The answers are all there as well (4 November 2025)

Marcus recaps the Melbourne Cup, hears a collection of wild bird stories, and learns whether or not Nev got to see the Pike River movie....

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News Talks,
that'd be.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to you use in of those people listening on
father shows. I hope it's all good for you. A
cup of tea is too hot. Just printing out my crossword.
But there's something about crosswords, right. I don't know if
you've found this, but the thing about crosswords once by
a time you get the paper, you do the crossword,
and you'd look at it and you'd stew and you'd
work out what the answers were, and it became something
you'd kind of carry out with the all day. These days,
I don't know if this resonates. What do you do

(00:35):
these days? If you got your favorite paper, do the
crossword on your cell phone? And we've all done it.
You look at the cross world, you look at crossword,
you look at the cross deck. G what is that?
What is that? What is that? What is that word?
And then you go to the pit and it says
reveal word. Well, for me, that's just that's just too
much of a temptation. So I can't do crosswords on

(00:58):
my cell phone. I need to print them and just
fill them in with my way pen. Otherwise I just
push revealed word with oh what can it be? It
must be that, how could they be so difficult? What
reveal word? It destroys the whole experience. So there we go.
I've learned at what it was. I print them out
and then fill them in during the news break. So
that's what happens with me. But yeah, it's very great

(01:20):
that we've got crosswords from all around the world now
on our cell phones, but terrible that the answers are
all there as well, because I think the old days
would be days and days and weeks, or if you're
stuck on an island and just had a crossword, it
would be could be months before you found the answer.
Of course, it's how like a pirate, don't I? Hawaii?
What's happening? First up, bestress, Let's go firstly your Melbourne

(01:41):
Cup stories? Please please? The horse you got in the
sweep state, how much you won, how much you lost,
how drunk you got? What is happening? I need to
know your wins and losses straight away? People tell me
a story. No story is too boring for this show.
But what happened? You might have got the wrong horse
and the weep sweep steak and swapped it with someone
else and end up with the right one. You might
have backed that horse we got told about last night

(02:02):
on the show that came last. You might have thought
I'm not going to back a woman and got out
of it the last minute. Anything like that. That's what
I want to know. How much you won, and how
the office sweep state went with her, any prizes, with
any fights? Did anyone get in trouble for not paying
up the money? It'd be cash only if I was
running it, which I don't because I work on my own.
I don't start at work well until the race is finished.

(02:25):
But if you've got something to say about that, that's
right about tonight the Melbourne Cup to begin with, to
begin with, by the way, guy Fawkes tomorrow. So there's
been more talk about banning that from Winston Peters, although
he was the war on woke guy. Isn't it pretty
woke to ban fireworks? The war on woke guy's become
the woke guy? I thought, I thought that was not

(02:47):
on brand at all. Fidget Spinner, Get in Touch, Marcus
till twelve first and Best Dread oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and it is common Sense Day, so
I'm expecting some what a stupid name for a day?
Common sense day, goodness, common sense the thing that everyone
thinks they have, Well not everyone can. I think it

(03:09):
could have common sense Otherwise have been no use for
the word Marcus. I won the office sweepstake two hundred
dollars on the Melbourne Cup. I just hope everyone bays up,
pays up. No one carries cash these days, loads of ie.
It's not your job to click the money, ben Oh, no,
you don't want that poison chalice that you need to
be given the turn of bucks. It's for the person

(03:30):
that organized the sweep oh to gather all the money
and make sure you've got it. In fact, they should
have all the money in their hand and the ius
before the waste is run. But you're America's Melbourne Cup stories.
Now for me, people, let's be hearing from you. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine to nine two detect.

(03:51):
Then we've got into fireworks and crosswords in the medic
ate hand. Email me to if you need to Marcus
at newstalk ZIDB dot co dot n ZID brilliant. Let's
be hearing from you tonight. People here till twelve Melbourne
Cup stories. First up? How much do you want? How
much do you lose? Did you change your bit at
the last minute you go to the tab for your
one visit for the year. I'm sure you'll have stories.

(04:12):
Oh yeah, I'm all about the stories tonight, Sue. This
is Marcus. Welcome in good evening.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Hello Marcus.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
I had a win.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Oh god, I lost last year and I won the
previous year and I won this year.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
So what.

Speaker 7 (04:31):
My number?

Speaker 5 (04:34):
I picked two horses and I put some you know,
some good money on it and it came through for me.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
So that's exciting.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Yes, So number fourteen obviously, and number four I picked.
And I was watching my husband tonight, you know, on
the TV, and said singing and he came in. I said,
crickets on and he looked at the newspaper sweet and
he said, I want that horse number twenty and I
gave him a right tump and I said, we should
have told me that this morning. And I placed the

(05:04):
bits and because that came in stead and didn't it.
So yeah, so it's pretty exciting. I've always run the
sweep in the in the shop when you know, I
was working, and the girls still message me and say
it's sent they're sentimental. I have to be the one
who puts on the bed.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
So I went down to the Ta b.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
It's my once a year.

Speaker 8 (05:26):
So just to.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Clarify you, you got first and second? Did you get
the cornella?

Speaker 9 (05:32):
No?

Speaker 7 (05:33):
No, no, no, no, no no no no.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Two horses and but the one, the one that I
the one that won. I just had one out of
those two horses win. So yeah, I got my money
back and yeah, yeah and some more.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
So it was pretty good at the good day.

Speaker 10 (05:49):
But I love it.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
I mean, obviously I'm Australian, so it's an institution and
it's fun.

Speaker 11 (05:55):
So yeah, was normally was it.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
An exciting race to watch? Or did the horse lead
from the last two?

Speaker 12 (06:04):
No?

Speaker 5 (06:04):
No, no, it was exciting because they're also of bunched up.
And there was an early early one that bolted and
and you know, my husband was talking and I said, no, no, no,
it's gone to early. I said, I'll come down the
street and he'll run out of steam.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
That's exactly what happens.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Surprise your husband speaks when you seem so much wiser
than he is around horses.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
Oh well, you know, I've grown up with it and
he just comes in on, you know, the last minute
of the coat old literally, so no, no, no. It
was good fun, so good to watch, and it was
a bit strange actually the TV and ZD coverage. It
was the racing network and come on, I want to
see the horses going to the barriers and everything, and

(06:48):
it was sort of like delayed and record. It was
a funny kind of coverage and you didn't see see
at the end, you know, them them going around properly,
around the round the yard and normally and normally they.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Have a bit of fashion as well.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
It was a funny all kind of broadcut so well,
we can't be.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
It sounds to me like they've done it on the
cheap and made a bit of a hash of it,
because normally they'd get out one of the the Sullivans
or whatever they were, that that sort of jockey family
up there, all dressed up and they'd be make a
huge song and dance about it.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Gay waterhouse, that's it.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
I'm sure pain was in the in the you know,
in the parade, you know, as they're going out, but
you didn't normally you see all that lots of commentary.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
It was very rushed.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
And their next thing that that showed in the corner
that had already been recorded. That must be some they've
done that. Yes, they've done it on the cheap. So
I wasn't happy about I just like you were saying
last night, it's not the same. People don't sit tune
in the same way.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Did they have? The winner been interviewed by another person
on a horse. I've always loved that.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
I know I didn't quite see the hem that's.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
What you want, that's what you want to watch when
I love the interview from the horse to horse one
that's my favorite.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
I was too excited right off to the test and
winning business.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Wow, how far away from the TAVD You live minutes away.
But when you say you run, you mean you drove right?

Speaker 13 (08:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Okay, gosh okay. So I appreciate that very much. Though Marcus,
our temp at Nelson Pine, LV, lost four hundred clams. Wow,
he has spiraled into depression or he mightn't need to
talk to a friend. This is a good story. I
went to my parents' retirement village to watch. The entertainment

(08:35):
manager put the wrong TV channel on so we didn't
get to see it. You should let the oldies themselves
choose the channel. If the entertainment manager couldn't find the
right channel, I went to my parents' retirement village to watch.
The entertainment manager put the wrong TV channel and we
didn't get to see. However, I had to win on
the first to double my BET's outlay. The Melbourne Cup

(08:59):
is usually quite good to bet on all the dumb
monies in I'm going to be very unpopular work tomorrow.
I got first and third. Not sure how much it
will be if one had to pay before the race.
Funny thing is common sense is uncommon Marcus. I don't
think common I think the people that think they've got
common sense have got no idea. I think common sense
is a metaphor for stupid anyone that thinks they're not

(09:23):
brilliant things. I've got common sense, which they could have
feel left out. Oh made it work. Loss now wants
to eat his horses ropeable. Good evening, Mike, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 14 (09:40):
Yeah, good evening. Yeah, I used jipidy and yeah and
and it gives me half yours.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
So what did you ask gp GP? What did you
ask che GPT.

Speaker 14 (09:58):
I asked him for the ten thousand times and it
will be the winner based on the the stack and
everything and the horses. And he give me half yours
as the first winner. So I bet on half yours.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
So yeah, you got GPT to run the hell run
the race a thousand times?

Speaker 14 (10:24):
Yes? Sound like the race a thousand times?

Speaker 15 (10:26):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Sayhood comes second?

Speaker 14 (10:31):
Wait, and I'll double check it's still with me. I'll
double check on my chat GPT the second one. I
think the second one is wrong.

Speaker 7 (10:41):
Okay, I think the second I think the second.

Speaker 14 (10:44):
One is strong. It's so my first one. He was
saying half yours and the second honest. This word violent king,
I'll read, I'll read find the violent king.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
How muchould half fuels pay?

Speaker 14 (11:06):
I think I get sixty dollars?

Speaker 7 (11:09):
I just put ten.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
How much you're putting sixty dollars? Or you got get
cleaned in sixty dollars?

Speaker 14 (11:18):
No, no, I got it the sixty dollars. I just
put ten dollars. Oh wow, Okay, you know, just just
trying it. If it works, then it works.

Speaker 10 (11:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
I don't know, I'm not I mean, I don't know
if more people aren't using that, because that seems like
a recommon sense that that sounds like a fantastic thing
to do.

Speaker 14 (11:34):
Yeah, because it's as you ninety sime lated win read
nineteen point seventy eight percent. I'll read pay fifteen point
ninety three, then violent king fifteen point eight percent.

Speaker 13 (11:45):
The win.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's again, that's brilliant. That's a good story, thank you.
He was playing eight sixty for the win on the
Australian t but goody two shoes, nine to twenty for
the place, Middle Earth, eight thirty for the place, trifector
ten thousand, the first four one hundred and seventy six thousand.
So these are good, These stories, keep them going. If
you've got wah wah, wah, whah, whoa whah, if you've
got a story about the race, what a great day

(12:09):
for the tab all that free publicity about the seven
hundred and city two thousand buckaro Collick, which never looked
any good from the barrier eyes was last?

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
The horse to horse interview was great. A woman jockey
is rare unfortunate. Her granddad died the week before, so
he didn't get see her win, so that part sad.
She's also a bit of a live while she got
in trouble during COVID. Remember, yes, they did have the
horse to horse interview. The interview was Billy Slater. Thought
it was I think I saw Billy Slater on the

(12:39):
footy show saying that he was going to do he was.
I think he was working on the track before he
was in rugby league. Marcus, did you see the blood
dripping from the Melbourne Cup winning horse mouth at the
race end while the female jockey was getting interviewed. Anyone
else noticed? I wonder that's John of Walk. I didn't
see that. I didn't watch the race. I went to

(12:59):
it about five. I came home from sport, we had basketball.
I set the kids inside and try to watch it,
but I couldn't work at why I hadn't couldn't find it,
and because nomal as it quarter past five, but it
was at five o'clock, so I missed it. The Melbourne
Cup should be bandlined with all racing. The winner of
today's Cup was whipped had blood in its mouth at
the end. If anyone whipped dogs or other animals, the

(13:20):
owners would be prosecuted. Anna. So yes, your Melbourne Cup
stories people, if you want to talk about that, do
come through eight hundred and eighty chet gpt reinteresting, I thought,
de Didy, it's interesting that Winston's mister racing is now

(13:41):
opposed to fireworks. Go figure, and it's like consistency. Get
in touch. Twenty one past eight, twenty five past nine, June.
This is Marcus. Welcome June or Julie, whoever you are. Julie,
that'll do. Welcome Julie High It was Julie, not ju Yes, yes,

(14:03):
that's all right, great life.

Speaker 16 (14:05):
I'm sorry, sorry, I love it.

Speaker 10 (14:07):
I love it.

Speaker 16 (14:08):
I love your show. I go to bed each night
with you modulating in my ears.

Speaker 12 (14:15):
And I just love it.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Oh that's great, thank you, that's kind yep.

Speaker 12 (14:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (14:19):
Now the lady that commented about the horses mouth bleeding
when they're in the starting stores, and I've worked with
race horses, they sometimes wave their heads around and they
get all excited and they actually bang their faces on
the starting gates. Okay, so the horse would have probably

(14:40):
banged its its its mouth on the starting gates in
the excitement of getting going because they are ready to go.
They love it, they absolutely love racing, and that's probably
what would happen. And as for the whipping, a lot
of jockeys don't actually hit the horse. They hit the
saddle blanket in the front and they hit the saddle

(15:00):
blanket in the back, and they don't actually hit the horse.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
But the only works because they associate the whipping with pain,
don't they And that happened during training?

Speaker 10 (15:09):
Is that not right?

Speaker 8 (15:11):
No?

Speaker 16 (15:11):
No, a lot of a lot of in a training
they don't. They don't whip the horses. No, No, they
just purely go around and it's purely to build up
like an athlete, to build up muscle and strength, and
to say that the horses will will it be able
to complete the race?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, okay, I'll take your word for it, Julie, thank
you for that. Twenty six past eight, there was the
trainer that was not so long that they had the
horse on the treadmill and was zapping it and then
doing the sound of the whip. So it was some
sort of Pavlovian kind of incentive. So when the whip
was out during the race, that would be reminded of
the shop the horse was got during training. That's my

(15:56):
recollection of recent events. But there we go. There's quite
a bit of talk online about the horse and the
bleeding it does it's not a great look on the photo,
but I don't know what's caused it. But yes, I
think very much. The racing. There's two camps. Those people
that think it's to call and those people think it's
it's what horses love to do. Oh yeah, Peter here,
I won putting twenty one twenty five hundred. Gonna shout

(16:18):
my crew tomorrow, thank you. Marcus loved Winston, But yes,
agree a little off brand wanting to ban fireworks. Yeah
that's right, Marcus. Best part of the women the Melbourn
cover out of the horse, of the women and all
their finery. The drunken women, all the especially the ones

(16:39):
whom mount wheetybund for a ride. Always God, they've normally
lost their shoes in their handback. I don't know why
it's the Yeah, yeah, I don't know, because the men
just look normal, because I always look drunk at those
sorts of things. But the women, they go, they go
the extra bit, don't they for that?

Speaker 12 (16:59):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Someone says, what about tongue ties. I don't really know
what that's about, because I've never experienced what tongue ties anyway.
Seven past twenty seven past twenty seven past eight I'm
just trying to deal with some new texts that trying
to text Heather, But you got to text at the
right time. With our text system, it goes before the

(17:24):
hosts that are on here. You can't come through and
file through and see the old texts. So that's what
you've got to do. Oh eight hundred and eighty Tenadian
nine text. There has been a kind of a lot
of calm about fireworks this year. No one's come through
and said let's ban them. But now Winston. I mean,
of course, all Winston is about is about Winston, and
we'll want to be returned next year, so he will

(17:46):
have done some research or some reconds, and they regularly
votes in this to get him across the line. So
that's the new one. Banning fireworks. I would think you'd
probably lose votes rather than gain them, but that's just
my thoughts on that one. I think people probably are

(18:07):
at a happy place with fireworks. You know, they've had
the petitions, they've done everything, no one said they're going
to do anything about it, and now we move on.
But he said enough is enough. It's kind of late
in life to decide that fireworks are a bad thing.
Isn't it like a new opinion. The abusive misuse of

(18:29):
fireworks is far out grow on any of the benefits.
He wants to bring common sense and to what is
desperate ind a conversation about the future of fireworks on
a community. So there we go, seeing like he's a
common sense list about after all of this. Oh, eight

(18:50):
hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to the ticks you
want to come through?

Speaker 17 (18:53):
No.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Twenty nine past eight. Good evening, Marcus. I'm in christ
to the number of people in my area letting up fireworks.
It's terrible on the time of year. I have horses
and the very happy years. Rich what is guy? Fawks?
What's tomorrow? But you know that's the time it happens.
Have you checked the expiring dad on your passport? Twenty thousand,

(19:17):
four hundred and twenty ten year passports are about to
expire by the end of this year. Brilliant. It'll be
a highly ruined, wouldn't it to know? You can't go away? Peter,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 10 (19:30):
Good evening, Good ad, Marcus, How are you good?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Thank you? Peter?

Speaker 18 (19:36):
That's grant Hey. Just to touch of irony in the
program tonight, I didn't catch the earlier part of the program,
but I believe the discussion may have been around something
that occurred to one of the horses in the Melbourne
Cup today. It wasn't a good look, apparently a bit
of blood and involved. But the irony would be for

(19:57):
me that that was the preceding topic and the one
that succeeded it was fireworks and once since of moved
to ban fireworks. I don't think fireworks should be banned,
but I think they should only be allowed, you know,
in arranged circumstances, like one big fireworks exhibition perhaps for

(20:18):
the for the season. But the reason I say that
and around this irony is that it's proven that fireworks
cause stock and particularly horses, quite serious injuries. Yere on here,
So that's where my iron that's where my sort of
take on the irony goes. That people are worried about
what happened to the race horse, but are all in

(20:39):
favor of continuing for private use of fireworks. So just
just something I wanted to put out there that was all.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Really yeah, I don't really see what the irony is.
Peter sorry to because they're probably the same people opposed
to both aren't they apart from Winston. And that's the
point I was And that's the point I was making
that Winston's repro is repro horse racing and the perceived
cruelty with that, and suddenly he's all into the protecting

(21:08):
and looking after the animals when it comes to firework.
So yeah, I think probably the allegation I would make
would be one of one of hypocrisy.

Speaker 18 (21:19):
Yeah, yeah, notice if a critical and net respect here. Yeah,
And I'm sure there's a they could continue the horse racing.
I don't know why they don't put a blanket in
on the use of whips and other such devices and
may the best horse win on the day, I mean,
making an even playing field and the best horse for
bravail regardless.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, And I think there's probably huge challenges with horse
racing as gambling has changed so much with sports gambling,
which is huge, I wouldn't call a horse racing sport.
And I think probably they're fighting for a smaller, smaller
part of the by I think over the years we've
seen horse racing, you know, with courses closing, it's become
a lot smaller thing than it once was. So they'll

(22:01):
have their own concerns too about what how to keep
that sustainable.

Speaker 18 (22:06):
Yeah, our culture is no longer the while of rugby,
racing and beer. I would admit that, and I.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Think I think that's probably good. I think that's probably
a good thing.

Speaker 18 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Marcus, night to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
You good on your Peter, Thanks very much for that.
Twenty six away from nine text or whatever, jumping if
you have your sake. I don't think fireworks sky Fawks
will be huge this year because it falls on a Wednesday.
When it ends up on a weekend it seems to
be all in, but this not so much. Although they
seem to have a but a good time on Castle
Street and Dunedin Boy Boy, Dana and a the university there.

(22:44):
It's all about partying, isn't it. The horses aren't been whipped.
The whip makes a noise which spurs them on. Marcus,
I've let fireworks every year for a while, but I
made the stand to my wife and kids not do
it this year, and now she is using that to
ask for separation. So not all good or sure what
to do thanks the line and the scenes she wants

(23:07):
to go with. Wow, But good on her for having principles. Yes,
good point, re guy Fawks, I'll tell the horses. Also,
the guy that calls you Tomimes on the devil staircase
a pedietress, he needs a permanent slot. I don't think
anyone needs a permanence. Nothing worse that the permanent slot.
You'd be right for three times and he need run
things to say. That's what happens with the permanent slot.

(23:29):
It's the course of the curse of the column, and
the permanent slot. You start off all guns are blazing.
In about two three weeks time, he's got nothing to say.
That's my take on that. One twenty five away from
any updated news. I'll bring that to you. And big
victories if you've had them in the Melbourne Company. I
don't know what that is, Marcus. I like Winston. I

(23:52):
don't agree with a five weeks band. For me, it's
not a vote winner or vote loser. There are much
big and more pressing issues I'm worried about. Well, I
don't think. I don't know. Then they say that Winston's
calling cards has been the issues that people are most
worried about, when the last one was all about an
inquiry and other inquiry into the COVID. Yeah, back at

(24:16):
your people. The blood from the dry the blood from
the horse's mouth would have been from biting its tongue.
It looks worse than it really is. Swished with a
hose from the washband, dry with a towel. You wouldn't
know this message is from an ex jockey. Wow, a
lot of ex jockeys we've got oh Wa eight hundred

(24:38):
eighty said nix. You want to be a part of
it tomorrow? By the ways, I don't know how often
it would be that Guy Fawkes precedes the Melbourne Cup
by one day? What is excited about this time there?
It seems quite busy the old Halloween Guy Fawkes Melbourne
Cup trifecta. All sorts of stuff, isn't there? With moral

(24:59):
hazards and all sorts of things. Be a part of it.
You want to for the show, as I'm saying, oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty known to known to to text,
keep those texts. I wonder how much you won basically
and how are the sweep state?

Speaker 10 (25:12):
When?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
What was the entry level for the sweep stake?

Speaker 10 (25:14):
Today?

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Hot Arta hiding games on this weekend. Hot art are
a great weekend of tossing Caper's whiskey and bad Bike's galore. Great,
thanks for sending that to the community notices. I've enjoyed that.
I'd like to know what's going on. You've got any
updated us where you are too to know what's happening.
If you've got anything about what would you have things about?

(25:41):
If you've got anything about traffic incidents, road closures, that
sort of stuff. It's always good to hear from you
on this part of the show. And Winston and fireworks,
I guess what's happened. Everyone's had to go at banning
them and they've all kind of fallen flat. Now he
thinks that's gonna be what maybe thinks that's his legacy.

(26:03):
Jeeps twenty two to nine. Looking forward to the input tonight.
I'll await the calls and read the text. I like
the work every night with my wife and no fireworks.
I punted one hundred bucks into the office sweepstake. One nothing.
Hundred bucks is a lot to spend on the office sweepstake.
I thought it was just one ticket per person. You
must have a small office. Same people setting off Guy Fawkes,

(26:26):
Guy Fawkes fireworks at Chief for lux in the National
Party need to have their head checked. Marcus banning fireworks,
how much more can complainers do to make normal people's
lives more miserable. I'm not defending whipping of horses because
I've just joined in and haven't heard the context. My father,
who was a top amateur jockey, won the Carbine Play

(26:47):
years ago. Anyway, most large animals have every thick skin,
so I wondered how much, just how much it hurts them.
The whip with a thong on the end makes more
noise than hurt.

Speaker 10 (26:57):
I think.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
I got the skinny one around my backside as a
kid that hurt. Well, that doesn't sell like much of
a father. What happened to the day with double happies,
Tom thumbs and skyrockets and thunderbolts, blah blah, Will we
ban them?

Speaker 13 (27:12):
That was it?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
They banned the rockets, they banned the bangers, banned the bangers,
banned the bangers. Marcus Melbourne Cup Halloween Guy Fawkes represents
corporate methods of allocating funds. I don't think so. I
think with Halloween you buy tat from Kmart. I think
Melbourne Cup, yes, support the monopoly that is the tab

(27:37):
and I think Guy Fawkes shoe support owner operators? Do
you that are bringing the fireworks in? I don't know
where all that money goes. It used to be the
switched on garden, do was it? Remember them with their
growlights and they shold fireworks. You don't hear from them anymore.
So it was a brilliant retail model. Marcus. Tonight is

(28:00):
the night for the tour and meteor shower. I don't
know much about that. If anyone can tell me about that?
The tour, what about chet GPT and picking race winners?
Is that going to destroy betting?

Speaker 18 (28:10):
Well?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
If I don't heard more about that, anyone tried that.
You get to run the race and see what happens.
So the meteor swarmers tonight the torred meteor shower, and
he won't set again until twenty thirty two. I don't

(28:30):
know if it's a southern Hemis fair thing or a
northern hemi Is fair thing. But tomorrow is the super
Beaver moon, the biggest and brightest of the year, which
will rise tomorrow and it will wash out the luminescence
of the torreds. But they will peak on about November eleven.

(28:52):
But is the full moon tomorrow. It's a beaver moon.
Now I don't know what that is because once upon
a time, before the Internet, we just had moons. But
now I've got blue moons and beaver moons and Carvest moons.
But it's a beaver moon. I don't know what that is,
but I'll find out because I've got the Internet. It's

(29:13):
closest point to Earth and its orbit didn't What didn't
we have that last week?

Speaker 8 (29:18):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (29:21):
We had it last month, but this is the biggest
version of that. So I don't even know what that means.
It's took big two months. I think it's big next month. Also,
I'll tell you what media showers would be so disappointing.
You go out there and nothing happens because you can't
look at the sky all night. It's got an instant

(29:44):
it's impossible to see. I think they don't think you
get any warning. Sixteen to nine, Welcome to Marcus till twelve.
What do you got your Melbourne Cup winning stories? What
a great great show tonight, Marcus, What a day Melbourne
Cup and Guy Fawkes Eve? Did we carry it on
our station the race? I don't think many radios did
there once upon a time were on every radio station

(30:06):
today they did. They stop the news bulletin for it. Wow, Jay,
that really doubled down on it. Part of the news bulletin.
Goodness me sixteen to nine if you want to partake
Melbourne Cup and fireworks so far tonight. Beaver Moon gets
its name from Native Americans, Colonial American, and European folklore.

(30:30):
The common explanation beaver activity. It marks the time of
year when beaver's actively preparing for winter, building their dams
and lodgers and gathering food stores before the waterways freeze.
You wonder why we brought in rabbits and possums when
we could have bought in beavers. Is Chris Wood injured? Yes,
Chris Wood's got a bad knee and the key we coach,

(30:52):
the New Zealand All Whites coach talks for a monthly.
He's not going to go to Columbia or Ecuador, and
he's been injured for a while, but they've been managing
it with how much time he's played. So yeah, it's
just one of those things that happened when you play
for I only know that he an interview with the
coach today. Will the sparks be flying at the Lush

(31:12):
home on fireworks night. Two things and bluff. It gets
dark very late at night because of the tilt of
the earth, so it won't get fireworks dark at about
half past nine at night, and I will be at work.
So these hours have killed my love of Guy Fawkes

(31:34):
because I'm not around. And also the bluff it gets.
You know, it's crazy, and as a parent of youngish children,
it was a choice between the joy of fireworks and
the anti joy of grizzly kids. I think the kid's
bedtime trumps that it's better to have kids with enough

(31:58):
sleep than than the unbridled expression of a part romaniac
at night in the backyard. And I'm at work. I
could talk to my boss about having the night out
off because it's of huge cultural importance, but I'll save

(32:20):
those discussions when I need those discussions. It's not of
extraordinary cultural importance for me. Yeah, although once upon a
time probably I would have been up for an argument
about that, But you know, you just try and get on,
get your life on, don't you. Line's fifth want to
talk about America's Cup, Sorry, your Melbourne Cup winnings and
Guy Fawkes tonight, well tonight. I know that it's not tonight,

(32:43):
it's tomorrow night. Obviously, get in touch if you want
to be a part of it. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty. By the way, anyone's seen these hornets. They're
bad news. The haunts, that's what we're saying. You want
to get out and get those and Wellington. There are
birds attacking. They are hawks. They are attacking people on

(33:06):
the walkways like Haywood's track. This is the falcon, the
bird of the air, the Crtiaria cardiaria. They're attacking people.

Speaker 10 (33:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
This was a thing. I've never been I've been attacked
by magpies, but never been attacked by a Crtaria. If
you have someone that's been attacked by a bird, let
me know what that was like for you. Always enjoy
the stories of magpies. Apparently they're not afraid of humans. Yep.
I don't know what they're attacking for. Of course, with

(33:37):
the magpies are going for the shininess of your helmet,
the strap of your helmet. Twelve away from nine backsone
backcat Your lines available if you don't want to come through.
Marcus Till twelve looking forward to what you've got to say. Wow, okay,
you can have your file weeks along with a ten
K final six months jail. If you start a fire

(33:57):
with your flamboyant toys, call it abuser pays. I'm taking
my fireworks money to the local fire station for their
social beer fund. Used to buy five weeks at the Waalies.
Then down the road to one Loi for a great
feed chairs Brian, I got co pilot. What's co pilot, Dan,
It's like chet GPT. I got copilt to pick my

(34:17):
Melbourne cup rais based on available steps on the drag edition.
I won. Karl sent an emoji's sad face that to
vote for Winston from me. I'm so sick of five weeks.
It wouldn't be so bad it was just one night
a year, but people stockpile them and let them off
for the next brimming six months, randomly annoying everyone. Wow Wow, Marcus.

(34:45):
I was chased by a magpile of the footpath that
was running after me, not flying. I was terrified. It
came out of a driveway as I walked past and
started following me. I started running because it freaked me
out and started running after me must have looked hilarious. Gilly,
if you got a bird chasing story, that's Cinema Wheelhouse
Tonight all on eight from nine. Another person Marcus, I

(35:05):
won four dollars eighty on the Melbourne Cup, go me.
That's from Ben. The thing about gambling, you wouldn't be
you don't always win that much, and I mean, yeah,
you go to take great risks to win a lot.
I guess that's the whole gest of gambling, isn't it.
I don't quite know what the answer to all of
that is. How you're going people? We are talking about
Winston and he's the one that's taken on the whole

(35:26):
meant there is a stuff poll that's on at the
moment about would you be in favor of banning fireworks
and an overall a large majority of people are in favor.
But I also wonder whether those are the people that
would be prompted to sign a petition for that, because

(35:53):
I'm sure the people that are opposed to it are
much strong of much stronger feeling though those people that
kind of ri into it there would be my thoughts
on that. Yeah, So I don't know if you can
vault multiple times on that stuff surveys either and now
I can't find again. I've just got looking for it again,
can't see it. But there we go. That is that
eight hundred and eighty to today. If you want to

(36:13):
be part of the show, keen to hear your gambling
stories and your Melbourne Cup wins victories tonight. And also
if you got any comments about fireworks, because now there
is another MP that's come out and said that they
want to actually ban it. Oh, we've got a pair

(36:34):
of lower keats that have been flying freely in the
wild for four years. But I was told recently that
lower keats perre date on our twoey population, which you
also have here. Is this true? I think introduced introduced
birds are bad And last time I looked at the numbers,
the amount of exotic birds that escape every year are

(36:55):
in the thousands. So yes, yes, so that seems to
be a bad thing. So there's wild flocks of parrot
all around New Zealand now, and yeah, I don't think
they're great for the New Zealand birds. There are flocks
I think famous flocks of I don't know what they are,

(37:21):
but there's a lot of birds from ancient populations that
have escaped from shipwrecks and things. I know there's some
on the west coast Nefwangannui. What are the white birds called?
They might be those ones. But yeah, I have read
recently about the number of birds that they're always trying

(37:42):
to eradicate them, like there was rainbow lorikeets have become nativized. Yeah,
And according to the article I've got in front of me,
during the monitoring period of three and a half years,
twelve hundred and five birds escaped, ninety two percent of
them of parrots, and of course most people wouldn't report
they've gone. Ring neck parakeets have established in forty seven

(38:05):
countries and form large noisy populations. So yes, So that
was an auckland that I think twelve hundred birds escaped
in three years. So there's big wild populations out there
while we're telling you about that, oh, because we're talking
about birds attacking and loriri keets. By the way, too,
I see that the the zion or the Lions Safari

(38:26):
Park and out of Fangare has finally or the euthanizing
euthanizing all their animals. Let's hope on the back of
that we never import.

Speaker 9 (38:38):
That.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
I don't know what the legislations, but let's hope they
never have a chance to import cats into this country.
And even for zoos, there's no point for them. That
was what a what a shocking life those lions had,
and tigers and leopards or whatever. That big game park
up and fungaday appallingly run and gone along forever. This
is the one. I forget what it was called. Was
it called Zion Park or something. I never went there,

(39:03):
but what a grim place that was. But anyway, it's
been going from ownership to ownership and they can't make
money out of it. Calm my wildlife century. I think
it's called now and now they're killing or the because
they're old and they can't go back into the wild,
because they can't fend for themselves. That's great. Maybe Winston
should be doing something about that and allowing no more
big animals to come back into the cave. By the way,

(39:24):
we were talking about parrots and birds been attacked by
birds or parents that are escaped, or have you got
wild communities of parrots living nearby. I'm kind of fascinated
by that. Someone has said that they've eaten parrots. Yeah,
these parrots are good eating. Shot a pair a couple
of weeks back. They're destructive to our crops on farms,
so shoot them. Wow, Marcus, it's the one or I

(39:49):
decided to buy five weeks a year for the first
time nearly a decade. I was shocked at the price.
I picked up a bag of sparklers, a few outdoor
fireworks into robing camels that came to one hundred and
forty dollars. I couldn't believe. Some of the bigger boxes
were priced up to four hundred. What a pretty The
warehouse stopped sitting them. I remember the being able to
get them for sixty bucks. Cheepers wow, and a lot

(40:14):
of people going on as a massive text arguments about
the bleeding from the horse's mouth that wind of the
Melbourne Cup. So yeah, they've very much divided people on
horse racing, but the people are posed a lot more vocal.
Agreed that guy Fawkes Day has little relevance in New Zealand.
I don't think it's ever had relevance, has it, But

(40:34):
that doesn't mean it's not something we've always commemorated or
celebrated jumping. If you want to talk Bob it's Marcus.

Speaker 10 (40:40):
Welcome went to Bike Rivermine movie today? Oh good, they're
not very good. Oh there was only the two really,
the two people that concentrated on was that the brother
that got killed and it was actually the other guy
was actually money'st don over in the Airy.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
A few years back.

Speaker 10 (41:03):
And they they got it so that the movie didn't
actually show that when Jacinda took over. They didn't. They
signed petitions to say that they would never ever cap
that mine off, but they didn't show they are filling
another mine or anything. They seem to cut the thing
half half way through. They never showed where the police
drew all those ear holds and everything down there.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, just was I think, Well, I think I think
it was a story of the women's friendship and the
fact that they didn't give up in a story of resilience.

Speaker 10 (41:37):
Yeah, well that would be true. And they certainly didn't
give up and they did have resilience. So if you
look at it from that angle, yes, I'll reverse my
six to an eight.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
If that's the case.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
I would imagine too, they're going to fill you you know,
I guess budgets aren't huge, so you can't recreate things
like Yeah, yeah, I guess it's there's things you can
and can't tell. But I think, I think, I think
a six was a fairly generous score anyway, wasn't it.

Speaker 13 (42:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (42:03):
But they Yeah, I would have plugd the perfume.

Speaker 10 (42:06):
More would be born. The way it was, it seemed
that there were only two people in the mine.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Well, I guess if you're a filmmaker, you're focusing on
a story, you need to find what story you need
to tell. They can't. They couldn't tell all the stories.

Speaker 10 (42:19):
I suppose, right, Yeah, because it was definitely the Paroo
Hotel and mister Monk he was there that we just
got last night.

Speaker 7 (42:26):
It was definitely the right place.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
He wasn't playing himself, was he?

Speaker 7 (42:33):
Yeah, he was playing Brennie Mank. I don't know, no, no, no,
it looked like him, But it looked like because.

Speaker 10 (42:39):
I've known through sport that yeah. Yeah, no, well it
was it was a movie directed to those two peoples
in their friendships.

Speaker 7 (42:47):
Yes, it was very good, but it was.

Speaker 10 (42:49):
A movie about what It was a movie about the
fight rhythm. I'm not so good.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
What about what about that graymouth?

Speaker 7 (42:55):
Me?

Speaker 2 (42:55):
You always heard a cockshaw? And what happened to him.
Was it was because it was.

Speaker 10 (43:00):
He's retired and he's an extremely nice man, is it?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Yeah? He was because he was really prominent in the
time around pot He was offered on the TV, wasn't he.

Speaker 10 (43:11):
Tony Tony Corksure. He does a lot of old photography
in that and puts it on that you know, Facebook,
whatever it is. Tony and I've got on very well
for years, even though he was the mirror. He didn't
mind talking to the Gatto sweeper and wow, are you what?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah? Well, I think me has loved there the shows.
They got the common touch and they're always running across
the road to speak to them sweeper, aren't they?

Speaker 10 (43:36):
On a scale about a tain, it was solely to
those two women in their friendship and they're not going up.
Was good, but I would have liked a few more people.
It almost looked like there was only two people that
have been stuck down the mine.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Yeah, very good, Bob, thanks for the twelve pass. I
keep your calls coming through. Agree those poor animals. Agree
about those poor animals having to put down Macus. What
a terrible fiesco regarding this park has been I can't
work out while the animals rivel out in the country
when the original guys seemed to be such a I mean,
he wasn't a great person either, was he appalling? But

(44:13):
jumping I want to talk birds as well tonight, particularly
escape parrots that have formed a community and getting attacked
by birds, parrots or the naked, the native fountain, the kadiyatia,
anything like that. That's we're about tonight. Jumping Hurdle twelve
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus of Labor were

(44:34):
in power now there'd be no discussion on banning fireworks.
Labour knows they'd lose the next election from pinging on
people's rights. Bruce Christchurch. Well, in fact, I can tell
you that the National Government themselves have said that they're
not interested in doing anything about it. So yeah, So
that's the situation. That's why Winston's got it, because no
major party wants to infringe on people's rights. That was

(44:57):
just in the news yesterday and I mentioned last week
and they have come out and said that. So yeah.
The government said that they won't introduce a being anytime
soon because obviously there's no votes in it. So yeah,
And I think I forget who the MP that was

(45:19):
quoted that in the article. I can't find it just
but I think local councils talking about banning it as well.
National MP Greg Fleming, who was presented with the petition,
said there's no appetite whatsoever from the government to gender

(45:40):
for looking at this. So the government, the national government,
has no interest at all in banning fireworks. Mad It's Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 9 (45:52):
You know, I'm expecting of animals and bad places. Have
you heard of the orcas and the dolphins that are
in the place down French Marine part? And now I've
been pretty much left there.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Tell me more.

Speaker 9 (46:08):
I just was reading about it today. Is a park
in front? Yeah, it's close down. I did see it
on social media, but I googled it and looks pretty
legit a lot of stories about it. I thought someone
else might know a bit more about it because I
didn't get a lot of time to read into it.
But man, that was broke my heart. That's true.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
So they're being in it with the orca still in it, two.

Speaker 9 (46:36):
Orcas, twelve dolphins. Yeah, so I almost hope it's not true,
but yeah, you're on animals in the park getting euthanized
for the reminded me of us, and I thought, what's
up with us humans?

Speaker 2 (46:58):
I can't see reputable Well yeah, okay, so there's videos
of them, right, Yeah, I did see and.

Speaker 9 (47:06):
Videos, but any ai these days it's hard to.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Know what to believe, but it does say. A video
post online of two walkers circling in an al guy
infested pull in southern France has brought a fresh wave
of worldwide concern for Katasian's Wilkie twenty four and eleven
old year old calf eleven year old half k Jo.
France has been struggling to find a new home for
the mother and son of out their owner. A marine

(47:31):
park on the French Reviewer closed down over a law
banning shows featuring marine mammals.

Speaker 9 (47:39):
Yeah, there you go. So it's interesting, right, but say
it too.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
They did have a They did had to arrange for
them to be transferred to Spain to a park there,
but that was blocked by the Spanish authorities.

Speaker 13 (47:54):
A right.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Could they release them in the world probably not.

Speaker 9 (48:00):
Well, it has been letting them die a pond.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Surely it's grim. Yeah, you appreciate that, Matty. When you've
got any more news on that. Seventeen pasta. I took
birds and parents are getting attacked by birds also, and
parents that have gone rogue. Marcus. Are pigeons predicted and
news in it? Or can we read that feed them
raw rice to get rid of them? Marcus. I'm in

(48:28):
Partapaloma and fireworks have been ed off like it's World
War two. My cat and dog are sitting in the
lound shaking. Totally had enough. The ban on fireworks hurts
the people who are responsible as well. Why don't we
ban alcohol? It causes death on our roads, clogs our
emergency rooms, keeps up, police busy with assaults and family violence.

(48:49):
I'd rather the government pass bills that lower the food prices. Brilliant.
I don't know where the pigeons are protected. Certainly the
native pigeons are, but all about the birds and seem
to be animals. Tonight, works going off in Napier, Marcus,
comma idiots, Marcus. I go to my local potetical gardens

(49:12):
every I have to feed the pigeons and ducks rice.
The pigeons know the sound of me shaking the container
of rice. Now a swarm comes for me. This afternoon,
I was video and them coming towards me five land
and I am one on my phone the day on
my arm, one on my phone the day before, one
on my shoulder, one of my head. Well there are
bird people, aren't they? Bird people love birds Hit'dle twelve,

(49:35):
eighteen past nine, Marcus. They would not survive in the wild. Yeah,
that's I mean, hopefully no one keeps worca and cages
anymore or pulls. Gosh, that one at Marineland in Napier.
I've got a post cut of it. Used to jump
through a hoop that was set on fire. Isn't that extraordinary? Yeah?

(49:59):
Jump in Hitdle twelve, nineteen past nine. Looking forward to
your contribution twenty for one past nine, mar because several
banning ideas tonight. My contribution is to increase the pension.
That's good on your frank refile works. The majority are
going to be punished for the stupidity of a few.
The night of celebration for the younger heart will be
a sad day for most. Mate. Hey, mate, I take

(50:21):
my kids quite often to Butterfly Creek twenty five each
adult thirty five dollars. I've done maintenance on the place
and it's pretty rough. Animals they have in there, a
couple of crocodiles, alligators, all of other things. It's pretty
sad to be fair. Don't get me wrong. The kids
love it, but I do feel for them. It's always
run half pie thoughts on Butterfly Creek. So kids, twenty

(50:43):
five adults thirty year I went and saw the crocodiles.
I wasn't going back. I don't think there should be
any animals kept really, I don't see the point of it.
I think once upon a time, the Victorian days, they
had always the zoos because you didn't you couldn't see
the animals in the wild. But now you've got the videos.
You got all you want, all you want. But first
of all, i'd start I mean they've started with the
circus that they got rid of those, I'd get rid

(51:04):
of these. Well, yeah, I mean they've got rid of themselves,
this one in the Far North because it just couldn't.
I mean, it was just so poorly run. But yeah,
I don't like those crocodiles either. But yeah, fear point
on that, and I guess it goes well because people
it's close to the airport and people just think they're
doing something there. Wow, now here's another tech. I do

(51:29):
need your calls now people about but particularly about birds
and wild populations of exotic parrots, if you've got any
near where you are and birds attacking you. Mark is
listening to your show for the first time live tonight.
I usually listen to you on the delayed podcast. I
think I listened to four episodes today while building a
deck looking out over Opinaki Beach. I have a subconscious

(51:53):
image of what people look like. Do you have imagine
what some of your your callers look like? Beauty to
see how close to your imagination is the reality? Why
would you want to know? That's a question I would say,
But yes for those that are no fireworks going off
in Pada Paumu tonight, Marcus. Some people act like they
never knew fireworks were still happening this year. Kind of lame.

(52:16):
And someone says, yes, Bean, all zoos, but feel free
to talk on air tonight your Melbourne cup wins. Winston's
now in on fireworks, which I don't think iss core brand,
although he was the woke buster. I don't know what
that's about. I think a lot of it's about re election. Actually, well,
I guess at the end that's what it's all about,
is that when it comes to politics and also talking

(52:39):
about birds. Because the native falcon, the Cardiaria is attacking
people in Upper Heart, I think it is. But I
want to hear about your bird attack story, whether it
was a magpie or a minor or a parrot. So

(53:00):
if youve got a bird attacking you story, what was it?
This one's The birds have been the people have been
attacked are on Haywood's track in the Hut city. I
don't know it. Forest and Birds said. The behavior is
normal for this time of the year. They are busy
being They are really busy parents, so they're nesting and

(53:22):
about to start looking after young. The falcon nested on
the ground and sometimes in trees, so they could be
quite exposed to pray that wanted to eat them. It
means they get quite defensive. They tend to defend the
nest area and defend their territory. If humans get a
little too close, we do see them dive bombing and swooping.
The advice is not get too close and give them

(53:43):
space quickly, and can't we move away from them and
let them get on with them. Parents are looking after
young without you and their way we want to hear
sensible advice. I think twenty six past nine the Australian
papers are full of the celebration of the woman that
won the Melbourne Cup, the second jockey ever to win,
who is a woman, and back at you. They've gone

(54:07):
through her controversial career which seems to be having a
party during lockdown. Well what's a jockey to do? Good honor?
Twenty seven past nine, David, this is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 19 (54:25):
Hi, this is David Brisbane supporter here.

Speaker 8 (54:31):
Hi.

Speaker 19 (54:32):
Now I just said you're talking about crazy birds and
parrots and things. Yes, now, I just I just got
back to Wellington where I lived. I was just another
half before and the mother of my children, who was
Martin Devlin's sister.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
She had had a ye small world, Eh.

Speaker 19 (54:56):
Yes, yes, he's coming down for Christmas Day too. Yeah,
but anyway she had.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
That's exciting for everyone.

Speaker 11 (55:06):
Yeah, well not so much, not well not for me
really really.

Speaker 19 (55:14):
Well, I'm sort of yeah, I'm invited on Boxing Day.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
You know, you don't get to go Christmas what divilin
comes all that way, you don't get to go.

Speaker 19 (55:23):
I've made them before and that, but it's you know,
that's their family. Time and that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yeah, okay, well well you don't yeah, okay, wow.

Speaker 19 (55:31):
But anyway, the point is she had one of those cockatoos,
you know, the big white ones.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Yes, I was thinking about that because I think they're
wilder this. I think there's some wild wild in New
Zealand up there. Fang and your cockatoos.

Speaker 12 (55:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (55:43):
Well, anyway, she had put down because it was screaming
and puddling its feathers out. Oh yeah, well you had
serious psychological problems, as some of them do, because they're
extremely intelligent.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Some of those I'll be joy locked in a cage,
I think, But I I think, yeah, I don't. I
think people have kind of gone away from birds a
bit locked in cages.

Speaker 19 (56:06):
Yeah, well you know, well I wouldn't want to be so,
but yeah, that was That was all I really want
to say is, yes, you had one of those crazy
birds and they went crazy.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
They had to have it put down, and well it's
pulling out its feathers. That's what I was doing. I
think there's birds wild in the Pongerhangar Valley. Someone might
be able to actually talk more about that. Hold your
horses with you soon. More calls after the break oh
eight hundred and eighty to bird stories and banning everything.
We're on that again tonight, Ban ban ban the bands work.

(56:41):
What did they banned successfully? It's always interesting what you
band successfully, what you don't bear. They try with alcohol,
that wasn't that successful. Well, they've done quite well with
drink driving though, haven't they. Well that's required continual policing,
and people still think they can get away with it,

(57:02):
and I guess probably once they stopped policing, people could
get away from it with it. Yeah, anyway, if you
want to talk on it, that's what we're about tonight.
There's some lines there. Free mixing. This is Marcus. Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 4 (57:16):
Hello, Hello Marcus.

Speaker 10 (57:18):
How are you?

Speaker 20 (57:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Good mixing?

Speaker 13 (57:20):
Thank you, that's good.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
I'm just I've just slipped into your station. Actually I've
woken up from a bit of a doze.

Speaker 10 (57:28):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (57:29):
Not heaven when you get older, being sixty now, I
guess you're coming up to that too, aren't you sixty?

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Yeah, well you take ten years off that, but you Yeah,
I don't napeen two of July nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 10 (57:49):
Me, I was in.

Speaker 11 (57:51):
October me you yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
June July three, oh, Okay. Oh that's a wonder baby.

Speaker 10 (57:59):
Yeah. So anyway, so I'm not coming up.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
I'm not coming up to it. I'm already there.

Speaker 7 (58:04):
Oh of course you are, July is before.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
I'm not recoming of my age. I'm trying to be
more honest about it.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
Oh why wouldn't you not be?

Speaker 7 (58:15):
It's a great age.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Well, not from you. You're you're asleep half the time.

Speaker 11 (58:21):
Half the time.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
I've just spoken up from a nod, that's all.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
I think.

Speaker 4 (58:29):
Because and I'm putting my feet.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Up, thinking you must have gone the sauce during the
Melbourne Cup and have just fallen asleep and real reawoken.
But that's not the case.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
No, I'm preparing my stomach for the Christmas feast.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Okay, anyway, So.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
Anyway, exactly anyway, I can remember I lived. I was
living in Australia for a few years and I ended
up having to cycle to a factory. I was a
semstress and I've never experienced this at all before in
my life. And this magpie swooped down and picked me
on the noggin or the helmet, gave me a dickens

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of a fright. It was really quite scary. But you
mentioned before about the hawks. These the native hawks in
New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Yeah, I'm not quite sure. If I'm not quite sure
if they're a hawk or a falcon. They are the cardiadia,
which is that they don't that they don't eat the
carry on the road called. They only eat live, live prey.
So they're not the ones. They're not the ones you
see on the they're not the ones you see on
the highways, because they're the they're the car who I
think the Australia, Well they've they've got they their own

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steam to their native but they are the they're the hawk,
whereas the falcon.

Speaker 15 (59:45):
Much big, bood smaller is that?

Speaker 20 (59:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Yeah, And look I only know this because fortunately I
went went to the the Wildlife Trust and they were
where they have them and they feed them and you
can see them see them feeding. I went there and
there was someone there that was really helpful about talking
about them. And when I was oh, live mice, Yeah
it's grimmar.

Speaker 21 (01:00:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm going to say mice.

Speaker 16 (01:00:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:00:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
But when I was in Central Otago doing stonemasonry, they
a lot of the vineyards had them to scare birds.
So you saw quite a lot of them around there
and when they fly they look like a stealth bomber.
They're quite different looking when they're in there. They really are.
They really are awesome when you see them in the air.

(01:00:34):
So they have their purpose then, Oh absolutely, yeah, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:00:37):
So it's funny, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:00:39):
Animals?

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
So I love my cats because I lived in Central
for a wee while, and I think I've shared this
before that my house backed onto a quarry and my
dear cats would bring in rats water rats because we
live right very close to the Clusa River. Oh yeah,
and they're bringing these water rats. And I remember going

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to be very brief because I know you're busy. I
remember going to Queenstown coming back with a family. I
have two sons, my husband. We came back through the
door and here's this rat in our living area. And
the boys loved it because they tried to stomp and
get rid of this jolly rat. And I was a
beaver petrified, like looking through the petition being French doors

(01:01:23):
with windows, and in the end I thought, no, they're
going to make a mess of that rattle over my floor.
I don't want that, So I just opened up the doors,
put my big girl pants on and with the washing
basket flipped it over the rat scooted it out the door.

Speaker 10 (01:01:40):
It was so funny.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
Oh Marcus, good days, good days.

Speaker 21 (01:01:46):
Yes, that's a good thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
That got me make saying there's your cycling to your
seamstress job. Was that Melbourne or Sydney?

Speaker 7 (01:01:52):
No, that was in Brisbane. Wow, it was it?

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Good cycling there?

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Well, I enjoyed it, but all the serious cyclists in there,
like I mean, I'm just on a basic pushbike and
it's early morning and the serious cyclists on their road
bikes and groups of like four five would just motor past.

Speaker 11 (01:02:15):
Me, and I'm sure they must have had to laugh.

Speaker 21 (01:02:18):
I'm sort of doing my best.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
Chugging it to this factory just to park my backside
down and so for eight hours. Yeah, good old days.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
I think why the magpie because your bike helmet's got
that shiny metal, but where your stretches attacked? I think
that's what they see. Because I was biking up to
ham in the one year and they were coming at
me and it was terrifying, so I just took I
took my helmet off.

Speaker 10 (01:02:44):
After you are.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Well, no, because they went attacking me because the mess
the missile on it. That's what was there was more
hassle than it was worth the helmet.

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
I get your point, because they do, say, don't they
They they covet shiny things. Yes, apparently they will. I've
heard of people that stories old that if you have
your window open, you got your watch, you're taking your
watch off the window sill as you're doing the dishes,
and that will actually come in and pinch shiny. They

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seem to come it shiny.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
No, I don't know why they do, because there are
some things that there's some things that take shiny stuff
to build next nests, to attack, attract partners. I don't
know why. I'll see if I can find out some
information about that, and maybe someone knows. But thank you,
Maxine twenty two to ten. Get in touch here till
twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two

(01:03:39):
nine two to text. A lot of texts. I'll get
to those. I'd like your calls too, about birds and
men attacked by birds and wild population of parrot. I
don't want to sound grim, but you couldn't eat parrot?
Could yeah? Wild parrot? I know people eat peacocks and
Canada geese, but I don't know. Yeah, I'm I'm not

(01:03:59):
suggesting people do do it, but I was curious enough
that was a possibility. Here's what the Texters are saying.
I used to fly gliders, and every now and then
a bird would fly by my side window and look
at me to say, as if to say, what are
you doing up here? A heartwarming doc or about parrots.
I just love to watch The Wild Parrots of Telegraph

(01:04:20):
Hill in San Francisco, a true story that reveals so
much about the individual personalities of a rabunctious flot of
flock of urban parrots by filmmaker Judy irv And if
you love birds or parrots, as I must see, it
would definitely put you off your bit of parrot PATAI
love your show. Louise falcon is the fastest animal in
the world. They have tight wings, whereas hawks has separate

(01:04:41):
feathers at the end of their wings. MP should see
how traumatized our poor pooch gets each guy. Fawks dogs
aren't cheap either. It's horrific. I see people lost birds
on Facebook. They aren't found. Thousands of birds get lost
every year in this country, it seems, which I think

(01:05:02):
is probably a floor and people keeping birds, they just
fly away. I am a bird lover and never seen
pets in the world. Don't believe they meet up and breed.
Yes they do. There's huge flocks of wild birds, introduced birds.

(01:05:22):
So yeah, you might want to talk about that. I'd
love you to talk about that. You can ban anything
that has a more than fifty percent majority agreement or support, Well,
I don't think you can. Actually, you need the government
to pars legislation. Marc Sada Rosella flying to my open
car window this morning. It didn't hit my face, but
was right in front of it. Both my hands came

(01:05:44):
off the wheel as we both tried to work out
what was going on, and I tried to keep it
out of my face. Then I had to do an
emergency break. Luckily of requiet road. It settled on the
dashboard and then tried to get out the front window.
I opened all the windows and doors and tried to
help it out, but it was quite angry and vocal
at me. But it eventually made its way out of
the car and five of them up in a tree
or started screeching on the Rozellas turned to the gang.

(01:06:08):
I keep my windows not fully open from now on
emmerin Orkan. That sounds terrifying. Imagine how it feels to
be a political asylum seeker and refugee from a war
torn country that have come to settle in New Zealand
and they see fireworks. There's a large colony of Australian
white crested cockatoo's established in the native bush by Akitillo

(01:06:30):
Hawke's Bay, being there for about fifty years. They don't attack,
but are really really noisy. Can hear them for miles away?
Might be about two hundred birds, give or take, hard
to count. Dino from Danaverk Marcus Heywood's track is Statehove
fifty eight between Portydor and Lower Hut. I took my
dog to the park last week and he ran to

(01:06:51):
a tree to water it and a magpie swopped him
about five times. As I'm guessing the magpie at a
nest in the tree. But boy, I've never seen my
dog come running back to me so fast. We end
up playing ball another part of the field, but the
magpie was certainly keeping a close eye on him. Lull Marcus.
When I went back to my red zone properly, a
magpie swept over my head. That's what people are saying.

(01:07:14):
It's all about birds and magpies and horses and fireworks.
I ought to know about your Melbourne Cup winnings today
and how your sweepsteak at work went? Did someone do
no work all day? Because I just did them sweepsteak?
How annoying is that? Who won out one? Dan? What
department's seeing? Michael Allen? Oh god, that's so. I don't

(01:07:38):
think management could partake wild populations of birds. That's the
topic for tonight. We have seen Marcus. We have sent
you photos of Jack Jack, our rescue cockatoo before we
get massive flocks of cockatoos that come together during the airy.
Malcolm Auckland. It's a bit of sweet that they also

(01:07:58):
visit him. Beautiful but sad as he could never be released.
He came from up north, so this is the first
time seeing others this way. Yes, he has a mess
of avery too, so he can fly brilliant. That's what
we want. So we are talking birds, birds, and let's
see what you've got to say about that head till

(01:08:19):
midnight tonight. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty Oh wait, yes,
let's be hearing from you. Good evening, Susan, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:08:30):
Thank you Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:08:32):
Hey.

Speaker 20 (01:08:32):
I just got two quick stories. The first one is
down in Monica where I was visiting my daughter. I
took my beautiful lads for the little walk around the
Closer because we were just across the road from it,
and I felt something sort of hit my head and
I thought, oh, what was that, carried on walking with

(01:08:53):
my girls, and then a bird came down and sort
of tried to grab at my docks. So I called
them back and high tailed it back home again. And
I got home when I said to my daughter, hawk
tried to get us today, and she said, no, Mums,
hawks get dead stuff, they don't get live stuff. Thought

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nothing of it. And then a couple of days later
the tracks were all closed and the council had put
up signage to say that do not enter. The falcons
were nesting and they'd attacked some cyclists with blood pouring
out of their helmets, basically because they do their nesting

(01:09:38):
in the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
It's amazing, incredible.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
Second story, I don't think I've ever.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Seen the falcon's next either, so yeah, I'm not even
aware of that until today.

Speaker 20 (01:09:51):
No, And second story is My daughter has a cockertoo,
Toggles very famous. He was outside and a falcon tried
to get him what and came into the property and
Toggles just flipped upside down on his perch and the

(01:10:11):
eagle all flew over him. The falcon flew over him,
but Toggles got a little bit scared, and then he
could only fly like a meter and a half off
the ground because his winds eclipped, and he just flew
over to the neighbor's properties. And so my daughter and
her partner are running over the neighbors properties trying to
get him, and Toggles ended up in this area with

(01:10:34):
a rot wheeler and two other dogs, and he just
made himself really big and started screaming at them, and
the lady came out and just picked him up, and
then my daughter arrived and just got him back. So
I know for a few days mister falcon was circling
the property looking for Toggles. Anyway, Toles was.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
Very to eat Toggles.

Speaker 12 (01:10:57):
We think, oh.

Speaker 20 (01:10:59):
Absolutely, because he want my life, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Weoll line and kill wow.

Speaker 20 (01:11:03):
Yeah yeah. But Toggles was very happy now because he
some stag lens and Wellington. Oh, it's been adopted.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
In a cage or in the wild on a giant
well steaks for.

Speaker 20 (01:11:17):
A giant cage stags LANs was a mass of ba
a wild bird.

Speaker 13 (01:11:21):
It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
A fantastic name for a bird. Two toggles. I love that.
Nine away from ten Heitel Midnight it is seven from
ten birds Birds Birds, what's fester up by albatross? Also
there is a swooping magpie at Herbertville Beach campground, very dangerous.

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For the first time in decades, I've had a care
around my batch and Peel Forest, a beautiful care. I've
re excited ashe's domain in the mon were two has
an abundance of bird life, heaps of woodpigeons. Two is
rainbow laura keats as well as falcons. Also if you
work early, if you walk early enough, you can see
more porks. Marcus Well. On a holiday on Wahiki Island,

(01:12:07):
my family and I were fishing off the wharf at
Kennedy Point out of Nora. Seagull started a pity attacking me,
swooping down on my head. After a couple of minutes,
I decided enough was enough, picked up my family headed
back the safety of our batch. Marcus years ago, I
thought I'd seen a road run a bird running down
the side of a railway line in south down Penrose
and he was motoring along. Now wondered the coat. He

(01:12:28):
can't catch him in the cartoon. Although people have spoken,
I reckon, we don't have them, so I wonder what
I saw. Marcus have been experimenting with the magpies. I've
found that they are nesting when they are listing, Like now,
if you were a black jacket and move quickly, they
attack you. I have borrowed my wife's pink jacket the

(01:12:48):
day later and it doesn't happen, so definitely the black
color is the problem. The only issue is now I
have to wear a women's jacket to protect me. Your coat,
and then the comedy text about the cockatoo, Well done,
Thank you for that, Marcus. Hello. I also a magpie

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strough which occurred in a small New South Wales town.
I was walking to work when I actually thought I'd
been hit from behind. My head was pushed from the
back with such force I thought someone must have hit
me with something. No one anywhere near, but the force
pushed my head nearly down to my knees. I put
my hand on my back of my head to find
it was covered in blood. Thought I'd been mugged, to

(01:13:32):
be told by another walker that she saw a magpie
hit me bystander. Advised to always wear a hat and
attach some glasses to the back of the hat. Never
had any more trouble. Albert Trosses can sleep while in flight.
Fact of the day, YE said, it's good. I actually
I had a story. I was, oh, I can't even
be bothered with that story. But yeah, I had a

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running with someone who was a professor from Stanford about
to do with He was a botany professor or a
biology professor. And it just I was doing the Hollyfood
trek with him and he just come back from I
think he might have been to the Albert, to the Albatro.
And I said, you know they once they fledged they
fly for six years. And he said, yes, but that

(01:14:16):
wouldn't be continuous. And of course we're away from the
internet for four days. And I stewed on that, and
of course the first thing I researched was that when
I got out, was it. But they do fly for
six years continuous. They do sleep when they're flying. He
had no idea. Just shows how extraordinary they are. We
lived on a farm in Taranaki. A falcon used to
swoop down and take our chalks. My husband shot him

(01:14:39):
in the end, cunning as you shouldn't shoot them. I
think they're protected. Someone thought the road one I might
have been a quail. I don't disagree. We're discussing birds
and getting attacked by birds. We're also discussing wild flocks
of parrots, of which I think there are many, and

(01:15:03):
there's a lot of texts. I'll get to those. I
like your calls tonight too. Also the Melbourne Cup, what
you're wear, your winnings, if you want to talk about
anything about that, and Winston Peters and banning of fireworks,
there will be no he won't get support for that
because none of the major parties will want to support that.
So it's just it's just it's a re election thing

(01:15:27):
because both parties I think have suggested that's not something
they're going to do and I certainly don't think would
make part of the coalition agreement either. A lot of
text I'll get to those, but if you want to
talk on air, I'd love to hear from you. The
number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. The text
number is nine two nine two. Someone has asked how
to build your hornet trap? If you want to get

(01:15:50):
involved with trying to catch those hornets. I think the
horse might have bolted with that one, which is a shame.
Don't they are onto it soon enough. But these are
things we are talking about. If there is something different
you want to talk, that's called feel free. But yeah,
it's kind of there's four or five topics around tonight.

(01:16:14):
But if you want to mention these things, let's be
hearing from you. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine to text. I'll keep you update
with other news around the world too. Ah. I can't
see any stuff at the moment, but if there's big
international news that breaks, I'll bring that to you people.
It's my promise. So yes, get in touch if you

(01:16:37):
want to be a part of it. A lot of
texts now tough day, punting on the ponies marks. I
had one hundred dollars on a horse, Number seven on
the nose horse came third. That's the rent money gone.
Wouldn't that pay more than wouldn't you get your money back?
I chose numbers fourteen and nineteen for the Melbourne Cut.

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My daughter's birthday is good when this year thanks girls,
first female jockey to do the double, the call field
and the mail. But today's Melbourne Cup was about the
drawer and the weight carried by the horse. Making half
fuel is a clear advantage and our riffer handicapped carrying

(01:17:20):
twenty nine kilograms. Good evening. Do we know anything about
the winning horse with the bleeding mouth of the Melbourne Cup?
I presument was bitten. Its tangle was something and enjoying
your show, Marcus. Justin in Sinata has been mentioned Winston
Peter's party, and he's in first, as today introduced a
bill to ban public sales of fireworks. I think the

(01:17:40):
telling thing in that text is Winston Peter's party. That's right.
No one ever says he's in in first?

Speaker 10 (01:17:46):
Do they.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
But to be won on there for another three years?
Cheapest ten past ten? Hello, Ted, this is Marcus. Welcome,
good a Marcus, Hey gun good t there you going right?

Speaker 12 (01:18:07):
Oh Pantesta, hey you got I've got some pig pet magpies. Okay,
I got a mom and dad and a son and
a daughter. Yeah, anyway, I've had them.

Speaker 7 (01:18:23):
For five years how did it start.

Speaker 12 (01:18:27):
Well, moved into the property and a neighbor said to me,
there was only two here then, the mom and dad dad.
And the neighbor said to me, whatever you do, don't
don't kill the magpies, because if you do, you'll get
heaps more of them. They're all becoming. But these two
have been there on the property for a while and

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they they look after the property. Anyway, they had a
son and a daughter, and anyway, I feed them every day.
We give them all our scraps and everything, and the
most wonderful pets you've ever had, really, oh fantas, yes,
absolutely amazing. And I can talk to them and everything.

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And my granddaughter, when she was three years old, I
took her out there and I said to her we
had some toast in the morning, and I said to her,
I said, right, come on, we'll go and feed the birds.
And we went out and I've got a squawk that
I let out that is like what a magpie says.

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And she said to me, oh, my god, Granddad, you
can talk to the mag you can talk to the birds.
And I said, yeap. We went inside, and within about
fifteen twenty seconds they were there at the place we're
eating the food and she just couldn't believe it. And

(01:19:53):
it's amazing.

Speaker 20 (01:19:55):
So what.

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
They've got their cage obvious?

Speaker 11 (01:20:00):
Is that right?

Speaker 12 (01:20:01):
No, they're wild.

Speaker 19 (01:20:04):
Okay, they're wild.

Speaker 12 (01:20:07):
They live in the bush and they just come out
because I put the food out for them on a
daily basis. You know, we're lamb chops and steak and
beef and anything you can possibly think of, and we
just put it out and we've got a sort of
a place where we put it and they just come
down and eat it every day. And we're all friends.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
So obviously haven't shortened their lifestyle by feeding them in
the wild. They haven't become they haven't. Yeah, okay, I
like that.

Speaker 12 (01:20:37):
Oh that's awesome, Absolutely awesome. They're great with all the grandkids.
We've got nine grandchildren and they're all here and the
magpies are down here. They're on the ground, they're walking around,
they're picking up stones and doing all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Names. Had they got names?

Speaker 12 (01:20:54):
No, they just called magpies.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
Yeah, it makes sense to I suppose.

Speaker 12 (01:20:59):
Yeah, no names, but the Yeah, the grandkids love them.
There's no diving, and you know what, they keep all
the other birds away.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
Are they don't attack you, no, not.

Speaker 8 (01:21:15):
At all, never, never ever.

Speaker 12 (01:21:18):
You know, there's those other birds called pluffers that came
over from Australia in a storm.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
No, I don't know them. When was this recently?

Speaker 12 (01:21:31):
Oh no, I don't know when it was actually, but
some time back there was a big storm that came
over from Australia and these birds called pluffers came over
and they've got a real big hook on their feet,
just sort of lo cock.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:21:51):
Peacocks have got that big hock. Yeah, a tullon actually
they call it, and these puffers have got it. And anyway,
they're actually protected in New Zealand now and they are
on farms all around news Ellen. And they also breed
on the ground, not in the ground, so that when

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they had there what do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
They called puffers yeah, puffers.

Speaker 8 (01:22:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:22:17):
And I don't know what.

Speaker 12 (01:22:19):
I don't know what luffers, pluffers. I think pluffers.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
I can't see anything about. I don't know what they
would be.

Speaker 7 (01:22:26):
Oh they are.

Speaker 12 (01:22:27):
They're a white bird with gray wings and a yellow beak,
and they've got great, big, huge talons on their feet
and they attack all our wildlife birds and they're an
Australian bird. You know, we don't really want them here.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
Actually, I can't find any bird that's named that.

Speaker 7 (01:22:48):
Pluffer.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Yeah okay, I can't see anywhere. I'll keep looking, Okay, yeah, okay,
I'd like to say some more about that. But thanks
for that eight hundred and eighty nine text. I think
it means the spur wing plover. I guess that's what
he's talking about. Aways see a lot of those down home.

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Marcus and Sydney. I watched a magpie swooper cat twice
then well, I kept watching, quite amazed. He came for me. Scary.
Marcus watched the new YouTube documentary and edwind Fitzgerald to
mark the fifty anniverse around the tenth highly recommended chairs, Baz,

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thanks for that BEARZ about the plover. I think hello
Roberts Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:23:36):
Oh Marcus, I'm not sure that I think the name
of the bird that you may have been looking for
was that?

Speaker 13 (01:23:43):
Did you I?

Speaker 6 (01:23:44):
That's the bar bird who builds its nest for shiny trunkets.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Oh yeah, that's not your part on the stones. That's
not what he was talking about, was it, though?

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
Did you mention a while ago about birds that take
shiny trunkets to build their nests.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Yeah, although people do think magpies do, but I think
that might be a myth, is it? I don't know.

Speaker 19 (01:24:08):
But this one is from Outdock, Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
Okay, you've seen something that's amazing what they do. Julie, Hello, Hi.

Speaker 22 (01:24:16):
Yeah, that man that was on he was saying they're arms.
They're called spur winged plovers, not pluffers. And then they've
got a little, as the man said, hooks, but they're
owned off sort of like the middle of their wings.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
And they.

Speaker 22 (01:24:37):
I used to have the lady feed a colony of
stray cats and ending over one day to put some
food in the plate, and one of them went right
over hit my head and I went and I nearly,
very nearly ended up with my face face in the
in the part of cats food. But like most things,

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there are only a tack here if you go near
the babies which are on the ground, which is.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Which is obvious, isn't it. There are birds that you
see right around the They're everywhere. There's spur wing plover.
They're they're absolutely everywhere. Yeah, everywhere I go, I see them.
They seem to be kind of one of the most
widely seeing birds. Now, yeah, yeah, I'm just trying to
look at the picture of them on their feet what

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he's talking about.

Speaker 22 (01:25:25):
Yeah, no, it's on their wings.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
Oh yeah, I can see now I'm looking at that
wing too.

Speaker 18 (01:25:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:25:32):
I think I think they're yellow.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Yeah it is too. That'll be its name, Ay and
won what that's.

Speaker 13 (01:25:39):
What is it for?

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
Is it for defense?

Speaker 23 (01:25:41):
I don't really know.

Speaker 22 (01:25:43):
I've never ever seen them fighting. I mean, you don't
see many of the around where eye live.

Speaker 13 (01:25:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:51):
Yeah, oh they're always Yeah, everywhere I go, I see them,
but never really studied them that closely. I never And
I've never seen them fight either, So I'll keep watching
Judy thank you, nineteen past ten. Yeah, I guess that's
in the name of the spur wing plover a lot
of texts thank you for these. Years ago, I was

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visiting an elderly gentleman, and as I walked up the path,
I heard someone say a loud voice, up, piss off.
It was a magpie that lived next door. It used
to annoy the woman who lived there when she was gardening,
and that was what she used to say to the magpie.
We have a family of swallows that live in the
bus stop where my kids get on to the school
bus in the morning. We get swooped and dive bomb
by them daily. We cant at eight this morning they

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get close enough to feel them whish by Marcus. Magpies
kill all our native birds. They are a pest old
mate with a magpie. Faro was funny to realize the
magpies are keeping out native birds. He should be getting.
Twoeyes plover is what he means, horrible bird free shouty

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text of the night he means Oliver's I don't know
how long they've been in New Zealand, but they certainly
are widely distributed now. And of this is Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:27:07):
Welcome him, Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:27:10):
Good to hear you chatting. I thought i'd ring on
too and talk about those lovely birds called the plovers.
It sounds like you've found out about them.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Well I found out what he's talking about if he's
talking about the spur wing plover.

Speaker 7 (01:27:25):
But yeah, which I am?

Speaker 8 (01:27:27):
I am.

Speaker 20 (01:27:27):
I can tell you an experience that I had with
about six of them. I was actually parked on the
side of the road and I must have come too
close to their nest. The next thing, six of these
spur wing clubs came out and started running straight.

Speaker 12 (01:27:46):
At me.

Speaker 20 (01:27:48):
With their ones open, and I thought, I think I'll
get in my car. And I since found out about
a week later that they actually will attack humans. They
are worse than magpies. Magpies will go anybody if you're
too close to their nest, but they will dive bomb,

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whereas these ones will actually physically attack you. So I
wasn't impressed with these birds, so whenever I see them,
I make sure that I am well clear of them.

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
I've never had any trouble with them at all. And
I see the pen one.

Speaker 20 (01:28:28):
I guess it depends like how close you are to
their nest, but honestly actually happened. Just a shame I
didn't film it anyway, Evening.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Thanks very much, Edda. First seen in Invert Cargo in
nineteen thirty two. Yep, the bone is at the carpl
joint of each wing, used to deter predators, especially during
the breeding season when they aggressively protect their ground nests

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and chicks. There we go, we live, and we learn. Gee,
Diana was not didn't I took a verceirous?

Speaker 13 (01:29:11):
Isn't she.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Twenty four past ten here till twelve. Keep those emails
if you've got them. It's all about the birds and
fireworks in the Melbourne cup tonight and the end of
the zoo. The animals zoo up there and fugad they're
getting rid of the animals are euthanizing them, nising, nazing.

(01:29:35):
Horrible end to a horrible business that was No good came.
I think you had to watch Tiger King to realize
the sickos involved in giant animals, big cats. What a
strange group they are, and none of it in a
good way. Not good strange, but bad strange. Welcome people

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if you want to talk here to the end the
bitter end birds, But mainly I want to talk about
wild groups of parrots and escape parrots that form colonies.
By the way, the birds, the spur wing plow was
she because of a plover? I didn't do't quite know
what that was about. Plover. Plover, the New Zealand spurring

(01:30:20):
plover has a unique conservation trajectory amongst our native birds.
In just over eighty years since the first breeding record,
it has gone from a fully protected native to having
their protection removed. In twenty ten, first recorded breeding their
inver Carglan nineteen thirty two. Its subsequently spread northwards through
the country, becoming established in northern in the nineteen eighties.

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I think when there's strong winds from Australia, a lot
of birds end up and they end up in the south.
I think that's how the spoonbills first arrived. Masked lapwing
I think is its real name. Yeah, Pete, this is
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 24 (01:31:01):
Yeah, yeah, Marcus. They've just seen the movie Pike River three.

Speaker 10 (01:31:04):
Good movie.

Speaker 7 (01:31:04):
What do you seen it?

Speaker 10 (01:31:05):
Turn you?

Speaker 6 (01:31:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
I thought great, good on you.

Speaker 24 (01:31:08):
Yeah, no, it's good. Mat On the Lynski and then
Robin Malcolm. Very good actors. Those two they couldn't got
better actors will get paid the plan.

Speaker 10 (01:31:17):
They couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
They couldn't have got. I don't think there's two bit
of a better actors in this country. They're extraordinary.

Speaker 24 (01:31:23):
Ah, they're really really good, you know. But it actually
gave you a bit more understanding than of the By
actually watching the movie, you sort of went through more
stages and actually realized what you what you heard like,
you know, it's through the news and it's actually very
it's very well done.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
I think too that so much happened over fifteen years.
Unless you were maintaining a really close understanding of it,
it became confusing. And I think it all laid it
out quite well.

Speaker 7 (01:31:47):
On that last note on that movie, Oh, it was
pretty impressed.

Speaker 24 (01:31:50):
You know, like, now basically are still going through for prosecution,
aren't they. That's base at the end of the movie,
you won, So that's still they said that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
I think they said the police are still investigating, which
were which gave hope and I don't know that if
that's ing criminality or cover up.

Speaker 24 (01:32:09):
Yeah, but when they only got one hundred and forteen
thousand dollars in a per person that was died in
that mine, you know, admired them for standing up for
themselves what they did to sort of say, it's not justice,
what's really what's happened there?

Speaker 10 (01:32:23):
And good on them.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Good crowd, good crowd of the movie theater, Pete.

Speaker 24 (01:32:27):
Yeah, No, it's pretty full. It's just quite a very
popular movie up here, is pretty Pony Ah, pretty full.
It's been going for about a week now and I
think the nighttime they are getting a pretty good turnout.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
I think did they clap at the end, No.

Speaker 24 (01:32:42):
None of that here they we are boring in this
part of the country near Marcus. I'm not too sure.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
Yeah, I surprise they clapt in the come because they're
normally quite reserved. Nice to hear from your Pete. Thank
you for that text. If you've got them people Hittled twelve,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine, two ninety
the text if you want to be a part of it,
looking forward to what you want to say. Marcus at
a local campground and men was walking two small dogs.

(01:33:09):
We will stand to see a night of falcons swooping
over them, very grasive boods. Marcus. The spilt plover but
pronounced plover? Was it not spelt like it's seed? Scott,
Good evening, It's Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:33:22):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:33:24):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
Thank you, Scott.

Speaker 15 (01:33:26):
So I have two stories for you. One is a
bird story. Back in it would have been about two
thousand and seven. I was in London my girlfriend at
the time, who was a Kiwi. So on our away
we went to London Zoo and we were at this
bird display I guess would be the you know they

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give out I don't know what it is, chicken or whatever.
And these big birds swoop down and get it, and
a turkey buzzer or something I think it was. And anyway,
we're sitting on a little embankment, but in the arena
watching the show, girlfriend says to me that if that
thing doesn't get some heighth it's landing on my head.

(01:34:12):
The couple of swoops later, true enough, this buzzard land
can get on our head. She's freaking out. It's trying
to get purchase. It's a yeah, it's a story that's
still discussed. It's part of twenty years later to London's
who's mentioned but you mentioned the tiger King earlier as well,

(01:34:35):
and how lunatics keep exotic animals. Yes, well, I was
in Iraqulo three for the invasion and when we Collis
and forces when we got to Saddam's and it was day.
It's one of his rather judacause it was one of
the two sons anyway, one of their palaces in bad Dad,

(01:34:56):
and he had leopards and tigers and all sorts of
weird and wonderful exotic animals that he'd collected and just
kept in the grounds of the pauses to deal with
those things as well as trying to invade a country.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
Were they cage or was it like a concrete castle
with a with like a coat yard.

Speaker 15 (01:35:21):
It was more dog runs not the best word for it,
but it was like they were caged, but they had
enough room to run. But I'm kind of proud of around,
if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
And I presume they're in a bit of a menkey
condition with the Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 15 (01:35:43):
By the time we got there, I think they they'd
fled a good few weeks beforehand, so they weren't in
the best kept of of condition. And no idea what
happened to them?

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
Okay, it wasn't part of it wasn't part of your
brief too, Yeah, okay, And I'm sure it's documented that
wouldn't it be what happened to them?

Speaker 15 (01:36:05):
It must be somewhere on the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Yeah, I mean there's normally grim stories with zoos and
animals and cities that have been occupied with people, you know,
consuming them for food and stuff. But yeah, yeah, I
might look into that a bit.

Speaker 15 (01:36:21):
Yeah, it was just like I said, it was just
one of those random, random things that sort of stuck
in my head all those years.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
Well, I forgot and I forgot the name too, Scott,
because we always remember the names of the of his children,
didn't we Uda And that's right, that's right, both evil pricks. Yeah,
what was it?

Speaker 13 (01:36:43):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
Two thousand and three?

Speaker 7 (01:36:44):
Do you say?

Speaker 8 (01:36:46):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:36:46):
Three?

Speaker 9 (01:36:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
And Scott were there for a long time.

Speaker 15 (01:36:51):
I did a couple of tours there that was there
seven months the first one and then two six months
a few years after that.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
Okay, appreciate you. Coll Scott, thank you very much for that.
Just a bit more on the fire. I'll read this
while I've got it. This is from far Emugiting, New Zealand.
A large building used as a conference room atte there
is tourist attraction. My Thai Mali Village has caught fire tonight.
Foreign Emergency US Ownership manager Ryan Green said that had
multiple calls from members of the public at nine to
fifty bet A structure or bushes been on fire at

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my Thai Mali Village at the northern end of He
said a crew was dispatched from not to the large
building about forty meters by thirty meters was found on fire.
He said the building was used as the conference center.
Add the tourist attraction, there was also an area of
bush that caught on fire near the building. Green said
additional fire crews were called from Mangataha, Marmaku, caw Rotema

(01:37:46):
Lake or Karika, Totonga and Grierton. The states of the
fire was at third alarm level. The fire was contained
to a forty by fifty meter area that include the
building and bush area. We're having difficulty with water supply
at the moment, so where hey, we have water tanks
responding to live in Bingi. This is Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:38:08):
Welcome, Hi, How are you going good?

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Busy? How are you going all right?

Speaker 6 (01:38:14):
Good?

Speaker 26 (01:38:15):
I just flew into a New Zealand for the first
time yesterday and I'm just I'm in Rotorua currently. I've
got a few hours to kill tomorrow morning. I'm just
looking for things that I should, like a tourist should do.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Are you Are you a tourist?

Speaker 7 (01:38:29):
I'm I'm one hundred percent of tourist.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
So you arrived yesterday.

Speaker 7 (01:38:36):
I flew into Auckland.

Speaker 26 (01:38:38):
Yesterday I drove from Auckland to Hamilton and then I'm
currently in Rotorua.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
Wow, what'd you go to Himilton?

Speaker 26 (01:38:48):
Because it was closer to the you know where the
glowworm caves are. It was closer to there, so less
driving this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
So you've been to the glow Worms today?

Speaker 26 (01:38:57):
Yeah, I went to the glow Worms and I just
came to the I did the Hell'sgate Geothermal spar and
then I just did the tree.

Speaker 27 (01:39:08):
Walk and I'm on my way home.

Speaker 12 (01:39:09):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
How long have you in New Zealand?

Speaker 26 (01:39:14):
Two and a half weeks?

Speaker 7 (01:39:16):
Two days in me too?

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
You're hitting to the South Island?

Speaker 6 (01:39:21):
I am?

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
And will you hitting tomorrow?

Speaker 26 (01:39:26):
I've got the Lord of the Rings set tour at
about midday, so I've got six hours to kill before that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
I think they call that hobbiton Binji.

Speaker 27 (01:39:39):
They do?

Speaker 7 (01:39:40):
They do call that hobbitson?

Speaker 17 (01:39:41):
Is that?

Speaker 26 (01:39:42):
After tomorrow I head to Wellington, So it's kind of
I spend all day driving, so I've got a few
things that I can I've got a bit of time
to kind of kill.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
What do you do with Wellington?

Speaker 15 (01:39:57):
Am I?

Speaker 26 (01:39:58):
I'm catching the ferry across to the South Island.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
And how far south? Are you hitting?

Speaker 26 (01:40:05):
All the way to Queenstown for the marathon?

Speaker 16 (01:40:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Of course you are?

Speaker 12 (01:40:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
Are you heading further south from Queenstown?

Speaker 26 (01:40:15):
I think I'm going to dun Eden and flying home
from there.

Speaker 2 (01:40:19):
So when you're looking, when you're looking to do things
tomorrow between the morning and because you'll get a bus
to Hobbiton, will you.

Speaker 7 (01:40:28):
I think I'm going to drive there?

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
Okay, So when do you when do you look at
for things to do tomorrow morning? Is that when you're
doing yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:40:35):
Or just you know, maybe anything I should be doing
that I might have missed out on for the last
couple of hours, or like you know, I'm touring the
whole country. So any recommendations of things I can do
most of it I'm driving.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
So what time's Hobbiton.

Speaker 26 (01:40:50):
Midday?

Speaker 10 (01:40:50):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
I think you said that? Okay, thanks very much, Benji,
twenty two away from living. Any advice for him, and
feel free to come. I'd be on trip Advisor. Wouldn't
you do what you do? But maybe will help him
out if we've got anything that they need to do.
What you said, the Lord of the Rings? What you
said the Lord of the Rings? What set to it?

Speaker 16 (01:41:08):
Is that?

Speaker 20 (01:41:08):
We said?

Speaker 5 (01:41:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
I thought, see what that sounds good? What is that Hobbiton?
I see the actors are hanging around hobbit And now
to jump into people's wedding photos, did you see there?

Speaker 13 (01:41:18):
I thought?

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
Goodness me? What next to relive the glory? Ah? Get
in touch? Heittle twelve Birds the plovers. Check out the luge,
someone says, tell them to mountain bike at the Redwoods.
Why the hell wouldn't you drive to Cape Riannger and
start there? Two weeks is enough? Go to the car museum?
What seuth? It's pretty. It's a bit of a dry

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time the car museum, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
Why is it not spelt like?

Speaker 4 (01:41:48):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Sums up half the English language? Fair enough? Fair point?

Speaker 6 (01:41:56):
Do to do?

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
Hittle twelve My name is Marcus, Welcome and now are
part of the promotion arm What can we tell that guy?
Where should he be going? Well, there's a fire, but
that sounds a bit grim done. At twenty to eleven,
help out, Help out Ben, She tell him to go
to bluff also though to do he could go to
the Blue Lake or Lake or or Correca. Hope he's

(01:42:21):
not there for conference. Check out the luge. Were a
workshop in Willywood, goes straight to the South Island. Definitely
the ziplining and note to do it or walk around
the Blue Lake. Thank you for your suggestions, people or
mountain bike at the Redwoods, eighteen away from eleven people
of New Zealand. Good evening and oh good on, I'm
having the moxie to just ring up straight away. Marathon runner,

(01:42:42):
though highly organized, love it. People love traveling from marathon,
don't they. Everyone's overseas doing marathons. They're all on Facebook
during the New York Marathon. Whatever, Marcus, I'm absolutely gutted
to hear that seven lines will be euthanized because there's
no other options at Zion Wildlife Park. As someone who
has visited the park on a yearly occasion since it open,

(01:43:03):
I can't believe this is allowed to happen. The sanctuary
is meant to be a place where animals live out
their lives. I have hand filled those animals when I
did it tour. I'm so truly annoyed, staid, and disgusted.
You're part of the problem. No one should have supported it.
They never should have been allowed to bring the animals here.
It's been a disaster from go to woe. Never again
can we imput animals, big cats for zoos or private zoos.

(01:43:25):
It shouldn't be allowed. They belong in the serengetti. It's madness.
I'm appalled. Someone says, I you go trout fishing somewhere
and turn up at Hobbiton smelling fishy. It will take
him two hours to drive from it to Hobbiton. He
should go up the gondola and and then head to Hobbiton.

(01:43:47):
Here goes stay at Falcon's Crest, Goodney. That's Rugby doing.
See what they called the place? Hello John, this is Marcus.
Welcome today.

Speaker 7 (01:43:56):
Maggis got a couple of stories. I lived in Mongrel Valley.
I'm not sures you know where that is. Tell me
where it is, sort of slightly north of Upper heart yep. Okay,
a typical countryside. And yeah we see lots of falcons,

(01:44:16):
lots of hawks, and yeah those falcons man with arms
full flight man quite im precious. But they're quite a
small bird, you know. But yeah, long story short. My brother,
when he was about eight years old, he went to
manger Roy Valley Primary School, which I think I actually
never went to it, but I think it was maybe

(01:44:37):
two or three rooms, so I think there might have
been like, you know, sixty or fifty pupils. And at
the time my brother was sur I was about eight
or nine years old, and he managed to get hold
of a baby meg play that was and my view
was precably dead. It looked like he'd been attacked by something,

(01:44:58):
but I don't think it was much more than maybe
a month or two old. And anyway, so he gave
it to a friend of his who his father was
vet and the vett Minaster saved this magpie and gave
it back to my brother, and my brother named it
Max of course next to Magpie. And this magpie grew up.

(01:45:23):
We never caged it. It just had you know, free
your own right, and I thought the thing was pleasing
on fly away. Well it never did. And we had
a gym and shepherd, sorry a border collie and they
became great friends. And the magpie used to sit on
the back of this border of this border collie and
actually just right round on it, and they used to

(01:45:45):
play fight, like literally play fight. And so one day
I turned up and I thought, you know, the front
door was open, and I saw no cars were there,
and I sort of think, oh, where is everyone, you know,
because I mean I used to visit home, you know,
from Auckland to Wellington, and I think, oh, you know,

(01:46:09):
like I thought, oh, ah, the dogs. You know, I
could hear the dog, but it sounded so far away,
and I'm sort of looking around. I couldn't see this dog,
you know, and I thought, oh, where's it? And it
kept barking and barking, and I thinking, like, that's far away,
but it sounds like our dog. And I looked under
this hedge and there was this magpie that was barking.

Speaker 2 (01:46:31):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:46:33):
And in the end, what happened was this this magpie
I actually believed because it hung around with We had
like two or three dogs at the time, but it
became like one of our dogs became, you know, was
quite a protective dog. So if Australiers came down the driveway,
this dog would bark. And what happened one day wasn't

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my sister, who would have been at the time, I
think she would have been like five years old. She
was walking home from primary school and she was wearing
a red raincoat with the hood up and it was
hosing down and this magpie didn't recognize her and attacked

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the head and actually scratched and made a head bleed.
And my mother at the time, I know, this sounds awful,
but my mother thought, well, we can't have this right,
And my brother was not home, and my mother went
to the garage and grabbed a lump of four x

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two and I'll leave the rest of your imagination.

Speaker 2 (01:47:42):
Wow, how was the brother.

Speaker 8 (01:47:46):
To this day?

Speaker 7 (01:47:47):
So that's about thirty odd years ago. My brother still
talks about it. But I'll tell you a more interesting
story was that my brother had that magpie. I think
in total, let's say about I don't know, four or
five years, you know, before that particular problem happened. But
in the lead up to that, I think when he
first got it back from a vet, he had it

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for I don't know, maybe two or three months, and
he's sometimes wake to school, which was about a half
hour walk, you know, typical countryside or something runs bike.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
John, When did you say?

Speaker 7 (01:48:20):
This place was Mangaroa valley next to Whiteman's Valley, which
is not far from Kimura. If you know where the
timur of speedway is, Oh you must have been, yeah, yeah,
so I don't know, I know the tunnel yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
so not far from you know, probably about five k's.

Speaker 2 (01:48:40):
There are many I mean, there are many houses up there.

Speaker 7 (01:48:43):
Are there mangl Valley you'd be talking maybe. I mean,
you know, it's a typical countryside. Yeah, I think you'd
be talking maybe more than a thousand people, you know,
for that particular.

Speaker 6 (01:48:57):
Countryside.

Speaker 7 (01:48:58):
Okay, but yeah, more more interesting story was that my
brother used to watch school or ride his bike, and
then one day this magpie following them halfway and went
back home and followed them right to school, went back home.
And then one day it turned up at lunch time
and played with all the kids, and my brother came
the hero. And then it eventually used to turn out

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to my brother's classroom and then pick on the window,
you know, wanting to play, and you know the kids
are in class, and it was quite right.

Speaker 2 (01:49:31):
It's a great story, John, Thank you so much. They've
got to run, but lovely to hear from eleven to eleven.
Hello Graham, it's Marcus. Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 27 (01:49:39):
I thought you might be interested in another mag croast story.
When I was a primary school a small town just
south of christ Church, there were blue gums that ran
along the railway line on one side, and there might
have been the occasional blue groom on the other. But
the kids had to walk from the houses or with

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the village where they lived along the road to the school,
and there were two boys at school with us who
had red hair. Great and during the nesting season around
about August off COVID November, that was the only time

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now the magpies would attack the boys with red hair,
and the rest of us who had either dark hair.
Back here, even blondie was fine. You would walk along
there quite happily, and no one, you know, the magpies
never worried about about them.

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
I've ever heard of that. That's unbelievable.

Speaker 8 (01:50:48):
I know.

Speaker 27 (01:50:49):
I mean one of them, one of the guys is
now in America, I believe, if you're still alive. I
don't know where the other one is, but you know,
it was just the kind of red that attracts them.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
Good story, Graham. I'll see if we hear more about that,
because I like that were bad for the kids. Seeven
away for eleven great magposts threw from that bloke Magpost
that company and was by the sounds of a pretty
smart so really horrible that his mother killed it. Well,
mother will protect her young, just like the spur wing
plovers will. So will a mother. That's my take on

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that one wonderful show. Marcus. When I was a kid,
The school bus used to drop me off about a
mile from home. From there, i'd walk during nesting season.
When walking under the big pines, and magpies to always
swoop me, sometimes getting so close it clipped me. Clipped
me anyway, One day I had had enough of been swooped,
so I walked and grabbed my shotgun, then returned to
the pines. Magpie attacked, I shot it. Then I shot

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up the nest. No more magpie problems after that. The
strange thing, while I almost missed the pant magpie, I
guess I missed the bit of excitement in adrenaline rush
should have come back to haunt you. Someone said, Someone said,
only takes an hour from a to hobbit and you.
I thought two hours was a bit ambitious for BINGI
lots of good suggestion. It depends on where you came

(01:52:06):
from an halfway you traveler. Be careful on our roads.
Maybe take a break by the lake before Hobbiton and
your big road trip. Take care my friend. Someone said,
here's a list of things he can do in Willington.
There's nothing on it that might be deliberate, or it
might be tricky. Young magpie rescued by a couple with
two Steffi's with cam mates also wrestled with the dog

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real mates Peggy and Molly on YouTube. Yet we are
talking birds, I'd also like to talk about wild parrots
if you've seen them anywhere. Who doesn't love a parrot?
Oh ah, and by the way, Nev didn't see the
movie today. He has the times noted to go seet
it tomorrow or Thursday. Well that's the least surprising I

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think I've heard today in my life that he didn't
go the least did he? Ring up?

Speaker 10 (01:52:56):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:52:58):
Do you say, why didn't go today? What would he do?
In esh Burton, good evening. It's eight past eleven. Tim
Beveridge is at twelve. We are talking, Oh where are
we going to? We're talk about those native hawks the
car area that's been attacking people. Well, I mean they're
attacking people because they're scared that the people are going

(01:53:18):
to affect their nests. But that's happening in about the hut.
So we have been talking about birds attacking you. We're
talking about meg plays. I'm very keen to talk about
parrots that have escaped and gone to the populations of
wild parrots if you've got some nearby. But we are
talking birds. It's basically what we're about. A bit of
talk about the Melbourne Cup also, and Winston Peters he's
now come on and decided there's votes and fireworks, so

(01:53:41):
he's talking about banning that. So any of those topics
would be good to talk about tonight. You might have
breaking news on a guy rang he's an to her
for the morning once to know what he should be
doing with the morning. But I think we're a tourist service,
are we got to be? So it's kind of the
golden age for tourists to find out what's happening. But

(01:54:02):
that's what we are about tonight. If you want to
talk on air, all the lines are available for you.
And there might be something entirely different. But I've joined
the bird stories greatly, real dividing bird, the magpie A
people love them and they hate them, but they seem
to be a smart bird that you can kind of tame.

(01:54:23):
So that is what we are about. If you want
to talk about those things. If there's something different, feel
free to get in touch. But here til twelve. That's
the answer. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty but yes,
so there's something different you want to talk about that
would be fair. Keep those texts coming to this some goodies.
I will get to them. But yep, that or anything else,
that's what we're about tonight. So get your dialing fingers going,

(01:54:49):
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and known to nine
to to text. Be good to hear from you and
what else you've got. I'm up for it on the
first Tuesday in November. I know that with the Melbourne
coup always is free wet. I've just seen the head.

(01:55:10):
Look at the photos of the drunks afterwards. There's not
the classic fight woman. There is a front of a
woman that's kind of asleep on a plastic bag full
of empty cans. But what I was looking for, a
Suthern alluded to me earlier, is the classic of the
person that's drunk riding the wheelibin as though it's a horse.

(01:55:31):
I haven't seen that one, but yeah, quite a wet
day there at Flemington if I've got that right. But
be in touch if you want to be on the
air a night and here to the final flurry Hea
til twelve and that Lion Park and zoos No more
cats ever, please, they don't belong in this country, Marcus.

(01:55:51):
We have a large colony of eastern Rozella's here on
the slopes of Manga Totali south of Cambridge. They've been
here for many years and have naturalized, very pretty and
very noisy. So yeah, I think there's wild colonies of
coatee cockatoos that flew off a shipwreck into the valleys

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around Palmerston North. If you know about that, that's the
stuff I'm interested in, wild colonies. We've also talked about
spurring plovers that fight and if they attacked you, So
we're talking about when birds attack, basically angry birds. If
we called it, that would be like that game was
big for a while. Then they did movies. The kids

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watch those movies quite often, the Angry Birds. I don't
think the movies were terrible. They looked unwatchable to me.
I thought the game was quite good. That's one of
the rare instances that's becoming more common now of a
video game that became a movie. What did I hear
there was something weird they're making a movie about the
other day. That was surprised by it wasn't a video game.

Speaker 18 (01:56:55):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
What were they making a TV show a movie out.
I was surprised what it was? It was a TV program?
Was it cheap?

Speaker 10 (01:57:04):
As?

Speaker 2 (01:57:04):
They can't make a movie out? They were a couple
of Remember what it was wasn't Survivor. It was something
I thought, that's unlikely. What would you make a movie?

Speaker 10 (01:57:12):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (01:57:13):
Dan wasn't a book, it wasn't a meme, it wasn't
a song. It was something. I think, Sure, they don't
go to make a movie out of that? Oh as Katan, Yes,
the board game. Because we played that in the weekend
and I didn't win. I kept saying, I've got a
groad factory. I've got a road factory. But yeah, it's

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not about roads. I was chanting I got a road factory,
and the other kid was chanting, so I want a
civilization factory.

Speaker 18 (01:57:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57:41):
Afterwards the Game of Chance, isn't it thirteen past eleven?
The smart people of what have you got to say
to me tonight? There's colonies of cockatoo's west of Huntley?
How many would there be? When I was doing big
walks around north of Auckland used to see a lot
of Rosella's. Not in a good way either, terrible things,

(01:58:03):
because what happened to all escape thousands escape from pet owners.
You never get them back when they escape. It's like
there's people spend their whole time looking for Richie McCaw.
Richie and the mcaw never found it. By the way,
one of those two about those two people that spent
years looking for those two dogs. I see they're back
at it, dice and forget what they know. There's posters
everywhere now they're doing it again. I don't know what

(01:58:28):
would have happened to those two dogs either. Actually, thirteen
past eleven, if you want to join the fray here
till twelve. It's my job. It feels like Thursday, but
it's Tuesday. I'm still recovering from the short week the prolonger. No,
I don't know where the valley is with wild cockatoos
in New Zealand. Someone's got more information about that. I'd

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love those stories. Sulfur crested cockatoo are uncommon. There are
some on the banks Pincher and the Catlands in the
South Island. I think I look at the article here.
The largest populations are south of Port Waikato and the

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Turaquina and Pohunging in our valleys. There are small population
in the White Tarkli Rangers and at Wuyamata and on
Banks Peninsula. I don't like the silver crested I mean,
I think that's flashbacks of Hector the parent. He was
one of those, was he It Farmers Jan. This is Marcus. Welcome,

(01:59:32):
Hi there, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:59:34):
Do you know what a god wits is?

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
Yes? Yes, oh, yes, I know about the Godwits and
the fly Away the fly Away Godwin. I've had that
book as a child about the Godwits.

Speaker 13 (01:59:43):
Oh, I'd love to see that. I took my elderly
father to the estuary in No long Nui and just
a few days before he passed away, and we were
sitting in the car looking out at the estuary and

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next thing, there must have been about one hundred cordwarks
flew under the bridge from the I think sort of
estuary under the bridge and out to sea, and they
were skimming just over the top of the water, about oh,
maybe more than a hundred. I was sitting there with

(02:00:26):
my mouth hanging open, and I said said to dead dead,
dead quick look at this. And of course he had
been nodding off. Yeah, but it was a memorable moment,
And it was funny because the birds must have heard

(02:00:47):
me exclaiming, and they sort of turned their head sideways
and they got these beautiful big guys and they were
looking at him here as they flew past, all flapping
the winds, you know, heading off out to they fly
all the way to the north northern for you.

Speaker 2 (02:01:07):
Were they started? Were they starting their migration or returning?

Speaker 4 (02:01:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (02:01:12):
No, I'm hearing laugh.

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
Oh wow, okay, I'll be plumping ready for the long flight.

Speaker 13 (02:01:18):
Yeah. It was emotional because you know, Dad so ill. Yeah,
and it was the last moment that we had so.

Speaker 2 (02:01:30):
A good age. Jen's age.

Speaker 13 (02:01:36):
Yeah, thanks Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:01:38):
Lovely to talk to you.

Speaker 15 (02:01:39):
Jen.

Speaker 2 (02:01:40):
Hello, Kim, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (02:01:42):
Hey Marcus.

Speaker 3 (02:01:43):
A couple of years ago, my mum's in a retirement
village and my daughter and I were walking in the
gardens and we spotted this tiny little magpie in the
in the hedge. And she's an ecologist. My father's a
vet and we knew we shouldn't take it, but Nicole,

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she's in the college of specializing with birds. But anyway,
we waited for We came back at the end of
the day and it was still there. And we couldn't
see another magpies around. So we picked up this little
bird and brought it home and it was probably about
she reckoned about a week old, and my son named
it Bucket. I'm not quite sure why. And we put

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Bucket in a big cage and we went on a
two hourly roster to feed him or her, and.

Speaker 13 (02:02:38):
It grew and grew, and.

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
I started to get very worried because after a couple
of months it was going out at canan feathers and
needed to fly and all the rest. And I actually
messaged Newstalks they'd be in sect that someone put out
a message saying does anyone living rurally want to magpie?
And then I contacted some magpie rescue people and they said,

(02:03:05):
if you can find it's Sam, they will take it back.
And I said, well, I've had it for two months
and they said they'll take it back even after a year.
You release it, you release it to the wrong family,
they'll kill it or the wrong group. So we went
on a mission. We wandered around looking in the area
we hadn't seen any magpies and saw a couple of

(02:03:27):
fields away there was a magpie pair with another young
one so we took the risk. We took the bird
out in the cage it had never flown, and opened
the cage and it launched itself out, flew for about
one hundred meters and crashed into a house. And we thought, oh,
that's the end of Bucket, and went to visit mum

(02:03:50):
in the retirement village. Came out and there were two magpies,
one on a lamp post and one on the ground,
on opposite sides of the road, and there were two
young fledglings, one of them Bucket on the ground. And
he'd been accepted or she'd been accepted.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
What extraordinary story.

Speaker 3 (02:04:12):
Yeah, And I can still go back and call bucket
and it will still come. I won't take food out
of my hand, but it will still come near me.
And I can put food on the ground and it
will take it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
So how many years ago was this?

Speaker 3 (02:04:28):
Two years ago?

Speaker 2 (02:04:30):
And you said, did you say your daughter is an ecologist.

Speaker 3 (02:04:34):
She's a behavioral ecologist.

Speaker 2 (02:04:36):
But I've got you've got you've got a son that's
much younger that named the bird bucket. Is that right?

Speaker 13 (02:04:42):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:04:43):
I don't know why he named it that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
No, that's right. But your daughter as an adult and
she that yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:04:50):
Ye what and also just you go, oh, sorry, you're
good now. Also, I grew up in South Africa and
my uncle, who's also vet like my father, loved birds
and he had a peregrine cell that he raised from
a chick and a I think it was a golden

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eagle which had a six wing a six foot wingspan,
and yeah, and he had these two minutes in his large,
large property. And when they left South Africa to move
to England, they had to put them in a zoo.
But these birds were totally trained to fly out and

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hunt and return, which just utterly remarked I was just
a child, but looking at these, especially the eagle, which
was enormous.

Speaker 13 (02:05:39):
And they also had a.

Speaker 3 (02:05:40):
Sorry I'm raving on, but a gray parrot called Meg,
who lived freely but went into a cage each night.
You were talking about parrots and each night my aunt
would cover up the cage and say nine night cuckoo,
and Meg would say nine night cuckoo. So there's a
whole range of bird stories for you.

Speaker 2 (02:06:01):
Well, okay, what I love the most was the quality
of advice you got from the Magpie Society that said
that they take it back, and I can't believe that.
I just thought the birds wouldn't have any sense of that.
But that's exactly what they said, is exactly what happened.
And you followed that advice, I know, and I was I.

Speaker 3 (02:06:16):
Was really terri I didn't want to keep this cage bird.
I didn't know what to do, and so we talked
about it for ages and decided we'd try. And they
said that the parents would recognize it even a year
later and accept their own young, which I just find astounding.
And it was exactly what they said. So anyway, I
had to tell you because bucket was very very special,

(02:06:38):
even for with us two months we had.

Speaker 2 (02:06:41):
And how long did how long? Did you say?

Speaker 4 (02:06:42):
That was two years ago? And it's he's still there
or she's.

Speaker 2 (02:06:46):
Still there, and we'll be there for a bit longer.
I imagine. I don't know how long they would live there,
ten or fifteen years? Would they live for I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:06:54):
Something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:06:55):
I imagine.

Speaker 3 (02:06:57):
They disperse ultimately from you know, they can't have too
many you know, parents would dan have young every year
so that they have to the bucket still there and
the parents are still there.

Speaker 2 (02:07:12):
Yeah, So anyway, lovely story come. Thanks very much for that. Gee,
the show's the richer for that. Goodness, that's brilliant. There
are colonies of cockatoo up Turaquina Valu Valley and the
Pata Patters not far from fong Annoy. I met a
man that had one and used to it to lure
wild birds and catch them to sell. We have a
large flock of cockatoo's residing here in Taalpak in the Kumu.

(02:07:34):
Also we have cooker barrows here in the wait Takli, Yes,
cooker borroughs. I have photos. There's colonies of cockatoo whist
to Funtley. Someone takes Marcus as Tony Doe left a
year ago? Would it dan over a year ago? Would
it be that long? Because he came back for Christmas,
didn't he? Someone says, I'm amazed there is a magpie society. Yes,

(02:07:56):
those amazed battle sort of stuff of that call. Someone says, yes,
how can we forget Tony Doe? I always thought he'd
get his own show. Yes, we all thought that. Don't
ever think Tony one of his own show. Actually, I
think it's quite heavy. Coming and reading the news. You'd
be happy about the greyhound racing band. I would think

(02:08:16):
that was his thing. I love greyhounds, didn't he I
don't even think know if he's a post them racing,
we'd love having them as pets. They sign up for
a second one straight away. Twenty six past eleven. Hello, Lannie,
this is Marcus. Welcome to the air waves.

Speaker 21 (02:08:33):
OHI Marcus. Yeah, I'd like to talk a little bit
about the native falcon experience.

Speaker 12 (02:08:39):
Yep, Yes, I've.

Speaker 28 (02:08:43):
Had this young native falcon. They'd been up on the
tree in the backyard sort of for quite a while
watching they feed the birds, and I'm out for a
walk one day, not far away. I'm on the hill
in the native falcony. Sort of flew past me, not
really closer anything, but where eye bought each other as

(02:09:05):
he zip has. And at the bottom of the hill
was a tea intersection for a road, you see. And
when he got to the bottom of the the hell
with the teen inter section on the road. He didn't
emergency stopped in media like there was a brick wall
or something.

Speaker 21 (02:09:23):
It was like, Oh, I thought, what the hell you
know going on? And he flew off following the road.

Speaker 13 (02:09:30):
Well.

Speaker 28 (02:09:30):
Yeah, it was a sense of humor. The bird was
sort of making a joke while you walk on the roads,
I'd be to.

Speaker 21 (02:09:37):
Follow the roads to wow. You know, yeah, it's just
a funny experience.

Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
It was all Yeah. It just came along the road
a ninety degrees exact tune.

Speaker 21 (02:09:48):
Yeah, stopped like a media like.

Speaker 10 (02:09:50):
It was in the mood.

Speaker 28 (02:09:51):
You would have thought there was a brick wall there,
but there obviously wasn't.

Speaker 21 (02:09:55):
Yeah, it was. It was making a joke.

Speaker 28 (02:09:57):
You see, I have to walk on the road. Yeah,
Instead the felp and thought, well, I'll show you. I'd
be to follow the road toe you see.

Speaker 2 (02:10:05):
Good story. Learnie like that. Think you would like the
video of that one twenty eight past eleven. If you've
got anything to add here till the end, welcome, By
the way, there's a fire note to do it. I'll
get an update on that when I can. And if
you've got something to add via text or emails, it
would be good. I'd embrace that. Look forward to that.
I get in touch. Oh eight hundreds you know the

(02:10:26):
rest here till midnight tonight it's gone Melbourne Cup, horse racing, fireworks,
birds attacking humans and magpies. That's been the story tonight.
I don't think we're going to get a new topic
going the final half hour. We'll try our chances. If
you've got bird stories, they've been very good. People love birds,

(02:10:49):
don't they. They're fascinated and they love they're fascinated by
and love birds because you've got no boundaries. Birds are everywhere,
aren't they. If we where there's birds. This will be
of interest to some of you. And I'm going to
read this article because is breaking news, because some of

(02:11:12):
you have been following this case. Post office hero Sir
Alan Bates has finally won a seven figure sum. It's
twenty six away from twelve.

Speaker 24 (02:11:21):
Maria.

Speaker 2 (02:11:21):
It's Marcus.

Speaker 23 (02:11:22):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus. Him, Maria, I have the
most amazing bird story.

Speaker 4 (02:11:30):
Great.

Speaker 23 (02:11:32):
I had a teenage boy who died. And he died
a few months, maybe two or three months, right, But
when he was alive, I say to him, Oh, look,
I can't stand birds. They wake me up in the morning.
They scratch out the seeds in the garden as soon
as you've planted them. They pull on your washing as

(02:11:52):
soon as you hung it out, and they pull on
your car as soon as you've washed it. And I
said I can't stand birds, they'd say, Oh, mom, don't
be mean. Well, one day, a two months after he'd died,
I heard an I'm in my lounge and there's a
long hallway that went down to what was his bedroom.
I couldn't see it from the lounge. I heard a

(02:12:13):
noise and I thought, gosh, somebody's arrived.

Speaker 27 (02:12:15):
At the door.

Speaker 23 (02:12:17):
I go there and I look down the hallway. There's
this bird and it's hopping hop hop hop. It turns
and faces me, and then it turns around and goes
hop hop hop, turns and faces me again and goes
into what was my son's bedroom. It goes into the bedroom.
I kid you not. It hops up onto his pillow

(02:12:39):
and stares at me. Oh lord, And I said to
this bird, you know I can't stand birds. So I
opened the window and the bird flew effortlessly out the
window effortlessly, and I thought, oh, that was a bit interesting.
Well about a week later, I drove up my drive

(02:13:01):
my metal driveway. It was metal, with the car obviously
made a noise. There was the bird sitting in front
of the car, refusing to move, not afraid at all,
sat there. I turned the engine off, the car the
bird looked at me again, and it hopped up, I
kid you not, up the steps of my entrance way

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and stood at the door waiting to be let him. Wow,
how weird was that? How weird was that?

Speaker 2 (02:13:32):
And what did you say? What did you say? What
sort of bird it was?

Speaker 17 (02:13:35):
Well, it was just like.

Speaker 2 (02:13:39):
I was picking a thrush or something. And when we
don't And when it went down the crowner the first time,
was it like it couldn't move or because you were
surprised it flew out?

Speaker 12 (02:13:49):
No?

Speaker 16 (02:13:50):
No, what No?

Speaker 23 (02:13:50):
It was hopping down the hallway like it was trying
to walk down the hallway, but obviously birds don't walk,
so it was a hot pop hop and it turned
and looked at me, stared me, and then turned around
and carried on for a few more hops, then turned
and stared at me like it was saying, well, what
are you going to do about this? I was mon blown,

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I tell you what.

Speaker 5 (02:14:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:14:15):
And then that was just just the two instances.

Speaker 23 (02:14:19):
It was well, well before that, I used to be
out in my garden and the same, well what appeared
to be the same bird. I would be digging in
the garden.

Speaker 5 (02:14:27):
I swear it would be like.

Speaker 23 (02:14:29):
Was then about Oh, I don't know you. I call
it two feet and my estimation, and it would stand
there just not not distressed at all, just standing right
beside me while I'm gardening. It was a weird man,
really weird.

Speaker 2 (02:14:43):
Well, you're right, it was an extraordinary story. Maria, thank
you very much for that. Wow your neve. Yeah, Marcus,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 8 (02:14:57):
Oh Marcus. Oh sorry, yeah, did you go to the movie?

Speaker 12 (02:15:02):
No?

Speaker 8 (02:15:02):
No, no, I couldn't get there today. I'm going tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:15:06):
Where we are today?

Speaker 8 (02:15:09):
I was up and I was down an as Burton.
I've finished. I've been working on a job down there.

Speaker 2 (02:15:14):
So what do you do.

Speaker 8 (02:15:18):
Well? In eighty one years of age on the sixth
of January. I was born in sixth for January nineteen
forty five, so just a few days after Christmas, I'll
be I'll be eighty eighty one year two?

Speaker 2 (02:15:34):
What are you working on?

Speaker 8 (02:15:40):
I did my apprenticeship with the New Zealand Railway Road
Services on buses right and ever since then all I
did was work for transports. We moved up to Governor's
Bay from down in Timorrow and I worked for Government's
Bay Transport for a number of years and then I

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worked on the aquarry at Teddington.

Speaker 2 (02:16:02):
You're what we're doing in esh Burton today?

Speaker 8 (02:16:06):
Well, I would sooner not say, but okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (02:16:09):
No worries near of good luck with the movie, Chris.
It's Marcus.

Speaker 25 (02:16:12):
Welcome, Oh believing Marcus. The increasing number of wild parents
in Dunedin.

Speaker 4 (02:16:22):
Yeah, they are the Rosealas.

Speaker 2 (02:16:25):
Now I haven't seen them. It's this, is this on
the peninsula or where?

Speaker 25 (02:16:30):
No, but I've just googled them, not knowing they weren't
dominant other places in the South Island. I think they
might be in Middleton, but I don't know about the
North Island. But certainly about four or five years, isn't
it Ago. I noticed them in my back garden where
I used to just see them. I don't know if
you're familiar with the Ross Creek Reservoir area.

Speaker 2 (02:16:50):
Yes, yes, I have walked around there. I do know
that that she go up. Yeah I have, Yeah, I
do know where they are.

Speaker 25 (02:16:56):
Well, they would fly overhead on my walks. I lived
not that far from there and I spend a.

Speaker 4 (02:17:00):
Lot of time in there.

Speaker 25 (02:17:01):
But they were in my back garden and sort of
tipped out all my other boods like my two's and yeah,
but they seem to be in the suburbs now, not
huge amounts, but I've noticed you hear them, and you
see the colored parrots around Matago golf course, in around

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the Rock Creek areas. So I didn't know they were
introduced apparently in the nineteen.

Speaker 2 (02:17:32):
Chriss, how bad. What's the most you've seen in a group?

Speaker 8 (02:17:36):
Ah?

Speaker 25 (02:17:36):
Probably, When I say a group, probably I probably would have.
The most I would have seen would be half a dozen.

Speaker 2 (02:17:43):
Okay, because the thing is they're extremely easy to notice
because it's such unnatural color in our bushes. I mean
they stand out, don't they. I mean your eye catches
you see them pretty easily, don't you.

Speaker 25 (02:17:55):
Oh, very brightly colored.

Speaker 5 (02:17:57):
You hear them.

Speaker 25 (02:17:58):
But they're red and yellow and very vibrant colors. So
you're not had the spot. But here there's they've seemed
to have spread out up from the Ross Crey.

Speaker 13 (02:18:07):
Curious.

Speaker 25 (02:18:08):
I think they may be maybe down.

Speaker 13 (02:18:12):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (02:18:14):
I've never seen me, but look, thank you for that
Christ year. I yeah, roselles of course, of the yellow, red,
and green ones. For those that don't know, they're the
incredibly colorful ones Southeast Australia native. Hello Kerry, it's Marcus.

Speaker 21 (02:18:27):
Welcome, how again, good, thank you.

Speaker 17 (02:18:32):
I just wanted to tell you about a story about
living next door to a park with.

Speaker 19 (02:18:40):
My grandparents and Willston.

Speaker 11 (02:18:43):
Yeah, it's not that bad, it's quite good really.

Speaker 17 (02:18:47):
So they had met at pet magpie called.

Speaker 2 (02:18:50):
Maggie, Yes, great name for it.

Speaker 17 (02:18:55):
Original and he's the pets yep. Say to be gun
boots or jump on my father's back and get a
piggy back into the house.

Speaker 2 (02:19:06):
We already picture toes.

Speaker 17 (02:19:07):
I wonder it probably looked pretty, but it's probably like cherries.

Speaker 2 (02:19:13):
Good donya carry Thank you. Twelve away from twelve here
on midnight.

Speaker 10 (02:19:18):
Hello Kevin, Hi Machus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (02:19:21):
Kevin? Thank you?

Speaker 11 (02:19:23):
Nice to speak to you again. Melbourne Cup wasn't exciting
to see another woman.

Speaker 2 (02:19:30):
And what I was late to the part I didn't
realize the original woman that had won it was also
there and there's a photo of them there together.

Speaker 11 (02:19:38):
Yes, Michelle Payne was she what was she?

Speaker 2 (02:19:41):
Was she commentating? Was just there as a punter?

Speaker 20 (02:19:43):
Did you did?

Speaker 2 (02:19:43):
I didn't watch the event, but I've just seen photos.

Speaker 11 (02:19:45):
Since same same I watched in the in the pub
and it was quite vocal, so it was true you
had to hear what was happening. It was easy to
see what was happening, but quite exciting.

Speaker 2 (02:20:00):
YEA lady went, now, why aren't there more women jockeys?

Speaker 11 (02:20:06):
God, there heaps of woman jockeys. Now, uh when I say, now,
it's been around for a long time.

Speaker 2 (02:20:16):
But I wonder why they don't get I wonder why
it's taken so long to get the second win in
the Melbourne Cup.

Speaker 11 (02:20:21):
Oh well, look there, it's a prestigious race and a
lot of those horses are ridden by particular jockeys in
their build ups. And as we can see now, they
all come from around the world to compete.

Speaker 2 (02:20:42):
Do most of the most of the Northern Hemisphere horses
bring their own jockeys with.

Speaker 11 (02:20:46):
Them, are not necessarily. And secondly, magpies a gorgeous bird,
and they have I recognition. I that's the magpie flu
into your kitchen and look at you. It would look

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at you and say, oh, that's Marcus. There's the flyaway.
If Marcus didn't hear it, really come back. They have
I recognition. This is proven by a woman scientist. I
presume she's scientists in Australia. So they're a fascinating bird.

Speaker 2 (02:21:33):
I'm going to look up that research. Kevin, thank you
for that. I appreciate that. Hello Grant, Hello be Marcus.

Speaker 6 (02:21:40):
Since last night, it's been bothering me about winner of
the Melbourne Couple whatever Sheila Laxon on Ethereal or what
race did she win?

Speaker 2 (02:21:50):
Okay? What was her name?

Speaker 6 (02:21:53):
Sheila Laxon? Husband was Laurie.

Speaker 2 (02:22:00):
Why has it been bugging you since last night? What
happened last night?

Speaker 13 (02:22:03):
Well?

Speaker 6 (02:22:04):
I thought she was the first female winner of the
Melbourne Cup, but obviously she wasn't.

Speaker 2 (02:22:09):
She's the trainer though, wasn't she?

Speaker 6 (02:22:12):
I think she was the jockey.

Speaker 2 (02:22:14):
I think she might have been the trainer. Okay, yeah,
I think she won the Melbourne Cup. This is just yeah,
it says, and it's on the love Racing dot in
z website, which is the first thing that came up to.
It says, in two thousand and one, Sheila les an
itche to name into racing history when her mere Ethereal
stormed home to win the Melbourne Cup, becoming the first

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woman to officially train a winner of the Australia's greatest race.
And then she did then she did it again in
two years ago with Knight's choice.

Speaker 6 (02:22:45):
Okay, so she's done it.

Speaker 2 (02:22:47):
So she's done it. She's done it twice, Grant, that's
the question answered. Oh, thank you, my pleasure. Gosh, we
serve all sorts of masters, don't we? To pick movie times,
travel advice, horsefacts.

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