The best summer job you had (15 October 2025)

Marcus talks the shortage of student summer jobs, and hawks of all things!

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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):
That'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Greetings, welcome Marcus till twelve. I hope it's good. Well
you are, I hope it's better than good, hob It's fantastic.
How A couple of things to tell you straight away. One, firstly,
thanks to nz TA straight off that there is a
road closure. Yeah. Now, the latest I've got for you
is actually there's a couple of road closures. A section

(00:38):
of State hurry Wan between Blenham and Kai Coulder may
be closed for several more hours after a vehicle fa
this afternoon. The incidant near kicker Kickering, who has been
at ten by evgency services which are ratified by four fifteen,
and has this nature of the goods you know that
that's that she she kind of good cafe north of Kaikulder.

(00:59):
So yeah, the inland read out the wire raw, but
you're going to be a long way doing that also too,
this is through just now. Several state highways across northern
Tatahaki to remain closed overnight. They remaining closed until eight
pm Friday. Gods, that's a long time. There's a five

(01:21):
point thirty today State Hiway three north of New Plymouth
remains closed at a between Moulco and Peopio. State Highway
four remains closed between eight mile junction and Tomadanui and
they forgotten highway no good from Fonga on the Waikato
closed from Tikuiti to Bettydale, opening later this evening. And
Statehowi thirty was close between Newtanui and Openo and we'll

(01:43):
remain closed overnight. And there's one more on. There's a
video of the slip too, but that's no good because
they're a visual medium. Oh it's a big slip. Someone's
caught it live. But it's ongoing. Wow fair a bit
of rain there. So there's that. The other thing I
need to tell you too, which is quite important, A
guy has emailed me from Australia, from to Woomba and ahem.

(02:12):
He sent me an email of a new Brevel toaster
and this toaster toasts by color. The first ever toasted
the toast by color. And it just continually with Ai
takes shots of your bread and it just waits till
it's the right coickness, then it ejects it. It's not
clear watching the video when the right how you input
the amount of toastedness you want. I watched the video

(02:35):
twice to four slice it. It's brevel. Looks good. The
first toasted a toast by color, not time, and there's
quite a long ad for the goes a minute. Most
of the time they're doing other things because they're not
having to watch the toaster and boy talk about strongly identify.
So I'm white buying one of those. I can't wait.

(02:57):
The first toasted a toast by color? What's that? Sixty
years after we put man on the moon? Seems slow,
doesn't It should have been a long long time ago, the
first toasted time. I don't know how it works. I've
got no idea. It's called the IQ Auto range. Yeah,

(03:20):
and two and four slot optic sensors track color changes
ten times a second, stopping at your perfect shade effortlessly.
I'm not sure how you input what color you want.
I can slip from seven shade options. That's bloody brilliant.
I don't swear often, but that's god.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's even got a sour dough mode for our teas
and breads. Wow, we're changing world. A soured dough mode
handles the quirks of crusty edges. Now you know about me.
I'm in no one's back pocket.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
You don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'm not accepting free goods to promote them. I've never
seen one of these toasters. I pay top dollar for it.
If it's no good, I'll call it out. But flip,
I'm excited. I don't know if Old Harvey Normans will
have them yet, but boy oh boy, I'm all in
for those. So there we go, a brand new toaster.
That's the road closures and toaster news. And a question
to you before I start the whole ball Tonight Rolling

(04:16):
often Tonight. We often on the show we speak to
people that are truck drivers. How do all the tires
get around the country. There must be a lot of tires,
because you're often going to get new tires. You get
for all of them. That's a big load. I've never
seen a truck carrying tires. Do they come and mix
cargo as a specialist fleet of trucks? Do they have
good year written one? I've never seen them, so if

(04:39):
anyone can tell me about that. I know about wind screens,
I think I've seen the windscreen trucks. I know about
roller doors, but I never seen tire has been transported.
That's my first question for tonight. If you can answer that,
that would be a good thing. Oh, by the way,
you wonder how much the toaster is available in noir, black,
truffle or sea salts are pretty she shey colors. Dan's

(04:59):
done the research. How much Australian this seems a lot.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I think four sixty nine seems a bit steep for
new technology. There we go that Dossy bucks. Oh well,
and you can choose the color setting. That's right. Here's
four sixty nine for the toaster. That will look at
the thing. So there we go. We've got to find
it out on the Facebook page. You want to go
look at it. I was asking the question about how

(05:27):
tires get around the country for anyone can to answer
that for me? That's important for night tonight. And then
we get onto the topics at hand. But how do
they get around I've never seen a I've never seen
a truck with tires carrying tires? Does the new toaster
only work for white bread? Not works for all breads,
even artisan loaves? Marcus State HIH one just before State

(05:49):
Hiway twenty nine closed, you to three car crash. Wow,
I haven't seen that, so I'm up to that too.
That's just you for me. That's not from Blair, that's
from a phone ranger. So I think twenty nine that's
the Awkard one. If anyone's got any more information about that,
let me know. Oh flip, sheh'es all go. I'll try

(06:10):
and bring that up for you. Chick state highways because
often the people are ahead of the waka katahi. Did
a mispronounce They didn't. I I keep expanding it, then
it starts contracting on me. I don't even know where
State Highway twenty nine is. Actually, wow, flip, I've had

(06:31):
a look at the highway twenty nine. Come on, people,
if you want to talk about how the ties get
round or anything else to like, there's other proper topics.
I'll get to those in a minute. Actually are there,
I'm not sure? Oh e eighty ten eighty They have
cleansed in the white Catto by crossing the Chaimis. Oh yeah,
that's where that is. So let me go. Now look
at the Kaimis. There's twenty nine. I can't see the

(06:52):
road closure there. It might PEPs have just happened. That's
what I suspect. So if anyone's got any more information
about that, please text me through. I don't know what
side it's closed, so I don't know enough about that area.
But what someone says is that State HII won just
before State HWII nine road closed you to three car crash.

(07:13):
State HII won. Oh that's it. I see. No, that's
that's Mary. That's at Pierre Eddi. So that's the corner there,
that's with a new roundabout is so yeah, if anyone
knows anything about that, just south of Carpedo, So that's
the three car crash that's blocked. Also brilliant anyway, we're

(07:34):
away three traffic focused at night these days, isn't it?
What's that about?

Speaker 7 (07:40):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Because there's so much some many incidents, and look we
need to tell you too because it's important because we
need to be loyal to our truck driving audience. Fifteen
past dates. Definitely, this is Marcus, thanks for calling and welcome.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Hey a Marcus. Most of the tower companies have us,
well floy larger than Newton. They've got chritis caprissa all
the year. They need to change tires, so we get
a plant. We just phone them up. They come out
change the tire.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
And away we go.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Oh. But the other part of my question is, you
know all those tires that go around the country, right like,
if I'm getting a tire change in their cargo, are
there big are there big trucks full of tires delivering them?
I've never seen a tire delivery truck.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
There are some, depending on the quantity of tires. Some
go general freight, and some of the tire companies have
got their own tracks w deliver them.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
And are they have they got the companies on the
side of them, some of them have, some of.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
Them have, but you don't see them often because they're
only there and then they gone.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, I've never noticed them.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Yeah, but you all the time. Major tire companies like
bridge Stone Advantage, they've all got fleet tire trucks. Okay,
a lot of the major companies, trucking companies have contracts
with them, so they contracted like you might be contracted

(09:19):
to bridge Stone, so we'll phone Bridgestone and they'll come
out and put tyre on.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:25):
Yeah, And no matter what time of the day or night,
you just growing them.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Up and they come brilliant. Is it happened off for
a flat tyre or the track.

Speaker 7 (09:35):
Not very often, not very often these days running radio
still built his tires tubeless.

Speaker 9 (09:44):
You don't get too many punches.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
And if you do get what, it's stopped the end
of the world. You can keep going, can you? Or
if you've got to stop then and there.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
But if you really need to slow right down a
handful over, find someone where to stop, because what happens
in tire will do, isn't it right? If you keep
going and then the whole casing's lost if he gets
here a go bang, or you just fall over somewhere
safe and call a tire guy. Because some of the

(10:15):
trailers have duel tires either side. Some trailers don't have
single tires either side, what we call fat single match tires.

Speaker 8 (10:25):
Yeah, so one of.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
Those guys, you really need to pull over because you've
got no second tire there to hold the weight on
that side of the axle.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Okay, good explanation, Stiffie, have a good night. I appreciate
that eighteen past night texts. I used to make tires
and up South Pacific tires they trendsit and forty foot containers.
Speaking of toast, what has happened to supermarket bread rolls.
They are like foam. It's like cutting a marshmallow. Marcus.
You won't see tires on the road as they're delivered
in curtainsiders. Tires go looser on palettes and freight drugs.

(10:58):
They're not good to line hall. Never sit on the palet,
always slip dirty items. Tires are distributed inside ISO containers
twin forty foot. My brother drove a tire truck in
the nineties from Hawks Bay to Auckland. My brother drove
a tires are and shipping containers. Was excited for you
toaster after price year. Nah. Due to serious crash State

(11:26):
Highway one pay Eddi is closed in State Hiway twenty
nine and twenty seven now on n ZTA. That's from Ben,
thank you. It's north of Tito, about two k's before
the roundabout at State Highway twenty nine. Well gosh, that
was supposed to fix all of that with a roundabout. Wow. Okay,
we'll keep you post on that anyway. Tires and the transportation,
anyone got any other questions of transportation? For me, it

(11:47):
was all about roller doors. Now I'm always seeing roller
door trucks. How would the toaster deal with the color
of crumpets. There's crumpets in the video. There's a crumpet mode,
there's a bay gel mode, and there's get this, there's
an artisan bread mode for you a sour dough. But

(12:09):
it's not as good as those jewel at those revery
good toasters. But still flip. Just the fact that someone's
sending me emails of toaster videos, I'm loving that. Here
about that toasters and tires for tonight, it's the t
show toasters tires. Wow, oh wow, someone showed me how

(12:29):
they transport tires and there's like an orange bulk cage.
I can imagine them going in that too. Goodness, thanks
Ben shit, it's a more interesting topic than I thought
it was going to be. Oh, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and ninety Oh by the way, it's not
looking good for what is they have said? This is

(12:52):
hot off the press. They're taking fewer tomatoes, corn beetroot
until demand increases, so we seek. We've lost our love
of locally made tinned food because the peaches have gone
and now it's the tomatoes, the corn and the big troop.

(13:12):
I don't think we're all going to fresh produce. I
think we're buying cheaper stuff from overseas.

Speaker 8 (13:20):
YEP.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
In recent years, what Is has seen a reduction demand
for homegrown canned fruit products and has not been able
to recover to the levels that saw prior to the cyclone.
It looks like what Is It's on its way out, eh,
stopping everything better? Catching people? Twenty one past eight You
want to be part of the show here till twelve

(13:44):
someone said the best toasts made in a fry pan.
I don't agree, Bob. The best toaster's made if you
sit there watching it, I'll stand by that. Get in
touch marks till twelve oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
The other thing I've been reading about today it's the
end of the summer job. Students for summer jobs, you

(14:07):
just can't get them anymore. Quite a good article, this
one in the news room. But what happens is that, Yeah,
people are just it's not a thing anymore. So the
summer job seems to have been something that's gone. You
can't just roll up and get one, yessue, you actually
know someone who's a friend of the family that's in
management for most people, extremely difficult to get. So you
know those old days of going to the meat works

(14:29):
over summer and being on the chain or whatever. It's
not happening anymore. I think even at restaurants you can't
just breeze in or guide to a resort. It's not
a thing. So if you want to tell me about
your summer job, the great summer job you had, what
were those when we all did them? Gosh iprau and
grapes one summer was boring flip so summer jobs. Chucked

(14:49):
that in your grab bag of topics for tonight twenty
five past eight, Lyle, this is Marcus.

Speaker 10 (14:56):
Welcome a hi Marcus.

Speaker 11 (15:00):
Summer jobs.

Speaker 10 (15:01):
The best summer job I either had, which was three
years in a row. When I was at university. I
was working for a corporate apple grower called apple Fields,
which had it had used sort of tax benefits to
take old sort of cropping land in Canterbury and turn

(15:21):
it into apples, you know, apple orchards. And I'd be
working away in the apple field and then in a
little advantage drive up and then all these dentists would
get out and more accountants or whatever, and they'd be
this is your this is your sort of half hectare
or whatever, and They didn't even want to make a
profit for the first few years because they were just

(15:43):
writing off appreciation. Uh An, it was brilliant and yeah, yeah,
so they didn't initially when the orchards were then created,
they didn't want to. They just you know, they basically
used other people's money.

Speaker 12 (15:59):
Business.

Speaker 10 (15:59):
It's always good to use other people's money. And they'd
as I was saying, I'll be working away and van
with a transit van or whatever would come, and it
did be. I don't know how many can you get
into a transit van eleven? I think in these dentists
or accountants or doctors would come out, and that that
was how they started up all these these orchards all

(16:22):
over all over Cannbary more or less round you know,
the perimeter of christ here and my job, I started
laying irrigation irrigation pipe and they got Messy University to
determine what the best shelf about trees were. And of course,

(16:43):
you know parts the North climate's not the same as
the Canterbury climate. It's a lot it's a lot weather
up there. So they determined that there was a species
of there were populars and there was also a willow
tree that they use, but they didn't factor in that
the root structure, you know, of the of the trees

(17:05):
that they planted was three by Cannbury standards, quite thirsty,
so it was seeking out water and were was it
seeking out the water in the irrigation pipe?

Speaker 11 (17:15):
So many I spent.

Speaker 10 (17:17):
Many happy hours for the unclogging these pipes while doing
other things too.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
And were the dentists and doctors just coming out to
set eyes on their investment to see that it existed.

Speaker 10 (17:28):
Well, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I assume so, and
you know that's how and I think they I can't
remember exactly. This is a long long time ago. This
is eighty three, eighty four, eighty five, and the into
eighty six. But and then they'd establish it and then
it would go into a different tax structure and the

(17:50):
corpse were orchard. This would take over and it was
all going great guns. Except another thing they did in
factor in was that the area around christ which is
in a hail corridor, and almost invariably somewhere one of
the one or many of the autis around October November

(18:11):
when the fruit was setting, there'd be hailstorms coming in
and and I can remember I think in one of
those big crates of royal gala at the time was
worth I think ninety dollars or one hundred dollars. You've
got to add, of course, you know, years of inflation
to that, forty years of inflation, and the juice grade

(18:32):
art of the hail to go into the fresh aft
or the pie filling or whatever, it was five dollars. Oh,
and that's why Applefield's basically ceased to be after many many,
many many years.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
And I'm going to look more into that. I've got
to go on a headline. But I find it very interesting.
But thank you for that. Never heard of that. I
presume none of the just yuse or no, but those
orchards don't exist anymore. I think there's a no thanks
for that, Nana. Twenty nine to nine. Ray, this is Marcus.

Speaker 13 (19:02):
Welcome all that Marcus High. How are you good?

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Thank you?

Speaker 8 (19:06):
Ray?

Speaker 13 (19:07):
Good? Okay. Summer jobs you remember back to the heady
days of student job.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Search, Yes, very much so, yes, I do.

Speaker 8 (19:15):
Well.

Speaker 13 (19:15):
Anyway, I went along and they had this board of
all sorts of things up there, and there was one
an advertisement for somebody who wanted somebody to dig trenches.
So she and her partner could grow bean sprouts. Right,
So fine, I go up there. It's in Paget Street,
lovely historic part of Ponsonby. They present me with a mattock.

(19:38):
They present me with a shovel. I managed to break
all of the handles because they were full of borer.
We managed to dig the trenches. I don't know if
the bean sprouts thing ever came off. That probably sort
of tells you how long ago it was. And one
thing that I kept on finding as I was digging,
with little bits of blue and white china, broken glass

(19:58):
and all this sort of thing. And I picked it
out and I put it on the window sill and
I said, oh, this is fascinating. I said, I'm an
amateur archaeologist. And the woman seemed very sort of oh yeah,
why not, you know, But it was just it was
really interesting. And to say I remember they were doing
up the house and it still had the scrim walls,
and I remember one of the plumbers who came in

(20:18):
he said, ah, man, he said, I thought I was
having a heart attack because the walls were moving with
the wind getting behind the scrim you know. Anyway, say
that was a summer job a couple of things.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Spring to mind. I've never thought of digging trenches to
sprout beans.

Speaker 13 (20:35):
Well, this was irrigation. There would have originally been for
digging a trench so they could then put some alcathine
pipe in or something and grow bean sprouts. I guess,
you know. But anyway, I.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Thought it was an indoor windows selled sort of a
job with the sprouting a day.

Speaker 13 (20:51):
I remember bits in in that garden and say, my
do my memory is breaking every single digging instrument that
they have, and also hurting my back into the bargain too.
But the if you liked the takeaway from that was
that I have a little box filled with odd bits
that I dug up, including a China Dolls arm which

(21:15):
sadly seems to have got snapped in half now. But
it was just it was like amateur archaeology. You know,
people would bury things in their back garden and.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Were you an amateur? Were you an amateur archaeologist? Right
that job?

Speaker 14 (21:27):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (21:27):
I love history. I drive my wife mad with it.
I'm always sort of you know, we go up to
the museum or you know, we're going and going through
junk shops and always finding some of them well, such
junk shops as there are these days.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
That's the great shame of trade me. I mean, there's
nothing worse than a junk shop that starts selling new stuff.
The sense of disappointment when you go and they are
hector this is what they're doing at sort of important ted.
It's just horrible, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (21:51):
Well, actually, the worst thing is when you go into
some of these shops and you realize I'm sixty seven,
and I realize I'm older than half of their stock.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, ray, do you go digging? Are you a bottle fossica? Ah?

Speaker 13 (22:04):
Well, I have had friends were, but no, I've always
wanted to do sort of a proper archaeological dig. And
I remember at one stage they were excavating parts of
Albert Park and I think the Historical Department, and they
found all man of things. They dug out an old well,

(22:25):
and I remember sort of seeing some of the things
and there were clay pipes, and there were buttons and
so on and all this sort of thing. Now, I've
always had a fascination to go onto an archaeological dig.
I don't think i'd quite have the patience for the
toothbrush and sort of you know scalpel of indulgent. I'd
be right in there with a spade. I'm afraid.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Can I just stop you there and ray and just talk?
Because I've often thought this about clay pipes because I
spent some time with some archaeologists in christ Church on
a project I was with, and gee, they were good.
They were involved with after the quake because everything had
to be. But I'd never realized but with those clay pipes,
and you will know this, but with the clay pipes,
because they're everywhere, they were sold with I think tobacco

(23:07):
win them. They were single use. Did you know that?

Speaker 13 (23:10):
I had a vague idea because I had a dear
friend sadly deceased, and he told me that he was
digging on a site in the central city and must
have had permission, you know, is before the crash and
everything was sort of you know, being torn down and
sort of putting up stuff that wouldn't last until breakfast.

(23:31):
And he found all these clay pipes and he said
they were brand new. But he's one thing that struck
him was a lot of them appeared to have been
burnt and broken. And then he had a good look
and every single one of them was marked made in Germany.
And it's obviously back to the time when you know,
sort of you know, you had an association called the

(23:56):
New Zealand Anti German League. They even had a badge,
and you know they would go around and break Butcher's
windows and sort of refuse to buy bread from mister Schmidt.
And also I read somewhere kicked German sausage dogs, you know.
But yeah, no, I had heard about well, i'd heard
about the clay pipes being onces. That's right, ex with tobacco.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
And that makes more sense to me because you see
the movie I've Got to run Raves think, oh gosh,
I found all of you. Good the delivery and everything
twenty four to nine. Back in a moment, Welcome hitdle twelve,
twenty two to nine. Jesse, This is Marcus. Good evening,
Hello Marcus, how are you good? Thing is Jesse?

Speaker 15 (24:38):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Okay yet loud and clear receiving cool.

Speaker 15 (24:42):
I was just ringing because I wanted to tell you
about a summer job that I had where I did
raspberry picking. Yeah, yeah, so I think I was about fifteen.
I'm forty now. So three things happened to me, and
the third one actually caused me to leave early. So

(25:04):
I went raspberry picking with my brother and a family friend.
So we went there. A family dropped us off in
a place called supper Wearer, Yes, which is about an
hour is away from Nelson.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yes.

Speaker 15 (25:18):
So the first thing that happened is that I got
in trouble because I didn't do a good job. I
learned that you could skim the bushes and you could
pack all the top rasberries on the top so I
did quite well, but I got in trouble for not
doing a very thorough job. And the second thing that
happened was that there was a mixture of at the

(25:39):
rabi pick, and there was a mixture of mixture of
like younger people and older people. So I remember clearly
standing on a row and this person yelled out to
me and said, get.

Speaker 9 (25:52):
Off my bloody robe.

Speaker 15 (25:57):
I didn't realize that there was rule that needed to
be followed. And obviously, while sorry, an assumption now is
that probably people might have went there every season, and
there was probably edequate that I didn't know. So I
learned that the third one, third point that I wanted
to few with you and It was the reason why
we left early, because we actually stayed there, so we

(26:19):
did the pecking in their head accommodation and from a
group of people I can't remember they age them, but
they they were sucking on the LPG tank and I
remember it quite clearly. It was actually quite scary because
I can still remember them unplugging the old checks OLPG
tank from like the I think of the barbecue or caravans,

(26:40):
and they were sucking on it that it was making
the crazy. And I still remember this day. They were
kind of smiling and this sort of space was kind
of locked well this is my memory, but the face
was kind of locked up, and it was quite scary.
So we left. We got our parents to come and
pick us up.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Fair enough, did you not even did you not even stay?
Did you not even stay a night?

Speaker 15 (27:07):
We know we did stay. We stayed I think that night,
but we called and just feed us. I think this
might not be the best place to be staying, and
we and our hear has picked us up. But that
was a bit random.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
And were living in Nelson at the time.

Speaker 15 (27:22):
No actally I wasn't. I was living on the West coast,
so a town called Recon is where I grew up
cheapers and now I live in Auckland.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Hey, I've never heard of anyone sucking is it LPG?

Speaker 15 (27:39):
Well, yeah, I'm pretty sure it was because it was
like it was either the barbecue or it was attached
to a caravan. And yeah, they disconnected it and they
were just yeah, they were just like turning it on,
I guess and just freezing it in.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
It was.

Speaker 15 (27:51):
It was very full. I must have been fifteen, and
this day I kind of still remember it quite clearly.
So it was a bit bizarre and scary.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
We're talking nineties or eighties.

Speaker 15 (28:03):
I must be nineties.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Okay, good cool, Jesse, thank you. Eighteen to nine sixteen
away from nine Marty, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
My favorite summertime school holiday job was cleaning long drop
toilets and my uncle's camping ground.

Speaker 16 (28:23):
At fun Nacky Wow.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
I did it Commanize thirteen till about eighteen, so quite
a few years, and I adherent to the job from
my older cousin who did it for about the same
time in his life as well, so as a real
privilege and honor.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Was it a self sustaining long drop? Would they move
where they were all the time.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
Most of them, most of them were in the same place,
but sometimes a little bit of close to elasion. You
have a long dropped landslide and you have to dog
a whole brother up the cliff floor around the corner.
That was the only time they moved. And more recent
designs which still go today, have a big ventilation system.
It's almost like a almost like a like a big

(29:09):
concrete check and a tall chimney ye so that you
can feel like when you sit on the steat but
the breeze is getting stuck down and blind.

Speaker 8 (29:19):
Out the top.

Speaker 10 (29:20):
Sounds like quite a pleasant long drop design.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Wouldn't be many hours a week?

Speaker 11 (29:23):
Would I do the.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Whole camera ground? And about two hours on the old
kicking quad three hundred and I do it. I did
the whole camera ground twice and some far away toilet
once once today.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
By the way, could you tell about the extent you're
near your place, Marty?

Speaker 10 (29:44):
Yes, I can see some. I'm out in the sparpole
overlooking the fifty seven million dollar roundabout and it's shutdown south.
But there must be accident out of.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
The priory a seven million dollar round about.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Are you not? Are you not in the brigade.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
No, no, I wouldn't have a time markers. I'd get
to a unless lifetime was being down. I get to
about zero of the accidents.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
That was part of your calling in the Ryle community.
Everyone was one of the fieries. But are the town
people also?

Speaker 6 (30:19):
And another thing that was so crashes with my mountain
biking night.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
So it's is it the night they do the training?

Speaker 6 (30:27):
Yeah, yeah, Monday night as mountain biking group ride.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
What do they do with the training? The firies, I'm
never quite sure. They roll out the hose, don't.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
They Yeah, hose rolling, putting it on your boots, making
sure everyone's got the right size closed.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
So sounds that you've got some experience with it.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
Stories the fire stories of yeah, volunteer, they do a
great job.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Of course they do. But they Sidney camp fire stories
right twelve to nine at part time jobs. I'll get
to the text when I can D T D. Hey,
what's technicing people? By the way, with this breaking news,
we hear a lot of road clothes. Talanaki is still
closed around there near Blenham's closed because of fire and
State Highway one twenty nine Piadreeri that's closed also Yeah,

(31:19):
she's all on. There's lotto. I hate all these headlines.
Are you the big water? Just tell us if it's
been one or not? Twenty mili seventeen forty fourteen thirty
eight fifteen twelve bonuses nineteen. I don't think it has
been one twelve to nine. Marcus stuck on State higwai

(31:44):
Wan kicking? Who can anyone can't find anything online fromn update?
If road will open soon? Do you have anything at
your end? Please? Pat? Look I don't know, Pat. It
was updated four minutes ago, but they seem to be
sketchy with the details. They said closed all further notice.
My guy at NZTA said it may be closed for
several more hours after a vehicle fire. So it's four

(32:09):
point fifteen that I imagine that we're talking serious question.
And if it's going to be closed that long, oh sorry,
the hazards nature of the goods being carried by the
vehicle means the recovery of the mains of the vehicle
and clean up may take several more hours. What would
that be would be escid. Yeah, so they're using foams.

(32:30):
I didn't realize there was a picture of it. They're
too so yeah, look I don't know, but you will
know more on this station than anywhere because we're connected
with the people. Anyone else knows what was in that
truck's highly involved and when the trucks it must have
been something highly flammable. It looks like there's not much

(32:52):
left of the truck. We've always got any more information
about that. That's of interest to me. People, So get
in touch. I just read the text too that we've
got about. We're talking summer jobs and the good ones
you had, all the really sketchy ones.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
You had.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Just saw the most impressive shooting staff of my life
whilst taking out the green waste. Where were you, Marcus?
All whites played very well. Dark horses for the World Cup. Yeah,
I reckon there'd be something, wouldn't it. A couple of drawers,
then through to the quarters and winning one of those narrowly,
then a semi and a win were all in. Apple

(33:35):
Fields went bust in the late eighties early nineties. Great
to see the cadrona hotel to stay in Kiwi hands
that's from mac They're on Anzac Day and gee, she's
a good pub. He was a bit freaked out to
go to the pub and I said, now, this is
a good one. Boy, oh boy often goes on about it.
It was compelling. What was it so compelling?

Speaker 12 (33:55):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (33:55):
The autumn leaves and it was good? What was it
so good? There's something about it. You hit a sort
of a country pub on the right day. Brilliant anyway.
Imported canned fruit from South Africa's cheaper than his in
and grown and canned by what he's ridiculous. Why are

(34:17):
some concrete trucks more like a milk tanker and some
have large rotating drums? Marcus? The Italian Mooti brand of
tomatoes is way nice than what he's and not much
dearer to what ron about. Someone else saw the shooting Star.
I saw that shooting Stars driving north on Transmission Gully,

(34:39):
just about to head down to Kapiti. It was big.
Of course, you've got a lot of sixers in your
name number. Wow. Spent the last hour watching ads for
the smart toaster. Obvious observations expensive. Might not do crumpets consistently.

(35:02):
They say it's quick, but I wonder if at this
expense of internal warmth looks good on I thought the
edge was sketchy because all talk about color, but everyone
in the air were people of color, which is fine,
but normally they're not in toaster reds. So I just
thought there was something a bit sketchy about the whole deal. Yeah,

(35:23):
I don't know about it. I don't know if they're bread.
I don't know if they normally do good toasters. So
that's a situation with the toaster. It's a Brevel. I
don't know Brevell or a good brand or not. Because
there is the Rolls Royce of toasters which aren't that
much more expensive. I went to buy one, but I

(35:46):
went to buy one last Christmas but wasn't happy with
the I had a bad retail experience. I thought, no,
it's not for me. Might have been the heat and
the weather, but now I am anyway, had the money
in my pocket out I went hit Le twelve. What
have you got people? Eight hundred and eighty tenny one
of his markets. Good evening if you want to taxt

(36:06):
nine to nine two, anything else you want to mention.
Good to be hearing from you. But it's all about
summer jobs. It's all right about tonight yep. And interesting
way things get taken around the country, mainly tires, which

(36:27):
I thought was interesting. Yeah, but yep, do get in
touch you want to talk anything else, you want to mention.
That's the way we like it on a Wednesday, loose
like a caboose, and look, it's's news around the world.
That's why I do. That's part of my job. And
I think it's mainly going to be traffic tonight. So yes,

(36:51):
be involved. Oh eight hundred and eighty eight and nine
to nine to to text. But you do come through
if you want to talk anything else.

Speaker 8 (37:03):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Trump's still going about his cover Time magazine. He wasn't
happy with that, even though the article can never be pleased.
Even though the article was glowing, the cover photo may
be the worst of all time, he says, super bad.
M's I think that's one of his big things, is

(37:26):
to be on the cover of Time magazine. That's like
one of his bucket list things, getting to get the
Nobel Prize, laters from a lot of headquarters, Powerball rolls
over not taken today, There we go wrong number seven
past nine, Liam, This is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 13 (37:41):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Hello, hi am I on Yeah you're on Leah.

Speaker 11 (37:45):
Hey man Ah. I've just had such an amazing dinner
tonight and I just had to get it out there
to get off my chest. I think Wendy's as a
fast food restaurant establishment needs more recognition, and from a
professional standpoint, I think like it's out of all the
other fast food restaurants, Wendy's somehow managed to up just

(38:06):
to uphold. It's like presentation, whether it comes to the
speed that you get the food, the taste of the food,
the quality, and also just the interior of the place
is usually always very nice and clean. And I just
have to let them know. I just have to get
that out of Liam.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Can I just chip in and say they're humble, They're not
out there for world domination or for the lot. They're
just kind of cautious. I like that about them, right.

Speaker 11 (38:28):
The comparison I had was the kind of downfall with
it was Burger King. Where Burger King they used to
have this kind of vibe, they used to have the soul. Yeah,
they used to have this this this inviting kind of
atmosphere with a whole kind of sixties look vibe to it,

(38:48):
hang on, and I found that had that kind of
where are you, Liam, I'm currently I'm currently in shaven.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Because Burger King Burger King. Right, we've got them down south.
I took because they put in basketball courts. Is the
one that chaven't got a basketball court?

Speaker 11 (39:09):
Oh no, I mean the one that we have is
the one that I go too. And it's a fire
out and it's just kind of on a corner of
a round aback has.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
It got part of a place to go and shoot
hoops in it.

Speaker 11 (39:23):
It used to have just like as all the other ones.
They used to have a playground for the kids. They
don't anymore, okay.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
And did they have a court where you could do
basketball shots? No, they did not, okay, because the one
in the cable had an area that was a big
area cage that you could do basketball shots. But they
never opened it. They say closed for maintenance. It's been
closed for six months. No one can tell me what's
going on with it. It's crazy.

Speaker 11 (39:49):
I used to This is the thing, right, This is
why it kind of gets me a bit, like, you know,
bit riled up, is that I used to have my
local Burger King I used to go to when I
was a kid. This was on Lincoln Road, back back
ages ago, the same deal where they had that inviting
kind of feeling even the one in Westgate as well,
and they had these, you know, they had basketball courts.
They also had the playground and all that is gone now.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
It's all they've got up. They've lost, they've lost, they've
lost their mojo.

Speaker 11 (40:16):
Unbelievable. But Wendy's.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yeah, no, they're always God always, God always, and they
still do the chili always good.

Speaker 11 (40:23):
Yeah. I'm a baconet, a lover for life.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Man.

Speaker 11 (40:26):
You know, I'd happily take it. I'll happily get a
heart attack for that.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
You know, you're a bacon nator.

Speaker 11 (40:32):
Yeah, that's the one who's.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
In the car with you.

Speaker 11 (40:36):
My partner, she's she's just she suppressing.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Is she suppressing? Laughter?

Speaker 17 (40:42):
Yeah, I agree with your points on chili, man, chili
is the best?

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Is the chili there? The chili was always good at Wendy's,
was it. We don't have Windys in the cargo, so
don't get to it much.

Speaker 17 (40:51):
Oh man, it's it's possibly the best thing you can
get it Windy's, despite the fact that it is like
mashed at Hamburger Patty.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
But there were those little bits of crack as you
put on them as well.

Speaker 14 (41:02):
Yes, see that that and they had hot chili sauce.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
He and I are always always God there's one down
que anyway, I'm gonna run with Lim. Thank you, Liam
and missus Liam Headle twelve. We're talking about summer jobs,
part time jobs, student jobs at mainly summer jobs. The
sketchyer the better if you got those, and we can
talk about Wendy's. Where do they go? Wish your pyramid
of fast foodness? I'm not sure about Popeyes? Fuck? Can

(41:29):
I say that anyway? Now? Do you think we'll ever
get the brand two ty on our supermarket shelves or
made for expert only to everywhere, it seems except you?
S eight lull Marcus Roads still closed just north of
Kicking who been here since four twenty? Trailer caught on

(41:52):
far of a main freight truck and trailer driver managed
to and couple trailer and drive the truck clear. Dangerous
Gods were Class nine miscellaneous? What would that be? Marcus?
Earthworks as a good job for summer. The round is
dry and it's good for digging and preparing subgrades. Also
eat planters of fruit. I made an ear plant kish

(42:13):
first time you ever cooked with e plant? Tasted wonderful. Marcus.
My holiday job was making hospital bes at Howard writes,
and you prob had to wait those sixteen factory Marcus
concrete and cement trucks, those like Milk Tanker's label Wholesome
carry cement powder and those with the rolling drums carry
con carrying concrete mixes. I thought, if I would know

(42:33):
that there's a helicopter at the State Highway, won Tito accident.
Marcus first job waitressing Italian restaurant in Greenwood's corner, paid
in cash, always rounded up two pizzas of bil of
canty for putting up with the chef's pinching my balm.
Good girl, the owner would say, and send me on
my way US fifteen. Wow, yep, Ben, this is Marcus.

(42:57):
Good evening.

Speaker 18 (42:59):
Oh good Marcus.

Speaker 14 (43:01):
How are you good?

Speaker 19 (43:02):
Ben?

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Really good?

Speaker 9 (43:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (43:05):
Oh goody jobs. Most of my summer work's been spending
the sharing sheets over the years, in which I really
enjoyed and which was a great summer job. But I
had a couple of a couple of different ones pretty
briefly from them. We actually they probably only lasted about
a week each one of them was pretty reasonable. I

(43:25):
must have only been about sixteen or seventeen at the time,
and that was working in a muscle opening factory up
in the Corrimandel, which was which was pretty boring. It
was a bit mine, I mean, packing muscles, but the
perk was the muscles came out of the steamer on
a big conveyor belt and we had to get them

(43:45):
into half shells. And yeah, I had a good feed
of muscles along the way.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
It's worst how you open muscles, But it's quite obvious
they're all steamed, aren't they.

Speaker 18 (43:55):
Yeah, that's right, yeah, yeah. And then and then I
guess after i'd been sharing for a while, I went
back to university and I thought, well, I university students
don't share sheep. I've been to go and do the
student job search things. So I did that and I
got a job packing bolts in a Bold factory flower bolts,

(44:18):
and that that was probably the worst job I had.

Speaker 8 (44:22):
That must have been.

Speaker 18 (44:23):
Around sort of twenty.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
Sort of.

Speaker 18 (44:28):
It must have been about twenty four years ago now,
And I guess the things that we'd say great about it.
I was basically packing a set number of bulbs into
each mesh bag and then stapling it shut. We weren't
allowed to talk to our workmates in case we lost
account put an extra bulburn and we weren't allowed to

(44:49):
listening to the radio either for the same reason. And
then on top of that, the hyacinth bulbs is they
have something in them. They make it itch like hell,
And it was it was here that that was I
had quite a bad rections. So they spent all day
itch and not listening to the radio, not talking, and
it was dead boring them. Back in those days it

(45:09):
was it was eight bucks an hour, bross, so you
work all day and bring home about fifty bucks. So, yeah,
that would be the worst of the summer jobs I've had.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
How long did you last?

Speaker 18 (45:22):
I think I did a week. I think I lasted
a week. And then I decided maybe maybe the sharing
isn't isn't so bad after all? Yeah, so back so
bad cheering for work after.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
That, sharing shar sharing sharing is of a student you
paid per you paid per sheep, right, that's correct?

Speaker 18 (45:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's it's good. That's one
of the big one of the things I loved about it.
If you wanted to work hard and habit of cracket
that you went good money and did.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
You get to did you get did you get to
did you get to party with the sharers because there
the legendary, aren't they.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (46:03):
Yeah, they like to knock it along a bit. Probably
not so much these days, but.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
When you're a student, you would that would seem like
a whole different world, wouldn't it.

Speaker 18 (46:14):
Oh ought to be fear I went back because of
the adult toad. I'd already been well you know, yeah, yeah,
so I set a shore through from eighteen years old
through it to about twenty four, then went back to
Union and yeah, i'd sort of got the UNI. I
missed the UNI parties that have seene I'll spit over it,

(46:34):
and in having kids in it by that day. So
I didn't go down that route really.

Speaker 7 (46:39):
But yeah, definitely the share is deserved.

Speaker 15 (46:41):
The reputation for the for the drinking back to those times.

Speaker 8 (46:44):
Yeah, we're still professional these days.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Do you still share.

Speaker 18 (46:50):
Most summers I've gone out cheering again. Not so much
the last couple of years. I've got busy with some
other stuff. But it's yeah, it's always a time of
my life I'll look back on fondly.

Speaker 13 (47:00):
You know.

Speaker 18 (47:00):
It's good, good, honest half grass. You meet some good
people and you your keeps, your keeps you healthy.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Great to talk, Thanks so much for being sixteen past
nine summer jobs. Looking forward to your calls. Here on
midnight we are talking summer jobs, Bob Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 13 (47:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (47:21):
The worst summer job I had, Marcus, was picking strawberries
up and Nelson. What happened there? You were you had
a tray of twelves and you don't get paid for
ten of them because it would take two of them
to top up the punnets that that you've seen in
I didn't know. That's why I pulled on my punts
as full as I could get them, and he still
took two each starch I sent the tray and and

(47:42):
it was so back aching, and I think I've got
five cents a punnet those days.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
What year were talking?

Speaker 16 (47:49):
Oh, one hundred years ago? Marcus?

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Could you not? Could you not pick tobacco?

Speaker 16 (47:54):
The wa tobacco's here? Yes, Nelson was.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
A big summer job for people, wasn't it.

Speaker 16 (47:59):
Yeah, it happened much waker. Yeah, but I know I went,
I left the straw everyone went picking apples and watch Awake,
which was much better. Although I did have a tendency
to go but quick and I would bruise the fruit,
so I'd only get half half what the bin was worth.

Speaker 11 (48:16):
Use it produced.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
You imagine those jobs. You've got to crank along to
really make some money, don't you.

Speaker 16 (48:23):
If you don't you know, if you're going to muck around.
Some people used to get hardly anything at all on
that moaning groan, but they were still a mid at
ten in the morning.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Yeah, I thought you could party at night too, can't you?

Speaker 8 (48:34):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Are you in little units little Kevin's.

Speaker 15 (48:37):
Yeah, we had a little.

Speaker 16 (48:38):
Old old cabins. The cabin still had the old copper
washing machine, you know, the copper and all.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
It sounds like a very freeing life. You out there,
you got your you know, you got some beers after
the day's picking, brilliant.

Speaker 16 (48:52):
Yeah, that was good, But it's just the strawberry picking
is a no no, you.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Know that's backbreaking? Is Are you crawling along?

Speaker 8 (49:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (49:00):
Yeah? And as I say, I pulled up my tin
poddles as full as I could get them, and he
takes two of the ti. When I asked about at
the end of the day, I said, hang on, I'm
doing forty bottles and they only paid me for thirty
two or whatever. He said, Oh, that was topping up
the other one some I'm thinking I already topped them.

Speaker 12 (49:18):
March.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
How long was you last?

Speaker 16 (49:20):
About four hours?

Speaker 8 (49:21):
Marcus?

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Your hotead.

Speaker 12 (49:26):
That was?

Speaker 16 (49:27):
That was the end of that.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
And where'd you go there that? He went apples?

Speaker 10 (49:29):
Yeah, okay, yeah, out of my moutree.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
I'm hearing up. Good on you met Marcus?

Speaker 20 (49:34):
Hello?

Speaker 9 (49:38):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Is that me?

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Yeah? I met Marcus.

Speaker 8 (49:40):
Welcome my career from the summer job.

Speaker 9 (49:46):
I'm one of my first jobs back in the nineties
in the back of stop trucks and amount I'd do
two every weekend truck and trailer and I'd get forty
bucks or about an hour and a half work, which

(50:06):
I thought was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Did you say hosing them out?

Speaker 14 (50:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (50:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (50:11):
It wasn't very glamorous, but it was pretty good money.
The worst part was probably listening to all the animals
and the apertoire sort of cheering up the yeah, sort
of got over there after all.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Did you have a water blaster now just a hose?

Speaker 9 (50:33):
Yeah, yeah, just like a fireman sort of hose by
power of water coming up.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Oh yeah, okay, it sounds like can been quite satisfying.

Speaker 9 (50:42):
It was for some of the stuff that credit was
baked on from the heat, you know it was. It
was good when it was fresh stuff that come off easy.
But yeah, the money was quite good because back at
the time, you know, I put two dollars in my
motor bike and it would last four weeks. Yeah, back then,

(51:03):
so forty bucks went a long way for young Collo.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
But that's a good Where was it, Matt? Where which works?

Speaker 8 (51:09):
Was it at?

Speaker 20 (51:11):
Thanks for you?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
What are they called lake?

Speaker 9 (51:15):
Thanks for you? I don't think are there anymore? They
turned into Alliance.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Something okay, nice to hear from a be a round
twenty three past nine o'clock. All about the roads too.
We'll keep you up updated with those rowany it's Marcus.
Greetings and welcome.

Speaker 17 (51:31):
Yeah, gooda mircas.

Speaker 21 (51:32):
How are you mate?

Speaker 10 (51:33):
Good?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Thank you?

Speaker 21 (51:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (51:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (51:35):
My first show was like squash picking up and dargable. Yes,
I got my first I got my first I D
number and he lasted three days. But the guy paid
me and I didn't get much.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Are you checking them onto? Are you checking them onto
the back of a truck or you're putting them on
crates beside the roads?

Speaker 21 (51:53):
Yeah, back in those days, isn't always following the track
to something. You were putting them on back beck of
this big ben Yeah, yeah, very backbreaking. And the sun
and oag was so hot man, Like that's why those
Yugoslavians up there the jelly. They can handle their heat,
but I couldn't handle it.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
So where did you go?

Speaker 8 (52:13):
Where do I go?

Speaker 21 (52:15):
Right there? Well, well, I did many jobs in my years.
I was back in nine, eighty seven, eighty eight, back then. Yeah, yeah,
But but today I just want to point out that,
you know, people living in Auckland, so if they're nineteen,
they're there on the benefit or something, they can move down.
They can move to Napier and get five k to
move to Napier and go and get a job in

(52:37):
the apple fields for like three months.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Is it still the case?

Speaker 21 (52:41):
Yeah, there's still the case. So if with any young
people out there that you know, looking for a summer job,
hit to Napier, going to some fruit picking down because
down there.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Because I heard one of the freak fruit guys say
that that there actually weren't the jobs that people thought
they were there at the moment.

Speaker 21 (52:57):
Yeah there man, Now they're they're there, Like I was
down there around back in twenty twenty and and they're huge,
like the it's yeah, it's a massive down there in Apia.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Okay, I'll check that out because that wasn't what I
had heard about that. But thank you, Roger Marcus welcome.
Can I Roger Hey Marcus the game Welcome.

Speaker 22 (53:19):
I just wanted to talk about summer jobs I had
back in the youth. It just kind of brings back
a flood of memories.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Really.

Speaker 22 (53:24):
I actually worked at Wendy's for three nights at mid
City and Auckland back in the eighties.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Just remind me where the Mid City Wendy's was. That
was like in Chase it was.

Speaker 22 (53:34):
Yeah, it was kind of up from this kind of
like where the old asps to be on corner opposite. Yeah,
the McDonald's.

Speaker 16 (53:41):
It was like in mid City.

Speaker 22 (53:42):
I had a movie theaters at the top as well.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yeah, I remember. And where was Wendy's. That was it
on the first level up?

Speaker 10 (53:48):
Yeah, first of the second level, Yeah I remember.

Speaker 8 (53:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (53:53):
Anyway, after three nights here, I just had enough. I
was outside in the rubbish and I thought, oh man,
it's just not what my life is all about. And
I just said, ah, I just hung up to the
apron and I think I made the mine who worked
there got me the job. I think he's a bit
dumbed out about that. So that was one joy. That's
good to hear about. The chili's still going. I mean
it's a great, great place when he's definitely deserves the

(54:13):
kudos for that chili.

Speaker 6 (54:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
I always thought the chili was good. It seemed to
be reasonably priced too when you're a student.

Speaker 22 (54:18):
Yeah, yeah, totally. It's a bit weird putting the crackers
in the chili. Doesn't know that was well.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
I kind of like that though. That was sort of
the crunchy and the soft. I kind of thought that
was quite I thought that was that's the bit. I
remember you had biscuits. You broke into it, didn't you.

Speaker 22 (54:31):
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. I kind of ate them
by themselves. And I didn't really like the hunting partners
and the chili. It was a bit of a weed
mix for me.

Speaker 8 (54:38):
But you remember that.

Speaker 22 (54:39):
Guy Dave, Remember that guy on the air, Yes, yeah,
I do remember the guy classic and then also apple picking.
The guy was talking before about strawberry picking. I actually
picked apples as well. And Upper Motory and I think,
oh it's Upper Mootrie and I was going, I must
be that they gets to call up a mootry. And
I remember one time I was a week in Georch.

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It was probably the long longest job I had, and
I remember them telling, you know, one once in the
one season, you're gonna off your ladder with your basket.
So I try to be conscious that I didn't drop
my ladder. Then one day it kin'd happen and I
felt myself in slow motion. It's falling back. Oh man,
just winded me with the apple basket in front of
my chest. Oh man, it was just fine to knock

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me out, am.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
I can imagine, because you know when you're reaching further
out for that one and you're going over. I've sort
of experienced that with cherry picking. You got to you
got to sort of know your limits, don't you, because
you're thinking about that one and the next thing.

Speaker 13 (55:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (55:32):
Wow, Yeah, it is like slow motion. You can see
you going up the hell and it's too too late.
But well it kind of winded me, knocked the windown
of my sails. And then after that they yeah, all
those Apple watches. I went back there maybe a couple
of years ago. They're all gone and they've just been
turning to forestry and stuff that and other things now,
so no more apple watches down Nelson and that was

(55:53):
that was quite a boomback we went back in the eighties,
that was about eighty eight eighty nine, and yeah, that
was a great job.

Speaker 23 (55:59):
Man.

Speaker 22 (55:59):
We used to go out with all the guys and
they had a view of the mountain ranges of the
snow on in the backyard and we went to the
pub the end for motory there and one of the
guys he was concussed. The Driver's Triumph herold home was
a minute and I didn't know how to drive. I
didn't have my life this or anything. Because he just
started to lift around there and just put your thumb out.

(56:20):
So I had to try the Driver's Triumph here at home.
Stopped starting and just kind of you know, riding the
clutch and all that.

Speaker 8 (56:26):
Was, and it was crazy.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Drew it, but he drove it to the Did he
get concussed at the pub? A yeah.

Speaker 22 (56:33):
We we went to the pub together and then he
just he was out, and so I thought, oh god,
how are we going to do this? So I found
his keys and I didn't know how to drive. I
thought I'll give it a go anyway, And it was
in the back roads around up for motor there, and
it was dark as hell, and trying to find you know,
the Triumph Herald, you know, with the old fake wooden,
the wooden paneling and all that, trying to find the

(56:54):
lights and all that. It was a bit of a mission.
I must have got home, okay, because I remember waking
up in my bed, so yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
It'd be kind of it'd be. The tough thing about
better fruit picking is you'd drink too much and that's
your day's wages, God, isn't it.

Speaker 23 (57:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (57:10):
It was actually pretty good money, like you do it
by bins. Yes, I think there's about fifty bucks of
ben or saying. Some of those guys are doing appens
a day. They were smashing it. I just did three
bins hours my life, and I didn't want to work
in you longer because those guys were doing like seven
eight hour days and I was just doing like about four.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
Yea cruising right man.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
It was.

Speaker 22 (57:29):
It was really good good stuff. Yeah, I whole heap
of them, but those two jobs stood out the most.
Wendy's in apple picking.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Lovely to talk, Rudge, Thanks so much for that. What
are call in and out there we go clean, finish,
brilliant student jobs, summer jobs, student jobs. What about the
factories even go to the factories, all the works, the
freezing works. Well, this is of interest for every good
lines three twenty five to ten summer jobs, any job,

(57:56):
summer jobs, those jobs or student jobs. We'll talk about
that because they say they're sort of nished student jobs.
The job markets like, that's very hard for students to
work during the summer, but was for a long time
the right of passage. You'd go and you'd do something,
you'd do the freezing work saw it the all sorts

(58:17):
of things, their job schemes and make up for people
went they student job so to be, all sorts of stuff.
So we're on about tonight. Also this toaster the judges
the toast by its color. Well, that's just it cost
you five hundred, you see, which seems like a lot
for a toaster. You had eight dollars at Woolies. They're junk.
You can get them twenty five to ten. If there's

(58:38):
anything else you want to mention tonight, broad Church, get
in touch he tel twelve. Yep. Trump said anything on
his social dan about his haircut. I guess all his
life he wants to be on the Time magazine. That
kind of stitchs up. I put a terrible photo on it.

(59:00):
Alec Baldwin's crushed his car on the Hamptons is Range
drover might be charged swerve to avoid a rubbish structure.
He's a jinxed life. Dunny Shue. This is Marcus. Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 21 (59:17):
This is Hugh.

Speaker 12 (59:18):
As you know from each one, Hunter's that's my current job,
but horriday jobs at Courage and stuff. Here's one, and
that's is that I've got had so many jobs. I've
got a job this as long as my arm. This
one stands out though. When I was a teenager going
on so college, I had I am Willington.

Speaker 8 (59:39):
That is, I had a.

Speaker 12 (59:40):
Summer job working for a company called the Wellington Sack
and Case Company. Now this goes back to your time
before we had plastic fruit boxes and stuff where order
boxes were widden and the sacks were made of I
suppose it was heap or something, you know, like ding sacks.

Speaker 8 (01:00:01):
And I worked for this company.

Speaker 12 (01:00:02):
It was a narranger gorge right behind the averte You
asked about the advertise a minute ago so I didn't
work at the advertise, but I worked behind the advertise
in the yard that was downhill because it was downhill
from the albatise.

Speaker 8 (01:00:17):
Everything that they hosed off.

Speaker 12 (01:00:19):
From the adveratise came to that yard and it came.

Speaker 8 (01:00:23):
To a big shoot and the big street under the
big street.

Speaker 12 (01:00:26):
Were big birk spins, like bigger long bins, and all
the you just got to say, crap off the ground
just came down that street into the spin and the
stink was horrendous, and the sink got into your skin,
it got into your clothes, it got into your year.

Speaker 8 (01:00:42):
And that was in the days which.

Speaker 12 (01:00:44):
People remember in Warrington where the nine Angle of meat
Works used to just flashy wing down the drain and
it used to empty out into Nton Harbor at Nardaya
Gorge and the ocean ran regular blood and you go
down there and several of the zo Courage school teachers
were keen fishermen, so they'll pack up the year at

(01:01:05):
the end of college and they raised letther bot and
the gorge cast the lures out into the red cloud
and catch all sorts of fish. It was a very
popular fishing spot. You had to illegally cross the railroad
tracks so illegally fish from an illegal spot, but that
was okay. But my job was to repair the wooden boxes.

(01:01:28):
So the wooden boxes had four slets on each end,
three on each side, four on the bottom. And I'd
go out with these dudes who were like huge, big
salmon fellows a right tough hairs, and we'd go out
to all the supermarkets pick up all the cases, and
these guys would pick up put one case aside in
one case on either end, pick up three cases at

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the same time, lift them up above your head and
chuck them onto the top of a pile on the
back of a truck that would stack probably ten or
twelve feet above the deck level of the truck, and
to be somebody up there catching them and stacking them.
Then we'd wrote them all down, come back operated with
a four, and I had to den out on them.

Speaker 10 (01:02:08):
Now I'm back.

Speaker 12 (01:02:08):
Together again, put the boards on if they've broken, and
where the guys were out during the pickups, I would
grave the forklift and move them around.

Speaker 8 (01:02:17):
And I thought one day it would be a pretty
good certain to.

Speaker 12 (01:02:19):
See how fast to go driving a forklift in this yard.
So I'm driving a forklift which is an old petrol
card thing. And I'm doing number eight figure eights in
the yard where nobody's around, and the bloody thing went
up on two wheels and nearly rolled over on the side,
and I quickly changed the direction of a foreklift and
dropped back onto the wheels. And I sat there trembling

(01:02:40):
wet durf ride. So I was going to die under
a forklift. But this is not if our occupation, as
the safety.

Speaker 8 (01:02:48):
Has come.

Speaker 12 (01:02:50):
Of course, now you can't even get under a forklift.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
But the table, I think probably you can't.

Speaker 8 (01:02:58):
You can't.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
You can't make too much light of occupational health and
safety and workplace safety on the back of the eve
of the Pike River. I think that's a tiny reminder
from all I think.

Speaker 12 (01:03:11):
I went to the movies two nights ago and I
watched Prime Minister about Justina A. Dun I had a
huge amount of respects for her when she went through
all those catastrophes that be set in New Zealand at
that time when she was the Prime Minister, and now
having come out of a movie, I have got even
more admiration for her. What an outstanding prime minister we

(01:03:36):
had to Justina Dan what an amazing leader in really
really conflicted times in the world and in New Zealand.
And I just take my hat off to a man
like Holy Cow. And I'm ashamed of the people who
shatter over the front run of Parliament. I'm ashamed of
being a gun owner myself with a bad behavior from
people who are gun owners.

Speaker 8 (01:03:58):
But I am a gun own.

Speaker 12 (01:03:59):
I owned ten firearms and I'm hunting now. I'm hunting
the register. I'm just stopped from my dinner, going to
go out to a new property.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Yeah next, yeah, well a hawk take a cat?

Speaker 12 (01:04:13):
Well, hawk take a cat?

Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
Yeah, good question?

Speaker 12 (01:04:20):
Will a hawk take a cat?

Speaker 16 (01:04:22):
I've got this.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Grass area for the fence in the bush right, and
a cat was there dead and I couldn't work work
out why a cat would just be dead in the
middle of this open part, and then it kind of
And then the other day I was coming down there
and disturbed a hawk who'd taken a rabbit and had
taken a rabbit, a young rabbit, and the exact same spot,
and I thought, wow, he's taken the rabbit. I wonder

(01:04:45):
if he took the cat.

Speaker 12 (01:04:47):
Okay, A couple of things about the cat for a
straw and explained this happens all the time, that cats
just die. Animalist just die.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Do they die in the open?

Speaker 12 (01:04:58):
Hypothermia?

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Okay, so it can be in the open, they wouldn't
call into a bush, I would say hyperthermia.

Speaker 8 (01:05:05):
And and a hawk.

Speaker 12 (01:05:10):
Hawks eat many dead things carrying. It's called good things
are carrying. But people tell me that hawks will take
all animals as well. Now I've never actually seen it.
I've never seen a hawk drop out of the sky
and pluck a rabbit and take it away, or indeed

(01:05:30):
tack a cat. A cat would be bigger than a rabbit.
A baby rabbit certainly pretty no problem for a hawk.
A cat not quite so sure. It might be that
cat die idea, and then the hawk was just eating
the dead animal. It might be a hawk a caicked
the cat and killed it. Don't really know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Good ants, So I'll keep an out for that, Hugh.
Oh yeah, waiting for my nature observation book of the
stories on the farm. But yeah, are surprised to see
that they're always must have good sight to the hawk.
That's a ridiculous thing to say. That always say is
a hawk eyed? But yeah, this cruise around you know,
I can see them take making stuff. A couple of
years ago, guy at my work retired at sixty five.

(01:06:10):
He came to I work at eleven for a highlay job.
I never went back to school. I worked at the meatworks.
Oh d it more tragic road? Tragic road excedents can
a competent on her clear beautiful voice reading the news.
I agree with you. We were lucky to have your cinder.
Hawks take chocks, Hawks take chocks seventeen to ten, fifteen

(01:06:36):
to ten. Hello Marry Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:06:39):
Yeah, hey Marcus. Good animals and hawks, et cetera. I
found a dead quail mail quail just the other day
in my pine forest. Look about two days. I old
have no no idea why I died, because it was
in one piece, you know, I hadn't rechewed old or
anything like that. And then I texted to you O

(01:07:01):
day probably redoubt. I think that I spooked a duck
millard and that was had a eggs in the ground ness.
I'd actually know that he's on the ground up because
they got a nest somewhere that's just by the way.
But I haven't seen a hawk. Twice take live prey
and one time was in a farm pond and I'm

(01:07:22):
just driving back from climbing, and I saw a hawk
sweep down and take a Paradise duck flapper about Christmas time.
You know that they're quite big then, but they're still yeah.
You know, I'm saying they're at that stage late late juvenile.
And you know, I just been driving back thinks about
climbing your own life and death and all that sort
of thing, because it's one of those sports that life

(01:07:46):
is life and death isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
Did you watch the guy? Did you watch the guy
fall on his Instagram account?

Speaker 12 (01:07:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:07:52):
I did. I did. Yeah, that's what we call that's
what we called her the sports books dead.

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
Yeah, well, we're back to get his what it was, capitaty,
We're back to get his bag of ropes or something.

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
Did he Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:08:04):
No, he'd finished, he'd finished the route. And because you're solent,
even if you're not sold, usually you've got a hall bag, right,
you know, I mean you're not encumbered when you're climbing,
and the hall bag you haul up afterwards. And it
was obviously stuck. Understand prediction. So wrap back down to
what repelled back down the ntail back down to free it.
But he had fixed his rope that he was repelling

(01:08:26):
down on, which has got two ends. So say you
say you attach the rope halfway as an anchor, right, yes,
then you've got too thirty or fifty meter end. But
he chose the wrong end. He chose. He chose an
end which was just a bit shorter, so it's only
about four meters away from his bag, as you've seen.
And then certainly he went off the end.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
So again, tell me that again. You've got the you've
got the rope wrapped around something so you can pull
both ends.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Is that right?

Speaker 24 (01:08:53):
No?

Speaker 19 (01:08:53):
Okay, So if you're repelling down and you're going from
top to the bottom and you're doing repeat repels, the
rope is not attached. You've just it's around something at
the halfway.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
Line, right, yes, I thought that, yes.

Speaker 19 (01:09:05):
And then you'll pull mean, but if if you don't
want that rope to move, we have no need to
do it, because you're gonna you're gonna haul yourself neck
up on the rope with mechanical ascenders. You're going to
fix it. Yeah, right, And that that's how he blew it.
What we call no need to check dead because that's

(01:09:25):
natal to read a fall.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Is there something about the psychology. Once you want us
to climb your less, you check out emotionally? Is that common?

Speaker 19 (01:09:34):
Put it this way, he did a root solo. He's naked,
he's tired and dehydrated because you to carry so much water,
right like a multi day thing. So if you lose
five percent water, you might twenty five thirty percent down
on your faculties. Means a functioning. But just to get
back to the other hawk. The other thing. I'm sitting

(01:09:58):
in front of my house one day and there was
a commotion and there was a hawk. There was two
birds flying around the house, and one of them, the
chaser was a hawk and the boody was chasing. I
never did quite see exactly what the bird it was
went into one of my fruit trees, thinking he was safe.
In the middle of the tree. There were there's branches
and twigs snapping and everything. The hawk just went straight

(01:10:19):
in and grabbed it. And the next thing I see,
I'll see him showing it. But chee on on the.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
Great stories, Murray, thanks for that ten away from ten
eight to ten good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:10:32):
Bob gave you Marcus two birds of prey. I watched
do their business, and the prince ron was a hawk
take out a pigeon on the roofs and then we
try up with its hook in its back coloor up
to the top of a lamp past and then proceeded
to pluck at the neck while it was still flapping around.

(01:10:53):
Well and the sixth yeah, I thought they were And
I washed it for about ten minutes to his business.
And then as he spoke about I kept the fire house.
I used to stay in the Taranaki when the grass
was going along and letting the gray for hay, we'll start.
We had this wall cat that used to regularly come
over and help itself to some milk that we had

(01:11:15):
it out for him. And as it was strolling through
the grass, this magpie was sweeping down and having a
crack at the cat. And then the cat turned up
and had this messive split between the tides. And it
was after watching them jumping that three to four foot
in the mirror and have a crack at the magpie.

(01:11:36):
And the magpie wasn't a letting guy who was going
for it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
Do you wonder what the magpie Well, the point of
it was with the magpie.

Speaker 8 (01:11:45):
Magpies will take on anything. They'll go at wolfs, they'll
go at, they'll go at. See those, they'll chase them down,
chase them out. And if it's sat here, so they'll
they'll stick at it. When I saw it, they are
feelers right, they'll have it as you see they have north,
They'll they'll chase them going down on the push on
the push pike.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 8 (01:12:06):
Yeah, And when and when had done that to the
to the cat the cat turned up that morning. We've
you had no injuries to itself.

Speaker 6 (01:12:15):
But then.

Speaker 8 (01:12:18):
Yeah, the day the cat horse for the petican turned up.
It had a clean split right between its eyes, right
to the back of his to the back of his head.
And my neighbor was telling me that that that met
pie would have chased it off. And it's got a
hook on the back of its leg exactly the same
as all and it was sweep down and it was

(01:12:39):
going for it, and this cat lept up, had a
swipe but obviously missed.

Speaker 19 (01:12:45):
And then.

Speaker 8 (01:12:47):
Yeah, the cat turned up with a scraping scar.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
Deep to deep to the membrane, and the cat was
all right.

Speaker 8 (01:12:54):
The cat was walked on, but nothing had happened.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
Cats for you? Classic cat moved out one day? Oh
well yeah, classic cat move Bob, Thank you. Hello Graham,
Hey Marcy, good Graham.

Speaker 25 (01:13:11):
That sometime around my verse adventure. When I was seventeen,
I got my first job and I flew the coop,
you could say, I went down south to Lawrence to
impressing the shearing gang. Yep, yeah, they That was a
good adventure. But differently, you leave the North Carolina and
get down there by yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
How'd you find the job at Lawrence?

Speaker 25 (01:13:33):
I was on a course at many Pari Training Agency
and then take away. Yeah yeah, and yeah they provided
the theory and whatnot and gave me fifty dollars and
the way you win. But yeah, neat people down there
learned a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Where were you based there, Graham?

Speaker 25 (01:13:51):
Lawrence? Down Lawrence?

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
Oh yeah, were you working? Are you working with a
shearing gig?

Speaker 24 (01:13:56):
Were you?

Speaker 20 (01:13:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:13:57):
Well Doc Martin, oh yeah, Doc Martin, you know, no
a good character. Yeah, that was a good experience. And
then yeah, that's where I got some responsibility. He had
a little ripe and direction and why not because the
first time I played the coupe from one place, so
I was like, yeah, I'll never forget that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
How long did you last?

Speaker 12 (01:14:19):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (01:14:19):
I was down about six months. Yeah, but a lot
of people down there, the people are friendly. It's a
different when the snow comes down, because he is going
to help. Everybody said, yeah, it's very different when the
snow comes down. There's also the troubles can happen, your
character freeze and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
Do you graduate from pressing to anything else? Is that
how the sheets work?

Speaker 25 (01:14:42):
Yeah, you can graduate from pressing and then you go
into sharing. Well, I come back up north after six
months and then I picked up the hand piece with
contract dagging, and then I got I got my take
him for sharing, and then I started sharing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
You're still doing your Graham.

Speaker 25 (01:14:58):
Well forty seven now?

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
But yeahs I still do.

Speaker 23 (01:15:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 25 (01:15:02):
I do a seven or eight and just lifestyle box
that a year ago and that seven right, you know
the lifestyle blocks and yeah, I'm but yeah, we've still
got it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
You're not doing it's not your you're not doing it
full time now.

Speaker 25 (01:15:15):
No, I'm not doing full time. Yeah I still know
how to do it, but you're not doing it full time.
But yeah, they're doing seven rights a year ago just
for a lifestyle bloppers and they're on their hands and
yeah that may be sweet. That reminded me of all
the muscles of the head.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Brilliant. Good to hear from you. We're just going to
the news people back afterwards. A lot of texts they'll
get to them. About ten months ago, watched a hawk
of tech and pick up a male peasant and burn
and was on the road Hawks take live baby, Lamb's
seen it happen. Interesting show night cut regards Vida. They
are more prevalent in North Taranaki every year and seeing

(01:15:54):
the cadiaria in free fall is a beautiful thing. Thanks
for that. Ten I wait here till twelve tonight. People,
we're talking about summer jobs and hawks taking animals. A
hearing from NDTA. The section of State HO one currently
close the top of the South Island due to the

(01:16:15):
earlier truck for iers. Expect the stage we are opened
around or just before midnight. One of our mates that
have text us is still listening. I imagine that would
be stuck in a car, wouldn't they, Dan, What do
you think I need to don't need to send specific
text to them, do I know? Okay, So around midnight, guys,

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a couple of people stuck in those since four thirty.
I think it's been a long wait. So around midnight,
so thanks for that too. But iving that through about
to us, that's a situation too. So yeah, there's no
real roundabout way to go. They you're going to go
right down and a round so around midnight, so there
we go. Situation. There seemed to be a dangerous spell
or a fire and a spell that's what they've had
to do. Hello, Ron, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 26 (01:17:00):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Yeah, it's Marcus here.

Speaker 7 (01:17:02):
Good evening, Hi Ron, Hi.

Speaker 26 (01:17:07):
Yeah, nearly fifty eight, I got a job at the
Bluff Freezing Works and I left Wellington on the on
the boat with a remotorbike and they just used a
sling and put it on the on the boat and
arrived down at Bluff and I got a job with
the film Hungry and I stayed at the freezing works.

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Had accommodation there, little hearts and all that sort of stuff.
So I worked there, and I've did long hours. I
was a tiger for money. I'd worked there using five
o'clock and then i'd clean up to about eight o'clock
at night and all that and on the weekend I
would I would leave and go out of to a
tapre and shet a deer or something like that for

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the Mary's at all Attacker was free because I used
to supply them with benefit of the weekend other things.
Is it put me through these several months of ninety
fifty eight I went through Messi College on a sheep
course and I raised a lot of money for my
accommodation and diploma and agriculture. It was one of those

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exciting sort of thing for me and being an eighteen
year old and having a motorbike and getting around down
there at a great deal to say about it, but
it was just one of those interesting days. And I
just thought the freezing works doesn't exist today at Glass
So it's just hey, you exactly, Ron, Yes, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
Tell them about about their freezing works there right at
the beach Ocean Beach. The freezing works when I arrived
there were still there, right. They closed in ninety one
or between eighty five and ninety one, but they they
they never knocked them down, right, And the freezing works
have kind of got a new life now because an

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Auckland crowd has bought them and they've turned it into
a center of so they're they're they're farming white bait
and power and all sorts of things there. So it's
become quite interesting because I think, I think the freezing
work things because they've got the water supply and the
refrigeration the tanks, so it's quite a good place for
fish farming. So it seems to be going quite well.

Speaker 26 (01:19:14):
Yes, yes, you know, that's that's interesting.

Speaker 8 (01:19:17):
Yep.

Speaker 26 (01:19:19):
There's a few little other stories that happened when I
was there, because I was quite worried about my pay,
being young and wanted to put myself through a university,
and there was a bit of theming going on. So
when we come to the afternoon tea time, I hunt
the rather bike, bake my money in the bank and
got back and someone said, did you leave the grounds?

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I said yes in fact, and I thought I got
back to my work before anyone else did. I managed
to get those a few minutes in for the morning
afternoon tea and I apparently lost my job, but thanks
to the the someone come and come up to me
because on what do you call it when you belong

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to something, the particular work or the union, I just uh, sorry,
what was that?

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
The Union, you know.

Speaker 26 (01:20:12):
Yeah, they copied me, drod Back. I was bunny lucky.
I tried to lettly lessened not to go back buddy,
and after time and I got back at don. Yes,
just one of those little stories to it.

Speaker 24 (01:20:26):
Ron.

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
Where were most of the people from that are the
freezing works of the late fifties? Were they from the
North Island?

Speaker 20 (01:20:31):
Yes?

Speaker 26 (01:20:31):
From the North Island. I come from Welling Wellington place
called Nio and went down there. Well, them come from
way up north and Aukland and that was lots of them.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
A lot from the Hokking and the East Cape. Were
a lot there from the Cook Islands? Or did they
come later later?

Speaker 26 (01:20:44):
I think if a lot of them were Mary's then
about May fifty eight when I was there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
Yeah, because I didn't go. They did go to an
island called Manaiah, I think, one of the Cook Island islands,
and a lot of people came from there in the
late sixties that went to the freezing works. Yes, yes,
whereabouts did you end up?

Speaker 27 (01:21:00):
Ron?

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
We're about saying now?

Speaker 26 (01:21:03):
Oh, I threw all that sort away and I ended
up psychiatric hospitals for forty years.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Oh yeah, Are you on the North Island?

Speaker 26 (01:21:10):
Now no Christ I retired. I'm eighty eighty six.

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
Yeah good. Did you ever go to that little church?
Did you ever go to that little church by the
freezing work? You never went there in your time there?
Did you?

Speaker 8 (01:21:23):
No job?

Speaker 26 (01:21:25):
Hype oysis? Because I was only all about six or St.
Barbara or something in those days. And they said, he said,
if you work, hup the oysis, I can get you
a pound of Now.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
I I should have done it right. Nice to talk,
Thank you. Thirteen past teen, Timm, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:21:44):
How are you good?

Speaker 17 (01:21:45):
Thank you, Tim, oh Man. That's bringing back some memories. Actually,
my grandfather worked at the Bluff meat Ricks, probably with
the last.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
Caller, Yeah, probably probably.

Speaker 17 (01:21:56):
And then he came all the way from a little
place in the far far northward to Hap.

Speaker 22 (01:22:02):
If you heard of it, yeah I have, I.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Don't know, t Hap.

Speaker 20 (01:22:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:22:06):
Good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
The thing was, Tim, I think what the people would
do is that, because the train would almost go from there,
you get the train all the way down to Bluff
and you'd work this season and get the train home.
So and then I think people stop going home and
end up just moving there.

Speaker 17 (01:22:20):
Oh, you could catch the train from I think Wellington
to what was a National park TB to Nui all
the way up to Auckland and then you go through
more there one.

Speaker 3 (01:22:30):
Yeah, so I think there was good money down there,
so people would travel for that.

Speaker 17 (01:22:37):
Yeah, yeah, I remember.

Speaker 28 (01:22:38):
I just bought that.

Speaker 17 (01:22:39):
Memories mate, my grandfather used to tell us, and just
the size of the power that used to come up north.
We knew there wasn't from the north. It was the
size of your bloody head.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 17 (01:22:51):
Yeah, but good old memories made it. It's been a
long time sense, So I'm glad of bloke like that
who's probably what eighty six eighty seven calling up and
having those memories.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
Yeah, wasn't that sure what he's saying about the deare
to it Topley, But that was interesting anyway, Tom, thank you.
Let's keep it going. Fourteen past ten. Hello, Ted Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:23:13):
Yeah, Gray Marcus. Hawks, Yes, they can pick up quite
a heavy lump of meat off the ground. I've worked
rurally most of my life and I've seen some quite
incredible things that hawks have done. In nineteen fifty eight,
there was an ad in the one of the papers
hawks you must be allowed to shoot hawks in those
days and you could get one and six a pair

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for hawks claws. So I was fifteen at the time,
and I was wanting to take out a shooting license.
So I started shooting hawks and I got about twelve hawks.
I suppose dried them, sent them off to the What
the hell did they call it? A fishing game? Wouldn't
have been fishing game in those days anyway, And I

(01:23:58):
bought my first box of ammunition to go duck shooting.
By selling those hawks claws, you could buy a box
of staff ended heavy cartridges for fifteen shillings, and I
think the shooting license was two pound ten. I'll just
tell you another little thing. My brother, who's three years
older than me, he was working on the farm and

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he said to me one day, there's a shotgun in
Campbell Maclean's in Natia where we were living. He said,
I want to buy it. So he said it's thirty
eight pound. So he gave me thirty eight pound and
I was My first job was walking working in the
four square in Natier, so he gave me thirty eight pounds.
And after I'd finished work that day, I walked up

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to Campbell macleans and I said, oh, you've got a
shotgun here. My brother wants to buy it. Oh yeah, okay,
So I handed over thirty eight pounds. He gave me
the shotgun. I took it down, and I strapped it
on the bar of my bike and rode home about
two miles. No questions asked.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
Good story.

Speaker 20 (01:24:59):
Hey, can you imagine doing that today?

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
I can't.

Speaker 20 (01:25:03):
No, neither can I No I can.

Speaker 3 (01:25:07):
Did you have a good duck shooting season that year?

Speaker 20 (01:25:10):
I can't remember. It's too long ago, but there was
twenty ducks around. I guess we did.

Speaker 9 (01:25:16):
So.

Speaker 20 (01:25:16):
I've just finished duck shooting about three years ago.

Speaker 8 (01:25:19):
Yep.

Speaker 20 (01:25:20):
So yeah, I have shot quite a few ducks in
those years. And hawks and hawks too. Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
What aw?

Speaker 12 (01:25:30):
What a hawk?

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
Killer cat?

Speaker 19 (01:25:32):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:25:33):
I don't know whether it would kill a cat? I
heard you heard that guy talking about that. Maybe that
cat died there and the bloody hawk just circled around
and thought he might have been able to get a
feed off it. So, but yeah, if you see the
calls of a hawk, and you see them when they're closed,
if once they wrap them around a little rabbit or

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something like that, they've got no show of getting away.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
Nice to talk to you. Thanks about that eighteen pasted
in how are you going? People hittled twelve eighty a text,
I do come through. Oh a lot of people have
seen this fireball. This will see a number of sightings

(01:26:17):
of a fireball today. If anyone else has seen that?
What's that website fireball in?

Speaker 27 (01:26:22):
Is it?

Speaker 16 (01:26:22):
Is it Dan.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Big your Paddon fireballs? Indeed, I do some research on
that fire balls at that's that's right. I just say
the reports of this one. I can't see iy thing.

(01:26:47):
Just Cary, I have a bit more of a look
around the website. Catch you soon because it was just
enough time to make a kappa. Well done. Thanks for
everyone there we go, How are you going? What's happening?
First time jobs? Student jobs? That we're run about tonight.
By the way, cricket looks like it's about to start
England versus Pakistan and Colombo. That is Sri Lanka. Welcome

(01:27:09):
with your talk on air also tonight. That's what I'm about,
So you do come through. By the way, Jock Martin,
that guy was talking about, he's now the mayor of Kluther.
Someone has said on New Zealands just below the top
four on the I haven't seen the standings for the
goost Australia England to ever get India of their New Zealand,

(01:27:32):
so we could get up there are only one one
we've lost two, but we could get to everyone plays everyone,
so we could tune around there. We won it last year.
We've won something. The women's team won world championship. Now
we are talking about student jobs and hawks. We've gone
wil so phar Let's keep it going. So get in

(01:27:56):
touch by names, Marcus. As I've said, if there's something
I just want to talk about, be a part of it.
Eight hundred and eighty text. You've got to come through.
Come on, let's be hearing from you. There is a fireball,
but I can't see thing on the website about where
the fireball has gone Fireball New Zealand. I'm not seeing
much there about that. Some of the other stuff that's

(01:28:18):
happening tonight, what is not going God, they're stopping tomatoes
turning tomatoes. They stopped turning corn and beetroot until demand increases.
The Automobile Organization wants bigger fines. They're saying that deterrant

(01:28:42):
value has been outpaced by income growth, so the find
need to go up to stop weird driving or dangerous driving.
I guess we'll call that one. Texting and the likes
and the Kadrona Hotel will remaining Kiwi hands. You might
have some memories of the Kadrona Hotel. I don't know.

(01:29:03):
I'd be curious THEO what it's and you'll take her
and you'll tune over us. It seems very busy. I
couldn't quite work out who owned it. It wasn't that
clear in the article that I read, they say a
key with group. But there we go. Probably Use's most

(01:29:25):
famous pub, would it be? Imagine it would be what'd
been museum's most famous pub? I guess that maybe the
glue pot. Probably that twenty four past ten? Yet, Larnie,
it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:29:43):
Yellow Marcus Year. A couple of brief stories. Jobs in
the summer, Well, a teenager three nursery picking up stones
and putting them on a tractor on a trailer is
pretty dirty.

Speaker 8 (01:30:04):
Worse?

Speaker 9 (01:30:06):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Two different jobs?

Speaker 23 (01:30:09):
No? No, just so I have a trick a trailer
full of stones. You know, well, great job, marvelous and
paid pretty well, though there was a whole heap of
us doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
What were they doing that. What were they clearing the
land for?

Speaker 21 (01:30:27):
What was the tree nurs ry?

Speaker 19 (01:30:29):
Sure?

Speaker 23 (01:30:31):
Yeah, they needed the ground to not hide so many
stones for the machines to because they put the trees
and beads, you say, and to make good beads. What
the machines? You lease rocks?

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
Whereabouts?

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Is this?

Speaker 23 (01:30:47):
This is on the weast coast set and place.

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
Called Oh it is quite rocky around.

Speaker 23 (01:30:58):
Oh well, he had that particular place. He here's a
lot of rivers and stones and things. River flats teenagers,
you know it was. It was a bit of a
giggle at times.

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
I mention you got another story from there, too, Larnie.

Speaker 19 (01:31:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:31:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:31:18):
It was out walking the other day and there's this
hawk and it's down on the ground. I thought, oh,
it's alive, you know, And I said, oh, you know,
they must have been shot by a jack hunter or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Now.

Speaker 23 (01:31:31):
So anyway, went over and caught it, and I threw
a jacket over it and picked the thing up. I
thought I'd take it home and see if I could
look after.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
It and stuff like that.

Speaker 23 (01:31:44):
I've got big tall fences around my back. Cat took
the jacket off and to my back yard and it
wasn't a happy, happy looking credit. But I started walking
around anyway, I couldn't couldn't fly, well, wouldn't fly there,
couldn't see anything wrong with it, And so it end

(01:32:06):
in the air. It's a glearing at me and I'm
sitting there, and.

Speaker 24 (01:32:11):
So I got some.

Speaker 23 (01:32:13):
Raw meat, like a bit of steakhead of the fridge
and cut it up and put it in a bowl
on the ground, and sure enough it was heaven that yeah,
well that was good.

Speaker 4 (01:32:24):
And then well, I don't know, it just.

Speaker 23 (01:32:28):
Sted glearing at me like I was the most distasteful
thing it had ever seen in a tough lot, you know,
But it must have got its strength speak anyway, So
I decided it would it could fly, and it just
flew away. It came back the next day. The funny thing.
It was cruising over the big yard looking for more meat.

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You know, it must have me, But this native falcon
had been roosting up in the tree in the back yard.
You've seen this big tree. And the poor old hawk
came back looking before did that. Well the falcon was
gad and it's territory and it was like cruising like
two feet above the walk given it a big scare off, saying,

(01:33:09):
you know, the poor old hawk, and chased it away.
It never came back for food again, but obviously survived.

Speaker 8 (01:33:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
Yeah, did you think it got hit by the car
a car?

Speaker 13 (01:33:20):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:33:20):
No, no, no, there was nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
There was no max on it.

Speaker 23 (01:33:23):
No, it's just that in the middle of like a pedict,
there was no It wouldn't have been hit by a
tractor or nothing. It was a fun sort of a deal.
And yeah, it just seemed I don't know, maybe I
don't know what was wrong with that, but I thought
maybe it was a young one, you know, and I
hadn't done too good at the hunting sort of a deal,

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and maybe it was just weak from lack of food.
But I did, you know, like I just walked up
to it, I hit to try it, but I tried
to get away, and that I did catch it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
So I don't know, it sounds it sounds to me
like you did the right thing.

Speaker 23 (01:34:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't do any got the
code and kept it next day and then the other
day about walking anyway, and there's a mentire same deal.
But I didn't quite manage to catch it. One that
could run away from me and I could get really
close to it. But you know, you try and look
after them. Sometimes it works, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
Sometimes it doesn't. A're going to run Luney, But thanks
so much for that hit Till twelve talking jobs and hawks.
What's the other article about Australians buying up New Zealand
holiday parks. Australians buy Lake topaor holiday resort for fifty million.
I don't know what that holiday park is. That run
must be one down right down by the lake. They've

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required nine resorts in two years. Yep is the thing
we go. Don't fully know what's happening with holiday parks,
don't think it's a good thing. Well, I guess they're
good ways to make money, are they? Yeah, I'll combine

(01:35:05):
the two groups an almost ten percent year of the
holly park market in New Zealand. So I'm just looking
where it is. I think it's the one as you
It's the one that you used to see as used
to drive into the lake. Lake topa holiday resort includes
cabine units and campsites, has changed hands for the first
time in thirty years. They've brought hydros slides and heated

(01:35:26):
pools in a swim up Bar. They've also brought the
Carter's Top ten in Westport and they're Harpy Top ten
in April last year, and they brought campgrounds in Queenstown,
Arrow Town, Warnica, Albert Town and Glendo Bay. Goodness wow,

(01:35:47):
there's another outfit called Tesman Holly Parks which is buying
them all up as well. I don't know if that's
good or a bed. It freaks me out a little
bit because they're iconic places, but must have had to
make money from camping. Ah A twenty five away from eleven,
looking forward to you calls Hittel twelve. It's twenty four

(01:36:08):
to eleven. If you want to talk, we're talking summer jobs. Yep,
good day, Marcus. I saw a fireball on Tuesday morning,
about one fifty in the southeast, the first I've seen,
totally different from shooting stars, really pretty and seemed it
died before it went out behind the hills. Cheers, Raymond,
Thank you, Guardi's most famous public can't drink. Get cops

(01:36:29):
all over the road. Marcus Summer's jobs summer jobs A
teenager and Blenham in the nineteen eighties, harvesting garlic on
hands and knees in early January, hot and smelly, picking cherries,
raspberries and boisberries much more fun and tasty too. None
of these jobs available now as the orchards were replaced

(01:36:52):
by grapevines. And I would say, I don't know that
about Blenham, but the grapes would all be would they
are they picked mechanically? I know quite often during the
harvest we have people that will listening call that are
involved with driving the truck and doing things like that.
I'm not entirely sure how the grapes are picked. I'd
say those big concerns that'd be picked mechanically, wouldn't they.

(01:37:15):
I've picked grapes many a summer, or mean, not many
a summer, many a vintage. It's kind of enjoyable. They
have some good conversations. Meet you people, pick the rose,
get in touch anyway. It's twenty one away from twenty
three away from leaving. All the lines are free now.
If you want to come through and trying to get through,
it's summer jobs and campgrounds and hawks. So three topics.

(01:37:38):
If there's other topics you've got too, we're good about that.
We can go about driving with the AA saying they
want stiffer penalties. But of course the AA never says
anything that original, do they. But look, if you want
to ever, if you want to talk about driving, some
of you'll have some thoughts about that. Hi, Marcus Verty,

(01:37:59):
much out of left field, but wondered why I can't
get frozen broad beans anymore at the supermarket. Yeah, it
seems though things have changed when it comes to the produce.
I don't know why you couldn't get broad beans though,
that delicious. Maybe someone's got some information about that. I've
got nothing on broad beans. We always grew ours. Things

(01:38:22):
sort of don't like as a child, but as an
adult you think they're quite nice. That's one of those
things that kind of changes the way. Maybe your taste
perceptives change. You've often wondered about that. Twenty two to eleven,
we'll get another flurry of callers going soon. It's quite
not sure how to drum it up. It's all right,
don't panic. There was something that will get people think,
oh well, I might give them a call about.

Speaker 6 (01:38:41):
This or that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Holiday jobs hawks and I'll tell you what data is
in history also to what's happening around today. That's often
prompts calls. It's the fifteenth Weetbooks Day, Mushroom Day, Global

(01:39:03):
hand Washing Day, the world's fo first manned balloon flight
this day, seventeen eighty three. Always been kind of interested
in ballooning when what must have happened when you first
had balloons, then you sort of had aerial photography, which
is pretty interesting. Also a lot of that sort of

(01:39:27):
fantastic literature happened with balloons, Like The Wizard of Oz.
It was all about a balloon trip, wasn't And I
think it's how the Wizard arrived in Oz was by
balloon before planes. It sort of enabled writers to sort
of write about people moving to mysterious undiscovered worlds because
you couldn't do that in planes because there were landing strips.
I always thought that was quite interesting. But the first

(01:39:48):
man balloon flight seventeen eighty three, that's when that happened.
But yeah, that's about it. Oh and they could ride
a pub and there is a airport in Japan. This
is the Japanese for you. They're not lost any passenger
your luggage for thirty years. Pretty amazing, isn't it? Wow?

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Because over the year thirty three million bags are lost
annually in a year. Yep, twice is likely to happen
in Europe. I don't know. I don't know what the
what the reason is for lost luggage, breakdown in systems
by the sound thing. Twenty away from eleven seventeen from eleven.

(01:40:39):
That's the time people. If you want to be a
bit of me, just set up a bit. I think
my problem is tonight. I think the studios too hot,
so I need to fix anyway. I won't go on about.
Just try and hit the button. I didn't turn it
right down, but it still seems to have Sydney quietly
cooking quite hot down south. Good evening, Michael, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:41:02):
Hey Marc.

Speaker 12 (01:41:02):
Is it.

Speaker 24 (01:41:05):
Couple things.

Speaker 9 (01:41:06):
I was going to give you a report on the
Rollston patent shave.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
Do you find a park?

Speaker 20 (01:41:14):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:41:14):
That's what I was ringing about. Look when I finally
got up this afternoon, or is I go and get
something for to make for dinner? So I wandered off
there and I got as far as a car park.
There are five hundred car parks, and I think there
are probably about six hundred cars a park there. Wow,

(01:41:35):
And I just thought it going in there. I thought,
I'm never going to come out and I've got to
go to work, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
So was there another supermarket? Is there another supermarket in Rolliston?

Speaker 8 (01:41:48):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
Yeah, yeah, there's a new World and there is a countdown.
So the New World I think had been there. It's
been there for a number of the first supermarket there
and then the countdown was when I came about ten
years later. I've been in Roliston probably about six or.

Speaker 9 (01:42:01):
Seven years now.

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
It was a population there now is like thirty thousand.

Speaker 5 (01:42:09):
Getting up there to probably twenty five thousand. It is growing,
I mean in the time that I've been there, it
is just growing so much, it is it's unbelievable. Just
you know, we're had the street we're on the day.
I just talked to my neighbor the other day and
where was saying, you know that the amount of which
we used to think was that, you know, it was

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a quiet street, you know, and it's just Camulus now
and it's just I mean, it's the growing plains of
of a town growing very very quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
And when you get situations like so much building going on,
then you get builders and trades when in their families
moving there, don't you They seem to go and cecil
where the work is. Also, I'll tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:42:52):
What if you took all the SUVs and the trade
vehicles that are roll.

Speaker 7 (01:42:59):
Bageral people there.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
So apart from the trade is the most people work
in christ Urch.

Speaker 5 (01:43:06):
Yeah, a lot of them do, yep. I mean there's
a big you got the big Eye Zone. There's talk
about the IKEA coming into the South Island. Is looking
at the at Rolliston izone area. There's some big developments
about to go on with a new over bridge, a
new sort of to get into Rolliston and to get

(01:43:26):
into the Eye Zone, which is the industrial area. So
on the other side of the of that rail line.
I'm pretty sure you know where I mean there, mate,
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
Yes. The bus when I caught the bus the other
the last year it went that way, it went to
the eye Zone, went through there, then it turned around
to go into Rolliston.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
So yeah, there are the other two. You've got the
slow bus.

Speaker 3 (01:43:47):
Yeah I did. Clearly you're going to come back and
de range Michael, and.

Speaker 5 (01:43:56):
You know it takes you probably thirty minutes. My wife
grabs the express bus and two stops from Rolliston outside
the hospital and out and then outside.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
You're cutting in it, you're cutting in and out. But
what you say is interesting. How does it take your
wife to get to work? Half an hour?

Speaker 5 (01:44:16):
Probably about three minutes, but.

Speaker 3 (01:44:18):
She's got a drive to the bus stop. Does you
it comes past your house? Your house, I'm coming back, yeah,
not going anywhere. Hello, I'm here, I'm here, Michael. I'm
still within range. Are you within range? I want to

(01:44:39):
talk to you about broadbing till he's gone all together.
Now he's dropped off, so it's good, A good way
last Ted. I thought he was good, good caller. Huh Marcus.
Speaking of days, it's also Sapa's day, big day for
the Royal. He's in engineers, he's in Army, Marcus Studio,
High Marcus State. I one from north of kick Ating
between Carcutta and Water still clothes. He has been since

(01:45:01):
before six to your track and trailer fer. I believe
there's a crane on route to remove booned out trailer
from the road. I've heard from nd T, a whore
communicating fantastically. Should be clear about midnight, I've heard. And
that's good information we've got there. So thanks for that, Yeah, Michael,
So how long did it take you, does your wife

(01:45:22):
have to drive to the bus stop where it goes
past your house?

Speaker 5 (01:45:26):
She takes that five minutes. More buses though, only had
three sort of four bus express busses in the morning
and they were so full. But so finally the Petitions
and Environment Canterbury and they've got a private operator called

(01:45:49):
Bentley's now help them and has made the service a
lot better.

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
Okay, uh a, Michael, was your phone so bad? It's
you're you're almost unlistenable. Stop are you driving?

Speaker 9 (01:46:08):
Or thirty seconds?

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
Jeeps creep? You put me through all that you can
just juapists like and I can't. I felt feeling that.
I feel angry that you tortured me for so long
with such poor audio.

Speaker 4 (01:46:27):
Just on a speakerphone.

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
So I'll never never make promise me you'll never do
that again. Broad Beans?

Speaker 4 (01:46:34):
Now yet, now broad beans, you can get my new world.

Speaker 16 (01:46:37):
Okay I did really good, aren't they?

Speaker 4 (01:46:39):
I love the old broad Beans?

Speaker 19 (01:46:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
Okay that and you've got that. Have you brought them
there recently?

Speaker 2 (01:46:43):
Yes? I have?

Speaker 21 (01:46:44):
Yes, Okay that's important to yeah indeed.

Speaker 4 (01:46:47):
So now hey, now do you want to know about.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
Some jobs summer jobs? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:46:51):
Okay, yeah, a couple of summer jobs. Uh, grubbing thistles.

Speaker 3 (01:46:57):
Oh that's satisfying.

Speaker 4 (01:47:00):
Yes it was, and we had to basically it was.
It was great job in the summer, you know, nan,
and you have a line you sort of basically you
have to have a gang and you line up and
sort of and off you go across the paddock and
sort of any thistle was a you know, it was
a legitimate target. And when were we talking around sort

(01:47:22):
of mid Canterbury, sort of Mayfield.

Speaker 13 (01:47:25):
That area there.

Speaker 4 (01:47:26):
And but the boss, I tell you what you had
me why, my god man, he had eyes and the
side of his head, in the back of his head,
you know. Connection you'd had my goad you you know,
so I think looking at you think you can find it. Yeah, no,
it was good.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
How about how much land would you cover?

Speaker 13 (01:47:47):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:47:48):
And we used to do quite a few week because
I mean we're just a farmer would say, look you,
I've got to say three or four paddocks or three
or four fields and you know, to go. And that
depends on how many people you had.

Speaker 11 (01:47:58):
And how many thistles.

Speaker 4 (01:47:59):
I mean, you know, you know there were I mean
there was, it was, there was thick and yeah, it
was fairly thick of thisstles. You'd be in there sort
of you know, whacking away there, you know, right down
with the root system, and you know sort of it's
quite satisfying. You whack into the ground and then rip
them out and sort of, you know, sort of you know, die,
you bugger uh and then you're the own little ones

(01:48:19):
as ones with the that are scattered, you get through
them quite quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:48:23):
Nice to talk, Thanks so much, Michael. Nine away from eleven.
I still can't believe that guy's phone. He did that
to me for so long. It was just a I
should always say that to people. And are you on
speaker that's terrible. It's like ear violence.

Speaker 2 (01:48:38):
That was.

Speaker 8 (01:48:41):
There.

Speaker 3 (01:48:41):
He knows now as someone who has to talk to
people who put me on speakerphone when there's no need to.
The first law. When I become Prime Minister will bending speakerphones.
I'm there with you. I'll tell you what's a crap
summer job cleaning the side of the road red and
white signs, you know, the ones on the side of
the road that go forever. Oh yes, those plastic strips

(01:49:03):
with a reflector, and I can imagine does anyone know
the best way to cook a pheasant? And how long
does it have to hang? Someone wants to cook a pheasant?
How wrong could you go? I wonder probably very so

(01:49:23):
cooking a peasant, if that's something you want to talk about.
But yes, I'm agreeing with you about speakerphones. Terrible, terrible
news that's happening. I'll find out UK news not much

(01:49:44):
apart from Michael Barrymore embroiled an argument with shopkeeper.

Speaker 8 (01:49:53):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
I didn't know he was still a thing. Yep, he
wasn't how to sell. He wasn't how to buy the
more than two packs of cigarettes at a time from
a local off license. Yeah he was in seven starf's
request for four packets of silk cut purple used due
to previously unheard of restrictions on the sale of tobacco. Yeah,

(01:50:16):
so went back for a second ago. Apparently there's no
reason the guy could restrict his sales anyway. Can't be
bother read the whole story. I can't even actually read
the story now. I can't even work out if there's
if you can by them in bulk or not. But
there we go. Someone might know. Just on the way
towards the eleven o'clock stretch people tim beverage along from twelve. Yes,

(01:50:38):
that's what we've got tonight. So if there's something different
you want to mention all the same thing. It's mainly
about summer jobs. And I'm enjoying these discussions. So if
you want to talk about that, good yep. So let
me think what else I can say. Father emails tonight.

(01:50:59):
Oh by the way, too, there's that road closure. State
Highway thirty has reopened, but not stay tohi wan, I'll
tell you it. Let you know as soon as that opens.
And oh, by the way, there is an accident on
there's been a double fatal in the wake at all.

(01:51:20):
Let me just look at that quickly, tell if that
road open or not, or what the situation is there,
PIERRETI that's the situation. So I'm just looking at that
now and I will let you know about that. England
twenty eight for two Now I'm clicking on this now

(01:51:40):
due to a serious crash. State hi Wan Pierre Eddy
is closed between twenty nine and twenty seven. Please file
there are diversions. It's not quite as bad that one.
Last updated eight eleven eleven past eight and no word
when that's going to be resolved. So that's they put
that up soon after the extent, so no more information,

(01:52:01):
no new information there. And people know about the broad
Beans apparently are by frozen. Broad Bean's New World might
be the place. New World in the morning might be
the answer for you there also tonight and do you
want to be on air? God, that's the plan. I'm
also keen to talk about rugby three p. Sixty. It's

(01:52:27):
going to be tough of the agents get banned from
the sport, and I think it actually legally could do that,
but yeah, you might have something to say about that.
Pappenhaus and Zach Lomax, Roger two of Vasus check a
few have been targeted. I suppose the trouble too with
rugby league is there's the salary cap, so you can't
really get huge money. You can just get good money.

(01:52:51):
So I imagined there'd be some sportsman in the NRL
that think, actually, at the top of my field, I'm
a global superstar. Probably the other sport I would be
earning a lot lot more money if it was basketball
or American football or some other sports. So maybe you
want to comment about that also, I don't you know

(01:53:12):
I mean the Saudis have got for those that don't know,
and the deals are sketchy. But Prentiss and daughter, Princess Sarah,
her husband who is a rugby player. He is trying
to get off this thing called Rugby three sixty and

(01:53:35):
it's all Saudi money. And what they're trying to do
is have a situation where it's like the IPL for
cricket Landego for eight weeks or something, and it'll be
I think it's probably a hybrid of rugby and union
or rugby and league. But yeah, so they want to

(01:53:55):
get great athletes, and I think you'd play for a
different country. You don't need to go to Saudi Arabia's live.
It's just for a short time and you get a
ton of money. But like the IPL, Mike Tindle's the
guy's name that's behind also. But you know they have
got bottomless cash, the Saudi's oil money. And when they
sort of like they did it with golf and people

(01:54:16):
said it wouldn't happen. They've done it with football. They've
got some of the great players. Now they're doing it
with comedy. They've got some of the great comedians going
there to perform but I don't know if it's going
to how it's going to work for You might have
a comment about that. I've always been quite interested in it.
But ten year ban for the players, I mean, that's
your career over. So whatever. If you go there and
you get dropped, well they catch you drinking. Can you

(01:54:39):
drink there? I suppose you can't. So if you have
got something to say about that and student job, but
you let's crack it on people, I've got something to save.
This would be nice to hear from you. It's ten
past eleven money. It's been about jobs and I've enjoyed
those stories much to get in touch. And the supermarket
at Rolliston. I don't know how many people how the

(01:54:59):
town's going to support three supermarkets, but I suppose it
will and the other super markets might go broke. Hm,
you're dating? This is Marcus. Good evening?

Speaker 8 (01:55:10):
Did I have a good date? What do you go?

Speaker 7 (01:55:13):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (01:55:13):
I just there was a couple of questions about the
gun registry. I'm I'm a gun I've registered gun licensezone
myself and unfortunately I don't trust the system enough to
register my guns for the government at the moment, and
just with buying ammunition become hard now because if you

(01:55:37):
ever registered your guns.

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
It's too late to do so now, So what does
that mean?

Speaker 24 (01:55:44):
So it's what what I believe is that what I
had figured. Buying ammunition you have to have a registered
guns and I know about six or seven months ago
down the track people went to buy ammunition. But you
can't because you haven't got to registered, riting in your name.

Speaker 8 (01:56:05):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:56:06):
So so your stuff are you?

Speaker 24 (01:56:09):
Well, I think, yeah, buying ammunition if you haven't registered,
you're going already. You literally you can't buy ammunition for
them now without having to register your rifle.

Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
So you don't trust the government, Well why don't you
trust while you've got on the register, just because a while.

Speaker 7 (01:56:30):
Back the.

Speaker 24 (01:56:32):
Registry was leaked in information of gun holders around the
country was publicized, so people could let you fuggure out
who has what.

Speaker 8 (01:56:42):
And who is what?

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
We're here and and what's the what's the fear there
when they'll be locked up and kept safety? What was
your fear about?

Speaker 24 (01:56:50):
It's more just you know, if your house gets robbed
and someone knows what you have, because they obviously you
can tell where you are. What's your indressing way.

Speaker 8 (01:57:00):
That you're going to lose all.

Speaker 24 (01:57:01):
Your guns and it's going to fall into the wrong hand.

Speaker 22 (01:57:07):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
So you're scared that someone will target your house for
a robbery of your firearms.

Speaker 8 (01:57:15):
Is that right?

Speaker 14 (01:57:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:57:18):
Okay, correct, Okay, understand although yeah, yeah, okay, because there's
a because there's a market for there's a market for
non traceable guns. Is that your thought?

Speaker 24 (01:57:29):
Yeah, that correct? And honestly, my opinion is that the
honest people are the ones that are getting targeted. At
the end of the day, I think the honest people
are going to be the ones that do anything bad
with the legal gun owners.

Speaker 28 (01:57:48):
And have a license for a reason, I personally think
that if you're going to do something be able of rifles,
generally speaking, you probably won't have a gun license.

Speaker 3 (01:57:59):
The Mosque should have had a license, didn't he.

Speaker 24 (01:58:03):
Actually, Yeah, I believe he did. I believe he did.
He wasn't actually in his own gun license holder, I believe.

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
But okay, it's a shame that got leaked and took
away the took away the trust in that system, that's
what you're saying.

Speaker 28 (01:58:18):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:58:20):
Yeah, but also you also also live in a society
where we trust you to you know, we trust you
to have firearms, therefore we kind of expect you to
obey the laws and that is the law also, so
a bit conflicted about that, but you sound reasonable.

Speaker 24 (01:58:37):
Yeah, and yeah, I've been hunting the whole life, and
it's never it's always just a concern.

Speaker 28 (01:58:45):
About you know.

Speaker 24 (01:58:45):
What happens is your house gets for even into and
people find your guns, and yeah, I don't trust it
the hell of a lot. And now it's become issue
buying AMNI missions to go and do your board or your.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
Can you register them retrospectively and just say oh I
forgot to register these or you're get in trouble.

Speaker 24 (01:59:06):
Well, because what I'm afraid of is there's a too
late to regious to them now and then them say, hey,
hold on the let that close fix months ago. We're
going to take the gun with you. But then again,
I can't go to the shop now and buy ammunitions.

Speaker 3 (01:59:23):
Yeah, okay, someone else I want to say about it dating,
But thanks for your call. Sixteen past eleven, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Dean, This is Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:59:35):
Hello Marcus, good evening, how are you doing good?

Speaker 3 (01:59:38):
Thanks?

Speaker 2 (01:59:39):
Good Apologies we do have a bit of a delay
on this line, and I also feel that my transmission
is going to be a little frivolous compared to the
last one. But I wanted to talk about student jobs.

Speaker 3 (01:59:51):
Yeah, great, thanks yep, Apple sinning for money for like
on commission or I mean, how does that work? Because
you couldn't what are you actually doing?

Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
Well, what you're doing is you're actually taking the immature
apples off the trees to allow the larger ones to grow.
So it's not picking, it's thinning.

Speaker 3 (02:00:14):
Okay, so we're on nari right because I can't commission
to fy that, can they.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
No, they have sort of had people that kind of
come around and go, oh, you thin that one, but
they'll they'll sort of inspect the quality of the thinning,
if you know what I mean. So it's like, oh,
you didn't sin that one, right, You've got to leave
room for the bigger apple to grow, et cetera, et cetera.
So there was there was kind of a fun one.

Speaker 16 (02:00:36):
There Was it easy?

Speaker 3 (02:00:39):
Was it easy to learn?

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
Relatively?

Speaker 20 (02:00:44):
You know?

Speaker 2 (02:00:45):
I think I was in about the sixth form at
the time, and there were people of all ages and
stages doing it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:53):
Okay, I'm kind of curious about that. How long did
you How long did you last?

Speaker 2 (02:00:57):
Just one summer around the sixth form. Yeah, it wasn't
for me.

Speaker 3 (02:01:01):
I think those jobs after a summer, you know you're done,
aren't you. You know that's well, that's my time. I've done.
I know what works like. But yeah, I'd rather.

Speaker 2 (02:01:08):
Not done the hard yards. But yeah. Also, it's so
interesting to hear you mentioned Michael Barrymore before, because that
was the name I hadn't heard for a long time.
And I guess he's about seventy two now, but he
lived in New Zealand for a while.

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
Yes, I remember seeing him on the Wahiki Fory because
he I mean, yeah, I look. I mean, I don't
even know what to say about Michael Barrymore because he
was everywhere in England for a long, long while. And
then the guy was found dead in his pool, Is
that right?

Speaker 2 (02:01:43):
Yeah, that was the thing, And I believe he moved
to New Zealand sort of in the middle of that controversy.
He used to live on Sales Street, you know, just
behind Victoria Park Market.

Speaker 3 (02:01:54):
Got no idea what he wrote, I've got no idea
what he's.

Speaker 2 (02:01:56):
Kind of Kiwis.

Speaker 3 (02:01:57):
Oh yeah, really okay, And he also did a.

Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
Sort of an I Got new Have I Got News
for You sort of show as well back in the day.
I'm thinking around two thousand and four, two thousand and seven,
he was definitely ensconced.

Speaker 3 (02:02:14):
I mean, his whole life seems tragic because he was
one of those people that seemed that I mean, he
sort of had that sort of but like Mike, what's
that guy's named, Michael Maguire, I mean, the British seemed
to love him at the time. I mean, he could
do no wrong and then just like that, and I
don't know what the god, I don't know what the
court cases ever proved around that death. I think that
was just well, I mean, I don't think he was

(02:02:35):
directly involved anyhow.

Speaker 2 (02:02:38):
Yeah, it definitely appeared to have happened at his house allegedly, yes,
but whoever was involved, you know, no one would ever know.
But I think has moved to New Zealand was a
bit of a fresh start, and I think he sort
of started to try and get some media stuff off
the ground in New Zealand and it didn't quite work,
and then he sort of shuffled off again. But it

(02:03:00):
was you know, I mean that was twenty odd years
ago and you know sort of hadn't heard of him
since then.

Speaker 3 (02:03:08):
And I think when he when that did happen to him,
of course, the tabloids in the UK just absolutely houndled
him because that was it was a story with everything,
wasn't it had the lot and they just they just
were relentless.

Speaker 2 (02:03:18):
Yeah, and I think he came out relatively late as well. Yeah,
so there was there was the gay scandal aspect, and
then there was the kid in the pool aspect, and
it was you know, it was like you say, tabloid fodder.

Speaker 3 (02:03:31):
And then there was the other guy, mister Blobby what's
his name, because he was down at Nelson and doing
free well and did a TV series about his life there.
In those last floods, I think he lost most of it.
Remember that mister Noel Edmonds, That's right. He was another
one that Kate moved here and tried to get it
all going. But but after those last floods, I've heard
nothing of him since. I think probably because he was

(02:03:53):
quite old to be running at reality TV show. But
I think it's all gone bad for him as well.
I don't know that that's why I suspect I think
his farm got washed away.

Speaker 2 (02:04:02):
Well, I think for some of these older celebrities, running
a reality show around your house is kind of a
good tax right off, Like the Baldwin had just been
doing it recently. You see Ali doing it as recently
as last month.

Speaker 3 (02:04:16):
How does the text write off work?

Speaker 2 (02:04:20):
Well, I'm sure if your house is a production.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
I see, I see you buy at your house, it
becomes your place of work and then becomes the office
and everything becomes a work expense, and.

Speaker 2 (02:04:31):
The and the filming location.

Speaker 3 (02:04:33):
Okay, well.

Speaker 2 (02:04:38):
But yeah, no, I saw mister Baldwin had that had
that issue just just a few days ago up in
the Hamptons.

Speaker 3 (02:04:45):
I had a question. And the Baldwin show would be unwatchable,
wouldn't it?

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
I imagine?

Speaker 8 (02:04:51):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (02:04:52):
I mean, I actually do like his podcast. He's a
good he's a good interviewer and quite a quite a
sensitive man with a nice voice. But but I wouldn't
want to see them all hanging out.

Speaker 3 (02:05:04):
Okay, nice to talk thing. Thanks for much of that
twenty four past eleven text, Marcus looks like twenty twenty
eight deadline for gun register and activation apply for any
of you firearm purchased. According to one of my cookbook
shop pheasants should be hung for a week. Bird requires
extra fat on and in it roast for up to
an hour. At two twenty Dayton is currently illegally owning firearms.

(02:05:27):
I need to talks with a firearm lawyer. That's from
Peter Now he'll be doing reloads for his AMMO. He's
not telling the whole story. Murray Marcus Darts will be
in Saudi for the first time in mid January. What
will the atmosphere be like with no alcohol. It's actually
contemplating my firearms license today and I thought, what was
I Oh, yeah, for the pests, But I thought, well,

(02:05:50):
I couldn't be bothered with the theffing around. I've done
the arm safety the firearms safety course, which is part
of the you've got to get for your license. But yeah,
I don't. I mean, I think I'd passed the psychological test,
but I don't really think I'm a foe. I'm a
firearm person. I said to the kids, I said, we
want to put a pond on the farm for duck shooting.

(02:06:11):
And one of the kids said. One of the kids said,
why would we And the other kids said, why wouldn't we, So, yeah,
I don't know what to take it that they said
to every varying tastes about their desire to go duck shooting.
I was more excited about building a pond. That was
really it, because we've got the sort of there's a
area that always kind of be very easy to turn

(02:06:33):
into a lake. This stream comes down into it. It's
got flex there and tussocks there anyway. But yeah, I
don't necessarily know that we're a duck shooting family. But
there's rabbits, and there's cats, and there's there's no there's possums.
But yeah, I don't see the possums out much because

(02:06:55):
the rabbits are the biggest problem. They seem to come
out just about now. I don't know why it is
sort of food or what's happening with them attacking the
cabbage trees, the young plants that are low not causing
a huge problem, but certainly there's a lot of hole
So there are more of them than I've seen in
the you know, every time I'm going on to the land,
now i'm seeing two or three of them. It's all right,

(02:07:17):
I've got sure there's other options someone said AI has
gone mad. If I was to guess, eighty percent of
these products will be a distant memory and not too
distant a few. What does that mean now, wonder Ah
the toaster because it is AI, isn't it? I wasn't
quite sure if it's AI or not. It's not the
toaster I want. Well I thought it was, But I

(02:07:39):
mean i'd rather get when I was one that last
forever and you can fix, because that one doesn't that
you can fix. It looks too computery to me. We
had last good for a year, then it would go bad.
That would be my suspicion of that. Yeah, Leslie, it's Marcus.
Thanks fringing in good evening. Hi, dear.

Speaker 27 (02:08:01):
You mentioned putting a pond, and I've just done that
and it was yeah, quite a physical exercise.

Speaker 3 (02:08:12):
Well I imagine most people get diggers, do they, Leslie?
Was that something you thought about?

Speaker 27 (02:08:18):
No, it was a small area and it was really
a place to put some turtles that I was given.

Speaker 5 (02:08:25):
Well, yeah, really slider.

Speaker 3 (02:08:28):
Yeah, I knew they'd be really as slider. You got
to be careful those. I know they're worried about them
getting out and about they're always going about really ready
as sliders. How would your pond.

Speaker 27 (02:08:39):
It's only probably two meters by one.

Speaker 3 (02:08:43):
And a half and did you line it or it
just managed to keep the water and without lining.

Speaker 24 (02:08:49):
No.

Speaker 27 (02:08:49):
I bought some pond liner from banners.

Speaker 3 (02:08:53):
Yeah, and I had a lot.

Speaker 27 (02:08:56):
Of bricks lying around left over from out of the cyclone.
Everything got stirred up and changed, and I thought so
they sort of cut like a brick wall around them
and some sort of plant life in there in a
bit of a cave for them to get away from
it all. And it's kind of in the middle of

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a veggie garden, so it's quite nice.

Speaker 3 (02:09:21):
And remind me, Leslie, turtles can live on land, can't they?
So if they if they could escape, they could, so
they need to be walled in, is that right?

Speaker 9 (02:09:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (02:09:31):
Well, these ones they had a couple of goes that
escaping and I've had to barricade the wall and make
it bit higher. And then the pook ecko's are really
into them.

Speaker 5 (02:09:42):
They torment them, so really.

Speaker 27 (02:09:46):
Yeah, that's just horrible.

Speaker 12 (02:09:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (02:09:52):
They I've found them standing around the ponds staring at them.

Speaker 3 (02:09:59):
So once their game are they just picking at their
shelves or they're trying to eat them? Or what are
they doing the pokick.

Speaker 27 (02:10:05):
Yeah, I think they are trying to them.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 19 (02:10:17):
See the.

Speaker 5 (02:10:20):
Shot.

Speaker 3 (02:10:25):
Have you got a firearm? Maybe you can't ask it
these days, can you pooh? I think there? Hang on,
I don't know. Yes, it's legal to shoot pookicko, but
only during the game bird shooting season with a valid

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license and by following the specific regulations for shooting hours
and ammunition. There are game species, and while many are shot,
they're also considered underrated table fair. So you're going to
shoot them to stop them hassling your turtles, not because
you want to eat them.

Speaker 14 (02:11:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (02:11:06):
Well I was twelve years ago by an old bloke
that if I ever shot a pocago, to boil it
for the stone, and apart where the stone was soft,
you could eat it.

Speaker 3 (02:11:16):
You get I think you say you throw away the perk,
eat the stone. Don't you think that's what the end
of something? Why would you want? Why would you want turtles?
Because I seem a bit sort of I mean, yeah, okay,
I wonder if they give you a year. I just
want to want sort of joy and get from a turtle.

Speaker 21 (02:11:36):
Well, I was.

Speaker 27 (02:11:37):
Actually given them. I didn't go out and buy them,
but you know you can can feed them.

Speaker 9 (02:11:45):
They take the.

Speaker 18 (02:11:45):
Food of your head, sweet air.

Speaker 27 (02:11:49):
Yeah, they you know, they sort of come out from
their little cave and pop their little headscuts of water
and want food. But apparently they can bite.

Speaker 3 (02:11:59):
And just so I can visualize them, would they be
the size of a dinner plate or a lot smaller?

Speaker 5 (02:12:06):
One is getting to the side.

Speaker 27 (02:12:07):
Kevin is gonna play, and Terry is probably a teacupsule.

Speaker 6 (02:12:14):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:12:15):
Okay, yeah, okay, Kevin and Terry I like that. Okay,
oh yeah, okay, Well keep us posted on that. Leslie,
nice to talk, thank you. They have already talked about too.
I have seen several turtles. I saw a turtle in
by Evandale and the creek once a read red eyed slider.
And I found a turtle once crossing the right of
the domain in Auckland. But yeah, the red eye one.

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To the ones, they worry theyre going to get out
there and sort of establish themselves, but well I guess
they have. If I saw one in the wild, I
don't know how long it had been. There was in
a kind of a dirty old creek and at tire. Yeah.
Good evening, Yvonne, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 14 (02:12:54):
Oh hi Marcus. I'm with and they thought I thought
that was sort of like an institution in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (02:13:05):
Yeah, well, I think a couple of things. I think
it's probably foreign own now, so I don't think they
have the same kind of love of the country. But
I also think that the supermarkets there, Yeah, I think
the supermarkets is a lot more canned food from South
Africa and China and Estonia and places, so there's more

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competition in those countries. Are probably the labor rates a
lot less, so so there's a lot more competition for Yeah,
so they're losing market share.

Speaker 14 (02:13:38):
I think, Oh, that's not right, Marcus. And that's you
know the world's making floodings out of everybody, and that
you know, we grew up with Edmund's factory and Cabury's
factory and and the wh factories and that, you know,

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it's just ridiculous. You know, we're not we're not self
serving like we used to be.

Speaker 3 (02:14:05):
Well, it used to buying the cheaper overseas stuff. Are
you loyal to what is?

Speaker 14 (02:14:09):
Oh, I'm loyal to what he's as far as I know.
You know, if the labels are.

Speaker 3 (02:14:14):
Trow Yeah, we won't know, will you.

Speaker 14 (02:14:18):
Well, all this is what it's getting like, you know, No,
just stick one even they want on the dam puns
and we'll have to sort of eat person net, you know,
because I heard that this synthetic meat coming in and
they're you know, it's already here, and I thought, heaven's

(02:14:40):
a bud having synthetic meat. But apparently it's some deemed
to be more nutritious and stuff, you know, So I
don't know, we'll one thing starts and another thing ends. Nowadays,
you know that the young people need to sort of

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look at all these things, and that, you know, because
they will just accept whatever they're given is how things are.

Speaker 3 (02:15:12):
But that's not the case, and that you know, we
don't hang on. I don't think you blame the young people.

Speaker 14 (02:15:19):
Oh no, we're not, Marcus. I'm saying that they need
to acknowledge what do they want, you know, for their futures,
and that you know, because they won't they won't know
what we have known, you know how we you know,
not me so much, but I know my parents do.

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They had the farms and they they killed the beef
and and greue the sheep and that, you know, and
they lived off fresh fruit and vegetables and produce them
and the meat and that, and nowadays everything's Dolly will manifect.

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It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (02:16:08):
Yeah, I haven't heard any I haven't heard any examples
of manufactured meat being around yet.

Speaker 14 (02:16:15):
Oh you haven't. And that will apparently, you know, because
it's in trials and that because I got on AI
and that's how I found out about.

Speaker 8 (02:16:25):
It, are you and I?

Speaker 14 (02:16:27):
Oh, yeah, that's great, and that, you know, I've learned
a lot, you know, I've found out, you know, about
sort of the modern history, if you like, because all
I knew was out at textbox and what I learned
at school, and I thought war was done and after
World War Two, but that wasn't the case. You know,

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even in my teens. You know, we had the Vietnam War.
But I digressed because that's what happens, and that do
you know, you sort of think, well, what's going on
nowadays in the world?

Speaker 12 (02:17:02):
So what do you.

Speaker 3 (02:17:04):
How do you work with AI? Just type and quis
I do what I like?

Speaker 14 (02:17:09):
You know, I'm very involved. I've had a you know,
sort of administrative background, and so I use Microsoft.

Speaker 8 (02:17:19):
I hope I'm.

Speaker 14 (02:17:20):
Allowed to say that, guy, Yeah, aft word. And I'm
writing stories and you know, sort of acknowledging what I
knew as a history and what we've got now and
what I sort of envisaged happening as a future, especially

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now with AI. You know, I hear of all these
marvelous people coming up with the scientific solutions and how
different technical programs create you know, processes and images and stuff.
I'm actually working with some now. I'm trying to put

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together a wee children's books.

Speaker 20 (02:18:06):
You know.

Speaker 14 (02:18:06):
It's just it's fun stuff, you.

Speaker 20 (02:18:09):
Know, for me.

Speaker 3 (02:18:10):
But Mike might go, even what age duration are you?
And are you in your seventies?

Speaker 15 (02:18:17):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (02:18:19):
Yeah, yeah, And it's wonderful, you know, I honestly, I
mean it's sort of them but hypothetical or surreal. But
I think AI has been something put together with by
well meaning people and our innovators and our intelligent people

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and our people that have gone before us, you know,
and they've all got together and thought, well, what can
we these behind for the future, for the next generation.

Speaker 3 (02:18:57):
And I'm going to I think what I'm going to
leave it there, But thanks so much for your calling
up my limit, But nice to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (02:19:05):
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