Ricki‑Lee & Tim

We played a secret sound that had everyone convinced it was from "the hub" or Married At First Sight's intimacy week, but it was actually just the Los Angeles Marathon commentary of a woman losing her absolute mind screaming "WHOA! OH MY GOD!" over and over during a close finish—and we couldn't stop laughing because it sounded exactly like a When Harry Met Sally situation on free-to-air TV....

We're back Monday April 20. Spice Girl Melanie C and Ronan Keating joined us on St. Patrick's Day and immediately got into a debate about whether they're called "slides" or "sliders" (UK says sliders, we called them idiots, Americans call them flip-flops, and Aussies call them thongs which confused everyone). Ronan revealed his breakfast radio survival trick was plunging his face in a bowl of ice...

We're about to head on a bit of a break, but before we do, get ready to be hit in the face with the ultimate competitiveness of Ricki as she braves through MULTIPLE rounds of 'Quickie with Ricki'. Quickie-mogging at its peak. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neil Perry stops by fresh off landing number two on the world's 101 best steak restaurants list to share his Sydney picks: Esther in Chippendale for the potato bread and Jersey cow tartare, VN Street Foods in Marrickville for the fermented rice noodle rolls, and Happy Chef in the Haymarket food court for wonton noodle soup deconstructed. He also dropped a bombshell: pepper on a steak before cookin...

Scientists have discovered that damselfish on the Great Barrier Reef speak faster than the same species in WA, meaning fish have regional accents. That alone was enough. But we also learned that crows hold grudges against specific humans and warn other crows about them, cows have best friends they hang out with in the field, queen ants live up to 30 years while regular ants get two, and zebras far...

Merrick Watts comes in to celebrate Nova's 25th birthday as one of the original breakfast hosts and immediately starts throwing hand grenades. His standout memory from the early days: being told he wasn't allowed to ride the station scooter, so he went downstairs, got his 1000cc Ducati, brought it up in the lift and rode it full pelt down the corridor tearing up the carpet at 7:30 in the morning....

Wednesday's show had it all. A woman in the US escaped from the back of a police car while handcuffed by squeezing through a tiny gap in the window while the cops were getting takeaway. We spun the wheel and played Can I Have The First Line. Bruce Isaacs stopped by with his weekly Whatcha Watching recommendations. The fuel excise is sending Aussies over the edge and callers had plenty to say about...

Tim catches up with Sam Fender live from LA where the last 48 hours have been completely unhinged. In that time he saw Paul McCartney at an intimate 1,000 cap venue, had dinner with Elton John, got introduced to Al Pacino and somehow held himself together without mentioning they share the same birthday, and flew the Millennium Falcon at Disneyland. Rein Me In has been number one in the UK for five...

A woman in the US was arrested, cuffed, put in the back of a police car and somehow squeezed her way out through a tiny gap in the window while the cops were inside getting takeaway. Listeners call in with their own MacGyver moments: Tim once pried open a pitch black lift with his bare hands after being stuck for an hour with 10% battery during a flood, and a bloke ran out of petrol on the highway...

Samantha Jade stops by to chat about her new banger and ends up revealing the story she has never told before: on the 100th show of Pretty Woman, mid performance, in full costume, wig, hat and microphone, she got the cold sweats, the salivary mouth and had to run offstage to be sick while the cover stepped in. An absolute professional. She also plays the women's edition of Sing and holds her own a...

Tuesday's show packed a lot in. We broke down the jobs most vulnerable to AI and reassured the nurses and chefs that they are safe for now. Australians are spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones and our team has absolutely smashed that number. Listeners called in with their celebrity flight neighbour stories which delivered. We got into the minor inconveniences that completely ru...

The average Aussie spends seven hours a day on their phone and we have absolutely smashed that benchmark. Ricki clocks in at seven hours and 34 minutes, down from eight and a half the week before. Jermaine is at eight hours and 42 minutes and is not apologising. Tim is a very smug four hours and 43 minutes but his phone is apparently so boring it would rather be a brick. Speaking of, there is an a...

A new list of the ten jobs most exposed to AI is out and it's almost entirely tech roles: web designers, database architects, financial risk specialists and information security analysts. The executive chef and the nurse who called in can relax. Also: Tim learned Younger You on piano and wants to perform it with Ricky, which is brave given she once told him his guitar playing was "too strummy" mid...

Beyoncé and Jay-Z left their $400 million superyacht staff a $630,000 tip, which is either the most generous thing we've ever heard or just a completely different planet to the rest of us. Also in today's Glossys: Andrew Garfield has secret burner accounts for doomscrolling and calls them his creeper accounts, Mariah Carey was spotted doing her own groceries in full glam and sunnies which n...

Monday's show was a big one. Trump was caught on camera rambling about a Sharpie for an uncomfortably long time while a war was happening, and we have the footage. We spun the wheel and played the Emoji game. Office air is apparently making us all ugly and haggard by 4pm. Ricky recapped last night's Australian Idol which delivered as always. Tim went on a genuinely hectic bush walk and lived to te...

Thank you wave in traffic. Walk on the left. Click your tongs before the barbie. Let the person with two items go ahead of you at the checkout. Never use the middle urinal. Always go to bed at the same time as your partner. These are not suggestions. A Swiss woman moving to Australia needed all of this explained to her, including the fact that "bring a plate" does not mean bring an actual plate. W...

A woman on TikTok says office air is making her ugly, comparing her 9am glow to her haggard 4pm reality. We relate. Downlights also copped a serve because whoever invented them clearly hates us. But the real bombshell came from a listener whose Botox lady told her that running destroys the fat pockets in your cheeks and she can spot a runner the second they lie down. We quit running in under two s...

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Office behaviour is unhinged. One woman got fired for converting her work cubicle into a DIY sauna with four space heaters and a personal thermometer labelled "trust issues." Another bloke got fired for cooking a full breakfast on an electric fry pan at his desk. Listeners call in with their own: a colleague who takes a Bluetooth speaker into the bathroom and does full karaoke, and someone who pho...

We debated the correct way to make packet noodles and Ricky's method was a lot. Listeners called in with their barista flirting stories, including one woman who kept going back every day until he finally put his number on a receipt and they've been together four years. A man in Florida sold his house in five days using only ChatGPT and made $100,000 more than his agent estimated. TSA lines in the...

A man in Florida skipped the real estate agent entirely, used ChatGPT to build his entire selling strategy, priced the house, figured out which rooms to repaint, wrote all the marketing copy and listed it himself. The house sold in five days for $100,000 above what an agent had estimated. Real estate agents are not having a great week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A woman in the States got a coffee cup that said "you're extremely hot" and never went back to Starbucks. We think she's overreacting. Listeners call in with their barista flirting stories: one woman shot her shot at a customer named Brad who turned out to be married, and one very patient woman kept going back to her local cafe every single day until the barista finally put his number on a receipt...

Lawrence Mooney stops by ahead of his Full Moon Party shows in Sydney for Comedy Fest. He breaks down the characters: a very confused Malcolm Turnbull discovering beer for the first time, a slick AFL mindset coach who only works with winners and takes all the credit, and a toothless Port Power tragic who has absolutely nothing else going on in his life. No monologues, just all the characters talki...

Thursday's show was packed. Gen Z have officially turned on influencers and are trusting customer reviews instead, which is either very smart or very boring. We spun the wheel for Tim's Top 5 and it was one of the best rounds yet. Ricky got caught lying about her Flybys card at Coles while a stranger tried to steal her points at the checkout. We find out that too many compliments early in dating i...

Grocery shopping has hit a new low. A woman at Coles tried to scan her Flybuys card on someone else's order at the checkout to steal their points. Ricky panicked, said she didn't have Flybys, immediately regretted it, then had to confess she did. The cost of living crisis has officially made us all criminals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.