The Edge Breakfast

We are completely spiralling this episode after going head-to-head over our actual reading ages, and it turns out Dan is basically operating with the brain of a 14-year-old boy. He blames his childhood ADHD, but we think he just needs to go back to school. You are not ready for how quickly this studio debate turns into absolute chaos, so come see if you can read better than us!

Clint, Meg and Dan kick off with banter about Clint’s negativity, then Meg shares a kindy pickup story where her daughter Daisy jokes “Mum, leave him” after hearing Guy call her away from a friendly sheep. They talk unromantic proposals, play a chocolate-bar popularity quiz, and get called out for looking bored during Meg’s postpartum sleep story. The show covers missed “Take the Edge Off My Life” calls, workplace theft confessions, and how listeners caught cheaters. They debate shows they’re late to (Breaking Bad, Prison Break, Outrageous Fortune, Yellowstone), joke about backwards caps as “kryptonite,” and hear about Kindness Collective accidentally distributing Vagisil as moisturizer, plus other workplace blunders.
00:00 Welcome Hump Day Banter
00:23 Clint Gets Roasted
01:18 Meg Teases Coffee Catchup
02:14 The Kindy Sheep Story
03:40 Daisy Calls Out Dad
5:10 First Call Maria Ring Talk
07:54 Worst Proposals Chat
09:08 Stinky Boo Chocolate Game
11:54 Naughty 640 R
16:24 Take The Edge Off Calls
18:12 Stealing From Work Confessions
28:29 How You Caught A Cheater
31:01 What You Watching Wednesday
37:37 Yellowstone Recommendations
38:50 Take the Edge Off
40:42 Backwards Cap KryptonitE
49:04 Vagisil Donation Mixup
52:42 Workplace Drop Ball Stories

Clint, Meg, and Dan react to New Zealand’s first football World Cup loss since 1982 (blowing a 1–0 lead to lose 3–1) and look ahead to the next match. Dan shares a new half-marathon sponsorship with a chafing-cream brand and the awkward mid-race reapplication. They discuss UK politics and a game comparing world leaders’ time in power, then run movie trailer updates for Ricky Gervais’ Alley Cats and Taika Waititi’s Clara. The show plugs a Warehouse $2,000 trolley grab, chats Love Actually vs Jackass, and gets “naughty” about Clint’s wife smelling his farts after nasal surgery. They cover cheating caught via home cameras, debate A/B/C-listers, celebrate “super grandparents,” and use a listener’s pig Spencer to predict France vs Iran

00:00 NZ World Cup Heartbreak
01:41 Chafe Cream Sponsorship
05:00 UK Politics Guessing Game
09:08 Movie Trailer Scandals
10:45 Hooked Musical Nerves
15:25 Naughty 640
18:50 Ronaldo Rolls Royce Rumor
20:15 Weird News Roundup
23:43 Books by Boomers Returns
28:57 Hooked Final Song Preview
35:33 Oracle Pig Picks France
38:21 Cheater Catching Tech
43:01 Listener Cheating Stories
47:35 Cash Call Fail
49:54 A Lister Debate
59:56 Burnout Nana Legend
01:03:04 Super Grandparents Calls

We just rehearsed what would happen if one of us died, and honestly, the loyalty is gone... Dan straight up admitted he’d be back on air by Monday just to pay his bills, while Clint absolutely lost his mind crying over a hypothetical hedgehog accident in a Toyota Vitz. You're not ready for how fast this spiraled into absolute chaos.

We are officially in full rehearsal mode for the musical, and things are already completely off the rails. While Dan was away trying to record his backing tracks, we sent Carl into the recording studio to spy on him, and let’s just say his high-register vocals are something you truly have to hear to believe. Between pranking Dan’s tracks and exposing Meg for being a bit too gassy in her own sessions, we are spiralling fast.