Double yolkers and eggs within eggs (12 September 2025)

Marcus talks about why we have double yolk eggs, mining for gold in Wellington and metal detecting finds.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be what a week it's been, Gosha big week,
Green Newsy week, hasn't it? Wow? News news news Uh?
And just listening to the bulletin at eight o'clock as
sometimes I do to get myself g rounded grounded. Before
the show Gold and Wellington. Now, I thought I knew

(00:31):
a lot about gold, about gold rushes and news it,
and I know they have been gold rushers and the
Corimandel and have been gold rushers north of farg Ard
a maybe, and there have been gold rushers in Otago
and the West coast and around Nelson. I never knew
of gold activity in Wellington. Maybe someone could enlighten me,
because obviously it's there if they're going to go for
permit next to Zelandia. It just does look like gold

(00:53):
country to me. So if anyone knows about that, that's
of interest to me. Gold and Wellington, well, if it's there,
it's there. Never heard of that. I've wanted sort of
quite a lot around there, but there you didn't know
that was the thing. So maybe someone there, as fossic
or has been penning, doesn't even look like gold soil
to me. But gee, they're gone for periment. They must

(01:14):
have found some color. Of course, we're all obsessed with
gold money now, aren't we, Because we've watched Parker, Parker,
Schnarble and gold Rush, so we know all about it,
don't we. We can say things like color. They've got
the pan out there and they're down to the river
and they've seen some gold, some color. Now they're going
for the license to do it. So if anyone knows

(01:35):
about gold and Wellington kind of pretty curious about that.
Maybe gold everywhere. I have got a letter for an email.
I say a letter, I mean email. I've got an
email from Spark after that call we had that started
the whole ball rolling last night for those of us
that were around from that. It's an extremely nice email. Yeah,

(02:01):
and it's very well written from Cassie, Hi, Dan and Marcus.
I'm reaching out on behalf of Spark after hearing from
a caller named Heather who had some concerns about how
we handle the situation involving your friend during a phone purchase.
While we don't have details on the specific customer, our

(02:27):
priority is always to ensure our customers have the best experience,
especially our elderly customers who may need additional support with technology.
This is the key bit, Marcus. We appreciate your balanced
and calm approach and explain the difference between smartphones and
dumb phones. To Heather, it's great to know that you've
consistently had positive experiences with Spark. We'd like to offer

(02:49):
a phone number for our special support team that Heather
or her friend can use should they need further assistance. Brilliant.
I there's anything we can do. Please don't hesitate to
reach out. Warmer's regards, Cassie. She's corporate relations leads. So
this is head office has got in touch. I'll tell
you more about that. It's eleven past eight, Kyle, this
is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hey Marcus, how are you mate?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Goody? What's up?

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I just you needed enlightening on the gold and Wellington. Yeah,
there's gold everywhere in Wellington. That's in Pestcoes Micael Hill Jewelers.
Just just a little, a little fat though that I learned.
Oh little penguin. Oh, we're gonna watch out for the penguins.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Where are you?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I missed them? I'm just driving around Shelly Bay. Oh, Okay, wow,
I'll tell you somebody should put little reflectors that look
like penguins because they shine up silver, mate, and you
see and you like it looks like plastic on the road.
But the good thing is, mate, that is the fourth
one I've seen in the last three months coming around here,

(03:55):
and they're alive. The ones before that weren't so alive.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
And they're the little blue ones, aren't they.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, you know, yeah, that's him.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I had I had one dead in the I had
one dead in the garden the other day. Just brand
you dead and picked it up. They're an amazing creature.
When you picked them up, they were almost torpedo shaped.
You can see. You can see why they're so good
in the water.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, so fast there.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, amazing color. Who once you see them up close,
amazing blues. Anyway, where's the gold.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
So there's the Landian place that they're talking about. I'm
not sure. It was probably a couple to three years ago.
They were talking about the pond that's in Zelandia there. Yes,
actually the water levels were lowering and what it was
was a leak in the old gold mine shaft that
underneath it.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
Okay, so before.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
The Zelandia ponds were there. There were gold shafts here, So.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
This gold shaft they must have done, not open cast
but deep mining.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
There is that, right, Yeah, that's it's all I could
tell you.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
That makes sense.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, so I'm sure these people here, like you say,
it must have seen some color.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
And as for what's exciting for Wellington, because we all
we here is doom and gloom. How it's all that
everyone selling out and there's no jobs and all the
restaurants closing of the gold rush there, they'd be exciting.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Hopefully they put it around here to save some of
these penguins.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Where are the penguins going? Are they nesting at this
time of the night. I suppose they're coming into the nests?
Are they?

Speaker 3 (05:34):
I would say the probably courting at the moment. A
lot of the other birds. Well, there's there's another little factor.
I was with the partner the other day and we
saw a couple of birds for it's nearly mating season,
a couple of seagulls and they were nicking.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Oh wow, they were teenagers, that's what we were like.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
We looked at each other like maybe that's where that
term came from. When they say a couple of people
are nicking here.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Anyway. Okay, I just look at gold mining in Wellington.
Oh there was a gold mine. There was a gold
mine at the Traffati station, which is around the coast
between Markra and Island Bay. So there must have been
a mine there.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
There's also one up and lower hut at the end
of Eastern Up on the Eastern hills is the white
line East.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
It's like a.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Little tourism reserve type thing.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
People raving up the hut. Is it on the left
or the right hand side?

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I'm on the right if you go north.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Is it the Ecker Terras Is that with?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
That is all? No, we're way back, way back into
Tony just Waterloo that area.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, okay, I'll do some more research on that car. Look.
You haven't seen any dead penguins though.

Speaker 7 (06:52):
Have you?

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh not for a long time, which is a good sign.
When they started doing all the demolition led around here.
Yeah there was you getting run over.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Okay. Nice to hear from you. By the way, Wakata
just scored as I talk. That makes a scored twenty
two twenty one.

Speaker 8 (07:08):
No one.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
They're kick to covets far out. They won't get the
kick that's my pick on that fifteen. Keep your calls
and texts coming through. Two people were talking about gold
and gold Russian willing have you a bit of a story.
I'd like to hear about that. Continuation on Spark and
smart and dumb phones. Marcus. They've been mining gold and

(07:30):
Wellington for a while. The family had a mind tunneled
into Revert Reserve on TENA Correy Hill, and they're even
featured on TV in the eighties. Wow, Golden Marketer. And
someone sent me a Wikipedia page. Good on you for that.
I'll just switch that across and then google that up.
Get in touch if you want to talk. Marcus Still
twelve eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to

(07:57):
nine to de text you want to be a part
of it. We're talking gold and Wellington for those that
are interested. Sixteen past eight. This is Marcus.

Speaker 9 (08:07):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus. How are you good?

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 9 (08:11):
Fraser good hey, markra is a is an old stomping
ground of mine. I grew up in Mara and there
is a number of caves, if you want to call them,
those where there was a lot of prospecting done. You
made mention of the Terra Fidy Station gold crushing plant.

(08:33):
That's the old crushing plant is still there to a
degree today. Quite a lot of history with that, with
a very good book brought out quite some time ago.
I have a copy of it at home called Terra Fiddy,
and it goes into quiet detail about the about the
prospecting there all along the coastline around the market area.

(08:57):
There's various holes in the side of the hill where
they were mining for Court and the like. So yeah, yeah,
so a lot of a lot of has a lot
of childhood memories, you know, it's saying going up to
the old courts mines and that sort of thing. That
is one there in particular, which probably goes forty or

(09:17):
fifty feet into the side of the hill and then
it drops down some I don't know. I couldn't tell
you how deep that well, that that whole would be
in a in a vertical musement, but it's quite deep
and obviously full of water. So yeah, lots of lots
of fun, lots of fun heads and those and those reasons,
particularly with Court Hill and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, crazy, could you tell me what tide and mark?
Are we talking?

Speaker 7 (09:41):
Like?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
The eighteen sixties eighteen seventies when the wist of the
gold rush was on or is it the last.

Speaker 9 (09:46):
Sent Marcus, it's from I mean, it's a long time
sinceimes from since I've been, since I've been, so I've
even put my nose and that got to be honest.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 9 (09:58):
It would certainly, it would certainly be would certainly be
around that sort of time frame.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Okay, but there the settlement marketer wasn't settled because of that.
I mean there's only ever been a small community there,
hasn't it.

Speaker 9 (10:12):
There's always been timing farming community and that sort of thing.
And now obviously we've ever got the Aridian West Farm there,
westmand Farm there and that sort of thing. So yeah,
so quite diverse there now, very diverse, but lots of
lots of great memories on Terra for the station mustering
sheep and cattle.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh wow. Because it's that coastline between it's almost inaccessible
that you've got to walk around. You can't really get
to attend you.

Speaker 9 (10:39):
Yeah, well from from Macada Beach itself around to Harry
Bay and Oh Bay and Point O how and that
sort of thing's quite accessible by feet. But obviously, you
know when we were when we were well, we still have.
We still have great, great communications with Mac because my
son's just build a house out there, okay, and that

(11:02):
sort of thing, and and yeah, so it's it's it's great.
I mean, there was a place in the world for
me to grow up with my four brothers and sisters,
and my great place for my two boys to be
brought up. You know, we've got we've got this fifth
generation maybe no fourth bigger part of the fourth generation
going into Mecro School in June next year and that

(11:22):
sort of thing. So, yeah, lots lots of memories and
lots of lots of class lots and lots of lasts.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, and I'm looking at the map, probably as fifty
hours of the school would just be two classroom one,
would it.

Speaker 9 (11:35):
No, the school, I think the school and I was
I was chairperson of the board of trustees to Mecro
School for about twelve years, and we were we were
around the thirties. But now I believe it's up around sixty.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Wow, it must be it must be town. He's going out.

Speaker 9 (11:50):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that the secondary
school bus goes over to Gloria today, does bring students
back and that sort of thing. But I think also
because of the pressure that's on the roles of the
or the availability of room for kids at the local
brawlry schools as well as.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Mark abstitely fascinating phraser. That's great on all sorts of levels.
Thank you so much that we're took in gold mining
and Wellington. It's most interesting. They want to mine there again,
I mean they never get a chance, they never get
the go ahead, but still find it fascinating that it's there.
Be in touch if you want to be part of
the show. The number, as I've said, is eight hundred

(12:28):
and eighty. There's the breaking news tonight. We'll be right
across that. So we're doing what we can to bring
the news to you. If you've got other stuff or
stuff that's happening where you are, let us know what
that is and be in touch. You might see things.
You might see whale strandings or well wallabes beyond their
natural range. Haven't heard much about the wallaby sightings for

(12:50):
a while. I think that's probably a good thing. There
are a couple of disturbing stories last year saying they're
on their way coming down south, coming into the in
Vericago South and region. Haven't heard much about that. They're
into Warnica for a while, but not hearing much about
that either, So if you want to get in touch
with that also too. Pretty amazing that story that you

(13:12):
might have picked up on. This was the memorial seat.
There was a seat that was a memorial seat that
was washed away during the Tasman flooding. It was for
a twenty one year old call Jack Robertson. It's now
washed up on the Carpety coast. Got washed away for
a property in Golden Bay in July, July, August, September.

(13:39):
It's been eight weeks, so there we go. It's got
his plaque on the seat, big solid pine one and
memory of Jack Robertson, who seemed to have died at
Dine in ninety seven eighteen twenty one, who loved to
swim in the river. So yeah, it's just looks like
in pretty good state of repair. It's just got a

(14:01):
number of oysters, I sorry, of muscles or some sort
of bivalve that look about three centimeters long. A damn
well built kind of a thing. And I guess they'll
be taking that back and putting that up again. So
there we go. A local trucking firm is going to
bring the chair back to the family. Someone found the chair,

(14:24):
googled the name and the missing chair post popped up
was made by weck Out Workshop in Golden Bay. That's
wake up with a k who was a good guy.
They said, nice story. The mother thank the family found
the chair of the Carpety Coast Just Act Council which

(14:46):
helped remove the chair for the Beach of the Golden
Cake community for helping it go viral, and the local
trucking firm. So that's yeah. I don't know where it
would have been well, I mean, I don't know what
kind of journey it would have taken. I guess we'll
never know that. Marcus Big shout out to Terrace School

(15:07):
kids and their wearable art show last night. Primary school
art at its best. Hi, Marcus heard about a gold
mine in the hills of Market years ago from an
old fellow, mister Tonks, who was a keen gold miner
from Miramart. Showed me a map where there was a
shaft above Oho Bay. So yeah, I don't know who

(15:30):
was there. I don't know how big a settlement it
was with the gold it's something I've never really known about.
I'll read a book on that. I forget what that
guy said the book was, but very keen to hear
about that. If you want to talk about that, or
if there's something else you want to discuss tonight, I'll
give the show a chance to breathe. It's Friday, anything
could go. Something I am quite key to talk about
is chocks and eggs and what's with double yocas? Has

(16:00):
anyone experienced double yocres today? I'm reading I did some
research on double yokas. There is some chok that just sell. Sorry,
there's some chocks that just lay double yokas. Is that
something you've experienced, because I heard it was one in
a thousand, But I'm sure I've brought eggs and every
egg has been a double yoka. So I wouldn't mind

(16:23):
some discussion on double yokas today, only because I'm damn
curious about them. Apparently double yokres don't become viable chocks,
they won't hatch. It says double yolked eggs seldom lead
to successful hatchlings without human intervention, as a chicks interfere

(16:44):
with each other's hatching process and do not survive. Higher
auto yolks are rare, though hens are known to occasionally
lay even triple yolk eggs. And there is something you
can get eggs with no yolk, and they're a yolkless egg,
and they are known as a dwarf egg or a

(17:05):
wind eg egg or the archaic term cock egg. Often
it's the pullet's first effort. Yeah for the cock egg.
Since these eggs contain no yolk and a therefore cannot hatch,
they were traditionally believed to be laid by roosters. That's

(17:26):
why they called cock eggs. Well fascinating, isn't it. If
you had a cock egg or a wind egg. I
don't know if it's a wind egg or a wind egg,
but yes, I've got no idea about that. So if
you had a double yoka this morning, or if you've
got chocks and double yokas, or you might add a

(17:46):
triple yoka, I feel we need to honor this as
a topic, the single of the double yokas and the
triple yokres, or the cock eggs which they thought were
laid by a rooster. Yes, who knew that was a thing.
A small yolkless egg the legend of the cocky egg.

(18:11):
I've never come across one of those. But honestly, doing
a talk, big che if I didn't tell you, there'd
be a whole night out of that.

Speaker 10 (18:19):
Evening, Jeff, Yeah, sorry mate, Yeah yeah, just talking about
double yocres.

Speaker 11 (18:27):
My dad had a chicken.

Speaker 10 (18:28):
Farm in Levon and only every so often when we
cracked an egg, the poach it or fry it. We've
got a double yocre. But we never knew what the
cause was. So it was it wasn't very often.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
But it didn't happen how often.

Speaker 10 (18:53):
We just it was just it's just a freak of nature.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
If you have if your father has an egg found
to eat a lot of eggs?

Speaker 5 (19:02):
What's that?

Speaker 9 (19:02):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
If your father has an egg farm, do you eat
a lot of eggs?

Speaker 10 (19:08):
My dad used to have a chicken farm in Love.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Eggs during those days. Oh yeah, brilliant. Long time for
short arms to thank you. Twenty five to nine. Can't
work out what there iss known at this rugby match.
I can't work out why the women's rugby the quarter
finals to get so little publicity. There's nothing on the news,

(19:32):
which is kind of heartbreaking because on social media it's
all happening. It seems to be the talk of England.
But yeah, full stadiums, but no, no talk about it
at all. This is likely like it's a COVID match.
There's no one there. John, Welcome, it's Marcus.

Speaker 12 (19:50):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (19:53):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (19:53):
John? Thank you good.

Speaker 12 (19:55):
The Golden Wellington. I spent quite a bit of time
down there and then Terraf City Station in years before
they put all the windows up there. It's just sith
and Macra and there's a lot of old gold mine
stuff there.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
So what was it like stamper batteries and things like that.

Speaker 12 (20:13):
Yeah, there was a there's a big stamper battery there,
quite big buildings. I'm looking at a photo of it
actually back in the eighteen fifties. And the gold was
discovered there by eighteen fifty two and the battery was
called the Albion battery. Yeah, it's quite It was quite
a big operation. Lots of tents apparently in hauses, and
they had gold mines up on the on the ridge

(20:36):
and then they had a like what do you call
it where you have these carts on the on the
wires that come down to the battery.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
And are a cable wire or railway.

Speaker 12 (20:48):
Yeah, with the cable and there were the remains of
the battery are still there. There's no remainder of any buildings,
but there's still little boilers and parts of the old
stampers lying around in the valley down there.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Any word on how much gold they got.

Speaker 12 (21:03):
Look, I've got a book here about fifty station, and
I remember talking to the lady who's now passed. It
was one of the owners of the station, and I
remember her saying to me that they didn't make a
huge amount, but it was there, made enough to make
it profitable for a while, but eventually it all Peter Diet.
But there's an awful lot of quarts and stuff among

(21:26):
those hills. It's all fractured from earthquakes and stuff, of course,
so it's still there.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Did you ever take a pen to the beach stand
or anything like that?

Speaker 12 (21:35):
We always threatened to, but we never did. We did,
we did, but we did call up the hill and
into some of the mines and stuff like that. They're
pretty tight to get in there and pretty dangerous, so
we didn't go in too far. But yeah, it's all there.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, it's not a station of often who talk about
obviously one of there income streams now is when But
it was a sheep farm, wasn't.

Speaker 12 (22:00):
It was a huge it's about I think even though
it's about like thirteen or fifteen thousand acres or something
the south of Macra on the southwest coast of Wellington.
Lovely area. But of course it's a football windmills now.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, but still it's still sheep farming, is it, well.

Speaker 12 (22:17):
Still sheep farming, and it's it's you know, it's got
a lot of history.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, and exposed. I mean the whistley comes and the blows.

Speaker 12 (22:24):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely Where the where the Yalbion battery was
is a huge long battery battery that goes from oh
from Teka i think it's called Tekemaru Bay which is
just south of Macra, right down to Cable Bay where
the south arming cable comes in. And it's just it
wouldn't just blow straight up there.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's probably see the miner's crazy, those winds that don't stop.
They'll send you else, won't they.

Speaker 12 (22:48):
Oh, absolutely fairly remote too, you know, it's still still
not very accessible. You know, although they've improved the access
to the windmills. But you know on the other way
is through the valleys around the coast up into Macra,
or the other way is around the south coast of
one and which of course is pretty treacherous at the
best of times.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Nice hear from me, John, that's got a really good information.
I've enjoyed that. Thank you. The person of a dozen
yolk is the double dozen doubles. It was a stand
a dozen from Peck and save Upper Hut, Tony and
s Marcus. Good evening you.

Speaker 14 (23:26):
Talking about your double yers and that we have a
little one side about half of trucks running around and
we got the old double yellick. And one time we
got a big eggs big good side double and she
had an egg inside the egg.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
What wow, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
There was yeah, Russian like a Russian doll.

Speaker 9 (23:52):
Yeah, it was funny.

Speaker 14 (23:52):
It was there was a yeah, and there was another
egg inside the egg with a shell with a yolk
and white as well.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Did you hate it?

Speaker 15 (24:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (24:09):
Seen it before.

Speaker 9 (24:09):
I've never heard either had it.

Speaker 14 (24:12):
So it was a real real bizar, wasn't one.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
I'm going to look into that, Tony. Thank you. An
egg inside an egg accus would have fully filmed eggs
pushed back up into the hens overduck during the egg
laying process, and the egg then there's another shell formed
around it, creating a unique, often large egg with other
egg inside. It's known as exception or counter peristalsis contraction.

(24:39):
It's a rare event that was more common young inexperienced
hens whose r monal systems are still synchronizing. Counter peristalsis
or double shelling stress too one one hundred thousand An

(25:01):
egg within an egg? You put that on trade me,
wouldn't you I ate it? An egg within an egg?
Counter peristalsis contraction, cheapers. That's what we're on about tonight.
Marcus Fong and Eui Egg Factory has pecked double yolks

(25:22):
only for sale. The white is protein, the yolks fatty.
How would they know they've got double yocres? Hello there,
I live next door a place where every a lot
of chickens were actually in the same property, and a
chicken laid an egg that was so small it was
the size of those miniaster eggs. Just to I'd share
that while I was doing ubery deliveries. Marcus, it's Carol here,

(25:46):
just to elaborate on that small egg. It was the
size of a walnut. It was that swall and my
neighbor gave it to me as a bit of a joke.
I've never seen an egg from a chicken so small.
Marcus buy oversized eggs in a tray from Benix levin
twenty in a tray about sixteen bucks grandkits of the
eggs and some time to get double yocres seventy five
percent excitement poultry, all about poultry, eggs, keeping chickens and

(26:11):
the weird things the chickens have done, like double yocus,
single yokres, triple yocres, no yocres. That's what they should do.
That the Cadbury cream should do a double yoka just
to get the bit of pet back into Easter. There'd
be a good thing to do. So yes uh. And
buying double yokas, I think some supermarkets just sell them.
They've got the whole dozens full of double yokaus. You've
got some interesting stories to tell from your hands. Also

(26:33):
talking about the gold mining in Wellington. Both of these
are topics that have been most interesting. To keep those
calls coming through. I think some say with double yocres
it might be related to the food you feed them.
That might be everything. You might have something to say
about that. Also tonight, if you've got breaking news where
you are, if there's something else you want to chuck
into the mix, also be in touch. Oh, eight hundred

(26:58):
eighty ten eighty. If you've got breaking news where you are,
that to of interest to me. I don't know what
that'll be anyway, the news, it's exciting. You don't know
what's going to happen. Be in touch. There has been
a situation in Monaco. Three pedestrians injured and a crash
driver has fleed the scene. A car collider with three

(27:23):
pedestrians about six fifteen pm tonight. The vehicle had left
the scene before police arrived at Wordsworth Road. Wordsworth Road
MANAEWA Sint John's treated three pretiants and transported three patients
to middle or so it must have been six people
that were had no must have treated three there, then

(27:43):
took those three to hospital. That must be what it means.
Five huta hone Sint john vehicles, including three embdens of
response unit and an operations manager and tended the incident
to a serious position. I'm not quite sure what's gone
on there with that sounds unfortunate. Be in touch if
you've got something to add. We heittel twelve eggs and
gold gold mining, so it seems to be a bit

(28:05):
of activity around Wellington. Didn't know that and now they'll
be prospecting for more. They'll only be prospected to try
and mine. That's what they'll be doing. Don't say they're
just prospecting. The prospecting always leads to mining, although I
think the money is to be made when you get
prospected and you get some color and you start selling
shears and stuff, then the gold rush starts, irrelevant of

(28:28):
how much they'll eventually get. So yes, if you want
to talk, that's what we're on about. I'd love to
hear from you. Whether to store eggs and the fridge
or the bench depends where you've got room. Marcus. I've
never had a double yoka, but I have had mutant fijos,
two growing off each other, and a kiwi fruit with
two in a cause. You can buy trays of double

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yocus from the Rocksburgh egg shop. And we had orpingtons,
which are big chalks consistently produced double yolks, and some
monstrous eggs. One produced a couple of that or eighty
grams plus grass and free range makes orange or orange
NB yolks. Brilliant, Tim, it's Marcus.

Speaker 13 (29:10):
Good evening, and welcome, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
You well tonight, Yes, thank you, Tim, brilliant.

Speaker 13 (29:17):
Glad to hear it. Okay. So, in my weird way
of just going to drop back into the show, and
I had gold and eggs, and my mind went to
the goose that laid the golden egg. You know the
old story about that, the guy, the guy who has
a goose that lays a golden egg one day and

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then it starts dropping a golden egg every day, and
he goes to the market and sells him. And then
he gets greedy because he's not getting rich enough, and
so he kills the goose and cuts it open. And
obviously there's gold producing goose produces no longer. So I'm

(30:00):
unforally sure where I'm going with.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
This, but I think heng I'm thinking about that, because
that requires a fairly range sort of a logic to
do that. Why did he kill the goose that laid
the golden egg?

Speaker 13 (30:11):
Well, greed and so greed and ignorance and I'm coming
back to like gold prospecting, you know, from farther from
me to you know, stop someone trying in a living
and it must be very exciting. But and I wish
some success if they find some gold. But like you say,

(30:36):
prospecting is done with the hope of finding gold, and
if you find a bit of gold, you want to
find more gold. And there's always there's always consequences.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
I think it's always prospecting until you find out there's
a whole mother lad and then you want to bring
the heavy trucks in. Because gold fever is gold fever.

Speaker 13 (30:55):
It is. I mean, it's well, you know, I've already
read about it and seen shows about it. But you know,
people go nuts greed, so we've got to be careful
what we go scraping around for. It's not to say
we shouldn't, but we need stringent controls if veins are

(31:17):
struck so to speak. I'm not sure that's the right terminology,
but anyway, that's.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
What's a great example of someone killing the goose that
laid the golden egg.

Speaker 13 (31:31):
Well, I'm trying to think of what as I you know,
I mean, it could be many, it could be in
the local industries like I don't know if it's the
same actually, but say, honey, for example, people are trying
to climb out of their their beehives over the last
couple of years because they've got saturated, you.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Know, with that monark Is stuff.

Speaker 13 (31:56):
Yeah, I'm not sure if it's a valid story to
associate with it, but greed, you know, it's the downfall
of many But I guess it's like a pyramid scheme.
And I'm sure at the start that's great and who
wouldn't want to be But.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Do you remember those amazing extra pyramid schemes you used
to have. We have parties and even had to come
along with a thousand dollars.

Speaker 13 (32:25):
Yeah, well, I remember my uh man the late seventies,
early eighties, the old man telling me about them, and
that was it like chain letters and that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Samely as we're huge in the seventies, we were always
having them at to send two dollars to six people.
They were always going around and no one ever made
any money, I don't think.

Speaker 11 (32:51):
No.

Speaker 13 (32:52):
And there was always sometimes there would be the threat
of you'd be the house would be kissed and that
type of thing, and we had just run carefully. But
my parents they came from England, and you know I
would have born nineteen forty one, forty teeth, and they
told me stories of how would I put it Romany people,

(33:17):
We'll use that tim romany people coming around trying to
sell pigs, wooden pigs, you know, at your doorstep, and
if you didn't buy the pigs, it would all kick off.
Then you'd be karsed and they would be wheeling Davis
to carry on. And I thought it was pretty classic,

(33:38):
you know. But anyway, I've gone off track. I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm sure it's hard, hard way to make a living
selling pigs unless you've got some effective sales techniques pecking
you up.

Speaker 13 (33:52):
Yeah, definitely, yes, you can't rely on the science. Then
you've got to go with whatever. I guess. So, but
you know, I like a good pig. I must say
I'm particularly a smitten of the stamous still pigs you
get these days. Wonderful.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
We're in bluff and it blows an absolute gale. We
swear by those stainless ones, absolutely unbelievable. The plastic ones,
they're great, farish and blow. Those stainless ones, they they are,
They are my forever pig.

Speaker 13 (34:25):
I love them, aren't they great?

Speaker 11 (34:28):
And basically I.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Don't know where we get them from, but we don't
buy them often because I last forever. You take them
off sometimes and you'll go to work and you be
wearing one of them because you won't know where. They're
a great pig.

Speaker 13 (34:40):
They're fantastic. And I saw I was at a store
the other day, a big chain store, which is its
color is orange? Oh yeah, and they had the jumbo
version of place, and gee, I wasted. And I think
next week I'm going to go and get some because
they're great for hanging on to a chowel and in

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a gale.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
And I'm a double peg too. I want to get
the Washington hangout as possible, so I'll go from one
sheet to the towel and then I won't hand up
yet because we haven't got many of the pigs. We
haven't got enough, so you've really got to be with them.

Speaker 13 (35:17):
Then there's an aesthetic to it as well. You aren't
you washing to look even if no one else sees
it as a dog well done?

Speaker 2 (35:24):
You know I got a lot in common. We're about
to you there, old with your windy clothes line.

Speaker 13 (35:28):
Term I'm into pocky you thought you might. And we
had a beautiful washing day the other day. I mean
it was fantastic, you know. It was everything you'd want.
Maybe a bit too heavy on the wind, but me
with my stainless pigs, I was in brilliant.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Liking you a lot, and thank you. You've raised the
brow of the conversation twenty four par to eleven. I
couldn't believe it. I end up cracking every year to
see if there were doubles, much the that of my son,
who hits them all with soldiers. So it's double yocres brilliant. Jim,
AT's Marcus wilcome.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Good evening, Hey Marcus, how are you tonight?

Speaker 13 (36:10):
Jim?

Speaker 8 (36:11):
Just an update. I'm not sure exactly what's going on,
but in Bardia Street in Belmont, there's obviously some sort
of armed police situation. There's ambulance's ambulance control cars, there's
probably at least a dozen police cars marked it isn't marked,

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and there's armed police and yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Let's all go what's the name of the street?

Speaker 8 (36:41):
Bardiya b at.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
That I've got that coming off the main road going
through takream Av How long is how long? Has this
been ongoing for.

Speaker 8 (36:53):
Well, I was just going past about ten minutes ago
when a police car came screaming past us. Looks like
there's an apartment block on the corner or.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Something on the corner of Road and Bardia.

Speaker 16 (37:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (37:08):
Correct, So if you've got a long Google map, yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Look at that three story brick building.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yes, that's it.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
So yeah, so that's it appears to be within that
building they've got the police are Is that right?

Speaker 8 (37:25):
It's correct?

Speaker 2 (37:27):
H that's rreat and and first notified. How long ago?
When did you come past there?

Speaker 8 (37:36):
Ten minutes?

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay, I'll see if there's no road closures yet out there, Gym.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
No, not yet.

Speaker 8 (37:45):
There seems to be all contained in that in that area.
Is another police car coming? So yes, it's obviously something
pretty serious. I would have think for that many cars
and ambulances. Yes, and I got the paramedic units. It's
about three of those there.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Okay, I appreciate that. Jim, thanks very much for coming
through on that. If you've got the information about that,
do let us know carry no word on slack or
anything about that. Nope, okay, we'll keep what we'll see.
We'll let our use room. Now we'll see if were
getting more information about that, Jim. So thank you. Good evening, Dave.
This is Marcus.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus. Just something totally different. It's twenty
two years ago today, Tony Cash passed away.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
I remember that. I remember that vividly.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
Yeah. Yeah, said in our music life what.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
One of the greats, one of I mean, and so
many different incarnations to him. I mean I saw him
in the Highwayman, which was good, but that was him
with Waylon and will he Nelson on the road again Christmas,
and then he went did that amazing Rick Rubin album
Hurt and all those songs that really got it one

(39:00):
which was fantastic as well. That was unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
Yeah. Absolutely, I've just read Reese and of all the
things he ever produced, put out an recorded. The question
was asked by recruit and what was his what was
his what? What album did he he liked the best?
And he said, it's an album called My Mother's Hymn

(39:27):
Book And it was all the song just it's just
Johnny cashon an acoustic guitar playing all the songs from
his mother's hymn Book. Yeah it was yeah, yeah, good man, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
And so yeah, and the movie was good too. I
remember that, you know, the Man in Black. That wasn't
a bad portray. I mean, yeah, I don't. I don't
really quite know the story all the story of Johnny
Kesh's life, but I mean it was his voice that
was unparalleled. It was extraordin any sort of that tall presence,
wasn't he.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
Absolutely, And I've got I've got two movies that he
put out, Marcus. He put one out early on was
that was that's called one every minute, every minute in
America at the time somebody was dying or being murdered.

(40:18):
And then the second movie was the one that was
going to try to get him Winters to start him,
and to some degree it did. And it was It's
called a Gunfight. And the guy are playing opposite him
was Kirk Douglas. Sure, so there, yes, something a little different.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
And he was a great social campaign Hey, I don't
have seen the likes of I guess what in Nelson's
a bit of a social campaigner also, But Johnny Cash
certainly he was on the right side of every He
was on the right side of every issue.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
Yes, yes, great man, appreciate.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
That, Dave, thank you. Twenty five away from ten. We're
talking eggs, golden Wellington pigs and Johnny Cash and Hello, Toby,
this is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 15 (41:06):
Hello.

Speaker 17 (41:07):
How's it going good?

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Thanks Dady.

Speaker 18 (41:10):
Yeah, I just heard you were mentioning metals detecting and
looking for gold up in Zeeland here and I'm actually
living in Wellington and going out tonight with my metal detector.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Where will you go?

Speaker 18 (41:22):
Oriental Bay usually or just beaches.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
For bottle caps and wedding rings?

Speaker 18 (41:29):
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 19 (41:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (41:31):
I found a few rings. Most of them are just
the sort of two dollars shop ones, but I found
a nine carrot one, which was my first first week
of metal detecting.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
What would that what would that value be?

Speaker 12 (41:45):
I believe.

Speaker 18 (41:47):
I actually took it into the gold scrap people and
they told me that I have more luck selling it
for about six hundred dollars, but the scrap value would
have been I think one hundred and ninety dollars or something.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yeah, and other ethical concerns. If you find a ring
that's engraved, will you try and find its owner?

Speaker 6 (42:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (42:06):
I would try and find its owner. This one that
I found was very very deep in the sand, so
I can imagine that it's bray been there for a
while and the owner is long gone somewhere else now.
But if it wasn't engraved or very very high value,
it would be a sort of give to the police
station and then you know if they'll give it back
to me if they can't find their owner.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
So that would be the most interesting thing you found.

Speaker 18 (42:31):
Probably. Yeah, it's always nice to pick up like nails
off the beach that could end up in someone's feed
if you know, have kids running on the sand and stuff.

Speaker 12 (42:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Will it detect coins.

Speaker 18 (42:43):
Yeah, I get a few coins sometimes I get I
might have ten bucks at the end of the night,
or a dollar or ten cents, or an old one
flooring that I found which is older than I am.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Although there wouldn't be have been many people are Oriental
beach today. Would there be better in the summer? Would
it not?

Speaker 20 (43:02):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (43:02):
The weather was all right this afternoon. Summer's definitely hotspot
for detectorists, I've heard, but I yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
I kind of think it looks more interesting in Great Britain,
where they find Roman coin deposits and stuff that really
is quite valuable. It seems as though the best thing
would find here would not be that valuable.

Speaker 18 (43:25):
Yeah, I do agree. It's always nice picking up a
few few coins and you know, piling up the beaches
a little bit and you never know what you might find.
I've found a lot of IDs down by Orangelbay that
I'm always handing in, like driver's license or wallets. Or
one of my friends who I meeting down there tonight
is he's found a few laptops.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Recently we're on the beach.

Speaker 18 (43:49):
I think it was just up where people sit, like
whether it was a UNI student or someone who brought
their laptop to the beach to go for a swim
and just left it there.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Do you find many car keys?

Speaker 18 (44:01):
I actually found my first key looked like it was
from an old house or something, an old school key
under a tree.

Speaker 13 (44:09):
But no no garp.

Speaker 18 (44:09):
Easy yet, because it's.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
The classic one that someone leaves their loses their keys
at the beach and they try and find a mate
with a middle of tecta to come down quickly to
find them. I've heard of those sorts of stories quite often.

Speaker 18 (44:20):
Speak speaking of that. I had a lady who it
was my first week into detecting after finding that gold ring,
and she counts me and said oh, I've lost a
I've lost my wedding ring, like last week or two
weeks ago, done by.

Speaker 13 (44:34):
A lyle baby.

Speaker 17 (44:35):
Have you know where that is?

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (44:36):
I do, yeah, And I ended up finding it. I
think I dug about sixteen holes and seventeenth one I
found her. I think it was a twenty something carrot.
What's that gold like white gold ring with some diamonds
on it?

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yeah, I don't know the plant. I don't know what
it's called, but yeah, white gold.

Speaker 18 (44:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that was probably my best find.
But that was something I actually forgot about that until
you mentioned finding.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
And how how does the cash transaction of gratitude go
with that one?

Speaker 18 (45:08):
Well, she actually offered me one hundred dollars and I
was like, oh, no, you don't need to and then
she was like I was like, okay, thank you.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
So you took about yeah, I.

Speaker 18 (45:19):
Fear yeah, I think so. I mean, I wasn't looking
for any anything in return. It was just nice to
return her thirteen year marriage winning ring back to her
that she'd lost and.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
The husband was still around, right.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was.

Speaker 18 (45:35):
The husband was actually the person who lost it. When
she was going for a swim.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
She gave it to he after it let's see that
as a curse and all sorts of things. So that
was a great thing you did. Hey, were you talking
about that first? Did you find that on the first
day you went to tict theor Ring, the Gold Ring
or the Ladies Ring, the Gold Ring?

Speaker 18 (45:54):
The Gold Ring? I actually found with a really really
cheap detective from Jaca. I think it was like one
hundred bucks, and that was like my first first night.

Speaker 12 (46:04):
Of doing it.

Speaker 18 (46:05):
I was like, it was just big dumb beginners luck.
And then since then I've got a much fancier one
which is a lot more reliable with the signals. It
doesn't give me false alerts and stuff. But yeah, yeah, yeah, what.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Would have what would have your kit costure? Now, Toby,
is it like a grand or how much is it?

Speaker 18 (46:23):
I think I impulsively spent just over one thousand dollars
and that came with some headphones and a slightly smaller
coil that goes on the bottom, which sort of gives
you some accurate targets and little little spaces.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Well, OK, what's your what's your bucket list beach to do?
What's your exciting location you'd like to get to, I.

Speaker 18 (46:46):
Don't really have one. It would be nice to get
permission to go to an o botanical gardens. Would be
an awesome place. But that's all really like a no
go zone. But if you've got a permission to sort
of go dig in, as long as you're tidy and
you know someone gave you permission, it would be nice
to find some old relics and even just hand them
into a museum.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Or do you think would be like early European settlement stuff?

Speaker 18 (47:12):
Yeah, I mean there could be anything here. Whatever. Someone's
dropped in the bus and it's rained and it's sunk
into the mud on the ground and grass is growing
over and.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yeah, yep, don't disagree. Toby and George you very much,
thank you for that. Good eving. Maxine, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 21 (47:30):
Oh hello Marcus.

Speaker 7 (47:32):
I ended up going to Bluff we spoke the other night,
yes yeah, yeah yeah, and fish and chip shops the
wonder by the fifty K zone was closed, but ended
up going to TJ's.

Speaker 21 (47:47):
Kitchen yes there, yeah, yeah yeah, and took a burger
to my dear friend that's who I was going down
to see, and it was quite spicy, but she enjoyed it. Yeah,
it was really really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Think the local, the local. Heck, I think as you
buy the kids burger and then usual it up at home,
I think that's what people are doing. But he seems
to be he seems to be a good operator. He
seems to have good cod.

Speaker 21 (48:16):
And yeah, well I didn't get the cod. But the
burger was brilliant.

Speaker 6 (48:20):
I mean it was.

Speaker 21 (48:21):
It wasn't a McDonald's by no means. It was like
two burger patties. It had egg, it had Coleslaw, all
sorts of bows and bobs. It was quite brilliant. But
I did have because I had to escape, not escape
my dear friend. But I had an appointment in Invers

(48:41):
and I couldn't indulge in the burger with her. I
got the same for each and yeah yeah, And when
I got home up from my appointment, I texted her,
dear lady, is in thehseema, you know, not good and yeah,

(49:02):
and I texted her, as be careful the burger spicy.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Want to say something about about Johnny Keshall so.

Speaker 21 (49:11):
God, dear Johnny, my family, my immediate family, my children,
and my husband loved Johnny Cash my husband. He's in
care with dementia. I don't know if I mentioned it
to you. Yeah, and it was brilliant and wholesome or

(49:33):
the jolly jail sentence, well, not sentence for him, but
his performance in the jail and wholesome, that's right.

Speaker 19 (49:45):
Yeah, yeah, and.

Speaker 21 (49:48):
Approaching his decline. When we lived in Alexandra, we would
have a party. My family would come up, of course,
I love Central, don't see them much now, and my
dear son working at the New World.

Speaker 18 (50:09):
It was very poigant for my boys.

Speaker 21 (50:12):
I didn't realize how poignant it was. The Johnny Cash
image and the Johnny Cash philosophy man dressed in black,
all that, but it really registered. It's quite interesting.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Olive, it makesing. Thanks so much for coming through, Craig.
This is Marcus.

Speaker 17 (50:31):
Welcome, good evening. How's it going, Craig.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
It's going well. How's it going with you?

Speaker 17 (50:36):
Oh, not too bad. It's the end of the busy weeks?

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Boy, what a busy week. So much news anyway, Yeah,
I'm looking forward to it, can't wait.

Speaker 17 (50:45):
Yes, I've been heaps stuff on the news, you know,
we're talking about detector and stuff on similar lines to that.
A friend of mine, she weaves for her own business,
and she basically checks the mounting on like boys and
stuff and harvest that you tied to, like for boat
burthing boats, and checks to make sure that they're changed
and then uneasa are all in good condition.

Speaker 13 (51:04):
Yes, so I help her out.

Speaker 17 (51:06):
It's like a spotted diver when she does that. And
we do a lot of things around different towerungera and
all that pabasis. But I remember it. We found keys
and jewelry, which you normally just hands the jewelry straight
into the nearest police station, but we found one time,
we found an iPhone and an auxiliary output motor from
a small boat just lying on the bottom.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
So hang on. So you are checking moorings and securing moorings,
is that what you're doing.

Speaker 17 (51:34):
Yeah, we're basically just checking to make sure that the
chains under the water there are all secure and not
too rustled and everything secure for boats to detach above.
So basically we're diving so underneath the water, just going
around checking things. I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
I didn't know people dive for that. Okay, so you're
you're in the harbors on the ocean floor.

Speaker 17 (51:52):
Yeah, just just just checking and make sure that all
the shekels, these checkles and all the touching the chain
and all were structurally okay, so that when people tie
the boats up and no, it's secure, it's not going
to pull.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
That's fascinating. Visibility quite clear down there, and you can
see all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 17 (52:10):
Yeah, it's not too bad sometimes, I mean going around
Topo's not too bad around the harbor down there because
it's pretty clear there. It's actually much nicer to dive
down there. But yeah, I mean we found obviously you know,
the washing, the shopping.

Speaker 12 (52:22):
Trolleys, help poards.

Speaker 17 (52:24):
Yes, a couple of anchors was bit a chain on
nothing on the nee. It's obviously someone either dropped the
anchor or so I don't know what it was. There's
no boat attached to it. Yes, but that's it's amazing
what sort of crap that ends up on there. Like
And remember we dived in Krapia like this North Hamilton
nor South Hamilton On's just for just to try some
new gear out and found three or four parking meters

(52:46):
have been cut off and I don't understand, so we
sort of pulled them up and sort of broke them open.
But all the coins that all sort of got yucky
and created. But it's like, who he throws parking meters
into a lake, But it's not much of a.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Crime because how much money would be in a parking
meters look at like like one hundred and fifty cent pieces,
that's amazing.

Speaker 17 (53:04):
Probably like two dollars worth prob because more and timing
you fit to cut it off. But you know, it
never sees it abade us what we find down there,
that's like, But yeah, I'm kind of interesting about the
guy fighting the gold rings. I guess you're quite cool.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Tell me, Craig, who pays for Do the boat owners
pay for their moorings to be checked and repaired?

Speaker 17 (53:25):
I'm not too certain. I just help her Out's her
business that she runs, like I have to find out,
but I guess that probably either that or maybe it's
to do with the harbor master or something that pays
it not really too soon and how that works. But yeah,
we just basically just go and check everything to make
sure all the chains are not rusted and everything's tight
and secure, because the last thing you want to do

(53:46):
is tie your boat up to more and come back
and the boat shifted somewhere else and none of.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
The computers or anything. I mean everything you find on
the everything is useless because it's rusted and wrecked. Right.

Speaker 17 (53:56):
Yeah, well we tried to power up the iPhone once
but that didn't work, so it was quite weird and horrible.
But yeah, all the stuff we find, like drawling and stuff,
we just handed into the Larous police station because you know,
but know someone may have lost them hold a claim
for it. So most of the.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
What sort of jewel of you found, Craig, We found.

Speaker 17 (54:16):
A little gold lock at once with a photo was
all deteriorated, don't know whose photo was. And we found
a little sterling silver chain with I think it was
one of those Pandora ones with a little bit like
different animals and stuff on this. Yeah, sure we handed
that but we never got any word back.

Speaker 18 (54:33):
To say that.

Speaker 17 (54:34):
No one hacclaimed, but so obviously someone had obviously filled
with Warman and they'd pass it onto them. But you
kind of feel good sort of finding stuff and handing
back to someone hopefully they can find it, so it's good.

Speaker 12 (54:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
No wristwatches.

Speaker 17 (54:47):
Found an old like one of those old g shock things,
which was you look at that and go, well leave
they're there. But then we also get involved with them
when they clean up the harbors. When they do that thing,
we get groups of divers around the productible the rubbish
out of harbors and stuff for them. Some of stuff
you find like spare tires and all kinds of bikes,

(55:09):
and it's like, really, people just can't be bothered doing
something properly with it us throw the water and go.
If I can't see it, it's all good, which is wrong, yeah,
but anyway, good show.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Anyway you have tried. You haven't done any magnet fishing,
have you, Craig?

Speaker 17 (55:25):
I tried that once. I lost my keys in the
late many years ago down by peer and I tried
magnet thing. I couldn't find it. So only that just
biting the ball and taking my shoes and socks off
and jumped in and try and find and found them.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Then nice to hear from your crank's Craig are twenty
one past ten, looking forward to your calls. People, light bulbs, pigs,
double yocus fishing, magnet fishing and detector ing, detect directoring,
if you want to talk about that, that's all good stuff.
You have you done detectoring? How's that worked out for you?
Looking for any update to tell on the situation on

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the north shore of Auckland. Good evening, John, this is
Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
I've gone up the back of what is now is
the land here and done a bit of gold panting
up there, and I can tell those guys now there's
nothing there, not even not even a crumb of dust.
Even the old miners gave up on the place.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
It's amazing that there's suddenly all that's interested it. How
long ago did you do that?

Speaker 4 (56:29):
That would have been nineties.

Speaker 6 (56:33):
It was.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Because it doesn't even look like gold bearing geology to me.
But obviously it has been a thing with you. They
must have seen some color.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
Yeah, I think they got a little bit out of there,
but it certainly was economic for them, and if there was,
if there was something there, it's long gone. It's the
same with way over by the Terror footy station, which
is probably where they're prospecting right covers. They had a

(57:06):
heap of people out there prospecting back in the turn
of the century. The only person that made any money
out of it was the farmer who was leasing out
the claim patches.

Speaker 12 (57:20):
There was.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
They penned quite far afar a streams as well. Again
that wasn't very economic, but they did get something out
of it.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
And Farophile is the one that comes down from the
lander and comes out by into the harbor.

Speaker 6 (57:34):
Is that right?

Speaker 8 (57:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (57:36):
I think it does.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Yeah, I've followed that river down. It looks goldie that one.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
And I think there was a small open cast patch
that they did just north of Horacibe Road on the
what is now Highway to said that it got some
out of there that that didn't seem to go very
far and there was a reasonably profitable mind that was

(58:04):
put in and on to wainer the hill behind some
old homestead there. I was talking to the guy around
the homestead and that would have been about late eighties,
and he said they got about a million and a
half dollars with the gold out of that one. There's
supposed to be a lot of gold in the hills

(58:26):
around the Hut Valley Wellington, but certainly not economical even
at today's prices.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Someone mentioned there was a mountain called Mount Welcome to
the east of pukato A Bay, that there was a
mine there too. It is it cover amongst your wanderings?

Speaker 4 (58:43):
I heard of that one.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Okay, what was when you're out out by Zilandia. Was
it what was the was it grassland? Were you just
digging soil or were you in sand?

Speaker 7 (58:57):
No?

Speaker 4 (58:57):
I was I was just panning in the streams and
the little brooks that went up the side. And it
was waterworks property in those days, so it was basically
the water supply for the part of the water supply
and you know for the Wellington city.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
And there are no flicks of gold at all, no.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
Nothing, it's not even crumb color.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
That's pretty clear part, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Yeah, But you never know they might find something. I'm
not over They did find a little bit's over in
Terraftti and they're supposed to have been some old old
miner over there that got enough to keep themselves sustained
in his little cabin. That was about all.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
Okay, that's yeah. I appreciate John. That's the that's the font. John.
You seem to have done it all well. That solved
my problems for today. That's great. I appreciate that. Thank you.
With you till twelve hope it's good where you are. People.
My name is Marcus good. Evening first day about the gold, Yeah,
because I think if you if you gave a gay
with a pair, you'd tea something of that was there
because no one else would have penned in there, would they.

(01:00:10):
I mean, that's the thing about gold. It doesn't go anywhere.
It's heavy. Would I've washed down to the harbor? But yes,
do talk even it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:00:22):
Oh yes, good envy evening even. I pulled up a
stain of steel gain fishing chair out of a boat
on my long line once.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Wow, did you know what I mean? Did you? Did you? Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:00:39):
Well, the whole, the whole stain of steel there was
covered in barnacles set for the bottom of the post,
but so it seemed like it had come out of
a boat.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Actually, a long line is just a line with a
lot of hoks on, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:00:54):
Yeah, I was running in two thousand and a day
by myself.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
What would be the breaking straight of that? Would it
pull up something as heavy as that?

Speaker 6 (01:01:00):
Yeah? Well, yeah, it took a bit. I had to
go around in circles quite a few times to get
it out.

Speaker 12 (01:01:05):
Of a whole the boat.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
Yes, yeah, but he heapes anchors and with boats attached sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Really, you're not going to bring you're not going to
bring a boat up, though, are.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
You No, The boat was just anchored on top.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Of the long line.

Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
Pull their pull their anchorrupt.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
You know what do you do when that happens.

Speaker 6 (01:01:30):
I just try and unhook it as quick as possible,
you know, before it snapped the main line.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Was the stainless steel fisherman's seed of any value.

Speaker 6 (01:01:42):
No, there's a bit of a gardaman garden ornamental need.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Okay, didn't check it on. Didn't check it on trade
and try and sell it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
And I suggested that to the guy I gave it to.

Speaker 12 (01:01:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:01:58):
Double there was the off Waiki palm beach.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Oh yeah. You don't know what of interest to go
back and find the vessel was attached to, would you?
That would be probably quite a big discovery.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
Yeah, it seems strange that it was still there because
they normally pull them up. If there's a sunk vessel
around the place these days.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
There might have been some skulldugger. It might have been
drug runners or something.

Speaker 6 (01:02:24):
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
I'm Marcus, keep your coordinates, go and look even thank you.
Twenty seven to eleven Marcus till twelve, make anyone done
magnet fishing. I'll tell you what magnet fishing is you
get a magnet, and you get a rope, and you
check your magnet, and then you drag it through and
attaches to something good ump and then you try like
mighty to pull it up. And it's normally like old

(01:02:47):
motorbikes or something that's been stolen and thrown. I think
in America, don't know, this is the long way in
America's lot of firearms with numbers filed off them. I
don't know where a good place in New Zealanders to
do it, but yeah, people love it. I think you

(01:03:07):
feel yourself as you do it for your YouTube channel.
It's one of those things that's most a hobby you
do the YouTube with it. So yeah, but we're talking
about double yoca eggs and pegs and Johnny cash and
gold mining and detectoring with metal detectives. I think that's

(01:03:32):
what they call it now. Never had a name, but
now it's detectoring and magnet fishing. Also to im asking
for any report on what's happening in Belmont and Auckland,
large number of police there on the corner of Lake Road.
In the name that I keep forgetting an unusual sounding word.

(01:03:57):
It's not a street. I can never feare them white.
They called it that. I'll tell you what it was, Bardier.
It's probably some battle or something around the world, isn't
I think they might be military names. There might be
a place in Libya, so that's probably what the streets
are named after there. I think that could well be

(01:04:18):
what's happened. So on that corner. There's some apartments there
on the third floor. Sorry, there's some three story apartments,
and there's a huge number of police and activity there.
I've got no more information, but if you've got and hey,
let us know, twenty four away from eleven, keep me
busy if you can. People, you've got things to say.
Anything goes tonight. It's also the day of Johnny Cash's death.

(01:04:38):
He died this day twenty two years ago. Was a
great concert the highwayman it Mounts. But I don't know
if anyone else went to that. I feel that would
be about nineteen ninety four, No, be about nineteen ninety
five or six. I remember vividly because as the concert
finished they sang on the Road again and we heard
Willie Nelson singing that sweetly and beautifully. If eever you

(01:05:04):
want to live your life like someone else you want
to live like Willian nels Man, oh man, he looks good.
I saw him the other day, was singing at someone's funeral.
Whod promised someone to come along and sing at the
funeral with his old betted guitar that he always uses
his acoustic guitar. But yeah, unbelievable because he must be
in his nineties and there is no old musician that

(01:05:25):
looks better than him. Looks incredibly. How do I say
this about old people? Looks incredibly? I was gonna say erect,
but just sort of tall and untroubled by the burden
of age. He's ninety two. Wow, one of the greats.

(01:05:54):
And yeah, he's always on the right side of most arguments.
Also likes this pot of course, seems to be working
out for him though, doesn't it. And him doing seven
Spanish angels, what a but that is the duet Love
That Love That What a great song.

Speaker 10 (01:06:13):
That is.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
One of the absolute greats. I just enjoyed looking to
the lyrics of that song. Him and Ray Charles. Obviously.
Something to know is frames for your license plate in
some vehicles of a round sticker on the passenger side
with a number like thirty in the middle and numbers around.

(01:06:38):
I don't know what that's about, but thank you, Davy.
It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:06:43):
Oh are you going to take my call tonight? That's great? Hey,
I just wanted to follow. How did you get on?
You said you were going to fry the noodles?

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Oh, I haven't tried it again. I've just tried it
the once.

Speaker 11 (01:06:55):
Oh just the ones? Okay, Well, well I did it
at school with my students today.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Oh god, how did you?

Speaker 10 (01:07:05):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
How did you cook?

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
Then?

Speaker 11 (01:07:06):
You chopped it exactly as I did it, exactly as
I said to you. We we we split the brick
and half with melted butter and the seasoning and what
have you. Had mixed results, but but my my tasting
of it was it was it was it was great.

(01:07:27):
It was just a savory snack.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
So it's hot. It's hot, isn't it been still crispy?

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:07:32):
Yeah, yeah, it's just like a hot biscuit.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Yeah, that's exactly what it's like. Did you how long
did you did they? Did they did they go brown?
Did they ready brown up on you?

Speaker 6 (01:07:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:07:41):
Yeah yeah they did? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
And the butter soaked right through.

Speaker 11 (01:07:48):
Well well in different ones, yeah, yeah, I mean I
think maybe a tablespoon is not enough. Maybe maybe the
two tablespoons.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Yeah, okay, what is it, Davy? Is it what you're
supposed to be teaching? No, I did wonder what course
that was. But that's all right. I'm not going to
get you to out yourself, but I'm interested in that.
There we go. Okay, all good, Thanks Davy, I'll report back.

(01:08:19):
Thank you. By the way, local body elections, remember to vote.
You can vote now. It's important to vote and have
your same democracy vote for some Yeah, we'll get give
for some new blood in there. That'd be my suggestion
to your people, same old, same Mound's not really working,
is it? Eight hundred and eighty ten nine two detects
you want to come through be my guest people. Well, also,

(01:08:41):
if you're overseas, feel free to be involved with the show.
Talking detectorists and eggs, double yokres. You might keep hens
and you might have hens that always do double yokres
or no yokers. They call that a cocky egg because
they thought they would be laid by roosters, which is weird,

(01:09:03):
isn't it. So, yes, that's what we're on about tonight.
You've got something I'm mad to say. Would ducks have
double yocres? I suppose they'd have All birds would have them?
Would they not just chickens? Bentams? Would you don't hear
much about benams? We had benams. They're delightful little birds,

(01:09:24):
weren't there those tiny little eggs loved to bentam? Do
you hear much about benams anymore? I don't know why
that is. I don't know what to say about that.
But do come through if you want to be a
part of the show. If there's something different, you want
to mention interesting plans for the weekend. But yeah, I
feel where I live we get most of the weather

(01:09:44):
before you get it. So as a result, I think
there's probably some pretty petchy weather coming up the country.
I feel it's going to be like that for about
a week or two. So there preverty much is the equinox,
and it's questionable. I looked at the long range forecast
for where I am, but it's like another ten days
of rain, which is slightly tiresome. Not what you can

(01:10:08):
do about it that was there. Yes, every day, there's
not one sun symbol right till Sunday, Week one, two,
three fourth, it's ten day forecast. Oh well, I shall
cope fourteen to eleven. Jay, it's Marcus good evening, Marcus good, Thanks.

Speaker 22 (01:10:28):
Jay good many funny you mention Abantam. So I was talking,
I was on the mate last week and we're just
having a chat, just just a chat. And got onto
the topic of we were kids in that and and
serious like she actually see it from around area actually

(01:10:48):
down the deep.

Speaker 23 (01:10:49):
South like the eating away though right now there's.

Speaker 22 (01:10:53):
To have a farm public on anyway.

Speaker 15 (01:10:55):
So.

Speaker 23 (01:10:57):
And he talked about egg Day and then I think
egg Days coming up this weekend too. I think you're
going for awkward for a lot of them.

Speaker 22 (01:11:04):
And so fantoms came up. So I'm from Wellington and
then so we moved up to Ausland like ninety ninety three.

Speaker 23 (01:11:13):
I was like eight, and so you know, we don't
have farms and like that, you know, and really.

Speaker 22 (01:11:21):
And so we moved to Ardmore and Ausland just like
it's out of Papaca City south but it's like the
country but right and and we went to the country
store were primary and then so we had this small
two and a half acres, thought it was a farm
and anyway, so mom and dad, you know, I go

(01:11:42):
to the land. We cannaet some animals and we had
a cow.

Speaker 23 (01:11:46):
The cow is called Homer because services at the time
as home of the Cow. And we used to ride
the cows and and there was a couple of steep
I forget your nass really into the seat. And then
we had a whole lot of bantom and and they're
like minister chickens and and we came out one morning,

(01:12:10):
we've noticed that a lot of the the hind bands
was again attacked to that and ye we figured out
with the bloody rooster, the rooster bensum with attacking all
the hens. And we were like, oh, we can't have
that because we're bloody, you know, we.

Speaker 12 (01:12:26):
Want some eggs.

Speaker 23 (01:12:27):
And so anyway, we come up one morning and get
some eggs and a whole lot of fantoms of him.
Buddy picked the death and the from the rooster nsim
and so like, oh god, we're gonna do So we
got some more bantom, but we didn't get a rooster Ansom.

(01:12:49):
And we got a little fluffy black Bensom and she
was like the grandmother's bantom and we called her a
whoopie yeah yeah yeah, who yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Yeah ghost.

Speaker 23 (01:13:05):
Yeah ghosts.

Speaker 22 (01:13:06):
Yeah, yeah, and that is my band to the story bro.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
And they laid eggs are on the lay they.

Speaker 22 (01:13:14):
Did they eggs Yeah, and we ate the eggs and
it was yes, yes, it was a good productory to
the chickens.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Right. What are you doing out of interest?

Speaker 5 (01:13:23):
Jay?

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
You're sort of wandering around.

Speaker 22 (01:13:26):
Bloody's driving the work band and I'm just I'm just
driving the work band mate scaffold in the back.

Speaker 5 (01:13:31):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Okay, nice here from me, Jay, Thank you. Marcus. Can
you tell us about the cooking or frying noodle recipe?
I'm interested in seeing what that was about. Okay, tell
you exactly about that. I've got a bit party what
Emo a while back, and to his surprise, he was
in a unit where you could cook your own food.

(01:13:52):
I didn't ask too many questions, but it seemed to
have a kitchen, and in the kitchen had a toasted
sandwich maker, one of those flat girl ones, and you
could buy noodles from the commissary for fifty cents, I think.
And what the great was is I'd get a packet
of instant noodles and a solid packet and you would

(01:14:14):
cut them down the edge so you had two like
bread shaped slices of bread, but the noodles toasted sandwich maker,
and then you'd put two tablespoons of butter, and then
you'd put the condiments from the from the foil things.

(01:14:37):
One would be the MSG one or whatever that was,
and the other would be those three ones of soy
the chili and that you'd spread that on then put
the lid on that, and then bring the toasted sandwich
maker lid down on top of that, and you'd cook
until it gets brown, and that would be a nice
like hot biscuit snack.

Speaker 19 (01:14:59):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
I tried it once but didn't have the cutting in
half instructions, and I will try it again. I don't
think it was without merit. It might be better with
some cheese or something and that they could drip through
it a bit. Of course, I want too much cheese,
So yeah, I will report back because I did buy
a couple of packs of noodles to try that out.

(01:15:20):
So that's what the plan for the weekend is. The
trouble for me is the kids could not have been
less excited. I mean, the great thing about parenting, it's
only prettyasy get kids enthused about something, but less unless
as time goes on, why would I do that, dad?

(01:15:40):
Why would that be interesting? That's the sort of things
they say to me. However, if I get them hungry
enough or bored enough, there'll be no limit to what
they can I mean, they normally got they can normally
channel into my enthusiasm, and long may that continue? So

(01:16:04):
I might report back on that. I suppose these days
you can't just do something with your kid. You've got
to make a YouTube video, don't You Don't get me started.
Everyone trying to dial in the next generation drives me crazy.
Marcus Kuda Mark's ever tramp booked in with the five

(01:16:26):
year old and the Tudorodoers for the first Sunday of
the school holidays. Please provide an update on your weather
for Friday at ten thirty pm where you're headed in.
It's a pretty broad place to tutorhoers. But yeah, I
can only get whether I'm my Apple, and I never
understand with the Apple whether when it says rain fifty percent,

(01:16:46):
does that mean for that hour is it going to
rain fifty percent of that hour or there's a fifty
percent chance that will rain. I've never understood that. Benams
go broody. You won't get many eggs. We always had
success with our benams. I don't know what broody means,
but yeah, I'm hearing it. Yeah, when you don't see

(01:17:08):
bent Bentam factories in any places, not bent in factories.
You don't see Bentam chicken farms very often, do you.
I am intrigued sometimes when you go to the night
markets and they're selling quail eggs and quite reasonably honest thing,
and I think, well, jeep, it's creepers, that's sort of pelar.

(01:17:29):
But where do they get all those from. I've never
actually found out where the quail farms are. It seems
to be a lot of furfing around for tiny eggs.
So there's that. Also, if you want to mention that, Marcus,
why are fully grown chicks called chickens? The chicken is

(01:17:49):
a baby chok, people call them saying chop chok. Why
are full of grown chicks called chickens? I don't know,
don't know what that is. Chocks and chicks A very
good point you make. No, No, can't answer that. That's
beyond the realms of my conference. It's a good question, though,
never thought of that. Chucks and chickens, chocks and chickens

(01:18:13):
Jim Steeden from twelve People. When I was just a text.
When I was truck driving in America, used to stop
the truck stop five Larry's Country Diner regularly used to
have America's top country stars playing there every night. I
saw Willie Nelson there a few times and parted with
him a couple of times in his blue bus in
which he lives and travels around America. That was twenty
five years ago, KEIV, I look that up. Good evening, Roger,

(01:18:35):
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:18:43):
I want to talk to you about say, gold mining. Yeah,
now and nowadays. We used to go to dunk Back
and shake and we're there for a week. We came
there and we pen and we got a lot of
fine gold and a lot of was like sand. It's
quite Coosse who was really great. And then I had

(01:19:10):
a sort of a cradle and di shovel, but sat
water and sond in that and we've all cleaned it out.
We've got a reader more and I took it home
and burnt the the year five U sacking in the
cradle and got some more builder in there. So we

(01:19:31):
must have got a build all or a hundreds. It
was in school days, it was just fun.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
So sha shag rivers obviously on the coast, is that
where you were in Lander? But was just ending up
I had done back, okay, understand.

Speaker 19 (01:19:52):
And then another thing finding things in the sand the
young land those days, just got engaged with my wife.
And there's a sort of a sand cave one of
the beaches here, and there was a time never got
to it, and you know, people went in there and

(01:20:13):
we just sat there and I lost she lost the
ring and devastation. And remember my brother he went out
the next day and and the mic freend and said
took a bit of a wire and he found it.

Speaker 10 (01:20:31):
Well.

Speaker 19 (01:20:32):
And another thing with the Quiel eggs, I've traced to
those and they're very very nice.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Hey, So was it just was it just gravel? Was
it just? Was it just in the sands you're getting
the gold fine dust and the share river?

Speaker 8 (01:20:51):
No?

Speaker 19 (01:20:51):
No, it was then the.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
Gravel and the river and the but no no nuggets,
just little flakes, is that right?

Speaker 19 (01:21:01):
Just a little face and a sorrow especially, course there
was of course it was like some of us like
saying this. Of course it was where were you living?

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
Where were you living? Where you live? In Dneed and
Roger where.

Speaker 19 (01:21:18):
Where it was great fun sounds.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
That's exciting holiday. Thank you Roger. Hello, Philip, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:21:26):
Oh hello Marcus. There was just a news report on
on the eleven o'clock news about the cycle of Spain,
the Tour of Spain.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
Oh okay, didn't hear that.

Speaker 19 (01:21:38):
But yes, yeah, they're trying to close down the Israeli team.
You know, they're pickering and shortening the races. The thing is,
George Bennett is in that tea George Bennett.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
George, he's in the Israeli team.

Speaker 19 (01:21:59):
He's in the Israeli team. Wait for them. Wow, I
need to get out. It's a he should get out
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
I hadn't heard that, no business, I hadn't heard that story.
And he's a fairy good cyclist, is he?

Speaker 4 (01:22:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:22:17):
I know. I was an admirer of George because he's
a climber, you know, and I was a climber.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
Yeah. He's a little guy, is he.

Speaker 19 (01:22:27):
He's from now Nelson region, Yeah, and he's he's a
tour to France.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
Fifty eight kilogram says he's tall, but thinais.

Speaker 19 (01:22:36):
Yeah, like I was a little guy on a little bike. Yeah,
I was a climber. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
Did you do Did you do European Tours, Philip?

Speaker 19 (01:22:47):
No? But I did four iron Man's Oh wow wow?
And I did the pack and kettle hundred seventeen years.

Speaker 13 (01:22:56):
In a row.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Where's where's that from?

Speaker 19 (01:22:59):
That's from over the shore, all around the back from
Kristen school.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Oh you understand.

Speaker 19 (01:23:06):
One hundred k race. And I was always in the
top fifteen percent, yes, you know, of time, so I
was always competitive. The other thing I did was I
won a couple of hundred k races, which one you
can't be too slack to one one hundred k race,
you know, at what on top of that?

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
At what age?

Speaker 19 (01:23:30):
In my mid thirties?

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
Wow?

Speaker 19 (01:23:31):
You know. The first hundred k race I won, I
was out of Karaka, all the films and the whonevers
I was. At one point I was eight minutes up. Yeah,
you know, that's you know, that's just not heard of.
And I slowed down because I had no spares.

Speaker 13 (01:23:53):
No pumps.

Speaker 19 (01:23:54):
But I won by just under four minutes, you know.
And I came in and I was drinking a cup
of tea, So I'm no slouch, you know. And it
just offends me that George Bennett should be riding for
the Israeli team because they're scum. You know, Yeah, I
didn't realize.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
I didn't realize that. Yeah, I've heard what you saidn't
realize that story was there in the news. But were
you someone that cycled at school age?

Speaker 19 (01:24:20):
Oh six years old? I was born from Wellington and
I wrote vote around in Wellington for years. But when
I was twenty two, I rode from London to Athens
on a ten speed pergo wow it with corapins. And
you know, I've also written Auckland to Wellington and back

(01:24:43):
about I don't know, I can't remember, let's say six
or eight times. Yes, I've done the Napier Twerpo three
times each way. I've been up Cape Rihanna twice. I've
been around the East Cape twice. Of the Wireweker I've
done several times.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
Which is which is the which is the wyre Wicker?

Speaker 19 (01:25:03):
The wire wickers from Grisbone up to matt Lwi And
then you know, and he's done.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Are you still cycling? You're still cycling now? Philip?

Speaker 19 (01:25:14):
No? No, you know what?

Speaker 10 (01:25:17):
What?

Speaker 19 (01:25:18):
When I got I got actually got hat by a motorists.
One morning, got riding to work and he broke my
back and uh and I never really recovered from it.
And now the bike's all I've got a custom built
Jay Foster.

Speaker 6 (01:25:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:25:36):
Also, my my bike that I raced on for years
was was a time trial bike. So it's got a
small front wheel, you know, remember those ones from the
track for the small wheel. So I raced that for
years and people would look at me and think, oh,
look at him, he's on a helly course. He can't

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he can't, he can't, you know, climb. But I was
a climber, you know. I've been. I've been up to
the top of the y tech to the TV mask probably. Oh.
The other thing I used to do was right to poel,
knowing every second weekend in the summer. I only in training,
you know, And I've done that about fifty times. Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
So you know the Koku Hill, Yep, I've done that.
I've done that. I bite that myself on Christmas Day
on a single speed and that was no means.

Speaker 19 (01:26:26):
Well, I've done that. I knew that like the back
of my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Yeah, it's a good hill now one the three.

Speaker 19 (01:26:32):
And the three sisters and then you know Duck Creek.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 19 (01:26:37):
So you know I've got I've got credentials.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
Yeah, and we'll leave it there, Philip. But nice to talk.
Thank you. Fifteen past eleven, some texts. I was staying
at a factory and I know what the problem was there.
We had a lot of down trees out the back
that we should have cut down. And that's another number
that's making any sense. But everything, Marcus, I want to
tell you about a dozen eggs I purchased from a
deer around the corner of fitterber Avon Ferguson's threating parts
to North in the early seventies, and that doesn't was

(01:27:02):
ten double yolkas out of the twelve. It was like
striking gold every grade evening. We always listen to you.
Thank you, Valerie. Chalk is Italian slang for chicken. Thank
you appreciate that we're talking double yocas and we are
talking pegs and magnet fishing and detectoring and gold mining.

(01:27:28):
It's been a fairly broad night and stainless steel pegs.
Twenty past eleven. Hello, Hello, David, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:27:37):
How are you tonight? Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
Good? Thanks David.

Speaker 20 (01:27:42):
I went shopping today in bren Eden, Yep boards a
board a dozen se seven eggs, yep rise and showing
her brand name, yep, seven dollars fifty a dozen.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
Well it's reasonable, that's pretty.

Speaker 20 (01:27:59):
It's bigger than the two seber market chains. Yep bye,
two dollars a dozen. It just goes to show how
shafting they have. Yeah, I made I'm born in paterr
U and chipped up there and with you know, two

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dollars better than the big chains. How was that?

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
What supermarket was it?

Speaker 20 (01:28:30):
Or square?

Speaker 17 (01:28:31):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:28:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Well, now were there any Were there any double Yokas?

Speaker 10 (01:28:37):
No?

Speaker 20 (01:28:37):
I haven't seen one of those for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Okay, that's what we are talking about. Wanted. I thought
you'd say they're all double yokres. I mean, I think
the bigger eggs you've got more of a chance of
a double yoka.

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
So you see, the eggs were two dollars cheaper, did
you two.

Speaker 20 (01:28:52):
Dollars a dozen cheaper than you can buy them anywhere
from the big two and you know the supermarket chains.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
So they got an exclusive deal with the group and Potato.
That was that? What's happening?

Speaker 20 (01:29:05):
I don't know, but there's no big sign out there
saying special you know or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
You're in a good sized egg the seven Yeah, okay,
well brilliant. It's good outcome, David, thank you for that.
Twenty one past ten here till twelve eighteen fourteen? Can
do we have a Melbourne There have some tricks in
it before the end though. I do get in touch
if you want to partake. We are talking eggs and
double yocas and anything else that's got your fancy tonight,

(01:29:37):
good steady show. Actually you've been there all night and
long way that lasts. Let's be hearing from you if
you want to get involved. Twenty three past eleven O

(01:29:57):
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine text. Oh yes,
I think there's a bit of royal talk around the UK.
I think Prince Harry is back. It's pretty hard to
work out what goes on there.

Speaker 21 (01:30:21):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Do get in touch if you want to add anything
to any of these discussions. Eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine tow to text yep, so

(01:30:45):
be involved if you want to get involved in the show.
There's been a wedding in the UK and they couldn't
work out the mystery guest was that no one knew
but apparently he turned out to the wrong wedding. What
are the chances of that? Anyway? We went to Facebook

(01:31:05):
to try and work out who it was. The story
abind the wedding crash, and the dark headed mystery man
responded for post confessed he meant to be a different
wedding with his partner that day, but was given the
wrong venue. He arrived just before the start of the
ceremony and only knew the bride and his partner, who
was part of the wedding party was meant to attend.

(01:31:27):
He only worked out he was at the wrong wedding
when he saw Michelle walking down the isisland. His horror
realized didn't recognize her. He stayed for the ceremony to
not raise suspicions. For goodness, say you wouldn't stay for
the ceremony, would you. It's a funny story. Actually looks
free out of place, looks like he might be hungover.

(01:31:52):
They spent years trying to work at who he was.
Yesterday they met in person. I don't know if he's
in trouble for missing on the wedding. He was supposed
to be at. I don't know if anyone have a
story about being to the wrong wedding, would they might
be of interest. Jump in twenty five past eleven story

(01:32:15):
already on about the students is at an apartment building
in Belmont, But I've got no confirmation for the police
about what's gone on there. There was paramedics, and I
think the guy said there was police with firearms and
there was ambulances, but there's no further talk of that.
So he's the best policy and wait till you've actually

(01:32:35):
got some more information with situations like that, whether on
the weekends. Not good. Oh the good story tonight was
about the memorial seat that was in Tasman. That it
was Antarctica, was well above the sea, but that went

(01:32:56):
missing in the storm, the Tasman flooding. This event Esben
Flooding disappeared in July from a private property in Golden Bay. Anyway,
the seat is now a well traveled seat. It went across,
cooked straight and washed up on the carpety coast. Yeah,

(01:33:21):
it's a good story, and apparently the location where it
ended up with significant to the family because the woman
the mother. So I'd like to say how special is
that Jack has ended up facing Carpeti Island, which is
where his grandparents are buried at the Sarah Cemetery at Waikeni.
He's come to say hello. It's remarkable, it's amazing, like

(01:33:43):
very emotional. So there we go. Robertson sister Law made
a desperate Facebook post on July fourteenth, shearing the news
that beach had swept away. They received a message from
a family who discovered the cheer and Google the name
on the plaque and the missing chair post popped up.

(01:34:10):
I had a feeling it might be found, Like I
thought that Jack was just off on another adventure. He
was a guy that died in his for a young
nineteen or twenty. A local trucking firm has brought the
chair back to the family. It was made in weaker
Worship Workshop in Golden Bay. The plaques he loved to
swim in the river passed away when he was twenty.

(01:34:31):
When he loved to swim in the river, that was
one of his favorite pastimes. That's why we placed the
chair there. He was a good guy. They said, they're welcome,
looking forward to having the chair back, and often used
to visit Jack's chair on a lunch break, but its
new locations yet to be decided. The chair will come
home for a while. We'll get him sanded and the sword,

(01:34:51):
and then you know, he might like a different location.
Now we'll see. It's got quite for three or four
months in the water. It's got a lot of I
presume their muscles on it looked to be about two
centimeter as long as a lot of those. It's a
good story that one. Now he's a question. Hey, Marcus,

(01:35:13):
good show. My family and I are planning a holiday.
I applied for credit card online, giving them my income
and expenses as well as my driver's license number. I
was approved for four and a half thousand dollars straight away,
and in the email that said that my card would
be posted in ten working days. Whoever, I could use

(01:35:34):
it in the meantime by just using my number on
the card which they emailed me. Does this seem odd
to you? You think they'd want a couple of forms
of idea or proof of address just to satisfy them.
I hadn't picked up a lost license on the footpath,
et cetera. Way too easy. So he's applied for the

(01:35:58):
credit card, he's given them his income and expenses, as
well as his driver's license. I don't know if that's
too easy the check out your address with attended two,
wouldn't they I don't know what the answer is there,
but someone might would have commented on that that's kind
of not part of my realm. So how do they

(01:36:19):
authenticate for credit cards? You might have something to say
about that. I haven't got anything to say about that.
It's twenty eight away from twelve o'clock if you want
to talk, and all the lines are free. If you
don't want to come through now, people would like to
hear from you for the final the final chat before
the end, So get in touch, be a part of it.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine two

(01:36:39):
text doble yocause that's been the main topic. That and
gold mining and Wellington and this guy worried about his
credit card and the guy that's cycling and and tuning
up to the wrong wedding. That's a good story. You

(01:37:00):
got one of those stories, tuning up for the wrong wedding.
Where'd the guy start? I suppose you set it down.
There's not much more he could do. And the chair
that floated away and then ended up on the other
side of the other island. I guess that's pretty obvious
where it would end up, with the way the river
flows or the way the tide would have flown. From there,

(01:37:22):
there we go. Yeah, come on people, welcome be a
part of You want to talk on air and anything
different you want to mention? I can handle that, So yes,
get in touch. You want to be part of the show. Hi,
dep this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 24 (01:37:44):
Hi Marcus. How are you doing good?

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
Dep? How are you doing all right good?

Speaker 24 (01:37:49):
I was just just listening. I've only just turned in
as well. But he did mention about turning up to
the wrong wedding, So I've actually tuned up to the
wrong funeral.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
That's more difficult because you wouldn't even know it was
the wrong one, because wouldn't and see the person.

Speaker 24 (01:38:08):
No, And it was so I live in christ Church
and I was was a bringing and we thought, right,
we'll get to the funeral. We were running late and
turned up and I said, no, this is actually wrong
funeral and she goes, oh, we can't leave now, this

(01:38:30):
is embarrassing. I said no, We'll just no, we can go.
She said, well, shall we just say face for the
sandwiches and things. I said, no, no, because we are
late to the other funeral. But it is quite It
is a little bit of an issue. But then I
had this friend and thought, god, I could be one

(01:38:50):
of those people that just goes to funerals kind of things.

Speaker 10 (01:38:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:38:56):
Yeah, but it was a little bit difficult to even
be able to leave and to get up and think, oh,
because we didn't recognize anybody there. But because we were
running late, we stepped into the situation and need to
be able to leave. You whatever you mean to what

(01:39:21):
was that?

Speaker 21 (01:39:21):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
Did you just realize gradually? Did it just dawn on you?
Did it? There was probably the wrong thing?

Speaker 24 (01:39:27):
Yeah, yeah, it just it was not the best situation
at all.

Speaker 19 (01:39:35):
We just.

Speaker 24 (01:39:37):
I said, no, we need to go to the right funeral,
and she was like, no, we can't leave. But anyway,
we didn't end up leaving, but it was not very
nice kind of people, and it was actually really odd
to be feared. You know, you walk out and people
are thinking, oh, why are you leaving? Well that's what

(01:39:58):
we thought of. People were thinking, why are you leaving?

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Were the two funerals at the same place?

Speaker 24 (01:40:04):
No, we got the wrong address. But they weren't far
from each other.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
It was a funeral home or a church.

Speaker 24 (01:40:11):
To no home, okay, yeah, yeah, But anyway, then the
other thing is, and I know you've got topics tonight,
that a forty dollars hair cut for a child, a
five year old. I think that's pretty random, like quite
expensive normal.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
How long did it take?

Speaker 24 (01:40:32):
Probably maybe seventeen minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
Was it a washing cat or just a cat?

Speaker 24 (01:40:40):
No, no, just a cat, just a cut in. They
called them like a boat at a fade or something.
But I still think that's quite I've never heard of
a fade, but they did a fade. This is on
my grandson.

Speaker 18 (01:40:56):
And forty dollars.

Speaker 24 (01:40:59):
I don't think that's a fair price for a five
year old, or is it? Is that normal?

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
I wouldn't know, but some of the musk but someone
but I guess you just won't go back to that
place if yeah. I mean, it's a lot for a
five year old, isn't it.

Speaker 25 (01:41:15):
But they did a good job. Then they did still
a good job. But I thought that instead, you know,
back in the day, on in my fifties, but back
in the day, like oh, you probably wouldn't think forty
bucks for a kid.

Speaker 24 (01:41:35):
Are still doing the same job, aren't they? Please find out.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Thank you appreciate that deep Thank you John Marcus. Hello,
good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:41:44):
Oh.

Speaker 15 (01:41:44):
I just wanted to comment on a previous caller from
a little while ago about the George Bennett KIWI cyclist
who has been competing in the Tour of Spain which
is on at the moment. Yes, George is from Nelson. Yes,
he's one of I think three key who are riding

(01:42:07):
in that event. Except George isn't actually still in the
event because unfortunately he had a couple of rather nasty
accidents in the last in the first few few days
of the tour, and therefore he's out of the race now.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
So he's out any way, apart from the before the
boycotts or whatever.

Speaker 15 (01:42:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean the team is the team he
rides for is called Israel Penier Tech, which is two
separate units, Israel being the country and Premier Tech is
a tech birm that is a joint sponsor. I mean
these teams, they have budgets and the millions of dollars.

(01:42:55):
Each team has like twenty five or thirty riders on
the box. Yes, only eight get to ride in the race.
Like the for Alton and Georgia one of those, and
of course Israel has been a sponsor of that team
for a few years now, and of course back then

(01:43:16):
there was no problem with Israel being a sponsor. That's
only been in the last year or eighteen months that
this trouble has come to the surface.

Speaker 26 (01:43:28):
Of course, isn't that unfortunate position where they're indebted to
their sponsor, of course, but.

Speaker 15 (01:43:39):
They have actually made the decision in the last few
days to remove Israel from their sponsorship. I think they
have now removed the name from there from their jerseys
and their team cars and equipment and so on. But
there's there's that kind of committed to the sponsor and

(01:44:03):
I believe next in the next season, they will not
have Israel as a sponsor. But George has been a
prominent cyclist at that top level in Europe for several
years now. A few years ago he won the Tour
of California, which was a big race in the States, obviously,

(01:44:25):
but that was a few years ago. There's also another Kiwi.
George is from Nelson, and there's another Kiwi there from Nelson,
the Bisher Black. His sister Niem Bisher Black rode in
the women's Tour of France just a couple of months
ago and did extremely well. So George rides for Bora

(01:44:52):
hands Grow, which is a German company who made taps
and plumbing equipment and also titchenware. So yeah, and there's
one other Kiwi in there. I can't think who there
that is at the moment, but is the Israel Premier
Tech Team. They're not the only team that's sponsored by

(01:45:14):
a country. One of the other prominent teams is a
team sponsored by UAE Emirates. It's the United Arab Emirates
and the Emirates Airline that jointly sponsor that team. So
I think that the Israel Premier Tech Team are probably

(01:45:37):
extremely embarrassed at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:45:41):
John, how are you watching it? Are you watching it
on Sky? Can you get your obviously following it? How
are you watching it?

Speaker 15 (01:45:46):
Yeah? I'm watching it on Sky as much as I can.
I haven't seen last night stage, which was the time trial,
but that I believe. I just said on the news
earlier that the race was shortened because of the protesters, and.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
I think I think the other stage I think as well. Yeah,
because there's.

Speaker 15 (01:46:10):
The presence of protesters, and you know, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
Going to leave it there joint because we had to
talk to But thank you. I think Vinger guards still leading.
That's my hope. Hello, Michael, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:46:22):
Yeah, good eating Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:46:23):
Yeah my hair, my barber chudge is fifteen dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
See that's cheap.

Speaker 16 (01:46:28):
I know, I know, it's like I was usually paying
twenty five or more. And but he's really good.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
How long does that take for me?

Speaker 16 (01:46:37):
It's just like it's all over in five minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
Okay, and we're have you got Have you not got
much hair? Bugle?

Speaker 16 (01:46:43):
No, I'm not bored.

Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
Yeah, it's just not much fitting.

Speaker 16 (01:46:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you meet and trained. I was
reading they want to electrify the whole North Island railway network.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
I hadn't read that. I thought they're all going to
bet trees. But Mike, I've got to run, so I
can't get into a train discussion tonight. But thank you everyone.
Haven't loved tonight's but you've made it very easy for
me with your interesting calls, interesting things to say, so
I appreciate that. And I'll be back Monday. Gym's along next.
Enjoy your weekend. And yeah, go the black ferns. You
always got to go. Say go someone, don't you? At

(01:47:18):
the end, have a good one.

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