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Chapter 1: What humorous insights do the hosts share about fake birthdays?
daily bespoke content that you won't find on the radio show the horaki breakfast podcast welcome along to the first bite of the cherry the first podcast to see the sun the first to see in a new day the day of our lord the 20 oh it's my birthday the 23rd of june 2026 big happy birthday to you right big happy birthday to you 60 uh 50 that's the problem when you change your birthday it's hard to know exactly how old you are
Yeah, also when you get real old. Yeah. It's hard to remember.
49 and a half.
49 and a half. No, you're 50, aren't you? No, I'm not. You're 49. I'm 49. Yeah, right. I was going to say, I thought maybe just because you were closing in on a round number, you tried to shave six months off for the fake birthday. No, no, no. It goes that way, doesn't it?
No. So yeah, 49 and a half. Any presents yet? No, I'm not expecting it. I get no presents. I don't want any presents.
Also, because your family are aware that this is a man-made birthday, I wouldn't be giving you a present on a birthday you've selected.
Yeah, but the whole idea of moving it was that I don't get presents. The whole idea of moving it was that it sneaks under the radar.
Because when was your original birthday?
19th of January.
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Chapter 2: How does changing your birthday affect gift expectations?
Oh, yeah. Let's go back to the old school.
On your admin. Let's go back to the old school. What day is your birthday, Ruda? April the 28th. Same as Saddam Hussein. That's right, of course. April 28th. Oh, April 28th is quite good. Yeah, it's good. It's quite good. It's not bad. And you're a few days after Anzac Day? Yeah, so I often get a holiday around the birthday.
Often manage to sneak it under the radar, especially when Anzac Day is like a Friday and then my birthday, well, it's Saturday and then my birthday is the Monday. Sometimes I get a little holiday. Yeah, that's nice. A few days off Hitler's birthday. Yeah. Yeah, just... 21st or 22nd. 20th, maybe. 20th. Really?
Jeez, a lot of dictators around there.
Yep. Who else? Idi Amin. Idi Azad. He's the 3rd of May. Is he? Yep. And Muammar Gaddafi, of course, the 26th of April. So, yeah, it's very much Dictators Month. Yeah. My goodness, I didn't know that. Something about bad people.
An astrology girlie would be able to explain that to us, why that is, why that's all around the same time. New Jessica Alba was also April the 28th. Wow, she had a stranglehold over certain elements of the population in the 2000s.
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Chapter 3: What are the challenges of having a birthday close to Christmas?
Yeah. How do you plan to celebrate your birthday, Gerry?
That's the whole point. I don't. That's a big part of why I moved it, just to run as a bit of a distraction.
Eat your favourite food, surely.
Have something nice to eat. Yeah, maybe. Hilary will bake me a cake.
Oh, yeah.
Because we're not on air during my first birthday. We didn't go back till the 25th or something. I see what's happening. So I get a cake because that's the deal at Seven Sharp on your birthday. Hilary bakes a cake. And if Hilary's away, I bake the cake. That's unlucky for some people. Yeah. And she's baking today. She's going to do a carrot cake. Oh. And also a dot cake. What's a dot cake?
Spot cake. It's the new, yeah, the dot cake is the new, Zoe knows all about it. It's the new trend on TikTok. I don't know. Dot cake? Mm-hmm. I'm surprised you don't know about it.
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Chapter 4: How do different birthday dates influence celebrations?
Can you explain a dot cake for us?
It's essentially hundreds and thousands, but individual little kind of cakes. You'd think cupcakes, but they're not. They're called dot cakes now. Zoe, what's a dot cake?
Headphones are at a... Premium?
Premium?
Isn't it like you get a little cup and there's cake in it and then it's got frosting and then they just dunk it all into the dots?
Into the hundreds and thousands.
Yeah, but it's like the layer and they scrape it off and it's like a flat layer of just dots on top.
Are the dots just hundreds and thousands?
It's essentially a cupcake.
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Chapter 5: What is a dot cake and why is it trending?
Like, hey, we've got this cake. It was supposed to be for a wedding, but unfortunately it was for a kid's party. Any reason why it was Spider-Man?
No, I don't know. There was a lot of, why is there a Spider-Man on there?
When I watched the Star Wars guy to hold the signs.
Yeah, I thought that it was quite a, it was quite a, you know, comic-y kind of a part wedding. What? His? Yeah, it had a few comic-y bits to it.
Nah, nah.
Oh.
Just there was a Spider-Man in the cake.
Oh.
That was about it. Jumped out of it. Yeah, it was like crawling. He was like spider-manning his way out of it. It was just his top half. Like he was embedded in the cake. I don't even know if the groom asked for that.
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Chapter 6: How do cultural differences affect birthday celebrations?
Oh, okay. A stein. Perhaps a stein. A bagel. No bagel straw. Of lager. What is it? Can you tell me what it is, please? It's a cake. I've tried Googling it. It didn't work.
Well, it's because it's German. It's because he's mispronouncing a word you don't know how to spell. That's why you can't Google it.
I would say it's spelled like B-I-E-G-E-L-S-T-R-A-U. There we go. Is it? Yep. I still don't know what it is.
Oh, you mean bjegelsprach. Why didn't you just say that? I did. Bjegelsprach. Bjegelsprach. This is what we were doing the whole way around Germany, was I was the regional interpreter. And at one point, on a train journey, we had a local German couple with us, and I was giving them directions. Yeah, so what we're going to do is... But I was really good at reading really long German songs.
Because I just have a white-hot crack at it.
Man, why don't they break the word up a bit? Like, how do you know where the word... It doesn't. They just ran the... It's so hard to read those long words. For you. It's not great. Well, for Germans, like, whether you know whether, how does your eye go over all of those words? It's a sentence, basically.
We're just that efficient, man. Yeah.
You chuck things, it's a compounding, eh? They put things together.
Like a Flugzeug. Flugzeug, you know?
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