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Whackhead Prank: Is your fridge running? · Darren “Whackhead” Simpson’s prank calls on Kfm Mornings

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so yesterday I was spectacularly busted by a very
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  Speaker 1: wise person who picked up a pattern of speech. And
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: he said, I know that's how you say things and
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  Speaker 1: that's what blew your cover. And then after that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there were actually quite a few people saying, you know what?
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Why don't you do some pranks and offer cons? I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a whole niche. The possibilities are endless.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so listen, I've been pranking people for 30 years.
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  Speaker 1: But I've actually been doing it since I was about
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  Speaker 1: eight on the telecom phone at home. I started with the, hey,
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  Speaker 1: phony from the Simba Chip Company.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Was that the OG prank?
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  Speaker 1: That was the original. I did that over and over,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody fell for it. I would get the telephone book.
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  Speaker 1: You know that thick, thick telephone book we all got delivered?
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  Speaker 1: And I would just go pick a number, and I
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  Speaker 1: would call. I'm from a simba chip company, and you
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  Speaker 1: can win a whole box of simba chips, but you
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  Speaker 1: need to roll like a lion. Every day.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Rawr.
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  Speaker 1: No more. Rawr.
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  Speaker 2: I want those chippies.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what? That's actually going to be my
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  Speaker 1: task today. Can that still work? I guarantee people will
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  Speaker 1: fall for it in 2026.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it made sense then.
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  Speaker 1: I was doing this in 1986. At home.
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  Speaker 2: Please find out. Does that prank still work in 2026? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: 40 years later.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's toss. Let me just run.
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  Speaker 4: Have we evolved as human beings or are we still.
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  Speaker 2: Going to roll for a chippy? Don't disappoint me, guys.
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  Speaker 1: So I was set a task yesterday by a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people who said, we want to hear you do
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  Speaker 1: it in Afrikaans. As you know, Afrikaans is not my
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  Speaker 1: first language. In fact, it's not even my sixth language.
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  Speaker 1: I understand very well, but I struggle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: You guys laugh at me and I'm cool with that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we don't laugh at you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, grammar and sentence structure, not great at it all.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm really trying to learn.
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  Speaker 4: Really trying to learn.
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  Speaker 1: And at this age, I don't know if I'm capable
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  Speaker 1: of learning another language. I've tried Duolingo. I've tried all
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  Speaker 1: these sorts of things. You know, I tried to learn
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  Speaker 1: Portuguese even. After day one, I sat there and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, this is never happening.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that you only lasted one day down.
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  Speaker 1: One day.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: One day. I was bottom of the class. And this
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  Speaker 1: was last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, forget it.
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  Speaker 2: Give it a chance.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, with the Afrikaans prank, I've got to go literally
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  Speaker 1: right back to day one. I've got to keep it simple.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to keep it basic. So, remember when you
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  Speaker 1: would do, well, when I, you might have. When you
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  Speaker 1: phone a place and you ask if their fridge is running.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, what do you mean yes, Brad? I did that.
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  Speaker 2: We all did these.
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  Speaker 1: 100%, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Did you call people? Yeah. To ask them if the
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  Speaker 2: fridge is running?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Is your fridge running? Let me go check. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Or run after it. And we'd laugh for days.
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  Speaker 2: What? Did you not do that? That was like the classic.
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  Speaker 1: That's our coming of age stuff. Yeah. Like that you
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  Speaker 1: had to do as a child.
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  Speaker 2: It's my little sister next to me. We were living
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  Speaker 2: different lives then.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought, let me give this a go.
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  Speaker 2: In Afrikaans.
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  Speaker 1: In Afrikaans.
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  Speaker 2: Does it work?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Werkt het?
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  Speaker 1: Miss Keen.
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  Speaker 2: Goedemorgen.
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  Speaker 4: Goedemorgen.
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  Speaker 1: Goedemorgen.
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  Speaker 3: Goedemorgen. Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Wel gaan, vang om!
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  Speaker 4: Oeh, hartloop.
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  Speaker 2: Hiya.
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  Speaker 1: Hello? Hello. Can I help? Ah, nee, nee. Dit was
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  Speaker 1: een grap. Oeh, okay. Ja. Dit is al wat ik
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  Speaker 1: heb om te zeggen. Oeh, okay. Okay, bye Frida. Bye.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: That felt so flat. Didn't work, eh? She didn't get it.
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  Speaker 2: You wasted that lovely moment.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I needed you to answer the phone yesterday, Sheridan.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: Please bring us, please just bring us more Afrikaans pranks.
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  Speaker 2: I sublieve.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but what would the correct phrase be there?
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  Speaker 2: For what?
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  Speaker 1: Is your fridge running?
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  Speaker 2: What are we talking about? Frida.
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  Speaker 1: Frida.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, be proud now.
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  Speaker 2: And it is Frida. Hello, Frida.
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  Speaker 1: Werk your ice glass.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is that it? Yeah. I see, then the joke doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: But still, loved it. More of it. Meer as de blief.
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  Speaker 4: Oor soek meer van jou poetsbakker.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll pedal beat the joke in.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So there was another one that we used to do.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Jack Daniels one.
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  Speaker 2: Another phone prank.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you phone a bottle store.
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  Speaker 4: And then?
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  Speaker 1: You've got Jack Daniels in a bottle there. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let him out.
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  Speaker 2: So calling a bottle store is crazy. It's like if
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  Speaker 2: you just get the line for the bottle store.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if it translated that. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, how are you? Good, thank you. That's very nice,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for asking. I just want to know,
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  Speaker 1: do you have Johan Daniels in a bottle? Johan? Jack Daniels? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want that now? Do you have that?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So you have Johan Daniels in a bottle?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Can you please exit him, because he has less acid
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  Speaker 1: in there. Because of what? Can you please sit him out,
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  Speaker 1: because he has less breath in there. Less breath?
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand, now.
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  Speaker 1: I have to do it for you.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Go on, Engels. You know Jack Daniels? Yes. He's in
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  Speaker 1: a bottle. Yes. Okay, but if his old name is
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  Speaker 1: Jack Daniels.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then if he's in the bottle, weird. Then he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have breath.
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  Speaker 4: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's a joke. Yeah, I know. And now? No,
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  Speaker 1: that's just what I want to say. Okay, thank you. Bye,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Bye. Bye. Guys, I'm not succeeding here.
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  Speaker 2: I love how every time you need to just explain.
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  Speaker 4: It's a joke.
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  Speaker 2: It's a joke.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to understand what you sound like. And you
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  Speaker 4: sound like when you put translate this sentence into Afrikaans
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  Speaker 4: into Google, and then AI spits out something, and that's you.
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  Speaker 4: You sound like that. Am I the only one who's
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  Speaker 4: thoroughly entertained?
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  Speaker 2: I mean more of this. I just learned that Jack
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  Speaker 2: in Afrikaans is your aunt.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's actually John, but I think John is
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  Speaker 1: a derivative of Jack.
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  Speaker 4: Don't look at me, bro.
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  Speaker 1: In Portuguese, John is João. Yeah, John is João.
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  Speaker 2: Actually quite complex and layered.
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  Speaker 1: There's John in every different language.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Eric says, I'm reliving my childhood here. It's your fridge running.
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  Speaker 1: I remember doing that on the old telecom phone.
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  Speaker 2: So it was the boys then.
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  Speaker 1: It was the boys. Well, he says, with my brothers
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  Speaker 1: as kids.
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  Speaker 2: Menace to society.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we had to entertain ourselves before social media.
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  Speaker 2: We had to be creative and find ways.
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  Speaker 1: 100%. Okay, listen, I have another one that is like
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  Speaker 1: the big closer. So we'd also phone the corner shop. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: do you have a Peter Stavis in the box?
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  Speaker 2: Let him out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, please let him out.
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  Speaker 2: Let him out.
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  Speaker 1: Peter Stavis in a box? Let him.
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  Speaker 3: Out.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, how are you? Nice, nice to meet you. Hello.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask, do you have Peter Stuyvesant
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  Speaker 1: in a box? In a box? Yes, do you have
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  Speaker 1: Peter Stuyvesant in a box? Can you please throw him
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  Speaker 1: out of the box? It's very dark in there. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. What are you talking about? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's a joke, ma'am. Peter Stuyvesant in a box. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: If it was a man. Okay. Then why am I helping? No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking if you have Peter Stuyvesant in a box. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I do. Yes, well, can you please throw him out
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  Speaker 1: of the door, because it's very dark in there. Oh
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  Speaker 1: no She was a little tired of you Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: that's day one You want more? I can level up
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  Speaker 1: Day two You can just do millions of these And
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  Speaker 1: I'm really trying.
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  Speaker 2: My best here.
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  Speaker 1: I can hear. But Shirlen, I need you on translation, please.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I have no notes. No notes.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm directly translating these. Yeah. No, I have no notes.
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  Speaker 1: And they don't seem to be working. I'm trying. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I even tried to phone Skog Poseidonote. Because you know
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  Speaker 1: he's on Wackers All-Star Comedy Jam next month. But he's in...
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  Speaker 1: He's in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: He's booked. He's busy.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, bro, I'm getting on a plane. I'm busy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just do it myself then, Skunk. It's Enrico Iglesias
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  Speaker 1: with Airscape here on KFM Mornings. Okay, you want more
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  Speaker 1: of those? Keep doing the Afrikaans pranks for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the year, please. I won't be able to sustain it,
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  Speaker 1: but I will give it a go.
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  Speaker 4: Can you at least try to give us like one
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  Speaker 4: Afrikaans puts per week?
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  Speaker 1: Per week is very nice. He can do it.
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  Speaker 4: Per quarter.
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  Speaker 3: RPA says, please stop.
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  Speaker 2: I can't laugh anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we've got some messages here.
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  Speaker 3: Darren, I think the problem is not the Afrikaans, it's
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  Speaker 3: the grammar. The way you're putting the words together, that's
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  Speaker 3: confusing everybody. I'm sorry, I'm laughing, but I think you've
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  Speaker 3: got to get the Afrikaans grammar right.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got me laughing with that French thing in Afrikaans, man.
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  Speaker 3: But try this one out and phone them up and
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  Speaker 3: say to them, All I'm hearing is... We used to
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  Speaker 3: phone a butchery and say, do you have a pig's head?
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  Speaker 3: And if the butcher went, yes, we would just go,
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  Speaker 3: you must look very funny.
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  Speaker 1: That's not bad. Silly's good sometimes. Silly's good. Okay, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for that.