🎙Tell us your Group Chat Names - The Chat
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Why are group chats becoming a daily headache for everyone?
So something that I feel like is near and dear to a lot of people's hearts at the moment, there's a million in 2026, million group chats. You are in 100,000 group chats. Most of them that you don't want to be in, some of them that you do. Then there's group chats about the group chat. There's side group chats. There's main group chats. Sometimes it can be hard to keep track of what group chat's what. Sometimes you put the wrong message into the wrong group chat.
So I would say you've got to be very careful with that. You're talking about your WhatsApps.
Yeah, WhatsApps, Facebook messengers, text threads as well, just on your iPod phone. Yes.
Yeah, I mean, as a parent, you get embroiled in a whole lot of these because there's a lot of sports groups that you've got to be part of, and you've got to be very careful in those.
Boy, you've got to be careful.
Ruda
accidentally messaged the wrong group chat once, the Riverhead Raptors.
Oh, I don't think he'd be the only person out there currently listening. Definitely not. I think there'd be a lot of people. I mean, there's been people that have been known to put the wrong photo in there. Yes.
What are the funniest “wrong‑chat” stories the hosts have experienced?
Or on certain messaging apps, you can set your own name on the app. For example, here at work, we started a group chat just to talk about a fantasy basketball league we had. That same person downloaded WhatsApp for the first time, entered their name, and then was added to some work group chats on WhatsApp as well. Forgot the name he had entered into WhatsApp that was now on all of these official work group chats was Stonelomu.
Oh, no. And a picture of Jonah Lomu. Okay, so this is the thing. When you start and you're involved in the kids' sports ones.
And you're showing up.
Stoner Lomu.
Stoner Lomu.
You've
got problems there. Hey, guys, I can wash the jerseys this week.
Yeah. My one that I'm a member of a number of groups, but one of the main ones is the men's support group. Now, that says a lot about my age and stage in life.
Is that just the sincere earnest?
The men's support group is a lot of my friends from school. Yeah. And so we have our men's support group. Nowadays, we're mainly – the men's support
group used to get
together sort of twice a year for a dinner of some kind. But nowadays, we mainly just text each other via the men's support group. Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm also part of the Hauraki Breakfast. Yes. And? And
what else
are you? And look a number of other
ones. I'm in a couple of family group chats. One of them is just called The Stuarts. That's my last name. Another one is called The Banana Boat Gang. Keezy's in that one. Years ago, we ended up on a banana boat. We took a banana boat from Whitianga to Cathedral Cove, which I reckon is the longest voyage by a banana boat
in history. That's
impressive.
It's
so far. That's impressive. Five hours. Fun on a banana boat, don't we? Yeah, it was fun. So we took to social media last night and we wanted to know because we know that there's a lot of unhinged group chat names out there. So I'm not going to pre-read these either. We're just going, all right? BSA be damned. Are you sure? No, I'm not sure, but I'm going to do it anyway. Sean writes, Old Man River and the Bird Watchers. Okay.
Which weird WhatsApp names do the hosts and their families actually use?
We got away with
that
one. Jordan writes, dead Cooper's society. That's the mates chat. Born to bust, forced to retain. That's another mates chat. And then Cooper weather watch is his family chat.
Really?
Okay. Born to bust. Corey writes, future shotgun polishers. My brothers and I all have daughters. Wow. So they're going to be polishing the shotguns. There's
some creativity going on
here,
isn't there?
Keegan writes, pre-lubed anus for saddle club contractors limited. Okay, I'm going to distance myself from that one. Jade writes, why he retirement village? That's our siblings chat. We're mostly in our 40s. Brother thinks he's funny. He's renamed it giving us girls shit. That's not bad. Swingers for life. Right, it's Jason. Yes. Our band is called the Sunbeam Swingers. Okay. Family group chat is called Mum What's For Dinner. Mate's group chat is called Manipause. Ours is called Use This One because we had so many side group chats going on we're all getting confused.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why are group chats becoming a daily headache for everyone?
0:00–1:09
2
What are the funniest “wrong‑chat” stories the hosts have experienced?
1:09–3:29
3
Which weird WhatsApp names do the hosts and their families actually use?
3:29–6:07
4
How do listeners’ submitted group‑chat names reveal hidden creativity?
6:07–8:12
5
What are the most outrageous group‑chat titles shared on the show?
8:12–9:42
6
How do work and hobby group chats get their quirky identities?
9:42–10:58