5 Weekend Early Mornings on 5FM

The Waste Your Time Phone Line is back with another beautifully pointless call. This time, the mission is simple: ask for cake that maybe goes against the bakers morals

Comrades morning hits different. From dark-road spectators to nervous spouses, shuttles, water tables and early-morning chaos, we check in with the people living the race-day madness across KZN.

 Elon Musk is rich, weirdly fascinating, and somehow always in the news. We unpack the SpaceX hype, the money, and why the world can’t stop talking about him.  

A wildly specific phone call, one strange request, and a pet parrot that may or may not be welcome. It’s pointless, awkward, and exactly the kind of time-wasting we love.

Inspired by Theo James trying a South African accent, we’re opening the lines for listeners to show off their best impressions, accents, and full-on character switches.

Could Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce really be planning a massive Madison Square Garden wedding? We unpack the rumours, the drama, and how believable it all actually is.

They say if a friendship survives seven years, it might last forever. We’re talking ride-or-die besties, surprise friendships, ghosting, and the ones that quietly faded.

We switch on Sista Botina and let her respond to “Bafana Bafana!?!?!?” and “That’s it.” Chaos, confusion, comedy, and AI-style attitude incoming.

The Waste Your Time Phone Line is open, and this time Black Forest Bakery gets hit with the most ridiculous job interview ever. It starts awkward, gets worse, and ends exactly where it should: with someone getting very annoyed.

Apparently, friendship takes 50, 90, or even 200 hours to build, but does working together for years mean you can read each other’s minds? Tom and Mtha put their friendship to the test with a very unscientific sentence-finishing experiment.

A baboon at a game reserve was caught casually eating off a plate like it paid for the buffet. We react to the viral moment and ask: what’s the most human thing you’ve ever seen an animal do?

Lana Del Rey’s husband being an alligator tour guide has us asking: what is the weirdest job title you have ever heard? From “Chief Vibe Officer” to “Director of First Impressions,” we get into the titles that sound fake but somehow pay rent.

Sista Botina is back, and this time Woolies’ bomb-sniffing dogs are catching strays. A rude-bot reaction to the wildest light news of the week, packed with SA-flavoured chaos, robot attitude, and absolutely no respect for Tom and Mtha.

Zinky the dog come in to get her nails done? What starts as a simple pet-grooming enquiry quickly becomes a mission in patience, confusion, and customer service survival. Will they take the booking, question everything, or realise far too late that their time has officially been wasted?

Americans are taking the LSAT for fun online, which got us thinking: could adult us survive the tests students write to get into university? This week on The Unscientific Method , Tom quizzes Mtha with sample NBT-style questions covering academic literacy, quantitative literacy, and maths, all with no calculator, no dictionary, and a bruised ego on standby. Will Mtha prove he still has what it tak...

Some people are always early. Others treat deadlines like polite suggestions. This week on The Unscientific Method , Tom and Mtha test the science of the brain’s internal clock to find out whether punctual people are actually better at feeling time pass. The challenge is simple: shout “STOP” when they think 30 seconds has passed. The twist? They each have to complete distracting...

Pali, our news expert, sees if she can decode fact or fiction news stories... her performance has been terrible up until today!

We all have that phrase we use too often... 5 Nation has some thoughts!

We asked a graphic designer to make an image to help Tom breka up with his "wife" - he didn't like the suggestion!

A massive study tested more than 100,000 people against the latest generative AI systems on creativity tasks, and the results were a little uncomfortable: AI now beats the average human on certain creativity tests. So... what’s one thing you’ll always do better than a robot?

During the World Cup qualifying play-off against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and Bosnian goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj got into a heated argument. The dispute sparked during the penalty shootout when Donnarumma attempted to snatch and destroy Vasilj's "cheat sheet" containing notes on Italian penalty takers. 

We'd like to see if we can buy some interesting fruits from a strip club...

Our poor members of Mzanzi were violently unimpressed... 

Mtha and Tom laugh a lot, mostly at (not with) each other. How long can they sustain this? 

YES... another AI conversation but at least this time its interesting. Oprah asked the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, a pretty interesting question and... obvs... we have some thoughts.