Annoys the heck out of me (14 August 2025)

It's World Lizard Day, so Marcus talks unique and interesting pets, and complains about the use of a particular phrase.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Welcome, good evening, my Marcus Hidle twelve. How I have
Thursday free for all like a Friday free for all,
but not quite as whimsical. So fourteenth of August. So
there we go, August halfway gone, Well it would if
it was the length of February a couple of days longer,
so that you go, hey, how are you. I hope
you're good. If you're not good, I hope you are
better by the time the show ends. Just first and foremost,

(00:35):
here's something that annoys me, right, and this is not
what annoys you, But I just want to get that
off my chest. When did everyone start using the expression colorway? Well,
I think they've just been color now. I don't know
why I get so annoyed by it, because the language
is supposed to revolve and progress, but colourway. So they

(00:58):
talk about clothing, they say in a range of colorways.
I don't like it. I don't know why I don't
like it anyway, So that's me. First up colourways. Everyone
wants to and maybe if the first five minutes there's
some other expression that's annoying you at the moment. Let
me know what that is, because it's often good to
get something out your chest like that, because then we
can move on with the real stuff, which I'm not
quite sure what it is at the moment, but I'm
sure you'll have something to say. By the way, Dunedin

(01:20):
shocking charging for parking on a Sunday. Sunday's your day,
you go to town, you can park anywhere. Oh gosh,
I can't read the article. Bang that one through, would you?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
So if you want to talk about that also parking
and Sundays because a bit of a kick up there
and Dunedin about that one? Yeah, colorway, I don't know
what to say about that anyway, get in touch, harply T.
It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening, great Marcus, how are you good?
Thanks you? What's happening?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Oh no, I just wanted to talk about Auckland transport mate.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh what so?

Speaker 5 (01:54):
What did you move?

Speaker 6 (01:55):
So?

Speaker 7 (01:56):
I caught the.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Train at four point thirty is the morning one was canceled,
the afternoon one got canceled. Then they hopped They put
everyone onto a three carriage, which is all good. And
then we get from Drury, which sorry, from Breda Matt
to Drury and the train breaks down or there's no power.
So you're sitting on the train. Six o'clock goes, seven
o'clock goes, they're still they're telling you nothing, the same

(02:19):
power's gone out as has happened. And then seven thirty
you finally get off the train in the middle of nowhere.
And then finally they tell you have to wait for
a bus, even though you've got someone there to come
pick you up, and they won't let you leave.

Speaker 8 (02:32):
So yeah, two hours later.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I left, so happily. Where do you live?

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Cowey in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
So you live in town, so you work in town
and you've got a train from brita Art.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yes, that's Dirrect.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
What have you got the train? You got the train
at four.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Four point fifty and now finally got to my car.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
So if you were affected, and I know that they're
working on electrofying the lines, how many trains in the
evening go from Britain Mart to Pukakohi.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh it's after four o'clock. It's every ten minutes. So
everyone else that was after us sort of yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Had the same problem. So there's stuff, But you were
the first one. So you got stuck between stations, did you?

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, yeah, we got stuck between stations.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
How many on the train?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
I want to say. I used to catch the train
when I used to go to high school, and it
was semi you're right, And now after ten years and
finally doing it for three weeks and I'd rather just drive.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
And honestly, yeah, how many on the train?

Speaker 4 (03:38):
There was only training eight of us at the end
of it.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, okay, and there was one train manager or two.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
There was two of them, and then they had to
wait for their managers to come and escort us to
evacuate us off the train.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
So what was the delay?

Speaker 4 (03:56):
They said on the at app, but said the power
had been cut off from Manory With, so something had
happened at Manory With. So everything was stopping at Manekow
and everything further south was to grinding to a halt.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
And was it not safe for you to leave the
train because I thought the overhead wires would be electrified?

Speaker 4 (04:14):
No, no, none of that. We were just in the
middle of nowhere, so you couldn't really get to the
main road. You know, if you're at a station, at
least you can get off and you know.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
How did the others handle it?

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Everyone was annoyed. That's the thing. They say, Oh, we'll
be back in two minutes to tell you what's happening.
And then half an hour later the lady comes back
out of a train little cabin thing, you know, and
then she tells you one thing, and then she's yes,
has to talk to her managers again. And then half
an hour later she comes back out.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Was anyone doing live crosses to the media as it happened?

Speaker 4 (04:47):
No, no, none of that.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
So will you beyond I'm just trying to look with
a phone where the train line goes. Had you did
your Google maps and look how far you moved from
the road. Were you like between were you like at
the back of Wesley College or somewhere.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
We met right at Drury, So my brother was across
the street. I caught him and luckily he was going
home from work. But the thing is that it took
me an hour or whatever to get for him to
get to me.

Speaker 8 (05:17):
They wouldn't let us leave.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
They said they're gonna we have to wait for the bus,
you know, which was pretty pretty It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Did anyone misbehave?

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Everyone was just getting agitated and I think I was
probably the only one to misbehave, and my brother came
and I left the other twenty eight or twenty seven
of them.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
So you just forced the doors open and walked out.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh no, no, no, that whether we got out of
the train and then we evacuated to a point and
then the cars could come to that point. But they
were saying, you can't leave this point. So the evacuation
point there were you could get a car to there,
which is what my brother ended up doing, but they
were saying, no, everyone's going to get on the bus
and you do a headcount if a car at the
phone stop, and so.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
It sounds like it's appallingly handled.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, well that's the thing. I've been catching the train
for three weeks now and it's every second day trains
canceled or something's happened, and it's just like, honestly, I'd
rather just bite the bullet than drive. And I know
it's going to be worse, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
And I guess it's teething problems until they get that
line lit provider everything, Well that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, so the line is actually electrified, but yeah, so well.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Out they're building stations that they're doing something. Aren't they
to make it go all the whole way?

Speaker 4 (06:30):
That's that's correct.

Speaker 8 (06:30):
Yeah, two more stations.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, yeah, I just don't know what you're going to
resolve it, really, I mean, you should be complaining, but
I guess that's what you're doing now, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, that's why I picked up the phone and I
was Marcuster's on now, so give them a ring and.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, so I'm just trying to work out. So your brother,
So we were waiting for where the bus was supposed
to pick you up. Right, that's clearly a road, right
because the bus could get there, yes, So why did
they not want you to leave there?

Speaker 8 (07:00):
I'm not too sure.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
They've probably got some health and safety protocols and everything,
you know.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
But you're you're on a at the stage. You're off
the railway, aren't you. You're off the train, you're actually
on a road.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, it's where they're building new stations, so it's kind
of construction works are happening, but people going in and outs,
you know, if you know where to go?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, okay, yeah, what if? And how do you live
far away from Drury?

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh? So another twenty five minute car ride home? So yeah,
normally when normally when I leave normally, when in the
office at Queen Street, it takes me two hours and
today it's going to take me close to four.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Are you at Pokono? Is that where you are?

Speaker 4 (07:41):
And then I went Patamo.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Okay, So what you'd want to fear across the moneyca
or something? Yeah, huge sympathies for you. That's crazy and
let's hope they get it right and that becomes a
slip stream. But that's I just can't work that out.
Any sign of the locomotive driver. Was he involved? He
she involved at all?

Speaker 9 (07:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (07:59):
She was?

Speaker 5 (08:00):
I just yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
The thing is that you'd rather just have an answer
from them rather than telling you twenty minutes with this
is wrong. We think this is wrong. Yes, and then
they go just disappear into their cabins and it's yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Okay, nice to hear from you, mate, good story, Thank you.
Fifteen past eight. That's Auckland Rail just the situation too.
I'm talking about Dunedin. So Danda is charging for public
parking on a Sunday. Yeah, to increase parking. Tuneover. That's

(08:39):
the whole thing about parking. It's a double edged sword.
One is to actually well, they try and charge so
people will move over and not pack their cars there. Anyway,
you might want to comment on there when it looks
like they want to add vibrancy. I do consider that,
but yeah, I always thought Sunday was free so freezy,
that was sacracanct. Anyway, get in touch Marcus till twelve
with your Colorways. Is anyone else annoyed by Colorway? I am,

(09:02):
but I'm also annoyed by a half half writness train
trip four hours. Yeah, Marcus, not only do parking wardens
patrol on Sundays, but they also patrol George Street until

(09:23):
nine pm weekdays. The Needing council shows no empathy for
Diner's use in the restaurant in George Street where the
time limit is thirty minutes. Just a joke. Lower Hut
city charge for parking Sunday. Yeah, there might have been
an instant, I think too, where that train was stopped too,
and that requires and that might require emergency services too.

(09:45):
So it does seem to be an extraordinary situation that one. Marcus.
I hate everyone using the words learning these days. Most
of the time it's grammatically incorrect. Marcus, Colourway, could you
please elaborate a lucidate, what do you want to know?
Colorway is a word that people are using like there's
no tomorrow and say, rather than it comes a T shirt,

(10:08):
rather comes a number of different colors, they say it
comes in a wide colorway. I don't know if it's
a compound word or two separate words. And always the
heck out of me. But change yourself will change the world.
I've got to change myself and just get over it. Colorway.
It's not the end of the world, but sometimes it

(10:28):
feels like it's the beginning of the end of the world. Anyway,
welcome here to twelve o'clock one of his Marcus good
evening Colourway Colourway eight hundred and eighty ten eight nine
nine two de ticts and should parking efy, we'll be
free on a Sunday. Imagine you imagine that would be
just your slam dank, wouldn't it? Sunday's free the parking wardens.
I mean they want to be doing something else, don't

(10:48):
they Religious freedom or something, and who knows what they'll
be doing. But anyway, get in touch with that also too.
But yes, I mentioned the train trips have been a
disaster today particularly on the Southern line. I don't know
why none of the media aren't reporting that, because that
to me seems to be a fairly big story. If
none of the trains going south are getting through, I
can't see any reports of it. That's what I'm surprised

(11:10):
when a harpik came through. But yes, to get in
touch if you want to talk. Oh wait, oh, by
the way to special day. Today, every day's a special day.
It is World Lizard Day. I imagine there's probably a
million different lizards in the world. I think this show

(11:33):
we love a lizard, particularly the obsession with the Kmodo dragon.
I wouldn't mind that the fact that it's World Lizard
Day lending to a pivot on and we haven't known
this as the show before on some of your more
interesting pets, Because as children everyone had skinks and ax

(11:56):
lottos and all sorts of things. I don't know if
people have interesting pets anymore. So you might be a
turtle person, you might have a terrapin, you might have
an ax a lottle. We do not want to encourage
anyone to get out there and poach the wildlife. I'm
curiously what you've got as far as interesting pets go.
Also Tonight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty hit t

(12:16):
L twelve keep you update for news around the world.
It's interesting too that the justification of charging for car
back on a Sunday is because the retailers want it
to keep the tuneover of people. So you've got to
remember that with car parking, it's also probably something that
the retailers want. Yeah, and it's probably important consideration. But yes,
indeed Narth always thought the Sunday was a day didn't

(12:38):
have to pay for parking. You pay for it in
Queens Town either. All Cline actually, but getting I don't
know the situation with Auckland. Get in touch if you
want to talk about that. As I say, oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two
to text if you want to come through. Also the
expression colorway, I don't know why it doesn't hidden anyway, Marcus.

(12:58):
According to seven sharp story, Sunbeam Express kettle is the
fastest to reach bailing point way up to two minutes
compared to other brands. Did they put a cup of
water in the microwave, by the way, I have never ever,
Here's something I've never ever thought I need a quicker kettle.

(13:21):
I've never even heard of something called a Sunbeam Express kettle.
They should be doing the toaster because that's what you
want in a hurry, but not the kettle. But anyway,
get in touch with what feel you want to talk.
Something's going to look. See what looks like se if
it looks fast Sunbeam Express kettle, Oh yeah, looks pretty
cheap and chef It's one of those plastic molded ones.

(13:45):
In fact, there's two different things that are called the
Sunbeam Express kettle. It's hard to know which is the
one they used, if it was the white plastic one
or that kind of tan looking brown metal one. Anyway,
looking forward to your expressions tonight. My name as Marcus.
Oh weird pets. Have you got lizards? Have you got turtles?
Have you got strange fish? Now defined strange like and

(14:12):
not sea monkeys, like seahorses or ex lottles. I don't
know if an x lott is a fish, but I'm
keen to talk about that also too. By the way,
lawyers from the Greyhound Racing Association have told the High
Court and Wellington the band will have the devastating effect
on the livelihood of more than one thousand people. Lawyer

(14:38):
Chris finlay Sin, who I presume is the ex Minister
of the Crown. Lawyer Chris Finlayson said the government has
erred in directing the industry to monitor and prove aiable
WATH for standards, only to ignore the results in cabinets
decision making process.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
I thought there'd be more of an outcry about the
racing of the dogs, and I thought probably they would.
But maybe this is the Maybe they've been getting all
their ducks lined up with this. Although I think too
if they get a reprieve now that all the dogs
have gone out of country, they've been sent to Australia. Yes,
it is infect him. I've seen a picture of from
there christophin Leyson Casey, see you might want to talk
about that. Although we are talking about pets, are not

(15:16):
racing dogs anyway, do get in touch. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten. The good news is apparent. It's gonna
be very good evocado season. I think they say every
second one is good. So yes, the twenty twenty five
twenty twenty six season has begun. Of course they start
early solid forecasts since picking started last month that we'll

(15:38):
run into summer. Goodness. I thought they'd export them all
overseas and we couldn't get them like the butter.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Maybe they don't want them overseas. I don't know where
we go with those. Jefferts Marcus welcome, good evening.

Speaker 10 (15:56):
You there, Jeff Oh yeah, sorry, mate, I couldn't hear
you properly. Yeah, listen, just talking about this parking business.
On Sundays, I was a carpenter working at Middlemore Hospital
and we had a street allocated for all the workers.

(16:17):
And one Sunday they came through and they shouldn't even
be there because it was it was a quiet street,
but it was given to us. This clown came through
and was getting as I came out, he was riding
out tickets.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Hold on there, do you see what happened? Did you
pay the fine?

Speaker 2 (16:42):
No?

Speaker 10 (16:43):
What happened was we knocked off about two o'clock and
this guy was going along well tickets, giving us tickets.
He didn't get to my vehicle, and I went up
to him and I said, hey, mate, this wopping street
is allocated for the workers and we are not. We're

(17:07):
You're in no position to be down here, mate, ropen
giving people tickets.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
I've never had luck, chief. I've never worked out why
hospitals don't manage to sort out parking for their staff.
It's a perennial problem in christ Church and all sorts
of people, the safety of nurses, all sorts of things.
I just can't work out why hospitals you think it'll
be fity straightforward just to build car parks for your
workers and for your contractors. Wouldn't you think, yeah, what

(17:35):
do you think?

Speaker 4 (17:36):
So?

Speaker 10 (17:36):
But parking is a paint on the backside and awkand anyway, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm hearing you because the transport system is not great anyway,
and it all kind of filters into that. Twenty eight
from nine Pets, Parking, Pets, parking and colourways get in
touch Marcus. I kept seahorses for years, but it wasn't easy.
Is only live food, have to be in seawater and
need a very tall tank with a strong pump. My

(18:02):
best animal pet was a black sheep. Charge for parking
and tuckapooa on a Sunday and no charge being six
pm and am on weekdays. We no longer have parking wardens.
There are white cars that drive around all day on
the side doors. There are cameras ben on the roofs,
and those cameras are taking fos of cars all day
and somehow not quite sure it works. You get a

(18:22):
taken off your park longer than the amount of money
you have put in the meter. I'm sure someone can
explain this more clearly. Lee or people seem happy with
Takapuna mind, they're probably happy anyone's going there. It's always
been a complicated shopping precinct Takapunoa. It's never really pumped,
has it. It's always kind of I mean them all
there was well, I don't know what it's like now.
It's probably been five or six years since I've been there,

(18:43):
and normally when you think five or six years, you
can normally double that to ten. Can't you get in
touch markers? Till twelve twenty seven to nine? Didn't you
have sea monkeys or released the sea monkeys into the sea.
Must have had them for about two years, and I
think we did everything with we needed that we needed
to do with them. I'd be quite happy to start.
I mean that the whole fund was actually hatching them.

(19:04):
I think with sea monkeys, I wouldn't call them an
exotic pet. I saw them more like an insect, like
a sea insect. They were tiny. Well, they start eating
each other. It wasn't good. It wasn't grim, but it
wasn't great. Some people are using the term butler's pantry
to refer to a scullery. This is clearly wrong, because

(19:27):
without a butler, you can't have a butler's pantry. Oh,
I get the point. Yes, yes, it sounds quite aspirational.
Butler's pantry. Well, I have noticed what I have noticed
when I've watched those housing shows from California. They no
longer call the bedroom the master bedroom, but they call

(19:53):
it Oh, I can't remember what the word is. They
call it the primary I think, and that's probably more
gender neutral. Either primary bedroom is what they use for it,
or the principle, which sort of makes sense to me.
I havn't thought about it. I think the master the

(20:14):
master bedroom. Yeah, confronted with a rejig, yes, the master
bedroom is dated, So there we go. I don't know
if master be I think it might have even come
from slave master. I don't know if that's the fact,
I wouldn't be surprised and Marcus welcome, Good evening, I

(20:38):
was here, yes, High End, this is Marcus Well welcome.

Speaker 11 (20:44):
I don't I don't know whether it's the right topic,
but it's been bothering me so much through this bad weather.
Do people know any more about these children that the
father went off with. I've heard nothing about it. Think
about it as an awful lot with the children getting smoking,
wet and cold, and as interested. If anybody else has

(21:08):
seen them at all.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Obviously, and if anything had happened, we would have heard,
it would have been been news. But I spent time,
and I spend time thinking about them too, because I've
got no idea. Even if they managed to get hold
of the food, I don't know how they'd managed to
cook it, because if there was smoke, that would be
a giveaway. So so I don't know. I don't know
how they're eating, or how they're cooking, if they're cooking underground,

(21:32):
if they're in caves, or what they're doing cook because
it's just it's the most baffling thing, and how we
how we're allowed to tolerate. I know that there is
I know that there is concerns if the police go
in and try and find them, that he's armed, and
you know, the children could be at risk. But yeah,
that poor mother.

Speaker 11 (21:55):
I can't bear thinking about it. I just wondered if
anybody might have spotted them. And my answer that if
you said, if they heard this, they might just say, well,
we did them and they seemed all right or something.
I just I think about them a lot, because it's
so horrid when you think about bringing up your own
Jordan and then you see this.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh and a whole life and a whole life of childhood. Mister,
you don't get that back again. No, And there was
the only thing I remember is that there was a
new suit area which was up closer to Kafia Harbor,
I think, or somewhere like that, and they're confident, but
then there was nothing there.

Speaker 11 (22:35):
How the weather's been so filthy, hasn't it?

Speaker 7 (22:38):
Really?

Speaker 12 (22:38):
Well?

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Down south? It's been good the weather. But yeah, I'm
hearing from you. I think it's been three.

Speaker 8 (22:43):
Years, oh goodness.

Speaker 13 (22:46):
And the girls have matured, and I'm sure they have,
but we wouldn't know.

Speaker 14 (22:49):
Would we.

Speaker 11 (22:54):
It baffles me if anybody.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
And also, the children must be under a sort of
a siege state, because you thought they would have probably
as they get older to come to the senses and
realized that they'd want to be away from there, So
they must be too scared to leave.

Speaker 11 (23:08):
Well you think so. But I suppose if they've only
known one way of life, they might like gypsies or something,
you know, because they when I lived in England, gypsies
were living in our lives, but they were comfortable. They
had caravans and things.

Speaker 15 (23:24):
You know.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
I don't think. I don't think we call them gypsies anymore.
Do we can't remember the new termers. But yeah, and
thank you for that. But we'll chuck that into the
mix of things to talk about as well. Thank you.
Butler's pantry. Yes, expressions that are annoying you For me,
it's colorway today. Yeah, I know what it means. Someone
sent me a different I know fully well what it means.

(23:47):
There's used the term colors Marcus. Our fringe benefit tech
still a thing reallocated car parks at the place of
employment or an unemployment contract.

Speaker 8 (23:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
But why do you ask? Oh, I guess we're talking
about hospital being car parks. Yeah, well it's always there's
always problems with and they money seem to be nurses
and money seems to be in christ chitch head into
their cars. It's kind of crazy. It is lizard Day too,
if you've got an interesting pet. Romanies, I think we

(24:21):
call gypsies. I think we call them travelers, that's for sure.
I think that's pejorative. That's the right word. Felt like
it was half right. Roma or romany is the expression
for those. Christ Church College is bringing back uniforms for

(24:43):
senior students after decades of them wearing their own clothes,
despite strong opposition from its community and students. Papulu your
high scare high school children get to wear their own
clothes and their final year overwhelming. The students were surveyed.
They did not want uniforms made compulsory anyway. That's not

(25:06):
the The principals reintroduced them down to safety concerns. We're
a large school now, sixteen hundred students. The school is
so large it's not possible to keep our student community
safe because we don't know who the people are on site.

(25:26):
When they're not wearing a uniform. It become impossible to
sue the difference between year thirteen students and other groups
of people on site. Interesting point, we can't differentiate between
a thirteen year thirteen student, maybe a training teacher, maybe
a year twelve student at a uniform, a visitor or
someone down the road coming in to sell drugs or

(25:48):
some thug. He says, really, there we go. There must
be more to that. Surely they tell me people are
coming to the school field and selling drugs. The police
for that, wouldn't you Matthew Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 8 (26:12):
Good ay Marcus. I was just ringing about the pets.
The segue to the pets.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
What is a strange pit?

Speaker 8 (26:19):
We had rats?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I had.

Speaker 8 (26:23):
Terrible. It was I got voted out by the family.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
I mean, were you an adult?

Speaker 8 (26:31):
Yeah, there was like a few years ago. We had rats.
They lived for about well I couldn't say no. Well
I did say no, but I got they were there.
We had a birdcage we had like they used to
run around inside. Oh it was awful.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Who wanted them?

Speaker 7 (26:51):
The kids?

Speaker 8 (26:52):
And the wife had a rat as a child, and
she spoke highly of them.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
How could you speak? How could you speak? You must
have reconsidered your voils when you spoke early of the red.

Speaker 8 (27:05):
I didn't realize until I did the vows.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
But what she said, tell me, how tell me how
this conversation goes Beth, You say, well she well, she says.

Speaker 8 (27:17):
We're getting a new pet. And it's not a not
a not another dog, it's not a cat, it's not
a fish. And she used to take it to school,
like hide it in the jumper and like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Polly the ret or your wife.

Speaker 8 (27:34):
But my wife used to take her pet rat to
school and she spoke up highly to the kids about it.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
And the ret was called Polly.

Speaker 8 (27:46):
No, that was the original rat. But we had Fern
and someone two sisters. That's yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Where'd you get them?

Speaker 8 (27:56):
Well, from this, they're very hard to get. You gotta
you get sort of vetted for them, and you go
and pick them up, and then you have to buy
a cage for them.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
We did go and pick them up like a street,
like a shop like animates or weird.

Speaker 8 (28:16):
A breeder, a breeder like a dog. You go and
pick them up and then you look after them and
they live for about three years and then they usually
get cancers and lumps and then they die. It's terrible. Well,
so at least to run around like in the like yeah,
and then hide hide in the couch.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
So you go to someone's house and how much would
they be free bucks each?

Speaker 8 (28:44):
I think about fifty or sixty bucks.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Okay, And you had a bird cage with use paper
on the floor, big bird.

Speaker 8 (28:52):
Like a big bird cage that basically they were housed in,
but they never stayed in there because the kids would
always take them out and then put them down and
then leave them and then they'd run off.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
So the kids would handle them and have them going
from hand to hand.

Speaker 8 (29:10):
You want a strange pet?

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Do they bite your children?

Speaker 9 (29:14):
No?

Speaker 8 (29:15):
They were very nice. They were very nice. They were
they were, but yeah, I didn't couldn't handle them on me.
They were just yeah, weird.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
No, and we don't. Yeah, I don't like a rat
and that noise they make? Did they breed? Were they
brother and sister? Did you say sisters?

Speaker 8 (29:29):
Sisters? We didn't get a boy?

Speaker 3 (29:31):
They wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
You. No.

Speaker 8 (29:35):
I recommend any listener that the family is saying, let's
get a rat or nice avoid like run or just
leave home.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
And did the cage smell like a wreck cage?

Speaker 8 (29:47):
No, you have to clean it. You have to clean that.
They're pretty clean actually, like yeah, And of course as
the father, you get left with the clean up. The
kids never want to do it.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Of course they don't know, and then they get sick
and then did you euthanize them or what happens then?
Because that sounds awkward, doesn't it? After three years when
they get the cancer.

Speaker 8 (30:13):
Yeah, I used them. I won't I won't talk about that.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
The ending of life, but for the kids to cross it.

Speaker 8 (30:22):
The kids, they weren't there, but yeah, yeah, definitely they're
old enough. Definitely.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
And how was that? How was that for you? Was
that straightforward?

Speaker 8 (30:31):
That was that was worse than having the three years
of the rat I.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Wondered.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Okay, well, I'm surprised you said you do it. You
should have got Polly's mum old missus Matthew to do
the euthanazing. She was one. She was the one that was.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Earlier.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
There's a big crash on Columbo Street and brow them. Okay,
car crash.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Yeah, yeah, there's a car crash. But thanks brow them
and Colombo.

Speaker 8 (30:58):
Yeah, Colombo Street and brow them like just in front
of near the macas there.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, how long ago?

Speaker 8 (31:03):
About five minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Appreciate that. Thanks. Matthew chairs a big pivot at the end.
Hill Morton High School has a campus dog, a board
a Collie Marcus. This is a great question. Words that
bother me at the moment. Awesome is a response to
placing a coffee order or a night at the pub.

(31:30):
Another word is amazing. Amazing is something that spies amazement.
Very common heard hyper Bowl, thank you, Emma, Pets, oh
Way eight hundred and eighty, text anyone else? Keep got rats?
When I say got rats, I mean rats in your
wall lining, but actually rats in a cage. This year

(31:53):
I went to the guinea pig show in Green Island. Well,
what a delightful community. They are nothing smelt to guinea
piggy and they have repassionate owners, almost almost too passionate.

(32:27):
They didn't call them guinea pigs. They called them kevees
delightful and they have little cushions for them that they
put on for judging the kevees, delightful little things. They
got some photos on my phone and then one of

(32:48):
them had amazing like bright red eyes like jewels that
they had eyes like rubies. Little kevy. What if I
just put search on my photos of it tell me
about a guinea pig. It's pretty good googling, no results,
just putting heavy anyway, Corey, good evening, Welcome, This is

(33:09):
Marcus Corey.

Speaker 12 (33:12):
Hey, so I'm just wondering about you. Look at the
q u L financial year, which is open to the public.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
There, yes, yeah, So.

Speaker 12 (33:29):
You scroll down to page fifty two forty two, it'll
give you a rundown of who's earning what in QUL.
Seven of the top boys are on a lot more
than what the promontor is. Yep, which three is obscene?

Speaker 3 (33:59):
How many staff are there?

Speaker 12 (34:02):
Three thousand?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Because I imagined probably the CEO of any company employing
that many people with that many assets would probably be
on a similar remuneration package.

Speaker 12 (34:12):
Wow, how can you have someone who's on maybe three
to four times more than the prime minister? And this
company will need a payback an allowance every year that
this company is running. How can that be?

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Well, it's like the person it's it's a service, isn't it.
It's not something's supposed to run a profit. That's someone
to provide all the railways to get our goods around.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
It has to be a profit pattern.

Speaker 12 (34:47):
How can they not run as a profit? Well, why
do they?

Speaker 5 (34:51):
Why does the.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Road network if yous even run under profit?

Speaker 12 (35:02):
So are you telling me that the huge commodity with
all this asset needs a top up from the government
every year.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Absolutely it does. Yeah, otherwise there'd be just unlimited freight
on roads. The roads wouldn't cope, they would break up.
It's infrastructure.

Speaker 12 (35:21):
Peter Reading needs one point three million per year.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
If you've got such a valuable asset, you want someone
that can, who's the ability to run, who has the
business to run it. You don't just get any old
person to run it, because they run it into the ground. Corey,
you sound really naive about this stuff.

Speaker 12 (35:46):
The one thing that I'm worried about is this is
the first year the government will not pay to Bolster
Kerry Roll.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
I think they already have put money into heaven them.
They're always putting money into.

Speaker 12 (36:01):
So they need to stand on their own two feet
right now.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Ray will never stand on its own two feet. It's
like saying that the hospitals have to stay on their
own two feet, or the roads have to stay on
their own two feet. It's it's infrastructure, so I can't
pay for yourself. Well, not New Zealand. Have you seen
the nature of the country. It's long and thin and mountainous.
It's a it's a it's the biggest moddle to get

(36:25):
trains right around the country. But everyone knows that.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
I mean, of course we have.

Speaker 12 (36:32):
Seven staff a q L.

Speaker 16 (36:34):
Corey.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
You've made your point and you failed to listen. It's
a huge business with a huge amount of staff, and
to get someone that can run. I mean, whether it's
a lot of money or not, I don't know. But
what the prime minister in comparison is irrelevant. A lot
of people in more than the prime minister. But yeah,

(36:56):
I just don't know where you're going with this. Do
you work for the railways, Cory? Do you work for
the railways?

Speaker 5 (37:05):
I do so.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Is that where your concern is coming?

Speaker 7 (37:12):
Ah?

Speaker 17 (37:12):
No, I just.

Speaker 12 (37:14):
I see a complete odystly how this can work, how
it can happen?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Okay, nice to hear from your news is next eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. It's all about pets and
unusual pets and guinea pigs. I don't know if guinea
pigs are an unusual pet. I'd say they're probably not.
They're over there for a long time, but we used
to have quarteracker sections and now people don't. Perhaps guinea
pigs aren't the things they once were, delightful things. Caves

(37:41):
they call them, don't know why they call them caves.
The name guinea pig might be wrong. It might be
they might be from Guinea. That might be the start
a lot of texts. Marcus. Years ago, the UK friend
of mine had a pet tortoise called Flash. Unfortunately, Flash
run away, which apparently is quite common for tortoises. I've

(38:02):
wanted one ever since. Cheers Mick. I think tatois. This
is quite interesting because you can put them in hibernation
by putting them in the freezer. In they'll sense the
cold's coming on they'll go into a slumber. I had
a pet Mexican walking fish called Antonio, and my cat
mister Kenny fish tom out of his tank and killed him. Terrible.
My mum had three guinea pigs and her garden for

(38:25):
a year and a half. We had no clue where
they came from, and we could never catch up. Then
one day they were just gone, a mystery to this day.
I had a rap for years, was reintelligent and reaffectionate.
Now I'm racked with worry and guilt. Would have to
find ways to get rid of wild ones. Did you

(38:46):
know that under Auckland Council by laws only two dogs
are permitted per residential property. If you get a third dog,
then you have to be vetted and properly inspected by
council workers to be registered as a kennel. Fair enough, Marcus.
The family missing up north. I think someone is hiding
them as four pets as for rat says pets Hell

(39:08):
No on yesterday's topic and the latest system mag Pistachio's
boost gut microbes and a handful for pre sleep snack
can help stave off type two diabetes. Cindy is your name,
Fizac because you made my heart stop. Thank you, Marcus

(39:32):
Graat show as always today, I was lucky enough to
mean a man who was on paper legally his own grandfather.
The texts we get interesting pets and guinea pigs and
the pitch you have had. That's the topic so far tonight,
as well as parking on a Sunday Marcus following up

(39:54):
on Anne's call regarding the mother Coopa kids. I've often
thought that if someone is aiding them by buying food,
wouldn't this person have to have purchased an awful lot
of dehydraded food packs from relevant hunting and farming shops
over the past three years I would hope the police
are in quite into this or investigated the trading accounts
of such stores around the districts. It's one of life's

(40:17):
great mysteries. Marcus can't stand the corporate use of the
word cascade. We're talking about messaging information onto staff joceruse.
Someone explained cascade in a sentence. I haven't experienced that. Fortunately,
I don't have any meetings with staff and long Way

(40:41):
that continue, so I don't I'm not subject to corporate speak,
but I don't know what cascade means. Massive extent between
Pattorney to Wellington Motorway advises advised listeners not to go
to Wellington. I'll walk a kotahi that one and see
what they are saying about that. So a couple of excidents,

(41:05):
one outside m Ronald's and Brohm Street and christ Church
that happened about twenty minutes ago, and this one also
just happening currently. I'm Johnny on the spot for this one. Yes,

(41:27):
due to this has been logged at eight thirty seven
due to a State Highway to south due to a crash,
State Highway to southbound is closed from dous driving to
change in Petoni Road. Users advised to get to a
little turn up route will delay their travel if possible.
I've did at four past nine, So yeah, that's bad.
So that is that road between well below Candala and

(41:51):
POTTONI so if you don't go there, Yeah, that's that's
a worry. That one.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
We had a pet wallerbe called Annie. Her mum was
shot and she was in the power. She lived twelve years.
We had a goat called Graham. He loved tobacco. What
a great family that sounds like it sounds like a
Gerald Durrell novel, documentary biography. The Old Wallaby in the
Pouch he the Old Wallaby in the Pouch. Good evening, lolda,

(42:26):
This is Marcus.

Speaker 18 (42:26):
Welcome, Yes, good eening Marcus. I do you mention about diabetes?
And I had this little sentence that I wanted to
put over earlier in the night instead of between eleven
and twelve, which hardly anybody's listening.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Funny enough about diabetes. Funny enough. I think the audience
peaks between ten and eleven. Oh okay, So an audience
to a talkback show is not linear because people come
and listen as they go to beard apparently.

Speaker 18 (43:01):
Yeah, anyway, Well, what people don't know is that insulin
resistance starts years before blood sugar levels are even mildly elevated.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
That's it.

Speaker 18 (43:18):
But there's an influx of diabetes and pre diabetes, and
it's soaring high right now, and it's going to get worse.
There are thousands of people who have pre diabetes and
don't know because they don't get checked. And I'd like
to have a lot of people just the labs and

(43:42):
get an insolent check. I'm not sure how much it costs,
but I'll be having a blood test in about four
weeks and I will include the insulin. But I don't
think I have a problem. This came out in twenty
and eighteen. It was American studies and their an American

(44:08):
diet was high in sugars and bad fats, which they
say are saturated fat which keeps your organs all healthy,
and a lot of people don't have enough saturated fat
in their diet. So there was the diabetes was one
point two million type of autoimmunes on the stout first one.

(44:31):
Nearly thirty million Americans have diabetes, one point two million
type or autimmune disorder, eighty six million have pre diabetes.
These are great numbers, leading to accelerated memory loss and
heart disease. Possibly one third of US adults a population

(44:56):
has undiagnosed insulin resistance, and baby boomers fifty percent chants
of being afflicted.

Speaker 8 (45:07):
How about that.

Speaker 18 (45:08):
Wow, So diabetes's race is going sky high and we're
not finished yet. Over the next twenty years, it's just
if something's not done. I mean, saturated fat is becoming
expensive in the form of butter and dairy fat on

(45:32):
the meat used to be yellow now it's white. And
coconut oil is a cheaper chance of increasing saturated fat.
But with that, the consequences of lack of saturated fat
is our fat voluble vitamins A, D, E, and K

(45:55):
are all deficient.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
And so people, Okay, Lola, I think that I think
there's not a huge appetite at this time of night
for complicated health information because I think people aren't that
receptive to hearing all of it. Would you want to
understand that?

Speaker 5 (46:14):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (46:14):
I do, But I just want I want people to
go out and get an insulin test and see where
they are, because by the time these sugar levels start
to show, it's like too late because the insulin resistance
has kicked in and it's really difficult to deal with it.
But did you did you have and diet helps?

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Did you have any interesting pets?

Speaker 8 (46:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (46:42):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
I don't know what they are, Marcus. My husband Bend
was a kid. We used to put them in as
jumper riding his bike. Gilly nine one, David, this is Marcus.
Welcome ye, Marcus.

Speaker 19 (46:55):
I'm just listening to you. A few minutes ago, just
before I commented on castcade. I'd just like to give
that lady who rang in with the health advice on
the diabetes topic a bit of a thumbs up for
taking the trouble to do that, because the one thing
I found as you get older is older people can
pass on experience and information. And she's obviously being affected

(47:17):
by diabetes that the young people these days, I think
don't get exposed to it. Their parents and people you
know that don't talk to them about these things, and
it's I think it's a very wise thing to be
able to pass some of that knowledge on. And even
if she rang at midnight, I'd be appreciative if somebody
rang in. So I just wanted to say that for
people that do contemplate ringing in that I certainly will

(47:39):
listen to advice and take it. The other thing, though,
just with your coming about the cascade, is that I
always think a cascade and use it in current context
with things that tumble down under gravity. Really mountain streams
cascade down a mountain side, Domino's cascade when you flip
them on the floor, with those those tricks, dont avalanches,

(48:02):
boulders cascade down mountains. So it's a good word, and
you don't see it a lot, but it is certainly
very descriptive.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Of Have you heard it in management speak.

Speaker 19 (48:14):
Not so much in management reporting. I don't think i'd
probably use it in a no, apparently a scenario dating.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Sorry, David. The reason we're talking about it is because
someone said it's really prevalent in the office these days
of management talk, and I was just curious to know
what an example of that and management talk is. Do
you know what that is?

Speaker 19 (48:36):
Well, the only thing I've seen is when they report
things on television that sometimes are militarily related, or something
will start out as a small event and then it
tends to cascade, like you might think about those demonstrations
outside Parliament in Wellington during the COVID response, And they
started out small, but things Castada cascaded very quickly because

(49:00):
they escalated and they got a bit out of control,
which was a sort of again, it's a tumble down effect.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Brilliant. Thank you, Roseanne. Marcus good evening.

Speaker 20 (49:09):
Hi, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 21 (49:13):
Belt pets.

Speaker 20 (49:15):
And we had a dog and he was always like you,
always liked to have his photo taken like a selfie.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Yeah, could he see them?

Speaker 12 (49:32):
You can see the camera?

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Was this in a digital Is this like on a
on a selfie you're talking about on a on a smartphone?

Speaker 16 (49:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (49:43):
On your Yeah, on your smartphone.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
So and then would he look at the image? No,
we would, okay, So just like the attention of getting
that done, is that right?

Speaker 16 (49:57):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Have you had lizards or anything like that?

Speaker 22 (50:03):
No?

Speaker 20 (50:06):
Like an elephant.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
I'd love an elephant. Okay, I'm hearing a Roseanne, thank you.
Update on the road, northbound lanes are open. Northbound lanes
open Hot Road. Wellington Police can confirm the northbound lanes
are open on the Hot Road following the earlier crash. Southbound,
we'll need to divert via State Highway One over Haywood's Hill.
The serious cresh unit has been advised. Now that's advised

(50:30):
if there's serious injuries. So yep. So both directions were closed,
but now northbound has been reopened. Twenty five past nine,
Marty Marcus.

Speaker 7 (50:49):
Welcome Markus.

Speaker 22 (50:51):
I've got two pet stories. One is called Sharky and
he's a carp which is like a fish from a
grain in the white shadow. We put him on a
big square.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Te hang on, hang on. I lost it because I
thought you said calf and then you said it's a fit. Okay,
So it's a car that's a cap.

Speaker 22 (51:08):
Yeah, it's a cap. And we've caught him a sharky
and he just lives by himself in an old water
trough and the cows drink out of it quite a lot.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
It's quite this is this is a good story. So
you've got an old bath on the farm, which is
a water trough that fills up from a head of
tank and he lives in that.

Speaker 22 (51:27):
Yeah, he lives in there and we feed him but
some pieces, but it's mainly like palm kernel and maize
and pits the grass the cows dropping, and his tank
gets cleaned pretty regularly.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Does he clean the tank?

Speaker 22 (51:43):
No, the cows because the cows. Because it's a high
use water water trough, the cows drink reasonably out of it,
and it also overflows a bit more often than it should,
so it doesn't run dry. It's in a quite a
good position anyway. Sharky is going from like a little
probably like four centimeters up to about forty centimeters.

Speaker 7 (52:05):
Yeah, wow, he's got quite big.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
I'd like a photo where you can't excel. And the
farm sed me one.

Speaker 8 (52:11):
Please, that sharky.

Speaker 22 (52:15):
And then the other pets that we really love is foxies,
you know, fox terrier dogs. Yes, so we've got quite
a cool.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Hang on, Hang on, Mardy, Where did sharky come from?

Speaker 22 (52:27):
Sharky just came from a drain. One of the boys
was picking, was getting eels, catching eels, and he caught
a little baby carp in his bucket while he's catching
eels next to the bigger and so's, oh, we'll just
chuck it in the trough.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Do other farmers have fish in their troughs?

Speaker 22 (52:47):
I know one farm and that has a goldfish operation,
just in a in a trough in the house paddock. Yeah,
and he gives goldfish to his children's friends, which we've
got three of at the moment.

Speaker 9 (53:01):
So it's like you don't.

Speaker 8 (53:03):
Need a pet storet a farm.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Think after Sharky, the fox tearies are not as interesting,
are they?

Speaker 5 (53:11):
Probably not?

Speaker 22 (53:11):
But let me tell you about this foxterrier. This fox
terrier is Heidi, and she thinks she's a cat, so
she's like chases birds. But she's really good on the
backyard cricket. She you know, if you've got only got
two people to play cricket with, she'll make up the
whole fielding team.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
That's great.

Speaker 22 (53:28):
She can't she can't bowl, but she's a very good fielder.
Then she'll run young people out and.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Yeah, has she meet Sharky?

Speaker 22 (53:38):
No, she doesn't understand who Sharky is. She can't quite get.
Would have to like get Sharkier. Put her on the
racelet flip around them. Then she'll probably meet Sharky. But
someone do that.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
What's there another fox terrier too?

Speaker 22 (53:57):
No, we're just the other. The other people on the
farms all have the same sort of fox terriers that
some are laid and some are not. But you can't
have any dogs you want as long as.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
The foxy are they are they good on farms?

Speaker 22 (54:10):
Yeah, they got on farms. Because they don't eat much.
They don't pretty much, and they don't they don't bark
at the cows much. They're pretty even though they all
yappers are quite low maintenance.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Sounds ideal, Mardy, thank you like a terrier. Nice to talk, Seriah,
good evening, welcome, Yes.

Speaker 17 (54:28):
Hello Marcus. Back in the seventies, my younger brother just
brought home a baby impossum. He had a broken arm.
And what he used to do in his mates, I
used to go to this bush area and free some
of the animals. The animals will be trapped with these
gun chaps and who ever trapped, and they leave them

(54:50):
there for days. Anyway, they set this baby one free
and he brought it home and brought a cage over
a tree and we head here for six years. He
met overseas and I have to look after here anybody.
This huge big cage and they had a dog run
and was very very high and he had a swing

(55:13):
and she used to sit up there and grow herself
and toilet before they ate. They're very clean animals and
a big part that was all covered in with anybody
blankets and things. And each morning he would take out
a half a cup of it was cold warm milk
or summer cool milk. She'd hold it in the other

(55:36):
poor and drink it out of the cup. That's the cup.
And they don't touch their food until I've done all
their toilet things.

Speaker 12 (55:45):
Yep, so.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
Did her Did her arm become fixed?

Speaker 17 (55:52):
No, he couldn't do anything about it. In the end,
they had to take into the vent to find out,
you know, because she was a beautiful, great big, beautiful,
soft and fluffy and she was very by. I tooken
to the vet because she's only to lose weight and
went off the food, and the vet said, there's nothing

(56:12):
we can do because we've got nothing to compleat to
compare her blood with. He gave me sort of a
test tube thing was sort of my mighty thing. And anyway,
she broke the true thing in her mouth, so that
was no good. Yeah, So I took her back and
he well, we didn't know. And those say that you
could stay, we stay and watch while they did it.

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But anyone left heal with the vet him to put
it asleep with the mess thing. Couldn't leave to lose
keep losing weight.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Do you wish you'd stayed and watched it?

Speaker 2 (56:44):
You know?

Speaker 17 (56:44):
I didn't know about that for years, you know, we'd
take our animals in and until somebody said to me,
you know you can be there with them.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Well I didn't know, Sarah.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
What did it?

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Was her arm broken and just hung loose? Is that
what happened?

Speaker 17 (57:00):
I was sort of bench. She couldn't couldn't use it, so.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
She couldn't climb trees or she could.

Speaker 17 (57:07):
Why she could because my brother he was first brought
at home. Well, the neighborhood kids, she has come, she
was she was awaken during the.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
Day, Sarah.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
Was she awake during the day.

Speaker 17 (57:19):
Well, when he first brought her home for a few
weeks she was playing her. He had this tree or
this cage in a place where to sleep, which would
be out. And then she was getting older. She slept
during the day and up at nice down there in
the colds, talking to her at night tim when she
was awake.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Wow, it's a great story, Sarah. What was she called?

Speaker 17 (57:46):
Think mink?

Speaker 3 (57:49):
Mink? And she never take anyone. She was free, calm, passive, she.

Speaker 17 (57:54):
Was clean and calm. Its excuse me. Years later and
some of the smaller zoo's going south of Auckland, there
was one place they had different possums and big cages.
It was sort of like an animal farm. Animals were
kind of thing and had all the different colored ones

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and all different colors. There was the orange and off
orange and near white and all these possums and big cages.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
What's it got to do with it? That's just another.

Speaker 17 (58:30):
You know, was experiences and possums here did you.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Did you bury mink? Did you bury mink?

Speaker 2 (58:37):
No?

Speaker 17 (58:38):
If you're at the vents?

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Okay?

Speaker 17 (58:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (58:41):
And what part of the cot what part of the
country was I'm thinking about that we were this there.
I'm just trying to measure where it.

Speaker 17 (58:46):
Was in South Aukland and are in our in Bulsharia.
But it's just it's horrible what people do. And some
people still use gym traps. But my brother and his
mates will go in and make sure that there weren't
any still something, you know, say some of these animals
or I mean I'd be left there for days and
the traps, I mean, can you imagine being in a

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gin trip?

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Yeah, they were born and there's whole traps as well.
I think theyre gonna be checked every day.

Speaker 8 (59:16):
Sarah.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
It's a good story, but thank you very much for that.
Twenty four away from that's the what we want. We've
got the carp and the We've got the carp in
the bathtub, the cow trough, we've got mink, the possum.
I wouldn't wont hear about the ex lottels or whatever.
Marcus moved from Millwater here. Yes, cascade overused and often

(59:39):
in a hierarchical way in office. As an example would
be when the CEOs set some new rules around leaving
emails to her report saying, cascade dis message. Oh that's terrible,
I'm hearing it now. It's used as a verb, is it. Yeah,

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it's a verb to use the word cascade as a verb.
Cascade this message. Oh I've quit on the spot from
my hobby job. The meaning is to pass the message on.
Why not say for the message exactly because it does
explain hierarchical its. You're on the top. It's some out

(01:00:24):
of the air. I'm not in that office anymore. That's horrible.
Cascade this when they pick up this rubbish, Marcus. We
loved animals. There are two rats. Bunny tree frog with
one eye. Tadpole was the class pet. We had cocker teals.
They had five babies, and we helped the parents by
topping up the babies with food so half hand red.
Then we cried a turkey, named him Chicken, topped it

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off with two ducklings. We riscued a baby hit Hong
named Pickle, and two dogs all since twenty ten. Goodness,
I'm thinking about the most unusual pet that I have
come across. I think it's always that lott as. They

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freak me out. I mean, rabbits are pretty standard these days, headehogs.
I don't like pet possums. There was always that possum
that turned up every year for telethon Polypossum, all dressed up. Yes,
because we don't have the exotics here, do we. Although
you can have turtles, the readiest slider, I've seen those

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in the wild. They're getting established. That's not good. It
is lizard Day, That's what I'm talking about it. But
we we used to have skink skinks and things and
geckos and frogs. Frogs were always big. T. K. Williams
texting me, Marcus is my birthday tomorrow. I'll be fourteen.

(01:01:53):
Go to bed. He'd be up at nine twenty six
or thirteen year old would be waiting for their birthday. Jack,
this is Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:02:03):
Welcome, Say Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
He good Jack, thank you good.

Speaker 23 (01:02:08):
I've got a list of unusual pits I've had. We'll
start in Australia. I had pit snake, pit, lizards and
rehab kangaroos and bats.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Wow, could you can you contain? Can you keep a bit?
Can you keep a bed?

Speaker 23 (01:02:27):
If you have a large enough enclosure sort of like
a size for a cockatail, if you're keeping it inside, well, cockatail, sorry,
big cockatail cakes? You can keep them in there if
you're retaining them.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
And how big? How big a cross? Like eight inches across?

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
Gosh?

Speaker 23 (01:02:45):
Wingspan maybe about two two and a half feet across.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
Wow, that's big. It's a big bed.

Speaker 23 (01:02:50):
I'll storry you're talking about that? Sorry my bed. I've
put you talking about a cage size. No, you would
probably be about right with wingspan.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Okay, that's a big bed. Okay, that's the cage. Did
you How did you get the snake?

Speaker 23 (01:03:06):
So so pit stores around Australia Salem and I was
also a snake catcher at a time. So I had
a bunch of snakes I was rehabbing and would sort
of keep over nights before released. Some days if I
caught them late at night, it was cold, warmer marp
over night.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
So you were a snake catcher.

Speaker 24 (01:03:24):
I was a snake catcher. Yeah, even before that, I
had pet snakes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
So that's your thing. You're into weed animals, right.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
I was.

Speaker 23 (01:03:32):
I really was, you know, being a key were going
into Australia. It was a bit weird seen snakes and
you hear of the stories about how aggressive and how
terrible they are. They're pretty do silent animals, yeah, pretty cooled.

Speaker 24 (01:03:44):
One you ever hang of them?

Speaker 23 (01:03:45):
Honestly?

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Did did you have ever bad experience with anyone you
were catching them?

Speaker 23 (01:03:50):
I've had plenty teeth. I've been bettened by snakes. I've
been bettened by two Eastern brown snakes, which have a
sick and most venomous in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Did you have Did you have any venom on you?

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:04:02):
It costs about three thousand dollars a file and it
has to be refrigerated. That lasts about three months. So
generally you just go to hospital and and they brought
it out.

Speaker 24 (01:04:12):
Well they had it, they had it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:04:15):
Yeah, some of my other places I did go to
since it was the semi rural hospitals didn't have the
exact snake venom. They had to get it flowing in,
which was like, oh, it's got a drama for it
to be flowing in, But sort of me, is the.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Venom just venom? It's just that the antidote it's just
made from the venom.

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
It's given to How does that work?

Speaker 16 (01:04:37):
Again?

Speaker 7 (01:04:39):
From memory?

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
I could be wrong.

Speaker 23 (01:04:41):
I believe it's injected into a horse and then they
make the anti venom that way.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
Wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
I think you're right. That sub rings true for me.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Okay, Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:04:53):
I've also had hit calves when I done a bird farming.
They were pretty cool to have. I've had pet sheep,
mainly lamb, especially in the lambing season when the mothers
was sort of abandoned them. I'd have them inside for
a couple of weeks. That was always of an adventure.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
It's always singing at the other day, it's always terror.
It always terrifies me that the sound of a lamb's
hoofs on your floor when there's scuttling a round to
get fed. They make a hell of a recket, don't they.

Speaker 24 (01:05:22):
They do, they do, And there's nothing worse than that sound.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Yeah, yeah, no, we're we're the lamb last year. And honestly,
she was just she's obsessed with a bottle and she's
just chasing the house around the house. She's Yeah, anyway,
she's a ram now so she's she's a he I guess,
but yeah, she was. She was a noisy critter.

Speaker 24 (01:05:44):
Yeah, yeah, I mean if they're interesting little creatures and
it's always nice for coming in the house and having
them run up to you was always a highlight of
my day.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
But you know, cool, what did you feed your snake?
Did you feed your snake live bait?

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:05:58):
So unless Queensland, especially at against the Lord to feed
them live animals as they're pets. So you and by
you mainly killed baby mice and adult mice and baby
rants to beat them just for them out. However, when
it came to rehabilitating wild snakes, it was the exception.

(01:06:18):
We could use live animals, but there were strict guidelines
around those which read to follow.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Yeah, so what pits have you got now, Jack?

Speaker 24 (01:06:29):
Right now, I've got nothing. I'm looking to get a
dog again, hoping to get a German shipped again, so
that's sort of in the works. It's just finding a
reastable breeders stopping me at a moment.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
You're not going back to Australia Go's snake hunting.

Speaker 24 (01:06:47):
Oh, I know, those days are long gone. Those days
are long gone.

Speaker 23 (01:06:49):
My shoulder had.

Speaker 24 (01:06:51):
To be surgically for a couple of months back and
slic't right. So I think those days are over.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Unfortunately from a bisele, from a fall.

Speaker 24 (01:07:01):
From a fall. Oh actually from when I was working overseas.
But yeah, yeah, that's just not right. The muscles down,
they're right, and it's just so painful.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
So sorry to hear that, Jack, but nice to hear
from you. Eight to ten. Hello, Donna, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:07:19):
Ah hi, Hey, you's just going to tell you I
actually saw x A lottal the booth.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Oh wow, and I've.

Speaker 14 (01:07:28):
Never seen honestly. My friend had it whatever and she
just got me to come over and watch. I've never
seen it. Would have thousands of these would have come
out underwater underwater, Yeah, I was just flabbergasted. And I
just couldn't believe how much they must hold in there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Yeah, and did they sink to the bottom, the.

Speaker 14 (01:07:55):
Know, theeds just floated all around it. You know up
the top. It was just incredible. Wow, I've never never
seen anything. I just couldn't believe. So did they did
they hatch? No, they they don't hatch. You google it
from me. I know they think they carry for about

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fourteen days.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
I got a friend that I got a friend of bluff.
He had sea horses, right, and one morning he woke
up and the sea horse, the whole cage was just black.
That's how many eggs that squirted out and the whole
tank just changed color.

Speaker 14 (01:08:34):
Oh god, they would have been incredible. I couldn't believe it,
just like that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Yeah, and I don't know quite what happens then, But
because the what I X lottels are they and underwater wizards.
They're a weird thing.

Speaker 14 (01:08:46):
Here, not a nice looking thing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Horrible, horrible.

Speaker 14 (01:08:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:08:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:08:52):
She had two white ones and yeah, so you ogust.
I can still remember the tank and and on.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
The white ones are almost transclusive, aren't they?

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:09:02):
Yeah? Yeah yeah, And not many of them live after
they've got you know, she gave birth to them. They
don't reagin and not many of them lived.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
Donnterd was just recently. It was this years ago. Don't
have people talk about x A lottle so much anymore.

Speaker 14 (01:09:18):
No, they would have been I've been based up here
about six years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
Yeah, okay, yeah, no, I don't.

Speaker 14 (01:09:24):
Think a lot of people have them, do they?

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
I don't know. We'll find out, but look joy that.
I'll do some googling about that, Donter, so thank you
found that fascinating. It's a good scrabble war X A
lottle you got if you've got a lot of o's
and X in an A A ten and L. Hello Tricia,

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this is Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:09:47):
Welcome, Hi Manchus. I'm not sure if my line is
going to be very good anyway, I'll try. I don't
have an exotic pet, but I have an expensive one.
I bought my husband and little dog three nearly four thousand,
and he jumped off the couch a couple of months

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after purchasing him and broke his little leg. And that
was six thousand anyway, four years I know, four years later.
He's a little poodle and he's a lovely little dog.
And he's just been diagnosed last year with being a diabetic.

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So twice a day he gets insulin and my husband
does that, and when my husband comes home at night,
he goes to the little drawer and gets out the injection.
And he goes to the fridge and gets out the insulin.
And the dog hops up on the chair every night

(01:10:56):
and waits for his little injection. He never flinches, He
never moved. He just sits there, and that is amazing.
His other little trick is he has two little baskets
by windows so he can see out, and he goes
up the passage. He goes into the walk and wardrobe

(01:11:18):
and he'll get into the little baskets there and he
brings out my husband's shoe or a shirt or any
or a sock, anything he can get, and he brings
them out and puts them in his basket and sits
with them.

Speaker 14 (01:11:34):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
Now, is diabetes common and dogs?

Speaker 25 (01:11:38):
Well, I don't know if it's common, But the more
people I talk to about it, they say, oh, they
knew someone who had a cat who had it, or yes,
I know someone. But he has a very.

Speaker 26 (01:11:53):
Good life out. Oh he is.

Speaker 25 (01:11:58):
He's a funny little poodle. He's called a party poodle,
which I don't know what that means. And he's he's
predominantly white, but he's got a little black head with
black ears. And then he has spots on them.

Speaker 26 (01:12:14):
He's very cute.

Speaker 3 (01:12:16):
And how would you stop a poodle breaking its legs
jumping off the couch because that would just be you
couldn't that's where dogs are they?

Speaker 25 (01:12:24):
Well, that's right and he has Yeah, he My husband
came in and he was excited to see him and
jumped off the couch and he actually landed on one
of his toys soled. But we took him to a vet,
a specialized vet, and he runs around like any other dog.

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He's a lovely little animal.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
Love good live next about of time. But thank you
so much, Trisha, lovely story. I didn't get a chance
to say Trisia before I went to the news. But yes,
both your phone on and your voice were wonderfully clear.
You had such a clear call, so thanks for that.
But that we've got the poodles name?

Speaker 8 (01:13:08):
Did we.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
Four?

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
All Pinworth over Melbourne? They scored early in this match
and it's one way traffic to pin with at the stage.
This is last year's Grand Final. The replay of Hi Marcus,
it's the Lady that texts and last died about airport,
parking and christ Church. Well, today I went to airpark

(01:13:32):
Canterbury and booked my car there for ten days while
I go to Ossie and it was one hundred and
six dollars for ten days, so I was wrapped with
that price thanks to wall He said that was a
resounding support for airpark and christ Canterbury. So I'm glad
you took our advice. Seems like a great thing to do, Marcus.

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We had two possums. One of them was still on
your shoulder. It also dragged out of a small bottle
with its front feet. My nana had a magpie that
could talk. It's lizz a day. So we talk about
unusual pets or usual pets that can do unusual things.
That's the broadening of the topic. I've enjoyed it muchly.
You might want to mention guinea pigs also cavies. I

(01:14:18):
think there must be something wrong with the expression guinea
pig for them to pivoting away from it. I guess
they don't come from Guinea.

Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
I guess they were called guinea pigs because they cost
a guinea. Is that right? Or maybe they belong to
the Cavy family. They're not native to Guinea and they're
not pigs. They originated in the andes where wild guinea

(01:14:46):
pigs can be found. Today it's surprising that such a
small pig and such a giant mountain range. Eh Oh.
The poodle's name that fell off the couch and has
got diabetes, and that's got the two seats by the
window and brings the shoes or shoe from the cupboard

(01:15:07):
is called dice. Roll of the dice. Talking animals. Today,
met friends for lunch at the Bistro at Cornwall Park.
Hoight of the day in the paddic behind them below
the one Tree Hill monument. Four you's with three day
old lamb seven in total, so lovely. The shepherd came
along and with the help of the heading dogs he
moved them out of the paddic and through the gate.
Was like watching country calendar. In the heart of Auckland.

(01:15:29):
Spring has sprung, the grass has Sharon. What we're on
about tonight is your interesting pet stories? Interesting pets or
interesting pet stories. Good evening, David's Marcus welcome, Yeah, here
you going good Dave.

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
Yeah, I used to have a pet turkey.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
Of course you did, big a big turkey, big male turkey.
How'd you come about that?

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
Well?

Speaker 7 (01:16:04):
Actually I got him off a young who had him
as a like from a chip and he gave them
to me. I got him off because I had a
little week out of land out on Lincoln in christ
Yet and he gave him to me and I took
him out there. And he was a big boy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
He was huge.

Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
He would have been thirty five kilos thirty kilos big boy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:16:25):
Was named him Ron after Ron Jeremy because he walked
around like he knew everyone and he liked all the
ladies because I got I got him a couple of
females as well. Yeah, everybody. He was perfect. He could
hug him and everything. Because when he was brought up
with the with the this young boy I got him,
they obviously they carried him in his pocket and so
he's really super friendly. But he was massive and when

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people used to come around the house, I just couldn't
believe how big he was. He was like the size
of a large dog.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
Was he too much for the kid? No?

Speaker 7 (01:16:55):
No, I don't know really, yeah, because he was he
was wasn't aggressive of anything like that. Was really really
really friendly, but he didn't like me when I when
I used to go to work and take I take
my vehicle, was out and unfortunately one day he come
up to one of the the wheel of the front
wheel of the car and I accidentally run over and
broke his leg and I had to I had to

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get him put down. But the absolutely, yeah, absolutely got
him here. But he was It was everyone who come
around to the house and that they just couldn't believe
how friendly he was and they give him a big
hug and yeah, and he loved loved eating grapes, so
I used to always get him grapes to eat.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
Would he hang out inside the house?

Speaker 7 (01:17:32):
Dave, No, no, no, not too much of a mess.
But it was it was it was perfect outside and uh, yeah,
it was. It was making because when people come around
the house, they couldn't believe it because the size spot
them off. He's a big white one for your white
and and the size and he used to put people off.
And because he'd come towards you thinking that you're going

(01:17:53):
to hug him because he was so he was just
so friendly.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Yeah, and what do what.

Speaker 21 (01:17:56):
Do you eat?

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Grapes out of your hand?

Speaker 7 (01:17:59):
Yeah, out of your hand, And yeah, he loved he
loves fruit like that, or give him that the tobaccole
And but you could go up and go like give
him like a big beer hug, and he wouldn't wouldn't
try to break away from you. Yeah, it was was.
It was a really cool. Everyone who come around was
like blowing away. By now they were put up because

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he looked so big and and if they pass up
to make themselves even bigger, and.

Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
I've had to go white turkey because they're not that common,
are they?

Speaker 7 (01:18:29):
Oh yeah, I don't know. Because the females that I
got the females from somewhere. I can't evenmemb where I
got them from my board. I think I bring a
board about four female chicks, but then they disappeared because
I was surrounded by country and I think they went
a few pettics over and never come back. But they
laid I had. I did have some sick from them,

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but they unfortunately the chicks because I just let them
rhyme around the yard and they couple the chicks round
and the horse plot in the in the horse prop.
You know, yeah, but you know if you have Ron
is his name Ron Jeremy. I named him after Ron Jeremy.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
But you us felt terrible when you did hit his
league with his animals.

Speaker 7 (01:19:10):
Absolutely guned me. Did I had to bring the bit?
The bit was really nice, got the bed and from Lincoln.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Do you not did you not put him down yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:19:18):
I couldn't do it, couldn't you know, I don't got
it right? And he come and come and gave him
an ejection. But yeah, really absolutely when I left and
he could try to take the front wheel of the
of the van and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
Had the bit put down a turkey before.

Speaker 7 (01:19:37):
Oh, I don't know, you don't know, but a real
nice bit.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
You need you need to be you it was your pit.
Obviously you probably must have been quite upset.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
I was.

Speaker 7 (01:19:45):
Yeah. You know you wouldn't think you get some text
something like that. Yeah, and he was. And when people
come around, everyone was like frightened him, like you know,
you'd be frightened them with the dog. But he was
like the same. But when they and I go up
and have him and you just sit there, you love it,
absolutely loved it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
Did you get did you think of getting another one? No?

Speaker 7 (01:20:05):
Not really nice. I had the chickens and I had
two there are power you know, the real rear goat
said two of them, and they just had two coney
coney pigs. Yeah, you don't know about pegs, Yeah, no, don't,
all right, but you just got to keep feeding them.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
He's a surprise, Dave, Thank you kidding. Seventeen past ten, Marcus.
If you look on flight radar, you can see Putin's
playing just off the coast of Russia. Look up the
flight number r S D three eight one. So Putin's

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on his way. Marcus. I used to be part of
the German shepherd display team. We went to schools and
public events. My dog and others jumped through hoops of fire.
Good evening, Mary, And this is Marcus.

Speaker 26 (01:21:00):
Yes, I'm Marcus. I'm just ringing. I've been privileged to
have all sorts of pet in my farming life. But
the one we've got at the moment is a minor bird.
And how the mighty have fallen but never John grabbed

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him just as he was about to fledge about five
years ago. And he sleeps on the bathroom door at night,
but he spends all day outside with the chickens, and
he organizes everybody and keeps an eye on the cows
and things. And when Bond first had him, he used
to make him a cheese and begimite sandwich and put

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it on the window still and he comes and goes.
Even now, after all these years, he gets a fresh
one every morning. He comes and goes all day and
just grabs it when he's feeling hungry and then goes
out and does whatever he does all day.

Speaker 3 (01:22:02):
What a great idea, What a great idea. Bear a
terrible looking bird, aren't they with the sort of yellow
face mask?

Speaker 26 (01:22:10):
Very aggressive? And yeah, they're not not a desirable bird
in the New Zealand sort of thing. But he's a
real hard case and says hello and comes and sees
you and comes into the house you know, and yeah,
but sleeps on the bathroom door at night.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
And is he smart enough with you? Is he smart
enough not to fly into windows and things when he
is inside the house.

Speaker 26 (01:22:38):
Oh? Absolutely, no problem at all, No problem at all.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
So what's it. What's he like with a mirror?

Speaker 26 (01:22:49):
No, he doesn't not phazed at all.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
He doesn't think himself, He is not like that. He
doesn't think, see and think it's another okay, So it
seems very smart.

Speaker 26 (01:22:59):
And in winter when I when I put the porridge
pot on in the morning, I turn on the l
and then put the water in the pot. And if
it's really cold. He will actually stand reasonably close to
the element. A smart birds, they really they are.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
Yeah, and he's not lonely. He's not hanging with other
miners at all.

Speaker 5 (01:23:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:23:25):
Other miners come to visit, and I don't know what
he does with them, but he always comes home at
night and they come in any sandwiches, So I don't
really mind what they what they do outside.

Speaker 3 (01:23:42):
How many years old? What's his name, by the.

Speaker 26 (01:23:44):
Way, Deli as in New Delhi, India?

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
Oh yea Delhi's an Indian Rhyanan? How old?

Speaker 26 (01:23:52):
About five? They're about five years old? And he so
loves guys. And since John died, whenever I have somebody
here like a plumber or an electrisher or a friend
of something. And they said, seriously, and they're sitting at
the table having a cup of coffee. He will come

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and sit with these people.

Speaker 8 (01:24:15):
Wow.

Speaker 26 (01:24:15):
And he obviously differentiates between men and women, you know,
and you know he's a hard case.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
All right, have you bothered? Do you know how long
you think are expected to have them for? You know,
how long they live?

Speaker 26 (01:24:30):
I don't know all this one, the fairly pampered edition,
and the fact that he can sleep inside means he
doesn't get cold and wet and stuff, you know, to
a big degree.

Speaker 22 (01:24:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 26 (01:24:43):
I'll probably get him for the next ten years.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
He's just on the bathroom floor, is.

Speaker 26 (01:24:47):
He No, No, on the on the door, the top
of the door in the bathroom, and that's where he
sleeps every night.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
You mean on the on the top of the door,
on that narrow part of the door.

Speaker 26 (01:24:59):
Yeah, to the bathroom door is open, and he just
flies in and sits on top of the or and
sleeps there. And in the morning when I up, he's
usually gone, you know, he's not sort of a.

Speaker 5 (01:25:15):
Odd light.

Speaker 26 (01:25:17):
And then we do our sandwich thing and he captains in.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
The sandwich and comes back and forward for that. That's delightful.

Speaker 26 (01:25:26):
Yeah here, well, I think there's wonderful that you're giving
a chance to people to ring in with their.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
They're a big part of people's lives.

Speaker 26 (01:25:42):
Absolutely. Yeah, like that much.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
Thanks for that. Thanks for Delhi Marian liking that story.
Cheapist Marcus. When I lived in Sydney, when I used
to put the clothes on the line, this rooster used
to come out and attack me, so I had to
take the broom out to keep it away. We had
an outside tat anyway, I went to go to tourlet
and the big rooster was in there, chase me right
around the house. That was the last straw that night,
Well it was on the perch my flatmate.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
Ring is neck.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Then we greadom goodness. They escalated that test to text
in it. Animals had a budgy named Jock pulled Kirby
grips from the hair and flicked off the end of
a pen pen when I was doing my homework. So intelligent.
I don't know what a Kirby gripper is, Kirby Kirby grip.

(01:26:28):
I'll tell you what a Kirby grippers. It must be
a hair thing, is it? It sounds like an Australian thing.
Kirby Kirby grip. I don't want to Kirby grippers. What's
a hair clip? Kirby grips? Never heard them called that.
I'll cascade that Kirby Kirby grips. Anyway, got a big

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swede at home. It's about three killer Kilo's excited about that.
Not really imagine how the kids are going to be
going to give them raw? Sweet? I prefer it raw
than cooked actually, and a.

Speaker 27 (01:27:12):
Kirby grip is a bobby pin for your hair?

Speaker 3 (01:27:15):
Brilliant? Have they always been called that?

Speaker 8 (01:27:16):
Nina?

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
Is that something new?

Speaker 27 (01:27:18):
I think maybe? I think kooby grips maybe is the
older reference term name for them, and I feel like
bobby pins is the newer name.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
Would they would they just called hair clips? I mean,
I'm not obviously not something that's wearing that obviously not
obviously okay, So as a child you'd call them, well.

Speaker 27 (01:27:36):
I'd always say bobby pin. But I do know that
they called koby groups. But these are specific kind of
like a bobby pin is a bobby pin, and you
know there are other hair clips, but yeah, a bobby
pin slash kooby grip is a specific kind of hair
here clip.

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
Feelvery bed that the only time I've talked to your
ear is about hair clips. That's for you. It's gena specific.
Isn't it batronizing anyway? But welcome on board? And I
apologize for that. But you're clearly enjoying the show. Why
aren't you? I'm loving it? Yes, what we like to
hear you sound sounding great? To thank you? Twenty nine
away from eleven eight hundred eighty today, did you either
report Ferrari and did today? People? That's what they're talking about.

(01:28:17):
They need the hosts to do more interaction throws between
the hosts and the news readers. See imagine that. I'll
sound clunky for a while because you can't fake that stuff,
can you. You can't just make it all sound warm
and cozy from the get go. Well that's great, Bobby Pins,

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you always heard them? Yeah, away Kirby's Oh do you
think Nina's got pets? We don't know, really do we?

Speaker 6 (01:28:48):
Do?

Speaker 3 (01:28:48):
You want to be a rescue greyhound person too? What
are the chances A twenty eight to eleven, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty knol AT's Marcus, good evening?

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
Can they?

Speaker 21 (01:28:59):
Marcus? Nothing wrong with the raw sweetes?

Speaker 5 (01:29:01):
Is it?

Speaker 8 (01:29:02):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Nothing wrong at all? But but no, because I mean
raw carrot's nice, raw swede even nicer. I mean, what
vegetables can you eat? Raw celery? Carrot swede?

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:29:13):
I had a bit of raw swede lamps today. Actually,
I reckon they better raw than cook.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:20):
I was involved in the discussion once upon a time
when someone talked about their favorite sandwich, right, and they
said they love a raw pumpkin sandwich and it's not bad. Well,
you've got to slice. You've got to slice it quite
otherwise it kind of your teeth kind of stuff. And
you know, there's that. Yeah, anyway, give it a go.

Speaker 21 (01:29:44):
Anyway, I rang out because I'm sitting alongside of photograph
here at my desk and there's a photo on the
wall of a kre and the key has got us
got us beak in the top of a karuba bottle,
and it just reminded me of it reminded me. I
used to manage a camp up the Warriale Valley up

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in the Marlbret area dip Flat, and we had this
care that we caught him George, and it was in
the early nineties, and whenever we had a camp up there,
this guy would front up and he seemed I went
up there quite a lot, and he tended to follow
me around quite a bit. And he was quite a

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hard case because I'd have these Air Training Corps guys
come up for a camp and they'd put their tents
and stuff up and I'd wander around and this ki
he'd follow me around. They'd jump from the roof and
one thatt and on top of a tent and then
and then if I walked between the huts, it was
quite a distance. He'd actually walk along the ground behind me.
You know, they got that funny waddle. And all these

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kids they'd wonder why this kear followed me around. I said, Oh,
I just liked my hat. So they all wanted to
borrow my hat. So I'd give him a hat and
then I'd walk off and the bloody care would follow
me in instead of them. And it wasn't a had
at all, but this care was quite a hard case.
So he used to come into the into our common
room there and we had a little low coffee tables

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and on a wreck underneath it was you know, magazines
and stuff, and this file used to grab hold of
these things and it's beacon toss them like a frisbee
across the room and stuff like that. Is a real case.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Wow, I've never heard of them. That's obviously. That's obviously military.

Speaker 5 (01:31:22):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
Training? Is that right?

Speaker 16 (01:31:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:31:24):
It used to be a deco's training camp way back
in the forties fifties, and then became an Air Force
or military training camp.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
So so there's a there's a there's a sealed landing
strip or just a bush landing strip.

Speaker 21 (01:31:39):
No, no, no, there's just a helicopter pair. They're really
it's just a grass area. Okay, there's several hutsy. I
think there's probably a dozen of more, two men or
six men.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
So, without giving away secrets, what are they training? Are
they just training? Is it just a way to get
away from base and do.

Speaker 21 (01:31:57):
Leaders Yeah, leadership skills, mountain you know, bush training, helicoptery
guys use it for you know, mountain flying, all that
kind of stuff, Search and rescue, you use the place.
I mean, he gets used by lots of organizations apart
from the from the force. You know, that's it's quite
a well used spot. Actually, it's just at the more

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or less the bottom of the where you go up
to the rainbow skifield. It's kind of.

Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
Copy there there.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
You know I've been up to like tennis, I haven't
been haven't been down the wires that side of that belly.

Speaker 21 (01:32:29):
So yeah, okay, yeah, but now that's key. He was
quite a happy chapion. He was just as heppy wandering
around inside as he was outside. And I know, you know,
you're not meant to make pets of them and all
this kind of stuff. But he was just a bit
of a character, and he'd sit up on the set
up on the ease of the building and sort of
hang around, hang underneath and see what everybody's having for lunch.

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And then you know, he's just the specture reminded me, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:32:55):
Not that's not him. That was drinking the Karuba rum, wasn't.

Speaker 21 (01:33:00):
He's sitting I'm sitting here looking at the spectrum. He's
sitting on the coffee table. We used to have the
odd vier or you know, the top in the evening.
But I've got a bottle of rum sitting there, and
he's actually got a beacon the top of the sticking
in the top of the you know, obviously like the
mill of the round.

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
It's just a hard cave not to talk.

Speaker 3 (01:33:20):
Now. You enjoy your sweet tomorrow too. I'll be having
the same. I'll be thinking about you as persuede Robert
ands Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
Welcome feeling, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:33:28):
He's just sitting there. I re used to have a
pit two up for their center head him for twelve years,
and he was at the amazing of things he could say.
But it was a while too. He coming as a
chick engine, and we couldn't need it go in the
early stages, so he put it in maybe outside eventually
and started to talk and people can go on to

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onto Google and just have a look for Wolf talking
to it and they can hear all the things he
used to be able to say. Absolutely amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
What was the center, Robert, I've.

Speaker 13 (01:34:03):
Got to make a bird Discovery season?

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
Pay Oh yeah yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
And also.

Speaker 3 (01:34:12):
Wow, yeah, that's really interesting. How does it come about?

Speaker 13 (01:34:19):
Just one had lost part of his leg in the
trip when he was a baby.

Speaker 8 (01:34:23):
Yes, I kept him and I used him.

Speaker 13 (01:34:25):
Mainly for education, going around schools, visiting was my life.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
Ving.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
Have you three D printed something on him?

Speaker 13 (01:34:34):
There was an article that i'd long go on TV
about him again.

Speaker 3 (01:34:37):
So he's got another league? Did you print a league
up for him?

Speaker 6 (01:34:40):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:34:40):
The first KVO head called Snoopy. He he was on
television once in the Longer hospital saw him, so they
got me to go down for three visits and they
made an art official league for Snoopy and he did
walk on him really well. But the troublem was it
used to rub on the stump. They can wrestle and

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turn into an ulcer. So he's found it easier to
leave the artificial league.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
Okay, good answer.

Speaker 13 (01:35:08):
Okay, We've had mining bears, all sorts of birds up there.
We've got to be able to talk control.

Speaker 7 (01:35:18):
We had one.

Speaker 13 (01:35:19):
We had a minor beird there that disappeared half. I
had him for a couple of weeks and he started
to talk, and in the afternoon I got a phone.

Speaker 25 (01:35:27):
Call from the.

Speaker 13 (01:35:28):
Party hotel about twenty kilometers away, and Morrison ended up
there at the hotel there and there's an Irish car
in the hotel and he never belonged to. It's Morris
for the bird recoveries, in a little band on his leg.
So they rolled me up. I went out there and
they had Morris sitting in a cage on the bar.

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There was only two people in the park. They had
Morris in the cage and they had container chips and
peanuts and god knows what else in there. No drinks.
But I got so I did an article in the
paper about them, and I put it there that the
manager from the party hotel, he knew his job, he
knew he wasn't able to serve him minor. He had

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him sitting on the on the cave, in the cage.

Speaker 9 (01:36:13):
On the bar.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
I love that nice serving miners. Oh yeah, Robert. How
many words did woof warf know?

Speaker 22 (01:36:20):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:36:20):
There was lots of them hit us. When visitors and
teut can hear him what he was saying, come up here, crack.
He made the clicking sound like you do with your
seven thumb. And when you got up to his cage
here and around Christmas time he would start saying, the
people marry Christmas, rear your ben, and you know, people

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would talk to him as though they've been on holiday
summer and tell him where they've been. One guy said
that they've been up to Rustle out to the whole
Rock and place like that. And when he finished, he
said to walk for He said, have you been in
any of those places? And Wolf turn around said yep.

Speaker 12 (01:36:58):
And you can see him.

Speaker 13 (01:36:58):
One tell on Facebook or whatever to your Google his
type of mo forth to talking to it and anybody.
You can feel things? Did you say?

Speaker 3 (01:37:08):
And twelve years that's a good life for two week?
I suppose that's about everything.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
It is.

Speaker 13 (01:37:12):
It is twelve twelve to twenty years is a good
age for a period of that size.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
Yeah, please to hear I'll I'll look them up. Robert
thanks for coming through. I've enjoyed that seventeen to eleven.
I love South and sweet cooked with carrot, specially with
butter and cream cream cheese the secret ingredient. And Ken's
Australia had a large car carpet python that I kept
in a cage I probably didn't feed enough. Has escaped

(01:37:39):
and died for eating a poisonous cane toad. Marcus. Sixty
years ago, my five year old brother had a pet
eel for about eighteen hours. He took it to school
in Adjr for a morning talk. The teacher tipped into
the biology lesson tadpole bowl to give it up in
a room to move out. Now that all the kids

(01:37:59):
started screaming with the eel heat and all the tadpoles
and got out of the bottle was rigged around the classroom.
Brother had to put them in a bucket take him
across the road from the creek by the school. That's
happy ending, isn't it. Marcu who used to work at
Rainbow Skifield Where's army huts where we had two Kia.
They would quite often find trying to get inside the

(01:38:21):
cafe doors when they knew where the food was. Eight
to eleven. Good evening, MiG Hello the heights, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:38:31):
Oh yeah, sorry, Coup, I couldn't hear you. Yeah, I
was just listening to your program about these birds that
could talk. Yeah, I had a friend who inherited a
self accrested cocker.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
Two.

Speaker 16 (01:38:54):
Yes, now this bird you could have a conversation with you.
You've never heard of bird that could talk like this
one could.

Speaker 26 (01:39:05):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:39:06):
I actually I actually put it on the on the
phone to my solicitor one day when I was talking
to and he said to me her the hell's that
I've been talking to?

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
What made you put him on the phone to the solicitor?

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:39:29):
Well, he was gabbling away in the year and I
was talking to me lawyer at my friends place, and
I put him on and met me solicitor Rot said,
who the Hell's that I've been talking to?

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
That's funny.

Speaker 16 (01:39:43):
He was unbelievable. And he he almost knew what he
was talking about. Yeah, and and and he he was
real weird. He picked all his feathers out, he never
had any feathers. He was just a blue skin, bloody
naked bird.

Speaker 8 (01:40:04):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:40:05):
On one Asian Johnny him had him outside on a
cage on a stand about meter and a half off
the ground, and he had a cat was lying down
asleep underneath the cage and the tail was wagging, you know,
while it was asleep. The parrot under the lock on

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the cage slid down one of the bloody one of
the legs, but the cat on the tail bent an
inch from the end. The poor bloody cat took off
into god knows where. The parrot bloody well up up
the leg of this thing, put himself back in the cage,
locked the door, you know, the thing, and sat there

(01:40:50):
and said, I'm a good boy, aren't i? And he
we made inherited it from another guy who had it
for many years and taught it. But this thing you
can had conversations with that was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
It was probably a good age too, Mike. Was it
because they reached a good age?

Speaker 7 (01:41:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:41:13):
Well, well John didn't actually know how old it was,
and ye, but it probably was when he got it,
because the guy who had had it previously must have
had it for quite a long time and towarded all
these all these words and that. But it was unbelievable
what it could talk. And on one occasion because John

(01:41:36):
had a six foot high brick fence with a letter box,
and the postman was putting letters in the in the
letter box, and the murder was on the other side saying,
don't put your bloody mail in here.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Funny did swear?

Speaker 7 (01:42:01):
Oh yeah, they swear like a trooper?

Speaker 16 (01:42:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, oh yeah, noble.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
Mike, I reckon John must have been a bit of
a character. What do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:42:13):
The guy who owned it?

Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
Me mate, John who was the original owner.

Speaker 16 (01:42:17):
But I don't know. I don't know if John Edward.
He got it from someone else who had got it
from someone else, and the guy who gave it to
him didn't want it, so John sort of inherited it.

Speaker 8 (01:42:29):
If you like, you know, the.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Original loaner must have been a character.

Speaker 16 (01:42:33):
I would think so. But I mean, this bird just
knew so many words and he could put them into
contextual sentences like you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
It's a great story. It's a really good story. Make
thanks for that. It's international as the day we're talking
about pets and strange pets and the good stories, great stories.
Don't worried about him putting on his feathers out, but.

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
That is that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Someone sent me a shot of Harry the hospital KT
at Bowood. I've got a new hip on the nine June,
in a couple of days before I do leave. He
wanted my room next. You jumped onto my bed for cuddle.
One of the newses that I was privileged because I
was chosen to be. He normally just wanted around to
say hello, Terry the hospital at Birr would hope your
new apps going well, Kristen Roger Marcus welcome, Oh Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
The possum tail. We had a pet possum called Charlie,
and it was about sixty years ago, but he's quite
I was about probably five four or five years old
at the time, and Mum always tried to apparently tried
to breed the little chaps, but most most of them

(01:43:51):
pined and died. But this one fell out of the
pouch of her a possum that Dad had shof and
and she used to get up all hours of the night.
She put him in the cylinder cupboard and get up
at all that I know that she pout a baby
and he lived, and his name was Charlie and Crike.

(01:44:11):
He was an amazing little fellow. When he got a
weave bit older. He'd go out at night and I
didn't see I didn't know about this. I was a
bit young. And he'd go around to one's side of
the bed when he came in, and if she wasn't
awake or didn't feel that he had been up in

(01:44:34):
the bed, he just gave her a we nip on
the ear. And he had just a nice we nip
on the air. And we came from a farm, and
we had huge amounts of trees around the property, as
well as lots and lots of fruit, so it was
a but anyway, she'd realized it was a possible and

(01:44:58):
not dead and lift up the blankets and he'd shoot
down the bottom of the bed and curl up and
go to sleep. And then when Mum got up, she
had lifted him up, and there was a great big
old box in the bottom of their closet with a

(01:45:18):
nice old woolen woolen a shirt in the bottom of it,
and she'd slowly put him in that and he'd go
to sleep and wouldn't be seen again. They keeped the
door ajar, and they wouldn't see him again until it
got light. But Charlie was a bit of a day
we had a huge veranda that ran along the front

(01:45:40):
of the place, and I could remember him actually swinging
from the rope, the rope that we used for wet weather,
for when the clothes were drying, and that was quite good.
But Mum used to drink tea, just tea without milk

(01:46:01):
and a bit of sugar. He must have loved it,
because I can remember him actually running out Mum's leg
and they got big claws, as you know. Occasionally there'd
be a screech and a yell and poss and knew
what he had done, and he'd sit on the top
of Mums, on the shoulder of Mum and she got
it was always the same time, and she got this

(01:46:23):
tea with a bit of quite a bit more sugar
in it, and that was for him. And it wasn't hot,
and he would drink out the slight money used to do,
and he would drink out of the out of the cap,
so he swooped it around in the bottom. When he
was fuller, he would remove himself from Mum's body.

Speaker 8 (01:46:48):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
So there.

Speaker 3 (01:46:52):
He lived a long life.

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
Wow, that's the thing he was. When he got a
weave it older, he was about two or three apparently,
and he didn't. He used to go out all the time.
They just left him alone, had but he'd always come
back at night. And one night he didn't come back
and they never saw him again. I didn't even know that.

(01:47:15):
They never knew what happened. But what a dagg he
was I remember?

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
Was he was he far from the roads? Or rather
could he been trapped or run over.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Or well, yes, he could have been more by some
of it At the stage I had dogs for rabbits,
rabbit dogs. He could have been because he loved he
loved humans, So yeah, he could have come to a

(01:47:43):
pretty bad end. I don't know that they didn't want
to find out either. We all loved we all loved
the animals, and it's just lovely. And he always it's.

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
Sleep in the day. It always stay nocturnal, wouldn't he.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
Well as saras I know because I was very young
at the time. Was only later on. Yes, he just
used to be. He knew that the door was always
open the weather and he'd sweep and then when it
came when it became darkish there he would arrive in the.

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
Kitchen and there was nothing aggressive about him. You'd cudle
him and stuff as well. Would you was a young kid,
or would you stay clear of him?

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
Yeah, I can't remember actually cuddling him, but I certainly
I certainly wasn't afraid of him, and he was very presid,
very pleasant, and he just used to run up Mum's leg.
How he got up there, I don't know. Occasionally there
was a screech and a telling off and he knew
what he had done, really, but anyway he persevered in

(01:48:42):
the easter Mum's legg and onto the shoulder and enjoy
his tea.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
What was his and what would he eat?

Speaker 2 (01:48:53):
I don't I don't know that. We had probably twenty
or thirty different types of apples all around the sometimes
right against the house. They were a bit annoying at
times because he help Bossoms are hard shots, you know,
they don't mind humans, and they'd get on the roof

(01:49:14):
of the house and we could hear them at night
when we were small as children. We could hear them
chattering and the noise that they make, and they'd slide
off down the roof into into the apple trees.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
They make a hell. They make a hell of a
noise at night. Possums on roofs They just seem to
take delight in running around, don't they.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
Ah, I think it was gymnastics for them. They loved
it and into the trees, having nip on an apple.
You could see where they'd been sometimes at night if
we dared to have a lot. But we had plum
trees of different mats all around the pace, so it
was it was a it was a menu for for
the possums. But we loved.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
Them just out of interest. Because I'm sort of imagining it.
Roger whereabouts was this out of fairly oh you okay
at South Island, y okay, m.

Speaker 2 (01:50:06):
But he was a lovely charlie. He was a lovely possum.
But he didn't live as years.

Speaker 3 (01:50:13):
And I imagine there's a lot of people that have
you know that possums have been tripped or they've been
shot and then out comes the joey and taken pity
on it, and they've been a viable kind of a
thing imagined. Quite a few people have done that over
the years, because it's sort of it's a bit said
and the de mum and the joey and the pouch.

Speaker 2 (01:50:29):
Yes, well he'd fallen out apparent and Dad realized and
picked him up and took him inside, and Mumm had
tried to keep him alive a number of times apparently,
but had no luck. Very sensitive because Joey's he had
fair on them at all. Yeah, but this one survived,

(01:50:50):
I can remember that. And she put him in the
cylinder cupboard and get up at all hours of the night.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
Great story, Roger.

Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
It was an eye dropper, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:51:02):
I appreciate your story, right, that's a rapper. Thank you
for that, Patricia's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:51:07):
Welcome, Yes, good evening, Marcus, thank you very much for
the lovely stories of the pets. Well, I've got one
about an unbelievable ginger cat we had. He used to
think he was a human being, and when we went out,
he always rode in the car. But he had to

(01:51:29):
pretend he was driving the car. So he used to
send to my father's lap and with the left paw
on the left part of the wheel and then his
other right paw on the right, and he used to
believe he was driving the car. Well, another thing he
used to do was this, My mother was hard of hearing,

(01:51:51):
and say she was at the kitchen sink and busy there.
She was hard of hearing. And couldn't hear the telephone,
so she didn't know what it was. But he would
tap her on the leg, so she said, well, what
do you want? So he'd start following. He'd start walking
and she'd have to follow him. So he'd take it

(01:52:14):
through to where the phone was on a very low table. Well,
she told me, I rang on the lunchtime from the office,
and she said, you won't believe what's happened. She said,
I followed him through to the phone, and he stood
on his hind legs and with his two front legs

(01:52:35):
or one, poor tried to lift the phone and could
not lift the phone. So after I was speaking to you,
he was still sitting by me, and she said, I
put the phone down to his ear, and so I
started talking to him. But he looked so frightened. He

(01:52:55):
knew my voice and couldn't understand why it was coming
through the phone. But there was that many stories, But
I thought the people might enjoy those two stories.

Speaker 5 (01:53:06):
Love that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
That's fantastic for sure. I appreciate that very much. Good evening, Margaret, welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:53:13):
Thank you. Actually, I feel like my story will pale
and significance to you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:18):
Have you got have you got story. Have you got story.

Speaker 15 (01:53:20):
Shame you no like old Lady cat shame.

Speaker 13 (01:53:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:53:30):
No, I've had heats of good things about we cats
and animals. And I had a cat with fantastic used
to jump up on my chest, you know, like you
clicked your fingers, that would jump up. It goes for
walks around you know the farm. Was it sitting on
your shoulders?

Speaker 5 (01:53:50):
You know.

Speaker 15 (01:53:52):
My favorite part was one time I was having a
dinner party. Dinner party is a is a you know,
highly proferred thing back in the eighties. It was, you know,
people sitting around eating chicken. And of course that same
cat that did all those wonderful things, of course raised

(01:54:13):
its tail and pissed on my leg as we were
sitting there eating this beautiful dinner, you know, and I
had to sit there and go, excuse me, I.

Speaker 3 (01:54:27):
Will everyone's seen it.

Speaker 15 (01:54:31):
No, they didn't know the cat pissed on my leg,
you know while we were sitting Literally it was quite
young at the time, you know, and this whole dinner
party thing was really important to me.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
Good story, Margaret, thank you, Hello, Janet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 28 (01:54:48):
Oh hello. About forty six years ago, we had a
white budget I don't often get a white budget. And
people had had birds and cages more those days. Although
I've got a friend Pam who's got a canary in
a cage at her house. And yeah, but if that
way looked after and walk, you know, seed and apple

(01:55:08):
and water and they covered at night. I mean they
have a good life. And anyway, there's some white budgy.
We had a ladder and the perch, you know, and
all that, and then they had a plastic ball at
the bottom of the cage and often at different times
that would pick up that ball because it had holes
in it, walk up the ladder and it'll drop it

(01:55:29):
and put its head on its side and drop down
the ladder again and it would pick up the ball.
So I was playing with the ball and going up
the ladder. So I thought that was pretty clever.

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
Really, what was the budgies name?

Speaker 28 (01:55:41):
Oh, I don't think it had a name. Really, it
would come out of the cage and could sit on
your shoulder. I don't think we had a name. But
I had a cat called Daisy, and she'd come in
the cat door and she'd have some water or something
to eat in the starting door, which we've taken away
down from the dining room into our lounge. But if
that was just a little bit open behind me, should
push it open with her poor and she come around

(01:56:01):
and come and sit on the knee, you know. So
they're quite clever, because some cats can jump up dogs
and jump up and pull the door handle down and
go through a door, can't they.

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
Yes, that's right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:56:13):
It's very good for children to grow up with pets
and have dogs or cats or rabbits or although I
was talking to someone recently, she got a rabbit and
she's got it in the house, like with the with
the dirt box and you know, the catty litter, and
it doesn't live in a hatch outside. It actually lives
in the house. This rabbit she's got. She's thirty. I
thought that was quite interesting. I just told that on Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
Nice to hear from you, Jone, Thank you twenty seven
past eleven, Good evening, bill, welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:56:41):
Yeah, killed it mate? How you doing? Yeah? I had
I had several megpies over the years, and I had
one nice. I was teaching her to speak marthy here,
so I used to kill your haw And when I
was planting my garden out the bottom silver beatens and

(01:57:01):
broccoler and cabbages, quite a big garden, and down on
my head and knees planting these things, and I didn't
realize the meat pie was behind me, pulling everyone outny
as I planted the rose and we had a fire
or the house next door got fire bombed, and I
was over the fence and put it out, and I

(01:57:22):
actually left the hose hanging over the fence, and I
watched this makepike one day slide up the hose and
off it went, disappeared, walked probably well maybe half a
mile just on people's fences, and eventually got it home
walking down the street. It used to sit on top
of my golden tree of dog at the gate while

(01:57:45):
the kids were going to school, and they'd all come
and you know, give it a bit of a pet
and the dog would actually get jealous and try and
snap it off its back, but it had the ability
to hang on to the dog while the dog walked
around the street. So there were no actually celebrities in
the neighborhood. And many many years ago I had a

(01:58:09):
pet Lamb and he only had one ball, and so
he was a rig And I lived in Halls Road,
so his name was Hudson, Hudson of Halls Road, and
he was taken He followed me down to the pub
and the band from the Black Horse. You were well
barred from the black Horse for doing his deeds under

(01:58:32):
the pool table. And he followed me to the Addison
Trots one day. So I lived just to over the
roads and the Trots up the stairs to the New
Brighton Bar, and I'm sitting here standing at the bar
having a beer and here's this lamb walking around and
people were absolutely fascinated, and of course I denied ownership

(01:58:58):
of it until it came over and started duck me
in the leg. So we were escorted off. We were
squirted off there basically on Friday night. And he he
eventually sort of got a bit, got a bit crazy
and started to, you know, get a bit rough with
the kids. So the old man took him around to

(01:59:18):
his paddock and he used to butt the horses and
he caved in a forty four gallon drum. Wow, just
just butting it, you know, without there no horns, no,
just just just yeah, just absolutely bloody, absolutely not so

(01:59:38):
given to some following out Green Park huts. And he
eventually broke down a barn door by just you know,
continuously butting it and got it there and got into
the chaff and stuff and made the hell of me.
So he finished up getting a bit of lead. Yep, unfortunately,
but he was He's about four or five years old

(02:00:02):
when they you know, and they eventually put him down.

Speaker 3 (02:00:06):
So had me funny all the stories. A lot of
people seem to like the like to take their pits
to the park. A lot of the stories are revolved
going to the pub, even birds taking away and going
to the pub.

Speaker 5 (02:00:17):
Well, this thing used to follow me everywhere.

Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:00:19):
I had to keep the back door shut because it
would it would come inside and you know, nothing was
trying to pick up a hundred marbles in the kitchen
on the vinyl floor. Yeah. I always had a cat.
It was pure white, but it had a gray streak
down the front of its head, so it was called overcast. Yes,

(02:00:43):
so all my all my pets sort of had you know,
appropriate names I named. I named the magpie Tepiata after
the captain of Adding in rugby league at the time,
because he was that was the Magpies and Eddington.

Speaker 3 (02:00:59):
So did the magpie did the magpie manage a good kyra.
Did he get that worked out? Worked out?

Speaker 16 (02:01:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:01:07):
Yeah, yeah. He had a piece of board strapped across
the front of the handlebars and he gave youwhere with
me and he used to sit on the shoulder, but
he made me make a bit of a mess if
you went for a fairly long journey. So as soon
as I put him on the handlebars, he used to
cock one leg and lean like like leaning into the wind.

(02:01:28):
It was actually quite funny to watch him.

Speaker 3 (02:01:32):
Was it on a motorbike or a pushbikes?

Speaker 5 (02:01:35):
No pushbike, just a push bike. Yeah, yeah, and yeah
he used to you know, wander around the T A
B on the counters there. So yeah, people got confused
re what all say back because they all all playing
with the snakepie and the local.

Speaker 2 (02:01:52):
T A B.

Speaker 3 (02:01:53):
Right, what happened? What happened him?

Speaker 5 (02:01:54):
In the end, he somebody flogged him. And I lived
in Sprayden at the time, and he turned up in
Hornby and I managed to get him back because he
obviously escaped from where he got a flogged from and
then then he disappeared again. So I presume someone flogged

(02:02:17):
him because he would he'd always come home he had
when I originally got him, he had a broken wing,
so I just put a mumma game. He had an
old pair of pantehos, so I just sort of cut
that and put that over his whole body, you know,
and his wing eventually healed. He could fly, but you know,

(02:02:38):
he always he always come home. When when I used
to get them when they were young, it just he
just sort of clip clipped one wing. And once they
you know, once they got a savage at your house,
they stayed, you know, like he did. He'd wander around
the fence as one of them and the others would
sort of fly from neighbor to neighbor, always come home

(02:03:02):
for a feed, and they generally slept inside of the
porch on my m karami hangars in the pot plants. Yeah,
fascinating creases and you know, you get you get reports
of people getting bombed by them. But I mean I
used to get looking for the for the nests.

Speaker 2 (02:03:20):
You know, they're blowing out.

Speaker 5 (02:03:21):
Of the trees and stuff during during strong winds, and
often you'd find the nest with you know, like three
or four in it. So I used to flick them
off for twenty five bucks each. People people just love
having them as pets because of the great, great company,
and they really talk well. I had one that used

(02:03:41):
to pick at my heels all the time, and you know,
nice to tell him to f off, and he used
to go your mongol and he I've got to I've
got an old video somewhere when we got married in
our house, especially on the front morn of the rain,

(02:04:02):
so it finished up the end of the lounge and
you can hear the snake pay in the background.

Speaker 3 (02:04:10):
It's good story. But I've got to run with their
great stories. Thank you so much for all of that.
It's been wonderful. She I prefer a magpie to a minor.
That'd be my take on that one. Marcus, we had
goats as kids, and we went out one day, came
home and they had gotten to the shed and in
the used pan and pushed the front door open, in

(02:04:32):
the used oil pan and pushed the front door open.
They were oil goat prints on every surface the Beard's kitchens, table,
toiltlet and eat, now, couch, lull.

Speaker 2 (02:04:45):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (02:04:45):
Marcus and Lister's own a magpie pete and she could
talk and words she would come out with, even phone ring.
I answered with a magpie yelling hello, are you there?
She was great of a few recordings of her. Thanks
from Tracy. I had a tiny shihwawa once and Helen's
flat to running Cattrish was blown away in the wind.
All good texts. You've got anything to edit to twenty

(02:05:09):
three away from twelve here till midnight if you want
to be a part of it. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eightyan nineteen nine two to text looking forward
to what you want to say? Oh, that's interesting, Oh
eighty tenenty and nineteen nine to the text. Good evening, Annette,

(02:05:31):
It's Marcus.

Speaker 10 (02:05:32):
Welcome Hllo, Michis, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (02:05:35):
Thank you Annette, It's good.

Speaker 29 (02:05:37):
I've got a few talks about I was up in
bleing him one time in a bird park and there
was a crocker two and all these tourists were walking past,
and they thought, does that bird of a talk? And
I bought passed and said, Cocky wants a cup of tea.
And they looked at me and they said, did you

(02:05:57):
make their bird talk? I said no, I said I
just talked. And they said what did you do? And
I said, well, I just said Cockie wants a cup
of tea. So that was all right, and I carried on,
and then my dad we would live out on the
farm on either country Girl, good country girl. And Dad

(02:06:17):
used to hear this blackbird and it used to make
a noise like a telephone, and Dad would run and
thinking the telephone was ringing, he said, there's nobody there.
The blackbird would be ringing like a telephone. And I
worked up on a big sheep station and I tamed
a little kissen. Oh yeah, and I was a portieshell

(02:06:40):
one there was two, and another person got one nears diye.
But I used to take out a bowl of milk,
a little bowl of milk, and some cut up some meat.
And somebody said to my lay husband, they said, oh,
you'll tame that cat. And sure enough I did, and
it got looked after by a dog. But then in

(02:07:01):
the end it came in to me and I called
it Moses, because well it was the loner. It was
in the bushes, and it used to follow me everywhere,
and we used to come home and it used to
know the noise of our vehicle, and I reckon, they
just about to talk to your kat, you know, the

(02:07:22):
pair of them. Everything you said to her to have
talked morely, talk back to and it's purring.

Speaker 3 (02:07:30):
And I just love I love the what happened to
Moses in the end.

Speaker 29 (02:07:34):
Well, we had to leave the station and it was
really you know, I'd love to a board at home,
but I think it would have fretted.

Speaker 3 (02:07:43):
Yeah, nice to hear from an it. Thank you, Hello, Tonys.

Speaker 9 (02:07:51):
I'd up many years ago and we used to have
a lady up there was called the possum Lady, and
she had pitt possums and I can't even remember back
in the day she even was went to telepon on
the pit possum.

Speaker 3 (02:08:07):
Oh yeah, polypossum. She'd drifted, that, wouldn't she.

Speaker 9 (02:08:10):
Yeah, yeah, But we used to see around town all
the time, you know, and she'd lid the bossum and
the car quite often, and she was she was notorious.
She had an old read h T or HT hold
them and you'd see at the intersection and she had
dropped the clutch and get a wheel going.

Speaker 3 (02:08:29):
And what was the possum head that she got the
possum living So it was up in the daytime.

Speaker 7 (02:08:38):
Yeah, well it was.

Speaker 8 (02:08:39):
I used to see it in the car in the daytime.

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
Not at night in the day. It's weird, isn't it.
When she when she brought it to telethon, I was
always surprised that she had it in the daytime. I thought, well,
that's weird to get a possum doing that.

Speaker 9 (02:08:54):
Yeah, I yes, if you wake him up and riddle
the age and chuck them in the car or take
them to telephone, you off they go.

Speaker 3 (02:09:02):
Yeah, she was famous for telephone. I think it was
all like doll's clothes. I think it was pretty busy are.

Speaker 9 (02:09:07):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, she was a strange, strange lady,
but you know, out of golden Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:09:14):
And she had more than one.

Speaker 9 (02:09:17):
Oh, as far as I know, there was definitely more
than one.

Speaker 2 (02:09:20):
Year.

Speaker 9 (02:09:20):
She'll have a phony yep, or the what we call
the Elbow boat room.

Speaker 3 (02:09:25):
Lit bit about the elbow yep.

Speaker 5 (02:09:27):
Okay, well, yep, I'm very familiar with will it. It's
one of my one of my regular haunts.

Speaker 2 (02:09:32):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (02:09:39):
Only had one part one possible obviously, I said, a
whole tribe of them.

Speaker 9 (02:09:43):
Well, yeah, she definitely hit at least one.

Speaker 8 (02:09:48):
Was.

Speaker 9 (02:09:49):
From what I understand, it was more than one.

Speaker 3 (02:09:52):
I'm gonna do some research, Tony. I appreciate you coming through.
Thanks very much that eighteen to twelve. My name is Marcus.
Good Evening, eight hundred and eighty eight and nine to
de text get in touch to you go old Golden
Point Melbourne have just won that. They did incredible faint
at the end. Everyone was waiting for the golden cold

(02:10:14):
field kick and Harry Grant ran through a touchdown. Well,
it was an amazing end to a match. Even old
misery guts belly ache looks happy the coach Marcus. When
we were kids, my brother and I were waiting for
the school bus. A pet meg Pie. My brother was
teasing with a dollar bill we're giving for lunch. Maggie

(02:10:35):
picked out of his hand and fly off just as
the bus came. Paul Good Evening, Oh good night, Mike,
you're happy, good thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:10:48):
I've been listening to your show. I've just come from
a band rehearsal and on the drive home all his
pet stories and I found it very interesting and it
sparked me to remember when I was a child growing
up in a farming community town called Wrong a tear
in the man or two and I had this pitch.

(02:11:12):
I acquired this pet sheep, Lamb, and I named him Fluffy. Well,
goodness me, I think he thought he was a dog.
And I remember my father having a Honda one two fire.
It was from memory. I'm not very much a motor

(02:11:35):
minded person, but he had this motorbike that he used
to drive into Paris, North, you know, and my sheep
used to run up the road right through the center
of the town after him. Oh my goodness, in the stories,

(02:11:58):
and I'll never forget another time he used to come inside.
And of course my father's father, my Pop bless some
hid teeth. He'd be stayed in the US one day
and we were any kids, We're four or five years old,
and I remember this time he came inside run a

(02:12:22):
mark and my Pop was ushering him outside and things
like that, and my brother and I thought it was
just great fun. And my brother got stung between the
toes by a wasp, and of course I was profusely
knocking on the window to get my pop's attention. He
was on the phone, and Fluffy ran right through the

(02:12:46):
ranch slider bloody grass. Wow, Oh yes, yes he did,
and among other things.

Speaker 3 (02:12:54):
And the wool protected him.

Speaker 2 (02:12:58):
Well, he was fine, Yes, from what I gather, from
what I remember, he came. He was He was unscathed,
but it was quite an ordeal. If you could possibly
imagine toy to the story is this sheep used to
follow us everywhere. He thought he was a dog for

(02:13:20):
good mis sake, and it was. It was just fascinating.
And I've been listening to the stories about birds and
cats and what have you, and I just thought to
throw that when.

Speaker 3 (02:13:32):
When you're playing, Paul, when's your band playing tomorrow night?

Speaker 2 (02:13:36):
Actually we're at Upper ut Cosey Club, my band's midnight
special within on the road for coming up nineteen years.

Speaker 3 (02:13:45):
What's your what's your playlist?

Speaker 2 (02:13:46):
Like? We're sixty seventies classic rock predominantly, so all the
good stuff, Marcus, So I'm sure you'd like it.

Speaker 3 (02:13:54):
And what's the one? What's you never failed go to.

Speaker 2 (02:13:58):
Never failed go to? Well? Well there's as many, don't
the crypt wagon wheel? Funny? You should say that because
it's high demand?

Speaker 3 (02:14:11):
What but what but what you want to get them?
Gets them dance? What's that? What's your what's your finishing song?

Speaker 2 (02:14:17):
Well, there's there's up tempos. You know, we're we're in
some queen, Tie your mother down and Born to be
Wild things like that. Uh, you know we do? What
else do we do? Agree? Will yell things like that?

Speaker 3 (02:14:40):
I'm interested. You still practice the gigging bands still need to.
I thought probably playing often enough would.

Speaker 2 (02:14:45):
Be practiced, Playing often enough would be practiced, came I magus.
You only know too well that if if you want
to polish it, you've got to keep applying it, and
you never you never know enough. You have to keep learning.
It's all about. It's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 3 (02:15:06):
I'm gonna run pre but nice to talk to Enjoy
your concert gig.

Speaker 1 (02:15:10):
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