Just a hobby broadcaster (13 August 2025)

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Greetings, good evening, and welcome. How are you. What's happening
left Handed Day today?

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Today?

Speaker 3 (00:18):
International Left Handed Day. I might guess all the callers
whether they're left handed or not. We'll see how that
goes for us if I can tell by their voice. Anyway, welcome.
I've been doing research on pistachio nuts. They said to
be the nut of the moment. Where do you think
they're mainly produced? Don't I'm going to tell you, don't
ring they are mainly produced in the world's largest producer.

(00:42):
Because everyone's talk about ustarchow and I tell that with
that chocolate. The world's biggest producers of pistachio nuts are
the United States, followed by Iran. There's something the two
countries have got in common, pistachio nuts. Huh. Interesting. If
you look at the map of the globe, actually they
just call that the map, don't you, The United States

(01:07):
and Arana are on the same latitude almost exactly, So
there we go. I think Turkey grows a lot of
pistachio nuts. Anyway. By the way, the big story today,
well one of the big stories today. So Woolworth's and
Auckland have started selling off cuts of meats. Have you
followed the story. I'm not quite sure whether I should

(01:30):
be outraged or delighted. It's the stories that's gone viral
because someone's gone around the supermarket and taken a little
sneaky shot with their camera and they are selling They
are selling the ends of meat. Yeah, I'm not joking.

(01:55):
It's called meat pieces mixed and it's assortment of cold
meat scraps and in pieces including Frankfurt salami, chunks of head,
a roast beef and more. Yeah. But what I want
to know is what would you do with it? Beause
I'm sure food handling laws would present you from cooking it,

(02:18):
wouldn't it. So there's a little salami, there's the bits
of chick, it's all in together, meat pieces mixed. So
what they've said is it's because they're trying to stop
food waste. So normally this stuff is thrown away, but
now they're charging it. They're setting it for fifty dollars
a kilogram, and people are boycotting Walworth's on the back

(02:40):
of this. Gosh. Warworth only just bounced back from the
not thinking of the brazier, and now they've got a
boycott on people are calling it disgusting, boycott actually disgusting.
I can't believe this is real. The audacity to sell
waste is honesty wild? Well, this is just a standarday

(03:01):
and Facebook When people just have those comments, don't they
boycott actually disgusting? So there we go. It's a leftover
pieces that aren't sold. But what would you do with it?
Many were not offended by the tray, with one suggesting

(03:22):
what's wrong with it? Looks delicious, way more convenient than
buying each cut of meat individually. How would you cook it? Anyway?
If you've got a comment on that, I'm not quite
sure whether to be outraged or I'm not quite sure
what to feel about that, about five different sorts of meats.

(03:45):
But when I thought you heard with food handling, you're
not supposed to mix your meats, are you? So there
we go. I'm not quite sure what to say about that.
That's the meat pick the meat pieces mixed. And now
when I say, well, worth mostly be thinking of that
as countdown to be like inches and kilograms or inches
and pounds, inches and meters, isn't it said to meters

(04:09):
going from Foodtown to Woolworth's. Woolworth's shop is a threatened
to boycott.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Gosh.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
The internet's full of people prepared to do a lot
of things, are going to boycott it when they get
off the couch. Anyway, International Left Handers Day Today, Today
you don't hear much people complaining about being left handed.
Once upon a time there was a left handed store
in Newmarket upstairs and it was just for left handed people.

(04:43):
And of course you can't mention left handed Day without
mentioning the world's most famous left handed person, Ned Flanders,
who was Homer Simpson's neighbor, and he was left handed,
and he himself opened a left handed shop. I don't

(05:07):
think he's still still Did he get killed by a
T shirt?

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Canon?

Speaker 3 (05:11):
His wife got killed by a T shirt? Canon? Is
Ned Flanners still around? So I don't know who the
world's most famous left handed person would be. Would either
be Ned Flanders or Leonardo da Vinci or Jimmy Hendrix.

(05:32):
Ned Flanders would certainly be the most famous of contemporary times.
Get in touch. My name is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred
and eighty today, ye nine to text hardly Hoe Neighborrino,
that's what he says. I forget what is Oakley Donkley?

(05:53):
What is ned Flanders's catch cry? Totally do He's got
a few of them, dB, Marcus welcome. Are he outraged
about the be oh? dB? You're not left handed?

Speaker 6 (06:05):
Correct?

Speaker 7 (06:06):
Right?

Speaker 8 (06:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (06:07):
But one of my four sons.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Is exactly well that's just the law of odds, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (06:12):
Well, not only that he's six foot something and red headed.
And I see I think he belongs to the monkman.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Wow, and he's red he's read? Is he happily? Is
he happily read?

Speaker 9 (06:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Half my children are half my children are left handed?

Speaker 6 (06:32):
Okay, just lacking the drawer?

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Now this meat I think I was in Moscow, was
earlier today and I saw it and I didn't know
anything about the controversy.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I just they said they've pulled it everywhere. It said
it was just one Auckland shop. Have you got an image?

Speaker 10 (06:53):
No?

Speaker 6 (06:53):
I never thought to take it for a.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well you wouldn't. I suppose you're still in shock and
all these little meats mixed together. They've said it was
only Willworth's in Auckland.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
Unless I am wrong, But a selection of meats in
one What almost.

Speaker 11 (07:08):
Looked like.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
You have a mixed vegetable salad.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yes, what looks like. I think it could be quite
useful if you like on the road in your car.
You wanted a bit of a car protein stack, couldn't it?

Speaker 12 (07:23):
Well?

Speaker 4 (07:23):
I didn't.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
They're all cooked or not?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
No, I can't tell because I don't. I'm never quite
sure about frank and food of sausages. They cooked pass
because you know how they had them up in a
hot water, don't they before they put them in your
soft bun?

Speaker 6 (07:37):
Yes, so they must be pre cooked.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, but I looked at it.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
I didn't. Wasn't feeling that adventuret but I would have
thought sturfy.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
You're supposed to recook cook meat though I don't know.
They supposed to recook salamis and stuff.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
Oh, do whatever I like with as well as that's
fair enough.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay. How was Moscow? Were a lot of religious people
canvassing in the streets last time I was there. That
was what Moscole was most noticeable for, like people on
street corners talking about going to the Lord.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
I never walked in it. I used the car and
so I can run them over. I visited East Tiree
Aero drone for the first time.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Now let me know that. Why is that interesting because
of the flood?

Speaker 6 (08:26):
No, not just because of the aircraft. I had actually
pull over to the side and then a couple of
aircraft passed me. Because the taxi way is also the driveway.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh well, that's a good thing, isn't it. Is it
close to Momona Airport. No, it's quite close to that.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
Okay, it's just literally down the road from Moscow's town center.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Okay, well, and.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
I'm going to I've got to chase down a mator
mind who works through Kiwi Rail Theneden to find out
what their backshunt is next to the airport.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
It was all new to me because I'm like, I'm
new to this area. I'm still my peregrinations are still.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I'm going fast, but I'm gonna stick with my meat conversation.
If I'm fasted about the Tiedy Eerodrome, at least I
can see what you seeing about the drive with the
with the era. Anyway, I went to the races. They're
not so long ago. That was good, tesh. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (09:23):
Well, hi, Marcus, tell you good.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Right handed.

Speaker 13 (09:31):
Yeah, I'm right handed.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, I thought you were. Are your names pronounced, yes, yes,
I'm I've got that right, because tesh would sound terrible
if you preferred welcome.

Speaker 14 (09:41):
It's okay, just from the mate. Like my kids when
they were younger, I would get those error slushes from
the deli that have a month while was you know,
going around? Yes, all that stuff is highly processed and
already cooked anyway. Yeah, as the last callers said, why

(10:06):
not put it in surfries or yeah, have a have
a snack on the way to work, or but you
couldn't put it.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
You couldn't chuck it all and something together and cook
it though, could you?

Speaker 9 (10:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (10:17):
Absolutely, why not. It's already it's already edible without locking it.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
It's a practical thing to say. I'm thinking like a
jumber liar. A jumber li has got different meats and
hasn't it.

Speaker 13 (10:37):
I don't know what that is, but you yeah, I
don't know.

Speaker 6 (10:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I don't know what it is either, but I think
jumba la has different sausages and cuts of meat in it.

Speaker 14 (10:46):
Yeah, well why not? It's all taste chock it in
the potato baked chack it in the pasta why not.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, well, they're not going to sell because because people
have been outraged by it.

Speaker 13 (10:57):
Outraged they probably shop at Pharaoh.

Speaker 14 (11:01):
They don't even shop it.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. For those that don't know what Pharaoh was,
it's like a supermarket, but twice as expensive, is that?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Right?

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Nice to talk to your got your name right? Ah
ihan ear Womed. I like my whiskey meat that was
playing in the other room. At a weird time, I
came to work and I came to work and I
thought I got my swipe cart out, but actually got
out one of my cards for the bus I won't

(11:36):
say which one, and it opened the door for my work,
which I was re alarmed by, and then went back
out and tried to get back in with the card,
my real and it wouldn't and I wouldn't couldn't get
in with my real card. So yeah, something's going on there.
It's weird. Airs Interestingly enough, if I asked you to
name a well known left handed New Zealander, I think

(11:57):
the only one you would know would be Bob Charles.
Am I right, Sir Bob Charles? He's the only one
who's risen above the wrist. You couldn't. I don't think.
I don't think. I can't think of anyone else. Well,
there might be one or two cricketers that people might
know about, but only sports people have mainly Sir Bob
Charles fight me. If you think there's someone else you
can know of, I can't think of anyone, evening.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Zach Ay Marcus. How are you, mate?

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Good Zack?

Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's the one. Hey, I just calling about your meat
technic you're talking about yes, yes, yes, So what I
wanted to say, mate, was like an island a twenty
three dollars a kilo for mint. You can't afford that,
that's fifteen dollars, and then you spend six dollars on
some bag of carrots broccoli, Polly. You've got a wicked
meal for a family meat.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
And what's interesting it's the Aussie media that have picked
up on this in an outrage to how expensive it is,
which just goes to show in Australia, I imagine the
meat is much much cheaper.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, but that's life. That's what we have to deal
with here, you know, And you say, oh it's waist, well,
the leftover is your wages of each week. Do you
have that a way or do you keep that for yourself?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Tell me that again, that analogy.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
So if you've got any of your week, you'll pay.
What you've got left is your waist to pay you
as such.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh thought, Look, I hadn't thought looking at it like that,
bearing in mind something that you own, bearing in mind
zach I said that, I'm in two minds about this one.
I'm not not knowing to be outraged or enthused. But
they worth throwing the stuff out for free. Now they're
selling it.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, they were throwing it out and nobody got it,
that's right. But at least it's it's in certified packets
and a refrigerator for someone to buy it.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's not actually in packets. It's like in your delian,
like a loose food, like a potato salad.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Loose fruit, and they put it in a bag and
weigh it and pay someone to give it to you. Yeah,
if you don't want it, you don't have to buy it.
But at least it gives a family a kilo of meat.
Do you think we should have seen knowledge?

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Do you think we should advocating it for them? To
keep it because they've pulled it from this because if
it's only.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
If no one buys it, they throw it out because
it goes off. But if someone if that's all they
can fee, all they can afford at least a kilo
of meat for their family.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
They've apologized and say they got it wrong. What do
you mean the supermarket that was called Food to Countdowns
now called Woolworths that says, we do sometimes sell the
ends of our Slights meat range and if it to
reduce food waste and divert food products on landfill. However,
in this instance we did not get it right. We

(14:30):
apologize for the confusion caused.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I think that's wrong. I think it's good that
they're fifteen dollars for that, and at least they're letting
you have it, and if you don't want it, you
don't have to buy it. But we all jump up
and down about milk and butter and the price of
meat and everything else. So they've done something to try
and make it cheaper for us, and you don't want it,
you don't have to buy it.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Mind you. Most of the reasons, most of the reasons,
all that, most of the reason, all the food is
so expensive that most of the reasons all the food
is so expensive is the extortionate profits the supermarkets make,
one being Woolworths.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, they do make a lot, but that's their luck.
Like if you if you are paid top dollar as
ZD to be the talk back, would you be compleating
big your pattern if you were making top dollar to
be on ZIBB talkback as you are. I don't need
that much. I'll cut my cospect. That's life, that's living.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
I'll do it for benefit.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
You do it for nothing? Yeah you're serious. Yeah, well
that blows my mind because I wouldn't have thought that.
No one does anything for anything for free.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
This is pretty much your hobby.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Okay, well that's mind blowing. But just an example. You
must work to pay your mortgage in your food, you
must do a job somewhere correct.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, partner works or you're on the benefit. No, But
the reason the supermarkets are Jiwopoli. There's two supermarkets and
they say with a Jiwopoli, it's not true competition.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Yeah, it's disgusting. The suits markets are disgusting in your
price what they're saying. But at least it's something cheaper
for families that can't afford it. At least they're doing
something to try and make it easier for people.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
So you don't yeah, well yeah, I think yeah, I
think they're just doing to increase it. But so you
say bring it back.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
And then they say that reheating pre cooked food, Well,
every time you go to Pizza Hut, do you think
that's they've cooked it there for you on the pizza?
The salamis they smoked hand and everything else.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'm not sure about that.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
McDonald's, do you reckon their petties come raw?

Speaker 15 (16:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (16:29):
I reckon they would.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I very much doubt it. I'd be pre cooked because
they can't split them out that fast. Can you cook
that many petties that fast?

Speaker 3 (16:36):
They've got the special ovens.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Okay, roll salami? Then what means with that when you
put that on the pizzas.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Your compat are you lift tended?

Speaker 4 (16:44):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm right handed, mate.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
I thought you might be. You ever worked at McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
No, I went and got a trade, so I didn't
left this.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
That me guess your trade your footer and turner.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Dang on, buddy, dang on, how do you they're good?

Speaker 3 (17:07):
That's good. That's I'm going to quit while on my head.
Brilliant got them, by the way, I don't know if
they're pre cooked or not. The McDonald's pennies is for Peter,
confess that my food processing, food processing knowledge, I'm always

(17:28):
paranoid about meat. Pretty good for a hobby broadcaster. What
was this point about broadcasting? I was quite your way
to go with that one. I don't know the pecking
order of the broadcasters. It's all too confusing for me.
The meat. You want to go to the Daily Mail

(17:49):
to see a picture of the meat, Marcus. Everyone in
Europe buys off cuts. What's wrong with people here? Everything
is too expensive buy a cheap but a cheap cut
is too cheap. You guys are idiots. So who are
you guys? I'm just talking about the story. It's not
it's a KEYWI story that's been picked up by the
Australian media who are outraged by the meat. They're outraged

(18:14):
that that's been sold at the super bag and they're
outraged at how expensive it is, which I think indicates
that food and that meat food what do we call
that meat food? Meat in Australia is much much cheaper.
No one knows that he us in and left handed
people apart from Sue Bob Charles meat mix great fried

(18:38):
up mix, eggs for for tatar, betty meat for gumbo. Yes,
I think I had my JAMBLI and my gumbo mixed up.
Hobby broadcaster. That's me. Flip for and turner two out
of three for left and right handed and one hundred

(19:00):
percent on what's my trade? I was going to say
electricianal Plummer. I thought no, he's going to work with cars.
That I thought, no, he's not gonna work with cars.
He's going to be a fitter and turner, brilliant. It'd

(19:21):
be good, be good pizza. They shouldn't. They should have
sold it as pizza topping, end of line, pizza topping.
What some of this audience do is they'll actually go
and get a pre made pizza at the supermake and
they'll go round and buy the toppings that are on
it and kind of turbo it and exaggerate the toppings. Marcus,

(19:41):
if Alworth going to throw the meat out, then fifteen
per kilo is a bit steep. It must be a
low outrage day. I don't see vagans boycotting because they
sell meat. Two totners aren't boycotting because they sell alcohol. Well,
of course, down here in Vicago and the Supermacs, they
don't sell alcohol. They don't even sell vaniloressence. It's behind
the counter. Yes, that's right, Marcus. I worked at the Donald's.

(20:07):
The patties our frozen and then cooked. There we go, Marcus,
Is Sir Bob Charles left handed or just a left
handed golfer? That's a very good question. I don't know
enough about golf to comment on that. It says my
dad was right handed, but golf left. I'll google up

(20:29):
his book signing and we'll see signing autograph, Bob Charles
signing autograph. Yes, that's a good question. I don't know
if he was, just why would you do that the
other way around? I'm putting down Bo Charles. That's come

(20:51):
up with Prince Charles. Hold your horses. He's signing. He's
signing his autograph with his right hand. We've made a
mockery of that, hasn't it. A lea Is this photos
back to front?

Speaker 15 (21:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:14):
I think he is right handed. Goodness, that's throwing in
the thing for me. By the way, I'm Bob Charles
polo shoot clicktionens going quite well, I've got a large
number of them now. Some of them are still in

(21:35):
their pecks. Oh god, he is right handed, naturally right handed. Kevin. Yeah, Hi, Hi, Kevin,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (21:52):
Welcome year, Marcus. I had a scared him morning on
my computer.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
You sound upset too, I was really upset about Yeah.
I can hear it in your voice. You're left handed.

Speaker 11 (22:06):
And they didn't get anything off me, brilliant. What happened
was the computer kept breaking down all weekend and I
kept wondering what the matter was. Then here this morning,
I got a phone call from an Indian fella and
he reckoned, and he reckoned he could see my computer
in the singh and that I was getting scammed and

(22:27):
they were people, people trying to get scammed me while
I was while the computer was being broke down, and.

Speaker 16 (22:34):
He told me.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
So he made out he was there to help you
next year. He was the scammer.

Speaker 17 (22:38):
Yeah, that's exactly it.

Speaker 11 (22:40):
And so I got a hold bank straight away anyway
and got everything changed. So that was already. But then
he made a mistake of bringing me on some phone
number that wasn't wasn't an eight hundred number, and so
I run this number, and the bloke told me he
was the same he had exactly the same scam yesterday.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
How did he how did he make you? How did
they bring your computer down?

Speaker 11 (23:08):
I don't know how he did it. I kept going
down all weekend, and you know, I'd have to put
in the fact that I'd had to cancel the thing
and start again, you know, and it kept going down.
So he knew it was going down because he mentioned
the fact that he'd seen people playing with my computer

(23:30):
all weekend. And then he then he wrung.

Speaker 9 (23:35):
Me this morning.

Speaker 11 (23:36):
I don't know where he got my telephone number from
or anything.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Really, you said he was an Indian fella. Does that
mean he was in India?

Speaker 11 (23:48):
I don't know, because I dialed. I had to dial No.
Eight hundred number to get him in the first place,
because this advertisement came up on the telling me that
I my computer was down done something and I had
to ring this number and it was an eight hundred

(24:09):
number and it was the advert was for some people
in tower Honor.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
M.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
So your computer starts going down down all weekend and
then someone rings you, or did you ring this guy?

Speaker 4 (24:28):
No?

Speaker 11 (24:29):
I rung him from him and he sent me an
email with a bonnet, not an ambardisement with don and
I should get it. Get it looked that straight away
because it was gonna the hard drive was imminent of failure.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
So your computer's not working in a commercial pops up
on your computer.

Speaker 11 (24:51):
Yep, yep, that's right, and you rung it was it
was working. It was working as long as I pushed
a h the thing on the bottom of the computer
when you on not that not that up to date
with these sort of things. But if he sent me

(25:13):
a sort of advertisement type thing.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Okay, that sounds like it sounds like you've got a
virus on your computer which keep bringing it down. And
then they sent you their head.

Speaker 11 (25:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's all right. And so so I rung
the number because it was a No. Eight hundred number
and tear honor, And I'm not sure, I'm not absolutely
aren't positively sure where it was.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Did you if you haven't get was he going to
ask you? Was he asking you for money?

Speaker 11 (25:43):
He eventually got round after about half an area, eventually
got r into the part of asking me something about
my bank, and I said, I'm not telling you anything
about my bank and hang up in his ear.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh yeah, they can't hang up in the air. And
then you rang your bank.

Speaker 11 (25:58):
And then I rung my bank straight away, and they
said they that my bank hadn't been touched.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
So you had given them your bank detail, says you, Kevin.

Speaker 11 (26:08):
No, I did no.

Speaker 18 (26:11):
One.

Speaker 11 (26:12):
Thing that I know is that don't give you anything
about your bank.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Watch However, Dan, have you got any advice for this guy?

Speaker 19 (26:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Okay, it sounds like you did brilliantly, Kevin. Congratulations, good evening,
and this is Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 20 (26:26):
Marcus.

Speaker 21 (26:26):
How are you tonight?

Speaker 3 (26:27):
You'd be right handed in.

Speaker 12 (26:30):
Do you say bad?

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Because left handed down I'm trying to guess who's left handed.

Speaker 20 (26:34):
But you're right right hand right?

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Oh yeah, I got that right.

Speaker 22 (26:38):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Anyway, it's about the scam.

Speaker 20 (26:40):
Ah, yes, And I can't actually remember who I heard
this or how I heard this, especially spark scams that
in India that this Spark call off us is in
the same building. Let's just say, for instance, are on

(27:00):
the first floor and the scammers are on the second
and third floor, and they don't enough money, so they
sell our information to the scammers.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Gosh, that sounds like an urban myth, doesn't it end?
What will be the chances in all of India Spark
would be in the same building as people running scams,
and that Spark would allow it to happen.

Speaker 20 (27:25):
How do they know your information? I don't know, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm just yeah, no, I would yeah, I would say
that if I was making me.

Speaker 20 (27:32):
Feel very silly.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, I don't know. I'm
just thinking off my hand that it's a yeah. No, sorry,
you're rang with good, You're rang with good. Int I apologize,
but you might want to comment on that. But be
interesting though, where you heard that? And you can't remember
you're here on the radio.

Speaker 20 (27:47):
I've known it for about a year, but I've never
been brave enough to ring.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
So okay, we still I can get some confirmation of that.
Thank you. I'm trouble now, Glenius. Good eveningended just going
to say it. I was just about to say it.

Speaker 12 (28:05):
Yeah, I've got and with the skin cancer. Guess what hand?
Guess what hand the skin cancers on?

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Do you drive?

Speaker 12 (28:15):
No, I'm good a license?

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Did you just have a license?

Speaker 18 (28:19):
No?

Speaker 3 (28:19):
I think often people get I think often people get
skin cancer on the right ear and the right arm
because often out the winner of the car.

Speaker 12 (28:26):
Yeah, this is on my left hand, and I can't
do I can hardly write properly. I have to and
I can't write properly, so I have to manage the
best I can with my left hand. So it's a
handicap for me in two ways. Left handed.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Well, I'm gonna say happy left hand to David. It's
not for you, is it.

Speaker 12 (28:44):
No, it's not. I manage markets. I managed I vacuum
with one with my right hand, and I managed to
do everything I've tried to do things I can. You know,
I won't give up.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
You know, good on you. That's the sparkliness, that's the
zib night spirit. I've got a lot to say about vacuuming.
I've had a breakthrough vacuuming. Here's what you do when
you vacuum. If you've got one long, big room to do,
you plug the vacuum into the central socket and then
you pull out all the cord to the very end

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of its little spool. Then you proceed because so often
what we do is we plug the vacuum and then
we drag it, expecting this the cord to self dispense,
and next thing you know, it's pulled the damn socket
out of the plug, out of the socket, So always
pull right to the end of your extension before you
start vacuuming. It's been life changing for me. I've always

(29:42):
found vacuum frustrated, but now I do that, I find
it very freeing old right handed, well, good evening.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Right handed?

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, yeah, jad's okay, yep, anyway, yes.

Speaker 23 (29:58):
Welcome, yeah on left handed?

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yes, no, yeah, I realize that now. Really as soon
as I said left handed.

Speaker 23 (30:08):
I was just going to touch up on what I
think it was Anne that was talking about the Was
it the Spark thing with the scammers in the same building.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
And selling the information to downstairs?

Speaker 23 (30:18):
Yes, so I don't know about Spark being in the
same building, but I know that there was a YouTuber
did a sort of crackdown on scammers in India a
few years back, and he found out that a lot
of the scammers in those buildings that call a lot
of people from different countries, they have a front of

(30:38):
a legitimate business in the same building as the actual
scamming operation on a different floor. So it might be
what she was touching upon.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
It wouldn't be Spark, would it.

Speaker 23 (30:50):
No, No, I don't think so but yeah, there are
legitimate businesses attached to from Yeah yeah, big yeah, big big,
probably multi story buildings, full of full of scammers and stuff.

Speaker 24 (31:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Thanks Will Terry, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 24 (31:05):
Welcome and good evening. Because I'm normally right handed. Distris, Yes,
another Amy Dick Chris Feller.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Is your advantage to play golf left handed?

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Well, no, it's not.

Speaker 24 (31:22):
It's difficult to find clubs for a start. The only
thing is with a cricket bat. There's no problem with
a baseball bat. There's no problem with an axe. I
swing an axe and a slasher and anything to do
with that sort of action. It's all left handed. My
son is fully left handed, and my daughter's right handed,

(31:46):
and my wife, late wife is was right handed. So
I'm bladed.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
I don't think you can play hockey if you left handed.
You can't play polo, no.

Speaker 24 (31:58):
Hockey.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
You know.

Speaker 24 (32:00):
I do play left handed as well. Yeah, using a stick.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Okay, there's there's no lieutenant hockey sticks, so was there.

Speaker 24 (32:14):
I'm just trying to think out here, I do that
run backwards? Well yeah, I'd probably hit it backwards. Thank
god tennis records have got two sides from them.

Speaker 18 (32:29):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
And your table tennis.

Speaker 24 (32:31):
Yeah, yeah, okay, that's just my little shample.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Nice to hear from your terry twelve away from nine, Lynn,
good evening. You'd be left.

Speaker 25 (32:40):
Handed, Lynn, absolutely, and half a lot lot of my family.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Wow, I was educate.

Speaker 25 (32:47):
I was educated in the sixties, total left tender man
in the thirties, and my great uncle and grandfather in
the nineteen ten to twenty. And unfortunately for those two Marcus,
their education coincided when you were forbidden to use your
left hand and they both got strapped continuously for doing so.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Did they bring it back the way it's all going
just quietly? But anyway, yeah, wow, Well that.

Speaker 25 (33:19):
If you've ever heard of the word sinisterrel in the dictionary,
you've also got the word sinister and which is you know,
even when it goes back to superstitious dark time, and
both the words relate to one another. But it only
made people ever dexterous. And my grandfather sadly anyway, ended

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up being right handed because he went to the Second
World War bought on crete and he unfortunately got shot
in the left olbow penetrated his elbow absolutely shattered it
and it was useless. For a couple of years, and
then after that he just changed to the right to

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see because he couldn't write otherwise. And then they did
my grant great uncle of favor when they made him
a dexterous because he worked in them a towering freezing works.
And when the sheep would come out and you were
waiting for them, he didn't have to stop with his
knife in the hand and try and turn the sheet
round to the way he wanted. It didn't matter which

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way the sheep.

Speaker 9 (34:26):
Came out at either way.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Absolutely, I never thought of an amberdex was an Ambidex
was person on the board at the works. That's great.

Speaker 13 (34:36):
Well, that's what.

Speaker 25 (34:37):
And he also Marcus. In the off season they had
to find jobs, you see. But he was fortunate because
he was now well it's not that, but he was
good at everything. He made home made furniture and everything
you see, so they were he was of use to
them all year round, and they just buffed them out

(34:58):
from the cargo every day, you know, to the work.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Nice here from you, Lynn, thank you, sure, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 9 (35:04):
Welcome you're going to Marcus.

Speaker 17 (35:07):
I left Dan.

Speaker 9 (35:12):
Sportsman for you.

Speaker 26 (35:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (35:16):
New Zealand, Java scrub player.

Speaker 27 (35:19):
Only parent.

Speaker 9 (35:20):
Oh wow, do you remember that name?

Speaker 4 (35:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Very famous. Wasn't the only parent on his day? Then
he became a recluse, did he?

Speaker 16 (35:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 27 (35:30):
You never met him, probably because he was a recluse.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Thanks Sean Evening, Glennis.

Speaker 28 (35:41):
Him, Marcus, how are you good? Glenn's thank you good.
I'm a left hander.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Wow, I just go about to say that, but you
jumped in anyway. I'll welcome, yes, greetings Greening.

Speaker 28 (35:52):
And I can remember when I went to school, I
would be stracted for being a left hander.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Really did that? Is that an author? That was a myth?

Speaker 22 (36:02):
No?

Speaker 28 (36:03):
Absolutely not. When I was in primary school, not strapped,
but a ruler on my hand to say you can't
use that hand, you need to use the other hand.
And I absolutely couldn't, Like there was no way I
could write or do anything with my right hand. And
I remember that devividly, and I thought that was pretty awful, really,

(36:26):
And I remember one mom going, my mum going to
the school and saying, look, she can't do this. But
that's how it was back then. And still a left hander.
I had none of two children, none of them are
left handed. But thank goodness, that's not going on today. Yeah,

(36:48):
I remember that very well.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Was your handwriting with your left hand? Fine?

Speaker 27 (36:54):
Good?

Speaker 28 (36:55):
Yeah, absolutely good. But it was a thing back then.
You can't be left handed because.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
It's not normal, it's crazy. Thank you, glenis Michael Marcus.

Speaker 9 (37:05):
Welcome, Marcus, Michael.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Hi Michael.

Speaker 29 (37:10):
Yes, my my father grew up left handed in the
fifties and he got snacked on his hand if he
held a pencil in those days, in his left hand
because everybody had to be right handed, and he got

(37:32):
snacked so many times on his left hand.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Kind of hard to believe, isn't it.

Speaker 18 (37:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (37:40):
And then his first daughter, she was left handed. She
ate knives and forks like a right handed person, but
the right hand on the knife and the left hand
on the fork. But she was left handed, okay. And
then another one of my granddaughters or my daughter, no,

(38:05):
my daughter, she's also left handed. And I don't know
if many people know, Marcus, but a pair of scissors,
the ninety nine of them that you buy, they're gared
for right handed people because the way the thumb pool
puts out and the other finger pools in, they're designed

(38:29):
for right handed people. And so you were in need
left handed scissors for a left handed person.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
I think most people realize that make I think most
people realize about the whole thing with special scissors and
peelers and stuff. But thank you a Hethel twelve. If
you want to talk, I'm right, I right left handed.
Any sports require these have two hands, golf or cricole
left tended, and any sport that's table tennis, I play
right handed. I throw darts with the right hand. Also,
Matthieu Marcus tell the callers to install bit defender to

(39:02):
create a good firewall. Marcus, this is some kind of
over a cold a second pottydua, and all eight of
us and our family are left handed, and eighty percent
of the residents and the eleven houses in our street
are left handed. We have a lifty sausage delivery left handed.
Day thirty one turned out tonight. Wow, it sounds like

(39:23):
a seven sharp story a street and pottydoa eight and
the family lift tend, and eight of us of the
residents of the eleven houses are left handed. Might have
to wait to next year to fill it. What's that
I'll get I've got context tuning in for the night

(39:43):
here in upper Heart. We've got our rates bill for
the year seven one million dollar house. Looking forward to
next year we get a separate minimum two and a
half thousand minimum bill as well as new separate road
charges and Chris Elec Christy ginilet of supply glared we're
back on track. Well, a lot of that will be
three waters. Obviously that was going to be separated, but
it's now up to the councils to provide all that,

(40:05):
and that's going to be pricey as because it's been
underinvested for years. But don't say I told you so, Marcus.
Why is it called a fire will on a brick
wall or like concrete wall? Seems tougher, doesn't it, Marcus.
I'm also left hand, and I was told I was
a witch. Gosh, no messing. I bet that was a

(40:28):
Catholic school, was it. It all got smacked over the
head with a ruler. I was forced to do everything
by the right hand. I'm now ambidextrous and my right
hand handwriting that that says my left hand I can
do everything with it. It's funny though, when people ask
me if I'm right left handed, I put both up.
Sapphire Shee Russell historic Russell good evening.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, I'm still here.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
I'm still here too.

Speaker 10 (40:55):
Good.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
How long have you been there? You've been waiting for
a while?

Speaker 6 (40:59):
H No, three seasons.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
It's Marcus. You know you're on the what you're on
here now?

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Oh?

Speaker 30 (41:05):
Cool?

Speaker 31 (41:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (41:06):
Right?

Speaker 6 (41:06):
I want to talk about the leading and left handed
right eye. So my son's right handed. But when I
when I took him Dutch clay Bood shooting, he pulled
my breader up and put him his left hand, and

(41:27):
I went, so all the shotgun carriages going across in
front of his face, and I went, well, so he's
got a leading left eye. So I had to buy
him a left handed magician carriage shotgun. And it was

(41:47):
it was so he's right handed, but leading left thigh,
and that's what does that sort of thing?

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Okay, well that's a real fararm let it cool?

Speaker 6 (41:59):
Yeah, I fire answer. It's related to one, Matt, it's not.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
I don't I don't think it's to read a tree
left handed? This is it? Sorry, I don't think it's
to read a tree. Well, okay, we got to clarify that.
Russell off.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
You go.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Sounded to you sound too sound? You're about to blow
Allen good evening.

Speaker 9 (42:22):
Good evening.

Speaker 32 (42:23):
I was chained to right handed in the early fifties,
and I think it was because we had fountain pens
and I didn't. I used to write with my right
hand and then cross the eyes and up the tea,
cross the tees and up the eyes with left hand.

(42:46):
And now I still write with my right hand and
print with my left hand approaching a for what? And
I would bowl left handed and that right handed. The
only saving race was I was dexterous sort of swinging

(43:07):
a ham.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
When did ballpoint pens become a thing, Ellen.

Speaker 32 (43:13):
Oh, I would say late fifties.

Speaker 24 (43:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
I was always a boy point.

Speaker 32 (43:20):
I ever had the ink wells, but I had the
wells and then the rd ink wells. There was the
fountain pens. That either of them were really made for
right people. Kay alrighty.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Nice to hear from you, Ellen, Thank you. But in
nostalgia there are thirteen past nine. Anyone else heard the
myth about the well? I don't say it's I say
it's a myth. We don't know that that the Spark
Call Center is upstairs from the National Scam Center. I
would imagine be easy to invent that as an urban
myth because some I bet they're in the same building,

(43:58):
and someone just tried on and say, well they are
in the same building. Is it where that comes from? Marcus?
I enrolled by daughter at a Catholic school for a
supposedly good education. However I had to threaten that I
was going to withdraw her off they try to force
her from being left to right handed. Get in touch. Welcome,

(44:24):
My name is Marcus Hurdle twelve, oh, tondered eighty ten eighty, Tim,
It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 31 (44:33):
Him.

Speaker 33 (44:34):
Marcus just coming back from football training.

Speaker 19 (44:36):
Up to do with that?

Speaker 33 (44:37):
But left handedness to one liner for you. I believe
that the Latin for left handed being a handed is sinestra,
which obviously gets anglicized to sinister.

Speaker 31 (44:50):
So back in the day they.

Speaker 33 (44:52):
Thought someone was the left handed and was sinister as it's.

Speaker 34 (44:56):
Strange, is it's different?

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yeah, if someone metched at the last hour, timoth thanks
to hear, good to hear for that. Thank you. Fourteen
past nine, Oh hit'll twelve, my name is Marcus. Welcome
do through Oh wait a hundred eighty ten eighty and
the scam at stuff spark Marcus. I wanted a neighbor Bears,
who was left handed, as was his wife. They had

(45:18):
four kids. The older three were left handed, but not
the youngest. He was so convinced left handed couples only
had kids that were left handed, therefore the youngest child
should be his couldn't be his. Without telling his wife
had a DNA test. Unfortunate him, she had received there
at first. He spent the rest of his life. He
apologetic to his wife and his daughter. And I learned
to keep out of my neighbor's business. That's from Mac.

(45:43):
So it's about left handedness tonight and those off cuts
of meats at Woolworth's and the spark call scene to
scandal had a scam phone call.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
For a while.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
Actually, it's good to get those. I do enjoy them.
I don't know what it's talking about. The bottom button
on it was talking about the space bar. Was he
Rosst's Marcus, good evening and welcome.

Speaker 35 (46:09):
Hey, Marx's how are you going good?

Speaker 4 (46:10):
Ross?

Speaker 28 (46:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 16 (46:12):
Hey.

Speaker 35 (46:13):
My dad was less handed, but he used to write
with his right hand because in his day everyone had
to learn to write right handed, so he ended up
being able to write right handed and left handed.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Did you think it was a good thing or do
you think it was a curse.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 35 (46:28):
He could write with both hands, so maybe dixat in
the end. Yeah, so maybe both Charles is the same situation.
We had to school, had to learn to write right handed.
He might still be left bed.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Yeah, good point. Thanks Ross Sell and Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 7 (46:46):
H Yeah, hello, this is Sell on Shepherd's Pire. Sell
one again. Oh my wife, she was left handed and
the yes he's still around. We're up in that late eighties.
But there were a couple of family stories that we learned.
One of the things she wrote left handed, always did,

(47:09):
and they had really impeccable printing as well or left handed.
But the also she could write, you could she could
write sentences in mirror writing, Oh here we go. Yeah,
I don't know if you've seen that.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
Yes, yes, I know a lot about mirror.

Speaker 7 (47:31):
Had you either get a mirror or lifts of the
paper up and hold it.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
To the light on the other side through the other side, yes, yeah.

Speaker 7 (47:39):
But the other thing that's really interesting and often thought
about it as far as whether any tennis players ever
thought of it. Well, well, parents started starting off there
a tennis player. She was an above average tennis player,
and she had various stories about and also watching her play.

(48:00):
They go out and you know, when they'd have a
hit up as far as and the opposing person would
seat of tryoko see what a backhand's like. If she
was back in the court, she had two four hands.
Where she had time, she could just change the racket
over into the other side, so she had two four hands.

(48:20):
Great idea, A classic one. There was in a little
country town when she was a teenager. She was that
he went to boarding store. And when she was back
in a small town, she was known. She was one
of their top tennis players. And there was somebody arrived
them somewhere with quite a big reputation as far as
some young guy. And he was out there and they
came up and they'd had her head up, and then

(48:42):
he came up and he served and he put it
down there and he thought, oh, that's on her back end.
He hadn't noticed when they had a warm up. He said, okay,
he served, and then from his run up he turned
around and says, she'll never get that. And as he
walked back to serve again, the ball came back across

(49:04):
there and actually won the point. He didn't find out
till later what was going on.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Yeah, that's that's Seln. Yes, you allude to a shepherd's pie.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
What is that?

Speaker 5 (49:20):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (49:21):
That was that I called up one evening when you
were talking about pies and the pie competitions and all that,
and that was the story that was. It was quite
brief at the time, but I always remember that a
skip way back when in the there was a whole
lot going on. I think it was during the Cold War,
and the there was a Billy T. James strip where

(49:42):
that was. There was a spoof on the so called
Secret Service in New Zealand. Yes, and it's when they
used to have been. They would, uh, they were sort
of typecast as far as you know, even in real life.
They'd have a dark suit and a Trilby hat on.
And yeah, the strip was, it's a it's a Pettitt

(50:07):
somewhere out in the place, and they it's Billy T. James.
You wouldn't recognize him, but he was drifted up like
a biblical long bearded shepherd with a crook out there
in the middle of the field. Anyhow, these two guys
come over and jump over the fence in the uniforms
and they come up to him and said we're going

(50:27):
to arrest you. And they just like I said, it
was in the Cold War, and he they said, we
think you're a Russian spy. He says, I'm not a
Russian spy. I'm just a shepherd. Okay, we're going to
arrest you for being a shepherd spy.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yeah, very good. Sounds brilliant like that more than you
could possibly believe. Thank you. I do remember that, actually,
Jason Mark, Jason.

Speaker 19 (50:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Thanks.

Speaker 35 (50:58):
I just thought I was throwing from fact.

Speaker 36 (51:01):
Back in my home country in the nineties, the Halifax
Building Society that eventually Halifax Bank, they introduced a left
handed checkbook.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Oh wow, us, I think that might have happened here too,
and that was that was a godsend, was it?

Speaker 36 (51:24):
Oh to a left handed person? Yeah, because try to
write and a check in normal checks all in the way.
That's yeah, it was. It was really good. But they
obviously thought there were enough left handed people to warrant
doing it as a marketing thing to try and get
in a huge business.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
And I'll see what it happened. Lest a great on you, Jason,
ill see if they happened locally. Thank you. Hello, David.
This is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 20 (51:50):
You.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
Good David, for good good, thank you, good good good. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (51:54):
So I'm calling from Australia, but I'm Kiwi and I've
been left handed in my old life.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (52:04):
I prefer being left handed because I look at the
writing of people and they're so predictable.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Yes, tell me more about that.

Speaker 9 (52:15):
Well did martial arts. They couldn't see me coming, ye,
be thinking. I think as a left handed person, we
think in a distant sphere.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
You know.

Speaker 9 (52:32):
They tried to change. It was at school, my mother
and the school teacher. But yeah, I reckon, I'm blessed
being left handed.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
What a great way to look at it. That's your gift,
your gift, as you attended this.

Speaker 9 (52:45):
Yeah, I've lost two fingers on my right hand, but
I've got them all on my left hand.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
I've got another you know, Yeah, how did you lose them?

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (52:57):
Talk for Statson. You know my left hands quick, it's
smart my right hands. You know, I'm just on the
total left gamers.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Nice to hear, David. I just got this email that
reminded me of from Princess Daisy Kureder. Marcus, hope you
are well I am left handed, and it's the one
thing I'd change about myself in a nanosecond. I learned
to write when there were inkuells and discs and we
use scratchy fountain pins. My handwriting every involved with natural
writing style. I now print. All of my writing was
a big mess. I realized now that I had ADHD,
which added to the miss At school, I was academicly

(53:30):
bright and also love music and drama. In sport, I
play hockey right handed, and guitar and nuclearly right handed.
Probably out of having to I did become a very
good driver of manual cars. Learning to commit was tough,
as if the person teaching me was right handed. I
reversed everything they did and ended up with a re
unique pattern. I became a teacher. As I curved my
hand around on the board, I'd rub the text off

(53:50):
as I went along, the same with writing reports as
hitt using ballpoint pins, I would smudge, thinking have to
start again. I love the technology of computers w I
can type just about everything interesting enough. Both my daughters
have the most elegant artistic handwriting. It's so beautiful, like calligraphy.
They are both right handed. Sometimes I think I'm meant
to be left handed, but because we're handwriting shocking, Frank, Hello.

Speaker 27 (54:17):
I don't breaks, Frank. Yeah, I'm interested with the left
handed stuff to night. I'm left handed. Anything I do
with one hand, I do left handed. Most things I
do with two hands I do right handed golf, cricket,
et cetera. Right handed, But writing left handed very predogratory

(54:42):
and pull of stirker either way.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
And are you good at those sports?

Speaker 27 (54:52):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Are you good at those sports?

Speaker 37 (54:56):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (54:57):
I'm past it all now, But I was in the day.
I was mildly good at.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
Something, okay, So you don't think it held you back.

Speaker 27 (55:06):
No, No, I was attempt early on to change me
from being left handed. I remember one of the tests
was using a broom to sweep the floor, and they
decided because I used two hands but looked I should
be right handed. And I was a mild attempt to
change me, but I was determined that I wasn't going
to be changed. But yeah, no fun over the years.

(55:30):
But things like left handed check books. So he heard
someone talk about before, was interesting that you can buy
in my game engineering you could get left handed t STIPs,
you can left handed shops around the place you could
buy left handed scissors. You could even buy left handed
screwdriver for joke. But in fact I've seen people when

(55:57):
I was an apprentice, said ground for a left handed habit.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
That's the classic joke, is that the left handed, left
handed screwed over. Great. Thank you for that. It's all good.
Keep it going, people, if you want to talk, keep
those texts. You guys have got a good text game
at the moment. Keep that going. Thought I was a
left he broke be left had at sixteen, went to
Tahiti for exchange and paid lots of table tatters. Was
much better at right than left. Marcus, I've got a
bit cross wide, right headed but left footed. Goodness. McDonald's

(56:28):
got a new promo, more rubbish to attract card collectors.
I saw something about that McDonald's land or something. I'll
tell you what we've got in Vicago, we've got Popeyes.
It's finished. I'd read past these today all the light,
so it's ready to open. I don't know they don't
know where the opening is. But it's funny. They've started
in vert cargo in this South Island. I think there's

(56:51):
one in Tuck and Ninny and there's one in Topau
was there, but yeah, I didn't know there was one
in Invert Cargo right opposite the Dirty Bird. KFC som
Icago has two KFC's, two McDonald's, and a Popeyes in
a Burger king with a baseball with a basketball court,
which for some unfeatherble reason has always closed. I don't

(57:14):
know why they built it then closed. It seems daft. Marie,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
Hi.

Speaker 8 (57:21):
I'm ringing because I'm left handed. I'm grew up in
the sixties. My dad was left handed and he had
was made to write with his right hand. And I
saw his script when I was probably in the eighties,
when I was about twenty, and he used to do
all his writing to the left, and he actually wrote beautifully.

(57:42):
And at that time I was learning, or I just
passed learning and formed around Form two to use fountain bends,
and we were made to do our script to the
right like right handed people. And I hated it. And
even today I still can't write well because I was
going against the grain, and I realized I should have

(58:03):
been going on that left script. So anyone I meet
who has children with left hand, I say, let them
do the slant to the left.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
I thought for a while you might be doing mirror writing,
but you lean to the left.

Speaker 8 (58:18):
I scuff got it just script that way, and it
just feels more comfortable. Another thing I found is I
could never use left handed scissors. I still can't to
this day because I grew up in a right handed household.
But my dad found them useful. And the other thing
I find that grates me all the time is anything brushes,
toilet brushes, brooms these days all are screwed on, so

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when you push as a left handed you're going against
the grain and unrolling and the brush falls off. So
I had to go to mind to ten and actually
find a broom where it was nailed or at least hidden,
and then I put a nail on it so it
couldn't unscrew. So I don't buy the cheaper things anymore

(59:03):
because they come off because our the way we push
without screening, It's just makes sense to me.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
That's as nice to talk. Thank you, Steve Marcus.

Speaker 30 (59:16):
Here is when I was going to school four fifty
odd years ago, there were three Steves in the class,
and we're all left handed, and we were able to
communicate with each other by writing left handed backwards.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
Oh well, we.

Speaker 22 (59:34):
Had a code.

Speaker 30 (59:35):
We could keep it in and the teacher would look
at it and say, what a lot of dribble is?
Can read it? So we can read it quite well.
We kept in touch with it over the years.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
And when you write to each other, you write to
each other with mirror writing.

Speaker 30 (59:50):
Yes, it's mirror writing. It's left handed and it's backwards.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Yes.

Speaker 30 (59:55):
Now I'm the last one of the class now, but
it was four of us used to keep I.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Don't think left handed people live as long do they?

Speaker 30 (01:00:05):
It would have would appear, so yeah, and I don't
know my mates lived there, but anywhere over sixty. I'm
nearly seventy when I'm still going.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Yeah, I think they die ten years earlier, nine years.
They die on the average nine years earlier than right,
There will be depressing news for people out there listening. Yeah,
I don't know what the evidence would that be.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 30 (01:00:35):
Yeah, I do miss my mates.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
No, yeah, that's said. I don't want to bring that up.
But that's terrible if they did so.

Speaker 30 (01:00:43):
Yeah, yeah, none of them got to sixty. But anyway, Yeah,
you're just right, just like you would do a right
handed person would write, but we just do it with
the left hand, and yeah it was easy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
I feel bad now I'm interesting in that. About that,
about the life expectancy, someone might have done some study
on that. Don't know what the answers that would be, Marcus.
My mother was left tend and had lieutended playing cards.
There'd be a ned Fender's shop. Groanov Asovich, the Croatia

(01:01:19):
tennis player, was left handed in the ballpoint pen was
amited by Yugoslavian just if we I think it's probably
huge methodology eraas in those surveys about liftended people dying younger.
So yeah, there we go. Grain of salt stuff. I
think one million dollars shared from Lotto powerball rolls over,
doesn't it always? Who do want to share a million?

(01:01:40):
A lot of people. I would have mentioned. There's a
recall of sausages. Sausages after reports of a glass injury.
P and P farm butchery, angus beef. It's not good.
They may contain glass. We've talked about left handed as

(01:02:03):
student's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Jude, Hello, how are you going good?

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Jude?

Speaker 38 (01:02:11):
Yep, Now let's join your left handed conversation. My grandmother
was ambidixtrous. My dad he was in an age when
you weren't allowed to write left handed, so he had
to write right handed. He played sports like tennis and
someone with his left hand, but when it came to golf,

(01:02:34):
he couldn't buy left handed clubs, so he played golf
right handed, but put his left handed when it came
to me, I grew up writing right handed, but then
I broke my arm twice as a primary school student,
and I learned to left hand right. So I can
still do both today, although the left hands but lower

(01:02:55):
and a bit I'm more untiety, but I can certainly
do all the letters.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
So you are right handed, and de lude to write
left handed was not was not complicated, No, yeah.

Speaker 38 (01:03:07):
Yeah, and I just forced myself to. But I think
they have a little bit of left handedness in there somewhere.

Speaker 12 (01:03:15):
And then.

Speaker 38 (01:03:19):
When he was going through playtender and stuff, they had
left handed scissors, but we said to him, no, use
the right handed one, so you can learn how to
use the right handed because he's never going to be
always left handed. Sis's available, So yeah, just a little
bit of are.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
The other thing I've noticed with my boy. My eldest
boy is left handed, but if I ever get him,
like Swiss army knives or leathermen which have scissors in Yes,
the scissors aren't good for left handed person and really
it's the scissors that make those, but they should do
left handed leatherman and Swiss army knives.

Speaker 38 (01:03:54):
Yeah, since considering ten percent of the people, yes, well yeah,
I would like to use in that way.

Speaker 31 (01:03:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 38 (01:04:01):
We sell machinery and it's always built for right handed people.
And we've had that, you know, said to us sometimes
and don't they make left handed once? But note if
you tried to use them when you're left handed, probably
doing yourself or something.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
And I think to the people that are left handed,
they have to buy scissors and stuff, the scissors and everything,
there's always a premium. There are always much more expensive
to buy stuff that's told for left hander exactly.

Speaker 38 (01:04:27):
So I just said, to anyone who's got a left
handed little kids, just teach them to use in their
right hand.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Yeah, I just smacked them. If they are joking, thanks,
Jude Knight shouldn't have said that. Nineteen to ten. I'm
just done thinking about Well, I remember that guy as
a fitter and turner cheapers, Marcus. When left handed persons

(01:04:54):
crossing the road, do they look left, right, left again
or right left? Will you always look left first, don't you?
Because I don't know why, Marcus. I used to be
left handed, but I got sick of using left hand
and screwdrivers and doorknobs, so I study using the other hand.
Set a jug. I don't know what that is. Sixteen
to teny vaughn. This is Marcus left handed day.

Speaker 38 (01:05:15):
Welcome, Yes, good evening, Marcus. I'm the daughter of a
left handed father. He did everything except well, he didn't
know to send the things left hands. But it's during
school at his age, because he'd been probably over one
hundred now, if he was still love he was taught
to he had to write right handed. But any child

(01:05:38):
in his classes he was a teacher for reasons as
they were left handed. He taught them to a mirror
image the right handed persons. Books and holding the pens
as for a left handed person as for a right
handed person. Now the roy of it is I'm semi
and textus. I do all my sport fishing rods and

(01:05:59):
everything like that set up for left handed. But I've
always been dominant right handed with writing and using cuff.
My brother is the safe and he's our sister. She's
totusfully right handed. She's just broken her arm. We've all
broken our arms. And brother and I we yeah, we
just took up the left hand to carry on. We're writing.
It's a bench spidery for both of us that it's readable.

Speaker 37 (01:06:23):
And it gets.

Speaker 38 (01:06:25):
But the sister she's totally useless with her left hand.
She's even just broken her right arm.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Goodness if on, thanks for calling out that expression, spidery.
Marcus once worked in an office and a colleague used
her left hand to drive your computer mouse, which frezed
up her right hand to make written notes. Most of
us in the office would come away fitting inadequate as
it productive productivity was through the roof, Marcus. Left handed

(01:06:53):
people are not second class citizens like you are making
them out to be. Cheers Anna, Gosh, that escalated. I
was embracing the left handedness. Nine to ten. Good evening, Dean.
This is Marcus, and are welcome to you.

Speaker 31 (01:07:07):
Your homemaker has just related to your left candidates. I
just looked it up. A lot of it relates to sports.
They said that ten to fifteen percent offenses and Olympic
offencing is are all left handed, and particularly in boxing
is over the years because they promote the Southboar style
and about up to thirty percent of boxes are left handed.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
That's why they're in that's in that because it's an advantage.

Speaker 31 (01:07:32):
Well, they fight in this what they call southboard style,
which is very difficult for the opponent to to you know,
you know, you ever seen the boxing in the south.
It's a certain style of boxing, but it's very awkward
for their opponent to to come back. You see a
lot of boxes they made that style, they call it
south wall.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Is there advantage in golf?

Speaker 31 (01:07:56):
I'm not sure about golf. They might be, but they
said it's very very common in fencing too, and even
professional in tennis. There's quite a few left handed tennis plays.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
And I think I think in baseball it's a very
big deal left handedness because.

Speaker 31 (01:08:15):
Left handed pictures and that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Yeah, yeah, and left handed headers for right handed pictures
and all. There's all sorts of equations. Yeah, there's all
sorts of advantages there and depending on what it's.

Speaker 31 (01:08:26):
Very prominent in sports. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, all good.

Speaker 20 (01:08:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
I don't fully know the details in baseball. But there's
all sorts of theories that you're always to a right
handed Yeah. Yeah, someone explained a bit better than I have.
James Wade is a famous left handed dart player. Thank
you for that, evening, faulty, even so, are you good? Faulty?
Thank you?

Speaker 16 (01:08:53):
Long time no talk. I when I'm back in the eighties,
I was working as a young carpenter apprentice, and you
get into building size. We were using hammers in on
these nail guns, and you'd be hanging up off a
building behind and I'm trying to smack a nail and

(01:09:18):
and and the way that was left handed, could could
do it quite easily. If you get me drifted, it'd
get into a type position and he just slapped the
hammer to his other hand, and instead of having to
change his body position on on the building to get

(01:09:39):
to the angle of the nail, he could just change
his hammer to the other hand and do it from
where he was. So talk about productives compared to another
person in that result, and also the same guy. We
we had a work squash competition and I had a

(01:10:00):
game of scott against him, and the same deal.

Speaker 10 (01:10:05):
You think you'd have.

Speaker 16 (01:10:06):
An nailed into a corner was his left end. But
he just put the record on the other hand and
get it back. So that was really all I wanted
to say. But it's amazing these people.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Well amazing. You remember this from the eighties, the guy overseas,
He's obviously had some impact on you. Wow, what a legend.

Speaker 16 (01:10:30):
Well now I just wanted to add that to the hymns. Really, Mergan, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
Nice to hear from your Faulty always good. Welcome, welcome,
welcome here the end. My name is Marcus, what's yours?
Get in touch here till twelve Nothing much happening around
New Zealand, I can see news wise. Now I've got
a couple of free good texts. The first text says
Faulty should read audio books. Beautiful rich voice sounds like

(01:10:58):
one of my lines, doesn't it. And the other text
is I think it's a sweet text. Hey, Marcus, could
you please ask your listeners what car park it gros
Airport is best to use, as there seems to be
so many of them. I'm going to the Gold Coast
in a couple of weeks for ten days, my first
time leaving New Zealand, and I'm fifty four I'm excited. Thanks,

(01:11:18):
I love your show. Well, look, there's very many questions
that need to be answered. There ten days at christ
Church Airport. It's probably going to cost you a hundred bucks,
doesn't it be thirty bucks a day? So you're better
off if you can to go there by a bus
or an uber or a taxi. That's if you are
in christ Church. If you're from out of christ Church,

(01:11:39):
you don't want to park there. I don't think you
want to sort of a work around. Last time we went,
we parked our car and Memorial Drive and seemed to
be fine. But yeah, yeah, I don't know what people
a suggesting about that. There probably is long term parking
somewhere where you park your car and they're taking the
minibus to the airport. You need to be there about

(01:12:02):
now earlier than what you normally go to. That would
be the answer to that one. I doubt a hobby
broadcast a good name, A left handed professional woman golfer.
What about oh Sorenson? What's her name?

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
I don't think I said I'd do it as a
hobby doesn't mean I'm a hobby broadcaster left handed female golfer. No,
you're right, I probably couldn't. Actually, Lady Lefty, will that
be your name? Dave Marcus welcome?

Speaker 8 (01:12:52):
Yeah, here you are.

Speaker 39 (01:12:53):
Before I mentioned Ronnie O'Sullivan, you've got Popeyes down there? Yes,
kriky not that's like KFC.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
Hang on, you're just cutting up to me. I'm missing
some good stuff. Your phone line's just.

Speaker 26 (01:13:15):
Gone bad, Dave, it's usually all right better now, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
It's better. Know what happened? You know we have got
pop eyes. What we're saying after that.

Speaker 39 (01:13:22):
That's probably why KFC brought back the hot and spicy
I see it.

Speaker 31 (01:13:27):
I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Well, I don't think if if it's so good, why
is it not there permanently?

Speaker 39 (01:13:33):
Exactly? Exactly because the original KFC check in is a
disgrace compared to what it was in my opinion. Now,
before I mentioned Ronnie, Oh, would you like an interesting question,
because I know you love my interest in questions. A
chase question? Which suit and a standard deck of cards?
Which suit does the king shown show only one eye?

(01:13:59):
Is an interesting chase question?

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
For your reason for it?

Speaker 39 (01:14:03):
Well, yes, I guess it's the suit that's the important thing.
Which suit does the king only show one eye? Is
the only is the only is the only one eye
showing of the king in which suit?

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Is there a logical? Could I work out this by logic?
By logic?

Speaker 18 (01:14:20):
I believe so?

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
Yes, So you got clubs, diamonds, spades or hearts? Yes,
a one eyed lover heart spades. I'll pass on that.
But yeah, I'll be.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
It's diamonds.

Speaker 39 (01:14:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
I did listen to a.

Speaker 4 (01:14:40):
Book.

Speaker 39 (01:14:41):
The voice book was a good keen man and it
was narrated by Barry Crump of course. Now, Ronnie O'Sullivan
was a famous, famous left handed world champions super player,
of course, who was just as could.

Speaker 32 (01:14:55):
His right hand.

Speaker 39 (01:14:58):
Yeah, amby, but I I I take it that he
was in fact left hand and who could also play
right and as you know, several time world champion super player.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
Yeah, I don't know why the King of Hearts has
only got one King of Diamond's only got one eye.

Speaker 6 (01:15:14):
Well, I guess it's one of the suit.

Speaker 39 (01:15:17):
The diamond is covering it issue.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
Yeah, I'm going to look into the dave. Okay, that's
that's yeah. I'll let you know what Popeye is is like, Okay,
don't know when it's going to open. I'm expecting people
will queue Laurie welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 26 (01:15:34):
Yeah, hey, we've had Popeye open for about three weeks
now in Pami outside. Oh yeah, yeah, messive cues.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
Yeah, would you would you, Laurie, a man of you
are a man of your age, would you say come
to Hype like that?

Speaker 26 (01:15:48):
Well, we've already hit it head the first feet, the
daughter set through the drive through of course, your daughter.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
Of course.

Speaker 26 (01:16:00):
We had been waiting because actually the year before last
we're up in Hawaii for Christmas and we had Popeye
check it for Christmas dinner. So yeah, no, it's pretty nice.
You know, I possibly wouldn't wait long term for it.
You know, I can, I can interchange between there and
the KFC. But no, well I was pretty keen on it.

(01:16:23):
You know, they're off with a raw you know, the
and it's a particularly tricky sort of corner they've got
their business on. But the old cues are sort of
there pretty much all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
Well, the one opposite KFC, it's extremely well laid out.
There's a lot of spirit and it's making KFC because
I don't know what. It's a bit like Parmerston, North
that's your town that you know, KFC. It seems to
be sheer milkers and farm workers get to a certain
stage of the week where they don't think they can
go on without KOC, and they come to town in
the utes and droves, and there's some nights there's cars

(01:16:56):
for miles, and the wizards at Popeye's clearly realize that
and they are Yeah, I think they're going to take over.

Speaker 26 (01:17:04):
Yeah yeah, I did. Ring.

Speaker 4 (01:17:07):
Well what was it?

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Because you get it, you can get like a ten
piece pet can't do.

Speaker 26 (01:17:11):
Yeah, yeah, you can get sort of buckets and that
sort of stuff to the I did bring up a
better regarding a scam which I thought the year before
last I was getting regularly used to get courier packages
from New Zealand Couriers. Well, no, it was Curier Post.

(01:17:32):
Actually it was one I had problems with, and I
was convinced at about the same time I was getting
when I was expecting one, I was also getting a
scam email making out that it was a tracking for
another parcel. And it was more than just coincidence. Every
time I was getting one, you know, I knew the
general one. Come then it seemed to be that there's

(01:17:53):
this other scam email will pop up as well, you know,
checked the address and never clicked on the link as such.
And I'm pretty certain somebody was feeding information through. And
I printed a few of them out, and I went
up to the courier post effort and showed the lady there,
and she did it with an eye roll and recognized
imagining things.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
But at least he got the we at least he
got the wherewithal to actually see that it might be
a senior moment from you for finger conspiracy. But yeah,
it does when you're a man of science. She would
think that that you could run statistics on it to
see if it was if it was random, or if
it actually was beyond the statistically a statistical anomaly, certainly.

Speaker 26 (01:18:36):
Beyond the coincidental.

Speaker 19 (01:18:38):
You know.

Speaker 26 (01:18:38):
It was just it was quite freaky, you know, and
I just look too freaky. Really, He that did that
did stop. But just a quick touch on the left handedness, I.

Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
I, you're not you're not left handed.

Speaker 26 (01:18:52):
No, I reached from with my left hand. I reached
out and found my book of lists. And they're in
pretty good company. Oh, Leonardo da Vinci was lefty, and
so was Michael Angelo.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
Yeah, of course I don't. I think you're more prone
to the arts with being left handed.

Speaker 26 (01:19:09):
But on the other hand, Jack the Ripper was also
I supposed left.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
What other serial killers? Has it got to have those
in the book of lists, would it?

Speaker 26 (01:19:17):
No, it doesn't got to know it didn't make a
special list with them. But Paul McCartney, there we go,
and baby you mentioned baseball as the old great Babe
Ruth was supposedly lefty as well. Yeah, probably the best
best in Charlie Chaplin, So there was I've got ect
there certainly a lot of creatives and a few villains.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
Yeah, please you research your call to Laurie. Thank you
got on three bases sixteen past. I've got a lot
of texts. I want to get back to these texts
about the car park because I've got six texts or
seven texts about that. This is a woman's first trip overseas.
Airpark Canterbury is best close by and they give you

(01:20:02):
a shuttle to the drop off. Babe, book online you
get a discount much cheaper. Next text Airpark Canterbury have
two sites good for car being secure. Earlier you book
the cheaper it is Airpark Airpark. Third text Airpark Canterbury
for airport parking and cross Chitcher park there and they

(01:20:23):
drop your tumbine and pick you up for a two
awesome service, Jared. Airpark Canterbury is great for Krosch Airport
or park and ride right cross Airport website. Now I'm
getting Tex say Airpark Canterbury and three text saying Airport Canterbury.

Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
Dan.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Do you think the airpark and airport are just confused?

Speaker 5 (01:20:46):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
Do you think they're two different companies. I don't think
a company would call themselves Airport Canterbury. I'm sure they
all mean Airpark Dan. Yes, so Dan on these texts
right and one comes through at twenty zero nine and

(01:21:08):
it says Airpark Canterburry is the best airpark Canterbury. And
then the next two say Airport Canterbury and I'm sure
they mean Airpark Canterbury. And it's been self spell check day.

Speaker 20 (01:21:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:19):
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for that woman, almost in tears. No, I don't know
a woman golfer that's left handed for a hobbyist broadcast.
I'm looking at the names of them and none of
them ring a bell. But Bonnie Bryant's the only one

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to ever win an LPGA to event it was fifty
years ago, was it who you referring to? Text Taunter,
So Bonnie Bryant would be the only one to win
an LPGA, which is a softball player. Marcus. Rumor has

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it the Popeye is coming opening up in Timidou on
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Airpark Canterbred is so appreciated. Marcus. Thanks. Yeah, that's I've
never known such a such an overwhelming vote for one
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recommended that one, so you must go with them. It's

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going to be life changing. Nellie Called was a lieutenant
golfer who just recently lost her number one female ranking
his fifteen wind on the LPGA tour, spent over one
hundred weeks at number one in a gold Medicine twenty twenty.
You name it, she's won it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
I don't think many people would know that though, would
they that she's left handed?

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
Oh, get in touch people. There'll be other topics that
you might want to mention tonight. Everything's on the board.
Feel free to come.

Speaker 18 (01:24:06):
TH's through.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
It is calligraphy day today. I'm not that into calligraphy,
but if you want to talk on any of that's
some of the stuff that we've been on about tonight
and left handed Day. Oh more about parking at Christchurch
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thirty dollars for my eight day parking. There are lots
of left handed men golfers, but I've never seen a
woman a statistical an oomally surely nearly caught it is

(01:24:48):
right handed. Oh, so there we go. That's a bit
of fake news. Number ending in ninety six y nine. Goodness,
I take you guys on your word when you text me.
So that's bad running misinformation, muttering the waters, flooding the zone.

(01:25:15):
How are we feeling about? How are we feeling about pistacios?
They're having a moment now. Everything's about pistacios these days,
chocolate and all of it. Hello, Dave, welcome, it's I'm

(01:25:36):
going to talk about hockey.

Speaker 22 (01:25:39):
If you're left handed with a bat or a hockey stick,
you can't play hockey with right handed people. So both
teams have to be left handed to play left handed hockey.
Otherwise there's no such thing. Did you get that?

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
I thought that? So is there any left handed leagues?

Speaker 37 (01:25:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 39 (01:26:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
Now.

Speaker 30 (01:26:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
No.

Speaker 22 (01:26:06):
I was at school and I mister Roy Young at
Ringua High School, said there's no such thing as left
handed hockey.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
Goodness, I don't think there's left handed polo either on horses.

Speaker 22 (01:26:19):
No, you can have left handed hockey if every if
both teams are all left handed.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
But there's no chance that's going to happen out there
because you've been excluded from the school team.

Speaker 22 (01:26:32):
Yes, so I couldn't play hockey at school because I'm
left handed with a bat and right handed with other things.

Speaker 3 (01:26:39):
What did you play?

Speaker 22 (01:26:41):
I did soccer and running and everything else.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
And there's no problem with trek and field or running
if you left handed.

Speaker 22 (01:26:50):
No, anyway, it's a very interesting subject.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
Fascinating about the thing with the hockey. I didn't realize it.
What kind of realize it, Dave, thank you, Gosh, Brian welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:27:04):
I might just.

Speaker 18 (01:27:06):
Handedness. My dad dad was left handed, but he played
right handed golf. And when he when he wrote his
his his writing was slanted backwards.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Oh that's what they said, that something that's the better
way to do it. It would be a bett. Yeah,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 18 (01:27:27):
As he was writing and new he caught his right handed.

Speaker 14 (01:27:31):
I can't.

Speaker 18 (01:27:32):
I watched a lot of golf, woman and men, and
I can't think of a woman, top woman left handed golfer.

Speaker 23 (01:27:39):
No, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
But this person's texting me and they're trying to shame
me for not knowing who it is.

Speaker 18 (01:27:44):
No, it's not Nelly to her sister Projessica. She was
good too, and with left handedness. The famous left handed
American golfer Cheapest I saw Minchousin, of course, but he's

(01:28:04):
not actually left handed. He got taught mirroring someone standing
opposite someone who was right handed, and he was given
left handed clubs and that's how he went.

Speaker 3 (01:28:15):
And was Sir Bob Charles is not left handed.

Speaker 18 (01:28:19):
He is left candido, Yes he is.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
No, he's not.

Speaker 18 (01:28:27):
Bob Charles is the most famous left candid golfer in
the world.

Speaker 3 (01:28:30):
Yes, but he's not. He's not left handed, well, the
golf club is, but he's right handed.

Speaker 18 (01:28:38):
But he plays golf with the left left handed clubs.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
Yeah, but he's right handed.

Speaker 18 (01:28:44):
I'm getting confused now, and no don't.

Speaker 3 (01:28:48):
You're not confused, because we're talking about people that switch
right like you just see that last guy Michelson.

Speaker 18 (01:28:54):
Yeah, well that's what Bob had taught.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
Yeah, well that's what.

Speaker 37 (01:28:58):
Happened, Bob Charles, was that the same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
He's right handed?

Speaker 18 (01:29:08):
Yeah, he plays lift.

Speaker 27 (01:29:10):
With myself.

Speaker 18 (01:29:14):
I got a shorter lift leg than the right leg. Anyway,
when I was young at school, I was mad keen
on soccer and.

Speaker 3 (01:29:23):
When I was in the primers, Brian, Brian, Brian, don't
go anywhere were okay, I've just got to go to headline,
So you just hold your horses. I want to revisit
old Bob Charles's right handedness, but I want to come
back to hear your story. You beg to you, Brian.
So one league short of the other one to play soccer?
Yat where were we?

Speaker 18 (01:29:44):
It's at primary school? Anyway, I actually kicked the ground
with my right foot. I'm might handed, but I kept
the ground with my right foot and I didn't tell
my parents and they have stopped me playing football. So anyway,
I want to kick with the left foot as well.

(01:30:05):
And then when I got older, I could kick with
either feet. My dad was left foot and I used
to play on the left hand side because I play.
My logic was I'd be more in the play because
right foot players were more dominant. Therefore the better players
in your opposition would be on the right hand side.

(01:30:26):
If you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
Did that.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
Did that work out for you? Did you become a
good footballer?

Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:30:34):
In the in the family tree on my nana's side,
mom's dad's mum is the surname Best as in Georgie.
They were from Belfast.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
So that's the that's the relatives.

Speaker 18 (01:30:49):
And some of my dad's Chad he put it some
of his photographs when he was middle age or a
bit older. You'd look at it and you look at
Georgie Best's I got Georgie Best's book at home here.
You'd look at them and you could see the similarities
in the noise.

Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
Especially, So did you become a good footballer?

Speaker 4 (01:31:10):
I was.

Speaker 18 (01:31:12):
Captain in the first or even at school and I
played in the afternoon or club under eighteen from Mount Wallison.

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
Well Mount Wendon was one of the great football clubs
back in the eighties.

Speaker 18 (01:31:26):
Yeah, the Armstrongs. Yeah, and there's to train at the
club room and cameo Island Road if you remember it.
And when we were I'm not I was in the
under eighteen team. Some of the nights, some of the
top guys got de graph was there, some of the

(01:31:48):
some of the top players would actually come and join
in with our sessions.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
That's special, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:31:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:31:55):
And I got to a stage where I got on
like a high you get into his own put it
that way. And I was doing things so they could do.
It was amazing, but I didn't carry on with it.
I should have done.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
Oh, don't shot on yourself, Brian, We've all got shots.
Kin nearly called her as not left handed. She plays
golf right handed. However, she's experimented with a left hand
low crosshanded butting grip, which is a putting technique, non
indication of being left handed. There are also videos and
golf challenges where she plays left handed for fun, showing
her skill and versatility, but her primary playing hand in

(01:32:35):
professional golf is right handed. Marcus rone O Sullivan is
right handed, but does play some shots occasionally left handed. Gosh, well,
we've got some confused with sports people, haven't we. So
Bob Charles, according to the World Golf Hall of Fame
and Natural Writing, he does everything right handed, except, as

(01:32:56):
he says, plays golf games requiring two hands. As such,
Charles was the first south Port of which the very
highest levels competitive golf, and in doing so he led
the way for such left handed tournament winners as Phil
Micholson and Mike Were. Mike Ware I'm not familiar with,

(01:33:19):
but obviously a golfer of some renown. It's not offer
you do a lot left handed to day. When's our
next left handed day? Will it be on a Friday
next year? Don't if I could do left handed down
a free for all Friday might be too whimsical. There's
breaking news. I'll bring that to you people. I'm not

(01:33:43):
left handed, just so you know. Dean Marcus, good evening, welcome, good.

Speaker 26 (01:33:51):
Evening, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
I was just thinking about the left handedness that you
were talking about. And my grandmother was left handed, but
the only one in the family.

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
And that's surprising, is it?

Speaker 31 (01:34:04):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
I mean I think it's one in ten, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:34:06):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
So it's ten percent.

Speaker 4 (01:34:08):
I don't know if it comes through the maternal line.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
No, I don't think. I don't think it's I don't
think it's hereditary.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
Okay, I don't know. I hang on.

Speaker 3 (01:34:22):
There was some theory about something to do with There
was a theory not so long ago. What was that theory?
Quite a controversial one. Something to do with the work,
something something to do within the womb, of course, obviously.

Speaker 4 (01:34:46):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
There was quite a controversial theory about it. Does it
do with unborn twins or something?

Speaker 40 (01:34:56):
Well, I'd be interested to hear, because yeah, it always
became the whole thing, if like, maybe it was the
milkman that came around.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
No, no, it's.

Speaker 26 (01:35:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
I think I think it's to do with a lost twin.
Oh yeah, and so I don't. I'm just trying to
do this on the hop as I'm talking to you,
And yes, but that's beyond my realm to talk about
that flat out as I'm just trying to talk to you.

(01:35:27):
But yeah, I think it's due with a lost twin,
which sounds weird anyway, doesn't I think.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
It does.

Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
But I think you've done wonderfully and this feels more
like a therapy session.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
I got to say, though.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
They changed her because she was born in late nineteen
twenty three Grant, and they whipped her and you know,
did everything else. They put the strap and everything in
school and made her into a right hander, but she
could still write with her left hands.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
Do you think it was as cruel as people made out?
Really think that the telling it's become a more kind
of exaggerated.

Speaker 28 (01:36:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 40 (01:36:11):
She was she was very she wasn't prone to exaggeration. Yeah,
she was pretty pragmatic. You know, I'd say that. You know,
they would they would have definitely not.

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
But when they but when they whipped you, it's a
tap on the hand. When you catch you, it's a
tap your hand with the ruler. Don't they like a
piano teacher? Isn't that right?

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
Well? I wasn't there, Marcus?

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Okay, fair enough, Okay, then thank you for that. Sixteen
to eleven, eight hundred and eighty toighty Craigate's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 34 (01:36:41):
Yeah, I'm Marcus. It's really confusing if you actually google
left handed, doesn't it if it's geenergic or not. It's
really obscure.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
There's some genetic component, isn't there?

Speaker 10 (01:36:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 34 (01:36:58):
Apparently. But so I have a son who's so he's
my step son, so so he's not blood relative, yep,
And he was basically left handed, but his his father
he lives with, and his family try to force him
to be right handed, which is kind of what's happened

(01:37:19):
for centuries, an't you?

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
But you do see they are they even now trying
him to be right handed.

Speaker 34 (01:37:27):
No, no, now, he's like twenty years old, he.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
Even so that's yeah, okay, yeah, but yeah.

Speaker 34 (01:37:34):
They did try to like pushing that way, and I
sort of said him no, look, just just do whatever
works for you. So he's now what I would call
ambi dextrous quite well. Yeah, yeah, but it's it's still weird.
There's still some people have this, like, I don't know

(01:37:55):
what you call it. It's like an almost evangelical attitude
about left handed people.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Yeah, because I've got to left at my oldest left tender,
and I don't think I've ever spent a moment think
it hasn't ever been a concern. There's been nothing that
and maybe it's the first you don't even realize. But yeah,
I mean I haven't even really had had much awareness
of a big left handed to be honest, I mean
it certainly hasn't been something I've already given much thought to.
I don't think it's handwriting is as good as it

(01:38:25):
could be because it's because it's probably an awkward way
to write, is it. But I think with sport and stuff,
he's been fine.

Speaker 34 (01:38:32):
Yeah, I think it's when I notice it, Like I
only notice it really with Oliver when he's writing it's
awkward to write because that's.

Speaker 31 (01:38:41):
Not how.

Speaker 34 (01:38:45):
Things are set up. But when he's working on a computer,
which is pretty much.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Everything, No, and that's the thing at school they worry
about his handwriting. But well, the only thing as right,
this is my concern is that everything's done on keyboards
now anyway. Yeah, however, I think there was a report
recently out from Canterbury University and would their exams they
are going back to making the exams been handwritten to

(01:39:11):
stop use of artificial intelligence. Yeah, and that makes sense,
doesn't it.

Speaker 34 (01:39:17):
I think that does. Yeah, I really do. I think
AI is it's pretty obvious. You actually see it, like
if you like, have a job interview and you put
out like a you know, we need somebody for this job,
and you get a hundred applicants.

Speaker 10 (01:39:34):
AI.

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
It's so terrible, isn't it terrible?

Speaker 34 (01:39:38):
It's so obvious, and it's like, oh, well I can't
be bothered withe No, but how.

Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
But what sort of person would think that that looks
like the voice of them? It's just such garbage.

Speaker 34 (01:39:50):
It's I totally agree with you, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
Yeah, I do think we've got now we've got power
companies and data centers as big as Manhattan to produce
that rubbish. I reckon, it's a dud.

Speaker 34 (01:40:03):
I am not going to argue against you with that one.

Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
Marke, nice to talk, Craig, thanks you twelve to eleven.
What does Luxan? Oh no, I won't read that coming.
What is Luxon doing? Say nit Yat? Who has lost
the plot? Not of very elegant language from a prime minister.
You mentioned about left handed family members, my husband, our daughter,
our grandson or a left handed regards Jackie, I'd like

(01:40:32):
to know about the lost twins too, with left handedness, Marcus,
I started school in fifty nine able to read and write.
The teacher called me the devil's child. In time, I
left hand behind my back and forced me to write
using my right hand. Told parents. Father came to school
the next time and told the teacher off mbidexterous and
all things with hands was a public school. You're not

(01:40:53):
left handed day at Calvin.

Speaker 37 (01:40:55):
I'm probably sort of ambidextras. I was going to say, Marcus. Evidently,
when I was a toddler, my mother, you know, and
later years told me that I used to stick my
left hand out to get to take things. But she
tried to encourage my right hand. So I finished up
The knife knife from four o'clock can use either hand.

(01:41:15):
The spoon is sort of either hand. I used to
play softball right handed and tennis left handed, tables in
his left handed as well. And if I was going
to mount a bicycle, you know how, Yes, I don't know.
If you put your foot on the pedal and push along.

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
I've readicted a bike, Yes, i'd do that.

Speaker 37 (01:41:34):
Yeah, well I would have. I'd be on the right
hand side of the bike with my right foot on
the pedal.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
I've always been literally, i'd go on the e That's
an interesting distinction.

Speaker 37 (01:41:44):
Yeah. And also if I was going to get on
a horse, you're supposed to get on it on the
left hand side of the horse, otherwise you're able to
have the cat the horse very upset. But I remember
reading a few things a while back, and I mentioned
it casually to my doctor one day, but he didn't

(01:42:04):
really know anything. But I remember reading Marcus that when
you cross your arms just ordinary you might be sitting
down and cross your arms, the hand you've got exposed
in front of it, you know, hanging out on the
fresh air as it were. That that means that'll be
what you are left handed, are right handed. So when
I fold my arms across my arms, my left hand

(01:42:27):
finishes up being out on the fresh air as it were,
and the other hand sort of tucked under your arm again,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
It's the same with me.

Speaker 37 (01:42:36):
Yeah, So when you fold your arms, which hand is
sticking out in the air, the left one? Yeah, well
that could mean you're left handed.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
But they're never good with small talk, the doctors, though,
aren't They never up for conversation, really are.

Speaker 15 (01:42:51):
They're looking at the clock.

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
They want you out at your fifteen minutes.

Speaker 37 (01:42:55):
Well, I used to play hockey right handed, because they're all.

Speaker 3 (01:42:59):
I think I've crossed my arms one stage too many.
Yes you might, yeah, I think the round.

Speaker 37 (01:43:09):
I use my hammer really in my left hand, tin
snips in my right hand, and pliers in my right hand.
I use a sawre in the left hand, so I'm
all over the place, really, all over the place. I'm

(01:43:31):
holding the telephone now on my left hand. Really, But
that's but part of the reason which even a very
ordinary ordinary person should hold if they're right handed, right
with the right hand, they should always pick up the
phone in their left hand. That's that's what we learned
decades ago about that. So that's the best way to

(01:43:54):
do it. So you got your right hand free.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
Well for your sword, No, it was your pencil.

Speaker 37 (01:44:04):
But otherwise, if you pick up your telephone in your
right hand and someone gives you a phone number to
write down, what would you be doing swapping swapping the
fae ov the.

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
Other hand, Well, I could handle that. That wouldn't be
that would be beyond that.

Speaker 37 (01:44:21):
Yeah, but the whole thing. He should be one step behind,
wouldn't you one hand behind? So you got to keep
up with the.

Speaker 3 (01:44:27):
Flow with it where I think I had to go
hands free? Calvin, thank you, Hello, Jim, Jim, Marcus, welcome,
HELLI Marcus, good Jim, thank you.

Speaker 17 (01:44:37):
Well, yeah, I was just ringing about Bob Charles. I
haven't been listening all night, but I've got the gift
of your conversation tonight. And they're all wrong. Actually, Bob
Charles is right handed.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
Yeah, that's what that's what we've seen. That's what I said. Yeah,
right right, yeah, I see he's right handed. But the
one thing he does he plays golf as a left
handed left handed.

Speaker 17 (01:45:02):
No, no, no, he plays golf right handed. Oh yeah,
yeah no. So he stands on the right hand side
of the ball, he grips the club with his right hand,
and he hits the ball to his right. So I've
played a bit of golfer Bob, and he's Adam and

(01:45:23):
he's right handed golfer, and all the rest of us
are left handed.

Speaker 3 (01:45:28):
I see, I see, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 17 (01:45:31):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, he's chuckles away about that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:37):
I don't know why he did. Why do you start
playing differently from the majority?

Speaker 17 (01:45:42):
He never told me, but yeah, he's he jokes away
about that quite a bit. He stands on the right
hand side of the ball, grips the club with his
right hand and hits it to his right.

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
Anyone else, Lieutenant, Yeah, got it, Jim. Thanks for that, Marcus.
I'm a surfer. And when you were trying to teach
and learn how to stand up, the first thing you
need to saw out as they are natural footstance or
a goofy stance. So and get them to try to
practice getting up on the board as a continuous motion, eg.
Teaching that person their comfortable stance when they try to
stand up on the board for the first time. How

(01:46:18):
we do this is ask the person to stand flat
footed and then go behind them and give them a
light shove on the back from behind whatever foot they've
stepped forward. After A light shove from behind is their
inherent stance. That infraredy helps a beginner to learn the
initial step up technique on a surfboard. I think they
do that with snowboarding. I believe I've had that done
also too.

Speaker 4 (01:46:35):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
Marcus. I'm left handed. My brother was left hand, and
a couple of my cousins are also left handed. But
I only eat and write and cut with my left hand.
I play sports, eg. Throwing a ball, a hold a
record with my right hand, and hang up clothes using
pigs in my right hand. So I guess I'm ambidextrous. Cheers,
Lucy Marcus. Four siblings in my family, myself, one sister,

(01:46:58):
two brothers, all naturally left handed, but both periods are
right handed. I am now the only sibling that's right handed.
Because I fell hand first into a fire about four
and couldn't use my left hand for so long, I
became right handed. What a horrific thing. Good evening, marks.
I have four children, two left too right. The two
left have the most intellectuous, impecable handwriting, obsessively tidy with

(01:47:21):
his school books, both creativan and draw. The two right
handed not so tidy, but bright. My husband and myself
are both have've tanned our children right hand at school.
My handwritten work with the foundin pee was always a
bit smudged to the angle of my hand. Which will
come first? Daylight Savings or Father's Day? I love Father's Day?

(01:47:42):
When's that? I think Daylight savings is the indus at
team of Father's Day is probably the beginning. That's my
guess about that, Marcus. I'm a part time working pensioner.
I've brought small trays of that Woolworth's meat to supplement
my plate when it Kiwi's become such food snobs, mothers
and kids would crawl over a rubble to get to
a plate of it in Gaza. We are so spoiled, Roger, No,

(01:48:05):
I think about a con needed about this. It was
a story that was picked up by the Australian media
and the Australian commenters couldn't believe how expensive that meat
was to charge fifteen dollars a kilo for rough cuts.
Most Keywis I spoke to were surprised how cheap it was,
and then Warlworth said, well, they'd just throw out the

(01:48:26):
end so they thought they'd get some money for it
to save food waste, and people thought if they're doing
that to save food waste, they could probably sell it
slightly cheaper. And Warworths themselves have admitted it was a
mistake to try and sell it and they're now not
going to do that anymore. So that is the context

(01:48:46):
and the responses to that story. I don't think New
Zealand's a food snobs. We can hardly afford mints and
butters off the menu for most people, so yeah, no,
I think it's probably the exact opposite, to be brutally honest.
Good evening, Joan, this is Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:49:08):
Oh hello. I wonder why years ago they thought everybody
should write with right handed and thought it was not
the right thing to do with your left hand. I
think other since learned that, you know, everybody's different, and
the people that right with the left hand, that just
comes naturally to them, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
I think with ink wells and pens that that became
reproblematic because you drag your hands through it. So until
the ballpoint pens came along in that quick drying ink,
I think it caused real hussles.

Speaker 21 (01:49:38):
Oh and also when left handed people write, they normally
have their hand further around and write what we'd call
it cap handed. You know what I mean, to someone
normally writing with their right hand, don't they notice? Probably? Yeah,
but then you know they've let it go now. I mean,
they're not kind to try and stop people left handed

(01:50:00):
at school, now.

Speaker 2 (01:50:00):
Do they No.

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
Sure they're do in some countries, but you know they don't.

Speaker 32 (01:50:04):
No, not no, not here.

Speaker 28 (01:50:07):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
And yeah, yeah, I was surprised that people have said
they we got punished for it so recently. Yeah, because
it doesn't make sense to me. But anyway, nice to
hear from your jones. Thank you. Janet's Marcus heloone.

Speaker 41 (01:50:21):
Oh hello, Marcus, I just said the end of that conversation.
I don't know if I've only sort of come onto
this very lately, but I had when I was a
Mountain Standard too. We were all told, all left handers
were told just to write with their right hands. And
I think that went on for about four months, four
or five months something like that. I remember my mother

(01:50:43):
telling me. And then we somebody came around to the
school and tested our eyes all the left all the
ones that were suspicious, and I was just definitely left handed,
not to even try to write again. With my right hand.

Speaker 23 (01:51:00):
So that was that.

Speaker 41 (01:51:01):
I don't know if any others did it or not,
but so that was that was back in the late
forties and when they were just you know, obviously testing,
testing the kids and realizing they should not be changing them.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
So you could tell you're right now with your left.

Speaker 11 (01:51:20):
Hand, do you Oh?

Speaker 41 (01:51:21):
Totally, I can't. I can literally do nothing virtue with
my right hands. Scott No, hasn't even got this sort
of and I had a left handed son. We've got
a whole We've got Scott's family. I don't know if
anyone said anything about that, my mother's side of Scotch
and we've got left handers everywhere in the family. Just
in every generation there's left handers there.

Speaker 3 (01:51:45):
So how did you How did you go with scissors?

Speaker 41 (01:51:49):
With what scissors? I had to That was the thing.

Speaker 10 (01:51:53):
You have to do some things.

Speaker 19 (01:51:55):
I know.

Speaker 41 (01:51:55):
My husband was away somewhere once and he brought me
a pair of left handed scissors. Oh, he was over
in sydn't they bought a pair of left handed scissors
and I.

Speaker 11 (01:52:04):
Couldn't use them so used to others, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 41 (01:52:08):
Exactly, but that would be very unusual year. So and yeah,
know it just simply didn't work at all. But I
don't know, yeah, pretty well everything. And I wasn't particularly sporty,
so I didn't particularly care about Actually I tried to
play tennis and I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
I think I've read somewhere tonight, James. It's been a
long session on left headed this that sewing machines showing
sewing machines work better for left handed people. Did you
have a sewing machine?

Speaker 18 (01:52:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:52:36):
I did.

Speaker 41 (01:52:37):
Yeah, Actually I haven't realized that, but yes, I certainly
did anything like that.

Speaker 17 (01:52:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 41 (01:52:42):
I mean I've never really noticed the difference hardly at all,
you know, so just something that you grew up with,
but I obviously had about I think it was, you know,
four or five months of just having to learn having
to only use a right hand, which apparently is not good.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
Can imagine, Jen, thank you so much. Hello, Susie, Why Marcus?

Speaker 42 (01:53:05):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
Susie Marcus.

Speaker 43 (01:53:08):
I had to learn how to use my left hand
when I had my carper tunnel done. On the right hand, oh, yes,
before before I had my carper tunnel done, I could
barely pick up a jug with that hand. And when
I had my carp tunnel done, I had to learn
to use my left hand.

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
Well, yeah, did you write with your left hand as well?

Speaker 4 (01:53:35):
No?

Speaker 43 (01:53:35):
No, I didn't do any writing at the time because
I'm hopeless at writing with my left hand. But I
had to even get a housekeeper and he had to
do my vacuum and stuff because I could hardly do
anything with my right hand.

Speaker 3 (01:53:46):
What did you reach your carpal tunnel with?

Speaker 43 (01:53:50):
I don't know how it happens, Marcus. It's very common,
but as I said, I couldn't hardly lifted jug and
all my hands, all my fingers were clenched in the
middle of the hand.

Speaker 22 (01:54:03):
You did pretty bad.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
You wounded the rendering room in the freezer works for anything?

Speaker 11 (01:54:07):
Were you?

Speaker 4 (01:54:08):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:54:08):
Okay?

Speaker 43 (01:54:10):
I think because of my ex job, I hand a
lot of dishes and lifting and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:54:16):
They'll do it, Judy, Thank you, Susie. Rather good evening, Judy.
This is Marcus, Judy, Judy, welcome, Judy.

Speaker 5 (01:54:22):
Speaking good evening to you. Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:54:26):
My son.

Speaker 5 (01:54:28):
Really really struggled at school. It wasn't until he got
to feeling high that they sent him to be tested
over in Parmerston, North and I think the place was
called spelled I'm not too sure, but the old chap
that was there tested my son, and because Cameron couldn't

(01:54:51):
hit the side of a house, we were doing archery
and unles we covered his right eye. He was a
terrible shot, and the gentleman said, he's too left eyed,
but he's right ended. So struggled and struggled. Now he's

(01:55:12):
running a workshop at long Reneure.

Speaker 30 (01:55:14):
So he was left eyed, two left died.

Speaker 5 (01:55:17):
Yeah, they tested them, like the lady said, before they
were tested and before the last caller, and yeah he
was two. He said he's too left eyed, but he's
right handed. So the message was a bit confusing with
his brain, he couldn't write. He was a bit like

(01:55:39):
I put his b's and d's and h's and q's
and everything he put around the wrong way.

Speaker 3 (01:55:47):
Okay, thank you, I'll see if I get someone else's
about left diyed this because I have never heard of
that until tonight. But thank you, Mary. This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 42 (01:55:56):
Oh hey Marcus, yes, very you're very interested in left handedness. Well,
I was read by the nuns and nothing against them.
But of course the devil sits on our left shoulder,
and the arch angel, your archangel sits on your right shoulder,

(01:56:17):
so you couldn't use your left hand because then you'd
be connecting to the devil.

Speaker 6 (01:56:24):
This is true.

Speaker 42 (01:56:25):
We were taught this when we were five, and I
can remember sitting behind this lovely girl and she was
left handed, and we used to wear a girdle. Some
of the ladies listening will understand we had a girdle
on our uniform and you just got your arm tied
back and you had to use your right hand. Yeah,

(01:56:46):
but we accepted it somehow.

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
Were people hit.

Speaker 42 (01:56:51):
Yes, oh yes, Well I find spelling difficult because we
were actually taught with pain. Isn't that terrible to say that?
But you'd have to say the timestable backwards with your
hands out, and everyone you got wrong, you'd be hip
and it would.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
Be quite hard with like a ruler on your hands.

Speaker 42 (01:57:11):
Oh yes, a ruler. Yes, one of those I can
see it now. One of those ones was the New Zealand.

Speaker 26 (01:57:18):
I would on it.

Speaker 42 (01:57:22):
And yeah, that's what we had to do. And spelling
was the same. You had to spell with your hands out,
and I can remember it was sing sang song and
tongue and I couldn't spell them. I can now.

Speaker 3 (01:57:35):
Doesn't sound very enlightened, does it.

Speaker 10 (01:57:38):
No, No, it wasn't.

Speaker 42 (01:57:40):
But you know, I still follow my religion. And I
think they were just girls that had come from the
barg Irish in Ireland, and the priest had walked in
and said you're a priest and you're a nun. Yes,
and I think they were very unhappy.

Speaker 3 (01:57:52):
Yes, and all the good ones went to Africa. Yes,
we got the duds, that's what they say. Very nice
to talk.

Speaker 19 (01:58:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:58:01):
There we go one get in trouble. Half past eleven,
hit le twelve. What have you got people, Marcus. I'm
fifty eight and was left hand until I went to school. However,
had a new entrant teacher called miss Stone, who called
me the devil sporn and hit me across the knuckles
with a piece of old leather if she could be
using my left hand. Unfortunate, it's my earliest memory. Today

(01:58:23):
I can use both hands, but my writing vez left,
and I wear my watch on my right wrist. She
is a horrible lady. When I think about her, even now,
I feel terrified.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Kate.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
Speaking of watches, there is a movement now to wear
your roch on your dominant hand. That seems to be
the new way, which I find interesting. Speaking of watches,
watch the Rolex price go sky high in the United

(01:58:57):
States of America thirty five percent tariff on Swiss watches. Yeah,
so for a while there was a bit of a
lull in the old Rolex price, but she shot back up,
as I imagine most of the secondary market and primary

(01:59:18):
marketers in the United States. It seems to be o
PEPs in China as well. I don't know about that.
Let's know a little bit about that with watchers, but
there's no reason not to wear them on the dominant hand,
and I think in some ways it's more useful because

(01:59:40):
you can easier twist it around, you're more adept at that.
Not that's a difficult thing to do. I'm saying, hello, Liz, welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:59:50):
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:59:50):
I was a twin and my mother was a nusical
trun and my sister's got twins, and then on one's
side there was tns as well. Dad's side there was twins.
So we got twins everywhere. But all twins that come about.
Mom's twin was ambidetrous. Oh yeah, I'm ambidentrous. My twin

(02:00:16):
is right handed, and I was at a convince so
I got into big trouble because I had to use
my right hand, so I swapped and used my right
hand for writing. But a lot of things I used
to my and my sister's got twins, and one the
girl the girl of boy twins, and one's completely left

(02:00:40):
hand and the other's right handed. And I don't I
don't know the whole synopsis of anything. I have a
feeling maybe on this part of it. It could be
where you are in the stomach.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:00:57):
I'm here. I haven't had time of the research tonight,
hadn't I haven't had the time to do the research tonight.

Speaker 15 (02:01:06):
No, very complex, and I've seen lots of twin programs.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
They did say some Lieuten individuals may have originally been
part of a twin pregnancy while the other twin was
lost early in development. But that wouldn't work with you,
would it?

Speaker 4 (02:01:20):
No?

Speaker 15 (02:01:20):
Because I was born. But a huge I have studied
about twins on that you know, Google and you want
and wanted all that, And I think it's quite a
mystery because they've got a lot of various opinions and
apparently there's a very big number of twins that are different.

(02:01:42):
It's just not two or three types of twins. It's
oh quite a number because of my sister and I
when we were children and in the experiment on us,
because according to most reports, a twin mother doesn't normally
have twins.

Speaker 3 (02:02:01):
Oh yes, so.

Speaker 15 (02:02:04):
Dating stuffed that.

Speaker 18 (02:02:06):
When we were born.

Speaker 15 (02:02:08):
My mum had it recorded it, did an experiment on it.
We weren't actually paternal, twins were actually shared parts of being,
but we were in two different departments. So I think
there's a huge amount in twins since you know, not

(02:02:32):
quite known out there. Did yeah it as part of
the Mum and Auntie.

Speaker 29 (02:02:39):
Mary were mirror twins.

Speaker 3 (02:02:41):
Yes, so.

Speaker 15 (02:02:44):
A huge amount of everything is And my sister was
so so right handed that couldn't do anything with the
left hands. So I don't know, I don't know. I'm
I'm not researched enough to completely understand.

Speaker 3 (02:03:00):
If you find anything, if you find anything about left
handedness and vanishing twins, I would be interested in that.

Speaker 26 (02:03:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:03:05):
Well, it's a lot of sights to go on, and
they're all quite good sites if you know. To me,
they're all wearing.

Speaker 17 (02:03:14):
The pigeons a call for you.

Speaker 15 (02:03:16):
I don't know. I just know that I've got niece
and nephew once bright read here. I had read here
the twins got dark here. His twin my sister had
dark here. And one of them's left handed and the
other's not. So there's something goes on about about I

(02:03:39):
don't know what. It's just because it's not unusual to
have different colored twins like I am, like I'm read
here that they're darker than one.

Speaker 11 (02:03:48):
That's quite common.

Speaker 3 (02:03:49):
What is interesting, you'll know that's fifty percent more males
than females are left handed, is that right?

Speaker 2 (02:03:56):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (02:03:58):
Oh, and sevent twins are left handed compared with ten
percent of people in general. Do you think in the
vanishing twin theory suggest the left hand is originally a
twin but the right handed fetus failed to develop.

Speaker 27 (02:04:15):
That wouldn't be a corse.

Speaker 3 (02:04:17):
No, not at all, and I reckon some Do you
think material might flow from one twin to the other
after that twin dies?

Speaker 28 (02:04:24):
Oh, after the twin?

Speaker 15 (02:04:29):
Yeah, I've heard of that because on Google they had
a woman who had two different parts to her body. Yeah,
one color and one was another color, and they couldn't
work out why, and they actually found that she was
a twin. It's a very unusual sort of phenomenon. I mean,

(02:04:53):
look at what happens when there's three or four or
five or nine.

Speaker 3 (02:04:56):
Of course, well, now the octomom is getting on roomber.
She had eight kids, yeah, one hundred.

Speaker 15 (02:05:02):
Lots of around the world have eleven and.

Speaker 3 (02:05:05):
Not she was out of the way you wanted to
become famous. And then she seemed like they grew great
to be quite a lovely family.

Speaker 15 (02:05:10):
She was famous, wasn't she.

Speaker 3 (02:05:13):
Yes, and she got she she went off the rails
a bit. But I've seen interviews they seemed lovely children.

Speaker 15 (02:05:21):
Well, I think she did a good job because she
wanted them, so she was passionate. And I mean, let's
be quite so if you want that because you haven't
got on you yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (02:05:32):
Agree, Well wouldn't Why wouldn't you have aided to go?
There's a going to run?

Speaker 5 (02:05:35):
But thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:05:38):
Twenty two to twelve. Juliet's Marcus good.

Speaker 19 (02:05:42):
Evening, Oh Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (02:05:45):
Do you think?

Speaker 19 (02:05:47):
My mum was the right hander?

Speaker 23 (02:05:49):
But it's cool.

Speaker 19 (02:05:50):
She was snicked on the hand with a ruler and
learnt leaft handed, but she wasn't sure the care handed.
It was like the pink for the pen was vertical.
Fifty six years later, I ended up being leaft handed.
All my siblings, my brothers were all right handed, and

(02:06:10):
again I hold the pencil vertical, so I'm not sort
of that, you know, bent over. But it's interesting too
because like the sport, I was very sporty and I
played tennis and squash with left hand.

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
Is there an advance? Is there an advantage there for
people that an't used to playing left handed? I imagine there.

Speaker 19 (02:06:27):
Would be, well, yeah, yeah, it's funny because I played
hockey and I was left hand sorry right handed playing,
you know, and I remember coming across other players who
were left handed and it was just so awkward for me.
So for me, it was really quite bizarre. But as
I say, golf, I played right handed, and it's only

(02:06:49):
tennis and squash, but also with soccer, my left pot
was very dominant. So whether it's the left brain right brain,
I don't know. Even we sort of locked into it
further as well, but it's interesting.

Speaker 18 (02:07:03):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (02:07:04):
Some more men are left handed than women.

Speaker 19 (02:07:07):
Oh I didn't even know that.

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
Fifty percent more apparently, Judy, thank you. I am right
hand and I've always wore my watch on my right hand.
Some people seem to get re offended by my extras. Shees,
I never quite to love switch. I don't wear a
watch now much at all because because they got debt. Well,
the straps weren't good on the farm. I think good

(02:07:31):
watches aren't meant to be worn when you are doing
menual work. I couldn't be fair to get them serviced,
so they still go all right? So yes, that is that.
I'm not quite sure what I should do with them now.
I don't think the kids to want them. I've got
no need for them. I don't know why I bought
them anyway, Alistair, this is Marcus Well, welcome.

Speaker 11 (02:07:57):
What you know what?

Speaker 10 (02:07:58):
Speaking about watchers, I used to have a leather as
they are very good for manual workers.

Speaker 3 (02:08:14):
Get all molds and does it looks good? Look get
we as well?

Speaker 10 (02:08:18):
Yes, and it protects free glass.

Speaker 3 (02:08:23):
That's it.

Speaker 10 (02:08:25):
But I'm very hard to get.

Speaker 3 (02:08:28):
I could make one. I could make one, could you? Yeah,
I've done leather work. Oh well, home and house yeah,
house and home? Well are you worth ten minutes? Tell us?
If you have the other specialist topics you have, you

(02:08:51):
can you start a conversation for ten minutes?

Speaker 5 (02:08:55):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (02:08:55):
I can talk about the politicians or not? What else
they wouldn't value the libor and A wouldn't join the
committee about COVID.

Speaker 3 (02:09:14):
They've already done it. They've spoken, they've answered every question.
This was a show trial that was been videoed. Oh,
they've answered every question. They were asked, Helen, your costal bed?

Speaker 10 (02:09:34):
Yes, yes, I had some. I've bought some cough mische. Tonight,
what have you got in your garden?

Speaker 3 (02:09:45):
Not much At the moment, Tunnel Health will be cleaned out.

Speaker 10 (02:09:49):
You'll have to clear all put some vegetables. Then, like
show of the.

Speaker 3 (02:09:59):
When's the time to plant silver beat.

Speaker 10 (02:10:03):
There? September?

Speaker 3 (02:10:05):
Okay, well it's not a team a year, is it.

Speaker 10 (02:10:08):
No, it's eliant.

Speaker 3 (02:10:13):
I normally have quite normally have quite a full tunnel house.
Carrots take a long time to grow carrots. They're frustratingly slow,
aren't they.

Speaker 10 (02:10:28):
Yes, they they like the heat.

Speaker 3 (02:10:32):
Yeah, you got fruit.

Speaker 10 (02:10:39):
Yes, I've got two apple trees. Yep, very nice too.
Yeah at the moment, you can buy very nice peers
from the Yeah, they've been going for several weeks, so

(02:10:59):
they wanted to get in and buy them, and your
wife can peel them. They're very nice.

Speaker 3 (02:11:05):
Hey, did the cough mixture help.

Speaker 10 (02:11:10):
I've only born at the shafternoon.

Speaker 3 (02:11:12):
You haven't tried it yet? No, okay, thanks Alistair. We'll
leave it there. Eight to twelve The Wife, otherwise known
as the peer Peeler.

Speaker 1 (02:11:26):
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