What if the ducks start naming us (28 March 2025)

If a hotel cancels or "loses" your booking, can they charge you more to rebook it for the same time?

Also, who's got a duck story?!

Plus, Marcus covers the 7.7 magnitude quake in south-east Asia.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Eight oh seven. Greetings, welcome my Marcus Hettel twelve o'clock
tonight or in fact, let's say Hettle tomorrow. I hope
it's good where you are. People just come of breaking
news they say this road exit and Mada Morua that
happened six point fifty five, that was reported to Serious
Crash unit. Kind of a situation there with people when
he lived at the hospital. As the road cleared. Now

(00:36):
that state hiwah too coming around into the Bombays. You've
got an update on that. Let me know is it's
flowing freely yet? I get this time of the night too.
If there's major road things, I think it's up to
us to let you know what's going on. I guess
there will be diversions there. So if you do know
anything about the Mada motor if it's been cleared yet,
because sometimes when the Serious Quest Unit investigate they do

(00:56):
take a while because they want to do it thoroughly.
So if you've got someone tell about that by do
that's a major crash area there isn't it cheapest? Creepers
get in touch Hittell twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine, two texts. That's just the first thing. The
second thing, how are you all? By the way, the
reports of a fairly big earthquake in Mian Mah, which

(01:21):
in itself is worth keeping an eye on and of concern. However,
let me just check what they're saying about this. Yeah,
there are diversions around that place on State Highway too.
I think you'll be going traveling all right, there'll be
one down around among a tonguey. But yeah, if you

(01:41):
have got delazy, let me know the situation. Big earthquake
mean Mar seven point six. But having a quick squizz
around social what really seems to be bad is bang Kok, Okay.
There is a high rise building under construction well that
has collapsed totally. And there are multiple shots of different buildings,

(02:08):
different high rise buildings with water pouring out of them
because of their pools. So of these high rise in
Bangkok have got pools at height like twenty thirty stories up,
the massive pools and findy pools outdoor pools, and all
the water is pouring out onto the street from those.

(02:29):
It's I don't know how, I don't know how pro
how quake prone Bangkok is, but I reckon they're crazy
to put those pills up high. Yeah, they gave a
rethink there because it just it just seems like that's
compromised the whole buildings. To put all that weight and
a liquid form high up a building, I reckon that's madness.

(02:53):
So yeah, nose reports of fatalities yet, but I wouldn't
be surprised if those don't come through. I don't think
they get I don't think they get many earthquakes. Bangkok
earthquake hazard as classified as low. But well, I reckon
they're going to rare praise their building rigs after what
I've seen those footage. Just have a look around. There's

(03:15):
just massive high rise buildings with pools and the water
just flowing up. Christ you've got an update for us.
Good evening.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, Hi, not around the Marri Maralwan. But I've just
driven from Denny Burke to Napier and just north of
White Power there is a police car in front of
the road and it basically you then do a thirty
kilometer detour east all around the back roads and you
pop out the first round about at Hastings where the

(03:46):
correction to some of the is copy.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
There's something big.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Going on there as well. For those people that are
heading out towards Napier, we'll.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Call that between Is that Paul Kawa somewhere like that, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, that'd be about the middle of it.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
But it's like one hundred meters outside of White Power.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, it's further north. That seems a place. It's about
twenty k's north. Due to a crash, State highway tour
is closed. That came through a five thirty intil further notice.
So yeah, okay, it says this details.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
I headed about six o'clock and I've only just got
to Napier at about seven forty.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Okay, because they say this detail will add twenty minutes,
you think it's a lot longer than that.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
A well, because it's actually really narrow unmarked farm roads, okay,
and there's a ha of a lot of big traffic there,
So I would add double the twenty minutes to be
fair really good.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Until Chris, I appreciate that greatly. You take care nice
to hear from you. We're across it all to if
anyone wants to talk about Bangkok and earthquakes, just there
might be a scene setter or something you might want
to say about that. Let us know, get in touch.
Oh eight hundred and eighty nine to text. Yeah, pools

(05:01):
at high and high rise buildings crazy. If you go
on social media and google bangcock, you'll see the shots
of these pools just vibrating and the water pouring out
of buildings. I'll kidch you up and I've just gone
on to all the websites. It says from the tourist

(05:22):
advisor it's a low whisk of quake, so something's going
on there. It's just amazing the shots the infinity pols
of the water are just raining out and more than
one that I have seen. Oh eight hundred and eighty
to eighty nine to nine text, So yeah, strong, lengthy, strong,
lengthy quake. It's a seven point seven and man delay,

(05:47):
but it's very affected things that are in Thailand. So yep,
but yeah, there we go. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty now also too, as I chucked things at
you tonight twenty four seven, a half time canes over
the Tars twenty four to twelve just scored. So the

(06:08):
fight back from the taskicked to come Marcus happy Friday. Well,
I love a happy Friday. Happy Friday, Marcus. In November,
we booked a hotel in Queenstown for over Easter. Booking
dot Com sent us an email last week saying the
hotel had overbooked and canceled our bookings. I went to

(06:29):
rebook something else in the same hotel popped up with
the same rooms on the same dates, but at three
times the price. Can you ask if your listeners have
had this issue and if the hotel still needs to
honor our booking regards, Crystal. I think most certainly they
need to honor it, But I don't know how you

(06:51):
make that happen. Yeah, no, they weren't over books. You
need to wring them and say you wun't over book
because that booking is there. Could someone have some advice
for Crystal. I'll read it again slowly. Happy Friday, Marcus.
In November, we booked a hotel in Queenstown for over Easter.

(07:12):
This is someone that's organized. Booking dot Com send us
an email last week saying the hotel had overbooked and
canceled our booking. I went to rebook something else in
the same hotel, bopped up with the same rooms on
the same date but at three times the price. Can
you ask your listeners have had this Isssuan? If the

(07:33):
hotel STEM still needs to honor our booking, it's a
fear request. Have I've got any advice about that? I
think it's illegal, mind you. I'm not Kevin Milne. This
is not fair.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
Go but.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
In fact we missed Figo, don't we because that could
have been good for fear goo? Oh wait one hundred
and eighty Teddy and nine two nine to text because
you probably can't ring them because I know a little
bit about hotels in Queenstown. When you ring them, you're
ringing an agency that books for them. Marcus, I saw
it on and it's not for me. Get in touch

(08:13):
eight hundred and eighty today. So booking and honoring booking?
What do you reckon? Dan, he's been bogging me. It's
highly irregular, highly irregular. Yeah, I'll be furious because you

(08:33):
got on there early. That's the whole thing, surge. Pricing
your book in there early. That's the bread and butter
of the early book is in the late ones, that's
the they can put the charge up for those disorganized people.
It's the disorganization text no, you want to be You
want to what was the name of the hotel? Tell
me was it an overtale?

Speaker 6 (08:56):
What one?

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Was it highly irregular? I'd be very angry about that.
If I'd ask for it for free, I'd say, you're
going to Fego. They probably don't know that Figo stopped.
I'd say that anyway, text me about that to love
your emails. But hotel, I'd love a hope because this

(09:19):
is good Ween's Easter feels like it's close to get
the tent head. I'm going to try the tent on
those pop up laundries done in a flash, liquid laundro matte.
Sick of drying the tent, going to dry a liquid
laundromat done in a flash, good to heavy tent. Good dunk,

(09:39):
good dunk, good dunk. Just hear it going round Phil
Marcus evening.

Speaker 7 (09:46):
Home Markers. Can you hear me? Okay?

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Really surprisingly, really well.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
Okay, that's all right. I've go a little funny story
quite a few years ago. I've always wanted to stay
at the Peabody Hotel at Memphis and I books, and
the only reason why I was going to Memphis was
to stay at the hotel and when I arrived and
I had a booking and they said, I'm really sorry,

(10:14):
I don't see your booking, and they are, and they
said there's no room. Unfortunately, it coincided with the for
the first time in history, the Oklahoma University, sorry, Memphis
University and the University of Tennessee had a basketball game

(10:35):
where both teams were one and two ranked in the
US and it was being played in Memphis, and so
there was no route, and I was so disappointed. So
I went and stayed that night in the hole day
in and I was so the next morning I went
into the back to the hotel and I said, look,
I really want to see some of the only reason

(10:58):
moment in Memphis is to stay at the Peabody Hotel.
And I've always wanted to stay here, and this is
the hotel. They had the ducks.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Come in, ducks walk through, yep.

Speaker 7 (11:07):
Yeah, yeah, the ducks walked through.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
And they said, oh, look, we'll get a manage to
come and see you, but do you mind in about
an hour? And I said, yeah, no problem, and then
disappeared and they rang me and and I told the
manager of the story, wasn't an hotel manager of something?
And then they gave me this, uh, three bedroom suite

(11:34):
which would have cost out right now.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
So did you say, did you say you'd booked? And
they just did you not book before you?

Speaker 7 (11:43):
And then the booking had just disappeared. I had to
say that night at the holiday and because I was
finding up at eight pm and then I was only
therefore and I was only at Memphis for another night,
and they gave me this amazing, just amazing suite and

(12:04):
they had like media conference room rooms, you know, we're
like had three entrances for clearly people from the media
or somewhere else so you can invite people to or
servants or whatever. And three bedrooms, you know, just massive,
massive suite. And this was for me and my wife,

(12:25):
just the two of us, you know, with a with
a massive suite, and it was just amazing in the
in the end, it was very lucky that I would
have never experienced that life to have this massive hotel
room that were designed for people that you know, pay

(12:47):
more wealthy than me.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Would you be kind enough to explain to us the
story with the ducks?

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Sure, So every every morning I can't do times, but
every morning so that there's a group of five or
six ducks that live on the roof, and they have
a ceremony and morning where the where they tacked the
ducks down from the roof. You go down in the elevator.
There's red carpet and there's hundreds and hundreds of people

(13:16):
that watch both the morning ceremony and the afternoon ceremony
that come into the hotel. They come out of the elevator,
they have they lay red carpet down, and the ducks
bottle and they go into the pond, which the pond
is in the center of the the center of the
bobby and the ducks, the DUTs jump into the pond.

(13:36):
They there, they spend you know, all day there and
then in the in the early afternoon or you know,
early evening, the opposite happens where the where with the
ducks they're preyed as I can't remember that they're preyed
at back out. I don't can't remember exactly how they
get out of the pond. They but they come out

(13:57):
of the pond and they parayed, prayed, They lay relay
the red carpet down, walk along into the along the
red carpet into the left and then back up to
the roof. You know where they live and spend the
night every day, three hundred and sixty five days a year.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Are you like a duck obsession?

Speaker 7 (14:17):
No, it was just I've always been fascinated by the
Peabody Hotel and me and and the ducks is just
there's no I can't think of another hotel.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Then I can't think about I can't think of it.
I mean, they're just ordinary ducks, aren't they just ordered
with ducks like.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
That's normal, normal duct normal ducks.

Speaker 7 (14:39):
Yeah, they're long and from memory, there's if you if
you look a ession on the internet that there's a
reason why they do it. I think someone one of
our hotel owners way back in the twenties had some
battle whatever and and but there is a there's plenty
of stories about it. But it's a tradition that's well

(15:02):
and truly over one hundred years old.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Can you feed them? Do you buy feed for them?
Or their fear or what keeps them there?

Speaker 7 (15:11):
Probably just training, I imagine. I can't, to be honest,
I can't remember. I actually can't remember whether you're allowed
to whether you're allowed to feed the ducks that are
in the pond. But they're basically there all day and
they just happily sit in the pot were in the
pond vicinity.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
It's a very surprising story.

Speaker 8 (15:33):
Pill.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
I've enjoyed that imm instincts. I never knew about the
Peabody Hope. I mean it rung about. There was a
space in my mind where that information was stored. But
I don't think I knew about the ducks. I think
it's pretty of well known people that become the duck master.
But that'd be quite a sight to see. I mean,
that's what While we've got ducks and hotels here, that's
something people would like to see. But poor what we
just got crystal in our hotel booking that it has

(15:57):
not been honored. Feel very bad about this. What are
people saying via text about this? And if you've got
an opinion about this? Booked a venue once for around
thirty two people a few months advanced phone to chick
or was a k week before they said they had
a booking for one fifty that night, And deny any
knowledge of my booking, Marcus. If you make a booking

(16:23):
that is accepted, is that not a contract to cancel?

Speaker 9 (16:27):
This?

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Is this not a breach of contact? Noel Marcus, I'm
a Motelia. If they have a confirmation email, they must
honor it, or Booking dot Com must find you something similar.

(16:51):
Always use expeedy, not booking dot Com, as they charge
you the rate that you see in charge the card
you use there, and then I don't know what to use.
I think you just I don't know what to use.
How many high rise buildings have ruf puol and now
metros in New Zealand?

Speaker 10 (17:08):
Not many.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
I wouldn't think, I know the ah, what was that
flesh ruggerus the regent anyway, that's long gone now became
apartments at a hotel on the roof, but I don't
think many would have anymore. Aaron, it's Marcus. Good evening
and welcome.

Speaker 11 (17:25):
Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
How are you good, Aeron?

Speaker 12 (17:27):
Thank you good good.

Speaker 11 (17:29):
Yeah, I've got some stage behavior I've got to record
about ducks. I mean, I feel a bit silly bringing
up about this, but I'm a keen fasherman. I live
out of the Salmon Hearts and the stop Bank is
pretty much twenty minutes away from my house, and I
do a lot of fishing out there. And there's a
group of ducks and they've never changed in the past
five years since I've lived here. They're all the same.

(17:51):
And every now and then they'll climb the stop bank.
It's like a week for dest friand parade and come
across and I'll feed them. And then they marched back,
just in a little straight line, and there's cats and
everything else around, and they never seem to be bothered
by them, and the cats bother them. It's really strange behavior.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
It sounds delightful, it.

Speaker 11 (18:11):
Is delightful, but I can't get a bit worried about them.
I'm thinking I should get the white paint out and
put a weir Bedestine crossing across for them. I'm not
quite sure, but it's yeah, it's really strange behavior. Even
now and then you'll see one missing. I don't know
whether they go and recruit another duck or something if
one gets shrut during duck season. But yeah, it's weird
the way they behave.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Wow, are you worried about them? Come duck shooting.

Speaker 11 (18:34):
A little back?

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Because I do.

Speaker 11 (18:36):
I mean, I don't shoot ducks, but I do hunt animals.
But ah, well, I kind of do you get a
bit attached to them. My daughters started giving them names
and stuff, and every now and then you'll see, oh,
someone's not here or someone else is not here, and
you think, oh, well, you know something's happened. But yeah,
they for the past five years, it just happens.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Spar Clockworth.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Hey, I've just got a minute left there and before
the headlines. Are you guys, are you lowes sell On
huts or the upper sell On huts? Upper Sell are
you secure or they're still trying to get rid of you?

Speaker 11 (19:06):
No, well, we're not quite sure. I I think that
the upper be really quiet. The upper sell and huts
has got a reprieve that I don't know about the
lower ones.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Okay, I haven't heard about the reprieves. That's good, so
beautiful part of the world. I loved all those plantings
down the bottom there that looked amazing. But thank you.
I appreciate that. Aaron ducks duck strange behavior with ducks.
I'll tell you what. For the first time out to
ducks across the road. The Perrys that are always there
outside our place, they they every year they've had ducklings,

(19:35):
and every year the ducklings have just diminished. This year,
I think they brought two to the teenage years. I
think they've now literally fled the nest, so that was
exciting for us.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
All.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, they became quite the story around Bluff people coming
to watch them. Anyway, that's a good story, redevoted to
each other, but mainly about it's about Crystal and her
booking and anyone else who'ver been to the Peabody Hotel?
I ever heard of it? How did that guy know about that?
What do people have that sort of where with all

(20:06):
they can just think I got out of the Peabody
Hotel for a night to see the ducks. I wonder
if anyone else in this listen land would have been
to see the Peabody Ducks. It's mine, invisible bucketus, I've
never heard of it. Vow to send an email. We've

(20:29):
been to see the Peabody Ducks. We took a week
video of them coming out of the lift. Enjoy maybe.
Oh there they all are. There's the hotel, the lifts
come down, there's the lift doors opening. Oh there's only four.
There's a guy who leads them out. There's kids, but

(20:49):
oh there's five. It's an adorable scene. And they go
to the fountain. What's he take out of the water
glady to leave. Gosh, it's quite extraordinary. For goodness sake,

(21:12):
what will they think of next? This is America. I'd
like to share that video. Val. I'm going to send
it to Dan, and Dan you can ask afford it
to you.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Dan.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Forward to Dan, and Dan's gonna ask you if we
can post it. So that's to you, Dan. Dan is
not valid send this email during most recipients work hours
we have. If it goes to Dan, for goodness sake,

(21:50):
it's something they don't get bird flu, then'll be the
thing we'll put the car wash. I don't want someone
who's one of the Ducks will come down with bird flu. Robert,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (22:01):
Hello Marcus. You're asking about people who send the Peabody ducks.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Don't say you have.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
I have.

Speaker 12 (22:10):
We were going through Elvis's home, Gracelands in the morning,
which we did. We came out of Gracelands and we
had lunch and we went to Sun Records and saw
where he recorded and stars like Jerry Lee Lewis and

(22:31):
all the guys of that era all made their first records.
And we were walking to the main street and we
saw actually Peabody was a collector of beautiful China pit
pieces from China in a museum. So there's a Peabody
Museum there, and there is also the Peabody Hotel. And

(22:55):
the ducks were actually up on the roof. We were
sitting in the four having a cup of coffee actually,
and the ducks were brought down and in the elevator
and they walked in and got into a fountain which
is in the fider. They had to swim around and

(23:19):
then the hill march back into the lift and up
to the roof again.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Well before you went to Gracelands and to Memphis, were
you aware that that was a thing, the Peabody ducks? Yes, okay,
how I've never heard of it.

Speaker 12 (23:36):
It's a guy from the paper here had been on
a tour of Memphis and he said, if you want
to see something different the Peabody.

Speaker 13 (23:48):
Hotel, and you did.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Can I just take a pause to just can I
just take a pause to just say what an extraordinary
performer Jerry Lee Lewis was. Every time you see footage
of him, boy he was out of the box. That one.
Wow he sure wow, sure was crazy. Jerry Lee. You
know what?

Speaker 11 (24:06):
Ever?

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Quite like and some studios are still there, right.

Speaker 12 (24:10):
Yes, did you record did you record street? I think
it's I think the main street's Beale Street.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
You think you might be right? Did you record something there?

Speaker 7 (24:23):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (24:23):
No, I didn't record anything, but they had the whole
history at the place. It was quite a tour. It
was a a couple of hours.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Okay. Nice to hear from your Robert. Thank you. It's
all about ducks. Good thing to get the ducksh out
of the way. They share well before duck shooting season.
Although I see a lot of ducks around. There's a
lot of ducks in South Image. It's quite dry because

(24:50):
you can sense that people are getting antsy about duck
shooting season now, as they do every year. Canes have
run away with it. They're on a tear. Fifty to twelve,
ten to go, that's over the War of Tars, twenty
one away from nine. Janey, it's Marcus. Hello, and good evening.

Speaker 14 (25:04):
Hello Marcus. How are you good?

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Jane?

Speaker 3 (25:06):
And real good? Thank you.

Speaker 14 (25:08):
That's good. I haven't talked to you. I don't know
if I.

Speaker 10 (25:11):
Either have No, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
I normally recognize names. But nice to hear from you.

Speaker 14 (25:15):
Yeah, thank you. A duck story right in the Duneda
and we get a midweek paper and on the front
page it was afraid of a duck that was attacked
by two people that was quite injured anyway, So give
us duck. He's on the mend. And yeah, they recommened

(25:36):
you all pulled through. But are there some horrible people
out of their market?

Speaker 5 (25:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Whereould they have found that duck?

Speaker 14 (25:42):
To a ticket outside of fish and chip shop? Apparently
we two people were waiting for their order. Yeah, I
guess so. The poor duck all he wanted was.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Indeed, what they what do they had to do to
the duck?

Speaker 14 (25:59):
What do they do to it?

Speaker 11 (26:00):
Know?

Speaker 3 (26:00):
What have they done to fix him up? Is he
like broken? Oh?

Speaker 14 (26:04):
Know what he's saying at the hospital and when he's
a wee bit more mobile while put him under somewhere
else to get him right to be released again. Well,
but isn't it amazing? Yeah, we got a bird hospital.
I suppose it's about five years ago. Look, it could
be longer than the half as time goes, yes, goes fast.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
And you think we were because I know that in
the Auckland their bird hospital, they only start doing natives
now because there were too many like ducks and sparrows.

Speaker 15 (26:31):
But oh really, yeah, but let's go.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
To if they give them the duck a name because
it toways a bad thing.

Speaker 14 (26:38):
No, no, not as yet, but they could do. And
he's really cute. You see a photo of him in
the pan of someday, or the nurse's hand him and
you see him lying on her. Looks like a sleeping bag.
But it will be something warm. I supposed to keep
the wee fello warm.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
A war sounds like a great news story.

Speaker 14 (26:58):
Yes, so it is a good story, isn't it? Not
very nice at the beginning. But there's some horrible people
out there. Good god, what they do to a d propoor.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Douk just be as they wait for their fish and chips.
Because normally you sit down and read a magazine, don't you.

Speaker 14 (27:12):
That's right?

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Not those ones. So out there they are beshing some duck. Terrible. Okay,
I can't find the story. What would the janey wats
your midweek magazine called?

Speaker 14 (27:24):
Oh what is it called?

Speaker 16 (27:26):
Now?

Speaker 14 (27:26):
Because you've got me now, Oh the streets, isn't it?
I really believe it.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
I'm in your neck of the w once this weekend.
We've got a softball tournament.

Speaker 14 (27:35):
Oh really, yeah, your boys play.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yes, but it's just the elder boy whose team's up
playing tomorrow?

Speaker 14 (27:42):
Oh good one?

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Oh well, Willy, I might see around the trips. I'll
be on the lurk. Can't watch that all weekend. Drive
me crazy. Eighteen to nine oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nineteen nine. People say funny funny things. Who
is some funny things? People shouting. I'm not sure of
the lingua franka, but the special things you shout out

(28:05):
during softball I already haven't got the song sheet for anyway.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
I'll do a bit of that.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Your poppet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (28:13):
Yeah, good evening, Marcus. Love your show and I always
listen and frequently have a cought time to call you.
And this time you're talking about ducks and things like that. Yes,
I believe these immigrants they become a menace. Ducks, geese, swans,
black swans and Canada geese. It should be open season

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on them for hunters all year round. There are too
many for this country. We don't need them, and they
destroy the environment.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
How about that?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, I don't think that's an uncommon view. There's not
a lot of love for the Canada goose.

Speaker 17 (28:51):
No, and neither the black swan. I mean when you
see them in the estuaries, they pull the weeds out
that stopped.

Speaker 15 (28:58):
Where they pooh in the thing.

Speaker 17 (28:59):
The fish don't go.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, that's right, and they need to be wonderful.

Speaker 10 (29:05):
I believe they could.

Speaker 18 (29:06):
I see them.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
I wonder if the spoon bulls are taking over. They
seem to be everywhere these Where are you, bob In?
Of course you are? You got spoon balls there?

Speaker 4 (29:18):
No, they're a natives.

Speaker 17 (29:19):
Well no they're not. They're endemic.

Speaker 15 (29:21):
They flew here.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
They came here under their own steam. That's a good point.

Speaker 17 (29:25):
Yeah, the swan, the boody ducks and the boody geese
were all boody important here.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
You're yeah, okay, yeah, well yeah, I I don't see
a lot of swans. I see a lot of kid
of the geese and a lot of ducks.

Speaker 17 (29:40):
Oh the swans in a black swan down on the
on the tearing a harbit about every couple of years,
the local hunters get together and they in appropriate time
they heard them up into a one of the you know,
the the bays, and they led them out of the water.
They just they need to be culled.

Speaker 18 (30:00):
There are too many of them.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Are you involved with the culling, Bob?

Speaker 17 (30:04):
No, I'm not, but I support what they do.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, it would be to your duck, you go duck shooting?

Speaker 14 (30:11):
No, but I do eat them.

Speaker 17 (30:15):
But they're not really nice. I'd sooner have a chicken
than a duck.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Soon have a chicken. That's exactly right, Bob, You and
me both nice to hear from you. Interesting too, with one.
I won't go into that.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ellen, welcome, Hey, Marcus, how you doing tonight?

Speaker 19 (30:31):
Good?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Thank you? Ellen.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
That's all right.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
You know a couple of observations. I mean, when you're
talking ducks, I'm assume you're talking mallards, not those great
moscow vy ducks. So you have seen those great big
white things that shit everywhere.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
I certainly do that. They're very They've got they've got
very an effective digestive systems, haven't they?

Speaker 2 (30:52):
No, I no, hey, But anyway, I'll give you a
duck story. I had a vetory clinic in Wellington and
got called out one Friday afternoon by a guy and
a car said he hit a duck. So I went
out a thing obviously to him. To you present me
with a damaged duck. And this duck was caught behind

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the grill on the car. So you know what I mean,
don't you. So this duck was in behind the grill, yes, complete,
completely uninjured, but stuck behind the grill. So I had
to send them down to the local garage to have
the grill taken out. But but, but it was most unusual.

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I'm not quite sure how it happened. But the really
but the really well, the really ironic thing was and
you know, Wellington, I'm assuming he hit it at Peckapecker.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
That'll keep you on the conference circuit for a long time.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
With stories like that.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
You could even run a James Garriott stype book about
your time as a vet with a duck bar because
you've got the grill and then you've got the radiator,
haven't you.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
I know, I know, miss duck was literally it was
a plastic radiator. But this duck was literally staring at me,
you know, out of the grill. I was imagining and
going down Nah wronger gorge going.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Do you wonder why called a bet?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
I don't know, you guess guess he assumed it was injured,
and you know he wondered what had happened or whatever.
But anyway, I thought you'd enjoy that one very.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Good story, and thank you for the picker pick. I
was imagining as I wonder what's going to be anyway,
it was going to be duck Lane or something, or
the guys could have a personalized plate that said Mallard
or something like that, not pick a picker eleven from nine.
How are you people? My name is Marcus. Welcome, Welcome.
It's stories about ducks and the Peabody Hotel. You see

(32:48):
as I'm hearing this story at the Peabody Hotel, I
do think I might have seen some footage of that before.
I seem to remember that. But anyway, Memphis seems pretty trippy,
don't it nice to hear from if you want to
talk big earthquake and me and Mandalay. But this extraordinary

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footage of water pouring out of tour buildings in Bangkok,
buildings with infinity pools. The Thai government's Callednugent meeting in
a bit to gauge the extent of the damage in
their country and the required immediate response. So that's happening

(33:31):
fifty seven twelve full time hurricanes over the warratar's texts. Marcus,
I've seen the Peabody Hotel ducks. My husband and I
has traveled the United States in twenty thirteen, and in
Memphis we went to see the ducks do their thing
the Peabody Hotel most bizarre. Everyone enjoyed it, though, do
we really need to hear about all the ducks? What

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is a feel good one? Trevor? The a duck in
Niuey got swept off course, landed in Nuey and stayed
for a few months. Was the only duck on the island?
How did all the swans end up in hell Beach?
Thanks Brett. I went to Peabody Hotel ducks twenty years

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after going to Graceland. It was part of the Kentucky
Tour Love Memphiscrat Show Marcus, Jan Marcus, I can't believe
you're talking about ducks. They are my absolute favorite animal.
I hand raised the Muscovy duck. His name is Freddy
six down. Some of the strangers but sweetest things. If
the front door is opened, a wandering sign straight to
my room as his own pond and through other friends.

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Ducks are strange and they have great personalities. Nick from
White to their hair. For the last five years. We
had the same ducks come daily for a few months
and Mama duck always comes back showing off their ducklings.
We named them Gwyneth Poultrie and Trevor Mallard. Trevor to

(34:59):
better than that. Couldn't Yeah, anyway, thank you. We have
declared a state of emergency in Bangkok. This is because
of the earthquake and adjacent Mianma and looking at some
of the footage from Bangkok, it's hard to know whether
it's shots of Bangkok or Myanmar, but it does seem

(35:22):
as though there is a large amount of destruction, mainly
on roads that I'm seeing with the footage. Troll, keep
your cross, all of that. Get in touch. By name
is Marcus Walkert. We are talking ducks. Strange stories about ducks.
Basically many were started with a Peabody hotel. I knew
nothing about that. This hotel in Memphis. The ducks come
down and lift and go and spend the day in

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a fountain and they go back up to the roof.
One of those strange things that people are into. And
you start doing something, people go there to film. It
becomes a thing. The thing becomes the thing and then
being part of the thing. You've become part of the thing.
You don't want to miss out. Nothing grand, It's just

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ducks anyway. Also some discussion about booking into hotels when
they ring up and say they've got a double booking
and they charge you five times as much. If you
want to talk about that, good, I'm all up for it.
Eight hundred and eighty to ten eighty. My name is
Marcus Welcome. I don't when he places other hotels that

(36:30):
do that with ducks that come down lifts. I'm just
seeing a whole building here with a large number of
ambulances outside. I presume that's outside one of the buildings
that's collapsed. I don't know if that's the high rise
under construction, but there's just a massive pile of rubble,

(36:50):
and I think that's the one they're expecting that there's
forty seven people. But if that's the building where the
forty seven people are missing, there'd be no show of them,
because that really is just from it seems to be
a twenty story building which is down to about two stories.
That seems to be a very serious situation. This is
in this earthquake in Bangkok, so anyway on UPRE I

(37:12):
look forward to your calls and texts. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty, there's something else you want to
talk about, mention good, be nice to hear from you.
Probably too much writing about Liam Lawson to say, a
lot of articles about that, weren't there. Oh, we'll make
it interesting for the next Formula one to see how
well he does from the back of the grid. Hopefully

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he does very, very well. And we talk about the
Peabody ducks. We've gotten to that from some guy's hotel
talk on Fine that's very interesting. Preveling to Memphis. People
go there on their kon TICKI too. Oh, there's shots
now of the roads that are just incredibly damaged, with

(37:55):
cars trying to drive over them. It's hard to know
whether that's in Myanmar or Bangkok, but certainly there's a
lot of coverage on BBC of that. I'm not seeing
shots of the buildings in mienmar We though, or too.

(38:16):
A BBC journalist who lives in Bangkok tells the BBC
World Service that she was at home cooking when the
initial quake happened. I was very nervous, I was very panicked.
I didn't know what it was because it had been
I think a decade since Bangkok had a really strong
quake like this. In my apartment, I just see some
cracking on the walls and waters splashed out of the

(38:38):
swimming pool and people just yelling following an after shock.
Sheerlong with lots of other people's ran out onto the street.
We're just trying to wrap our heads around what's going on.
Buildings in Bangkok are not earth engineered for earthquakes, so
that's why I think there's going to be a big damage.
That's certainly the point I made. Looks like none of
these buildings at all are expecting quakes. As I say,

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I was just before work looking on the feet and
they were just shot after shot of tour buildings with
water pouring from the roof from pools. I can't imagine
how they got permission to build have so much weight
up high in buildings anyway, And I want to do
three hours on my impressions on construction and Bangkok. So

(39:25):
we are talking ducks in the Peabody Hotel, well, well,
the other musk stops for the Konickie Tour of America
sounds for interesting out of Memphis in the Kentucky Hotel
to watch the ducks and the Sun Studios and Grace.
Then it's a big day, isn't it. There's something else
that I can't remember. So if you want to talk
about ducks, that's only what we are on about ducks

(39:49):
in a positive way. I don't want to have to
any people out talking about killing ducks because no one's
had into that, are they. You've got your week later
on or your month that's duck shooting season. Sam Marcus, Evening.

Speaker 20 (40:01):
High Marcus, I have a duck story. Yes, go my
husband night. We're house sitting for some friends of ours
and we were just lying on the couch on the
Friday night watching some footy and I said, this, all
mighty rattis in the kitchen, and I tatured him, can
you just go and see what it is? And so

(40:22):
if we went, and he came back and he just
lay back on the couch and I said, well, what
was in the kitchen And he said it's a duck.
And I think you've got to be kiddings. What is
the duck doing in the kitchen? He said, the cat
brought it through the cat flap.

Speaker 11 (40:42):
Wow.

Speaker 20 (40:43):
So anyway, I thought, Okay, I knew there was a
pond sort of down a long drive. You know, it
was dark, it was winter, it was in tower on it,
and so I said, I'm going to have to find
some way to keep us back tonight, because then tomorrow
we can go and find the pond and put it back.
So I decided I'd put it in there downstairs laundry

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and put a towel down, put some water, and put
some stuff, and then went upstairs and we went to bed,
and we couldn't hear any of it. But I think
the duck must have been lying in circles all because
it was poop bob steel and poop on the windows,

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absolutely everywhere. And I all back down to the water
and opened the opened the laundry, and I thought, hell,
what on earth are we going to do here? So
moral of the story, if I ever ever get a
duck inside a house again, it's going straight straight the

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wrong thing.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
And the cat hadn't ended up bringing it through the cat.

Speaker 20 (41:56):
Door, No, just the catstat there in the kitchen watching
the ducks. What was the noise in the kitchens?

Speaker 5 (42:11):
And it's a duck?

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Certainly was great story. Sound Thanks very much for that.
Didn't know where that was going to go. That was
was well told too, because I think, you know, why
has the husband seeing that then gone back to the
couch the catboarded in? Very well told, you'd be good
at one of those. So what they are those telling

(42:36):
story nights? Anyway, there's now multiple shots of high rise
buildings in Bangkok with just it's extraordinary with all the
infinity pools. Just these buildings have just become like waterfalls.
And it's not just one, it's multiple buildings. I don't

(42:56):
know how much damage they will do. Is that water
cascades down them and also too, Yes, it's it's very
grave the building that has collapsed. It's just it was
a building under construction, in a tall building twenty or
thirty stories high, and now it's probably just rubble about
a story high. Yeah, it's it's looker. I would say

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it would be unsurvivable. If you're in the bottom stories,
you would have all the top floors falling down on you.
If you're in the top one, it's a long way
to fall as well. And it seems to have fallen
constantineed or pancaked for every quickly because there was no
walls or things within the buildings to hold it up

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because it was still under construction. There's no furniture or
anything to provide any sort of resistance. So yeah, veryvery
serious talking ducks and duck stories people if you want
to come through, and also talking about the ducks at
the Peabody Hotel evening Marcus. Mandelay was where the prisons

(44:05):
of World War two were march to and through to
the camps to work on the railways. Regards Jully Fielding Marcus.
One year, when I was visiting in ver Carglin winter,
the duck pond at Queen's Park partly froze over. Ducks
flew down and landed sliding on the ice like ski planes.

Speaker 21 (44:21):
Allen.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
I think it's a long time that pond frozen, which
tells you something to feed ducks. Use seedless grapes, cut
cooked rice, bird seedpeas, corn oats, and chopped lettuce. Marcus.
I love ducks, and I don't know why they have
to cross the road with the ducklings all the time.

(44:46):
I live in Millard Avenue and when our road sign
was stolen they replaced it with Mallard Avenue. I let
them know the mistake, but I should have asked for
the Mallard sign. Desiree Masterton Marcus, you ever duck fetish?
Hardly nine years you talk about ducks. One night you've
got a duck fetish. We've got a roundabout fetish. Probably

(45:09):
we're on about tonight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
And if you check into a hotel, what about Well,
if you book a hotel seven months ago, will they
honor it? And when they say they're over booked and
then they've actually charging three times the price for that room.
By the way, I didn't know. I mentioned this a

(45:30):
little bit yesterday. So for those that know, I don't know.
But for those that do know, synthphony is on in
Auckland this weekend. It's become a revery big thing that
of course, in the past it was opera in the
park and carols in the park without synthhony. And that's

(45:54):
the orchestra playing. That's the Auckland Philharmonica, I think, plus
others playing dance hits. They're expecting forty thousand. I think
I've never been, so maybe some of them tell us
what it's like. I presume people aren't sitting down. I
presume they're standing with glow sticks. I don't know. I
don't know the crowd. I presume it's the thirty and
forty year old is it? And the fifty year olds

(46:16):
with glow sticks? Dancing'd be fun. I imagine they're there
with glasses. Are they with chardonnay and dancing? Let me
know about that. It's going to be a very big
day in Auckland tomorrow. Also going to be a very
big Dan Wellington with Cooper Dooper. Also there's two sport

(46:37):
games happening in Wellington and also Graham Norton this weekend.
You might have seen Graham Norton too. I wouldn't mind
an update on that. I also wouldn't mind update on
snow White. I don't know what the controversy is about,
but people are going on and on about that. Taylor
at Marcus Good Evening.

Speaker 10 (46:56):
And I guess just calling you to talk about symphony.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Oh, thank you?

Speaker 13 (47:00):
Have been a couple?

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Have there been a couple?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Have there?

Speaker 10 (47:03):
I think it's been like I think this is the
first one.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
I think.

Speaker 10 (47:08):
We went to the one last year and it was
it was a real mixed bag. We were you know,
we're in me and my partner are in our twenties,
but you know there was people twenties, thirties, forties, fifties.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
It was a good time and everyone loves it.

Speaker 10 (47:22):
Oh, it was packed. It was I couldn't believe how
many people were there last year. I kind of I
can't or would be great?

Speaker 3 (47:29):
And are you standing or seated?

Speaker 10 (47:32):
Well, most people are standing, but because it's the whole domain.
There's like a nice big grass bank where lots of
we were sitting last year, and then we left our
you know, picnic blanket and hats and stuff there and
we went down for a dance and it was a
real nice next year.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
So where they were the bands? Sorry, where the the seating?
The pavilion, that's where it's all happening.

Speaker 10 (47:59):
Okay, well sort of we were like quite far away
from the stage. We're just in the general admission area.
But if you I mean, obviously the closer you got
to the stage, it was just more of a big
marsh pit. Gregus all the real young ones go. But
we were we were quite happy sitting in the sun
up on the on the brass bank.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
How does the acoustics work, because obviously it's an orchestra,
but is it amplified as well? To get it that,
there must be big speakers as well as there.

Speaker 10 (48:24):
Well, I heard last year real mixed bag. We were,
we were, it was fine, like it sounded great. But
then I saw like the next day on social media
people saying that they didn't hear it quite as well.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
It's social media that people can plain.

Speaker 10 (48:40):
I think for the most part, weirdloty great time. I said,
we're going to do it every year.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
So so to understand this, right, they've got dance hits
like the Rude Sandstorm or whatever, and they've just transposed
though for an orchestra, and the orchestras play them is
authentically as is authentic copies as they can.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
Is that right?

Speaker 10 (48:59):
That's yeah, that's generally the vibe. I mean, we they
stayed right at the very end. So last year they
had fat readys and room mental and that was that
was cool to start with. But the n ride at
the very end close to I think n PM. I
think they brought out the orchestra and it was it
was epic. It was really really cool.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
So is the orchestra not there the whole time?

Speaker 2 (49:20):
No?

Speaker 10 (49:21):
No, they're just like the final act, like the I
guess the headlining act obviously, but they're right at the
very end.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
So what's the rest of the time.

Speaker 10 (49:31):
Then, well, I think this year they've got like a
few different artists. You've got example, Tikitka Lady six.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Okay, so the rest of the time it's just like
a big content but at the end they have the
orchestra playing those ads, right.

Speaker 10 (49:48):
Yeah, exactly, And I mean it starts at two pm
and then you know food and drinks.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
It it's like a ten hour thing.

Speaker 10 (49:56):
Yeah yeah, and it's it's it's huge. It takes over
the whole Aukland domain. It's really really cool.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
And we're talking last night about Eaton Park with that
kind of makes it there in such a gorgeous set,
because it wouldn't be the same in a stadium, would it.

Speaker 8 (50:09):
No?

Speaker 10 (50:09):
No, I mean you get you know, sitting in the sun,
and it's just that's the other thing it was. I
think you were forty or thirty thousand last year, but
you didn't feel too cramped. It really spacious.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Can you take everything you want blankets and food and
wine or your checked.

Speaker 10 (50:25):
People were taking like everything by the kitchen sink. This
year we're going to I'm going to go a lot
more minimal, just phone wallet. I don't want to carry
around everything, but you know people do go go all out.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
You worked out where you're going to park.

Speaker 10 (50:40):
Oh, we're going to get uber and or catch the bus.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
You ever got one of those silly trolley's eve one's
got now, those silly trolleys, they take everything in.

Speaker 10 (50:48):
Don't knock it to you.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Try it, don't get missed out. I think we might
be trying it this week in Taylor. I'm not happy
about it. Thank you, Ellie, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (50:56):
Oh h, I'm Marcus.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Now I got that right about Cynthony. What do you
want to say about it?

Speaker 22 (51:02):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (51:03):
Synthony is one of the most amazing shows I've ever
been to.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (51:10):
I am forty three and I played in an orchestra
growing up at school, and it's just so cool to
hear an orchestra play club classics and you know, the
kind of music that we all love. Everyone has fun there,
it's great.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Here's my question, and you will answer this because you've
played an orchestra's does an orchestra with that mix of
instruments do they have the ability to replicate any club
classics sound?

Speaker 10 (51:42):
Wise, Yes, they do.

Speaker 19 (51:46):
Unbelievably well. Wow, it's honestly one of the best shows
I've ever been to, even the in and outdoor arena.
The sound is brilliant and the orchestra can be in
them at Lar Arena. Yep, it's really cool. And also

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because it's a diverse range of ages of people that
go to the event, I've seen kids there with their parents,
and yeah, it's such a brilliant show.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
It's so nice to hear of something that no one's
got a bad word about. There's universal enthusiasm, which you
don't actually come across these days very often.

Speaker 19 (52:29):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Yeah, and Elliot's priced reasonably, I think so make good.

Speaker 19 (52:37):
I think I bought it one hundred and ten dollars.
I think that's well priced. When you have DJs playing
like basement Jacks at the end, you know, you've got
so many different DJs playing as well as the orchestra,
I think it's well priced.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Are you taking a lot of stuff where you're going minimal?

Speaker 19 (53:01):
I'm going minimal. I've got about twenty friends going with
me from all ages and different you know, areas of
my life, like work mates, and yeah, we're just going
to have fun okay.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
And will you be will you be sitting? And do
you take seats or will you dance?

Speaker 19 (53:22):
Oh, we'll be dancing. You can take your seats and
your picnic blankets. And that's cool too, okay.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
And no one gets to do and no one gets
too drunk or anything like that.

Speaker 19 (53:36):
No, I don't think at that event, No they do.
There are other events I've been to where younger crowd.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
That's right. Sometimes this event, Yeah, okay, that sounds it
all sounds like it's very growing up and very well
done and reappreciated.

Speaker 16 (53:51):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 19 (53:52):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Appreciate that, Ellie, thank you very much for that.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Sam.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (54:01):
Oh holy Marcus.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Are yeah good, real good, good good.

Speaker 13 (54:05):
Always give you a duckt Sorry, just to fill in
the evening. It's a pleasure to be able to talk
to you about it. June a few years ago. There
I was with the Department of Conservation. I was looking
out looking after the island and the gulf there called
motor he Hay, And the only person living on the
island is the ranger. And of course you get to
know the nature. And anyway, this duck took a fancy

(54:31):
to me if you want to say. And when I
used to go out working, she used to fly fly
around looking for me land on the yute that I had,
or land beside me anyway, and then the breeding season
she would bring her ducklings under up by the house
and I'd protect them, put them underneath the house of

(54:53):
a bowl of water or a tray of water for
a ducklings. So the pucicos were prone to take out
the little ducklings. Anyway, this particular summer day was my
days off. I was coming back to the island on
a Saturday morning, and there was a lot of beach
that goes around but came off the taxi and I
was walking up to the house, the dockhouse, and talking

(55:17):
to the beach goes on the day. Anyway, she must
have heard my voice because she'd been missing for a
while before I went, and I obviously knew she's gone
away to have the reading season. And you were out
of the long grass as I was walking along. We're here,
there's quack, quack, quack, and out of the long grass

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days he comes wadling out, comes up to me, and
behind her she had her seven little ducklings. She came
up straight up to me to show me what she had,
and then I carried on walking up on the roadway
up to the house. She then disappeared back into the
grass and headed up towards where I was going. She
takes a couple of hours to get up there, and

(56:01):
about two or three hours later she gets up to
the house and there she is with her seven ducklings,
and there was It was just nature at its best.
Story it was lovely and relate the story quite often
to people, this one. But eventually the black back goals
take them out, though they did she lose them all, Sam,

(56:23):
pardon did she lose them all? No?

Speaker 12 (56:25):
She went down.

Speaker 13 (56:26):
She when she waddled up to me down the beach,
it was gorgeous. She come hand of the long grass,
heard my voice. She I think it was eight she
may have had then, and then by the time she
got up to the house they were down to six.
So these black back goals they sweeped down as you're
probably no markers from your days in Islington Bay.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Yeah, yeah, oh wow, okay, yeah yeah.

Speaker 13 (56:49):
But in the end I think when she got there
she about six. She lost a couple getting up to
the house, but then I put the tray out filled
with water, put it under the house, and you got
to protect them from the picch eckos as well. But
she remained with me for quite a while when my
time was on the island, and I always wonder what

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happened to poor old Daisy Alan.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Did Alan's a duck?

Speaker 11 (57:13):
Clive?

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Sam ten twenty years? Would they be quite a while?

Speaker 4 (57:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (57:17):
Quite a while? Yeah, if you can protect them.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
Yeah, okay, nice to hear from your Sam. Thank you, George,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 13 (57:24):
Good evening.

Speaker 18 (57:25):
Yeah, another duck story marker.

Speaker 7 (57:27):
Nay, thank you George, since ronto ducks.

Speaker 18 (57:30):
Yeah, on a Friday night. And in the early nineteen
eighty so I got rung up by a Presbyterian minister.
Do you want to go duck shooting tomorrow morning? I go, okay,
never been duck shooting, This would be exciting. We arranged
to meet at ours place and I said, I don't
have a gun. He says, I've got one here for you. Okay,

(57:52):
some some gun of some sort of. It was a
twenty two. So off we went about five o'clock in
the morning. You said, we're going to be there ready
when the sun rises to get this flame and ducks. Okay, okay.
So we got to this farm and then we spent
about an hour I suppose way out in sticks, I
don't know where, way back of Parmiston, or way towards
towards Martin, somewhere between Parmiston North and Martin in this

(58:16):
hilly won't be wet, slippery hilly environment. We worked their
way down to this river. We finally got there down
there because we had to use tortures to get down there,
and as the sun rose yet there were ducks on
the water.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
To sit in there.

Speaker 18 (58:31):
He says, just take a pot shop. I'm sure you'll
get some. So I took pot shops and he took
pot shots. Every time I shot, well went in front
of the duck, he turned anuntes from the other way,
so I'd take another shot and would go too far
ahead of where he was heading behind the duck, even
though I was aiming at the duck, and it would
turn me out to go the other way. And this
went on and on, and I said, there's something wrong

(58:53):
with my gun, because I I was at school, and
I was a good shot when I was at school,
and I'd go, there's something wrong with a gun. He
looks at me, he thinks, I think it's my grandfather's
m from the nineteen fifties, and never went to the
same place twice. Goodness, you're all over the place with

(59:16):
the flame. Ammo never goes shooting with the Presbyterian with
his grandfather's gun and Ammo and our dare he ever
cleaned it?

Speaker 3 (59:22):
It seems to be an unlikely thing for Presbyterian minister.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
To be doing.

Speaker 18 (59:26):
Oh well in this case. He was a bit of
an interesting character. Loved him. He was a great character.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
But he had the measure review it's got actually.

Speaker 18 (59:35):
Yep, yep, yeah, that all right, But he didn't have
the mesure of what to use. I just remember his
look in the face. I'm sorry, I pick us my
grandfather's am most like it. Never bought it. It just
bound up the cabin.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Nice story, George, Thank you. Marca Spisho who been to
was two weeks how Aukantown Hafflalkers were playing music from
Jen Kelly's movies, which were playing on a huge green
behind him. Jeen Kelly's wife was there and told us
about her life with Jean and then Michael Crawford, singer
from Phantom spoke to the audience, Marcus, I bought one

(01:00:10):
hundred minutes of plastic ducks about I said a bit
of bigg around my husband. I put them around my parents'
house October last year. They're still finding them. Problem is
I can't remember where they are, so it's a game
for everyone that comes over. Marcus sounds like the presspriand
Minister was a different calibrity of caller. Marcus. My daughter

(01:00:34):
rescued a duck clean had him for every year. We
named him Hugh Jackman. Oh, it's hure a quackman. I
didn't get the updated version, but I thought it's a
good name anyway for a duck. I think it's just
respectful for animals to always name them with a weak pun.

(01:00:55):
What did the ducks start naming us? The latest from Bangkok.
Let me just do a quick cover over that there's
been a big quake and me, but it seems to
be Bangkok that's borne the brunt of it. But it
seems to me and I'll imagine this has become a
big use story for years to come. Is that a
lot of the construction of the high Horizon Bangkok does
not appear to be have any sorts of earthquake code

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at all. So not only of there being skyscraper collapses,
but there's been skyscrapers with huge amounts of water with
pools at the top and the water is all spilled over.
And I'm sure just to have that amount of weight
moving at the top of the building would also compromise
the gird of structure, wouldn't it. You'd think it was.

(01:01:40):
You think it'd be very very bad for a building
to have that happen. And it's a building that has
been constructed that's collapsed, and that really is just it's
just a low pile of rubble and there's forty three
people missing. That the epicenter was at Mandalay. But it

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seems as though they're now saying there's two violent quakes.
One must have been the aftershock. Interestingly enough, right so
Bangkok where they've had this is staggering Bangkok where they've
had all this destruction. That all is eight hundred miles
away now, even in New zenand we don't have quakes

(01:02:26):
that would be thirteen hundred climeters a way and doing damage.
So that's I guess that's plate tectonics for you. Ay,
But that seems remarkable to me. I'm not saying they've
got it wrong. That's a long way for a quake
to travel. Goodness, eight past ten. So far tonight we've
talked about the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and the ducts

(01:02:49):
have on the roof, but they come down on the
lift and they go and spend the days in a
fountain in the atrium. There's got to be more stories
so that there must be probably a book about it.
But what happens with one of the duck dies? They
replace them? Do they train them? All these questions? What's
it like on the roof them in the fountain? Anyway,
plenty of people have been to see it. They come

(01:03:11):
and the lift as everyone behind red ripes with cell
phones videoing it. And we're talking mainly about ducks, interesting
stories about ducks. Also about Symphony, which is on tonight.
Now I'm not I haven't developed an impediment. Symphony is

(01:03:31):
s y n t h O n Y. It's not
a great name, but people love it. And actually from
the two callers I heard, I wouldn't mind going to
myself what a beautiful park the domain is. And that's

(01:03:55):
the fantastic thing that they've had the wherewithal of the
promoter and the council to make that thing a god.
Wellington's missing. Auckland You've got You've got, You've got christ That,
You've got Hagley Park and Auckland you've got the domain
well and I don't have so much things where they
can do that sort of stuff, do they. I guess
they've got the botanic guards, but they're quite steep, so

(01:04:18):
that is a great thing for Auckland. I think they
take it around the world too. I think it's chit ching.
I think it's a licensed to print money. It does
all the club classics that everyone knows. I don't know
what the set list is, but there we go Ducks.
And there was an email earlier on too from someone

(01:04:39):
and I'll read that email again because I wasn't really
satisfied with the response I got about this Happy Friday Marcus.
In November, we booked a hotel in Queenstown. Foreveresta booking
dot com send us an email last week saying the
hotel had overbooked and cantled our booking. I went to
rebook something else in the same hotel popped up with

(01:05:00):
the same rooms on the same dates, but at three
times the price. Can you ask if your listeners have
had this issue and if the hotel still needs to
honor our booking. I would say certainly they would have
to or find you a commensurate room for the same price,

(01:05:21):
or give you some sort of compensation anyway. So that's
the question for you if you've got an answer for that,
also too and symphony, which is people are raving about
and what I quite like about festivals. Festivals when they
are good, are good, and they go for about ten
or twelve years, as long as they keep it fresh,
and I mean that seems as that's something that's going

(01:05:42):
to be a real feature. I think they've probably been
lucky with the weather, but I don't know if it
happens if they've got a wet weather cancelation day. But
with the summer, I say that summer it still feels
like summer. It's been pretty good. Get in Touch eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine two and
interesting duck stories, Stuck stories to bring joy. That last
story was a bit dark after a while to had
to get rid of that one. But yeah, that's what

(01:06:04):
'ren about tonight. My name is Marcus. Welcome. If there's
something different you want to mention tonight on this Friday.
Been a pretty good week. Enjoyed talking last day at
the Salvation Army, Marcus. My niece's mother is Thai, who
I've lived with for the past ten years. I hope

(01:06:25):
her family is okay, Sarah. Someone said the forests that
are quake miles that what does that mean? Number enning
in fifty one twenty two past ten. David's Marcus, good
evening and welcome, Hi, Dave.

Speaker 21 (01:06:43):
Yeah, I've just been talking to my daughter who used
to clean hotels and queens down and still lives in Queenstown. Sure,
and she says that it's quite quite common up there.
The lot of the hotels do that, and most most
chances there the rooms left empty because they want they

(01:07:06):
want the bigger dollar. So if you if you book
a long long way ahead. Top of thing, I don't
know whether the lady actually paid for her room, that
I'd have to honor. And then if she'd already paid for.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
Her okay, well, but is it booking not enough as
a booking not legally binding.

Speaker 21 (01:07:24):
Well you would have thought it would have been. But
that's what they say to you. You know, they've doubled.
Somebody else's got the same room, but if you were
in first, well you would think it would be yours.
But that's what they do there. She's she's working two
or three hotels, cleaning in the rooms and that sort
of thing. And that's what they end on these big

(01:07:46):
hold you talk like Christmas, Eastern and Labor weekend type
of thing, and they they end up leaving the room empty.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
It seems mad to me.

Speaker 21 (01:07:58):
It does definitely agreed for some of these places, but.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Yeah, I just can't well, it also seems to be
unsustainable because you just want to look after people that
will regularly go there, because you know, it's all very
well with a foreign tourists that come once in a while,
but I'm sure inbound tourism is a really important thing
for Queenstown. That's shakiwis that are going there for a
couple of times, you know, a decade. They're the ones

(01:08:23):
that you need to build a relationship with.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
It's true. Yeah, so that's what they do.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
I'll see if I can get some more information. Dave
appreciate that. Thank you for that too, guys. Also, the
other thing I'm curious about how an earthquake. How that
earthquake could have affected Bangkok when it's so far away
from the epicenter. It's got an opinion of that that
would be of interest to me also. But this building
of rubble, you'll see shots of it now and see
an end or Al Jazeera. But wow, Dan, does it

(01:08:56):
say how many stories that proposed building was going to be?
It was thirty stories and it's down to three because
it was just really the concrete framing, so there was
no jib or partitions or furniture or anything to almost
kind of slow down the collapse. So it has just

(01:09:16):
totally pancaked. There is footage of it also. But the
other thing too is all those hotels with pools at
all those tall buildings with pools at the top, all
the water's emptied out. Now the forces on that water
moving around, you think would severely compromise the girders or
the structure of that building.

Speaker 20 (01:09:38):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Gwender, it's Marcus. Welcome. Oh wrong, button, Gwender, it's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 16 (01:09:46):
I stayed at the Peabody Hotel.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Yay did you know?

Speaker 23 (01:09:50):
Yeah? The ducks.

Speaker 16 (01:09:54):
Yes, it's the very grand entrance they have like a
greend master who's all dressed up in his red jacket
and walks them out of the lift as it comes down,
and there's music. And I was amazing to how many
people there were, not just hundreds of thousands of people.
Go and you can be on the ground floor, but

(01:10:15):
if you walk up the beautiful big staircase, you can
be up on the first floor looking down on it
all happening.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Now, how did you happen to be there? Were you
there for the duck scleen?

Speaker 6 (01:10:26):
Well thought of?

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
So you knew about it?

Speaker 16 (01:10:30):
Yes, I've seen a program documentary on TV and we
were heading that way and I said, oh, we should
stay there. I should have asked the price before I
head that. It's quite expensive place to stand. But it's
absolutely beautiful historic building.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Yeah, and kind of a downtown part of Memphis.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
Yes it is.

Speaker 16 (01:10:55):
And you can go up onto the roof where it's
the Duck Hotel where they stay overnight, and there is
a local far and his business is breeding the ducks,
all them this information.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Okay, so so the hotel, they're not the roof of
the hotel, they're not ranging free. There's kind of like
a chicken coop.

Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
For them up there is there, Yes, yes, there is with.

Speaker 16 (01:11:21):
The artisticial grass on it. And of course, well when
they come down, they naturally go to the fountain because
there's like little feeding tins around the edge of the
fountain where they get you know, feed. Their wings are clipped.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Oh that's said. Okay, yes, so they're.

Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
Forced to be there.

Speaker 16 (01:11:40):
And yeah, and apparently I don't think they're very old.
They're only I think they're only so the you know,
when they're quite young ducks, and they don't do it
for that long. They're continually bringing in new ones.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
I don't know the fact the wings are clipp because
that means they can't They really are trapped, aren't they.

Speaker 16 (01:11:58):
Oh yes, definitely definitely. But it's amazing beautiful. It's a
historic building, and the woodwork and the beautiful tiled floors
and everything is just yeah, amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
What's the food like?

Speaker 24 (01:12:17):
Yep?

Speaker 16 (01:12:18):
The food was good.

Speaker 7 (01:12:19):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Not fantastic.

Speaker 25 (01:12:23):
I'm just trying to remember, I know, how long how
long ago were you there?

Speaker 16 (01:12:29):
We were there in twenty and nineteen long ago, Okay, yeah,
and I think we I think breakfast was included with
our package that we were there, and we might have
had one evening meal. No, it was, it was I

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won't that was outstanding, but the meals were nice.

Speaker 8 (01:12:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
And is it why do people go to Memphis, Tennessee
just for gracelands and for that? Is that why they're there?

Speaker 22 (01:12:58):
Wow?

Speaker 16 (01:13:00):
Probably more gracelands?

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Okay you were there as well? Okay, yeah yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:13:05):
Yeah, And like everyone, you're surprised how small that the
house is? Yes, but but the interior, you know, we
would sort of think, oh, it's pretty techy. Really, hello,
it's pretty over the top.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
Well I think it was techy then, wasn't it. I
mean it was a it was always tech.

Speaker 25 (01:13:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
How big is it?

Speaker 20 (01:13:27):
Oh it's not that big?

Speaker 16 (01:13:31):
It really isn't. I would say it's no bigger than
some of the nicer, bigger homes that you probably can
find in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
Yeah, okay, I've heard that. Okay, okay, nice to hear
from you, Gwenda anyway, always good to hear. At the
Peabody Hotel Marcus, every year, usually a week before Dutch
eating season, is a population explosion at Western Springs Park, Auckland.
They seem to know when to duck from the guns
Lull Devo is that right or was it just that? Yeah,

(01:14:04):
I've often wondered about that, but you might want to
talk about that also. So a seventeen to eleven catcher
soon evening and it it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:14:12):
Hi.

Speaker 22 (01:14:13):
We had met mother Duck just when we moved into
a new property with a storm water going through the
driveway at the bottom and through to a neighboring pond. Well,
I saw these ducks, and when i'd go out for
the paper, I'd throw a bit of Mullenberg out there
for them. Never never never saw them come and get it.
But anyway that carried on. That was beginning of November. Well,

(01:14:37):
Christmas morning, my husband and brother in law were sitting
on the backstep scraping the new potatoes. Next thing round
the corner comes Hello, here's mother Duck with the family.
Oh lovely. Okay, that was fine. So they get their
feed and the way they go not long. Here they

(01:15:00):
are back again. We'll have another feed please. Well this
went on so that she ran there that lot. Next
year she raised I don't know how many more, and
up they would come, and the kids just kept coming
up and down on their own. Don't worry about mum,
We know the way where the feed is. Let's keep going.

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So that's fine. One year she decided she'd come up
on our patio, which was quite a flight of steps
up and there's two little hedges on either side of
the top of the steps. Oh, this looks a good
place to lay my eggs.

Speaker 7 (01:15:38):
Wow, we just watched.

Speaker 22 (01:15:39):
We just watched from the front door and the glass
panel on each side of the door. We just watched
and she went, laid an egg, came back out. The
drake was sitting down the driveway. She made a hang
of a racket. I'd laid an egg. We had a
quick look and oh, yet she has so after the

(01:16:00):
next week, while hello, she's about seven or eight eggs
in there. So there she stayed. She'd come up to
the front door, tap on the glass, Thank you, where's mattaka?
Put a dish of water out? She just got her feed.
When she come up and tap on the glass, she
got her feed. So she raised the She stayed on

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the nest there had them there, and we thought, well,
how's she going to get these little things down when
they hatch, because it's quite a drop down. Just dropped
down to one garden and dropped down again. To the
drive so we just watched she we flew down to
the drive way and just called them, Wow, these little bumblebees.

(01:16:42):
Tumble bumble over. They went, crimps wus tumble bumble over
the next one, then away off down to the pond.
So that was fine. So that was just the routine.
Then up and down they came nine o'clock, just about
on the dot every morning, up and down. That was
that year we had this. When I'm for about eight

(01:17:06):
and nine years, she had seven, she had eight, she
had nine.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
She had been always on the hedge.

Speaker 22 (01:17:13):
No, no, no, she had others down there. There were
no cats around them, and she raised them all up.
They would come every year she would have more. We had, oh,
we had seven. We had the twelve disciples we had
the first fifteen was the most that she had. She
had fifteen and she raised them all.

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
It is.

Speaker 22 (01:17:38):
Well though, I think she had about eight and she
came up and she left them at the back door.
She'd often come up and sit there and they'd be
all under her wings. You wouldn't know that she had
a dozen ducklings under her wings. Anyway, that was fine.
One day she left the slot about eight, I think

(01:17:59):
it was she just brought them up and left them
at the back door. I thought, what's going on. She's
gone away, left them, and she's obviously told them they
stay there. They stayed. They're a little bit of feed,
they must both. So they liked the Molenberg too, so
they got some molnbooth and they would just keep stayed around.

(01:18:20):
I'd go down to the pond, but they'd soon back again.
But no, m'am, I thought, what mirth's going on? Anyway,
we just kept on and they grew up a bit more,
and they got a bit older, and they went from
cheap cheap. Oh hello, I heard a quack, and we've
got teenagers. So it was quite entertaining to watch them
go up and down the back lawn trying to learn.

(01:18:43):
They get to the flap of stage and trying to
get take off, get up one end and run on
their tiptoes trying to get lift off, and it was
very entertaining. Anyway, we thought, well, what nurse happened to
mother duck? One day she come up, Oh she's got
the hackles up. What mirth's going on? So she was really,

(01:19:03):
you know, going up these older duck that she'd left
there for me to raise back down to the punch
with the next day she came up again with her
hackles up, and I thought, ooh, shoes, shoes, what's what's
carrying on? Well, the next thing, oh, hello, here she
comes with another brood. So she'd left the slot for

(01:19:24):
me to raise. So up she comes with the next loot.
I'll see you go. Now, what's going to happen? Well,
the old ones started to go for those little ones,
so she couldn't knew she couldn't stay around. I thought, well,
I tried feeding mother duck and the little ones round
at the front door and keep the other ones out

(01:19:44):
the back door. That didn't really work for long. So
in the end for our mother duck, she took the
latest lot away with her. She thought, well, she can't stay.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
Here because you got left with the teenagers.

Speaker 22 (01:19:59):
We got left with the teenagers, and it was very entertaining. Well,
one day I was getting rid of cup of some
beds and furniture. Guys came up to get them. They
lift the back door was open, and so to get in. Well,
I didn't realize all these blimming ducks and they came.

(01:20:20):
I thought, oh, and I couldn't bear to be trapped
with a bird inside. I never ever touched the birds
or even tried to. And they came. They heard the
voices through in the bedroom, and they came through the
sun porch quietly and just right round them. Here they
are at the bedroom door. I thought, oh my goodness,
I can't be this. What am I going to do?

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Hang on there and I'm just going to cure as
your break, I'll come back with you. Okay. So there
they are, the ducks in the bedroom. Then what happened
to that?

Speaker 25 (01:20:48):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:20:49):
I got the men. Can you just quietly, just quietly
talked to them, just sort of walk them outside. I
was just I won't I won't be trapped with a
bird inside flapping. I couldn't bear it. Anyway, they just
quietly walked out with them. I don't think goodness for that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
And there were you feeding them every day?

Speaker 4 (01:21:09):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:21:09):
Yes, from the they liked their mulenberg.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
From the beginning, or just occasionally.

Speaker 22 (01:21:15):
No, no, from the beginning. I just started, you know,
throwing some bread in the paddock when I went out
for the paper in the morning, and I said, oh,
I suppose they'll come and get it. They might do
then Christmas, Christmas morning, here she comes around.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
All started that Christmas because I think that a triggued
because I never see it. I never see ducks nests,
but it doesn't seem to have nests. She just laid
the There was no nest at all. It was just laid.

Speaker 22 (01:21:41):
I know, they're down at the pond. She would There
was the storm water drain that ran through our property
into the next one, and there was a bit of
a pond there, and so she had usually had them
down there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
Okay, but when she had them on the hedge, there
was no there were no sticks or anything.

Speaker 22 (01:21:57):
She just put them straight on the hedge right, was
just into this little low you know, ornamental hedge things.

Speaker 23 (01:22:02):
Get what you call that?

Speaker 9 (01:22:06):
That's it.

Speaker 22 (01:22:06):
Yeah, And she was so funny.

Speaker 7 (01:22:08):
You know.

Speaker 22 (01:22:08):
Martha would sit on the front step there and she
would come out and climb into his lap to get
some bread.

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
Is she still a light?

Speaker 7 (01:22:18):
No? No.

Speaker 22 (01:22:18):
After that episode with her, she went away. She did
come back, but she was lame, and she'd lost all
those little ducklings. I don't know where she took them up.
It was to get away from the other ones.

Speaker 7 (01:22:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:22:32):
So no, she stayed around till I think she died.
She probably died, Yeah, she did. It was out at
the front gate. She sat down and died out there,
and he just sat. Well, we had her. I don't
know how old she was before we came, but we
had for the least eight years.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
Extraordinary And how many ducklings she must have had one
hundred ducklings through that time.

Speaker 22 (01:22:53):
Oh, she must wear loads of them, but the most
she had was fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:22:57):
And she raised them all unbelievable and it looked thank you. Look,
and I can see from the text people have loved
that story and look of heads after you for it
being so extra ordinarily well told. Who could not be
moved by that extraordinary story of motherhood in the Molenberg.

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I'm back after the news people. I'm here till midnight tonight.
Good on you. People think it's utterly magic, that story.
So that's great. Eleven Wait, let's call it that last
Friday for March for me, last Friday for the first
quarter of the year. Also too, we're back for April
next week, so anyway, get in touch. My name is Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:23:37):
You'll know that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
How are you? What's happening? Eight hundred talking ducks, very
enjoyed that story. She could listen to here forever with
those ducks. Seems like the ducks become a really big
focus of the family. Brilliant, So get in touch. Oh wait,

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one hundred and eight. We're talking stories about ducks or
ducks as pets or when ducks have kind of forced
themselves upon your lives. It seems to be what happens.
They persisted, aren't they. I mean, I guess too that
once upon a time or they'd say you're not to

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feed ducks because they'll become dependent on you. But I'll
tell you what I mean. It was a pretty productive dependency,
wasn't it, with hundreds of ducklings. Also talk about the
quake and Bangkok and the reason we got to ducks.
Were talking about the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. When the

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ducks walk along, well they come down on the lift.
It's kind of a Zarre kind of ritual, that one.
It just seems kind of unexpected. I guess, Marcus, that

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duck story well so freshing. Sometimes something so simple as
equally is necessarily it's so amazing. Need these stories regards
Dave kay I like the fact you wouldn't touch the
duck and she sounds like you're scared of birds. I

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wouldn't touch a duck. Hello, Rosemarcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:25:30):
Oh Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 4 (01:25:32):
Rose?

Speaker 8 (01:25:33):
Happy last Friday?

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
Yeah, happy last Friday.

Speaker 18 (01:25:36):
Thank you you're welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:25:40):
A while ago, I used to live in the place.
I had a little peticy out the deck, and I
had a goose and some duck, and the goose would
if a joint somebody rocked up through the gate, he
would honk, and it was like a honk honk. So
we ended up calling them honk.

Speaker 16 (01:26:00):
And he was.

Speaker 8 (01:26:02):
God goose.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
He was just honk.

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
He wasn't Williams or anything. It was just honk.

Speaker 8 (01:26:08):
No, it was just honk.

Speaker 18 (01:26:10):
Okay, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:26:12):
And he used to honk honk every time somebody would
come visiting, and that he would have told me that
somebody was coming. He was a gad goose and it
was really really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
I feel quite I feel quite drawn to geese. They're
quite a refined kind of a thing.

Speaker 8 (01:26:30):
Aren't they very much? So yeah, there was ducks, but
I wasn't really so much into the ducks.

Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
Dime a dozen, yes, But I really liked the goose.

Speaker 8 (01:26:40):
He was gold Oh honk but when I left the property,
the landlord came and took them. Yes, and would have
taken them to his place.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (01:26:53):
Yeah, So that's my find little story about a goose.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
Did the honk lay eggs?

Speaker 9 (01:27:00):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:27:00):
It was a point honk.

Speaker 4 (01:27:04):
Was it drake?

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Is it called a drake?

Speaker 9 (01:27:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
I think so.

Speaker 8 (01:27:08):
Excuse me? That would lay eggs, But men, it was
really hard to find them. They wouldn't just lay in
one place, so they would lay all over the place.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Would you eat the duck eggs? Would you make a sponge?

Speaker 8 (01:27:25):
I would cook with them, but not eat them.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
What does that mean?

Speaker 8 (01:27:29):
Brilliant? Brilliant for cooking with?

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
You mean you only you only eat them and cooking?

Speaker 8 (01:27:37):
Yes, okay, but they made brilliant cakes and muffins and things.
People say that, Yeah, just wonderful eggs for baking with.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
I'd like to find it about Gee Siggs, Sir Rise,
but thank you for the story about honk. I appreciated that.
Sixteen six Brisbane over the Dolphins, Bed of the Breadle
of Brisbane. June Marcus, Hello, Hello, hi June. We got
you're right?

Speaker 25 (01:28:03):
Jane.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
Hi, Jane can I Jane Marcus? Welcome home?

Speaker 25 (01:28:07):
Makes Oh God, trust you talents and phone so quickly,
and I wrote down the story because I was scared
that I'll forget it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
Yeah, God, thank you for taking notes. That's impressive.

Speaker 25 (01:28:17):
Well, I just wrote down the story about the ducks.
That really felt close to me because there are just
gold creatures, and they're so beautiful and they've got personality.
I never really thought much of them in the past,
but when I got close to them and they come
in the morning, I'll feed them bit of crust and

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but go across the road and stood on the lawn.
And then it will be like this during the week,
and then there'd be other birds and the bird community
and they'll all be eating together, and the ducks will
eat together. And well, I haven't got that. I wrote
it down, but I haven't got it. It sounds a

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really good tune.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
How do you mean you've written? Have you lost a
bit of paper or was that your story?

Speaker 25 (01:29:05):
No, I was just telling you off my kid top
of my head. But I wrote down the story and
it sounds really good. Now I can't find it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
You can't find a bit of paper.

Speaker 25 (01:29:17):
Yeah, So I'm looking through the paper because I've got
the story written down and it sounded so really good,
and now I can't find it to you at the
top of my head. But like, all I know is

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that this couple, a male and female duck. I would
feed them and then they would take off into the
air and saw into the sky. And they've come back daily,
and that nestle across wa or across the road to
the neighbor on the lawn, and they just watch what

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the birds were doing on my lawn and sometimes are
a little with bread that come over. There's a black
cat that would come and chasing away. Sometimes I fly off,
and then they'll go the next day looking to where
that cat was. And they'd look at the neighbor's house

(01:30:22):
and quacking loud and standing there looking at them their
direction where the cat was at their house. Anyway, next
thing the next day I wake up, is quacking going on.
I thought, what's going on now? But the male ducks

(01:30:45):
chasing a couple away and not wanting them to share
with them with the birds. And then and they mark
their territory.

Speaker 7 (01:30:58):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:30:59):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 25 (01:31:02):
There was another go and then another day there's loud crack,
and I thought, what the hell's going on now? And
there's a female duck and she's quacking right, she's lost
her marbles, like someone's taking her trucks or something, and
she's been chased by the male duck. And the other

(01:31:23):
female is just standing there watching what's going on, and
the other birds are there. So next thing after that,
I'm thinking, oh, there's always lots of things going on
with these birds. And there'd go over to the neighbor
across the road.

Speaker 16 (01:31:40):
And sit on the lawn.

Speaker 25 (01:31:42):
And then I think, oh, well, that's part of the
community now, because they just come waddling across the road
and eat when there's time to eat. So I woke
up one morning, I look out on the road. I
hear the loud quacking. I thought, what's going on? I
saw DUTs splattered all along the road, and the female

(01:32:07):
head turned backwards on the road, and the male duck's
lots of marbles and whacking lap furiously, and I thought, oh,
they are poor duck. So I had to bury her
in my front lawn. And then that poor duck, that
maule duck, was always on the same spot where he

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used to sit with his female companion. Every day he
had sit there by himself, not knowing what to do.
He didn't want, he lost his appetite, he didn't want
to eat, and even he was sitting in there in
the ring out there by himself in the same spot.
And then I saw him at the other neighbor on
either side lawn when I was walking off down the street,

(01:32:53):
and I said, I don't worry, you'll find another friend.
And then I went down the road another day and
I thought, oh my gosh, he's suicidal. He's standing in
the middle of the road wanting to get hpped it.
So then next thing, I second, theroad, you stupid duck.

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So the next day I come, I'm at home and
this the male duck comes to me with a new companion.
He had seen mae friends, and they looked happy. They
ate and then they waddled off together and I haven't
seen them again.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
Goodness, Now the duck was killed by a car, was it?

Speaker 16 (01:33:40):
Yes?

Speaker 25 (01:33:41):
His first partner? Yeah, which was really said because I
had seen how them two acted as a couple throughout
my life.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
To be surprised. I'm surprised. I'm surprised brought them do
I get killed? Because they are on the roads quite often,
but they seem to manage to avoid it somehow.

Speaker 8 (01:34:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:34:04):
But it was a speeding car obviously, because the poor
ducks that's was flattered and in the line had been
dragged along the road.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
We need to know that sort of stuff, Jane, I
think people want to hear that.

Speaker 25 (01:34:19):
Yeah, well, I mean I wasn't sure whether I should
talk about it, but then I thought, no, well.

Speaker 3 (01:34:27):
People, you're got to be you have to say about
the duck being dragged and stuff. I mean, yeah, I
mean Gwenda didn't say that.

Speaker 25 (01:34:35):
No, I just thought I'd tell the story.

Speaker 3 (01:34:38):
It's a great story. What is the story of the
duck Phane, And it's a great story. I thought you're
going to say that duck hangover where you buried the
other one, But that didn't happen.

Speaker 25 (01:34:48):
No, that there was run over. I BEARI that was
a female duck. But then in the end it was
the happy end.

Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
I thought you going to say that. I thought you.
I thought you going to say the male just sat
on the spot above where the female had been buried.
But you didn't say that, did you, because it didn't happen.

Speaker 25 (01:35:07):
Well, I think he did so there and he was
hanging around at the neighbor's house next door to where
I very.

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
Okay, I'll live it there, Jane. But thank you gosh,
you're not short stories. The duck ones are? They cheapers Marcus,
I'm fond of ducks. The last two stories had the
ducks die, hope. The other stories don't have dead ducks.
It's a very good point, huge concerns for the people
of mean. What we do know is that they've got
a military junta there and the media is regulard. They've

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also got their internet, so not much information is coming
out of there. The state does control all local radio, television,
print and online, but the BBC getting in there now.
But it seems as though because the buildings are probably
even worsely made than the ones in Bangkok. So yeah,
there's quite a lot of devastation after this quake. Simon Marcus, Hello, Hey,

(01:35:57):
how's it going good?

Speaker 20 (01:35:58):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:35:59):
Simon nice.

Speaker 7 (01:36:02):
Nice.

Speaker 16 (01:36:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:36:03):
I had a crazy bit of a random duck experience
with a work environment that I used to be at. Wow, Yeah,
we sort of had. It's quite a teky sort of
engineering biz. They're about fifteen twenty of us employed there, and.

Speaker 18 (01:36:21):
The owners found a.

Speaker 15 (01:36:22):
Duck on the beach, so the duck got the duck
ring got adopted and ended up kind of being in
the work environment. So yeah, instead of you'd sort of
be perched at your desk, you know, at your at
your computer, and then the duck would walk in from
the front office where it had a peddling pool and

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would splash around a bit and then sort of walk
in and kind of unceremoniously kind of do a little
do a little dump on the office floor. So yeah, yeah,
there was.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
Work interesting management technique. Was it successful to bring people together?

Speaker 15 (01:37:04):
It provided some just thing like punctuation and conversation, you know,
if there was someone officials there, and then the boss
would sort of digress from the important conversation to communicating
with the ducks for fifteen or twenty seconds and then
you know, back into finances and stuff that was there.

Speaker 18 (01:37:23):
Yeah, it was pretty interesting, and.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
The duck lifted the premises or the boss took at
home each night.

Speaker 15 (01:37:28):
Well we kind of yeah, went home, and then we
had we moved to another site where we sort of
had a it was kind of a rural household was
part of the buildings that we had which had a
swimming pool.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
So the duck loved that.

Speaker 15 (01:37:45):
And then the duck kind of flew off one day,
so it was kind of panicked. So kind of all
the staff was mobilized.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
At the stage. Everyone's quite fond of it.

Speaker 15 (01:37:56):
Well not really, but the bosses were, so the rest
of us they had to stay along. So we're sort
of going off through these rural roads, kind of like
looking for a duck, which looks like every other duck
as you can imagine. Yeah, so it's pretty amusing.

Speaker 3 (01:38:14):
Had they had the boss named it, no, he just
it just remained Ducky. Okay, that's good name. Ducky.

Speaker 15 (01:38:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It didn't make for some
interesting stories for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
And ultimately what happened to Ducky.

Speaker 15 (01:38:31):
He kind of moved on, you know, they're doing better things.

Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
Reluctantly or he just I mean that's nature. You gotta
let them go.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
But was there?

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
He just wasn't there one day. Is that what happened?

Speaker 15 (01:38:42):
He just meanded it on. Whether he flew south or
north or eastill west, I don't really know. There was
a bit of panic when duck shooting season kicked.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
The yes, du not long until duck shooting season ducky.

Speaker 15 (01:38:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, it was definitely yeah,
you know, the people in the front office, Ducky had
strolled on and into his pool, splash some water up
onto the desks and stuff like that. You know, it
definitely added another factor to the whole Was there a jar?

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
Was there a plastic container full of food for the
duck that you could feed it at your will? Is
that something that happened.

Speaker 15 (01:39:23):
I don't really really remember about the feeding situation, but
it was actually kind of good when Ducky moved on
because the swimming pool had sort of been stop and
it was kind of ducky surf. But once he was gone,
we're able to clean that up and you know, lunch
breaks you could have a slim So yeah, some of us,
you know, probably weren't too sad when Ducky sort of

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like win to fly with his brethren.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
And maybe I would have imagine one of the workers
it got.

Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
Rid of it.

Speaker 15 (01:39:53):
That's possible, you know, there could have been a stew
you know, something duck does go down pretty well, doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
It nice to hear from it? Simon, thank you, Richard, Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:40:04):
Welcome Marcus Swell past my bedtime. But someone gave me
the word to give you a call about geese. Apparently
there's a bit of interest in geese.

Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
We've got some.

Speaker 9 (01:40:14):
I've got about two dozen just getting into breeding them.
And yeah, they're pretty intelligent things eat eat it or heard.
They follow you around. They seem to be very loyal
and quite intelligent as well.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Read for sales.

Speaker 9 (01:40:37):
The eggs meet what, Yeah, I think all of the above. Yeah,
the eggs seem to be quite tricky. You've got to
you've got to help them build a nest because they
tend to they tend to kick them out, each other's
eggs out. They're pretty competitive. And we've got some hay

(01:40:58):
and old tires seem to do the job. But I
think you've got to incubate the eggs as well, sometimes
depending on when they lay, but not not huge layers
as far as volume. But they are sought after, very
good guard dogs as well. There was You probably heard
the stories about Roman Empire being saved by geese. I

(01:41:19):
don't know that's true or not.

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
The geese that saved right well could be true, which
is an important thing. Are they are there big geese
farms in this country? Don't see them, do you?

Speaker 26 (01:41:28):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:41:28):
Mate?

Speaker 7 (01:41:29):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:41:29):
No, no, I mean I'm I'm in the sort of
the north Baked area and I don't know. I don't
think a lot of people. I think they've probably misunderstood.
A lot of people don't really like them.

Speaker 11 (01:41:39):
I mean they do.

Speaker 9 (01:41:41):
They go through a lot of paddock and.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
Well people, I think, and I think that Peter got
the connect. People hate the Canada gooset, don't they? They
hate them?

Speaker 6 (01:41:53):
They and you?

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Are your geese all white?

Speaker 9 (01:41:57):
No? They they vary. So the ganders tend to be
white for some reason. We're still kind of learning about it.
But they Yeah, they tend to have a grayish color
in the feather as well. But they're very they're very loyal.
And we've got a couple that have decided to move

(01:42:20):
away from the other ones and they wait for you.
You drive up the driveway and there they are, and
they're waiting and they're talking and you can hand feed them. Yeah,
they're quite interesting animals.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
Are you feeding the mesh?

Speaker 9 (01:42:34):
Feed them scraps, bit of bread, a bit of anything,
some grain, And obviously you've got to have a got
to have a little swimming pool for them, plenty of water.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
But they graze as well, do they They.

Speaker 9 (01:42:49):
Graze, Absolutely, they're grazers. Yeah, they can be a bit
of a pain. Where you have waterways in public spaces,
because they did make a bit of a mess. I
think that's why they're probably.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
Not that And they always hang around in groups, don't
they unlike male duck but you see them. But geese
are societal. Yeah, okay, they do.

Speaker 9 (01:43:11):
And the funny thing is they'll stay fenced, so they
tend to fly, but they'll just fly very load to
the ground, make a lot of noise, and they travel together,
and they quite often take on if you if you
raise them with I don't know, we've got goats. We've
raised them with goats, they'll take on the personalities of

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the animal they're raised with, and they end up protecting them.
They get very, very protective of the animals that they
live with. They really are guard dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
And when you say, are you have you actually incubated
some eggs to get gooselings?

Speaker 9 (01:43:48):
No, no, we haven't incubated any We've just we've just
got a generation of natural on ones.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
And you managed to be you managed to purchase them
off another goose farmer, did.

Speaker 2 (01:43:58):
You, Yeah, we did.

Speaker 9 (01:44:00):
We did. So we're into year or what is it,
year two, year three, and it was can be high attrition.
Rader was probably only about fifty fifty, yes, and that
you know they're not voluminous layers.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
What crops, What size do you want to get them to?
What size of the herd?

Speaker 9 (01:44:24):
Oh, that's a good question. It's probably limited by space.
Not too many more, probably the answer to that. But
they don't going to leave contact details for you if
anyone was interested.

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
They don't need shelter.

Speaker 9 (01:44:41):
No, no, they don't because of course some Yeah, like
other animals, when it rains, they'll be they'll be looking
for cover, and that they're more than happy when it's
teaming down outside. Although we haven't any rain in Auckland
for months, so don't get me started.

Speaker 3 (01:44:58):
Richard, nice to talk. I appreciate you coming through. Twenty
nine to twelve. We have gray here and here in
Bellevue named big Bird Marcus Duckling beautiful stories today re
enjoying it. We've got a fourth generation black and white
and wild duck brown girl, dug and dolorous. They flying
for breakfast and tea time. Marcus. Around five years ago,
I used to be a commercial We used to have
a commercial geese farm. I sold to food service MPI

(01:45:20):
legislation required, which got very difficult hearing from more of
the geese farmers tonight. I think they're British very much
into cooking goose for Christmas, aren't they. Duck story Friday,
You stick with it and they come through, don't they?

Speaker 7 (01:45:38):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:45:39):
Wow wow wow wow wow wow. What about the ducks?
If you've got something to add, I'd like to hear
from you. Oh eight hundred eighty tenty and nine two
nine two text. It's all about the ducks. Let's be
hearing from you if you do want to talk, as
I say. Oh eight hundred eighty taty and nine two

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nine two detext Duck Stories Battler Brisbane twenty Brisbane over
the Dolphins six just half dozen minutes to go there.
That one's over Brisbane have won that one. So that's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:46:12):
Hello, Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:46:16):
My mother used to have electric frying pins to put
the eggs in there and incubated them in there.

Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
Why are they hard? Why are they hard to incubate geese?

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Do you know?

Speaker 13 (01:46:29):
Do they not?

Speaker 4 (01:46:32):
Well?

Speaker 24 (01:46:32):
I just I don't think they're much harder than any
other egg. It's just that you have to have an incubator,
and she did it in an electric frying pin. As
long as it talk. You know, sure, how long does
the eggs They have to sit on a fertile egg,
and you've got to get fertile eggs before. You can't

(01:46:53):
just put any your egg and theracles. And but she
had had an open frying pan, and I remember you
used to put a blanket in there and just keep
it mildly.

Speaker 18 (01:47:04):
Warm, and she did. She incubated a couple, not a lot.

Speaker 24 (01:47:10):
Yeah, it's a funny thing. And then they were always
out in the back yard, Oscar, I mean what you
can take me one day?

Speaker 3 (01:47:16):
Why did she have phil Why did she have geese?
She's just into animals.

Speaker 24 (01:47:20):
She was right in the animals. Yeah, I'm imaginary in me.
Had them all or less different.

Speaker 3 (01:47:30):
Your neck with them to think you go with that
frying pan to incubate, that's amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:47:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:47:36):
Later in life she had a proper incubator and had
chucks and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:47:39):
Yeah okay, yeah, well chucks not incubate themselves.

Speaker 24 (01:47:46):
Yes, say well if you've got a clacking in but that.
But she sort of got into the trucks for meat
meat chickens, and you you get a whole lot going,
and then you leave them under a lamp.

Speaker 10 (01:47:59):
Yep, that's another story.

Speaker 3 (01:48:02):
That's another story, right. Feel nice to hear from you.
Thank you for that good evening. Hell go, this is
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:48:08):
Oh hi.

Speaker 23 (01:48:08):
I went to a very interesting night. You know the
old Academy Movie Theater near the Yorkton City Library.

Speaker 3 (01:48:14):
Yes, yes, I do.

Speaker 23 (01:48:16):
They had They had a sing along for Greece tonight.
So yeah, we were all singing to the song. Yep,
that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:48:27):
How did you get to be a part of that?

Speaker 23 (01:48:30):
I just went to the movies to see one movie?
Is the Last the Last show Girl, Pamela. Pamela said,
Grease said, Grease is coming. And I talked to the people.
They said, oh, we're having a sing along. So I
went through bick into the movies again.

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
So did you do two movies in a row?

Speaker 14 (01:48:49):
Yep?

Speaker 13 (01:48:50):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
Hell I like your spirit. You're the future. That's what
we want. Good on you. Now, did they did people
dress up or did.

Speaker 23 (01:48:57):
They some pink some pink ladies?

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
Yeah? And did they have special snacks or food related
to the movie.

Speaker 7 (01:49:05):
No.

Speaker 23 (01:49:06):
But I got up and danced at the end because
I'm a Latin dancer and I just started film. Liked it,
and someone drew my picture that of me dancing. Someone
did what, drew a picture of me dancing and she
gave it to me at the end. She's an artist.

Speaker 3 (01:49:23):
What the artists there?

Speaker 23 (01:49:25):
Yeah, really really interesting. She did a little drawing of
me and gave it to me.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
There's a lot of songs from Grease. There was he
hopelessly devoted to you.

Speaker 23 (01:49:39):
Yeah, and then about the car. I've forgotten that John
things about the car and totally devoted to you. When
she's looking in the swimming little swimming thing outside for children,
she's looking and seeing him. Yeah. And they had Mum
and me a couple of weeks ago that I missed
that one.

Speaker 3 (01:49:59):
And the words come up at the bottom of the screen.

Speaker 23 (01:50:02):
Yeah, and then look like little pictures and little figures
jumped jump along each wood so you can keep on toll.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
So people sitting down or are they standing and yelling?

Speaker 23 (01:50:12):
I always sitting down. You can you can get up.
I got up and dance. But everyone was clapping and
after each song, and they were all singing really loud.
Men and women.

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
Don't take this the wrong way, but was everyone about eighty.

Speaker 23 (01:50:26):
No, all ages, even younger girl who drew my pictures.
She'd be about twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
How could she draw in the dark?

Speaker 23 (01:50:33):
She drew and it was getting light, and it was light.
She I didn't know shit. They went just about last
and she came up and gave me the drawing.

Speaker 3 (01:50:41):
And you were you were dressed up because you were
there to see Pamela, weren't you.

Speaker 23 (01:50:45):
Well, I actually eat, I wear like a pinafore, and
I had socks on, and I have a fringe like
light Sanders, I have met here the fringe.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
It was through that many people that could carry off
for fringe like that.

Speaker 23 (01:50:59):
Well done you, Yeah, I've always said the fringe. And
I'm little, she was, she's quite little.

Speaker 12 (01:51:07):
On her home.

Speaker 3 (01:51:09):
How little are you? How little are you? Helga?

Speaker 23 (01:51:12):
Five foot one and a half on the half. I've
got a six foot two sons and grandsons. No, you
wouldn't have yep, yep, and the granddaughter who's up to
my great granddaughter of eight, who's up to my shoulder
already at eight.

Speaker 3 (01:51:30):
How could you have a six foot one son?

Speaker 23 (01:51:33):
Well, my noise and grandfather and my American grandfather both
tool but the Australian and Nana and the oricean in
a short.

Speaker 3 (01:51:42):
Goodness, okay, I appreciate that. Hell, we thank you for
every much. Diana's Marcus. Good evening, Good.

Speaker 26 (01:51:53):
Evening, Marcus. I thought you might be interested in hearing
my episode with a duck. Fifty something years ago. I
was on at my best pa scooters around to visit
a friend, and out of the sky this duck zeroed

(01:52:13):
in on me and locked me unconscious. Because in those
days you didn't wear helmets. He knocked me unconscious the duck,
and then I fell the head on the road again,
and yes, and then next thing in an ambulance, and
I'd called a Catholic priest because I was Catholic, and

(01:52:36):
I could hear the priest saying, prepare yourself to meet
your maker. Prepare yourself to meet your maker. And at
that stage I left my body, and the nurse and
the ambulance said, we've lost her. We've lost her. She's gone,
and I'm hovering above my body out at the top

(01:53:00):
of the ambulance, floating away. So I had one of
those out of body experilliances. But luckily I came back
and woke up in hospital. I was unconscious for a
good while and broke up in the hospital. Was head injury.

(01:53:21):
So that's my story of the duck.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
How have you heard? Have the head injuries been lifelong?

Speaker 16 (01:53:29):
No?

Speaker 26 (01:53:30):
Some people might think, now, okay, I.

Speaker 3 (01:53:34):
Hate to say it, Diane, but my immediately concern was
for the vespa.

Speaker 25 (01:53:37):
Was that all right?

Speaker 26 (01:53:39):
Well, well, yes it must have been, because yes, somebody
must have picked it up or done something with it.
But yeah, but the duck was killed outright?

Speaker 13 (01:53:48):
Wow?

Speaker 26 (01:53:50):
So I mean I would have been whipping along at
the miles per hour then thirty, and he'd have been
flying in on me. To this day, I don't like
the birds around me. Oh no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:54:07):
Where was it in christ Church? Diane?

Speaker 26 (01:54:10):
It was in christ Church, is round Beaconham, rapped by
a river.

Speaker 13 (01:54:17):
Night.

Speaker 26 (01:54:19):
My mother, my mother was a thing watching television at
that stage, and she heard the announcers say, there's been
a freak accident in christ Church tonight. We're at duck,
you know, et cetera, et cetera, And she got so
annoyed because he was smiling about it. She picked something
up and threw it at the television.

Speaker 6 (01:54:38):
So well, there's no well I'm still alive, and yeah,
extraordinary story, Diane, rounds the whole Well, what amazing duck?

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
Stories that Friday goodness. Well, there's hope in this troubled
world as long as we just stick to duck stories.
Enjoy your weekend, I'll catch you. Monday is a new month.
Close to it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
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