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Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's on the cutting room floor today, missus Muntz.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We make of this. A couple staged a fake proposal
to get free drinks at a restaurant. They staged this
and then they put it on X and a lot
of people have said, oh, you're stealing. Hope you're proud
of what you're doing. Sad commentary. On a lot of
levels that people have liked it. I consider that theft
other people have said, go for it, and the fact
(00:34):
they got married anyway, they weren't a fake couple makes
any difference. Someone said, it's ruined it for all of
us who are having genuine gestures in restaurants.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, did they set out to deceive everyone? That's they did.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They wanted to get some free drinks. Holidays in Hawaii.
Husband gets down on one in front of a full
restaurant of people. Happy couple embrace and kiss to cheers
from other diners, and free drinks ensue for them, et cetera,
et cetera. When I was traveling with Beyond two thousand,
we'd be away for eight weeks and we'd have what
was called a padem, which you know, a certain amount
of money to spend.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Per day that's what it stands for.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Latin sounds for it stands for Latin, no.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Latin, it's for a certain amount of bundy. That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, not everyone speaks Latin as fluently as I do.
Clov artists and status quo, etcetera, and so, and sometimes
it would go in your favor. If you were staying
in a little African town, you'd save some money. If
you're an expensive city like god and Burg, then it
was expensive, so you scammed where you could. And occasionally
(01:36):
what we do at the end of a trip, if
we had some money left over, we'd go to a
nice restaurant. And there have been times I have to
say where we didn't do it to scam free cake
or anything, but you often got free cake. We did
it to embarrass, usually the sound recorders by telling the
matre d that it was their birthday and a mariachi
band would come out, or a person with a guitar,
(01:58):
or a cake with a candle in it, and a
restaurant all seeing happy birthday, and it would embarrass the
hell out of the sound.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
They'd have to go along with that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, that's right, but that'd have to go along with it.
But what it meant was that the rest of us
got free cake should we got to see someone being embarrassed.
So it's a double win.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So I think that's okay. That's for joke purposes. And
this couple as well. I think in a way they're
going for joke purposes. I don't think it's too bad,
it's not too deceptive. How did they get found out
that they weren't getting married?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Because they said, hey, look what we did to get
for a drinks. That's how they found out. People are
like great spies.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Hey look all I did the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
If I've learned anything from the internet, if you do something,
whether it be picking up a small massupiel or doing
that best keeper to yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Isn't it funny that the picking up of the small
marsupial united on country in a way that we haven't
had for years and years and years. Yeah, exactly, even
even tariffs against even though the tariffs at Donald Trump
is imposed Canada, United Greenland, United Mexico United Peter Dutton
went Anthony ALBERNISI, so that still has divided us. You
(03:00):
pick up a wombat, you pick up a baby wombat
and take away from its mother. We're all on the
same side.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I remember a few years ago I was at a
surprise birthday party for someone that we used to work with, Dez,
and I showed up at this party. I was like
one of the first people there. And it was at
this collegiate club in the collegiate club in the city,
and it was just me and Dez and that was it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He said, it was a surprise party.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was a surprise party. He got there early. That's right,
it was a surprise party.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He didn't know it was going to be He got
there early direct.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But everyone was going to show up, right, And he goes,
what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And I said, what are you doing? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
There was this guy, what are you doing here, Clever Brendan.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
There was this guy called Finn there as well, but
he had nothing to do.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He was just in the bar.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Did he know him?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, No, he didn't, I said. And then the ruse
was up.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That the surprise party, the fortieth birthday. This was actually
all these people were coming. Because this is after some
about forty five minutes. No one else had show. So
it's me and s Fenn watching The Wizard of Oz
on TV in the collegiate come.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So you didn't say, hey, other people were supposed to come,
but don't like you.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
His sister showed up and said there.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Were more people, and did more people arrive?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, this is the thing. Oh, it took more hours
for people to come along to this thing. And then
I said, well, there's you got me and s Fenn
and your sister. Don't feel too bad, and we've got
the Wizard of Oz. And then as time rolled on,
people did start the field in and by this state
Spenn had ingratiated himself into the party.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So I started they telling how do you fit into this?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Fen, and I said, he saved Deser's life in an
ice fishing accident.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You know, for me, it's a wonderful life, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And the kid falls into the Harry Bailey falls into
the ice. It was like that, and they got all right, anyway,
I just started that story there. Then more and more
people come and then there's like about one hundred people there.
So it turned out to be okay. But the story
had gone and spread like wildfire.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That's fed it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Indeed, saved desert fime drinks.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well. I was standing there, Wendy Harmer standing next to spen.
So I hear that you saved. You saved and an
ice fishing accident. Anyway, what the ruse was up?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Well, he just didn't did No One caught it on
and I thought it was the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Did he get free drinks because of it?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Was it a scamp him drinks because they thought he
was real?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Lated to upset me about that story is so what
time would des have had to get there for him
to be their life?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
He got their way to it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, but he would have had to come at midnight
by the time everyone was.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There to be there late.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But it was you know, if you're don't have a
surprise party, everyone get there on time. A birthday person
don't get there anywhere early. If you're a guest, get
there on time.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's the whole post rise birthday party a tough.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Remember that time you hope you thought you were having one.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I was getting one from my my twenty sixth birthday,
so the year before I don't know talking about a
surprise birthday party.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And was the only person who'd ever want one.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I made mention to my wife, I said, I like
a surprise birthday pay She said, well, I'll have to.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Organize one for you.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I was newly married to my wife back then, so
I knew I thought maybe something might actually happen, but instead,
and you know me one second, it's a thought in
my mind. And so leading up to that birthday weekend,
I said I we should do something for my birthday
and I said, oh, I know, we've got you know,
we can't do that or hang on.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And then I rang my mates.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I said, what are we doing for my birthday? And
I said, oh, I know, we've got something on. It
was all incredibly vague, even my parents. I rang my parents,
what do we my birthdays? This weekend's what's happening?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What do you guys? Oh, I know we've we've gone anyway,
how you been?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
So it just seemed very very odd, and I thought,
it's happening birthday party, surprise birthday party?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And what did So Saturday, I'm at home.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm trying to pretend that you're not ready.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Just waiting looking out in the back guard.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, I said, I'm just going to get into the shops, Helen,
I'm just going to get some I'll get some stuff. Yeah,
and she goes, yep, yep, no worries and then she
and then she said, well, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I said, just to the shop. She goes, well, don't
be too long.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
What a sign?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So I go, I'm like, come in and open the door.
There's no one there.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I've got in the backyard, there's Morgan man or a
son just sitting in his little little sand pit.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Made yeah, he turned on.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
My son showed up then, so about six seven point
thirty eight o'clock, no one, and I said, well, this
is a pretty pretty quiet birthday.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And Helen goes, well, what did you want?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I said, I thought there would be like a you know,
and this stage she's standing in a pajamas and say,
I'm off to pit.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah. It was remember last year or the year before
she was arranging your birthday party and she got and
then she she just said to your other blue, oh god,
I can't do this. You can arrange it yourself. First
you'd heard that she was trying to arrange surprise playing
for you. I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I can't. I just can't do this. And I thought
she talked about the marriage, just I can't. And then
she was mad at me. I just can't organize this.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I can't orgize it yourself, to it yourself, and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It was a great night.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Hey hey, hey, okay, that's come back tomorrow from L.
What's on the cutting room floor today, missus Muntz.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We make of this. A couple staged a fake proposal
to get free drinks at a restaurant. They staged this
and then they put it on X and a lot
of people have said, oh, you're stealing. Hope you're proud
of what you're doing. Sad commentary. On a lot of
levels that people have liked it. I consider that theft
other people have said, go for it, and the fact
(00:34):
they got married anyway, they weren't a fake couple makes
any difference. Someone said, it's ruined it for all of
us who are having genuine gestures in restaurants.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, did they set out to deceive everyone? That's they did.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They wanted to get some free drinks. Holidays in Hawaii.
Husband gets down on one in front of a full
restaurant of people. Happy couple embrace and kiss to cheers
from other diners, and free drinks ensue for them, et cetera,
et cetera. When I was traveling with Beyond two thousand,
we'd be away for eight weeks and we'd have what
was called a padem, which you know, a certain amount
of money to spend.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Per day that's what it stands for.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Latin sounds for it stands for Latin, no.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Latin, it's for a certain amount of bundy. That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, not everyone speaks Latin as fluently as I do.
Clov artists and status quo, etcetera, and so, and sometimes
it would go in your favor. If you were staying
in a little African town, you'd save some money. If
you're an expensive city like god and Burg, then it
was expensive, so you scammed where you could. And occasionally
(01:36):
what we do at the end of a trip, if
we had some money left over, we'd go to a
nice restaurant. And there have been times I have to
say where we didn't do it to scam free cake
or anything, but you often got free cake. We did
it to embarrass, usually the sound recorders by telling the
matre d that it was their birthday and a mariachi
band would come out, or a person with a guitar,
(01:58):
or a cake with a candle in it, and a
restaurant all seeing happy birthday, and it would embarrass the
hell out of the sound.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
They'd have to go along with that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, that's right, but that'd have to go along with it.
But what it meant was that the rest of us
got free cake should we got to see someone being embarrassed.
So it's a double win.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So I think that's okay. That's for joke purposes. And
this couple as well. I think in a way they're
going for joke purposes. I don't think it's too bad,
it's not too deceptive. How did they get found out
that they weren't getting married?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Because they said, hey, look what we did to get
for a drinks. That's how they found out. People are
like great spies.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Hey look all I did the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
If I've learned anything from the internet, if you do something,
whether it be picking up a small massupiel or doing
that best keeper to yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Isn't it funny that the picking up of the small
marsupial united on country in a way that we haven't
had for years and years and years. Yeah, exactly, even
even tariffs against even though the tariffs at Donald Trump
is imposed Canada, United Greenland, United Mexico United Peter Dutton
went Anthony ALBERNISI, so that still has divided us. You
(03:00):
pick up a wombat, you pick up a baby wombat
and take away from its mother. We're all on the
same side.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I remember a few years ago I was at a
surprise birthday party for someone that we used to work with, Dez,
and I showed up at this party. I was like
one of the first people there. And it was at
this collegiate club in the collegiate club in the city,
and it was just me and Dez and that was it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He said, it was a surprise party.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was a surprise party. He got there early. That's right,
it was a surprise party.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He didn't know it was going to be He got
there early direct.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But everyone was going to show up, right, And he goes,
what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And I said, what are you doing? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
There was this guy, what are you doing here, Clever Brendan.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
There was this guy called Finn there as well, but
he had nothing to do.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
He was just in the bar.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Did he know him?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, No, he didn't, I said. And then the ruse
was up.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That the surprise party, the fortieth birthday. This was actually
all these people were coming. Because this is after some
about forty five minutes. No one else had show. So
it's me and s Fenn watching The Wizard of Oz
on TV in the collegiate come.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So you didn't say, hey, other people were supposed to come,
but don't like you.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
His sister showed up and said there.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Were more people, and did more people arrive?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, this is the thing. Oh, it took more hours
for people to come along to this thing. And then
I said, well, there's you got me and s Fenn
and your sister. Don't feel too bad, and we've got
the Wizard of Oz. And then as time rolled on,
people did start the field in and by this state
Spenn had ingratiated himself into the party.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So I started they telling how do you fit into this?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Fen, and I said, he saved Deser's life in an
ice fishing accident.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You know, for me, it's a wonderful life, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And the kid falls into the Harry Bailey falls into
the ice. It was like that, and they got all right, anyway,
I just started that story there. Then more and more
people come and then there's like about one hundred people there.
So it turned out to be okay. But the story
had gone and spread like wildfire.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That's fed it.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Indeed, saved desert fime drinks.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well. I was standing there, Wendy Harmer standing next to spen.
So I hear that you saved. You saved and an
ice fishing accident. Anyway, what the ruse was up?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Well, he just didn't did No One caught it on
and I thought it was the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Did he get free drinks because of it?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Was it a scamp him drinks because they thought he
was real?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Lated to upset me about that story is so what
time would des have had to get there for him
to be their life?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
He got their way to it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, but he would have had to come at midnight
by the time everyone was.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There to be there late.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But it was you know, if you're don't have a
surprise party, everyone get there on time. A birthday person
don't get there anywhere early. If you're a guest, get
there on time.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's the whole post rise birthday party a tough.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Remember that time you hope you thought you were having one.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I was getting one from my my twenty sixth birthday,
so the year before I don't know talking about a
surprise birthday party.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And was the only person who'd ever want one.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I made mention to my wife, I said, I like
a surprise birthday pay She said, well, I'll have to.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Organize one for you.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I was newly married to my wife back then, so
I knew I thought maybe something might actually happen, but instead,
and you know me one second, it's a thought in
my mind. And so leading up to that birthday weekend,
I said I we should do something for my birthday
and I said, oh, I know, we've got you know,
we can't do that or hang on.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And then I rang my mates.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I said, what are we doing for my birthday? And
I said, oh, I know, we've got something on. It
was all incredibly vague, even my parents. I rang my parents,
what do we my birthdays? This weekend's what's happening?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What do you guys? Oh, I know we've we've gone anyway,
how you been?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
So it just seemed very very odd, and I thought,
it's happening birthday party, surprise birthday party?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And what did So Saturday, I'm at home.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm trying to pretend that you're not ready.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Just waiting looking out in the back guard.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, I said, I'm just going to get into the shops, Helen,
I'm just going to get some I'll get some stuff. Yeah,
and she goes, yep, yep, no worries and then she
and then she said, well, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I said, just to the shop. She goes, well, don't
be too long.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
What a sign?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So I go, I'm like, come in and open the door.
There's no one there.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I've got in the backyard, there's Morgan man or a
son just sitting in his little little sand pit.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Made yeah, he turned on.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
My son showed up then, so about six seven point
thirty eight o'clock, no one, and I said, well, this
is a pretty pretty quiet birthday.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And Helen goes, well, what did you want?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I said, I thought there would be like a you know,
and this stage she's standing in a pajamas and say,
I'm off to pit.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah. It was remember last year or the year before
she was arranging your birthday party and she got and
then she she just said to your other blue, oh god,
I can't do this. You can arrange it yourself. First
you'd heard that she was trying to arrange surprise playing
for you. I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I can't. I just can't do this. And I thought
she talked about the marriage, just I can't. And then
she was mad at me. I just can't organize this.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I can't orgize it yourself, to it yourself, and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It was a great night.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Hey hey, hey, okay, that's come back tomorrow from L.
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