Jess & Ducko - Hit Breakfast - WHO CARES!

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

We talk unfortunate initals and why Rohan's naturopath hates his dr and we play Shy Guy Dips!Subscribe on LiSTNR: https://play.listnr.com/podcast/jess-and-rohanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Friends meal has landed at Maccas with one of six characters to collect. Here we go! Welcome to the Jess and Ron podcast. Hello everybody, welcome to the podcast. Oh my God, how are you? You said on today's show you hate podcasters. Well, what are we then? No, no.

We're a radio show that just gives you a second wind creates a pod for people who may be in the car for three hours. It's different. I wouldn't call us podcasters. Broadcasters. We're broadcasters, not podcasters. And yes, I might have been a little inflammatory, but podcasters trying to take the cookies out of my mouth. I guess we, look, I guess we already have audio and have done the audio.

So might as well put them on a podcast. Absolutely. As I say, not everyone. Oh, you hate podcasters first. If their whole thing is podcast first and then repurpose out, I hate you. Tom Tilley, I'm looking at you. You come up with a morning podcast. You get people up to speed with the news headlines.

How dare you? That's our job. Tom Lilly done to you. That's what I was saying. We don't really do the news headlines. But we have news in amongst, shy guy. We're not in the podcast. My point is, our radio show has it incorporated when you listen six to nine.

Tom Tilly out here doing a whole pod petitioned around the morning, get you up to speed. Is the briefing still a thing? I think it is. I felt like I heard it out the other day. Is Tom Tilly attached to it is the question? Babs, is this still a thing? I have no idea. Do you know who Tom Tilly is?

I've heard you talk about him before. He's a fantastic. Have I had, have I shit on Tom Tilly? So you have shit on time. He's a fantastic bro. No, no, the briefing sort of thing. Is he the host, though? Is he doing it?

I don't think he's the host of it. Nah, I don't think he is. He started it, all right? He was attached to it because it's one of the great names. Tom Tilly. Oh, Natasha Belling is the host of it. Oh, I don't want to have a go. It's Natasha.

How dare you? Tasha. Natasha. She knows. Her name's not Natasha. It's like called me Jusica. I worked with her briefly. It's.

Jusica. I just. Natasha. Yeah. Anyway. Jusica. Cats the briefing podcast. I guess it calls me juice.

Yeah. Calls me juicy. Yeah, but not juicca. Oh, not juicica. What is your girlfriend called you? What's your pet name? Puddin. If you can go on the way you're going,

I don't know if you've been all pudding anymore. You've cut out all sugar. I lost five kilos. Shut up. A fortnight. God damn, those bloody Tjurik tablets are doing some. I reckon it's all the water. Ah, you're doing more poopies, more wee-weeas.

It's just all coming out. Walking a lot. I'm 12,000 steps a day. That's fantastic. Yeah, I'm eating. And I'm cooking. a lot. What?

Did you have a dinner last night? I had chicken breast. I cooked to the barbecue. It was, by the way, so hard to cook. I nailed it last night. I was like I was at a restaurant. I know it last night. I love barbecue chicken.

Go, baby. It's a thing. On the Weber? No, just on the stove. Oh my God. What did you make, sorry? It's a great question. You can't say you nailed it.

It's like a chicken stir fry thing. Oh, stir fry is hard. How do you not make those? No thighs. Oh, yeah, thighs are good. Cut up. And heart is hard. Breast is hard.

Yeah, right, isn't it? Too dry. You know what I think? The key? The key is bashing it down with a meat. Oh, making it the thickness of a thigh. Making it the same thickness. And then I had the Weber and I didn't have the middle burner on just the outside ones. Hello.

I put them in the middle, shut the lid. Trusted it. Marinate? What are you doing on them? You know, I go to work of the butcher and they have this chicken breast in this like lemon wine kind of thing. Okay. So they've already done it for you. Yeah.

So I think it's already marina. So it's really nice. I tried to do a Greek shirt. chicken last night. Jeez, you have chicken as well? By any chance, Babbs. No, I had beef.

Drat. We could have had a four-chip. Drat. I'm having chicken tonight. Drats. Let's never plan it, but let's ask every day. We don't have to do on the podcast,

but I want to know one night we're going to fluke it. We've all had the same. I tried to make a Greek chicken. I'm mad for a lamb. I do a lot of lamb. Slow. Don't tell me you're doing that quick.

It's got to be a slow lamb. Well, it's just like lamb chops on the barbecue. Oh, lamb chops. Sorry. I'm thinking a lamb shawl. No, I don't think I'd have the patience. Patience for the lamb shelter. I would love to do it, but also I don't think I have the proper.

Have you had Gusy's lamb shoulder? Oh, yes, quickly I have very good. He does a good. He does a good. He has very quickly. Anyway, we've got to start this dinner club, man. I reckon we could help a lot of people. Actually could start the dinner club.

Don't you reckon? One of the great annoyances. What do I have for dinner tonight? Oh, Justin Rowan told me to have chicken breast on the Barbie. That's basically already started with the bean dish. It has kind of started. You know, the bean dish has gone on to the wrong side of the internet. People are now fighting me about it.

But that's how the internet works. They'll come back around. How's my friend who rarely messages me? I love this. Messaged me the other day. It sends me a photo of a dish of beans with some bread. He goes, I made the bean dish. I said, be bean dish.

And he was like, yeah, very good. I was like, awesome. Thanks, Will. I'll pass it on. That makes me so happy. What's the last communication you had with Will prior to the bean dish? I don't even remember. It was that long ago, yeah.

Sounds like Will was trying to spark a conversation. No, Will's my old housemate's brother. So he usually just replies or sends me random memes every now and then with something funny. You know, I said I have another bean dish to roll out, Rowan. You're not going to believe it. A girlfriend's coming up this weekend to visit. She's got a bean cake. Ew.

It's foul. Can you roll a bean cake out after the dish, though? I used to make her so much fun of her. We went to an outdoor cinema once and she brought a bean cake. Canolini bean? Well, it was like a vegan thing. So in lieu of egg, something like that, she used beans. Anyway, I could put that in there.

Interesting. How many things can we do with a cannellini? You know, I saw a TikTok the other day. I don't know why I didn't save it. These two Italian guys being like... Were they hot? They were gorgeous. You put the beans in the sauce.

They were like in the beans in the sauce and you blitz it. They put the beans in like a napalatana. Yeah, yes, yes. They're like you put it in and you. Blitz it. Yeah, with the stick mixer. You don't do marinar, do you? Marinar is American.

Napa Latana. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they put it in, put the beans in there, and then hit it with a stick blender. And they're like, we can tell because we can see which one has the beans in it. Like the colour. But we're going to try it. Try the original. Yep.

They were like, Melissa, perfect. Perfect. The way non-intended. And then they went with the beans and they went, looks at each other, it's the same. Like, it's the same. So you can get that hit of fiber and protein and not even taste. Because we're going to try this. It's stupid.

As Italian men, we don't like it. Anyway, they did it. They were like, it's the same. There's not, and they both like that. Well, a cannelini bean on its own is very bland. A lot of people are having a go on me, this is bland. I went, hello, it's onion, garlic, it's not bland. Yeah.

There's your flavour bag. You're not doing the right thing. Anyway. All right, well, let's add that to the series. This bean series is patting itself out beautifully. Oh, you could. We got the bean dish. I got a bean pasta I want to roll out, a butter bean thing that will knock your socks off.

Sweet. Now we've got the bean in the Nupplatan and my friend's bean cake. So you should do one a day and call it bean week. It's like shark week except more red. That's right. Watch this space. Jess and Rowan's Bean week. Bean week.

Fuck, that's five days of beans. Yeah, you could do that, mate. You better have an open-air job because you will kill your colleagues. Enjoy the show guys. Welcome to Jess and Rowan. In 2026, something new for breakfast. Do you know Jess? I'm all about Wii-woo methods to help yourself.

You'll get to know Rowan. Hot, horny, happy. Yay! It's going to be good. It's going to be fine. It's going to be all right. Anything could happen. Most of it probably will.

I guess I need to enter the mind of a man. Please enter me. This is Jess and Rowan. This is going to be good. Good morning, Wednesday. Hope you're doing well. Good morning, Jess. Good morning, Rowan.

Morning. How are you doing well? How are you doing? Good. I'm all in blue today. You're in blue today. I saw you. We pulled in at the same time and I caught a glimpse of the blue.

I went, I love when we couples dress without planning it. Blue shirt, blue shirt. Blue branding for hit. I mean, look at us. Just a couple of company men. Black walls. Might be white tomorrow. Oh, shy guy says we're going through a Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat phase.

I love it. I don't know what any of that means. You don't know that? You don't know that? You don't know that? Yes, you should, surely. What do you mean? It's a musical.

No, but it's like a Jesus story, isn't it? It's like from the Bible. Well. Bab, do you familiar? I'm warning. Actually. Yeah, well, I'm on my own there. That's all right.

Joseph and the amazing Technicolor dream coat. No idea. Music by Andrew Lloyd Weber. I think he was the one who did Phantom of the Opera. He did heaps stuff. Oh yeah, it's based on the character of Joseph from the Bible's book of Genesis and it's about a very colourful coat. Genesis, Exodus, Fidicius, Numbers, Judi, Joshua, judges, Ruth, Ezekiel's. I don't know.

What's your favourite letter to the Corinthians? Um, see. Anyway, shy guy. I've got to laugh with you, but I don't get it. So because you weren't raised Catholic, you don't know this? It must be. But it did break through. It's not just a religious thing, isn't it?

Like, it broke through to pop culture. Wow. No idea, sorry. Should we wait for a local production? I'm sure it'll come around. And we'll go together as a team. You don't like musicals at all? No.

I've watched like a Greater Showman. I bet he's the type. All right, so if Hugh Jackman is Joseph, you'll go. No, like on like the movie version. All right, you won't go to live. Do you know how impressive live theatre is? No. You be the type to sit in live theatre and when they start singing, start smirking.

Yeah, walk out, go to the bathroom, but get a packet of Maltese's. Stay out there. Live theatre is more impressive than cinema. I don't know how people can do that. I've seen the Lion King. The middle of a show. On stage? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. And how was that with the puppets? It's amazing. It's a show. It was cool. Oh my God. It doesn't do it for me. Wow.

What does do it for you? Mission Impossible. Not musical. Okay. You're Tom Cruise guy. Yeah. Give me a Fast and Furious in IMAX. That's my musical.

Oh, he wants an effect. He wants a special effect. Yeah, I want a big budget. Yeah. I want Corvettes in space and... Me too. And what's it called? Submarines coming out of the ice.

That's pretty sick. I'm not mad about that. Fasten Furious 8. Very good. Babs, where do you stand on live musical theatre? I haven't gone to a lot of them, but I actually told my housemates that I'd be keen to go to more this year. Because they're really into it.

All right. Okay. Okay. Rowan, Jess and Babs, we're doing a date. We'll go see some theatre. Shai guy has to come. Well, no. We can't force him, can we? I'm not buying his ticket.

He's going to have to pay for his own. Oh, he won't want to do that. He won't want to do that. We'll figure out some. God forbid he supports a local production. Just give more money to the big Hollywood box officers. That's fine. That's your money, your choice.

I'll tell you what, though. I've been going to the cinema a lot, and the audiences are getting smaller and smaller. No. COVID, we know, did a number on the cinema. Ruined it. So support the cinema. You know what? You support the cinema.

I'll support the cinema. I'll support live. Ruan will do a bit of both. A bit of both. Babs will wait for someone to buy her a ticket. Yeah. We're not doing a car update today, are we? No.

We'll do that tomorrow. Okay. Yes, of course. For anyone who missed it yesterday in the blog, we learned that her housemates trying to set her up. Sick. With the car salesman. Ooh.

Got a lot of messages about that. People going, is she going to do it? Did Rowan pay her the $100? Because you put a hundo on the line. I will pay her if she goes. If she goes and asks. And asks. Oh, you're happy to pay just for her to accompany the housemate?

Oh, I think she's going to accompany anyway. So that's... All right. It needs to be something else on it. The stakes need to be higher. We'll figure it out, guys. I love that for us. We'll figure out what the stakes are.

But I'll pay her. I love it for her. It's not, I mean, it's not labour, but it's just a bit of like, here you go. You can go and then you can go get your nails done or something afterwards. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that sounds lovely. I paid for her pedicure last week. You can pay for a manicure this week.

Fantastic. We're taking care of Babs' talents. Changing lives. Changing lives, baby. Like you are, and you'll talk about after 7 o'clock. Yes, I will. Made my day. We have more Gen C stuff to talk about.

Mm-hmm. They're doing something. Choosing something. It is weird. It is weird. Next, we want to talk about you, something woke you up, not the child. Hot off the press, Rowan.

What woke me up this morning? I brought it in for you. Good one. This is Jess and Roe. Rowan. This content, it's two hours old. Okay. This is fresh.

You're not going to get a loaf of bread fresher. Sometimes I do go to the one at the road and they're pulling them out of the oven. That's real nice. Okay. Only that will be fresher than this hot bit of content, all right? I can feel it. What woke me up this morning? I'm going to need you, my friend, to close your eyes.

You got Lucia in there? I don't have Lucia. Shike, I'm going to get you to close your eyes too because you're in the room and you're already smirking. I've brought something in. So, yes, as you know, Rowan... Don't touch me with it. No, no, I'll stay on my side. As you know, Rowan, we're having a slight issue

keeping the two-year-old in her bed all night. Yeah, don't know. So more often than not, she is the one waking us up. But that happened hours, hours ago. She came in last night at about midnight. Oh. But this morning, this, after we settled her, this is what woke me up.

Chagai, close your eyes. Oh. Yark. That's harrowing. Is that Goya? Is that a vibe? Hang on, I don't know what I'm hearing. Is there multiple things here?

So let me set a bit more of a picture for you. That is insane. Our 48 kilo Rhodesian Ridgeback usually sleeps in the living room. I don't know why he's decided to move to the living room. You can open your eyes now. I'll hide the thing and we'll get to it. He usually sleeps in the living room Gianni. For some reason last night, he made his way into the bedroom as well.

He's got a bed set up in our bedroom. Right. He has obviously shifted, wiggled, placed his rump on top of a koala that has the most horrifying giggle. Throw it out. Coalas don't sound like that. Oh, thanks, jar. We know it's not an accurate representation of a koala. I'm just saying.

Throw it out. This is a baby koala that comes with a dummy. I hate it so much. So the idea is you can scent. Oh, it's sucking now. It sucks the dummy. And then look what happens when you pull the dummy out. It burps.

But this was a gift Lucia got for Christmas. Who gave it to her? One of the grandma's friends. Got to go. It's got to go. Lucia loves it. Has clearly left it on Gianni's bed in the bedroom. As I said, he doesn't.

doesn't usually sleep there, but he's sat on it at 4 a.m. Can you imagine that in your pitch black bedroom? They would just get the shed out of me. Anyway, horrifying. Just take the batteries out. Oh my God, take the batteries out. Yeah, but no, kids' toys are all screwdrivers and stuff. I don't know where Angus keeps the screwdrivers.

Get the Stanley knife. Cut the back open. Pull the night. Pull the batteries out. Yeah. Give it back to us. Yeah. This is how I've started my day, my friend.

Oh, you're on edge all day. I'm on edge all day. Anyway, I thought... I would have called off today, I reckon. Shagga, you can have that. No. Because I'm not taking a pan... No. No.

This is Jess and Rowan. Your partner, Lucy. Is she a Pandora girlie? No. No, she's not. Never thought about that as a gift for Sweet Lucy. I don't like them. Oh, you don't like the charm bracelet.

Pandora, obviously, one of the world's biggest jewelry brands. So weird how it feels like you can buy jewelry and there's like... It's like, this might be a bit niche. But you know when, like, maybe... video games are introducing, like, micro transactions or how apps have like micro transactions where get the app for free, but all of a sudden you're spending five bucks on the diamonds. When you download the app and then it goes, double click for the face ID confirmation for in-app purchases.

In-app purchases. Yes, I see what you're saying. I'm not keen on a piece of jewelry that you have to keep putting things on it. It's funny. I still remember, Pandora's been around for so long. I still remember my first Pandora. Probably. Because all my friends were getting.

getting one and I was like, ma, I want a Pandora, I want a Pandora for graduation. Year 12 graduation. So I must have been 17, 2008. My mum got me the bracelet with one charm, the graduation hat. Because this is a smart business model. They've got 5,000 charms all with like an event connection or some sort of sentimental connection. So you go, right, graduation, I get you the hat. Christmas has come around.

the Christmas tree. Oh, you got your first puppy. I'll get you the little puppy charm. Someone's going overseas. They buy you the forget me not. Oh, that's like nonsense. I think I got a plane. There you go.

But then I started getting a bit silly because I would spend every paycheck. Oh, I'm going to go to Pandora. I get myself a new charm. Exactly what I'm talking about. I have three Pandora bracelets full of charms. Yeah. But when I got a bit older, I switched to gold. I went and gold suits my skin tone a bit more.

You look good in gold. Thank you. My three Pandora. Fuller Chalms sitting in a box. But Pandora coming back in a big way, making headlines this week. Still got them. Still got it because of the sentimentality, Rowan. Three full bracelets.

If I wore them now, you would hear me coming from a block away. I'd be jingling all over the shop. Oh, mate. I got a turtle for no reason. Then I started getting a bit, I just want the cute ones. Yeah, I get it, yeah. But they're making headlines stay Danish jewelry giant because they're moving away from silver. You guys are aware what's going on in the silver world?

It's flying. It's more volatile than gold. It's creeping up the price of gold. So Pandora have gone, we're going to switch to platinum. Platinum. Now, pardon me, my very basic lizard brain, I thought platinum was more expensive,

more rare than silver. It sounds more boozy, but I don't think it is. When an artist goes platinum, isn't that them going like the best? Yeah, yep. When an artist goes silver, I don't think they're such a hullabaloo. Well, platinum, silver gold, platinum, right?

Diamond. Diamond. When Delta Goodrum goes platinum, it's a big. deal. Does it go on platinum? I'm not sure, but... I mean, to go platinum, you need to sell like 5,000. I'm seeing a lot of our friends in the night time shows talking to Delta

Goodrum, so she's top of mind from me. She's doing it. It's doing the rounds. But platinum, I thought, was more special. Pandora charms are now going to be made out of platinum. But how difference is the price between platinum? I even know what platinum is. But neither do I...

Platinum, do you dig in the ground and find platinum? What is it? Great question. A bit of silver bit of paint? Or like, what is it? Well, this is the thing. apparently it looks exactly the same as silver, so shoppers won't know the difference.

They're switching to platinum to keep the costs the same, because silver's so volatile. And the people behind Pandora are going, the customers don't care about the medals used. They care about the emotional attachment. See, like when you go to buy your graduation hat, I don't care if it's silver gold or platinum. I just want my mum to have bought me the hat.

Sounds like someone that's trying to save cash. Spiking as investors pile into precious metals, like they were the new crypto. Who's putting their money into precious metals? People are buying a lot of gold, people are buying a lot of silver? Are they buying a lot? Well, now with Pandora, they'll buy a lot of platinum. Maybe.

Do I go dig in the ground and find platinum, shy dog? What is platinum? Are you Googling what platinum is? See, this is what I'm saying. No one knows what it is. Do we need a geologist? Like a rock? Oh, they wouldn't even know.

Is platinum even a rock? You're right. Platinum's a metal. Who specialises in metal? I have no idea. Steel fabricator. Dave Grohl? This is what we're talking about.

I don't know. Thank you. Oh, Jesus. That was nice from you. Thank you. Boss Jays, if you're listening, that's a pay rise. You've ever heard one. Send me some more if you like.

Yeah, no idea. Shall I got nothing? You've got nothing on platinum. The fact that's taking you this long to just find an answer. It's formed through cosmic stellar scale events. Is it from the stars? Cosmic? Is it comets?

It's worth more then. How much you reckon you get for all your three bracelets? Oh. They're all silver. They're vintage now. Well, I'll keep the. graduation hat and maybe the love heart. Oh, might have come from an ex, the love heart.

Oh, not bad again. This is Jess and Rowan. Gen Z is skipping sex to mostly sleep. If you had asked me that question, what would you prefer to do tonight? I wouldn't ask you. I would never ask you what you'll be doing. You can. You're my friend.

Oh, you're getting down off tonight. No, what I'm saying is now in my 34-year-old. old self with a two-year-old. Yes, I'd also prefer sleep. But these are the young ones saying they've got plenty of stuff to do. You know why? Because they got to get up early for run club. They're getting up at the crack of dawn. This is what the study says. Not for breakfast radio, but for their health journeys. They're all sober curious with their marches. And their whoops. And their wavers. And they're with the kids. I've got a whoop. The most D, these ones are getting, are when they draw it in their Strava app. You know how you

then map it out? And then you can see. Yes, nice one. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, Gen Z, born between 97 and 2012. Always getting their mixed up. 97 to 2012. 97 to 2012. Dream Z. Yeah.

67% of Gen Z is would like a restful night's sleep over a little bit of a hump. Wow. 67% of people, so two-thirds. Would prefer to go to sleep than get it on. Is that, have they asked singles there, Rowan? Or is it just in general? Like, are they saying, I don't want a one-night. I'm just reading general.

Well, they were saying 64% would prefer a stable job. 59% are more focused on personal success. What an interesting question. Would you rather a stable job or a good role in the hay? That says a lot about Gen Z and what they have to go through at the moment, don't they? Oh my goodness. Mate, the Cozy lives. You know what's going to help me pay the bills?

A stable job, not just having a nice time doing the hanky pankey. Not Jen that winked at me nice. The data really, it says it's, Gen Z's more intentional about intimacy than like maybe our generation. How many one-night stands have you had in your lifetime? Shit times. No, not too many. Like, no, hang on.

Not too many. I was more intentional. Yeah, you know why? I answered that way too quick. You have a one-night stand and they fall in love with you. So you can't get away after that night. What can I say? Do you know how many marriage proposals I've had?

What? No, how many? What? After one night? Not after one night. I'm not that good. Tickets? I got.

I have had. Finished five minutes later. I love you. Marry me. How many? Four. One, I said yes. Well.

So I must be alright. Four? Four. So you said no three times? So maybe I'm, maybe I'm giving you accurate. How I never heard even one? I've broken up with boys. Right.

And they have gone. This has happened three other times. Is the Airville player? Was he one of them? No, he wasn't one of the shy guy. I've broken up with boys. And three times they went, well, what am I meant to do with the ring now?

Who cares? Sell it. Thank you. That's exactly what I said. It's not my problem. That's not my problem. But what I'm telling you is they all had rings, allegedly. I never saw it, but they all said, what am I meant to do with the ring now? Oh, that's, God. Who cares, dude?

Yeah, I know. Loser. Like I'm going to go, oh, I take it back. Oh, sorry. I would love to get married and spend the rest of my life with you. Sorry. Yeah. Really?

What am I to do with the ring now? In how long of a period? Like, just, were they all kind of together together all? The first one would have been three years? Obviously, it was a no, no, no, yes. But like what's the... Absolutely. Three year relationship, four year relationship.

One of them was short. How short? Oh, months. How many months? You know who that was. Are we talking... Really? Talking Mr. Bean.

No way. Oh, he sounds like a... He was hot... He was hot. He was hot. He was too hard. She's forever. She knows my bean dish.

Again. never saw the ring? Just lying. But three times. What am I meant to do with the ring now? I don't care, bro. Sell it. Melt it down.

What do you reckon became of the ring? Do you reckon those boys kept the ring? I would love to know. And then proposed eventually to their, if they are now, partnered? Very interesting. So you never saw the ring, so you wouldn't know if it was tailored to what you would like. Exactly. Because I know one of them, the first one, is married now.

But it was years and years and years. years like that time. But the other two, I don't know what became of them. Do you, would you be able to find? Fair enough. You'd do it well, baby. You're jealous. You might be able to find them because they've blocked me. Interesting. Maybe we could find the first girls ring and then have a look and be like, that's something I would have liked. This is Jess and Rowan. Extreme tourism, Rowan. Yes.

Selfie hunting influences will be banned from climbing Mount Everest. Good. Stepping over dead people that couldn't get it done, the train for ages to do it. Well, the issue is they're becoming the dead people. They're putting themselves in jeopardy. Ah, yes, for the photo. Influences who are looking for the photo at the top of base camp.

It's not like they're getting to the summit. Let's be real, only a few people can do that. But even to base camp, they are struggling. One couple brought their four-year-old son. That's stupid. And he got really sick. Altitude sickness is a real thing. Another influencer, an American guy, he did a backflip on the summit.

He got to the summit, Jesus Christ. Just to do a backflip. Just to do a backflip. So people are concerned about safety. He was American. But all these influences are trying to get there. They're talking about it to their young followers. And the Nepalese government is going,

guys, this is actually really dangerous and really hard. So now to even step foot on the mountain, you'll have to prove you have scaled a mountain. nothing's bigger than Everest, but you have to have proven you've climbed a mountain at least 7,000 metres high. And not taking a photo when you're there. Yeah. Because some influencers could just do it and go,

it sucks to be you, man, done it, click. Oh, but see, the issue is, yeah, how do you prove you've climbed that high if you're not meant to be influencing and taking pitch? I think there should be some guidelines around getting to Everest. Totally, because you're right. People are dying, people are getting really sick. And the issue is people are disrespecting the mountain.

Littering, rubbish. They're not taking to. and their poo bags. And you can't take it. Obviously, people diet there and you can't have the bodies down. The bodies are there's bodies everywhere. And there's one really famous body. If you want to go visit Dave's grave, you've got to climb the mountain.

Pay your respects. A really famous body that's just fallen off the side. And when you're walking up it, you can see it. It's like, oh, that's blah. Frozen in time. No, not cooked, I guess. Unacooked. Undercooked.

He hasn't, he hasn't defrosted. It's frozen. Okay. Sorry. I want to try to look up. Other examples of extreme tourism, maybe we can, out banning influences from all of these things. Volcano stuff.

Volcano is one of them. Volcano is one of them. What's the, what's the fish? You, the fish in the tank at the Cuda. I think they're pretty low level. All right, what a dead devil. Deep sea submarines. No.

Oh, forget about. Well, look what happened with that. Not after that other one. The Explorer one. Space. Space travels one, the thing that Katie Perry did. Katie Perry's already been up there. She can do it.

That's right. Volcanoes was one of them. Warzone. Tourism is one. Warzone tourism. Go on to Ukraine or something. Because I was saying I wanted to go to Russia towards the end of the year.

Yeah, and smart traveller said, do not. Is that, that's not war, is it? You're such an influencer. Depends on where. Take some photos. Don't worry about it. Don't climb out on Everest while you're at it. And polar expeditions.

Which is sort of what this is. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. Antarctica's really big on the tourism thing. One of my friends trying to get on those boats from Chile and go down to the glaciers. One of my buddy Prentai's done and he wants to go back. He wants to go back. He wants to go again.

Yeah, he loved it. My buddy Nick. What's fair to see? Jumped in the water like five times for a second. I went grow up. So you can do a bit longer than that. Is he a fitness freak? He's trying to do the ice bath.

Oh, he's just a show off. Hey. This is Jess and Rowan. Jess and Rowan's 10K Alfa Bucks on hit. Yes, every day from 7 and 8 o'clock. We do it for $10,000. Two chances to win. $10,000.

What a $20,000 show? Rowe. Has anyone ever done it? Twice. No. No. No. Well, one person wouldn't be able to, but you mean has it ever gone off twice in a day? That's what I mean.

No. Anywhere. What fantasy land are you living in? One that I wish Joe would live in. Hello, Joe. Good morning. Joe, for us to make that fantasy a reality, you need to win the 10 grand now and then we'll do it again at 8. Okay?

I'm going to do my best. Wow, that's all we can ask for. Girlfriend. What do you want to spend the money on? I mean, I'd love to say a holiday, but definitely I want to put it towards updating the boat. Oh. So we have a boat, but it needs what? A renovation.

No. We've got a good boat. I just want to go bigger. More stuff. Yeah, I get it. All right. Size matters. Okay.

True words were never spoken, Joe. Good on you, Joe. I would love to get you a bigger boat. Joe, you're not going to believe this. Your letters J. J for Joe. All right. That feels good.

Good, good, good. Are you ready? Yes. Your time will start after the first question. Starting with the letter J, Joe. We need you to name. Something shiny. Jingle bells.

A cartoon character. Jasper. A dog breed. Jack Russell. An occupation. Genitor. An adjective. Justifyingly.

A kitchen applying. A one-word movie title. Jamangy. A perfume brand. Oh, my. I've been had a bit more time on the clock. Not bad, Joe. Not bad at all.

Are we given jingle balls? Jingle bells, she said. Sorry, I thought. Jingle bells and balls are very different shy. I reckon jingle bells are shiny. You can have that. One, two, three, four. Five, six.

Did you say bells or balls? because now I actually weren't questioning my men. You said bells. Yeah, pay it. Yeah, pay it. I would have paid balls as well. I don't know if we're paying justifyingly. No, I wanted to refer to you there.

I think that might be an adverb. Oh, that's right, bugger. Justifyingly. Is it even, it is a word? Yeah, it's a word, but is it an adverb? Not sure. I don't know. An adjective is a describing word.

You could have had juicy, jaded. Six isn't bad, Joe Six is fantastic Joe Oh, we can't upgrade your boat So you're stuck with whatever little dingy You're already rolling around with, okay? It's a bit bigger than a dingy, but that's okay

How much, did you want a yacht? What did you want? Oh, I just wanted something, you know, with maybe a half cabin so I can sleep sometimes, you know? Oh, does your current boat not have a cabin at all? No, but it's big enough. It's still a big boat.

Okay, Joe. I'll see you out on the seas. When they start, when people are saying, start talking about their boats and they're like, oh, it's a big boat and they're sounding humble, it's a massive boat. Joe's got a catamaran. Yeah, the $10,000. Would have literally just been the mooring fee.

100%. Look at you known boat stuff. What a great word, mooring. More barnacles. Anyway, I've got a great question. Stop it, stop it. Great question next. Jess and Rob, morning.

This is Jess and Rowan. If you missed it, we were talking about Pandora going from silver, the little trinkets from silver to platinum, we had a DM just talking about what? Yeah, Dan DM'd us and said, guys, little fact check for you. I just looked up the price of silver. Platinum silver is around 111 to 180 per ounce Australian. And platinum is worth 3,000 a Troy ounce. So there's a huge difference there.

Great, okay. What's a Troy ounce? I never heard of Troy ounce. So if anything, I'm more confused now. But I appreciate that Dan has heard us chatting our trinkets and he's gone, what is the current price? Because to be honest, that article did not go into specifics. It was just saying silver's gone up, so Pandora's going platinum.

One Troy ounce is 31 grams. How much is one Pandora charm? I don't know. See, now I'm just more confused. I love this, Rowan, because Dan has never messaged the show before. We can see the history. Yeah, thanks, Dan. And that's what...

Not following either, I see. Won't be Cook of the Week. Willie? No, sorry, Dan. Dan, if you would like to be in the mix for Cooker of the Week, which is an amazing pride. Show me that message. I want to know the time. phone was.

No, because you've already had a go at one cooker in the messages. I'm not giving you... I didn't give a go at it. You sent Mrs. Cummins a very passionate voice memo. I'm not letting you talk to Dan either. She sent a photo of her husband and said, Rawha looks like my husband. But guys, just so you know, he is orange, red hair. We look nothing alike.

It's not a lumpa. He's just got red hair. He's not in blue. I apologize. But he's got red hair. Yeah, but he's got the bold mustache. I reckon that's what Mrs. Cummins has identified as a similarity. Maybe she's just like they both have cheeky,

cheeky smile. You do both have a cheeky smile. And earlier this week, you told us about a woman, well, one of wasn't a woman, it was a little baby who called you dadda. Yeah, but me. And Taylor, the mum said you kind of do look like her dad. Yeah, we kind of do look a bit of so, no. The word stocky was thrown around, but that was Taylor's word, not mine. Both brown though, this guy, Ginger. If you said, oh, my husband kind of looks like, it kind of looks like, kind of looks like, it's Not correct. If Mrs. Cumm's head, my husband kind of looks like Ed Shearren, you'd go, I see it. I reckon he looks more like you than Ed Shearan.

No, now you just adding a bit of mayo. She said off air. No one's ever looked lesser like. Now on air, she's changed the tone. Hey, what happens off air, stays off air? Hello, Radio 101. Been out of the game a little while. No, when you bring it on air.

You brought it on air. You're lying. You liar. Try guys here. Don't yell at the cookers. We encourage contributions. And now you're out here yelling. I'm yelling at you.

And Mrs. I like Mrs Cummins. Mrs Cummins is a great contributor. Look how many times she's text. Dan could have followed the show but doesn't. Dan, if you're going to criticise us, you're going to have to follow us. No, too late. No cooker of the week because he wasn't already following.

Maybe he'll want the recreation beauty. $500 award-winning natural fragrances. Dan, if you'd like the recreation beauty follow us, I'll put you in the mix for fact-checking our silver planet. No, it's lost it. I don't reckon Dan would like the beautiful fragrances inspired by Bondo Beach Nature. Wouldn't like it or doesn't deserve it? Both.

Text us. 048-18-106. I'm going to come back with something. I want to know your initials, particularly if your parents didn't think about them when they were naming you. This is Jess and Rowan. Did your parents not really think ahead when they were naming you when it comes to your initials, Rowan? I'm just R-E. That's pretty fine.

Do you don't have a middle name, my friend? R-M-E? R-M-A. Yes, see, that's not bad. It's fine, whatever. Because, yes, we are taking into consideration. middle initial. Skyla is going viral.

She's a creator on TikTok. Okay? Now, her name is Skylar Dial. What? She, Skylar, and her surname is Dial. Skylar dial. That's like a, that's a crazy name. That's a good name.

But she did this post saying, my parents clearly did not think ahead when giving me my full name, middle name included because my initials. Someone commented being like, oh, does your middle name start with a T? I was thinking like it's what's T? S-T. She goes, oh, well, wait.

to put it into perspective, it actually starts with A. Sad. So I don't love that my initials are sad, but I guess STD would be worse. Sad's funny. People have come to her rescue. She's not the only one whose parents did not think ahead when it comes to initials. Tim Miller got in touch. He goes, my middle name is Ian.

So my initials are Tim. It's Tim. It's Tim. What are your initials, bro? Not your name. Well, this is the thing. T-I-M are his initials. The initials.

Tim Ian Miller. Initials are Tim. Thanks, mum and dad. How's this one? Corey Kennedy. Corey, spelled with a K. Middle name Oliver? No.

Middle name starts also with a K. Parents did not think that one through. Oopsies. Beth Jade King. She goes, look, it's not the full initials, but I didn't really have BJ King on my bingo card as my name. And then someone got in touch being like, oh, we should be mates.

I'm BJ. handy. I know a BJ King. You do not know a BJ King. She's on radio in Lancaster and Tasmania. Stop it. Yes. Because someone has just, someone just text us, this is perfect timing having this conversation.

We're about to welcome our first baby. I love the name Billy for a little girl. But our last name starts with a J. My husband and I are debating if she's going to get BJ as a nickname and get bullied. I will, well, well, you do what you need to do. BJ is a normal, like, name you would call people. BJ. BJ.

It is, I think it's okay. But BJ King, BJ Handy. Sarah Cam got in touch. S-C. She goes, my initials are S-A-C. My brothers, my brothers, B-A-C. Back. And my other brother, CRC, they're sack back and crack.

This is Jess and Rowan. Australia's favorite radio game. Oh my God. You dip, you dip me down. Oh my God, I'm at hand. Shy Guy Dips. Hell yeah, we're dipping, baby. It's my favorite game so far.

Well, actually, Babs' blog was really good this week, so that's gone back up. But I would argue it's not a game. Yeah, it's my favorite game. Bob's, Bob's Blag is my favorite segment so far. Okay, but game. We need a Jess segment. Why is it no Jess segment? What do you mean?

Every segment's a Jess segment. Every second thing is a Jess segment. I reckon we can do something. We can bring up conspiracy theories. What'd you say? I used to do Jesses. conspiracy theories and I would bring in tin foil hats for us all. Yep, done.

You had a killer one off air. Well, let's revisit this. We can revisit it. It might become Rowan's conspiracy corner. It's hard to say, isn't it? Just his conspiracy corner. Rowan's conspiracy corner. All right.

Oh, hang on. So what am I left with? Nothing. No. Well, you can have it. I'm just saying. You need something. My name's on the show.

I talk enough. It's fine. These guys. Flick the staff something. Give them an opportunity to shine. We've got enough. They've already been accused of trying to take over. so let's give them a chance to prove everyone right.

That's true. Shy guy is good at many things. Describing stuff is not one of them. If you can decipher the shy guy knees in regards to the packet of lollies, he holds in his hot little hands. You win said packet of lollies. And I imbibed those lollies with a lot of good juju. Yeah, you...

On behalf of you and I. Yes, yes. I do my magic spells. You bless them like a lull old chicken. We've been over this. Amen. Shy guy... You're going to give a clue.

Please don't say the colour of the packet. I wasn't going to say the colour of the packet. I think that'd be hard. Is that a big clue? Oh, but he just always does that. No, no, no. That's the way that. It's yellow.

Well, it's not. That's not a clue. It's not yellow. It's another colour. It's another colour. It's a voice. It's yellow. Is that my voice?

Bang on, shy guy. So good at impression. Maybe I should do a Jess's impression corner. Yeah, write that down. Jess's impression corner. Just for that. I'm not writing that down. Your first clue is four colours.

Four colours. Four colors. Oh my God. By the way, guys, I don't know what it is. I can't see it. Yeah, Shy Guy doesn't hold him over the desk. So I'm playing at home as well. I don't know what it is.

I mostly don't know the game. Don't guess because you might get it right. 131060. If you want to play Shy Guy dips, we'll do it next. First clue, four colors. 131060. Call now. This is Justin Rowland.

Australia's favorite radio game. Oh my God. You dip you dip you dip. Oh my God. Oh my God. Shy Guy Dips. Yeah, man, we dipin. We dip and we dip and we dip.

We gave out the first clue, which was four colours. And last week, we had the first caller, get it. Oh, yeah, we did. So can Rebecca do it again? Good morning, Beck. Good morning. All right, you get a supplementary clue, Beck, and then you put it all together. You tell us what the lolly is.

Shy guy, what have you got for Rebecca? Two words. Rebecca, two words. All right, can you do it? First go, Beck. No, I thought it was Skittles. Ah, with the four colours. Yes, more than four Skittal colours.

I know you said the word, Rebecca. They might be five. I know that's got a log as a guess. Let's go to Archie. Good morning, Archie. Good morning, Archie. Hi. Archie, when I first started in radio, that was my nickname, Archie.

Why? Because my surname Farcioni, Archie. So I've always had a good affinity with that name. I don't mind Archie, too. So Archie, we've heard. four colours, two words. You get another clue, my friend. Blue packet.

Blue packet. Blue packet. Woolies branded too. Oh, so. What are you feeling to? We're not feeding anything. What are you doing to do? There's a heaps of range of lollies.

That's a double clue. Archie, come on, you've got to get this now. Come on, man. Is it sour straps? Oh my God. Is it sour straps? It's sour straps. Oh, this is what you did, shy guy.

Hey, Archie. Archie, how old are you, my friend? 11. Nice. I'm pretty sure it was a 12 or 11 year old who won it last week. Shagga, you spoon-fed Archie. I don't think my next clue was going to be it's about the size of a highlighter. A what? A lie lighter.

Do you need some water, bro? Let me get some. We don't need any more clues. Archie got it. Archie, are you a fan of the sour strap? Yes. Well, you've got a whole packet coming your way, my friend. Hell yeah.

Well done. Thank you. You're going to sign it as well? I'm going to sign it and I'm going to, this is what I asked. I think it was Oscar last week. Is there a subject at it. school giving you a bit of grief, Archie. What do you need a little bit of a help with?

Banned. Banned. All right, I'm going to put good musical ju-ju into these sour straps and you're going to kill it at band, okay? Sound good? Okay. Very good. All done, Archie. Playing it again next week.

Another lolly. And you're going to sing to the band off the era? I'll sing to the band. I can sing to the band. Sing to the bag? Shit. Oh, the bag. This is Jess and Rowan.

The Winter Games, obviously, dominating headlong. lines at the moment. Quick tally medal update for Australia. Shigong. We have five. We're sitting at 12th right behind Canada. 12. Oh, 12. I said 12 medals. We're 5. 12th on the tally. Three golds, one silver, one bronze. Correct. Rock on. To all of them. But yes, the medal winner's well done. We are not talking about an Aussie today. I'm sorry. We're going to pop over to the Netherlands. Oh, the Dutch. I would love to visit the Netherlands. They're fourth. They're fourth. Okay. Makes sense. What's a cold country? They should.

should be good at it, right? There is one Olympian who is making headlines today because whilst Australian gold medalists are set to take home a bonus of $20,000, nothing a sneezer. Not a bad one. Dutch gold medalists allegedly take home around a $35,000 bonus. Is that in AUD? That's in AUD.

No, sorry, 35 grand US. So about 50. UD. This Dutch speed skater. So it's the guy. Guys and girls who literally just go round and round and round really fast. Her name is Utah Leerdeman. She won the thousand metre speed skate, all right?

Awesome. Gorgeous creature, excellent athlete, all right? She's fantastic, yeah, yeah. This is her crossing the line first. Hear the commentary. This has been Yuta Leerdam's race over the last Olympic cycle. Can she seal it with Olympic gold? Lear Dam around the bend.

Heading to the line. Utah Leardam wins gold. So at that moment, she unzips her speed suit, Rowan. Nude on the ice. Not nude, revealing the sports bra underneath. She's gone really far. She also has to pin the girls down. Got her.

Now, revealing a Nike sports bra. Ah. Fila is actually the official clothes garment slinger. I did see this. For the Dutch team. She's chosen a Nike sports bra. So now all these marketing experts, because Nike, obviously shared the post.

Of course. All these marketing experts are saying, well, look, she obviously doesn't have a deal with Nike because Fila is meant to dress the Dutch. But Nike might go, hey, Yuda, thanks for getting us out there on the global stage. Here's a cheeky $1.4 million.

Through a cool mill? Marketing experts are saying, we haven't got confirmation they have paid, but marketing experts are saying that kind of advertising, that kind of brand endorsement attached to a gold medalist. Of course. And I'm pretty sure she broke a record.

record, that's got to be worth at least a million bucks. How amazing is that? So 35 grand from her country, no worries. A million from Nike? Oh, yes, please. Just for going. Go-day, check this out. I always get my tities out.

No one's no one paying me. No one's paying me. No one's right. Look. Hey, I'll give you a meal. Shagai, get it out. Can Intimo give me a meal? Sorry.

You didn't have a meal. I definitely don't have a meal. No. I'll take a hundred bucks. Do you reckon? That's three flushes to you? Zero bucks. You're not getting anything from me.

You didn't pay me. This is Jess and Rowan. You don't lead them. Oh, a million bucks for just getting the girls out. Kind of, kind of. I'll do it a fourth time. Like, hello. I've got no money for you, babe.

What have you got on underneath? I know you're not wearing a bra, but what about the Johns? The long Johns, the undies. You know, I just realized, I obviously went to the toilet, the disabled, and... You could have stopped all that moment. And massive hole in these ones. Huge. Well, don't get them out.

I don't know. You want to see it. Well, you've already shown me one. What's a hole I showed you? When you mooned up. The other day you moved me, brother. How quickly we forget. I just throw the moon out so easy.

Bonds, but I tend to have them a while. Q Justin Bieber, holy. I don't know how long, I don't know how long I've had these ones. But the joke with my girlfriend Lucy is that Rowan can't stop buying like undies. So she's like, you don't need any more. How pairs do you reckon you own? A few. But I've started throwing a lot of them out now because I just get in a little.

Oh, holy. This one, I just was like, oh my God. Where is the hole? Right on the crack. The most wear and tear. It's like, that's gross. Like, you just didn't there fart and like burning it out. What?

Go on. Say it. What did you say? She said exactly what I was going to say. How noxious are your farts. They're busting through fabric. I tell you what. Goodness gracious.

Well, again, shy guy, his birthday's coming up. Eating a lot of plants and I'm just detoxing and it is thick. made the bean dish yet. Is that what did it? What did we do? My bum. Hold. 131060.

You want to pay alpha bucks? Hey, someone's just text us. Oh, okay. Yep. Hello, sorry. I'm a new listener. No, that's okay. You don't call this number for Alpha bucks.

No. That's the text line, my friend. Thank you for, like, welcome to the party. Yep. 131060. Are we saying now? Now. Call right now.

This is Jess and Rowan. Jess and Rowan's 10K alpha bucks on here. Had a six at seven o'clock. That's not the 10 we need for $10,000. We have Sarah playing now. Looking to get the cash. Hey, Sarah. Hey, how you going?

Sarah, look, we're pretty good, but we're not about to face that dreaded timer. So how are you feeling? Are you cool, calm and collected? I'm not prepared whatsoever. Could be good. That could, that could work. So let's not overthink it.

When a shy guy's great phrases, don't overthink it. Head down, bum up and go for it. You think a lot, though, shy guy. What do you mean? Don't overthink it. You're a big thinker. me all the time. Don't ever think out. So you tell me that one more time. I'll think so you don't have to is the

meaning. Oh, well, you can't do that for Sarah though. She's going to have to do the thinking and the execution. Sorry, Sarah, you're on your own there. Sarah, what do you want to spend 10 grand on? In all honesty, it would help cover the cost of all the sports that my children are involved in. Why would I do? Fencing? Like, what's the

yachting? Everything, touch league, union, everything. They're doing all the contact sports. Damn. Pick two kids and move it on. Yeah. Okay. All righty. Well, The motivation is pure. Looking after the kid's sport, we love an extra curricula.

Yeah, that's good. Sarah, the letter you're going to work with, now in the history of Alphabar, this is the most successful letter we've seen. People are able to execute with the letter K better than all the other letters. And that's what you've got today, all right? Okay. All right, let's do it. Your time will start after the first question.

Starting with the letter K, we need you to name. An animal. A female celebrity. A car brand. A pantry item. Nice. Something round. A water sport.

Oh my goodness. Pass. An occupation. Kitchen hands. A rom-com. Oh, God. A five letter. No.

Terrible. I shouldn't have said the successful letter thing. Nah, well. Might have put the pressure on the letter K. Oh, no. So much harder. You did get knife for pantry item, and I was like, that's a good one. But you didn't say kangaroo.

I mean, one of our national creatures. Yeah, koala. Yeah, koala. Speaking of national treasures. Kylie Minogue. Oh, for female celeb. Something round. I had the cold Kidman in my head.

Ah, Kidman, yeah. Something around. Shagga, you've written knob here. That's a Babs, babe. Babs does the sheet. You've written knob? Knob's around. Yeah, like a door knob, obviously.

Just a general knob. Okay, good to them. All right. You could have had Knob, Colonel, water sport, kayaking, or kite surfing, knocked up, rom-com, father-to-word, kebab. One of the great words. Sarah, sorry, you're going to have to pay for the kids, bought yourself, Dahl. Sorry, Dahl. All good, all good.

Or, you know, tell them, you pick one. Yes, pick one. No more touch league and union. Are you joking? No. That's a lot of rules to remember. I don't know if I could switch codes that fast in my brain. What am I playing now?

Same ball. One of them got. What do you like more? League or Union, pick it. Up next. Chances to get involved in the show to win Cooker of the Week. There's been some great contributions already this morning, so let's keep them coming.

Rowan's got one of the great questions to ask. Yeah, I had an appointment yesterday. I realised something about my doctor. And I'm talking about it next. This is Jess and Rowan. Yesterday I had an appointment with my doctor, who is now my old doctor, because I've moved from Sydney and I need a face-to-face doctor.

We all need a face-to-face doctor. You can't be. I know you travel for your boyfriend. barber though. Are you saying I don't want to travel for me doctor? You travel for a hair cup and not for health. Listen, listen. This is, like, where we live, lots of good doctors. Absolutely. I'm sure we'll be fine. But are you saying not a lot of good barbers? Maybe not. Maybe not. Do you, well, where Angus goes, he always looks pretty sharp, don't you think? Yeah, but Angus has a very standard. He does. You got the curls. Yeah, you're right. And I do say,

he goes from Johnny Bravo slash Jimmy Neutron to a bit shorter. Yeah. Okay. Do you need a bit more. And I also really like seeing Jacob. We love Jacob. But the GP, okay. Yeah, yeah. So I got to find a new one. Anyway, got some bloods done because my naturopath, Peter Mullin. You know Peter Mullin.

I talk about him every day. Shagga, are you keeping that tally? Wanted to see the blood work. I get it. So we didn't get the bloods done. Send them to the doctor. I was waiting for the bloods to come to me. And they never came.

You thought it would go to you? Well, I knew it would go to the doctor, who was actually wasn't even my normal doctor. He was the doctor that was available in the practice. Because all you need, hey, give me the script, babe. I don't actually need you because the bloods are going to go to the naturopath. Totally. But we all know naturopats can't ask for the blood. Yes.

So then on the form it said send to my email and the doctor. Never got it, right? Anyway, called me and said, we need to have a meeting with the doctor. I mean, let's talk to you about your bloods. And I said, that's fine. Got them done for the naturopath. Can you just actually just send them to me? And I said, well, you can tell Dr. John's permission.

Hang on, they're my blood. You can tell Dr. John, it's my blood. And it's fine. They go, look. And I said, well, that's interesting. Has he got ownership over your blood work? It was his, I guess it was his form, so maybe. Oh, okay.

I said, I said, I'm not paying another 150 bucks to get me bloods. That's right, because now I've got to go in for an appointment. I've done the appointment, done the, anyway, oh, it'll be free. No, always, book me. Oh, okay. Now you talk about language. And he was going through and basically everything on the blood work, not to poo-pooh, all doctors listening will be like, he's an idiot.

But he basically said to me everything that the naturopath said on the bloods, on the dry blood prick test anyway. Mm-hmm. But you should have heard him talk about the naturopath. Oh, I have been in this situation. And he was like... That I like it, do they? It was very much like it's really...

And the tone was a little condescending. It's really good you're getting on top of this stuff because you need, because this and this and this. He said, but he's no doctor. And I said, I understand, mate. And he said, you know, we are the ones that have blah, blah, blah, and this and this. And I went, I understand and hear the concern in your voice, Dr. John. But this is working for me now.

Now, please just send me me bloods. Are you sharing with Dr. John some of the tips and tricks that the naturopath has given you? And is he poo-pooing specifically? No, I don't like that. He's a pill instead. I said not to be disrespectful, John. It's Dr. John to you.

Everything you've told me, naturopath also told me. So I'm not getting, you know, steroid tablets or the creams or whatever. He's not telling me to go have a deep breath and do ocean swims. He's actually giving me other things. But it just got me thinking, it's just going to be thinking, yeah, cab drivers hate Uber drivers, don't they? Oh, is that what it is, Rowan? You're taking business out of the pocket of them, so they have to poo poo. Maybe that's what it is.

To be fair, I hate podcasters. Really? I hate podcasts. I understand we have a podcast, but you know what I'm saying. We've got a podcast of the radio show. In general. In general, all of them. You got a podcast, I hate you.

Because what you are doing is taking people away from us. Oh, right, right, right. And if you advertise your podcast as a morning podcast, competition. I hate you double. My friend Tommy Casher, our friend Tomicat. You got a podcast? Hate you.

He doesn't have a book card. Yeah, does the wedding one. Did the wedding one. Are they not doing it anymore? I didn't think so. Oh. If they are, they're not promoting it. Sounds like he's a friend again.

Sounds like he's our mate again. He's out of the doghouse. You know why he stopped it because he heard. Hey, him. Jess hates podcasters, so he must not do. I've been a guest on many a podcast, but I grit my teeth the whole way through, boys, don't you worry. You just did one. I just did one. James McKay, good morning to you. Hated the whole thing. What about the Mum and Mia one you just did? You just hate that as well?

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I did. No, Rowan, I did that for clips, not for the podcast. Got a few followers out of that. Don't hate that one. Good one. Smart. Gross. The podcasters to me are like the naturopath to Dr. John. I'll get it. Yeah. I would love to know what industry are you in? Who do you hate? Who do you hate? Who is taking cookies out of your mouth? For example, do the Uber Eat drivers hate the door dash drivers. Like what's the vibe there? Doing the same thing.

Maybe. You know? De Coles employees hate will worse employees. Fantastic one. I didn't even think of that. 131060. Yes. Who would the barbers hate?

Hair dresses. You know how the grandmas go? I'll just give them a haircut. Oh, give a trip. Hair dresses hate the grandmas. 131060. What do you do? Who do you hate?

This is Jess and Rowan. What do you do and who do you hate? I went to my doctor. He was a big fan of the natural. I get it. They kind of... Have you told us about the naturopath? If I haven't, if I haven't, his name's Peter Mullin.

He's this lovely, fantastic, super informational bald man. Great dude. Sorry, I didn't need to add the ball, but... I've got a picture of him at least. He's very healthy looking. He's helping you naturally. Yeah. But you had to go to the GP because he owns the blood work and he went, I'm going to give you

my two cents. Yeah. Part of me, I'm taking a herb. Yeah, sorry, mate. I get it. I'm trying to get down. Can I ask you, honestly, Rowan, if the GP said, don't do that, do this instead, who would you listen to? Well, it depends what the don't do that would be. Just don't go the natural path. I'd be like, you're not my dad. All right, dad.

Okay, dad, like, you know, but if he was like, by the way, this, this needs specific medication, I would have gone, right? You'll go Western. Send me a script. Send me a script. And then I'll go on CP down. Go by the way, got this script. What do you do? When I went to the naturopath, I had the exact same issue, the GP, given me schick. But then the naturopath said I had fat blood. And I went, oh, you've got me offside of it. I got that.

Yeah, I got the fat blood. I didn't care for fat blood. I didn't care of fat. I was like, is it because I put butter in my pasta? So many things, man. To make it silky. So many things. It's fat blood.

It's so many things. We've had a few texts come through. I'm a bank home lender. Hate brokers. They would hate brokers. I like this one from Liz. They would hate brokers. Ex-beautician here.

So obviously she's in the waxing. Sure. And the threading game, maybe. Hate hairdresses who offer facial waxing at the basin. It's not pure, is it? I've never had that. So what you get in your hair wash? I go, do you want me to get that moe while you're here?

I had a barber in Brisbane that was like, do me to do the wax, the face wax? And I went, sure. And then he put it on the sticks and put it up my nose and on my... Oh, you need the nose. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ouch. I was all right. My nose isn't too hairy.

Oh, this one, fair enough. Jody. I work in the veterinary field and we hate breeders. Yeah. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Pubby breeder is not good, man. And Laura said,

my hairdresser hates that grocery stores, sell the box dye. Yeah, it's dangerous. That's a, that's different one. Hates that that they sell the box die. I hate lots of places that sell different things. Yeah, fair.

But I guess it's like, you know. We, look, we were, I've taken business away and that could go wrong the box die. I want very personal hates. You can, like when you think of someone, you can almost put a face to them. That's what I want, you know? Like Lillia, good morning.

Hello. Hello. What do you do and who do you hate? I'm in sales and I hate telemarketers. Okay. So you call and try and do your spiel and everyone goes, you're blasted telemarketer and do you get hung up on a lot? Yeah.

Get swore out, get hung up on. I've got a follow up with customers. Yeah. See how they're going, email everything. And then telemarketers do it and they, yeah. Yeah, you get lumped in the same bandwagon. Definitely. Yeah.

Toxic bandwagon. Thank you, Lillia. He's exactly what we're looking for. Sarah, good morning to you. Hey, Sarah. How are you? Hey, wonderful. Sarah, what are you doing?

Who do you hate? I'm a social worker and I do therapy at times. And I hate those AI chat box because people have started telling me they use them as therapy. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've done that more for my health. I didn't do that for like mental health. No, people are doing that. Isn't it, Sarah?

They go, I just asked chat cheap. I'm a bit depressed. He's not responding to my text. What should I do? Things like that. Yes. Yep. Super concerning.

What sort of advice is chat giving your patients and the people you work with and that you're going, don't listen to that? So I've heard people basically get told that everything they say is correct. It's true. Confirmation bias. It just literally tells them whatever they want to hear, which, is not a good thing. No.

You need the hard word from Sarah every now and then to keep your level. Yeah. That's a good one, Sarah. Good one, Sarah. It's a big one to take on, though, isn't it? I literally, you know, I literally had that last night with my chat tip-tip-t again. You asked it for therapy advice. No, I asked it for, because I got, like, I wanted to connect to my whoop, something to connect.

I bought one of those new, like, crazy, like, weight scales, did I why, had a gift voucher. And I was like, oh, can the Wythings app connect to a whoop? And they said, no, it cannot. And I went, oh, I know it can. Like, I know it can. I want you to tell me how to do it. Chat GPT's gone, it's above your understanding. I'm just going to say no, and you can move on with your knives.

And I went on to the wood website and went, yeah, dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk. And I went, I'd give up on chat GPT. Please do. This is Jess and Rowan. Earlier this morning, Rowan, I was sharing with you a thread that's gone viral from the tiki-toki. Yes. A creator named Skylar asked the question to her community. Did your parents not really think ahead when naming you?

when it comes to your initials. Got a few more there, have you? Her first name, Skylar, obviously, S. Her surname starts with a D, and people were guessing, uh-oh, does your middle name start with a T? She went, oh, that actually would be worse. No, it starts with an A.

And she thought, sad. Sad. Wasn't great for her initials. A lot of people getting in touch this morning. I just wanted to revisit a couple of texts. I'm off. 048-18-1069. Shelby has text us.

Her middle names She's got the double. Oh, yeah. Leanne, and her surname starts with a G. Slag. Hannah, texters. Good one. I realised the name I liked for my son, first and middle,

would have resulted in his initials being FFS. So we pivoted and have given him a different name. Good one. Nicole got in touch and said, I accidentally gave my son the initials D-A-D. Didn't really think of it. And then his dad walked out on us. It's dad.

Okay. So it's not a nice reminder for Nicole. So is that, did she need to drop that in that whole dad movement? She says, Marina Neal got in touch. MN. M-N. She said, I'm a lesbian and my initials are M-E-N. Men.

I don't care for it. Not here for men. Jen said my sister had the initials C-A-B growing up. Oh, maybe. Got married, became C-A-R. Oh, me, me. I believe it. I think you'll like this one.

Brianna said my initials are BMW. But the M, my middle name, is Mercedes. I'm very confused. That's sending my mind a bit funny. And this one from Mel on the text line, 048-8-1069, let's wrap up. My daughter is AGB. Realised she's named the good old after grog bog.

Sorry, sweetheart. I was thinking annual general meeting, not the after grog bog bog. This is Jess and Rowan. Rowan, do you believe in? Signs from the universe. Yeah, I do a bit. Okay. I do a bit.

Well, I inadvertently played a role in giving someone a sign. And I love it. She DM'd me. Okay. Good friend of the show, Sue. G'day, Sue. She DMs me. She goes, Jess, I had a sign from above.

You played a role. I said, oh, I love this wee-woo stuff. I love a cosmic sign. And I played a role, Sue. Tell me more. She goes, I've really enjoyed. You talking about this no spend year. Oh, yeah, yeah.

So 2025, I did not buy any new shoes, clothes or accessories. Just so everyone knows, I will not be joining in that, ever. Well, I'll be spending. Sue was inspired, Rowan. Oh, good. And she messaged me and said, look, I'm a little bit late to 2026, but I said to my daughters last week, I'm going to do what Jess did.

And I'm actually doing it again, Sue. I'm going to do a no spend 2026. Good one. We're already into Fed, but I'll start. from now. She goes, look, my daughters were a bit cynical because I do love to shop. Yeah, yeah. But that was last week. I said, I'm going to do it. She goes,

but today I went to the shops and I was in one of my favorite shops that sells nice women's clothing. She goes, I literally was holding a pair of jeans. I had tried them on. I was going to buy them. Yeah. But she goes, I heard your voice from

outside the shop. Now, yes, I forget sometimes how loud I am. My volume does creep up. She goes, I heard your voice coming up the escalator, telling your little girl, watch your step, watch your step. And I thought, that's a sign from the universe. That is a sign. Jess is going to bust me, breaking my no spend.

Not that I knew Sue had promised this to the universe. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. She goes, it was like a sign and the universe had sent you into my orbit. I put the jeans down. I did not buy the jeans. Did she need, but did she need jeans? She hasn't gone on. Wow, who needs jeans?

I'm sure you own a pair of jeans. I actually do need some new jeans. To be fair, I turfed my jeans in 2025, so I also needed jeans, but it's not about need, it's about overconsumption. And Sue's saying she was going to do something. She was about to break it, but the universe put me into her orbit. So you're not going to get genes now? Well, no, I filled that gap in January.

Oh, the spend months. So now I'm doing no spend 11 months. But Sue, she's still on track because I popped out of the escalator. How great? How creepy is that? Like Jesus of spending. Exactly. So carefully if you say something, I could pop up.

Hauncher. Put the jeans down soon. Put the jeans down. But guys, if you ever want Jess to tell you not to do something, you're always free to call the show. Oh, absolutely. I'll find out where you are. I'll get Babster track you and then I'll pop up.

Put down that burrito. You said you weren't going to have any. Not another gluten-free donut. Not another glut. That'll be you. Pop up at the market. Oh, my God. I have one yesterday.

I didn't have one yesterday. I didn't. It's the first time I've ever walked past those gluten for people and never done that. It's because you're thinking of me. Oh, Jess will tell me off. Maybe, yeah. This is Jess and Rowan. Wednesday, hump day done for us.

And good morning to Samantha, who's just text us. Good morning, Jess and Rowan. Have a cracker of a day. Sammy. Is that it? Is that it? That's it. Oh, okay.

How gorgeous is that, Sammy? Just Sammy. Just Sammy. Just Sammy. That's lovely. Good on you, Sammy. Any contribution to the show puts you in the pool for Cooker of the week. Yeah. Sammy, just for spreading good vibes, could win.

I'm really interested in the idea. This may be an off-air chat. But did we do this on air where it's like the person who comes second should win? Did we do this off-air? No. Why should the person, what do you mean who comes second? As in the second best contribution. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I always think there's something really interesting in coming second because if you want to win the prize, if you're the best, best, best you win the prize. Yes. But how do you give enough? to not quite be the best, but not be the worst. It's, like, harder to be the second. I'm really, I've, I've this weird obsession with... You know what I mean?

Why wouldn't we reward the best, though? Why does the second, if you're saying, by very definition, someone was better? Because you're still got to be good. You still got to be really good. First of the losers or something. I mean, there's something in that. First of the losers. Yeah.

Now, that's the branding I can get around. You were brilliant, but just not good enough. Celebrating the losers. I'd still like the person who was the best contributor to get something. You can send them like a DM or something because you're a celebrity. Oh, no, no, it needs to be the better of the prizes. You can send him a cameo. Might have said the code word again.

But that should be closed by now. You've got to wait until 10. Oh, we've got more. There's more words to the day, guys, and we will pop up in drive. I think we need to flesh that out a little bit more. First of the losers. Yeah, celebrating the losers. Celebrating mediocrity.

Oh, that's what we stand for. There's something going on. So are you saying potentially, let's, for example, someone who had great initials that their parents hadn't really thought of. They get the gold medal prize. But good morning, Justin Rowan, have a crook for a day from Sammy. She's first to the losers. She gets a supplementary prize.

No, I think she gets the name prize. The only prize. No, the best contribution has to get something. Think about like a silent auction. Like, right, think about a silent auction. You put your best bid in. Yes. So you want it to be the best, but if the person who comes second with.

But you walk away with nothing. Yeah. Yeah. So you wanted to be good. But not too good, but it can't be bad because you won't come second. Is that kind of the logic of when you're looking at a wine list, you get the second cheapest glass of wine. Don't get the cheapest?

Because you look cheap. Yeah, kind of. But the second cheapest should still be okay. I don't know. Because it's not the worst on the menu. Something in this, I think. You might have to fund that second prize yourself. I don't know if we can stretch it.

Why? What do you mean? We have one prize to give away each week for Cooker of the Week. Maybe give it to the second person. Like, yeah. Not everything needs to be rigid rules. We can change them up a bit. The bit.

Okay, well, we're going to be here for another hour. That was the Jess and Rowan podcast. The El Maco is back at Macs. Try the new range today.