You almost need the tomahawk (11 August 2025)

People are still going on about wearing a hi-vis jacket, someone wants to launch 'Event Express' rail services for Christchurch's new stadium, and Marcus has finally had pumpkin soup he didn't hate.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Night's podcast from News
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Greetings and welcome you, thin and delighted that you have
tuned in tonight. And I shall be here till twelve rilliant. Yeah,
that's where I want to be. This is where I've
come from. I've just come from the pub. Strange place
to go a Monday night for a Jingo evening. Now,
for most of you probably know what Jingo is. I

(00:35):
hadn't played it before. You buy a card and on
that card are songs and they play snippets of the
songs and you tick them off and then when you
get a line or then full corners of the whole cards,
you win prizes. Extremely addictive and exciting. Did I win?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Did I come close? Yes? I was three from filling
out my card to the Sugar Babe song played, and
then I was out. Extremely I can see people play
housey flip good thing. I work nights. I'd be there
every night. Extremely good Jingo. I don't know how long

(01:19):
it's been around. It robably been around twenty years. It's
all like a computerized kit. I think that does it.
But as you probably know, having work nights. I really
know what goes on in pubs of and evening. The
last time I was on pubs was for pub quizzes.
But now it's Jingo. You know why it's not called jingo,
Why it's not called singo? Couldn't quite work that when
out fate raising funds for a group of school girls

(01:42):
to go to a dance tournament. That's what it was about.
Very good. The other thing I need to mention too,
I've got no idea what going to talk about to night,
but I've got nothing to worry about. But if you
get a whole a whole Thursday night on clocks, we
can do anything on this show. The other thing I
want to mention is finally, finally, finally, I've had some

(02:02):
success with a pumpkin soup and get was good, really good.
I think the key to it was a tin of
caniloni beans in there as well before you put it
in the hole, didn't mesh the whole that I'll give
you the recipe later. I think it was just you
just onions, garlic, ginger. Then you put your half a cumra,

(02:25):
half a pumpkin, kumera, a cup of teaspoons and cuddy
powdered carry powder, then a bit of coconut cream and
then you in with the tin of beans. Jet was good.
Get the whole stick and mix, mix and mix it up. Well,
I'm not I don't know those thie pumpkin soups so much.
They're kind of going to sweetness about them. But this
one was good. Had body to it, even more Moorish

(02:46):
day but a crack pepper and gee, that was good.
So yeah, I want to soup high. I'd have made
pumpkin soups every year for about twenty years and it's
never come right, but this one, and I don't know
if it were I'll make it again tomorrow. I don't
know if it was the quality of the pumpkin or
just the soup in general. Extremely good. Even the kids
ate it, or one kid did. There's always one kid
well soup soup where they get the idea that soup's

(03:09):
not a fun thing to eat. What's no fun?

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Really?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I suppose.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think kids like things that they can sort of
bite into. Anyway, So yes, it's a lot to talk
about and a long time to talk about. Jamie. You
can tell us off tonight, Jamie Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, he like Marcus. I want to talk about the
high visit debate with Winston Peters many moons ago. I
was an employee at a suburban rail station. Now, if
the customer dropped an item down onto the tracks, they
were not permitted by law to go down and retrieve it.

(03:46):
That's good law. Now I was permitted. Now, I had
an electronic board that showed me the location of every
train in my area. Standing on my platform, looking to
my left, one k clear visibility, no train, looking to
my right, two k's clear visibility, no train. Retrieve the

(04:08):
item ten seconds max. Now I had to put on
a hivers to do that. Now that is OTT, and
I support Winston.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
What does OTT stand for?

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Over the top?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh cool? Okay? I think in the scheme of things,
you know, you've got unemployment at a high, you've got
one hundred thousand people getting food parcels, you've got homeless
up ninety percent, and the stuff like that. So there's
real troubles for this country, right, yeah, hang on, hang on,
hang on, hang on, Jamie, I'm talking. And then you've
got a situation where you've got the defenseman, where you've

(04:45):
got the foreign minister, right who has who has seemed
to have done nothing to stop us getting a tariff
for fifteen percent when Australia got ten percent, despite being
some sort of wizard a overseas trips are getting around
there and working as magic with foreign heads of government. Right,
so there's been real pressure, real serious things that he

(05:07):
should have been involved with. Yet he decides to make
it about himself and a reflected jacket. It's the opening.
It's Luxein's gig. You move on and you wear the
jacket into story. Yeah, but in the story it wasn't
about him. You know, he just always needs to make
it about him. It's self centered and it's not great.
It's not a good look. People get people get sick

(05:29):
of that stuff. Jamie. I don't want to spend a
night talking about it. But you know, it was last
week's topic. But you wear the jacket. It's the rules,
you wear it. He made out there he had worked
on the Snowy Mountains. Do you know how many people
got killed on the Snowy Mountain scheme that he worked on?

Speaker 5 (05:43):
There are many many.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Do you do you know how many people got killed
on the Snowy Mountain scheme?

Speaker 5 (05:51):
No, I'm not debating that that's right. I'm saying there
are many, many circumstances where you need to wear all
the safety together is not a problem. I'm just making
a point. Forget Winston. You don't like him, fine.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, I think. I think he's quite a fun guy.
But I think in the situation, he shouldn't have made
it about him. It's not about the jacket. Now we
are three days, four days, five days later talking about it, right,
you know, you've got to read the room. There's more
important things to do, and you can't have every situation think, oh,
well this guy doesn't want to wear it. It's a rule,
you wear it, end of story. I mean a lot

(06:28):
of people stop go. People that work on the roads,
they've got to wear that hives stuff even in the summer.
It's the rules, but they do it.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
The point I'm trying to make is sometimes the rule
is an ass.

Speaker 6 (06:39):
Well.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, but you've also got to realize back in time,
how many people died. I've done a night on this show, right,
we talked about roofers that have fallen off roofs, people
in wheelchairs rung the show whose lives have been destroyed
because they've falling off roofs because there was no scaffolding.
And yet on this show people ring up and say, oh,
we shouldn't have scaffolding on buildings. It's PC gone mad,
it's soft, it's woke. Whatever. But people's lives were ruined

(07:03):
by falling out doing roofing jobs with no scaffolding, and
I think probably it's the right job to do.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
To have from hypers to scaffolding. That's a bit of
a jump.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, it's not a jump at all, because exactly the
same thing. People ring up with the same kind of
the same thing. Oh it's woke, it's PC gone man,
it's overkill, it's what do you say, oct Ott, Yeah,
over the top? Ott, Well, I don't think scaffolding around
buildings over the top. I don't think Hyver's jackets are
over the top. I did a whole series around the

(07:35):
railways of New z and we had to wear Hiver's
things on all sorts of things. We didn't say, oh, well,
you know, we don't need to do it. We just said, okay,
this is your scheme, it's your railway trip. Will do
what we need to do.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Okay, your opinion different to mine. Thanks for talking to you,
Marcus brilliant jeeps.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's late last week's top because at fifteen past day,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty ninety. I mean what
what Winston is. He's a wizard of actually coming up
with things that people think there are topics they can
grasp and talk about. Oh that's crazy, you know. Up
back in the old days in Northwest, we're safety jackets.
If I think, look in the back in the old days,
Look how many people died in work accidents. It was

(08:12):
through the roof. But people don't remember that. They don't remember.
Their lives have been put back together anyway. But yeah,
I don't know what it's come back tonight, although he
was on hold for the very beginning anyway. Oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine d decks.
If you do want to come through tonight here till
twelve see want my sky. TV's never come right. Always

(08:34):
seems to kind of get bad about nine o'clock, Marcus.
I love pumpkin soup. I have a tongue and doughnut
for tea epsock delicious for bee crew. Nelson Pine Industry
is working hard, Viali Blake. Nice to hear from you,
blake with pumpkin soup and a tea spirit of sugar
to the mix. It doesn't make it sweeter. There has
an affinity to your taste buds like sugar and cinnamon.

(08:56):
There we go, George Marcus, welcome there, Hight Can.

Speaker 7 (09:02):
I can I put this jacket fing to bed for you?
Of course, it is a construction site. It is not
yet in public domain. It has not been opened. It
is a government requirement that on a construction site such
as houses going to these VIZ jackets have to be
worn until the construction site is completed and handed over

(09:24):
to the new owner. That railway station has not yet completed,
It hasn't been handed over to the public. Simple. He
had to wear it. It's his own rules, and he
did wear it. I don't know if I haven't seen it.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
But there's shots of it. There are shots of him
wearing it.

Speaker 8 (09:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:42):
So there's a lot of fluff in the media about nothing.
Quite frankly, but I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
If I was, if I was lux And, I'd be
furious because I mean, that was that was That was?
I mean, I mean, I can't imagine lux AND's a
train fan? Was Simeon Brown's a train fan. But for
them to for them to have that whole thing and
they're still talking about it four days later, to be
taken over by a guy going on about a reflected jacket. Right, yeah,

(10:12):
it's crazy.

Speaker 7 (10:13):
Yeah, just segueing slightly into Shane Jones' big meeting and
Lower Hut doing on Sunday.

Speaker 9 (10:21):
Goodness, the first.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Time I can't escaped us it in first Today.

Speaker 7 (10:28):
I'm just saying, it's the very first time in all
of my long little life that I've ever been to
a public meeting or a politician.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
And the reason you went was I have never.

Speaker 7 (10:39):
Been to one of these. It's probably about time I
go before I hit the grave. So I thought I
will go and have a listen to them. Well, I
got there, it was raining, I had walking on the rain.
There was no one outside, and then I learned there
been heaps of protests apparently, but there wasn't one five
minutes before the meeting started, So I don't know what
happened to them. Maybe it was a rental crowd and

(11:01):
I ran out of money. Anyway, meeting was interesting. You
never said anything controversial, neither did you ever get a
comment to the news media that he had had it,
so I thought that was I think.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
The media is pretty strapped on the weekend. There are
many people out there in the Upper Hut following a politics. Well,
what was what.

Speaker 7 (11:20):
Was the reason? Hundreds of people? There would have been
hundreds of people at the meeting. The conference center at
that hotel was absolutely choker, Absolutely choker. You couldn't get in,
you know, I had to stand outside the for you.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
What was the occasion for the meeting, George?

Speaker 7 (11:35):
He just wanted to get up and give his views
basically on energy in New Zealand. Would be the gust
of her.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
I think, okay, the eighteen past date. Cantankerous old Winston
should stop the name of britam Art being changed. Goodness,
if you like pumpkin soup, you should try make him
pumpkin pie. Oh, there a lot of pumpkin pies in Miday.
It was a big standard when we grew up as well.
Pumpkin pie. Winston was entering a construction zone. Their rules.

(12:06):
I'm sitting here in my high Visit Jersey because I'm
cold and this ripoff not much bigger than room. Thank goodness,
I've still got this Jewsey. Roy Marcus scaffolding isn't over
the top at at the top, around the top. Charlie,
I have got the recipe for the pumpkin souper. I
pretty much given it to you, although it was a
recipe just from the internet, and it wasn't a very

(12:26):
good recipe because what they said in the ingredients and
what they said in the process were two different things,
so it was slightly confusion, slightly confusing. And the ingredients
that talked about garlic and onions and in the directions
that said heat all in large stockpot, adds dice, ginger

(12:48):
and onions, so they got onion and garlics and ginger
confused during the recipe to end up doing both. But
will give it to you over time. And Jingo, what
are the other developments in Bingo and the pubs that
they've missed out on? Was quite exciting anyway. By the way,
there's other pole out. I don't know if anyone wants
to talk about poles. Well, I think we're probably in

(13:09):
for a close election next time. I'm sure once people
get to meet lux and that's what they say, hell,
they'll learn to like them. Marcus. I felt sorry for
the poor guy that Winston was berating. It was so uncomfortable.
Winston looked like an arrogant child. Look at me, look
at me, And oh my lordy, that jingo game sounds

(13:31):
right up my alley. I thought most people would have
heard a jingo. A lot of people used shazam too,
which I wasn't quite sure if that was right or not.
But once you've got shazam, it just feels like it's
pretty much standard bingo if you follow me. Rift but
good prizes someone one for tity and all the food

(13:55):
for a boiler ah, cabbage and pumpkin and mutton birds.
It's pretty exciting. Twenty one past eight looking what do
you calls eight one hundred and eighty eight breaking news
when it happens, of course, all across that tonight. Welcome
Hit'll twelve, eight hundred and eighty eight, Matthew Marcus, Welcome,

(14:17):
good Ay Marcus.

Speaker 10 (14:18):
I just turned on and heard about your pumpkin soup,
and I've got some questions to ask you about it.
Sure do you pre roast?

Speaker 9 (14:29):
It?

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Didn't pre roast?

Speaker 11 (14:32):
Wow?

Speaker 9 (14:32):
Did you?

Speaker 10 (14:33):
Because that always had steps of flavor? Have you ever
done the green type green tie pumpkin soup?

Speaker 9 (14:41):
Like?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, I've done a number of and I just think
it's a flavor that doesn't sustain it right to the
end of the bowl.

Speaker 10 (14:50):
If it does.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
I'm not a curry inder hat. But a lot of
talk about people for you say curry inder, and that's
they find that tough to hear.

Speaker 10 (15:01):
Ye, what is divisive?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
It really well, I think some people don't have the
right gene to process and it tastes to them like,
it tastes different to them. I think, is that right?

Speaker 9 (15:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (15:12):
It does taste Sorry, And is it the gray pumpkin
using or a butter nut?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
That's a good question. I had both, right because and
I used I used around. It wasn't a button that
it was a round orange pumpk and not the green
one that I had also.

Speaker 10 (15:29):
Right, Okay, okay, because have you because if you do
roasted with your.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Feel, I feel I've been interrogated about my soup. I'll
tell you what. They're very hard to cut a pumpkin,
aren't they. You can do yourself to damage there. You
almost need the chainsaw.

Speaker 10 (15:42):
You could lose a finger.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, well you could lose worse of the finger. I mean,
because you get right behind it probably weight you almost
need the tomahawk.

Speaker 10 (15:52):
You do need like a yeah, a cleaver, definitely, definitely.
And do you add like my carrots celery?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
No? No, this one, this one was very simple. It
was just the onions and the gale and then ginger.
Then you just added the pumpkin and kumroo, which made
the big difference. And then and then beans are to
the canaloni beans at the end to give it some
sort of depth. And that worked quite well.

Speaker 10 (16:17):
That's good. And do use vegetable stock or chicken stock?
Do you turn it from vegetarian to meat fast?

Speaker 2 (16:24):
I think it was vegetable stock that just when that
went in there as well.

Speaker 10 (16:27):
Okay, okay, okay, that sounds like. And did you have
like a cheese bread like cheese toasties with it or
did you just have just normal bread?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
I think we had well, we had sour dough as well.
We had sour dough. We had row and a bread
and we had roti. So yeah, a lot of carbs
were there. I think we had the roti there. Why
we had so many different types of bread. Someone put
sounds of row and of bread and we had some
sour dough. Listened to us. And then we had rotty
as well, so three cultures. They're represented at all bases. Yeah, yes,

(16:59):
finished off Dave planted a whole of trees and finished
off extremely good.

Speaker 10 (17:04):
Very good. And any cream.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
No, if I had some yoga, i'd chucked that. And
they're in some coriander. But I've already been out of
the shops three times. You know what it's like.

Speaker 10 (17:15):
Do you finish it off with sour cream? Because they
always say sour cream and pumpkin soup goes very well?

Speaker 2 (17:21):
You I really love sour go I don't even know
what it is about sarah cream. Oh yeah, I didn't.
I don't think it needed.

Speaker 10 (17:26):
It anyway, it sounds delicious.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Man, But you know what the real question you haven't asked?

Speaker 10 (17:32):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Was I wearing a safety jacket? Was our room reflected jacket?
When I made that soap? That's what trouble. Someone probably
wants to see you, Matthew, Thank you, Oh way, tendred
eighty anyone your soup advice or queries or Jingo Marcus
to cut the hand the pumpkin. I've got a special
hand saw and I use that best ever I've got

(17:56):
I've always got on my hand I've always got my
silky saw, which is a great saw in my pocket.
I have used that in the past. I have used
the tomahawk Marcus. It's just as a normal strong knife
from the smallest place, small types of claw hammer. It's
not a big hammer of small hammer. You just tap
tap tap tap on the pumpkun and you've got a

(18:17):
hndre per scent control and nothing scary going on. You'll
never is a digit. Feels like that text is coming
on the back of something else. Marcus put pumpkin microwave
ten minutes easier to cut poor Luckxon. Well, everyone's just
talking about Winston the whole time. How long is he
going to be a round for Winstone Cheapers Even thought

(18:39):
we could just ignore he who's going to go away?
But oh no, oh, I know him and the jacket
and the Snowy River project he worked on. I don't
know how I saw someone reporting on how many deaths
there were there. It was a hydroad project, the Snowy River,
was it anyway? Just get our terrace down. One hundred

(19:01):
and twenty one people died in the twenty five year
construction of the Snowy River hydrack scheme. That's an extraordinary cost,
isn't it one hundred and twenty one? And that wouldn't
have been that long ago. It was just in the
seventies I think, or maybe the fifties to the seventies.

(19:25):
It's a lot of people dying through tunneling. Get in
touch if you want to about the pumpkin soup, about
Jingo or whatever it's called. By the way, that meeting
that George went to was mentioned on one news tonight,
so yeah, the media were across it. Marcus. When I
was with the coal mine working, the high ver's jacket
was important open cast mine, but the helmet was used

(19:46):
to take out rock all day. Roy do what I
have noticed drive around in the car that like, boy
oh boy, the joggers and the cyclists, they're invisible without
the high vizz vests, and more and more people are
wearing them. Also, two o the days I've been on
kindy run. When you go to the kindy you know,
and they're taking the kids down to the playground or

(20:07):
going over, they'll put the hivers. I think they quite
enjoy doing it, and I guess it's probably something. I mean, look,
apart from Winston, I'm sure pretty well no one has
a problem with it. That would be my take from it.
Mum always used the X and Dad just dropped the
whole pumpkin on the concrete. Very good pumpkin and uh

(20:32):
and variations on pub, variations on housey and bingo. Where
was I going? Walking around the streets or somewhere not
so long and I found myself in a housey room.
It was in Daneta not so long ago. Marcus, hope

(20:54):
you had a good week. And I made a trip
recy to Harmy Norman and had a look at the
toasters and saw this is this the infamous junk Is
this the infamous piece of junk fall slided toaster? Had
a good laugh when I managed to see that is
Russell Hobbs. I'm pretty sure that is that. It's been
slightly modernized since our ridiculous, honestly, our four slice Russell
Hobbs toaster. You can put the toast in, you can

(21:15):
run a bath, and you can actually turn the taps
off and the bath is run and the toast is
still not popped. Yeah. Now, oh, by the way, I'm
just seeing something that they are saying that there might

(21:39):
be a train mainland rails and talked with Greater Christ
Church councils about a private express train service during major events.
Thousands of future event goers, potentially from as far away
as ash Burton, maybe able to avoid goodlock streets by
traveling to christ Church by train. The press can reveal

(22:00):
that private train operator Mainland Rails in the midst of
credit Express an event express train in time for the
opening of one New Zealand Stadium at Takaha in April six.
Mainland Rail directed Poor Jackson, who alreadyrought the train carriages,
said there were gaps in the freight schedule that lined
up with the timing of coming events. Our plan provides

(22:26):
a smart, simple solution to move up to five thousand,
seve hundred people per event without adding fresh to roads
or parking. The trains could ferry people to event at
Hagley Park and the Addington area as well as the
new stadium. Christis already the slowest moving city in the country.
Our Event Express train will help fix that at no

(22:47):
cost to the rate players. What Jackson could say was
there was it. A key ingredient to the plan was
a proposed U Railway station along the rail corridor at
the corner of Moorhouse Ave and Colombo Street. So I
don't is that where the old station was. Someone might
know more about that. It's I'm just trying to look

(23:10):
at it on Google. It's obviously where the rail goes
more House. Ev I've got that now is Colombo down down, down, down,
down down. I'm just looking where that would be. Anyway,
do get in touch. My name is Marcus. Welcome, oh
eight hundred and eighty A pumpkin, soup and housey and
anything else you want to talk about tonight. If you've

(23:31):
got breaking, usually us know when that happens. Get and
tell oh, yeah, that's not a bad place for station
Morehouse and Columbia. That's not far away at all from
the proposed stadium because I can see it there being
built on Google Maps. It's one two, three, four five
five blocks away.

Speaker 6 (23:50):
Do it.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
That's exciting. It's what the stadium needs. And well done
private enterprise for doing that, because the counter is not
going to because the Council of Christ it has been
backward when it comes to the rebuild and doing a
rebuild that's rail focused. Marcus, I put my pumps and
the lathe with a lot of pumpkins. Cheers Joe Marcus.

(24:11):
Apparently any countries have a greater proportion of imports out
of the US can qualify the lower ten percent threshold.
We export more to the US than we buy from them,
and this is the underlying reason. So it doesn't matter
how good our trade minister is. Thanks Dave, love your show.
The TMO should wear a hive vers. You know, the
tmos have been in trouble and league. That's not them,

(24:34):
that's the water boy. I have an old French carving knife,
worn down for the last four inches, razorlike blade, but
with a full size handle. Deals to pumpkin skin yep,
not for beginning pumpkin, beginner's pumpkin anyway, Lines three if
you want to get in touch, twenty four away from
nine pumpkin soup and bingo. And I see they've had

(24:58):
a day of talkback on the poles and there's been
another poll out because there was the Cury a taxpayers union,
which is not a union for those that say it's
a union's pole that was out yesterday, I think, and
now the TV and did ones out today? And I'm
kind of pole agnostic really because a lot of people

(25:23):
get retriggered when you start talking about poles. Oh, how
do you start to doing about poles, you're starting starting
to what do people say? They say, why are you
talking about poles? What do people actually say that? I
think the their theory is that if you're talking about

(25:47):
poles or a government having an unhappy bad pole, you're
trying to destabilize the government. So I think that's what
people object to, although I think probably if your numbers
do down, the government's probably not that stable anyway. You're
probably just reflecting what's the state of play at the
case anyway, or the state of the case. If that's
what the thing is. I'm trying to say. By the way,

(26:11):
they it's gonna be the last day of the other
the crock Street Ferry too, is it the other Teddy?
I think people can book on the last day. I
don't know if anyone's going on that sometime this month,
I think, yeah, other Terry. The final sailing will be

(26:33):
on August eighteen, which is next Monday. Well, they'll be
departing picked at eleven am. It won't be happening on
the show, happening on the morning show and the evening show. Marcus.
Surely Dunedin could do the same trick with getting people
to forsythe bar. Well, they've got the rolling stock. Why
wouldn't you do that? They bring people from south and

(26:53):
they could be people from Moscow. They could bring people
from Wamu Timo. They could bring all those people they'd
ever been people from Middle March. But I don't know
if any people want to come from it March the rugby.
You probably wouldn't fill the train, but it's a good point.
You make lines if you want to partake. By the way,

(27:15):
something else that you might want to talk about. There
is a growing there is growing suggestions that New Zealand
should become more self sufficient. And Rice. Who would have thought? Rice?

(27:38):
We import ninety five million dollars worth per year, just
twenty five thousand tons, which is a lot of food
mileage bringing that ashore. We could grow it locally. I'd
even know it could grow. There's someone growing at Nelson. Yeah,
a woman's got a two meter by two meter paddy

(28:00):
and it yields a decent harvest each year. Goodness, why
wouldn't you be better than pine trees? I don't quite
know how you've got to do it. You have a
lot of fresh water, I would imagine, but I'm not
quite sure. I guess you tearish your hills and flood them.

(28:20):
But there we go. Everyone's worth trying everything. Getting to
rice that might be the answer. I mean, Japan grows
a lot of it, not enough, they've got a rice shortage,
but they're kind of got a similar climate that we
have and a similar topography. Not a bad thing to
start doing. People, if you think about if you get
a bit bored of sheep or your dairy cows, chuck

(28:40):
some rice. And it's a pretty good suggestion. You might
have tried rice. You might want to comment on that also.
Tonight beautiful drop pumpkins on the concrete to smash them up,
often too difficult to cut. Then place pieces in a
bowl of hot water mike away for two to three minutes.

(29:01):
Skin will be breasy. Appeal. Roasted pumpkin makes much nice
and soup not always. I've often tried the roast pumpkin thing,
and I thought perhaps he was always a bit disappointing.
Is a good text, Marcus, I use my high vest,
my high vers vest to get into concerts. Yes, it's

(29:24):
a great idea. I'm sure this place should go with
a high vers vest. You can't go with anything else,
it's the very sneaky thing to do. Smashing pumpkins and
growing rice. They're the same things we are coming through, Marcus.
Australia grows lots of rice, that's right. Where do they
grow it? It's interesting to say that because I've never

(29:46):
in my experience seen rice growing in Australia or seen
reports of rice growing in Australia. Would it be in Queensland?
Marcus good subject to discuss tonight's smashing pumpkins, Thank you,
and Marcus sad to hear about Marston's town hall is
to be demolished. Got a feel for small towns. How

(30:08):
many other buildings are destined to be deleted and demolished?
How is the best it's contaminated building material disposed of?
I generally want to know, as I live in an old,
old brick villa. Thank you. Have a great evening, Jake.
I think ahem, I think. I think asbestos is disposed
of and special banks that are marked asbestos and it's

(30:32):
put in a special area of tips so it's marked
and they know where it is. I mean, it's only
it's put somewhere in the ground, but it's put somewhere
in such a way that people know where it's going
to be, so they're not going to accidentally tip it up.
It's not near some of those coastal tips that are

(30:55):
in areas that's vulnerable to see incursion that gets washed
out down the coast, like that terrible thing that happened
with that tip one in Westport and one in Friends
or Fox. Joseph Alan, this is Marcus. Welcome kid.

Speaker 12 (31:07):
How are you Ellen great?

Speaker 13 (31:10):
I'm nice to talk to you tonight. Trains now, my
brother who died six years ago, had a plan to
take the excess trains and carriages that were sitting up
in Auckland doing nothing, ready to sail to China to

(31:34):
use them on the the railway line between Amberley and
christ Church and Darfield Dunsandal back into town. And his
idea was to use the trains. He worked at Durrymad

(31:56):
with the train people and what he wanted to do
was buy the trains that were sitting there obsolete which
they are still now if you look at it, and
put a carriage behind the instead of putting lines for

(32:17):
power above the carriages, he was looking at putting a
generator behind the train to supply the power to bring
the trains up through from Amberlee right through to christ Church.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
I don'tfully understand how that would work.

Speaker 13 (32:40):
Well, how would it not?

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Well? Explain? Sorry, I was trying to stand what you're
saying about with what's what's what's? The generator for?

Speaker 13 (32:49):
The generator is just instead of having overhead wires to
supply the power the two forty vaults, the two forty
vaults was on the trailer behind all of the train,
all of the carriages and engine that was there, they
needed electricity to power them.

Speaker 10 (33:10):
What do you want is.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
The locomotive pulling them?

Speaker 13 (33:15):
Well? No, no, because you're looking at diesel or electric diesel. No,
what he was looking at was putting a generator on
the trailer behind. Up in Auckland, they've got all these
carriages and all these engines that are obsolete that they
haven't they're trying to sell off to China.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
A generator on a trailer would generate the electricity to
drive the engines.

Speaker 13 (33:43):
The two forty vaults generator on the trailer. They're a
motor going and you don't need overhead power lines. You
had them behind the to producing power and I.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Guess it would work. I've never seen it work well,
they haven't tried it well, but you think around the world,
did you think around the world.

Speaker 13 (34:09):
Allen come up with it years ago at Fury made
what's his name, Ellen Allen, Yeah, her brother's name, No,
sorry myself, I'm Allan, Yeah, but my brother. He come
up with the simple solution of supplying the trains that

(34:30):
they use at Auckland. They've got overhead wires and that
to forty vaults.

Speaker 14 (34:38):
So what you do is you put a.

Speaker 13 (34:40):
Trailer behind the track the trains that used to use
an Auckland with a to forty vault supply. You didn't
need all the overhead wires. You just put a trailer
behind it and supplied the power as a generator to
bring the trains in from Amberly right and through christ Church.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
You're Dave Marcus welcome, Yeah.

Speaker 12 (35:08):
Hi Marcus. Yes, that has been tried and it worked
perfectly with a generator and a trailer. I've been on
one in Astoria, which is the mouth of the Columbia
River on the Pacific Ocean coast in the United States,
and that train runs about or three four kilometers along

(35:29):
the waterfront past all the old cannery buildings, and there's
all different shops in there now. And as you know,
the diesel engine running a generator in a trailer and
it just sits in front of the engine and they
just run up and down and you pay a dollar
to get off at different stops. So it worked perfectly.

(35:50):
And in fact, I tried to talk to Taranaki Venture
Taranaki and they're running something similar along the waterfront of
New Plimoth because I've got a railway line there that
goes out to the old fertilizer works and they could
run a similar thing. So it is and it does work.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Why would you just have a locomotive.

Speaker 12 (36:13):
Well, the lines are still there, but all the power
it's been taken away years ago. And before they ripped
up the lines, some of they had the idea that
why don't they use it.

Speaker 15 (36:24):
And.

Speaker 12 (36:26):
All the shops along there they pay to have a
stop outside their shop. So the train is virtually free
and the gentlemen runs up and down along the waterfront
and you just get off at the ice cream chop
or the pie shop or wherever you want to get
up and stop for you. And it's only two or
three carriages, but.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Quite a special town. It's quite a special town of story,
isn't I think it's where they filmed that movie. It's
quite a famous town. It's an Oregon, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (36:52):
It's yes, it's.

Speaker 9 (36:55):
Columbia River.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yeah, I found an image of it day. Thank you.
I'm going to look at that on Google. But I
appreciate your call. Gritting's welcome and number of things floating
around tonight, and that's a good thing for Monday. The
easiest way to smash a pumpkin before you make soup?
It is the pumpkin soup time of the year. Do
you actually just chuck it on the concrete? Almost like
we almost need something to mount in our concrete drive,

(37:16):
some sort of thing with a spick on it that
you could chuck your pumpkin at that you were a
great thing. You start there banging the knife and never
looks God, does it going to bang your hand down
in a snap of bone or something like that. Smashing
pumpkins an axe or a saw is probably good of
a chainsaw. I reckon an electric chainsaw would be worthwhile.
I'm sure that's why some people just buy bits of

(37:37):
pumpkin cut up and package because they can't be bothered
with the danger of cutting the pumpkin. I'm talk about
elderly people. Obviously, there's that also. They are suggesting that
news in and we need rice. What do you think
about that? To grow rice? Are looking in a break
where they grow rice in Australia. It's in the river

(37:58):
arena in New South Wales. It must be where they
got a lot of water from the Murray River and
they use that for the rice. Not a bad idea.
I'm sure we should be doing it. It's such a
staple food here. Why aren't we growing it? I don't
know where the best place would it be? Somewhere on
the carpit. I don't know where the best place would
be for rice. It's what we're thinking about. I don't

(38:20):
know if anyone out there's tried private rice. It's worth going.
I'm just excited about working currently. I got excited about
my watercress crop which has just sprung up. I'm pretty
sure it's watercress. Haven't positively identified it yet, but it
didn't kill me when I ate some of it. I'm
pretty sure it's watercrest. I'm not quite sure how go
and actually get that confirmed done properly. But anyway, there's that.

(38:43):
The other thing we're talking about to it seems is
say Mainland Mainland Carriages right, Mainland Rail who own the carriages.
They're a private group. They say they are good to
go woul Event Express trains for Takaha Stadium and christ Church.

(39:12):
They've already got the trained carriages. Our plan provides a smart,
simple solution to move up to five thousand, seven hundred
people per event now without adding to road pressures or parking.
I don't quite know how they're going to move that
many people. When you look at their website, they haven't

(39:33):
got that many carriages because they're all their websites. Have
looked at their websites, I don't know how many trips
you'd need to do. Year seven is carriages. That's what

(39:55):
they've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven passengers
three nine to you all up. So I don't quite
know how they're going to get fifteen times that to go,
but they might be to hire someone do something like that.
So that's them and that's what they've got going on.
So good on them. And I'm sure they could bring
to Takaa. They could also take to Forsyth Bar, so

(40:16):
that's also something we've talked about just before the news
were talking about Astoria and Oregon. It's where the movie
Goonies was filmed. Yeah, I think they've got quite interesting
harbor at up the Columbia River. I think the pilots
they dropped the pilots off on the ships using a helicopter,
which is kind of you don't know why. There might
be a difficult bar or something there. Anyway, that's what
we're on about so far. At eleven past nine. If

(40:38):
you got to come into the show to night looking
forward to your calls, it might be something else you
want to mention tonight not too fast. Is the Monday
free for all, So get in touch if you want to.
But yeah, there's other stuff going on. There's a fear.
But it seems though politics is back in the discussion
tonight with a couple of polls out the last couple
of days. Oh, by the way, this is interesting. Thanks

(40:58):
for that. Marcus who was the guy that said they
have other stuff about p in the UK, He was
on the money. Can the news please play that again?
Well they probably will at the next hour. That was
Phil Goff who used to be the High Commissioner. He

(41:19):
came home. We didn't want to offend Trump although he
served fifteen percent tariffs didn't We didn't really work not
offending him, but there you go. He was the mayor
of Auckland. Before that, he was the minister in the
Labor government, as you will know, Minister of Education and
can't think of the other portfolio had a few.

Speaker 16 (41:43):
Marcus took the opportunity for a shower over the news break.
I have to rave about Eco Store Lemongrass soap. I
usually use this only when camping, but got some as
a midwinter to pick me up. Leaves you feeling fresh,
invigorated and clean. I love a good soap. Recommendation. Do
you go Echo Store lemon grause soap. Put your pumpkin

(42:07):
in the microwave to soften. Cutting it then easier and
appeals easily. Tasmania has announced the end of greyhound racing
in twenty twenty nine. The dominoes continue to fall. I
haven't seen that headline, but thanks for telling me that
Tasmania greyhound racing no more. I don't know how many
tracks they would have. Would there be one? I don't

(42:28):
know there be more than that. So that's what's happening.
Greyhound racing to end in Tasmania Premier sites. Welfare concerns. Yeah,

(42:49):
I don't know. I'm just trying to look friendly. How
many tracks are there?

Speaker 2 (42:58):
It's also banned in the Act is also banned obviously
in New Zealand. I thought there's going to be a
bounce back for that, but doesn't seem as though there's
going to be any reprieve from that band. That seems
as though that's going to happen. Although I saw that
there was the at Escott Park, there was greyhounds last Wednesday.

(43:18):
I saw that they were still there. Although when they
have greyhound racing at Escott Back, I think it's some
guy that comes down to christ Church with two trailers
of dogs and they provide pretty much every dog and
every race, which is not a bad thing. But oh,
here's the other question I've got for you too. Listening

(43:40):
to the christ Church mayor there, who we haven't heard
much of during his time, you might want to say
about I mean, is he still the favorite to go
back to back and maintain the mayoralty. I'm curious to

(44:00):
know about christ Church and Dunedin if your residents in
those particular cities, we probably need to talk about the
local body election. Of course, it's good important that you
get enrolled for the local body elections because I think
the number of people voting down about forty percent. So
if you want to talk about that. Also, who you
think is going to win in christ Jug or Daneed
And I think probably Auckland's fairly clear cut, which doesn't

(44:25):
bring very much joy to say that. I think Wellington
it's probably a situation where Andrew Little will get in.
But christ Jurg and Duaneed and it seems as though
there's very strong challenges who could well win. I don't
necessarily know what the voting system is. I think in
Danneed it's STV, which makes it slightly tricky to pick.
But yeah, you might be in those cities and let

(44:45):
me know what the big local body discussion points are.
And that's obviously why that guy Major is there talking
about the stadium. He wants to get some wins. I
now just roast the pumpkin hole in the baking stalk
and skin comes away. You scoop out the seeds so
much easier. Yeah, well, I kind of try all those

(45:06):
things for years and years I've been trying to get
the pumpkin recipe right it hasn't really worked untill this weekend. Oh,
by the way, I didn't get him a beef Wellington
made like I thought I was going to. Other things transpired,
but that's still locked and loaded for the situation with that,
I'm still working on that one. Anyway, get in touch.
My name is Marcus. Welcome, Hered twelve. If there's anything

(45:28):
else you want to talk about, feel free to come through.
Is I say? Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
nine two nine two to text.

Speaker 8 (45:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
And talking about the mayors of Dunedin and christ Church,
we have some quite strong challenges. How long did pumpkins last?

Speaker 17 (45:49):
Too?

Speaker 2 (45:49):
By the way, so they last forever? Doren't they? How
would you store a pumpkin? I don't know if pumpkins
are a great vegetable or a bad vegetable. Always say
eat the rainbow, don't they? And there aren't many orange well,

(46:11):
now there are many orange food there aren't many blue foods.
How would you store a pumpkin? Jennifer, This is Marcus,
Welcome and good.

Speaker 18 (46:23):
Evening, because how's it going good?

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Thank you, Jennifer, it's good.

Speaker 18 (46:29):
I used to use a tomahawk.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
It's a great thing to use.

Speaker 18 (46:36):
They always worked.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Did you have a special tomahawk for you? Was it
the same thing you did with the wood.

Speaker 18 (46:42):
It was just my husband's tomahawk.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
You go out the back porch and just crack it.

Speaker 8 (46:48):
No.

Speaker 18 (46:49):
I used to stand on the footpaths and whang it
on the footpath.

Speaker 19 (46:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Well, I've never heard anyone say wang it before. I
like that as an expression. I wonder how you'd spill
that wa n ga wang it?

Speaker 20 (47:04):
Yes, right.

Speaker 18 (47:05):
Used to bring my hat arm up and bring it
down on a thing. I used to stand with my
legs apart when fashion. Yeah, and I used to grow
the gray ones. And when I was a girl, I
used to have a pony and I used to leave

(47:26):
it in a paddock where the guy used to milk
the cows, and he used to have them stacked up
against the milking shed, and they used to be there
all year.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Well, that's good, that's a good. Well, I guess it's
Kendery weather for you like it, Jennifer waning it, thank
you for that. Eighteen past nine evening, Don.

Speaker 7 (47:47):
Good A marcus A.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
These trains and mere debates are exciting stuff from my
point of view. This week, I'm excited about the idea
of a train moving five thousand people, it'll be great.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
I can't see how they do it though, can you.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Yeah, I was listening to what you said before. Actually, Marcus,
that will be the seated capacity. I'm not sure what
the standing capacity will be on those train side. Expect
there'll be a little bit more on there, and then
of course they'll be expected to take a few trips
backwards and forwards.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
But then when you're talking about taking trips, then you've
got to do the theeffing around to get the engine
at the front again and stuff like that. I mean,
it's not straightforward. And you've also got they're on busy
rail lines between Littleton and picked In and Littleton and Dunedin,
So yeah, you need the right rail window, wouldn't you.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
Yeah, there's a wangload of questions. There's just this huge
number of questions to be answered their markers that I
don't have the answers to tell you what I do
I have an answer to. I reckon film major is
going to take out the Maryalty and christ Chicks, but
I think he's going to be chased down to get
it because Sarah Templeton is a major opposition is coming

(49:03):
hard and fast, and I don't think she should be
under estimated for even a second.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Because Temple, because Major hasn't done much has He has
just been sort of mister nice guy? Is that right?

Speaker 4 (49:15):
No, he's actually done incredibly well. He's got the organics
processing plant, which is a major polluter of the air
over in the eastern suburbs, sorted out, and a new
plan actually on the rails. It's just about through consenting,
it'll be through design. It's coming, it's underway. He's got
the sewage treatment plant problems sorted out. There's a whole
new platform going in for that, and he has kept

(49:39):
that plant operational even though it's severely damaged without actually
stinking out the half of christ Church that it was previously.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Caught on fire, didn't it And it took a long
time to get it resolved.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Right, Oh, it's still being resolved. I would hardly call
it resolved, but yeah, it did catch on fire. Two
massive things called trickling filters that do the organic bit,
that take all the nasty stuff out and turn it
back into solids. They both caught fire. We had two
of them. We thought it was going to be good

(50:12):
that only one was caught fire and then ten minutes
later the second one went bang. So yeah, not good
on that front. Tell you what is going to be
interesting for Phil. He's done incredibly well in my view,
dealing with a left leaning majority at the table, so
his right leaning friends at the table have had the minority,

(50:32):
so he's he's been leaving a minority council effectively, and
he's actually got a lot of things done, but he
hasn't had the votes around the table to achieve some
of the things that he wanted to achieve, such as
aligning with the government's plan to reduce the number of
speed humps delivered in the city. So the big challenge

(50:53):
now is whether he's going to get the seats around
the table going into the next term. And I think
he's got a good chance of that, but there are
certainly some swing seats we're already seeing Central christ Church
for example, challenged by Hailey Googletto, the incumbent Jake McClellan,
and a previous counselor called Raf Mangi who did two

(51:15):
terms in the Leander zil Be going hard with some
other a couple of other Ragtag contenders going.

Speaker 7 (51:24):
For it as well.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Son just for clarity, what's your where are you compromised
with us? What's your involvement?

Speaker 4 (51:31):
I'm a community advocate here in christ coreection. It's a
fair question. I've been pushing hard and helping the googly
letter campaign in Central. I've also been working quite closely
with a number of other candidates. I'm very keen to
see Ian Kearney from Heathket come across the line. That
will add add some balance in there. And then generally,

(51:52):
I've just been chatting quite a bit with the existing
right wing candidates, half of which you have already been elected. Aaronkewan,
Sam McDonald and Mark Peters have already been elected unknown
so unopposed. Yeah, so that's that's my leaning. But I
think I was reasonably fair with pointing out I think

(52:14):
three strong contenders.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Nice to hear from you, Don thanks so much. Twenty
two past nine. You store pumpkins on this side, avoids moisture,
culating on the top and running with storks. It's extremely
good advice. Jeff Marcus welcome, Hi Jeff.

Speaker 8 (52:33):
Yeah, got evening Marcus just on the subject. I just
happened to turn on the radio and listen about pumpkins.
Now in within my Dad and I used to grow
an enormous crop of pumpkins and marrows, and to stall
them we built a floor and build a shelter off

(52:55):
the side of the shed and we used to put
wine in otherwise the rats would get into them. Now,
once we thought I were ready, we packed them into
wooden crates. A transport company from then used to pick
them all up and take them to Warrington Market and
sold a lot.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
And you just grow them on farmland. You wouldn't need
to till the soil, is that right?

Speaker 8 (53:23):
No, you wouldn't need to kill them in Leven believe
you me?

Speaker 16 (53:28):
So?

Speaker 2 (53:29):
So how many? How many? What's what preparation would you
do for the soil?

Speaker 8 (53:35):
Oh? Cross they?

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I don't think you need to bless the theme.

Speaker 8 (53:41):
The back of the cap of truck was choc a
block with our pumpkins and sometimes the only We barely
had enough room to get the wooden crates on a
big truck and take them to Warrington Market.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
So what preparation was for them, Jeff?

Speaker 8 (53:59):
No refrigeration. We we put a floor down and then
we put a little built a shelter and we sawed
them in there with double wine. Thetzing so the rats couldn't.
Otherwise the rats would get them there and eat them.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
But Jeff, before, just tell me the set up when
you plant them? How did that work? How so how
you planted them?

Speaker 4 (54:24):
Ah?

Speaker 8 (54:26):
On, We used to get pumpkins and take all the
seeds out, Okay, dry the seeds and then plant them.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
And rows that we had tuned up the soil and rose.
Is that what it is?

Speaker 8 (54:41):
Yeah? Well, we had really good soil. We put my
dad used to put fertilizer down. We used to grow mound,
put mounds of dirt up and then put the seeds
and grow them. We had no problems about growing pumpkins.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
From each mountain plant. How many pumpkins would you get?

Speaker 8 (55:07):
Oh, we would get something like about four pumpkins off
every vine. And we had hated vines. And it was
very profitable because we're not only did we grow pumpkins
and other things, but we grew partially one year and

(55:28):
that was very profitable partially, and we used to bundle
it up and put it in the wooden crates and
send it off to Wellington. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Your past is pretty easy to grow, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (55:44):
Ah? Yeah, it just had to be very careful because
it could get very cold in Leven. I live in
the bar plenty in the climate here, even though we
get a bit of the frosts, we are fine us
pretty moderate. But we had good soil.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
We had levin soil so good as alluvial.

Speaker 8 (56:06):
What's that, sorng.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Why is the living soil so good?

Speaker 8 (56:11):
Ah? Because my dad and I used to put fatilizer
into the soil.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Okay, good answer. I cut my pumpkin with the old
butchers meat clever if it cuts bone, has no problem
cutting pumpkin. That's from Wain. Soften your pumpkin and the
microwave ten minutes makes cutting a half easier. Cut pumpkin horizontally. Gosh.
The former Spake family mentioned that for Sailit and Eden

(56:38):
is epic fourteen Sheen Street. I have left a pumpkin
on the table on the deck outside of the last
few months, and since it's quite cold, it's in perfect condition.
We used to grow pumpkins on top of the silid
stack sept all the tires on top. It's not a
bad idea. Twenty nine to ten. How you're going people

(57:01):
enjoying the night so far? I hope you are too
fresh from Jingo. We've played Jingo before. That's Bingo at
the pub with music quite good. I'd go again. It
was a fun r I don't want me to go
to the pub before work fundraiser it's only been around
for years. Had me though cheap as it was exciting anyway, Jingo.

(57:27):
I don't know how much they make for the fundraiser.
We are talking how to smash pumpkins and pumpkins soup
and growing rice in New Zealand and the attempt to
get trains to go to the stadium, the new Takaha Stadium,
and also some of the hotter mural campaigns around the country.
Situation with the one with in Dunedin and in christ

(57:51):
Church both seem to be ones that could be closer
than some of the others. So yeah, that's what we
'ren about tonight. Good evening, Evan. This is Marcus.

Speaker 7 (58:00):
Welcome, It's good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Hi Evan, Yes, louding career.

Speaker 7 (58:09):
I was just yet the fundraiser. We used to do
the pumpkin growing competition for the Browns Bay Pub.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
What wow.

Speaker 7 (58:19):
Back in the day they had the biggest pumpkin fundraiser competition.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Is this Brown Spain Auckland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh quite okay,
because you get special seeds to ground big, don't you.

Speaker 7 (58:32):
Oh what the trick was was trigar and water drip.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Go into venus.

Speaker 7 (58:39):
Yeah, drip the wow big pumpkins back then?

Speaker 2 (58:44):
How big? Were they.

Speaker 7 (58:46):
Unliftable?

Speaker 6 (58:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:47):
That's big. That's sixty kilos, isn't it?

Speaker 7 (58:51):
Or even bigger like I think some of them were
coming into one fifty Wow, like coming on a palette
into the old garden bar there at Phoenix Brown's Bay Pub.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
It's a great thing for a pab. I thought when
you're growing the giant ones, they're not good eating. Is
that right? This special seeds you get, they're not great
eating pumpkins? Or did you try and eat them?

Speaker 6 (59:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (59:12):
I don't think they were too good for reading it?

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Well, in a pub set up, was the good? How
do you make the money? How do you fundraise in
a situation like that?

Speaker 7 (59:21):
Well, I'm not sure how it worked. I was pretty
young back then.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
What year were talking?

Speaker 7 (59:27):
Oh, twelve, so sixty nine I was twelve at the time.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Is oh okay? So the pub's no longer there?

Speaker 8 (59:33):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (59:33):
When you talk about the Browns Bay Pub, I couldn't
work out what you're talking about. They always got about
Speaker's Corner. There is that where that was.

Speaker 7 (59:41):
Just across the road from the bowling club there.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Oh yeah, I'm not that for you. Okay, is it
still there?

Speaker 20 (59:46):
The Phoenix, Yeah, pretty sure it is, you're sure, Yeah, yeah,
by Friberg bark Rugbig Club. I'm just yeah, oh yeah,
IV and Co there too, once upon a time, but
now that's apartments.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
I'm looking at the bowling club. Oh what's that across
the road from there?

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:00:06):
What ends there back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Oh, it doesn't like the pub still there? The Brownsie Yeah.
Oh it looks pretty old school, don't it. Oh yeah,
Lion Red gaming, sports bar, live music. Nothing about them, Dave.
They've still got a garden bar.

Speaker 7 (01:00:22):
Oh, it used to be two different bars. That used
to be, you know, the public bar and then the
restaurant bar.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Sort of looks like your classic old school pub, you know,
the classic go old school pub when they've planted a massive,
massive palms out in the front of it. Now they
look quite out of place now, palms in Norfolk Pines.
It's a classic. Yeah, brilliant Okay, yeah, good, But found
that interesting even thank you. I appreciate it. Brilliant twenty
two to ten Marcus till twelve at the Brownsie. When

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they've written Brownsie the end heads in different letters because
it's in New Zealand. I like that the Brownsie. What's
the oh? Any comments on the caliber of mural candidates nationally?
I feel as though they are party endorsed. We really

(01:01:17):
struggle to get anything better than those who would also
run for the PTA. Are we really encouraging the representation
our communities deserve?

Speaker 9 (01:01:25):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
It's closed down now, the Brownsi, Yeah, I thought it
must have this baffles. Someone's talking about the Brownsie the
Browns Bay Pub. Someone said the Browns Bay Pub used
to have tits and tickets. The trade trucks were lined up.
They loved it. That was pre COVID. Haha, what were
the tickets? I don't really want to google that at work,
but I'll be curious to know what that would I mean,
everyone loves an interesting pub promotion. I don't know too

(01:02:00):
much about what the tickets would be. Would that be
like a oh, I see the tickets would be like
can meat raffle? So it would be a I'm on
the Facebook page now look at that it says don't
take children to the pub this weekend. Yeah, I think

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they had a bit of flack for it. The headline
season the stuff in the stuff article sees topless raffles
as families eat dinner. That would have gone down too
well anyway. So that's that's that's where the brownsie that
was their last gasp jeeps. Also, I can tell you
too that I was looking at Tasmania as banned greyhound racing.

(01:02:48):
There were three greyhound tracks in Tasmania tourn of fifty
eight in Australia. But so Tasmania is gone. So as
we know with Australia, it can vary from state level.
My three year old three years ago, my son in
law won the pumpkin competition judged at Little River. It

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weighed two hundred and two kilograms. Feed with a water
and chicken manure mixture every day during the growing season.
The big varieties are not good eaters. It's pretty extraordinary.
I have seen YouTube videos in America where they only
have they have pumpkin festivals. Only they have pumpkin festivals,

(01:03:30):
but they also have festivals where they shoot pumpkins from cannons,
which people seem to be enjoying doing like basic cannon
stuff with air pressure and things. It's quite exciting. Looking
for community fundraiser. You do a lot worse than something
themed around pumpkins shooting them into the sky. Who wouldn't

(01:03:53):
want to see that? Be brilliant anyway, Head on midnight, Minammes, Marcus,
good evening, chuck in the topics at you, and you're
chucking the calls back at me from time to dime.
It's not a bad think. Keep it going. Pumpkins. Pumpkin soup.
The pumpkin soup recipe that I had right that was

(01:04:14):
very good, but the recipe is badly written. It's called
creamy pumpkin curried soup by Nourished and vibrant. Do you
garlic cloves? About three your brown onions? Two You chop

(01:04:35):
those up with a bit of ginger. You saute those
until the onion is transclucent. Standard operating procedure. You checking
that takes a couple of minutes. You're checking half of
pumpkin chopped and one large cumina i is a standard
purple one because it was cheaper. And then you cover
that with stock and you bring that in some of

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that for about twenty to twenty five minutes. Two teaspoons
curry powder. I put in three, and then just checking
some can lean beans and some coconut milk, a tin
of each, and then put it in the wiz. Tell
you what, those hand things are much better, aren't they?
The sticks? The mixing sticks, a lot better than putting
into those One of those stupid blenders love a mixing stick,

(01:05:21):
to be brutally honestly, I hadn't have much experience with
the mixing stick until this weekend, so I am slightly
innocent about this. But gosh, they do a lot, don't they.
What a lot of heavy lifting they do and not
much to clean up? Oh right, they'll catch you on.
I thought they're brilliant. So she use the mixing stick
and good to go, Very very simple. I'll make it

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again tomorrow. And what I'll do differently is I will
do nothing differently. No, I don't think I'll do anything differently.
I just used stock cubes, and to be briolltily honest,
I might have used chicken rather than vegg I told
that guy Matthew, I'd use the veg stocks, but I
think i'd use the chicken stock, So don't judge me.

(01:06:09):
I do think it needs a bit more, it needs
a bit of body to it. I don't even know
what's it. I don't even know how they make those
little cubes of chicken stock. I'd be curious to know.
I never seemed to dissolve that quickly, do they. You
pour them and you put the boarding water, and you
stir there about ten times, and you pour them in

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and actually the water comes out. Then a giant sort
of lump of wet stock goes in. What's that about?
You think they developed something you're supposed to squeeze a
little square. But anyway, I did do that too. By
the way, I'm not a novice when it comes to
I'm not a stock novice. So that's what we're on

(01:06:53):
about tonight. If you want to if any of those
topics appeal to you or something else. Jumping twelve away
from ten o'clock, I'm joined tonight, get in touch if
you want to join the fray and endlessly try to
come up with the breaking news for you tonight. Albany
pub Auclan still has tits and tickets every Thursday, So yeah,

(01:07:22):
that's kind of interesting. That still happens. I thought we
kind of didn't know that was still a thing, sort
of the meat raffle with a difference, isn't it quite primal?
Ten away from mid ten? Away from ten? Here toil
midnight romance from twelve getting if you want to talk
before the news, otherwise we'll amble on through. Nice not

(01:07:42):
to be talking about road user charges. Marcus soup sounds great.
I add tea tablespoon of carry. I think that means
PEPSI it up. Do they put pepsy in it? Do
you think they put PEPs in it? Also, don't cut
my concrete, Just smash on that. Don't cut my pumpkin,

(01:08:02):
just smash on the concrete. Good text about the brownsie.
I'm notquite sure how ma meing I could read out
for the respectable north Shore, it all sounds fairly wow.
You know what's slowly disappearing? Mini golf parks? You reckon.

(01:08:24):
I kind of don't know where mini golf is. I
got to say about mini golf because often with the kids,
if this is said, let's go play mini golf with
the kids, they're always excited about it. And I've got
to be careful not to be too much of a
bore and saying I'm not into it. Because actually, when
we played the mini golf at now it picked and
I thought it was an extremely good course. It was

(01:08:47):
beautifully maintained, was old school with concrete, like a concrete
mountain and stuff. I thought it was fantastic. We went
out separate ways. They went to minigolf and I went
to the Toasted Sandwich Shop, which was extraordinary, and I
disappointed they didn't come with me to the Toasted Sandwich Shop,
but they had their own thing to learn, that was
the mini golf. Well then, of course we've been to

(01:09:07):
the one in Queenstown not so long ago, but I
we'd walked from Frankton to town, so I bust back
to get the car, so I did that rather than
play mini golf, so I didn't get to experience that
seem pretty good as well. I think it's I think
it's for the chop. I think they've sold the land

(01:09:28):
to put on condos or some ghastly thing. So yeah,
that's the situation with the minigolf. But I thought, yeah,
I don't know if it's I think what mini golf
is one of those things that people think it's a
lot more fun than it is Inesha eleven and people
don't take it seriously enough for me either. Do you

(01:09:49):
play minigolf, You've got to play really seriously. Yeah, because people. Yeah,
that's why I think it's got to be taken anywhere.
That's just me. Use the fine greater on the cheese
greater for your stock cubes. It's a good idea. I
like that a lot. I've never worked out what some
of the other sides are from the cheese Greater Minigolf

(01:10:11):
brand new mini golf in Auckland Tarmaki Drive looks great.
Haven't been Marcus is a baron Hamilton called Tipsy put
that you drink whilst you play mini golf. I think
that's worse in fact, and I think it's an adult thing.
I think it's for preteens on their first date. That's
my take on it is. They've got strong opinions on minigolf,

(01:10:31):
probably too strong. So it's one of those things that
comes and goes, I would think. But the one it
picked in very good, just well maintained, and there's some
done with love. In fact, I've still got the ball
from it. I took it accidentally. I don't know why
I put it in my pocket. I found it the
other I thought, what's that there, that's from minigolf and

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picked in. Oh, the bus came, that's right, we're catching
the bus down the South Island. I had to run
for the bus the intercity. One short day on the intercity.
Ten till twelve, good evening. People have you said her?
My name is Marcus. With it till midnight. Roman will
be along then then then I'll be here until then.

(01:11:13):
But of everything tonight it's a bit of a Monday
free for all. Feel free to get in touch. Talking pumpkins. Also,
pumpkin soup very good. I've cracked the secret code to
pumpkin soup. Your pumpkin and kumena the cumna make it
makes a big difference. I think just kind of just
kind of makes it less pumpkinly. The trouble with pumpkin

(01:11:35):
soup is sometimes it's a lot and yeah and it's
got that sweet. Anyway, there's just something ilse want to
talk about to anyway. Eighty eight past ten, Pete Marcus,
welcome You.

Speaker 14 (01:11:56):
Ain't marcause I think, oh what he was a bit
of a punkin when it came to not wearing a
fest the other day on't that?

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Yeah, you probably you probably vote for him on the
strength of it. You are good on him. He's his
own man or something. People kind of cut Winston all
sorts of slack for doing things that you'd never forgive
anyone else for doing, which that's what's extraordinary about him.

Speaker 15 (01:12:19):
Yeah, eend of the.

Speaker 14 (01:12:21):
Day, where you go these rules, like in the Parliament,
he expects people to dress up to a certain standards.
So there's rules in Parliament and when it comes to
the place is still under construction, which that the Britain
Rail or that you know, the train track around Auckland there,
it's still under construction, so that's the code of standard

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which they have to you can't have one for one
and not the other. So he made a big drama
around and nothing. He's just got to put the bloody
thing on and he would have made him. He's a
little bit biased in his way of thinking at times,
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
And also New Zealand over the years we've had a
terrible record when it comes to rail safety with trains
hitting people, so you understand that they are kind of
cautious about it because people kind of minimize train tracks
and how far trains are going, so I do support
rail safety. I'm a big fan of that.

Speaker 14 (01:13:12):
Yeah, like you know, the end of the day too,
it's that guy whatever, that guy was in charge. He's
got a job to do. So you can't have one
for you and one for me, he said, winning him
saying on my on my construction site. Where he wants
to call it is this is our standard address. If
you don't want to wear it, then suppose we have
to march you at outside the gates. You're not going
to go on the train ride. That's simple, brilliant it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
I mean, Luxon must have been in despair because that
was his great photo op, you know, having his reflected
jacket looking like the controller from Tommy and the Tank Engine,
and it was all about Winston. It was all about
I mean lux and he can't he can't get to
break the poor guy.

Speaker 14 (01:13:47):
No, well he's pretty clever role when he someways I
sort of agree what he is saying, Oh there's no
need for this and all that. But the end of
the day is he's not going back in the sixties
wherever he worked, and they didn't have it in those days.
But the end of the days he just put it
on and just made it a good day for everybody.
He just sort of ruined the day. I think it's amazing.
So you try to get the is a clever buggy

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tried to get the media tea.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
And we're still talking about no one's talking about Luxon
at all. And I'll tell you what. He worked at
the Snowy Rivers Winston on the Snowy River project. Right.
I don't know how long he talked that, but it's
going on about that. But one hundred and twenty one
people died on that thing, so they probably should have
had safety jackets there as well.

Speaker 14 (01:14:29):
Yeah, that's right, So you can't go back in the sixties.
But he's working on those things. The day is, that's
what it is, until they changed what's the lady's changing
the health and safety rules, until until they changed the
rules or to the until they changed the rules on
that site. But while those rules are on that site,
which it was, the safety best is part of this job.

(01:14:53):
If the young one to wear them, I would have
just I would have marched them out the gate.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Yeah, okay, appreciate you, Pete, thank you. I've got his
Wikipedia page up in sixty sixty tough to Tiata Tu
Intermediate School in Auckland, but the next year went to Australia.
We became a blast furnace worker with BHP and Newcastle
and later a tunneler in the Snowy Mountains. Doesn't say
how long he did it for, but back to university

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by nineteen seventy rejoined the Young Nats and obviously I
think that's where does law degree. There you go. That's
Winston one oh one get in touch with you. On
a talk Marcus Kumaner gives a sweetness. I reckon and
pumpkin and bacon bone soup with toast. Allison Hols tye
pumpkin souper is outphone. I don't think I like ty

(01:15:39):
pumpkin soup. That's what I've realized after all of this.
That's my take on that. Thirteen past ten. My names
Marcus welcome. Also, the trains going to Ta Kaha Stadium,
that's a big thing. I don't think it'll happen. I
think they'll be they won't have the right platforms in place,
because yes, it's freeasy to say we're going to bring
our trains there, but you're gonna have things for and

(01:16:00):
I'm not saying this in a dismissive way, but it's
got to be it's got to have platforms for everyone,
for people in wheelches and the elderly and stuff like that.
And that doesn't happen quickly. That takes a long long
time to do. You can't just pony those up and say, oh, well,
we're going to bring a train in very very difficult
I know times have brought down railcars to run between

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Bluff and Invert Cargill, but it's been a biggest muddle.
You can't get on them, you can't get off them.
Terrible thirteen past ten. Yeah, I don't to carry the pumpkin, chili,
powder flakes or kN it's a clean hit. You can
calm the heat down with cream. Ruther Dairy a path
that I fright at the punk and wedges Marcus. It

(01:16:42):
wouldn't have been a problem for giving Winston a double breasted
pinstripe high ver his vest bill very good, thank you.
A lot of people are upset about when roadworks are
happening in the middle of the night. The situation going
out in Hobsonville triggerrode Hobsonville. It's gone for six weeks

(01:17:09):
and the limit drops to forty five deacibels after eight pm.
It's about the volume of a quiet lie. We were
a dishwasher, but they're saying there's no way and how
the decibel level was legal out there in Hobsonville, relentless.
It's so loud the house shakes. Everybody hears, and everyone's

(01:17:30):
sick of it. We're given a note saying they were
laying new cables, but nothing about it going through the
note of how long for? And there's a gazillion cones.
People get quite triggered with cones these days, don't they.
Noline tried desperately to get answers. I even asked counsel
who's in charge of making sure people stick the consent.
The council couldn't find the consent eventure. It took a

(01:17:52):
community Facebook post to get hold of the contractor. And
she still doesn't know who actually responsible. Nobody ever gave
me a straight answer, and nobody really cared, ring the
Mayor Marcus. From what I heard, Rice was abandoned Tippoky
because eels keept burrowing through the sides and let the
water out. Well that makes sense, Thank you, Lynn Marcus.

(01:18:13):
I chopped my pumpkins up with my little fisk a
tomahawk axe. It's small enough to use on the bench
with my thick chopping board. Linda from Hastings, thank you.
A good soup is Jamie Oliver's sweet Potato and Carrot soup.
I use a mixture of orange and purple cubua easy
and taste good. Add a small tin of coconut milk
to my pumpkin soup lux and more like lux Off Marcus.

(01:18:40):
My pumpkin soup is as follows. Half a pumpkin and
large pot onions and garlic to taste, curry powder, cibber
gently until all is cooked through with a sieve and
egg beat it. Put back on warm with much straight cream.
Michaelakim for short. Thanks Kim Marcus. Why is the name?
Why is the game squash name after the vegetable squash,

(01:19:01):
not the pumpkin. It's a very good question. I don't
know why squash is called squash. We took my six
year on Sunday minigolf. Grandma beat him and he threw
his partter over the free high fence, just missing a
passing car. I can still see the part of flying
over the fence like a helicopter. That's great, liking that

(01:19:23):
a lot Hitdle twelve. My name is Marcus car who welcome,
greetings and good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:19:29):
An hour's again good you got a.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Pumpkins story for me? Caho, you're there? Oh, you might
have pushed a bad button, have you.

Speaker 8 (01:19:42):
Ended?

Speaker 11 (01:19:43):
And there was one night I wasn't going to make
a home in time to cook for everyone, and she
said she'll cook dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Hey, Cah, okay, can you start again? Because you went
silent for about six seconds, I think we missed the
beginning of your story.

Speaker 11 (01:19:55):
Okay. So I had a partner at the time, and
we were together for about a year, and I used
to cook dinner for them every night, her and the kids.
And one night I was gonna I was a little
bit late, so she said that she'd coot, and I
remember walking in the door and hearing this horror of

(01:20:15):
a bang noise, and she grabbed the firewood axe and
she's like smashing it in the kitchen, like cut through
the kitchen floor and everything. And ever since that day,
I'd never let her in the kitchen never again.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
She must have been stronger than she thought. Did she
go right through the pupkin and the floorboards.

Speaker 11 (01:20:37):
Yeah, yeah, she she because she cracked the floor and
when I've seen her laught she was like, what are
you doing? She's I'm trying to cut the pumpkin. I
tried the other knives, but they were working so well,
so I thought I'll grab the axe. I was like,
oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
You should grab the chaw. Who that would be?

Speaker 9 (01:20:54):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
That would be the telling thing.

Speaker 11 (01:20:58):
I am really glad I did not have a change
her she. I think she would have done a whole
lot of damage with that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Alice, how was the.

Speaker 11 (01:21:10):
I haven't had punpkin soup from here, but I think
she was trying to make a roast.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
But oh, yeahs pumpkin. Yeah, okay, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (01:21:18):
Yeah, but I have had some pretty good punkin soup.

Speaker 6 (01:21:22):
So I love pumpkin soup. Think it's a great thing.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
I don't. I don't doubt your ca I love pumpkin
soup also, but I think it's so it can be
so marginal. Sometimes you go out and get a bowl
cup and so you say, I can't finish this. It
just seems too arduous. But thank you, Marcus. Think you
Marcus Russians don'ty pumpkin. It's grind to feed cows. Oh,

(01:21:47):
someone says, could someone please explain the difference between between
fahrenheit and celsius. Oh, I don't know why. Fair innheit right,

(01:22:09):
thirty two degrees is the freezing point of water, whereas
in celsius it's zero for the freezing point of water
and one hundred for the boiling point. And with fahrenheit

(01:22:31):
it's thirty two for the freezing point of water and
two twelve for the boiling point of water. I don't
know why they went with those figures. It's a stupid system.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know how he got

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the zero point. It's pretty Craig cray how that worked out.
So thirty two for the freezing point of water. So
she's complicated. Twenty eight past ten head on midnight, Marcus.
I found a little while ago to Holland they feed

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pumpkins to the pigs, only twenty four away from eleven Rose.
This is Marcus. Welcome, Hi, Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:23:22):
I think you probably know, but we watched earlier on
tonight Hayden Wild win the Triathson over in London. Yes,
it was absolutely amazing considering what he's been through.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
They were like serious injuries. There was the shoulder, there
was ribs, there was I mean he got hit by
a truck that was really serious.

Speaker 17 (01:23:42):
Exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:23:45):
I think there was a couple of internal injuries as well. Lang.
I think he was hitting the lang and one of
his lanes and look, but he was just incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
So that's a series of that's a series of races,
Is that right?

Speaker 8 (01:24:04):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:24:05):
I think there's an a lot in about two weeks.
But I didn't quite pick up whether could be guitar.
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
Because there was a guy that won the gold at
the Olympics in Paris, and for some reason I didn't
like him, Alex, you remember he was there. Did he
do something? Did he do something unsavory? There was something
he did that I went off.

Speaker 17 (01:24:29):
I don't know. But he wasn't in this race, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
I wondered, Okay, so is he retired or was he
not back in there? Or you don't know what the
story is there?

Speaker 17 (01:24:39):
Not sure, Marcus, No, not sure. But there was a
guy from Germany. He got second and he was amazing
as well. But you know, for Hayden to you know
that all the surgery he went through.

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (01:24:53):
It was just absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
I just saw a bit of on the news or something.
I forget where I saw it, but there was a
woman that was consoling there. Is that his wife or girlfriend?

Speaker 6 (01:25:04):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
Did you see that situation? Because she looked like an herself.

Speaker 17 (01:25:07):
I think she was, Yeah, she was. She's his girlfriend, partner,
and she got thirteenth in her earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
Okay, okay, Because I saw he was moved, he was
moved to tears and it was quite a moving shot.
I thought. I just saw all of that and I thought, wow.

Speaker 8 (01:25:25):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 17 (01:25:26):
It was just incredible. It was, you know, just so
wonderful to watch. And then the cycling and the Arctic
Cycle race over in Norway. Corbyn Strong, I think his surnames.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
He's a Yeah, Yeah, he's a south Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:25:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:25:44):
It was just amazing. It makes you feel so proud
of our country, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
Do you remember the triathlon we had in Paris because
it was all that fuss because they were swimming in
the canals and they weren't going to be right anything.
Do you remember all of that? Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:25:58):
Yeah, yeah, I just love watching all that. It's just amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Just came in what alex Ye did that made him
so there was something he did that I went off,
but I can't quite work out what it was.

Speaker 17 (01:26:10):
Yeah, I don't know. There was some little controversy over here, Yeah,
but didn't They didn't really elaborate too much over here
about it, So not quite sure. Could be something on.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
I have a look right nice thanks to nice to
talk to about the twenty one way from eleven texts
Marcus really tasty roast pumpkin woman and olive oil with
some runny honey drizzle over the pumpkin and roasted caramels
the pumpkin and makes freemodish especially for kids. Instead of
carry out on the pumpkin suit, try Harissa paste and
said more depth hungry now I am bed best wishes

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to Calvin from the Trunches suit. Marcus Pumpkin soup pre
cooked the pumpkin by roasting the oven hole of the pumpkins,
a tough shell, cook and soft and makes it easy cut.
My mother used to cook for the RUSI until I've
had that one, haven't we There we go? It used
to be a whole list of nationalities at don't du

(01:27:06):
for the English? Eat it if you're English. Any if
you're a blue blood, what vegetables do you have in
your roast? It's always hard to work out which is
cattle feed and which is not very ridiculous of course
as well, but that is the vagaries of class. You

(01:27:34):
don't think the Britz eat it well. I don't know
what the Brits would eat with a roast? What vegetables
would the Britz eat with a roast? Not that I'm
going to Britain to cook a roast. What I've enjoyed
the most is talking about the Brownsie pub. They're probably parsnips,

(01:27:54):
is it? Roast potatoes? Carrots, parsnips and Brussels sprouts or peas,
broccoli and cauliflower with a cheese sauce. You get the
kuma and the pumpkin in there in the Swede Shane evening, Marcus, welcome,

(01:28:19):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:28:20):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Mane good? Thank you Shane.

Speaker 6 (01:28:23):
It's been a long time when I spoke to you.
I was just trying to remember what year it was,
but probably about ninety five or maybe ninety six of
a young fella, yeah and a teenager. Yeah, you've done
very well. Congratulations man Oh, thank you Shane. In no
worries pumpkin's. Yeah, so I've been spending a bit of

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time over in Mexico and I like to cook as well,
and especially with pumpkin. It's really great. You can really
you can use it in the substitute for your baiting,
like for pumpkin breads. You don't need to put so
much fats like your butter and stuff in there, and

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it it just makes your makes your cakes and things
like that last a lot longer. But so I also
use it for soup and that. But yeah, obviously they
have different types of pumpkin over there. They call them
color busses and and there's not a lot of distinction
in that we're between pumpkin and squash, especially when you're

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looking for seeds and things like that. But one thing
I've noticed is the best pumpkins to use for any
kind of soup or baking. Usually they're less grainy, they've
got a little bit they're always a harder flesh, and
they don't have so much grain, And yeah, they're the

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pumpkins you want to use.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
I'll kind of first about shade, what a pump What
are Mexicans do with pumpkin?

Speaker 6 (01:30:02):
Well, they think pumpkin pie is pretty popular there. My wife,
she she runs a bit of a online bakery, so
she gets requests for pumpkin pie. I also do the
most amazing cheesecake you've ever had, mate, it's it's a
pumpkin cheesecake and really yes, yeah, yes, So what I

(01:30:24):
do is I when the pumpkins.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
Are Are you in New Zealand or Mexico.

Speaker 6 (01:30:31):
I'm in New Zealand, but yeah i'll be I'll be
back in Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
But you're your partner. Wife, she's in Mexico or New Zealand.

Speaker 6 (01:30:38):
In Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Oh, is she got a bakery? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:30:42):
Well yeah, So what I do with with the pumpkins
when they're in season is I'll make a pure and
you can freeze them for up to three months and
they're still fine. But yeah, the pumpkin cheesecake, it's it's
I got it off on YouTube Preppy Pretty Kitchen as

(01:31:04):
the guy's pumpkin cheese cakes, just as absolutely phenomenal. Mhm.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Because cheesecakes have kind of had their day, haven't they.
But I guess because they're pretty cheesy, But I guess
they're coming back again, are they? Preppy kitchen pumpkin cheese
Pumpkin cheesecake of us make sugar.

Speaker 6 (01:31:21):
Well, yeah, this one's more of a traditional one with
the cream cheese. But my wife does a lot of
German recipes, and so the German cheesecake she makes is
very low sugar. I think it's just like a ricotta
or some some kind of cheese. It doesn't actually sound
that nice when you read the recipe, but it tastes delicious.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Quite a long recipe to make that one. It says
eight hours, but you've got to freeze the base for
six hours. I think we'll put them in the fridge.
That would be right, wouldn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:31:52):
Yeah, Yeah, it's pretty arduous, and she usually makes several
at a time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
And the crust is made from Graham crackers, which are
like what.

Speaker 6 (01:32:05):
In Mexico they're called Marie biscuits, And I guess they're
just kind of like a like a what would you
call it, like a arrow route.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Like a like a malt biscuit. Yeah, that makes sense
because I have done scene. Yeah, yeah, I think they'd
standard for cheesecakes. Did you want to say about the
temperature scale?

Speaker 6 (01:32:24):
Yes, yes, so fahrenheit. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting. I
think the main reason they stick with fahrenheit in the States,
particularly up north, is because it's a bit more accurate
measuring around the in celsius below zero, because it's in

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smaller implements. Obviously, Yeah, but I think the most interesting
thing about fahrenheit is it was devised by I can't
remember his name, obviously a doctor. His last name was Fahrenheit.
But it was based around the human body temperature. So

(01:33:09):
it's yeah. But what's more interesting is like he's wasn't
an open freemason, and so they say that, you know,
the freezing point of water, you know, is thirty two
degrees and everyone, you know, a lot of people know
about the thirty third degree of masonry. It's you know,
it's where everything changes, and it's quite interesting. So yeah,

(01:33:35):
it was a.

Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
Free there is it's free masonry affected the scale.

Speaker 6 (01:33:42):
Well only and only in the way I can say it,
in the thirty third degree. That's the only thing that
really stands out to me. But I know, I think
I have reads that there is something more to it,
some kind of a cult stuff or not a cult,
but more esoteric.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
I think everyone's got stuck on pumpkin cheesecake, and the
thing about that at the moment too, Shane, So I
you're coming through with that. I love that. That's good recipe,
Thank you, Shane. Thirteen to eleven. Alex Ye showboated and
rubbed it into Hayden Wilde's face when he pipped them
in that race after the Olympics, after such a respectful
ending to the Olympics. It was a dick move. Was

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that what put you off from cheers, Georgie? I think
it probably was. I'm looking forward to a proper capital
gains tax. We need it, not as savoris of pumpkin soup,
of course, but force it down people. Heather recently made
pumpkin sconds using a cup of pumpkin soup, one and
a half cup self raising flower and two thirds cup
grated cheese, Bixel and Baker's scones, add some extra season

(01:34:45):
cooked them in the air fryer. Horses eat more carrots
than humans in New Zealand, and Kale is still stop food. Yeah,
Kale's problematic. Its hard to do anything with. Oh welcome,
how are you going? Peep? One of this? Marcus had
twelve o'clock eight hundred eight Teddy and nine nine text. Yes,

(01:35:09):
that's a good text. Horses eat more carrots than humans
in New Zealand, and of course horses don't eat humans.
Everyone's for so Hayden Wild, who's going to come the
traathlon is going to be total on. I don't know
what trathlon's like. At Trathlon's like As a spectator sport,
I've always been probably vaguely judgmental of triathlons because I've

(01:35:31):
always thought, well, it's only a sport where people are
kind of good at three things. But actually I probably
had more respect for them after the Paris won, after
I saw how quick they're running times were. Anyway, who
am I to judge what they're doing? The guy's extraordinary,
So yeah, it's not my world's favorite sport. But between

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him and Alex Year it has been free competitive for
a long time. So it's good that he's I don't
know why Alex Year is not there, it's good that
he's kind of pulled away. But terror and that's the
thing about trathlons. There was a guy I was reading
an article about that's a fund manager, financial whiz in
New York who was mad on traathlons and competing in

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quite a senior level. There's a senior circuit for people,
and he's a risk analysis and did all the risk
analysis and decided there was no way in the world
that he could spend all that time training on a
bike and not get hit. So just as all his
training on an indoor bike on a treadmill, and only

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ever rides his bike when he's competing. And from what
I've heard about trathlons, it's pretty smart because it seems
as though long time on the bike you're bound to
get hit, particularly now that people are texting the whole
time as they're driving. It's for every dangerous I reckon.
Marcus moved from Mullwater here. Triathlon is my fing. The

(01:37:07):
amazing last weekend victory race by Hayden was in the
T one hundred, which is a longer distance race, not
as long as the Iman, though run by the semi
independent Professional Triathlon Union, the official Trathlon Body World Triathlon
run the World Trathlon Series event over the shorter Olympic
or State of distance. Great news this is coming to
Totong in twenty twenty six. I have met Alex Ye

(01:37:31):
and he is humble. This year he has been doing
running in shorter distance supertri events. Hayden is amazing, but
like Alex, has shown its frustration we're not winning at times,
which is understandable. They put so much in. Hayden did
similar to Alex and Maltra a few years ago with
his Falcon celebration. Both great guys, what a beautifully well
considered text, and thank you for taking the time to

(01:37:53):
send that through. That I've got your take of the
love of triathlons, that there's different versions, and that both
Alex and Hayden have a similar rivalry and have both
done showboating. Yeah, the Falcon celebration. Good evening, Jonas is
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:38:14):
Hello Marcus. I haven't run you for a while, have I.
But anyway, I'm going to talk about pumpkins. You know,
you can put a pumpkin plant in and you've got
to have a room for them, of course, because they
sort of spread out and you can actually get ten
or eleven good sized pumpkins on one plant.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
You think one pumpkin has so many seeds they can
almost develop like about ten thousand from one pumpkin.

Speaker 21 (01:38:38):
Yes, but it's still better to bobbly buy the plant
at a garden place and put in the plant and
then you've got it. But you've got to have room
for it, of course. But I've got a neighbor who,
for the second year running in Jeff and Ann and
they've got a rental property down the same way lane,
two doors for me. And every time she cuts pumpkin,
which is about every two weeks, she gives me a good.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Most pumpkins are too big for one person, aren't they.

Speaker 21 (01:39:04):
Well, she's got the family and she has the boys
home on a Sunday night. But I mean she dislikes
and we, you know, give things to each other. And
they've got an apple tree and we used to have
an apple tree, and I wtise you know, she gives
me an extra piece for my Manasian friend Evelyn. But
I've never really been a pumpkin soup maker. But my
father probably wasn't keen on silver beet or pumpkin, or

(01:39:24):
especially silver beet or sort of grown for the pigs,
you know, because we're on the farm. But pumpkin I
just tend to just I've got the steamer, a sand
of steel sawceman with the steamer and the lid, and
I mean cook your potatoes in the bottom, and you
can steam your pumpkin cook extra which you can reheat
over a few nights. And it's beautiful pumpkin, just freshly

(01:39:45):
grown there and just picked in beautiful deep orange, beautiful flavor.
But some people don't like pumpkin. I can't understand that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
No, I can't, and there's snobs. But yeah, and I
think because it's top of there, there aren't as many
vegetables around. That's why pumpkins and yems. I love the
vegels of the winter, that's right.

Speaker 21 (01:40:02):
And of course the broccoli is so dear now and
what happened there? One think it's the season perhaps, or
I mean the mandarins at the moment are just absolutely
beautiful winter, you know, little mandarins, the new zeale and
grown ones. But I mean they're out there in now
and I've just been buying so many and they're just

(01:40:23):
so lovely, you know, good for you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:25):
Don't take this the wrong way. I'd prefer a grapefruit
for manderin. I'd like to eat a grapefruit, Oh love
those love grapefruit.

Speaker 21 (01:40:32):
Yes, But if you're older like me and you're blood
pressure tablets, you can't you don't have grapefruit.

Speaker 2 (01:40:36):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
You have to have.

Speaker 21 (01:40:38):
Orange marmalade or you don't need something to do with
a grapefruit as for or something in the grape fruit
or don't know what it is. Yeah, but I do
quite like grapefruit too, But I do like fruit grapes.
We've got a grapevine here, red grapes, And I think
fruit and vegtuals are really a good part of your diet.
I think, you know, you can have other things as well,
but I have plenty of fruit and vegetals, which is

(01:40:58):
always you know, plenty of choice and you know that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
Yeah, to show you kind of have grape fruit.

Speaker 21 (01:41:08):
Well, I used to have grapefruit marmalade, but I've gone
on to the bargest one in the plastic pottles. The
several orange marmalade is just beautiful. It's got a lovely
part to it, and it keeps a lovely flavor in
your mouth. And I have that most mornings on my
toast of I don't have a banana or but I
mean that's several orange marmalades.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
It was a beautiful the first word, several.

Speaker 21 (01:41:28):
Several sav s A V. I L l e beautiful marmalade.

Speaker 5 (01:41:34):
Yeah, I'll look into that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
Jo nice to talk to. Thank you. Thirteen past eleven,
All about pumpkins. Weird things you're done with pumpkins. Marcus
cut the top of button off with his zigzag cut
the top off a button up with a zig zag pattern,
then fill with chopped pieces corn cheese on his little cream,
putting the lid bag on, baked from our delicious Marcus
wonder why pumpkin pie has never taken off here? I

(01:41:56):
think we had pumpkin pie quite a lot, but I
think probably it's different because Americans think of a pie
as like a flan, So people in the probably had
it have been freaked out because it's not what they
thought it was going to be. It's quite spicy of pumpkin. Yeah,
it's a weird kind of thing, isn't it. I mean,

(01:42:17):
I like it. Pumpkin pies, carrot cakes, it's all good.
So have you got something to add to the pumpkin
discussion tonight? Good Marcus? A slice of hangy pumpkin and
hangy chicken. Beautiful, can't help it? Yeah, gorgeous. It'd be
the best vegetable in the hangey wouldn't it. Oh, I
love the cabbage. Oh, Marcus, all the pumpkins you weet

(01:42:43):
now are already hybrids, and you can cross whichever you like,
just like all the sponge you eat from the South
America originally, but plenty of American hybrids. Marcuss is the
absolutely the best way to cook a pumpkin, cut in half
through the stem scoop out seeds, and roast face down.
Interesting things about pumpkins or pumpkin stories or ways you

(01:43:03):
cook pumpkin that aren't roast anyone try pumpkin pie. You
might be roasting them. You mightn't be doing them with soup,
any other interesting stuff you'll do with pumpkins. I don't
know where our commercially growing pumpkins are growing. Maybe still
in the vin I don't know the answer to that.
But yeah, that's what we're on about tonight. So if

(01:43:24):
these are things you want to try and talk about tonight,
that I'd be up for that. If there's something else
you want to talk about too, don't have a problem
with that. Get in touched. As I say, all the
lines are free. There might be something else you want
to talk about. I'd put taro in with pumpkin too,
if I made a hangy. Grapefruit can have both positive
potentially negative impacts on women's health, particular racial hormonal balance

(01:43:46):
and medication interactions. While it's associate with potential benefits like
in Christians can intake and weight management for some, it
can also affect estrogen levels and interct with certain medications,
requiring careful consideration. Kumer cabbage jam, kumaa, cabbage, yams, potatoes,
pumpkins just a few and are hangy that the hangy
guy on TV has the recipes roast and pumpkin seeds

(01:44:10):
are better than peanuts. Jill Marcus thirty six years ago,
when I was pregnant, I ate pumpkins three times a
day for nine months, a weird craving. But my son
to this day still has never eaten pumpkin. He's thirty six.
Did he develop an aversion to it? What did you

(01:44:33):
tell him that you ate it the whole time? Did
what happened there?

Speaker 17 (01:44:38):
All?

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
This is interesting? Oh, the other thing you want to
talk about if you want to talk aboutumpkins, the polls
out tonight. If you've got anything of interest to say
about the polls. This is with national and laborvery close
the year away from the election, and I suspect campaigning
started already. Marcus over in Europe for a few weeks,

(01:45:05):
walking around New burg old Town and Jumi while you're
playing My years. Probably got to Scotland tomorrow for the
rural in re military tattoo on Wednesday night. Not a
fan of pumpkin these days, so many don't have good flavor,
like a slice of pumpkin pie maybe once a year,
but got to be in the mood. It's from Nuremberg,

(01:45:25):
so yes, you want to talk about the Poles. Also
Tim up for that tonight. Um, it just feels like
we're stuck in this groundhog day. It's always going to
be the same results with the Act about nine and
ended first about nine and that's about thirty two thirty three.

(01:45:50):
I think I preferred first past the post. Can you
say that these days? I think it probably delivered more.
I think more got done. Can I say that? It
goes against everything in my core? But you know it's
time to time anything. Well, actually, what have we achieved?

(01:46:15):
We'll just do what Winston says, kind of tiresome. I'm
still waiting for the great Pumpkin story. I'm not as
yet sure what it is. You might've been some of
those great pumpkin festivals in America that would be of interest, Marcus.
I was in Memphis around Halloween time and saw thousands
of the orange pumpkins us and displays in parks and
private homes. They don't use as a vegetable. Do Americans

(01:46:36):
eat it? Though they eat it in a roast. They
don't eat it as a vegeble, but love pumpkin pie is
a dessert. Nutmeg seems to be the favorite spice on top.
That's right. So would the Americans eat What would the
Americans eat with a roast? Kind of quite festinated about this?
That the different? What would what Americans? What vegetables would

(01:47:00):
Americans eat in a roast? If you can tell me that,
I can't.

Speaker 8 (01:47:05):
I mention.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
That they would eat pumpkin and didn't type in America.
So yeah'd be good to hear from you tonight. People
on this cold not I need your calls for the
final go round. Potatoes, carrots, and onions. That's right. They

(01:47:28):
don't eat pumpkin. They eat routerbagger, tune ups, rout bagger,
and even mushrooms. Do you know what routerburgger is wouldn't
mind a bit of that? Are you t a routerburgger?
I want to talk about that. Never seeing that in
the Simpsons router Burgger, I think that might be a

(01:47:52):
Swede crosswinded, Oh to Swede for Swede, they call it
a routerbagger?

Speaker 6 (01:48:03):
Who knew that?

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
Au t a b a g a a North American
term comes from the Swedish rotor barg, meaning root lump?
Never knew that routerbagger? Well, I've learned something that made
me worth coming to work. Mc pumpkins won't get sick, Debra,
have you got anything interesting to say?

Speaker 19 (01:48:28):
Three interesting things?

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
Well, that's good.

Speaker 19 (01:48:31):
The first one is that when they wanted to dry
the pumpkins out, they used to use old beds woven
the old wire beds.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
What a great thing to use a wire wove for,
because they weren't they used to sleeping They're terrible to
sleep on, Oh they were.

Speaker 19 (01:48:50):
And the other thing is they had pumpkin competition, dressed
the pumpkin and I entered it. I entered it as
a punk Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:49:02):
That's quite good. That's quite quite like that with a
mohawks for that? Where was that? Deborah?

Speaker 19 (01:49:09):
Oh that was a monganui.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
Did you put a mohawk on it.

Speaker 19 (01:49:14):
I'll put a safety pin through through the ears. Yeah,
better than my hawk.

Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
Quite good? Okay, yep like that. Okay, that's why Wow.
Pumpkin number three.

Speaker 19 (01:49:26):
When my girlfriend and I were hitching around the top
of the South Island many years ago, an elderly guy
picked us up in his cadillact and he said, I'm
a pumpkin king. I'm known as the pumpkin King around
the part.

Speaker 2 (01:49:46):
That's a great thing to say to impress hitchikers, isn't it. Okay,
do you say what made him the pumpkin king?

Speaker 19 (01:49:56):
He's just known as we grew them and there was
just none that was his.

Speaker 11 (01:50:00):
Name, and know it was now and in the area.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
Brilliant the pumpkin King twenty nine away from twelfth. Karen,
it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:50:10):
You're talking about pumpkins again. Yes, well, if you hollow
them out yet, it's small enough once you can fill
it with either a meat stuffing or a bread stuffing,
and then you roast it like.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
That, And then do you waste all the stuff in
the middle.

Speaker 15 (01:50:29):
Yeah, just the seeds and everything.

Speaker 11 (01:50:32):
Oh yeah, just take.

Speaker 15 (01:50:33):
All the seeds out, cut the top off, take all
the seeds out, stuff it, put the top back on,
and roast it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
When did you last do one of those? Curran?

Speaker 15 (01:50:46):
Oh? Actually not so long ago, because I like doing that.
And also routerbagger. You're right, it's a swede if you win.

Speaker 2 (01:50:57):
Did you last here it called a routerbugger?

Speaker 4 (01:51:00):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:51:00):
When I was in America.

Speaker 2 (01:51:02):
Yeah, it's kind of a strange word to use, but yeah,
they kind of do that with marrow, to hollow them
and stuff them. But I always think it's what people
do and they don't really want to celebrate the vegetable itself.
It's almost disguising, it isn't it, But it sounds good.

Speaker 15 (01:51:16):
I don't know if you do it with a bread
stuffing When it's a marrow, it's really nice because the
onion and garlic goes through and it's lovely.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
Really nice to hear from your current thank you. Someone says,
I remember hearing my adopted parents arguing about the world.
Routers sound like the one you said. I think ruterbager, Roy,
What would adoptive parents arguing about rutebagger? Put that in
the quiz? If you put that that I'm in the chase,
dance out in the quiz for next year. What is ruterbagger?

(01:51:45):
It's a What is ruterbagger? It's a Swede. When I
first moved to Southland, swedes on the side of the
road because farmers always sell them with fifty cents. Now
they're two dollars. What do you do about that? Luckson
four times the price? Yep, I'm surprise, Marcus. How many

(01:52:09):
days weekend? Today?

Speaker 17 (01:52:10):
Night?

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Saving? Seven? So I can start, Jamie Oliver, so I
can start saving to buy multipecks of batteries before that weekend.
Grandpa Bob taught all twenty one of us grandchildren before
he died it every six month we changed all batteries
for smoke alarms, wall clocks and nine remotes. Thank you.
I'll watch the Sopranos again. Answer that one day, Marcus.

(01:52:31):
That's from Roy, Thank you Roy. Twenty four from twelve
your router Bugger Hamish, Good evening. This is Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:52:38):
Welcome Marcus wanting to tell a story about pumpkins.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
Great, you've rang the right show.

Speaker 9 (01:52:52):
Yeah yeah, I'm just turning the mate. Hopefully you haven't
heard this story, but.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
We have heard. We haven't had any pumpkins stories at all,
so I'm sure we won't have heard this one, so
we're all he.

Speaker 9 (01:53:03):
Is, oh, cool, cool, this is I hope people will
enjoy the story. Yeah, I've had then just looked it
up there to confirm. The pilgrims that went from England
to America, the pumpkin was the schtel to them to
survive I think the first winter or a few after
that in sixteen twenty. It was a crucial food sauce

(01:53:28):
and they learnt it as a food sauce from the
Native American Indians and that's helped them get through the winters.
And they bought it cooked at in Stewe. But another
interesting thing I from researching it found out they used

(01:53:50):
it as custard, a custard like with milk and spices
and put it in the fire to create it like
a custard pumpkin custard.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
The check it in the fire. Yeah, and ashes have
chucktor pupkin and a fire would be quite a good
camping thing. You have to carry it in, but it'd
probably be quite a good way to cook it.

Speaker 9 (01:54:12):
Yeah, yeah, probably, yeah, yeah, you can do it. The potatoes. Yeah, well, com.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
Why did they. I don't know much about the Pilgrims,
but they had firearms, right, and they had weapons.

Speaker 9 (01:54:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:54:26):
I thought they would have lived off turkeys.

Speaker 9 (01:54:31):
The bush. Turkey was a bush?

Speaker 2 (01:54:35):
Would they would they be quite? Would they be quite?
Hard to get?

Speaker 9 (01:54:41):
I'm not sure? Sure. Maybe the winter that was the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
Yeah, okay, yeah, maybe the one I mean, I mean,
because I presume they're living Amongst American Indians that probably
would have I'm eaten a few of those that turkey
on Thanksgiving, didn't they? But I thought there'd be ducks
and geese, and I thot that'd be all sorts of
wildflower and there'd be deer as well, wouldn't there?

Speaker 9 (01:55:04):
Oh yeah, dear, Yeah, yeah, But maybe I think the
winter was the problem for the food source and pumpkin
they could dry out, they can store it as well,
I think. So that was the benefit of the pumpkin.
It was a good food source to stop up on.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
You've got to read more about the Pilgrims because I've
actually forgotten about them. There's one hundred and two of them.

Speaker 9 (01:55:31):
Oh wow, yeah, yeah, I've to start where they launched
in Timms in England. Yeah, okay, also where they endeavor launched.

Speaker 2 (01:55:45):
How many died? How many died?

Speaker 9 (01:55:48):
Not sure? Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
Okay, I'm good. Look into that Hamish. Thank you for
the good stories. Thank I appreciate that. That's very tangental
to very spot on. The thing with pumpkins in the
Netherlands a few years back, at the first, at first,
a green cult in the Netherlands a few years back,
at first the green grace of if I wanted pumpkin
to make souper, had to take the whole pumpkin. It
was huge. He enlightened me. There was cattle food and

(01:56:12):
the Dutch only ate Swedes or rooter bugger as we
call them. Served it to the Dutch guests. When the
rest of the evening writing up the recipe, they loved it. Brilliant.
It's a good story. You don't know why the Dutch

(01:56:32):
don't like a pumpkin to be right up there in
their wheelhouse with those nice biscuits. It's got the same
sort of hoops at that nutmeg. It's kind of this
palette that the Dutch would like, sort yourself out, eat
a pumpkin, and the Russians don't like it. It's not
an acid, but it's not a food. You should fear.

(01:56:52):
What if I could become the country's pumpkin ambassaor remember
who became the avocado ambassador. It's always those rowing twins,
isn't it? Or Lisa Carrington, Oh and Nadia. Remember how
the evo Cardo investador. I think they've got to it
quiet on. That seemed it ridiculous, didn't it. It'd be
an ever Cardo ambassador. Well this is good because I've

(01:57:14):
tried this. I agree, Marcus. One of my favorite things
is alsania type thing when thin slices of pumpkin I
used for the pasta sheets. It's often not traditional. But
the original recipe was a food in a minute, one
with baked beans and bacon in between. I missed food
in a minute, said, no one ever think of trouble

(01:57:38):
with food in a minute. It's I thought you could
cook the recipe in a minute, But actually it was
only took a minute to tell the recipe. So it's
food about half an hour, but a minute to tell it.
I never made that that clear. Good evening, Donna, this
is Marcus. Welcome, it going good, Thank you, Donna.

Speaker 22 (01:58:01):
I just was you talking about pumpkins.

Speaker 7 (01:58:06):
Eating pumpkin?

Speaker 22 (01:58:09):
I ate so much, I got vitamin A poisoning.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
Wow is it? How were you eating it?

Speaker 22 (01:58:18):
Roasted in the oven?

Speaker 19 (01:58:20):
Baked in the oven?

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
Did you You didn't got orange?

Speaker 22 (01:58:24):
Well I did, and someone thought I had hippotatas. So
I went to the doctor and the next year it
was just trotin carroting poisoning an a from eating too
much yea. So I had to cut cut out everything
that was.

Speaker 2 (01:58:40):
So how does that conversation go with the doctor? The
doctor sides, I got hepatized. I say, well, no, but
you do look orange eating a lot of pumpkin? Is
that what the conversation went?

Speaker 22 (01:58:48):
Well, I can't remember. It was so long ago, but
it was, Yeah, they must have. I can't remember what
they said it.

Speaker 8 (01:58:55):
It was just too long ago.

Speaker 22 (01:58:56):
There was the outcome anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
Did you love it? Lays in nothing within, nothing else
to eat?

Speaker 18 (01:59:01):
No?

Speaker 22 (01:59:02):
I just I still really like it.

Speaker 7 (01:59:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:59:06):
I got an English family as well, and they didn't
eat pumpkin until they came to New Zealand because it
was cow sorter.

Speaker 3 (01:59:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
And they're all snobs about today.

Speaker 22 (01:59:16):
Yeah, but they've learned to light it. And I lived
in Tunna for a while and they drew a lot
to eat spot to Japan, and they didn't. They didn't
be there at the time when I was trying to
educate them into, you know, the ones that I knew
friends and family into eating it. And they slowly came
around to it as well, and they did some really

(01:59:38):
good things with it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:39):
And I don't ever think I've seen Japanese cook I've
never seen pumpkin rench in a Jean because.

Speaker 22 (01:59:44):
They had a Japanese friend over there and she would
steam it and then measured up like you would potato
and greeted fresh ginger in it. And it is so good.

Speaker 2 (01:59:58):
And when you went nuts for pumpkin and your early
days donnter we may you said you were just roasting it.

Speaker 4 (02:00:03):
Right, Yeah, but I like supers.

Speaker 8 (02:00:06):
I like.

Speaker 22 (02:00:09):
You know, curried pumpkin soup.

Speaker 3 (02:00:10):
Beautiful, beautiful, I like beautiful thoughts ways, yeah, but entire
because then they make these really yummy dishes with ripped
and tyrolese.

Speaker 22 (02:00:21):
And when there was the pumpkin season once they started
using the pumpkins, because they initially just when they started
the regents, they used it for pig food and then
they started to lend their Actually this is quite young
to eat and instead of as some of the dishes
that they would do with their toorally, they used the
pumpkin instead and just took the lid off and stuffed

(02:00:43):
it was you know, your corn beef and coconut cream
and onions and all of that, and put the lid
back on and then cook that. And the Ama was
really young.

Speaker 8 (02:00:54):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (02:00:56):
I know there's great things you can do with pumpkin.

Speaker 2 (02:00:58):
And now I'm thinking about thaie pumpkin soup what you
see everywhere, and I don't even know. It's a anrificitional
thing though, because pumpkins win. If the Japanese don't have
pumpkin and one of the ties ever had pumpkin, or
if it's just an American invention type punk and yeah,
because it's nice too.

Speaker 22 (02:01:13):
No, but it's still good. Yeah, regardless of.

Speaker 2 (02:01:19):
Did you did you have to force yourself to not
eat it?

Speaker 17 (02:01:24):
Ah?

Speaker 22 (02:01:24):
Well, I mean I was just telling said, I didn't know,
it's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (02:01:29):
What's a big deal to me?

Speaker 22 (02:01:32):
But did not eat it?

Speaker 20 (02:01:33):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
The fact no, the fact that you change you change color.

Speaker 22 (02:01:39):
Yeah, well I was just eating anything that was the
orange into the disappeared actually puts pressure on your liver.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
So yeah, but but it is it's a healthy I mean,
we shouldn't give people that. I've spent the whole show
to try to get people onto the pumpkin wagon and
you're saying it give you vitamin A pois. But yeah,
I'm here because I ate too much.

Speaker 22 (02:02:01):
It was the same as when people when as well.
So it wasn't It's nothing to do with it. Pumptings
who say it's the fact that I ate too much,
so in moderation, as they.

Speaker 2 (02:02:16):
Say everything in moderation, including moderation. Donna, thank you so
much for what a show. We wrap it up Monday
and Pumpkins. We got there in the end.

Speaker 1 (02:02:24):
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