Ricki‑Lee & Tim

Kylie Minogue calls in ahead of her Netflix documentary dropping tomorrow and it is everything. She talks about why it took years to say yes, how she finally felt okay enough in herself to let people behind the curtain, and what it was like reliving decades of archive footage. She is proud of her resilience above everything else, proud of taking risks even when they didn't work, and deeply done with the singing budgie era. The press back then was brutal and she had no platform to push back. Now she does. Her defining song: Love at First Sight because it has her DNA in it. We played it immediately.
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A man had an argument with his wife, ran into the mountains of Taiwan with thongs, a Bible and a saxophone, and was found alive after seven days because rescuers heard him playing. We celebrate this by going sax for sax with the greatest saxophone moments in music history.
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Last week we discovered that Tim and Sarah's boys are both absolutely obsessed with sticks, which turns out to be a universal child experience. Tim has two in the car, ten in the backyard and potentially four in the kids' room. The stick selection process is very scientific: test durability by hitting it on the ground, assess length and girth, sharpen the end if possible. Ricki came in this Monday with a stunning girthy city stick she found stumbling home from dinner on Macquarie Street and presented it as a gift. There was only one perfect stick. Choices had to be made.
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Men with beards apparently make better long-term partners and we unpacked that claim. Harry Styles kicked off his new tour in Amsterdam and is heading to Australia in December which is very exciting news. A Qantas flight was diverted after a drunk passenger bit a cabin crew member which is a new low even by airline passenger standards. Hyper-independent kids who grew up eating cereal alone and fending for themselves are apparently struggling in adulthood and we had thoughts. Ricki opened up about her three unexplained ailments including sore hair, randomly muffled ears and tiny patches of skin that hurt for no reason and Sydney called in with their own weird body mysteries. And Tim took his daughter to the Billie Eilish documentary in 3D and came in genuinely emotional about what a good role model she is. We were not expecting to tear up on a Monday but here we are.
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Tim spent the afternoon at the Hayden Orpheum watching the Billie Eilish documentary in 3D with his daughter and came in genuinely moved. Watching his daughter watch Billie on screen the same way he watched her watch the live show last year confirmed everything: Billie Eilish is exactly the kind of role model you want for your kid. No pressure to look a certain way, no performance of sexiness, just an unapologetic songwriter who wants to be the artist she'd want to be a fan of. Listeners call in with their own role model stories and one mum of a 14 year old has to break the news that her son's idol is Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother. We wish her well.
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