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September 9, 2025 12 mins

Flower Power!

Max reveals his soft side in this week's Wall of Truth when he admits that he secretly wants his wife to buy him flowers. While we might expect the sporty, "blokey bloke" to shun flowers as too feminine, Max embraces the romantic gesture as a reminder of his grandfather's flower-selling days. His request for thoughtful yet inexpensive bouquets challenges gender stereotypes and shows us that real men can appreciate beauty.

Do you agree with Max that flowers aren't just for women? Tune in to hear Max break down gender stereotypes and restore our faith in masculine romanticism.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, we do this every day. One of us
is in the wall of truth.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
We have to answer the question, deeply personal question about
something in our lives.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
And today Max is in the wall of truth.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
And my question to you, Max is, what is the
one thing that you secretly want from.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Your marriage with your beautiful wife Eliza?

Speaker 4 (00:38):
My perfect marriage? How can I make it more perfect?
I will?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay, let me ask you this. Do you think I
am blokey bloke?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
H You could go either way.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
You're like full sporty alpha, but then you also have
really nice soft hands from.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Day in your life.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, No, I haven't really done a lot of hard work.
I reckon the answer. The thing that I would secretly
like in my marriage, small thing. I would love it
if I was given flowers every now and then.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Really, you're joking, No, I really like flowers.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I think that they're a nice gesture, not like a
full big bouquet or big roses or anything.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
What kind of flowers?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, I like to get Eliza flowers every now and then,
just little ones, like even daisies that last for a
long time and just a little splash of color. I
think it's just a really nice gesture to be, like,
here's a I thought of you while I was in
the market buying some dinner, and I got these for you.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
At what point would you like Eliza to buy.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
You flowers, like when you're sad, or your birthday, or
just because flowers?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I think just because flowers, but like not not all
the time, just honestly, honestly, honestly, like once or twice
a year.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
How would you feel if she sent those flowers to
your workplace, like at gentele ten and they were like
a bunch of.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Flowers for Max? Really you be embarrassed? Or would you?

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
If she got me one of those massive, like two
hundred dollar Boks back that's a bit excessive because I
only ever get like, you know, thirty or forty dollars,
little tiny things that just look nice.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Why does she know this?

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I've told her that I like flowers. I've never said
you must buy me flowers. I've hinted at him.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I love this about you. Do you know what's funny?
I remember when.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I first met you your Instagram store. You did this
story on this beautiful rose and rose in your garden.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm like, I've got this guy, I like two tone
roses that I'm trying to grow and they're just coming
back into bloom now.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yea, they're beautiful.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You love flowers. Where does this come from?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
My grandfather, my Italian grandfather. We called him Grandpa, but
he's technically a normal Frederico. Oh, Frederico Federico.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
When he came over here.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
One of the things he was doing for money was
like all of the Italians who would camp out on
pay Them Road and you know, like Felix Stow on Campbelltown, he.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Would sell buckets of flowers by the street. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
He had bunches of chrysanthemyms. Anthems are beautiful. Yeah, I
could get some Chrisanthetms. I'd love those. Yeah, And he
would sell those. And occasionally I'd like, you know, you
drive pass and give him a wave and you'd see
one hundred meters up the next Italian flowers sell using
the same thing for the same price.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Oh my god, this is really cute, and that's showing
them to make money though they don't really want the flower.
I feel like you're losing some man cards here. What
so your wife comes home brings you some flowers and
then you trim the little ins off and put them
in the VARs.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
And mate, it's twenty twenty five with your little dainty men.
Can't have flowers.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Boring who They're just nice.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm not saying to spend two hundred bucks on me.
It's just like thirty or forty bucks.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
You have it.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's nice, it's a nice gesture. It's a nice reminder
of like is are a beautiful thing?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Beautiful relationship rangers or petunias?

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Just anything with a little poper color, like honestly small
with little Papa cup.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
If you have the choice and Eliza says, hey, I'm
just going to swing by. I'll get you either a
cart and to be you're on the way home, or
a bunch of flowers, what would you choose?

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Definitely the flowers?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Who are you?

Speaker 4 (04:08):
I have a fridge with some beers in it. I
don't drink beers.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I love this is just so weird that this is
coming from you. Okay, I love this. You're you know
you're a footyman. You love your sport. Are you a
blokey bloke who loves girly things. I actually love this.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
Break down some stereotypes.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, because it sounds like you want you grew up
with sisters, but you didn't.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
You've just got one brother.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I can just appreciate four.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, I love it, okay thirteen one O two three.
If you're a blokey bloke who loves girly things, Jordan
and Freeling, are you a blokey bloke?

Speaker 6 (04:42):
Oh look, I'd like to think so of it. It's
those X Factor auditions to get me the golden buzz.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, Oh my god, they're really emotional ones.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
Look, I'm not quite sure if it's just because I
know that I don't have any talent and that's why
I'm crying, but like, it does get.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
To me so weird.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
What gets you, Jordan when you're sitting there like, because
all I can picture I don't watch these shows. All
I can picture are the ones where the people are
really bad in the auditions. What makes you cry? Oh?

Speaker 6 (05:07):
I think it's just you know, the talent that we
see on there. Like you guys, there was a guy
a couple of years ago with autism who couldn't talk,
and then he starts to sing and it's just beautiful.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh I love that too, that does see it? That's
really nice?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Do you like just spiral on Instagram? Or do you
send these to your mates and you cry together?

Speaker 1 (05:21):
How does it work?

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Look?

Speaker 6 (05:23):
It's just a meeting. And then my wife comes in
and sees me crying in the ball, so hm you wife, I.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Do it too, Jordan, Me and a mate send them
back and forth to each other, and I sit there
crying and I look for more to make myself cry more.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
And then do you film yourself on instagramaton for punishment?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Thank you, George, your big manly man. Appreciate that. Luke
and Williston.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Luke.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Something involving your girlfriend and a coffee scrub? Can you
talk us through this?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well?

Speaker 7 (05:52):
I started using a coffee scrub on my hands to
get the dirt and that off from work, and now
I use it in the shower on my face and
other parts.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oh, I'll be scrubs other parts.

Speaker 7 (06:04):
Like yeah, I make coffee scrub.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Sorry downstairs parts yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Why do you do this, Luke?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (06:11):
Because it just leaves as nice and soft.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
It does its job, It exfoliates.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
How long you've been doing that's right?

Speaker 6 (06:18):
That's right?

Speaker 7 (06:19):
My girlfriend makes for coffee strubs, So I don't know
if that.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Is good for your those kind of areas in your face.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Luke just said it leaves it soft.

Speaker 7 (06:28):
That don't done any harm.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
All right, well, and you smell like coffee afterwards.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
Two.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
There's a long black joke in there somewhere, but we're
not going to do it. Hey, Luke, thank you appreciate that.
Ryan and Andrews farm, Ryan and Andrew's farming.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
You're blokey bloke. He likes a girly thing.

Speaker 7 (06:45):
Yeah, no, mate, bubble bas doesn't love bubble bar.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
That is one of my great loves. Ryan taught me
through your perfect bubble bath.

Speaker 7 (06:54):
All right, all right, get some bath salts, some bubble bass.
Make it as hord as you can get it. Jump
in the shower, cold shower for a couple of minutes,
and then jump straight in the bar.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, and do you have any accessories? Like do you
have a little glass of champagne or something? While you're
in there?

Speaker 7 (07:09):
Do you wen just shut the headphones in and listen
to music And yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Okay, your headphones is bold. I like it.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
If you've got some waterproof headphones, I don't mind reading
in the bar. As well, do you that's.

Speaker 7 (07:21):
What the Yeah, shower cap for the headphones?

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Mate?

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Do you smart? You wear a shot?

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Can you please send us a photo of you with
a shower cap on the bar? That is amazing guys
with shower caps. First of all, it's so funny.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Are you going to protect those luscious lots? That Ryan
has a little bit of rados? So, damn boy, I'm
loving a bar.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
That's very good.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
That's right, Hey, Ryan, before you go, do you like
flowers too?

Speaker 7 (07:47):
I do like flowers, roses particularly, so they've got a
good sense to them.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'm learning about guys and I love this.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Can you we don't advertise it.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
I feel like that a lot of blokes would like
given to them, just as like even a once off.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, well, why don't we do that?

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Why don't we go and give some really blokey blokes
some beautiful fresh.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Flower Where we were northad Let we could find it
works out near here. Yeah, there's stuff going on on
O'Connell Street.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Eighty eight O'Connell. There's always people there.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
We'll get some flowers, we go to some trades, Oh
my god, flowers.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I think they'll love it.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
The boys will love it. Will make their day.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
Yeah, Okay, Max Burfort on a job site handing trades
bunches of flowers. Now right after this, you're gonna leave
right now. Eighty eato O'Connell Street, the new development there, Okay,
that's up next on mix. How do you Max, not
in the studio you guys come in North Adelaide, right.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, So a few minutes ago I said to Max
in the Wall of Truth, if you could have, like
make your marriage just a little bit better, what would
you do?

Speaker 2 (08:50):
And he said, I would like a lie to buy
me more flowers. Yeah, Max loves flowers.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I just think they're nice.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I just would like them as a little gesture of
niceness every once every six months.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
And it turns out a lot of guys in Adelaide
like girly things that is too scared to admit it.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, a whole bunch do.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Anyway, we've rocked up to a dy eight O'Connell here
where they're building this brand new massive building.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
There's a whole bunch of trades.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's like fifteen hundred trades already having a smoke. Oh
and it's not even an eight o'clock.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, and here we are with five bunches of flowers. Okay,
I just want to see if the boys share what
I feel.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, we've got hilltop fresh flowers. They are beautiful, big
bunches of colorful flowers. You've got a bunch of really
manly trades walking around.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Let's do it. Let's give some flowers out to some people.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay, come on, let's do this.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Missus man in the hard hat, Hey, how are you.
What's your name? Josh? Josh? Pleasure to meet you. You
would you say you're a blokey bloke? Yes, yeah, yeah,
definitely take some of them home for miss Josh. There
for you.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
See, this is the thing, right, So my thing, Josh
is that flowers. I think they're a nice gesture for
a bloke to receive every now and then.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Has anyone ever given you flowers?

Speaker 1 (09:57):
If I was to say to you right now, Josh,
this beautiful bunch here, wrapped in pink, dripping with a
bit of water, But like, that's for you, thank you,
that's to brighten your day.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Thank you very much. How do you feel? Yeah, fantastic,
It's good right.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
He's glowing from the outside. Congratulations, thanks warm, thank you.
Josh's another training over here.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, he's on the phone. He's doing some business. He's
just doing We'll get another one. We'll get this man
right here. Step on up. You've got the orange on,
You've got the big work boots on. What's your name? Andy? Andy?
Has anyone ever given you flowers? I personally know.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Have you ever thought she's gonna be nice once in
a while as a bloke to get some flowers?

Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's different, Yeah, it would be nice, different, but good.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
What's your favorite flower?

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Or can you name a flower?

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Andy?

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Probably lily?

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Maybe?

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Okay, that is that a lily? Halo lily. If I
was to pick this brunch up for you, here a
nice mixed bunch.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
There's some blues, there's some yellows, there's some unbloomed lilies,
and say these are for you Andy.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Oh beautiful, Thank you very much. He's tearing up.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Good.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, back to them very often does it? It doesn't.
And he's gonna get back to cladding and roofing at
the moment.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
What you can, Yeah, and then you can go get
your pedicure and your manicure at lunchtime.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
All right, thank you, Andy. We have another one here
is hello, sir. What's your name? Jack, Jack, Has anyone
ever given you flowers?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Jack?

Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, they haven't, No, they haven't. And what do you do?
What are you in the high views for? What's your
what's your training?

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Landscaper? Landscaper? So you in the flower game? Yes, And
it'd be.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Nice if once in a while someone said, you know what,
you deserve some flowers?

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Right?

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (11:36):
I reckon you deserve some flowers. Can I please give
you this nice bunch?

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Thank you? It's just for you, It's for no one else.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Can't double gifted purely for yourself to brighten your day?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I promise, yes, stop pretending that you don't like flowers.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Men love flowers.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
We all love them.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Guys. We have a lineup of about twenty other men
coming from are flowers, hard hats on everything. This is excellent.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
I've only got to.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Fight for the flowers.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
We're going to need some more boys. I got two
more real quick. Come on, anybody after some flowers. We've
got to shake your head from here.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Good them pretending they don't want surely.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, this man over here, Oh this is so good.
I'm going to hand out two more bunches of flowers.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
We'll do that.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
This has been amazing well done, Max.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
I think we're brightening some days.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
We really are.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
This is lovely myself.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Now all right, thank you guys, massive, massive, thank you
to Hilltop Fresh Flowers. These are the only guys I
get for flowers. Trust me, they're so good. Family owned
growers and wholesalers with over thirty five years in floral experience.
They do weddings, they do birthdays, everything in between. Flowers
for all occasions. Pick up or delivery. Just search Hilltop
Fresh Flowers. Leanna, we love you. Thank you so much, Haley,

(12:46):
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