The Edge Breakfast - OVERTHINKERS worst school memories

Episode Date: June 7, 2026

We are diving straight into our absolute darkest, most mortifying school memories, and honestly, we might never recover. Between Clint enabling a classic primary school disaster, Dan’s tragic Speedo mishap in front of his crush, and Bella accidentally broadcasting her own singing voice to a thousand students, the second-hand cringe is so real. You are definitely not ready for this chaos. 00:00 – Cringey school memories we just cannot shake 01:08 – Clint's mean roadside prank 02:27 – Bella’s ultimate assembly voice memo nightmare 03:47 – Dan's traumatic high school swimming sports story 05:25 – The impossible debate: Sex, Love, or Money? 06:50 – Why Producer Carl still needs physio after a savage wedgie 08:15 – The golden era of sneaky prepaid mobile hacks

This is a podcast from Rover. This is the Overthinkers podcast. Hello, Clint, Dan. No Meg. Yeah, Meg's at home today looking after her children. But unfortunately, and hopefully she'll be back tomorrow. But unfortunately, you've just got Clint and I today. And I have got one hell of a question to get into the overthinking.

Do we want to do any housework before we do? Before we start, have got anything we need to cover off? Any mail? Do you make sure that prize? back to our Canadian friend? I doubt it. I doubt it. She must have.

I don't know if she would have. Well, yeah. If you are still waiting for that, I mean, obviously it wouldn't have arrived in Canada yet anyway. No, but also I think we, that t-shirt, the vintage tea, when we did like awkward family photos. I've got one. My son and daughter both have one of those t-shirts. You used to be able to buy them, you can't anymore.

Me had to do like a single order. So I don't even know if that's arrived here. So if you're waiting, it'll get to you. It'll get to you. but we're sort of aiming for 2027, End of Hague's third quarter of 27. Today on the Overtinkers podcast. We're overthinking.

School life. And in general, there's a question that has been doing the rounds on Reddit, which I saw a couple of weeks ago and managed to haven't got round to doing it yet. But this is a really interesting one. I think everybody will have a story for this. I mean, you can pitch in on the conversation

on the Overthinkers podcast fam on Facebook. There's also an Instagram as well, which you can message us. Everything is feedback on Instagram. Yeah, on Instagram as well. So I get amongst those. And I'd love to see your feedback on this. Clinton, do you have a moment from school life

that randomly pops into your head like once a year and you just cringe that it happened at all? Now, for me, when I saw that, there was something just like popped into my head, which I'm like, that is fucking perfect. And I think about it more than once a year. I'd say like on a monthly basis, I think back to it and go,

Jesus. Really? Yeah, but I'd be interested to know before I tell you mine what yours was. Mine's a mean. Mine feels mean. That's why I think about it sometimes because I'm like, that was so mean. You're bully. Well, no, I know.

And you get hazy about whose idea it was and you convince yourself as an adult that I was just there and somebody else came up with the idea. Yeah. Yeah, there was this like, there was this kid when you were walking home from school. Oh, this is going to be. I don't know if I want to hear this, because I don't think, I don't think I could think less of you. Because you're already quite low. He, I think he was trying to throw a bottle at a car, like a plastic bottle as they were driving past. He was like, watch this, because I think he was trying to press us and wanted to walk home with us.

They could cause an accident. Yeah, and so the car would drive past and then he would throw it. But of course, he hasn't really thought the physics through of it, because as he throws it, when the car's in front of him, the car is moving at speed, and so it always drive out of the way before the bottle, the plastic bottle would end up inevitably not hitting the car and just bouncing on the ground. What a fucking idiot. I know, right.

Everybody knows draw it as it's oncoming. So that's what we told him. We told him that you had to throw up before the car got beside you. What an imbecile. Right. I would have downtrout him there and then. So we went over to him and we told him, you've got to throw up before the car,

and then what we did is we crossed the road, so we were on the other side of the road, so he was all by himself on that side. And of course, we were right. He threw it before the car arrived. And so as the car drove past, he had it square in the side of the car. Wow. Guy hit the brakes, got out.

He was not happy, obviously. Well, because it was a plastic bottle. I would have kept driving. If it was a glass bottle or something a little bit, like a full can of monster. A bunch of little punk kids throwing a bottle at your car, he would stop. Would you? Oh, yeah, I definitely would. Would you stop?

I don't think you would. I would scare the shit out of them, which is why he did, I think, with us. And he was like, where do you live? And I remember specifically this kid going, in the country. So he's smart there. He's not smart enough to throw it when it's driving away. So we were sitting kids.

So he did. And we were like, no, he just lives over the hill in the white house on the left. Oh, Clint. So we told him how to hit the car, and then we told him the guy who drove the car where he lived. And it was one of those things looking back now. I'm like, man, what is my own business? Like, what?

It just felt so bad. It's weird that I remember that, though, because it was like, I would have been year five or six, so, like, second or last year of primary school. I thought, like, bullying was a thing of the past, but apparently it's not. I remember we had a, we literally had, I think, like a newsletter go home to parents warning and telling their kids to stop wedgying each other. Because we went through this real pandemic at college. I don't know if it was a college or maybe it was an intermediate.

I can't remember, but I specifically remember the newsleter going home saying that there's a real bad wedgy issue. We were just, people were just getting, wedgied willy-nilly. I had at least three wedgies. And apparently it's very bad for, especially boys. If you get a proper atomic wedgy, it can really do damage. Yeah, Bridges Carl got a

wedgie from Monty Betham. He's like an ex-boxer, NRL player. He's both of the Warriors. And it fucked him up good. Like, I think British Carl's still doing physio and stuff because of that. He doesn't have had to be able to have kids. Yeah, I am, yeah, I'm still, I still have back issues from that. It'll be like, like, the chiropractor or physio, it was just like, yeah,

just lifelong. You just come back in. So what happened? Did your feet lift off the ground? Yeah, so it was the world's biggest wedgy. So we had, we were testing

underwear. It was three pairs. There was like a Rio, a Calvin Klein and had something from Hellenstein. What was the better one out of? Well, we didn't even get to that part, but basically I was wearing all three

and the challenge was for Monte Beathan to remove each one of them one by one via wedge. So it was like wedge and then they had just rip. But he grabbed, by mistake, he grabbed two of them at once and it pulled me up off the ground.

And I kind of then, like, ended up bending forward. But as I bent forward, it, like, bulged a disc in my back, twisted my pelvis. And then, yeah. Let's get footage. Let's, uh, there's a little bit of a thing here. I think I've got it somewhere. And you can literally, and then it gave me all this, like,

rope burn and stuff up the thing. And you can just hear me go, ah, my asshole. Like, as it gave me rope burn up. Get the audio. I want to hear it before they do this podcast. It'll be around. Get it for me. I want to hear it.

And I want to hear it, and then I want to get a bounce back for the listener so they can see you get a wedgy. That'll bring me a bit of joy. Yeah, so we got, and that's the thing. I think wedgies were very much, like, you could get really serious injuries from them, and kids were just doing them, willy-nilly. Bella, our web girl. Yeah, do you want to come in?

What's the moment that you remember? Is that the thing you think about monthly? No, that's not it for me. Oh, you haven't shared yours. But, okay, we can't hear you because you're not by Mikey either. Oh, there we go. There's a good. I'm working at my booth.

Here I am. What's it for you when you think back to high school, and it was not that long ago for you. No, it wasn't. I mean, over five years now, I think. But I literally think about this all the time, my most embarrassing moment in high school. There used to be this thing called the Revolution Tour. I'm not sure of probably before your guy's time. Anyway, it was just like these group of people that would like come to high schools

and they'd like do these performances and they'd sing and it was like based of like bullying. Oh, do you remember the aunties? No, no. Is it like that? No, but we had, in my time there was a similar thing to that and they were called the aunties and they used to do travel. No, we get like Nizumistic came to our old high school. He was at like some sort of high-faluting, like, privileged white person school.

Honestly, and they were like, who's this Nigerian mystic? Sorry, not private, I went to public school. He honestly, he did a school trip to Singapore or something, did you? That was an intermediate. That was an exchange trip. But again, there was a public intermediate. Nesian mystic would have come along, and they were like, and these people are Polynesians.

And all the white kids were like, what's going on here? What is this different people? I went to Mount Roscold grammar. It was probably one of most multicultural high schools. Anyway, sorry ballet. No, that's okay. Anyway, so they came along

in a full assembly, like over a thousand students, right? And I was just so amazed. I was like, oh my gosh, I have to record this. I was like, I have to voice memo and record this because I'm just so like, wow. Anyway, I was sitting there, I'd played it. And then I don't know if I just

accidentally moved my hands, but somehow I stopped recording, press play on a voice memo. You know, how do you guys, like, record yourself singing? I pressed play on a voice memo where I'd recorded myself trying to sound good What were you singing? Oh I can't remember

In the middle of like a performance Three little birds or something Yeah So they're on stage doing their performance And then you were like And then my was just loud like me like Oh god And I couldn't it was like I couldn't stop it

Like The more you smash it The more your phone freaks out Even around me was like What is that? If you were at my school You would have got a wedgy After that

Back in the day Yeah back in the day Yeah, back in the day. That's funny. Oh, that is embarrassing. Yeah. Yeah. Because everybody has them.

For me, it was, I got a swimming sports, stiffy. Oh, of course you did. Of course you did. Yeah. I was at, we had swimming sports, and I was a good swimmer. I was very good, and I run lots of ribbons over my time. In fact, I was at the point where my mom and dad were like, you're the next Danion Loder, who was the last, you know, big gold medal winner at the Olympics.

And I remember I went along, and I had this, The hots for this girl, I won't say her name, but she was wearing a rash shirt that day. Have I told this story? I think I have. And she had a rash shirt on. And because it was at like early time of high school, things were starting to happen to our bodies. You know, I was going through the transformation of, you know, that.

Puberty. And she was also going through it. And so she had boobies. And I remember. standing, like getting ready for my race and I was really into swimming so I wore speedos. And so I remember getting ready for the race

and I was doing like freestyle or butterfly, one of the things and like they called, okay, the next day is the year nine boys freestyle. And I'm like, fuck. And as I stood up, this girl walks across my eyeline, who I've had the hots for with her rash shirt on, and she's

just on a swim and her rash shirt stuck to her body. Fucking get off on anything. Just in a row. No, but you could see everything. Then Dan started wishing he was doing breaststroke and not freestyle. Oh, there he is. There he goes. Daniel, more like Daniel full of loads. It's Meg when you need it.

Honestly. And when you're at that age, genuinely when you're at that age, things are happening down there, you don't know how to control them because it's all new. So there are all these new feelings. I had my speedos on. What was your first boner in high school? was it? First public It was my first public.

And so you do everything. You go and Grandma, Grandma, Grandma, Grandma, Grandma's building. You're trying to think of anything that all... Oh, not because you are into your grandma. No, no, just you're trying to send your mind off in any other direction. But I just couldn't. And so I ended up having to like try to tuck it into the strap part. So you were dragging a rudder the whole race. They'll just slowed you down.

Yeah, it didn't slow me down much. I still won it. Keep you real straight, though. But I remember everybody saw it. But all my mates were like, oh, you got a bonner. Webby's got a bone. I remember it. I remember walking out, like, walking and then going,

Webby's got a bonner. It was nightmare. It was nightmare. Yeah. She saw it? No, she didn't see it. She couldn't see it. You'd have to be knowing what you're looking for to see it.

It's kind of like, when you're looking at those glass cages at the zoo, and then you're like, what are we looking for in here? looking around there. There's meant to be a gecko in here somewhere. You know, have you ever that dream where you're naked in front of people? It's quite a common dream. It was like that feeling in real life because you could, obviously, I wasn't fully naked, but it was like, I had to stand up, I literally had to stand up on like the diving board, like in front of everyone, you know.

Full mast. Full mast. Which is more like a, you know. Did you ever, like, you know, did you get with her in high school? Well, she's the one that I showed me her boobs eventually and I ran away. Oh, so you finally got to see them no rash top? Yeah. And you ran off. I know.

Jesus, Daniel. I know. Make it make sense. I know. It was, yeah, it was an interesting time for me in my youth. But I mean, yeah, look here I am now. Kicking goals. Yeah, smash it.

Smash it. I saved something in my Overthinkers. Instagram account if I find something and I go, oh, that'd be fun. Funner than talking about what we've just talked about. I don't think so. I've got to try and find it. Was it this? Okay, Dan, that's right.

If you had to give up one thing, sex, love, or money, which one would it be? It's a toss-up between money and sex. Yeah, you don't want to give up love. No one really wants to give up love. I think that's good. Because also, is it love with a partner,

or do you lose love in general, like in terms with like kids and friends and all sorts of stuff. I guess obviously if you're giving up sex, you're not having sex. What's the money one? Because the money one, if I'm giving up money, am I really poor? Or I just don't worry about money. Like it's just not a thing to me. Well, the thing is if you're giving up sex,

that insinuates that you get no sex. So if you're giving up money, do you have no money? Well, then, yeah. Or just enough to just, you know, get by, but you never really have enough to do anything outside of keeping yourself alive. I think keeping alive you would have to give up sex, unfortunately. Even though I think it would be a Sophie's choice, but if you were like you're literally going to have,

the alternative is you're not having any money, I would have to give up the sex. Statistically, they reckon women most likely will give up sex. Of course they bloody would. I reckon that would be their first one. Yeah, yeah. And guys statistically would give up money. So they keep sex in love with no money,

and women want love and money with no sex. Yeah, I tend to. I sort of agree with that. I did go the lady route, but I think that is probably the more wise route. I think sex, I mean, there is alternatives to just doing sex,

whereas there's no alternative to not having money. What's the alternative to the no sex? Just like player one games. Player one game. Oh, well, I don't know. Is that depends. I mean, it's a hypothetical thing, right?

So I guess it depends. Your hypothetical means you're still allowed to do player one games. Yeah, and like, does that mean that my wife, Hannah, could also partake in the player one game as well? So we're not necessarily bumping the uglies, but we're looking at the uglies being bumped, you know? Right, and while you're on your private yacht.

Yes. Because that's the other thing. I want to know how much money I'm giving up. Because if you didn't have that much to begin with, just get rid of money and have the sex. But if you're talking about an exorbitant amount of money, then you... Yes, an exorbitant.

Yeah, sort of bailed on that halfway through. Exorbitant. Yeah. Then you go, if I'm a millionaire, then maybe the lifestyle that I could create for your partner and yourself

would be worth losing the intimacy for, oh man. I did that for five years. It was rough, man. Yeah, it is. No sex before marriage. And I think, you know what?

Money is not a huge thing for me. Like I'm not a very big money-driven person, which I think has been my downfall in a lot of things. But money just stresses me out. So I, in my relationship, I try to hand as much of that control over to Hannah so I don't have to worry about it. And that sounds like I'm whipped and stuff. But I genuinely like, money just stresses me out because it's maths and like figuring out what money goes where.

Hannah likes it. I'd let her do it. But they reckon, like, isn't that a privileged position? Because a lot of people reckon that the thing that a lot of people complain about in a relationship more than anything else is finances. Whereas if you're able to pay the bill when the bill comes, arguably you're not complaining about it. I agree. I'm very in a very privileged position. But.

Because then if you've got nothing. Yeah, if you know how it feels to be really poor, then maybe you'd be like, never again. Oh, I've been fucking poor. Like, when I was, this is before I even met, just before I met Hannah, I was very much in debt. Because I would just put everything on tick. So if I brought a car on tick, if I brought a phone on tick,

everything, because I didn't have the money to do it, but I wanted the stuff. So I think the ADHD came into it a little bit where I was kind of like, you know what, I'll pay it off at like 14% interest over three years. That sounds fine. And then after a time, once you've got a car, a phone, a couple of other items on Tick, it really fucking adds up, especially when you're earning nothing.

And eventually, I've had people like this before where their car, they owe more on the car than the car is actually even worth now. But that's with most, even if you buy a brand new car, if you put it on finance, essentially the finance you're paying is more than the car's worth. As soon as you drive it out of the lot, it's worth less.

So, yeah, I mean... Back when I was young, they had lay-by. Did they have that when you were young? Like legit lay-bye, where you'd go into the shop each week and pay money towards it, but you wouldn't get it until you've fully paid it off. I remember mum, you said that. We'd go into the store, and she'd be like, I need to pay a little bit more off my lay-by,

and they'd go and work out which one was hers, and you'd pay some money, they'd get the receipt, and then they'd clip it to all the other receipts. and you'd see the item there because they'd bring it out and you'd, a few more payments. Whereas now after you just get it straight away and then buy it off. I sort of like the old way because you feel like now you just get it,

which arguably is great because you've got the item, maybe you need it and so you worry about the payment later. But there's something endearing about paying it off and looking forward to the day you get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And maybe it means more when you finally get it rather than that instant gratification you haven't paid it off. And then you're resenting the fact that you're still paying for this thing

that you don't really give too shits about it. Yeah, because then when you get it, like I've brought things on ticker, like mobile phones and stuff years ago, where I'd broken it, like I dropped the phone, the screen smashed it was broken, and I was still fucking paying it off, you know? And you're going, shit, I'm still paying that phone off. I still got like $2,000 to pay.

It wasn't $2,000, but like $700 to pay on that, and it's broken. I'm not even using it anymore. So, yeah. I remember, like, the Akeel, one touch easy or whatever, was they had some like Coca-Cola promo. My first phone. Yeah, where you, um, you collected the barcodes and the, yeah, the bottle caps or whatever.

And I think you only needed to collect like 10 or something, wasn't it? And then you'd submit it in with like $20. Yeah. And they'd send you a cell phone. Brand new phone. It was wild. Yeah. And like it was on a prepay plan and everything.

Yeah. Yeah. And then I don't know if this is, this would be before your time because I'm about three years older than you. Five years. Fuck off. I'm like, only like two or three years older than I'm. You've got to see some very defensive, isn't it?

I'm not arguing, but he seems like he's like. Silly arguing, how old are you? 38. I'm going to say? Yeah, okay, three years. And somebody said that if you went into your settings, and back then it was like Vodafone, you had a Vodafone prepay card, and there would be a number that used to have to be in the settings

for your phone to effectively work and use the prepay network. Someone was like, if you put these numbers before that number, so it'd be like plus 6, 4, and then whatever the special code was, 7-7-65, 4, 3, and you do that before the number you could get free text and we're like oh bullshit oh bullshit I mean no harm no foul just try it punched it in

and all of a sudden people had zero credit we're just firing text away and it worked for like I want to say like a couple of weeks from memory honestly God I've never felt more rich in my life because you know how you're always trying to keep your text under like one message so you didn't end up paying 40 cents

for a message that was only like a few characters over one message to be sent us to and I just remember but we were just sending it willy-nilly, like, a couple of words as a response, which we'd never do. It was. Those were the days. It was.

It was crazy, eh? Like, the speed that technology has moved in, like, 20 years is crazy. The fact that we were still sitting with, like, buttons texting on a phone. And now we're, like, sending the emails off. And even, like, Snake, when you're playing that basic bitch, Snake game on your Nokia 34-10. That was, like, five years after that, though. Snake wasn't out until maybe early 2000. in early 2000s even.

And then now some of the games that the kids are playing on my phone. I'm like, fuck, yeah, it's crazy. He's even play literally like Call of Warfare on a phone now. Yeah. Call of Duty and stuff. Call of Duty. Fuck, what a loser I am.

Call of Duty. Yeah. Fucking idiot. Anyway, Call of Duty modern warfare is the one I was thinking of. But yeah, God, the times. I'd love to, I'd pay good money to see some of the texts I was sending to friends. Like, what loserist stuff was I saying to my mates

on my Nokia 3310? Did you want to hear the audio? Producer Carl, I think. Oh, he's found it. Is this Carl getting wedgied? Okay, here we go. If you drop it on the overthinkers page. Okay, so this is, if we,

obviously you've been listening through, but this is Carl getting wedged by Monty Betham, the boxer. And we've got a special guest in studio this morning, the strongest man in New Zealand radio, Monty Beetham, Leighy. And we'll count you down and just peer by peer, Monty,

if you could just remove his underpants It's by wedgid. Here we go. Three, two, one. God! Oh, God. I can taste that, pet. Oh, my God.

It's like a crazy. My asshole. My asshole. Oh, God, that's hard to listen to. That was just normal behavior, eh, on radio like 10 years ago. And I don't know if Gar would have much of a saying that happened. He was just like, hey, bro, we're doing this thing tomorrow. You're getting wedgy.

Sort it out. Okay. And he would have gone and have. to buy, he probably would have had to go out and source the undies for the wedgy. Yeah, yeah. He would have to go to farmers to the shop, buy the undies. It's just, like you say, it's just another day in radio. I think like the week before that I was doing a spelling test,

and every time I got a word wrong, which just makes me, I'd have to put my hand in a rat trap. You know, that was radio backing. That was a sort of thing, eh? You're just nude, honest to God, I swear, when I was working with JJ and Don at the start of me working on the show, I would actually take time to think about what type of underwear I would wear to work

because I go to grab a piano and I go, oh no, hold on. What if they get me nude again? What if I'm going to have to get nude? What if it's like a surprise that you're going to have to be in my kit? So much time naked. I spent so much time naked on that show.

I don't know how I got through radio without doing that. It's crazy. I was in the same, like same time. I remember being fully naked just up here and I think of that sometimes when I'm driving home and you're about to jump on the motorway

where it can go north and south. Just on the junction they're holding some sign. I don't even know what the sign said, but literally the sign was all that I had to cover myself, and I was just stark naked. You could get arrested for that now. Yeah, totally. Like, if you did that now,

and police were there, they'd arrest you. Yeah, that's a decent exposure. I think one of our producers did get in trouble because he did try to do some new thing. Only, like, a few years back. Yeah. And ironically, the police station is right across the road from us, and, yeah, he got a bit of a morning.

He got blue and two. I think they blew in two. hood him. They said get off, go home or we'll take you behind bars and so he went on. You take him behind bars? Well, he's nude.

You know what I mean? I does know he's sick. Lock him up. Yeah. Okay. Overtinkers. Rover Music, radio, podcasts