Ricki‑Lee & Tim

Fresh from the Superbowl, Sydney boy now Seahawks player & MVP Michael Dickson joins us live in the studio to chat about his Mingle Chicken Salt collaboration, what they get up to during the halftime show and his diet. He also joins Ricki on a quickie. Not what you think. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Millennials are "quiet vacationing" by using work-from-home flexibility to secretly take time off and work from anywhere—whether overseas or the beach—while scheduling emails to keep up the illusion they're still working normal hours. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A woman got the ultimate petty revenge after someone cut an entire drive-thru line and pulled in behind her—she paid for their meal, took the food, and left the line cutter with nothing. We also love boxing people in on the roads (safely) while pretending to sing along to the radio as they get infuriated. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with Robbie Williams, who tells us he literally delayed his album to avoid going head-to-head with Taylor Swift… honestly, fair call. We relive his AFL Grand Final performance, where he says Aussies fully bought into his “imperial gladiator” vibe, which is exactly why he loves performing here. Off stage, he’s surprisingly chill, talking school pick-ups, family dinners, and bingeing The Real Housewives in bed. Then it gets loose as he thanks Australia for our completely cooked reality TV, calling Married At First Sight Australia the best in the world thanks to our “zero care” approach. He also gets a bit real with us, sharing the advice he wishes he knew earlier: confidence doesn’t always show up, but being brave will get you through. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Keli Holiday joined us fresh off his album launch at Rambling Rascal wearing the loudest blue pants we've ever seen and a singlet he bought at the show (because that's the rule), revealing his upcoming Metro Theatre tour on March 6 will have theatre vibes with smoky piano silhouettes instead of just a sweaty rock show. He opened up about fans telling him stories of what the album means to them—including a woman whose husband cried for the first time in 10 years while listening to "Ecstasy"—then absolutely lost Quick Draw for the third time in a row! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hilary Duff joined us ahead of her Australian tour (which sold out in minutes with 52,000 people in the Sydney waiting room alone) and revealed the hardest part isn't the setlist—it's figuring out tour dates around four kids' school schedules and refusing to miss important family moments. She opened up about feeling lucky with an amazing husband, beautiful life, and fans who've stuck with her since raising them as young girls, plus we asked if Guinness will be on her rider after that viral video where she thought it was Diet Coke with foam and hated it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're back Monday April 20. One click purchasing has claimed another victim — Tim's kid accidentally bought over 15 toys on Amazon without breaking a sweat. Turns out it's an epidemic: a kid somewhere ordered 31 cheeseburgers from Maccas, and one brave caller admitted her child accidentally purchased an adult toy online. No further questions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 water every morning at 5am because seven years of early mornings made him look 60, Melanie's touring Australia for the first time as a solo artist in November hitting the Enmore Theatre, and Ricki had a full fangirl meltdown admitting she learned every Spice Girls dance move from the Live in Istanbul concert. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 cooking is wrong. It burns and goes acrid. Pepper is a finishing spice only. We are devastated and will never recover. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 fart every single time they run. It is propulsion. Nature is unhinged and we are obsessed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. He also reveals there is a scroll sealed inside the studio wall with the names of every on-air host from day one. His name is in there. He is not allowed back in the building. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 it. Tim's exclusive chat with Sam Fender revealed the most unhinged 48 hours in LA history involving Paul McCartney, Elton John, Al Pacino and Disneyland, plus a long overdue apology to Sydney about Olivia Dean. And Merrick Watts came in to celebrate Nova's 25th birthday as one of the original breakfast hosts, which felt like a full circle moment for everyone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 weeks and he spent the last three months playing PlayStation and eating pizza. A true artist. He also apologises to Sydney for not bringing Olivia Dean on stage at his ARIA show, which is all Tim wanted from this interview. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 and fashioned a leaf into a funnel to pour petrol from a Tupperware container into his car. Absolute heroes the lot of them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 against Ricki, which is no small feat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 ruin your day. Misheard lyrics caused chaos as always. The Harry Potter reboot is happening and the new trio's salaries got revealed in today's Glossys which raised some eyebrows. And Samantha Jade came in, dropped a banger, played the women's edition of Sing, and told the story of the time she nearly threw up on stage at her 100th Pretty Woman show in full costume and microphone. Never been told before. We were honoured. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The average Aussie spends seven hours a day on their phone and we have absolutely smashed that benchmark. Ricky 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 actual physical lock box you can buy to stop yourself picking up your phone and we think it sounds like torture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 song at a party. He has not forgotten. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.