It's breakfast on 9273. A lot of eshays out this morning. I don't know what it is. There's a certain moon phase. I don't know what... It's something to do with a... I can't even remember what the moon is called. I'm not a man for the shapes of moons, but there was a lot of eshays out. Maybe it's a certain, you know, day of the week, they all decide to go for a walk together. It's like Park Run in the morning, except they do it at 4.30 in the morning, all dressed in hoodies and on bicycles.
Not too sure how it works. Coming up also in about half an hour, inmates at a certain prison have been given a choice, the strangest choice you've ever heard in your life, to either get tased or drink a certain fluid. That's after they failed a drug test. It's the strangest... If you've ever heard of people saying, would you rather, and giving you two options, and you thought some of them were weird, this is the strangest thing you would have ever heard in your life.
Playing your Post Malone in just a second, Kelly Clarkson, starting us off. Tuesday morning, 2FM Breakfast. Keegan with you, I'm at Dubbo's, best music from the 80s to now. Should be better weather than yesterday, thank God. Good morning to you. Kelly Clarkson behind these hazel eyes, 10 past 6, 2FM Breakfast. Top of 31 in Wellington today, currently 18 degrees. Sunny, possible storms and rain this afternoon are heading into this evening, however, today should not be as worse, or not as worse, as bad as it was yesterday.
Proper grammar would be perfect of a Tuesday morning. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. Mayor Matt Dickerson is in this morning to have a chat with us. I hear you had actually a meeting with the police commander recently. So, every quarter we've got a regular meeting with the police commander. Now, as you know, Keegan, council doesn't control police, and I don't say, right, I need you to send some troops over here and make sure you've got some officers doing this.
It really is just to make sure we've got good lines of communication open. Is there anything that we can do together? Is there anything that works together for us? In other words, if the police say, council, could you help us with this, or if we say, could you pay some attention to that, we've got that good working relationship. Something I've seen pop up is there was a crime summit for Dubbo proposed last year, and there's a lot of people sort of bringing it out of the woodwork, suggesting that it shouldn't have been voted down.
Could you just remind us the ideals behind the reason to vote it down last year? The first thing, if you jump out to the world and advertise that you want to run a crime summit, you're really advertising to the world that we've got such a terrible crime problem in this community that we need to have a summit. Now, we don't have such a terrible crime problem here. There is crime in Dubbo, obviously, but if you advertise that, the harm you do to tourism, the harm you do to your businesses, the harm you do to your reputation of your community, the long-term reputation of your community, is untold.
Do you think some of these figures when it comes to crime, they're being taken out of context and used to sort of blow it out of proportions? If it suits the agenda that you're on, then you'll cherry-pick certain stats. So if you, for whatever reason, would like to make Dubbo look bad or make any one of the 128 councils across the state look particularly bad, then you can cherry-pick figures. You know the old story about stats.
You've got lies, damn lies, and then statistics. And I think with stats, you can manipulate those stats and still say, I'm quoting stats from Boxar, which all of these figures come from Boxar. You can quote those figures, but it depends how you want to quote them or which category you want to focus on. So it comes down to what your agenda is. If your agenda is to maybe sensationalize things, to boost your profile, or to make Dubbo look bad, then you can make Dubbo look terrible.
What can council do about it? And I think that's the important bar here. We don't control the police, as I mentioned a moment ago, and the sentencing regime is the second part. The state government themselves, Chris Mintz, the Premier, Yasmin Katmi, the Police Minister, they've both said, we don't need a crime summit. We know where the problems are. We've got all the data. There's been years of data they've got. We know where to address it. We've just got to work out how to address that.
A crime summit is not going to do anything. Thank you for coming in for a chat this morning, Mayor. I figure it's important to be able to clear up the situation from your perspective from the local council. Always my pleasure, Kagan. Thanks, mate. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. Post Malone, 2FM, breakfast at your home at Dubbo's. Best music from the 80s to now for your Tuesday morning. It's up 31 degrees today in Gilgandra. Possible thunderstorms this evening.
The story about the Russian media sharing photos and, not photos, but sort of statements that the king is dead, that's just something else. I don't even understand what they would get out of it. Supposedly, a portion of that that wasn't mentioned in the news is they're making, the Russian media themselves are making memes, photoshopping the king's head onto the photo of Prince Kate. I think it's Kate Middleton. I don't know if that's Prince Kate. I don't even know if she's a princess.
No idea. Her head, which was the photo that was supposedly altered, which, you know, it's the massive controversy at the moment, is Kate Middleton alive. All these fake photos prove that she may not be. So they've photoshopped the king's head onto her on that photo, supposedly trying to make a link that everybody's dead. I have no idea what's going on. I don't even know what they would get out of that. Coming up in a sec, the would-you-rather from a prison that it possibly trumps every would-you-rather you've ever heard.
It involves a liquid or the choice of getting tased. I'll tell you next. DMC meat and seafood at 55 Wheeler's Lane Dubbo has plenty of fresh seafood in stock for Easter. Fish, prawns and oysters straight from the Sydney fish market. They're now in store ready for you to enjoy. This week they have fresh Atlantic salmon, blue-eyed cod, barramundi, orange ruffie, flathead and whole snapper, plus tiger king and green prawns and Pacific Sydney rock and bottled oysters.
DMC meat and seafood at 55 Wheeler's Lane Dubbo or you can order online at dubbomeatcentre.com.au. La Bouche, Sweet Dreams, what a good song. Banging track for your Tuesday morning. 23 minutes past 6, 2 FM breakfast. Top of 31 degrees today, Gilgamesh, we're currently 18. Severe, not severe, but possible thunderstorms this evening with also rain throughout the afternoon. Shouldn't be as bad this morning as it was yesterday, however. Seven inmates in an eastern Kentucky prison have filed a federal lawsuit after they were given the choice of either drinking their own wee or to be tased after they failed a drug test.
That is possibly... What a choice. That is the most severe would-you-rather I've ever heard in my life and it actually has consequences rather than just being theoretical. The lawsuit says in detail how four officers at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex told the inmates who failed drug tests they would be able to throw away their urine sample if they chose to be subjected to electrocution by taser or to drink their own wee. I suppose that's a choice. I'm sure there's a couple of people out there this morning who'd prefer to be electrocuted than undertake a urine sample, so maybe there's a few people that might be relating.
Pink, run away. 2 FM breakfast, Tuesday morning. Coming up shortly, NASA's discovered grog in space. Grog, yes. No idea how, I don't understand the science of it, but I'll tell you about a couple of minutes away, 2 FM breakfast. Pink, almost half past 6, National News on the way. Top of 31 in Dubbo today, 34 in Cobar. Your full weather as well a couple of minutes after the National News. Playing you a couple of minutes away, banners there.
Calvin Harris and Jewel Leeper on the way in about 15 minutes' time. Sure, if I could turn back time. If they could turn back time, the Russian media. They've actually made a new statement regarding King Charles' death, which hasn't happened, may I premise that with that information, which is quite important. They've done an update and they say that King Charles III continues to perform his official duties and attend private engagements. So they haven't actually said that he's alive, they've just said that he's continuing to do what he did beforehand.
I don't know if they're insinuating that he's sort of been strung up or something, but still they have not admitted that he is still alive. I have no idea what game they're playing. Anyway. You're waking up with the Central West burst breaking. On 927 Zoo. I've figured out why there are so many eschates about this morning. It's been an investigation for the past 30 minutes. It's practically, it might be my only focus of this morning's work.
It's because the moon phase this morning is waxing gibbous. That's right, waxing gibbous. It does really sound like somewhat of an inappropriate analogy. I have no idea what waxing gibbous means or what it looks like. However, that is probably the explanation, because I can't find any other ones. Going up in a couple of minutes, NASA has found Grog. That's right, in space. Don't know how. Didn't think we had the technology to do that. Can barely get a rocket out of the atmosphere, yet we can find a cask of wine about four galaxies away.
That is somewhat of you. Zoo FM Breakfast, Tuesday morning. Calvin Harris, Juleep, a young thug. 20 minutes to seven. Zoo FM Breakfast. Top of 31 in our minds today. Currently 18 degrees. Possible storms tonight. Brought to you by McDonald's and Dubbo and Wellington. And the new McCrispy from Macca's is set to be their next big thing, with juicy crispy 100% Aussie chicken, a soft glazed bun, crunchy lettuce, and a brand new signature sauce. You can try it today at Macca's, but available only after 10.30am.
Now, NASA scientists, they've reportedly found ingredients for margarita cocktails in space. No word of a lie. Absolute load of BS. That sounds like on the first read, that headline. I know. I don't understand how it's even possible. An international team of astronomers used a James Webb telescope to identify alcohol and a compound of vinegar floating around two early formations of planets. One of the coordinators of the observation program was quoted as saying, we look forward to allowing this astrochemical trail step by step with more web data in the coming years.
Obviously referring to the discovery of margaritas in space. I mean, I'd be excited as well. It sounds like it's leading to an excuse to have a couple of brews at work, to be honest. And who isn't down for that? You're on Zoo Breakfast. This is your mall boy, Jason Derulo. Ten minutes to seven. Zoo FM Breakfast, your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Currently 18 degrees in Narrow Minds, up to 31 degrees today.
Pretty much the same right across the region. Possible rain and storms this evening. A man has been banned from a fast food restaurant in the US for bringing his service duck into the establishment. Yep, that's right, service duck. Justin Wood brought his service pet, known as Wrinkle the Duck, into the Bucky's store where Wrinkle was seen high-fiving several interested patrons with her beak. I'm not sure if that means that Wrinkle was actually assaulting the patrons or if they were happily interacting with each other.
It could be either way very easily. Shortly afterwards, a staff member apparently approached the duo, commanding that pets are not allowed in here. Obviously referring to the service duck, a phrase I've never heard of before. Justin, owner of Wrinkle the Duck, the service duck, then proceeded to produce three official government documents stating that Wrinkle was indeed a service duck and it is documented and stamped that there is such thing as a service duck. That is something.
Besides this, other than, you know, providing proof that he had a service duck and it exists, he was then shortly afterwards banned from every Bucky's store in the entire United States. Obviously didn't go as well as he thought it might have. Poor Wrinkle. Wrinkle's been sort of discriminated against, I'd imagine. Will there be riots for this? There normally is. Wrinkle needs sort of justice. Imagine Dragons, ZOOFM Breakfast, Tuesday morning. Imagine Dragons, almost seven o'clock for your Tuesday morning here on ZOOFM Breakfast.
It's Keegan with you, on your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Top of 31 in Dubbo, 34 in Cobar today. Possible storms and rain this afternoon. Your full weather just a couple of minutes away after the local and national news. Also talking about shortly... Actually, I've forgotten. Don't worry about it. Anyway, what I was going to tell you about is the Rotary Club of Dubbo South is holding the 6th Biennial Toyota Tour of the O'Rock.
Sorry, I completely forgot what I was going to say. Anyway, as I was saying, the 6th Biennial Toyota Tour of the O'Rock. It's actually happening right now and it's sort of finishing towards the end of the week. The Epic Outback Charity Cycling Challenge is covering over 700 kilometres. I think they've already done about 120 yesterday through the Orana region. It started in Dubbo yesterday. It's finishing in Cobar towards the end of the week. So sponsors are still...
Well, not sponsors are still needed but you can still donate and you can also enter the raffle to win a RAV4 Hybrid by heading to touroftheorock.bike. I think raffle tickets are $50. We'll be speaking to Ben O'Brien, who's the Chair of the Fundraising Committee, for a quick update live from the ground in about 15 minutes' time before they head out this morning. They covered, yeah, as I said, over 100 kilometres yesterday. They were all ready and bumbling full of energy yesterday.
I don't know what the mood is going to be this morning. Maybe the effort is set in. Blink 182 in a couple of minutes. Taylor Swift is also on the way. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. It's breakfast on 927 Zoo. Coming up in about 15 minutes' time I'm going to have Ben O'Brien on, the Chair of the Fundraising Committee for the Tour of the O'Rock. He's going to give us a live update from the ground, how the team is going this morning, where they're heading, how far they're cycling.
I'd say to say I couldn't do it. I'd probably break my leg, fall off the bike, or be eaten by a kangaroo is possibly the most severe scenario. I don't think that can happen. Blink 182 in just a couple of minutes' time. Taylor Swift starting us off. Andy Hero for your Tuesday morning Zoo FM Breakfast. Can you hear me there? Good morning. Blink 182. I miss you. Almost quarter past seven. Zoo FM Breakfast. See you Tuesday morning.
Possible rain and thunderstorms this afternoon into the evening. Top of 31 degrees in Wellington today. Currently 18. Should clear up towards the end of the week on Thursday and Friday. We're brought to you by McDonald's in Dubbo and Wellington. There is magic in the air with Macca's new surprise fries. Just peel your fries for a one in four chance to find a prize. I had a crack at them the other weekend, the other weekend, on the weekend, probably the correct term for it.
Yeah, it's good fun. Reminds me of the Monopoly, the Monopoly game. Pretty much, pretty much very similar. Good fun, especially considering you get to eat the fries afterwards. You don't peel the fries in half. That's not part of it. Someone has just admitted online that they tried one of the very many available dating apps that are on the market at the moment and the first request they got from someone on said dating app was a man messaging them going, my friend is here from Perth and he's having a party.
I need a date. You look like a good one to take was his exact words. You look like a good one. He has picked her apparently and she genuinely was expecting him to follow it up with an hourly rate request afterwards. Dating apps in the 21st century, just something else, just absolutely something else. I didn't think it was, it's not supposed to be like a catalogue, you know, meant to flick through the pages and sort of pick out the one you want.
I don't think that's how it works. But I did say dating apps in the 21st century. I'm pretty sure a dating app in the 20th century was sort of carving your name in stone at the town square. So not entirely the best analogy. Morgan Wallen in The Weeknd, just around the corner. The Weeknd, popular, almost half past seven. Zoo FM breakfast, top of 31 degrees today in Dunedoo, currently 18 degrees. Possible rain and thunderstorms this afternoon, late this afternoon, into this evening, but shouldn't be like the weather this morning at all like it was yesterday, which is going to be a nice change.
Ben O'Brien, the chair of the fundraising committee for the Tour of the O'Rourke, joins us again this morning. A live update from the ground. Good morning, mate. How are you today? I'm all right. More so, how are you? How's the mood in the camp for this morning after yesterday? Surprisingly, it's nice and cool out here at Canamble this morning and everybody's had a bacon and egg roll and just about ready to get on their bikes. Oh, brilliant.
Yeah, we had a really good day yesterday. It was nice and cool travelling out of Dubbo and yeah, it was pretty easy going and it didn't get really hot until the last little bit. I saw there was a couple of proper puddles of water going around. Was that like a sort of localised flooding? Yeah, there was a little. We took the back road out of Dubbo to Eumundri and yes, there was certainly a couple of spots where those little creek crossings were flowing and that just added a little bit of excitement to the day.
But yeah, it wasn't a problem in the end. We jumped over all of them and yeah, made it safely to Canamble. What's the plan for this morning? Where are you heading? Well, we're on a pretty exciting ride today from Canamble to Walgett. I think we just crossed over the bridge in town and we reckon that's the biggest hill we're going to go over for the whole day. Oh, right. It's a bit of a biscuit out there and the scenery is relatively monotonous and I do recall we were riding along yesterday afternoon coming into Canamble where it's reasonably flat as well and Brad McGee, the Olympic cyclist, was riding next to me and he says, I think we've already gone past this haven't we? We're going to go past it a lot more before we've finished.
So is the plan today a lot of sort of highway riding or are you taking a few back roads like yesterday as well? No, it's straight down the highway today. We're all on road bikes and we're not really geared up to go off-road too much. We're sticking to the main roads and the roads are pretty good and quiet so we'll get there in good time today. Brilliant, mate. Good luck and I hope there's a few things that can sort of distract you on the ride or it's not just completely flat, barren ground.
No, no. There's always a bit of good banter between the riders as we're going along and it'll be good discussions in solving the world's problems as we're riding along. Oh, of course. Fantastic, mate. Good luck and cheers for a chat this morning. Thanks, mate. See you. There's Ben O'Brien live from the ground for the tour of the O'Rock. They're heading out again this morning. They covered just over 120 kilometres yesterday. I could be wrong on the very finer details.
Number's not my strong point. However, if you want to take part in the raffle they're still raising funds for Macquarie Homestead, the Stage 2 construction via the CWA Guesthouse. You can head to tourtoorock.by for the tickets for $50 each. It's a RAP4 hybrid. It's a great prize. You're waking up with the Central West burst breaking news. Mind the zoom. Got home yesterday afternoon and after my strange incident on the weekend of someone suggesting that I'd picked up a bag of illegal materials off the floor in a Macca's car park, I thought, wow, this week can't start off any more interesting.
Got home yesterday afternoon, found a business card on my door and went, oh, that's strange. Maybe there's someone trying to sell something. No, it was a business card for a detective from the local police station. I went, hmm, this is interesting. This is interesting. Okay, what's happened now? What have I said on the air? Oh, God, I'm going to be arrested in about five minutes. Wasn't that bad. Turns out he was looking for information on something.
I don't even know what it was. Unfortunately, I couldn't help him because I had no idea what he was talking about. I was just glad that I wasn't about to have a SWAT team come through the front door. I don't think a SWAT team leaves a business card. At least, I don't presume they do. Normally, they use a battering ram, not a business card. Cardboard and metal, different things, very different things. Coming up in about 10 minutes, going to have a chat.
Thalia from Pedestrian TV, their entertainment report is coming on to us. It's all about this Royal Photoshop scandal and is Kate Middleton alive? We're going to go over all of it in a couple of minutes' time. Said playing in a sex, start you off with a classic from the man himself, John Mellencamp, Jack and Diane. About 25 minutes to 8, Zoo FM Breakfast, your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Clarity, 20 minutes to 8, Zoo FM Breakfast, your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now.
Top of 31 degrees today, narrow mind, currently 18. Possible thunderstorms and rain this afternoon into this evening. Should be nothing like it was yesterday. However, the rain was a nice, cool change. We're brought to you by Maccas in Dubbo and Wellington. There's magic in the air with Maccas Surprise. New Surprise fries. Just peel your fries for a one in four chance to find a prize. About, I don't know, 15 minutes away, we'll figure out if Kate Middleton's alive.
According to Russian media, the king is dead this morning. Not sure if that's entirely accurate. Apparently, the Russian media started photoshopping his face onto pictures of Kate Middleton. Don't know where they got the information from, so we're going to also discover whether Kate Middleton is alive this morning. There's a lot of controversy surrounding people's living sort of status at the moment in the royal family. I don't know why. Anyway, first, out of all places really to find a snake, nowhere is preferable.
Absolutely no. I'd just rather than not be present in my nearby area. A snake catcher in Queensland has discovered a snake hidden within a basket of dirty undies. Out of all places to find one. Sunshine Coast snake catchers say he narrated the whole experience. Have a listen. Maybe not. Alright, through the undies is a little eastern brown snake. Alright, time to get this one in the bag. Literally trying to hide amongst the undies on a second story is the second most venomous snake on the planet.
Anyway, not mucking around with it. Not mucking around with it. That reminds me of Bob Catter's speech about crocodiles. I think it was during the marriage equality debate or something and he started going on a rant about crocodiles. I'm not, I've got no time for it. I'm more concerned about crocodiles. Crocodiles. I'm more concerned about snakes in my underwear drawer. I genuinely prefer the snake to be inside the toilet in this case. Check out Zoo FM on Facebook for more.
Guy Sebastian, 10 minutes to 8, Zoo FM breakfast, Zoo FM breakfast, you're home at Davos. Best music from the 80s to now, see you Tuesday morning. Top of 31 degrees today in Gilgandra, currently 19 degrees. Sunny today, mainly, mostly, gonna possibly be rain and thunderstorms this afternoon. Give us a ring anytime, 6884-8499. That's 6884-8499. Oh, lovely idea. I need to catch up on my gum. Zuleyha Iqbal, the entertainment reporter from Pedestrian TV, joins us this morning.
Chat over this royal Photoshop madness recently. Good morning. Good morning. I just feel quite perplexed about all of these photos. I'm saying, the whole timeline in my head, I can't exactly follow it. What tipped people off to start all this with Kate Middleton, the sort of Photoshop speculation? So, a conspiracy began in February that Kate was missing because she hasn't been seen in public since Christmas last year, which the royal family put out a statement saying that because she's recovering from the surgery, she won't be seen until Easter.
And then on Mother's Day, the royal family shared a picture featuring Kate Middleton and her three children. They were like, happy Mother's Day, blah, blah, blah. And then a bunch of international photo agencies put out a kill for this photo. Yeah, I saw a kill order. It's a bit sort of violent, don't you think? It's very dramatic. Extremely dramatic. And so it's just all this frenzy being whipped up because there's a kill order on this photo for apparently being manipulated, which, as you can imagine, set off the conspiracy theories even more.
Oh, 100%. Everyone's just like, oh, look, there's no proof that she's alive. What were the signs of it being manipulated, though? I had a look at the image and if you just take a quick glance for even like 20 seconds of the image, you can't entirely see anything. I honestly, I don't think I would have ever noticed. And the agencies haven't put out a specific list, but from speculation online, people have pointed out a couple of things.
At some point, her hair, like Kate Middleton's hair, looks a bit awkward under the chin of one of her kids and across the shirts of the other ones. Like, it looks a bit blurred. The color seems to leak into areas of the image that it shouldn't be. There's some awkward moments around shoes in the image. They're slightly cut off behind the chair. Also, somebody pointed out, and I think this is actually quite convincing, the background is green and lush when this photo was supposedly taken during winter as well.
Oh, brilliant. Okay. You can't deny the season. Yeah, at the very least, even if it wasn't manipulated, there was speculation on whether it had just been taken a long time ago and then reshared. Ah. There were a couple of little things around awkward patterns in clothing where it looks manipulated, fingers in the wrong places, like that kind of thing. It's always the fingers. I swear, any AI photo I see, it's always the fingers. Yes. And then Kate Middleton actually put out a statement saying that she had edited the image herself and apologized, which, like, is a very strange circumstance because obviously the Royals have a media team.
Yeah, exactly. Why is she going and messing around in Photoshop? Yeah, like, that wouldn't be her job and they wouldn't just randomly, or you would assume they wouldn't randomly put out photos that are unedited. Yeah, exactly. Like, it's a little bit strange. Maybe she's just picked up a hobby. Right? Like, she's just having a bit of fun. She's sick in bed and bored. Exactly. So, it seems it's all actually kicked off again with another photo. What's going on there? So, a few days later, another photo was released by a photographer of Kate and Will in, like, a car driving away from the palace.
But when you look at the car, so it's driving past a brick wall, which kind of veers off into an alley, but in the actual, through the windows of the car, the brick wall looks different to the wall behind the car. Oh. So, the bricks in the window, which should be the same as, like, the rest of the photo, Yeah, of course. looks different and they don't actually align with where the wall kind of veers off.
I can see why this conspiracy is taking off. I'm starting to be convinced that she is, she's dead, honestly. And it's, yeah, it's definitely convincing that, like, something weird is going on. After all of this evidence, the only question I've got from your opinion, is she no longer with us or is she alive and kicking? I reckon she's alive and kicking, but I, like, I'm definitely slightly partial to the conspiracy theories about, like, maybe a complication or, like, something weird went wrong with the surgery and she just, like, doesn't want to be seen.
Like, maybe she's unhappy with her appearance. You know, it's, like, hard being a public figure and with the British press, like, kicking apart. I can imagine, like, maybe that is why, but honestly, like, sometimes I just don't know what to make of this. Well, your method here is much more reasonable than people immediately presuming that she's dead. I know, right? But I also, like, I definitely remember when with Prince Philip, like, they were just, like, Oh, yes.
And I bought those. I was convinced. Well, cheers for coming on and for a chat over this wild proof-of-life check for the Royal Asolia. Yeah, very crazy. Cheers. There's Solia Hikmal, the entertainment reporter from Pedestrian TV, just giving us a recap of all the stuff you've seen of Kate Middleton in the news with the photos and is she alive and just the wild rabbit holes some people are going down trying to explore what's possibly happening. You're on Zoo's Breakfast.
It's Breakfast on Better Music 92.7 Zoo. Coming up in a few minutes' time, Jason Dierma from the Western Plains Zoo coming on to tell us about an event that's happening this Friday. It's a very wild event. It's something I didn't expect from the zoo, but it sounds like it's going to be a great night. We're going to go for a tour with a very special host before the actual show commences that evening. Give you all the details when we chat to him in a couple of minutes' time.
Also, a show that was on the Disney Channel is turning like 17 years old and if you used to watch it when you were who knows even what age, when you were much younger, it's going to be like, it's going to unlock a memory in the back of your mind first. A brilliant classic. Got a cover from Fallout Boy. We didn't start the fire. Good tribute to Billy Joel. ZooFM Breakfast, your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now.
It's Tuesday morning. Keegan with you. Speaking darkened Darren Hayes, quarter past eight. ZooFM Breakfast, it's Tuesday morning. Keegan with you. Top of 31 in Wellington today. Currently 19.5 degrees. Chance of rain and thunderstorms this afternoon into the evening, but this morning should be absolutely beautiful in comparison to yesterday. A show from about 19 years ago has obviously turned 19. This week. And it's just unlocked a hidden memory in the back of my brain. The Suite Life of Zack and Cody from Disney Channel has turned 19 years old.
It premiered in 2005 and ran for only three seasons, ending in 2008. I swear I remember it for longer than that. Apparently, 2005 to 2010 has been classified as the golden years of the Disney Channel and it fell off after that. Mr. Mosby was obviously the peak character of the series. The main characters Dylan and Cole Sprouse, obviously. And it went on to some sort of ship spin-off. The Ship Life of Zack and Cody? There was some sort of cruise vessel spin-off, which I have no idea what that was called.
But if you say Mr. Mosby was not the peak character of the Suite Life of Zack and Cody, you are seriously misguided. You're on ZooFM Breakfast. Amy Shark, almost 20 minutes past 8. ZooFM Breakfast can always get in touch. Send us through a message, Facebook ZooFM or on Instagram at 927Zoo. Send a message through. I will see it in real time. Maybe. I don't know. The internet fails sometimes. It's over 31 in Narromine today. Currently 19.5.
Possible storms later this afternoon. Jason Dierma from the Taronga Western Plains Zoo joins us this morning. Good morning, mate. Hey, how you going today? I'm alright. I'm sure you're busy. You've got a fundraiser coming up this weekend. Yeah, it's happening Friday night out here at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. The fundraiser is for Cancer Council New South Wales and it's a drag cabaret event with dinner and dessert and also an option for a Savannah Safari Tour with Timberlina as your tour guide.
Oh, right. Yeah, OK. What's the sort of timeframe of things taking place? It sounds like a massive night. When's the tour compared to the actual cabaret show? So the tour kicks off at 6pm and then the actual cabaret show kicks off at 7pm. Guests are able to come out and enjoy pre-event drinks and meet and greet with a Bork and Foxy Foe who make up the trio for the drag cabaret. What's included in the price of the ticket? So included in the ticket is a signature zoo cocktail on arrival, a grazing table, and also a main meal and dessert as well.
What's a signature zoo cocktail? Now I'm curious. Well, it's a surprise for the night. Oh, right. The amazing event staff out here have concocted themselves and it's probably a little bit wild. Oh, yeah, I'd expect it to be. All right, let's not spoil anything then at the moment. It's obviously an 18-plus event, isn't it? Yes, that's correct. It is an 18-plus event but it's suitable for anyone who likes to be entertained and something a little bit different from the usual night out.
What's some of the support services that Cancer Council provide here in Dubbo that you're raising money for? So here in Dubbo, Cancer Council NSW provides the transport to treatment service which is a free transport service within a 200km radius of Dubbo for patients undergoing cancer treatment as well as their carers to get transport to various appointments that they need in relation to cancer treatment and consultations. But also there's the 131120 hotline number which people can call up for any advice or information as well as financial counselling, legal support and also support with accommodation if that's needed and a lot of other services as well.
How much are the tickets? They're $100 which is all-inclusive. Discounts for group bookings as well. What's the numbers you're expecting on the night? Looking for around 100 people. That's the ticket limit that we've got in place to make sure that people are able to enjoy themselves and really engage with the entertainment as well because sometimes during the acts Timberland, Bork and Foxy Foe, they do like to get a bit interactive with the crowd as well. Well thanks for coming on for a chat James this morning.
It sounds like you've got a fantastic event ahead on Friday night. Thanks very much for your time and I'm really excited to get a bit wild with the Drag Cabaret Show and support Cancer Cancer New South Wales. That's fantastic. Cheers mate. You can grab tickets to Cancer the Drag the Cabaret Show at the Western Plains Taronga Zoo by heading to 1236.com.au to stick the name of the show into Google it should come up anyway with of course funds going to Healthy New South Wales Cancer Council.
You're on Zoo's Breakfast. It's breakfast on Zoo. Coming up in about 15 minutes, 10 minutes time. Coming up in an amount of time in the future but that's probably all I can say now. Coming up in 5 minutes. Michael Thurlow our resident journalist for Zoo FM has put together a nice sort of summarisation of Operation Mongoose I think it's called which has been happening here in the region over some time now. I don't know many of the details but he's very informed and he's here to inform us all on what in the world is going on there how many arrests have they made what sort of arrests that they have made charges laid how the sort of the war on crime I don't know how the war on crime is going I'll tell you Michael Thurlow will tell you in a couple of minutes playing you some dually for about 15 minutes away as well as Post Malone there at 2.
Black Eyed Peas starting us off meet me half way for you Tuesday morning here on Zoo FM Breakfast. Black Eyed Peas 20 to 9 Zoo FM Breakfast your home of Davos best music from the 80s to now summer 31 degrees in Wellington today currently 20 degrees chance of rain and sunshine we're sponsored and brought to you by Macca's in Davos and Wellington there's magic in the air with Macca's new surprise fries you can just peel your fries for a 1 in 4 chance to find a prize now an exclusive report from the local newsroom regarding the Operation Mongoose I think it's called Operation Mongoose I always love operation names they're very unique I think is the word to use Michael Thurlow I'm going to get him to take it away Hello I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow I'm Michael Thurlow We have so far charged 153 people, including 109 juveniles, with more than 1,400 offences.
Commander Smith says many are repeat offenders who were out on bail at the time. We have charged 153 individual offenders 660 times, which tells you that these offenders are continuing to re-offend. In fact, 71% of our offenders charged are under the age of 18, and 67% of those charged are at liberty on bail at the time of committing further offences. So that tells you something about the cohort of people that are committing these offences. Commander Smith also says the level of violence accompanying recent incidents is unprecedented.
But it's forcefully entering people's homes in the middle of the night, motel rooms, particularly targeting elderly and vulnerable people, armed with weapons and distributing or displaying a lot of violence towards those victims with the intent purpose of stealing their car. It seems to be the predominant issue we're dealing with. We've always had kids breaking into homes, but just the level of violence is quite unprecedented. And that is the issue we're trying to deal with to make people safe.
He says drugs and social media are key factors in youth crime. We are aware that the issues around social media, around drug use, are the underlying drivers of this. And it's not lost on us that we will continue to target drug supply, drug use. And the use of social media is how these young kids who are looking for notoriety and almost daring each other as to what they're doing. It's a challenging one, but we're more than determined to deal with it.
In one of the most recent incidents last Friday, police arrested seven people after a high-speed pursuit north of Dubbo. The pursuit was ended after officers successfully deployed road spikes near Yumundjeri. They later charged a 29-year-old man with multiple traffic offences. In another incident reported by this news service, two juveniles, aged 15 and 16, were arrested in November after the theft of two Teslas, aggravated break-and-enters at a retirement village and a West Dubbo business. Commander Smith says the youngest person arrested under Regional Mondgoose was 11 years old.
His message to those committing crime is clear. To send a message to the offenders who are doing this, that we have no tolerance for it and we intend to keep locking them up, putting them before the court and holding them to account. Commander Smith also says locking up young offenders is only part of the solution. Sitting behind that, though, needs to be some diversionary strategies so that we just don't keep locking up offenders, particularly young offenders, who then are released on bail just to keep this whole roundabout going.
Youth action meetings, or YAMS, are part of that strategy. The Yerranna Mid-Western Police District is one of nine selected to roll out YAMS after a successful trial at Bourke and Cots Harbour. The youth action meetings are a central component of this and they're already up and running in a number of locations throughout Western region of New South Wales and we will continue to run YAMS and in fact we're having conversations at the moment with other government departments as to how we can enhance those YAMS to target the individuals that need to be case managed and included in that whole YAMS process.
Commander Smith has also welcomed recent bail reforms. He says these, combined with diversionary programs, are needed to address the high number of people who are bailed by magistrates then go on to re-offend. Oh look, we think it's a step forward. Anything that helps us to hold young offenders accountable is a good thing and it's a frustration for not only the police but it's a frustration from the community that young people are committing serious crime, serious violent crime that are putting people's lives at risk and I don't think we can underplay that.
The reforms that have been put forward are a positive step forward. We welcome them. The important piece is though is that with that comes those diversionary strategies so that we're not just on this roundabout of lock them up, let them out and then lock them up again. There's got to be that diversionary piece in which we're working with government now so that once someone is locked up and they're given bail that there are some controls around that and their behaviour and incentives not to re-offend.
Michael Furlow, ZOOFM News. Dua Lipa, almost quarter to nine. ZOOFM Breakfast, your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. It's Keegan with you. Macquarie Street getting busy. Erskine Street and the Newell Highway also filling up as well. I'm sure it isn't out of the ordinary to some of you. Top of 31 in Wellington today, currently 20 degrees. Chance of rain and thunderstorms this afternoon heading into tonight. This morning should be nice and sunny, nothing like it was yesterday.
Post Malone on the way as well as Tones and I in just a couple of minutes. Tones and I, the end of ZOOFM Breakfast via Tuesday morning. I can't even speak anymore. Thankfully it is the end. Also, we've had confirmation, Kate Middleton is alive, unlike the pondering that was done earlier on this show. She has been spotted in public by TMZ and she's in one piece and moving. I don't know about King Charles, but yes, Kate Middleton is still alive, thankfully.
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