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The NRL went into a frenzy when a sign writer made a mistake on the Townsville field, causing a profanity to be painted on it. An American 911 operator received criticism for his response to a call about two teenage girls fighting. A woman in Florida claimed God directed her to shoot at cars during a solar eclipse. The New South Wales government has cut school funding, forcing principals to teach. Lillymer op shop in Dubbo is holding a $5 bag sale. A man's response to winning the lotto went viral. You're waking up with the Central West Best Brekkie. On the Zoo. Coming up in just a sec, you may have seen somewhere that the NRL went into a frenzy last night because one of the sign writers for one of their fields, specifically in Townsville, ended up living out a few letters on the pitch. And it's caused an absolute uproar because it says words that probably don't belong on a pitch. As well as talking about 20 minutes from now, emergency operators, most of them absolutely brilliant, but a call that surfaced from overseas that may say otherwise for this specific person. Smash Mouth first, can't get enough of you baby, for your Wednesday morning. I can't get enough of the news. That had quite a tune behind. It's Keegan with you, the Zoo FM breakfast. Lewis Capaldi, your home of Devo's best music from the 80s to now. It's Zoo FM for your Wednesday morning. Sport. The NRL executive, they've gone into an absolute meltdown overnight after a picture was leaked of an unfortunate, is the word used, mistake on the Townsville Country Bank Stadium field. It was snapped ahead of the Cowboys and Titans which played over the weekend. The field is, you know, it usually does. It has words that read NRL, Telstra Premiership, you know, the shield on it, all in sort of white paint and it has the words footy country written underneath, underneath all the NRL and yadda yadda yadda. It appears, it appears somehow that three letters of the word country hadn't been painted yet, but not like in a chronological order. There was three letters in random places of that word missing, leaving a massive profanity the size of a bus just painted on the field in broad daylight. And it's a word that even if you Google it to find the news story, nobody can print it, nobody can say it. It's a very bad word, it is a very bad word, but the NRL, the governing body has ended up satisfied that the incident was an innocent mistake after hearing the on-field sign writer's explanation. So supposedly having a bus-sized profanity printed on the field is completely fine as long as it was an accident. I mean, I reckon the NRL should just run with the accidental slogan at Townsville from now on, because considering it is Queensland nonetheless. You're on ZOO's breaking. Nellie, 20 past 6, ZOOFM Breakfast. It's Keegan with you for your Wednesday morning. Top of 20 degrees today in Gilgandra, currently 4.5. Very cold this morning. Audio has surfaced online of an American 911 operator that presents possibly the 100% textbook example of how not to treat an emergency line call. Emergency operators, they do a job I could never do, honestly. And 98, well, 99.8% of them do a fantastic job that I think a lot of us couldn't even bring ourselves to even consider. But some people have argued this bloke's response to this call is warranted. It's warranted, because the call doesn't seem to be genuine. But others have said that he's an absolutely horrible human. Have a listen and probably make a decision for yourself. 911, what is your emergency? Yes, I need a police officer over here. What's going on? Um, I've got two teenage daughters, and they were physically fighting with each other, and one of them kicked a hole in a door. They're 12 and almost 14, and the 12-year-old is completely out of control, and I can't physically, if she's as big as I am, I can't control her. OK, did you want us to come over and shoot her? You make the decisions for yourself. I can constantly report that the call operator, he wasn't fired, and he still has his job today. I never imagined an emergency hotline becoming a platform to perform stand-up, but, you know, here we are. Hunters and Collectors. Wednesday morning, Zoo FM Breakfast. John Madabo's best music from the 80s to now. It's Keegan with you. Good morning to you. Cheers for your company this morning. 20 to 7. Black Velvet. Zoo FM Breakfast. John Madabo's best music from the 80s to now. Top of 20 degrees in Wellington today. Currently 6. Going to be sunny. Sunny right through the weekend till Sunday. Very crisp for this morning, I must say. And that's all I will comment on it, because apparently it's quite normal. Parts of the Northern Hemisphere experienced a total solar eclipse yesterday morning, and, of course, it brought out multiple claims of, the end of the world is coming, quick. Quick, do something. However, nobody actually genuinely believed and thought that someone would follow through on those claims, because you do realise they're a bit far-fetched. I'll be damned. A woman in Florida has claimed that God directed her to shoot at random cars on a highway during the total solar eclipse. So someone has actually gone and followed through on some of those statements. After checking out of a motel and informing the staff she was on her way to perform God's wishes, she proceeded to fire a handgun randomly at vehicles on a highway, supposedly directed to do it only during the solar eclipse. She was swiftly arrested by the police and no critical injuries were reported by authorities. Well, it's safe to say, next time you go and check in to a motel or hotel, you can't go and leave any notes related to God on the motel or hotel feedback sheets anymore. That's been ruined. You're on Zoo Breakfast. Paul Russell, 10 Minutes to 7, Zoo FM Breakfast. It's Jager with you. See you Wednesday morning. Very crisp outside, top of 20 degrees in Narrow Mind today, currently 6. Going to be sunny right through the weekend, all the way through to Sunday. Mid-20s is the top for most of the week, but overnight, oh, very, very cold. I've just seen here written that the New South Wales government has actually cut school funding, which will force principals back into the classroom. I thought that was unheard of. I didn't think principals actually acted as a teacher in a classroom. I mean, the whole time I was in high school and primary school you never would see the principal teaching a class, supposedly they've done a $148 million budget cut, which is the reason why it requires the principal to get back in the classroom. When I was in high school, I mean, the principal was just there to sort of dish out the punishment and sort of lay the law of the land. There was once where me and a couple of mates, we found this, it was a funny, a funny meme is probably the technical term for it, and I shared it on my Facebook story, the thing that sits there for like 24 hours and then disappears. I put it on there. Little did I know, someone had screenshotted it and decided to airdrop it, digitally sort of transfer it through the wireless system from their phone onto the projector of a classroom in front of about 35 kids. The meme, you know, wasn't the end of the world, but it wasn't entirely appropriate for the front of a classroom. So the principal brings us all in, as a principal does, and as they should do, sits us down and goes, Supposedly you've been putting these images up in this classroom. I go, I've no idea what you're talking about. Thinking, of course, as a kid you go, immediately deny everything and it'll all disappear. And that's when he, you know, he pulls out the piece of paper, slaps it on the table, and it's a direct screenshot of the meme with my name at the top because it was a screenshot of my story. And there was a single moment of the most intense backpedalling I've ever done in my life because there was no way I was going to be able to talk myself out of that. Bon Jovi, it's my life. Zoo FM Breakfast, Wednesday morning, home at Dubbo. Best music from the 80s to now. Kicking with you. Good morning. Doja Cat, 15 past seven. Top of 20 degrees today in Gilgandra. Currently seven and a half. Going to be sunny right through the week, right through till Sunday, lovely weekend ahead. A little bit slow at the moment on the Newell Highway out the front of the Ampol there in Gilgandra. Presumably the Ampol will be busy this morning. Now, Lillymer, the op shop here in Dubbo, they're holding a $5 bag sale of men's, ladies' and children's wear until this Friday. The $5 bag sale is on between 9.30am and 3pm daily at the Lillymer op shop at 122 Brisbane Street here in Dubbo. Coming up in just a sec, going to tell you the best response anyone could ever give. Full stop, undebatable, to the question of what would you do if you won the Powerball? I'll tell you next. Selena Gomez, 20 past seven, ZOOFM Breakfast for you Wednesday morning. It's your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Keegan with you, top of 20 degrees today in Trangie. Currently six and a half, going to be sunny right through the week up until Sunday. A little bit busy on the Mitchell Highway at the moment at Wongarbon. There's road work this morning, slowing people right down to 40km an hour. You should add a couple of minutes to your travel time if you're heading between Wellington and Dubbo this morning, especially around Wongarbon. Amanda's pulled off possibly the most hilarious, concise and well-planned response to the question of what would you do if you won the lotto? It's the most hilarious and concise one I've ever heard, ever known to mankind. It's just hands down undebatable. Angry Dad, the user of Instagram, was interviewed on the street for Sunrise and delivered this zinger of a response to the thought of winning Powerball or the lotto. What would you do if you were the lucky winner? Pack my bags and disappear and tell my missus I'm sick and I'll never be home again and she'll never ever know about it. I'm pretty sure he's had that response on the back burner for quite a while. I mean, they say if you think about something enough, it'll eventually come true. Maybe. Imagine dragons. Just eat. So cheap, quarter to eight. Zoo FM Breakfast is keeping with you on your home at Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Top of 20 degrees today in Wellington, going to be sunny, down to the 8 degrees. Incredibly chilly this morning, unfortunately. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. Jessica Moore, the Cultural Development Coordinator at Dubbo Regional Council, joins us this morning. Cheers for coming in again. My pleasure, Keegan. How's things been? I hear that the Japanese exchange program we spoke about last time, it's coming to a close soon. It is. Very shortly. We've only got a few more days before applications close for both students and chaperones. Just to recap, who exactly is eligible to apply? So for students, we're looking for students over the age of 15 years old. And really we're looking for kids who have an interest in representing the city, engaging with the world, becoming a global citizen, or anyone who's got an interest in particularly Japanese culture. It's a very different culture from ours and it's a really great opportunity if you have an interest in exploring life outside of Dubbo to really dip your toe in that water. What's the planned departure date and how long roughly are they over there for? So the students from Dubbo go over in about September and they're over there for just short of two weeks. But one of the things that happened earlier is that those students who are selected are actually going to host Japanese sister exchange students in Dubbo in June, July this year. So you get to host your students here, take them to school with you, show them Dubbo, and then later this year you'll go back and visit them in Japan, spend some time living with them, go to Japanese schools, go to Disneyland Tokyo, enjoy all of the different experiences of what it would be like to be a teenager growing up in Japan. So you've just touched on it briefly, but what's the sort of the rough itinerary look when they head over to Japan? So when you go to Japan you spend your first week doing the highlights of Japan. So particularly you get to experience Minakomo, go to some of the amazing cultural experiences and natural experiences around Minakomo, spend a few days in Tokyo, and then the second week you are embedded in the life of a Japanese high school student. You go to school with them, you live at home with them, you go to after hours curriculum activities, you go to class with them. So it's a really great opportunity to both go as a bit of a tourist and have a trip to Japan, but also to learn about what life is like for people in different cultures which is so important in an increasingly sort of interconnected world. A hundred percent. I mean that just covers all the bases. Absolutely. That's incredibly important. Absolutely. Does the council assist with any of the costs of heading over there? We do. So council provides $1,000 to each student to go. The costs are just short of $5,000 in terms of airfares at the time. Council does contribute to that because we understand cost of living is increasingly difficult, but we still think it's a very important program for our next generation of citizens to be connecting with our sister cities and bringing that sort of world view, that international world view, back to Dubbo. So that price you just quoted there, that's just the flights? Flights, accommodation, yes. That's all included. You're going to say, wow, that's an expensive flight. No, that makes sense. No, it's a full trip. How long has this program been running for again? It's been running for quite a while, hasn't it? Quite a number of years. So the Japanese sister city program has actually been with Minatamo. This year we'll be celebrating its 35th anniversary as a relationship. The exchange has been going a little bit less time than that, but it's cracking up to a close on 15, 16 years. That is quite a history. Long time, and some of the great students who went in the past now act as our chaperones. So it's a lovely kind of cycle of students who go contributing back to the program. With the previous years that have headed over, it's obviously only positive feedback that's come back, isn't it? Absolutely. Every student who goes comes back and says how life-changing it is. Just being able to connect with someone from a completely different culture, make lifelong friendships. But also I think we in Dubbo can feel a bit isolated sometimes, and that's really good for us to see how life in other countries is very similar. Teenagers all go through the same thing, and we're not so different in Dubbo. So it's a great way to kind of give students confidence and, you know, life experience while making them just feel so much better about where they want to go with their lives. Well, cheers for coming in for a recap and a chat this morning. Where can people head to find out more information about the exchange and to apply if they're interested? So all of the details are on the Dubbo Regional Council website. My best advice is just to Google Dubbo Student Exchange, and it will be the first thing that pops up. Application form, all of the details are already there. Brilliant. Thank you so much. My pleasure. Cheers. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. Morgan Wallen, Quarter Past Date, Zoo FM Breakfast. Top of 20 degrees today in Wellington. Currently 10. Going to be sunny today and right through the end of Sunday. Quick correction about the crash that was reported a couple of minutes ago out the front of Elston Park in Dubbo on Cobra Street. It's actually heading east, not west. The traffic slightly backed up there. Also very busy on Darling Street as well. I'm not sure if that's a fallback from the crash, but there's a crash out the front of Elston Park heading east at Dubbo. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. Marisa Nicholas, Head of Research at the East Safety Commission joins us this morning. Cheers for coming on the show. Thanks for having me. It's now more than ever that kids are taking part in gaming online in their spare time, isn't it? Yeah. I think our research, we've just done some research and we found that many young people and children are gaming online. I'm sure it would seem like an absolute world away for parents to understand. But do the benefits of kids playing video games actually outweigh the risks or is it the opposite direction? Well, I think it's really about there are benefits and there are risks. I think what we often hear about are the risks but maybe less so about the benefits. And what our research found is that, and I think this is like a common paradox of the online world for children and young people, is that the online world can have harms but there can also be incredible benefits. So our research found that gaming makes young people happy and it can be an escape from tough times, connects them to their friends, it helps them to learn and it offers mental health benefits. So how exactly can a parent make sure that their child is really gaining the benefits of video games rather than probably being disadvantaged by it? Sure. So what we actually heard from children and young people is that they actually want their parents and carers to be actively involved and that this can actually keep their kids safer when they're playing online games. So when parents ask questions, show interest, show curiosity or even actually play games with their kids that they enjoy, we heard that young people are more likely to go to them if something negative happens. Do you have any suggestions on how a parent can actually get involved with playing video games with their kids? Sure. Well, and I think the good news is that what we've done in our research is actually most young gamers, particularly pre-teens, actually want their parents to play games with them. So good news for parents and actually many teens as well indicated that they love their parents to play. I think this is an awesome opportunity for parents to actually kind of ask their kids to teach them and also to just open that space for like, hey, do you reckon I could play that game with you? Can you teach me how to play it? I think there are also some games that are easier to play than others. So actually, you know, I have young kids. I can't really get Minecraft. There are some games. I just can't get the space but, you know, there are some games where you can change the settings so like I don't, my character doesn't, you know, get hurt as much. Yeah, yeah, right. So yeah, there are different games and there's also lots of cooperative games that you can access which is rather than kind of competing against one another, you're actually playing together to reach a common goal. And there are often really great games to play with children and young people as well. Just hold there a sec, Marisa. We're going to take a break for just a brief moment. I want to come back and just touch on the fact of it being all the dialogue we're hearing is that parents need to step in and they're the ones who need to bear the responsibility and they're the only ones doing anything. I want to ask if kids are themselves taking steps to be safe online and win gaming. Quick break, back in a sec. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. This is 2FM, your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now for your Wednesday morning. We're talking to Marisa Nicholas who's the Head of Research at the eSafety Commission on staying safe online while playing video games, especially for your kids. And maybe just giving you a couple of tips on if you're not sure how to approach it and to make sure that they're playing safe online with other people across the planet because that's just how the internet is these days. With some of the dialogue around that we've been hearing, it might seem like it's all on the parents to sort it out. But are kids themselves taking steps to stay safe while gaming? Yeah, absolutely. And it's really reassuring actually. What we found is that almost all young gamers were proactive about their safety. Almost all took steps to try and stay safe online. This has included about 80% who restricted who they played with or who they talked to and more than 50% who said they didn't share any personal information while gaming. I think it can be really a bit daunting and unfamiliar place for parents and carers, like you said. But we have lots of resources on esafety.gov.au where parents can go to learn about this world and how to better support their child. Just before I let you go, in your opinion as a professional in video game and online safety, is Minecraft or Fortnite better? I'm not sure if there's an official position from any safety commission on that one. No, no official position. Personally, my personal opinion, watching my kids play Minecraft, I would go with Minecraft. I would 100% agree. It's quite a controversial view amongst children and young people out there. Cheers for taking the time to come on and have a chat this morning. Where can people head again to find out some more information from the eSafety Commission? Sure, they can head to esafety.gov.au. Brilliant, thank you so much. Okay, great, thank you. Cheers, see you. You're on Zoo's Breakie. Juleepa, 20 to 9, Zoo FM Breakfast. Getting with you on your home with Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Top of 20 degrees today in Trangie, currently 11.5, going to be sunny. We've all heard or experienced ourselves, stories of roommates in a house share doing wild things, strange things, questionable things, probably a better term to use, or maybe some of the most disgusting acts you've ever seen in your life. However, a bloke online, he's just topped the list of the most worrying yet blasé acts ever committed by a housemate. It probably takes the top of the list. And supposedly they do it almost every single day without noticing. Reddit user Diego says he's put into motion plans to move out and break a lease after his housemates of two years and the housemate's girlfriend constantly leave the gas line on after using the stove. Just leave the gas on afterwards. He says that for over a year and a half I've constantly come home to the smell of gas fuming the entire house, and whenever he cooks I immediately begin stressing out. But yes, I probably would as well. The smell of gas isn't entirely pleasant. The smell of gas from humans isn't pleasant, let alone the one that they manufacture and put through pipes. But he stresses out, so I'm imagining in my head the housemate finishes up with the stove, pulls out this nice creamy tomato and spinach pasta bake, he's being served it, and the old mate is sitting in the corner sweating because he's afraid the whole house is going to explode. Supposedly the leak sometimes gets to a point that it's obviously filled the entire property to a certain degree. Obviously not enough for people to start passing out, but it's filled the entire house. Very dangerous. Incredibly dangerous. You'd obviously, in that property itself, not be a fan of scented candles. You're on Zeus, Brecky. Coldplay, Clocks. It's been around for a while, that song. I haven't heard it in ages. It's gonna be sunny today, it's over 20 degrees in Davo, 21 in Cobar. Your full weather, just a couple of minutes away after the local and national news. That wraps up Zoo FM Breakfast. It's gonna be a massive show tomorrow, however I can't remember what's on it, so I can't tell you. You ready? Our work is next. Zoo Brecky.