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On the show this morning: - The Microsoft Excel World Championships - Where have you gotten lost? Tourist falls into volcano crater taking selfie - CALLS: Where have you gotten lost? - GUEST: Mathew Dickerson - Tech Talk - GUEST: Simone - Dubbo Taronga Zoo Giraffe Keeper - GIVEAWAY: Dubbo Zoo Annual Pass via the 'Vocal Olympics'
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On the show this morning: - The Microsoft Excel World Championships - Where have you gotten lost? Tourist falls into volcano crater taking selfie - CALLS: Where have you gotten lost? - GUEST: Mathew Dickerson - Tech Talk - GUEST: Simone - Dubbo Taronga Zoo Giraffe Keeper - GIVEAWAY: Dubbo Zoo Annual Pass via the 'Vocal Olympics'
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An official list of words that should not be Googled has been released. The list includes words like larvae, de-gloving, and fawnier, which all have disturbing or graphic search results. In other news, there is a Microsoft Excel World Championships where people compete in filling out formulas and creating tables. The competition has its own commentary and is surprisingly popular. A tourist had a misadventure by attempting a risky selfie on Mount Vesuvius and ended up falling into the volcano. Listeners were asked to share their own misadventure stories, with one caller mistakenly entering someone else's caravan at a music festival. The caller's embarrassing encounter didn't ruin their enjoyment of the festival. It's breakfast on 927 Zoo. Coming up later this morning, another chance for you to win those Taronga Zoo annual passes. You can literally go to the zoo for 365 days straight, if you so please. And also your chance to grab some stock Root Music Festival tickets as well. But coming up in a couple of minutes, an official list, an official capacity list has been released of the words you shouldn't Google, the ones you shouldn't be typing into the search bar. Some of them unsurprising, others I've never heard of in my life. DJ Snake and Justin Bieber are going to start us off. Let me love you. It's a Wednesday morning, Zoo FM breakfast on your home at Double O's Best Music from the 80s to now. Let's get on with you. Good morning. Take me to church, 25 past 6. Top of 26 degrees today in Dunedoo. Currently 8.5, possible thunderstorm and rain later this morning. While we all may have an idea of the words that you really don't want to drop into Google, because for quite obvious reasons I imagine, especially while on the work internet. An official list has been released overnight informing us of what to avoid like the plague in a search bar. The word larvae tops the list. It sounds incredibly innocent. You know, larvae, the bits of sort of insect babies, I guess, is probably not the scientific term for them. But if you dig too far into the results, apparently you'll come across photos of a condition called mouth larvae, where the eggs hatch in a roof of a person's mouth and slowly crawl out. Lovely. That's not what I want to see at 24 past 6 in the morning. Probably not at all. Next on the official list of words not to Google, de-gloving. If you don't know what de-gloving means, and it's not what happens when you put down the tools of an afternoon and take your gloves off at work, don't search it. It doesn't even need an explanation. You do not want to search that term. And last but not least on the official list of words not to Google, fawnier. I've never heard of this word before, but it's supposedly a popular French surname. And if you forget the first name, if you're searching up someone that's French, you'll end up on a page, and it's about an apparent acute skin-destroying rash of the downstairs region. Horrifying. Absolutely horrifying. The more you know, the more you know these words. It wasn't actually personally, me myself, I wasn't planning on searching any of these any time soon. Now that I know what they mean, I won't be anyway. I'm amazed something like meatspin wasn't on the list. Don't Google that either. All these terrible words. But at this point now, from this moment onwards, you can't tell me that I didn't teach you anything. We're an educational show here on Zoo FM Breakfast. 25.56, Wednesday morning in your home at Dubbo's Best Music from the 80s to now. It's Keegan with you, cheers for your company. Ten minutes to seven, Zoo FM Breakfast, your home at Dubbo's Best Music from the 80s to now. Top of 26 today in Dundee Do. Currently seven and a half. As it turns out, to my complete and utter disbelief, there are such things as the Microsoft Excel World Championships. You know, the spreadsheet program that just develops absolute horrific hell in your life if you ever use it. People actually compete over it. A competition for the spreadsheet program. Contenders take to a stage in front of about 150 people and compete by filling out formulas and creating tables in order to score points. And no, they're not constructing wooden tables. They're filling out little cells on the page. What takes me even further by surprise is there's commentary. There is commentary for the championships. And the commentary for the Microsoft Excel World Championships actually trumps something you hear during the UFC 300 from the commentators there. Have a listen to this. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yes, yes. See, see. That's it. See, see. See, see. Oh, my gosh. See, see. He probably was sitting on points. This is bold. This is bold. Look at him crossing his arms. No, no. He's flexing. He's flexing. He's flexing. He's flexing. What is he doing? What is he doing? The Microsoft Excel World Championships right there. That's what it's... Fuck. What the world is going on? I love the enthusiasm. I absolutely love it. And the vision. The vision. All it is is some bloke going and typing in a couple of numbers. It's amazing. I mean, if you remove the context from that little bit of audio that I just played, and you played it late at night in a dimly lit room, I probably imagine, unfortunately, it would be taken in an entirely different direction by people overhearing it. Nellie, ride with me. Five minutes to seven. Do it in breakfast. Do you love Microsoft Excel? I don't. Keep it with you. Ten past seven. LMC and U2. Take Me to the Clouds Above. A brilliant remix. Good collaboration there. Top of 26 degrees today in Gilgandra. Currently ten and a half. Chance of rain and a thunderstorm later this morning, but sunny otherwise. We've all had a mishap at one point, wandered off somewhere we shouldn't, gotten lost or fallen over, it's safe to say, in some form of misadventure. I want to ask you, six double eight four, eight four double nine, the phone number, when have you had a misadventure? We've all had a misadventure at some point, wandered off in some place we weren't supposed to be and been escorted out by security without realising what happened. I'll throw in a double pass to the Stockgroove Music Festival. It's the first coming to Dubbo this weekend with massive names set to perform for the absolute best corker of a story this morning. Six double eight four, eight four double nine. What's your misadventure? When have you had a misadventure? A tourist has had a misadventure of his own after he attempted to take a risque selfie while standing on top of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. I'm sure we've all heard of Mount Vesuvius at some point. It's some sort of volcano of some degree. He'd taken a completely forbidden, 100% forbidden route up the side of the volcano to maximise his likes or his online ego. And he'd gone for a selfie shot alongside the crater, sort of leaning over it backwards, trying to get his head in the photo with the crater behind him. He slipped, fallen straight down into the volcano and burst into flames immediately. No, no, he didn't burst into flames. He ended up with a proper bruise all over his back and rolling for about 40 metres down into the crater like a Teletubby. It was brilliant footage. Three different divisions of emergency services all had to be called in to winch him to safety out of the crater of the volcano. So I need to ask, six double eight four, eight four double nine, what's your misadventure? When have you had a misadventure? Preferably you haven't fallen into a volcano, but we'll create a judgement-free space here and you'll also score yourself a double pass to the Stock Root Music Festival coming to Dubbo this weekend with the absolute best corker of a story. Six double eight four, eight four double nine. Come have a chat. Kid Leroy, 22 minutes past seven for your Wednesday Morning Zoo FM Briefings. Top of 26 in Narromine today. Currently at ten and a half. Possible thunderstorms and rain later this morning. Now, a tourist had a misadventure by falling into Mount Vesuvius while trying to take a selfie. Yeah, that's not the place you want to fall into, I'd imagine. I asked you, six double eight four, eight four double nine, when have you had a misadventure? When have you actually wandered off into a place maybe you shouldn't have been or you've been escorted out or you've fallen over somewhere? Let's head to the phone. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. Phoebe, have you had a misadventure? Oh, yes. When I heard you on the radio this morning I was like, I have to bring up. BNC Rocks last year. Oh. And we were camping and, you know, after a few too many Bundy and rums I was like, oh, I think it's time to go back to the caravan. Brilliant, very responsible of you. Yes, yes, I thought I'd go back and, well, I only went to the wrong caravan. I stormed in there and there were some people laying down on the bed doing some things that I wouldn't even tell my mother about. I was adamant that it was my van and I was telling them to get out. You tried to evict them from their own caravan. Yes, and then I realised that it was not the sheets that I put down and I'm like, oh, then they've changed the sheets. You went all the way through it. You'd stuck to your guns. Yes, but then my husband rang me and he said, where are you? I'm at the van. And I said, well, I'm at our van. And he goes, well, I can't see you. And I realised that it wasn't my van and I really hoped I would never see those people again. I don't think I did because it's quite a big crowd at CMC. Yes, yes. Oh, my word. What was the reaction of the people in their own caravan? Well, I think they may have been a little bit tipsy as well. And they were like, oh, three's not a crowd. Oh, God! And it was just, it was heading downhill very, very quickly. Yes, yes, I'd imagine so. Phoebe, that is something else. It sounds like you had a good recovery and did you enjoy the rest of the festival at least? Oh, I just love CMC and we're planning on going back next year despite the misdemeanour. And hopefully, not that they were ever involved, but let's hope no one else heard about it. Yes, hopefully, just put a massive logo on the side of your caravan this time, just in case. I mean, I have full confidence in you. Yes, definitely. We'll paint it yellow. If you were heading to the stock route this weekend, who are you most excited to see? I think Travis Collins. Everybody's been saying that. He must be very popular. I went to CMC when we were there and, oh, he's just fantastic and I love how he's a hometown grown, you know, he stayed in Australia and kept country music alive. Brilliant. Well, Phoebe, I mean, after that, I'd say embarrassment, but it was more just making memories at CMC Rocks. I'm going to give you the double pass to Stock Route this weekend. Thank you so much. No worries. And if you'd like to head to Stock Route Music Festival this weekend to see acts like Dan Davidson, Travis Collins, as we mentioned, Ashley Dallas, the big, massive country music names, you can head to www.thestockroute.com.au. Morgan Wallen, almost 20 minutes to 8 o'clock. It's UFM Breakfast Wednesday morning. Matt Dickerson is in for Tech Talk. Good morning. Good morning. How are you going today? I'm all right. Every time we have these chats about Tech Talk, I feel as if we're stepping one direction in the realm of Terminators, but also one step backwards, depending on the news of the day. And I've seen here, which it seems like, I'm amazed this hasn't happened yet, paintball and home protection mixing them together. Why not? That seems like a pretty good plan. Exactly. Can you just imagine someone sitting around planning for their next product, and they go, I know, what about cameras that have got like a paintball gun built into them, and everyone would have laughed and said how silly that is, and said that would be pretty funny, but they've actually developed it. So this is, and we've also developed it, this is actually a start-up that's in the process of development. So if you want to put it on your house today, you can't quite do that. But if you want to put it on your house soon, sure thing, go and sign up, you'll be one of the first people to get this. So essentially, it's a camera, a security camera. Now we know, and I've seen some of those security cameras that have got some pretty cool AI tools built in. So they'll identify, and you watch them on the screen, and they'll put a little blue square around a person that walks around, a person that approaches the house. A dog or a cat or a car doesn't do that. So they're clever enough to pick that up. This one goes a step further. When you're in armed mode, then it sees that person, it gives a little warning, and then it actually starts shooting out little paintball pellets. Now, that is something else. You can imagine in America, it might be shooting out real bullets, but obviously, well, yeah, maybe. There's enough detection of, or enough potential errors where it might get it wrong, that it doesn't want to do anything lethal or deadly. It just wants to say to someone, go away, pick on someone else. It's a deterrent. It's a deterrent, that's right. It's a non-lethal defense that we'll talk about. It actually has the option as well, this is an optional extra, of tear gas pellets. That's taken it maybe a step too far. You walk up to someone's house and you start getting tear gas pellets. Now, the things you start to think about are things like, what about if you're a delivery person, you're not going to deliver to that place anymore. So you can actually put in there ways to detect various things, such as a delivery person. You get an alert on your phone as well, so that you know that you can say, actually, that's a delivery person, authorise that person to come along. Open fire. That's right. Or, I don't know that, looks like Keegan. Keegan sent me to come around today, open fire. I don't know what it does with Hari Krishnas or with anyone that might be doing some sort of delivery of pamphlets, that sort of thing, if they're coming up to your door to put them under the door. But, again, when we do talk about home security, then this is saying, let's use all the technology we've got, we've got wonderful CCTV, let's add a bit of AI into the mix and then add some non-lethal deterrents in there. Maybe not the tear gas. We'll skip out on the tear gas. They're not lethal still, so. Another thing I ended up seeing, especially considering you're over in Japan recently, and mainly just in East Asia, is these magnetic, I think it's what, maglev trains? Yeah, and in Japan, they use shink and sand, which run on normal train lines. You look at the train lines, you go, well, how come they can go three times as fast as our trains? I think they're just very good, very straight train lines and very good trains. But in China, they do use maglev. So, it's a bit like levitation. You do actually have some magnetic levitation. Magic. It is a bit like that. And their trains already go fast. I've been on one where I've pulled out my phone and run the little speed app, speed order app, that I've got on there. It ticked over 400 kilometres an hour. They have got trains that do actually tick over. I'm sure they've got some that do over 500 kilometres an hour in China. I can't imagine going that fast on a train. On a train, that's insane, isn't it? But the, because it's maglev, you don't feel the normal clickety-clack of a normal train line. It is feeling like you're floating on air because essentially the magnets in the actual track and the train itself actually levitate you. So, you are actually going on air. They've got wheels on them so when it slows down and gets to a stop itself, you can actually run on wheels. But essentially, it's running on air or levitating on magnets. But with their new ones, they're reaching speeds of 623 kilometres per hour. But they're not happy with that. They're saying, we can do better than that. They've started doing some low vacuum tubes. And you might have seen some stuff from Elon Musk. Hyperloop or something along those lines. Yeah, something similar to that. So, they're doing some designs along that same concept. And they're doing some tests in a two kilometre low vacuum tube. Now, obviously this is a bit like being up in an aeroplane. You've got a very low vacuum environment outside, i.e. up at 10,000, 12,000 metres. There's not much oxygen up there for you to breathe. So, it's a pressurised plane that you're in. And these trains are the same. They're a pressurised train. They're putting them in low vacuum tubes. And that's what they've been doing, these 623 kilometres an hour. But they think they can reach speeds of 4,000 kilometres an hour. Now, Mach 1, the speed of sound is around about 1,200, depending on elevation, about 1,200, 1,220 kilometres an hour. So, we're talking about three times the speed of sound. That would go faster than a military jet. You're right. In a train. And so, you get to the point where you're really saying, why do we even need planes? I mean, planes are convenient and you can go to any airport, so you don't have to go along that same track. But for common routes around China, you can imagine going at 4,000 kilometres an hour, it opens up so much of the land. Now, again, you can't do this today. You can't go to China, jump on a train. The best they've been able to get so far is 623. But even 623... That's so impressive. The turboprop planes that fly from Dubbo to Sydney typically fly around that 600, 650 kilometres an hour mark. So you're going the same sort of speed as those turboprops that we fly when we go in a plane. What sort of speed does the XPT do? Oh, yeah. I reckon it tops 110. Double digits. Yeah, yeah. A couple of times down here it might get to 110, but most of the time it's clicky-clacking along at about 70 or 80, I reckon. So that's the thing. Imagine doing that. Even at 623 kilometres an hour, imagine saying, Keegan, we'll be back in an hour or so, just going to duck down to Sydney, do a bit of shopping and we'll be back, going down there at maybe 40 minutes down to a trip to Sydney. So that would be quite fascinating. That is just incredible. Yeah. And the great part about trains, one thing I've always noticed with trains, especially in places like Japan where they run on time to the second, they're on time. Oh, 100%. If you're flying, as you know, you've got to be half an hour before the flight goes and then you need a little bit of extra time up your sleeve just because, and then you need to get your luggage through all the security and then you've got to get to the airport, which is typically a bit out of town in Dubbo. It might be eight minutes away, but in other places it's a bit further away. So the computing time you've got to have there means you've got extra time up your sleeve. With trains, if it leaves at 9.00, you can turn up at 8.58 and still walk on. Walk onto the train and you're typically closer to the centre of the city. So you go from the centre of the city to wherever else you're going to another centre of the city and get out and you're there where you want to be. So if you can get train travel up to, it doesn't have to be as fast as a jet. If you can get close to that, then the time you save at each end of the trip means you're probably and probably more reliable. You have fewer delays on trains than you do on planes. So yeah, I look forward to a 4,000 kilometres an hour Dubbo to Sydney. I've had a great reflection this morning on our current public transport and trains. I've got to say. Thank you for coming in, Matt. It's always fascinating to hear about what's going on with technology. My pleasure, Keegan. Cheers, mate. Check out ZOOFM on Facebook for more. Wednesday morning ZOOFM Breakfast your home at Dubbo's. Best music from the 80s to now. Top of 26 degrees today in Narrowmine. It's 13 and a half at the moment. Thunderstorms expected later this morning. Sunny otherwise. The phone number you'll need to get the ZOO annual pass in a couple of minutes. Not right now. In a couple of minutes. 6884 849. That's 6884 849. Couple of minutes away but first, of course. Simone, a giraffe keeper at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo joins us this morning. Cheers for coming on the show. So easy. Good to talk to you. How are the giraffes doing at the moment with all this new bustling activity due to the school holidays? They're actually enjoying watching all the public go past. I think they get as much enjoyment out of seeing the public and the people walk past as the people do of looking at them. How many giraffes does the Western Plains Zoo actually have living there? We actually have 20 of them. We have a bachelor group out on our savannah which has seven individuals and we have our breeding group which is on the main circuit there and there's 13 of them there. That's a lot of giraffes. Do they have names? Yes. They all have their own names and as you can expect we sometimes do get a few mixed up but they all have their own names and personalities. That's incredible. Can you tell me some of the names of the giraffes? We have Tuli and we have Asmara, the Tombi, our breeding bull out there which is Matoto. We've got Naya, Zani, Zambezi, Amanzi. Those are some very creative names I must say. Yes. We try and stick with the African theme. Yes, of course. There's actually an opportunity for people to feed the giraffes isn't there? Yes. Definitely. Every morning we do what's called Giraffe in Focus where people can purchase tickets and they can come out onto a platform that we've got that extends out into the exhibit and they can hand feed the giraffe carrots. Brilliant. What sort of time does that run every day? We do that at 10 o'clock every day. I've seen some photos of the encounters feeding them. I generally need to know why they're so long. Giraffe are browsers so they like to eat the leaves and the twigs and the branches off trees. They also like to eat the bark. But because they don't have hands or fingers to do that they use their tongue. So their tongue is about 45 centimetres long and it's very tensile so it acts as their hand and it reaches out. It has like a grip to it too so it's like a sandpaper feel and it can grab a hold of the leaf or the twig and then they can pull it down and then into their mouth and chew. Oh my word. That is quite a complicated tongue as well. But however, if I saw giraffes with hands and fingers I'd be slightly concerned. So I'm glad that they've got it. It's frightening actually, yes. What other encounters are there available at the zoo? We've got quite a few. A large range of them ranging in different prices so that we cover for quite a few different price levels for people. So we have the giraffe encounter of course. We've also got a meerkat encounter. We have a Savannah Safari experience where you can hop on a bus and drive around our open range Savannah exhibit which has quite a few different species out there. We've also got the lion encounter we do as well and we also have all our early morning walks. I actually saw the Giants of Africa walk. What's that all about? So that's one of our new ones that we've got going. What people do is they go for a walk behind machines. They can come up and have a look at our giraffe house and see how we have it all set up there for the giraffe to come in at the night. Then they get to go around and feed some of the giraffe as well. And they also stop by and meet our white rhinos on their way back to their road. Well, cheers for coming on for a chat this morning, Simone. One last question. Do giraffes sleep standing up? They can do, yes. They have little catnaps sort of standing up. But when they're feeling relaxed and safe they will lay down and sort of tuck their head down behind their back leg and have a good snooze. Right. If I was a creature as tall as them I don't know how you would get back up again. But still, that's absolutely fascinating. It's quite a process for them. Cheers for coming on for a chat this morning. No worries. You're more than welcome. If you'd like to head down to Taronga Western Plains you can head to www.taronga.org.au Just head to the Dubbo section. You can book tickets and any of those encounters you were just hearing about. Otherwise, your chance to win an annual family pass as a zoo friend. Two adults. Two kids. With unlimited entry for 365 days. And also discounted prices within the zoo stores. Your chance is up next. Let me tell you. Paul Russell. Cornerfast 8. Zoo FM Breakfast. Your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Top of 26 degrees today in Dunedoo. Currently 11. Chance of rain and a thunderstorm later this morning. For some reason. I'm not a meteorologist. I don't understand it. But it's going to be sunny otherwise. It's what I can tell you. Alright. An annual pass to the Dubbo-Taronga Western Plains Zoo. This is your chance. However, we're going to put a spin on it today. Before you pick up the phone and dial. After Ken's valiant effort yesterday to make the sound of a cheetah meowing while he sat in an excavator. This is what it sounded like if you missed it. I will give you the annual pass which entitles you two adults, two children to head to the zoo whenever you like. If you can recreate this sound for me. That is brilliant, Ken. Instead, today I'm going to throw you the annual pass if you can make the sound of three different animals for me. Without actually having them played for you beforehand. Because it kind of gives you a clue. It's really a test of audio knowledge. Let's call it the vocal olympics. I'm going to call it the vocal olympics. 68848499. That's 68848499. To have a go and score yourself an annual pass to the Adabo-Taronga Western Plains Zoo for two adults, two kids, free entry, 365 days a year. You can get discounts at zoo shops and discounts at zoo events. 68848499 to play the vocal olympics. You're on zoo's breakfast. 27 past 8. It's zoo's breakfast. You're home at Adabo's best music from the 80s to now. Top of 26 degrees today in Wellington. Currently 13 and a half possible rain and thunderstorms later. Now it's time for possibly some of the best radio you've ever heard in your life. Maybe. Quite possibly. You're on zoo's breakfast. Helen, are you ready to have a crack at what we're calling the vocal olympics this morning? I'm prepped and primed, ready to go. You're right into it. Three different animals. If you correctly identify what noise they make and the animal passed to the Toronto West Plains Zoo, it will be yours. Are you ready to go? Number one, what sound does a wild dog make? 100%. What sound does a spotted frog make? Number two. Nugget. Nugget. Brilliant. You're right into it. You're an absolute champion. What sound does a meerkat make? Does a meerkat make? Number three, last and final. Oh, what's going on over there? Why are they staring at us? People, what are they staring at us for? Look at that one. He had a few different animals. Oh, brilliant. Yes, I really feel like I know what's going on in their brains now. That's brilliant. Thank you so much for playing. You're an absolute champion. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 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