Saw the light was on (25 February 2026)

Marcus talks the hobbies that have come back, or kicked off for the first time.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be Good Evening People, mana miss Marcus Httle twelve o'clock.
There is a couple of stories I'm keeping an eye
on tonight. One is the instance of the Caikarai service station.
The police are looking for someone who I think is believed.
I was going to say he's believed by presumed he,

(00:32):
but I might actually just need to fact check that
one to make sure I've got that one right. It
does say manhunt under way in Dunedan after reports of shooting,
so it doesn't know who was the shooter because the
police it's around the green SUV. So that vehicle has
fled the Kaikara Valley service station and it's taken a

(00:56):
bit of the gas station with it. I presume the
bowser or the bit which goes into the fuel tank.
If I urged the public to keep clear of three
Mile Hill, five k Hill and Brockville, that's indeed. And
further inland, I'd say to the northwest at Alexandra Clyde,

(01:22):
there is a fairly big grass property or grass fire
going on there and a number of houses have been
evacuated The suburb is called Springvale, which is bang in
the middle. Probably would have been a train station the
originally this we're talking the rail trail, so somewhere around there.
So there's a situation too where there is a grass

(01:46):
far that's moved quite quickly. Everyone's there. There's five helicopters.
Most of the people I imagine would be volunteers, so
it's all over that. So if you've got any breaking
news about that, let us know what's going on. I
would imagine when that many crews and that many helicopters
they have contained that, But I don't know at this stage.
If you've got more information, let me know. It's important
to keep you up to date with what's tapping throughout

(02:08):
the course of the country tonight. Spring Vail well, so
halfway between spring Vale and Clyde, I would imagine where
that is, if you know, you know, some of the
people that will be there will know about that. I
did Google up the roads. I think it's MacArthur Road
and Springvale Road, so that's where that looks dry. Looks

(02:29):
even looks dry on Google Maps. So there are stories
I'll follow. If you've got breaking news for us to art,
let us say, pretty's been a pretty good day. Most
places around the country too, so I've heard great reports.
If everyone's excited about the weather, so that's nice. Some
are just about the ends and then hits.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I've got a lot to talk about tonight, so I'll
chuck some topics at you. You might want to chop
chop check topics at me, but will end up where
we need to be. And hey, exceus us driving in
to town tonight. I don't know if this will resonate
with you. I was thinking about all the hobbies that
people once had that they no longer do, you know,

(03:08):
like spinning wool and stuff like that. You know what
they are? All those traditional making dolls out of pigs
or corn husks. I don't know what the old school
hobbies were. They're normally about because no one had anything,
and they were hobbies that derived from scarcity. As I

(03:29):
was pondering that to myself, I'm thinking, well, what are
the modern hobbies? What would be the hobbies that have
been invented in the last ten years? What are those?
I don't know what they are, by the way, and
I don't think shopping on tim Wu's a hobby. I
just wonder what the what the recent ones are that
have developed, either because of technology or because of invention.

(03:49):
If you had something to say about that, the recent hobbies,
I'd be fairy curious to know about that. Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine two de text. What
are the new ones? Is it just online shopping and
video gaming? Or is something more esoteric and lasting? Come up?
You know something about that? That's very keen to hear
about you with that, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten

(04:09):
eighty nine to nine two detects. Also, if you've got
breaking users, know that breaking users. But yeah, hobbies always
like to doing, not on hobbies, But what are the
new ones? What have people decided that it's the new
ones that they do. I mean, for a while there,
twenty years ago, it was all scrap booking, wasn't it.
But scrap booking seems disappeared. Then there was calligraphy for
a while, people getting back into calligraphy. Don't know that's

(04:32):
a thing anymore. I mean the thing about hobbies. You
get to a hobby, you put it online, people watch
you do it, don't they on YouTube? I'm just curious.
I don't actually know, but get in touch Marcus my
partner's twenty six really keen on crochet, old hobby, but
making a comeback with a younger women. Again, you never

(04:52):
quite sure what you do with croat and say that,
but yeah, if you're not very good at crochet, all
you can make is a long chain, isn't it. It's
doing something with a chain that becomes different. I know
what Trump's hobby is ranting. We went for almost two
hours probably without notes, so how much I watched zero?

(05:17):
But yeah, that's what If you found yourself a new
hobby that people perhaps mightn't have heard of, let me
know what that is, and maybe even I haven't heard
of it. I'll be excited to hear about that. So
that's something that you might want to talk about. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two
de texts and want to get you got the breaking
news around spring Vale which is between Clyde, Alexandra and

(05:38):
Shadow Creek, and also to the situation with the police
out there in Brockville and three Mile Hill. But mainly
we start off with the hobbies. There's other stuff to
talk about. There's a lot, it's nott of good topics.
I'm not quite sure which one to go with. We'll
start with the hobbies first. So I have you got
something to say about that, Text them through or call
them through anyway, that's the situation. If you want to

(06:01):
talk about this, be nice to hear from you. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two
to text. By the way, the weather is fantasticic it
expect owt to single digits tomorrow or later on the week,
a sharp cold front. I have to get the old
fire going. Might have sweep the chimneys. I'm a self sweeper,
but I'm looking forward to doing that. That could be

(06:24):
tomorrow's task. Let me see what the weather is doing.
I don't really want to be sweeping the chimneys tomorrow.
Oh yeah, she's wet, eh, wet like a wet thing.
Good evening, Shelley. This is Marcus. Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Hi, hy Shelly.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Ten out of ten? Sorry, ten out of ten, one
hundred percent very good, dangerous.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
Oh that's great.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yeah? No, I I I'm good. I'm good. I was
just ringing to say that there's lots of hobbies alive
in my life.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Are are they new ones or the ore the old ones?

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Well this bit of both, like have you heard of
a have you heard.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Of a cricket?

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Hang on, my ears have perked up a cricket?

Speaker 7 (07:09):
A cricket?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Are I don't even know if you're serious? Now is
it called a crick Is it called a cricket?

Speaker 6 (07:16):
It's a cricket machine and it does like it's like
it's almost kind of looks like a printer, like a sister,
but as a cutting machine and engraves and it cuts
and you can make like it's just a possibilities that
are endless, like wow, yeah, they're just amazing.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, how did you find out about it?

Speaker 6 (07:33):
I just I don't know. I think I saw it
on the internet actually, And then I think that's.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
What internet's so good about, because you can see people's hobbies.
You can get fascinated by them. I think that's a
bit of me.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
Yeah, that's the thing. Like when I bought it, I
got at home and it was in the box and
it sat in the box for about two months and
I was like, what do you do with it? And
so you have to self teach you yourself.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Because people people's like me, is will have pricked up.
Do they get that? I suppose It doesn't mean you
don't need to shop. You just buy them online, don't you.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
What the cricket machine the cricket.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's called a cricket, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
It's a cricket.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
There's lots of different models of it, like like everything else.
But yeah, no, I I ordered mine online, but you
can buy them, you know, and store just.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
To just because I'm confused. It is a cricket spelled
A c R I c k E t oh.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
You know it's it's a and then that it's actually c.

Speaker 8 (08:28):
R I c U t oh.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
Yeah, they're amazing. They can engrave, they can emboss, they
can cut, and so basically you know, I can I
can just make all my T shirts now I don't
have to buy anything. You can design your own anything
you can buy. You can make cards, you can make
like patterns. That cuts out fabric. It's it like does calligraphy.
It does everything. Yeah, and you can even print stickers out,

(08:55):
so you print them and then it will cut them
out like but the printer prints that prints the acorn
to it. But you can actually use ink as well.
It's got confusable pins. Like, it's just that possibilities are endless.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's not like for doing the on the cricket. No, no, no, no,
you pay yourself. But you know those things that did
your cook you know those things you did all the cooking,
you chucked everything and what are they called a pot?
A thermox.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
I don't use microwaves.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
But you know there's something called a thermo mix. But
a cricket, it's not a it's not a pyramids, it's
not a You don't have people come around to sell
them to you at the house, do they.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
No, no, no, I can't.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Believe you've heard about this because a lot of people
imagine these groups would get together and do everything they
do with their crickets crickets.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
Oh no, no, it's not that. It's like that, Like,
but there's there's a big community online. I think like
people just self teach each other, Like you know yourself,
you watch online and you learn how to do stuff,
like it doesn't really come with Like you can go
online to the cricket website and they have little how
to do things. But yeah, most most in the part,

(10:06):
you just teach yourself.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
How much would you pay for a machine?

Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yeah, well I bought a machine like last year for
like four hundred something. I waited until it was on sale.
But I've upgraded and bought another one now, so.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
You've got to or did you sell the other one?

Speaker 6 (10:24):
Well, I need to sell the other one. I haven't
taken out of the box yet. I haven't taken the
new one out of the box because it was like,
I've got to sell the other one first.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh you sound sensible. How much was your new one
like seven hundred?

Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (10:37):
Well, I waited till it was on sale and it
was about five hundred and something. But it's just faster,
that's all. It doesn't really because I actually got the
machine that does everything. Because I went through on this
it's so confusing. There's so many available that I just
wanted one that did everything. So I got that machine,
but then I found out that it was quite slow.
So the one that I bought is a lot faster,

(10:58):
you know, especially if you want to do like your
own a little you know, maybe open your own little
business or whatever, it wouldn't been very possible.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is it a cricket Maker three or a cricket Explore
three or a cricket Joy four?

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Four?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
You go four? Cheapest screepers. You are you are in deep?

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
What what are you mainly making with it?

Speaker 6 (11:22):
I'm making like T shirts? And and I also you
can make big sign I've done. I've done like signs
from my boyfriend's friends or they've got boats, so I've
done all the signers for their boats.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
So where would the signs go, like letters that stick
on the boats and you glitched a bit?

Speaker 9 (11:43):
What you glitched?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Are there is a sign writing for the boats?

Speaker 7 (11:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, for the sign for the side of the boat,
you know the name of the boat.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
So the vinyl stickers that go on. Wow. Okay, so
you can do everything. You can do everything and just quietly.

Speaker 6 (11:58):
I've like I've done a corvette sticker, but and it
looks exactly the same as the real one. But it's
just for my boyfriend. It's not you know, I'm not
making any money on it. It's just my boyfriend's car.
But yeah, it's quite cool how you can do whatever
you want.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Yeah yeah, So and like yeah, it's like it kind
of took over all my other hobbies because I had
other stuff I was doing as well, and then it's
kind of like just tock over because it's so cool.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Sounds like if you're into craft, like signs or stickers
or lettering or labels or cards or anything like that
just does all of it.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
It does everything, and it does like I've engraved, I've
done all my dog collars with reflective names and phone
numbers like it. It just does so many things.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
So your dog, your dog collars would be leather, would
it print on the leather? Or you've made you've made?

Speaker 6 (12:47):
Oh yeah, well you can. You can buy stuff that
you can actually infuse onto leather. Like it's like the
materials are what. Actually it kind of adds up when
you're buying all of the materials and you know, there's
lots of different brands and you can buy them onto
your move. But I've actually bought the reflective name, like
it's highly reflective, and I've done all the dog collars

(13:10):
with it, and it's just amazing and it just looks
so professional. It's just a professional finish. Oh no, not that.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, is that the boyfriend? Is that old Captain Corvette
there in the background.

Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Okay, I'll let you go. Sh I've loved all of that.

Speaker 10 (13:26):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Listen to us learning Learning Learning a cricket. See I
see you terrible name was like the game a cricket,
but it's not. She's got a cricket machine. It's not
a cricket. Do you have me on what a world
changeer she is? You'll be googling that now I have been. Wow,

(13:48):
goodness who anyway, that's what ron about twenty two past eight?
I need to google that. Your craft is see see
ut in one of those rooms you fill yourself up
with all the stuff you'll have. Boy, oh boy, you
be into that. Evon it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 11 (14:09):
Yes, high marks. In Toweronga, at a pub twice a week,
a ukulele club meets and on a Monday night there's
at least fifty to sixty people playing the ukulele. And
I've got two friends who live in two different lifestyle villages,

(14:29):
and in both those villages there's a ukulele club. Wow,
it seems like it's coming. It seems like it's coming back.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Are you going to the pub with the others?

Speaker 11 (14:39):
Yes, I'm not playing, but I go because there's a
lady who sings. He's a professional lady. She gives up
her time. And there's a bass player. But the ukuleles.
There's orange, black, turquoise, the electric. I never knew it,
but there's a base ukulele and I wasn't there, but

(15:02):
before Christmas there was one hundred and twenty eight ukule.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
And they're singing as well. The people themselves are money
just playing it.

Speaker 11 (15:12):
There's songbooks and a lady who sings will call out
the number and the songs are songs from the sixties, seventies, eighties,
real toe tapping sort of music. There's a husband and
wife couple and during COVID they bought their yukon ales
and started learning themselves, probably on YouTube, and learn more

(15:40):
by going to the group.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
So it's like it's like bingo, but with ukuleles. I
say seventeen and everyone's doing Yeah, well that's amazing, isn't it.
And you've all got a songbook and you look it
up and you play that song.

Speaker 11 (15:54):
That's right. The lady calls out the number to the
song and they play the song. But it's a real
fun night out, you know.

Speaker 12 (16:01):
Yeah, what if there.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
So many beer that night? Do you think people are drinking?
I don't know if they would be, because you've got
both your hands are kind of taken up, aren't they?

Speaker 11 (16:09):
Well, Marcus, it's a Monday.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Night and it's a dead time in a pub anyway,
isn't it.

Speaker 11 (16:15):
Well it's and it goes six o'clock to eight o'clock
and there's a ten minute break at halftime. So at
halftime a lot of those people buy whatever, some go
early and have a meal, or some people will not
play a song and have their fish and chips or whatever.
So for a Monday night, it's bringing a lot of business.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
And yeah, it's a fairty full on two hours. I
mean that sounds like a pairty big session two hours
on the yuke going for it.

Speaker 11 (16:44):
Yeah, you'd get sore fingers.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I would think, I wonder when you're going to make
the leap.

Speaker 11 (16:52):
I just enjoy going along at the moment.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, but you might be tempted to get involved in possibly. Yep,
brilliant Eyvonne, you did us know. Gee it's good, no
lines free, it's all about the hobies. Wow, what a
great thing for a pub Monday night. It's the ukilate
Tuesday night, quiz night Wednesday night. Because if you're running
a club, you gotta have something every night to get
the people. And I think that's the key gonna get

(17:15):
people away from their house and their Skytavia, their Netflix
head on midnight one of his Marcus welcome, Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eight lines will be becoming available, and
do get in touch. It's all about the hobbies. Keep
those texts coming through a lot of people into the cricket.
The cricket machine is wonderful. You can make cards, t shirts,

(17:36):
vinyl for cups, glasses. The opportunity for a cricket is endless.
It's a febulous machine. Marcus new hobby working out how
to humanian naturally move pests in my gardens without poisoning them.
Snails five months ago, ants four months ago, catapullars three
months ago, aphis two months ago, aphids last month, wasps
this month. They're proving difficult. Text if you want to

(17:59):
nine to nine two, if you want to keep texting.
The fire seems to be money contained. Most people have
gone back to their houses. The head hose has been
in touch. That's the situation there, Craig. It's Marcus, welcome
and good.

Speaker 13 (18:10):
Evening, Good evening.

Speaker 14 (18:12):
How's it going good?

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Thank you, Craig. How's it going with you?

Speaker 13 (18:15):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (18:15):
I can't complain it's all good. One of my hobbies
I've had for many years is building little model boats
or make control ones. And the last one I built
was a little tug boat that actually had a working
steam engine power in it. It used to get it
was just powder mythinal for methodied spirits. So that was
quite cool. But in the last year or so actually
started taking up. I started a bonzi tree was with

(18:40):
a perd of kawa sepling, and it's kind of like
a hobby, but it's a long term hold. It takes
quite a long time to get these looking right. But
now I found that's really interesting shaping the tree and
getting to grow how you wanted all that. It's actually
a lot of work involved, but very exact.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Fine How old was that? How big was the putakawa
when you got it?

Speaker 14 (19:01):
It was a small little ceiling, so it would have
been only probably about she I've been seeing me to
sorry keen, probably about Hannamal's high.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
And then did then did you how did you manage
to restrict its growth? Did you do something to the
roots or what's the process?

Speaker 14 (19:15):
Basically you put like a little bit, so why like
really fine? Why around the things and then to a
certain direction. Then after a while you take it off
and they grow that way and then you basically trim
them and so they come out into it'sposically like hope
it should look like.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
A really yeah, yeah, no, I'm familiar with the bond
side concept. But is this something you need to do
with the roots or whatever to mean that it's stunted.

Speaker 14 (19:38):
Yeah, you keep it like in a really small type
containers that way the roots don't. But yeah, I think
you sort of learning the thing as I go.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
And I think, so, there's not much there's not much soil,
is that right?

Speaker 14 (19:48):
Or there's rock not not well, my one's got vicually
no saw. Most of it's like rocky soil type stuff
and all that. But I just find it really stressfully
when you sit down with like a little nail sill
ciz and you're chipping, chopping the little things and trimming
how you want is actually you get kind of get
lost in it after a well, I tried out a
game a few years ago, but I sailed on that one,

(20:10):
so I thought we'll give this a goo, And yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Craig, you need more than one, you need a whole lot.
This is good for you.

Speaker 14 (20:17):
Well, I am looking. I've got a bit of space
in the window ledge by the kitchen, so I think here.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Because I haven't seen phoo. I mean I'm slightly bond
SI adjacent, but I haven't seen Phoodakawa bods.

Speaker 13 (20:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (20:29):
Well the guy is a guy up the road from US,
a Japanese, really old Japanese, got really really nice and
he said, you can use anything you like, you just
have to train it. He's been teaching me a little bit.
But he's got one in his house that would be
probably about thirty thirty something years old, and it's taken
him years and years to actually get to how it is.

(20:50):
And he said, the problem is with the bonds, so
you can make one little snip and screw the whole
thing up. But yeah, I found it really.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Goot one he's got that thirty year old that's a
poor who Takawa Is that right?

Speaker 5 (21:02):
No?

Speaker 13 (21:02):
No?

Speaker 14 (21:02):
His one was I can't remember what breed it was.
It's from japanessu, yeah, japan one, one of the original one. Yeah, yeah,
but it's But the problem is you can't really get
those into New Zealand because all of theomen Ministry of
Fishery roles and stuff like that, bringing plants and it's
a bit how to do that. So he's been trying
a few native ones and various other ones, and he

(21:22):
showed me one that was made out of herd a
cow where we started.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
It looks quite nice, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Is yours clouds yet, Craig, don't learn you to try?
Is yours clouds yet?

Speaker 5 (21:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
No, no, amazing when it does play? Nice, Craig, Thank you. Tyler. Hello,
it's Marcus Tyler. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (21:41):
Oh, pleasure to be on your show.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, pleasure to have you on my show, Tyler.

Speaker 12 (21:45):
So my hobby. I don't know if you know, but
the Fever showed Neighbors wrapped up at the end of
last year and there was a story. I don't know
if you heard about it, but after the show finished,
the production just took a whole lot of props and
costumes to op shops all around Melbourne and so people
have been buying up all those stuff in selling it

(22:08):
on eBay, which is like our trade me in Australia,
and I've been going on there and bidding and just
purchasing a whole bunch of Neighbors props and costumes. After
the show finished and Tyler.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I suppose you can cross reference them with the episodes
that those items were worn in.

Speaker 12 (22:27):
Yes, I've been doing that a lot. There's still a
few things I'm still trying to go through. There's a
character Kyle, I've got one of his tops that I'm
still trying to find the episode from. He was in
just under two thousand episodes, so there's a lot of
episodes to go through till I find the one that

(22:48):
has tops in. But yeah, there's other stuff that's a
bit more easier to find. And yeah, I've got some
iconic stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
You'll buy them, just don'tlader you're going to you'll go
into the op shops as well, I.

Speaker 12 (23:00):
Know, just just on on eBay.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, are you in Melbourne?

Speaker 12 (23:05):
No, I'm here in New Zealand. If I wasn't Melman,
I would have been able to go to the op
shops and I've been able to get them a lot cheaper.
But yeah, because I've been out bed quite a few times.
Because some stuff goes for a lot, Like just doctor
Carle Kennedy's name badge from I mean The Rising went
for over three hundred dollars just for his name badge.

(23:26):
It's crazy how much some of the stuff is going for.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Hey, it shows that love of neighbors has never gone
a with clothing items. Right, is there any tag or
anything that proves it is from neighbors? Did they do anything?
Are there any marking on their clothing?

Speaker 5 (23:45):
Yep?

Speaker 12 (23:45):
So each character it's got it says neighbors and then
underneath the character's name, So everything I'm able to tell
watch character warrant.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Okay, so it's got an inside label with the name
of the character.

Speaker 13 (23:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
How many items do you guide?

Speaker 15 (24:00):
Ah?

Speaker 12 (24:01):
At the moment, maybe around tennis. I'm hoping to get more.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
More too. This is the best thing I've ever heard.
Will you wear them or you archive them and preserve them?
What will you do with them?

Speaker 16 (24:15):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (24:16):
Yeah, just archive them and preserve them. Just today, I
actually got a T shirt that has Tody's face on it,
which is pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Was that was that worn on the show?

Speaker 13 (24:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (24:28):
It was worn. It was like a two episode arc
when Tody was in a wheelchair and they had like
a big party for him and there were people wearing
Tody t shirts and so that's one of those T shirts.
But I've got one of doctor Carl Kennedy's hospital Badgers
and I've got Yeah, I've got quite a few cool things.

Speaker 17 (24:48):
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I wonder why they I think that was quite a
good thing. Howd they just sit in there around secondhand shop?

Speaker 10 (24:54):
Say?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, but I presume that because it was a British
company that took over the production.

Speaker 12 (25:00):
Was it American? It was taken over by Amazon?

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah, they just that they would have just moved the
production out and just thought, what can we do now,
let's just see it all of the up shops.

Speaker 12 (25:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Who's Tody?

Speaker 12 (25:15):
Yeah, Tody who was the lawyer to back of the day.
He had the big mullet and he got married to
d and on the wedding day the car fell into
the river and then she got lost and see, so
not a good wedding day for Tody.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Tody Rebekah Rabitch Is that the name?

Speaker 12 (25:37):
Yeah, Toty Rebecca. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Wow? Do you did you watch all of it?

Speaker 12 (25:42):
Yeah? Well I've been watching since two thousand and eight,
but recently since the show finished, I've gone back to
watch older episodes from before I started watching, and it's
it's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Is it all on YouTube?

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (25:58):
They've been every day they put up four new episodes.
They started from episode one and they're now in season
I think season seven, so yeah, they're slowly going to
do all I think forty forty one seasons eventually all
on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
This is the Ramsey Street, Is that right?

Speaker 13 (26:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (26:19):
Yeah, Ramsey Street? Have you been in real life? It's
Pinnock Court. Nah, But one day, hopefully I will go.
You are having a neighbour's reunion later this year. We're
a whole bunch of the cast are gonna have a
meet and greet to Melbourne. Hopefully I can go to that.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Who's gonna Would you wear some of the clothes or
would that be a misstep?

Speaker 12 (26:41):
I probably wouldn't with My idea is contacting the people
who are making it and saying, hey, I've got all
these props and costumes. I'll let you guys display them
at the venue if you give me a ticket.

Speaker 18 (26:56):
Great idea, you know, great.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Idea, Great idea. One of the most one of the
most refreshing calls I've heard, Tyler. That's amazing, So yeah,
keep in touch. Loved every single bit of that. Twenty
Away from nine. My hobbies are nut begging and kayaking.
I'm a fifty five year old man. Good on you
Putaka and Calfi Bondsi at Palmer's Garden stores. Now what

(27:19):
is the craft machine there? Talking about crick cut? See
Charlie r Romeo I in the see Charlie you umbrella
ta tango. Can't wait for the display, Bobus.

Speaker 13 (27:36):
I made most peace.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
I really went down there for seven minutes today and
never got a bite.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Is it how long you lasted fishing? Seven minutes?

Speaker 7 (27:45):
I lost interest?

Speaker 5 (27:47):
And when I was doing it, I was laughing awake.

Speaker 15 (27:49):
And what you said?

Speaker 5 (27:53):
It was very horrible about thirty one degree?

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, did you have a book or something? You have
the rate they have the transistor?

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Oh yes, yes, I made my phone here that was doing.
And you know that I've tried every bloody bait and
everyone the God made. I think now they've told me
to go out there tomorrow early and use prawns. So
I've got some more prawns. I've got enough, truly, got
some pieces in the back there to start up shop
fish and chip shop on my own.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
But did they say, but I think the whole key
to fishing is just you just got to try and
try and try. You don't even try? Yeah I did.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
I was I was there for over seven minutes, probably
ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Was anyone else there getting bites?

Speaker 5 (28:31):
There's people over the other side of the river and
under what they were doing. It wasn't taking much notice
because I went down this road where it said you're
not allowed to be because of the dams. But I said,
oh the hell, wasn't that looks a good spotting fit?
And then I left and I went back later on
and the gate was blocked. I likely I didn't.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Are you in your camra van Bob?

Speaker 5 (28:50):
And who I am? I had the most horrible fish
and chips that you ever had bought on on the
main highway there twice where they have a lot of
food carts.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
What's my rule about fish and chips?

Speaker 5 (29:05):
I have no idea. Don't buy the bloody things.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Never buy fish and chips if you can't see the
ocean right.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
Well, that was probably a good thing to go by, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
You wouldn't go back by fish and chips and land
never never never ilid fish and chips at the Nelson
Lakes once there was a bit of chicken.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
Yeah, well this was this is obviously inland.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
But what about how there's that salmon farm where you
feed them for fifty cents. Why don't you chuck that
in the water as burly because that's what they're That's
what they're habitualized to, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yeah, that's what they do.

Speaker 13 (29:41):
Live on that Yeah, so stink way.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
I don't like that place stunk.

Speaker 9 (29:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
Well that's like those palettes made out of blood and
bone fertilizer half of them. Yeah, yeah, because we used
to make We used to supply them. Was that stuff
when we work at the greasing works. Yeah, it was
a lovely day. He and I'll go out. I'll go
out tomorrow morning early and we'll give it a bash
with twenty thirty minutes and see what happens.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Champion bolve like that for every much falling away from nine.
You're interested in guy collecting neighbors clothing. We had start
on eBay with that. Hey, oh that's been very interesting.
What people a lot of interest in the cry cut machines. Marcus, Sorry, Marcus,
you are wrong. We said the same about not being

(30:27):
near the ocean. But when emergency fish and chips at Potatoo,
not expecting much, they were delightful. It was snapper, some
of the best we've ever had. I'm just trying to
think where I had life changing fish and chips away
from the sea, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking and land fish
and chips. I don't think I've done it. I think
that was my I haven't. I've stayed stuck with my principles,

(30:51):
just trying to think. Queenstown, No, Warnica, no twice all No,
oh good. You're not going to stay every in there
and telling news anything, are you? Palmerston North No, Hamilton, No, Well,
I wanted to go to that place. No, that's sea
free gardener whatever it's called. Haven't got there yet. No,
I don't think I have done that. But good, I

(31:11):
don't want to. I don't want him a lie in
the place in put and I don't know where there is.
We spoken a guy that rings off and we're a
fish and chip on to do it, and he sounds
like he is the font of all knowledge. Anyway, turn
away from nine o'clock. My name is Marcus. Good evening
and welcome, Oh bad button push, yeah, Brody, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (31:29):
Yeah, how are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Good? Thank you Brody good good.

Speaker 13 (31:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (31:34):
It's just and chips.

Speaker 10 (31:37):
If we drive sometimes to Towering Us and walkman and
there's a place not far from Yatia. She loves the
fist and chips in there, and we stop off there
all the time, and kind of a long way from
the coast, and I also sell muscles and wasters and things.
But what's happened lately is they've still up this whole

(31:59):
radio parlor where they have like these old computer games,
you know, the old video stand up games for Alien
and Defender and most of the games, and they're all
sitting much for freeze. You can go and then while
you're waiting for your fish and chips, you can do
all these old style arcade games.

Speaker 13 (32:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (32:18):
I mean they don't need it because I mean the
food's great anyway.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
But would you say it is Partia or Natia Natia?

Speaker 10 (32:26):
Yeah, not far from there. I was just trying to
that is that close?

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I think that's close to the sea. Isn't it close
to the fouth of Teams?

Speaker 5 (32:35):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
No, you couldn't see it from there, though, could you. No, No,
it isn't. It isn't land. It would be. It'd be
five k's from the sea, weren't. No, you're right, it wouldn't.
I wouldn't. It wouldn't pass my It wouldn't pass my
it wouldn't pass by.

Speaker 10 (32:51):
Yeah, maybe the yes around that area that they might
be tapping into that they must get a ship when
the fresh fish because it's all fresh when you get there.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
And I reckon they have someone working out of the
teams will find now, I'll tell you what. He'll know
what today and we'll know that guy that lives down
there up there, down there, we'll find out what Steven,
he'll know where the situation where they be. But nice
to hear from you with that. Now, get in touch
with talking hobbies. It's been great new hobbies or hobbies
that got the cricket and the collecting clothes off or everything. Really, Marcus,

(33:27):
what is your reasoning for only frequenting fish and chip
shops inside of the ocean. I'm sure they are all
supplied by the same fishman. Will you try doing twenty
hours of radio a week. You're going to say things
just probably for the sake of saying things. Okay, what
else am I going to say is sit here and
say I like fisher chips everywhere. You've got to say
outrageous things, not with any backing, just to see whether

(33:47):
people react. And goodness me it's what you got to do. Yeah,
these sort of flat rules to discuss, But I reckon
it's the right thing. I mean yeah, because you're normally
a good fish and chip shop. You got the the fish,
he's got, the dealer's got to deal with the local fishermen.
And again, good fish always the way to do it.

(34:08):
You wouldn't go to Queenstown for fish and chips, would you.
You wouldn't go to Las Vegas for fish and chips.
That's my plan anyway, and I'm sticking with it. Oh, Murray,
come on market should I'm a straight holder, straight shooter.
Two crumbed hoki and half a scoop it lake. How
we're pretty damn good, says everyone. Take it there for

(34:30):
the first time. Murray thinks, Murray, that's good to know.
Mitchell Downs at pook A Hunger, I have the best
snapper and chips. It's crispy bannert Robin. I don't know
if Mitchell Downs is the name of the shop or
pook A Hungy. I'll have to look that up. I
don't know anything about that, but that might be the fishmonger,
so I don't quite I don't quite know the full

(34:52):
details of that particular text, So that might be the guy.
Oh Mitchell, no Mitchill, because it sounds like someone's name.
Mitchell Downs takeaway and dairy. I love a takeaway and
dairy looking at them on social media now the mighty angus.
But eight fifty seems fair priced. I was from five
years ago, Mitchell Downs, up your cal can I fit

(35:16):
in before the news?

Speaker 10 (35:18):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (35:19):
Okay, you said you say outrageous things to get people's reaction.
Why don't you say something like what are those white
lines in the sky? And could they be trying to
poison us?

Speaker 20 (35:28):
That sort of stuff?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
We do you end up if you we do? You
end up as a host.

Speaker 19 (35:32):
If you say things like that, you get a lot
of calls and everyone agreeing with you.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
And.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Radio station dies it did.

Speaker 19 (35:41):
Look what up to the other one?

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Anyway? Look what happened when they tried to run that station.
They tried to appease the climate change deniers.

Speaker 19 (35:51):
Oh that's different, okay, So what's the hobby that? What
do you think I could do for a hobby? Or
fishing is all right, but I don't fish enough to
really call a hobby dreamer, I don't ye. No, hobbies
are just boating. I guess I want to get back
out on the ocean and go to PA please, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
You must get back on the ocean. I've forgot the
name of that station that went all conspiracy, the climate
change station carry in what they were called. Anyway, back
at your people here on midnight tonight, I'm enjoying it
so far. Oh yeah, I want to talk back. High
greetings and welcome to you people. My name is Marcus.

(36:29):
I hope it's good where you are. The numbers eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two
de text. If you do want to come through here
till midnight for your listening pleasure, I hope it's good
where you're off. There's something else that you want to
talk about, brilliant, bring it on. If there's not. We're
talking hobbies. What are the modern hobbies? And there've been
some crackers, so yeah, let's be hearing from you. We're

(36:53):
also discussing about the whole adage that if you can't
see the sea, are the fish and chips worth eating?
And I don't really know what the answers are, but
you might have an opinion on that. That's all we
want is opinions hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine
to nine to text. Apparently Las Vegas does does have

(37:13):
fish and chips by Gordon Ramsey, Old ram Yet there
you go, sick of Gordon Ramsey. But yeah, let's be
hearing from your peeps and lines. They're free. I have
got the women's cricket on tour. Keep updated with that
and the key we men are playing at two thirty
in the morning.

Speaker 15 (37:35):
Texts.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Agree with your ocean in view philosophy for fish, but
things have improved with transportation methods. Yeah, but their heart's
not in it. What sort of person they, right, mar
would open a landlocked fish and chip chop? Just not
something you do. Who would go to an inland town
to crisis of imagination?

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Now? Fish FaZe made mora, Oh that's where the fish,
That's where the space invaders are. Brilliant seafood bizarre Mahanna Road, Hamilton,
best in Newsland. Always surprised when people say the best
is to be the best, is that you have to
go to everyone and try it, wouldn't you. But we
have talking mainly about hobbies and what are the new

(38:18):
hobbies that you've discovered because you know with the Internet,
and I mean it is the golden age of hobbies
because your materially you confined and you can go online
and watch YouTube videos like sheared with her cricket cry cut,
her cry cup machine to make labels and stuff. That's
what people are into. So that's what I'm all about tonight.
Don't have hobby embarrassment. Do what you want to do.

(38:39):
Like the guy that's collecting the old costumes from neighbors
shows and going back to watch them all. That's just brilliant, brilliant.
I can never end in quest. Someone texted me, I'm
into radio controlled trailing crawling. It's one tenth scale, four
wheel drive, remote controlled trucks taking them up hiking trails.

(39:01):
Hardcore four x four action, but a tenth of the scale.
Have long got on YouTube. Heaps of stuff there and picks.
My granddaughter has a cree cut amazing. Recently she put
the name of rugby club on each rugby shirt for
each player. Looked really professional. Best place to eat fish
and chips is right on the sea. You are so
darn right there. My favorites are Kai Kuda, akiraua bluff

(39:23):
and hooka Tika. Worst fish and chips. I've ever had
was Las Vegas Gordon Ramsey Restaurant. Absolutely dreadful. Here's your
clicking the ticket? Cha ching j ching ching. Someone's into
bond Si Natives, bond size. Someone's into going to the
pub with the ukulele. Someone's into their cree cut machine.
It's all good, it's all good. Now get in touch

(39:48):
if you've got anything to add. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty Zimbabwe twenty three for two targeting two
hundred and three. Yep, yep, yep. So be in touch.
Betel's bowling. Ooh, new hobbies, old hobbies, old hobbies. But yeah,

(40:09):
does the golden age of hobbies with the internet for
the old days to get stuff on hobby ships should
be you know, if you're a small town, you couldn't
get them. Now with the Internet you get everything. You
can raise a pigeons, you do whatever you Can's the
golden age of hobbies. Can quote be there? Never buy
fish and chips Inland. It's the golden age of hobbies.

(40:29):
Your only restriction is your own imagination.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
Is this live?

Speaker 2 (40:33):
I'm watching Pakistan England? Is that something down? Is that
pre recorded?

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Okay? Hello? Alan good a mate. How are you, Marcus?

Speaker 4 (40:42):
I think A yeah good. I should say that my
hobbies I think you probably know them. Make the comment
that I am a visually impaired person and my hobbies
are amateur radio radio hams. I am zidel to Jieva, golf,

(41:02):
beaver Bravo. That's my amitic call sign on zed L
jefa golf zed L number two G for golf, B
for Bravo.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Have you been anywhere interesting with that? You know how
sometimes they got to small islands.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
No, I've notched on any exhibitions, but I have act.
I've actually worked some very very interesting people over the years.
You know, I've mean an amateurs since late nineteen sixties,
and I've spoken with people in the Middle East. I've

(41:38):
spoken with people in Antarctic, of the hundreds of up
and throughout Japan and Southeast Asia. It's really a very
very good hobby for people who want to get into it.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Well, there's been well known people internationally, aren't there Like
I think Priscilla Presley she was into ham radio, wasn't she.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
I understand so Marlon Brando, I don't know about her.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
King Hussein of Jordan.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Yes, I know about him. In fact, I would be
I would be one person who many years ago actually
worked Prince. I worked him when I was living in
Lower Hut.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Now, when you say I worked him, that's done expression.

Speaker 21 (42:26):
I know.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
But you'll tell me about that.

Speaker 13 (42:28):
Well, that there is.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
That's the conversement when you've engaged him, you had a
two way conversation, you've worked him, You've worked him, you know,
that's the thing that you say. Yeah, So that is
that's been that's my main personal interests, and it's that's
led me into setting up broadcasting stations. I set up

(42:50):
and ran and lived in radio reading service and that
was Zidel two x A. That was, you know, a
broadcast station. We broadcast on sixteen oh two killers at
the top en of the medium wave van that came
out of my hobby. I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Something about Ham Radio, right, because I am quite interested
in it. When I was doing radio in nineteen ninety one. Yeah,
on the nighttime show Midnight to six A radio, Ham
rang me up right and he said, the USSR is collapsing.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
USSR is a very big and complete space.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
And I said, how do you know? And he said,
I've been talking to some of the cosmonauts on the
space station and there is trouble with where they are
going to land. And he knew before anyone else from
the cosmonauts that the USSR was about to unfold. That

(43:59):
to me was fascinating. I story, and I can't remember
what that guy's name was, but he was someone that
called and regularly, and he was a radio hamm and
he knew that and the other and the other thing.
When I went to Raoul Island, there was a room
there full of that that had what are those things
when people kick from all around the world go there
to do their thing. Yeah, well, the expedition, it's a

(44:22):
bizarre thing, is just going to They go to an
uninhabited place and see messages.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Yeah, yeah, that's the way they do it. And they
exchange all these cards like postcards, and they called q
s L cards.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
But what's what's it called again, an exhibition?

Speaker 4 (44:42):
The expedition here d X Delta X ray edition. Yeah,
expedition Okay, So it's just just a play on the
idea of being, you know, going off on an expose.
The other thing which I wanted to mention though, in

(45:03):
terms of hobbies, is my interest in astronomy as well.

Speaker 11 (45:09):
S.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
I send down to you every every month the magazine
called which I write, and that goes into your into
your mailbox. But the reason I'm interested in that is
not because of what I can see, because I can't
see much, very little at all. Is because of, you know,

(45:30):
the chance to read and consider the diverse opinions of
people all over the world.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
And for me, that's huge, huge hobby.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
And you're certainly keeping yourself active, Ellen, And I'm here
pleased to hear that. I'm going to run because what
other callers there, but delightful to hear from you. Thank you, Ellen,
Good evening, Ryan. This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Oh, good good day, Marcus. Yeah, I just wanted to
ring up and talk about my hobbies. So my oldest hobby,
which is a little bit neglected these days, is breeding
and showing fancy pigeons a little bit of an old school,
old school kind of kind of sport.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
So this is different, very different from racing or is
there an intersection there with that community.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
It's kind of intersected, but it's very different. In fact,
the racing guys they kind of called them puff to.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Birds classic pidgeon racings. Yeah, poffer birds.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah, okay, Yeah, they come in all shapes and sizes,
and it's really it's just playing with genetics, you know, China,
this vain pursuit of breeding the perfect bird, which you never,
never really can accomplish. But but yeah, they did that
for years. But it's, as I say, it's been being
neglected a little bit the last few years. But about

(46:46):
five years ago I got into moth collecting and moffing,
so kind of putting out of light at night and
kind of like bird watching, but with with moths.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Wow, I wasn't sure if you said moss, and I
thought that was interesting to you click different sorts of moss.
But yeah, into moffing. You collect moss like likes.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Exactly. And it's honestly, it's it's it's so addictive and
it's a hobby.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Because you can just stay there in your house the
lights are on your mothing.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
You really can. And where I live, I live on
the foothills off the roy Any Rangers, so we get
some great great moths out there. And here my my
own partner, she I don't know what she makes of it.
I'm kind of out there every night around the light
to kind off the torture. And also, like you say
about the age of the Internet, there's a great app
I Naturalist, and so you can take a picture of anything,

(47:41):
any organism and can up and you can upload it,
and you know, there's experts all around the world.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
The crowd they can crowdsource. They can do the lot,
can't they.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Yeah, so it's yeah, it's good to have hobbies.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
So you're mothing and you put a sheet up, do
you with a light near the sheet to get them?

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Yeah, that's right. So yeah, just like a like so
I have a special entomological amp which has you know,
it's all all the right wavelengths and light like colors,
and bring them in and yeah, they come up on
the white sheet and then they're you know, they're really
they really stand out and actually such there's such incredible

(48:22):
diversity out there, and so I keep a reference collection.
I'm actually an ecologists, so fortunate to kind of be
able to get kind of my job is my hobby
really but yeah, and then I kind of pined the
specimens and you have this this collection and yeah, that's
good time.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
I'm going to start with a basic question. Then I've
got a more advanced question. Could you just remind us
the differen between a moth and are there a subset
of butterflies or their unique group because they're nocturnal.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
What's the difference again, Oh, so butterflies are actually actually
a type like butterflies are moths.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Essentially butterflies a subgroup.

Speaker 17 (48:57):
Of highly highly evolved moths.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yeah, okay, And you don't get it's not like birding.
You get moths from overseas that have come that there's
not rare ones that are lost, they're just you know,
what's here, right.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Oh no, No, that's so No, that's you definitely get
get your kind of you know, migrants that are.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Like wind blowing from Australia. Really wow.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yeah, so when you get a good, you know, wisterly wind, yes,
that's you know, you can. I'm on the East coast,
so I don't get them so much. But the guys
on the West coast, Yeah, they they do pick up
you know, all sorts from time to time, which quite
incredible that such a small creature could kind of cross
the ten believable, unbelievable, unbelievable, but that they do.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
And because you're an ecologist, you won't be just doing
it for the numbers, But can I ask you the
numbers of different species that you've got.

Speaker 10 (49:47):
Or is it?

Speaker 13 (49:48):
Is it not so much?

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Yeah, so I've kind of been making a like a
like a species list for hawks Bay and in the
last five years have recorded close to six hundred species. Yeah, well, yeah,
it's and also yeah, there's a lot of undescribed species
still out there. So yeah, it's quite unlike birding, you

(50:12):
know that it's it's easier to kind of make a discovery.
So I think that's a little because you know, I've
been a birder since as a kid too. But but yeah,
I think the moths. Moths are more advanced kind of
interest in a lot of ways.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Will there be quite a now I don't quite have
to phrase this question, but you would know more about
the taxonomy or whatever the right word. So if I
find a moth, is there like ten different things that
you would use to identify it or is it more
broad than that, like spots on wings or Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
So sometimes you know, some species are really like, you know,
really you know, very obvious, and you know they're really distinct.
Other species sometimes you need to get the microscope how
can dissect them and actually look at the genitalia, so yeah,
because there's no morphological nch between them.

Speaker 17 (51:07):
So so yeah, it's kind of kind of all level.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
You can take it to most of them, would you know,
just by color of wings and number of spots and
it would it be simple things like that.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
A lot of them. Yeah, so i'd say probably maybe
hard to say, but he's gone.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
But see that's first done, isn't it cheap as creepers.
I've loved that, literally hearing stuff I've never heard before.
I've never spoke to a motha. You've gone, Ryan, but
that's that's that's probably appropriate as well. You just flit
it off to mothman twenty three past nine.

Speaker 5 (51:39):
Loved that.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Good evening, Trish, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (51:44):
Oh hi, I've just put my radio on, and it
was in time to hear someone say what a handy
thing it was being a radio ham. Now, my father
was not only a radio ham, but he used to
do the examining. Oh and to be with me, I'm nervous,

(52:05):
and he was talking to a man in Alaska. And
after a while, the man in Alaska faded out, and
most people would think, oh, it's just conditions, but my
dad had a mensa IQ and he remembered that the

(52:26):
man had said, just a minute, Jim, I'm going to
put some cake on the fire. So he sat there
and he worked across the world to Alaska and got
a man a ham in Alaska to go round to
the house and the man was unconscious.

Speaker 18 (52:41):
On the floor.

Speaker 16 (52:42):
So he saved his life and a movie was made
about it.

Speaker 11 (52:48):
And the.

Speaker 16 (52:53):
Man that his life that he saved was the filmmaker
for the movie where they make movies, m GM made
a movie company. That's the man that he saved his life,
so they made a movie about it. And then the

(53:16):
other thing he did was he was in Murchison and
he thought, oh, I wonder what would happen if there
was no power? And something happened and while he was
there there was an earthquake and for eight days he
never went to bed. He had made a you know

(53:37):
that so os and Morse code bars that people have, Well,
he made one that ran on batteries.

Speaker 18 (53:47):
Are there?

Speaker 16 (53:47):
Ye oh am I boring?

Speaker 15 (53:51):
Is there?

Speaker 13 (53:51):
No?

Speaker 3 (53:52):
No?

Speaker 2 (53:52):
No, I'm all here.

Speaker 16 (53:54):
Ah. Well, he made this Morse code bar that he
could talk to people in Murchison for eight days that
was the only communication.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
They had, so he was in the Murchison quake and
that's where he was operating.

Speaker 16 (54:14):
Wow, yes, yes, yes, But he got a ring from
the government asking him. I remember so well. In nineteen
fifty three the queen came out here and it was
in the paper, the Yeat of Times, and on the
radio that her husband said to her, cheer up, sausage,

(54:36):
you're drooping. So that night my father got a phone call.
Was there anything he could do to the radio in
the car the reporters were using that no one else
could fix, And he said, I can only try. Well
he did it so successfully. They wanted him to go
to Roteuer and do the same thing over there, and

(54:57):
he turned them down. He said, no, trash.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Well, he said, I haven't trush trash. I've just got
to go to headlines. But don't go anywhere. I'm going
to come back to you because I just got a
question for you. So don't go anywhere. Okay, it's going
to be about twenty seconds, and I'm going to come
back to you because there's a little bit more information
I need to get to you from that because this
is so very interesting. Okay, So don't go back with you.
Trish tris just with the story with the queen was

(55:23):
here in nineteen fifty three? What was that about the
drooping sausage? What would tell me a little bit more
about that? Because I didn't quite well.

Speaker 16 (55:31):
The reporters were in the car behind the Queen's car,
and they were tuned in that they could hear for
the queen and what they were saying.

Speaker 18 (55:42):
In the car.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Ah, So I thought something like that.

Speaker 16 (55:46):
Yes, So the government rang my father at night and
said was there anything he could do to their radio?
Is it an ordinary bloke put in fix? And he said, well,
I'll give it a try. So he did manage it well.
Then he got a phone call again from the government

(56:06):
wanted him to go to Rot and do the same
thing for the car over there, and my father said no.
He said it would be safer to see in the
car I've already fixed to Rot, said I've had no sleep.
He said, I'm certainly not going to be working with
radio equipment with no sleep, and had to drive to

(56:28):
Rot to do it, and he turned them down.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Now do you know the name of the movie they
made it? When you said that? Did he He went
to put coke on the fire, but then did he
did he have a heart attack or was he guessed
by the smoke?

Speaker 16 (56:43):
Do you know he was guessed by the fumes that
comes up?

Speaker 19 (56:48):
Hmmm?

Speaker 16 (56:49):
And Dad remembered that.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Yeah, so saved his life and and the movie was
all about that. Yes, wow, do you know what the movie?
Do you know what the movie was called? No, you
won't know that.

Speaker 16 (57:04):
I do remember this. They took my older brother with
them to see it in Nelson. My brother was sitting
on my mother's and then he reached up and inked
on her pearls and they all went down like.

Speaker 18 (57:17):
Jeff as she used to.

Speaker 16 (57:20):
Yeah, okay, you remember that happening.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
So he was there in the quake. He was there
in the Murchison quake.

Speaker 16 (57:27):
Yes, yes, but because he had made that board. He
was very gifted with radios and he used to make
them for friends and he never charged them.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
He used to.

Speaker 16 (57:40):
He liked to be busy and he used to And
as I said, his call sign was one RI and
he was supposed to call himself one Radio Inspecter and
he wouldn't do it. He said, it's not fair for
the young fellows that are just starting out, and they'd
be nervous if they knew the bloke that does the

(58:01):
examining and you know, in charge of all that sort
of thing. So they called himself one red Indian. The
probably some people listening that know of.

Speaker 6 (58:16):
I hope.

Speaker 16 (58:16):
So he was a lovely man.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
And what can you tell me what his name was?

Speaker 16 (58:21):
Or Jim McLaughlin. Okay, Well, and in the war he
was given the job of training the Hudson bomber radio
operators and he had this say if they were ready
to go into the war or not. He had to
examine them, take them for their exams, train them. But

(58:42):
none of those aeroplanes were allowed to leave the country
without his say.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
So goodness, well there's a lot there. I've never heard
such a call. And the movie is well about that
and saving the guy's life.

Speaker 16 (58:54):
Hmm he did, yeah, No, he was a special man.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
Yeah no.

Speaker 16 (59:00):
His area was from National Park to Auckland with the
radio government here.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
And did he move out of Murchison in the end?
Is that what happened?

Speaker 16 (59:13):
Yes, he was saying there for a short time.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Okay, I understand e. Look, Trician, I'm sure people will know.
But thank you so much for coming and thank you
for hanging on during the news to really appreciate it.
I appreciate that twenty five to ten. Some great texts.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
Get in touch if you want to talk. Man him
is Marcus welcome, Hi Marcus. I love food rules. I
love don't buy fish and chips from anywhere you can't
see the sea, brilliant. I have perfect food combo rules,
like you can eat chocolate with dried apricots and raspberries,
but never with the sultanas or dates. They are different
kind of sweets should have been consumed together, Gilly Marcus.
I've sinspecked off the conspiracy theories because I was made

(59:53):
to seem eccentric. But a lot of the conspiracy theories
I looked into since I've been proven right, like which
ones Marcus and a coffee bar here in Nelson, I
saw a skull on Nothing's we should look at ten dollars.
I'm learning Italian on due Lingo. It's great to be
able to learn a language. You have to have it
so accessible. Great fish and chips near the waterfront at

(01:00:14):
Margity Bridge in Auckland. I live in Cambridge only by
Seafred from Mahanna's Seafred Bazaar and Tatarpa Hamilton now the
best and freshest in the business. Great value for money too,
give you ice when you need it and lemons when
they're around. I made the mistake of buying a three
D printer for a hobby. Everything in my house now
seems made of plastic. Whether it's a spice wreck holder

(01:00:35):
or a scrub diddy holder, it's all plastic, fantastic and
spreading through the house like a disease. I even printed
a three D steam train whistle toy. Marcus, I am
over seventy. I am playing a massive online multi player
game called Total Battle. I am not the oldest player,
but my age still seems to unsettle a few younger players.

(01:00:55):
Peter on you, Peter Marcus. A man walks into a
butcher's shop. He says, doctor, Doctor, I think I'm a moth.
The butcher says, mate, this is a butcher. The doctor
is down the road. The man says, sorry about that.
I saw your light was on and couldn't helt myself.
Very good. It has been a conspiracy theorist a hobby.

(01:01:19):
It probably what's the definition of a hobby becomes an
obsession occupies a lot of time, probably is a hobby.
I'd like to hear more of this. So what are
your interesting hobbies? Also the more interesting hobbies like the creckut,
the creekut machine, because yeah, people aren't so much. And
what about the moth guy. Mothing pretty easy. You just

(01:01:41):
get a sheet and a light and your mothing. I
had no idea moths would come from overseas. I do
know a bit about burning because across the road from
our house is there's a community of turns, and occasionally
there are turns that aren't your normal turns turn up
and are in them. I wouldn't have any idea of it.
We've got a friend that's knows a lot, and yeah,

(01:02:03):
so that's kind of fascinating. There's a lot of people
come and watch those, the hardcore birders with their big lenses,
beautiful looking birds that turns. But you know, I'm not.
I haven't got them a bit like Bob, I haven't
got the patience for birding. You've got to be into
some very fine detail to work out what looks different.
Nine to nineteen to ten. Thank you, John, Appreciate what

(01:02:25):
you've sent through and get in touch if you want
to be a part of the show people fancy mothing
been a thing. Fancy mothing. Now, let me just have
a quick commercial break and we'll come back. Hello, Ricketts, Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:02:47):
Hi.

Speaker 8 (01:02:48):
I just wanted to help Bob maybe if I was fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Praise the Lord.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (01:02:54):
I've seen several fishery shows on TV and what they
usually have is an artificial fish egg and they bounce
it off the bottom walking down there. Now And I'm
sure if he looks on YouTube or Facebook, the fishing
shows that I sure saw was the ex Prime Minister

(01:03:18):
Dune's Hobby.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
Did a show?

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
So an artificial fishing egg?

Speaker 7 (01:03:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:03:25):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Because that would be tiny, wouldn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:28):
Yeah, Well they're artificials, so they're a little bit bigger.
The hook isn't very big that they use.

Speaker 5 (01:03:34):
You'd be surprised.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
So the egg is the egg has the hook in it. Yeah,
it's plastic or it's have to be. There's a sinker
on there. As I don't know much about seven fishing.

Speaker 8 (01:03:45):
Yeah sort of, brother, and yeah, they just walk down
the stream and from what I understood, it's not even
an eating thing. It's just a like getaway sort of thing.
I'm not lashing out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
I'm looking online. It says how to fish the canals
with artificial eggs and how to drive for trout and
salmon at the Techapal Canal.

Speaker 17 (01:04:09):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
And they caught fish? Did they on the Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:04:15):
Yeah, look big ones, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Reckon his heart's in it.

Speaker 12 (01:04:21):
Familiar?

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Yes, Oh yeah, I'm looking at a guy online. Now,
he's got his angle box Malcolm Bell completing. It's full
of like different little it's got. He's got a whole
bait box full of different iggloers.

Speaker 11 (01:04:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
Well this guy went down before the fishing guide was
even there and he caught one in ten minutes. So
that's why you know, Yeah, I really.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Yeah, Rick kind you come through rack. That's what you
got to do, Bob work for Clark. You need the
plastic eggs, brilliant, that's the way. That's the way your
beer off. Doing mothing is a hobby because that's basically
just go outside, turn the turn the light on. It's
pretty good. Hobby will come to you. Literally, your hobby
comes to you. Why you're not mothing? Fancy butterflies? Bean moths?

(01:05:10):
You ever seen a poodley moth? Got no mouth? That's
the only thing I really know about moths. So they
died about two days. They can't eat. When did we
see one? That's one with the kids recently board them
with the details this is there's a lot of YouTube
stuff Bob about the artificial eggs. This guy looks like
hard work though he's got like around his neck. He's

(01:05:30):
got scissors and pliers and got no pride this guy,
but he's still rapping on about these canals. Martin Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
Get it?

Speaker 9 (01:05:42):
How are you mate?

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Thanks Martin.

Speaker 9 (01:05:45):
I did it with the talking to Uncle Google and
that movie with the guy with the radio hand that
saved They're going Alaska. The guy he saved was Clyde
the Winner and he was an MG in his film
director and it was a nineteen thirty nine short movie
called radio As it's the title v I N N

(01:06:09):
A Yeah, E V I N A I did?

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
I did?

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
You did a lot? And I chucked everything at it
because I'm thinking, why would a Hollywood executive be in Laska?
Was just a tiny coke, but I guess that was his.

Speaker 9 (01:06:26):
Yeah, he was a Ham enthusiast as well. So the
apparently the movie has like more than just that story.
There's a few others with it, so it's just a
short movie with like four or five titles. Apparent I
haven't actually found the movie, and I'm gonna let it out.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Are you a Ham yourself?

Speaker 10 (01:06:44):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:06:44):
No, I'm a chicken.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
I never heard of Clyde Diviner, but yeah, Clyde Diviner
ever everd ram Ham radio enthusiast.

Speaker 9 (01:06:56):
Yeah, so he's the man that was saved. And apparently
it was a kerosene heater that the carbon monoxide fumes
that overcome him.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
When Diviner's keystrokes folded the head and you didn't realize
something was wrong. Proud a call to help to a
Ham in Hawaii and turn relay the message to a
Ham and Alaska, which led to him receiving the necessary
emergency aid.

Speaker 10 (01:07:16):
Yea interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Let me know if you find the movie, because where
would you look for that? Would you just google it up?

Speaker 9 (01:07:22):
I'll just I'll just do some hard at Google.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
But that's extreme google to find him because I couldn't
Mart and I was doing Ham Radio Alaska, MGM. I
tried everything, but yeah, what was your secret source?

Speaker 9 (01:07:34):
I just google, mate, I just play around with like
you know, Ham operator saved by New Zealand and Alaska.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
And okay, oh, well well done. I'm please We've got
all that that's interesting, that might even make the quiz.
Thank you for that, Martin. I'm just quite sure what
the quiz question will be, Dan, what's the quiz question?
What have you written for that one? What did a
Ham radio operator and Murchison do? Is that what it's
going a? What did he do to a m GM

(01:08:07):
studio executive in Alaska? Saved his life through the wonder
of Ham Radio? Will it be the question? You'll be
able to an angle it down, won't you? Ten away
from ten oh one hundred and eighty todighty laureates Marcus,
Welcome in good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:08:25):
Macus Hey, Yeah yeah. I once got on the wrong
side of a matha. Well, I didn't know he was
a matha at the time. I had for an early
morning run pre dawn through the grounds at the Messi University.

Speaker 13 (01:08:40):
A pass and there was a.

Speaker 15 (01:08:43):
Steel lamp they almost like a gibbet shaped, just both
steel lamp standard with a pole hanging over the ran
by the trees, and I was running through there was
a guy hanging around the bottom of it, and I
could see he was trying to throw a rope over

(01:09:04):
the top to get it over the top of this
like the gibbet part of the lamp. And he was
pretty animated and pretty grumpy, and he didn't say anything.
When I went past, I thought it was a bit strange.

Speaker 13 (01:09:17):
And I come back.

Speaker 15 (01:09:22):
He said, you know you all right? You know I
was starting to think, you know, he was putting the
rope up and there was going to hang himself and uh,
and he was pretty grumpy, getting quite rude, but cleave.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
Pretty elaborate attempt to take out a lamp to do
it too, because you wait for sunrise. But anyway, okay, yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:09:46):
Just to mind your own business and bergar off. But
eventually he didn't explain himself. Said but he's going to
have to get the rope over there, and then he
was going to haul a net up. It would go
over the lamp and it would catch catch the buddy
moths here.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
So he wasn't he wasn't trying to get bets. It
was moths, not bets.

Speaker 13 (01:10:06):
No mos.

Speaker 15 (01:10:08):
Uh, well that was what he said. Anyway, I don't
think there's any bets up around there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Would it be an would he have been an academic.

Speaker 15 (01:10:14):
I assume, so yeah, uh he it was a graffy
sort of individual, but entois, yeah yeah, and quite irritable.
Yeah but anyway, Yeah, so I kept went on the
way and I assumed he was all right. But hey,
have you heard of this outfit called hobby hobby Lords.

(01:10:39):
There are a business and there's a couple of places
in Pami. They set themselves up and they people go
along me and they played board games and role playing
games and card swapping all that sort of stuff. It
seems to be a big expansion. I mean, I haven't
been pasted in the evening when todally they're there. I've
been passed in the morning. There's one premises which was

(01:11:03):
reason pretty large, seemed quite It was there for about
six months or so, and then they've shifted to a
five bigger premises. There's about seventy or eighty chairs there now,
and if you look on their site, they seem to
be all around the country hobby lords fantasy type things,
but there's no computers involved.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
It's all it's all cards like magic. The gathering, isn't it.
I don't know what they do, but they compile decks
and they I mean it does. I mean people that
are into the magic togethering. I don't know much about it,
but they do seem to It does really seem to
take hold of you.

Speaker 15 (01:11:35):
Yeah, there's table games almost like the old sort of
war game, sort of little figures.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
And all that sort of work with twenty sided dice
and stuff. Isn't there they're rolling it around.

Speaker 15 (01:11:45):
Yeah, but it seems to be well they're just looking
on their website. It seems to be quite quite an enterprise.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
But you ought to get involved, but you wouldn't.

Speaker 15 (01:11:57):
Well, I usually go I'm not really into their fantasy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Not yet, but why don't you give it a go? Yeah,
it doesn't seem I mean, it doesn't seem based enough
in reality to me. I don't like the sounds of it.
But people that get into it, boy, oh boy, they
love it.

Speaker 15 (01:12:12):
We're looking at it. On the side, it seems like
there's young and older down there. There's some of the
nudy types, and then they've got young kids with their
bags going on there as well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
So we all know what appened the nerds, don't they.
They're all the billionaires now, aren't they even heard of
the world? Yeah, you can't laugh Laurie, it's the future
chat Chiro and all that coming up to the news.
By the way, look at the cricket Zimbabwe eighty one
for three or fourteen overs, so they're not going to
get there. They need two hundred and three. They need

(01:12:43):
twenty two per over and they're getting five per over
to shellakan fair enough. Amy Kerr got a hundi which
is nine means feet and twenty twenty. Marcus, my step
son's girlfriend, caught eighteen salmon last week's small ones. They
kept three. They used the fake egg and have a sinker.
I think this sinker rolls along the bottom of the

(01:13:04):
egg flight slightly above the sinker. Clearly is that that's
what he needs? Someone said, Hamn, the fish and ship's
pretty good for inland takeaways. Is that the log cabin
that was always big in the Queen Mary days might
be a different fish and ship shop there. I thought
the pie was good, not the crayfish one. I'd forgotten
about that. Now, how are you? We are talking hobbies

(01:13:31):
and what's been interesting some of the hobbies and some
of the interesting place we've gone to. We've started talking
about moths and we have started talking about ham radio,
and that's been tangential to people talking about their hobbies
and interesting hobbies and also talking about neighbors and crickcut
And someone said via text, Marcus Ellie here moths seem
to be the topic tonight, a topic. Northern wattle moths

(01:13:52):
are prolific up here in the far North. They are
very beautiful but have no feet, which seems kind of sad.
The adults are able to winter over in house as
if they can find a warm spot. I looked up
an amazing looking moth because they have two eyes on
them that will almost look like power. But I guess

(01:14:12):
I should have asked the moth man about the I mean,
I don't know about moths, but a lot of moths
seem to have what looked like eyes on them, and
I guess that's a defense against predators.

Speaker 20 (01:14:24):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Some of them all know about that, because I don't,
I guess it's a defense or a protection mechanism. I'll
talking about you because I'm sort of saying that, you know,
we are in the golden age of hobbies. You can
get via your home connects to the world to get
any things that you need, and also amazing videos online
of people doing their hobbies, whether it be carving things

(01:14:49):
on the head of a match or a cane, calligraphy
or anything. I seem to be getting exposed a lot
of juggling videos these days. I'm not quite sure why
that is daft thing juggling, But that's the plan for tonight.
If you want to talk about that your hobby, what
is it, Marcus? That lady was fascinating her father. Thanks,

(01:15:09):
we'll give me something to research while sitting in the
tractor tonight. Well I've read that one, haven't I hamm
the fish and chips pretty good. But yeah, get in touch.
All the lines are free and some amazing phone calls tonight,
so long way that continue. If you want to watch
the movie, you type in nineteen thirty nine movie Radio

(01:15:31):
ham and you can see it just before the war.
I'll bring it up and have a quick look at that.
That was the woman that talked about that half an
hour ago. Martin a fantastic googler. But get in touch
if you want to talk on air. The number eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine to text
your interesting hobby, and there've been some fantastic ones. What

(01:15:55):
I can see the movie is ten minutes long, nine
point fifty seven and it's in black and white and
it's called Radio Hams. I'll watch that. I won't watch
that now. It looks pretty interesting. Yeah, she's a good one,
but the guy flies to rescue him. Anyway, twelve past ten,
But that's the plan for tonight. If you want to
join in the show, don't wait all night because you

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won't get in. But there've been some extremely good calls.
By the way, they have managed to contain that grass
fire near Clyde, but that appears to have been a
huge effort. I don't know that one shed's been destroyed.
Twenty hectares burned, both sides of Springvale Road. That'll be
our volley's too, won't they all of them? Be a

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big night at the I think they have a big
night after they put the fire out, the volleys, don't they. Yeah,
Christus is Marcus good evening?

Speaker 21 (01:16:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:16:47):
Likeasn butterflies, I've bought a plant twill three months ago.
It's now he's nearly two point four high and a
meter wide. There's no monk butterflies around anywhere. They've got
a few down and new you linn in one of

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the summer houses there. This is there's only got a few,
but there's nothing around, and I reckon pesticide and all
that it wiped them out.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
In the wasp?

Speaker 7 (01:17:15):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Did you go to that butterfly park and New Lynn?

Speaker 10 (01:17:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Got there? Not there, that's to worry.

Speaker 20 (01:17:23):
Yeah, there's any a few there, but I haven't seen
any everywhere. I go up all day down the country
side and I haven't seen any, and no one else has.
And I went down to Bunnings and they said they
haven't seen him either. So it's a serious.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
I think it's really serious now, I know. Look, can
you tell me? Do they say it's pesticides? They say
it's wasps they're eating They're eating the canipillars, are they?

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
I think?

Speaker 13 (01:17:47):
So?

Speaker 20 (01:17:47):
Yeah, Well I've got I've got a lot of wasps
hanging around, mind, which I don't know, you can't really.

Speaker 10 (01:17:53):
Get rid of those.

Speaker 20 (01:17:54):
But I mean, I have got butterflies to lay the eggs.
And now I've got this very very tall monk the
slope plant that I don't know what I'm going to
do with.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
I think it might be ens. I mean I think
it might be ants as well.

Speaker 20 (01:18:09):
Yeah, because over the years I've tried to grow them
and at about me to high at that and then
they eat the whole thing. Well, now I've gone the extreme.
Now I've got a huge tree, no butterflies around, can't win?

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Can you purchase them?

Speaker 20 (01:18:25):
I don't think so. I never heard of I don't
think the local pitch shot would have them.

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
But no, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
But you know what online? You know what online is
like I thought people might. Yeah, I don't know. I
know that the the only thing I know. I know.
There's also they're asking I did see some stuff they
are looking for. If you see monics that a lot
of them are being tagged, they're working out how far
they go?

Speaker 21 (01:18:53):
Right right?

Speaker 20 (01:18:54):
Oh, I my maxim inquiries anyway, because I can put
a frame around the bush if I get plenty in there,
and just sort of reading a lot of them, and
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
You keep us thinking. I know lot of people do
know a lot about monic butterfly, so it's always it's
always been a back topic for us, So you keep listening.
Chris Scott, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
Hey, Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:19:16):
I back in the nineties I took part in a
jamboree on the air with Scouts during Ham Radio and
talking to other Scouts around the place.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Wow, where was this?

Speaker 13 (01:19:28):
Where was it?

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:19:30):
Well, I mean I think it was a worldwide thing.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
Where I did part of it was at Motamaana.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
And you had a you had a ham kit, did you?

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
Well, from memory, I mean we didn't.

Speaker 22 (01:19:42):
We weren't there specifically for that, but I think we
were on another camp founder day or something and you know,
some local HAM radio guys just come in and kind
of set up a station to explain to us how
it all worked, and we spoke.

Speaker 12 (01:19:54):
To Scouts and I think other parts of New Zealand
possibly Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
Sounds like a risk. Where is Motimawana out of interest?

Speaker 12 (01:20:01):
Green Bay?

Speaker 13 (01:20:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
Okay? Is it a that's a Scout Dan?

Speaker 21 (01:20:05):
There?

Speaker 10 (01:20:05):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Scouts?

Speaker 7 (01:20:07):
No?

Speaker 22 (01:20:07):
No, it's a it's like the Auckland Regions Scout camp.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
I didn't know that that. They didn't know that was
a thing. Okay, never heard of that.

Speaker 22 (01:20:16):
I'm surprised if you've been having spent time in Whistle
called that's what they'd be.

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
Is it right on the Is it right on the
coast of the Monaco?

Speaker 17 (01:20:25):
Yeah, And there's you know there's cabins and how come
I can.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
How come that's passed me by? So it's right on
the edge of it's right on the edge of the sea.

Speaker 14 (01:20:38):
Basically, yeah, over screen Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
I would have walked right past that, never knew it
was there.

Speaker 12 (01:20:44):
He has I didn't.

Speaker 22 (01:20:45):
I haven't heard the whole show, has Dan ringing, because
I'd love to hear what hobby she has. She's a
joy listening to jan.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
I don't know. No, I think some people don't ask
them what their hobbies is because you don't want to know.
But but yeah, I'll see what I can find out Scott.
But yeah, did you get your bed? Did you get
your hand radio? Did your ham radio bed?

Speaker 22 (01:21:02):
I don't remember to be I think so, because I'm
pretty sure they used to call it that jotta as
in the jamboree on the air, and I'm pretty sure
I remember seeing a bad shop for.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
That with the you know, just acronym brilliant okay, Jos,
I thank you. Get in touch people if you want
to talk. By the way I'm looking at it from
I'm looking at Green Bay Beach, I still can't quite
work out where the scalp places. But that's fine. Might
be covered by all the trees bear catch of people.
If you want to talk, oh eight hundred you know
the rest. Marcus till twelve hobbies interesting hobbies. All of

(01:21:32):
them are interesting so far. I thought Kramer's hobby of
making figgurings of people are different. Drive Pastor was genius.
He matched his choice past as their personality. Jerry was Fuzli.
I used to mccrame made inside of a metal fire screen.
The Tudor most impressed article of the Timnu paper nineteen

(01:21:53):
eighties vespecs for wasp control. I've had four butterflies, no sprays. Marcus,
We've had a lot of monarchs and glen Brook. I
see monarchs and hastings and have look north. Need more trees,
maybe not quite the time. I enjoy the blue cod
from the mountain rocks and o Hakuney good fish and
chips lines free eighteen past ten. The usualand women's cricket

(01:22:20):
team I've seen off Zimbabwe quite easily. They were ninety
three short Zimbabwe chasing two dred and three. They got
one hundred and ten with all their overs. That's to
situation for you people, and at you. Oh wait, yeah, hobbies,
come on, keep it going. I'm very interested in this.
Oh eight hundred eighty to eighty nine to nine. Maybe

(01:22:42):
your hobby was watching Trump speak for two hours. Oh look,
there we go. I didn't get They didn't traw any
calls out of you there people. So if you've been
trying to get through, Oh you haven't been trying to
get through. Now's the time I need to talk to
you about your hobbies, or about moths, or about ham
radio and or anything else. By the way, would love
to hear from you now. If there's other stuff you

(01:23:04):
want to talk about, I can handle that too tonight
and get in touch if you want to be a
part of it. Otherwise, Oh, some of the other news
I can tell you about. Maybe that some of the
stuff I haven't had a chance because we have been busy.
And your theories on fish and chips away from the sea.
Be curious to know about that. Yes, Tim beverage from

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Midnight tonight putting that out there. Oh, by the way, NRL,
the NRAL, the NRL must start in Vegas this weekend.
Does I see there's a lot of people shots of
people flying. I think it's on this weekend. Looking forward
to the week league season starting again. Yeah, it's on Vegas.

(01:23:46):
So Nights and Cowboys are on Sunday and Bulldogs Dragons
are on Sunday. Presume both those matches are Vegas. Then
we're back to Thursday, Friday match on Thursday too, on
Friday two, on Saturday one on Sunday, then back in today.
It's exciting. Always have that on in the radio station
keeps me occupied. And probably shouldn't say that, but get

(01:24:09):
in touched you on to talk on air people, because
we've done well so far. I'd like to keep the
momentum going, but mainly about unusual hobbies that the Internet
has enabled you to get with, or maybe you've discovered
some old hobbies also. That's the plan. By the way,
I can tell you I critically acclaimed an award winning

(01:24:30):
production of one of the greatest musicals ever made is
playing across Artier, New Zealand later this year. Jesus Christ
Superstar started in nineteen seventy one. Oh gosh, I never
I've seen that. Never realize it was that through the
eyes of judices scirit. But that makes a lot of
sense now, so that's coming. The current version was originally

(01:24:51):
created produced for Regents Park Open air Theater winning the
twenty seventeen Olivia Award for Best Musical Revival. Oh God,
armloads of awards. So it's coming to New Zealand. Jesus
Christ Superstar WI play the Auckland Civic Theater from October
twenty one to November fifteenth, Saint James and Willington from
number eighteenth to twenty eight the Isaac Theater, Royal and

(01:25:13):
christ Church from December second to the sixth. I don't
know who the cast is, but I'd be going to that,
although I'd prefer God's Spell. What a rip of that is.

Speaker 5 (01:25:22):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
I don't know who the cast is, but it's on
its way. It's Andrew Lord Webber, but it's a bit
of a rejig of that one Jesus Christ Superstar International Tour.
I don't know if I presume it won't be locals.
I'm not saying that disparagingly, but I get some stars
for that little go Gangbusters anyway. That's on its way.
Count me in, Count me in. So it's so not

(01:25:45):
the word pompous, but there's something about it. It's over
the top. It's a great soundtrack listen to, particularly on
long journeys. Change from wicked anyway, hobbies and anything else
that's got your fancy tonight. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty alistair, it's Marcus, good evening. Sorry about the alistair,

(01:26:09):
pushed the wrong button, but greetings and welcome Hello Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:26:13):
You know and making trying good ideas. My idea is
to make composts, which is a very petrical fertilizer. All
you do is make a drink along the garden. You
can make a drink along the visible garden as well,

(01:26:34):
and about eighteen inches deep. And put the kitchen wasting,
but not any cooked food. I shall have rats from
here through englewood or even values, never cooked food. In

(01:27:00):
a compost situation, they can smell food for miles anyway.
Did the compost into the soil with a handful of
Dollarmite lime which contains magnesium and calcium, and then put

(01:27:22):
the compost the soil on top of the compost or
the vegetation. And the other way is to have layers
of grass cuppings, kitchen waste and funeral weeds and put

(01:27:47):
different layers and broad and bone as the activator. And
you can make a lot from grass cuppings if you
can have wooden chip.

Speaker 13 (01:28:04):
Tree leaves I leave.

Speaker 21 (01:28:09):
Under the grass cuffings Illi Illi witness from the grass cuffees.
We'll go into the dry layers and then when they
ring soccer, get the.

Speaker 13 (01:28:27):
Hose and just your hose it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
I'm going to run Alista for headlines. But thanks very
much for that. It's good to hear from you. On
the TV show, Alf the Father, Willie was a ham
rating enthusiast, and Alf used his equipment to contact his
friends back on Melmack. If there's one show they should
bring back itself, love everything about it. Here's one for you, Marcus.
My husband used YouTube to learn how to break in

(01:28:50):
a horse and he's done three now, kept him amused
during the COVID years. Wow, that's extraordinary, Amelia. It's Marcus.
Good evening, Hi.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
I just wanted to call in about my new hobby.

Speaker 7 (01:29:04):
I have.

Speaker 3 (01:29:06):
Recently started dating someone in October and he's gotten me
into RC cars Radio cars. Wow, which I would have not.
I would have gone. My whole life was never knowing
what that was. And now I'm all about it and
the it's yeah, it's quite jarring.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
But you forgetting and then finding something, you guys can
do together.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
You refuel them with Do you refuel them with tiny
little like fuel containers?

Speaker 13 (01:29:32):
Is that what you do?

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
No, the ones we use are like LiPo batteries, so
we have to charge the batteries up and then it's
all like, I don't know, he knows more of the
mechanics of it all. I just kind of thrash them
and raced them around and then yeah, do you race?

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Are you in a club that races them?

Speaker 11 (01:29:51):
He is?

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
I just kind of race him for fun. I like,
do not have the confidence to go and race against
all of them just yet, but I will. I'm getting
there right by my house. There's like a little walking track,
so we take them along there and just yeah, have
fun with.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
It and you will get the confidence, won't you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
Yes, definitely definitely.

Speaker 6 (01:30:11):
Wow, quite fun.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
He has a mini like I think it's like a
tense scale or not tense, I don't know. It's quite
a small carpet like replica version of like a sprint
car like dirt oval racing.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
But normally what are the tracks? The tracks aren't the
tracks are like not oval tracks. They're quite complicated, are they?

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
So where he races his mini sprint car is just
a it is an oval, but it's on carpet inside
like get garret carpet, I guess yeah. But there's different
classes and different races and different levels. It's much more
complicated than I would have ever thought.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
Where is this club? Is it proper a proper clubrooms
as the shed that's carpeted.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
He's in Hamilton. I actually live in Totonga, but yeah,
where he does the racing is in Hamilton.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
Oh you want to move there, don't you?

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
Yeah, definitely, I'm currently studying. But that is on the
books for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Wow, have you got your own car?

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
I use his spear one, but I've been kind of
dry begging for one. Oh Birthday's coming up for Christmas,
but it's in the works. So his sprint car that
he has cost some eight hundred dollars, which is shocking
to me for a little like what I thought was
a toy cab. But it's very serious according to him,
and I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
So what what are you going to get?

Speaker 3 (01:31:33):
I also want the sprint car. But there's also like
a mini like rock Crawler Broncos situation, and it's like
very small and they like climb the rocks and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
Oh no, you want to race first, that before you
do that, because someone did say before they emailed me
that that's their hobby they're into. It's a different thing,
isn't it. Yeah, radio controlled trailing crawling.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Yes, yes, it's all like I see, but yeah, there's
so many different types, and I like, yeah, I would
have gone my whole life without even knowing any of this,
and now I'm learning about it all. And it's just yes, again,
quite jarring to me.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
I wonder if he's gotten to any of your hobbies.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
A bit geeky of me, but I like san Rio
like Hello Kitty, Cinnamon Roll vibes you like what sorry,
san Rio, it's like a Japanese company. They're the creators
of Hello Kitty, Cinnamon Roll some characters. So he's learning about.

Speaker 13 (01:32:33):
All of that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
It's quite But there's just collect that. What's it called
cinnamon what cinnamon roll?

Speaker 13 (01:32:40):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
Yeah, because it's just buying. There's just buying stuff, isn't it.

Speaker 18 (01:32:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
Pretty much.

Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
Is there a kiddy shop in the country, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
Like Miniso am I in I is, So there's a
few of them. I believe they're shutting down.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
I believe we'll go online.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
Has it probably?

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:33:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Like games, Yeah, that was amazing about ev games. Orn't
they'd be here forever?

Speaker 22 (01:33:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Well there's still a video easy open in Marinsville, the
last one ever.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
Is that part of your trip between TODDNG and Hamilton
to go through there? Yes, it is a cinema role a.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Dog, Yes it is. It's a flying dog.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
Because what's the one that because Hello Kitty is not
a cat.

Speaker 13 (01:33:33):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
They say it's not, but it's a cat.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
Yeah, let's be real.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
I did see that, so that was a big breaking
news over the smer that it wasn't a cat, and
I thought it was sure it's a cat.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
Yeah, they say she's just a girl, but it's literally
Hello kitty, so who knows?

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
And it's got whiskers yeah, and like is yeah, it's
a cat. Okay, thank you. Let us know when your
first race is, Amelia. Gosh, we're a changing world, aren't we,
with Bob and his fish and Amelia racing.

Speaker 13 (01:34:05):
Me with me?

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
You cycle Jeep has listened to us. Here we go
Hittle twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus. I
absolutely love God's Spell. God's Spell was one of the
greats God's Spell was extraordinary. I think they came out
after Jesus Christ. But this looks good, this reinvention of it.

(01:34:27):
Save the People. Yeah, that was like the hippie version
of it was sort of a set in Central Park,
yep Worth. Listening to the soundtrack to that one That'll
time travel you straight away, get in touch Marcus till twelve.
It's all about It's not about time travel. What it's
about is who knows what it's about tonight? Hobbies, that's

(01:34:49):
the planned people. Get in touch if you want to
talk on here. I wouldn't say compost was a hobby,
but the guy I think most people know about hont
compost don't. But anyway, good on him with his dollarmite.
Didn't asking where he's getting the dollar mimite from because
I was worried about the getting into the news the headlines.
But be in touch if there's anything else you want
talk about tonight. A lot of topic rich tonight, but
I've joined this Bobby stuff. And of course the butterflies

(01:35:12):
are always out there as a side topic. And moths,
why were they guy that's into mothing? Couldn't we believe
in luck with that guy? Mothing he until twelve twenty
one away from eleven o'clock. Yeah, Crusoe, this is Marcus
good evening.

Speaker 23 (01:35:26):
Yeah you know, you know Marcus. I was just passing
through Pokacoi today and there was an RC rally going
on at the back of the Saleyards. There was absolutely
going off, mate, Really, fifteen gazebos on a Wednesday, funny
container they're all standing on with the track, absolutely will
old class?

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Was it like after work?

Speaker 10 (01:35:50):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:35:50):
This was that.

Speaker 23 (01:35:52):
Hold on, let me just this is about two thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
They were Is it like a proper club they've got there?
Would it be retired people?

Speaker 7 (01:36:00):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:36:00):
Mate, no, no, no, no mate, this is like you know,
this is like world class, mate, So yeah, your previous
call on. They need to get up to pook a coling, mate.
They tried to take the racing out of town, but
they haven't done that. They've still got the RC track there.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
And they're on top of the container.

Speaker 23 (01:36:19):
Well there's a forty foot container that they climb up
with a shelter and they stand up there and look
down at their track and they race. And if I
think about it, the track it's about the size of
a tennis court, but if you look at all the
total lineage of the track, it would have to be
like four hundred meters or something. Nah, one fifty Who knows.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
So they're going most they're going most of the time.

Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
Are they?

Speaker 7 (01:36:40):
Oh, I'm not going.

Speaker 23 (01:36:41):
Took a cover off the Marcus. But I was passing
through there today and I went under the subway road
under bridge and to my left. Yes, there was definitely
a rally going on at the RC Club.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
I could hear it one twenty station road. Eh, that's
through it is, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:36:55):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
That's it's a really good setup.

Speaker 23 (01:36:58):
Yeah, mate, No, I just thought i'd segue onto that
from your last yeah sheep.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
Anyway, they Yeah, got up to see them today.

Speaker 23 (01:37:05):
They've got real good good, good good.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
They're living the dream of the old sheep.

Speaker 21 (01:37:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
I mean plenty of pasture there. I was worried about it,
but you know it's all looking good.

Speaker 23 (01:37:14):
Well, if you got to the water, would you wack
a cow with a young cart in the webs?

Speaker 10 (01:37:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
No, not a fan of cows.

Speaker 7 (01:37:22):
Cruise.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
I look nice. I'm just took a Google. Dan, What's
what are you going to tell me? Dan? Is this
a big thing about to happen. It's the first league
of a world tour. And what's the bit you said before?
It's the first league of a world tour, the Asian
Buggy Championships and it's a quadrangular tournament between New Zealand, Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia.

(01:37:45):
Where's that website? I'd like to know a bit more
about that. Oh, I'm onto that. Yeah, I'm a hidiot. Yeah,
Counties RC. Yeah, it's a very hard website to read.
Because of the Asian Buggy Championship twenty twenty six, Round one,
New Zealand Wednesday to Sunday. Will there be worth going

(01:38:08):
on to watch events? Liver to two fifty cars doesn't
say if you can go along as a spectator. Wow,
We're encouraging people to stay on site where there's been
a long event, stay at the track, live and breathe
the experiences, have enough time to sleep. Oh, I say,
you go to the showground, so I think were they're staying.
That looks like an exciting circuit to be part of that.

(01:38:28):
RC racing for forty years at County's RC Car Club.
It's a great looking track. There you go, it's a
great looking track.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
Yeah, it all.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
It's all happening there. Oh, we're learning a lot tonight
about the country we live in. People's hobbies sixteen to eleven, Marcus.
One of my hobbies is listening to you at the
station and sometimes texting and to share my thoughts. Will
there be a hobby listening to the radio? I guess
it is. Would calling up be a hobby? Once spoke
to a guy that logged every call he had made.
He told me how many times he'd rung the radio station.

(01:38:57):
It was like a lot of times. Don't know what
happened to him. I'll be on hold. Marcus worked in
the miner in Australia and all the guys and tech
service has gotten too rc cars. They convinced and operate
a sneak a D nine dozer and a sixteen h
grazer into this patch of scrub and make a huge

(01:39:17):
racetrack with jumps, lunchtime racing for months. I was in
a meeting with mine management. They discovered amongst some drone imagery.
Safe to say they weren't impressed. Well, surely, if you're
running a mine, it's important to keep your workers occupied, Marcus.
I crochet blankets rugs and dishcloths. Dishcloths to one hundred
scent cotton so no plastic molecules escape down the drain

(01:39:40):
into the sea. Made hundreds, they don't get smelly. And
last and last ies. We've brought those at the local fear.
They've revery good. Those crochet dishcloths. A girlfriend taught herself
to crowsier off YouTube and she's really good at it.
Baby gear is popular, made ninety blankets. Other hobbyis tapestry,
working on my great grandmother's unfinished tapestry that Grandma saved

(01:40:02):
for me to do. Well, that's a nice gesture.

Speaker 13 (01:40:06):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Hello, Patricia, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:40:11):
Oh hello Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:40:13):
Thank you, Patricia.

Speaker 18 (01:40:14):
That's good. My hobby as collect teddy bears. I've got
about thirty two of them. And also I write children's
stories and do all the drawings and that myself. It's
taken me quite a while to actually do the drawings.

(01:40:35):
I do pages and pages of one thing until I
get it right so it looks, you know, like the
product that I'm using. And yes, I've written four four
so far, so it's quite quite quite good. It takes
me out of myself, takes me into a different world.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
And do you do those for other people to read?
Or just for the satisfaction of doing them?

Speaker 18 (01:41:02):
Just so it's just a I'll get I'll get very
depressed depressed with things that have happened to me over
the years. Sure, And I found by doing that it's
sort of I'll get really involved with doing it. And

(01:41:22):
they turned out quite nicely. Actually, I'm quite pleased with them.
He us watercolored watercolor paints.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
Do you think you're doing Do you think you're doing
them for yourself as a child to read?

Speaker 11 (01:41:35):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:41:35):
No, I just I don't know why I'm sort of
doing it.

Speaker 12 (01:41:38):
It's I love.

Speaker 18 (01:41:39):
I love children, always have And I actually gave one
of them to my doctor because his wife taught children
that were have' got sort of problems, you know, just
I think she had twelve children. And he asked me,
whatuld I mind if he gave it to her to

(01:42:00):
read to the children, and I said, no, that that's fine.
So I gave it to him. That was too little
bears and the panda bears, and one was a little
brown bear, and she loved it and the children she
said she could never get the children to sit still.
But she told them if she would read them the

(01:42:21):
story and show them all the pictures if they sat still,
and he said, they just sat there and wanted to
hear it twice three times over. So that was quite exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
A nice ye reported that back too, that's lovely.

Speaker 18 (01:42:37):
So it was quite quite good. Yeah, So when I'm
just the latest one I'm doing is I had a
little car that my son bought me. My son passed
away just not so long ago, and it was a
little mini Mini Cooper and I loved that little car.
But my health stopped me from I'm eighty five this year,

(01:42:58):
and it stopped me from driving. It wasn't safe for
me to drive because of my condition. So now the
latest I'm doing is I called it Minimou, and it's
a story about my little car, and it's turning out
quite nasty. Actually, I'm quite sort of pleased with what
I've done so.

Speaker 11 (01:43:18):
Far with it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
What's the what's what's many moou doing in the story?

Speaker 18 (01:43:25):
Well, Minimu is sort of she was with an old
man that owned her, and he was so lonely. He
would go into the garage at night and he would
be taught taught Manimu to speak goodness to talk. And
after a while he also had two little cats. One

(01:43:47):
was called Frankie I've named and the other one was
called Benji, and he had these two little cats. Anyway,
the old gentleman just vanished one day and they didn't
know who he was what had happened to him. And
Minimu was just parked in the garage and she missed

(01:44:08):
sort of seeing the old gentleman. And anyway, therese two
little cats wandered in and they were talking as well.
They could speak speak to her, and so she sort
of thought that was pretty good. And so she started
looking after these little little cats and they lived in
her in the back seat of her little Minni. And

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one night they were sitting there and she looked up
into the corner of the garage and all she saw
with these two yellow eyes, and she said, who's up there?
And this little little thing said, I'm an owl And
she said, oh, well, what are you doing up there?
And he said this is where I live. She said

(01:44:52):
what's your name? And he said Oli, And she said, oh,
you can speak as well, and the little owl said, yes,
I used to listen to the old gentleman. It was
when he was teaching you to talk. And he said, so,
if you like, I can look after you. He said,
the old gentleman's not there anymore, and Minniemu said, well,

(01:45:14):
where is he gone? She said, oh, he passed away,
And she didn't know what passed away meant, so she thought, oh, okay,
will he come back? And he said no. So one
day she was in the garage and a great big
truck pulled up outside the garage and all these humans
came in and put a big chain around her, lifted

(01:45:37):
her onto a truck, and she called out to the
little cats, follow me, follow the truck. So we now
where you're going. So they jumped into the car and
she shut the door and they took her to another
garage where there we're quitting a lot of humans in there.
They put her down in this garage and she thought, now,

(01:45:59):
what's going to happen.

Speaker 15 (01:45:59):
I'd better not talk.

Speaker 18 (01:46:01):
Anyway, they came at her with all the soap and
bought her and they were give a wash, and she said,
actually it felt quite nice to have all that soap.
Then they dried her off, and then the truck came
back and took it to another garage where she was
left parts for They put a big ribbon around the
front of her, and the little cats got out and

(01:46:22):
said what's happening? She said, I heard them talking, and
I'm for sale anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
That's so as I've got fantastic What a fantastic story.
Was wellbinding? Nice, well binding, Patricia, brilliant. I got to
go with that's that's a total page turner. I love that.
Thank you for that, Patricia. Glenn texts. I love that

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story from Patricia. I never wanted to end. It had
me from start to end. Brilliant. You're the owl. But
I can't believe the old Mini Moo's owner had died,
and that was quite interesting that the owl knew the
wise owl knew that, and the car didn't or the cats.
I don't know what will happen to Minimu, but no

(01:47:10):
one buying the car is going to want the cats.
Might be like a fantastic journey thing with it. Who knows,
who knows. Wow, we've been to some pretty interesting places tonight, Marcus.
I've gone to old fashioned crafting hobbies the last couple
of years, knitting, crochet, French beaded flowers and needle felting.

(01:47:31):
My family live in Prague, which is landlocked. Of course,
had some of the most putrid fish and chips of
my life there. Yes, the check Christmas dinner is based
around carp. You don't want carp and your Christmas dinner.
I don't reckon land there any land based fish. Do
any inland fish taste anything? I don't think they do,
or do they? I don't know why seafish taste better.

(01:47:53):
It's interesting that, But yes, I hope Bob gets his seven.
He needs to watch Old Clark's fishing show. That's the answer.
With the eggs. I don't know where the salmon go.
Does salmon go out to the see them back up?
I think there's something how That's how the whole those
salmon farms work, does it? They go and come back
and then you harvest them, I think. But yeah, I've

(01:48:16):
been to that one. I've been to the one under
Toky too, where they are we get fish for that.
It was pretty full on there actually look delicious, all
smoked and cooked and stuff. I was there for the eels,
but the eels have been overfeed and we're interested in
the food. Although we got them going extremely good staff
extremely helpful woman there, but rest did the talking. Oh

(01:48:37):
that's so we are talking about Jesus Christ Superstar. Someone
said the awesome. Margaret Urlich played Mary Magdalene and Jesus
Christ Superstar in nineteen ninety four. Loved her version of
I don't know how to love him? Makes my hair
on his on arms stand up. Yeah, look I'm and look.
I don't want to kick a topic. I'm reinterested and

(01:48:59):
I don't want to.

Speaker 13 (01:49:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
I don't know anything about this new version of Jesus
Christ Superstar. It's based on a twenty seven version that
was staged at the New Region's Outdoor Theater or something
so Regent's Open Park air Theater. But I can't find
any video footage of it, which I'm really keen to

(01:49:23):
see how it works. But it is coming to New Zealand.
I actually I found some video footage of it now,
although it looks like it's indoor, which is weird because
it says it's going to be outdoors but does say
placeholder videos. I just see what this is like, because yeah,
I mean, that'll go huge, because I'm sure everyone almost
have seen Jesus Christ Superstar and they know the now
I've clicked on the video. It's a placeholder video, which

(01:49:45):
I'm not very excited. I must have the rights to
the local things, so I can't do any more about that.
By the way, Actually something else I did want to mention,
just on a music fray, and only because I'm genuinely
interested and I was reading this in the OEt today.
An original member of the iconic United States surf rock
band The Beach Boys will perform in Dunedin later this year.

(01:50:06):
Al Jardine and his eleven piece Pet Sounds band, which
he put together his late band mate Brian Wilson, was
out to sixty years of Beach Boys music that need
downhaul on Sunday July fifth. Would that be any good
or is that just someone going through Because I know
that bands always fall out and split and divide. But

(01:50:27):
Al Jardine was a foundinger of the Beach Boys, he
was the lead focused on the song helped me ronder,
so if you got any information on that whether it
would be good. They can also play in New Plymouth,
but yeah, it's just where they're just oh Theater Royal
and christ chidche also, So I don't know if anyone
who's I know that people that love the Beach Boys
really love the Beach Boys. I just don't know whether

(01:50:48):
that would be a good thing or it's going through
the motions. So he was the co founder. He sang
Peggy Sue Oh. That was the cover, of course, wasn't it.
There was a Buddy Holly song. He's performed as a
solo artist since he quit them in sixty eight.

Speaker 5 (01:51:06):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:51:07):
But anyway he's touring. I don't really know anything about
whether he was whether he fits into the cannon the
metaphonical canon of the Beach Boys music. But yeah, we
are talking hobbies. It's been for every interesting. So if
you've got an interesting hobby or new hobby, because hobbies
have changed with the Internet and stuff, what is yours?
But for interesting? The women that start off the whole
discussion talking about the cricket, the cree cut this printer

(01:51:29):
cutter thing that people are loving, so I'm curious about that.
We're also talking about having fish and chips in land
and whether that's a bad idea, So I'm kind of
interested in that also as a topic. That's what we've
got at eleven eleven. My name is Marcus Welcome oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty. There might be something different
you want to mention the final forty four god forty nine,
let's make that so yes, anything goes hit till twelve o'clock.

(01:51:53):
Also talked about moths and ham radio. Yeah, and anything
else you want to talk about that would be delightful
to hear from you get in touch please, oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and international news. I'm all across,
but I haven't got much to tell you. Although Prince
Andrew's been told he can't ride his horses because it's

(01:52:13):
a bad lock. Well, it's not like you could fall
any further from the public grace. I've not heard one
kind word about him.

Speaker 5 (01:52:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
I think everyone's just been flummixed by the compellingness of
Patricia's story with Mini Moo and the owl. What the
name of the cats?

Speaker 5 (01:52:31):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
What were the name of the cats? So soon as
I pictures, I can't remember the name of the cats.
I think there was quite significance, a little the significance
the name of the cats. Minimu was the car. I
don't think the owl had a named in it oh
Oli the l minimu Oli the l and the cats
had who can text me the names of the cats
just quickly? People, Well, I wait your calls. By the way,
I feel disappointed in you, but that's fine. I don't

(01:52:55):
judge anyone and talk big anymore. What were the name
of the cats? Please? If word like Franklin or something
or an E word. I can almost visualize it, but
we can't see it because someone text me the name
of the cats please. In the Minimus story, I love
how she draws and draws and draws us. If she
gets it right, then she could What are the names?
I see it was there if we didn't know Frankie

(01:53:16):
and Benji. It's not in the quiz because it's too arcane,
but Frankie free. Disappointing that Dan had to find it.
No one texted Frankie and Benji. There you go, Mini MoU.
You might have been in a school production of Jesus Christ.
Would they do it at school? I guess it would
do it at school, wouldn't they? It's not too adult.

(01:53:36):
They wouldn't do God's spelled. Don't they involve nudity? I
think it was controversially at the time when God spelled
to it. But looking at Wikipedia and I hate to
say it, but oh, I don't hate to say it,
but that's tim will no more. But it seems as
though nineteen ninety four was the last time a really
big production was done. They did a production in Australia
at the same time, and that was a real big

(01:53:57):
deal as well, because that had all the stars in
it too. I think the Australian production, you might. I
don't think that toured to New Zealand, but it was
a big deal, the Australia one because they Johnston, Johnny
Farnham was Jesus John Stevens, obviously Kiwi was Judas cape
Brano is Mary. So that was a situation. Anny Wallow was,

(01:54:19):
I know he wasn't got sick, that's right. Anyway you
might want to talk, you know what happened to Darrel lovegrowth?
Someone might know more about him, Uh pretty love growth, brother.
I think Neil, it's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:54:29):
Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:54:32):
You know, I became to go to a concert thing
one of the big Boians that wasn't obviously them. If
it's a family member, he's obviously going to have probably
the original sound. I would imagine for people to go
what's them? Couple years ago I went to warrant into
a tribute band of the Beatles. Now, I'm a real

(01:54:53):
passion of fan, and I wouldn't normally say, oh, how
could I either anything that's not the real thing, but
my word, very impressive. Once he worked very hard to
produce something really really crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
Yeah, I got quite strong feelings about that because.

Speaker 5 (01:55:13):
I saw that.

Speaker 2 (01:55:20):
The Pink Floyd tribute band from Upper Hut right all right,
haven't and they are fantastic because they don't like they
don't try and look like them. I reckon. If you
don't try and look and move like them, I reckon,
you've taken a lot of pressure off of them. People
can just really enjoy the spectacle. Yeah, although I have
been to ab a tribute bands, I quite enjoyed. But

(01:55:41):
that's sort of taking the mickey, but too, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:55:44):
I'm talking of that Munich was the way me do,
try and look, the way they the way they even
hold because now they used to hold the guitars up high.

Speaker 13 (01:55:55):
And yeah, I don't like.

Speaker 7 (01:55:56):
I don't like.

Speaker 2 (01:55:57):
I don't like that because because none of them looked
like them, because I sat distinctive looking guys John Lena
and all that.

Speaker 10 (01:56:01):
But yeah, that's sometimes they.

Speaker 7 (01:56:05):
Went in the right here to quiet Church to the
symphony orchestra there, and they just did a light of
beetle music. They had a singer and book when I
was singing, and they had another guide sing and then
they weren't there with tender anything they did at the
end of the night of bootle music, and I just

(01:56:27):
had the fantastic musically instrumentally, you know. They might say
they weren't there to impersonate or they were just there
to produce. And the evening the Beatles classic music. Yeah, sure,
and they went on. But yeah, you're right with the
bootlegs they each and even the way they bowed and everything,

(01:56:49):
and just all those things and men the rein like
i'd say, holding the guitars upline, they tested the way
they did. And whereas in Kiritchurch a simple the orchestra
got played the music with a couple of good cleevy
singers help and around.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
Do you know who the vocalists were, Neil, I know
was one. Oh yeah, of course she's quality. Yeah, okay,
I'll look it up. Thanks Neil. At twenty two, pass
live it if you want to be part of the show.
Marcus till midnight. Good to be hearing from you. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty eighty and nine to nine to
the text twenty three past eleven back in a bit,

(01:57:29):
it's me. There was a brilliant recent stage direction in
the Hollywood of Jesus Christ Supercars, saying Adam Lambert as
Judas and Cynthia Ereva arrival as Jesus. Wow. The portralogy
Jesus credibly a gay black woman surprisingly unjarring Rose, Thank
you Rose? Was she's quality? Marcus asked the lovely age

(01:57:50):
to tell us when she publishes the book, to tell.

Speaker 13 (01:57:52):
Us there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:57:53):
Well, yeah, I don't know. I mean she's yeah, I
don't know if she's got the connections. Hello Grant, this
is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:58:00):
Hello there Marcus speaking of hobbies. So I can go
back about fifty years. Do you remember a hobby shop
in Awkland City called Martin.

Speaker 2 (01:58:17):
Hello, Yeah, I'm just trying to think of the model
shops I can remember. I can remember Stokers models still
going where was that? And Great South Road? Wasn't Market Road? Yes,
there was one new market called no on the other
side the side the rail pattern model, Yeah, you might

(01:58:42):
be right, model here I think you're probably right.

Speaker 13 (01:58:45):
But that the viaduct on the side going south.

Speaker 2 (01:58:50):
What road would that be?

Speaker 13 (01:58:52):
Great Broadway? Yeah, yeah, it shifted around quite a bit,
but it's now deceased.

Speaker 2 (01:58:58):
Yeah when you said, when you said the via act,
I went down to the viaduct down to the waterfront.
So is that where Martin's Models was?

Speaker 13 (01:59:09):
No, No, they were in Custom Street, along the eastern
end of it, almost to where Custom Street goes into
Anack Avenue.

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Yeah, that's what I thought. You got to say. Yep,
remember that?

Speaker 13 (01:59:19):
Well, yes, yes, I went there when I was a teenager,
and I remember it had a slot car racing track
out that of the shop and quite a big area
and there's a lot of young fellows there racing these
flock cars. It wasn't of any it wasn't of much

(01:59:41):
interest to me. I was looking for worship models, but
I watched them a couple of times when.

Speaker 5 (01:59:47):
I was there.

Speaker 13 (01:59:48):
And then Martin's disappeared, probably in the late seventies. So
that leaves merv Smith and New Market and there's one
out at one Avenue now.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
Hobby, oh your Hobby City, yep.

Speaker 13 (02:00:07):
And they both have enormous collections of models. Way more
than when I was a young feller. But I do
remember I bought a model of USS Washington World War
two worship at Martin and the love affair with dreadnought
type worships has never really ended for me.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
Have you still got that one?

Speaker 13 (02:00:32):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
Do you look back as a child and made it
and think you wish you'd done it again and took
more care with it? Or does it still look quite good?

Speaker 13 (02:00:39):
No, it still looks okay, No need to improve on it.
Initially when I was a young teenager, I didn't bother
with painting them ode and too much of a hurry
to build them. I've got some magnificent ships in three
point fifty scale now, and even two hundred scale, which

(02:01:00):
is about eighty centimeters ninety centimeters long, But not should
buying those ones. You can clearly everything you need in
three fifty scale. How many of you got grant about
ten warships?

Speaker 4 (02:01:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:01:17):
Yeah, that sounds I manager, But I thought you're going
to say a thousand or something, and I thought that
would be worried. But ten ten sounds fine.

Speaker 13 (02:01:24):
That's a three fifty scale.

Speaker 2 (02:01:25):
How many the other how models have you got all
together around your house?

Speaker 13 (02:01:29):
I've probably got another twenty models warships, but some of
them are still in their boxes unbuilt, and I don't
know if I'll ever get around to building them.

Speaker 2 (02:01:39):
What would be the point of keeping them unbuilt because
you know that they're there to do? Is at the
point of time?

Speaker 13 (02:01:43):
Yeah, you run out of time to do these things?

Speaker 2 (02:01:46):
And would they take ah?

Speaker 13 (02:01:49):
Probably because you're painted, and that's where the real time
is consumed. Probably twenty four hours in total time.

Speaker 2 (02:02:02):
Yeah, okay, And painting's probably not straightforward. Do you have
have to undercoat and stuff or is it straight on?

Speaker 21 (02:02:08):
Well?

Speaker 13 (02:02:09):
Originally I used to do them without undercoats, but I
think the best paint jobs are done with undercoats now,
and some of them do them with spray paint outfits.
Many spray outfits. Get your little compressor and your little
spray gun and everything. You have to do a lot
of masking of parts you don't want painted.

Speaker 2 (02:02:31):
That would be quite a lot of rigmaro, wouldn't it.

Speaker 5 (02:02:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (02:02:34):
Absolutely. If you're painting debts, you've got to paint over
a lot of I mean, mask a lot of the
fittings and then pick it off as a special masking material.

Speaker 2 (02:02:45):
I'm surprised hobby shops do well because you think that
sort of stuff would work pretty easily online, wouldn't you
You just buy them on the internet. But there must
be a reason that the model shops still work.

Speaker 13 (02:02:55):
Yeah, Well, if you go into the lights of hobby City,
you're blown away by that, by the number of models
in there, and you think, how on earth do they
sell all these models? And those they have the worry
of choosing models that are likely to sell, rather than
sit on the shelves unsold forever in a day.

Speaker 2 (02:03:16):
I would imagine a lot of people like yourself were
probably into models as teenagers or children, and now they've
probably found themselves with the money and spare time and
are probably getting back into it, which I quite like
the idea of.

Speaker 13 (02:03:29):
That's me. I've never lost my love of those worships.
In fact that I was about eight years old I
reckon when I first saw a model of uss Arizona
in Farmers Trading Company in Hobson Street, and I didn't
see inside the box, but it sort of captured my

(02:03:51):
interest because it was a stricken worship and the colors
were all red, black and yellow, fire and whatnot.

Speaker 10 (02:03:59):
Of this.

Speaker 13 (02:04:01):
Damaged or destroyed uss Arizona in Pearl Harbor. I never
bought it, but I wondered to this day who made
that model and what scale it was?

Speaker 2 (02:04:15):
How old would you be?

Speaker 13 (02:04:17):
I'm seventy four now, because.

Speaker 2 (02:04:20):
I imagined that there must be a beginning date for models,
because of course for a long time there wasn't plastics.
I wonder when they first became available.

Speaker 13 (02:04:30):
Well, they were there when I was maybe five years old.
Epix was a major name then and they had models
like HTMs cross Act just a little destroyer, and HTMs
Ajax that took part in the Battle of River Plate

(02:04:52):
and Exod. So they only did British and German ships
and took other other model matas outside of Britain to
do American and Japanese French for the only ones who
made French worships were hell Those as I know, probably right,

(02:05:13):
but they are a French company. They model just about
every boom in worship that's ever been made, including a
lot of the aircraft carriers of today.

Speaker 2 (02:05:25):
I think nineteen thirty six the first plastic model. So
they have been around for us till ninety years now,
isn't it So?

Speaker 13 (02:05:31):
No, that's interesting. I wonder what the first models were.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
You got no interest in the You got no interest
in the modern warships.

Speaker 13 (02:05:38):
No, no, you've got to limit your interest simply, sheer
quantity of information about. Yeah, you're interesting in them, but
I don't bother with them, because you could have a
collection of five hundred models I suppose of worships if
you if you let it get out of control.

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
That's right, they'll just grab the dust. I've got to
run grab But thank you very much for that. Nice
to talk to you. Twenty six to twelve, here till midnight.
Some assembly required. Yeah, get in touch. You want to
talk models and mothing and anything goes tonight. Martin's was
a vast toy store. Nice family. Marcus just in the

(02:06:21):
Rock Orchestra by Candlelight Show. Fantastic show. Highly recommend to
anyone who's into rock. I've never heard of that. I
saw Jesus Christ Superstown on the early seventies. John English
was Judas. Forgot who else was it? Forgot a lot
about it because I took a lot of drugs in
those days. I do remember I went by myself. Thank you,
Rayot's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 17 (02:06:43):
Good day, Marcus. I want to talk about New Zealand
Open Actually good, thank you, kicking off tomorrow about eight
thirty of caddy deb for about nine years and unfortunately
I'm not there this year, but it's a pretty remarkable

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thing that's happened there because New Zealand Opened has canceled
for a couple of years I think might have been
twenty eleven twelve because the government decided to remove funding
for prize money. So the incredible thing that's happened is
that they started the pro am, which we've got one

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hundred and fifty golfers. They've raised currently this year two
million dollars. They pay thirteen thousand dollars out of their fee.
I think each pro am player pays about twenty thousand,
and there's probably out of that twenty thousand, if you've

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got the balls to put that money up, there's probably
only a couple of thousand that's unaccounted for. And it's
quite remarkable really because they Japanese guy Ian Kennedy started it.
He's the MBA acid in New Zealand in Japan for
a couple of terms, and the Japanese over there they

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can't get into pro ams over there because they're all
taken up by you know, corporates and you know Suzuki
or you know, they just can't get in. There's a
lot of wealthy Japanese over there, so he actually brought
his Japanese over. Most of them are Japanese, and there's
a lot of Chinese at the moment as well, and

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of course you know wealthy Aucklanders who come down and
pay the money. But it's actually revived the whole tournament.
The amazing thing about it. I've had people on talkback
on you know, other channels saying that the pro as
you know, annoying to have it, But I personally think

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that it's actually in the time there. It actually makes
it because you get quite a lot of verb and
vibe out of it, you sulky bunch.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
I can I just stop you there, yep and say
that I've never really I'm not a golfer, but you
will be the person to ask. And I know it's
at Millbrook this year, isn't it correct?

Speaker 17 (02:09:23):
It used to be at the Hills ultimately.

Speaker 2 (02:09:26):
And Milbrook where the wreck of Instantly a lot of
Japanese lived at. It's owned a lot of their houses.
They're owned by Japanese, aren't they?

Speaker 17 (02:09:33):
But well it's owned by a Japanese.

Speaker 2 (02:09:37):
How does so? How do programs work?

Speaker 12 (02:09:41):
Well, it's interesting because I've got no idea.

Speaker 13 (02:09:44):
Please.

Speaker 12 (02:09:46):
Well, basically, usually.

Speaker 17 (02:09:50):
What happens is you caddy Monday, Tuesday, practice rounds Wednesday. Well,
I caddy exclusively Japanese guys. They usually rest and just
practice on the Wednesday and then on you know, the
tournament starts on Thursday Friday, so you get basically if

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you get a morning round. So basically it's split because
mel Brooks got basically eighteen holes, so they split it
into to the Remarkable Course and the Coronet Course, and
so they play Coronet Course one day, say in the morning,
in the afternoon, and next paid in the afternoon. So

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what happens is one hundred and fifty pro am players
are playing it and after the two days, whoever's in
the top thirty goes to the Saturday, and then if
you're good enough, the top team go to the Sunday.
And I've been Sunday once.

Speaker 2 (02:10:54):
So this is an important thing because sometimes there are
ore pro ams where professional amateur players appeed together, but
this is a tournament where professionals and amateurs compete against
each other, is that right, individual.

Speaker 17 (02:11:07):
Yeah, sorry Marx, No, No, their team up with a
professional player. So basically the professional plays off the stick. Basically,
whatever their score is, their score. But the biggest handicap
a pro am player can have his eighteen and I've
seen guys who are like obviously thirty six. You know,

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they're chopping around. But you know, you get some good
guys of caddy for a guy who's on a three
handicap north Auckland and he got he actually beat his
pro on the first two rounds. That didn't make the cut.
But the thing is, it's it's just a really great

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social experience meeting all these peoples like Ricky Ponting, all
these you know, well known people who play in it.
And he's a great golfer. But it's it's quite quite
an interesting setup. And it's actually, you know, pro golf
is a pretty grumpy, sulky bunch generally, But what makes

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the tournament is the amateurs that turn up. I mean
there's guys from Japan who turn up with you know,
gold bags basically, and they're they're full of character. And
the Asian circuits actually got interested in that because when

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they put the signboards up with you know, the sponsors
on the boards. They it's actually quite cheap for them.
It's like ten, you know, ten percent of what they
pay in the Asian tour. So it's actually really a
brilliant thing that John Hart's done and Ian Kennedy from

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his work with the Japanese people bringing them over, which
really kicked it off. It's actually i mean, even if
you're not a big fan of golf and you're in
the Queenstown Eliott's worth going to Airtown because it's just
a beautiful walk. It's just an amazing property. And I'm

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not a wealthy man, but there's a lot of wealthy
people there. And you know, sometimes some of the guys
from Auckland can make you feel a bit sick, but
there's a lot well, it's a pretty nice It is
a pretty nice for a couple of them.

Speaker 2 (02:13:35):
It is a pretty nice place Millbrook at Yeah, and
there's some pretty nice stonework there too, which I quite like.

Speaker 17 (02:13:41):
Oh, it's just glorious place and it's just a really
good vibe. You know, it's just just really cool.

Speaker 2 (02:13:47):
Nice of talk. Thanks so much. Right starts and see
when hours by the way.

Speaker 1 (02:13:51):
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