Naked but covered in seal grease (15 May 2026)

It's a free-for-all Friday, and Marcus checks in on the vaping situation, and talks with folks who have possums as pets.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be ato seven, good evening and well compeeled. But
if sport on today, I'll keep you across that just
be when be wary about that. I will be giving
you updates of scores. That's the way the world now.
Most people want the score straight away rather than going
back and watching on video. So twenty one seven Chefs
over the Highlanders, second half's begun, six zero Crenella over Canterbury.

(00:34):
That's Magic Round. Not many people there, it's not sold
out yet, but that's the first of one, two, three, four, five, six,
even eight matches at that same stadium this weekend. That's
the way they roll with that one. And I'll bring
you the details of Out of the United ALLKFC. That's
the semi nine to thirty five that starts. So faarbit
going on tonight, and that's fine, that's good. And as
far as this show goes tonight, loose like a caboose,

(01:00):
we've got to write this week with talk but there's
nothing really been like. There hasn't been one phenomenal on
topic nights. So sometimes the audience can be steered in
different directions. Sometimes they will just talk about what they
want to talk about. I don't know what tonight's going
to be. I've given up trying to predict that people,
by the way, the wisdom of the messes. Yeah, I'll
do what I can to make it entertaining and fun.

(01:22):
But yeah, it's the Friday free for all. There's something
that you want to talk about, and there's a few
talkbacky things out there. I see too that the government's
gone soft on the cell phone ban. I don't know
how the one's working in Australia. So I guess if
you're trying to win election, you don't tell people what
they can do with their children. Never goes down. Well,
But that's a little bit about that. So maybe that'll
happen in the next government. But that might be something

(01:44):
but doesn't feel like a Friday night topic. What I
am extremely interesting tonight? This is why right within my wheelhouse?
When did we start saying right within your wheelhouse? It
feels like it was about five years ago. Where did
that expression cross over? Yeah, because it's a good one
to have. That has become a cliche, hasn't it. I

(02:05):
think it's base. I don't know if that's true. Often
you google up where expressions come from and you're none
the wise of it be four or five people swearing
black and blue of where it's from in your wheelhouse.
Wheelhouse is actually but I always thought it was someone
like steering a boat, sh like a Mississippi river boat. Anyway,

(02:31):
we was like going, oh, this topic's right with my wheelhouse.
There is a photo on Facebook that's been posted six
hours ago, and it's been posted on the team slash
Croman on news Feed and the expression says, hi, I
found this and can any want to help this? Is
this a possible looks like a possum, was quite fluffy
and moved by a bounce like a kangaroo, had a
fitty kangaroo face. Any idea what it could be? It's

(02:53):
clearly a wallaby and this is shot from the crimean
and doesn't say where this thing's gone off. On the comments,
there is hundreds and hundreds of comments. Like most of
Facebook these days, there are some firty tongue in cheek comments,
but appiece as though it is a wallabye up there
in the Corimandal. I guess that's a concern to people.
If you want to mention that way, I love my

(03:13):
I love my kangaroo sightings or wallaby sightings. If you
are seeing them, you're supposed to call back the top.
They've got a Wallaby hotline. But yeah, I don't know
if they've been in the coramandal before, But why would
someone post one that's a whole I don't think it
is a hoax. So if you want to talk about
wallabies and the coramandal, that's something I wouldn't mind talking
about tonight, if you want to start the whole ball rolling.

(03:37):
So I don't know if there's been sightings before, but
this one looks some good, four men, fairly happy. So yeah,
if you want to that's your topic for tonight, Wallaby
sightings because once they get and they wreck the bush,
they eat everything. They'll devastating for the corimandal. So you've
got to comment on that. Come through. I'll keep you
updated with any other news that tappening tonight. Also too,
it's twelve pass. If you want to start the whole

(03:58):
ball rolling, get in touch. There have been players inducted
into the Rugby Hall of Fame, Shawn Fitzpatrick's In's Enn
Book and Carlos Spencer the Blues Hall of Fame. I
don't even know if it is a hall or quite
what it is. I think it's probably a way just
sell tickets to events the Blues Hall of Fame where
that's happening also, but yeah, that's the situation to get
in touch if you want to. Oh, eight hundred eighty

(04:20):
ty nine to two nine detexts Marcus till twelve o'clock
it up. Looking forward to your show starters tonight if
you want to be first cab off the rank, anything
goes as the Friday free for all. Yes, so it'd
be nice to hear from you if you want to be out.
But Wallaby's and the Coramandlers at my start for ten yeah,
ten zero Cronella over Canterburry now so yes, eight hundred

(04:44):
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two detect if
you want to be a part of it. I'll keep
some of the idea obviously. We'll keep the view obviously
tonight on what's happening in the Gulf. I see some
ships have gone through, and some ships have been some
ships have gone through and some ships have been taken
hostage today, So I'll keep a cross that and see
if we can bring you more information about that. Also,

(05:05):
it's happening tonight too. Eight hundred eighty tenty and nine
two nine two to text. Yeah, but if you want
to be a part of the show, that's the planned people.
If you're out driving, if you're driving ubers or let
us know how the how the city's going, what's happening
out there where you are, be into any of that
sort of stuff. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine two nine two to text. Who Old Trump and

(05:29):
g seem to be getting on, Well, don't they. We're
excited about that anyway, as I say, oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text,
you want to be a part of it and anything else,
be in touch Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine to nine two text, but particularly interested in the

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Wallaby thing. Firstly, it'd be nice to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Do.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Gimstein obviously long from tweve o'clock too, and a bit
of sport to Chiefs twenty one, Holander seven and Adelaide
United versus ALCEFCI will be at nine thirty five tonight.
It will keep you updated about that too, So that's
the way we go keep those texts coming through affords
your texts on this Friday, Hi Marcus, when are you

(06:18):
taking the family to Costco? I have been to Costco
went to the family. We went to Costco over summer,
but it was a bit too full on for me.
Not quite sure if you're following the hantavirus story. They
I don't know what sort of plane they brought them down,
but the Australians and the Australian resident and the Key
we've all been flowing from the Netherlands, I think to Australia.

(06:43):
I don't even know what sort of what sort of
plane they would use for that. I guess that's all
what the cruise ship has to do to pay for
all of that. But they now are ensconced in that
special facility that's just near Perth, near the military airport.
But you know, wood on the plane, if anyone's been
on the plane spotting software to know what they would
be flying, then on gosh, it's been an expensive kind
of a mop up for that one. Now this is

(07:04):
a situation there went on a cruise, but on the
cruise were bird watchers that had been to a place
at bottle of teer old alfrago a rubbish tip to
look at birds, and they'd been infected with the andy
virus of the hunter virus from rats and spread it
arounngst the crew and it's just been a disaster. But

(07:24):
there's a look. It looks like a private jet for
six people that have been an amazing trip from the
Netherlands to Perth. Happened anyway? Do get in touched on?
Someone rang up before I want to talk about vaping,
and I was just about to go to them, but
they've hung up. But I'm happy to talk about vaping tonight.
And the only reason I say that is because where's
the hysteria gone? Kate ats Marcus. Good evening and.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Welcome Marcus is create.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
How are you good things?

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Kate?

Speaker 2 (07:48):
How are you going all right?

Speaker 7 (07:49):
Good?

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Thank you? I remember thirty years ago I had tiny
little kids and writing part time, and we didn't have
a lot of money, and we had an old mawa
and I think I lost my wag and my temper.
The worst of the worst my whole life as trying
to start up this old lawn mower and just trying

(08:12):
to pull up and I think I did my shoulder
run was it was just beyond Eventually I went to
back to a good old push mower.

Speaker 8 (08:21):
And it did a bit of job.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
It was bitter for my exercise.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
What have you run for?

Speaker 9 (08:27):
So?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
What's your topic?

Speaker 5 (08:31):
Lawn mowing?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Oh? Okay, that's great. Do I mean?

Speaker 10 (08:36):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Is this a part of the free for a Friday?

Speaker 10 (08:39):
Though? Was it?

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Did I mention law knowing? Or you're listening to the podcast?

Speaker 10 (08:43):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:43):
Perhaps I was listening to the podcast?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Ah yeah, okay, yeah, I couldn't work out where you
were coming from.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Okay, sorry, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, that's fine. I'm always happy to talking about Moers.
But yeah, I just couldn't work out the context of it. Okay, No,
all good. I just try to think when we're actually
mentioning Moers. But thank you for that. I feel like
it's about a year ago. Anyway, Good on you. I
think probably everyone mad not to go with batteries these
days with a price of fuel. But the other thing
about batteries, I think probably after a while, the whole yeah,

(09:15):
I think you want to give up on those starter
motors though, ripcords. I'm sure they're not good for the
aging bodies and else done themselves at the service with
one of those. I haven't, but I imagined that's something
that you probably could do. Anyho, how are you people?
What is happening? Welcome Hitdal to interesting start to a show. Godness,
I just want to talk Wallabies, Wallabies, Wallabies, Wallabies and
Wallabies in the corimendal. A left hander is a joint

(09:39):
leader of the PGA Championship, which is in the wheelhouse
of someone in your prediction show. Oh was that right?
Enjoyed a sign driving over the Kaimais during the Rugby
World Cup report Wallaby sighting. Someone kindly wrote they're dead
in the poll. Very god, this is interesting. Hey, Hamish,
we have met lother fan mate for a very long time.

(10:00):
Can I ask one favor? Can you give the love
of my life? Yin a shout out, welcome her to
New Zealand. We are now in New Zealand. Just want
to share the appreciation waves love. I appreciate it, Drew.
I don't know why, but sometimes people get the name
Marcus confused with Hamish, So you can't know me that
well anyway. So yeah, and he ticks it again, but yes,

(10:24):
someone has briticled. The left handed will win the PGA Championship.
So yep ron and the expression of Wheelhouse and also
the situation with the expression of that and Wallaby's in
the Corimandel. So yeah, keep you update with the news.
By the way, David Beckham, here's a billionaire, England's first

(10:48):
sport billionaire. Well, I guess it's something of his wife.
I get thinks she's done fashion of music and stuffe anyway,
boy boy, amazing start to the rugby league Crawler eighteen
over zero Canterbury and twenty eight to twelve our Chiefs
over the Highland is twenty minutes to go. Jackets Marcus.
Good evening and welcome to.

Speaker 11 (11:06):
A Thanks Marcus, how's a gun?

Speaker 12 (11:08):
Good?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Thanks good?

Speaker 11 (11:09):
Thanks jack good Good.

Speaker 8 (11:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (11:12):
I just want to have a chat about the vathing
because i've sort of I've noticed I'm a young estrella
and all my mac sort of seemed to be vaping.

Speaker 11 (11:21):
Yeah, like pretty much every single one of them. So,
and I read a study the other day came out
I was on my Facebook feeds, so I don't know
how reliable it was, but it was a university from
Australia and the recently linked it to colding cancer. So
I want to know what, you know, what Zilm's going

(11:42):
to have in place to deal with an increase in
cancer if all these young people are out there vathing.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I think from what I could see with that study, right,
and the comments I saw on those study from people
involved in the business, they said that they didn't give
it much credit, right, And they said that the comments
that I could see New Zealand academics made about that
was it so much safer than smoking. Yeah, that the

(12:11):
damage is negligible. So okay, yeah, it's like effect, It's
like vaping is ten times safer than smoking.

Speaker 11 (12:20):
Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I'll tell my mates. I'll tell
my mates they can keep vaping.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Then well, I mean you can't selly mates anything because
they're adults, right exactly. But yeah, the other thing about vaping,
it doesn't seem as though. I mean, for a while,
they're like five years ago and during COVID there was
all this paranoia about schools and people vaping at schools
and people having to close the toilets because they're vaping

(12:45):
the toilets, and there was hysteria. There was Mothers for
Concerned Children groups have sprung up, and it just disappeared
three or four late three or four years later, it's
just not a big problem at school anymore. So it
seems as though it's disappeared.

Speaker 11 (12:58):
Yeah, it's fair point, Marcus. Yeah, I guess like you're saying,
the hysterious sort of gone away.

Speaker 13 (13:06):
Yeah, what I'm saying is lots of young people are
definitely vaping.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, well, I mean school aged kids, are people in
their twenties.

Speaker 13 (13:18):
Yeah, No, it's a it's a it's a plague on
the young, young sort of generation, I guess.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
But it's not as bad as I'm all smoking, though,
was it? And once upon a time they're all doing that?

Speaker 10 (13:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (13:28):
No, that is true.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
I mean no one, no one smokes anymore.

Speaker 13 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, you did, right, And I suppose if it
is better than than smoking, like what these studies are saying,
and I guess it is better, but we still don't
know what it is going to do. I guess only
time will tell.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
I think once upon a time everyone was worried about
popcorn lung that that was, but that was called by
glycol or something. They took that out quite quickly. So yeah,
but you know, I mean, everything's probably dangerous. You're probably
better off not vapor. We gonna do something with your life.

Speaker 11 (14:02):
Yeah, no, it's yeah, you do got to have some fun.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, absolutely, no. Well I'd love to, but I just yeah,
I wouldn't love No. Well, I mean I wanted to
get a vape pipe.

Speaker 11 (14:21):
I've not heard of them.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Well you you know how you can smoke tobacco and
a pipe. Yeah, like Captain Headeck and Tintin. I'm trying
to think of something that they bring you young people across.

Speaker 14 (14:33):
Can you can you?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Can you think of a pipe smoker?

Speaker 15 (14:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (14:36):
I can.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Who would that be? Name name something that smokes a pipe.

Speaker 11 (14:40):
I'm thinking of the I'm thinking of the Quentin Tarantano
movie and Inglorious Bastards and yeah, the German.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, that's it. That's it. So I wanted to get
a pipe, but to get an e pipe so it
could smoke vapes, so you could smoke the fluid. And
they are made them. But I went to a couple
of vape shops and I was asking for a vape pipe.
But they think they they thought I was wanting something
that was, you know, something to process marijuana for a
nebulizer for that. I just became too complicated too soon.

(15:08):
And yeah, I decided to go online. I thought, gosh,
you're gonna go online to buy a pipe from a
holand is it worth is it worth doing? And do
I really want to get addicted to vape? So I
decided not to go through with that. So yeah, that's
my vaping story.

Speaker 16 (15:22):
Jack.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Anyway, thanks for starting the whole discussion going. We can
do a bit of a spot check on vaping. Don't
come and don't come and call me if it caused
you to be on. Well, but it's much much better
than smoking. And yeah, but people don't seem to be
doing it as much anyway, That's what I've noticed. What
a hectic, kind of weird start to a night. I

(15:42):
don't know why it's hectic. It's hectic because there's actually
a music festival on in town in a vocagular and
travel finding a car pack outside work which never happens
half past eight near the headlines. Please, I need to
thank you twenty nine to nine people welcome, get in touch.

(16:05):
The wheelhouse came from baseball. It was a circular zone
in which a better swung not in my wheelhouse was
a pitch out of the area. Well, well, if that's true,
I mean, yeah, I could believe it be in touch.
If you want to vaping, vaping, vaping vaping, Yeah, I
wouldn't mind hanging off a pipe, but I don't want

(16:25):
more cords around the house. The trub has had to
charge the damn things. But what does amaze me is
every shopping center that's undergoing some sort of crisis, all
the empty shops become vape shops. But then the vape
shops become empty shops full of vapes with no one
ever in them. Are they fronts for something? Don't make
any money? There's no one in there. And why I

(16:47):
need so many different choices, and why the light's so bright?
I understand none of this. dB, It's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 12 (16:55):
I'm on your side with the vape pipe.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's a good idea, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Well.

Speaker 12 (17:00):
I used to be a bit of a poser when
I had my ship, and of course I had the pipe,
the pipe because stamp around my wheelhouse.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
How did you have your ship for.

Speaker 12 (17:12):
For four and a half years.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, it's a great thing. And it was a big ship,
wasn't it.

Speaker 12 (17:17):
Yes, eighty seven feet Okay, I called it a ship
because legally in New Zealand at over twenty meters and
I was twenty seven meters. I become a ship.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
How much would that cost to fill with diesel today?

Speaker 16 (17:33):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (17:34):
Well, say it's four dollars a liter. Time seven, there's
twenty eight thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Wow, how long would that last you till.

Speaker 12 (17:44):
It runs out? It's how long is a piece of string?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
How long is it piece?

Speaker 12 (17:52):
I ever bred in? One hit was three thousand liters.
That was at a dollar a liter, and that hurt.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
How did it take to fill up that amount?

Speaker 12 (18:03):
Oh? I think it took us about well forty minutes.
Oh yeah, well we're down in Havelock and we'd arrived
at Havelock with thirty liters left on board.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's remarkable.

Speaker 12 (18:18):
That's getting you know, that's that's getting the side roll
out and really working it out to the last inch.
But yeah, but yeah, no, I often thought I'd like
to have a vape pipe because you know.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, because you get that old world sophistication and charm
with the modern convenience.

Speaker 12 (18:40):
Yeah, and you know, it's got that weird feel about
it when you know someone asked you a question. You
could wave a piper round to go exactly that general
direction and you wave a pipe, and.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
They always said that the best craftsmen were pipe smokers
because they would take time off to step back and
get the pipe going. Look at their handyman with their
clinker belt boat and they could take a bit off
there with a plane and back. Yeah. I well, I
did a lot of googling about it. You can get
them in and they're made from like rosewood and stuff
like that their proper part. Yeah, and then you get

(19:13):
them and you put your fluids in there. Well yeah, yeah,
I think it's called fluid. I don't even know what
you'd google up for it, because I tried to go
in the shops and derneeda and they had no idea
what I was talking about and made me feel. Yes,
if you google e pipes, it could be digital electronic
bagpipes for playing recording music or electronic pipes us.

Speaker 12 (19:36):
Oh yeah, like I'm going to wander around the bridge
on a set playing my bag pipes for steam coming
out of each of the drones that did look good.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Electronic pipes for vaping is what you want?

Speaker 12 (19:49):
I like that idea. Yeah, No, I verly agree. I'd
like to have you know one that was less well
well pipe itself. Stop very harmful for you because you're
not quite inhaling like you do with a cigarette.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
No, it's only water. It's only water.

Speaker 12 (20:06):
Lord, Yeah, with the rape ones, it's even less. You know.
It's as you say, Yeah, it wasn't unusual for me
to be hunched over the chat table with a pire
calipers is one hand and the pipe.

Speaker 14 (20:17):
And the other.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Fantastic. I can see that now, like I don't have
a film. Aren't you here that you're in there? Well,
let me know how well aren't we all let me
know how you go with that?

Speaker 17 (20:29):
How?

Speaker 2 (20:29):
When would be the last time you see anyone smoking
a pipe on the street.

Speaker 12 (20:34):
I've seen it. No, I was going to say, I've
seen it on TV because Bill Bailey is a great.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Poker, and.

Speaker 12 (20:43):
Stephen Fry was the last pipe smoker of the year
in England only because he just happened to be in
the right place at the right time. He sits on
q I one night. But in real life very rare,
very very rare.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
I think Ben Crosby offered was smoke with a pipe,
wouldn't he?

Speaker 18 (21:05):
I remember with him.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Jacques Custeau before he killed all his children, making them
do dangerous things. I think he smoked with a pipe.

Speaker 12 (21:14):
Like going to see her on the Callipseide. I'd have
Calypso tomorrow that was still available.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
I love Calypso. Gosh, wasn't he Wasn't he a big
figure in our lives? Jacques Custeau. I mean, honestly, there
was ten years there. He could do no.

Speaker 12 (21:27):
Wrong, absolutely, and even now and then to take you
down into the bow of his ship, which had a
viewing chamber in the bulbous bow, that's right, and there
would be fantastic in New Zealand we look at so
of our sea life from below the waterline.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
And with John Denver when he went on the ship
and wrote the song I Calypso, the stories you've told
us or whatever, I remember that.

Speaker 12 (21:51):
Oh, we're gonna have to stop reminiscing other one.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Thank you, Thank you. DV There we go twenty three
away from nine. When was the last time we saw
a pipe smoke?

Speaker 8 (22:00):
Up?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
We're on de vaping and everything related to that. Is
anyone really still historically about vaping? Because yeah, I am
what I what I tend to be. No, that's not
quite right. I've got Yeah, I wouldn't want to tell
anyone how to live their life, and also what they
were don't want toe anyone to live their life. I

(22:22):
would be very weary of anyone that tells me how
to live my life. I'd say beware of motivational speakers.
Every motivational speaker I've ever met on any sort of
circuit where've beingmcing or anything. Every sort of motivational speaker
of it. And when they talk a good talk, but
they're actually their private lives are shambles. I think the

(22:43):
real job of a motivational speaker is to try and
convince themselves they are that person, when clearly they're not,
like everyone at some levels a hypocrite. Anyway, that's a
bit deep for tonight. Feel free to give me a call.
How are you going? People out there? List of the land?
The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty to text,
it's nine two nine till we've gone from vaping to
pipes and wallabies and the wheelhouse? And am I right

(23:06):
that the vaping hysteria in schools has almost completely subsided?
I don't know why there is. I think probably they
just thought if we don't talk about it, they'll get
bored of it, and they seem to have done that.
I might be completely wrong. I'm not hanging around the
high echelons of secondary schools, but I'm not hearing hype
hysteria as we once did for a while. Twenty eight

(23:30):
twelve and the rugby that's a that's a shellacking, isn't it?
Hides My just scored. So make the twenty eight twenty
eight to seventeen kick to come. I think, so that's happening.
Maybe they happened anyway. Kramer on Seinfeld smoked a pipe?
Who were the famous TV did? Did Columbo smoke a pipe?

(23:51):
I'm just trying to think the guy and my three
sons smoked a pipe? But you all know more. I
think Inspectacluseau smoked a pipe. But that's the plan. That's
one of the plans tonight. Get in touch if you
want to be a part of it. Here til twelve
are the any news we've got tonight? Seem from my
point of view, it seems to have been a fairly

(24:12):
average week on the roads. The other thing, I don't
have much understanding here. How's piggisus going? All your people
North Canterby living and Piggis is what's gone on there?
Now they're selling your golf course. Often that's why you
lived there, So now the golf course is becoming housing Wolfbrook.
That's sensible. I just don't know how you feel if
you've been moved to because you move to Pigis's beautiful

(24:33):
place on the outskirts to christ Church, then the lake
gets toxic, toxic bloom. Well that's not good. Now they're
selling off your golf course and putting into houses. I mean,
where's your control in your retirement? You't know what's going on,
do you? And how does anyone see the guy walking
around Nelson with a balance in the bottle of his
head today? Pretty interesting story that one get in touch

(24:55):
Marcus till twelve, nineteen to nine. I've got to watch
when I say, someone's texted me to tell me that
there is no known answer to how long is a
piece of string? Which is a worry anyway, Marcus. You
can buy self refillable vape devices, but all the liquids

(25:17):
have a been a percentage of five milligrams twenty milligrams
of nicotine. There are no nicotine free vapes available in
New Zealand. It wasn't my understanding. Has that been a
recent thing, Why would there be none? I don't really
understand that. If you could explain that, I think one
I do know about vapes is a huge amount of misinformation.

(25:40):
Vapo offers a range of niccolin free vape options from
top brands. Now, I don't think that's quite true what
you've said. I often think probably the tobacco industry themselves
are trying to muddy the water when it comes to vapes,
to stop people switching to them, like talking up the
hysteria of the danger. And I'm sure there is some danger,
but not as bad as cigarettes, and trying to muddy

(26:00):
the water. That's certainly what I feel, although of course
they always started and popularizes smoking cessation device. And how
long is a piece of string? Twice half its length?
I mentioned, Good Evening, Graham, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yes, correct, now, yes, you are correct on that the
exact formula is twice if this is from the middle
to one end.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, I don't even know where I can come back
with that.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Oh, it's just matter, it might matter at all. Formula,
you know, And bug of the people who asked that
question expecting me to go get stumped.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Get stumped? You I ever thought of smoking a pipe, Graham?

Speaker 4 (26:44):
I have thought about it. I just don't like pipe
tobacco though.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Have you tried Have you tried those vaping fluids?

Speaker 15 (26:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Not so much fun. Also, at least at least somebody
else who smokes a pipe? Allen from Two and a
half Men?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Really, Owen, Allen, I'm not familiar with Two and a
half Men. What was the plot of.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
That, Charlie Sheen? His younger brother stays with him forever?

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Was it good?

Speaker 4 (27:18):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 11 (27:19):
I've still watched the shorts?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Really, why the shorts?

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Because I can't. I don't hit the time to watch
a whole movie during the day or something like that
over a morning tea or something like that.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yes. So when you say the shorts, the stuff that
pops up on YouTube like scenes from it, Yeah, exactly.
Well listen to you. I thought you'd been funny, but
you watch the shorts. I thought it's like a metaphor
for piece of string. Graham. Thank you? Foting to nine. Well,
I think we've almost got the bones of a show.
When there's a ship a boat, and when's a boat

(27:54):
of ship? How long is a piece of string. Where
are we with vaping? I'm not pro vaping, but I'm
anti hysteria, I'm anti smoking. It's a vile thing. And
I'm very much concerned that no one's concerned that there's
a wallabye and the corrimandel. That's the last thing they need.
The roads close every time it rains. There's always problems

(28:17):
with bridges getting there. And now it's been taken over
by wallabies, townes and wallabies as they steadily spread. But
you know, how would you know there's a photo on Facebook?
How do you know if that's a wallaby or that's
not just some AI wallaby because the fact that's out
in daylight, aren't they? I think they are nocturnal kind
of a beast. That's my understanding. On the rare times

(28:38):
i've seen them on Anger Tortor, I think that's where
i've seen them. Maybe why matter? Also, Chiefs look like
they're going to win the rugby and six six sixty
they're going to be playing tomorrow night at Takaha one,
New Zealand. Be a big concert, be the biggest concert
that's been in Croustich for a while, probably even more

(29:00):
than Aed shar and I would think not as good
as some of the great content Lancaster Park. You might
want to take this an excuse to start remember some
of those. But the most exciting thing is the AM
frequency in Auckland is fixed. They had two masts at
Lincoln Road down to one mast and it's back on
here without any more planned outages. I also had an
email from Nelson for someone that's lost their reception has

(29:22):
just come back. I wonder for Nelson they're pick out
the reception from the Auckland mast. But Nelson's did to
have some sort of trouble with their AM frequency. Uh huh,
so that was it took them a while. They started
work on the sixteenth of April, took a month. The
outers expect to the last fourteen days, well it took
twice that. So thank you for your patience. For those

(29:44):
that don't know about Auckland radio, Z'DB was always AM
ten eighteen and when FM don't know when. But FM
and Auckland is problematic because of all the volcanic cones,
and if you're in the shado of the volcanic cone,
you can't get it. So a lot of people are

(30:04):
reliant on AM. So now they've got both and the
frequency is better. So yeah, go you win win win, win,
win win win eight away from nine o'clock. If you
want to be part of it, keep those texts through Marcus.
You can definitely buy nicketine free vaporsies in I've been
buying them for years. Remotivational speakers the old adage those
who knows speak it not. Yeah, I've never met a

(30:27):
sketchy group of people than motivational speakers. My grandmother was
like that. She used to say to me, once everything
is within, he who would live in peace entities must
not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
Stadium Fever's gonna again, brace yourself. New said, yes, I
don't think I control themselves. After six sixty. Marcus is
a former vapor I would recommend people don't start vaping.

(30:51):
I never thought I would get addicted, but after three
months I was literally hanging it above my bed and
sucking out at like a hamster and its water bottle.

Speaker 16 (30:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
I do think people on the vapory to chill out it,
but they seem to be Yeah, they do hang off
a lot, don't they sure what that's about nine to nine.
How are you going?

Speaker 6 (31:09):
People?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Six away from nine? Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Marcus HITDT twelve o'clock.
That's me and we're onto vaping and wallabies. Plus you've
seen those pictures of those robots in China doing cartwheels
and kung fu kicks. When did robots get so good?
And the last thing we want is robots that do
kung fu. I don't want to be in the future

(31:31):
going around my day and coming across kung fu robots.
I mean, even if they are benign, what if they
malfunction or if they get hacked and someone puts them
all into kung fu mode. By the way, Trump I
think is left China one of the great trips. Fantastic

(31:54):
trade deals were made. But there we go, h and
that's happened. Keep those texts coming through two people, Oh,
here we go. This is good information. One z'b moved
to FM in February ninety three or ninety four or
oh one did be moved to FM and February ninety

(32:16):
three on eighty nine point four Niggahertz privately used by
eighty nine x two z'd be and three' z'd be
were in January nineteen ninety one, I was working on
d'd be there and DNEDA on four. Z'DB was a
September nineteen ninety call signs were mandatory until nineteeny nine,
but now it's to a relic of history and just branding.
So Auckland was quite late to go to FM because

(32:38):
eighty nine X was the powerhouse, because of course it
was all owned by the government. Then z'd B eighty
nine X I think two were owned by the government. Yes,
the robots were amazing in so many of them, but
a bit of a worry if something goes wrong and
they turned deadly. Of course they'll turn deadly. Of course
they'll turn deadly. There is nothing I am more sure

(32:59):
of anyway, nothing I'm more sure of. Have you watched
Project Hail Mary?

Speaker 19 (33:05):
No?

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I haven't. What is it? A TV show? Is a movie?
Never heard of it? But I think that's my thing?
What is it? What do you say? Have you watched
this video about this?

Speaker 3 (33:15):
So?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
What I'd like to hear from you talking about tonight?
I wait A one hundred eighty Teddy and nineteen nine
to text I walked it. He has a nice text.
It might even be a haiku. I worked across. I
walked across Hagley Park today. The ground was really hard.
We need rain. Billy Soir drought in Canterbury by the way,

(33:35):
full time score and the Rugby Chiefs ran away with
it forty two to twelve, thrashing forty two twelve Chiefs
over the Highlanders. Oh gosh, we've got people off on ZBAM.
Of course we have forgotten about that, ah flip, of
course they have.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
The thing I'm most excited about today is, well, not excited,
but consumed. Excited is the sighting of the wallaby that's
been found in the Coramandel, that's been posted on a
Corimandal Teams newsfeed site today. There's five hundred and seventy
two comments on that. Every once he is reported to doc.

(34:18):
A lot of the comments aren't that serious. Adele's written
landolphin steer clear of the blowhole. It's quite a good
comment that. So yeah, the funny old thing old Facebook
Facebook comment threads. People said, what do they do? They
try what they're trying to do. They're trying to derail

(34:40):
the narrative, don't they Anyway that's happening there, so it
doesn't say where it is, but I thought that they
would be unlikely to be in the Corimandel. So that's
something I wouldn't mind talking about tonight. So that's the
first time I've seen that reported like that. We're also
talking about vaping. Where are we with the hysteria on vaping?

(35:01):
Five years ago? People were more hysterical about that than anything.
Not so much anymore, but I think probably because people
have ignored it, people have stopped doing it. I don't
think anyone thinks it's cool, apart from me with my
pipe which I can't get hold of, I can't be
bothered to get hold of it. The truth be known,
donyone go the surfing at Ragland today. Wouldn't mind knowing

(35:23):
what that was like, or what the setup was like.
Did you have to pay to watch it with your grandstands?
Because I think that was one of the ones that
the government forked out money for to support that. But
if anyone went to that with a left break, I
wouldn't mind hearing how that was. Good evening, Helen, this
is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Welcome, Yeah, hi, Terran nol Fuego Land of Fire.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Oh of course it is. Why is it called that?

Speaker 20 (35:54):
Will?

Speaker 3 (35:55):
I don't know the volcanic, Well, it's eily from volcano.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
It could be Aurora by.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
The indigenous people, little loads of place.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Well, I wonder if it could be from like the
fire like because Rocky is glowing skies from the Aurora Australas.
Is it lower than Wrecky Era? It probably is, is it?

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, it's a while since I came across this information,
and I was sounded, absolutely sounded fascinating place and I
always wanted to go there, but well I didn't.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
You must go there?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Well anyway, no, my traveling days are over. But anyway,
the the the inhabitants, they didn't wear any clothes except
they were wrapped up in these these sort of cloaks
with animal skin, you know, fur whatever the animals were
that they killed, that they wandered around, and they were

(36:51):
all apparently a very healthy lot. And then the Spanish
arrived and and it wiped up vast waste them from
the common cold, which they had never encountered, you see,
so they had no resistance to it. And they tell
you that the Spanish arrived and then all these people died.
But it sounds a fascinating place.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah, when you look at on the map, it seems
to be. It's just valleys. It's just unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Yeah, and really cold, freezing right down the bottom of
South America.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
And its latitude is really low. It's at fifty four south,
whereas Stuart Island's forty seven south, so it's way way low. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Anyway, perhaps somebody knows more about it than I do.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
But I think the only thing I used to know
I think there is I think if you're flying from
like Argentina to New Zealand, the planes refuel there. I
think there's a runway because they refuel to get across
Antarctica to get to New Zealand. Did you know there's
runways where the planes go to? Do you know about that?

Speaker 10 (37:54):
No?

Speaker 3 (37:54):
I don't know anything more than what I told you.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Then okay, yeah we might have something that's been there,
and thank you. I appreciate that. Twelve past nine. Looking
forward to your calls people, sheep, if you want to
talk about this or anything else. I'll take what I
can On a Friday, Friday sports dominating as they've tained
a am frequency. Oh aren't wallaby is a thing and

(38:17):
use it anyway? Wallabies are a thing, but there's two
distinct populations, one on why matter and one of they
and they largely have been contained, but they appear to
be spreading. This big fence has been built to keep
them out of Aspiring National Park, and they're worried about
them getting out all around the North Island too. So yeah,

(38:39):
they are here, but they're not supposed to be here. Marcus,
my father's cousin always told us the story how he
brought a dead posthum up from the White end of
the Mid North and placed on the middle of the road.
When found, it made big headlines in the paper about
the first starting of possums in the North, even though
it was a hoax. I guess looking back, little bit
one now about the infestation of live possums it was
to come online. Articles put it at nineteen sixty when

(39:03):
the possums reached the look God it was a slow
build up then? Were possums first introduced goo to slow
build up the country? John AT's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 20 (39:14):
Hello, Marcus, someone was talking about flying from South America
across Antarctica to New Zealand. Did you have a conversation
with someone recently about in the last minute or two
about that? Yes, yes, I have a relative who was

(39:42):
the first i think civilian to fly over Antarctica from
southern Chile to christ Church. Her brother is married to

(40:03):
my sister and I talking back in the it would
be probably in the late seventies, early eighties, and she
married a Chilean who was a New Zealander and I

(40:25):
think I could mention his name. He's now deceased, but
his name was Hugh McLay and his mother was in
New Zealander. Anyway, they lived in Chile, and on this
occasion she was at a function involving New Zealanders and

(40:49):
the New Zealander Embassy apparently, and there were members I'm
not sure whether it was the New Zealand government or
the Air Force or somebody. Anyway, they were flying back
to christ Church the next day via the South and
they said, way she had family in christ Church, would

(41:14):
she liked to join them, but she'd probably have to
sit on an apple case or something in the back
of the aircraft. And she said yes. And I haven't
heard anybody contradict this, but she was one of the
first civilians to fly from South America to christ Church

(41:41):
over the South Pole.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
And what exactly John was the flight?

Speaker 20 (41:49):
What was it was an aircraft, don't ask me what
it was?

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Was a diplomatic mission to New Zealand.

Speaker 20 (41:57):
Well, I don't know whether it was or not. I
know very little detail, but that's the basic outline of it.
But I assumed she CAD's a ride after an an embassy.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Wow, it sounds pretty sophisticated and dramatic, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (42:23):
But yes, if anybody's listening, I've mentioned the Christian name
of the passenger was Katherine.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
This is this is Katheryn McLay.

Speaker 20 (42:36):
You're getting bloody close, weird.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Say the guy was called Hugh maclay. Is that right?

Speaker 20 (42:41):
That's right? She was married to Hugh McLay and Katherine's
brother married my sister. Goodness, where did you get the
Hugh McLay? Are you googling something?

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Did you say that?

Speaker 10 (42:56):
If I didn't.

Speaker 20 (42:56):
Mention, I didn't mention the word McLay. Are you there?

Speaker 10 (43:06):
Now?

Speaker 2 (43:08):
A lot of things about the folk are interesting. One
thing that when you said will you talk, it was
someone talking about flying from Chile across Antarctica. Had you
just woken up when you'd heard that?

Speaker 10 (43:21):
Uh?

Speaker 20 (43:22):
No, I'd just put myself a coffee and filled filled
the hot water bottle, ready to go to bed.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Okay, No, I didn't mean that. And you did mention
the Hugh maclay.

Speaker 20 (43:34):
No, I don't think I mentioned human clay.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Do you want me to go back and play the
start of the call?

Speaker 16 (43:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (43:40):
I could have mentioned it. I think it's right. Yeah
she did marry. Yeah, Catherine Coop married Hugh McLay. Okay,
Now they're all the names out there, so that's it.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
A lot of secrecy, A lot of secrecy in your family, John,
isn't there Oh?

Speaker 20 (44:01):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Well, it's all top secret.

Speaker 20 (44:05):
All top I tell the world everything.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
What's your real name, John?

Speaker 20 (44:11):
My real name?

Speaker 21 (44:12):
Do you want to really know?

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Is your first name? Is your Christian name?

Speaker 12 (44:15):
John?

Speaker 20 (44:16):
My first Christian name is Kimball No k E M
B l E after Kimball Bent No after the acting
family of a few centuries ago and tied up with
Sarah Siddons and Sir John Kimball and all of that,

(44:40):
and the Kemball family at one stage owned Covent Garden
in London.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Anyway, Christian name? Okay, very good, John, Thank you. I
appreciate your good spirit.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
John.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
You take everything in great humor. Nineteen past nine. How
you're going people? Marcus William Dampus held three times around
the world, met the people of Terry del Frago. They
were naked, but carry themselves and sealed. There is to
stay warm living at sea level, and the sixteen hundreds
may not have been that cold, coinciding with the end
of the warm period. Naked but covered in seal grease.

(45:19):
Why has no one gone back to that? Why is
clothing the ants?

Speaker 13 (45:22):
So?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Why is the answer? Not Greece just thinking out loud.
We are talking vaping and tail dolfrago and wallabies as
so far, no calls on wallabies. Once upon a time
wallabies was the topic du jour. People seem to have
lost their fascination with wallabies. What's just about Tara del

(45:45):
Tierra del Fuego? And we'll speak to someone that's been
there before too long? Is it appears to be an island?
I'm speaking like John now it appears to be an island.
I don't know why that is, because it is, it
seems like it gets riveted by glaciers or valleys or something.
Be in touch if you want to partake. My name
is Marcus. Welcome twenty past nine. Would like to hear

(46:08):
from you. If you want to anything else tonight, that's
the plan, anything at all. Oh eight hundred eighty thirty
and nineteen ninety texts twenty two six Krell over Canterbury.
That's at Magic Round and welcome to those people. Back
to the AMF. The sport has finished. Us UK pastor
in court after man dies during live stream baptism. Gosh,

(46:33):
the wonders of live streaming. Ah AnyWho get in touch?
Twenty one past nine beck etcha Oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty nineteen ninety de text Yvonne, this is Marcus.
Greetings and welcome, good evening.

Speaker 9 (46:47):
Grevening Marcus. It's Yvonne with a wife he on just
to pick up It's okay, just to pick up on
your comment about possums. My husband was shooting possums in
nineteen fifty eight for a token from the partner conservation
then because they were a pested in the Westport area.
So they've been around for a long time, yes, apparently

(47:08):
nineteen six.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Apparently they weren't up the Far North by then.

Speaker 9 (47:13):
UMMM I would argue against that because I've had friends
that lived up there that had bet bossoms and they
are in my age group, as we all often did
in those days.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Well, I don't know if that's true. They are introduced.
They are introduced in Aparima and Riverton, so they've worked
their way up the north. But when did they arrive
in Northland?

Speaker 9 (47:38):
I don't know. I didn't say Norton, I said North Island.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Sorry, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, that's right. I wonder if
they're as late as the nineteen fifties, someone will know.
There'd be some old timer listening to the show that
we'll know. Yes, it seys it, I know. It says
in the Encyclopedia of New Zealand there were no possums
in Northland in the nineteen sixties. By the nineteen nineties

(48:03):
there were fifteen million.

Speaker 22 (48:06):
Well, they do travel.

Speaker 9 (48:09):
They can do a fair distance. So, like the number
of pets I've had over the years when they've been loose,
they've never left the property.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
You had great pets, You've had pet possums. Why did
you head red? Why?

Speaker 9 (48:25):
Well, they're nicer than a chinchilla.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
They seem of a nasty temperament.

Speaker 9 (48:32):
No they haven't, They've got a beautiful temperament.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
What sort of use is a nocturnal pet?

Speaker 9 (48:38):
They can actually be trained out of the nocturnal. My
husband's one was twenty two when he died, and the.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
One I had he been de nocturnalized.

Speaker 8 (48:49):
He was not.

Speaker 9 (48:51):
He would come out and play during the day. If
I forgot to shut the door, he'd be out in
the garden playing.

Speaker 22 (48:57):
During the day.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
It seems cool up after the bedtime. Well, I'm up
after me, and I think it's cruel. Are the twenty
two year old?

Speaker 16 (49:10):
Right?

Speaker 10 (49:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (49:11):
He was twenty two? What was in the same time
as I got the person as the Siamese kitten?

Speaker 2 (49:19):
When did you get the chinchilla?

Speaker 9 (49:21):
I never had chin chillers. I locked after friends chinchilla
I didn't like.

Speaker 6 (49:25):
I won.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Awhay, you got the down bars on the chinchilla. What
was his name?

Speaker 10 (49:31):
Possi?

Speaker 9 (49:31):
He was just playing Possy. Where my one was Dolly.
She would go shopping during the day.

Speaker 16 (49:41):
She'd go for walks with me.

Speaker 9 (49:43):
She went all over the place.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
So how is she walking on her hind legs?

Speaker 9 (49:48):
She would trot along on her hind leaps, yes, or
sometimes she'd pet you ride on the dog's back. And
if she we were walking through the brewood forest and
she'd go up a tree. The dog would stop, and
I'd stand below the tree, clap my hands, and she'd
just drop into my hands.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Was she on lead?

Speaker 8 (50:08):
No, she was.

Speaker 9 (50:09):
Sometimes I had her on harness, but most of the
time she was loose, And if I went to the supermarket,
she'd be tucked inside with jacket. Sometimes I'd get some
funny looks because she'd stick a head out to see
what I was up to, and I'd have to tap
her nose to make her go and hide again.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Where is this?

Speaker 9 (50:25):
And christ Church in the middle of christ Church town?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Goodness? And did you one get on with? Did you
one get on with? Posse?

Speaker 9 (50:35):
They never met. I didn't want to breed them. Ah,
Puss Doully lived inside with me. She had her own
end if I wasn't home, but she just ran in
the house.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
She got on well with You mean you mean you
mean that?

Speaker 2 (50:51):
You mean they're alive at the same time. Yet they
never met.

Speaker 9 (50:55):
Yeah, Possy had his own house outside because he had
He was a little bit old for hand raising when
I when Abby brought him home and I didn't want
to buy. I wanted a girl anyway, But he was
never vicious. I could go out any time in Handley
and honey went out every night. Cost him twenty five
dollars a week to keep him in good fruit. It

(51:17):
wouldn't eat how much fruit? About twenty five dollars a
week to spend on him keeping him alive and fruit
and beaches. And if you gave him rotten fruit, he
throw affecture.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
We even know what a chinchilla is? Is it like
a rabbit?

Speaker 9 (51:32):
A chinchilla? Well sort of. I think more of the
rap variety. I just didn't find them very friendly.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
What was Poss's favorite fruit?

Speaker 6 (51:46):
Apple?

Speaker 2 (51:47):
I was going to say apple? What would be some
What would be a fruit that they would throw at you?

Speaker 9 (51:53):
You didn't like rotten bananas?

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Fancy?

Speaker 10 (51:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:58):
So with a proper banana? Could they peel the banana?

Speaker 9 (52:06):
I think hover your e not? Yes, he would be
a levanana.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
I would be adorable with little hands down come little strips.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
Oh, Dolly was adorable. Dolly liked to drink coffee. And
Dolly would take a strawberry out of my hands, never ever,
never ever clawed me or be me.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
How would she drink coffee?

Speaker 6 (52:27):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (52:27):
I actually caught her putting a cup in my nose
and my cup when I was drinking TV and watching
TV one night and having a cup of coffee, she
was perched on the shoulder.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
And that from then on, did you encourage that.

Speaker 9 (52:43):
True degree?

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Yes, she well, never going to rub the headlines. Jevan,
thank you for every much. I worked with a woman
years ago who had who once had a pit possibly
is to sit on the sofa. I once been a
full grown one on the way home from work late
one night in Hanover Street and then crept me out
as a pit. No way possums from the hawks Ban
the late nineteen forties, Pauline. I didn't realize they were

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so slow to go up the were they waiting for
the harbor bridge. My father was on the construction of
the Cowdo pulp and paper. He used to go hunting
way out the back of Cowdo. That was between nineteen
fifty three to nineteen sixty. He brought home several wallabi
he had shot, plus deer and pigs. We moved north
to the Mungamookas in nineteen eighty one and then we

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only occasionally saw a squash possum on the road. Unfortunately
this is not the case now, thousands of them. I
remember the seventies is a kid getting a what box cards.
One cut at a map of possums in New Zealand
and the only spot was POSSI without possums was the
far North. I was in the far North. That stuck
in my mind. There at any place without possums as

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a kid of the need. In the nineteen seventies, my
neighbor neighbors had a pet possum called Beauregard. It had
fallen out of a tree and they believed it had
brain damage as it fell over and lost balance. It
lives in their house justin We said. His name is
just in Case. But I don't know if that that
would Yeah, am radio, don't know. Greetings, it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (54:10):
Welcome Ellen, my evening, Marcus. How are you good?

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (54:17):
My wife has lovely silver gray possum.

Speaker 19 (54:22):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (54:24):
She fit it up on her milk bottle on a
little bit of belf rubber off a bike. She used
that as a teeth and anyway as it grow and
run around with her. Kids used to love playing with

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her at night, just on the evening. I go up
there and bloody thing is if it climb up me?
Leg you help me set up me? Heid Christ down
my neck.

Speaker 12 (55:01):
Body horrible.

Speaker 10 (55:05):
It's day right at it was.

Speaker 7 (55:08):
And anyway, anyway, when we got married, she was was
used to going in it knew where my wife slipped
and to one of the guests were in the in

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her bed at that particular night, and it climbed in
the lead light of the window and ran up and
down the bed, and he wondered what the hell it
was through eleven o'clock or twelve o'clock at night. He
put it out, checked the chop, checked the thing out,
and the time back in the window again.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Terrifying.

Speaker 7 (55:50):
Now I found you where you come in? He had
a rat, so he checked it out again. He closed
the lead light. Anyway, the possum went round the house,
had a look. There's another one opening the pantry. The
top tier of our wedding cake was still on the bench,

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wasn't put away anywhere. A bloody thing climbed all over
the top of the bloody wedding cake. Made a hell
of a mess. It was bits of cake all over
the floor, on the benching everywhere. I heard it clambering,
something clambering around out out.

Speaker 20 (56:36):
Back there.

Speaker 7 (56:37):
And they got up about three o'clock in the morning,
I checked the thing outside again, And anyway, we ended
up discarding the bloody top tier of their wedding cake.

Speaker 14 (56:51):
We didn't get it.

Speaker 7 (56:52):
We're going to have it christening for our first kids.
And anyway, the father took it away up the bush.

Speaker 14 (57:02):
And got rid of the bloody thing.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
And the wedding cake. The wedding cake or the possum.

Speaker 7 (57:08):
The both.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Actually, Ellen, did she have the possum before you meet her? Oh?

Speaker 7 (57:19):
Yes she did, yes, yea, yeah, So this when the.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
When the when the possums through the mid lights? Is
this your wedding night?

Speaker 19 (57:27):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (57:28):
This was, yeah, the wedding night. No, yeah, they climbed
in the end of the window. We had an afternoon
wedding and and eleven o'clock and in the morning and
our afternoon you see. But the care and go on

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her half the night and oh the oldie rallies time
they went to bed, and this is what elephant George
got rid of it. But she got another one coming
home from the black Ball pictures one night we lived

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down at the hair then the middle House the same days.

Speaker 6 (58:14):
And what was it?

Speaker 2 (58:16):
What was the movie?

Speaker 14 (58:18):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (58:18):
God, I wouldn't I uh.

Speaker 7 (58:21):
And anyway, there was a possum on the side of
the road. She had a little one on us back.
I was doing thirty k there, come fast as possum,
and she opened the door and plucked it off its back.
After the mother's back. She should have got another one.

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I said, we'll let the bloody thing go, give it
back to its mother. I said, we don't want it anyway.
She found out she We did get rid of it
later on. We kept it from a couple of months
and let the bloody thing go. It was old nap.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Let go.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
He's still on the coast. He's still on the coast now, Ellen, yep, yeah,
you got it. I gotta are you blackball?

Speaker 16 (59:10):
Now?

Speaker 15 (59:11):
No, I'm not blackball.

Speaker 7 (59:15):
I got a job in Fox Glacier for a while there,
standing there at the motor camp there, and anyway, some
of the terrorists down there. You can hear the possums
at night. I'll get an apple, okay, feed them. I
got a piece of apple, and you can smell it.

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They can smell it. Anyway. The possum come down, and
I said, come down. You put two paws on my arm,
on my hand, and ate the apple out of my hand.
Tourists amazed, God.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Live with there land. But that's a great story all
of that, Thank you very much. It's like hooting cats.
That's the thing about the topic. Some night you mentioned
possums and the oh people want to talk about a swallowbies.
Tonight you mentioned wallabies. Any want to talk about possums?
Topic agnostic. I don't care what you want to talk about, actually,

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but possums are pretty good. They're pretty good stories to know.
The possums were late to the far North. When were
they in Auckland. We're them in our bush and Auckland
that was in the sixties and seventies. But maybe we're
in the sixties. Maybe they're slow to get there. I
had no idea. I mean they're released in Appadima Riverton
right eighteen thirty seven. It's one hundred and thirty years

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to get to Northland. So that's why they're worried about
the wallabies because they spread slowly. But they spread thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly.
We're only down the lane. Pete Marcus good evening, Mark has.

Speaker 18 (01:00:57):
Just stole my funder. I just s on ai now
and you did right in nineteen eighty seven. They're established
they came from Australia, and yeah, they basically and they
obviously they started to breathe pretty quick, and they sort
of did it. I think they sort of did it
for fur.

Speaker 22 (01:01:14):
They knew that.

Speaker 18 (01:01:15):
I think they sort of they wanted fur and they
used there would have been they did. They don't do
well here in New Zealand, which they did.

Speaker 12 (01:01:21):
We all know that.

Speaker 15 (01:01:22):
But I used to.

Speaker 18 (01:01:23):
I used to trap them and shoot them when I
was a young.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Fella was without leg called traps, yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:01:31):
Of the old gin traps. Yeah, there used to be
good money in them. We have really good money in
them in the early seventies and eighties and that. And
I used to do it when I was going to school.
I used to go around before school. Then I was
about thirteen, twelve, thirteen years of age, right when I
was fifteen, I'd scare around before before school. I'll get
out at the bed about five o'clock. What depends where
the traps were on the farms around my dad's neighborhood.

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I'll go around, pull knock them all on the head
and hang them up or bring them as many I
could back on the bike. And then at nighttime after school,
I go back and really bake the traps, or did
about three years and then I left school worked on
my dad's farm, and then I used to do it
when I was working with my dad's farm for two
years and then I used to same thing. Daddy. They

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only paid me the wared wage at the time, but
he said, you can still continue doing your possums.

Speaker 10 (01:02:19):
I used to do.

Speaker 18 (01:02:20):
They had a motorbike and I had a trailer about
sixty five traps and I used to go around same
thing around the neighborhood and I used to do the
trapping and the same thing. They used to shoot them
at night time as well.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Did you skin them yourself?

Speaker 18 (01:02:32):
No, I didn't. It was too much too if I
couldn't do both, So it was it was yet to
be well. I wasn't weak, but you couldn't do everything.
So Daddy, you can do that. But Dad used to
go on ten once a week sort of thing, every
three to four days and he just take them on there.
And those days they used to have places around and
strapping them that or around here and polder, and they
used to have the skinners us to get paid so

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much for skinning them. So ye know, I'd only skin
the small ones which the places that took the possums
of skin them themselves, and I skinned those ones myself
because they would basically give me enough on those posslems
at least it paid for the aniseed. In those days,
I used to put flour and aniseeds on the on
the on the plate of the trap that the pus
the possum used to light an They loved the smell

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of an seed, and that's used to catch possible vat
And then yes, so basically, and then what happened. I
got this job and the factory work in the winter time.
I used to do the same thing again in the
off season, but then pigym Old done street but he
actually brought taxes on it like a secondary income. I
stopped doing it then because when he was doing the working,
I was working in a factory at Lactose at the

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time down in for Pernie down here, but on the
off seasons he was working what I was doing now,
I was working there during the day finishing and we
got up ours four in the winter. And then I
then I'd shoot home an f t and then what
I'd do, I'll go around and shooting from from many
time at seven o'clock to one o'clock in the morning.
I'll be back off working agetting it up us even
in the morning. And when Piggy mold done bought the

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tax and for that he classified as a secondary tax,
I gave up after that's not paying. There are a
pests and here they decided to exactly thought there was
fiery streepers. I the back of that. We're doing, you're
a favor by doing to treat the postles under control,
and you're going to text us with it.

Speaker 10 (01:04:17):
It's hard.

Speaker 18 (01:04:17):
Were you going out eight o'clock to one o'clock in
the morning. You've got to carry his possenger? It's it's
me hard. We're you're going to carry them around take
them to your car? Yeah, and it's hard works. Are
you working for them?

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
You have to contend with the Joey's too. Pepe don't
want to hear about that. But that's a grim thing
to do, is it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:33):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (01:04:33):
Yeah, you gotta do what you gotta do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
But as soon as you go, you gotta do what
you gotta do. Do you think we should call him
Piggy muldoon. I don't know if anyone in New Zealand's
ever had such a bed nickname is a But people say,
you're quite happy culling him Piggy, don't they?

Speaker 18 (01:04:46):
You look like, I don't know, you looked at them,
didn't you. You know he was a nice he's a
nice enough person. Of course, you know, nothing wrong, but
he didn't doing what he was doing. But but when
he brought that text in there, so you've lost me
on that one, mister, mister Muldoon.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Nice to talk to you, Pete. Thank you for that.
Four in to ten twelve away from ten Rocky at Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:05:07):
Going there, Mark, I see, I'm just you're on the
old animal bent to the air, and I just recalled
as I was a young fellow and all that sort
of thing I was. We've had pet magpies and possums
and all that sort of thing here around super Targer.
But what happened was I was heading to work there
this day and there was a hawk on the side of.

Speaker 15 (01:05:27):
The road there wounded, had a broken wing. So what
happened was I did the right thing.

Speaker 21 (01:05:32):
I took my.

Speaker 17 (01:05:33):
Jacket off, or was in the moot of the car,
did my jacket because I was, you know, I was
sitting there, so I wrapped.

Speaker 18 (01:05:39):
Around my jacket.

Speaker 17 (01:05:39):
There it was a big tallenge with company out. So
I took them to the vat there and the vet says,
there's nothing we can do about this particular and I'm
also we're going to have to use in Asia, and
I thought, well, that's really really wrong to me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
How do you it cool? Was you to put the
put the bird down?

Speaker 15 (01:05:58):
That's exactly what I thought you and I were.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
It's peas in a pod, and you did right.

Speaker 21 (01:06:05):
Actually market the things we're talking about. You know, we've
got the same sort of stuff going on, but you
what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Was you've got going on rocky.

Speaker 17 (01:06:16):
But anyway, yeah, well what happened was I've saved fourth
since so I had a what do you call it?

Speaker 15 (01:06:24):
A here house up the back.

Speaker 17 (01:06:27):
So I picked these birds up because they're all over
the place in the winter time, carrying on the roads.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
I think they get cold. I think they get cold.
It's too cold from the get earborn. But anyway, yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 17 (01:06:37):
And all the all attack on the roads, all the
cars hitting the rabbits, so that that's their easiest target.

Speaker 15 (01:06:43):
So anyway, they're they're down their bloody.

Speaker 21 (01:06:45):
Getting these which is really sad.

Speaker 17 (01:06:49):
So I see them on the side of the road,
and I picked them up up after the cars have
hit them up. They've been trying to pick up the
rabbits off the road in the middle of the road.
So that's the other thing too. I do, Marcus, as
I if I see a rabbit on the road, I
swing it right to the side so that the walk
can graze on.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Did you get the did you get the what happened
to the hawk with a broken wing? Did you get
it going?

Speaker 16 (01:07:10):
Again?

Speaker 21 (01:07:11):
Guess what I'm saved for?

Speaker 12 (01:07:14):
Hell?

Speaker 15 (01:07:14):
I Well, what I do is I picked them up.

Speaker 11 (01:07:17):
I put them in the boot of my car.

Speaker 17 (01:07:19):
I take them home, and I put them in my
and now we hear in the house at the back,
and I just throk.

Speaker 15 (01:07:25):
I buy a heat of mints, throw.

Speaker 21 (01:07:27):
Them in there, and two or three weeks later, no
word of a lie markers.

Speaker 17 (01:07:31):
He as good as gold, and they will fly away
from I'll take them across the road from the Powers Street,
over the panic there and away they go.

Speaker 15 (01:07:38):
And that's true. And this is the thing, Cook, Cook.
Their bones actually.

Speaker 21 (01:07:43):
Healed quite well.

Speaker 15 (01:07:44):
It's you know, they do heal. And that's true. As
I'm standing here as I'm staying here and.

Speaker 17 (01:07:51):
Don't put them down because I love hawks, I love
car you know they're unbelievable animals, markers.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Prilliant Rocky. Nice to hear from you. Thank you, eide
away from ten? Yeah, how are you? What's happening for
the eight sixteen? Full time? That's the Sharks over the
Bulldogs for the average looking bulldog side this year? Not
quite sure what's going on there, Dad. We're going to
score on the football. Twenty minutes have gone. The score

(01:08:22):
is zero. It's zero, So you know you're particularly pretty
much a football score, doesn't it. We're talking possums. Boy,
there's lot to one to pick about those possum stories,
aren't there? Wow? Not quite sure which one I like
the most? Been having a possum drinking a cup of
coffee with you? I wouldn't like that at all. If

(01:08:43):
I don't hate that, be in touch if you want
to partake chiefs saw off the Highness quite convincingly. Please
tell Rocky he made my night to hear he had
been so kind? Will he get some flying with the mince?
So that movie? Kiss? Do you remember that movie? When
you're growing up with the guy with the falcon Marcus.

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I worked for Egg and Fish up North seventy nine
to eighty one. They employed a pist destructed obviously to
get rid of the possums, and they carried tea being
convict herds. The officer was destroying hundreds per month, as
his monthly report confirmed. I was living in a tent
in the outback of dar when the wallabies always held
my legs with their strong alarms. Clay fed them. They're

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aways friendly a bit in the stakes on my roof Marcus.
Last call a Pete, he mentioned the Capooni Lectos factory.
Can you mention Junior at io E r aiolio on
as he has worked there as well, t Y You

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remember him Pete?

Speaker 10 (01:09:54):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
What was the lest surprising the through about Pete's story
that his father was paying him a humum wage. We
used to shoot wallabies in the south side of Mount
Tudaweer in the early nineteen eighties. A new fence got
a few breaks after tree cops have been foiled. The
fence might have slowed their progress, but not much by
the way, John, one minute eighteen into the call, you

(01:10:23):
mentioned Hugh maclay Ah ah, poor old John, this is
not me. This is me reading a text. Hi Marcus.
When I was going to Wellington University in the late
nineteen sixties, one of the Kelburn cable car drivers had
a very docile pet possum he wore around his neck.

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Oh well they do well, the eccentrics and willing to
know that that's a good thing to have driving up
fornicular funicular. I think that's what it's called. Yes, funicular fornicularum.
Is that right, that's the one with two joined together.

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We are talking possums and possums stories. So what I
think is interesting. Sorry, what I have found interesting today
is I didn't realize that possums moved so recently around
the country. So of course people probably in the North

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of North Island would have adopted as pets because for
a while there that they were something of a novelty. Yeah,
it used to be everywhere. So and they have been
in the North of the North Island which I mean
Northland until the nineteen sixties. But they're brought to New
Zealand thirty six different batches of possums imported and released,

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so they're pretty determined. They were protected to allow the
numbers to increase for the fur trade, crazy crazy, crazy
thing to do. I don't know how much Pete was
getting for the Pelts owner Pelts, So yeah, if you
want to know, if you've got some information about that,
if you're involved in the possom industry. I don't know

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where the industry is at the moment, but yeah, I
know that they were concerned about them were carrying TV. Also,
possum fur is one hundred dollars a kilogram, thank you.
That is where I talk about we're talking about Tierra
del Fuega. Is it a bit of the airport there,
which is right down the bottom where they refuel Did
I imagine that it was?

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
It a real deal.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
That is a real thing, because the flights do go
over antarcticat to Chili. I think when they land refuel
at Tierra del Fuego. They can't land in Antarctica for
obvious reasons. So it's all about possums and Tierra del
Fuego and vapor. I'm not a huge fan of animals

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that carry things in their pouch. What's gone on there?
Who thought that was a good idea little pouch? I
don't know the evolutionary things that have gone on for that,
But that's what the discussion is tonight. People. Now, these
are just suggested topics. If you've got your own stuff

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you want to bang on about. Good, get in touch.
Not good for the all Blacks, dmac can cast and
the Boulter has ruptured their achilles. Yep. So if you
want to be on the ear, that's the planned. People
here till twelve one thems Marcus. Good evening. Now there
is some online sleuth that may have solved why the
anton of plane came to New Zealand. But clearly it

(01:13:39):
was rocket Lab and that's what the online sleuth has
found out. But we had that on air three days
ago that someone say it was rocket Lab. It was
my understanding a private specialist freight movement. Then there'd be
some big stuff on the road, wouldn't there anyway, let's
care from your people. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty
nine Marcus or twelve, Come on, what do you got

(01:14:00):
to say for yourself? You might have been coming home
for the rugby also you might want to come in
on that too. That's good, it's all good. But the
possum stories have been amazing. It's a long way they continue.
That's the plan. If you've got something else you want
to talk about. I can handle that, so just phone
it through or text it through. Watch you want to
communicate and I'll keep an eye news from around the

(01:14:23):
around the world. David Beckham as a British billionaire that
would be in pounds. Wouldn't it double their wealth in
the last year to one point one eighty five billion pounds? Yes,
it's a lot Tyson Fury's Daughter's wedding is today. She's sixteen,

(01:14:44):
seems young to be married. She's going to wear crocs
with their wedding gown. Apparently the Gypsy king be a
big stir in the UK that one so yes eight
one hundred eighty Teddy and nine two nine to text
o possum for possum for one twenty kilogram. In Canterbury

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most evenings when we had a spa there was a
mother possum with a baby on her Nica should come
and sit on the wooden beams above us and watch.
I used to feeder bits of apple the end of
a bamboo stick. Brilliant it's what you want to do.
Good evening, Noel, It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:15:20):
A brilliant program tonight. It was enlightening t hear you
say that the possums were introduced air parima or somewhere
around their parima. I was unaware of that factor. I
can tell you that maccarry were freezing where ex used
to process the possums for meat. And we're going back

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to probably fifty four fifty three somewhere about bed stage,
because we had one at home, Dad with the night
watchman and he brought one home and we had it
as a pet for many years.

Speaker 15 (01:15:59):
They were good.

Speaker 16 (01:16:02):
And the meat is a very long, sinewy of meat,
but nice to eat, good to eat, yes, just getting
over the thought of the heavy claws on them. You've
got to get rid of those. But there's no problem.

Speaker 10 (01:16:19):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Do you know where the market for the meat was
at Macerewa, No, I do not.

Speaker 16 (01:16:25):
Better. I know that they process the heap of them
through through the Macaria freezing works.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
Yeah, and not for the skins. Would they do something
with the skins there?

Speaker 16 (01:16:34):
And the I would say they do the skins at
the same time here because they had the big film
hungery there for kettle.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Anyway, it's nice, it's nice fur.

Speaker 16 (01:16:48):
Yes, But when I was doing it, I was doing
silver peaks, and the need out of the need and
using cyanide. But we skinned and when they were sent
rolled up, refrigerated and sent down to Stornberry. The guy
has had a factory there, but I think he's closed

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up and gone there. But we were three dollars of skin.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
And how many trips did you have?

Speaker 12 (01:17:18):
Didn't news trips? So you signed sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
You said that? Yeah, okay, So how how far were
you walking?

Speaker 8 (01:17:25):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:17:26):
Brown silver peaks and I mean that's not easy going
up here. No, you do probably four or five kilos
and four or five kilages for four or five kilometers
a day. Yeah, and very shayly sort of stuff for
walking on and not not easy. But you get one

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play tree if you could find a chevi istree that
they play on nighttime? Was one thiode back you pick
up twenty five in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
How many pieces? How many possums could you carry?

Speaker 8 (01:18:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Or would you skin them there?

Speaker 8 (01:18:03):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:18:04):
Yeah? You skin them there?

Speaker 6 (01:18:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:18:07):
And I did for as that I forget the name that.
I think it was somewhere around Hendon and the Targo
and it was quite near to the beach, and it
had yellow passion fruit growing. And I don't know whether
you ever come across the yellow passion fruit has been
introduced to South from now Yes, successfully grown because some

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people do love them, but the possums just go mad
on them.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
And did you say banana passion fruit?

Speaker 13 (01:18:40):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:18:41):
Yeah, yellow one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
I was out to leave over Christmas and around Innocent's
Bay on the cliffs there as you come to well,
I forget the name, but there's just there's just messes
of it growing wild, all with froat. The fruit is delicious, Yeah,
I get, I don't like it.

Speaker 16 (01:19:02):
Yeah, that's injured.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
I know, I know.

Speaker 6 (01:19:04):
It's a very.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
It's a very. It's a very forbidden plant because of
how how how much it spreads. But there's nothing wrong
with the fruit.

Speaker 16 (01:19:14):
It won't spread enormously down here. It's too cold that
your frosts, your continuous frost skills it out.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Yeah, with your with your possum trapping and silver peaks.
Were you doing it to control the spread or just
for money for yourselves?

Speaker 16 (01:19:31):
It's for money?

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Was it lucrative? Was it lucrative?

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:19:36):
As I say, three dollars a skin for the time
and effort you put into it. By the time you'd
buy your Cyani didn't get out to the area. That
sort of thing. But no, it filled in time, really
filled in time. But the one that I did it

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was a reserve and they actually paid me to do it.
And I'd end up with thirty or forty your possums
over night, skin them, just straight them out on the
open paddock next door, and in the morning they all
just taking the bones the hawks had been in and
cleaned them up. Goodness in regards the hawks. The guy

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that was talking about hawks, Yeah, as a school kad,
I left school early one day, walks across the paddock
and there had gin traps out and he caught a hawk.
I let it go and it hit his bloody trap too.
But they were getting paid per foot when when they
were trapping for hawks in the government was playing them hawks.

Speaker 10 (01:20:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
Yeah, that's the car who not the carry area?

Speaker 12 (01:20:47):
That's the well yeah yeah, the Australian area.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Yeah, which is which is called the car. It's it's endemic.
I mean, it's always been here. It's the car, who,
isn't it. That's the bigger one. The carry area is
the shorter one. I think, the quicker one.

Speaker 16 (01:21:00):
Yeah, yeah, the the slow you know. A guy Hurror
fighting me the other day he said that a big
hawk had been taking his chickens or put them in
to keep carrying over and you didn't have any problem.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
So boundary and the government was putting a bounty on hawks.
There was a bounty on hawks.

Speaker 16 (01:21:21):
Yeah, Yeah, that would have been back nineteen fifty seven
fifty eight round about that area.

Speaker 14 (01:21:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
I think there was even a bounty on keys for
a while, wasn't there.

Speaker 16 (01:21:31):
Yeah, And you know we talked about the possums that
if you think back to what they did to Cascaparty,
you know, they used them for soup. They were just
all over the South Island and they just used them
for soup. It was horrifying, you know, there's no sort

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of keeping them or looking after them. Just horrible, horrible, horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
I didn't realize it was war on hawks. That sounds
just ghastly.

Speaker 16 (01:22:02):
Yeah, and it annoys me. You know, I see them
on the road.

Speaker 12 (01:22:06):
There's no way that I'll run over a hawk.

Speaker 16 (01:22:08):
I just hope some of these idiots that run over them,
that goes through the windscreens, Nieces.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
Screwood and Deliverery still run them out over.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
Would they they do?

Speaker 16 (01:22:18):
They do it on bloody campus.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Yeah, I'm sad to hear that. No, but thank you.
Probably shouldn't have carriaged that talk cheapers. Yeah, I think
it's probably with problems with people catching hawks as by

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catch too being touching your talk. My name as Marcus welcome.
Oh I love Hawks. Todight nine text no scre on
the football. I wonder why possum pies haven't become a
bigger thing. I'd buy a possum pie. I suppose they
can't get the meat. There was some conspiracy talk about

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the first starting of possum It's north of among the
wokers back in the seventies that the police had dropped
them in to control the marijuana plots for them.

Speaker 7 (01:23:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if that was true. It's
pretty some pretty crazy policing up there in the day.
I have read recently that possums have helped stem the
spread of wilding pines in the South Island. The wife
has the fewest pets, and I baked them anzac biscuits
twice a week. I had a possum bed cover. It
cost a bomb to make, and I got a willy
warmer for my old man and nipple woman's for my

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old lady's presents for Christmas. They were not impressed. Auckland
scored in the football. They are up one nill at
the end of the first half. They'll be over celebrating
their smug supporters, won't they. Twenty one past ten o'clock
hit till midnight tonight, oh eight hundred and eighty ten,
eight twenty five past ten. Hollow janets, Marcus, Welcome to

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the airwaves tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:23:54):
Good evening, Hi, dear Marcus. I find it quite appalling
the Wayne Who's Zealand is killed their pressing. Is there
an animal in this country that they don't do? You know?

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Is there an animal they don't kill?

Speaker 8 (01:24:11):
Yeah? They killed dogs. They kill all the animals.

Speaker 10 (01:24:18):
Think people.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
I don't think people. I don't think people. I don't
think people kill dogs.

Speaker 8 (01:24:24):
Yes they do. The mirror of Auckland killed the themselves
and of them, not the.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
Mere I think probably the dog control people because of
people not looking after them.

Speaker 8 (01:24:39):
They picked them up off the street and even some
of them will puppies.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
But that's because people. There's no ownership or something of it. Anyway, Jen,
if you possum story or do you want to be
just I mean, you are a bit of a down buzz.

Speaker 8 (01:24:56):
Oh so sorry you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
We look for a bit of light relief, not some
sort of I mean it's bad, but you know what
we're gon We're gonna get down on ourselves for the
next three hours. Ah, poor Marker, Yeah, pull me another one.

Speaker 8 (01:25:17):
Well, you know I've got the pet possums. They're lovely animals.
I've also got every sort of burtherers, including two e's
and everything else who will come here and nest and
the possums don't hurt them or eat their eggs or anything,
because I give the possums fruit. Now did you see
that movie by Sir David Attenborough about filming in London.

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They've got foxes, they've got hedgehogs. People cut holes in
their fences so the hedgehogs can go from one property
to another. They have put pigeons that go on trains,
that've got all kinds of even snakes. Now, if that

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was here in New Zealand, these Cylanders would kill the lot.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
Although although they would although they headchhogs and things would
be the native plants, wouldn't they the native fauna.

Speaker 8 (01:26:15):
Oh, we can't worry about that. Markets We've got you
know what I.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Mean, you know what I'm You know what I'm saying,
don't you.

Speaker 8 (01:26:24):
But these Cylanders have got to mind set if they
are prepared to lay down sign that night for any
animal and the teen eighty killing off everything, death with
it all?

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Would the peons? Why would the pigeons catch trains?

Speaker 8 (01:26:43):
The pigeons go down on the underground and when the
automatic door on the train opens, the pigeons up on
the train and they go to the next station.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
Or wherever they want to go because these than flying.

Speaker 8 (01:26:58):
Yeah, so they can go to the next part.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
Yeah, So okay, thanks Jen. I mean it's fine, but yeah,
it's a it's a bit of a buzzkill. Well that's
all right. I mean I want to keep going with
my talk back, you know, I kind of think. Oh yeah.
By the way, Auckland f C are a head one

(01:27:24):
nill over Adelaide. This is the A League Men's semi final.
It's half time. So scored from a corner, scored by
Brock No swung in by Brock, gord By scored by

(01:27:45):
good would Right, that's the the two people involved with
that one. We're talking possums and pits. We're talking the
spread of possums. I wanted to talk about wallabies, but no,
forty years ago, this year or next year, a possum
farm was up and running. I'm sure they were keeping cages.

(01:28:06):
The was in the sher market back in the day, busy,
busy years before the shear market crash. I know it
sounds unreal. Does anyone else remember this? I don't know
the possum farm. Someone will Hawks sometimes like to go
after my parents' chickens, especially baby ones, but the magpies

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actually defend the chickens to go after hawks and the sky.
It's quantity watching and see on magpie is going after
the hawks and driving it away. Some seing that often
do we have a native hawk and a native falcon? Yeah?
I think we do well. Endemic. I think there's the
Australian hawk has always been in New Zealand, and there's
a kadiaria which is the falcon, which is the very
fast streamline bird. Someone says in Great Britain stray dogs

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are euthanized after seven days, the same as here. Owen says,
so the country should be overrun with rats, wasps and
wallabies and have railway station signs in pigeon English. Wonder
if they'll be on the city rail loop. As many
pigeons in orcan are there. Remember once upon a time
I was remembering the Auckland bus termin I remember that

(01:29:13):
what a great thing the bus tumin was. With that
stink of diesel and that popcorn vending machine. There was
pigeons everywhere there. There are many pigeons anymore? Are they
must have got rid of them. Be in touch if
you want to talk my know as Marcus, welcome, Oh
eight hundred and eight. Anything goes tonight. You might be

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doing something interesting. What is that interesting thing you're doing?
Let us know eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
two nine to detext Marcus. I have four rat traps
around a compost and catch rats and mice. Often I
throw them onto the middle of the lawn for a hawk.
I wrigular circles around the area here and papacorfi. It's
magnificent to watch this beautiful bird flying down and pick

(01:29:54):
up the rats and their talons. They are such majestic
birds dying. Oh by the way too. I know I
know this because I went to where they've got the
car the native falcon, the Cardi area and the that
they the falcons don't eat carrion. Carry on, that's that
dead animal's he that falcons won't eat. That they only
eat live bait. Yeah, that's the difference, Marcus. You can

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buy possum and Corey and the soupermug. I believe they
call them Kiwi tree bears. There's been a possum around
here for years. Yesterday I looked out and there it
was on the road. A woman walked past us. I
watched her. She turned around, came back and picked something
it up by its tail, threw on the boom and
carried on. Cheeky, I thought, Marcus. I remember tramping down
the Lower Hollyford from the road endto Hidden Falls in

(01:30:41):
the early seventies when someone had laid cyanide bait every
seven or eight meters. Every bait had between eight and
twelve possums around it, and I opened as to how
many possums they were wreaking havoc on our native bush.
Regards Barney, there you go twenty seven away from elevery
talk on edge to all the lines. Are Fred love

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to hear from you. This might be a topic, or
you might have another topic. And I don't mind what
the topic is but jumping six sixty playing tomorrow. Anyone
are heading to christ Church for that? You might be
going from out of town. NRL's Magic Round this weekend
in Brisbane. Warriors face the Broncos six pm Sunday, Good

(01:31:21):
time for US. Phoenix play Melbourne sitting in the A
leg final. The women's final on Sunday at six fifteen
same time as the Warriors. It's a clash. Hope they win.
It is bike to work dating one bike to work today.
I should have but didn't. And this day in nineteen
forty the first McDonald's opened. It's been around eighty six years.

(01:31:42):
And the first Airline Stewart went on duty this day
nineteen thirty, so it's almost the one hundred anniversary of
being an AS Stewart. As an occupation, probably one of
those ones at CHET, GPT or AI or robots can't
replace because you go over there for safety reasons, don't
you might be future proofed. Get in touch. By the way,

(01:32:03):
Taylor Swift has rung all her wedding attendees in person
to invite them to her wedding. Anyone ever thought of
doing that or done that for a wedding? Phone everyone
who asss. I quite like that. Hi, it's me, I'm
the bride. Quite a good headline. Hi, it's me. She's
calling everyone herself. She's not phoning it in. She's not

(01:32:25):
or she's she's not sending it out, She's just phoning
it in. That's the big news story for today. That's
what I've got to tell you. So be in touch.
I you've got anything to the show? Twenty four away
from eleven looking forty input today hit til twelve oh
eight hundred and eighty to eighty nine two nine to
de text beck at your people. All the lines are free.
I'd love to hear from you tonight. You might want

(01:32:46):
to change the topic, or you might want to pick
up one of the existing topics. There was some comment
earlier on tonight about the fact that the vaping hysteria
seems to have gone so where we were vaping and hindsight,
it seems like it was quite good. We just ignored
the children doing it. Now they seem to have stopped.
I got that one wrong. And all the vape shops

(01:33:07):
seem empty. There's any money to be made in vape shop.
Someone said they're all getting ready for the marijuana being
made legal. That didn't happen. But yeah, and pigeons. It's
been a while since we've talked about pigeons, Marcus. There's
lots of pigeons and awknord. It's terrible if neighbors feed them,
like one of mine does, Rice, et cetera. They weighed
every day in the power lines. They know any huge

(01:33:28):
flock flies, but they are somewhere of somewhat of a pest.
I don't think you meant to feed them. It's been
against counts or by laws decades ago. I went to
an old schoolmate's winning the back blocks of Wador that week,
and we went to a flea mark with a local
soiled Homemade dream catch is made from possum fur. They
were cute and well made. I'm not in the dead

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animal remains around my living space. I've never been fully
across how the dream catches work. It's always seemed to
be but sketchy. That's just me though. For those who
don't know what a dream catcher is, what is a
dream a dream catcher is? It must be an American
Indian thing. I don't even know if they used it

(01:34:11):
or quite what it is. Remember there was a remember though,
there were shops that were all the alls selling all
that new age sort of stuff. What was that shop called?
It sprang up quite quickly and disappeared quite soon. Also
sort of water fountains and dream catchers. You might know
some more about that rowdy. It's Marcus. Good evening and
welcome he got evening, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:34:33):
Thank you for learing me to talk.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
Thank you for calling.

Speaker 12 (01:34:37):
Thanks.

Speaker 6 (01:34:39):
Possam h Wallaby. I've seen Wallaby's in Oka Tyma and road. Yeah,
when I went to still Camp there a cute little
thing and possam. So I worked for a operations manager
for Totoco forest or he's not north and he handed
contracts out to eradicate possum one thousand hectars five hundred hectars.

(01:35:02):
He was given his contracts to like a twenty one
year old to go around, you know, like a thousand
hit their block to eradicate all the possums from up
in the forests up north there. Yeah, came many no
time doing that, really yep. And the possums that he
was he was getting from up there, they would get

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he would hand them look to some council up there
and then they would ship them up to some Asian countries.
That's for his and let's oh rats, tell me about
a rat. Then he species in the world that can
eat the seeds from native plants, and it suggests that

(01:35:43):
it does to the seed comes out of the backside
and it germinates it to grow another native tree.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
Oh so they're good. They're a good thing.

Speaker 6 (01:35:54):
This this little rat. Yeah yeah, it's found on every
continent around the world, but it countling.

Speaker 2 (01:36:00):
So does the birds normally perform that function?

Speaker 10 (01:36:02):
Do they?

Speaker 15 (01:36:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:36:04):
They some of them did, not being native free. They've
got to they got a shell that they can't penetrate.
I mean, this will only the will rap to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
So how do they normally how do they normally germinate
off the red I know, I know where the core fight.
It's got to have sand. It's kind of the sand
that's got to wear away the seed, I think. But yeah,
I don't know what they want to use.

Speaker 6 (01:36:22):
Before they had rats, yeah, kind at okay, but that's
the stability. And so it's the talks as got a
rat and threw it anywhere around the world kind of
had ability to you know, the like could only eat
the native native trees. You know, the native front the
season the germinated to grow forest.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
That's amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:36:47):
M And yeah, and here's another interesting thing. My family name,
we don't have any English name and my whole bloodline
just found that out.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
Really really look on topo No no English name? Did
you say?

Speaker 10 (01:37:05):
Not one?

Speaker 6 (01:37:06):
Not one name? Saying that all this week.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
Both sides brilliant friendline is not great rawany but nice
to talk to. Thank you for that. Seventeen to eleven,
someone's come through by a text and said that the
women's football Saturday. I'm pretty sure it's Sunday, that's right,
A Dan, Yeah, I've checked. I've checked it's on Sunday,
I think. But we'll get confirmation of that. People sheep
will get in touch, says Marcus. Phoenix Women final Saturday

(01:37:32):
worries Sunday, and I'll just make confirmation of that, Marcus.
Have you ever seen any baby pigeons?

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
I don't think so, so now trying to convince me
pigeons and actually droned monitoring our simulation. They could well be.
I'll check out. When I'm pretty sure the Phoenix Women
is Sunday, I don't quick google on that. Dancers answering
calls Phoenix women final. Uh, now you might be right. Actually,

(01:38:04):
now let me just look at this. It's hard rey
to find that information. Saturday, thank you, you're right. Saturday
Saturday said, I'm glad you confirmed that. Thanks for that.
That's good effect. Check that's Saturday six fifteen, so that's great.
Hold your horses. Dave with you soon fifteen to eleven,
David Twelcome, David's, Welcome, Mark, David's, Marcus, good evening and welcome,

(01:38:26):
Hi Dave. How my buttons my mouse is not great?
Dave got you there. Dave copied that's the markets here,
Welcome David's, Marcus. Good evening today, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:38:39):
Here's things down there and Bluff. You're doing all right?

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
Pretty good? Thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:38:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:38:45):
Well here's the Oyster season looking.

Speaker 19 (01:38:50):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
The Oysters Festival is next next Saturday.

Speaker 16 (01:38:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
And I was talking to him mate, GeV, and he
was round today. He's moist connected with people in Bluff
than I am. He said, he's not sure how ticket
sales were. It hasn't sold out. Normally they sell out. Yeah,
and I think once the festival has finished, they're pulling
the pin on the season, are they. That's what that's Yeah,

(01:39:16):
I'm pretty sure that's what I know that Fowlers is
and I guess they're the big and I think the
the Ewie boats already pulled the pin on that. So
that's what I think. Yeah, don't quote me on that,
because I know a lot of people are are dependent
on it. I think it's I think that. Yeah, I
don't think that it's been that good.

Speaker 15 (01:39:37):
Yeah, Hey, before I get under Falcons, I'm looking forward
to Brisbon Broncos and it's going to be a real yardstick,
I think for the warriors.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
Have you even got sky?

Speaker 3 (01:39:49):
Have you?

Speaker 16 (01:39:49):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:39:50):
I got rid of it. I couldn't be bothered with it.
They got too greedy.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
So how how? How how would you watch it?

Speaker 15 (01:39:57):
I'll get I'll get around to watching the summer come.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
You wouldn't You wouldn't get on the old chav and
bike to the pub for that, would you?

Speaker 13 (01:40:06):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
No, I I do.

Speaker 15 (01:40:08):
I have been enjoying me pushbike though, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
I'll tell you what if the if the counter and
the brains had put it on at the hot polls.

Speaker 15 (01:40:16):
There you go and on a big screen screen up there,
and ivan clear he's leaving pin with next sea that's
going to put the ked amongst the pigeons. I wonder
where he's going any word, no, no word, no, I
hope he's coming back here. Well, South Island, the Idea
and the South Island Rugby League team in the n

(01:40:37):
r L. How's that?

Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
Yeah, that's the Falcon he Hey, Dave, have you got
free to wear TV?

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
Sky open Free to wear Sunday six pm.

Speaker 15 (01:40:54):
Awesome, thank you. I'm going to look look forward to
that now. Falcons I like. I like me falcons, especially
the older style, like they look far better than in hole.

Speaker 16 (01:41:05):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:41:06):
Yeah, and it's just like a dad joke. I think
it's a dad joke, isn't it. How many cas you're
doing on your bike? You're moving it?

Speaker 15 (01:41:16):
I do about five five k there and about five
k home.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
How's that sounds fantastic? You're chomping through the you're chomping
through the gears.

Speaker 16 (01:41:24):
All right?

Speaker 15 (01:41:26):
No, I leave, I get on the top gear and
I only chop down just to avoid any traffic across
the road, and without dismounting, I clip them down a
few gears and yeah, I don't know, it's not so
flat here, Marcus. I don't have much resistance in the
big twenty nine inch wheels, because I just found out
that's what a twenty nine inch hard tale means. That's

(01:41:47):
the size of the wheel.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Or did you not know that?

Speaker 15 (01:41:50):
No, I've just learned that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
I was talking about that because I had twenty nine
inch whales. I always thought it's further to fall when
you come off a bike, but they roll, it rolls better.

Speaker 15 (01:42:00):
Yeah, absolutely, I've noticed this.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Yeah, have you got what pressures? Are you running?

Speaker 15 (01:42:06):
Pressure in the tire? I'd have to.

Speaker 2 (01:42:11):
You want good piece? Okay, Dave, you're going all right?
But any bike tips I've got for you? Stay tuned
nine to eleven, just six away from eleven. People with
you till midnight. I hope it's good where you are.
I hope you've been mildly entertained and occupied tonight and
we're still an hour to go where if set the

(01:42:32):
night has flowing. I've enjoyed the stories that people have had,
I guess is what I could say. Now I better,
I better make sure I've got that story writer about
the oyster season. The only story I can see so
far is the main player to again end bluff Oyster
harvest after challenging season, and that's Barns, so it's not

(01:42:56):
foul as it's Barns.

Speaker 8 (01:43:00):
Said.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
The last day it's spokes would harvest would be the
twenty second, less than three months into the season, a
bit lean high diesel prices and Oyster has not been
where they want to be and a couple of its
six boats losing crude goo Mutton birding. I think the
Mutton bearding season has been quite good anyway, but I
think there were When I looked last night there were

(01:43:21):
still tickets to the Oyster Festival and Romans going, which
is great bringing the tour around to our house with
a bit of luck. Oh wow, Marcus. Nobody's said aything
about the surfing. You have to catch a bus out
there from Raglan fifteen dollars per head. I think that's fair,
isn't it? And there are no cars and how many

(01:43:41):
how much room for spectators is there? I did ask
that question about the about the Surf Nationals. Was it
on TV? I don't like watching surfing. I think it's
hard to watch on TV. It's too far away. I
guess it's all drones now. Our Gillian Sky open as
the Phoenix Women on Saturday from six o five to

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two Marcus. The DreamCatcher is a hoop with a web
of threads in a hole in the middle and feathers
around the outside, hanging the DreamCatcher of other bed. Your
bad dreams are caught and tangled web and trapped there,
their good dreams passed peacefully through the hole. The feathers
allow the good dreams to guide back down into the
mind of the sleeper, leaving the bad dreams trapped. When

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the morning sun hits the DreamCatcher, the bad dreams are evaporated.
I've always wonted how that worked. Yeah, welcome to it,
Quila with your big wheels. Nice to hear from you. Yeah,
I'm not a big fan of twenty nine inch wheels.
Too far off the I felt too remote. But I
see a lot of the I think we remember when
the kids bikes have twenty nine inch wheels. Be in

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touch if you honest to partake people before the twenty
nil Let me have a look at this. The Dolphins
are running away with it over Latrell Mitchell's team. The
Rabbit O's twenty to zero at halftime. There, that's the situation.
That's a thrashing or a shallacking. But we're talking possums tonight.
I didn't realize possums took so long to move up

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the country. I get introduced in the nineteen thirties, but
in eighteen thirties, rather than get up to the far
north till the nineteen sixties. That's the discussion. It's the
main part of it, also talking vaping and wallabies. But
you want to mix up of it for the final hour,
that would be great. I don't know what you've got
to talk about, but I live in Hope, so you

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keep those texts coming through and emails. How's your diesel
pricing going, guys? And I'll look into that possum farm anyway.
It was to come across a possum farm kind of
seems crazy. We've found them with somebody out and about there.
But yeah, you might have something to say about that.
That's what ron about. Good evening. People welcome on him
as Marcus hittl twelve o'clock tonight. I hope you're good
with you are if you want to talk on it tonight.

(01:45:53):
That is the whole plan. Get in touch if you
want to eight hundred and eighty tenty and nine two
nine to detect Hittle twelve So yes, be a part
of if you want to be. We're talking possums and
other stuff, but a sport on the weekend. I was
really let me look look at the two nearl Auckland.
They're over fifty was Togo. They've won that by lots
of things. Someone said, I can't remember the last time

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I saw a road killed poss some years ago. We
used to see them all the time.

Speaker 16 (01:46:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
If there's less on the road that might be something.
Maybe there's more traffic they they're destroyed. I don't know
the answer. That's a good point you make. But if
you want to ring and say hi to the final
HOURT that would I'd love to hear your calls tonight.
So make it busy for the last hour if you can.
As I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty tatty and
nine two nine to de text. So if that's what
the plan is, so I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

(01:46:41):
Anything goes hit til twelve. There's anything else you want
to talk about, I don't. I'm not fussed with that finals,
but finally out of my week. So whatever you've got,
I would really like to hear from you. I don't
know what it's going to be at the stage. But yes, oh,
eight hundred and eighty tatty and nine two nine two
de text m do Now what else has been the

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big Oh? The government is not going to go through
with its social media band. I don't know if that's
something that's big for our audience. We've had some talk
about that over the years. There's a bit of discussion
tonight about vaping. You might want to talk about that
also too. I think the good thing about vaping was
the sort of the hype scens to have gone that

(01:47:24):
no one's too terrified about it like they once were.
McKayla ats, Marcus, good evening and welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:47:32):
I just wanted to mention once when I was at
a riding residents a riding school, we were invited to
go out spotlighting at night, you know, and he got
me to hold the light up onto the post where

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this poor little apossum was light standing, and just as
he interituted, I dropped the lights and the apossum took off.
So I saved the apossum's life.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Did you drop it deliberately? Yes, that's a nice that's
a nice thing to have done.

Speaker 22 (01:48:12):
Yes, Well, my cousin actually used to head them in
his room. He lived on a two and half thousand
acre bom and he loved them as pets and he
had them in his room and they were no problem.
They weren't They weren't bad.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
They're pretty nasty if they cornered, ever, are they?

Speaker 8 (01:48:34):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
Yeah, I don't like them. I've seen them often in
cage traps and I don't like them at all. But yeah,
thank you, Mikayla Helloa Rain. It's Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:48:43):
Welcome, Hi, Marcus, thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:48:46):
I have a.

Speaker 19 (01:48:48):
Throw on my bed which is sixty nine possum skins.
They're black felt black fur, about two inches in diameter
and just divine. Doesn't look at all like a possum,
but that's what it was. I bought it from a
place on the way home from Nelson and it's just beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
So I've seen those. They do look really luxurious, don't they.

Speaker 19 (01:49:13):
Oh, it's just divine and it's so nice just to
pull up if you're having a rest during the day,
just pull it up around you. Doesn't have any smell
or anything to it, but it's it's very beautiful. But
I did want to mention to you this week I've
had two attempts of scams from bank.

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
Oh I love a scam a time.

Speaker 10 (01:49:35):
I know this is.

Speaker 19 (01:49:37):
Well, I'm in my eighties now, and so you know,
you don't have the computer knowledge and things that a
lot of the young ones do, and so I don't
recognize things as being scams immediately. But I am very
very careful. But this one came through as a Commonwealth
Bank scam, and that's an Australian bank. And my husband,

(01:50:01):
who passed away eight years ago, had a Commonwealth Bank
account and the thing on it said that there has
been activity from an account in Germany on this account
and that you have to ring this number immediately if

(01:50:22):
it wasn't due making the transaction from Germany.

Speaker 8 (01:50:27):
So I rang it, and.

Speaker 19 (01:50:31):
This man tried to talk me into giving him my
bank accounts so they could transfer from the Commonwealth Bank
account into my account because I had said that it
would be an old account it was probably my husband's.
And they said, well, there's some money here. If you
give us your account, well transfer this money over and

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I said no, I'm not going to do that. And
I said to them, I'll get my bank to get
in touch with you if that's what needs to be done,
and they were saying, well, it's really important that you
closed this account because people who have the details on it,
which they obviously do, having put this transaction through, can
now take out loans, do all sorts of things with

(01:51:17):
your details if they've got and you'd be responsible for
the money owing if they do a loan transaction or something.
Talk to me very professionally, and I know that. My
son say, Mum, they spend a fortune getting all all

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the know how and the details of getting information from you.
So you said, a bank will never ask you to
give your account details over the phone, said just delete them.
And I've two more come through as well, and he said,
because I use my home phone number, they now have

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that number, the one that I rang the number on
that was they will have, yes, and that's why I've
actually had two more come through since. But I just
delete them without even opening them. So just, yeah, I
had someone.

Speaker 2 (01:52:20):
I had I had hassles myself this week with a bank.
I just I'd clicked on something for a payment and
then it became a payment that happened every month, and yeah,
and Vanica did some googling. Apparently it was something that
was you know that's quite persistent. So I just phone
up and canceled my car. Then I needed a car
to go to the bank to get another. You know,

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it's just it's just two trips to the bank. It's
a hassle, and then you've got to read all your
automatic payments with your new card and stuff like that.
So it's, yeah, I don't want to go with.

Speaker 19 (01:52:51):
It, absolutely insidious because you know there's an older one.
I get my electricity paid automatically and things like Sky
and things like that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
So to change such a hassle.

Speaker 19 (01:53:04):
Change it because as a monthly charge coming through is
so inconvenient.

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
And they talked about tokens. I've never heard them talk
about tokens on my cat. I've never heard that. I said, look,
I don't really know what tokens are. I've never heard
them talk about. But tokens you've got connected to every account,
so ah h Anyway, anyway, I had a break in
the day so I got there. They're very pleasant at
the bank, But thank you, Lorraine, and thanks for the warning.
Brentett's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:53:32):
Yeah, okay, Margus, you want to talk about fossils, yes, please, Yeah,
I can talk about walla visity a time. But but
my my possim experience, I've I caught six just a
few months ago in my backyard Almond Town and mastered.

Speaker 14 (01:53:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:53:49):
I use one of those yellow traps that they spring
load and they come back and whack them on the
throat that kills them instantly. Yes, yeah, And I caught
six in the backyard. I couldn't believe it. Ye one
after the other. I haven't caught any since I've obviously
knocked them out.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
Possible I catched on. I've got a property which we've
got trapping in it. And you know, when I first
went in there with trapping, there's probably one hundred possums killed,
and now you get about one two a year. It
does seem to really they take a while before they
re invade the area.

Speaker 10 (01:54:21):
It seems the area. Yeah, well where I'm living in
all the neighbors who've got trees and stuff like that.
But I skinned them, and I think the only reason
you got them got them out of the freezer and
picked them out and insulted them. I liked to do
possums when I was a kid in the Hawk Bay. Yes,
well it was a good income, but we made. Dad
did it for a living back in the nineteen eighties,

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and we used to go out in the August school
holiday and you used to sinide poison. And I was
looking back, I think that was Dodgy's in fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:54:54):
You see you seem all right on it.

Speaker 10 (01:54:56):
Well, uh, well, we were kind of sensible and well
crazy but sensible at the same time. And we used
to lay boys, not get about it, lay poison for
two days, and on the third day you'd skin your
first line. On your fourth day you'd skin your second
line and do it again. And so I'd get about
forty of the first line, about forty fifty second line.

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That you get about over a week, you get about
eighty hundred skins all that, and you carried them around
in the pack. And then sometimes you would either sleeve
skin or open skin. There's South Islander that the sleeve skin,
and we used to do that a lot. It was easier.
And then we would rotate because possibles they're coming. If

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you got a bit of rain on the we used
to use a flour. If you used to use a
mixture of harry powder and a couple others heard things
and you put the fee sized bait in the middle,
but if you got a bit of rain, it would
wake it a little bit, and you see the possum.
He'd come along if he got but if he had
a slight dase, he'd realize there's something wrong with that.

(01:56:00):
But I like the I want to eat that flour.
He'd get his claw in it and scrape it through
and get the poison and take your shake it off
his claw, and then.

Speaker 22 (01:56:13):
You know, worked it out.

Speaker 10 (01:56:14):
Yeah, but then then you're go through and you trap
with the gin traps. I didn't like us and those
mainly because it wasn't too good yet to want.

Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
Him on the head and you go, pretty, it's pretty,
isn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:56:27):
Yeah, well you've got to get him cooled down to
skin them. Brilliant. Was all the hassle, and then you shooting,
but shooting you' supposed to shooting the head, but obvious
to shoot him all over the place, flatten out, and
then we go back to poisoning again. Once they got
used to that, so that that went, and he's he's
been a good looking.

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
You'd have to did you have to penel nail the
skins out to dry them? Do you do all that process?

Speaker 19 (01:56:50):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:56:51):
Yes, we had nail boards, but then we we just
went to a staple gun. It's just a quick and
easier Yeah, and you were getting back in the nineteen eighties.
You get twenty bucks for a good skin and well
a good season like we would have a we have
maybe five thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
Oh wow, yeah, Oh that's good money.

Speaker 10 (01:57:11):
Oh yeah, thats A lot of guys made good money
out of it back then, but then the market sort
of fell out. But I'll quickly tell you about the wallabies.
My wife's from Tasmania and we were I'd go back
and forth a few times. We were over there ac
duty this year and the wife's cousins, husband's mate son,

(01:57:32):
and he shot wallabies for the Withro market. And I
needn't got to go. I had shot wallabies with another
guy over there. But he'd go out and shoot the
wallabies all hit shot and stick walls. Everything's going to
be stainless steel. And then he could have had them
in the chiller spraight away and he'd throw a chiller
behind his full drive, you know, and spotlight the wallaby.

(01:57:53):
And there's just millions of them over there. You can
go to an area and you do there maybe one
hundred and then a hundred and a night, and you
might shoot through for a few nights, and then if
you'd leave it for a couple of months to go back,
it would be like you never shot anyway. It's just
it's a wonderful food skin. And he's also shoot for

(01:58:13):
the pet food market over there as well, but they're
quite a thriving real marketing shoot for in Tasmania and
something to Melbourne as well.

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
Yeah, why why did the possum skin market die?

Speaker 7 (01:58:28):
I think I'm right.

Speaker 10 (01:58:30):
I think it got uh about the animal skin thing,
you know, like using killing animal kind of thing, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
Food without a favor of something a favor.

Speaker 10 (01:58:42):
I don't think it has anymore because I remember what
one of the they call him pole Cats and Americas
the ferrant, because there was a guy our news is
up at lake Walker and Mouana was farming firts and
they farmed them in Scandinavian then, and so they're not
killing wild ones. They've farmed them. That's the old thing
people sort of. But I think that you talk about

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your possum skin quilked, while I just guy intended he
had a possim skin coat, big long one. I'm not
a possim skin. One of your skin coat fans panting
and I used to make out of these sticks. I
got ticked out. I'll make you a possile skin hat
and the food great. I think people have sort of
gone off there a bit now. If you say, if
they go, oh yeah, you've got to kill them through

(01:59:26):
the moles. But a bit of a shame because all
the kids needs to make money out of it. You know,
you know you'd read you and shoot cut parcels. We
to tell him to a local guy or five bucks
to get it, and you drive out of country roads
and have a good time and to part of them.
They need to give you us five bucks to pass them.
But now it's all sort of gone now it's sort

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of shame.

Speaker 16 (01:59:49):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 10 (01:59:51):
I've never eaten passim now, I don't think I wouldn't
all of you of courses, one is nice, nice to
be actually, but all all of the boy it's cousins
you live. They live mack in the middle of Hobart anywhere,
these trees and the grass all of doesn't date longer
than the animals to figure out thanks place to be
the middle of the city. Yeah, and there anywhere all

(02:00:12):
over the town. You running and run over there all
the highways, and because you can't shoot them down, and
so yeah, they're fully in the forester. Kangaroo. You have
a tag for those one of you unlimited, but you're
limited in the tags and kangaroos you shoot, you get
to start when they go to.

Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
Yeah, you just cut out of it, Brett, But nice
to hear from you. Thank you for coming through. Twenty
two past eleven. I'm get in touch with your talk.
Mynames Marcus. Welcome. Eight hundred and eighty to eighty nine
nine to the text. Now all the texts have gone
to the wrong damn board away. Let me just get
that sordid. I've read what you're saying. Three nel Auckland

(02:00:56):
over Adelaide, three to go, so five five minutes to go,
So that they've done well. I feel bad bad mouthing
their supporters before. That's why I've managed to get the
texts across twenty to nil the dolphins over south to
near rabbit Os. Speaking of rabbits, that's where they're named after.

(02:01:19):
Will you beginning a digital driver's license? Well, I've got
no driver's license currently, so probably Marcus possum fur is
blended with Marino wool to make a luxury yarnhever it's
warmth to weight ratio and softness. It's used for high
end knit wearing textiles. I have possum Marino socks and gloves.

(02:01:41):
There are also scarves, pash miners, Cardigan's jerseys, blankets. The
socks don't leave a tight band around the ankle. Good
for diabetics. Yeah, the old non tight socks. So that's
what we're on about tonight. It's twenty four past eleven possums,
but no one's talking about well, he was talking about Wallaby.

(02:02:01):
Is I guess twenty four past levels. You want to
talk good evening, Marcus?

Speaker 4 (02:02:06):
Is it is that me?

Speaker 2 (02:02:08):
Yeah, it's you, Kevin. You're welcome.

Speaker 14 (02:02:10):
Yeah, well, thank you. I was just bringing up and
talking about possums and the actually make good pets. When
I was a teenager, we did all sorts of possum
trapping and I bought up a Joey from a little
fella and he got Venian. I used to go home
from school and I'd go and open his cage and
you come out, climb on top of climb on me,

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get on my shoulders. I jump on my bike and
just cruise up and down our street getting greens for him.
And it caused a bit of a scene in the
street because after a while people just people had seen
me on the side of the road with his possum
sitting on my head and I'd be leaning over picking

(02:02:52):
up stuff and he possibly be chewing up the stuff
beside me, hanging off me. But he was happy as larious.
You'd go anywhere with me, and you know, liver a problem.
I think they get of a bad rap sometimes.

Speaker 2 (02:03:06):
I just worry about the fact and they're a pet,
that they are nocturnal animal and people seem to switch
them over to being daytime. That's what I don't understand
about the possum as a pet.

Speaker 14 (02:03:18):
I used to think that myself. But he looked forward
to seeing me. He'd be awake when I got home,
ready to go, you know, and it was a bit unusual.
But he didn't seem the mind. And it looks like
a cargo passed and I'd seen them just about, you know,
get wood blashed with a nick turning around. You know,

(02:03:42):
the kettles are possum. You you see their mind thinking,
but that we used to trap them. We that shoest
deep possum as well, with be out in the bush
and camp and would shoot possums and we'd cook up
the back legs because its gold. You know, I'm around
the campfire and my mum used to make possum stew
all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:04:03):
Where did your pet possums sleep?

Speaker 14 (02:04:06):
We have built a special cage for him at a
packing cases. Oh yes, big on branch inside it up
to a nest box.

Speaker 2 (02:04:16):
From what I've known tonight, when people have rung up
people that had pitt possums loved them.

Speaker 14 (02:04:21):
I'll go possumly cat to be honest, more loyal what
one was. Anyway, case, I.

Speaker 2 (02:04:30):
Wonder why they're not more popular as pets. Well, I
guess it's frowned upon, now, is it.

Speaker 14 (02:04:35):
Well, I think it's all the stigma and people have
just been you know, kill everyone you see. You know,
I Reckon's lot a lot of it's paranoia, if you
ask me. I mean, And my dad used to do
possum lines and all that, and my brother used to
trap as a living as well, and we never saw
bugger or TV TV.

Speaker 21 (02:04:56):
You know.

Speaker 14 (02:04:57):
My dad used to look for the organs and all
that stuff and at the end of the day. They
used to get it off the cows and all that stuff. Best,
that's what people think it.

Speaker 2 (02:05:08):
Yeah, I'm not sure whether if we got rid of TV,
is it what's happened now or is it still a
problem or is it sort of under control.

Speaker 14 (02:05:16):
I think they've got it under control. Thought, it's debatable,
you know. I don't believe the possums are the ones.
I believe the possum's got it off for domestic animals.
But then once they once they get it, they spread
it through their own kind because they're all such, they
all get together.

Speaker 2 (02:05:36):
What happened to you quit?

Speaker 14 (02:05:38):
I let him go in the end, Yeah, because well
he was getting he's getting real big, and I thought,
you need a chance, you know, to be a proper possum.
And so it took him took about two weeks. I
suppose I just left his cage open and he he's
there for about two weeks. And I'll never forget this.

(02:06:00):
It's when you did leave. I heard a noise up
the hill. He started calling that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:06):
Sound you here, Yes, that sound yep, And.

Speaker 14 (02:06:10):
I thought, I wonder it's him, because normally there's good
a couple of sounds and shut up, But he didn't
shut up. So I went up there with a torch
and he came down the branch, right down and just
looked at me, and I shot up the tree. Who
he had had a mate up the top and it
was like he's came to say goodbye. And I'll never
forget that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:28):
It's a nice story.

Speaker 14 (02:06:29):
And they never saw him again. I've never you know,
my family couldn't believe it either, but they witnessed it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:38):
Where had you got had you got him as a
bandoned Joey?

Speaker 14 (02:06:41):
Well, we're actually trapped. We'd actually trapped them, trapped them. Yeah,
he might have been a poison poison one, but he
had fur at that stage they have fair, yes, just
but we used to wrap them in socks and all
sorts of stuff, you know, put them like water cupboard,
you know, in the box. But yeah, it was he

(02:07:02):
was just one out of the box. I suppose you
call it.

Speaker 2 (02:07:06):
About how you train them too, wasn't it how much
is time you spend with them?

Speaker 14 (02:07:10):
Well, yeah, spinning every day because come home from school.
I used to look forward to it and it gave
me ride and we push by it at the same time,
gave you a lot of people some freaky looks.

Speaker 2 (02:07:24):
I don't think I've ever seen someone with the possible.
I don't think you see people with them these days.

Speaker 15 (02:07:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
But how long ago was this.

Speaker 14 (02:07:31):
We would have been it would have been in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (02:07:33):
I guess fifty years ago.

Speaker 14 (02:07:35):
Wasn't it late sixty seventies? But all my family had
a pit possible and that's wi us kids.

Speaker 2 (02:07:42):
What part of the country were you and kiven.

Speaker 14 (02:07:45):
Ekaterra? Oh yeah, understand, yeah, And we actually house was
right next to the bush, so we had trapped sit
just at the back of our own property. We had
half an acre and cord of acre was it up
the bush? That was a bonus.

Speaker 2 (02:07:59):
What would you feed them, you know, docles, Yes.

Speaker 14 (02:08:04):
About one of the favorites. And chickweed is another one
called that they just spent most greens and any of
the varieties of like tear berrierst that sort of stuff.
And another one called teetokey five finger was a big favorite.
Oh yeah, yep, real big favorite. And Whiteywood tree so

(02:08:26):
evernor on those r CD marks on you and I
know whitey Wood.

Speaker 2 (02:08:32):
Did you give you a possum a name?

Speaker 9 (02:08:34):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (02:08:35):
Good?

Speaker 14 (02:08:35):
Record them. We're just sort of thing it is called
him Joey Joey.

Speaker 2 (02:08:39):
Nice to talk to you and thanks very much. The
tweets from twelve the Auckland Football Club have won three
NOL Good score there, Marcus. There is a dedicated page
to pitt possums where it's a lot of advice. I
look out for them to tell signed to the possible sick.
A lot of the people on the page checked the
roadkills for the Joey's of the pocket. They take them

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home in hand, rear them. I also had a pitt
possum years ago which turned on my shoulder and was
a great pet. That's jack Nice to hear from you, Jackie.

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