A bedding abomination (23 April 2025)

Marcus talks table tennis, terrible bed sheets, cooking in an air fryer, and what to do when council keeps shifting bin day around!

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News
Talks at b I'll.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Tell you what, there's nothing that can unite a community
like That's not quite what I meant to say. Here's
my situation. We live in Bluff and the bin day
is a Wednesday. However, if it's a public holiday, it

(00:38):
moves a day, so bin Day on Wednesday would be
a Thursday. Now, what we have just had is two
public holidays. In fact, we've had three public holidays. We've
had Good Friday, We've had Easter Monday and Southland Anniversary
Day one two three, three public holidays in a row. Now,

(00:59):
normally with one public holiday, the bidin day moves from
a Wednesday to a Thursday. So did they been a Wednesday?
After three public holidays? What day in Bluff do you
think is bin dai?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's right. So people were driving to town from Bluff today,
a twenty minute trip and what was coming the other
way the rubbish truck. So frantic calls people heading to

(01:37):
town for work, friendly, ringing everyone they know, say can
you please or do you know anyone in Bluff that
can take my bin out?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Say?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's what we had to do today. I had to
go around and take people's bins out because I was
in Bluff and free, but no one knew it. And
of course because no one had their bins out, the
bin truck, which normally takes a good seven or eight
hours to go around Bluff, did it about half an hour.
So not only did most people not have their bins out,

(02:06):
but there was huge time pressure because the truck was
only taking half an hour. For goodness sake. I don't
know what the solution is. I'm sure there's an app
for a website, but cheapest creepers. When it comes to Bindei.
You really can't trust anyone. By the way, just so
I can say, I don't like these times of the
year when everyone takes holidays. I've seen that before I've

(02:29):
come to work. I can't log onto my computer. I
presume my tear away the milk and the fridge is off.
No one's in the office, nor mely there's a milk
purse that arrives every day, would have meaguine with clean milk.
I've got tea without milk. Just don't like change anyway
onwards and upwards. But it kind of is unsettled because
it doesn't feel like it's holiday, but everyone's on holiday.

(02:50):
Those are the things you think you can rely on.
You can't rely on because everyone's away. Oh, how you're going,
Marcus till midnight? I hope it's good where you are.
I hope if you're on holiday it's going well for you.
I hope if you're not on holiday, it's also going
well for you. I hope by the time the end
of the show goes also, things will be better for
you if they are not too good. Now Here till

(03:13):
midnight tonight. My name is Marcus. Welcome. The number is
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two to text. I think, I hope. I kind of
want tonight to be a three topic night. The first
thing I want to say, just quickly, and I'm sure
you'll agree with me. Microfiber sheets? Are they the devil's bedding?

(03:39):
You go to the men, you go to the sheet shops.
These days it's full of micro who'd want to sleep
in microfiber? Goodness? Say they can't be good for you?
Terrible things to sleep with? What sort of people are
supporting the microfiber sheet industry? Because I don't want any

(04:01):
part of this world. Ah, who want to sleep in that?
Oh anything? If you're sleeping, you're imagining biting it between
your teeth. That's sending shocks through your mouth. That's not
something you want to be sleeping in. So big no
for me to micro fiber sheets. You might agree or disagree.

(04:22):
They are the devil's bedding. I'm sure about that. So
that's that. Anyways, that's the microfiber sheets. You might have
some opinion about that, but basically I only want to
hear opinion from people that think it's a beating abomination.
By the way, when we're on the topic of retail tonight,

(04:43):
not only is what only are microfiber sheets taking over
the sheet shelves. I can tell you what that the
appliant shops very hard to get a slow cooker these days.
No one's selling slow cookers. All that place in the
shelf where there used to be slow cookers is just
now ear fryers. I don't think people are cooking good

(05:06):
food and the air fries. I think you're just heating
up McNuggets and pizza. I don't think people are using
their air fries in their healthy way like they once
used their slow cooker. It's the snackification of eating. It's
all just bags of chips and air fried pastries. So
you're I'm not quite sure what's going on there, but
I don't think it's a positive step. If we just

(05:28):
take those two examples. People are giving up cotton sheets
to go for microfiber sheets, and they've given up slow
cooker meals to go for heated snacks and an air fryer.
We're on the road to hell, are we not. Anyway,

(05:49):
microfiber even sounds terrible. It'd be different if they came
up with a better word for microfiber sheets, like called them.
I was gonna say fiery down, but it's already been used,
isn't it. But call them sort of. I can't think
of the word. Microfiber just sounds so leavy, doesn't out

(06:12):
of a lab anyway, What day is it?

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Thursday? Should be oh, eight hundred and eighty and something else.
Hush evil, Marcus, pure evil. Microfiber's sheet should be barn.
Puts my teeth on each, me too, Put anything that
puts your teeth on each You shouldn't be sleeping under Marcus.

(06:46):
Friday was recycling and rubbish was Monday. Both were collecked
on good Fridays to Monday on normal as Norman Hevlock,
I always think there should be signs coming into town
to say when Binda is my ba is Monday. And

(07:07):
with it being Easter Monday, I thought there was no
chance wrong. That terrible racket woke me up. There's nothing
worth either on God's Day having a lion and then
you hear that recket of the truck, knowing you've probably
missed it. Oh, it's a terrible thing. There should be

(07:27):
a siren that goes out now beforehand to warn you
that it's been day or something. Anyway, everyone getting rid
of their microfiber sheets, no doubt here or midnight mo
Namers Marcus welcome eight hundred and eighty ten eighty wo'd
buy microfiber? They said they're easy to wash. But easy

(07:51):
to wash is never a reason to buy something, is it? Well,
maybe it is anyway? How are you all going? What's
happening this day? In nineteen eighty three? What do you
think Prince William met? It was the buzzy bee on

(08:11):
the lawns of Governor House and Mountain Road in Auckland, yep.
I can promise you that anyway, do get in touching
on talk about micro fiber sheets and bad bindas. But
the real story. Tonight, good evening. I cook chops, Veggi's
fish in my air fryer. Get a slow cooker. That's

(08:32):
what you want. Too much air fry not enough slow cooker.
Feel quite strongly about that. Get in touch. Oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine to detext
Hey something else I need to say. An extraordinary story.
So those people in Wellington, and this is from the
overseas papers, but in Wellington there is an infestation of millipedes,

(09:01):
an all fed obey Portuguese millipe And there's one house right.
What's a fascinating story? One resident said, her neighbour's house.
At her neighbour's house, they collected five rubbish bags worth

(09:23):
of the creatures in a week. There's an infestation of
Portuguese millipedes. Unbelievable. They're attracted to light and large street
lamps bring them in the entire deck, the footpath, everything

(09:43):
just swarms. They introduced. Millipedes are thought to hitch to
ride on ships or planes. Is in from Australia, where
the creatures are similar invaded homes, and even when blamed
for causing train collisions, they're taking over. The small glossy
black arthropods can grow between twenty and fifty milimes in

(10:05):
length and labeling six that the eggs at time they
have no natural predators, so you think they're believed to
be willing for about twenty years. But it's reached plague proportions.
How gruesome does that?

Speaker 6 (10:23):
Lock?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
There's just buckets and buckets of them for anyway's experience.
Those give us a call as well. The invasion of
the millipedes. I don't like anything with that many legs.
It feels wrong to me because you feel four four
leggs of itchy or six legs that gee, imagine how many?
And someone will tell me they haven't got a million legs,
but you imagine that many legs tickling you as they ooh,

(10:47):
get down your clothes and ow heartbreaking in it. Bring
them across. Eighteen past eight, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty ninet two. Oh, jeepest, creepers. I just spilt my
tea with no milk taste. All right, actually, Darren, it's Marcus. Welcome,

(11:07):
good evening.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
Get how are you today?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Got there there you all right?

Speaker 7 (11:13):
I thanks mate.

Speaker 6 (11:14):
There was a bit of a confused I was confused that.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
You talk so quickly, and I was going on, I
lot this, subdig a lot of this a lot, And
when I was talking to the man on the phone,
who are you talking? What are you talking about? I
lost it to ear fris is what we've picked, right,
ear you're todd mere right, and what you see. I've

(11:38):
been shifting for I may well not twenty seven years,
but I've been cocking for twenty seven years, twenty eight years,
and I wanted an ear froll when they came. You
just want a great idea of cooked and all the
averaging and possibly cooking, but an ear flyer and back
all I do is cooked chicken nuggets and heat up

(12:00):
really good.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
All right, I'm calling it. You guys are ear fryer hypocrites.
Your makeouts. This a great thing, but you're just eating
up John.

Speaker 7 (12:08):
If you either. If anybody out there loves crackle correctly,
it's an ear for other I'm still solving it up.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Ye should.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Minutes.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
It's the best correct than you ever having it?

Speaker 8 (12:26):
Lie?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
How good is it for correckling?

Speaker 7 (12:28):
Though? Oh you've got to be a master to do that.
You've got to be able to do that well. And
you all right, But if you just check a bit
of correctly sold the paper solved it. But oil chucking
in the year for you, you'll get pretty good.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Crep Darren. I don't think i've ever heard is a
noisy start to a phone call as you And what
were you doing at the beginning of that phone call?

Speaker 9 (12:53):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (12:55):
I really don't know.

Speaker 7 (12:57):
Don't take talking to yourself.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Don't take you by surprise or something.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yes you did, Oh yeah, I was talking to you.

Speaker 10 (13:03):
I was talking to your man.

Speaker 7 (13:06):
Put your the list. He'll be on the one who lists.
You're are the one who lists? Yeahs make the other one?

Speaker 11 (13:10):
Is you have there?

Speaker 7 (13:11):
On the one you list? You're on the list or
what do you call it?

Speaker 2 (13:15):
So let you falling over in your garage bar Darren,
Thank you, Pete Marcus welcome. No, you're noisy too with
what are you doing? You're like doing the dish and
everyone's so noisy.

Speaker 12 (13:27):
No, just just having my tato. Just put me a
knife and fork down.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
What are you having? Ah?

Speaker 12 (13:33):
Just somebody a little bit of salad and potato, your potato,
salad and potatoes and a little several oys and a
bit of coal.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Saw cheapers, creepers, potato salad, potatoes, cole slaw and several oys. Yeah,
sounds delicious. I wouldn't have think you'd have potatoes and
potato salad.

Speaker 12 (13:56):
Oh it's got potato. Sound is quite tasty.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, no, I've got no problem with potato salad. But
I never thought I think I'm gonna have potato salad
and potato. It's like, I take that personally.

Speaker 12 (14:11):
What a little bit Dutch?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh yeah, okay, yep.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
You know.

Speaker 12 (14:16):
But but you ever heard about the place like no Other?

Speaker 6 (14:21):
What's that?

Speaker 7 (14:23):
Have you hear?

Speaker 12 (14:23):
They're saying me for place like no other? No, that's
that's New Plymouth.

Speaker 13 (14:29):
That's what we hear.

Speaker 12 (14:29):
You coming to New Plymouth. You say, have signs a
place like no other. It is refearing too, basically like
the taran Eki province.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Oh yeah, a place like no other, like unique? Yeah yeah, and.

Speaker 12 (14:42):
They don't going back to the rubbish and that what
we have here and New Plymouth we don't change. It's
like picking up milk. You know, the milk can be
picked up from the farmers, but that once you get
behind I can see what they're doing where you are.
They don't want to pay those drivers the day and
lou and stuff like. That's what they do and that they.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Try to hold.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Are you signing and you Plymouth a place like?

Speaker 14 (15:02):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Whether the never changes, never changes if we don't. Okay,
So you're telling me they're collecting rubbish. Hang on, pete,
hold your potato? Said, are you telling me that they
could be out there collecting the rubbish on Christmas Day?

Speaker 5 (15:19):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (15:20):
Not sure on Christmas?

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Said? You said? You said it never changes.

Speaker 12 (15:26):
I'm quite sure they do on that one.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
But normally, I.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Say, is it? Is it still the convicted felons that
do the rubbish and New Plymouth.

Speaker 12 (15:41):
No, we haven't got those people downtown, the Marcus.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
But they close the local prison. Yeah you didn't you
know that when they closed the prison.

Speaker 12 (15:51):
Oh it's been closed what about fifteen years ago?

Speaker 11 (15:53):
Now?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
I think because they used to do the rubbish, didn't they.

Speaker 12 (15:59):
No, I can't comment on that. I don't don't think so, don't.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
I'm sure they used to do the rubbish. So I
think they're famous for doing the rubbish.

Speaker 12 (16:07):
Oh they might have. They might have put them on
the truck. They might help.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
This is this is the this is pre the this
is the metal bins, and they'd run up and down
the streets checking them in.

Speaker 12 (16:19):
It might be right, I can't I can't recall that.
I don't know to comment on that when you might
be right, Marcus, that's what we do when you put
them anyway, just basically doesn't change here. So you just
put your days here, put your bins out normal, like
every collection day, and it doesn't just the clocks kicks going.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Brilliant, but let you go, the potato center might go cold,
even Josh, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (16:41):
Yeah, hey Marcus talking about polyester.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, like like that stuff that jackets are made out of.

Speaker 15 (16:49):
Like, yeah, not a big fan, not a fan. I've
been heading for the cotton and the wool and things
like that. The natural fires.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (17:01):
How would they make those sheets fire retardant if they're
plasters polyester.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Base that males and cover you and just be disgusting,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 7 (17:13):
Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 15 (17:14):
And the other act that is have you ever had
have you ever had static electricity from polyester clothing or
from polyester socks? Walking around the supermarket wearing full on polyester.
I don't even think about it until I experienced numerous

(17:34):
static shocks off that smooth concrete floor, and I realized
I was wearing one hundred polyester shirt and shorts. And
then I thought that must be it, because it doesn't
usually happen, you see, So I turned two together. But hey,
the jury is still out on whether that's good for

(17:56):
your body's natural electrical stuff. You know, I don't know.
I I would say, if you can get cotton, go coon.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I know, is there a shortage at the moment, Josh,
is there? You seem to know a lot about stuff.

Speaker 15 (18:19):
Oh, commodity wise. Hey, look, we've got a shortage on everything. Man,
that's the story. They'll they'll tell you it wouldn't matter
if we had all the cotton in the universe, would
still have a shortage.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I think it comes to me, jad, does it.

Speaker 15 (18:35):
That's how cynical I am developing.

Speaker 7 (18:37):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 15 (18:38):
I mean, hey, look, I've never been able to grab
those real expensive ones. But I'd say entry level Condon's
better than polyese to microphone, but that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
But the name's terrible. Josh, nice to talk to you.
I enjoyed that. Thank you, thank you, thank you. There'll
be texts and they'll get to those. There'll be texts
about prisoners doing the rubbish. I think that was a
thing anyway. By the way, just about to open the
doors for the public to come and see the Pope.
I'll keep you updated on that. I don't know what

(19:11):
we'll be looking for, but are we looking for it?
Twenty nine to nine we're talking sheets and microfiber sheets.
Someone in millipedes. Someone said, right, I've got this text
to a lot of texts. I'll get to them. No,

(19:33):
I can't find it. Oh yeah, microfiber sheets. I was
told they are plastic. That's why they don't breathe cotton
or bamboo with a bist. That's from Jackie Goodness. Bamboo sheets.
That'd be noisy, wouldn't they? Can you imagine that flip? Anyway?

(19:54):
So it's the topics. Are Bindai? The madness of Bindai?
Just when you thought it would be probably on Friday,
they drop a same day, even after Easter and Southland Day.
Microfiber sheets are they're the devil's linen? The answer is yes.

(20:17):
And the millipede invasion of Wellington five sects of millipedes
at one house Portuguese millipedes true story. She's speaking of
a true story. There was an ant and a spider
that were hanging at the millipede's house and they ran

(20:38):
out of booze. So, being a good host, the millipede
volunteered to get more at the store. They waited for
two hours and the millipede was nowhere to be found.
They opened the front door and saw the millipede was
still putting on his shoes. Guys, you gotta know this

(21:04):
good millipede jokes out there, don't you. Most of the
millip jokes involved probably hadny legs. They've got yeah, ah

(21:24):
shes a lot of bad millipp jokes, just so you know. Anyway,
so we are talking about all I've got a million
texts anyway, how are you people? What's happening? Polyester is

(21:53):
naturally a fire retardant. Can we use that word?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Still?

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Retardant? Rayon is the problem one. We just had chicken
curry down in the slow cocker and flavor sachet. I
used head best before date of twenty seventeen. It was
really good. Jeff and Denise here from Papa Adraha. We
love cooking meals and our old Foshion crock pot chicken shasseur,

(22:18):
lamb goulash and curried sausages. Yum. We've just got ourselves
a new crockpot. Yep. Micro fib and O good on beds,
but I made sails for my boat only thing m
if any good for cheers. Don't even know what that means, Marcus.

(22:41):
When talking about micro blanket fiber sheets, is that the
same as a minky blanket? By the way, and this
will set you off. Someone knows me. I use minky
blankets as both my bottom sheet and in winter my
top blankets too. And Danian we can down on a
nap that seends us reminderus the night before our WHEELI
bins are emptied? Is pole of fleets the same as

(23:08):
microfiber bindets? Don't seem to change in Palmerston, North, that's
from Cindy. Does anyone still use post office box as
curious thing? Yes we have one, but we have no letterbox.
Refreeing binde is tomorrow and subbody, it's go around the

(23:31):
street and smack the bins to the ground. What is
micro fiber sheets? I use flamelet sheets. There are difference.
Micro micro fiber sheets are made out of old soft
drink containers that are shredded and whizzed up. Marcus. Our
bins are always picked up on public holidays, even on
Christmas Day in New Plymouth. Fancy fancy picking up the

(23:59):
bins on Easter Monday, flip the day of the resurrections,
that the day it was. I think, Yeah, for goodness sake,
how disrespectful. Good to hear Roliston in the news always
anything about Rolliston. I'm there for you, Roliston, love everything

(24:21):
about you. Key services are lagging behind? Is that tries
to cope with expondential? I can tell you it was
going to grow like that, like Topsy twenty five to nine. Oh,
by the way, here's a story for you today. Today
is World Table Tennis Day. Has there ever been a

(24:42):
better game? One of the few games that anyone can
play competitively against anyone of any age group. I don't
know if anyone out there is still playing in clubs,
but yeah, let's give a bit of a shout out
to table tennis. You never quite sure why don't have
table tennis and pubs? Why is it always Paul and

(25:03):
darts in the pub? Why can't you play table tennis?
Never had to work that out. Is it a room thing? Now?
Someone asks a question is goos down the same as microfiver.

(25:24):
It's a funny text and I don't think so, Marcus.
Might be a silly question, But why don't you have
a letter box? What's a very good question. And I
would come back straight back at you at why would
you have a letterbox? You have a letter box? These
days all you get is junk. Then you gotta go

(25:45):
on a holiday. You've got to get someone else to
take your mail away to look like you're still Everything
about a letterbox is problematic when people knock them over.
To not have a letter box would be one of
the most freeing things I've ever done. And I've lived
where I currently lived since would would it be two
thousand and four? Probably twenty one years with no letterbox.

(26:05):
It has caused me no worry, although once I built
an obstacle course to one of the children's birthday and
they fell and broke an arm, and we were worried
that the ambulance wouldn't know where we were, and I
forget how that was resolved. I think I stood near
the street and waved them in. Yeah, so he doesn't

(26:32):
really cause a problem, Marcus. I lived with a fire
investigator he dislikes anything that isn't natural fibers e g.
Microfiber is cheap to nylon carpets for obvious reason. Love
your work, Yeah, what an exciting thing it would be
to deliver with a fire investigator. What does Papa Charus?

(26:56):
Marcus welcome?

Speaker 16 (26:58):
Oh hello Marcus, Hi Charus. Do you like paul crackling
by charm?

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh? Do I like pork crackling? But what sort of
question is there?

Speaker 14 (27:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I don't mind. I wouldn't mind it.

Speaker 16 (27:18):
Well, you've got a topic about air fright. You can't
do pork crackling in the candon.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh you probably could have he wrapped it in foil
or something, but I think you just do pork crackling
in an oven. Any half a cock can get a
get a get pork and just score it and put
on the oven, can't they?

Speaker 7 (27:41):
Well?

Speaker 16 (27:42):
Up here? And O cokey, my grandmother she has a
weird O cokey?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Could you spell that?

Speaker 16 (27:52):
Okay? I don't know it's there? You're annoy?

Speaker 9 (27:56):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Wow? Is it for you as just your grandmother?

Speaker 9 (28:02):
Is?

Speaker 16 (28:03):
Me and my grandmother were out here?

Speaker 17 (28:05):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Wow, I've never spoken to anyone before there. I mean,
how many houses would there be like half a house.
It's like no one there is there.

Speaker 16 (28:17):
Well, I'm at the top of it. It's like there's
a lot of trees around. I had to climb up
quite high in the dark. I've counted four possums and
I can see a house across the gravel road.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
And have you always have you always lived there?

Speaker 16 (28:38):
No? I actually live in New Plumbus, but I come
to my grandmother's and it's the school holidays, so I'm
staying out here for a week.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Hey. So on that road right the road to a
kok are there tunnels.

Speaker 16 (28:53):
If you go, Well, there's o'koque road in this Peko road,
which is where my grandmother is. But a road that
joins onto it is called Kaka Road Ka Ka And
that's good. A tunnel pretty tight in that tunnel.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, because there's quite a few of those tunnels up
in there. I was looking at now Carcroat on Google Maps,
just looking for the tunnel. Oh, wow, does she farm?

Speaker 16 (29:18):
Is she flarmbs, goats, nul packers?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Wow? How many our peckers.

Speaker 16 (29:25):
Five at the moment?

Speaker 2 (29:26):
For wool or just for fun?

Speaker 16 (29:31):
I think it's mostly for fun, Okay, I don't.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Know there's much money in our peckers. Some people like
some wall but not much. If I or a slow cooker.

Speaker 16 (29:40):
Well, she's got a solar panel and she doesn't really
have an she's got a gas of them. It's not
a bit. I don't know if you can do pork
in there. But tomorrow act she's got a planned she's
going to do pork crackling in the air fryer.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
So you hear that, you hear the discussion about the
pork correctly. And then you've got to climb a hill
to get cell phone reception. Yep, we've got to head towards. Yeah,
I hate head torches, but that's a personal thing. I mean,
you don't do you mean it's useful, but yeah, I've
always had a problem with those. We're a torch like
on your head. Okay, anyway, and five possums or four

(30:20):
possums was it?

Speaker 18 (30:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (30:22):
Four possums?

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Well, how many cars would come up the road each
day today?

Speaker 16 (30:29):
They are about four.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, it's the real wop say. Yeah, I'd like to
go up that right. Okay, Well you better walk back
down the Hill of Charis. But nice to talk to you.
Thank you brilliant sixteen to nine never spoke it. Okay, okay, okay,
I akchi Marcus, your stand on having no male box

(30:57):
that your dwelling means you've killed off any future postal voting.
We've got to post office box. It's a great start
to a text, doesn't I Live with a fire Investigator.
It's like the start of a crime novel. Someone's asked
me why I hate head torches so much, But it's

(31:20):
just the enthusiasm they have. If you're a camping or
away with someone on their head torch and I think
I will go out for suddenly that back in your
room with a head torch like a someone's come out
of the Welsh coal mines, Oh you got my head torch?
Then never Alex where they said, oh let's go, oh
we got my head torch on. It's sort of a
certain type of person that's in my head torch's overly enthusiastic,

(31:43):
always shining in your eyes or turning around when you're
out with them. It's a terrible thing, a head torch on.
Harry head torch yet Bill, Yeah he killed the Marcus
cured a bill.

Speaker 17 (31:53):
I hear friers and and slow cookeres. You got to
head both. We did a a silver side and a
slow cooker today eight hours and put on a They
took it off by about four thirty or something and
absolutely gorgeous, just beautiful.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Chuck a cup of peppercorns in there or something, did.

Speaker 17 (32:14):
You peppercorns, bit of garlic, onions, carrots, and you know
I eat the carrots and obviously the onions and stuff
along with the meal. Now the air friers we've got,
we've got two ear friers one of them.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, well my.

Speaker 17 (32:32):
Wife bought a flash one and I kept the old
one for cooking my eels. And they absolutely ideal for
eel because they you know, crackles the old skin up,
so you can buy them just like a like a crust.
You know, absolutely gorgeous. Can't beat them.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
And you cut the I'm just trying to visualize the
eels and the slow cooker. You don't cook them a
whole obviously, you don't squiz no, no, no, in the
air froy you don't squiz them around. You don't fold
them around. You cut them into lengths.

Speaker 17 (33:02):
No, I can slice them into into strips. Yeah, and
cooking only cooking form about fifteen minutes. I suppose I never.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Thought about eight years. Are you getting your own? E
L Bill?

Speaker 17 (33:13):
I normally do, but this year I missed the boat.
I was a bit crooking. I never got out to
do a drain. And then out of burlings fat Lake
Forsyth they got thousands this year. Obviously thousands got out
because they opened the lake up, you see, and led
them all out, which is a good thing. And that

(33:36):
lot that got trapped at Ellesmere the following week, I'm
not sure it made the news a lot, but they
put out about eight ton they rescued the following week,
absolutely tens of thousands of them. So they managed to
get them out because they'd already loaded the load the

(33:57):
excess point, you know, so they were easy to get
them out this time. And just one other thing that
I might touch on. I heard on the news about
about the cognitive tests are going to put these fellows
through for this head injury, you know, yep. The thing is,
I mean, some of these songs might be a bit
sick to start with, and they're not going to be

(34:18):
able to answer these questions for a good point regardless
of you know, so I think they should. I think
they should put them through one when they're eighteen and
then a year into their senior rugby and then they've
got then they've got a guide to go.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
You need a guide because some of them might be
slow to start with. Ye a good point. Well, thank
you for that. Letterboxes, we're talking fifty years ago. But
one of my girlfriends chipped me about not answering her letters.
It was then I discovered my mother was intercepting my
mail went out. Then if the next forty years had
a postbox as an adult, I often moved flat times,

(34:53):
no need to change address box number stayed constant. It
little a bit like email, now, isn't it. Matthew Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (35:02):
Yeah, I just I'm out picking up my daughter from
work and I haven't caught that. But I heard pork
in the air fro and I did it tonight.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Wow, look at you so cook the pork.

Speaker 19 (35:15):
And then cut the skin off because it was a
bit doggy, not much fat, just the skin. Chucked it
in the air.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Throw because there is a lot of fat and pork,
isn't there fatty little pork out?

Speaker 19 (35:27):
It smoked a lot, It really smoked a lot.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah, So what did you do you put in the
air frightens? Good?

Speaker 7 (35:36):
It was good.

Speaker 19 (35:37):
Yeah, it smoked the kitchen up.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I had to open some windows, but that's not a problem.

Speaker 19 (35:42):
And then yeah, dried it on paper towels, and dried
it on paper towels. And then yeah, added potatos.

Speaker 20 (35:48):
Beautiful.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
You save some for your daughter.

Speaker 19 (35:52):
I did duck pat potatoes too.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Duck fat, yes, we're eating pork.

Speaker 19 (35:59):
What's duck fat?

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Where do you get duck fed?

Speaker 19 (36:03):
The market? Quite expensive too, can imagine?

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I mean, how many how much fat to get per duck?

Speaker 19 (36:10):
I don't know how many ducks it takes to get
the fat from ducks?

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Aren't that fat by nature? Are they flapping around?

Speaker 19 (36:18):
Oh, they've got a bit of fat on them. Not
wild ducks but farm ducks.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Though, what if they get duck off the can What
if they get fat off the Canada goose?

Speaker 7 (36:28):
You could do, you could do.

Speaker 19 (36:29):
It makes a good sausage.

Speaker 18 (36:30):
Apparently a lot.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Of them hanging around. I don't like them one little bit.
The lami, the lami, No Canada Geese, I don't like.
I like salami.

Speaker 19 (36:40):
No, but you can make get salami out of Cana.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
I couldn't, nor could you, but someone could.

Speaker 19 (36:47):
Someone will.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Okay, what are you picking your daughter up.

Speaker 19 (36:53):
I'm just waiting to get in the gate and she's
ringing on the other line.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Let you go to get here. Wonder what the gate
would be? Where would you pick a daughter up with
a gate? Wouldn't be the zoo, wouldn't be around the park?

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Were it be?

Speaker 2 (37:08):
We'll never know. When would you meet at nine o'clock
at the gate? Do you have some good ends these days?
Aren't they? You want to sing along that new companion?

Speaker 18 (37:21):
One?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Oh need a new companion?

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Surprised the anti inter box movement didn't catch on, but
that's all right. It's not always easy being a visionary
when it comes to the postal system. Will we surrender
our post office box?

Speaker 9 (37:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (37:45):
We still get quite a lot of stuff there. We
get about once a month when we can find the key.
But you can go into the they call it the
service center. You go in there and they'll get the
They can get the mail out from the inside anyway. Well,

(38:06):
col people known as Marcus Hurdle twelve the sheets are
mainly talking about these poly fiber sheets. How bad are
they to sleeping Because for me, just thinking about it
sends me into little spasms. That's just me though, a
bit funny about certain materials. Do you feel if you're

(38:28):
gonna put in your mouth that's gonna make your teeth shimmer?
That's not what I'm into. I'm not saying I'm going
to bite the sheets, but the thought that if I could,
they would do that doesn't make me want.

Speaker 6 (38:37):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
So yeah, I'm glad I managed to vocalize that I'm
friendily looking for a better millipede joke, but none of
them are really good. They're all a variation on the
putting your shoes on type. It's all about going to
the pub and putting my shoes on. And by the way,
you might be asked about this sometime in life. But

(39:02):
all the millipede and centipede jokes are interchangeable. So if
you want to find a good millipede joke, you can
probably also google centipede jokes. I thought they'd be better ones.
I was sorely mistaken. How are you going people keep that?
By the way, that guy and I didn't want to

(39:23):
sound ignorant, we're short of time. Bill, there was time restraints,
he said, I didn't get to dig a ditch this year.
I don't quite know how you catch eels. I think
they migrate to see and go to the trench off
Tonga and mate and then die. So maybe if you
dig a trench, they think they're heading to the sea
and you catch them that way. I guess that's what
he was a meaning. I didn't really want to say.

(39:45):
I didn't know how they caught them, but anyway, sound
delicious in an air fryer. Just checked online. There are
Canada goosulami recipes on both YouTube as well as normal websites. Marcus,
I'm like you were the towels, thinking of biting into
them covers me in shivers. I wonder if we have

(40:06):
a c Sometimes I wonder what syndromes we haven't got.
There So many syndromes, aren't there. Everyone's got a syndrome, now,
haven't they. I'm not saying that's got a bad thing,
but it's interesting, Marcus. Microbe fiber absolutely is the devil's linen.
Being made from natural fibers like cotton and bamboo. Linen

(40:28):
are breathable, contain antibacteria properties, and anti inflammatory, aiding deep
asleep and longevity. Would it be the gate at the airport, Oh,
she's an air hostess. Recall them those now? He said
he was getting it from work and she was at
the gate. Mind you, if you pick up your daughter

(40:49):
from work and she's a cabinet attendant, you'd pick her
up in the car part, wouldn't you. Marcus, I'll send
you some goos salami next time we get some made.
This sounds like a metaphor, doesn't it? Some goussalami? Anyway?
Thank you gouslami. Anyway, who wants to start this hour

(41:20):
with something interesting? They're gonna they've moved the pope's body
and they're gonna let the public move and to see
him soon. Yeah, it started, but they're playing promos on CNN.
Of course. BBC is better. BBC very good for a funeral.

(41:44):
Seems to be what they excel in. Months upon a
time TV in did was good that that' send Judy
Bailey across or something, wouldn't they? But not not so
much anymore. We've got the money BBC World News. Yeah,

(42:06):
the pundits are. They've got like a big curved wall
about a meter high, and you go along there it's
not like the queen, and then you go beyond the
wall and then you go to the side of his
body and they're a pews to pray. Also, you get

(42:30):
quite close to it. A lot of nuns, No, I
say a lot of nuns. I've seen one nun. Not
non nuns. Brian. It's Marcus. Welcome Oky, Marcus. Hey you, Brian.

Speaker 13 (42:49):
I have a strange thing that happens at my home
from time to time. You were talking about bugs before.

Speaker 18 (42:57):
Yeah, I have.

Speaker 13 (42:59):
Bands which occasionally appear dead on my U think bench
at home, and they're always in the same place. I
get one or two of them and they're below a
power plug. Well, I don't know whether that has any
any bearing on why they're there. I don't see any

(43:22):
anywhere else, but occasionally I just get one or two
that are dead in the same place every time.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Have you seen one fall out of the socket.

Speaker 11 (43:34):
No.

Speaker 13 (43:34):
And I've been into the socket to have a look
in the back of it, taking it off the wall,
and there is nothing in behind it at all, and
it's all steeled the socket itself anyway in the back.
It's the strangest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
What a story, what a mystery of the age is?

Speaker 21 (43:56):
Say?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Is it in a kitchen on a sink? Is that
the scenario we're talking No.

Speaker 13 (44:02):
It's in a bathroom, okay, just right beside the handbasin,
and they're aws in the same.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Place, and there's always one or two. Yeah, yeah, How
often are they there?

Speaker 6 (44:21):
Dead?

Speaker 13 (44:24):
Sometimes they don't get them for weeks, sometimes possibly months,
but then all of a sudden, there were two there
this morning. They just suddenly appear again.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
So leaving one's no one's leaving them there. I can't
work out what that would be.

Speaker 13 (44:42):
No, I can't either. There's no one leaving them there.
It's got me totally baffled.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Do you think that the do you think that the
socket could be a red hearing?

Speaker 13 (44:55):
I think that probably is a red hearing.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
But I can't think what else would put them just
in that one place.

Speaker 13 (45:02):
Oh, I can't either. It absolutely baffles me. It's and
so many times that it can't be a coincidence.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
And there's never dead ants anywhere else to just in
the bathroom near the basin below the three point plug.

Speaker 13 (45:16):
Yeah, same place. Every time you.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Don't see them wandering around, they just appear there.

Speaker 13 (45:24):
Yeah, They're just appear. I mean, in the past we
have had ants, but I've killed them all, you know,
with bait and so on. But just when these ones
appeared generally there are no other ants around.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Because they're dying very suddenly, aren't they If they're in
the same spot. They're not dying a slow Deathan wandering away.
They're dying instantly.

Speaker 13 (45:50):
Yeah, you're dead ones out of the nest.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
You're not placing anything on top of there that you
could be crushing them or anything.

Speaker 13 (46:01):
No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
They're not coming from the roof bench for they're not
anything in the roof they could come down from.

Speaker 13 (46:12):
No, I've looked all around and so on. Then it
just absolutely baffles me. Maybe somebody will ring up and
oh it's.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
A great who's done it. It's not who'd done it,
it's so why they've done it. I don't know what
you call that. It's got me baffled.

Speaker 13 (46:34):
Well, keep listening.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Oh no, well, I'm waiting for the cavalcade of calls.
What does the one think Brian's situation is. I've got
no idea, but it's got me baffled. I mean, when
there's just a socket and a bench and dead ants.
If you think you know, Marcus the answer, dead one

(46:57):
has been pushed up by the other live ands. They
will be in the walls pushing them out of the
socket or plug. Pepsi ants come in touch with whatever
the bathroom is cleaned with and flaked out by the outlet. Marcus,
live ants carry their dead awayte to have live ants

(47:19):
around somewhere. It's an ant official sacrificial altar. Are the
ants coming from above? There could be a spider catching
them and killing them. We have a similar thing above
a window and the lounge. Every now and then there's
a few ants dead on the window sill. His hand
washed de tugent residue on the bench killing them. Ants

(47:44):
will get rid of their dead from a colony oft
and out of powerpoints or light fittings, although he said
the light socket was sealed. Looking forward to you and
put tonight people. Twenty past nine. Has anyone even using
the air air fry seriously? Just cooking up, heating up
snacks and pastries and McNuggets. The answer for you for that, Oh,

(48:11):
power switch has small magnetic field, confusing insects owning skills.
Oh so they're getting lost and then just die and
giving up. It's twenty five past nine, Good evening, John
AT's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 18 (48:26):
Yeah, Marcus, I've got a near fryer. It's called a
power Excel. It's from the Global Shop, which where I
got it from, but I wouldn't. It was out I
used for cooking my meals, you know, cooking out snacks
and that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Did you say you got it from the Global Shop.

Speaker 17 (48:54):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Is it an online thing?

Speaker 18 (48:58):
Yes, it's not TV. Oh yeah, yes, it's seemed thing
in the New Weekend Road to three chickens and sort
of jets. Have you have.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
You done a roto chicken?

Speaker 20 (49:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (49:19):
No, not yet, that's what you say, not yet because it's yeah, okay, well.

Speaker 18 (49:25):
Yeah, yeah, but it's works three Well yeah, the other
I had chops chops?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (49:33):
Did?

Speaker 18 (49:33):
There are three courts and there at one age five
plast doing a bag doing them? Do them a bag
in the Avantes release mesh and throw buds and that
was it?

Speaker 6 (49:48):
Beautiful?

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Hang on, so did you do the chops in the oven?

Speaker 18 (49:53):
I do the chops and a be egg cooking bag.

Speaker 6 (49:59):
In the oven.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
That wasn't a That wasn't an air fryer story.

Speaker 18 (50:05):
Yes, an air fry by doing them on the ear
for okay?

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Copy that? Okay, John, Thank you brilliant. Beth Marcus welcome, Hello,
how are you tonight? Very good, Thank you, Beth.

Speaker 22 (50:21):
Egyptian cotton sheet are the best.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
That's the answer, isn't it?

Speaker 9 (50:29):
Yep?

Speaker 22 (50:30):
But if the three count is too great, they don't breathe,
So the cheap Egyptian cotton sheets are actually the best.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Okay. I think it would be hard to prove the
thread count, wouldn't it, because I don't even know how
you do that in a microscope. I would surmise.

Speaker 22 (50:52):
They have it on the label.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Yes, but how would you check if the label's right?

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Well?

Speaker 22 (50:58):
I suppose I've got people do this.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
It's always bettl to be that one. But you're fear enough. Okay, yes?
Now what about what about Dick Van Dyke?

Speaker 22 (51:10):
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? A really dark movie?

Speaker 8 (51:14):
Really?

Speaker 22 (51:16):
I loved it as a kid, watched it as an
adult in WHOA No Dark?

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Your Funny Enough? Was the first movie I ever saw
and was never quite the same after it.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
Okay, what was the plot?

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Evil?

Speaker 13 (51:33):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
What was the plot? But nonsense?

Speaker 22 (51:37):
The whole thing was a dream in the end?

Speaker 18 (51:43):
Really yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Really?

Speaker 22 (51:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Ever knew that might have walked out by then. I
didn't actually walk out, but you have never heard that
it was a dream? Was it based on was it
based on a book?

Speaker 22 (52:04):
Yes, h in the bit where the dude captured the
children in the cages with the candy, he's a kid.
I was scared, but as a as you look at
it as a oh year, what were they thinking?

Speaker 2 (52:32):
What where did you happen to see it again? As
on Kelley said, I wouldn't watch it. I've never seen
it come up again on TV. But it's interesting to me.

Speaker 22 (52:44):
And I saw it and I thought, I love that
as a kid, or watch it?

Speaker 18 (52:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (52:49):
And it was dark and then they said there's a
sing song. You think they sang along and it didn't they?

Speaker 22 (52:57):
Yeah, okay, I think the song was famous in New
Zealand when it came out.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Yeah, might, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
I might.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
What was the song and jujjenglin beeng when we love You?

Speaker 17 (53:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
It rings a bell that one? Okay, yeah, okay, I might.
I might review it, Beth. I appreciate you coming through,
thank you there we go and you when ing when
we Love You? But anyway, that's Dick Van Dykero is
ninety nine, Philly good Aj. They've talked about a remake

(53:42):
and that might be coming soon. I don't think we're
getting Dick van Dyke for the remake. What do you reckon?
Be surprised? I've got an email from ubud and BALI
can't be bothered with polastic sheets. My kitchen here doesn't
have an oven, not common in Bali, so I use

(54:03):
the cast iron pan on the guest hob and the
I for and don't cook next of any kind. You
should see the ants over here. I had plenty on
the farm and Canterbury, but Barley and to double the
size chris Well christ Mus have gone up to the
farm in Canterbury to go live a new board where
the monkeys are deep Marcus, good evening and welcome, Oh

(54:28):
Marcus deep ten out of ten the scenes yourself.

Speaker 8 (54:33):
Good good, I'm a better teen as well.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Well, you can't say but you can't say about it, okay,
I guess you can. You say what you like. You'll
call it my tin on the tee teens.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
On well law also bringing up I don't know if
you're still up for the trip. What's the ear frayer? Yes,
really really nice. I fere up for it.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Yes, I find it. I find it fast seating. What
people eat? So tell me, oh my god, on such.

Speaker 8 (55:07):
Clock in the house, I'm not saying I'm a marveless cook,
but I love cooking and.

Speaker 9 (55:15):
I'm not that sort of boring, you know, because the
roast is.

Speaker 8 (55:17):
Easy to put on that sort of stuff, but so
their fryer. So what I do I put? I put
get check and breeth not chicken, breast, chicken drumsticks. And
then I put slips through them slits slits, you know,
like little knife cats through them.

Speaker 21 (55:40):
Slits, yep, yep, slips.

Speaker 8 (55:43):
And then I put so and we sort of like
a bowl or whatever you call it. And then I
put approximately two hundred miles of coconut melkow table spoon
the first sauce sort of a jar, carry paste. Let
that marinade for half an hour or I normally if

(56:06):
it goes for longer, but that will do it.

Speaker 6 (56:09):
And I U, I.

Speaker 8 (56:10):
Usually use red curry paste, but you can use whatever
curry paste. That's perfect.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Sorry, what do you normally? Hang on? What you said?

Speaker 11 (56:18):
What?

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Carry paste? Bread?

Speaker 8 (56:20):
Read read all green? Yeah, and then you let that
marinade do it's but and then I put one and
a half cuts of flour in another bowl, half cup
cool flower generally, one teaspoon of baking powder, a teaspoon
of garlic powder, and then I do add onion powder

(56:43):
once that marinae, the first marinade that I told you
wacked out in there, and then you put it in
an e fryer for twenty five to minutes or thereabouts,
and it comes out like caves the bomb.

Speaker 9 (57:01):
Put some oh marcass. If you don't try it, I
don't have.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
An air fry, but I'm interested. Now tell me something.
Did you invent this? Did you invent this recipe?

Speaker 8 (57:14):
Well, I didn't invent that original recipe, but I've added
to it because I love coking, so read yes, I
have modified it. And then in the air fryer, I'll
put it in there for twenty five minutes of one
hundred and eighty and you can release your dial to

(57:35):
go to different things on the air fry. But you'll
figure that out much again an air fry. And I
didn't like cooking in an air fry because I seen
it in control, and I don't think the air fryer.
The air fryer is more in control of me than
I am. A lot of it, but I've FuG at it,
and then you can just add a little bit of

(57:56):
make your own. We oh god, yeah, I've just set
a bone. I don't radio sorry that you know, like
chili sauce. Chili sauce and then you could put coriander

(58:16):
and stuff in it, and it's just amazing.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Do you still use a slow cooker?

Speaker 14 (58:24):
I go.

Speaker 8 (58:26):
In winter?

Speaker 2 (58:27):
You could winter? Does it winter now?

Speaker 5 (58:30):
No?

Speaker 8 (58:31):
Well, I'd like to think so. Well, I'd like to
think so.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
In christ trying to work out from the exit where
you're from de w Christ.

Speaker 8 (58:40):
I am christ Has originally Southland, but I do use
a slow cooker. I haven't done it in the last
few months, but I've all start to do it now.
But I'm again. I put my own bay leaves off
my tree.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Isn't it? Yeah? What a special little thing of bay
leaf with what it does. It's just insignificant, but boy
it does something done it well?

Speaker 8 (59:06):
The fly is quite intense and beautiful. And I went
to the market at or Hooker, which is the way
while I'm not in North Canbram in Christian City, and
the lady said to me with a phenel like do this,
this and this, And I thought I didn't that's what

(59:26):
this even the right time of the year to plant that,
But she said, do this, this, and this, and you'll
get this, this, and this out of it. And I thought, well,
that's amazing. So I'm just growing that at the moment too.
But it's a child by era that I haven't used it,
so I can't even comment on it.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
Okay, I like what you got going on there with
the fennel and yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Bay leaf tree
is a bay tree or a bailey? I guess it's
a bay tree because you wouldn't say a bay leaf leaf,
would You must be a bay tree.

Speaker 8 (59:53):
You're right, a bay tree.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Yeah, like a bay tree. Nice to talk to you.
Deep think you're good luck with all of that. You're
not going on fifteen to ten, ten out of ten.
I'm waiting for a call. I'm committed for some it
calls on table tennis. I mean, most small towns had
table tennis clubs, did they not? Don't it when it
was big? It's always, but I think it was it

(01:00:18):
big in church groups. I don't know about that. I've
never been involved with the table tennis club really, but
is table tennis Day today? Well, I'll tell you what
data is really, honestly, World table Tennis Day. I don't
think it was invented this day. It's one of those

(01:00:46):
games where it can takes away the gender, divide, the
age divide. I'm not quite sure what you're supposed to
do to commemorate it or celebrate it. I was originally
called ping pong, but that was trademarked. Didn't know that invented? Well,

(01:01:08):
I guess it was invented when the ball was invented,
because without the ball, you're nothing, are you. I mean
you had to have that ball that what would be
the ball made out of don't know when that would
have happened, but yes, late nineteenth century. Don't know when
the first table tennis ball would be probably because it

(01:01:30):
hard to invent something before he got a use for it.
It would be some sort of I don't know what
it would have been made out of those balls. I'm
kind of interested in this now, I've just thought about it.
Nineteen hundred the first table tennis ball made of celluloid?

(01:01:52):
What are they used before that? Before nineteen hundred, balls
were made from cork, so a celluloid in nineteen hundred
remained that way for one hundred year. Goodness, who would
have thought? dB Marcus, Welcome, Good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:02:13):
Good evening Chitty Chilly Bang Bang. Yes, I sort of
grew up with that. I at one stage one of
my girlfriends said, well, we're going to put it to
the to the Bang Bang. You might not know that,
one said, I know every piece of dialogue from the show.

(01:02:35):
She told me that I was telling porkies, at which
stage I then proceeded to do the whole show as
it happened, word for word. I know a little bit
about to do to the ban.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Because that's no mean feat in your day, because it
wasn't like you could watch it on VCR or on
TV or on Netflix industry. You would have to go
to the cinema a number of times, would that be right?

Speaker 20 (01:03:02):
Seven times to my recollection and probably four or five
times in my own collection. And last scene six months ago.
But I had got halfway through before I read this
is rubbish?

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Is it a bad film? No, this is a good film.

Speaker 20 (01:03:25):
I got sid of the children's voices because they were
but squeaky for me. But there are parts of two
two day Thing to this day that I use as
an aging adult. So within the movie, there were two
spies and when they walked over rawy tracks, they used
to go up.

Speaker 17 (01:03:47):
I'm an ex.

Speaker 20 (01:03:48):
Railway worker, and half the time that I walked over
raway tracks, I would go huh huh, and I knew
was exactly where I got it from. I just it
ever left me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Was there any reason they went up? Huh?

Speaker 20 (01:04:05):
I think it was for could we could see? Okay,
they were carrying a a banner that they ran down
in front of a tunnel to make the total look.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Yes, now that's that's That's the one scene I can
remember is that they were they had a fake tunnel
that rolled down that covered what's the They were trapping
kids inside that tunnel? Were they?

Speaker 11 (01:04:29):
Ye?

Speaker 20 (01:04:29):
They were kept seeing truly scrumptuous as father thinking they're
going to get correct as pots. Oh that's a little
bit too much information for me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
So dB, if I said to you, right, could you
could you recreate choosity being banged to us? How long
would that? Could you spend an hour and a half
doing that?

Speaker 21 (01:04:57):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:04:59):
I'll do it in.

Speaker 20 (01:05:01):
Three minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Okay, yep, okay, let's go. We've got headlights coming. Yep, yep, sure, yep.

Speaker 20 (01:05:07):
Guy meets girl. They don't get on. Guy finds a
girl by accident and takes it on a pic. He
tells long story about a fantasy area where children not allowed.
At the end of it, I fires out that he's
now rich chiels which already they now love each other.

Speaker 15 (01:05:26):
Eat of story.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Very good. Okay, have you watched it recently?

Speaker 20 (01:05:31):
It's about six but, like I said, about six months ago.
But I only got halfway through it. Even I went,
you know, I may have outgrown it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Was it your favorite movie or a movie of your childhood?

Speaker 20 (01:05:44):
A movie of my childhood? Almost my favorite. Herbie the
love Bug was right up with it. So perhaps they
had something with cards. Perhaps I don't need self analysis. Yes,
I liked it, but for all sorts of reasons that

(01:06:07):
it touched me on a lot of different levels.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Love you to hear from you, Dva. I'm just going
to go because I just hearing you through that. There's
been a big quake has at Istanbul six point two.
It's hit the city of Istanbul building shaking people running
out into the street. I'm just on the live news feeds.

(01:06:33):
I am not seeing shots of any damage yet, but
I'll keep you posted on that. Just to confirm that
an earthquake of a magnitude six point two is at
Turkey's largest city, Istanbul. Well, I mean, it's not a
big quake, but if it's hit the center of a
city where probably the building is not great, I imagine

(01:06:53):
that's something that will cause some sort of impact. Details
is still emerging, but there have been several ports of
building shaking and people ran onto the street in the
European side of the city. So I'll keep a brief
on that and watch that if there's any more information
about that. Tonight. I was shocking. I see there's a

(01:07:15):
bit of fuss going around about what Virgin did leaving
those passengers at Queenstown, leaving them at the tuminal and
sleeping bags over Easter. Those shocking. I've normally been a
supporter of Virgin. So the weight was too much of
the plane and there just left them in the airport

(01:07:36):
to spend the night. There was no accommodation anywhere. They
didn't provide accommodation. Airport staff prepared a six of the
terminal for passages to sleep and overnight with security present.
Refreshments were available. It sounds better than I thought. While
Virgin supplied red sleeping bags, what have they got those from?

(01:07:57):
So it actually doesn't seem as bad at least they
made some sort of dift. I thought they just abandoned them.
There we go. Marcus spread a ping pong table growing
up on our farm in the sixties in North Canterbury.

Speaker 17 (01:08:10):
Good for us.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Kids had eye coordination. Adults had lots of fun too.
The big tables offer you sport food out for family
gatherings under the walnut tree. We're going to identify with that. Hello, Fionda,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:08:26):
Hi make it's nice to hear you. Yeah, so I've
got his I win a five siblings and warborne in
the sixties and dad made us a table tennis table.
So we grew up playing table tennis in the garage
and there was a hell of a lot of competition.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Had your father discovered the love for it? Was it
something he had found somewhere and decided to make a
table yill Dad ended.

Speaker 23 (01:08:53):
Up playing professional tennis and Alice Lee and all over
the place. And my brother just above me, and they
went a hell of a lot of competitions and we're
just mucking around on the family table tennis table. They
did realized that he actually had a bit of a talent. Wow,

(01:09:13):
Instead of my brother above me, and then when we
all left home, I can't remember which one got the
family table tennis table, but as soon as I set
my own home up, I had one in the garage
for my three kids, and then when they left home,
I kept it. So when they came to visit me
at the beach, we played table tennis. And yeah, there

(01:09:33):
was hell of a conversation. So when that guy that
was confusing everybody was talking about table tennis, I thought
he was going to say that the family got around
had a few games of table tennis. There were few
arguments too, you know, but yeah, it's just it's a
really good eyeball contact, just you know, to start the
kids off.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
I wonder where your father got inspired to make the
table tennis table. He played it somewhere.

Speaker 23 (01:09:59):
You know, I don't know, and he's he's not with
us anymore. Well, yeah, it was just yeah, he was
a big dark player too, so I've actually got the
original dart board and he built this around too, So
there was a bit of competition there as well. And
on the occasion, you know, the brothers get a bit
annoyed at each other and throw and throw it out

(01:10:21):
at each other. I remember one brother screamed out has
embedded in his foot.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Yes, I can imagine that, but you can always imagine
the excitement when you go somewhere and find a table
tennis table and then everyone starts playing and some people
realize how good they are, and it goes and it
sort of I think it's sort of kind of a
ritual for people now. You know, growing up they were
always finding tables and off they go.

Speaker 23 (01:10:43):
Yeah, well dad had a couple of rooms finish a
special bat city like you reckons one with the spinning
and all sorts of things things. But yeah, I shifted
down to the Horror Fenda at one stage and they
had levine. They had a great so I went down
there for a little bit. But yeah, it just wasn't
my cap of tee. I prefer to play it at home.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
You still, did you say? You're still head a table?

Speaker 23 (01:11:10):
I have it now. I've shifted since.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Do you move around? But you move around?

Speaker 23 (01:11:15):
But Fiona, oh god, I have marcause I got sick
to Auckland and then I went down to Wellington and
then in downtown but Cargill love the place.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
Where are you now? Where are you now?

Speaker 10 (01:11:29):
Oh god?

Speaker 23 (01:11:30):
Well my kids are starting to breeze. I've got a
granddaughter up in Auckland, so sadly i'm back here. So
I've just got to see one of my sons in
Wellington and I'm just getting back to Auckland now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
So yeah, I thought, sorry, are you driving?

Speaker 23 (01:11:48):
Hens free?

Speaker 9 (01:11:49):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
No, no, no. When I say I'm driving, I'm just curious. Okay,
thanks so much for that. I don't care, but I
often want to explain that when I say are you driving,
I'm just curious if you're flying or actually driving up
from Wellington's that's a long drive. I never want to
police people's phone calls. Table tennis and your interesting experience
of the table tennis. It's one of the very free

(01:12:11):
good games because people ADFD abilities can play for a
long long time. It can be quite competitive, and it's
not what's very good about table tennis. Unlike a lot
of games, it's not an arms war. You can't get
people buying different equipment and kit It's basically just the bat.
And let's face it, any old bat's pretty good. It's

(01:12:32):
not on those sports. But the thing about a lot
of people with sport, they love buying all the gadgets
and wism its don't they next thing? You know, they're
getting this and that and this. But I think table
tennis keeps it real. You probaby will play it in crocs.
Do most things in crocs? Could you high end? It's Marcus,
Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:12:53):
High Marcus table tennis. Yes, I have with my hands
a book fifty years across the table of the New
Zealand Table Tennis Association.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Good title. Now what year was that written? Because anyone
understands how long it was.

Speaker 21 (01:13:06):
Well it it goes from nineteen thirty four to nineteen
eighty four, and it starts that it was a pink
or ping pong as it was known in an earlier days.
The sport was mentioned in a number of cities and
provincial newspapers at the time. And whirapp, I've got clippings
going back to nineteen twenty two, and so it goes
on various Auckland and then Manu were two. Ping Pong

(01:13:28):
Association was formed in nineteen thirty one. And why there
was early mention of Wanganui and claims of having the
oldest ping pong club in New Zealand. But whatever, Wanganui
was definitely an organized identity in the early thirties. And
then so it goes on, have you read the book, No,

(01:13:51):
I haven't, but my father and always coldly be mentioned
in a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Okay, okay, So I wonder was there someone that brought
it to the country.

Speaker 21 (01:14:00):
Well, it just needed an organizer to set the ball rolling,
and in the early thirties such a person there was
in the name of Tommy Williams. He died in nineteen
eighty three. His main sport was not table tennis but
tennis coaching, and he used table tennis in the winter
months to keep his name known as a tennis coach.
But it didn't. Now if we go back to the forward,

(01:14:23):
which was written by the president of the International Table
Tennis Federation, he says that organized table tennis virchant started
in Great Britain. Yes, so in nineteen twenty six in
Great Britain, and then slowly came over this way. But

(01:14:45):
it looks like it really started in New Zealand in
the thirties. And I know Tommy Williams, or my father
in law, bought it to Wellington in he had it
in Lower Cuba Street. He was a man of detail,
you can say that again. His organization ability was excellent.

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He was always one step ahead of everyone else. He
was an innovator and he became knowledgeable about the laws
of table tennis or what.

Speaker 14 (01:15:13):
There were of them in the early days. He formed
the Wellington Table Tennis Club in nineteen thirty two and
in nineteen thirty three organized and cared a meeting and
formed the Wellington Table Tennis Associations. So it goes on.
They bought Frank Big Perry.

Speaker 21 (01:15:29):
Now he was a tennis player.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Yes he was too, and a clothing and a clothing
icon with his label, and a great person read Perry.

Speaker 21 (01:15:36):
Yes, that's right, but like a Laurel Laurel.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
That's right, you're yes beautiful, Yeah he was.

Speaker 21 (01:15:43):
He came to New Zealand. Thestlians brought him out in
nineteen thirty three and they did exhibitions. So I think
it started. It looks like started seriously in the early
thirties in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Now you'll correct me on this and end, because I
always thought it must be a church thing because they
all had big hauls where you could play it. But
it doesn't sound like that. Where was he playing it
in Cuba Street? Do you know that they.

Speaker 21 (01:16:06):
Amos He rented the first floor of a building at
thirty two Lower Cuba Street, well Although he was a
very religious man.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
That's interesting.

Speaker 21 (01:16:19):
But I know what you said, but I've I used
to play myself cable tennis and I used to go
up to the Winter Show Buildings to play into club.
So that was a big place up there.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
That's in Wellington.

Speaker 21 (01:16:30):
In Wellington, it used to be at Winter Show Buildings,
you know where they were in town.

Speaker 6 (01:16:35):
I do know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
Yes, did you play your father in law?

Speaker 11 (01:16:40):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:16:40):
Oh no, I didn't play him, but he used to
be there and he used to put the willies up because.

Speaker 6 (01:16:44):
I wasn't married.

Speaker 21 (01:16:45):
I wasn't married at the time. I was just stating
his son. You know, yes, did you have.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
You played recently? Because I know people seem to once
they're good that they don't lose that. Have you have
you played? Do you play often?

Speaker 9 (01:16:59):
Not?

Speaker 21 (01:16:59):
Now? I have done occasionally in the garage at home
with my grandson, but once he started to beat me up,
I gave that away.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
You know, my boygot was going to a club for
a while. There are members of all ages and boil
what tell you what that they were? They were extremely good.

Speaker 21 (01:17:20):
Oh yeah, I know, many a person who plays. You know,
elderly elderly ladies play, and I mean they may not
run around the table as much as they used.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
To, but they're even more. I think the older they get,
they even get more kenny. They don't need to move,
do they, Because they're wise.

Speaker 21 (01:17:34):
You get cunning to put a spin on the ball
of that sort of thing.

Speaker 6 (01:17:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:17:40):
But the table tennis and the Williams family, it was
just unbelievable. They had They had one in their garage
and I mean after dinner. That was where you journed
to if you went for dinner, you went out to
the garage.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Always always singles because I've never thought the doubles was
quite as good and always a bit clunky the doubles.
But do they play singles or doubles?

Speaker 21 (01:17:59):
Well, mostly singles in the garage. But there were seven
children in the family, so you can imagine it was
and Missus this is the mother.

Speaker 9 (01:18:07):
She was.

Speaker 21 (01:18:07):
She was excellent. It was it was his life. He
loved his table tennis. Tennis was great. He was a
profession in New Zealand's first professional tennis character as well.
But he loved his but he loved his table tennis.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
Funny enough. I've never I've never, and this is going
to sound crazy, I never thought that people would have played.
I always thought there were table tennis people. I've never
met tennis players who are into table tennis, but that
must have been.

Speaker 21 (01:18:34):
Oh, I think so, I know a few.

Speaker 6 (01:18:35):
And Willington.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Yeah, I've never put those together, but it's quite obvious
when I think about it.

Speaker 21 (01:18:40):
Well, this book was written by Ken Wilkinson and he
was a great table tennis player too, an organizer of
the sport in New Zealand and.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
So it's called fifty years.

Speaker 21 (01:18:51):
Across fifty years across the table.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
Really appreciate your calling in. Thank you for every much
for that, Macaus. I went to Scorn the seventies with
both Maurice Burrows and Graham Ryan, who were Zealand table
tennis rips but also very good tennis players. Regarded Brian
swapping hands during the rally is a good way to
develop your ambi dexterity. Every now and again, the trays

(01:19:16):
in the edge of the bat or a coke bottle, wow, Marcus.
For reasons unknown to me, my dad run a church
table tennis club which was attached to our church. It
was held a local school hall and there are about
eight table set up and Dad would run a big
competition amongst the church kids. I think we ended up

(01:19:40):
with one of the table tennis tables in our garage
which we would drag out there for any out every
now and then for visits later in life. It came
in handy with the odd table tennis, friendly comps, great
team and social sport. Which would you prefer to play
between table tennis or badminton? I think beadminton's a bit silly, Marcus.

(01:20:05):
Tablets is a good icebreak family functions, especially meeting potential
in laws. Marcus. I don't like anything with a polyester
as it doesn't breathe. After those two called I'm wondering
if it's a full moon, don't think a sleeping pill
of the answer, although they can act as a stimulant. Marcus.
That quake must be close to Gallipoli. Good point, Marcus.

(01:20:31):
I remember as a kid in the fifties when the
whole community is to have table tennis knights in the
local hall. That was a place called Tutudo in Southland.
Now I don't actually know. I think that's east of
them a toe the river, but I'm going to affect
check that. Yeah, it's where there's a famous monument. But yes,

(01:21:02):
I think probably that's pretty much a Southland hall thing
on a winter night would either be quiz nights or
table tennis nights. I don't know if they do it
so much. Well, I guess the thing would happen now.
Dairy farming came along and they keep different hours like
the old cheap farmer days. We've had that spare time, Marcus.

(01:21:25):
Back in the beck to table tennis. Every country hall
comes complete with a table, right, as does every nineteen
seventies house rumpus room. I'm wondering if table tennis was
big in the Ministry of Works damn camp recreation rooms
and might have taken off from there. I kind of
feel that table tennis was the rage, and then it
must have been the cheap pool tables came in because
people converted from table tennis to Paul, which was never

(01:21:46):
quite as exciting. We've got the great love of Paul
as i've got for table tennis, the tennis of the
table Marcus. Fifty years ago we had a couple of
Malaysian students living with us and we never won a game.
Loll great high jinks and laughter every night after dinner. Yeah,
so I imagine it's also a big thing at university hostels

(01:22:11):
because a good thing about a table ten's table when
you weren't using it, you put against the side of
the hall of the wall. Couldn't you just rested there?
Out it came find a ball? Good to go. Oh,
by the way, there's this huge millipede invasion in Wellington.
One resident says her neighbors collected five rubbish bags worth

(01:22:33):
of millipedes in a week from around their house. You're
constantly on guard. These things are everywhere. There have been
times I've woken up with a millipede on my face.
Can you imagine how tickling that would be? All those
little feet ooh, all faro obeys where they are. They're
attracted to light. They come marching towards the street, lamps,

(01:22:56):
the entire deck, the footpath, everything just swarms. Every night
we're out there with a spray can trying to get
rid of them. And you can't crush them because doing
stuffing is a yellowy luorescent secretion that can stain, and
an awful crunch and a really bitter, pungent smell that
sounds awful. Marcus, My aunt played table tennis for seventy

(01:23:20):
odd years. Betty Thompson from le Vince she played with
the early nineties, was he In and Champ in the
nineteen sixties, Terrence from the Neck See I told you
everyone had a table tennis story except me here until midnight,
looking forward to your contribution. Its table tennis and sheets

(01:23:42):
and other stuff as well. Brendan Marcus, good evening and welcome.
Hell are you good, Brendan.

Speaker 6 (01:23:50):
I can just hear the that sends down. Yeah, table tennis.
Growing up, I think everybody used to have a couple
of sheets, such a domain.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
When are we talking, Brendan seventies?

Speaker 6 (01:24:05):
Yes, well, I don't know, probably at the same age,
you know, I was born early, very very early seventies. Yeah,
I think it was an eighties things that I think.
I don't know when it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Was because you don't see it so often anymore. I'm
not quite sure what. I suppose video games replaced it.
I guess that's my answer. There isn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:23):
Well, that's right, but you know, begging the day it was,
you know, you had to amuse yourself, didn't you. And yeah,
he's probably had the slug or the the table tennis table,
or you go and pick up wounds or something.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
But you feel that the table tenner sessions could go
for hours.

Speaker 6 (01:24:41):
Oh mate, it was. It was just it was just
a rest of time. It was just awesome. We also
had a little Bullion's tables that they used to teach
us a few billions shots on it. You know, you
don't see the old three ball game around anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
No, you never see that, never ever do you see that?

Speaker 7 (01:24:59):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
I think some people probably into the conversations.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Some people probably put their table tennis chipboards on top
of the billiard table. I think.

Speaker 6 (01:25:10):
Wear them sticked up behind the door, you see. So
it was we're we're we're a small house and say
the three boys in one room. So it was a
bit of shambles.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
That wasn't in the garage. It was in your main room.

Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
Yeah, in the dining room. From on the dining room table.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
Where did the chipboards live?

Speaker 6 (01:25:34):
Again? Behind the door, behind the door, a little billion
table would stand up the on the door in uh yeah.
And if you're yeah and it was running down it
or you're annoying mum, there was it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
Did you have those did you have the nets with
the screwspits that would hold the net up.

Speaker 6 (01:25:54):
You say, bastards of things, and underneath it you do
it always.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
They never any good, never any good at all.

Speaker 6 (01:26:03):
It would be tight for a few minutes. But no, no, no,
it was just he said a lot of a lot
of fun looks like skimboards. Like you don't see him
around much anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Like, And the bets would always be terrible with the
rubber off one side, wouldn't They were half the handle
for it.

Speaker 6 (01:26:19):
Yeah, And some people want the ones that were all
sudden and they made a hor of a noise. Yeah,
there's no planning on them. People like the ones that
had the thick thicking on. But when you got your iron,
there's nothing like it. When you get your iron and
you and your mate and you'd be a three meter
or a couple of meters back from each of the
table and you're and you're hoofing it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
That's why it's good playing in someone's house because it's
always local knowledge that there'd be a TV or a
door on the way. You'd have kind of it wasn't straightforward,
was it.

Speaker 6 (01:26:46):
No, No, that's right. But then if you if you
mintured out into like school, or something in the big
and you had a biggert area. Oh it was like
it was like you don't believe the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
Oh yes, because because playing at home was like training
at altitude?

Speaker 17 (01:26:58):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
When you're back in the big hold, you had that
extra advantage day you could do it and.

Speaker 6 (01:27:03):
You got a better room and you thought, mate, I
could do this Sufficientally.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
You're still playing, Brendan, Oh, you know, like you give
me a bet and I guarantee you can lead it
or he put the phones down and are you're coming
across the table very often?

Speaker 6 (01:27:20):
No, No, you don't do these days. Yeah, if you do,
there's no balls exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
There's always in some burnt out hall there's you can't
find a ball, there's only one bat, or the net's broken.

Speaker 6 (01:27:31):
Yeah, or the ball's got on too many dense and
this doesn't land.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Nice stuff, Brendon, thank you. Twelve past there we're talking
table tennis, Marcus. Many squash clubs have table tennis of
their lounge spaces. Seen fifteen and sixteen year olds playing
table tennis in between squash games just this weekend. Marcus,
table tennis. I am nearly eighty four years of age,
have played table tennis since the age of seventeen. Very competitive.

(01:27:59):
In fact, I'm playing an accomplished in the Sunday also
played in the UK and the sixties. Love it and
the game is still alive and well, particularly with so
many retirees playing. I belonged to two clubs in Totong
and both were attended and played in the World Masters
which was held in Auckland seven years ago. The late
Sir Peter Snell competed in the competition. Marcus, we played

(01:28:24):
table tapshe our three children of losers had to do
the dishes, so actually got quite good. Marcus, is at
true they are switching three g off I don't know.
I don't know what three g is. And high school
in the seventies we had one of New Zealand's top
ten table players, Malcolm Templey. Sadly Malcolm passed away too young,

(01:28:48):
at only thirty three years of age. He was a
gutsy runner at high school and the top guy worth
your respect regards, Owen. Marcus Cardinal Murfy from Tong will
be in part of the concaved to look down next
Pope Rest in peace. Pope Francis brilliantly hear from your people.
My name is Marcus. Good evening all about table tennis

(01:29:09):
and sheets and anything else in this final flurry and
this funny old time where everyone seems to be on
holiday for no good reason. For no good reason, Marcus,
what is worse than an alligator with a toothcape? What
is worse than an alligator with toothache? As sent to

(01:29:30):
peedele with athleteses foot. I think this is a better
joke there somewhere with Miller Pizza. I just don't know
what it is. Sandboxes for kids should be banned everywhere?
How would you design the perfect kids playground?

Speaker 18 (01:29:49):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:29:50):
I think kids love the sandbox, don't they. They're a
bit catty, a bit taxi plasmosisy, but people love them.
Someone would like to know if the woman from Tucker
Poona figured it out how to put her Airbnb rate
up from fifty dollars a night. I'm heading up there
to stay, But did sound a bit with a half

(01:30:14):
full sparkle. It didn't sound that salubrious. A guy sees
an adding a pitchop window, talking cent to Peter one
hundred bucks. The guy goes in and buys. He gets home,
opens the box and asks to send to Pete if
he wants to go for a beer. The centipe doesn't answers.

(01:30:36):
The guy closes the lead, convinced he's been swindled. Thirty
minutes later, he decides to try again. He raises his
voice and shouts, do you want to go for a beer?
The centipede pokes his head out of the box and says,
pipe down. I heard you the first time. I'm putting
on my shoes.

Speaker 6 (01:30:53):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
There's a million variations to that joke. Most of them
involved a Miller Peter centiped going for a beer, but
the punchline's always about the shoes texts. I heard recently
that table tenn has been played around New Zealand as
a preventative against dementia. Lots of info on Google about this.

(01:31:14):
Kathy Marcus, there are current smartphones working on three G,
but we have four G and five G now they
won't work without multi generational after the switch. Not just
old Nokias cured to Marcus, table tennis brings back lots
of memories for me growing up on Fuddy Cody in
the Chatham Islands. Seven of us kids of the family.

(01:31:36):
This was in the late sixties. We were sent a
table tennis set by the wife of the local policemen
when they left the arl after being there for many years.
In our kitchen we had a huge dining table and
after tea we'd set up and play for ages. The
rule was that all the dishes had to be down
the floor swept of the kitchen tidy before we could play.
It got pretty competitive at times. We had a woodstover

(01:31:59):
rayburn down one end of the table and the ball
used to offening up and around the hot plate area.
I saw that kind lady recently in Rakaia where she
now lives, and reminded her of how much pleasure who
generosity brought us seven kids. Love your show, Trish. Good evening, Steve,
it's Marcus welcome. Are you there, Steve?

Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
Table tennis, Yes, yeah. Thursday nights Whiterma Hall on the
Hurricane planes Yep, Thursday night, the two tables playing till
about nine. I think they get going about us five
six o'clock in every the first Saturday of each month

(01:32:49):
they have a ban dance in the hall as well.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
Goodness okay, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
The Crown lend must have been going around the countryside
at one stage selling pottery to all these community halls. Yes,
and it's got the wider rim. They've got cups and
sauces and fates and all that. When we have after
function and they've all got the wider A picture of

(01:33:21):
a picture of the wider rima hall and the writing
on the cups wider Hall.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
So when you say that's in the hirechy planes, it's
a long wear across it's almost by what is that right?

Speaker 6 (01:33:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:33:36):
Okay, got it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Copy that?

Speaker 4 (01:33:37):
Okay, about an hour's drive from here.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
So so how long have you been going there?

Speaker 14 (01:33:42):
For?

Speaker 20 (01:33:43):
Oh years?

Speaker 4 (01:33:46):
I wouldn't know, thirty years really. Yeah, they've indoor bowls
there too. Sometimes I've heard about a bit far away
to go for that. We we we play indoor here
at since Saint James Hall. And how many people?

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
How many people turn up for table tennis?

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
Oh, they have two tables going, so there's eight, ten,
twelve people probably turn.

Speaker 11 (01:34:14):
Up for the day.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
And you're competitive.

Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
Social competitive here.

Speaker 2 (01:34:21):
But do you buy yourself and you bet every year
or something like that?

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
No, they last all right, you look after them.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
Well, do you do top spin and things like that?

Speaker 17 (01:34:34):
Is that editive?

Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
All that? Other wise you can if you get a
real spin on it, it's hard to get hidden back.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Yeah you can. God, you drive for an hour for
an hour every Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
Yeah, it stops. I think doing those sorts of things
of you know, going for a run or doing an
exercise like that is good to stop dementia and all
that sort of thing, because you're you're sort of using
a different part of the brain that you wouldn't normally use.

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
If you tried walking backwards.

Speaker 4 (01:35:06):
Yeah, yeah, I do that. Around the Birk Street dog walk,
we've got an old dump side that's been made into
a sort of a walk walking area. And yeah, it's
about a kilometer. You can walk right round backward.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
When you walk at backwards, Yep, a different part of
the brain have walked if it walked into anything.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
No, it's quite quite good because there's where where it's
there's a concrete foot path, there's a fence. You can
you can keep you keep your eye on and keeping behind.
But once you get out onto the Shingle Bank, it's
well trodden.

Speaker 14 (01:35:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
Okay, Now now here's a question for you, Steve. What
are some of the funny things people have said to
you in this thing you're walking backwards?

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
Oh, they they say that what's this the Lagoon show
the song walking Backwards?

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
Say did they say that to you? Do they shout
anything else?

Speaker 14 (01:36:13):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
No, no.

Speaker 9 (01:36:16):
O.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
I don think I could help saying something someone going
backwards THEO it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:36:21):
Yeah, can I.

Speaker 24 (01:36:22):
Money just tuned in and you're talking about table tennis?

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
Yes, yes, please.

Speaker 24 (01:36:28):
It just brings back some memories. I went to q
e C and Farmers the North and the mid eighties
and you know six and seven form common room was had.
We had table tennis and we used to race up
there at lunch times and we were playing with a
sandwich and hand and we just had a piece of string,
you know, for the for the net because you know,

(01:36:49):
you know, poor old students and the common rooms that
didn't have much, and we used to have the best,
you know, just competitions and you know we went and
dug out old bats and resurfaced them and oh they
were they were. It just that just brings back a
front of memories of high school.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
You know, that was such a very good game. What
did you say you're at QVB Is that what I heard?

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
Right?

Speaker 14 (01:37:14):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:37:14):
Quie c Queen Elizabeth College and Parniston nor.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Okay, didn't know that. Okay, got you there, okay, And yeah, it.

Speaker 24 (01:37:22):
Was like eighty four eighty five we did that, you know,
and there was a group of us and you know
we lived for lunchtime table tennis really and that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
Was in the like the senior common room. Is that
where it was? That was always a big thing then,
wasn't it.

Speaker 24 (01:37:38):
Yeah, we were given a common room and we were
just told, you know, you got to look after it.
We remember the seventh form dean he was, he said,
I haven't got any rooms, but you've got to keep
it clean or I'll lock it, you know. And radio,
old radio blaring in the in the background, playing table

(01:37:58):
tennis and then an old I think about five foot
pool table, you know, with broken pockets that is going
on at the other end. Yeah, great time.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
I always promised you these great things about the seventh
form commonroomer there always quite there was nothing much new
to them, really was there after? Why have I never
heard of Queen Elizabeth College? Was it called something else or.

Speaker 20 (01:38:18):
What was it?

Speaker 14 (01:38:20):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:38:20):
That was always q S.

Speaker 16 (01:38:22):
It used to be.

Speaker 24 (01:38:24):
Something technical college. I think it's a sixty seventies.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
It's a Cowed state school.

Speaker 24 (01:38:31):
Yes, And you know it was big and when I
was there in the heyday, it was had a burgeoning
role of thousand plus. Okay, it's completely different now, you know,
it's it's part of its buildings have been demolished, it's receded.
I don't know runs. I think it runs these quasi

(01:38:54):
sort of military courses, but it's it's sort of I'm
pretty sure what they call them. I've read about it.
But seeing nowaday q E s and Oura Tapi College
with a big co ed schools Armiston and Freiburg was
a bit down the dold rooms and it's completely turned around,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
And do you still play table tennis?

Speaker 24 (01:39:21):
Theo ah when I when I can, I must have
been with our family. I've just invested in a in
a pool table with a table tennis top, you know,
so that just as a as a point, you know,
when when the kids they're all sort of growing up
and they come back around and ye have the Sunday
dinner and things like that, you know that we've you've

(01:39:43):
you've you've got a bit of table tennis or pool
to play and that's been great. It's it's really worked
out well.

Speaker 2 (01:39:49):
That has nice, really nice to hear from you thea
thank you so very much, twenty nine away from twelve
evening Earl of Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:39:56):
Welcome, Yeah, Welcome America. I started playing table tennis in
Westport when I was thirteen. When I was seventeen, I
played against two world champions who were touring New Zealand here.

(01:40:16):
One was Ugamrii, the other was Tamaka and their coach
won the nineteen thirty seven World Championships and he was
quite impressed with me and he wanted to take me
back Japan to further training. But unfortunately that never happened

(01:40:37):
because we knew I had the money to show that far.
But I played in the New Zealand Championships doubles with
my brother in nineteen sixty two. They played in Wellington.
Then I met a coach in Westport. It was Jeff Jennings,

(01:40:59):
an Australian guy. He was touring New Zealand and he
had a coach succession for a week which cost on
sixty pound and I got pretty good at it. Then
I got coached by a Chinese guy, a Korean fellow,

(01:41:25):
and the last one was a German who had a
table tennis business. He imported table tennis tables into New
Zealand and he supplied the tables for the two thousand
and eight World Wheelchair Championships were held here in christ Church.

(01:41:49):
That's where I officiated. There's an one of the empires
there and one guy I remember who was umpiring his game.
He had had the bat was strapped to his arm.
He had no risk and boy could he play.

Speaker 14 (01:42:07):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (01:42:08):
Yeah, so that was a huge success that tournament in
two thousand and eight. Yes, so I don't play anymore
now I've played the Marster day game of outdoor volts.

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
Did you get to travel with your table tennis eel here?

Speaker 11 (01:42:28):
I went to the Veterans Championships in the cargo numerous times,
went to Malbourne and played the Marlble Championships up there. Yeah,
and I did with a coating tours, had a coating course,
coach kids.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
And did you get did you get national titles?

Speaker 11 (01:42:47):
No? No, it wasn't good enough for that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
Your next tier eh?

Speaker 11 (01:42:53):
Yeah? Next, Well I've done about had but no. It's
a very enjoyable game. And if you want to play
ping pong, you stand there just a ping pong ping pong.
If you want to play table tennis and get up
to the higher grade dets. You've got to be extremely fat.
You've got to train really hard. It's like it's like

(01:43:13):
any sport. If you want to get up then to
the top, you've got to help put the rs in
this training.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
What interests me or all is how coach does coaching
play a big Is it a sport that a coach
can make a big difference to you?

Speaker 11 (01:43:27):
Absolutely? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
What and what way?

Speaker 11 (01:43:31):
Oh? The way they train you? You know, you've got
to be able to hit so many balls across the table,
you know in China?

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
Is it like is it like repetition and drills that
gets you good?

Speaker 11 (01:43:44):
Absolutely? In footwork, and you've got to be extremely fat,
because boy, I've boys at ball turtles really fast and
the rallies go on and on. If you're not fit,
you you mus will not play again and play ping pong.
It's got to play table tenders competitively. You've got to

(01:44:04):
be fat.

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
Do you know where all if you did it? Improving
in its table tennis and it's world ranking.

Speaker 11 (01:44:10):
But I've been out of it for quite a few
years now because of health reasons. But no, but no,
we've had some great players. In sixty two I watched
the final of the men singles and a guy called
Murray Dunn. I think he won it. He was a
fantastic player. It beat a lot of Chinese guys too,

(01:44:31):
so you know, but he was he's a real freak. Yeah.
But I remember when I first started playing, we had
a Barner bat that that was Victor Barner. I think
he was a world champion. He went to his bat
and it just was just pimpled bat. Then along came
the rubber one, and then that made the game so

(01:44:52):
much faster.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
And Wisport was a hub of table Tensidan's day, was.

Speaker 11 (01:44:58):
It, Oh yeah, well in the mean singles championships he
held when year there was eighty four and the mean
single Yeah, but if you go to any working men's
clubs now you'll find table tennis that's very strong in those.

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
Nice to hear from here. Well, thank you so very much.
Evening Kennett's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
Hi, Mark, and enjoy your program very much. And I've
been out for the evening, so I've only been listening
for about half an hour. But I don't know if
it's been mentioned, but there's a chap on television news
the other night severely disabled throughout his life sitting in
a wheelchair plane table tennis and I think there's due

(01:45:44):
to go to a world championship soon. Just amazing. And
obviously he couldn't move his feet in a wheelchair, and
he didn't even seem to move his body much, just
just his arms, but fast as anything. Just amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
So the chair would remain stationary most of the time.

Speaker 17 (01:46:04):
Yes, yes it does.

Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
Ye can't move. Was on the news the other night.
That just really amazing. It may have been a couple
of nights ago, I think two or three nights ago,
but I had the odd game table ten asarily. But
I'm into golf now, I'm into bridge.

Speaker 6 (01:46:24):
But I enjoy your.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
Program very much. And you're a main Manda, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Yes, that's right Ken, next to Need and I am
nice to hear from you. Ken. Thanks very much for
that mixing. Marcus welcome, Oh hello, Marcus, how are you all?
Good thing Mixane?

Speaker 6 (01:46:39):
Oh yep, good, that's good.

Speaker 9 (01:46:42):
I'm enjoying the show. I was brought up in the
State House in Dunedin and my parents knocked down a
wall to make the lounge bigger, and there was a
door and we turned it into a pull table and
it was a family affair. We sanded down this jolly

(01:47:04):
well door turned into a pool table. Mother crocheted the pockets.

Speaker 2 (01:47:12):
And then.

Speaker 9 (01:47:14):
We also it could be used as a table tennis,
in which she crocheted the net. And it was just
great fun, good old days.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
You know, I've never ever seen a handmade pool table.
That's unbelievable.

Speaker 9 (01:47:31):
Oh, it was a family affair. My mother was very
creative and I can mind standing this thing down. Yes,
well what else were we going to do with it?
I mean that was the function of it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
Okay, So it was on top of a door that
and you had felt of a door, you had felt
on that or just on the wood.

Speaker 9 (01:47:53):
Yes, I felt felt And Mum went down to power
Upper and d n Eden and got questioning. So the
pool balls and billiard balls. Dead came over with billiard
balls and tried to teach us billiards. Yeah, it was

(01:48:14):
just so cool. It was like you know, and of
course with it being the doors were they.

Speaker 25 (01:48:22):
Were remove I think yes, but ply ply you know
plat it wasn't solid, So hence to say we purchased
it on their old chrome and for my ka table,
you're looking at the sixties and.

Speaker 9 (01:48:41):
So yeah, great tun because.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
I think normally the I think normally pull tables are
on slate or I think they're on slates. I just
don't know how the how it would how felt on
wood would work. The bulls rolled quite true.

Speaker 9 (01:48:55):
Well I don't know if they rolled through. I think
it worked out to be the best of its ability. Yeah,
we weren't competitively. I mean, it was just fun for
the for the kids. You know, the whole exercise was
fun for the kids. I don't know who came up
with the idea of we should turn this door, we

(01:49:17):
could reuse this and turn it into a pool table
and the yeah, I hate to say it, with the
ball rolling and you know mother bought the felt little
green fabric. Yeah, it just all took off and we
all chimed in and I can mind my brother standing,

(01:49:42):
and it's got to be sanded this way, and of
course I went across the grain. She scratched it, telling
half and Mom, yeah, my dear Mum, it wasn't the

(01:50:02):
felt was was taught like it wasn't you wrinkled or ripples.
I don't know how she did that. I think she must,
you know, it was blued onto the door, probably with
rulers and scraping.

Speaker 17 (01:50:19):
And just level.

Speaker 9 (01:50:20):
We've got to get level.

Speaker 16 (01:50:23):
But that was my mother.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
Yeah, she said extraordinary, very yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:50:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
It makes it nice to hear from you. Thank you.
Fifteen to twelve Gary Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 26 (01:50:38):
Again, young feller.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
Good things.

Speaker 26 (01:50:40):
I remember playing table tennis at a reasonably competitive level,
probably forty years ago and like on now sixty and
we and the one of the best game at table
tennis as I've ever seen in New Zealand was a
go called from New Zealand, guy called Barry Griffiths, and
he was playing the Australian champion I think his name

(01:51:04):
was Gary Herberl and they were probably in the final
the New Zealand Singles in New Zealand Champs and they
would probably be four to five meters from the back
of the table leach, just smashing the ball back to
each other. This was in the nationals and Timaru.

Speaker 21 (01:51:23):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:51:24):
It was just.

Speaker 26 (01:51:25):
Amazing and years in those days table tennis was massive
in New Zealand. It was so competitive and you had
to be pretty tidy to get to that level. But
also also still playing there here in Eshburnon they have
table tennis and I'm still playing against guys I played

(01:51:46):
against thirty five forty years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:51:48):
Have you found that you've got better?

Speaker 26 (01:51:52):
I was reasonably tidy in those days, but you had
to be. But now I can still rally the ball
pretty good. Don't you worry about that? You know, Like
I said, I'm sixty now, but some of the guys
that go on a Tuesday night here we can still
have some pretty good games.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
Yeah, So what do you slow down on what happens
with you as you get older? Because you know, because
it's a it's a mind game, A lot of it,
isn't it.

Speaker 26 (01:52:15):
You just can't get to the ball as quick as
you used to.

Speaker 2 (01:52:17):
Like your reflexes go, yeah, I can have it reaction speed, Yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:52:24):
I can have hits with guys and we can still
have some bloody good rallies, but just the reaction time
and you just can't get to the ball as I
used to be able to.

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
So you're once you're once a week.

Speaker 13 (01:52:35):
Doing it.

Speaker 6 (01:52:37):
Now as yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:52:38):
Yeah, Now whereas when the old days, when I was
like twenty early twenties, I.

Speaker 2 (01:52:43):
Would think that Barry Griffiths guy, is he for an Aucklander?

Speaker 26 (01:52:47):
I'm not sure where he was from, but He was
a New Zealand champilin the machine. Yeah, he was an
absolute machine. I played him once and I think I
might have got two points. He was just an absolute
machine and he was He's a good guy, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:53:04):
Yep.

Speaker 26 (01:53:05):
It was a great game. It was so so competitive
and so populated in New Zealand, you know, all those
years ago. But I think the I think they still
played pretty good in Christich, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:53:17):
But it's just not the.

Speaker 26 (01:53:19):
Same as it used to be.

Speaker 2 (01:53:21):
You know, I think I might. I think he might
have sort of been for my neck of the woods.
Old Barry Grows a player. Yeah, the old machine.

Speaker 20 (01:53:30):
He was good.

Speaker 26 (01:53:31):
Yeah, cheers, bad bye.

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
He went to the Summer Olympics in eighty eight. Gary,
Thank you welcome, George.

Speaker 10 (01:53:39):
Oh yes, Markers. So just you're talking about the top
players I played in the fifties and sixties ninety one.
Now I don't play anymore. But Ellen Tomlinson was the
guy that was really top then. And he was the
first guy ever to get a ball dispenser that played

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the ball to you. Wow, he practiced on his own.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
Yeah, I've never heard of.

Speaker 10 (01:54:05):
That, and thought, yeah, the boat delivered, it delivers it
too youn't got another player at the other end.

Speaker 20 (01:54:12):
It shoots the wall at you.

Speaker 10 (01:54:14):
Anyway, we played in the ep some show grounds on
the tar Seal and it was terrible. And then the
council gave us a piece of land at the Bedminton
Hall in Gillies Avenues.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
I'm familiar with that.

Speaker 10 (01:54:28):
We all did bottle drives and we built it all
and it was a lovely hole. Was terrific then but
really popular. I played in the E grade D grade
and I made it up to the B grade, but
that's as high as I got. But Allen Thomlinson, he
was a frepulous player and he actually went to Australia.

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There used to be a program, I think it was
on the Channel seven where you could win twenty five pounds.
Remember used to go up and you could either gamble
it or keep it or set it at a price
and you could keep going on and on. And he
won one hundred and twenty five thousand pants actually got

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that got right to the top.

Speaker 2 (01:55:13):
So this was not table tennis. This was a TV
quiz show.

Speaker 10 (01:55:17):
That was a quiz show that he entered. He was
quite clever guy, but oh he was just an outstanding
player in those days. But the hardest people to play
in table tennis is the old deers. Yes, playing the
garage that doesn't have any backroom, and they never back
back from the table. And I mean that's what the
Japanese ping pong players do too. Now, they don't move

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back from the table. They never step back. They just
stay right on the edge of the table and the
ball comes back so quickly.

Speaker 7 (01:55:47):
I've got time to recover.

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
You need for quick reflexes to play, they would you
because you'd have that's right in this reaction time.

Speaker 10 (01:55:57):
Yeah, that's what that guy was doing in the wheelchair.
He couldn't move, He could only move his arms, but
he didn't move back from the table. So that's how
he was playing so well because they get good air.
You know, they've only got to cover that small area.

Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
George, And you said it ever become a spectator sport
with people would cry to watch it, Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:56:21):
Yeah, yeah, the guys, the Swedish players were fabulous. The
Swedish players used to come every year and do a demonstration.
The guy could hit the ball across the date it
bends on the other side, he run around and headed
back to the other side of the table and run
around and got it again.

Speaker 2 (01:56:39):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 10 (01:56:41):
I could play himself running around the table.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
So there are quite a few people. There are quite
a few visitors that would come and play. Quite a few.

Speaker 10 (01:56:50):
Oh yes, yeah, the Swedish players were outstanding. Yeah, they
used to come and put on demonstrations.

Speaker 17 (01:56:57):
And it was really good.

Speaker 2 (01:56:58):
Did you play? Did you play most of your life? George?

Speaker 10 (01:57:03):
No, No, only played for the fifties and sixties. And
then I gave it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
Because you didn't get up to he didn't get up
to the B grade.

Speaker 10 (01:57:09):
I was in the rental card business, so I was
wrong you about rental cards. You didn't believe what he
didn't believe what I was telling you. But I got
really busy in rental cars, and I had a family,
and and so time was used that on that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
Oh you'll be happy because the badminton hall and table
Tennessee and just still seems to go strong and Gillies
doesn't It still seems.

Speaker 18 (01:57:29):
Busy, does Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:57:31):
It does.

Speaker 20 (01:57:31):
It's good.

Speaker 6 (01:57:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57:32):
I guess it's only bedminton or pickleball these days, I suppose.

Speaker 10 (01:57:36):
Yeah, it's lovely. It's a lovely sport for young people.
Tables kind of shi. Yeah, it's really good, so.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
Great to I agree. George's nice to hear from you, Connor, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:57:49):
Good eating Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
Hi, Connor.

Speaker 27 (01:57:53):
I just wanted to talk about, you know, the hand
eye coorder nation the table pennis gives you, yes, you know,
of being a pe teacher, and I think that it's
a really fundamental skill, you know, to learn how to

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strike a ball and see the ball, and you know,
anyone can play it. And that's why I think, you know,
every child should be able to have access to pat
of tennis or pickleball or table tennis or whatever it is.

(01:58:36):
It doesn't matter, because it gives you the official fundamental
skills of you know, the hand eye coordination that can
set you up to many sports.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
Yeah, good point. Did you still play? Do you play? Connor?

Speaker 11 (01:58:55):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:58:56):
My whole life.

Speaker 27 (01:58:57):
Yeah, just socially, but and that's been the best times
of my life because you know, and Faro and triends
and around a table tennis.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
Table always good when that comes ourday.

Speaker 27 (01:59:15):
With and be able to convert the pool table into
a table tennis. That was always for Mum and dad.
You know, they were all sporty people and they were
onto it, so they you know, we had access to
table tennis and fall basketball whatever it was tennis and

(01:59:38):
a tennis as kids, and it was crucial to our
succeeds because we're all really good sports because from the
day we had that hand eye coordination.

Speaker 2 (01:59:54):
Nice. I've got to run because that's it from me.
I don't want to make me to cut you off
because I've enjoyed talking to you, but I'm out of time.
Thanks to everyone. I enjoyed that too. Final flurry final
if lurry as we call that broadcasting. Gosh. I'll be
back tomorrow. I don't know what night tomorrow is, but
just be worried. It might be midnight. They don't seem
to have changed it with the long weekend, so you

(02:00:15):
get your bin out if it's your benday, I'll catch
you tomorrow. People tim to follow good Night, No No
good Night.

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