The artist, not the turtle (11 May 2026)

Marcus starts the week checking in on the fuel stockpilers, and then talks celebrating your birthday when it isn't your birthday, and does a deep dive on twins in the audience!

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
TTN three topic night. That's what I'm picking tonight. Welcome,
not a TTK is a three topic night. That would
be the night in shining Armor here till twelve. I
hope it's good.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
We you are.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
If it's not good, good, I hope it gets bebeta
by the time I could go home. Anyway, Welcome, He'll
twelve oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty ninety two
ninety two to text one day you can fax. It's
not today. Today is not that day. You know who
needs fax machines? People with encrypted messages apparently who It's

(00:47):
a three topic night in this great international news comes
to being. But I can't see what that is. But yeah,
I'm across it, So be in touch with you and
I get the whole ball rong. Just firstly tonight. Firstly, oh,

(01:07):
the twenty eighth of February was the day that the
bombing of Iran commenced, so it's two and a half months,
ten weeks. My question to you is quite straightforward, because
in the beginning people were going to stockpiled diesel and
petrol and you went out and did that. So what's

(01:28):
the situation now, have you used your have you used
that voice been funny? Have you used your stockpile or
you're still about to. And by asking that question, I'm
kind of keen to know where people's mentality it was
is because at the beginning, people that well, jeep is creems,
I'm going to go on stockpile. We don't want to
get caught out. And now people have the diesel and

(01:49):
the fuel, the petrol, and now it still doesn't seem
like it's going to be resolved anytime, but it seems
like we are in the new normal. So are people
still stockpiling? And they thing, oh, well, I've done my dash,
that will start using it because it's all sorted. That's
what I'm curious to know. Did you stockpile? Are you
still stockpiling? I'm not saying stockpile, don't stock pile. Obviously
the government doesn't want people a stockpile, and I'm not

(02:11):
encouraging that, but I'm just curious to I mean, people
do what people do. Sometimes It's like saying, don't think
of an elephant. You say that and people want to
think of an elephant. Sometimes they're saying, don't stockpile. Well, gee,
I'm going to stockpile. But did you? And should you?
And was a good idea and have you used it?
That's the question for you now. Just a couple of
calls about that would be tremendous. I'm just curious to
know whether people are still in that mentality of realizing

(02:33):
it could go bad. Of course, we've got no way
of knowing, because we don't really know what's going to happen.
But I'm just curious to know whether people are more
at ease or they're still fitting a little bit Stockpiley.
Give you a call on that if you want to. Oh,
eight hundred eighty, ten eighty and nine to nine to do.
It's been ten weeks, ten weeks since the golf w

(02:54):
whatever it started ten weeks Sin said happens. I have
you've got something to mention about that. Just as far
as the stockpiling of guests, oh, eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine two tex yes. By the way,
for those people that are the plane spotters, the rustling,
the antin of a N one two four Rustling from

(03:14):
Hawaii has touched down, touchdown three point forty today. I
think the last time this plane was here, correct me
if I'm wrong. The last time the big plane was
here it was dropping off stuff for the Air Force
that was part of their flight module for their hercules.
Some train spot will tell me if that was the
same one. I feel like it arrived about a year.
Beautiful looking plane. The amazing about those planes, they look

(03:37):
so ungainly. I think she was that fly. Probably not. Anyway,
get in touch if you want to talk. Oh, eight
hundred and eighty are you still stockpiling?

Speaker 5 (03:45):
You know?

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I said, just have some comments to make about that
nine two nine two, eight hundred eighty ten eighty If
you want to come through about that and do text
on nine two nine two. Yes, Marcus, if you tried
those chicken wings for McDonald's, nice but expensive, No, I
have not. I don't think if i'd want chicken wings,
i'd go to McDonald's. And if I had McDonald don't

(04:05):
think i'd try to the chicken wings. But now that
you've recommended them, I might give them a go. So
thank you for that bit of information. But yeah, I
want to know where we are with a stockpiling if
you are still doing it and how that's working out,
because what I imagine people would have done is that
stockpiled and then a month or two would going oh,
actually I might start using it before it goes off.
Or are people continuing to stockpile it. Yeah, that's the plan.

(04:27):
So that that's what I want to start the whole
discussion with tonight. So yeah, if you want to come through, oh,
eight hundred and eighty, if there's something else you want
to mention about two on this Monday, it's wet down south.
You'll be pleased to know. We're not pleased to know,
very wet. But yeah, get in touch if y anything
else you want to mention too. That's a situation as
I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty and

(04:47):
nine two nine to Tis and that big plane that arrived.
If you're a big plane spotter, you might know some
more about that or came down three point forty articles
quite cagy about what it bought. I don't know how
the plane spotters know and planes arriving. I guess they
are on some plane spotter's website. Oh yes, there where
I go. Oh No, I don't know that. I was
just it doesn't say previously if they were here bringing

(05:09):
the flight modules. But someone might have that information. Thirteen
past eight, and we'll keep you up to date with
news right through un till twelve when Roman comes along.
So did your stock pile and how did that work
out for you? That's the plan, That's what I want
to ask. We've got some intel on that would be
good to hear from you. Yeah, a lot of talk

(05:31):
about the hunt of viruses in there. I thought it
was amazing that the British military that they parachuted into
Tristan d'acuna. I thought that was unbelievable to see that footage.
I mean that must have taken extraordinary logistics, no doubt
to be a documentary on that. But there are latest
information on the fure rationing. So yes, do come through

(05:51):
you want to talk. Oh, eight hundred and eighty eight,
ten eighty this day. In nineteen eighty one, the musical
Cat's premiered. It's funny they call cats some musical. I
don't think i'd call cats some musical, but I'm not
quite sure what else to call it. So I normally
think of a musical as like a play where they sing,

(06:11):
whereas Cats was just cats singing wasn't it really singing
or poems. There's appeared to be no plot or narrative,
so I wouldn't call Cats a musical. I'd say it
was more a performance of humans dressed as cats singing poetry.
That's just me though. But anyway, it was nineteen eighty
one that musical premiere, so forty forty forty five years
that's been around. I have seen it once, James. I

(06:35):
think it was correct me. If I'm wrong, yeah, But
if you want to start the whole boar rolling, let
me just do this one thing I'm going to I
don't want to actually I'm just going to open.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
This door and call the roll down, room down. I
don't want to actually pay the answer. I'm just going
to do that as I talk. You know, twenty degrees.
It's fine of a jacket on. That's why I'm too hot.
So hold your horses. Hold your horses.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Doing that as we speak. Sometimes you sit down and think, jepest, creepers,
it's hot. It does take them over or two to
get yourself decompression. Press. There we go, fifteen past eight.
If you want to start the whole wall rolling, first
and bestress Marcus till twelve. I did say it was
a three topic night. It might even be a four
topic night because I did want to start talking about stockpiling,

(07:18):
and there's not a huge appetite for that just yet.
So oh well, onwards and upwards end the giant plane
that came in, which is not one of my three topics.
But if you want to mention that anyway, do come
through Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to
nine two detext and telling you I will keep you

(07:38):
updated with the news throughout the next up four hours too.
If anything earth shattering happens in the world, we'll across
that for your people. Part of my promise to you.
Trump calls Iran's response to peace plan totally acceptable, totally
unacceptable as cease fire phrase. Oh yeah, so this is
looking like a very much like an international stale.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Mate.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
That's why I'm curious what you want to say about
the fuel if you do want to talk about that,
are you still stockpiling or was your stockpile? What I
say sense is that people stockpiling was a response to
thinking things would get a lot worse, a lot quicker,
and that stockpiling would have been a solution to that.

(08:19):
But what it appears or what appears to be happening,
it's going to get bad, but it's going to get
bad slowly, and that's a different kind of preparation required
for that. That's my intel on that one anyway. Seventeen
past eight, two months, one week, six days since that
one has been on. But yes, if you want to
talk about that, Marcus, New Zealand and Iran a going

(08:43):
to be playing football in the US on the sixteenth
of June. It's one pm. That's a good indication of
what is going on. You don't know what to make
of that, the fact that they are going and are
playing and we are playing them. I don't think we'll win,
but you never know. Eighteen past eight. Someone wants to
know when the ant Andov's leaving. If you've got that information,
phone it through desire. It's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
Good evenings has gone.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, not bad. Think you're nice to hear from you.

Speaker 8 (09:11):
Yeah, you too. I think i'd be more.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Interested in the cargo.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, I don't know what that is.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Well we'll probably never find out, but yeah, I mean,
it's got to be more interesting than when the bloody
things leaving.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Surely well, there are trained spots. I suppose it would
like to see it, and yeah, okay, fair enough, I'll
find out. See if I get some more information.

Speaker 9 (09:34):
Yeah, if you could. But hey, I was just thinking
about this fuel thing. I don't know, it seems like
it's weird because it's almost COVID esque in a way,
like you know, people are scrambling for toilet paper, and
it just it sucks that if we have such a

(09:57):
knee jerk reaction to such things, don't.

Speaker 8 (10:00):
You think, because like it's just quite fearmongering.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's a funny sort of mentality. It's those people that
think they have got I think people think like to
think they're ahead of the curve and they've thought of
it first to go on stockpile. And I guess there's
probably you know, you can brag your mates that you've
got forty gallon drum full of diesel. I guess that's
what it's about, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (10:20):
I guess so, because I mean, you know, the whole
idea that we're running out of fuel, I mean it's
kind of it's kind of it's almost a logical fallacy,
you know what I mean, Like you're always running out
of fuel typically, aren't you.

Speaker 8 (10:36):
Yeah, has it's always been used?

Speaker 11 (10:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, I mean and and I guess so, and I
guess with ambulance services and people that they need to
take some planning if you know, there are essential services
if we did, if we did run out, would need it,
would have to stockpile.

Speaker 8 (10:52):
Well yeah, but I mean they're always going to be
the first one covered. They hope the government should happen.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
So so you yourself didn't do anything, nah, I.

Speaker 8 (11:03):
Mean it's not it's not that I'm not in a
position too. I just think that you know, what, was
it Okay?

Speaker 4 (11:11):
If you reacted to every sort of turbulent issue or
sort of you know, political thing that we see around
the world, I mean you'd be you'd be stockpiland flower
like it's World War two.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's flowers flower threatened.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
No, but that's the kind of mentality, you know, It's like,
oh gosh, we need to we need to have three
years worth supply of baked beans.

Speaker 8 (11:37):
And we need to get a doomsday bunker. It's just
if you're quite.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
A tired of mentality. I mean, I'm tired of hearing
about Donald Trump, tired of hearing about Israel and Iran.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
It's boring to be fair.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Okay, nice hear from your side?

Speaker 12 (11:54):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (11:54):
Right?

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Do it's Marcus good evening?

Speaker 13 (11:57):
Can I mark? Or how are you mate?

Speaker 7 (11:58):
Good?

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (12:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (12:01):
Look why I say law legal in New Zealand you're
not allowed at your home more than twenty five liters
of petrol store if you need a fifty or more,
need a special permit store at home patrol. Again, I
may be wrong that that's what I understand. It is
a legal allowance to carry on the petrol. Now. I

(12:23):
don't say if I have more than that, but I
tell you for sure. For food, I have at least
six months stock for me and all my family. Is
it like turns everything ten rise everything everything there? If
I lock my door, I can live with all my
family and my daughter's family. Or at least six months

(12:46):
I have my own water supply I live in a
countryside and the chest freezer full of meat and all
diesel generator. You know, for power supply and food, at
least six months we have at a stock at home
or anything that's happened. I want to be governed.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
What's the SnO that worries you do? Or what do
you think is going to happen.

Speaker 13 (13:11):
Look, I'm not worried for anything. We time, you prepare
for any worst car scenario. You know, says it's you
prepare for the worst, center hope for the best. That's
what we do. It's you know, I'm not worried. Honestly, personally,
I'm not worried at all what's happening, the petrol or
all of it, because where I come from, I learn

(13:32):
to leave with barely anything, you know, living down the
communist regime for so long. Then we learn how to
use everything we have and to maximize every single ounce
of for all the resources what we have on our disposal.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Does that not leave you that communist regime stuff? I suppose?

Speaker 14 (13:57):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Look are you Hungarian?

Speaker 13 (14:03):
Romanian?

Speaker 12 (14:03):
Roumanian?

Speaker 5 (14:04):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (14:04):
I apologize?

Speaker 13 (14:05):
Ye, No, no need apologize. That's okay.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
I's Hungry and Romanian next to each other?

Speaker 13 (14:12):
Yes, they are, yes, very close.

Speaker 15 (14:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (14:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (14:16):
And then we're a border with Ukraine as well. And
then down the south do we have the Bulgaria, Serbia
and Moldavia in a nord.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Not a neighbors okay, yeah.

Speaker 13 (14:31):
There are also neighbors and a lot of drums coming.
I talk with my brothers and my family. A lot
of drums coming pretty much every day, either Russian or
Ukrainian over the area, and they are get used to it,
and I keep asking them, hey, how do you feel
as mental life is still going on? Prasan is still
coming in the same place, and sun rise in the
same place, sun set in the same place. We have

(14:52):
to live our lives, and if we start to let
all these things influence us and here fear on us,
that's what we're losing. But if we are prepared for
any natural disaster, to be very it's saw something I
think it's a wise thing to do, and not because
of me, honestly, Mike, which is my wife, She's a
very very meticulous lady and she prepared all always. She

(15:16):
liked to be prepared.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Love you to talk, Thank you so much, Roder. The
reason I was asking the question is because ten weeks
ago we talked about it and people will ring up
the show and they volunteered that they're off to stockpile fuel.
It wasn't something I partook and encouraging. I listened to
the stories people were buying different tanks and things like that.
People ringing up and saying you won't be covered by insurance.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
This and this and this and this.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
But people were taking great enjoyment by the fact that
they had some agency and were able to go and
make themselves feel that the risk of them been caught
out was less because they're taking some sort of affirmative action.
I'm just curious to know whether you've actually thought, Okay,

(15:59):
well this isn't going to be a thing. I'm going
to now use the guests, or you keep stockpiling it,
that's all. Someone says, my boat has a three hundred
eater fuel tank. I've gone and filled that up when
the crisis started, knowing I could sigh for ninety one,
pited for out of that and the lawnmower or into
my wife's car if needed, and had three hundred liters
up my sleeve, using it like a storage reservoir essentially.

(16:23):
So they're using their boat, and I'm sure a lot
of people doing the same. Someone said, stop sciamongering. There
is no fuel rationing. It's drama queen's like you who
cause panic. Well, I'm not causing panic. I'm not a
drama queen. I'm not skier mongering. I'm just asking if
people that actually went out and bought more fuel, have

(16:45):
used it, or they're keeping that stockpile active. O weigh
one hundred eighty to ten eighty nine to nine ticks
hit till twelve o'clock tonight. Looking forward to what you've
got to say. Oh yeah, anything else you want toalk about?
Fel free to come through, oh eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine nine two text and looking forward to

(17:05):
what you've got to say. Those texts coming through big
fuel tank in the boat three hundred leaders. Is that
common or that seems like a lot? I suppose you
need big fuel tanks if you're going to go far anyway.
Be in touch if you want to be a part
of it, Marcus still twelve. Anything else you want to
talk about, feel free to come through breaking news when
that happens. Although it feels like a quiet Monday in

(17:30):
listener land, but yes, that's the planned people. I'm looking
forward to what you've got to say. Also, slow cookers, Marcus,
Popeye's Chicken is coming to Nelson. Does anyone have any
reviews on it? Please? Well, I don't want to say
too much, but I noticed that we're the one's gone
up and invert Cargill across the road from KFC. KFC

(17:50):
still seems to be a lot busier. Maybe it's not
appetting to the palette, but that's just but yeah, you
never know. I guess it's all about location. But yeah,
people let you know anyway. But thank you, Peter, it's Marcus.
Good evening, Argus, Yes I'm here.

Speaker 17 (18:09):
Yeah, So basically diesels, you've had the panet with six
With diesel, it can last after six to twelve months
before it starts the gray or sometimes in favorite condition
to laught after twenty eiding the twenty four months. Petrol's
only got about two or three months, and to start
going back to people don't have to really panic straight away.
Pittroll's probably the one that you're going to watch out
that'll go back before you probably know before the diesel

(18:32):
goes up. And I say diesels the twelve.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Months, he's saying diesel lasts longer.

Speaker 17 (18:37):
Yeah, I look on an AI now, I say six
or twelve months before diesel begins to the great although
under the ideal conditions that can it can remain useful
to eighteen to twenty four months.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, I think fuel last night long. I think diesel
gets bacteria. You can put something in the diesel to
stop it going off, but it does get a bacteria.
I think that's what happens.

Speaker 17 (18:56):
You can't always go well, hey, this is Ai saying that.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
I'm talking about talk back people that are running and
talk talked about that. I think it's about six or
twelve months for untreated diesel because you get an ol
guy or microbial growth or something. But all all I'm
asking Peter is I'm just asking with if the people
that did stop pile of think, oh, well it's going
to be sordid, or the actually continuing.

Speaker 17 (19:20):
To do that, well, eventually got to run out of containers,
don't you.

Speaker 11 (19:25):
People?

Speaker 3 (19:26):
I mean, I mean two months ago we heard things
like super cheap and everyone had run out of the
containers destroyed and people going gangbusters. For those I thought
you'd be one of those stockpilos.

Speaker 17 (19:36):
Pete Ah, I just I mean bothered.

Speaker 18 (19:38):
I don't.

Speaker 17 (19:40):
I'm retired now, so I don't do a hell of
driving around, So I just.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Are you retired? Well, you got so much to offer, so.

Speaker 17 (19:52):
I'm just sort of yeah, what's the point. Yeah, you
save a few dollars by stock viveially do a lot.

Speaker 19 (19:59):
Of miles year.

Speaker 17 (20:00):
You're using your car a lot, You're want to save money.

Speaker 19 (20:02):
But the guys, I think.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
People were stop pulling with trade's and they're worried that
their business was going to need it and stuff like that.
I don't think it was just people doing it to
pinch a penny.

Speaker 17 (20:11):
No, I don't worried.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
I just did norm.

Speaker 17 (20:14):
I never paid it from day one, I.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Find Peter Pannick, how old are you, Pete?

Speaker 10 (20:19):
Uh?

Speaker 17 (20:20):
You know you're not gett any younger?

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well are you born in Is it a nineteen fifty
something or nineteen sixty.

Speaker 17 (20:26):
Something, between sixties and seventies?

Speaker 3 (20:29):
True, you're tired young? Yeah, Peter, I feel like I'm
crying there. I'll be called a sticky back. Twenty seven
to nine, Marcus the sale GP team offered charters an
A N one two four to fly the yachts around
after their big crash a few months ago.

Speaker 20 (20:43):
Won.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
If the yacht has been repaired and they read to
return it to the competition. Didn't know that wouldn't be
cheap to hire, would it? Mind you? The America's cups
not cheap, is it? I know why if they'd be
going top secret on that one though thanks getting touched
people twenty six to nine A good slow cooker? Are
people still, you know, people talking much about the slow

(21:05):
cooker anymore?

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Do you?

Speaker 3 (21:06):
We always try and dedicated least sometime each year to
promote the slow cooker, but everyone seems to be going
on these days about pizza ovens and air fryers. Anyway, O, Marcus,
have you tried those red pears? I think a lot
of the peers these days are too soft. But if

(21:29):
they're too soft, they gets sof quite quickly. Be in
touch people if you want to talk one of them,
as Marcus, welcome slow cookers and fuel stockpiling. As the
topics runs and Popey's I'm always keen to talk. Pope's.
A small fizz boat with tote tanks should carry forty
liters built in tanks approximately two hundred liters. A small

(21:50):
launch up to two thousand liters. Fishing boats and off
sure capable three thousand liters. My last vessel seven thousand liters. Gosh,
i'd be pricey to fill, wouldn't it? You want to
cap on that one? He's or twelve Marcus till midnight
if you want to talk, gets to the plan eight
hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine to de text

(22:11):
Kirs Starmer delivering his speech to save his job sometime today.
It's gonna be on in half an hour, arguing he
will face up to the big challenges and restore hope
to the country, putting Britain at the heart of Europe.
It's a decade after the UK voted to leave the EU.

(22:31):
There you go, that's all happening, Marcus. I reckon the
a N one two four visit has something to do
with rocket lab, chairs, lines, free fuel, stockpiling and slow
cookers and the plane the ad and of one two four.
Then when that one came without the Adenov that came
across the north shore, we had people talking about it
live job that was bringing hercules flight decks thing, wasn't it?

Speaker 8 (22:59):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:59):
I think that was? What was that one? I think
it was a US biggest military I don't know how
it compares to the size of the int and of
I'll do a quick google on that one. Lockeye was
it the locked I think was the locked Sea five? Galaxy?

(23:21):
That rings? That rings a bell, doesn't it? So I'll
see which is bigger. We'll have some plane spots out there.
Let me just make sure that's the one that did
visit New Zealand. Yep, Tweeth August twenty twenty five arrived
at for nowa Pie. That's why I was delivering the
components for the new C one thirty J flight simulator.

(23:45):
So that's it. So the C five M super Galaxy,
what is bigger? If you know what the answer to that?
What is bigger? The C five super Galaxy.

Speaker 21 (23:58):
Or the D and of?

Speaker 3 (24:00):
But like bird spotting, isn't it? Although I guess bird
spots aren't. They're about rarity, not size. Get in touch
you want to talk about this or anything else tonight
until midnight. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty oh CE
five em is longer. Well, that's quite interesting how similar
they are. We've very similar looking planes size wise. The

(24:22):
engine of look just looks slightly clunkier, Marcus, I didn't
describe that red pevery well. It's across with a nashi
and appear. It's delicious. I don't even know if I'd
called it a nashi a pair. I think that's kind
of been misnamed. I ate breed today, made in the air, Friar,
Thank you love the slow cooker. I relieve my wife
from cooking in the weekend and cook cooker beautiful big

(24:44):
lamb roast or shanks in the slow cooker every weekend.
We love it, so we're mixing it up. We've got
giant planes, we've got fuel stockpiling, We've got the slow
cooker because it's slow cooker Weather twenty four to nine.
If you want to be a part of it, my
name is Marcus. Welcome in Fact twenty one to nine
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty Greetings, welcome three topic night.

(25:08):
I've told you that we've got the stockpiling, we've got
slow cookers, and then the new topic. Which plane's bigger,
the Antonov or the galaxy depends which way you look
at it. The other thing I wouldn't mind addressing tonight
something I haven't really heard about, And I'm asking who
out there celebrates a half birthday or celebrates a birthday

(25:34):
at a rare time, Yeah, because half birthdays are having
a moment and I don't fully know what they are.
But what I suspect is if your birthday might occur
like in the summer holidays, and you want school kids
to come to your party because your child, not because

(25:55):
you don't want school kids. If you're a school child
who has a birthday, you're in the Christmas time, you
have a half birthday. If you like your birthdays on
the third of January, you have a birthday at school,
and like the fifth of July or something like that.
So are you someone that celebrates your birthday at a

(26:16):
weird time, like a half birthday or Yeah, but it's
a thing. So people are doing half birthdays. But I
think one birthday year is too much. Yeah, there's even
special cakes for half birthdays in some restaurants you go
to even get cheap drinks and meals of your half birthday.

(26:37):
I think that's crazy. Although I'm not going to ignore
it as a topic. It goes off be beside myself
with excitement. Andrew Marcus, welcome, Andrew, hows yourself all right?

Speaker 19 (26:54):
Pretty good? Do you just out driving around and crush
your chest?

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Look at a jaw.

Speaker 19 (26:58):
We've got to do tomorrow makes.

Speaker 17 (26:59):
It's already to know.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
So you do it working one hundred hours a week?

Speaker 19 (27:03):
Oh I do?

Speaker 14 (27:04):
I do?

Speaker 5 (27:04):
I do.

Speaker 13 (27:08):
All of it?

Speaker 19 (27:08):
Brought or something? What would happen if you eat a
petrol station and they're all on prepaid. Now, and you
just said, old like to buy five hundred dollars worth
of fuel, So is it ze get the receipt everything
like that, just say look, I'll come back and pick
it up when I need it.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
I think there's apps for that.

Speaker 19 (27:29):
No, No, they're actually buying the pick there is.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
So you buy the.

Speaker 19 (27:32):
Petrol now, Yes, the petrol, yeah, because that way you
get you're not actually taking the physical So but you're
getting it at the lockdown price.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, there are a lot of people do that. In
the first couple of weeks. They brought one thousand dollars
worth at that price on that day. But for the future,
you want to you want a part of that, Andrew,
because that's a thing.

Speaker 14 (27:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (27:57):
So I'm not actually genius after all.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
No, but you're pretty good. I mean, I mean, if
you'd thought of that thirty years earlier, you'd be a trillionaire.
Because it's so if your thinking's right has just come
to you. But a bit later I thought, but Andrew,
what about if you took all your petrol to the
gas station right and ask them to buy it back?
Would they do that?

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well?

Speaker 19 (28:19):
No, because it might have been contaminated a bit like food,
they don't know what it's been stored in because they've
got to guarantee quality of supply.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
There's no right of return under the consumer Guarantees EC
for fuel.

Speaker 19 (28:31):
I don't think there would be food or something like that,
you know. But anyway, I stored a little bit of petrol,
but not sort of so much to make money out
of just twenty leaders, which is probably a marginal amount
that you're around.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
I think that a lot of everything about you.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
I like Andrew.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
You're cautious, you're a three a freethinker, and you're honest.

Speaker 22 (28:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (28:52):
Yeah, I did it, but I did it mostly in
case we run out. It's not paying for the petrols
one thing, but if you can't get it, that's when
you need it. For these people at stockpile fuel and
using it, well, sure that might save the money, but
what happens of retion incomes and you've got emergency supply.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Sounds like you're in the pick of the trades? Are
you in the in the elite trade?

Speaker 19 (29:14):
Or is the elite trade?

Speaker 3 (29:16):
You're one?

Speaker 19 (29:17):
Oh, it's bloody hard work that way?

Speaker 5 (29:21):
What is it?

Speaker 19 (29:23):
I will actually do? I actually do, but too much disclosure,
But okay.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Don't do it, don't tell it.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
No.

Speaker 19 (29:33):
I do shot repairs, smallhelt repairs, premium small repairs under
probably like teen fifteen square meters. What are poles around?
And then I do line marking so in the car
parks you can do the line marking and the poole repairs,
so you get two cracks at the at cherry. And
then I was asked to do some tree because a

(29:54):
lot of your car parks all have trees around them.
They need to be thrown back and mulched up, so
you know a business is actually for sale because I'm
getting near the end of the teather. I'm getting a
bit long in the too few great years, so pick
up a five percent commission. If you saw I'm a
business market wow, could be ideal for you.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
Could be.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
The thing is if you had to cot with a
catchy sign when you're doing eschalt repairs, car park painting and.

Speaker 19 (30:25):
Trimming pools and lines, dot coat audience there brilliant.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
And the trees is just extraray.

Speaker 19 (30:32):
Well, the trees is not really something that I'm not
an arborist. But what I do with motto there is
I'm the little tree fella because I'm only little and
I'd only do little trees. But my motto is you point,
I cut otherwise we don't. We don't want you get
your bush looking like a bad here, like like it's
been a bad trip to the hair dresser.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Brilliant.

Speaker 19 (30:52):
So you know, you just point where you want a
cat and if so, I'm not too very good. Got
to be very mindful of health and safety. You don't
want anything pulling on your damage. So it's yeah, view enhancement,
you know, all that type of thing.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Give me your address again, put all the lines. Fantastic
five percent commission thitting to nine J.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
Evening.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Dan, This is Marcus.

Speaker 23 (31:18):
Welcome, Yeah, cure to Marcus.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
How are you sure?

Speaker 5 (31:21):
To Dan?

Speaker 7 (31:22):
Good?

Speaker 23 (31:22):
Thank you a first time caller, so good to be
on the show. I heard your topic about the halfway
birthdays or whatever however you put it midyear birthdays, and
I was like, oh, that might be a bit of
a dry topic. And then I thought, actually, oh, I
might actually chime on on that because we've got a

(31:42):
we've got a little one who was born on Christmas Day.
Well we weren't expecting it to be that case. She's
actually nine weeks early, and so she was supposed to
be born into February, and she was born on Christmas Day,
and so we are now we've decided we're actual going
to celebrate her birthday on her Christmas, on her her

(32:05):
due dates.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh what a great, what a great idea. I thought
you're going to say, add six months to it, but
that's even better.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (32:13):
Well we figured it's bit of a it's a bit
of a stitch up getting having a birthday on Christmas.
So yeah, yeah, I know other people we have birthdays
on christmastudy. Anyway, it's it's probably nice for her when
her friends are back it, yeah.

Speaker 24 (32:26):
From on holiday?

Speaker 3 (32:27):
And yeah, Dan, what Dan? What's her name?

Speaker 23 (32:30):
Her name is Beatrix?

Speaker 3 (32:31):
And and how old is she?

Speaker 8 (32:34):
She is?

Speaker 23 (32:35):
She is coming up to this Christmas?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Will you tell her?

Speaker 18 (32:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (32:40):
I think we will.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Why don't you just why did you just move it?

Speaker 23 (32:46):
Just keep it under rat?

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah, well and yeah exactly. This is going to make
her life a lot easier and no one's going to know.

Speaker 23 (32:53):
Well, well, I guess the cool thing is that her
birth story is a bit of a miracle.

Speaker 12 (32:57):
Really, so we.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Christmas and a Christmas miracle is as well miracle.

Speaker 23 (33:03):
While we were camping no less.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
So yeah, and how far away from how far away
from where babies are born?

Speaker 25 (33:10):
Were you?

Speaker 23 (33:12):
We were airlifted?

Speaker 5 (33:14):
Oh wow?

Speaker 23 (33:16):
Hundreds of kilometers?

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Wow wow.

Speaker 23 (33:20):
Yeah, a bit of a crazy, crazy series of events.
But yeah, she's a she's a wee medical miracle, that girl.
So yeah, we came to share the story with her.
But yeah, in terms of her birthday celebration and party time,
we thought we'd give her a bit more of a
chance to celebrate with people when they're back from on holiday.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Love you to talk. Maybe someone else has made up
or changed their kids birthday. I'd love to hear from you.
Eight away from nine, six away from nine, Harleyotts, Marcus
good Eving and welcome.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, I Marcus, because listened to Michael Hoskins show this
morning and he contacted his American correspond and he turned around.
The Americans are driving around paying four to six times
jee does it sound right there? So I've googled it.
That's a gallon that paid between a dollar twenty seven

(34:12):
and dollars forty seven liter. So I said, well, I'll
give them a text to safety rectifice to anybody. He
never as today, So that dare he painted dollar twenty
seven to a dollar forty seven liters. And I think
this big panic with petrol and diesel, there's just another
thing and diesel. Now I'll you'll find I think we'll

(34:35):
be dearer than petrol in the finish.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Pick your pardon.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
I think diesel will be dearer than petrol.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah, that seems to be. That seems that seems to
be one of the results.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeap. But otherwise that I don't know better half first day,
but I've put five to twelve thirty, first of December,
last day.

Speaker 11 (34:55):
Of the year.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
I wonder why they didn't just tell you you're born
on the new on New Year's Day. I would have
told you about Onday.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well it was I was five minut before twelve. That's
a lot of things to my rugby career.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Was it was it good or a bad?

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Bad's more as just about a year too old or what?
But I know when my birthday is anyway, And then
another thing is my wife was born under thirty.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Okay, it's a hard case. Yeah, I don't know. Many
couples have their birthdays close to each other, which is interesting,
as I always up Yeah, okay, I always thought that
was the one of the reasons that the old star
system worked is that people aren't. People with the same
day birthdays don't ever end up together. You probably go

(35:49):
and tell me that you're married someone that was born
the same day as you. Now Hit'll twelve name as Marcus.
Welcome text if you can nine to text. We've got
some topics going. It's a plan. I think picture was
up to eight dollars a later a gallon, Marcus. I
celebrate my birthday on days. I had a party after

(36:10):
twenty thousand days alive. Just that's fifty plus years Marcus.
My granddaughter wished me happy birthday on the wrong date.
So I made a video of me celebrating and singing
a very merry Unbirthday from Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hat
his tea party. Our twenty four week baby sixteen weeks
prem was born on the twenty sixth of December. We

(36:31):
celebrate on the day, but always have a special dinner
on his due date. A total miracle baby thirty six
years ago. We've got a topic, Hettel twelve. We are
talking times to celebrate weird birth of enjoying this. So
you might have had a prepature baby or something like that,
and you celebrate on an unconventional day or a different day.
You might be someone that has lied to your child

(36:52):
about when they were born. I think they'd be very
very interesting if you want to say something about that.
That's the plans, dand it's what we are talking about tonight,
because the new thing, one of the new trends is
people celebrating half birthdays. Gosh, would you want to put
your family threw it birthdays themselves? Enough of a drama.
They don't if they came every six months. To me,

(37:13):
that sounds like a nightmare from all sorts of ways,
absolute nightmare. So yes, So maybe you have a child
and they celebrate their birthday twice, their due day and
their real day. Maybe you married someone who's born on
the same day as you. That would be weird, weird
for me. That's the plan. That's where we are going

(37:37):
on some great texts, Marcus. I have formally swapped my
birthday with a couple of younger folks who actual birthday
fell on Christmas Day or the day of a family
member's death. Our twenty four we gave baby was born
in twenty sixth Oh, yes, that's right. I thought I
was turning forty nine. My kids jumped into the bed
with a homemade card with forty eight on them. I

(38:00):
just about cry to have a year back in my life.
I spent all year filling out forms, et cetera. Everything
in life, writing the wrong age. Oh they thought they
were not so this person number ending in six? Did
you think you're a year older than you were? Just
seeing the biggest gas prize variants yet, Christ Judge Rickerton,
two stations opposite side, Try to mean it's abart forty
cents a liter difference in diesel two eight nine three

(38:22):
three nine. Goodness, now, I'd say that was fifty cents,
not forty. Would you say the differ between two eight
nine and three three to nine was fifty or forty?
Half a dollar? I filled up in the thirty three
thirty nine. Place that saw the cheap one driving out
was the tree trimmer and pothole searcher. Oh wow, oh

(38:42):
who was that? I need both done?

Speaker 26 (38:44):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (38:45):
He gives me a committee. What was his name of
his company? Dan? I get five percent of it?

Speaker 7 (38:50):
Was?

Speaker 3 (38:51):
It was ashe felt and paint. I'm checking the RL.
I don't try and outdo me. You just text them back. Oh,
that's no, that's the needs and I hasn't texted that
someone asking for it. There's a lot of people ashfelt
doing it. Small hole sealers. It sounds like people that
go hunting seals in the eye say small hole sealers.

(39:14):
He's not high up the Google tree, is he? Does
he ever? Remember what that guy that does is potholes
in lines? Can you google beck see that guy beg
got ripped off on the guess potholes and great texts
coming through Brucet's Marcus good.

Speaker 11 (39:32):
Evening, Good Evening. It's a bit embarrassing really because it
sort of indicates that perhaps my wife and I didn't
have sex very of them, which wasn't the case. But
it so happened that it was August Bank Holiday in
the UK and we were going down to see some
friends in South Devon and it was my wife's birthday.

(39:53):
And when we got there she said, as we got
into bed, she said, I think I've forgotten my pills.
And it was the twenty seventh of August nineteen eighty three,
and sure enough, it so happened that she was pregnant
and the child was born the next year on the
eleventh of May which is today, which is quite wow.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
But so they don't have coincident birthdays. Which was born
nine months after her birthday? Yeah, goodness. Have you spoken
to her today? Your child, not your wife?

Speaker 11 (40:29):
No, no, we don't really get along. My wife's in
the UK. My wife's in the UK celebrating her birthday
and looking after a ninety five year old mum. But
I just thought when you were talking about what do
you celebrate about something? You know, that was the moment
that she was created?

Speaker 3 (40:43):
At this brilliant thanks Bruce, like that a lot twelve past.
I keep going with the text. There's good ones. Now
where are my.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Lot of text on fuel but money, it's on half birthdays. Gosh,
there's a lot of texts. Marcus. Did you ever get
to the bottom of the Koala cloth? Not only did
I never get to the on of the Kuala cloth.
Anytime I go on any website, all it is now
is ads for the Koala cloth because I googled it
so much. Marcus Antonio the Antonov left New Orleans and

(41:16):
took eighteen hours to get to Walkland with a stop
over in Hawaii. Has a seventy three meter wingspan and
can carry one fifty tons Marcus. On the hill above
mung A Wicked was a pear tree that belonged to
a Presbyterian church. The fruit was huge, half of one
full of court jar mun preserved one enormous. That's the pair,
not the mother Marcus. I went to a thirty three

(41:38):
and a third birthday party once a third of a
century Share tank Z station. That's the guy needs, Marcus.
I had half birthdays growing up, as my parents would divorced.
I'd spend the night before with one parent, then on
the actual day I was with the other. And each
year they would swap Marcus. The Antonov one two four

(41:59):
has four engines. The Russian then built a bigger version
Antonov two to five. There's six engines. Z's shared tank
does exectly that guy wants by now use when you want.
I purchased press Petroid. It was two ninety four. Love
your show, Marcus, flipping great to listen to a variety

(42:21):
of topics. I was called a rich brick by a
text on last Thursday for my wife owning a twenty
twenty fourteen Ford territory as the best cow we've her owned.
Still laughing for that text. If it makes the same
film more annoyed. I'm the one with the fuel stocked
up in the boat. Jeepers evening, Marcus, I'm pretty sure

(42:42):
that Galaxy landed here. Would airport now Christi International Airport.
As kids, we would bike out the American Antarctic base.
The guys that worked there took us through all the
different aircraft that were their hercules, globe masters, steel lifted
huge constellation triple tales, and staff gave us flags. Now
early twenties, we drank at their base many times, Great times, Marcus.

(43:05):
Both my sister and a brother married partners with the
same birthday as there is but two years difference. Marcus.
My husband was a Christmas Day baby, caused no end
of drama throughout his life. Once we had children, decided
Christmas Day was for them and didn't want any fuss
over his birthday. I tried to give her another day
like twenty fifth of June, July, November, etc. But he

(43:25):
wasn't having it. We parted ways and I was relieved
there would be no more ankst around Christmas Day. My
new husband's birthday Boxing Day, everyone joins and celebrates along
with him. It's a much better day. Marcus. I celebrated
my birtha on the fourth of November, and I applied
for a copy of my birth certificate. I only to
discover I was born on guy Fawks. Marcus, my birthday

(43:47):
is exactly nine months after my mother's. But like Bruce,
my mother grew up celebrating her birthday on the twenty ninth.
When she was in forty she did a birth certificate,
so ordered it and when it arrived and had her
birthdays the thirtieth. Can you change your birthday legally? I
suppose you can't. But we're talking about people that selebrate
half birthdays or birthdays on different days. That's a bit

(44:12):
of you. That's the sweet spot. People get in touch
head on midnight. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty okay,
eight eighty nineteen nine to text, and so if we're
got emails coming through, keep we're talking about people that
celebrate their birthdays at weird times or different times, or
who have a half birthday. It's all the rage on TikTok.

(44:32):
You celebrate your birthday every six months. Would you like
to come to my half birthday? Grant? It's Marcus.

Speaker 24 (44:39):
Good evening, Hello, Marcus. I just had that about super
I feel that there's no way that the country is
going to be able to sustain the amount of people
coming up to the superage. I've just turned sixty five,
but I feel it should be means tested. Marcus, I

(45:02):
honestly don't see. If people are multi millionaires, why should
they be receiving, you know, the pension. I know you're
going to say that they put the money away, and.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
I'm not going to say that at all. The only
thing I can say is we are in an environment
where everyone votes out of self interest, and I wonder
if any party can get that across the line without
cannibalizing the voters that they want. I wonder. I wonder
if it's achievable.

Speaker 24 (45:34):
I almost feel like all benefits should be means tested. Yeah,
if you know, if you don't need it, you don't
get it, so to speak. I personally feel that when
you start your working age, you put the money away
as like an insurance policy. But if you end up
having a pretty good life and everything works out the

(45:55):
way you want it to and you end up not
needing it, then why not for visits you know, and
not take it.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Although they're now tooling about the political thing they can
say as oh, well, we need to give people the
length of time so they can prepare for that, which
means it can never happen.

Speaker 24 (46:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
I think it's interesting that you're retired getting the super
and you think it's a good idea now though, don't you?
But you know in your lifetime it'll never happen.

Speaker 24 (46:22):
I think I think it's it's good for me because
things didn't work out in my life and I don't
earn a home and I live off the pension and
that's all I've got and I'm not working, so I
actually need it. But if I had ended up being
having a successful, successful life financially and didn't need it,

(46:43):
I'd be happy to forfeit it.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
But and I wouldn't have a problem with it all.
I think it's the fair away. But I just wonder
how much their desire is to get in government if
you bring up that policy, because people are terrified of
putting up any policy that's going to mean they're not
going to get elected.

Speaker 24 (47:02):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Certainly, no National party is going to put that up
because their vote's gow old and that's the last thing
people are going to vote for is less money because
that sense that they've earned it, they've paid away and
deserve it.

Speaker 24 (47:17):
Sorry much as if they say they're going to put
the age upsade to sixty seven, it's not going to
be for probably five or or more years.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Before I thought, I thought, I thought Luckson said twenty forty,
didn't he?

Speaker 24 (47:30):
And you say, if that's the case, If that's the case,
there's no way the country can sustain the amount of
elderly coming through the system. You know that baby booms,
I suppose is what you call us.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
But I don't go.

Speaker 24 (47:42):
I am a baby boomer, but I've just turned sixty five.
But yeah, so and I think that they were saying
that twenty five percent of the population was going to
be receiving the pension, and a very yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Maths don't stack up after a while. It's like, well,
those people and it's like the number of people in
rest homes or an elderly an elderly care. You know,
at the moment it's like five workers for every person,
but before long it's going to be you know, as
many retired people's honor. It does, it does work.

Speaker 24 (48:16):
It's not can I say one more thing for we're going.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
To we're going to be we're going to be informing
our beads with robots nursing us, which doesn't sound like
much fun.

Speaker 24 (48:26):
Does it, I think?

Speaker 10 (48:28):
So?

Speaker 24 (48:29):
Hey about births, my son and daughter in law had triplets,
so they were born. They were taken five months before
they were due, so they celebrate their birthdays at the
day they were taken. So there were only five months.
You know, there weren't nine months. There were five months.
So you know, they had considered should we should we

(48:50):
actually have their birthday, you know, closer to their due
date or just have it when they were taken out,
So they ended up having it when they were taken out.
But multiple births is another one that could be.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
You know, even so you said taken they were born
five months or four months premier to her that.

Speaker 24 (49:08):
Sorry, three months premature, six months taking out six months.
There's year three of them. They fought there four in
a week or so any time before. But in the
game and they're going, good, magnificent. Yeah, not a thing
wrong than that.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
A gift?

Speaker 5 (49:27):
What it was.

Speaker 24 (49:29):
Their brother They had an older brother who wasn't two
when they were born, so they were they were all boys,
so they ended up with four boys. Under two, which
sounds like a nightmare and possibly world.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Fourting sets of triplets a year in New Zealand. It's
quite a rare thing, all the right sets every year. Wow,
it's not many, is it?

Speaker 24 (49:51):
It isn't. I thought it would be more than that.
But to tell that on the street, because until my
daughter in law I had triplets, I never didn't know
anyone with triplets.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
No, I done. I don't know what anyone with I'd
love to know. So I don't know anyone with triplets.

Speaker 24 (50:04):
There is there a bit of an anonymauly anonomy for
that word. But by great, yeah, absolutely great. When they
come bursting in.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
The door, you know, and when do they celebrating their
birthday on the Jude Day or in there on the
extraction day?

Speaker 24 (50:21):
That's the word, I think, on their extraction day? So
really there were only six months? Yeah, extracted, Yeah, it's
the word.

Speaker 10 (50:33):
So so yeah.

Speaker 24 (50:34):
So for a little bit my son and daughter in
law thought or maybe we should have their birthday when
they were, you know, around their Jew date, just make
up a date. But then we decided, well that's just
stupid because they actually came out on this day. So
that's the day you know, nice.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
To talk right, Thank you. Texts and emails email here.
Someone says, Marc is a topic a few nights ago crumpets,
and you mentioned that you rest the crumpets hole down,
whole side down on top of the toaster. My dad
tried it and was pleasantly surprised with the result. Just
passing on that exciting news any other Marcus musings we
should know about? Well this time of the year. The

(51:13):
one thing I always tell you about this time of
the year. If you are given, as is the want
of this time of the a bucket of fijoi or
fijoas whatever plural is, what you do with those is
you don't cut them in half and scoop with a spoon.
What you do is you get a sharp knife, and

(51:37):
you get the fijoa, and you take the top and
the bottom of it, probably eight miles each end. Then
you place the fijoa on your chopping board vertically and
then you just quickly peel it with a knife, and

(52:00):
you take the peel off like staves off a barrel,
and probably eight cuts will do it. And then you
can enjoy a fijoa with none of that fair or
threat of going through it's just a better thing to eat,
and once you've tried that, you won't go back. Now

(52:21):
I'm full of good techniques, But tell you what happened
to me today. I was speaking about my wisdom and
someone asked for more tips. I had to. I had
to shorten my child's school pants. You know, either that

(52:42):
won't be too hard, and I didn't want to look
too yanky so you could see the stitching. You know,
sometimes you shorten your pants so you can see the stitching.
So I wanted to. I'll google it and I'll watch
on YouTube how to shorten long pants. And I'll grab

(53:02):
my phone and it said empty your pin. And I
entered my pin five times. They got locked out of
a phone. So it just goes to show that you think, oh, well,
I'll use the technical way, but that didn't work. So
I'll drop them off the dry clean and get them
done that way. I think that's going to be the
easy way. I was beaten by my phone being locked out.
Then I'll move to other things. Marcus. I'm a fifty

(53:26):
eight year old national voter and I want the super
means tested, Joanne Marcus. The only issue I have with
means testing the peaches. I currently put aside ten percent
of my wage and suffer for it. Other people don't.
But would they then qualify for free money that I wouldn't.
My dad's mother and his mother sister produce their babies
in the same hospital on the same day and year,

(53:47):
but the birth to show dates a week apart. My
dad thinks his father may have been celebrating the birth
a bit too much when we entered the details. Dad's
birthday was a twenty fifth of January my month or
twenty sixth of January, so always a joint celebration. Just saying.
My mum Linda is one hundred and two on the
twenty third of May. She has a long time list,

(54:07):
a very long time VICKI. My granddad celebrated his birthday
in September and when he was in his seventies our
family founder. His birthday was actually in October, but he
lied so he could go to war early on the
old line to go to war e really Track eight.
Get in touch when you celebrate birthdays on a strange
time or half birthdays, it's what we're right about tonight.

(54:30):
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
two text if you want to be a part of it.
Looking full to your input tonight. Anything else you want
to mention, get in touch as I say. Oh eight
hundred and eighty thirty and nine two nine two to
text hits or Midnight Roman is along at twelve he

(54:50):
never half birthday? Watch the bed. Is anyone making fuel
for older diesel engines? Great question, I'll report back fuel
stockpiling half birthdays, or whether you have lied about your
child's birthday, or whether you have moved your own birthday
and celebrating birthdays at a time that isn't when the

(55:12):
child's birthday or your own birthday is now at this
time of the year. Always keen for slow cooker recipes
or slow cooker hacks. You've got one of those. I
am up for it. Always up for it people. If
there's something I want to mention too, be a part
of it. To come through eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine nine to text seems a bit of appetite
from the text. Doors for means testing the super that's

(55:35):
just people that are motivated to text of course. So yeah,
my dad died on his birthday and was buried the
next year. By the way, also a very special class
of people that died on the day they were born. Yes,
famous people that died on their birthday. William Shakespeare, Raphael
the Artist is Not the Turtle, and Merle Haggard and

(55:59):
Ingrid Bergman all died on the day they were born.
It's good for the tombstone and a machine. G Kelly
the Gangster not the rapper.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Be in touch if you want to add to these
discussions or anything else you want to talk about. Yep,
you might be born on the day you or I
wouldn't be calling. If you die on the day you
were born, would you You'd be dead. My three siblings
and I were all born on public holidays, Wellington Anniversary,
Queen's birthday, Labor weekend. Oh, there's four. My siblings and
I were all born on public holidays, Wellington Anniversary. It's

(56:34):
no comma. My three siblings and I were all born
on public holidays, Wellington Anniversary, Comma Easter, Comma, Queen's birthday, Comma,
Labor weekend. So four kids, four different days or public holidays.
I'm interested in what people do who have birthdays on
Christmas Day. My beautiful grand baby was born on this day.
I love her more than Jesus. Marcus. My mate names

(56:54):
super Kiv has a brother named Nigel who was born
on Christmas Day. Not really that exciting me. He's the
only person I know who is I think I know
some people born on Christmas Day. I just can't think
who they are. Be some well known broadcasters. One of
those things you find out about them only you know. Anyway,
Hitdle twelve, twenty seven away from ten looking forty you

(57:14):
and put anything else you want to talk about to
night jumping. Let's be hearing from you as I say,
Hitdle twelve. Shane McGown brought on Christmas as was Justin
Trudeau and died. Oh, unbirthdays is what we're right about. No,
I'm not unbirthdays. They're not called unbirthdays. They are called well,
you know what they're called. But get in touch if
that's something that you want to mention tonight beautiful, And

(57:36):
did you stop pil and how did that work out
for you? And how did you stop piling of your petrol?

Speaker 7 (57:40):
End?

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Half birthdays? Because next will be celebrating half Christmas. I
guess that's what a Midian mid year Christmas isn't it yep. Yeah,
so half birthdays are a thing. And that large plane
that arrived in Auckland today it's bigger than the sea
super galaxy that came last year. How's that important butter

(58:02):
working out for you people? You tried that delicious? You're
all the old imported butter. I've actually seen it. You
might want to mention it. Twenty five to ten. Back
to the text, the butter is discussed. That butter is disgusting, Marcus.
If you melted, the smell just about makes you care
over very strange. I was about to use it in
the recipe, so glad I didn't American butter. My mother

(58:25):
passed away my mother in law's birthday, and my mother
in law passed around my mother's birthday. My mom's birthday
is nine months the day before mine. She always gets
hassled about what she got for a birthday. Back as
seventy five, there you go, there you go, Marcus. My mother,

(58:46):
her sister's one year marcus, my mom, her sister's one
seven years older than her, and one two years young.
Were all born on the footinth of March nine two,
nineteen oh nine, and nineteen eleven. What's that called? There's
a world record for that. Is it called synchronistic birth?
I need your calls now, people, because he's a good topics.
So have you moved when you celebrate your birthday to

(59:09):
a time more convenient? Have you lied to your children
about when they were born? And are you having half birthdays?
All that are the topics. All of those other topics
anything else. We've talked fuel and surcharge and slow cookers.
But Gedden, the more the Maria Tonight, Kiir Starmer, Sir

(59:31):
Kiir Starmer. He hasn't resigned. He's spoken for about forty minutes.
There is talk that he should resign, but there's often talk,
and what actually happens is different from what the talk says.
So yes, there's that, but I'll keep you update if
anything happens around that. Also, I'm following all those stories. No,

(59:54):
we're in the Middle East. The biggest story seems to
be the Hunt of Rus. I mean, I don't think
the Hunt of Rus will become a worldwide pandemic, but
what an amazing origin story. I had become one a
small cruise ship of well traveled people, all living in
close confines, who then spread to the corners of the world.

(01:00:16):
It's almost like living in the parallel universe. That's something
like this was invented as the optimum way to spread
a pandemic around the country or around the globe. So
that's something you talk about as well. Twenty to ten.
If you want to be a part of my name
is Mircu's welcome and fuel stockpiling, and we can send
you to get your potholes and your car park painting done.

(01:00:41):
I'm excited to be promoting that service tonight, costing a
job on a Monday night and getting ready to sell
the business. Grandson recently brought on the fourth of May,
and my son, be an avid Star Wars fan, was
so amazed when he realized he could say to the debab,
may the fourth be with you, thank you. I was
born on my birth and all my siblings. Oh yeah,
very good. I was born on my birth and all

(01:01:02):
my siblings were put on their birthdays. Brilliant twenty ten,
eighteen to ten. Welcome to Monday, Monday, eleventh of May.
How you go people, what's happening? I hope you got
If you're not, God, I hope you're better by the
time midnight comes around. Oh wow, it's interesting. I recall

(01:01:23):
a special FBI agent saying on a documentary about people
disappearing on purpose to evade law enforcement. People can easily
change locations, looks, and names, but the hardest mindset to
shift from birth is our date of birth. And that's
how crims get caught. Wow, Marcus and Dan. My grandmother
passed away on her ninety first birthday in nineteen ninety one.

(01:01:48):
My grandfather was born on the first of January nineteen hundred.
I was still staggered, actually still staggered. I was reading
an article for a last Friday about David Edinborough, Sir
David Edinburgh, who was one hundred and what was weird
about Sir David Edinburgh is that when he was born,
his life expectancy was fifty eight years. So if you

(01:02:13):
were born one hundred years ago, if you're born in
nineteen twenty six in the UK at the time, your
life expectancy was only fifty eight years. And despite everything
we talk about, all the negative talk, the one thing
you've got to celebrate is and I think the life
expectance of the UK how is about seventy eight, So
twenty years is not bad in one hundred years, is it?

(01:02:34):
And will that continue. I guess not. I guess it's
probably going to go backwards. Marcus. Got evening, Marcus. My
birthdays Christmas Day mother said it was the best Christmas
ever because you have to cook the Christmas lunch. I
used to get most of my birthday cake to myself
because everyone was too full of Christmas lunch. Never had
to shout in the pub because it was closed. And
my wife and kids always make a fuss because I
think are missing out. When do people on feed between

(01:02:55):
nine celebrate their birthday? Feed to the twenty anth til
March first, I don't know. I need to answer that
fifteen to ten. I'm going to put the jug on
textas says I have three birthdays all. I have three daughters,
all born on Mondays. John ats Marcus Grevingham.

Speaker 12 (01:03:10):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus. An interesting one. My son was
actually born in Canada when I was working over there,
and then later he went over to do university in
Canada at Queens and he was with their friends there
and to celebrate a birthday of an odd one, he

(01:03:34):
shaded them down to Cuba for a trip that was
for his ten thousands, his ten thousandth stay and he
had a log of trying to work out every day
of his life where where he had been. But he
took him down there and another thing he did for

(01:03:54):
what they called the waves at waves and straight in
the area there that couldn't get home for Christmas, he
put on a complete Christmas dinner with a groast turkey
and everything for them for two to make him not
feel lonely.

Speaker 24 (01:04:09):
It's he's half a world away.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
It's quite a good idea a ten thousandth birthday because
it's twenty seven years, four months and fifteen days, so
you're probably a bit more together than a twenty first.
It's probably a bit of time to have a big birthday.

Speaker 12 (01:04:23):
Well I wasn't there, but he's with his friends there
just and thing he decided to do for his friends.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
What a great So I didn't know. I've never heard
of that.

Speaker 24 (01:04:38):
No, I hadn't.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
I was quite well and with and with the internet
to be pretty easy to work out when you were born.
I meant it wouldn't be difficult to work it out.

Speaker 12 (01:04:47):
And he didn't have the time thing to worry because
he was born in Canada and he had gone back
to Canada. He started a degree in engineering Ian Christ
and then transferred and went over there to Queens and
to his honors degree there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
It's known as a metric birthday. Yeah, and he's something
got John. Do you talk to him often?

Speaker 12 (01:05:09):
Quite often? Yes, Yes, you're going to get on the
phone there. And it's easy to remember his birthday because
six of them seven to seventy six ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
So how was he now?

Speaker 12 (01:05:22):
Well, he's sex to seventy fifty this year.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
Because the other thing you could ask him, but you've
missed your chance, right, Yeah. The other thing that people celebrate,
yees is a billion seconds and that's that and that's
thirty one years, eight months and eight days, all right.

Speaker 12 (01:05:49):
He could always still do his two thousand though, and
it's two But.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
When he's sixty seven, when he's sixty three and its
two billion seconds birthday, I have to tell him that,
you know, That's what I thought. Yeah, worth texting him
now on thank you. Oh I've learned something tonight. Anyone
celebrated their one billion seconds or ten thousand days? Ah,

(01:06:18):
that's a great thing. A billion seconds, that's a great thing.
My dad was born on a leap year and celebrates
on the twenty eighth. He was shocked when his birthday
got drawn for compulsory army training, as he thought he'd
be in the clear. Marcus jugoing to a studio on
Bluff to work. Are there any buildings that are higher
than one story down here?

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
Does Dan live in Bluff? Also, you guys must be
the only one driving around late at night. I drived
in the cargo for work. Dan works in Auckland, and
there is a three story building in Bluff. I think
of the pharmacist. Yeah, anyway, that's the plan. I as

(01:07:00):
you're a john and I'm enjoying you if you want
to jump in. We'd think with birthdays and half birthday
and people that don't celebrate their birthday on their birthday
because of the time of the year, or people that
have moved their birthdays and how successful that is been,

(01:07:20):
or people that have partners with the same birthday, because
I think that would be weird. Bonnie Tyler, She's okay.
Cardiac arrest. She has been resuscitated. She remains in the
hospital in Portugal following medical emergency. Well was she one
who want to know? More than one? Living in a
powder care giving off sparks one of the great lyrics

(01:07:44):
isn't it. I think she run the Eurovision or maybe
compete in the Eurovision. Five away from ten o'clock. People, welcome.
My my name is Marcus Good evening oh eight hundred
and eighty, ten eighty and nine to text and please
people have taken the crumpet advice, but yeah, like me
up fuel, bore me. What have you got people? And
also talking about how did you stop piling? Go you

(01:08:06):
board with it? And now are you unstockpiling?

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
By the way, who's.

Speaker 18 (01:08:10):
Driving all that?

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Oh you're Yeah, I'm not encouraging people to stockpile. I mean,
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
I don't even care if I am if people think
I am. But yeah, it's a it's a it's a
fairly silly thing to say. But that's fine. Now be
in touch if you want to be and if you've
got something different. Good good, good, goody good good. Oh eight,
we'll just trying to find out when that plane leaves.
The ant and of one two four came into the

(01:08:37):
country today. No one quite knows what's on. Someone said
they move the caz the America's cup yachts around on
it this day in nineteen eighty one, the musical cat
Premiere Cat's Premiered. I wouldn't call it a musical because
I've got no plot. That's me talking about imported butter. Yep.

(01:08:57):
And how's that worked out for you if you bought
the American stuff? Variant's no good? But Bert Fields and Co.
Was second worst than the serve, but the worst was
Market Kitchen at the Warehouse five ninety nine per four
four and o'colo four and a Grand Block two out
of five, rating the second cheapest of the blocks. But

(01:09:20):
Sampler's noticed a strange after taste. What it was a
double blind test. Guess it would have to be, wouldn't it.
By the way, Top Gun back in the pictures today
to mark the fortieth anniversary. I think that's overseas theaters,
but it's getting another cinema release, so this Thursday in
New Zealand. I didn't see that when it first came in.

(01:09:42):
I waited a while before I saw that. I thought
it was okay, one of those movies. You already had
to see that to understand all the references that people
always go on about kind of certainly jumped into our consciousness,
didn't it. Speaking of movies and things, the Mandalorian and
Grogu that opened on the twenty first of May and
the budgets the twenty eighth of May. So it's all

(01:10:04):
happening and today is eat what you want day and
all accounts split ends with Roovery good with their performances.
And I don't know if you've read that story, but
it's heartbreaking, the story about that couple who lost their
child who was sixteen and brought Jagermeister on a debit
card and no one checked his ID. So I think

(01:10:28):
they want to have debit cards mean that you can't
buy goods on your debit card if you are below
the age you need to be to buy those goods,
which I think is a completely fair thing to want
to have happened in Australia. Westpac has done that. They've
taken a moral stand blocking under eighting's credit cards and
debit cards from bottle shops, nightclubs, bars and vape shops.

(01:10:49):
It's a heartbreaking story that one walk with family I
think that's where they're from, got drunk, hopped in the card,
try to drive home with his mates, never made it,
crash the card, killing himself instantly. He was sixteen years old,
went to three different places to buy alcohol. But yes,
it's a fairy serious topic, but I think it's got

(01:11:11):
to be mentioned on They're right below it is a
pop a bed for Koala cloth Welcome to My life
on midnight Boom, just like that halftime stretched ten oh
seven seven past sen Wow. So the broader topic is
half birthdays or people celebrating birthdays times different from their birthday.

(01:11:38):
So you might be born on Christmas Day, but you
always celebrate it on the twenty fifth of February. It's
always a thing for parents. They don't want their kids
to have parties when they've got no schoolmates, because yeah,
I think that's the thing. I've got a child that's
born on the nineteenth of December and it's a bit

(01:12:02):
lame because it gets overlocked. But I haven't thought of
moving his birthday. But I think the time to move
their birthdays before they know when their birthday is. So
I'm curious if anyone has ever done that, has moved
someone's birthday. But also people want to come in through
and talk about weird birthdays and coincidence birthdays, like all

(01:12:24):
families born on the same day or just birthday coincidences.
Marcus my birth My husband is born on a leap year.
Funny thing though his dad is also born on the
same day, so twenty ninth February and his dad's on
the twentyninth of February, which is unbelievable. I thought that
would be beyond the realms of statistics. I had three sons,

(01:12:45):
all born on April one. He had my first boy
one four oh seven, and twins boy twin boys one
year apart. One four oh seven. Goodness, must be one
o four eight. My son and wife have the same birthday.
I don't understand either of them. There's a few people

(01:13:05):
I know that celebrate their birthdays for the whole month,
so it gives them an excuse to party every night.
Everyone has to be nice to them and pay for
their stuff. Females. Wow, I've never known anyone had a
month long birthday. Sounds like Bonnie Tyler had a total
eclips of the heart. Sorry, but the dad joke turn anyway,
How are you going people? What's happening? I was born

(01:13:25):
on the twenty feth the October nineteen forty. Apparently I
was a very difficult birth and my mother always said
that's where labor day originated very good, So weird birthday
coincidences and celebrating your birthday on weird times, Marcus, I
share my birthday with my grandma, my nephew, and an
auntie eighth May, so four of us on the same day.

(01:13:46):
I'd prefer your calls rather than texts. I need your
voices tonight. Come on, because he's a good topics. Kiers
Starmer has finished his speech and hasn't resigned, although someone
said there are bets at sixty six percent chance that
Kiers starm had gone by December thirty first eight dollars

(01:14:06):
on that bet. I feel sorry for Jesus been born
right on Christmas light that regards Owen. My partner's father
and my father have the same birthday. My grandmother was
born in the UK on twenty fourth October nineteen ten.
Her father and her grandfather were born also on twenty
fourth of October. Grand always said how where they were?

(01:14:29):
Oh wow, this person does birthday Eve and boxing birthday,
so you get three days out of it. So people
that celebrate their birthdays on weird these are good topics.
So I need to be inundated with calls on this
because this is I can just feel this is a
so show. I'd call about Franks having a boxing birthday.

(01:14:50):
Surely this is Marcus. Welcome and good evening, evening.

Speaker 27 (01:14:54):
Just a quick call. I got a call a couple
of years ago from one of my beautiful granddaughters and
she said to me, then, I've got some news for you.
Oh okay, love, what's that I am expecting? I said,
how wonderful. Now I'd lost my husband. It was seven
years ago now, and she said, oh, the minute I

(01:15:17):
found out.

Speaker 25 (01:15:18):
I thought of Pop.

Speaker 27 (01:15:19):
And I said, oh, how lovely. What made you think
of him? She said, well, he was a twin, wasn't he?
And I'm having twins?

Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
Wow? Now his name his nickname was Pop?

Speaker 5 (01:15:32):
No, no Pop.

Speaker 27 (01:15:33):
They called him Poppa, you know for grandam.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Oh yes, I thought you said pop. I thought, what
a great nickname for a grett andop Pop was a twin?

Speaker 15 (01:15:39):
Was he?

Speaker 27 (01:15:40):
Pop was a twin?

Speaker 14 (01:15:41):
Yes?

Speaker 27 (01:15:41):
And then of course it normally skips a generation.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
I didn't know that. That is that two down the
two weeks split in half, or two down the pipe?

Speaker 27 (01:15:51):
Two down the pipe?

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
Okay? Are they the ones? Okay? That's hereditary?

Speaker 13 (01:15:54):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
Or missing a generation?

Speaker 27 (01:15:56):
No, it's hereditary that it's normally like if you have
a if you're a twin, your children will skip it,
but your grand children will get it. It's sort of
commonly known a generation.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
I've never known that.

Speaker 27 (01:16:13):
All right, Yes, so we've got too beautiful identical twin boys.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
Good and was your father? Was your husband identical?

Speaker 27 (01:16:24):
No, he had a twin sister. Yeah, but twins are
in the gener in the family and it's really lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
I had no idea that, mister generation, that was a thing.

Speaker 27 (01:16:35):
Okay, good night, brilliant, Thank you, Shirley.

Speaker 18 (01:16:37):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
We're learning something thirteen past ten. You know the rest
ah way one hundred and eighty ten eighty multiple births
will chuck that in the mix. We're going to all
our well worn material now woo. Yeah, we in touch people.
Let me get to those texts also tonight. Marcus I

(01:17:00):
was born on nineteenth December nineteen sixty four. I was
meant to be born in March sixty five. I was
just under three pounds, born in my parents home in London,
first free and baby to survive that decade. Couldn't get
to a hospital due to a snowstorm. I have identical
twin grandsons, but with different days, born either side of midnight. Marcus,

(01:17:22):
my son was born thirteenth, twelve eleventh at ten forty
five and four and five make nine. All these are good,
bring them on. Fourteen past ten, sixteen past ten, High Wendy,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:17:40):
Hello.

Speaker 26 (01:17:42):
I'd just like to share. And the other woman was
talking about twins and this is kind of unusual, but
my sister and I are two years apart, and we
had babies the same year, pretty much, within a couple
of months of each other. No no planning, nothing, that
was just the way it happened. And our said child

(01:18:04):
were actually born on the same day, so we celebrated
twin cousins birthdays for years.

Speaker 5 (01:18:10):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
So what would be that?

Speaker 15 (01:18:12):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Why would have that happened?

Speaker 11 (01:18:15):
Well, it was just.

Speaker 26 (01:18:17):
Just how it happened, just just coincidence. But actually she
had given birth in Monganui and I was in labour
and North shall Hospital and she rang to tell me
that she had given birth that morning and I said, well,
I'm being induced now, and she said, we'll hurry up
and get it, have it, you know, before midnight, so

(01:18:38):
we can have it on the same day. And my
daughter was born ten minutes midnight.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Goodness.

Speaker 26 (01:18:45):
Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Freaking but yeah, all this stuff's quite freaky, a it is,
but it was wonderful. So tell me, tell me you
can help work.

Speaker 26 (01:18:58):
Uh well, we both were in relationships, we both got
pregnant at similar times. We both had babies. Our first
babies were born I think two months apart, the next
one I think was born but longer five months apart,
and the third one was born on the same day.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
Yeah, okay, like it, like it lot. Thank you, Wendy, Susie, Marcus,
go living and welcome.

Speaker 28 (01:19:22):
Oh Marcus, how are you?

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
You're good, Susie, real good, good Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:19:27):
My cousin and I were born on the same day
in March, and we're both just turned sixty this year.
And my nana and grandad from the same side as
the family, had a birthday on the twenty fifth of October,
both of them.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
But not that's not the same day as your one, though,
was it. So there's two there's two people with coinstant birthdays,
but they're different Quinston birthdays, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
love how people are into that. A. It's always like, yeah,
every family's got a storyline that, haven't they. They've got
a cluster of birthdays around the same time. Yeah, brilliant. Okay, Susie,
thank you. They keeping going and keep your text coming

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through two nine to the text, my maiden name was Clark.
I married a Heather. Our daughter's maiden name was Heather
and she married a Clark. Way back in both families ancestry,
there is a surname Adam Da Da Da Da blessings Anna. Oh,
here's an interesting text. People think that on their birthday
they are turning that age, but actually they are finishing
that age. When you turn one, that's the end of

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your first year. I've never really thought of that. Yeah,
you're right though, aren't you. So you're entering your second year.
My first son is on April one, my husband is
second April, my second born as third of April, and
my firstborn son's wife is the third of April. I
was born on thirty one of December eleven, thirty PM.

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I don't necessarily think that woman's right about twins and
the hereditary nature skipping a generation. From a quick look
at the computer, you might know more. Marcus. My date
was born on the twelfth. My niece was born on
the twelfth of December the year she turned twelve. The
date was the twelfth of the twelfth, twenty twelve. She
made the ode that year. It's paper wonder if it

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was behind the paywall. So you must have been born
on the twelfth of December on the year two thousand. Brilliant.
So it's all about birthday weirdness. But I'd also like
people that celebrate their birthdays interesting times or different times,
like or have a half birthday. Half birthdays are all
the thing. I've read the article a number of times

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about half birthdays and it makes less sense every time
I read it. Half birthdays are having a moment. On
TikTok there are half cake designs, half birthday banners, half
birthday cards, and half candles. One French brand even least
a common candle for cake decorators wishing to celebrate our
half birthday decimonal, decimally, and a lot of restaurants now

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have discounts if you celebrate your half birthday, and Betty
Crockers has half birthday menu. Ideas include serving scured halfs
of hot doll buns, sandwiches, cut and triangles, and color
block desserts, including the Battenberg cake. If you get a chance,
google Battenberg cake tattoos. There's some quite good ones. Hi,

(01:22:15):
Janet's Marcus. Good evening evening, Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:22:18):
You were just saying about the lady and the twins
missing a generation. Yes, my mother was a twin and
her grands missed her son, and then his son had
twin girls. So that's the miss generation.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
That's true that it fits in that case, doesn't it definitely?

Speaker 25 (01:22:39):
And I worked that must come from the mail because
her father was the twins and then the next one
was the boy. Still the male side and.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
These fraternal twins that have the genetic components. It not
the identical one, is that right?

Speaker 25 (01:22:55):
I don't know that much.

Speaker 3 (01:22:57):
Okay, okay, well I thought you would have been a
twenty type person.

Speaker 25 (01:23:00):
No, they wouldn't have been identical because my mother had
it wasn't she was a girl and the boy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Oh yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:23:09):
So whether the next batcher my gentica or not, I'm
not sure how they say.

Speaker 3 (01:23:14):
They say it's linked. They say it's linked to the
mother's side, and that's that's hyperovulation. That's more than one
egg is released.

Speaker 25 (01:23:22):
Yeah, in this case it's the male side.

Speaker 5 (01:23:25):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
Because I can't imagine your dad was hyper hyper overlating over.

Speaker 25 (01:23:29):
Later that was my grandfather.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
Oh yeah, he would be having to be doing it.

Speaker 7 (01:23:33):
Well, yeah, so that.

Speaker 25 (01:23:34):
Does make it make the mister generation that was all.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Yeah, Well you can see what happens in two generation
another generation time, won't it? Yes, it will be okay,
thank you, Come on, twin specialists. Is it hereditary? Is
it the male or the I think, well, who knows.
I think it's the male. I think it's the female. Marcus,
my second son, was born seven six oh seven. It's
seven or nine weighs seven pounds nine ounces. Marcus I

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was born the seventh of the seventh seventy seven. No
one ever hears it without a comment. Now I'm looking
at that and I'm thinking if I said to someone
when we were born and they said seventh of the
seventh seventy seven, what comment would I make? And I'm
intrigued to know what comment this guy gets. I would

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imagine if I said to someone when you were born
and they said seventh of the seventh seventy seven, all
I could muster is gee, that's a lot of sevens.
Then what would you say? Yeah, I don't know what else.
But so tell me what you tell me, what your
interesting comments you get. I was born seventh, seventh, seventy seven.
No one hears it without a comment. Here's a lot
of sevens, pretty seventy. It would be really testing people's

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humor that one. He said, I go six to seven. Marcus,
the French tourist off the ship has now reported is
unwell and an American is now unwell. I'm off to
stock up. Cheers, Nikki Genesis is Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:25:01):
Hi. I'm the mother of identical twins. They were born
on the thirteenth, at thirteen thirteen and at thirteen and
at thirteen thirty nine, So here's twenty six minutes in
between them. But the funny thing is they were a
month early, and my husband's brother became a father on

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the same day. It was my sister in law's true date.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Wow.

Speaker 20 (01:25:26):
So their grandparents went from five grandchildren to eight grandchildren
in a single after in a single afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
What a blessing.

Speaker 20 (01:25:38):
Now with the hereditary the tendency to release two eggs
at once which leads to non identical twins, yep, that
is that's the hereditary part.

Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
Yep.

Speaker 20 (01:25:51):
That must be Yeah. Yeah, identical twins are random happening
at any.

Speaker 21 (01:25:56):
Pregnancy, which is extraordinary, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:25:58):
That's really eggs splitten?

Speaker 10 (01:26:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
And are there so you so yours are identical? So
there's no there's none of that in the family. No, no, yeah,
I think because most people only get identical twins, you don't. Yeah,
you only get one lot, don't you. You don't seem
to see many people that that know other people that
have identical ones. It does seem to be quite er,
and they're much they're much rarer than the fraternal ones,
aren't they. Yes, Yeah, I'd love to have twins. It's

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all I've ever wanted was twins.

Speaker 20 (01:26:29):
You get them delivered to your house when they're about
eight months old, because then they can search that, they
can sit up by themselves, they can wave a teaspoon around,
and they do sleep a bit better at eight months old.

Speaker 5 (01:26:44):
Are you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
You don't want them for the first date.

Speaker 20 (01:26:49):
You don't want them for the first date months so
they too much and they don't sleep enough.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
And you know from the day one which ones which yes, okay,
I know got art you sure, yes, love you, Jannis,
Thank you, Sandra. It's Marcus, welcome, Hello Mark.

Speaker 29 (01:27:06):
So I loved that previous care she was lovely. Fraternal twins,
which is non identical where there's two eggs released is
normally well from the female.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
Yeah, an imagine, so wouldn't you.

Speaker 29 (01:27:25):
Yeah, yeah, and so it's a reditory from the female.
I just wanted to speak about the number twenty eight,
just briefly and quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
When someone's going to speak about that.

Speaker 29 (01:27:39):
Oh, number twenty eight, why is it quite common?

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
No, it's just something I'm saying to be smartass. I
don't know what number.

Speaker 29 (01:27:44):
Twenty I guess.

Speaker 17 (01:27:46):
Marcot.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
Well, you said it was such, you said it was
such a portal though juperscripts. We want to be thinking, yep.

Speaker 24 (01:27:53):
Anyway, yeah, oh god, Okay.

Speaker 29 (01:27:57):
Well, I was born on the twenty eighth of a month,
and my sister was born on a different month, but
the twin and there was only the two of us,
so both on the twenty eighth. And I married a
chap that his birthday was on the twenty eighth of

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a particular month, So there was the three of us
all with twenty eight. And that seemed to be the
end of it. And since the end of baught a house,
and that was just incidentally lot twenty eight.

Speaker 8 (01:28:38):
Wow.

Speaker 29 (01:28:40):
So this number twenty eight just keeps reoccurring, reoccurring.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
That's a special number for you.

Speaker 10 (01:28:47):
Yeah, I am.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
That's a special number for you. That's a real special number.

Speaker 24 (01:28:50):
The number I don't like to be the number.

Speaker 8 (01:28:53):
I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
I don't like even numbers, so it's not my favorite number.
But she certainly been in your family.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
Hmmmm.

Speaker 29 (01:29:01):
Okay, that's all I had to say.

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
Very good, thank you, Sarta. What is fascinating is it?
Roger Federer has four children? Where's rife with his wife? America?
He has get this if I've never heard of this before,
he has two sets of twins. Are sorry, hang on now,

(01:29:26):
it's confusing here. They have one set of identical twins.
It's written wrongly in chat Ai. I think they have
a set of identical twins and a set of fraternal twins.
But as I'm reading that ai chat is not good.
So they're saying they've got two sets of identical twins.
So I've got more confused about that. Roger Feder his wife,

(01:29:49):
they have two sets of identical twins. Identical twin daughter
Mayo Rose and Charlie reaver an identical twins. Son, Oh,
they've changed it because I've misread it. It looks like
I've re researched it. It's come up with it. If anyway,
that makes more sense if there's got two sets identical twins, Marcus,
what have you got against even numbers? A prime love
a prime, get in touch if you want to talk.

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Eight hundred and eighty ten eight and nineteen ninety text
measles are circulating in Wellington a new Town restaurant Mediterranean
Food Tratoria and Delhian New Town. Now the product recall
it does say I fed brand, but that's not where
I found it. PAMs anyway, so many product I kind

(01:30:32):
of think the product recalls are getting a little bit
unseerious these days. All just bits of metal from the
machine or plastic. Once upon a time, I'm sure product
recalls were things that you'd you'd be dead by the
time he hit the ground. Marcus, just coming in halfway
through the show. Paul's in Scotland. I have twin boys

(01:30:52):
very close born twenty five eleventh O four did fifty
five days and in I see you in New South Wales,
now in Scotland. They both have done plumbing apprenticeships with
different firms, and I've just passed you. Thought one might
have been a sparky or something crazy, Paul Donovan, we'd
want to plumbers in the family. It's crazy. I don't

(01:31:15):
know what it says. I have twin boys born very close.
I have twin boys very close. Oh every good, come on.
People that say from you do you today? Oh wait
till eighty eight and nineteen ninety text Marcus still twelve,
looking forward to what we've got to twins and people
said the right their birthdays at weird times. That's the

(01:31:35):
major discussion for tonight. Anything else you want to mention,
I am here for you and product recalls. Oh yeah,
get in touch twenty five to eleven, twenty four to eleven, Grace,
its Marcus. Good evening here.

Speaker 28 (01:31:52):
Hi Marcus. I've not got twins or anything, but I
am my son, his family that they want to be well,
the same difference his two daughters one Father's Day, one's
mother's Day. And then his wife threw in our labor weekend,
which does change, and then his grandchildren missus whiting, but

(01:32:17):
this is all long weekend stuff. Whichever, and then his
little granddaughter came on Ante Day and my son was
born at Easter. Wow, I don't always get East or
Labor weekend exactly the same, but it's still. Yeah, we
used to have to come home from the beach every

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year for my.

Speaker 22 (01:32:37):
Daughter and birthday.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Well I suppose, I suppose in a way it's inconvenient.

Speaker 7 (01:32:43):
Well you don't forget, No, you wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
No, that's right, that's a good thing. Yet, well, who
would have thought, yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:32:52):
Thank you don't other than birthday, And because we birthdays
are always very important. That was how I was brought up,
nine kids and we all had birthdays. There's no never
a question about it, you know, and so all of
us girls with six girls ounds and nine, we've carried
it on.

Speaker 7 (01:33:12):
You know.

Speaker 28 (01:33:13):
It's very important for these people to have.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
Very good Thank you so much, Chris Kien. It's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:33:20):
Goodayay Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
Thanks?

Speaker 7 (01:33:24):
Good listen. I wanted to talk to you about the kaka,
the austral Australian parrot, which turned up in my garden today.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
Oh wow, lucky you we're about tell.

Speaker 7 (01:33:34):
You well, I'm in I'm in gray Lynn, and I
just couldn't I couldn't believe it. The gray old awkward
morning and I'm looking outside and it's a gray old
gay and shoving me. This parrot turns up and it's
got every color of the rainbow on it, just absolutely
beautiful and ast a bit of research, I've discovered it's

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the Australian kaka parrot.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
Oh is that it's not the it's not the native
Well no, I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:34:05):
No it's not because it's been It was introduced in
New Zealand in the in the in the twenties, but
you'd wonder how any of them have survived. I mean,
this bood tuned up today, has got every color of
the rainbow on it, and it was like an ad
for a paint or something. It was just absolutely unbelievable,

(01:34:28):
so beautiful, and I watched it for ageous and it's
pretty much flightless and sort of hopping from branch to branch,
and yeah, I just I just couldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
So it's not the it's not the native pair, it's
not the caracker.

Speaker 7 (01:34:46):
Well, well used to know. Can you tell me? Can
you tell me? Is this is there? Is there a
native Australian parrot known as the coaker oh well this, well,
this is a tacker.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
Yeah, well I think I think it's endemic or whatever.
It's it's nate. And when you say colors, it's got
all the it's got. It's neck is like almost like
powers shell, and then there's orange there and then there's
an orange brand bend, and there's red around the legs.

Speaker 7 (01:35:19):
Yeah, and some yellow.

Speaker 21 (01:35:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:35:22):
Yeah, there is color every color.

Speaker 8 (01:35:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
I'm pretty sure because there have there have been there
have been sightings just just from April twenty twenty six
or three other April they've been sighted in gray Lynn,
so that you're exactly where they should be where you go.
And I and I imagine I think that I've seen
them at Tiddy Martangue, and I've seen them at the

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end of fung End at the White Tarkety, So I
suppose they go all around those and Toto as well,
So I guess they you know, they fly quite a
long way.

Speaker 7 (01:35:57):
Yeah, well, I just I just I still keep thinking,
how you know, how really survived? I mean, you see
have been trapped. It's it's pretty much it's pretty much flightless,
very very triggy. They're closely related to the kre.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
Why is it flightless?

Speaker 5 (01:36:15):
Is it does?

Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
Is it because they normally fly quite whether it injured
or old or.

Speaker 7 (01:36:19):
Well, that's just part of the bread of the breed.
That's just part of the breed. From my research.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
Oh okay, I always thought that good flyers.

Speaker 7 (01:36:28):
Oh well, from what I observed this this wasn't it
sort of made attempts to fly, but it wouldn't get
fa Okay, I have done well. Well, well, my research
shows that that's part of of the breed. They don't fly.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
Okay, I'll look into it. Kieran, thank you nineteen to eleven. Yeah,
all theckers I seen a fly real well. But but yeah,
there we go. Yes, kaka are strong, skilled flyers in
highly capable. I've never gone through dense forests known for
their skilled aerial ability and long distance travel such as

(01:37:12):
little barrier, little hen and chickens. Let's take a break home, exccene,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:37:20):
Hello Marcus. I've heard you talking about birthdays. I've got
an unusual birthday. My days of birth is twelfth of
March forty five, one two, three, four five.

Speaker 24 (01:37:30):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
Wow did you know? You would have known straight away?
But once you became old enough you knew it was
a significant thing, right, Yes, I did. Yes, Yes, pretty significant.

Speaker 14 (01:37:43):
My husband's exactly one month younger, is older than me.
He's a twelfth of No, he turs of February forty five,
which is funly another month younger.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
Yeah, it was interesting.

Speaker 14 (01:37:55):
My dad had three daughters and I was the only
one that he could always remember My birthday just fine
for him.

Speaker 3 (01:38:02):
Yeah, I'm surprised to being a period. How hard is
to remember birthdays?

Speaker 14 (01:38:07):
Yes, yes, it is really Yeah. You've got a lot
of children, it would be.

Speaker 3 (01:38:11):
Yeah, and I haven't, not a lot, but it'd always thinks, oh,
you know, when are they going to always asking to
remind me? So But at least you remember your husband's easy,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 14 (01:38:18):
Yes, I do, yes, and he remembers mine. That's just good.

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
Yeah, that's the main thing. Thank you, Maxine. I'm Martie Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:38:24):
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:38:26):
I've got a bird sighting today. I was out mountain
biking around the farm and a big, fat, beautiful whiteout
of toy flew in front of me, and he or
she flew on the same path that I was going
for about twenty meters wow, And and it went sort
of in the late afternoon sun and you could see

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all the all the green and the extra colors and
the normal sort of black looking too. It was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Have you given up the farm bike for the pushbike?

Speaker 4 (01:38:59):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:38:59):
I just we're on once a day now, once a
day milk and so I just go for a ride
in the afternoons. I'm still feeling a bit frosty at
the end of the day. You know, you know that
last gentleman that saw a parrot in Auckland? Is that
the parrot from the berry Crump book where you went
into the bush and found the parrot?

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
Do you know what I'm not familiar with that?

Speaker 5 (01:39:25):
Is it the car or the caterplant?

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
We'll get into the back catalog.

Speaker 7 (01:39:30):
How much?

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
How much list do you work with one today?

Speaker 5 (01:39:34):
Half? Really?

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
It is half?

Speaker 5 (01:39:36):
Well, there's one milking instead of too.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
You be going to the Gold Coast soon, will you
see what farmers do?

Speaker 18 (01:39:42):
Well?

Speaker 17 (01:39:42):
Going?

Speaker 5 (01:39:43):
We're going to Melbourne. Actually, yeah, I'm going to a
Christian conference, like a leader's conference. I'm on the river,
so that'll be nice.

Speaker 21 (01:39:55):
On the era.

Speaker 3 (01:39:56):
Yeah, are you are your leadership material?

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
I'm getting sent by some people. Got some meat and
then catch up with some mates ships.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
Yeah, who milk? The cows will be dry by the end,
of course you will do.

Speaker 5 (01:40:18):
There's been as conference as that. Yeah, looking forward, we've
got about one and a half more weeks of milking
to go and then it'll be all sweep and beef
dry stock farming. Oh that'll be nice.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
How long does that last?

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
About six weeks? Yeah, give the girls a break. But
the toys are in town because they're eating the persons
and what else are there eating?

Speaker 6 (01:40:40):
Some other?

Speaker 5 (01:40:41):
All the yellow yellow?

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
Did you plant persons on your farms?

Speaker 16 (01:40:45):
That?

Speaker 3 (01:40:45):
Did you plant the persimins?

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
My mother in law did. Yeah. The toys like like them?

Speaker 3 (01:40:52):
Are they?

Speaker 18 (01:40:52):
Are?

Speaker 3 (01:40:52):
They the of the sharp on, the non stringent, the
orange and can you can you eat them like an airport.
You're gonna wait until they're really soft before you can.
Before they eat the ball, you.

Speaker 5 (01:41:04):
Have to peel them and there's quite a skun going on.
And when they go right, the birds like them.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
So you don't get need to eat because the birds
get in their first, don't they.

Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
Ah, No, you get the early ones off and you
just lead them on the sun to ripen and dawns.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
Like Amato where the cows eat them.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
Uh no, what the cows they like it. The carry
fruit really for gold curry fruits birds. So guess what
all their farm kids are going their lunches at the
moment and reject curry fruit from the cow. It's really good.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Where they getting them from? Like you just cut out?
Where are you getting them from?

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
Just give them from the pack houses in the bay
of print. And these are like the rejects that are
like true berg or bruise. They've got a little blamish.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
And do you which way does the money flow do
they do? You just pay to take them off their hands.

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
Yeah, pretty much paid take them off their hands. Yeah,
and then you can make them with some other feed.
And we don't feed them, but we get We know
a farmer over by the Camise get feeds them. So
we just take a box over and get fifty kilos
of third grade cure for it.

Speaker 7 (01:42:16):
Man, it's good.

Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
Hang on, what do you mean like rigid cury fru it?
You can eat it yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
Yeah, but you're feeling but you're feeding yours to the cows.

Speaker 5 (01:42:25):
No, no, my friend across the valley is feeding them
to his cows.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
Or you're feeding into your kids.

Speaker 5 (01:42:31):
Yeah, and I've fee into the kids. Yeah, because that
tastes so good. Yeah, it would be like what the
person it is to the toy with the cow e.

Speaker 21 (01:42:39):
The kyi fruit, Yes, they love them.

Speaker 5 (01:42:42):
They're quite sugary, but you mix them with other feeds
with the with the peel left on. Yeah, yeah, well
you can. You can eat a gold curry fruit with
the peel on. Yeah, they don't pure. Don't peel the
cury fruit for the cows.

Speaker 3 (01:42:58):
Good on your Mardi, Thank you, tend Evan, welcome bread.
This is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 30 (01:43:04):
All right, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:43:05):
Thank you bread good.

Speaker 30 (01:43:07):
That just a bit of a funny story how my
twin boys came into the world. Twenty eight years ago.
I used to have a bread run and the wife
used to help me until she got too big, and
so she had to stay home. Anyway, about five o'clock
one night, she rang me and said, oh, my water's broken.
So I said, oh, well, I'm only halfway through, so
I'll shoot home. So I shot home and I said, oh, well,

(01:43:31):
we better get you in the truck. So I put
it in the truck and that was on my way
to my next delivery. So she said wing and packed
the truck and I said, oh, we'll just puck on
the main road and I just put hazard lights on
and we walked into the maternity annext because at the
time in Taranga it was separate to the main hospital.

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So I said, look, I'll go down and do my
last delivery. I'll go home and get the car and
come back. So I said, don't have the boys. I
didn't know there were boys at the time. So I
went off and did my delivery was a supermarket, so
I was quite long. So then I shot home, got
the car, went back down and she still she hadn't
had them, which was great, but anyway, then it all
turned to custard. One of them was caught in the

(01:44:15):
what is it, the birth canal, so they thought, well,
what are we going to do here? They really weren't
for fair for this, so they thought, well, they'll try
and send them to Hamilton in an ambulance and one
of the doctors said, well, you know, that's a bit
too long a time. So then the next thing they
tried helicopter to Auckland, but the Auckland hospital could only

(01:44:37):
take one of the twins, so they said, oh well look,
so the action between times. I didn't know they'd wrung
another doctor. They said, no, we'll do it here, so
they wheeled were across in the gurney over to the
hospital part and up to the theater, and I said,
I'll come over shortly. So when I went to go over,
they had a security guard. Then he wouldn't let me in,

(01:44:59):
and hey, my kids are going to be born shortly,
so I had to get someone. I said, well, you
need to my mother in laws up there. Get hold
of her. She'll tell you who I am.

Speaker 7 (01:45:11):
And he let me in.

Speaker 30 (01:45:13):
So anyway, I get up there, and then someone came
out to me and said, look, we're in a hurry.
You want to watch it, you need to gown up
or don't worry, And I said not, just go ahead
and do it. So anyway, I waited there and it
wasn't that long, and then they wheeled them out in
an incubator to both the minute because one was one
point five and one was one point seven. And they

(01:45:35):
were in hospital for about a month because she was
a month early. And then they came home and we
were lucky that my mother and law live next door,
so she helped because every afternoon I went up to
do the bread running and I wasn't there but yet nice.
Everything turned out all good in the end, but it
was a bit of a to do to start with.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
Did you finish your bread run that day?

Speaker 30 (01:45:59):
Yeah? Yeah, I went down in between and did the
last delivery.

Speaker 3 (01:46:01):
I'm thinking, I'm thinking you would have you had two,
you would have a bread run, a bread van and
a car at the hospit weather stage.

Speaker 30 (01:46:08):
No, no, I but once I delivered to the supermarket,
I shot back and go, oh.

Speaker 3 (01:46:12):
I say, swapped the van for the car, trying to
wake up when the van was understanding there yep, yeah.

Speaker 30 (01:46:16):
Yeah, and then drove back down in the car and
then finally came home about two or three in the morning.

Speaker 3 (01:46:22):
I suppose where that all can host would only take
one twenty yeah.

Speaker 30 (01:46:26):
And I thought, well, I'm going to get a flight
in alikopter hair which ied it was great. And then
when they said no, they're going to only take one
and the other way was taking them to Hamilton, you know,
and ambulance, well that hopeless. But they were sort of
starting to panic a little bit, so they were trying
to do anything they could and that's why in the
end there was two doctors and I think eight nurses

(01:46:48):
chips in the room. But everything turned out fine in
the end.

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
That was good.

Speaker 3 (01:46:53):
I was thinking when I was in the book, did
you have to do you have to wear a gown?
I don't think I wore a gown. I'm just trying
to think about that.

Speaker 24 (01:46:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 30 (01:46:59):
Now they brought out a game for me, and I
didn't really want to watch, you know, No, no, if
I was going to go ahead because it was a
bit of a roughh.

Speaker 5 (01:47:07):
Thing, you know.

Speaker 30 (01:47:08):
But but yeah, it was funny, even wheeling him across
in the bed, you know, across from one room, one
part of the hospital to the other part.

Speaker 3 (01:47:16):
And why did they do that?

Speaker 30 (01:47:18):
Well, they know me had an ambulance there, but it
was used. They know me had an that sat there,
you know. Then it just took them to the hospital
but there was being used so they couldn't go. Yeah,
and then the worst part was when they wouldn't let
me in. Oh, come on, wouldn't be they wouldn't be
telling into some smory like that. Get into the hospital.

Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
Nice stuff, Brett, thanks for that. It's good to hear
the gurney greetings and welcome Hittle twelve for the funne
out for me. I hope you're good people. If you're
not going to hope you get better by the time
I leave tonight, so you get in touch with your tool.
It's mainly about twins and birthdays. Twins and birthdays and

(01:48:03):
people celebrating half birthdays, and people celebrating birthdays on different
days they were born then they were born. Yeah, Marcus,
I'm an identical twin. I've identical twin younger brothers and
younger boy girl twins. Neither myself ready of my siblings
have had twins. I have a son and a daughter.

(01:48:24):
If I have passed on my twin jeans to my daughter,
she might have twins. If I have passed on my son,
it won't affect him, but he could pass on to
a daughter and she won't have twins. I don't think
if you've got identical twins it's hereditary though it's my understanding,
but you'd know you're the twin person. I'd like to
seek to speak to the person that has two sets
of twins identical, one identical and one non identical. Is

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that a thing very rare? I suppose that's the plan.
People who want to talk about this or anything else.
That's what we are doing tonight. O eight one hundred
and eighty Telly and nine two ninet text. All the
lines are free. If you don't want to come through,
I'd like to talk to you about this or anything else.
So yes, get in touch. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty
and nineteen ninety ten. You want to be a part

(01:49:07):
of it, there's something else you want to We've talked
a little bit also about a little bit about fuel
conservation and whether what people are doing that we're going
to what people that we're going to stockpiler now doing

(01:49:27):
with that. But I think the different birthdays is a
better topic, so let's keep going with that. People who
want to talk. My name is Marcus helped Hitle twelve
so eight h and ninety ninety text. With this situation
with the hand to virus on this ship, what is

(01:49:48):
going to be more news within now is those that
haven't got the virus. The daily mail headline more rat
virus passengers. Two symptomless cruise passengers test positive for hand
of virus I have been evacuated around the world, including UK,
and one of the seventeen paid Americans had tested positive

(01:50:08):
and a second has shown mild symptoms. There's a map
of where they all are. Canada on the ship, the UK, Denmark,
the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, South Africa, USA, Saint Helena,
the flight from sant Lander's Jennsburg Tristan d'acuna. That's that
tiny inaccessible island. Anyone, by the way been there that

(01:50:31):
they had to perish it onto Taiwan, Australia and Singapore.
But what I think is interesting, and you know how
it almost seems as though these organisms develop a way
to spread as wildly as possible. Well, boy, oh boy,

(01:50:52):
has this virus found a great way to spread with
this cruise ship was from bird watchers that went to
a tip and Terra del Frago to look at birds.
Apparently got infected with the rats on the ship that
tours island islands. Nick minute, everywhere, Good evening, Shortt's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:51:16):
You were talking about twins and you wanted to have
somebody that had two sets of twins. It's a long
long time ago on over ninety now, so we're talking
something like eighteen ninety years ago. But I had two

(01:51:39):
sets of aunties, both in the same family. One that
was identical and the other wasn't. Wow, Allison and Audrey
and Fay and Francis.

Speaker 5 (01:51:55):
It happen?

Speaker 9 (01:51:55):
Sean?

Speaker 3 (01:51:56):
Did they themselves at that time? Was that much talked
about because of how unique they thought it was?

Speaker 5 (01:52:01):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:52:02):
Okay, nope, no they were who was just one of
those things than me? They were brought up and in
me in the back hills, couching near Paris and north Wow, and.

Speaker 3 (01:52:20):
One set identical and one non identical. Yeah, that's unbelievable. Okay,
well I asked, and I got where what part of
the world are you in now?

Speaker 21 (01:52:28):
Shawan and up in Northland and ko?

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
Oh, yeah, you've moved, You've moved a bit of distance away.
Oh brilliant. Okay, well, thank you for calling. Sure already.

Speaker 4 (01:52:38):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
One identical, one non identical. It happened. I thought that
would be an impossibility. I don't know what the odds are.
Having two sets of twins, one identical and one identical
is a rare spontaneous occurrence, though more likely if the
first set is fraternal, While the chance of having a
cinematical twins is roughly one in three, think we less

(01:53:03):
than that. Someone I've done the math but get in
touch you on toot this or anything else, thinking that
shert oh eight hundred and eighty. I was born on
the seventh or tenth. My sister was born in the
tenth and seventh. I'm identical twin. I've identical twin younger
brother and younger boy girl twins. Oh wow, I am
identical twin. I have identical twin younger brothers and younger

(01:53:27):
boy girl twins. Neither myself, any of my seventy siblings
have any twins. I have a son and a daughter.
If I have passed on my twin gene to my daughter,
she might have twins. If I passed on to my star,
it won effectibody could pass on to his daughters. She
might have twins. It's all about the twins. Tonight thirteen
and the rat virus which recording at thirteen past eleven. Welcome,
my name is Marcus. Here to midnight oh eight one

(01:53:49):
hundred and eighteen thirty and nineteen ninety to tex Sorry
is off, Mica, ah bit there my fault. Hello Teresa,
It's Marcus. Welcome, Hi, Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:53:58):
I have an interesting story too. My sister in law
is a twin. She's a fraternal twin, and they're born
on different days, a ten before midnight, tennis after midnight,
and just a year older than her. She has identical
twins in her family. So four girls born within fifteen
or sixteen months or whatever. But yeah, so identical twins

(01:54:22):
and then fraternal twins born on different days.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
Give me it all again? Does that to digest?

Speaker 10 (01:54:28):
There?

Speaker 22 (01:54:28):
Oh, they were about ten or eleven children in the family.
So it's my sister and law's family. They had identical twins,
and then a year or so, just over a year later,
they had fraternal twins, both syts of twins with girls. So,
but the fraternal twins were born on different days, ten
minutes before midnight, ten minutes after the day.

Speaker 3 (01:54:47):
And they had it all.

Speaker 22 (01:54:50):
Yeah, they had all accombinations. So they celebrate their birthdays
on different days. On their birth on their proper birth day,
not there, not their twin day or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
So so in that family, do the identical twins spend
all the time together? In the fraternal twins, not as much?
Can you see? What can you see in that family?
The different dynamics, not really.

Speaker 22 (01:55:08):
But then as they got older, one of them, my
sister was one of the twins or the second or
of twins. She's very close to one of the first
twins you know from it's the first set. So they're
just just different personalities. They'll grow up in their own
way and they're just hea their likenesses. But there's lots
of other kids in the family too, so they just
have normal family dynamics and.

Speaker 5 (01:55:27):
They'll get on.

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
So there's nine kids, two sets of twins, one identical,
one fraternal.

Speaker 22 (01:55:33):
That's right, and the twins both sets of twins with
girls just by chance.

Speaker 3 (01:55:37):
But yeah, how many girls in that's for out of
nine with all the rest boys or mainly girls?

Speaker 22 (01:55:42):
No, no, no, but it makes I'm not sure. Not
only can't quote me, don't quote me, but I think
that's four or five gls.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
Thank you, Teresa. Well maybe not as rare, but pretty special,
pretty special hit the midnight name as MICUs Welcome. My
mother has two sets of medical twins and one seed
of non identical thank you. My aunt partner has a
cinem identical twin otis and the seat of non edical
audies and the is both the same family. They're in
the fifties. Now, good Eving Deepster. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:56:12):
Hi Manchus, nice to talk to you again. I'm just
reading because you're talking about twins. I've just turned already on.
I'm just driving back from up north again. So I'm
a twin. My mother she had twin boys in Scotland
in the in the in the foot late forties, and

(01:56:33):
then she came out to New Zealand and thirteen years
after having my brothers, she had my sister and I. Wow,
And so we're all fraternal twins. And we don't really
look alike. Well, my sister and I do and a bit,
but yeah, it's not that. But we're reasonably close, my

(01:56:57):
twin sister and I are, but my brothers aren't close.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
So what's the makeup of your family? How many are there?

Speaker 16 (01:57:03):
Eller, there's only two sets of twins?

Speaker 3 (01:57:06):
Okay, that's it.

Speaker 16 (01:57:08):
Yeah, Yeah, it's like because she because what the thing was,
she had the boys in Scotland and came to New
Zealand because my father was in the Air Force and
came out here after the war, and and that my
parents got involved in the Operatic Society and Parveston North
when they when.

Speaker 7 (01:57:24):
They came here, of course they did.

Speaker 16 (01:57:27):
And so because my mother was singing and singing on
the stage. And they used to have lots of operatic parties,
and so they'd have a party and then Sunday morning
they'd go to a party and then there'll be another one.

Speaker 29 (01:57:39):
Later on the day.

Speaker 16 (01:57:40):
Said they'd come home in the absence, this is a story.

Speaker 30 (01:57:42):
She told me.

Speaker 16 (01:57:43):
And they'd went to this party and then they come
home instead of going before they went to the other party.
They sort of took themselves off to bed, and then
my sister and I were the result. So we were
the accident from a party. So that's the story that
she tells if she used to tell everyone. So, yeah,

(01:58:04):
this was something completely unexpect She never expected to have
twins because she was like forty one when she had
the second set.

Speaker 3 (01:58:12):
What's the age difference, thirteen years. See, that's the long
innings for her, isn't it, Because that's I reckon, if
there's six years a part, it's like having a whole
new family.

Speaker 18 (01:58:25):
Well, it was.

Speaker 16 (01:58:26):
Actually, and I mean it was quite good for her
because when my father passed away, my sister and I
were old enough to sort of be there for her
when you know, and like she had like, yeah, to
two families, really because the boys like they grew up
and left home when we were quite young. Obviously so so,
but yeah, where everyone's sort of like done different things
in their lives. And that my brother, the second twiny

(01:58:49):
was he played football for years England. He was one
of the eighty two all whites.

Speaker 8 (01:58:55):
Oh what was his name, Adrian Alic Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:58:59):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:59:01):
And he's like seventy six.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
Now he's your brother. Yes, wow, I mean this is
going to sound lame, right, I tried it to sound lame,
but I've picked you as been a lot younger than that.

Speaker 16 (01:59:24):
I'm it's actually my birthday on the twentieth of this
month's market so I'm turning sixty four, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:59:31):
And of course he was Scottish, wasn't he Adrian Elrick?

Speaker 16 (01:59:35):
Yeah, he was born in Aberdeen in Scotland.

Speaker 3 (01:59:39):
Yeah, and north Shore United, that's the own.

Speaker 16 (01:59:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:59:44):
Yeah, I had quite a lot. Well, it sounds like
it sounds like a lot. This sounds like a lame story.
But because I worked at Newmarket Park before it fell
down the gully as a as an intermediate school kids
selling projects, I used to watch a lot of football
and that was about one when there was it was

(02:00:05):
always Eastern suburbs in Mount Wellington and North Store United
and all those teams played all the time, all those games.

Speaker 16 (02:00:11):
Yeah, yeah, I played football where I was at school.

Speaker 3 (02:00:14):
Yeah, and there's quite a few often visiting English teams
would come across as well.

Speaker 16 (02:00:19):
Yeah, he played against United and.

Speaker 3 (02:00:23):
The top of them.

Speaker 16 (02:00:25):
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, because he was he was
actually we're eighteen when he started his football career up
in Auckland. So that's what happened.

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
Yeah, it was this was his brother not a good
was it was your brother, not the other brother. Not
a good soccer player.

Speaker 16 (02:00:41):
No, I no, definitely not sporty.

Speaker 8 (02:00:43):
No.

Speaker 16 (02:00:45):
It was the same with my sister. I played football,
but she didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:00:49):
And you know how in families, right, they always called
the twins. They lose your name, you just called them
the twins. Yeah, what how was your family? What did
they refer to the big the boy twins and the
girl twins.

Speaker 16 (02:01:01):
No, not really because when you know, we were called
the twenties when we were little, because then back in
the day, in the sixties, like when we were born,
twins were a bit of a unusual they went, so
wasn't as commonplace as it is nowadays, if you know
what I mean, it was like and then there was
always a bit of a fuss. And because my father

(02:01:23):
was a photographer, he used to take lots of photos
of us and and we used to get in the
newspaper at the big Santa Partisanals they used to have
this really big tool center and there was like pictures
of us for in the paper. And we used to
do advertising for Glaxo and stuff like that when we
were little.

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
Was he a press photographer or as.

Speaker 16 (02:01:48):
He was a professional photographer, but because during the war
he did reconnaissance and he did like the Battle of
Britain and d D Landings and all those sorts of
things doing the photographs. And when he came to the
Air Force here he came in New Zealand and he
he used to take and he threw that some of

(02:02:09):
the royal tours for the for the Air Force and
the Navy when the Queen came to New Zealand, things
like that. So yeah, he had a bit of a
career going.

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
So yeah, well that's a brilliant story. All that's good. Yeah,
And I guess, and I guess at this point we
should acknowledge the the the Wellington women's team too, making
the finals. That was unbelievable. Over the weekend too, that was.

Speaker 16 (02:02:32):
Just that's fabulous.

Speaker 3 (02:02:35):
Yeah, I didn't watch that, but that's that's exciting that
women's football is sort of that we've made the finals out.
I think that's fantastic.

Speaker 16 (02:02:43):
It's taken a.

Speaker 8 (02:02:43):
Long time, a long time.

Speaker 16 (02:02:45):
I think when I played football, it was sort of
like when I was at high school, it was sort
of in its infancy. And because Adrian's ex wife, she played.
She was one of the first football fans from the
New Zealand and she played with Barbara Cox, so you
probably know, well there.

Speaker 3 (02:03:04):
Was Michelle Cox too, wasn't there There was a yeah, so.

Speaker 16 (02:03:08):
My brothers they're not married anymore. But she she was
with the team when they went to Hong Kong and
won the Asia Cup.

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
Okay, well, it's a far arranging. And your brother's not
off to the World Cup to support. He's not going
to America, so you can still you can still fly
from Toweroga, but yeah.

Speaker 19 (02:03:34):
I know, but he's not healthwise, is not the best.

Speaker 3 (02:03:39):
I don't want to try, but it's good to know.
But anyway, Okay, well, that's a fantastic twin story. Debster.
I appreciate that muchly. Oh yeah, we might get excited
about the second World Cup with the Voovoo Sailors, but
nothing was quite like that First World Cup for New Zealand. Unbelievable.
And what was unbelievable, and I forget at the time
what was unbelievable about it was that so many of them,

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it'd come halfway around the globe with their families for
new lives, but still had that love of football. It's
always found to make saying that, you know. It wasn't
until later years I realized that probably I still had
a lot of them, so that those Thicke eccents and
were very much But anyway, probably well, I don't know
if they've made a movie about time. They had another
movie twenty five past eleven. Hello Helen, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 25 (02:04:21):
Hell.

Speaker 31 (02:04:22):
That was an interesting call, wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (02:04:24):
Yes, I thought so.

Speaker 31 (02:04:25):
Yeah. I was reading that the twins. My mother had
twins and her eldest sister had twins, and when we
looked into ancestry, there was a history of them. Quieties
of the generations have had twins. But what I was
really doing about was I heard on the news the
other day on the radio, a woman in England had

(02:04:49):
sixty nine children and they were multiple births that she had,
and it was all educated. That was in the nineteenth century.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
It was all what was it? Would you say that
was all something that catered authenticated?

Speaker 26 (02:05:03):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (02:05:04):
Sixty nine?

Speaker 3 (02:05:05):
Is it the record?

Speaker 4 (02:05:06):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (02:05:06):
Is it the record?

Speaker 7 (02:05:08):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:05:09):
Did say what the over what length of time?

Speaker 8 (02:05:12):
No?

Speaker 31 (02:05:12):
But they said that she'd had a lot of multiple births,
twins and quick and quad so I don't think she
had queens quads? Did she seemed to have them one
after the other two?

Speaker 3 (02:05:27):
It's sixty nine? Wow?

Speaker 31 (02:05:32):
Imagine They didn't say whether they all survived.

Speaker 3 (02:05:36):
Did they all live in the same house?

Speaker 31 (02:05:39):
They had houses?

Speaker 3 (02:05:40):
Not house because you have to have I mean that
they wouldn't be cheap to feed.

Speaker 31 (02:05:45):
How would she feed, you know, when their babies? I
suppose there was formula around? Was there in the nineteenth century?
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:05:55):
Well, And for your person of means to afford that
many witnesses, yeah, that's right, it's not. There's not a
word of often said on radio witness Well, goodness, she.

Speaker 31 (02:06:07):
Must to be a pretty strong woman, though, to tell
the body that could sustain that many births.

Speaker 3 (02:06:13):
Where did you read this?

Speaker 31 (02:06:14):
No, it was on the radio on national radios. Goodness
last week.

Speaker 3 (02:06:18):
See all the interesting stuff happening there. Go back listen that, Helen,
thank you. So I'm speechless. How past eleven? Hello, Skyttes,
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (02:06:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (02:06:32):
I mean this all types of birthdays, but my birthday.
I basically I don't even like to tell people the
day I was born because some people are smart and
they can click and they go, oh my god, you're
born on the same day as Adolf Hiddler. What April twentieth,

(02:06:53):
twentieth It is the same day that the bad man
was born, Adolf Hitler. Now here's something really really weird.
Are you ready for this? Yeah, my wife's ex husband
was also born on a well it so there's one
for you, and it's.

Speaker 3 (02:07:13):
And Sky is Sky. I'll tell you something about this, right.
I've never I've never been aware of Hitler's birthday. But
I've got a mate and he'll always say, oh, Hitler's birthday,
But it's never Do most people know it?

Speaker 18 (02:07:29):
Hey, people people that know birthdays, people that know history
that they know it. Most people don't, but some people do. Ago,
many many years ago, I'm talking decades and decades ago,
when I first came to this country, I was taking

(02:07:50):
of this girl. We started talking about birthdays and I
told her when I was born, and she kept joking
about it, and I was like, I ain't never going
out with this girl again.

Speaker 3 (02:08:03):
Sky, I'll never Sky, I'll never ever meet you there again. Wow,
that's what if you could just change your book, because
you can't really change it, can you.

Speaker 22 (02:08:11):
No, you can't change your birthday. You can't change it.

Speaker 3 (02:08:16):
It is because you should be allowed, Sky, Yeah, you
should be allowed to change it.

Speaker 18 (02:08:22):
I wish I could change it, you know, I wish
I could change it, but I can't.

Speaker 25 (02:08:27):
Now.

Speaker 18 (02:08:27):
Not only do I have a messed up birthday, but
my middle name is also extremely horrible. And the reason
my middle name is so extremely horrible. Are you ready
for this? My grandmother's wore morticians and their last name
was Frederick. They own like over five hundred tuneromes all

(02:08:48):
throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. Frederick's funeral home
and my country of America in Northeast. When you die,
Frederick is associated with death. So yes, my mother named me.
He gave me the middle name of Frederick, so it's like,
oh my god. You know, I wasn't going to change it.

(02:09:09):
When I turned eighteen, my mother breakdown chairs and she said,
oh no, please do Sas. That's my mother's name, and
so I didn't want to break my mother's heart.

Speaker 3 (02:09:18):
So I never changed Today, Sky, what time? What time
of the day were you born?

Speaker 18 (02:09:24):
I was born at exactly four twenty six pm.

Speaker 3 (02:09:27):
Could you make out that that? Could you make out
that that was yesterday in New Zealand?

Speaker 10 (02:09:31):
Could you actually.

Speaker 3 (02:09:33):
Move you to day forward to being in you? I
can't work out the time frames, but.

Speaker 18 (02:09:38):
I can't change you.

Speaker 21 (02:09:39):
Mircus.

Speaker 18 (02:09:39):
I don't know what I could, but I'm up. Persontificate
is April twentieth and if you listeners, anybody born on
April twentieth, you're born in the same day as Adolf Hitler.

Speaker 3 (02:09:49):
Love you to talk, Sky, Thank you so much for that.

Speaker 1 (02:09:52):
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