So unbelievably uncomfortable (13 February 2025)

Marcus talks about the heatwave hitting Hamilton, Manuka honey and its various uses, and the best way to mark World Radio Day.

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I don't normally like to pick out individual cities, but
I'm going to tonight. Hamilton. How are you the hottest
it's ever been? Yeah? The last ten days, actually now
eleven have been the hottest continuous eleven days as far
back as records go.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
So I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I've never actually been hot in Hamilton?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Kind of what sort of hot is it? Is it
like one of those hots that's like our shirt sticks
to your back hot? Because it doesn't seem to be
very breezy kind of a place Hamilton doesn't like where
the fog gets there and stays. So I'm curious to
know what it's like. Are the crickets there? How hot
is it? I don't normally like to target particular places,
but you're Hamilton. Has it been thirty degrees for the

(01:05):
last ten days? It must have been. It seems like
it's been a pretty hot summer. No one's complaining, but
Hamilton hot, hot, hot. They've only had one day below
twenty seven degrees celsius. Yeah, that's the peak. Obviously, It's

(01:28):
not like that all day and all night, but cheap
as creepers as hot. So what's Hamilton like when it's hot?
Because it feels like I don't know, you go curious
to know about that Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton twenty seven to it?
Does it feel unbearably hot? As a pleasant hot? I
guess what I want you to do is to describe
the Hamilton heat because I haven't experienced it every time
I've been in Hamilton. It's been days which have not

(01:49):
been on mind. You we did go there when the
bus broke down, that was in January, but other things
on my mind. Anyway, get in touch if you're in Hamilton.
I'd be curious to know how that is for you? Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty or text that through?
Just a curious though about that? He does it seem
unseasonably hot? How do you describe heat? I don't know?

(02:13):
Like as everyone jumping in the lake and they're jumping
in the river, has the people gone crazy? You're driving
out to Raglan for a swim? What do you do
in Hamilton when it gets hot? What would you do
in Hamilton when it gets hot? You can't go ice skating?
You know what you do? So how hot. Describe the heat. God,

(02:36):
I love your intro. Good evening, Marcus, me too. I
was listening to the intro the other night. I thought,
cheapest creepers. That's a good intro. Of course, today is
you NESCo Radio Day. By the way, that's special day
for radio. You Nesto Radio Day. They're calling it the
cockroach of the industry. All the other medias have died,
but radio keeps on keeping on. And for Radio Day,

(03:00):
you're all celebrating because the key to celebrate radio day
is to listen to the radio. I don't know why
it's today. I think it's today. A yeah, maybe it
was the first day people transmitted. Probably was it Marco.
I don't know who it was it Marconey. Think about
when you're working radio, they never tell you much about

(03:20):
its history. Good evening, Vickers, it's Marcus. Welcome you, Marcus.
Can you hear me a gay and clear receiving Thank you?

Speaker 5 (03:33):
And as Hamilton right now, you describe the weather.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, tell me how it's been.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
It's been kind of a relentless hot off of Africa.
Originally and we used to a dry hot, but the
last few days there has been by and it's been
the worst of that world and I've been through. Yeah, just.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
Got you go.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Are you in a car? Are you in in a house?

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Sorry, I'm in the calm, just starving home from the
cricket card now and will will ye?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Are you on speaker or hands free?

Speaker 7 (04:24):
Free?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Can you talk into the phone?

Speaker 8 (04:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, as long as feeds around. Just pull over?

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah and I pulled.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Now miles bit. Did you say originally from South Africa
or from Africa?

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Did you Yeah? I'm from South Africa originally and.

Speaker 9 (04:52):
Right?

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Can you find this feat more unpleasant?

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Because the So African heating from most parts it gets
really hot, like it gets thy through the greens, but
mostly it's not humid. Yea, it burnses skin, but you
don't feel uncom if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, So that's what I was wondering about. I was
wondering if Hamilton heat is like Walton heat where it's
humid and your shirt sticks to you. So it does
like that? Is it?

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (05:18):
I am?

Speaker 5 (05:19):
I went from home mostly and I've got my office
is sort of converted from the garage and I don't
have egg on there, and it is just even though
I've got to breathe like a draft going through the wind.
The air that comes in is so hot, so you
just sort like a thing. So there is the beer
is beer the only thing that helps.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
So there is a bit of a breeze coming through.
Was there, It's not still.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
Not not much at the moment. I make sure a
round at the moment and it is beats fill at
the moment. It's muggy and hot, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
And Georgie very much, because thank you. We're talking about
the heat. Describe the heat in Hamilton, Marcus, bloody hot
in Hamilton?

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Are right?

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Scorching hot grass? What grass? All brown off? Not even
the weeds have survived hot hot like desert heat has
no sea breeze. We've had a couple of heat storms
of the evening. It's often like this at this time
of the year. Wow, So Hamilton's like unpleasantly hot. Create
a white cutto bitter on a bucket of ice, probably
solved in hot Hamilton. Hasn't been a good summer in

(06:21):
a Hawk's Bay. It's been stupid hot. Trying to mark
a football pitchs become harder and harder. It's so unbelievably uncomfortable.
I never thought I'd be in all my days, I'd
be on the air talking about how hot it Wasn't
Hamilton always felt neither that hot or that cold? What

(06:41):
about the public baths? Are they baths with kids running
and jump? I mean, where do you go when it's hot?
Des swim in the lake? Super dry heat? Bean at
this the last few summers. Great for the tomatoes, yes,
But the thing about tomatoes, once the tomatoes can grow,
they're giving them away at the supermarket. You can't win
with tomatoes. You cannot win. You go on a holiday,

(07:04):
you forget to water them. You come, actor, Marcus, pressure cooker, Marcus.
What year was the previous hottest temperature in Hamilton?

Speaker 4 (07:13):
This year?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
How about the heat? Described the heat? Get in touch?
How's that heat? It's been pleasant where I have been,
it's been eighteen degrees. Although I sort of was worrying
about the sheep having enough past you today started feeding
them some sheep nuts. I'm not quite sure the wisdom

(07:36):
of that funny old words sheep nuts, isn't it. I'd
call them something else, like, yeah, sheip nuts. I'm increasing
the flock from two to three. Yep. Oh, I'm putting
the ram in. It's down the bottom Pandic was one

(08:00):
we started on the bottle, but it's a bit too
so worried about that because sort of it's a bit
too I don't think identifies as a sheep identifies as
a humans. I'm slightly concerned about it after the bad
ram stories. But we'll see how it goes. I haven't
meanged to catch it yet to get to the top
Paddic upper Hut's been off the chain markers. Suit would
be hot and upper hut. Wouldn't it be like a cauldron? Mary?

Speaker 7 (08:23):
Yeah, it's pretty not in Hamilton, but I'm in Cambridge
at the moment. Do my Valentine's Day anyway, Hamilton, when
you get hot as you go to the Lake Carpiro
and jump in the lake. Go find the lake, jumping
the lake, probably not jumping Lake Carpira. It's the place

(08:43):
to go.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Are they good public baths in Hamilton.

Speaker 7 (08:50):
There's one with a hydran slide. I'm just trying to
think of the name of.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
It because you never hear about it. It's never on
social media. It's going to Hamilton for the water park.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
Yeah, yeah, there's I should know the name of it.
And there's a very expensive tracking the escape part it's
quite nice. And then there's amot of amount of pools
and they are a bit more nostalgic to the last entry.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Okay, I see today in the paper that the one
hot pools are for sale. You don't you're planning a
change of career, are you.

Speaker 10 (09:26):
Well?

Speaker 7 (09:28):
My kids go there when they go to Camp Red Runs.
I've been a camp leader there a few times. And
always when you're in the pool there, it always feels
like the pubs, it feels like it's going to be
an earthquake and the pub's going to fall off as
piles in this land and in the pool sort of
leaning over towards the pool as they do, so it
feels like you could jump out of the window of

(09:48):
the part of land and the main pool is monesty.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
So what are your coping? It is hot for you,
is it, Marty?

Speaker 11 (09:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (09:54):
So we've got sprinklers on the cow shed roof. Yes,
I've got roof sprinklers. And then we go, oh, we
pretty much go down to the lake at lunchtime. We're
quite close to at the tea row end or yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Do you run it? Do you run a thermometer and
you shed what temperatures are getting up. I don't want to.
I'm not I'm not doing on the animal cruelty consuns.
I've just if you've got if you've got water on
the roof, because you're on in there in the morning
and night, don't you. But you must be worried in.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
The morning night. But our roof is quite alone in
its north facings. On a hot day, we don't milk
until five at night or four point thirty, and usually
usually we get a bit of bread off the lake
by then. Yeah, and if not, I've got my sprinkless
of stumbah.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Is it for the cows or for the workers?

Speaker 7 (10:42):
As for the cows, yeah, because yeah, they cows don't
like it above twenty three They stop eating at twenty
three degrees. So so yeah, So on a hot day,
I'm trying to choose a panic with lots of trees
in it and good water cross. Yeah. So I'll save
up a shady paddic for the hot days, and then
at night I'll put them in a panic of no trees,

(11:03):
because doesn't matter so much then.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
And when you say they don't eat that, they're not
eating in the ship out. They're eating the panic before
they come on the ship.

Speaker 7 (11:12):
Yeah yeah, and they just don't like that. Our neighbor
has got these special breed of Jersey cows and here
re cans are heat they called silky jerseys, and here
recons they can keep going in hot condition. It's like
the new it's like the new breed of dairy cow
for global warming.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Mary Marty, Such a neighbor cow bregger bragging about a
special cows. They want to get off the grouse. That's
crazy onto something.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
Well, they might go good and good in Australia or
Saudi Arabia because I trying to do very far, which
I wouldn't recommend.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
You should. But you should have solar panels on your roof,
shouldn't you.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
Yes, Well, if the power gets in your highle for
thinking about it, that's for sure, get on.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Get some of those. It's never been cheaper. Hey, we're
in the dairy sweet spot the way.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
Oh yeah, white gold and it's a double tend. I'm
just here thinking out double ten dollars this year and
ten dollars next year. Show me the money, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
It'll be three weeks in Fiji, will it.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Ah?

Speaker 7 (12:27):
Well, the thank yous around here at the Hamilton Airport
is going to cool them together. So we'll be we'll
be three weeks and probably on the Gold coast again.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Wow with how many kids?

Speaker 7 (12:41):
I think the older two. We only took six last time.
It might take eight this time.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
That is white gold. If you if there's a family
of ten going to cool and gether, that really is the.

Speaker 7 (12:55):
And we all get on the bass and it's gonna
be great.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Brilliant Marty, thank you. There we go, Goshel like goodness
me see. So it's hot out this heat, best summer
ever in Hawk Bay, bluebirds days every day, cool breeze,
early mid twenties, best ever, the best go Someone's got
to chip on the show having a Hawk's Bay Marcus.

(13:19):
I love Hamilton's but cheap is All we can do
is talk about how hot it is. You have to
find a high school pool or got a raglan to swarm.
It's awful, oppressive at night, sweating in bed? What what's
with Hamilton? While they saw it on the back foot.
When it comes to good pools, it's all about biking
bridges in the botanic garden, didn't it? And getting florid

(13:40):
out of the water. Where's your pools? That's what you want?
You want a fantastic pool complex. That's the answer, poor Rold, Madam,
and take the kids to cook. They ll end up
just at water World, won't where they go water World
or I don't even know what they do over there.

(14:02):
I've never been to cool and Getta anyway has not
going people? How about that heat and Hamilton? Ah? What
could we be? The new name nickname for Hamilton as
chet gpt A, I Dad, what's what's that? What's the

(14:23):
good nickname for Hamilton? Has become really hot? I'll say
Hottleton or something, won't be terrible. We're talking about Sizzleton.
Twenty eight degrees today. It's the hottest it's ever been
shared the previous records eleven days in the row hasn't
gone below twenty seven the high jeepers, creepers, flim flam
will was his name? Flim flam riff raff. What's the
guy's statue called? He'll be melting? What's his name? Francis Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 6 (14:49):
You know Marcus?

Speaker 3 (14:50):
You just want to have a chat about the heat
and Hamilton.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yes, how about that heat?

Speaker 11 (14:55):
Yeah yeah, no, it's.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Don't don't get me wrong, it's really really warm. But
it's really good, but I've seen horror and Hamilton. I've
seen moving to the thirties thirty one, thirty two three,
so I have seen it warmer. But don't get me wrong,
it's very warm. But when it actually starts to creep
over thirty in Hamilton, then it becomes debilitating because it
is a very hot, heavy heat. And I've been to

(15:18):
a lot of heat around the world. I've been to
Egypt once is fifty five degrees, but it is a
very dry heat. But it was pre debilitating. I was
in Sydney once and that was forty three degrees, and
even the Sydney its were like, yeah, you're basicallydn't leave
your house, you know. And as far as sort of
places to swim in there, and Hamilton's quite a lot
of young people. They'll go down the river and they'll

(15:39):
jump into the river, but a lot of people are
sort of bit worry about that. I sort of sawat's
in the river all sorts, but you know, sometimes they
float down the river on the little rafts and that
and something.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
They have a lot of fun there.

Speaker 12 (15:49):
But yeah, they're right.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
There's not really a lot of sort of watering holes
in Hamilton. There is I think it's called water World
down Tarapa. There's quite a big sort of water park,
water Wheld. I've never been there myself. I just get
inside and turn on the eck on, you know, the
old heat pump, and I think about the other day
and you already know this. To airic on your house
is considerably cheaper than to heat your house. Solf just

(16:12):
be full in my boots.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Brilliant and if you're right too, because I mean it
clearly gets a lot hotter than Auckland, because Auckland doesn't
get hot twenty six twenty seven, because it's maritime, it's
by the sea. You don't get those sort of hot
days there. But it seems like Hamilton once it kicks on,
it really kicks on.

Speaker 9 (16:27):
It does.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, Hamilton's quite interesting. And are also just very very
cold in the winter. Yeah, got down too negative four.
And I've you know, been in sort of all those
ranges and yeah, yeah, very very freezing and very warm.

Speaker 7 (16:40):
It's because it's.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Effectively in like a valley and a base in Hamilton.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
And so often I've been driving down the country, like
early in the morning and you're heading across the Bomb
Bay and coming down towards Hamilton has just covered and missed.
You know, it gets very very misty and foggy, does
it as well?

Speaker 11 (16:56):
It does?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, Yeah, it's kind of its own little kind of
whirl Hamilton in that sense. I mean obviously, you know,
sort of Cambridge and that sort of some of the
sort of climates, but yeah, Hamilton sort of has its
own thing there. But I mean, hey, look, I don't
want to debate the weather the weather people who do
the weather and that, but you know how you look
on your phone or say twenty seven twenty eight.

Speaker 13 (17:18):
And so forth.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
I've looked at that. But I'm sure that I've been
warm in Hamilton. I'm sure it's been in the thirties before.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
But I think that's just I think the headline is
it's the most days in a row where it's been
really hot, the longest, the longest continuous stretch of days
that are above twenty eight degrees.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeh, yeah, that makes sense. So there has been brilliant
and when it is twenty seven twenty eight, thinking wrong,
it's warm, but it's nice, you know, it's it's sort
of bearable. It's it's just been it's just been brilliant,
really in Hamilton. But you know, last year was rubbish.
You know, it was sort of just it was just
one minute, sort of rainy and a bit cold, and
it's been warmer. Year was no good. So but this

(17:59):
has been great.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
And you're up the river at Luxe or somewhere it
was fifty five well as.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
One value of that Queens oh.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, okay, the Valley of the Queens had yeah, Valley
of the Queens.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah yeah, and started in the morning because it's quite
chilly in the morning, so I had my tracke is
on everything, and by by midday it was yeah, it
was really you know, take everything off. It was just
redictless warm. But that was a warm but it's quite funny.
It was such five degrees it was still sort of
not too bad. I think the worst of it had
really was in Sydney when it was forty three degrees.

(18:35):
I've also been to Vietnam as well that was really
really really warm and humid as well. So yeah, that's
from my travel stories when it's been really warm.

Speaker 14 (18:44):
Good.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
I appreciate you. That's a good self revealed Francis. I
think you've read clear with the information. I've enjoyed all
of that Sydney, Egypt, Vietnam. I love Hamilton. I never
I never. I've never known Hamilton to be hot. I've
never thought they had a scorching summer, but I've never
really experienced Hamilton the summer. Apart from our short break

(19:07):
on the bus. It's on the list next year. Just
so you know, people that involved with the eight to
twelve family, The Bogonia House is very important to the
show because we have both my family and Dan's family
have been there together first time for both of us.
So when we talk about the Bigonia House, we know
where it is. I can't quite remember what kind of

(19:31):
totally remember what we ate, but anyway, kid, that was unwell,
But yeah, anyway, there we go. I'm re excited about
the Bogonia House. By the way, sometimes they walk past
people's gardens, are obsessed with Bigonia's. Boy, they get the
Bigonia bug bed, don't they, jeepers. They're an obsessive breed.
You see your gardens. They've got hundreds of damn Bigonias

(19:53):
all look the same? Are they from the mind? I
might have that CONFU might have that confused with another plant,
and I think I'm talking about bigonias anyway. Oh eight
hundred and eighty to Taddy and nineteen nine to detect
one of the Marcus welcome kid on midnight Hamilton in
the heat? How about that heat. It's a good thing

(20:14):
about being Hamilton because you've got a good conversation starter. Okay, Sheryl, Ja,
how are you coping with that hate?

Speaker 15 (20:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh jay ah, spare me days. Never seen never experienced
heat like it, jeepers, That's how the conversations would go.
Oh eight hundred eighty teny and nine to two. Knowine
to detect Marcus till midnight? Fancy having to water the
roof of your shed? Oh, Marty, sounds like he's got

(20:46):
happy cows. Ooh, get in touch Marcus till midnight. Oh
eight hundred and eighty. It's all about the heat in Hamilton.
And why haven't they got decent polls? Sort it out, Mia,
sort it out, counselors. If you're getting into the thirties,
that's what you want. You want a great pool because

(21:07):
you got my beaches. That's the thing. If you're in land,
your judy bound to have the best pools in the country.
I'm looking at you, Palmerston North and Hamilton Inland good pools.
Why haven't they done? That would be the third biggest
inland city in New Zealand. You'd go Hamilton, Palmerston North.

(21:29):
Then where would you go? Queenstown, ash Burton? Would you go?
I don't know where you go Inland, Marcus. I remember
being in Edinburgh one summer when the temperature hit ten degrees.
What a celebration that day was Addington Greyhounds tonight have
stopped the lies, stop the ban on the starting box.

(21:52):
I wonder what lies they mean. Yeah, I'll tell you
what I did when I was here. I no, I
won't go there, but I will talk about the dog
band sometime. Marcus. Been scorching here in Taranak is will
average twenty four every day in Stratford. It's been the

(22:15):
best Marlon season off your Plymouth for years. Roll on,
Hamilton no longer gets the fold. That's the surrounding areas.
It's always hot every summer. The only difference in the
past few weeks is that no breeze coming from Ragland
to cool things down. Dear Marcus, unbearably hot Marcus name

(22:40):
for Hamilton humor trin not two is all right? That's
all right. Humidtown. I think Sizzle Town's probably better minded.
People know what you're talking about. Ooh, get in touch.
By name is Marcus welcome. It's all about the Heaton Hamilton. Oh,
by the way too, just wouldn't mind blooding another topic.

(23:01):
I'm not entirely sure how to approach it, but I'm
still about the Heaton Hamilton. Just thinking about Nikola Willis.
They're going to get serious about letting a third competitor
come in to the supermarket Jowopoly. Good luck with that

(23:28):
because you imagine probably if it would stack up for
a third person, that would have already happened. So I'll
have to change the playing field for that. That's a
overseas investment. Probably deal with that. Look, I don't have
a problem with that. I think it's going to be
great if someone else comes in. If it's the old
three way, that's going to be much much better. You

(23:49):
might want to mention that. I don't fully know how
o'fay you are with supermarkets. We spend a lot of
time in them, but if one becomes, if there's one
that goes much much cheaper. Marcus Hamilton, Pete Heat not Hamilton,
Pete Hamilton Heat apparently the official temperature is out at

(24:11):
the Hamilton Airport two meters above the ground. But in
the urban area and certainly in the Road To region
that might need a spell check that Road to region.
Is it rural? Yeah, in the Road to Region, we've

(24:32):
seen temperatures range between thirty and thirty one and a half.
So the way they've got the thermometer, they're underreporting how
hot it is. Cheapest rode Vegas seventy topl forty two
yeaes topal got bigged in it forty two thousand. Goodness,

(24:56):
go hot tron. They're calling again, can they not swim
in the river or the lake. I think you can
swim in the river or the lake, but I think
you do see about people drowning in the lake, so
that kind of makes you under about that. Marcus. We
have a brand new start of the weather station in
Upper Hut it's just down the street. We've had a hit.
We've had it hot, but usually much hotter in the thirties,

(25:17):
have a lock. It's been interesting for our we city
Willenton severe weather reports. Marcus. We have the Warriors playing
Melbourne in the tro and on Saturday it's going to
be hot. Hot hot. By the way, I sympathized with
that texta that texted through where they say it's thirty
and thirty one and a half is rote it tuna?

(25:37):
So yeah, Google's not good with the old Maori words
and the old spell checks. So that's why they texted
through road to Calvin Marcus, welcome, very.

Speaker 16 (25:46):
Good eating to your Marcus. She has in the tron
and helmet here on Saturday is the part Classic Athletics.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (25:54):
And I remember in recent years wasn't very long ago
at a two day athletic meeting and on the weekend
one day was thirty and the next one was the
next day was thirty one. But this our hottest has
been thirty. But we've had lots and lots and lots
of twenty nine's and twenty eighths.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Has it been unpleasant?

Speaker 17 (26:14):
No?

Speaker 16 (26:15):
Lovely?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Really?

Speaker 16 (26:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Are you going to go to the Port Classic?

Speaker 16 (26:22):
Yep? I won't be competing though.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Jeezh Will Sam Ruth be running?

Speaker 12 (26:31):
Well?

Speaker 18 (26:31):
Who Sam Ruth?

Speaker 2 (26:33):
He's the toto on a teenager that's been breaking all
the records. He's a fifteen hundred runner that's broken the
world record age group.

Speaker 16 (26:39):
I haven't got the program yet. But I would imagine
more than likely because it's the White Caddow Bay of plenty.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, well that you might see a bit of history there.
He might be the youngest guy to go sub four.
Is it a mile or even got the pron if
it's a mile or a fifteen hundred?

Speaker 16 (26:57):
No, but I see I heard a few days ago
on news talks that'd be the next Comwealth Game has
got a mile race? And it is it?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
For goodness sake?

Speaker 4 (27:08):
I wonder why they were, well.

Speaker 16 (27:11):
Just for a bit and make a bit of intrigue.
I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
We're going to have another Commonwealth Games. Where's that going
to be Scotland?

Speaker 16 (27:24):
No one, no, just my tired brain was the heat
has forgotten now?

Speaker 12 (27:28):
But you love it.

Speaker 16 (27:31):
It's only it's only about ten different events.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Evidently it's a short it's I peered back. Is Hamilton
underrepresented with good swimming pools?

Speaker 16 (27:45):
That's what I was going to say, now quite a
few years ago now probably, Well I'm eighty three, so
it could have been when I was in the twenties
or whatever, there was a hot pool here in Hamilton
and Frankton, in fact, only two or three streets away
from where I live. It was a private one in
people's backyard.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
You know, I have seen pictures of that was.

Speaker 16 (28:07):
A reasonably it was about the size of a double
or triple garage, that sort of measurement. You know, it
wasn't extra big.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
But there's there's not a good public swimming bars where
all the kids gravitate to on a hot day.

Speaker 16 (28:25):
No, Well, the beautiful old municipal which we used to
call them UNI's was down the south end of the
main street, not far from the police station. That was
all what do you call it, well destroyed removed anyway,
But our main swimming pool at Tiapa at the opposite
end of the tron I remember a few years ago

(28:45):
they were talking about having Commonwealth Games in New Zealand,
and you know they could have a couple of things
at Auckland and a couple of things in Hamilton, and
they were thinking about holding the swimming in Hamilton. And
from what I can recall, Marcus, when they when they
measured the swimming pool, it was a quarter inch undersize

(29:11):
undersize to be able to have it, but they never
had it anyway.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Well, now that happened to many coats of plaster or something.

Speaker 16 (29:22):
Yeah, it could have been as somebody sneeze when they're
holding a tape measure.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
The crickets have the crickets kicked in yet.

Speaker 16 (29:29):
The cricket what the little insects?

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah? Sometimes in Hamilton we've we've got definitely amounts of crickets,
but I can't hear them in your background.

Speaker 16 (29:38):
Well, cicadas might be thinking of No, we did cicadas
last night.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
We were about seven years ago. The cricket twent made.
It was all, it was all anyone could talk about.

Speaker 16 (29:48):
Remember, I remember a few. I remember a few years
ago one winter's day when I was down at the
Nepple courts watching Neple on a Saturday. All of the
courts were literally covered with little black sort of beetle
things about a bit. They're a bit the size of
green peas.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (30:10):
Yeah, it was a stranger phenomenon. I don't know where
they came from, but they were heather and thither around
the city.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Will you go see the worries in the weekend? Calvin
after the Parrot Games now closed, mind fifteen away from nine,
New Zealand's largest in lengths inlands city with the largest
man made lake. David as Marcus.

Speaker 13 (30:33):
Good evening, am I guess there're going to think, David,
the crickets have arrived around.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Great, okay, that's good to know. It is per normal time.

Speaker 19 (30:46):
Eh yeah, I think so.

Speaker 13 (30:49):
Yeah, and the like it is so it is hot,
the flying anywhere? Yeah, oh hedris or two as least
we're at the ac on from a.

Speaker 19 (30:59):
Date dirty.

Speaker 8 (31:02):
Like that.

Speaker 13 (31:03):
So I've been in there dead on.

Speaker 19 (31:04):
Clients will.

Speaker 13 (31:06):
Swimming, swimming marks on the seats and all that stuff,
you know, swinging T shirts and.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
What happens to people with long hair, normally women? Why
do they all go always going about the here in
the summer? Is it nothing? Does it just still cool up?
Does it?

Speaker 7 (31:25):
Well?

Speaker 13 (31:25):
The shirt? Well, the heat does make a physy and stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
But okay, that's what happens, I wondered, Yeah, okay, because
I see people on Facebook saying, oh this heat, I
can't do it with my hair and that.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (31:37):
What the science was? Yeah, oil, the oil and stuffles
came down with training irons.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Oh yeah, straightening. The straightening irons would just dried out more,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 13 (31:50):
We put protect the heats and oil and stuff on.
So it's that's good, okay.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Is it unpleasantly hot and your cell on you can
get it cooled down enough.

Speaker 13 (32:01):
Yeah, well that's AC is good. But if it wasn't,
we'll sell on a new new AC. But it wasn't
very good. And just yet when they'll stand up your
legs and yeah bumb and on the seat. So it
is that hot, but if you're good as okay.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, it's what everyone's doing.

Speaker 13 (32:22):
When it's windy. It's at its heat and the windows
at the moment. But it's not unpleasant.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
But it's what everyone's talking about, is it.

Speaker 13 (32:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, we can't. We can't say
all of us in here.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Not dear from you, dad, You take care night away
from nine. Marc is till twelve really all about the
hate and Hamilton had no idea it got that hot.
Cheapers Hamilton and the heat A Marcus Lake in the
Hurleyville Marcus google that talking about critics. Marcus are Slater
is still around. It's a very good question. I still

(33:03):
see slaters in the woodpile when I was a child
forty odd years ago. They're always around in Timberly Upper Hut.
I still live here, but don't see them around anymore. Yes,
Slaters I don't know what to say about. I hope
they get a good crowd for the Warriors on Saturday.

(33:23):
They're playing Melbourne the Storm in Hamilton. I don't know
what the NFL can do about the preseason games to
make the more competitive. They kind of go against form,
don't they. I don't know what that's about, but it
should be good. Melbourne Storm class out Marcus Hotter Antiquity.

(33:48):
We are lucky out as we don't suffer carfumes. Hamilton
is very bad with the swill of the carfumes. Rosemary,
Thanks Rosey. We talking about the heat and Hamilton. How
are you coping? Does it feel hotter? Beverly's emailed today

(34:08):
at three point thirty It was thirty six point six
in our back deck in Eureka, Hamilton. Thank goodness for
ac Marcus. The Napier Deco Festival starts to row two
cruise ships in town eight and twenty one people on
two ships including passengers and crew, Big Day Evation of

(34:31):
the Seas and wester Dam. Do get in touch. My
name is Marcus. Welcome. We are talk about the Heaton
Hamilton and you. It's been ten it's the hottest, it's
the longest run of hot temperatures ever on record, Hi, Marcus.

(34:55):
Hawks Bay has been considerably cooler this year. Lower sea
temperatures sit re gen. Yes, a number of people are
telling me that, I'm not quite sure what causes that.
I don't know why Hamilton will be so hot and
Hawk's Bay would have cooled. But of course Hamilton is
a long way away from that maritime And how far
would Hamilton be from the sea, would it be thirty

(35:17):
k's I guess it'd be about that. I don't know
the distance from off off off my heart, but you
get your texts through if you want to text, get
your calls. So if you want to cool here till twelve,
how's the price of gold? A through the roof five

(35:40):
thousand an ounce? Ire in the West coast is going
to have a gold rush? They reckon Central Otago is
going to have a gold rush. Of course why he's
going to have a gold rush as well. So not
quite sure how much duty they pay on every ounce
that they mind and probably discoverable. Hit'll twelve mon, name

(36:04):
is Marcus. Welcome And if you want to talk about
the supermarkets. Often governments come to power and say they're
going to break the dyopoly. No one's managed to do it.
The Warehouse tried, but I don't know what happened to
the warehouse. It seems as though once they tried to

(36:29):
get into groceries, they lost focus on everything else. And
that hasn't gone down so well because now it seems
as though they are just struggling to survive. Am I
right there? It's kind of the vibe I get. I
wouldn't mind from someone to cover off the whole supermarket

(36:51):
thing with the third competitor coming to the supermarkets. I
don't think that's going to happen. It's easy for the
government to say we're going to encourage someone to come,
but it's just talk it. Where's the plan when you're
talking about this? For years it was going to be
the Supermarket Commission to stop them not being competitive, But

(37:18):
nothing's happened anyway. Um, Marcus, forty five k's from Hamilton
to Raglan, Thank you. A lot of people are looking
at Slaters A lot of a good text. Actually, Marcus,
the warehouse is good for buying eggs cheap thirty bucks

(37:39):
a tray was that say, a tray of thirty ten bucks?
There's an extra dollar sign in there, Marcus. I grew
up in a mccardinal's seventies. Lots of Slaters lived on
the bricks down our driveway. My mother would always tell
myself and my brother's stories about Sammy Slater every night

(38:00):
when we were young. One of my brothers is called
Sam hence the Sammy Slater stories. The stories she told
were just gorgeous. Have started doing the same to my kids.
They've never seen a Slater though in their life, don't
see them in Auckland much. What's happened to the slaters? Marcus?
A half ounce gold nugget has been found on the

(38:23):
Rakaiah Gorge. People go to the gorge with the metal
detectors and there are videos of people panning gold at
the gorge on YouTube. Gold can be found in the
Hope and way Our rivers in North Canterbury. Many years ago,
Zara Phillips gave me the glad Eye at the Blues
Bar in christ Church. Marcus Craig Edwards here something weather related.

(38:48):
I flew back from Sydney dal And to Aukland. The
flight took fifteen minutes longer due to a two kilometer
an hour tailwind. The captain mentioned how unusual it was,
as normally they would have a tail wind from australiags
to New Zealand of around one hundred and fifty klometers
per hour, so one of the hottest and coldest spots.
And he's in his home Renewe, sitting in a gully

(39:10):
out of the wind. I grew up there and quite
often our attempts were four to five degrees hotter or
cooler than the next closest temp around the country. The
other thing that we've never talked about right here's a
topic alert and I don't quite know where this topic
will go, Manuka honey, what are your thoughts on that?

Speaker 4 (39:34):
I know?

Speaker 2 (39:35):
For so long we've heard about cases of people trying
to trying to kind of get patents on it so
other people can't copy it. And what a great boon
it's been for New Zealand and people sitting beehives and
stuff like that. And you see people tourists mainly from
China buying up Manuka, honey, is it something you use

(39:58):
and what do you find it good for? Because I
suspect there are a lot of things that we hear
claims for that are probably over blowing and don't work out.
I imagine Manuka Honey is probably one of those things

(40:18):
that does everything people say it does. So I'm not
quite sure where we want to go with that as
a topic, but honey and Manuka Honey, I'd be very
keen for some calls on. I don't want to throw
too many topics that you because you guys are quite
easy distracted topic wise tonight. But if that's something you
want to mention, I think this is the show for
that too tonight. Marcus my Son is working in human

(40:38):
Northwestern Australia, right in the middle of the path of
the cyclone. He services heavy machinery. Makes a dad a
bit nervous hate it, Noel, George Napier. I'm sure he's
very good at in safe hand. But thank you lines
free Manuka honey and the heat and Hamilton and Slaters
and supermarkets. Four topics too many, Richard, it is Marcus,

(40:59):
Welcome to you.

Speaker 5 (41:03):
I've got two things.

Speaker 20 (41:04):
I've got what story a a Lucas story yep. And
I've got a fat story. Well I'm not a slat
of story, but something about flavors by Manuka story okay, icept.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, I love what's happening Richard, I was driving that
was can you can you talk? Can you talk into
the phone not be hands free?

Speaker 11 (41:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (41:47):
Yeah, hang on, I will do that.

Speaker 5 (41:49):
Now it's pull over full of.

Speaker 9 (41:54):
Minuka story.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
You know, there's like night and day Richard. Wow, that's
so much better.

Speaker 21 (41:59):
Yet, at a place and a Heaven colleague who had diabetes,
and he ended up with a an ulcer on his
leg about the size of an old fifty cent piece.
The thing just wouldn't go away for absolute month, and
I suggested that he used Manuka honey. And we're in
a week of using the Nuka honey, swathering it on

(42:21):
the altar, the ulcer was gone. I was unbelieved. So,
you know, in terms of doing what people say, it
does absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
I think with cuts and anything like that, it is
as good as anything. And I don't think, you know,
I think that's probably sort of the medicos have backed
that up.

Speaker 15 (42:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I mean it has got those what's it called anti
bacteria properties or something. It just seems unbelievable. Oh cheap
as creepers. The colter dropping off, Sort yourselves out. We'll
get them back this he said, the Curtesy to call back. Yeah,

(43:04):
so yeah, I think it just has straordinary properties. I
think that's one of those things I wouldn't mind kind
of advocating for. It seems pretty good.

Speaker 9 (43:13):
Absolutely, I must still back.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
On yep, it's marks here and you got any you
go and.

Speaker 9 (43:19):
Slater thing, so it's a weird thing. In sex form
biology we learned all about the slater. So two types
of slater, Armadillian Vulgari and Porcelio skaber. The armadillion one
is the one that rolls into a little ball, and
we used to see them all the time in my
garden in Auckland. Never see them nowadays. I can't remember

(43:40):
the last time I saw slater. So that's all I
know about slaters. But yeah, that's that's why.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
I guy Richard. Is it because as children we spent
our whole time playing in wood piles and we're out
there more and we're not as adults. Is that what
it is? Or you think they have disappeared?

Speaker 9 (43:56):
No, you know what I think it is. I think
I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a heat,
more skinks and lizards than we've ever had before, and
we've actually been overtaken by our South Aft and England
we've been overtaken by a South African lizard, and I
think the lizards pre date on the on the slated,
So I just think it's just an important pest that's

(44:20):
weaken a bit of habit on our ecosystem.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Nice to hear from a rich and I appreciate your
courtesy for calling back. That's more than I could ever
hope for anyone to call back like that, to go
hands free, to go off hands free, and then come
on and just call back. That's just I know much
about Slaters. I googled it up and it's given me
a whole biography of Christian Slater. It's a different thing.

(44:48):
Diane Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 18 (44:50):
Yes, I'm just talking about sets of markets over in Australia.
They had a new super market and it's really good
over there. They know they had the extra you know,
like you get a large kind of.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Say I love its.

Speaker 18 (45:09):
Yeah, I know, well you're over there. You buy them
for a dollar dollar ten four hundred and twenty g
one of those ones, not a one hundred and fifty
year and there was much more, you know, the products
were far cheap of them. But I don't know whether
the politicians since are having us on just saying it

(45:30):
for the sake of it and think, oh wow, it
keeps us in power for another year. Do you know
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (45:37):
I think I think, look, Dane, I think they're certainly
trying to give us false hope to make out because
they haven't betted inflation or prices. They're trying to say, look,
we're doing everything we can. We're going to bring another
supermarket person. But you know, in thisast you've actually had
meetings with people and you're down that path. I mean,
you've been there for eighteen months. Yeah, you want to
see them doing You want to see them saying here.

(45:58):
You know, we still have got the plan for the theory,
but we want to see them saying, look, here is
what we've planned. The boss of ALDI says that we
might be able to come and start building supermarkets in
five years something like that.

Speaker 18 (46:08):
That's what it was, ELDI said, the one over in Australia.

Speaker 8 (46:12):
I've been and.

Speaker 18 (46:13):
Yeah, they're worth it. For the ordinary man in the street,
they'd quite appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah, that's what we want. We want Aldi, and I
think they've already said it's no good for them because
we're not big.

Speaker 18 (46:22):
Enough oh, well, I know, and that what was it
in the Gold Coast it's really good and down by, Yeah,
I went. I went there with my sister in law
when she was she shifted her and her husband and
shifted to where the kids are. So they've gone off
somewhere else now. But with the eldie stores we certainly

(46:45):
visited and bought from. I couldn't believe. It was just,
you know, nothing, nothing as cheap as over in Aussie.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Nothing.

Speaker 18 (46:53):
Everything's dear or here.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Yep, you know, I can't even think of anything that's
cheaper here.

Speaker 18 (47:00):
Oh I can't. Three dollars is what you get for
tomatoes and you only get six or see then it's
about the cheapest. Or you can get ten one switched
at cheaper dollar twenty something or other and out of
a ten all the.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Way from Italyst. Diane, thank you, nineteen past nine. Good evening.
If you want slaters to get along with good thick bark,
let it ride over time. You'll find loads living under
the bark. They'll eventually through and decompose the log. Marcus.
I live in the Wakata and I've noticed we never
see tadpoles anymore. These to be everywhere like the slaters.
I think your river cart probably taking out the teddies,

(47:36):
are they Marcus. Monica honey is definitely a great product,
especially lemon and honey drink. Never heat above forty otherwise
it'll destroy its health properties. Marcus. The warehouse have been
in the red for quite some time. I reckon five

(47:58):
plus years. There's no way that having a handful of
customers scattered around a giant store would financially be enough
to cover basic costline staff rent. Marketing came out on
the other hand, as customers customer quantities like Christmas every
day even until midnight. I don't love Kmart. I always

(48:19):
find their products.

Speaker 22 (48:22):
I what it does.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
I don't feel the love for Kmart. Find it quite depressing. Marcus.
I have slate as they go inside my rat bait stations.
Need on my rat baits. They thrive on this stuff, Marcus.
Eastgate Warehouse and christ is is good because they have

(48:44):
big plants in a gardening section. Check us here from
the tron two topic crossovers. Yes, it's true. Haven't seen
a slater here for years or a frost. The weather
and the animals have changed. I use Manuka honey on
all my cuts and open wounds. It really does work

(49:06):
where well Kerry works well, works quickly, Marcus, Hamilton Heat.
They need more cool people. And the slaters have headed
to Australia. I love your show mate, brilliant run the
sweet spot, Hamilton and Marnu Gamy. There you go, There
you go, Joe beat Catcher. Oh any of the supermarkets

(49:31):
two past nine. If you've got breaking news, do know
what it is? They might be cavalcades of cops heading somewhere,
or whales strandings. Slaters live in my worm farm. This
is what people saying. That's not me saying something I
never worm farm didn't realize it. The slater is the woodlouse.

(49:53):
It's the same thing as the woodlouse or the woodpig
as it's called in Wales. Nate, Marcus, Hello, and good evening.

Speaker 19 (50:01):
Okay, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 7 (50:02):
Nate?

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Thank you?

Speaker 17 (50:04):
Hey?

Speaker 19 (50:04):
You Look at my law and his wife co own
a Manuka first aid company called First Honey.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Yes.

Speaker 19 (50:14):
So the company started in the Marston where my sister
laws brother and his wife runners. But then my brother
in law and his wife and over in Nashville, Tennessee
in the States where they they take the honey and
their vantages is such over to the States, and then
they distributed around the States. It's becoming really really popular

(50:37):
over there that all their products are now in every
Walmart in the States.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
What is their product is it? Is it just honey
in a pot? Or is it in bandages and dressings?

Speaker 7 (50:47):
It's a whole.

Speaker 19 (50:47):
Mixture of stuff. So yeah, so someone something they'll have
a burn honey, which is like it's like a gel.
They'll have bandage dressings, they'll have literally just somethings that's
just honey and a stick. But it's been being curated,
you know, differently to Howard is a section coming from
popular They're now starting the market pets as well.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
So honey, I'm kind of fascinated by this because they
would have had a huge mountain to climb to get
the awareness out there, because I'm sure the Americans don't
know about monucure at all. What did they do? Did
they to influencers are advertising or do they get some
high in people to do it for them?

Speaker 19 (51:27):
Yes, So my brother in law used to be in
the music industry, used to you know, so so what
wasn't listen to that that he used that as his
he's also trying to he just has a guest to
the gap. He can talk to people being a key
his fault a little bit more relaxed and such in
the American way of doing things. Yes, so he he

(51:51):
just yeah, he just said he's literally at the start,
it was literally just all of it was just going
if he were taking them the product, giving them try it,
kind of getting them to kind of just understand what
and all about why Manuca honey is different up to
the more honey and touch and because his wife and
and and her brother both grew up on a farm.

(52:12):
I find a honey farm and yeah, and the parents
were just like, well there, if there's a burner, there's
a cant you just put honey on it. Said, she
just grew up and that was normal. So when they
went were actually was something in this it's yeah, and
they think it's going way bigger than they ever thought.
So the funny thing is that barely just come from
over in Asia, I think Japan and China, and then

(52:35):
they get shipped to New Zealand where the Minicha honey
from Marsterton then gets put onto them, then shipped over
to Florida and then Florida. They take traps from Florida
to Nasfold where there getsted out from there.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
It's a big company now night is it.

Speaker 19 (52:50):
Oh, it's a way. So they've actually now built a
because the only factually that they had was in Marston.
So if you're in when tied into Boston from the south,
just as you come off the main road, you'll see
their their buildings like their first honey. But it's getting
to the stage here. They've actually now built a factory
in Nashville as well, so they're starting to you know,

(53:12):
so they get to exports of raw honey and such
to them and then they can.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Do some of the work as well.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Because as I'm talking to you, I'm wondering if there
are other honeys around the world to do with other
countries botany that have the same powers. So you know,
if that's the case or is it not the case.

Speaker 9 (53:32):
For well, I don't know.

Speaker 19 (53:32):
I mean, let's just I suppose because we're here. Is
we've always heard that honey is the healing honey, you
know it is for us active of it with Clover
honey or or Maruka honey. I did have a friend,
true though, who who's dead wasn't a for us or
a beating but and hooked dealt with clover honey, and
he said, though that was Maruka honey now being the

(53:54):
eaten thing and the big thing, he said, there's not
as many bees being used with clover honey, so therefore
you've actually pollinating many socause that's preaty and then't biouniversity
issue in itself?

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Yeah, I can understand that. Yeah, so yeah, oh, that's
interesting that I appreciate you coming through you. We always
had bees. I am familiar with the tom map for us,
but we always had bees. So yeah, I didn't know
about the old where was you tuney for everything? But yeah,
I kind of I know. Are those bandages with the
plast the honey on the plasts, are they available in

(54:30):
New Zealand?

Speaker 15 (54:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (54:32):
They Yeah, I think at the moment they're only available
through the First Honey website.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Okay, I'm not at your chemist warehouse.

Speaker 19 (54:40):
Or It's funny, true, Why is it something becomes so
big in the States, but in our own country where
it's good producing and such, why is it not not
kicking up as well?

Speaker 5 (54:51):
But then part of me.

Speaker 19 (54:52):
Goes my brother in law, who's the one who's.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
Kind of married.

Speaker 19 (54:55):
Inter the statements, Henry, he's he's a very good salesman.
Where his brother in law and wife who are running
it here? I very much see, Hey, where the bakie
with the production people with and making sure that the
honeylet's been produced is on top forty because they do
a fantastic job with that.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
But yeah, okay, I'm gonna have for a headlines note.
But look, cheers for that. Thank you? Yeah, Patrick Marcus, welcome, Hi.

Speaker 23 (55:23):
Patrick Hillo Marcus, how are you today?

Speaker 10 (55:27):
Good?

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Thank you? Patrick? How are you all right?

Speaker 15 (55:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (55:29):
Good?

Speaker 23 (55:30):
That's driving home? But Patrom that all good?

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Yep.

Speaker 23 (55:35):
Just wanted to totally agree with you what you're saying
about the only shopcoming potentially coming to New Zealand. Yes,
so I totally agree with you. Yeah, they wouldn't. I
don't know if that's a big market for them over here.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Well I think yeah. I mean you can see them
going Australia able to set up all your warehousing and
your chains for five billion people, particularly you've got two
big play I don't think it'll be worthwhile.

Speaker 23 (56:10):
Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I agree, it's too I mean
the only over in Germany and I am and I'm
German descent. It's a different kettle of fist. I don't
think it would work over here.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
So what's it like? What's different about it? Patrick?

Speaker 23 (56:33):
You can buy You can buy laptops in German, for instance.
They have them on say super special, and you just
if you get the early enough, you get the bargain
off the century of a of a laptop and they
are really really good quality. Generally everything is that you
buy ali so it's it's efficient, it's super quality. I

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don't think it would work over here. I don't.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 24 (57:01):
But opinion, well, I.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Don't think they're coming either, because they haven't come so far,
have they?

Speaker 12 (57:08):
No?

Speaker 23 (57:08):
They I'm in Australia and I did just like you say,
we've only got five point five million people and it's
just too small for them.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Yeah, we'll be another reason we should become a state
of Australia. Patrick, thank you for that. Marcus till twelve?
How are you going? People? What's happening? All texts get read?
See them through nine to two? No, no, no, nine
to two, Pet, Marcus, good evening, can welcome high.

Speaker 25 (57:34):
Pet, good God, good evening?

Speaker 26 (57:37):
Markets.

Speaker 25 (57:37):
How's it going?

Speaker 15 (57:37):
God?

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Pat yourself, oh lovingly dream made up here in a
mighty man or two great gre Yeah. Well okay, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 26 (57:46):
Things are stinkerd days after you've beign for three weeks.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
No, well, I think that's pretty much right around the country,
isn't it.

Speaker 26 (57:53):
Yeah, I mean, anyway, we are bringing an international m
G prifty sixth Rodier departments and on the first to
the sixth of March, we've got people coming from England,
in our States of America, Australia hopefully having about sixty cars.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
So what was the first thing you said, you're bringing?

Speaker 26 (58:16):
What we're bringing an international mg rally depends to me.

Speaker 8 (58:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (58:25):
So yeah, we've got we've got drivers from yeah, around
the world coming. So we've made it international really now,
not just a national.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
Really so and it will just be it would just
be MG cars, are I who'd you right?

Speaker 26 (58:38):
Yeah? Yeah, just MG so earning from an M type
which is the first production car in gb made right
through to the m G as Yeah, what would.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Be the financial what would be the financial cost for
people to bring an MG across from overseas? That would
be Philly, That would be Philly. A fairy complicated thing
to do, wouldn't it.

Speaker 26 (58:59):
I don't think we've got any cars coming from my
own drivers. Okay, yeah, if you've got drivers, so yeah.
So we've got people here with more than one car,
so the.

Speaker 15 (59:12):
People.

Speaker 26 (59:13):
But yeah, people borrowing out a people's cars here. Some
of is a million dollar cars, you know.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
So what's the nature of the event and how can
people be a part of that?

Speaker 5 (59:22):
There?

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Old pet what are they doing?

Speaker 26 (59:25):
So we're running the rarey as of So the first
is a gathering for the for the entrance. The second,
which is the Sunday, we're having a concourse in Palmsenll Square,
so all the cars will be on display from the
public and they'll be judging and the public can judge

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on the cars as well. And then on the Monday
they have an observational trial and they'll be out for
the day driving around a man or two and in areas.
And on the Tuesday we're having what they call a
speed event out and have you heard of Harrisville which

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is racetrack by by balls. So we've got the cards
out there for for three different speed events. They've got
a speed in Karna and a precision Jim Carna. What
the winda sorry you go. So and on the Wednesday,

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we're having a day where they can just we've got
them different somebody they.

Speaker 25 (01:00:33):
Can go and do.

Speaker 26 (01:00:34):
Like we've got some fantastic things down to Like we've
got the biggest clock colleat in the country and bus
in the Southern Hemisphere. So men's are over three and
a half thousand clocks. So yeah, oh he is amazing here. Yeah,
it should be really good.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
So yeah, yeah that you have a lot.

Speaker 26 (01:01:01):
Then we have the final, the final prize giving dinner
and a fewel breakfasts. Everyone's going home in after five
six days.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Yeah, I better ask because people will be wondering, Pat,
what sort of MG have you got.

Speaker 26 (01:01:13):
I've got a nineteen thirty one M type which is
the only odd ball IMG ever made, which is going
to boattail, not a square of a car, so it's
really odd computed to rest of them.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
How long has it been in the country.

Speaker 26 (01:01:30):
My car, Yeah, came and using on nineteen thirty seven. Yeah,
and it's been in my family since nineteen fifty five.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
What's the tail called.

Speaker 26 (01:01:46):
It's a boat tail. So if you yeah, you get
a picture of an M type m G and we're
going to go a boatail where where the rest of.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Them they call it?

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Yeah, it looks it looks, doesn't it.

Speaker 26 (01:02:01):
Yeah, it's quite cool.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Oh I look forward to see that. Pet. Nice to
talk to. Thank you and thanks for coming through. Hi, Judith,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 27 (01:02:10):
I'll got eat you. Marcus. I'm just a little bit
to do with honey. There's only one worn repair ointment
that you need, and it's all natural. It's made from
botennafol extracts and it's GE three and it's made in
Parapram in the Northeland, and it's called worn repair. And

(01:02:32):
you know what, Marcus, I've had salulitis recently, just a tiny, tiny,
tiny bed and I put this on like I got
a special apointment from the doctor and then and then
she said, oh it has steroids in it. And then
I tried this one and it fixed it up within

(01:02:53):
two days. And you know what, Marcus, cellulitis is really painful.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Yeah, I've heard, but I don't really know what it was.
But what did you start off saying? You said, well,
can you tell me your first sentence again? What you said?

Speaker 27 (01:03:07):
I'm about legos are wearing the pier natural ointment?

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Oh yeah, but yeah, I think I think, yeah, we're
talking more about is that a Monica honey one?

Speaker 17 (01:03:17):
Is it?

Speaker 18 (01:03:19):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I think probably all of them are
quite similar. But thanks for that there, Judith. Someone said,
how do they know where the bees have been? I
think for Monica honey, you've got quite specific criteria, chemical criteria.
The honey has to satisfy to be seen as being Monica.
It's called the something factor.

Speaker 13 (01:03:41):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
The trouble is the price for it through the roof
because of that. But you do see so many people
buying it over you know, to take back overseas back home.
But I'm up for anything about honey, so different uses
for honey. That's kind of what I'd like as a topic.
Mike has just been outside. Crickets are in fine form
with the chirping the clover and is a favorite with
the honey bees and bumbles during the day as well.

(01:04:02):
They're favoring that ahead of anything else talking about Monica honey,
grete on toast or just a sandwich. So there was that.
That's what we're on about tonight, about honey and the
heat in Hamilton. How has it ever been, Hi, James,

(01:04:24):
it's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
I don't give you a buzz since talking about bees.
One of the things I once heard there was the
chef at Hooker Lodge had used beeswax on a bee filet,
whole bee filet, And what he did was he had
submersed them in the warm wax and coated it and
toted it and coated it and then left it almost

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like cured it for an extended period of several months
before he then cracked out the filets from the beeswax
and then cooked it. And apparently it was the most
delicious piece of meat that just had honey flavors and
fused throughout the whole thing.

Speaker 14 (01:05:05):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:05:08):
So yeah, some pretty keep people in the kitchen to
use the honey.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
I wonder if there is some cuisine around the world
that that's a tradition in.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
I wouldn't know, Well, I just wouldn't know what I know.
I remember the Wellington Bee Keepers Club and they got
Martin Bosley in one year to talk about how he
uses that in the kitchen and the aks and he
whippup some delicious salad with honey drizzle and all the
rest of it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
I've never heard of using beeswax because it kind of preserved.
Did it preserve or just kind of changed it?

Speaker 6 (01:05:40):
Did it? Well, they would have sealed it. It would
have been completely air tied. And if you keep dunking
it and for a dry and you already build a
thicker and think a crust will probably about an inch thick.
And then it was probably just stored away like they
do with with other preserved meats.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Yeah, because it would be it's like it'd been vacuum sealed.

Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
Yeah, you've got all those delicious flavors of the honey
and giving all the botanicals that would have been in
the honey and the beeswax.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Quite keen to try it now, James, thank you very
much for that. There's some stuff on TikTok they're covering
meat with bees wax. Of course they are. You do
a pork belly and bees wax anyway? Else done with
their meeting bees wax. Craig Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Yes, good evening, Marcus. It's Craig from christ this year. Listen.
I don't want to sound randy or monologue.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Oh that's a worry about you. You must run the
risk of sounding randy, do you.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
I just I'm sort of a get things done man.
I'm sixty five, I'm retired, and I watch Parliament when
it comes on at two o'clock, the House of Representatives,
and I just believe that, you know, Christopher Luxen needs
to just pull away with it and allow Shane Jones
and Winston Peters to take over because they've got their

(01:07:03):
heads on their shoulders and they can work out a
lot of things because they know the past and what's
worked and what hasn't. And the thing is, Shane Jones
wants to get things going in this country, like infrastructure
and mining and whatever. And I just get a bit
sick of Nikola Willis going on about Macro index and

(01:07:26):
we're turning the country around by two percent, and we
look at the macro tools and all this, and I'm thinking,
you know, when my father was in the Ministry Works,
way back in the sixties, when they had a project
to get done, they did it just about overnight. Now
they get these consultants, and they pay millions of dollars

(01:07:46):
to get these consultants and to you know, get consent
and agree on it. You know where in my father's
day he used to just get on with it. They're
going to build a damn. They get on with it,
you know, But I just get you know, it's like
the cost of everything and the value of nothing with
this government.

Speaker 17 (01:08:04):
What have you?

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
What do you see? You either get things done? Guy,
what have you got done?

Speaker 17 (01:08:09):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
I've got a lot of things done around at my house.
I make models for Mecano. I get them done in
a month, you know, big models, and not talking about
little toy models. I'm talking about exhibition models, something like
the Hooker tak a dredge in a month. I'm very
quick at what I'm doing. I'm very precise. But I
don't want to rent on about that. But I'm just

(01:08:31):
wondering what other the listeners sort of thinking about the government,
because you don't hear a lot on the news. All
your hear is about Gaza all the time, you know.
I get a bit tired of that, so I switch
over to a repeat of Parliament if I don't catch
it at two o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
I don't think parliament's good for you.

Speaker 8 (01:08:52):
Well I do.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
I want to know what's going on, but it sounds
like triggered by it. Yeah, I am.

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
I love politics.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Well you don't because you're having a rent because you
don't like it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
Well, I don't like some of the issues that Nikola
Willis is bringing up. I do like Shane Jones and
Winston Peters.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
I don't think they'll be around next time.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
Well I hope so, because it will be the good,
good strong men and they know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
What does that mean about?

Speaker 8 (01:09:25):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Does that mean good strong men?

Speaker 28 (01:09:27):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Well, they just I mean, we all know what Shane Jones.
We don't know what Shane Jones is most famous for.

Speaker 21 (01:09:35):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Well, yeah, I'm loath to bring it up, but I
think I don't think he say he's a good strong man.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
Well, I mean he likes to get things done. He's
not into this uh you know, touchy feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
What's he ever got done, Craig, Well, he left his
last he left his last party. We're not on about
the supermarkets that never happened. What's he actually done?

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
Well, I think he's going around getting meetings and he's
trying to get he's.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Trying to get his he's trying to get his name out.
So ends if he's in first getting at the next alection.
That's all. It's just all about survival for those people. Yeah,
I know, Yeah, I'd stick with you, Mercano Jas. Anyway,
they get things done people. It's just a there's just
a bumper sticker. Honey on a bit of water is

(01:10:26):
a good moisturizer, Marcus. Have you seen the B movie.
It's a cinematic masterpiece. Honey is amazing and teriarchy marinade,
but you go all about the honey. I feel for
him whe there's a Meccanoe watching Parliament. He's a get
things done guy. Really, I don't know. I don't know

(01:10:55):
if he's gonna look back in his life. I think
I'm to get things done guy. When you've got your
first you got a party that's desperate to actually be
more than just Winston Peters, because Winston's were around forever
and they've tried everyone with ron marks and everyone to
be to be the success or. And somehow, I don't

(01:11:16):
think it's Shane Jones. I don't think of they had
that done. There was that woman they had that was
good for a while. She's involved now with Ah who
was that She was said to be the leading light
of them. She seemed quite sensible. Anyway, get in touch
by name's Marcus Welcome Heed. At twelve o'clock tonight, eight

(01:11:38):
hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine to text.
If you want to come through looking forward to what
you have to say. She think of the woman's name
that was there for a while, that was gone on
in kind of general politics. Name will come to me
before because i'd Brendan Horr and too. Do they remember

(01:12:00):
the weathermen? Forget what happened to him? Oh that's right.
Allegations he stole money from his dying mother to gamble.
Remember that. I remember that Tracy Martin, that was the one.
She was the one that seemed to have it make
a lot of sense just watching the old artists interpretation
of the Golden Mile in Wellington kind of interesting. You

(01:12:24):
get a good vibe of it watching that video. Many
just trees and kind of an area for buses but
without cars and maybe some vans delivering goods. Also, they've
gotta do something because it's terrible at the moment. But yeah,
I think that's probably a fairly political thing. There'd be
much discussions about that. Tell you what, the old fly

(01:12:48):
if it doesn't look cheap anyway, how are you going? People?
We're talking honey, Monica, honey, what's it done for you?
What's the miracle of Monica honey for you? What's it done?
What's the thing it's fixed? So I'm curious to talk
about tonight and honey and its miracle properties. Yeah, be interested.

(01:13:12):
Here by they also talking about Hamilton. That seems that
it's becoming New Zealand's hottest place. The summers are becoming unbearable.
They they already seem to have great public pools. Either
and we're talking slaters or woodlouse. It seems we're the
only country that calls them slaters. There's different names for

(01:13:33):
them all around the world, but hardly anyone calls them slaters.
What is that about? Cut? Answer that? Oh, eight hundred
eighty nine nine two de text you can email also,
I shall get to those and looking for terrible that

(01:13:55):
that crash, those four people on that bike. I went
to their website and looked at those bikes you could hire.
I don't know what the limits of speed around those
areas are. I guess you've got a shared use scenario
going on there. I know too much more about it,
But what the hell of a worry anyhow, As I say,

(01:14:19):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty makeet's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:14:26):
Him. Briefly about honey. My sister in law's family were beekeepers,
so I always called a honey just for a lugh.
We're talking about the slaters and there's not many around.
Yesterday I saw a manic butterfly and I thought, when
we were kids on the outskirts of harbor there used

(01:14:49):
to be red ead volts and yellow admirals, and I
wouldn't have seen those for years.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
I see red admirals all the time, are you really?

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:15:00):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
I do, because of course they're so famous from that
collection of stamps that were so great also, but we're
because I'm I spend most of my days up on
the tussock clearing on my land, and there's just always
red admirals and they're beautiful. They're beautiful. I don't see that.
I don't see the yellow admirals, and as soon as
you've said that, I'm not quite sure what they look like.

(01:15:22):
But the red admirals I see all the time. And
I don't know if they're down in numbers or quite
what it is, but yeah, in the tussock country they're
there all the time.

Speaker 12 (01:15:33):
Oh well, okay, Oh that's that's good. To know, because
I thought, I wonder what's happened to them, something knocking
them off.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
Yeah, and look and I yeah, the yellow Admiral I
don't recognize. I see it now with those yellow spots
on the ring, but the red Admiral is really prevalent.

Speaker 8 (01:15:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:15:50):
Oh well, that's good. That's good to know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
And as far as as far as they make, as
far as the monarch butterfly goes, yeah, I think that's
probably quite an unresearched and sect. They don't know too
much about that. But yeah, I don't know if the
numbers are down or up with that one.

Speaker 12 (01:16:06):
As my daughter's planted swung plants and they get their
old predapolls on them and turn into a cocoa or
canalyst and then they would hatch into a butterfly.

Speaker 9 (01:16:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
I think there's probably every day here in the country's
running that scenario. And it's pretty here. It's it's a
great thing to watch. The old chrystalis nice to talk met.
Thank you, Peter, Hi, Peter, welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:16:36):
Hey you make sorry Hey Manrica, honey mate, I worked off.
She ripped a pen.

Speaker 29 (01:16:42):
Yesterday working obviously, and I told you a cocky and
heatid go get some. You know, they rub on their addison.
So my wife when have got some of it yesterday
and we're reading it. It's got Manuka honey. And so

(01:17:02):
she said home at the moment with a foot repped
with his.

Speaker 10 (01:17:08):
Cream, which is manuka honey.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
And who did you say?

Speaker 17 (01:17:12):
Was it you?

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Was it your wife? Did you say injured yourself?

Speaker 5 (01:17:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
I thought you said that. I couldn't work. I thought
got your wife and he worked on confused, okay, see
your work dog. And you spoke to a cocky. The
cocky said, add a cream and the adder cream contains honey.

Speaker 10 (01:17:27):
Yeah, manuka honey. And so that's pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
It's really interesting how the dog injured itself.

Speaker 10 (01:17:37):
Just we're lonely up to it and ripped it on
something in the ads.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Yeah, so your sad are They're all sorts of different
brands of adder creams.

Speaker 10 (01:17:51):
I don't know you are, Marcus. My wife just got it.

Speaker 8 (01:17:54):
The edges like.

Speaker 19 (01:17:58):
Carry chicken.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
It's not called utterly smooth, is it.

Speaker 10 (01:18:04):
I couldn't tell you, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Fair enough, all right, the dog heels nice to talk.
Thank you, Hello, Ralph, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 24 (01:18:14):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. I was just listening a moment
ago and I heard some talk. I came from harwarth
many years ago, and I heard this gentleman ring up
and say he saw red and yellow admirals. Well, to
add to that little story, I've never seen a yellow
admiral of my life. But we had red admirals in
Harwar when I was going back into the fifties, and

(01:18:36):
I had a chrysalis of one. I don't know if you've.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Ever seen one, I don't think, And you think I would,
since I'm amongst them all the time. But what would
would they be on the tussock?

Speaker 24 (01:18:48):
Well, mine was on a chrysanthemum that was pure solid gold.
It was the most beautiful chrystalis I ever had, and
it was only one I ever ever saw. But I
saw lots of red admirals and that was one I
found there. It was a pure gold chrystalis.

Speaker 9 (01:19:07):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (01:19:09):
Well it was interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:19:10):
Yeah, I do think.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
I don't think i've seen one.

Speaker 24 (01:19:14):
No, Well, as I said, I only saw the one,
and it would it would have been oh seventy eight
years ago when I saw it, so, but I remembered
it clear this day.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Yeah, because they say that, Yeah, and it was an
honest stinging nettle on no, no, no, no, was a chrysanthemum.

Speaker 24 (01:19:35):
It was a crysanthemum. But yes, they did go on
steam netle as well.

Speaker 9 (01:19:39):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
Well, I think the host plant is the on of
the the tree nettle. I think that's what they that,
that's what they and I guess that's for survival because
they're safe there. I suppose, Oh, yes, so too.

Speaker 24 (01:19:53):
But it just brought that little memory up from seventy
years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
Yeah, do you see them all? Are you still in
Harvard or do you still see them anywhere?

Speaker 8 (01:20:02):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:20:03):
No, I'm in Paris to Rsnare. Occasionally I see them,
but not very often. I'm out in the in the
on the ground and the plussics and chip and stuff
all around. But no, I don't see too many of them,
but very beautiful butterflies.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
They were nice to talk. Thank you. Best stamps we
ever had with those butterfly series from the seventies. You
still see the Gee they're a good, well designed stamp.
Kind of stamps. These days. You wouldn't cross the street
for them, would you. I don't know if we still
have stamps. Do we listen to me going on about stamps. Oh,

(01:20:40):
Marcus and the UK are always knew would license slate
as I was a boy scouting you this stuff still
have red admirals and harwaa. Last one, I had a
really bad cold. I drunk honey and lemon and hot
water drinks. The honey one hundredent and stuff. Funny thing was,

(01:21:02):
I thought it tasted great, So I got of the cold.
Did and taste that great? But the drink help for sure.
Marnuka Hunning is addressing on Leghalter's works Wonders. Trish Marcus
watched the Super Bowl for the first time ever. I've
renamed it the stuper Bowl. Nothing happened three and a
half hours. I went to sleep. Bread kiwis get really
triggered by the Super Bowl. We seem to take it

(01:21:26):
personally and be affronted by it. Marcus. After my open
heart surgery in twenty twelve, they said they put me
back together with titanium wire, super glue and manukah honey.
Amazing what they do. It's amazing how much they use
super glue. Now, Isn't it seems to work? Marcus? I

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watched three minutes of Super Bowl then turned it off.
What were you expecting and what did you watch in steer?
That's I'll be curious to know. Well, it's face. When
it comes to sports on a Monday afternoon, there's not
a lot to choose from. That is the beauty of
the Super Bowl. It's in a sporting deared zone. I

(01:22:16):
think it's the most watched thing in America. The country
comes together for that comes together as one dry summer
and Christy haven't seen any headhogs for years. Do they
still exist? Yes, headgehogs are still there. I see headhogs
quite often on the farm, sometimes in traps. I think

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they're much nasty than they thought their headhogs was what
they eat. But anyway, that's head chogs for you. I
know some people are very passionate about them, but they
aren't introduced pest. Let's not making mistakes about that. Looks
like school lunches. They've kind of realized they can't cope.
They're going to give about Peter Pitt or pies. So

(01:23:07):
there we go. Multiple failures in the first week of
the Cup price school lunch program. Yep, that's what's happening
with that. Someone from fonte someone saying Fontira is advised
to sell its brands. Yeah, I'm not surprised that either,

(01:23:32):
poor old Fontira. Mind you sweet Spot for Honey for
sweet Spot for Dairy. Twenty five past ten, David at Marcus.
Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 26 (01:23:45):
Hi David Yello Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:23:48):
I've heard what you said about your child and then
you're kissed and not make any mistake about it.

Speaker 5 (01:23:56):
And I took that personal week.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
It took you took it personally. I did because I.

Speaker 7 (01:24:09):
Feel fond of your jobs. I've always hit a fond
spot for them, and.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
Maybe you're an introduced piece.

Speaker 14 (01:24:16):
How about you.

Speaker 12 (01:24:17):
Think about that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
I'm just as far as the biodiversity goes and the
stuff like, I mean, they reckon. They do a lot
more damage than they ever probably thought they did. But yeah,
I think people think I think, oh yeah, absolutely, okay, yeah, yeah, coming. No,

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it's they devoured many of the endangered species native wading birds, lizards,
and vertebrates. They kill everything our most underrated predator birds, birds, eggs, chicks,
lizards and vertebrates. The pietoys to catch her on the

(01:25:04):
braided river beds. The thrill killer they kill for the
joy of it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:08):
Snails, hedgehogs.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Yeah, I thought, no, no, no, read the memo. That's
kind of Dock's number one enemy is the head shog. Yeah,
five toed print. You'll see them. It's like a large
rat print, and you see their droppings. They're bigger than
you'd think, the droppings. You hear them shuffling at night.

(01:25:35):
But yeah, I don't don't start defending the headshog. If
you've ever had a chicken, if you ever had your
chickens attacked by headgehogs in the night, you'll know how
evil they are. I don't want to go. I go
because people at squeamish, because people who like them. But yeah,
nothing please about a headshog. I promise you that while
we're talking headhog, oh someone that you don't see many
around that might be a good thing.

Speaker 26 (01:25:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
The other thing we're talking about was Nikola Willis teasing
the new supermarket entrant. But there's no details, and when
they're in power, get it sorted. You can't just float
abstract ideas and expect people to think, oh, well, the
prices of grocery's going to come cheap because Ali's going
to come to the country. We want to see Nichola
Willis with a shovel turning the side of the first

(01:26:21):
Ali supermarket's about to open it. That's what we want.
We want them monopoly broken. Yeah, not just words, words, words, words, Marcus.
We have a regular headshog visitor our garden. He digs
the biggest, deepest holes. He's a damn nuisance. Oh, by
the way, how's it going af you the truck drivers
with the closure of the desert road? Are you coping

(01:26:42):
with that? Marcus? I found a headghog floating in our pool.
They can open gates, but can't swim. I know they
are a pest, but still sad to see. But my
lizards were happy.

Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
I think there's probably nothing nice about a hedgehog drowning
and swimming for so long with those time of alarms
to try and get out of the pool where it's impossible.
Think that's quite a blig way to die. I don't
think anyone wants that. I think you can get little
letterers for the hedgehogs to get other the pools. Am
I right, Marcus? I try to cultivate swan plants on
a rotational basis. I've had about one fifty monarchs emerged

(01:27:19):
so far this summer. Predatory paper wasps are real problem.
Meet the juvenile caterpillars. By the way, I use manuka
or bush honey to cure my trout for smoking. Beautiful
Brent Wangannui good on you're listening and Wanganui on the
AM frequency also talking about the red admiral butterflies, which

(01:27:42):
I found quite interesting. I think there's a lot of
countries with it red admirals, but I think our red
admiral is unique to New Zealand. I'm pretty sure that's
the case. They're not going to fly here, are they?
How did the monarch get here was introduced? Someone will know?
By the way, IM wondering, I've got stinging metals on
my farm. If they're talking about the if that's where

(01:28:05):
they hang their things, I guess I must have New
Zealand's beautiful red admiral. Once common adults over winter and
can be seen in areas where their host plant is
still present, but sadly that host plant has been sent
as a weed and removed from urban areas. That's the
tree nettle or the john AT's Marcus good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:28:30):
I just heard him mention the red admirals, and yeah,
my wife's that been her favorite butterflies all her life,
and I was quite amazed to find out some years
ago that the stinging netle was their host plant.

Speaker 13 (01:28:47):
Yes, and I didn't really.

Speaker 11 (01:28:49):
Believe it, to be honest, until I pulled a couple
of nettles apart a bit, and there were certainly some
chrystalises there. So we got a couple of paddicks, and
I never touched the stinger nettles left alone for the butterflies.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
It's a nice thing to do. And you see them
around often.

Speaker 11 (01:29:09):
No, you don't see many saw one today as a
matter of fact, out there. But so no, you don't
see them, not like monic butterflies flying around commonly. But
there seems to be two colors of the red admiral
as the red one normal and there's a second color
that's probably more of a yellow color where the red

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is on the on the original.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
I I've got about nacre of tussic at the top
of my farm. Yeah, and this often, well there's always red,
but you really see them still. You don't see them
just on the tussock. So they they're really hard to
get a photo of or a good picture of, because
they're always moving.

Speaker 11 (01:29:50):
Yeah, they're first movers.

Speaker 2 (01:29:51):
But yeah, but I never see them. I never see them,
just stationary. But yeah, I mean I haven't I'm not
going to go touching netles.

Speaker 17 (01:29:58):
But no.

Speaker 11 (01:29:59):
But if you, if you well, the metals won't hurt you.
But if you if you pull, if you have a
look at a nettle, wooll put them gloves on. But
you'll see some of the nettle leaves. You've got to
look at them a bit. But some of the netal
leaves are doubled over, and if you open them carefully,
there is a little caterpillar room. So I didn't believe

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it at first, but it's certainly the host plant for them.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
And the caterpillar is a lot smaller than the monarch caterpillars.

Speaker 11 (01:30:28):
Oh yeah, they're only ah, nothing like it, Just a
little little caterpillar probably I suppose the quarter quarter or
a third at best of a monic come of amnic.
But anyway, I don't think the little wasps that annoy
hell out of the monics. They don't seem to worry

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the stay of the metal.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
It's a great it's a great plan for a butterfly
to be in the nettle. John, thank you for that.
Ron Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:30:58):
Yeah, Ron here, Hi Ron?

Speaker 25 (01:31:03):
Do they still make crystal set?

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
What are you reckon?

Speaker 8 (01:31:06):
Can don't know?

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
How do they work?

Speaker 28 (01:31:12):
Well?

Speaker 25 (01:31:12):
We used to use it. We used to use a
bit of coat as a crystal. But they don't use
any electricity and you can listen to the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
Doesn't make sense to me that you get amplification with
no batteries. I can't work it out.

Speaker 25 (01:31:28):
No, well, crystal sets you can hear them quite well.
What's the may? But I don't know what My question is?
Are they still making them?

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
My answer is yes? Do you want me to send
you one?

Speaker 7 (01:31:42):
No?

Speaker 25 (01:31:42):
Thanks?

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
Do you think there's anyone listening to the radio tonight
on a crystal set?

Speaker 25 (01:31:48):
I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
If you go to l if you're going to Eli Express,
you get one for forty one dollars.

Speaker 25 (01:31:56):
Oh for that you have a great day. Enjoy youproach you,
I said, run, yeah, forty one dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Or if you got a JCR do you know do
you know where j car is?

Speaker 25 (01:32:11):
Yep, yep, that's like Familiar Express or JCR?

Speaker 2 (01:32:19):
Whereabout to see you? I mean, why can I did
you get into Wellington at all?

Speaker 25 (01:32:28):
There's a Karen pair Baram I think let's it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
We'll go there and get yourself a Crystal. I never
like those clear plastic things you're put in your ear.

Speaker 25 (01:32:37):
Okay, anything else you have a day.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
I thought we're gonna go. I keep them because though
we're gona a record number of beeps, we had a
triple beat there for a while. Yeah, you don't get
you don't get off. And people get more than five,
I think they've I think they're lying down and I
think they're banging the what are they banging that? The buttons?
Aren't they the push buttons? The cordless? But can they

(01:33:09):
hear it themselves? Because I never seem to mention and
I never acknowledge it today. Oh sorry about that. It's
like Morse code. You'll be happy with a Crystal set. Oh,
by the way, with Crystal you can only listen on
the AM. That's interesting. That's what we should do with

(01:33:30):
a new broadcasters when they're trying out for the mid
dawn to get their own Crystal set. Show how radio works. Yeah,
that's what we should do in a middawn book camp
like reality show. Fifteen to Hello Graham, It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:33:49):
As I've got a Crystal set to make up in
my in a bag in my hand, says, I'll speak
to you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
What are the chances you should be listening on it?
Where'd you get it?

Speaker 14 (01:34:02):
Yeah, Jacabb it's a crystal radio, your piece, everything included,
is going to just put it together. I tell it
about a year and a half, two years.

Speaker 16 (01:34:14):
What what?

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
What interested you in that crayon?

Speaker 14 (01:34:17):
I've been interested in radios all my life. Then electronics, Yeah,
it's very easy to make. I have done one in
the past. We were soldering the batteries just crystal and
where you go and when they.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
Say the crystal, does the crystal pick up different frequencies?
Is that how it works?

Speaker 12 (01:34:37):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (01:34:37):
Only on am enjoy am at broadcasting without using battery
or other power sources. Ideal for entry level students and
hobbyists with little electronics experience.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
You got no volume control, have you? Does it come
through kind of quietly?

Speaker 14 (01:34:59):
Yes, there is no volume, but you can change the frequency.
Come you can offer it to be really shut up
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:35:10):
Good luck with it, Graham. I hope it goes well
for you.

Speaker 8 (01:35:12):
Near Marcus welcome, Yeah, Marcus, Yeah, listen. I used to
have crystal sets when I was a kid. And that,
and then I went bigger than that. I went to
the Hikers one and the Hikers two, Hikers three and four.
They were valve radios.

Speaker 16 (01:35:29):
And belong to it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
How would that be spelled hikers.

Speaker 8 (01:35:34):
Hikers? Yeah, Oh, I don't know hikers. Hi, I spell
it h I k E e es. Oh, yeah, but
I'm not a very good spell of.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Then you belong to what?

Speaker 8 (01:35:51):
Well, belonged to a radio club and Timory. It used
to be a radio club in Timorary and we used
to go along the heavy Wednesday Wednesday night from seven
to nine, a whole lot of us. And yeah, but
I just wanted because I heard about it tonight. I
heard that the fellow's got one in his hand, because

(01:36:12):
I'd like to get one of them. But he said
he's got one there. He bought it from JCR for
twenty five dollars ninety And I don't know if there's
a JCR and crisis. Where the hell's a JACA? I
never heard of them, haven't you? Is it? J J
and N car like ciar like a car?

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
One more?

Speaker 5 (01:36:34):
Yeah, that's one word?

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
Would you do at radio club for two hours?

Speaker 16 (01:36:41):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:36:41):
We used to build these radios.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
I didn't make them. I thought you'd listen to the
listening to the.

Speaker 8 (01:36:47):
No you by you buy a kip and and then
you'd assemble them up on that and then we used
to sell them. Yeah you heard of syd them sym, Yes, yes,
of course.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
You heard a guessing street. Yes, you'd have eighty five. No,
that's where your jay cars.

Speaker 8 (01:37:08):
Okay, it's eighty five guess gas street.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
Sid sid and sit in him.

Speaker 8 (01:37:17):
Sitting?

Speaker 2 (01:37:19):
Is it to pronounce sit in him sydym Sydingham?

Speaker 8 (01:37:22):
Yeah, yeah, you got the right. Yea, So it's eighty
five gas the street sitting them.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
You wouldn't be right taking the car. And then do
we getting the bus? Would you?

Speaker 27 (01:37:32):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:37:32):
Yeah, no, I've got your Yeah, we we just got me.
I got my license the other day because I had
to be over when you get over eighty and I'm
three weeks over eighty that I had to go in
and do a special test to get me license. And
and I've got all the licenses treat you could ever

(01:37:53):
get all the truck license and dose of license and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
But they do they say something that you're the best
over eighty guy we've ever seen.

Speaker 8 (01:38:02):
Yeah, that's what they versually told me. Yeah, they did, honestly,
because they said they'd never get they never get anyone
in there. They've got all the licenses so that I had,
you see, and I said, well, I only want a
car license. I don't want the rest of them. I'm
not going to be driving truckt for bulldozers anymore. But anyway,
they says, oh, that's going to make it to work

(01:38:23):
for them. They said, we'll just give you all your
licenses back, and that's a lot easier for them. So
I've still got all the study licenses.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
There's good parking, there's good parking off the street.

Speaker 8 (01:38:33):
You go and there you be're right, yeah, yeah, okay,
that's very good. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
Today, Yes, open seven days, ah right, go on the weekend,
go Sunday after church.

Speaker 8 (01:38:47):
Yeah that's right. I could do too. Yeah somewhere, wouldn't
they tie.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
It with what's it?

Speaker 17 (01:38:55):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
Something called what are the different license? Tell us the
different license categories? Because you'll enjoy this.

Speaker 8 (01:39:00):
Oh hang on, I just got it here some mek
hm okay, very curious.

Speaker 30 (01:39:13):
Uh yeah, God put me classes. Yeah, well, uh let's
see two and other.

Speaker 8 (01:39:30):
I've got I've got class it's got class C L
a S S, and then a DASH and then a
D A N D O. I don't know what that
means that I've got a car. It goes down one

(01:39:50):
to six. I've got a car, and then there's a
truck uh, And then there's a truck and trailer. And
then number four is a truck and teck uh to
take you by the trailer. And then there's a and

(01:40:12):
that trick trom and number five is and that trick coming.
I will sixteen wheel fiber. That's for the sixt couple
of axels. I'm done. And in the bottom one number
six is a motorboy license.

Speaker 2 (01:40:30):
Brilliant. I think I'll still got my motorbike somewhere. Nice
to talk to you. Thank you for that. Hi, Kenny,
it's Smachus.

Speaker 15 (01:40:37):
Welcome Marcus, you bloody legend. What a great show, first
time listener, and tell you what you've got me hooked?

Speaker 2 (01:40:43):
Well, that's nice tonight, Kenny. Thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:40:45):
Yeah, you're a great service. I like listening to the fellows.
Given a call, I'm probably one of the younger of
your audience, but still and all, I have an interesting one.
And you probably know this because you've got access to
the old interweb but the collective term for a butterfly. Yes,
it's the best collective term I've ever heard. Did you
know it's all the scope of face?

Speaker 2 (01:41:08):
Knew that it's lovely.

Speaker 15 (01:41:09):
Isn't that fantastic? Isn't that fantastic?

Speaker 8 (01:41:11):
Girl?

Speaker 15 (01:41:12):
And another thing on your monarchs, I believe they make
the largest migration of any animal on the planet. So
that's how they got here, my friend, they go all
the way around the globe. They give birthday die, they
give birthday die, so it's it's incredible. They travel a
long way. That's a good one to look.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
At, appreciate it. Can you nice to have you on board,
Josephine Marcus welcome.

Speaker 28 (01:41:35):
Yes, I wanted to talk about Melika honey for helping healing.
We we used to buy big sheets of Menika honey
magdycated sheets from Condeta near to Popy there. Yeah, former
husbands sell your litis and it used to help a

(01:41:57):
big fian and if it wasn't used all properly or
it's usually living to sell you into the h another
poison thing that killed them off.

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
It's what was that last words? Oh yeah, I don't
really know what's I don't really know what to tell
your lightess is actually you hear but fortune, I've never
experienced it. It's a it's a skin in fiction, isn't it.

Speaker 28 (01:42:29):
Yes, And it's any work. You have to have your
legs and.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Potatoes, Oh, for goodness sake.

Speaker 28 (01:42:36):
So people get onto it. As soon as that happens,
they get much more chance of helping themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
Okay, I don't like the sounds of that.

Speaker 28 (01:42:48):
Well, be weary of it. If you get scratched or
something and it gets some pictive, let's see only better
leg your legs and you ignore if I'm the beat
of your legs.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
Okay, I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (01:43:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
See your liners doesn't sound? Oh good? Marcus super glue
a few years ago worked at a hardwester and Christ
gut By boss was a dentist from the UK. We're
in a poor demographic area. He would occasionally profer the
use of the appropriate super glue to a customer when

(01:43:26):
it tooth breaks. Always listening, always enjoying. Just in case,
can we talk about drones? You're welcome. Never seen a
red admiral, but I think the monarch is a native
of Canada. Mary, how did you others Akada noise or
a cricket noise, like crickets are at night, Marcus. I

(01:43:47):
was trying to save a baby burden a lord which
had fall out of a nest to heat you on,
ranlong and grabbed the bird, took under the bushes to
eat it. I poked the hole with a stick to
save the bird. It hissed at me. They are horrible, Marcus.
The beeps when they hold their phone to close to
their cheek. They don't know they're doing it. Marcus. I'm

(01:44:11):
also growing nettles to attempt to get admirals to come.
I remember the begcom as a child on sort of
a UK show about the nettles. But I am in
the city submers hoping Hello, Juliet's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:44:27):
Good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
How I like your quiet, leaning voice, Julia.

Speaker 9 (01:44:32):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:32):
I feel like I'll lean into you, which is good.

Speaker 26 (01:44:34):
Hi, thank you.

Speaker 30 (01:44:37):
Well.

Speaker 17 (01:44:37):
I didn't just get into bed not long ago, but
I had a week as all because of it. Worked
this morning talking to a colleague. Now. I got no
sleep last night because they had fringing mosquitoes no buzzing
in at one o'clock diving into my ear.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
Last night, and I thought it was the mood, had
terrible night sleep. It was a full moon, but I
have mosquitoes.

Speaker 17 (01:45:02):
But yeah, yes, yes, I spray the hell out of
my room, got back in bed, and it might have
been a mind of a metter, but I'm sure for
the next three hours I could still hear the little buggers.
You know, you're diving, but that's fine. And then my
colleague at worked today was saying she had a really
bad night leet because they're all the crickets. Oh ah way, yeah,

(01:45:26):
but I've put my door open to love the screen door,
just to keep some ear through. And all I've heard
tonight is study crickets, so watch Thanks America.

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
I wouldn't mind the sound of crickets because at least
they're not going to be in your ears.

Speaker 17 (01:45:41):
No, correct, And it's quite pleasn't just you know, it's
like a little bit of background noise.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
Do you sleep with, Julie, do you sleep with white noise?

Speaker 26 (01:45:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:45:56):
Well, I'm sort of past that age. I've bought out
my chorgan with having white noise.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
I love I love background noise at night to stop
all the Yeah, I love back noise.

Speaker 17 (01:46:08):
Yeah no, I don't mind it. Yeah, yeah, I don't.

Speaker 8 (01:46:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:46:12):
But an another thing, just talking. I live in an
awesome little community, Eastern community out on the days, and
it's just like, oh my god, just things have been
happening over the last three weeks. Example, we had some
new dairy owners arride and take over the dairy up

(01:46:32):
the road. Transformed it just an amazing making place. Now
they're all little community place. They are so sendy. And
I was working from home, must have been two fridays ago,
zipped up there at twelve thirty just to get a
drink and whatnot. Came back home forty minutes later. Three

(01:46:54):
thugs when when made of them really just yeah yeah,
And it must have been about twenty past one on
the afternoon, so they had footage and whatnot. But I
went up and spoke to the guy a couple of
days later and he just said it happened so quickly.
He was just eating lunch, but he ended up just

(01:47:15):
locking himself in the back because he didn't know whether
he was going to be weapons what was happening. So
they basically topped the cash tool and just like theret
So with our community, we had a patrol coming around
and whatnot. But no, the police are all aware of it,
which is awesome. So they're looking for Fottage or tc TV.

(01:47:39):
So yeah, as I said, you know, everyone's supporting them,
so that's all.

Speaker 12 (01:47:43):
Good, that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
And we said the bay sitting north of Wellington's that
we were talking about.

Speaker 17 (01:47:48):
No, I'm talking Green Gali in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Oh okay, copy that yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:47:53):
Which would be familiar with. Yeah, not too far away.
And then load yeah, knock me over. Just a few
days ago too, we're school being back. There's been a
card report like a silver Sedaine with thugs and there
driving around with a BB gun and they've been shooting
a random college kids coming out of school and walking home.

Speaker 8 (01:48:18):
I know.

Speaker 17 (01:48:19):
It's just like what the hell's going on?

Speaker 15 (01:48:21):
You know?

Speaker 17 (01:48:22):
So yeah, and it's like even my children are quite
scared just to even walk up the road to the deery.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
Nice talk, thanks for that. Twenty six past eleven, Kathy Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:48:33):
Welcome, Hello Marthus, were you mate?

Speaker 17 (01:48:37):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
Kathy?

Speaker 22 (01:48:39):
What's the thing with David Seymour? Is he nuts or
just playing crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
It seems as though the words are coming up they
don't like him in National.

Speaker 22 (01:48:50):
You go back, I love them, I don't like him
full stop, or rather everyone's some pieces. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:48:57):
Yeah, I don't know if he's playing a very good
game or a silly game. He's either going to be
back with that because of course they only ever got
back I mean National Credit Act, because they always gave
them that sweetheart deal in Nipsum. So remember that they'd
give them, no one would stand against them. Now, the
credit a.

Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
Monster more than a monster.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
I play mediot ye, Okay, your words, not mind, Kathy,
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:49:24):
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