you go, oh my God, if that was live, I would have shared my story. Share your story. Yeah, go on. Voice messages better, eh? Yeah, always. As long as you're happy.

And you can just say voice disguise me if you want. Yeah, we can voice disguise you. Especially if you've got a great accent because you're from somewhere around the world. By the way, do you want to pull a country out? Eliminate him before we wrap up. And then Dan, you can. You should do the accent of the country when you pull it out. Yes.

Because she's really good at the Chinese accents, isn't she? Are they still in? China's still in. Producer Carl? Can you get... I just had a chat to someone yesterday and they were like, because they listened to the Overthinkers podcast, but they were like, what's this country game? Like, how does it work?

Can you explain it? It is literally a jar of every country that listens to us on any platform. I've put them all into a jar, and then the final country, the first person that messages us once the country has won, will be sent something. Are we going to try and send them the old school merch Like the real retro Clint Meg and Dante

Yeah maybe this game is more fun In the accent of the country you say You have now been eliminated from the competition And we have to try and work out which Which country Meg's just pulled out And I think everyone Gives permission from all around the world For you to use their accent

In this game only So you have officially been eliminated from the competition Yes yes yes give me time Give me fucking time Would you? Okay You have to say something stereotypical in the voice first day

but don't say that out loud like if it was Irish you go to be sure to be sure oh le potatoes potatoes and then you'd go oh god you guys know how bad I am accent you could do a Chinese one shut the fuck up well if you're gonna do it for this

this country you're gonna have to do it for all countries or that does become racist I think I don't think I'll take this one it's very hard for my brain does not compute with this stuff okay You have you been...

German. No. Hey, don't help her. Because otherwise the game's over. Just say something, Jesus! You're a radio announcer. Shut the fuck up! I'm trying! If you're so talking over me, Jesus!

You have been eliminated from the competition... Jamaican? Russian. That was closer, that was closer. You... You have been... Eliminated. No, that's wrong. Indian.

No. Yeah, I was getting Indian towards the end. Oh, shit. I'm listening to somebody in my head. Transylvania. You've been eliminated from the competition. That was closer. Swedish?

No. German. South African. Oh my God. The easiest one to do. I wouldn't even. I keep thinking. I'm telling you right now.

You've been eliminated from the competition. From the competition. That wasn't even a good one, but you get it. You have been eliminated from the competition. Oh my. That would have been better. We'll give you a keyword for your fast track on Friday when we asked for if we said, hey, what is the keyword from Wednesday's Overtinkers podcast?

If you text us, this word to 33443, we'll get you on there. Should we say the other keywords or not? No, I actually don't think we do. Because today's keyword is pump. Okay. There you go. Wednesdays is pump. Good luck.

That might be the keyword that gets you fast tracked on here Friday. To win yourself $50,000 worth of fuel. Simple as that. Right, thanks for listening. Catch you next time. Bye. Rover, Music, Radio, podcasts.