Ricki‑Lee & Tim

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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