Love the french press (7 May 2025)

What is the most dangerous appliance at your place?

And what household item does Marcus hate the most?

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings, welcome, Hit'll twelve. It's from a job, a couple
of things. Will keep an eye on the chimney and
the Vatican. And if anyone's got a website that they
can go to to watch the chimney, will do that.
Because the smoke goes a different color. There's a new pope.
Will any pope will be the new pope. There's either
no pope or a new pope. So yes, that's right.
We're definitely getting a new pope. It's just iff and
when we eye them, they it's not my faith. But

(00:34):
still I'm kind of curious. So the pope, all about
the Pope. That will happen. It might happen. It'll be
the morning there anyway, that's happening the Pope. A couple
other things I want to touch base with tonight on
the show. I've always got that I should write things down.
I want to talk what's with what's with mini bikes? Now?

(01:02):
I know that there are people on trail bikes terrorizing neighborhoods,
but what's with minibikes? I saw some story about christ judges.
Has that become a have mini bikes become a new thing?
I know from time to time they become something that
people ride. What is the point of those? Are they
fun to ride because you low to the ground? Is

(01:22):
that what it's about?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Pretty?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm gonna explain that to me. I meant to what
I've meant been many to us is for years and
months and weeks. What's with manibike? Is that what they've got?
They got mini bikes? I saw an article and christ
Judents appeal have been terrorized by them? Are the mini bikes?
But what's with them? There's about the supermarket kind of
riving around on one, and I thought, what's that about

(01:46):
mini bikes? Anyway? Might have got that one wrong because
I see scooters they're also, but I think the mini
bikes are back. But yeah, I kind of never quite
worked out the attraction. You might have something to say
about that. But the other more important question, and I
want to fight you for this. Here's a question for
you people, and think about this for twenty seconds before

(02:08):
you ring. Don't ring straight away because I don't know
the answer, but I'm asking you the answer. And I
haven't got strong thoughts about this. But the question is
what do you think would be the most dangerous household appliance?

(02:30):
And the reasoning? I can't think what it would be.
Is it the iron? Is it the vacuum cleaner? What
do you think the most dangerous household appliance would be?
And your reason? Why was I thinking of that today?

Speaker 5 (02:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I was thinking about that something that's dangerous. Spend a
lot of day up a ladder. Actually I don't love
a ladder. I spend a lot of time up a
ladder with my laces undone, the whole time feeling or thinking, Gee,
I tell you what if I come undone because my
laces are undone and that causes me to all off
my ladder, I'll be beating myself up out not doing

(03:11):
those laces. You think I didn't have my laces? No,
so comfortable without them. But what would be the most
dangerous appliance within the house? And why do you think
that would be? Yeah, I'm not I'm not sponsored by ACC.
I'm just curious how you're injuring yourself around the home.

(03:36):
I mean, there's the ovent try and burning yourself. Is
that there is the eye, And I presume most of
the injuries are burns, But what would be them? And
I've said it again, I say that you can call
now the most dangerous household appliance? What do you reckon
it is? I'd be very very curious, and your reason,

(03:57):
I'm not quite sure what your reason's going to be,
but I'm damn curious about that because I reckon the
results can be quite surprising. And yeah, the most dangerous
of all the household appliances? Would it be the clothes
dryer or the microwave oven? What's the one item that

(04:18):
you've injured yourself on most within the house the appliance?
Probably the electric breadknife?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Very curious about this? And yeah, get in touch of
you've got some sort of an answer for that. I've gotten.
I'm not in favor of anything. I just want the debate.
By the way, so are those questions you a dinner parties?
Some said, well, actually, so cute, because I'm trying to
think what people injure themselves on. By the way, your

(04:51):
wife's not a kitchen appliance. I'll tell you what some
of those those things that you put stuff in and
put into the oven a quite a strong way. Doren't
they anyway. Edman's Marcus, Greetings and welcome.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
Yeah, Marcus, the most dangerous appliance I reckon is the toaster,
because not only can you electrocute yourself with it by
sticking your hand in there, you can also burn yourself
at the same time.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Does anyone have you actually stuck your knife in it?

Speaker 7 (05:28):
As an electrician?

Speaker 6 (05:29):
No, I wouldn't recommend you do that.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Okay, but does it actually give you a shock?

Speaker 8 (05:36):
Yeah, there's an.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
Element in there which has two thirty volts traveling through it.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well, I always had faith that the circuit board would
short circuit it. You wouldn't get electrocuted. Okay, but you're
but I'm wrong, am I?

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Unfortunately?

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Yeah, now you'll get an electric shock.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Don't do it, Okay, I won't and I won't bathe
with either. Thank you. Adam Ricketts, Marcus, welcome, Hey mate,
how are you good? Good? Good?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Good? Now.

Speaker 9 (06:02):
I've got to say I've had a couple of mates
and people I know, But the in syncarator, the weight.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Master really really yep.

Speaker 9 (06:12):
So if you think about you know where the where
the plugs are and where the where the fingers go
and the thing. So yep, that's that's my call on it.
I've been thinking it. I've never heard of anyone actually
hurting themselves on a toaster or microwave. What happens as well?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
What have they done with the insyncorator?

Speaker 9 (06:30):
Just push some food down there while it was still spinning.
One guy recently and another one a long time ago
had a knife down there and it flung out and
hit them cut them.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
But yeah, did the other guy do his fingers?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yep?

Speaker 9 (06:47):
Fingers came to work in a big slung slung up hands,
you know.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, Because I had a house with one of those
things once, and I was compelled by it. I was
putting all sorts of things down, and I was putting
them down in quite a heavilyer way. I was poking
it down with knives, and I was honestly, we had
to move away away from there, because, yeah, I can
imagine a knife swinging out of there.

Speaker 9 (07:10):
Also, Yep, yep, that's yep. And they say, I don't know.
They say putting eggshells down there is good because it
keeps them sharp or something or other, But a coffee
grinds is a big no no. And there's nothing worse
than cleaning out coffee grinds from a bloomen French press
or something like that is nothing worse than cleaning them
out into the dim brilliant not off.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Look, here we go, guys, eight forteen and someone's mentioned
the French press. Love it when someone mentions the French
press brilliant? One of those things that sounds quite different
from what it is. Flipp and love the French press.
I reckon that would actually?

Speaker 6 (07:48):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Rick? Was that Rick I was talking to?

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yep? Rick?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Would the French press be one of the most dangerous
items in the home?

Speaker 9 (07:58):
No, no, no, I'm just saying that.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
No.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Have you put yourself on a French press that's like
a coffee plunger we call them, right, Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
because sometimes some of those ones are designed with a
jet of hot water that goes up your arm?

Speaker 9 (08:13):
Oh yep, nice?

Speaker 10 (08:14):
Nice?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Have you ever done that? No?

Speaker 9 (08:17):
No, I'm not a big coffee drinker, so that's why
it's even fact. I don't drink coffee. So it's even
worse cleaning out a coffee machine or something like that
because I don't even bloody drink the stuff.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
So yeah, okay, you know, I don't even know what
a French press is, but I think we used to
call them a bowdom or a coffee plunger. I worked
in a cafe once when they just discovered plunger coffee. Gosh,
it was the height of sophistication. You'd put it on
the table, the plunge of coffee, and you came about
three months. They need stir it and plunge it. But
they are dangerous things. Remember Richard Kamuski BFM put a

(08:51):
hot stream of coffee up his arm. Yeah, an interesting
unit that one. Get in touch here till twelve Andy Marcus.

Speaker 11 (08:59):
Welcome, Hello Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
And you said no nonsense I love, which I like.

Speaker 11 (09:07):
Oh, well, thank you very much, sir. Surely it's got
to be the home heater. It's burned down hundreds of homes.
I can't believe that guy was mentioning bread knives.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
That was me. What do you think the most dangerous
thing would be?

Speaker 11 (09:19):
Oh, it's got to be home heating. Surely it's burned
down hundreds of homes.

Speaker 10 (09:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I guess it's whether we say the most dangerous thing
in the home or the most dangerous appliance. And there's
a heater and appliance it probably is it?

Speaker 11 (09:33):
Well, I believe they're often guess or electric sustics would
be the burnt down a lot of homes and done
a lot of damage.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Okay, well that's on the list. Okay, I'm talking about
things that send people to the emergency room. I think
that's probably what I need to clarify, because if your
house is burnt down, youre well. This is over a
ten year study and the people to get into the
most in the house are children four and younger or

(10:02):
people in their fifties. That's me, And you'd be curious
though what the result is. I don't want to tell
you about that yet. Quentin Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 12 (10:14):
Hey, welcome, Marks.

Speaker 11 (10:16):
How are you real good?

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Thank you? How's yourself good?

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (10:21):
I reckon the most dangerous appliants is the electric blanket.
Number one factor is you're asleep when it's happening. But
then also just they do tend to get freight wires
and bent wires and they short circuit and can start fires.
So I think the electric linket is the number one

(10:44):
dangerous appliants, but then also probably I'm not sure it's
an appliance, but the number two would be the electric
gas bottle heater that discharges carbon monoxide into the closed
spaces is probably the next dangerous appliants in the home.
So yeah, those are probably my top two.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
You definitely say that. I'm just trying to think is
it atric blanket an appliance, because if it wasn't electric cliants,
what else would you call it?

Speaker 12 (11:15):
It's hard to give it if it's.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
If it's not an it must be an applied That's
another very good sub question, isn't it? Quentin? Thank you
for that. Would electric blanket be an appliances? A lot
of questions, questions, questions, generating questions. Fraser Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (11:38):
Only only on Tuesdays.

Speaker 10 (11:42):
Only.

Speaker 13 (11:42):
On Tuesday this week we get the sparks in our house,
so I wouldn't go and we had to go on
through a multi box. The multi box was faulty and
it melted the plug of the dryer into the multi box.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Flip flip, Wow, yeah, wow, you're going to You're you're
a very calm person to talk to Fraser.

Speaker 13 (12:10):
That there's a real warning markus to people out there
who have got a multi box in their laundry in
this case was in our garage. Then where our laundry
is all right, and if we could have we could
have lost our double story house because it's obviously the
garage is on the bottom floor to a simple plug.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
So a multi box is like what do you I
never called it a multi It's like a multiple plug thing, right, yep.

Speaker 13 (12:46):
That's so you can get them in three, four or five.
In this case, it was a three because all we had.
All we had on it was the dry and then
when we were obviously when we're vacuum the car out
and that sort of thing, we plug into that. So
we had them with cent of four. But the spark,
he said, Case said to me on too, they said,

(13:07):
the big problem you have right, the multi box is
not a it's not suitable for it. It's going to
go straight into the walls, straight into the wall socket.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Just a dryer. Yeah, because of how much it draws. Yeah,
wow phrases. Should you be on the phone?

Speaker 8 (13:34):
Yeah, on the phone.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
But this this is a lot going on in the back.
It sounds like you're like running a new power station
or something.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
I'm running.

Speaker 13 (13:43):
I'm just I'm just doing a trip into Hamilton and.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Back with the track brilliant. What's that noise? What's the
what's that's my.

Speaker 13 (13:52):
That's my supervisor trying to call me on the hearty
and I'm talking to you.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
The noisiest call of every head, noisiest call of everhead.
What about that with a dryer? Shouldn't go into I
don't even know they're called a multi box. I didn't
know dry I should go in to one of those.
Kyle Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 7 (14:16):
Cured, Marcus, Cure, Kyle, I think the most dangerous appliants
in the house is the television.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Wow, because of the misinformation.

Speaker 14 (14:28):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's a good point.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
What Fox News, Uh, Fox News is they tell some
porky's That's for sure.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
I hadn't thought of that, Kyle, Thank you. He might
be right Fox News. I think they've tuned on Trump,
have they Fox?

Speaker 15 (14:48):
Well?

Speaker 3 (14:48):
I think he employed most of them. Loves his TV
ol Trump, Honey, what is said much today? Is he
off golfing? Said nothing today? Trump? I think it was
kind of playing get coverage with the reopening Alcatraz because
of the sharks. He's obsessed with the shark. Now nothing Wow,

(15:13):
But we're having a serious day to day Berry Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (15:19):
Yeah, evening, Marcus. In my house. The smoke alarm, the
most bloody dangerous finger.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
I hate them.

Speaker 8 (15:29):
I'm cooking breakfast. Next minute smoke alarm goes off, I
have to jump on the chair.

Speaker 16 (15:36):
Yeah, I'm hearing you turn it off.

Speaker 8 (15:38):
If I survived that, I didn't get back to the
kitchen and there is a fire.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
So yeah, I got the kids to make long sticks.
We can poke the smoke alarm with every time we
put special bread in the taste door, every time a
log falls out of the multi burner.

Speaker 8 (15:56):
Well, that's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
I'll do that. I'm going to do that.

Speaker 8 (15:59):
Yeah, because the bloody the chair is quite high off
the ground. I'm not young anymore.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
I'll tell you what. I wonder how many people have
died and stalling those damn things because it's not easy.

Speaker 8 (16:11):
No, well yeah, well that's what I'm saying. We're the
same thing as you've got to turn them off. By
the time you turn them off, you get back to
your kitchen. You know the good friar.

Speaker 17 (16:21):
And it is on fire.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Brilliant, very liking where you're coming from. Brilliant twenty six
past day. Keep your calls coming through, Steve Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 17 (16:31):
Oh okay, mate, how you doing good, Steve. I actually
got a lectri curded by in an electric blanket when
I was about eighteen months old. Oh you nineteen sixty something. Wow,
and my safe stupend come out of my nephew apparently
obviously don't remember this, and whence is it? Don't laugh,

(16:52):
it's not that funny. Wow has approved the point.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Oh, that's heartbreaking. That would just been your poor parents.

Speaker 17 (17:01):
The old man was a scener Navy and then my
mother did know what's going on and my granddad. Ye,
apparently I walked around you and pop up I sore
hand and I had I've got a scar on my
left hand which is the exit point and an entry
point on my gut.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Wow. After all you had what I.

Speaker 17 (17:27):
Had a what they call a whit wolves procedure about
four years ago, three years ago for cancer. And the
one thing I told the surgeon you cannot cut my scar.
My gut is like a major surgere like matter, Are.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
You all right now?

Speaker 18 (17:45):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (17:45):
Who knows me?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Nice to hear from you, Steve, Thanks so much. Yeah,
what would be the most dangerous appliance in the house.
I've got no real reason why I've come up with
this or something to discap but I am kind of
curious to know what it is. I haven't injured myself, Yeah, no, yeah,
it defends. It depends on your definition of appliance. Probably

(18:08):
the worst injury I vigured myself on is one of
those folding clothing racks, and I because it's got a
ring that slips down on the unfolded the ring holds
all on place, and I folded it against the flow

(18:33):
in a state of agitation, and it kind of broke
and came up the back of my leg quite a
nasty cut. So that would be the worst thing I've
done to myself within the house. I'm an next and
prone person, but yeah, that for me. That What do
you call those things? These have a racist term, didn't they?

(18:55):
I just called them a clothes horse? Are they clothes horse?
I don't know what they are, but that would be
the thing recently they've given myself the most damage on anyway,
good evening, hell and it's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 19 (19:13):
Here, High Marcus. What about the pressure cooker.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
You're done it, you've done, You're hidden with that. I
don't know. I've never gone one near one because my
mother put my fear of God. She just said, you
never had one. She'd see people at camping grounds with
pressure cooker she'd just shake her head.

Speaker 19 (19:26):
Yes, my mother had had one, but I wouldn't. Never
touched one, and they absolutely freaked me out.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Did they blow?

Speaker 8 (19:34):
Oh I don't know.

Speaker 16 (19:35):
They go.

Speaker 19 (19:37):
On a roar, but I do understand that sometimes they
do explode.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Mind, you've never seen any one of the death noticedes
that they say the cause of death was the pressure cooker.

Speaker 19 (19:47):
No, well, you haven't seen any the toaster either, have you?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
You will know it. But no one's bringing the pressure
cooker back, which is interesting. Some online sources came thousands
have died due to pressure cooker injuries and explosions. Oh
that's stupid, chad Ai. I wish that and even be
on my computer excellent pressure. Oh, this is a website
called pressure cooker lawsuit dot org. It's sort of lawyers.

(20:16):
That's if you know there's lawyer specializing in pressure cookers.
You know that probably and there is a pressure cooker bomb.
You can make a don't google that with the work computer,
insert explosive material to the pressure cooker and a tasked
a blasting cap under the cover. You wonder with that.

(20:41):
While they haven't banned pressure cookers, you can turn them
into a bomb trig it with a garage door opener.
I wish I hadn't read that. I feel less safe already,
good evening. Gussett's Marcus, Oh.

Speaker 10 (20:57):
Yes, Marcus, I reckon it's electric blanket. Years ago when
near he did my whole family, And because of my stupidity,
I preheated my young father's bed with turning the EQUI
blankey on, and I put his teddy on the foot
of the bed, and we all went to bed, and

(21:20):
I forgot to turn the blanket off, and it super
heated the bed where the teddy was, and it made
a great, big crater in the mattress, a big glowing crater,
and it filled the whole house with smoke. And I
woke up about four in the morning. I wondered what

(21:41):
that funny smell was, and I got up, and I
remembered the blanket, and I went into his room and
I pulled the colors down slowly, and here was this
awesome crater. So I picked the boy up, gave me
missus the nuds, and we all went outside, and I
carried the blanket out. I wrapped up tight, the whole bed,
the mattress and everything, carried it outside, threw it on

(22:03):
the lawn and hosed it and Heed the whole else
somewhere out and Nicole waiting for the hair helse to
hear out. No, I think they're fatal. They can be elected.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Man was the bear? What was the beer made out of?
Nothing special?

Speaker 10 (22:18):
Just no, it's just just a normal teddy bear that
he liked, you.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
Know, and it must have been well. But he was
just he was just a baby. So the beer would
have been a couple of feet below him, is that right?

Speaker 10 (22:31):
Oh, he was about four fowome.

Speaker 20 (22:35):
He wasn't injured, No, no, God what whether whether it
affected his brain or whatnot with all the smoke, I
don't know.

Speaker 10 (22:46):
It was dreadful. So I took the whole lot of
the blankets and I dumped them. Or that's it. I'll
never touch another electric blanket.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
An extraordinary story. Go thank you for that. Wow. Wow,
haven't got the text yet, Jason Marcus evening.

Speaker 21 (23:05):
Hi, Jason, Yeah, Hello, how's it going good?

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Jason? Thank you?

Speaker 21 (23:10):
Yeah, yeah, No, I'm just thinking about the old Ringer
washing machine back in the eighties eighteen eighties nineteen eighties.
We used to put the clothes through and ring them
out first and put them in a bowl washer.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
And because often people would arrive at school with broken arms, right,
and they say they got it stuck in the ringer, right.

Speaker 21 (23:35):
That's exactly what I did myself.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Okay, because I always thought that was a euphemism for.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Child abuse.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, I always thought of the kid had been bashed
and that was just a convenient excuse. But it generally happen.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Did it.

Speaker 21 (23:51):
Yes, they had a safety release on them which used
to pop on the side and let Yeah I'm sory,
but if yeah, especially put them in towels through to
let it get a grip on the let the ringer
get a grip on the hell you arm and sometimes
go through too, because.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
The adults didn't see what arms be too big to
go through. Because I didn't see any adults that did
their arm and the ringer garringer, I.

Speaker 21 (24:20):
Think they adults set the kids up to do it, didn't.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
They shouldn't laugh. I think you'd be surprised. I've read
just an article in a magazine called Fast Company. I
don't even know what the magazine is, but looks fairly
kind of official, but it's pretty interestingly the thing that's
most likely to send you to the emergency room. Yeah,

(24:47):
it's kind of really interesting actually, and I wish i'd
brought this up as this discussion earlier. I wonder if
it was going to be the vacuum cleaner with old
people tripping. So, yeah, the wayp clients are getting safeer,

(25:07):
they need to terrifying go with a Teddy Bear and
the child that had the nap, nap the nappy with
the safety pin. Flip you imagine line they're now and
putting them in the bed and put the nappy on
with the safety pin and going through Grant Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (25:30):
Yeah, hi Marcus.

Speaker 7 (25:33):
I'm not saying that fridges are dangerous, but I made
I got bitten by a fridge back in nineteen seventy six.
We used to have a We had a fridge that
had that big arm that you pulled down.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Oh yeah, like that like that that was the closing lockee.

Speaker 7 (25:53):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, it was it was rattling. It was
actually the motor, but I thought it was something around
the motor that was rattling.

Speaker 8 (26:05):
And so.

Speaker 7 (26:07):
It had a vegetable compartment underneath it. Basically, it just
covered up where the motor was. So I took that
out and I got a rag and I put it
between the motor and the body to stop the rattle.
And I took my hand out, and I thought, oh,
if I just pushed it in a bit more, it
might get it. So I put my hand inside and
it was now before I'd had it in the rag
around my hand. This time my hand was around the

(26:29):
rag well the back of my hand touched where the
wires come in to go after the motor and the light,
and it grabbed hold of me, and I thought it
was on the inside of my hand, So I'm trying
to push off it, and I think I was stuck
there for about fifteen seconds, and my head was rattling

(26:50):
away on the door and all that. Anyway, I finally thought, well,
if this is the way to go, goodbye world. So
I stopped trying to push and I came off the fridge.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
And to fix me, they that they took a graft
a like a belt from around my waist on my
right and they left it attached in my groin and
they put it over the back of my hand. And
so anyone who sees my hand now thinks that I'll
in a boxer. But I love having kids on little kids,

(27:22):
I say, oh when I get when I get a
nitch on my waist, I got to scratch it on
the back of.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
My hand, quite advanced for the seventies. A. Yeah, so
there was a they grew a bit on your waist.
Is that what they did? Could you say that? But again.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
No, they cut two inches out of my waist but
left it attached just in my groin and then they
wrapped they laid that on the back of my hand
and I was attached like that for three weeks.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
So you'd be in bed yep, so your arm was
down by your groin with a bit attached to it
so could grow onto it.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
That's right up.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Was it a new procedure grant.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
Reasonably? So there was another There was a couple other
people in the ward that I was in that had had,
you know, bits attached in other ways to get things
to grow.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
And then once it's attached, they just trim it to size.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
Yeah, well they didn't. They didn't decrease the height of it.
They just cut off the end of it where it
was attached to me. And so I've now I've sort
of got this thing that it looks a bit like
a wrap on the back of my hand, just across
my knuckles.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
They haven't had to have subsequent years go back and.

Speaker 7 (28:50):
Readdress them.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
No, no, So for all those years it's worked.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just getting a bit tight now.
You know, I'm like sixty eight tomorrow and it's it's
a bit getting a bit tight. You know, when I
closed my fist, you know what have.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
The other option been? Decapitation? That's not the word, yeah, amputation, amputation.

Speaker 7 (29:17):
Yeah, well you see they tried first to take a
bit off the back of my hand and just turn
it round and put it over it, but it didn't work,
and so for a few days I was there watching
my tendons working on my index finger.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Oh god, we an adult?

Speaker 7 (29:38):
Yeah, I was about nineteen, I think.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Did you have a trade or a career?

Speaker 7 (29:45):
I was working in the paper mill at Kinley.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Okay, so it well yeah, okay, so you're off on
leave for six months will you.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, yeah, but you managed to get full use in
your hand again.

Speaker 17 (30:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, that's a good story. Did you throw the fridge away?

Speaker 7 (30:06):
I don't, I think I think my flatmates did get
rid of that fridge year.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
But a horrible story, Grant. I appreciate that greatly. Hi, Paul,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 22 (30:18):
Yeah, Hi, how are you good?

Speaker 18 (30:20):
Pool?

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Thank you?

Speaker 22 (30:23):
Just sitting there thinking about it, listening to it, wouldn't
the most dangerous appliance be the people in the house?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, although I don't know you called something an appliance,
would you?

Speaker 16 (30:36):
No?

Speaker 22 (30:36):
But they're always using one, and it depends on how
have you.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Have you have you injured yourself in the house?

Speaker 23 (30:49):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, what appliance was it?

Speaker 17 (30:54):
Well?

Speaker 22 (30:57):
It was poking fork at the toaster.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I'n't never done that, and I've thought about it.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
But.

Speaker 22 (31:05):
Yeah, but something so simple. But yeah, it wouldn't have
been people because well, it wouldn't have been the poster
if it wasn't me.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Very good point, Paul, Thank you, extremely good point. Oh
eight hundred eighteen twenty nineteen nine de text anything else
here for it, here for it, there for it, up
for it, up for it, down for it around town
for it here the end hit the midnight tonight. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty George.

Speaker 23 (31:40):
You're having fun tonight? Can I give you two to
make your squam and one to make you laugh. Sure,
I wanted to make your squam my. We lived in
a state house many years ago when I was a kid,
which meant that you had the pathway, came up to
the back door, you came up onto a landing, and
you went straight into the kitchen, or I should turn

(32:02):
left into the laundry, remember those sort of formats. Yes,
so laundry door was open. My younger sister, my little sister,
she would have been about three, I suppose climbing the
steps puts her fingers in the doorjam of the door
for the laundry, and then you know, behind the hinge,

(32:23):
and my brother closes it and crunches her fingers.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I've got to come back at your george on that one.
I lived in a state house for a while, and
it had those bread bins.

Speaker 23 (32:38):
Yes, the drop down ones.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
No they're on the ground, they come out, Yeah, they
come out on the angle. And I closed one with
my thumb too far forward and slammed it on the thing.
And honestly, it was one of the only times I
actually haven't turned up for work because that was yeah,
and I didn't know you could actually just drill in
your nail with a whether it was probably before the inside,

(33:02):
I didn't know. You just got a paper clip and
heat that up and burns with the nail and release
the pressure. Because it was it was a hell of
a night, and I felt that I forgot a cowdy
fighting up to the doctor to get it pierced. But yeah,
flip anyway, Yeah, so you're right about that. Yeah, you
alutely absolutely agree with you.

Speaker 23 (33:20):
It's that crazy number two. As my brother was three
years old, my dad was off to work and the
kitchen window was above the sink and the stove was
to the right, and my mum was boiling some milk
on the stove with the handle sticking out, and he
climbed up on the chair, grabbed the handle of the

(33:40):
pot which had boiling milk in it, to climb up
and say goodbye to dad, and poured it over himself.
And he still got the scars from his shoulders down
to his waist. So that's that did not go down.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Well, No, you got a scar. I mean that's I mean,
that's serious burns, doesn't it serious?

Speaker 23 (33:59):
Burn Yes, just survived it. But the third one, my
mum had a pressure cocker. Since you were talking about
the melia, and you were wondering, can they be dangerous? Well,
she was making pea soup with barley and all sorts
of stuff, boiling it away there, and the top has
got this little weight on it that holds the pressure,

(34:20):
and it just rotates as it lets a little bit
of steam out, starts going wizzle, whizzle, wizzle. And this
thing's rotating around and around and around a little bit
as it wobbles, regulating the steam pressure and the pressure cocker.
And she says to me, don't you dare touch that. Well,
you know that's an invitation to do something you shouldn't do.

(34:40):
So I gave it a nudge. This thing took off,
but you took off.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 23 (34:48):
This weight that sits in the middle of the lid
took off to the ceiling, and so did all the soup.
There was soup all over the roof. The pressure cocker
emptied itself out through the nozzle, and like a spray
gun had sprayed the roof all over the place. It
was dripping soup. And I spent the next day apparently

(35:11):
it was my job to clean the roofs and it.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Would have ended itself quite quickly did it?

Speaker 23 (35:16):
Oh yeah, right, it's a huge amount of pressure in
there and it just took off because it just bubbles
up inside with the change of pressure, is it? And
bubbles up and frosts up and just squirts out. It's
pretty much did it?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Pretty much?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
And I told you so moment, isn't it?

Speaker 24 (35:33):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (35:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (35:33):
And you know, I don't know whether she laughed or cried,
but it was my job to spend the next day
actually in the room. How long were we had to
see that night? Were probably about.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Twelve inquiring age, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (35:48):
Yeah, that's when you get noisy about things and does
this work? And you know, should you poke things into
power sockers to see if they're really alive?

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Wow, it's a good story, George, thank you injuring yourself
and the most dangant Well, that's a that's a rich
vein of things to explore for us. If I hadn't mentioned that,
we wouldn't have got old the guy with his flipp
and fridge. Wow. Still find that kind of hard to believe,

(36:19):
Incredibly hard to believe, especially that early form of surgery. Unbelievable.
Here till midnight. If you want to be a part
of it. My name is Marcus welcome O eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine to text. I have got
some research about what is the most dangerous applies. I

(36:40):
don't think anyone's really nailed it just yet. And it's
pretty interesting where it goes the whole discussion. So you
might have something to say about that. And that's good
because I am here for you people. Here'll twelve. I
forgot a new pope. I'll tell you I've got a
website up of the chimney chimney. It's called chimney cam. No,

(37:13):
I'm now watching him to watch ads. God, there's nothing
sacred anymore. Do you a ready there? Give me a
pop up ad? When I'm trying to see who the
new pope is? Which is the chimney? That thing little
hat on the top. It's not much of a chimney,
is it? You call that a chimney?

Speaker 25 (37:34):
What?

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah, it's a very unexpiring, uninspiring ny chimney. What if
they sweep it? Someone said the Italian's favorite for two dollars,
Pietro Parlin from Italy, then Tagle from Philippines. This hasn't
changed much the last couple of months. It seemed to

(37:58):
be the Philippine and two of the Italians. Marcus, the
ceramic cook top only glows red went on. I had
third degree burns from much you one as a kid,
not realizing been on awful things and uses for cooking. Yeah,
they are the devil's cook where those cerabic tops like
the way they glow, though, I'm still worry about the

(38:21):
little kids. That kid with the nappy through the sopetyfins,
through the nappy into an electric blanket and the teddy bear. Wow,
he says smoke alarm would have I don't even when
did smoke alarms become a thing? Those portable and tell

(38:42):
long they be around forty years. Kind Of quite curious
about that because they must have saved a huge number
of lives. Oh, I suppose people are probably opposed to
put it up with the oly dation. How people are
I don't even made them compulsory for those reasons. Roosters

(39:06):
an't going to change signed dear evans? Are they? Goodness? Anyway?
I want to know what's the most dangerous appliance in
the house. They've got some pretty interesting reveals about this
one too, actually, but I'm curious to hear your opinion.
What is the most and what's been the most dangerous

(39:28):
For me? It was the clothes horse. But I don't
know if the clothes horses and appliance terrible Christmas Day
it was too wow, Yeah, the stress of Christmas. Steve Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 26 (39:47):
Marcus. In the mid seventies, we had a bar heater
and I was a little boy about five years old.
Used to poker fork in the bar heater, get a
little jiggle, get a little get a little buzz, and
then a massive, great big wallop and get thrown up
against like three or four feet And my mum and

(40:11):
dad and I started to enjoy it and used to
do it quite often. But mom and dad couldn't do
anything because once we got the fork in there, I'd
get the little power on the little light light electric
shock can move the fork around. I can still vividly remember,
Marcus and get thrown up against the wall about three
fold aweight three four feet away.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
That must have been quite concerned about you.

Speaker 25 (40:37):
True story.

Speaker 26 (40:38):
Marcus loved it like a rugby tackle.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Is that carried through the adulthood?

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Stop it?

Speaker 26 (40:48):
No, I'm wondering, Yeah, yeah, no, yes, Marcus pranks day,
ended up in jail all sorts of just being a prankster.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yeah, that's bad if you've got going on, gone to
jail just for jolly James, Oh.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Well, I think you know.

Speaker 14 (41:06):
It's sort of grade five.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
What do you call American movies?

Speaker 27 (41:13):
Like, Yeah, that's that's.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Extremely let's extremely into pranking when you're off to the
big house for it.

Speaker 14 (41:22):
I know, I thought.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
You was going to say, because I took I took
great joy with the heater, just actually taking the knife,
just down the up and down, the up and down
the wire grill made an exciting and satisfying noise. But you,
but you in full noise, get.

Speaker 26 (41:42):
Thrown up against the wall, like like thrown.

Speaker 11 (41:44):
Bolt the wall.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Good to hear from you, Steve dB Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 14 (41:52):
It will covers no surprise to you that the most
dangerous appliants in this house, there's any appliance that I'm interacting.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
With, Really, are you not good with them?

Speaker 14 (42:03):
To what's got it right? About the pressure cook? I
did exactly the same thing as an adult that my
girlfriend was cooking something she says, don't touch at the
top of that thing. And I did exactly the same
thing as George attached it and blew it off and
it put the pot onto the roof.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
It's amazing, isn't it. Well, I guess it's pressure for you.

Speaker 14 (42:21):
Fantastic, fantastic, And you know, Greg science, you get a
PhD out of you know, lowering the pressure and dropping
the boiling point and spontaneous combustion and all that.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Will you see them offer in secondhand shops? What if
they're worth purchasing? I don't know why. What would you cook?
What would your money cooking? What was she cooking in
the pressure cooker? What went to the roof?

Speaker 14 (42:44):
That was corn beef?

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Of course it was.

Speaker 14 (42:48):
It did a lovely corn beef for half leg. In
this case, that roof tasted good for days. Changing light
bulbs while the circuit still on stuck my fnue on
the life prong. That wakes you up in the harry,
especially you've got a metal.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Leader a shot from changing a light bulb too. Actually,
it wasn't pleasant, just because we've got conduit in the
house and it's not great. I think it conducts power
or something. I've meant to get it bok at So
if I'm not here tomorrow, that's what's done.

Speaker 14 (43:17):
It. Some of the biggest bangs. Of course, I got
some when I was living on my ship and doing
electrical work on that because quite often I was working
on live circuits, which in itself's not a big problem
as long as we don't touch them. And this particularly,
I was working on a circuit barefoot and standing on

(43:39):
steel deck when I brushed the finger against the circuit.
Who that lit me up like a candle.

Speaker 17 (43:46):
That was great.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Did it realign your urons into a more positive disposition?

Speaker 14 (43:53):
I think it's maybe more mad than I was before
I started, actually, But we had one of those tasty
makers going back to dangerous things, and one of my
sons leant on it while it was hot. Oh yes,
and the top surface shows no indication it's going to
be hot and burnt as up very badly.

Speaker 27 (44:13):
Oh wow.

Speaker 14 (44:14):
Okay, So and I would I would as a without
me being involved, I would say the toaster because of
the same thing. You don't know it's hot, you haven't
just move to move the sideways or something, and the
sides are red hot.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
I've never I've never come to grief with the toaster. Okay,
but the night's still young. I kin'd even imagine. I
don't think my toaster would get that hot.

Speaker 14 (44:45):
Perhaps you've never interacted with it to find out that
the outsides of them can get very hot.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Well, my toast is so slow. There's sometimes that I've
worried that I've actually got it on the defrost setting.
That's how slow it is.

Speaker 14 (44:59):
Yeah, here comes summer.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Don't say that off and d we thank you. Thirteen
nights Young, thirteen past nine nickets Marcus welcome.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Hey here am I good night? Good good. Two things
spring to mind. The first one is how fast that is.
Everyone's got one, like a little stip letter, like a
two dollars shop variety, not quite two dollars shot, but
not the proper robust letter that you get on a site.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
It's got like some it's like some plastic componentry too,
it hasn't it.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's sort of like everyone's got
one in the house or that, and then there's got one,
or mum's got one, and this little contraption thing and
the little step thing folds out, or they've got one
of those little slidey things and it's got like bits
of string on it on the sides, and maybe it
was good in nineteen thirty eight, when it was made

(45:53):
or something. Well, I went up one of those ones
hanging fairy lights on a pedg thing, and we were
inting this quite fresh house on the north shore and
the head it's like a Spanish style place, and it
had like a yeah, quite a tacky sort of vineyardy
sort of look they were going for with these big

(46:13):
heavy timbers laying on top of the of the purglar,
so the object being the string fairy lights on top
of that. And I got up on this cheap old ladder,
but it's sort of the ladder given away because the
timber was so heavy they hadn't bothered to pin it down.
So I leant the ladder against a thing, and as
soon as I got up past the point, it's just

(46:34):
the wood itself just gave way and fell off, and
I had to throw himself backwards because there was a
rockery you had underneath it. So if I went forward
with the ladder, I would have been in even bigger trouble.
And that was probably the worst thing, because literally do
they you know, I moved and moved ahead, moved to
toes wiggle the fingers to go through all that motion. Yeah,

(46:58):
but that was a bit of fun, and I think
probably the second one. Yeah'll be a dishwasher. Yeah, yeah,
dishwashers can be very dangerous.

Speaker 22 (47:12):
Hell.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
I found out woll because I've got to call off
my mate and he said, me, dishwasher is broken. Come
around and have a look. And you know he's a
good maide like I work with him for a while
and so forth, and you know the kind of sort
of thing we used to do, help each other out
where we could. So I went, I know nothing about dishwashers,

(47:33):
but if we're around there anyway, and I stood out
about four or five beers. He says, all right, well, me,
dishwashers broken. What we going to do about it? And
I said, well, obvious, divorce her and get another one. Yeah,
let's just smart stoke. It's not me, you know. But
unfortunately his partner was with an airshot and they were

(47:56):
going through domestics unbeknownst to me, and she said, well
you're left this cup last time you were here, and
she launched. They stayed at me head and said for me,
dishwashers are very danger subject didn't I'll leave you with that?

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Well handled, nick Jay. It's been a casual sex, have
we doubled down on it. There we go, get in
touch Marcus till twelve. How are you people? So what
would be the most dangerous appliance in the house? And
I'm pretty curious to hear what you think it is. Now,

(48:36):
what is interesting is according to hospital admissions. And I'll
just bring up the literature according to hospital admissions, right,
And this is according to an article on a magazine
called The Fast Company, which is design article. A study

(48:57):
conducted by online loan marketplace lending Tree between twenty thirteen
and twenty twenty two found the household appliances responsible one
hundred and fifty thousand injuries in twenty twenty two alone.
They found the biggest culprit of all was, of all things,

(49:17):
the refrigerator. Yeah. And if you're wondering how refrigerators acted
as such agents of chaos, it's mainly frigid that are malfunctioning,
resulting in water around the base. So many of the

(49:40):
injuries are the result of slips and falls, not while
using the refrigerator, but jet to puddles and spills that
accumulated around them. So frigerator was number one, ranges were
number two. Then vacuum clean is number three. I don't
know how vacuum cleans would be a thing. Pretty amazing,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
We go.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Ranges and ovens led to three hundred and twenty five
thousand trips to the emergency room. These injuries, unsurprised he
came in the form of burned and skulls. The next
three in order of vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and microwave ovens. Yeah.

(50:31):
The study proposed that the pandemic most likely paid a
role in the decline of injuries, since people were probably
les late together hospit believe if they were injured. I've
never slipped around the fridge. I've never burnt myself badly
on the oven. I've never done anything bad with a
vacuum creator. I presume vacu creator people would trip over
the cord, would they? It does tend to tie you

(50:52):
up the washing machine in the mind. I don't know
how you do yourself on a microwave oven. Of course,
every time I say microwaven, I think that's stupid song.
I've never liked.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
That.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Men at work anyway. Eighteen past nine, we're talking about
the most dangerous appliants in your house. You might have
a cursed appliance. Is it pc to note how many
men are calling stove's left on and bringing down houses

(51:30):
to get my vote for the most dangerous. But behind
everyone as a person, Cindy, a lot of people are
get the most dangerous is the mandolin. My father decided

(51:50):
to answer my questions about electricity something we cannot see
and you feel. He instructed me to hold the spark
plug lead on the lawn while he pulled the starter cord.
A lot of people are proposing the most dangerous person
or the most dagorous appliant as their wife, which yep, Joan,

(52:16):
it's Marcus.

Speaker 28 (52:17):
Welcome, Hello, marcause you get onto some interesting things, don't you.
About forty two years ago, I had an old couch
in my place I was living with my two preschool children,
and there's some material hanging down in the bottom of
So I'll get a drawing pin and I'll pop it
up with my thumb. Well, the bloody top come off
the drawing pin, and the thing on the drawing pm

(52:38):
went through into my thumb. So I just pulled it
out as quickly as I could, and it did hear up,
but oh my gosh, it was sore.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Do you remember as a child standing on drawing pins
a lot? I was often standing on them.

Speaker 28 (52:53):
We've always had a tin here on the bookcase in
the in the TV room when the boys were there,
and then Boodie had that room. But I was talking
to my neighbor today because I've got a moon size
cut on my eye of my leg, and that happened
when I was three years old. Now, my sister and
I were fighting over who was taking this can out
to the rubbish bin.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
On the farm.

Speaker 28 (53:14):
And you walked up to the bin, and of course
it was the outside toilet, and once Dad had the
cap beside and we kitten and it fell down the toilet,
the outside toilet, and he got a rake and got
it out and washed it. But anyway, we were fighting
over this tin. Well I got this moon shape scarts
about half an inch wide, and Mum looked after it,
and Grandad was staying with us, and he said, oh,

(53:35):
Joanes should be in hospital, should see the doctor. Mum said, oh, no,
I'm looking after her. I can't remember that, but I
ended up the one that got the top of the tin.
And of course now a lot of them they're pull off,
and of course Mum always said, make sure you're pressing
the top of the tin when you open a tin
of baked beans or food or something.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
You know. Just making about drawing pins is now they've
got the ones they don't I mean, why did they
design a drawing pin that would fall so it was sharp?
But up with those bits with a wide circlear bit
because of course now they're brilliant. Now you drop one
and they don't go in the body. But I was
often standing on drawing pins at school end at home.

(54:15):
It doesn't happen to the kids. Maybe that's the problem.
Too much social media. I enough, drawing pins. Very unpleasant feeling. Joe,
nice to talk, Thank you, Matt Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
Hey, how's going good?

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Matt?

Speaker 4 (54:28):
Hey, Yeah, I just got a bit of a story.
So I was quite fortunate to grow up in the eighties.
So we sort of grew up playing outside, so not
really our clients, but we're playing bor us one day
outside and I managed to touch the street light and
it gave me a hell of a shock. So it
being because we were we decided that, hey, let's build
a chain and see if we can all get a shop.

(54:48):
So we got to the point we got to about
six people and then someone decided that put their foot
on on the drain down on the street, and we're
all going to have a shop. Well, I think the
longest we had it for we'll probably be up for
or five seconds.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
How were you touching the street light?

Speaker 4 (55:04):
So you know on the street, pol it was like
a metal must I think it a screen. I don't
know what it was. So it just happened to be
touching it or with playing boris and it gave me
a shot.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
So it was it was so slightly miss wired or
something was it?

Speaker 4 (55:18):
I would assume so because we ended up just being
able to not a good thing, but we end up
being able to just kick the light and send all
the lights out on the street.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
None you met, Thank you. Twenty five past nine, Steve
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 27 (55:32):
Oh good evening, Marcos. I heard you say that you
couldn't think how a microwave could be to cause an accident.
So I thought i'd share with the group. I thought
I'd be clever. One year I was making a Christmas
cake and all the time, and so rather than soak
the fruit overnighting brandy, I thought this will work a
lot better if I warmed the brandy. Don't ever try

(55:54):
warming brandy in a microwave. I warmed the brandy alcohol.
It blew up the microwave completely, blew the door clear off,
split my head open.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Wow, I'm glad, I pondered allowed, because that's quite a
visual demonstration. So the alcohol evaporates, and yeah, what ignites it?

Speaker 27 (56:16):
I guess being gaseous, it goes into the componentry of
the microwave and something somewhere. Sparks don't by the internal
componentry of a microwave very well, but apparently there must
be something and that it can ignite it.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
Do microwave people know that?

Speaker 27 (56:32):
Personally? You were talking about most appliances that are dangerous.
I think if you think about microwaves these days, where
you can get the combination ones which they can have
it metal in them because they are an oven, and
then they can't have metal in them because there are
a microwave. There are so many rules that don't apply
to what we used to think of microwave. Was I
reckon there a hazard waiting to happen?

Speaker 3 (56:53):
But would most people with a microwave know you can't
use it to warm alcohol?

Speaker 27 (56:56):
I thought in hindsight that maybe it was a stupid
thing to do.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
But I wouldn't doot it. I mean, I don't drink it,
don't have a microwave. But that's unlike so bloated with
a loud bang.

Speaker 27 (57:08):
Oh, it completely warped the microwave. The entire chassis of
the microwave was just twisted. It blew up with a
with a quite a.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Bang, and the door came out with you perpendicular on
the same x as it was already.

Speaker 27 (57:21):
Yeah, so the microwave was eye level and it blew
the door clear open and hit me in the head.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
But still stayed on its hinges.

Speaker 27 (57:30):
Yeah, still stayed on its hinges, but it blew that.
It blew the door open with such force that it
hit me in the head and gave me nasty cat
six stitches.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Did did the surgeon say, this is the sixth person
this week I've done with trying to heat up brandy
in the microwave. That's what they normally say, isn't it.

Speaker 27 (57:47):
But the acc form was something that I'm sure someone
got to chuckle out of.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
That was the cake. Did it persevere with the Christmas cake?

Speaker 2 (57:58):
I did?

Speaker 27 (57:59):
Yeah, Christmas cake with a great, great success.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Okay, you did the brandy elsewhere you came back from
the stitches. Was it I'm just trying to think. Was
it down vertically down the forehead?

Speaker 17 (58:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (58:10):
So basically it was the edge of the door when
it opened hit me vertically. So I basically had a vertical,
vertical cut across the top of my forehead. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Where you're standing. So we're watching it. We're watching the
Whisky and the Brandy go around.

Speaker 27 (58:24):
I was waiting for it. I was in a hurry.

Speaker 10 (58:30):
What can my surprise?

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Was it just in what container?

Speaker 27 (58:34):
Was it in either a glass pirates jug?

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Wow? I never thought that would happen.

Speaker 27 (58:44):
No, neither did I.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
These are good stories. Well, good dog. What I'm liking
about on these exits? They quite visual, aren't they? The fridge,
the microwave, abet to find someone get injured themselves with
the vacuum cleaner. But the night is young? Oh wait,

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one way to head on midnight tonight if you want
to come through. We are talking about the most dangerous
appliance in the home.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Some would say the internet these days, Hey, you can
learn some pretty wacky doodle stuff on that. Well, when
I say learn, that's an inverted Commas, of course, Marcus
sent from high Marcus. I would have thought an iron
would be high up on the list. The habit of
ending the iron on the end of the earn up
ending the iron on the end of the earning board.
I've had mine land on the floor many times. They

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have a bloke broken ye which needs replacing, also left
on and you leave the room boom fire. I think,
and this might sound stupid, and I don't want to,
but I think probably people too, in a hurry have
iron the shirt while it's on themselves. Now that doesn't
tend to end well. Give us have a little bit

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of a burn, gets quite hot quicker than you think.
We didn't have an iron, because what would I iron.
I don't know if most people have an irons these
days or night irons. John, Thanks for hanging on there
and good evening, John AT's Marcus. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hello, Marcus.

Speaker 18 (01:00:25):
Vacuum cleaners. They are the most dangerous household of plants
you could possibly have, because you need to put a
lot of physical effort into using the bloody thing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
I don't disagree, and.

Speaker 18 (01:00:47):
You can you can have a heart attack. As a
great uncle of mine dead on the end of a
vacuum cleaner. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't touch a vacuum
cleaner if you paid me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
They are annoying things. It's an annoying weight down low.
I've always found them hard work.

Speaker 18 (01:01:04):
Oh yeah, and you get yourself tangled up in the cord.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
It's never an exting time, victiiming. And then you switch
from carpet to floor and it won't the adjustment won't
click on you.

Speaker 18 (01:01:17):
I don't like them, no, But Marcus, can I go
back to a subject you mentioned very early on tonight?
There was a chap rang in and he had a
wound and he got it fixed by grafting skin from
one part of his body onto another part. Can you

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recall that conversation?

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
I recall conversations from twelve years ago.

Speaker 18 (01:01:46):
But anyway, it brought to mind a relative of mine,
Sir William Manchester. He was a pioneer in plastic surgery
and he perfected, along with Sarah Shee Macendo, the art

(01:02:09):
of grafting skin to repair words. He did a lot
of work with airline pilots after the war, with burns
and things like that. And there's a very good book
written about plastic surgery and him in particular. The book
is called Perfection. It's a good read if anybody's interested.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
Was he a Kiwi yep?

Speaker 18 (01:02:36):
Born and bred and Wyometti Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Him a Norman kerk Yep yep.

Speaker 18 (01:02:44):
And you know there are so many things hang on.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
John Yep. I think Wyometti is also famous. I think
when I was in Wyamette not so long ago, there
was a statue of the country's first female doctor.

Speaker 18 (01:02:59):
There is that, right, Uh, could well be. I'm not
aware of that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
You should be.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Well.

Speaker 18 (01:03:09):
I did go to school in Wyometty for three years
with Norman Kirk.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
No.

Speaker 18 (01:03:17):
I was at why Metty Primary School in nineteen fifty
through to nineteen fifty three.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Did you race on the velodrome?

Speaker 29 (01:03:33):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:03:33):
But it had seats all around the edge of it
that we used to jump from one seat to the next.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Noticed those seats? Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:03:41):
Yeah, And they had a peacock in the gardens at
that yep. No, but my mother was a Manchester, so
the name Manchester is quite well known in Wyometty.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
Did he go over Casar remained in the country.

Speaker 18 (01:04:07):
Oh No, He worked a lot in London, but he
set up the Burns unit at Burwood Hospital here in
christ Church after the war.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Yeah, I think I am slightly familiar with him.

Speaker 18 (01:04:21):
Yeah, if you googled it you'd probably find them so
well your Manchester.

Speaker 26 (01:04:25):
But he.

Speaker 18 (01:04:27):
Spent the last years of his life working as a
plus succeedson in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Yeah, I think I am familiar with Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:04:39):
But anyway, don't touch a vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
Terrible things and I don't know why they designed so badly.
It's the weight, and it's that oh well.

Speaker 18 (01:04:52):
I used to have one that was sort of an
upright thing. And when I had that, we were living
in a house that was on several levels and christ
to get this damned vacuum cleaner for one level to
the next, it was quite a mission.

Speaker 17 (01:05:10):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
I just think that I think it's the gods. I
think it's the devil's appliance, the old vacuum cleaner, thank you,
oh weight one hundred and eighty ten eighty. The most
dangerous of all the appliance is they say it's the fridge,
mainly because you'll do the old slip, well, the old

(01:05:32):
slip or the new slip, whatever the slip is, Hello
peteway Mark.

Speaker 30 (01:05:39):
Yeah, I reckon the old electric radio inside tents. Well,
when I was a young boy, had me mate, it's
a big it's the big thing we used to Somebody
used to invite me friends around. It was the summertime.
It'd always Mum and dad. It'd be one of those
canvas tents over to pebb put two stretches inside of

(01:05:59):
a pole in the center. So so he always had
a radio in the listened to a bit of music and
it was big time. And those day here radio inside
your tinge and that. But sometimes that will cut out
a bit and then let me mate, he will still made.
He might be listening to his name as John. And
one day, so one day and it cut out. And

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so those days I didn't realize that that's why you're
your kids. You don't realize what how what power does?
What's how dangerous is? So I thought I would turn
the power off on the switch, you know you just
turn off like on and off button, you know.

Speaker 21 (01:06:34):
So what I did.

Speaker 30 (01:06:35):
I went and then I thought I'd try to fix
this wire up, you know, I try to find out
where it's cutting out this So I wouldn't stop doing that,
and I sticked me and I stick my fingers in there.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
Next minute, it just froze me. The elterricy just frozen.
But it doesn't just yeah, it just grabs your yeah,
just grabs your muscles.

Speaker 30 (01:06:53):
And I was trying to yell out to him, like
you know, try.

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
To get it, draw his attention. It just it just
tightens your tongue.

Speaker 22 (01:07:01):
You can't talk.

Speaker 30 (01:07:02):
It just for lucky enough, I actually managed somehow to
get loose to this flaming wire because I started yelling
next and old John I think he almost shit himself.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
I think that when it was.

Speaker 30 (01:07:12):
Going on, I said, I didn't you didn't you hear
me yelling out? It must have been harding how long it
must have been. I had no thirty seconds, but it
seems seems a long time. When you're at you in
the electricity, it gets hold of your muscles or your voice,
your voice box, and I let loose. And I always
ever since then, I respected electricity because you don't realize

(01:07:34):
it's how dangerous it is, you know. So yes, I've
never been the same since there mar because I reckon
I could have developed the latest EV vehicle forby forty
years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
So you're in where were you in this tent?

Speaker 30 (01:07:50):
So on the on the farm on the lawn and
he got.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
It plugged into the mains.

Speaker 30 (01:07:56):
Yeah, so we had we had a tool tool explain.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
That peak because everyone thinks you're in a tent and
be a trendy. You got in the tent with you.

Speaker 30 (01:08:03):
No, it's elelectric electric radio, a plug in one.

Speaker 7 (01:08:08):
Yeah, that was they had to run a pair accord
into the tent.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
You wouldn't do that.

Speaker 30 (01:08:14):
We know, that's what we We always had just we
just run up on the woods. You did, and they
had a pair point in there.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Are you living in the tent?

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
No, No, we're just standing there a couple of nights.
And that's a big thing in those days, sleeping in
the tent.

Speaker 30 (01:08:27):
Get out of the house.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
No, No, with you. They're good on you for saying that.
I've good on you for for sticking out for that.
You're right about that.

Speaker 7 (01:08:34):
Yeah, so I never forget that. So ever since then,
I respected electricity because you don't realize how dangerous it is.
I I always thought, how come I go literature and
I didn't know.

Speaker 30 (01:08:44):
I said, well, you're only turning the pair off on
the say, turning the raady off and the powers on inside.
So especial when your kids. You don't realize it, do
you kids are kids are the kid?

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
Then yeah, you a better epecuted. So you almost feel
it's like you're grip your muscles kind of clench.

Speaker 7 (01:09:06):
It does it does? You just have no control? You're yelling.
I was yelling to him, but my voice box was frozen.

Speaker 30 (01:09:13):
It grabs your voicebox. It just it just freezes all
your muscles.

Speaker 7 (01:09:16):
You can't you you know you're yelling.

Speaker 30 (01:09:18):
You think you're yelling, but I.

Speaker 7 (01:09:19):
Just you can't.

Speaker 30 (01:09:20):
You can't talk. It just frozes, just freezes your voicebox,
I suppose, and imagine them and managed to let it go.
And then I yell at him and old Johnny here
and say you almost really jumped in the other side
of the tent. So yeah, so yes, Elson's then I
was very weary of electricity. Was probably it was a good.

Speaker 7 (01:09:35):
Listen for me.

Speaker 30 (01:09:35):
I suppose is what if he is listening, it might
be he's probably better than half a hour's drive from
where I lived. But year's name was Johnny. It was
actually quite fun with me. Yes, yeah, yes, they need you.
And I shouldn't say it, but I actually had a
brother in law. You got litercuded to in the in
the power coat. Here, you're years ago. Same thing with electricity.

(01:09:56):
You know, you don't play around with electricity.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
No oh no, you got to respect you got to
respect that. But good on, you're well, said Berry. It's Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:10:04):
Welcome all Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 10 (01:10:17):
The guy that rung in earlier that said he's got
he got caught up on the ringer wise means sing
my mother in law got her breast caught in it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:10:37):
Wow, it was a common thing back in the time, because.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
That's not something I thought on here tonight.

Speaker 10 (01:10:50):
No, I just was thinking to let you know or not.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
Yeah. Was she okay?

Speaker 10 (01:11:02):
Yeah? I didn't know her then, but she five, she's
just did a fortnight ago. Wow, my wife went over

(01:11:25):
to Ozzie to see about.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
The funel So she did she hit the release?

Speaker 10 (01:11:37):
I think so, But she had a hell of a
job letting go with it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
Look, I can't imagine how that happens, but she would
certainly know cheap as.

Speaker 10 (01:11:54):
Yes, but I yes, I say, I think it was
a common thing for women that day, those.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
Days to get their breasts caught in the ringer. Yes, well,
I've learned something tonight, Barry, thank you very much for that.
I had no idea that was a thing. Goodness, John
A's Marcus.

Speaker 31 (01:12:18):
Hello, Hey Marcus, how are you buddy?

Speaker 8 (01:12:21):
All good?

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
All good, John, All good?

Speaker 31 (01:12:22):
Yeah, Yeah, I just a quick story here.

Speaker 15 (01:12:24):
I remember when I was like about ten, me and
my mate were playing around with all electrolux and you
can reverse them, you know, you can make it blow right,
And well we've got a bit board blowing ping pong
balls out. So we decided to put our pet mice
in there. And I don't recommend it, but anyway, accidentally

(01:12:45):
turned it around and it shot me in the eye
and I got a bloody black eye from this mouse.

Speaker 8 (01:12:49):
The mouse is all right.

Speaker 31 (01:12:51):
Because we used to shoot them out of the window.
There's only one story, but they landed all right. But yeah,
they just want to let you know that so they
can be dangerously vacuum clients with the wrong things.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Brilliant John, thank you for that. Welcome, good evening money.
Marcus hitdled telf We talk about the most dangerous appliants
in the home, which they say is the fridge. But
the fridge is so dangerous and how much how dangerous
must the mop be? If The reason the fridge is
so dangerous is because that people are always slipping on

(01:13:22):
puddles from it. So yeah, anyway, get in touch. My
name is Marcus Welcome. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine two nine TUTA texts do come through, Do come through,
do come through? Anything else you want to talk about,
But it's mainly about appliances and your injuries with them,
which I'm quite enjoying. It's good stories. Some crackers. Oh,

(01:13:46):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two
to text anything else you got here for it? Eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine tutor text
any breaking news like popes and stuff like that, or
across that so you will know. We'll go breaking on that.
Off what happened? I don't know it happened today, but

(01:14:08):
you never know. Did. It's Marcus Welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 29 (01:14:13):
I was electrocuted with the line foe. The lightning hit
it and stretched me out in my dining.

Speaker 17 (01:14:27):
Room, and it.

Speaker 29 (01:14:30):
Stretched me out. Do you know how you see them
drawing in the in the books and that when electricity
hit you. That's just how it was. And the phone
come back and hit me in the hit me in
the ear, and my foot came up in the air
and came down on my foot and knocked me down
to the ground. So I don't know about these new

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phones now, but that was a lot long line, so
it can be quite dangerous too.

Speaker 14 (01:15:00):
How long did did?

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
How long ago was this?

Speaker 23 (01:15:04):
Oh?

Speaker 29 (01:15:04):
This is going back about ten years ago?

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
And whereabout what study?

Speaker 16 (01:15:11):
And where in the red?

Speaker 29 (01:15:13):
It was in Kio in the bar north.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
So when you say did, when you say it stretched
you out like in the diagrams that when your legs
and your eyes and everything you are at full extent.

Speaker 29 (01:15:26):
Yeah, just stretched me right out. I was leaning on
the dining room table with my foot on the piano stool,
and I was buying a Stadion Arabian horse, talking to
the guy that was selling it. Then the lightning and
the lightning in the bolomen thunder was going and I
didn't take any notice of that. And the next minute

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I stretched out and my arm was stretched out, and
when it went off the line, my arm came back
to where my ear was and smacked me in the
in the ear, and then my one foot came up
in the air, and then that came down on my
other pot and then I cracked her on the ground.

(01:16:10):
The guy rung back. I slammed the phone down. The
guy rung back, I says electric storm, electric storm, and
slammed the phone down. And I used to play with
electricity with things that used to get broken. And I
was using a pocket knife and had a plastic handle,

(01:16:33):
and it was plugged in and it wasn't going, and
I was touching everything and the electorsity melted the whole
steel knife and left me with the plastic in my hand.
That plastic hadn't have been on the recon, i'd have
been dead.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Did you have any repercussions or wounds from when you
got shot when you're buying the stallion?

Speaker 29 (01:16:57):
No, I wasn't by the standing. I was bringing the
guy up to buy a stallion.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
Yeah, but that first.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
But when you got shot, when you got shocked when
you were trying to buy the stallion, did you have
any permanent name?

Speaker 29 (01:17:13):
It was a pain, pain in the air, and I'm
really sore foot, and I wondered why I was on
the ground. So there's there's not many long lines there
tarry phone wires around now, don't okay, So I don't
know how it would go with these phones that we've

(01:17:34):
got today, but anywhere where this electors a year in
the house. That's that's your danger.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
Brilliant. I appreciate you, Tid. That's a good story. I
think it was. I think he probably meant Landline. I
don't know that, but I don't want to correct people.
Twelve past eleven, Laureate's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:17:54):
Yeah, that he would have heard a good name for
the horse of fever boy.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Well, I said with your Barger says, and I wasn't.
I wasn't. Didn't want to go back there, but yeah, anyway, yeah,
lightning would be wow.

Speaker 16 (01:18:10):
Yeah. He One of the most dangerous appliances used to
be the electric jug and that was to do with
you know, people snagging the going person catching the cord
when it was boiling.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
And pulling on it too. Was always dangerous, was it.

Speaker 16 (01:18:28):
Yeah, So they used to sell those safety holders, you know,
you put your jug in which is attached to the wall,
and they couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
I've never heard of that.

Speaker 16 (01:18:35):
When was this, Oh, there would be probably twenty five
years ago.

Speaker 10 (01:18:40):
Probably.

Speaker 16 (01:18:40):
I think I've still going out and the shid I
do something else with it now. But you're touched to
the wall. It was like a little cage type thing and.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
The jug what would I google like a jug safety
electric jug safety.

Speaker 16 (01:18:51):
Cage safety holder. Yeah, yeah, degree und there. But there
was a spectacular story with about the microwave warming out
the alcohol. If if, if everything can instructed a microwave
of them. There's there's some big magnets in there, you know,
powerful enough that you can't push them together. But I

(01:19:14):
can remember a story was before we had a microph
wave of our own. Son went around to play with
mats place the parents were away, and there were a
bit of a novelty the microwave, and they started off
catching blowflies and putting them in the microwave, and they
apparently blew up and made quite a mess. And then
they moved on to some of these things like market pens.

(01:19:38):
The well colored market pins are in those metal cases.
Stuck one of those and apparently and that really blew
up with spectacular results, you know, colored everywhere. Let's say
it's for some records times, you know, well to come home.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Well, I think, yeah, I've never I've never, I've never
really got involved with one. I always thought that's terrifying.

Speaker 16 (01:20:04):
But I find the the old pressure cooker is much
maligned in some respects. So we did it used to
all the old Land of Zero department. We used to
get issue with pressure cookers, you know, for camp cooking,
and they had safety valves in them, and so long
as you didn't you know, you monitored to watch them
while lower cooking. You got to a certain height and
the valve came up a certain number of rings, and

(01:20:26):
then you turned the heat down.

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
And what do you mean they came up a certain
number of rings? Tell me about that.

Speaker 16 (01:20:32):
Well, there we used to be a pressure valve on them.
It raised up as the pressure inside because he didn't
put much water in them really, so the water would
start boiling, the pressure inside would push up a little valve.
And for some things the recipes said, you know, with potatoes,
if it came up say two rings, and then you

(01:20:53):
kept it at that level for maybe you know, it
only took you know, four or five minutes to cook
that sort of stuff, and then you that was enough,
you know, and then you took it off the heat
and slowly released There was a weight that you could
take off or you could just let it you know,
dissiplate slowly. But but there was a fail safe. And

(01:21:16):
even back and we're talking the sixties, they all had
little little safety valves, like the additional thing was supposed
to blow before you know, the lid came. Well, they
were the way they were constructed, xt you couldn't really
get the lid off.

Speaker 3 (01:21:35):
Laurie was the whole point of a pressure cooker that
it was just much much quicker, is it the whole
point of it.

Speaker 16 (01:21:40):
Much much quicker? Yeah, yeah, and saved on because we
were mostically cooking on primers and that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:21:46):
So yeah, they so it was it was specifically an
element you want to be good for the outdoor use
because it was light and it was efficient efficient Yeah, okay,
I mean.

Speaker 16 (01:21:55):
When you can cook you know sort of. The old
corned beef was one of the things that you could
you could do pretty quickly. How quickly Oh well, well
that might be a bit longer, but it might only
be you know, possibly half an hour, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:22:08):
But the other vegetables you had little separate comparments for
different veggies and you know, they could all be done
and you know probably five minutes. And stews and stuff
like that, and uh, they were we had them down
the Antarctic as well.

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
But I always, Laurie, I always wonder when you've got
to meet you the attactic. I like that in the attactic. Yeah,
we laur the tactic with a pressure cooker. What were
you cooking about?

Speaker 16 (01:22:37):
Well, just get the old you know, the old, the high,
the early d high stuff, and put water, you know,
did a soak all day and uh and then you
throw raisins and all anything else in there and get that.
The early dehydrated stuff really did need something like a
pressure cocker sippinder. It's sort of edible, it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Was, yeah, but and be quite tender.

Speaker 16 (01:23:00):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
You couldn't go roast and it was just stuff within
water on.

Speaker 16 (01:23:06):
No, no, it had to be just water pressure. Yeah.
The one that I knew, I mean as in the
side you know the that those guys that did the
the bombers the Chicago marathon, those those two.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
That's right, they did a pressure cooker. They were they
they were they are mean, they are met.

Speaker 16 (01:23:27):
They were from.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
Kids. We're one of the we shouldn't we shouldn't malign
the wrong anyway, the initiality doesn't matter.

Speaker 16 (01:23:36):
But yes, they of Russian origins anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
Yeah, but they used to They used to pressure cooker,
did they?

Speaker 16 (01:23:46):
Yeah? Well, I know they had amongst they had a
number of things set happen. I know that one of
them was a pressure cooker.

Speaker 10 (01:23:52):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 16 (01:23:56):
Apparently, as you say on YouTube, they had got a
bit of a reputation.

Speaker 3 (01:24:01):
But I think they're from chitch chitchen the chitchen.

Speaker 16 (01:24:05):
Yeah yeah. I think in that sort of case, they're
thinking of something that's going to blow up and it's
going to be like a fragmentation type device. Basically it's
gonna be a lot of shred and will go with it.
Whereas ones, So.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
Why do people use them?

Speaker 16 (01:24:18):
Larry Well, I think there was a bit of a
renaissance with them. Maybe it mightbe less than ten years ago.
You were starting to see them around. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
You put them on the element. You don't put them
in the oven, do you.

Speaker 17 (01:24:34):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:24:34):
No, No, it's just sort of an element or you know,
guess stuff like that. So you're just going to.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Boil it.

Speaker 16 (01:24:43):
You know, probably less than a cupful of watergoes in them,
and it's it is very you know, probably the most
fel efficient player of cooking. And it does soften things
pretty well, you know, It's not like boiling hell out
of cabbage like people used to. You know, it was
sort of if you've did it for the right time,

(01:25:03):
it was pretty good, but you can it retained a
lot of the goodness as well. But I haven't haven't
mind still in the shed my life. I'm not using
it the term.

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
I using what using your jug cage in the shed for.
That's got me interested as well. Something else sounds pretty serious.

Speaker 16 (01:25:23):
Well, I've got to like a jug I use out
in the shed for for balling the odd thing up.
But sometimes I've just either got a care of paint
sitting in that thing. It's yeah, they well when you
google it, did it come up with an right the
joke holders? Were they still around?

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
I couldn't find an image. I'm actually moved on to
pressure cookers to find out. Yeah, I found an article
that says the article says, right Yeph. Now, yeah, I can't.
I don't have to go because it's actually scrolling for me.
Something's gone bed with my computer. But thank you. I
want to go to John because John's a callback. John

(01:26:03):
A's Marcus.

Speaker 32 (01:26:04):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus, how are you tonight?

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
You good? Thank you John?

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Good good Marcus.

Speaker 32 (01:26:11):
You were talking to a gentleman late on I think
it was Monday evening and he was recapping the or
trying to track the history of his family, and the
subject of Western Springs came up, Yes, and he was
trying to locate a street.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
There, number four. Was it number four? Bennerman?

Speaker 23 (01:26:31):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:26:33):
From what from the way you described it.

Speaker 32 (01:26:34):
He said that you used to come down the Bullock
Track and then turn on to Great North Road and
it was about two hundred and fifty meters along the road. Well,
when I was a youngster, I used to work for
the local grocer there and deliver the groceries on the
bike here it used to do.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
Yes.

Speaker 32 (01:26:52):
And the road that he I'm pretty sure that he's
trying to identify with is called Ivanhoe Road.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
Okay.

Speaker 32 (01:27:03):
Now Ivanhoe Road is actually on the other side of
the new motorway. But what happened was when they created
the new expressway right through Western Springs there, they took
it because I lived there when there was trams on
the on Great North Road, you know, That's how far
I go back, and there was a big block of

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flats and then there was Ivanhoe Road, which was about
directly opposite the entrance way to Western Spring Speedway and
the way that they've reconfigured that Now if you look
at a Google map, it's actually.

Speaker 10 (01:27:41):
They cut off Ivanhoe Road.

Speaker 32 (01:27:47):
To the Great North Road and they put an egress
that accesses it like a slip road going onto the expressway.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
Yeah, okay, John, I'm sure he said the address was
for Bannerman Road.

Speaker 32 (01:28:04):
Now well for Bannerman Road Way up in Western Springs Road.

Speaker 6 (01:28:10):
Yes, But.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
As part of the call he did say that because
he wondered if that had been close, if that had
been shortened by the motorway when that went through by
Chamberlain Park. So but look, look, so I did think
he mentioned that. But look, so do you think you've
got you think it's Ivanhoe Road?

Speaker 6 (01:28:29):
Do you?

Speaker 10 (01:28:30):
I would have, I would have said, given the way
he described it.

Speaker 32 (01:28:33):
Yeah, by he came down the Bullock Track and then
you turned onto Great North Road and it was about
two hundred and fifty meters along the road in the
road would have been Ivanhoe.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
I appreciate that, John, Thank you. By the way, I
am just watching the start of the All Black the
Tall Blacks playing the Australian team. Just for anything down
is it's just a friendly to three manch series. But
what is interesting is I'm looking at the people doing
the haka and I think three or four of them
I saw on Saturday night playing for the Canterbury Rams

(01:29:08):
when they saw off the South and Sharks convincingly. There's
the big unit with the big bed and the long
haired guy. I think the four or five of them,
it's appeared to be players from Canterbury. Someone got the
teamless there for me because I'm sure that most of
them are from the Canterbury Rams. So I just yeah,

(01:29:33):
I haven't got my program with me from the Tall
Black's roster?

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Where do I find the team for today? This is
not the Asia Cup Qualifier?

Speaker 6 (01:29:44):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
Tall Blacks Teamless Australia. I didn't realize they would have
such a quick turnaround. This is only three days ago.
They're playing Marcus over. Magic pot has several functions including
pressure cooker, great for peen Ham soup. Forty minutes by
them at Noel Lemming Classical Lightning Story. I remember the

(01:30:07):
first note a new place was making perclated coffie. Little
I know the stove and it was faulty. It exploded
just miss my face and sped all of the ceiling,
which had just been painted Lucky. It missed my face, Marcus.
My husband bought new hair clippers and asked me to
cut us here. I rightically agreed. I started the back
and realized I needed a comb on and had shaved
a big strip up on the back of the head.

(01:30:28):
I put a comb on and carried on. He didn't know,
and no one told him he had a landing strip.
Lull ring of washing machines were dangerous. The ring of
popping up and catching chin that goodness for modern appliances, Marcus.
In the seventies, the pressure cookers were the most dangerous
home appliances, usurped by the microwave. In the eighties by

(01:30:49):
the microwave lyles. That is, in the eighties, Marcus, the
most dangerous appliant in the house is the one my
other heart is using when I give her a bit
of lip. There's a lot of texts about that. Yeah,
people don't like anything that volved in. They don't like cruelty.
It's going to be a bit careful about that. Although

(01:31:12):
it does say the mouse of the vecup, it must
be the call of that. My wife and iron tears
over it, So there we go. Never know who's going
to go, do you? I had my very long hair
go through the Ringer washing machine years ago, hit the
release button, didn't lose my god and locks dreaded washing
day in those days. Regards Evon Marcus, My most dangerous

(01:31:34):
aplant has been my dishwasher. The handle hadn't worked right,
and as it had happened before, I thought I will
fix it again with a twisty tie. So I got
my trusty screw driver out my weab plastic stool and
start taking the inside door panel off. That done, then
went to a temp to fix it. The next thing
I know, I was throwing off the stool right to
the back door, my trusty screwdriver totally welded to the motherboard,

(01:31:55):
and me wondering what the hell had struck me. There's
more to this and I'll bring that to you. Back
to the dishwasher story a little I realized I hadn't
turned the switch off or pulled the play out as
it was in the cupboard. I jokeally rang my insurance
to us, do you pay out on stupidity? Got another
shock set when they say yes that we do It's
really taught me though. If I don't take more care

(01:32:17):
being missus I can fix anything, I may not be
here to tell the next story. Great show. Cheers, Joy,
I'll jump for Joy. Marcus is right about brists getting
caught in the ringer. I've heard about it many times
back in the day. Marcus, you're thinking of Margaret Crookshank
as the first female doctor. She was from y Metty

(01:32:38):
memorable memorial statue in Seddin Square. Thank you for that
two years. It's not someone we celebrate much. The first
female doctor Cokeochew number five one hundred and four years
old today and if anyone has an original bottle of
she at number five, it's worth a bit of bunnet
bit of money to collect us of perfume and tomorrow.
Sir David Atton returns ninety nine. Would you go into

(01:33:00):
the movie here to see his latest Nature docco When
I was pregnant on a hot day of Manau to
burn my big belly with the edge of the iron.
That's the thirty nine year old memory. Vacuums are bad
for your back. Radio is dangerous with sleep deprivation. Cindy
hand one blender eager to taste your bliss ball. Next,
next minute, your sixty year old daughter's fingers blood and

(01:33:21):
the mix and chips of bone for the bonus ingredient.
Wow ooh, so the sixty year old must have put
her finger in when she's making it blew up the microwave.
It reminds me of when I lived in Cororia. I
was cheating with my mate and put a little paper
bag of rubbish in the wood burner. When boom, my

(01:33:42):
mate got such a fun I didn't realize he was
an ever ready battery in the bag. Funny. Oh, good evening, Louise.
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 24 (01:33:52):
Oh hi Marcus. Yeah, dangerous appliances. I think the oven
is the most dangerous for the way. It's just because
I would bear myself when I cock in the oven.
I didn't today.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
But well, i'll tell you what can I just Louise,
a dangerous thing about the oven? Right, if you've got
an oven mat, it normally only good for you need
those two You need two of them. Yeah, yeah, because
I'm always using a tea towel. It's never thick enough.
And then yeah that's not good.

Speaker 24 (01:34:26):
Oh well, my hands are deformed from rheumatoids, so I
can't fasten too an oven glove, so I have to
sort of hold it, which isn't the best. But anyway,
something happened today that I cannot explain, and I don't
lie and I don't exaggerate.

Speaker 25 (01:34:44):
Now this morning, I.

Speaker 24 (01:34:47):
Put my porridge on. So I have a gas top
hob and another elector oven. So I cropped my porridge,
turned off the ring, turned off the range food, then
about the business. And it was a smell, a smell
like something animal, something cooking. Couldn't figure out. And then

(01:35:11):
I've seen them played. I look and the oven was
on the actual oven, and I hadn't used the oven.
I haven't used it in a few days. So I
don't understand because you have to turn the knobs to
nobs to get it going, one for the temperature and

(01:35:34):
one for you know, theirmal wave or whatever. And I
can't till I still can't explained what happened. It's turned
itself on. I mean, I'm the only human in the house.

Speaker 3 (01:35:50):
You think it was someone living in the past.

Speaker 24 (01:35:56):
No, no, no, I just i't my guarding lady here
at the time.

Speaker 16 (01:36:04):
I believe this.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
The guarding woman has it snuck in.

Speaker 9 (01:36:09):
No, no, there was no woman in the kitchen hit
me and.

Speaker 17 (01:36:16):
You know I yeah, I just don't know.

Speaker 24 (01:36:19):
I don't know what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
Maybe someone have some suggestions, Louise, thank you for that.
By the way, someone said that microwave song it's dire straits.
You're quite right. Dia straits are like you can't stand
the song. I mean, diastraates have got some nice songs.
That one's jarring. It's awful. Mircaus, I put too much
coffee a plunge. You once poured the boiling water and
pushed the plunge down quite hard. The glass of the
plunger shed it. They end up with boiling water all
over me. Was really painful. I also sliced the skin

(01:36:46):
off my finger and using a mandolin to dice onions
that was revolting. I slive a big scar bled for hours.
Gilly I fell over the vacuum cleaner pipe, did a
face plutter and he knocked myself out. Funny way about
kitchen radio and the mo Yeah, I won't read that anyway.

(01:37:07):
Coming up, pumpkin, that is risky. Where's the chainsaw? Marcus
away in our motor home turned the gas on next butt,
I could smell something burning. It was our oven glove.
Don't store them there anymore, chairs, Ay, Jude, Thank you Jude.
For some reason, the ringing washing machine was a notable cause.
But electrocuitians in the eighties and nineties, with about one

(01:37:28):
or two cases report each year, probably had to do
with that households having no proper drain. Walter, Oh, Walter's
in Tonga. Thanks Walter. How's you go? Is your guy
at the Vatican?

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
Walter?

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
I've read about that too, somewhere you might have told me. Actually,
Mackett's Marcus.

Speaker 33 (01:37:44):
Good evening, Yes, good evening, Marcus. I wed a story
about a pair of scissors.

Speaker 6 (01:37:51):
Now, this is.

Speaker 33 (01:37:55):
When I was about eight or ten years old, and
younger sister was having a birthday, and there was a
lot of balloons blowing up around the place, and being
a bit of a smart alec, thought I'd give her
a bit of a fright. So I grabbed a kitchen scissors,
and I opened the bride up to the like a cross,

(01:38:17):
and I in my left hand I had the balloon,
and I stabbed the balloon just behind the back to
give her a big fight, and the scissors went the
sharp piece that was one piece sticking it out, went
through the outside of the balloon with a big bang,
through the inside of the other side of the balloon,

(01:38:39):
straight through the palm of my hand, and out the
other side there of the the top of my hand.
So there was a big bang, and then a child
was with a horrendous scream and blood everywhere. So I
never did that again.

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Was it hard to extract the scissor from your hand?

Speaker 17 (01:39:02):
No?

Speaker 33 (01:39:02):
I pulled him out.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
Okay, I want it straight away, otherwise you'd be yeah, okay, wow?
And was that stitches?

Speaker 17 (01:39:08):
Was that?

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
How old were you?

Speaker 33 (01:39:10):
I was about eight or ten, and that's that's seventy
five years ago. I made just coming up eighty four now,
and I still got that start right my hand.

Speaker 3 (01:39:21):
It went right through your hand.

Speaker 33 (01:39:23):
Yeah, through the hand and out the other side between
the sort of bones in the palm of my hand.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
Oh hell, So how how old did that? How old?
Did that?

Speaker 16 (01:39:37):
Take?

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
The hell mat.

Speaker 18 (01:39:41):
A while?

Speaker 33 (01:39:41):
But well it wasn't too bad really. I just carried
on his life here. But we live way out in
the country of farm and you know, didn't go into
the doctor anything from now strives. So there was a
waste of time. Well, they clean you up with oh
so bit of deettle and that's something in those days.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
Out of interest met Where were you an hour away
from town? Uh?

Speaker 33 (01:40:08):
Out of one and you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
Tiger country?

Speaker 4 (01:40:12):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 3 (01:40:16):
You didn't need you didn't need stitches. You didn't get stitches.

Speaker 33 (01:40:19):
I didn't do home stitches, no, because it was a
fairly sharp you piece of the sisters. So it just
punched a big hole through the palm of the hand
and then back out the other pop them man, the
other side get healed up.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
And this was at a party, was it that's ruined
the party?

Speaker 16 (01:40:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 33 (01:40:37):
Yeah, yeah, so it was my sister's birthday party, which
funnily enough, was just coming up again next week.

Speaker 3 (01:40:44):
You should redo the trick.

Speaker 33 (01:40:46):
Yeah, I wouldn't do well, I wouldn't do that trick again.

Speaker 3 (01:40:51):
Good on you man, I'll see chat with your jokes. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
I'm a bit nervous of cheap multiplugs that goes when
you plug them in. There are some fairly interesting articles
around about the E day. Well, I'm pretty sure it's today,
although it's confusing with the Northern hemisphere. On a different timescale,

(01:41:11):
and I'll just take a bit of time to acknowledge
that and read you a bit of what I was
reading today about that. I'm just going to bring the
article up, guys. That'll take a while. Twenty seven twenty
three years in it ahead of Australia by four. That's basketball.
I don't like the expression tall blacks. I don't like
any of that black stuff. All blacks is fine. The

(01:41:32):
rest of it's sort of overdone. That's just opinion. You
don't have to agree with me. So this is the article.
Funny enough, it's in the Daily Mail, but it's captured
things quite well. After about six years of living in
mortal fear. The people hardly dare to believe it. It
was May nineteen forty five, and for weeks they've been

(01:41:54):
promised that the war was about to end. But what
if the news from Germany was promising Allied forces storming
across the Rhine, Berlin about to fall to the Russians.
Then Hitler dead as self ministered bullet in his evil brain.
But what if the Nazis had one last malign trick
up their sleeves, a suicide onslaught on London. More doodle

(01:42:15):
bugs th and V to rockets a blitz to rival
any of the murderous air raids that had gone before.
Molly Pedderdown's brilliant chronicler of the Second World War, in
a series of letters from London for The New Yorker,
noted this reluctance on the faces of a weary population.
It's difficult for them to forget that they could be
under some sort of fire right up to the last minute,

(01:42:36):
she wrote, which was why when the official order went
out that dimmed lights could be turned up again and
window blackouts taken down, the days of crotchy air raid
wardens shouting put that light out gone forever. Surprisingly few
people complied, leaving London as murky as ever. The end
had been on the cards for a while, but it

(01:42:57):
was only at seven forty pm on Monday May seven
that the BBC had interrupted a piano recital on the
radio to a officially announced that the war was over
and that tomorrow, Tuesday, May eight, would be v Day.
Even on the day that victory was to be declared,
some had last minute fresh on of fair and early

(01:43:21):
morning thunderstorm rocked the capital, so loud and intense that
London has woken from sleep, instinctively reached out for the
bedside torch and consider heading for the shelter, before realizing
it was nature, not Nazis disturbing the rest. They were safe,
They really were. The party book would begin could begin. Suddenly.
There were flags everywhere. Selfridge has been doing a roaring

(01:43:44):
trade with its twenty five shilling union jacks and streamers
priced at shevn seven shillings at Woolworth's special commementer of
v Day Hairslide was a shilling that's you get your
hands on one. Supplies were running out in queues, the
wartime curse forming, and not just for bunting, but for bread, meat, fish,
even alcohol to toast the victory. The war was over,

(01:44:04):
but rationally most certainly was not. How's wives stood in
line with their coupons, carrying the usual string shopping bag
in one hand and a red, right and blue flag
in the other. But for one day at least, all
that could go hang as throughout the country, a relief
population sang and danced, reveling in the long awaited peace.

(01:44:25):
In central London, the streets filled with people determined to
celebrate on what was a perfect England. Some English summer
day of sunshine and blue sky, as if fulfilling Virulin's
poignant and now prophetic wartime promise that we'll meet again,
don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll
meet again some sunny day. So there we go, and

(01:44:49):
it's the seventh today. Obviously, Marcus. The pressure cooker has
moved on big time since the aluminium ones. They are
now fully electronic controlled and most can double as a
slow cooker in steam operation and cooker chicken plus forty
five minutes. Same for corned beef croc pop Make one.

(01:45:11):
China makes them by the millions after the cook time
has finished. Have a keep warm function from Jack the Mainlander.
As a kid, I used it, Marcus, can you see
if you can find out way? Hillary Barry is not
on seven sharp lately. It's probably on holiday. Marcus is
a kid. I used an oven tray as a dinky
rap to do jumps. I climbed my wardrobe one night,

(01:45:32):
then landed side onto the oven tray. I had to
go to hospital for modile stitches. I learned as a
kid oven trays were not good improvisation for playing with
Marcus in the kitchen. We used to bacon, slice the
catcumra chips with the machine turn off. The other chef

(01:45:53):
would do it with it turned on, thinking he was
smart one day with Alexant invoving part of his finger.
Does make sense that google sideline vating toasters nineteen fifty
Some could eat bread with the side open, highly dangerous.
Don't need to google them. We had them. I think

(01:46:14):
they're a better toaster. You're more in control. Come on
here to the end. You might want to talk about
victory in Europe Day also, which is today, eighty years ago.
They are celebrating that. I guess it is something you
would celebrate. The streets rang with endless song and prompture

(01:46:34):
and prompture edition to roll out the barrel, knees up
mother brown, and conga lines formed. Nothing says celebration like
a conga line. Do good evening came? It's Marcus, welcome, good, Hey,
how are good? Can what's happening with you?

Speaker 27 (01:46:57):
Well?

Speaker 25 (01:46:57):
I was on my way to a football and I
heard you guys talking about dangerous appliance on the way
where h oh ages ago.

Speaker 2 (01:47:08):
It was many.

Speaker 25 (01:47:09):
I didn't think you'd get so much mileage out of this.

Speaker 3 (01:47:11):
Ah, are you talking about three hours ago, I thought,
who's going to the football this time of night?

Speaker 25 (01:47:18):
Oh no, it's a bit of training. Went to some
training and then yeah, the training, did all sorts of things,
and then when a lot about it, sorry and yeah,
and then hop back in my car and then guys
are still talking about and it's like, oh, wow, you
got some good mileage out of that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:40):
I think you learned in this business. If it's going strong,
a stick with it.

Speaker 10 (01:47:44):
Yeah, yeah, you might as well.

Speaker 25 (01:47:46):
I just wondered. I thought it might have a slightly
different angle on it as a little, a little what
do you call it appetizer? I know it's not an appliance,
but has anyone approached the angle of not so much
the appliance but human interaction with it? So I know

(01:48:11):
it's not an appliance, but probably one of the most
dangerous things is the step.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
Oh yeah, step or the rug?

Speaker 32 (01:48:22):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
I would say, so you.

Speaker 25 (01:48:24):
Trip over a rug, you know, the step, But that's
got age connotations. But the first thing I thought when
I heard you say it was the frying pan, because
because people misuse it, you know, alcohol is involved.

Speaker 3 (01:48:41):
You mean to fry, don't drink and fry. That was
always the campaign for a while.

Speaker 25 (01:48:46):
Yeah, but then there's also different ways of looking at it,
Like you've got I heard the guy call in about
deliberately sticking things into the bar heater to get it
to get through it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
Yeah, well he'd be hard to parent.

Speaker 25 (01:49:03):
Classic and still yeah into the three all of whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Yeah, but who do you play football for cam.

Speaker 25 (01:49:12):
At the moment, I'm sort of bouncing around between clubs
getting old year.

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
But you still practice. You've practiced tonight, have you?

Speaker 15 (01:49:23):
No?

Speaker 25 (01:49:23):
No, I'm injured at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:49:25):
You said you're after practice Earlier.

Speaker 25 (01:49:28):
I did go to practice but just got a bit
of physio and.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
Then uh yeah, okay, you said quite low energy for
a footballer, but good on you. Heather. Hi, Hi, Heather.

Speaker 34 (01:49:45):
I was just sitting down in the lounge and I
heard just speaks boom. I thought, gosh, something's exploded somewhere
in the house, probably an hour ago. And I walked
down and my shower door had exploded.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
Oh wow, I've heard of this.

Speaker 32 (01:50:04):
It was.

Speaker 34 (01:50:05):
It was horrendous. I got something driven into the side
of my house and I walked down there and I thought,
oh god, it was like it was in a gazillion
little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:50:15):
Now, I don't know why that happens, but I've heard
of it. Are they done under tension or something?

Speaker 34 (01:50:22):
Well, it was the actual door and I something's just
making another noise there, and I rang up my sister
and she said, apparently it's quite common.

Speaker 10 (01:50:35):
Yes, I think so too, but man, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 34 (01:50:40):
It made a bloody mess. And because you got to
scrape it all up and these even though it's safety glasses,
it's still a few splinters there. And of course my
four old cat didn't know what had happened, and she
tried to get out of the house and I had
to try and help there. And because the glass came

(01:51:01):
out of the bathroom down the hall, and so it's
taken it's taken over an hour, a couple of hours
actually to clean it all up.

Speaker 2 (01:51:11):
And get it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:17):
So heither what part of the country are you in Auckland,
Because it's not like some people say that an extreme
temperature change can cause something like that, but that wouldn't
have happened with it.

Speaker 34 (01:51:31):
No, No, I just like I was actually thinking of
having a shower about eight o'clock and and I thought
because it had happened to my sister and her house
years ago, or that was up north and long array,
but it was it was pretty damn loud.

Speaker 3 (01:51:55):
And and nothing's happened at recently. Hasn't it a chip
or anything that could have led to an explosion?

Speaker 10 (01:52:01):
No?

Speaker 34 (01:52:02):
Absolutely, I have a shower and I squeeze it down.

Speaker 17 (01:52:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
I mean the real blessing is that you weren't in it,
because that could have been quite dangerous.

Speaker 34 (01:52:12):
Yeah, well, it all it went, It blew out, so
nothing's there. Might be just a little scrape somewhere, but
on the whole it's you know, I can't Tomorrow morning,
I'll probably when it's sunlight, I'll probably see something. But

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at the moment, it was all right.

Speaker 9 (01:52:37):
It gave me quite a quite That sounds.

Speaker 3 (01:52:40):
Really, that sounds really frightening. That sounds really frightening because
it must be a loud smash. Then the tinking of.

Speaker 27 (01:52:45):
All the glass, Well, no, it was just a boom.

Speaker 6 (01:52:50):
It was.

Speaker 34 (01:52:51):
It was like a gas bottle exploding. Not that I've
heard a gas bottle explode, but I've heard them on TV.

Speaker 3 (01:52:58):
And the weird thing is it's totally spontaneous. You would
nowhere near there were you it just bang. It just
decided to go.

Speaker 34 (01:53:04):
I was just sitting here watching TV and I thought
I had I thought it was a picture frame falling
off and breaking, but then I thought it's.

Speaker 5 (01:53:13):
A bit louder than that.

Speaker 10 (01:53:14):
So no, it's.

Speaker 34 (01:53:19):
Luckily I've got this little thing that goes on my
vacuum that it can suck up the stuff into a
container instead of going into your bag.

Speaker 3 (01:53:28):
It's a good point. He Look, we'll see, we'll see
if anyone else has got any You'll get there. You'll
get the insurance. You get it fixed pretty soon.

Speaker 2 (01:53:35):
Will you.

Speaker 34 (01:53:37):
I'll just go get a new door. I mean, I
won't worry about.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
Yeah, okay, well, well someone has some reasons. I have
heard it happened quite often too. But yeah, I'm very
pleased to were injured. But thanks for that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:53:48):
They're nice to hear from you. Good evening, and it's
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:53:52):
Yes, Marcus, you one thing somebody to bring up with
the UK. Yes, I remember it came. The announcement was
early evening because I was in my my I was
years old. I was in my night and I remember
dancing down the lane in the celebration. Anybody came out

(01:54:14):
and you know, yeah, it was all very happy occasion and.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
You were you in London?

Speaker 5 (01:54:21):
No, No, I was in a place in Lodlow in Shropshire,
And yes.

Speaker 10 (01:54:30):
I was.

Speaker 5 (01:54:30):
I said, I was seven years old, and I'm sure
I couldn't understand when there's celebrations in the UK. On
the fourth I thought it was it out, yeah, because
I thought it was the eighth because it's my birthday tomorrow,
and I thought, well, it was the celebration, the celebration

(01:54:51):
for my birthday. When you know, everybody started cheering amound.

Speaker 16 (01:54:54):
Have you know as a seven year old, did you
manage to have a party?

Speaker 5 (01:54:59):
Yeah, we had were Yeah, we had the other Yeah
what we did? We had the street party the next day.

Speaker 3 (01:55:05):
Yes, and your birthday was celebrated world.

Speaker 5 (01:55:09):
Yes, yes, yes, but then we would it was heavy
rationing in those days, so we still had a party
in the Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:55:20):
Because they said it was that article, I just I
don't know if you heard me read the article before,
but it did say that they had interrupted a classical
performance of music on the BBC to announce that the
war had finished. Because I think people were skeptical as
to whether there was going to be some last rah
from the Germans, some last bomblitz on London or something.

(01:55:41):
But yeah, that seems to be it, it said. At
seven on Monday, the BBC interrupted piano recital on the
radio to officially announce that the war was over and
that tomorrow, Tuesday, May eighth, would be v e Day.

Speaker 5 (01:55:58):
Yes, that would be about it. Yes, yes, also said
I was in by night, you were getting ready to
go to bed?

Speaker 26 (01:56:05):
Yes, right, yes?

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
And were they they were still grim years afterwards, with
much rationing and stuff, weren't they?

Speaker 11 (01:56:12):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:56:13):
Hell, yes, oh yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
Are you doing anything special for your birthday tomorrow?

Speaker 5 (01:56:22):
I'm I'm flying up to my son in Blenham, to
my own spending the weekend to put its mother's dand
birthday as well.

Speaker 3 (01:56:31):
So I've been beyond to that one combined. Well, you
have a good birthday and a happy birthday to your
mother's day? What's that about.

Speaker 1 (01:56:38):
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