Nerty Christmas (16 December 2025)

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Good to me.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Dance just told me that Rachel McKinnon is coming back
to Shortland Street. It was on the cliffhanger. I don't
know why they had a cliffhanger on a Monday, but
that's probably what's going to happen. Well, for those that
don't know Jeep as screepers, I think she was there
from the very beginning. Wow, then she went directed and
she came back. Was she marry Yeah? Anyway, that's exciting. Gosh,
you know, it's exciting when they've got their own Wikipedia

(00:34):
pages and their act and their characters. Anyway, get in touched.
My name is Marcus. Welcome. It's the end of the year.
It feels very much like the end of the year.
I'm here to keep your cutting on Midnight tonight. Whatever
you want to talk about, you are more than welcome
to talk about it here. And it's kind of slightly
christmas y, only because people are in a Christmas mode
or mood. People aren't kind of in the mood for look,

(00:55):
who knows what mood people are in. But I'm doing
the damnedest and I'm cutting my cloth according to the
audience that I've got at this time of the night,
before this time of the year. So if you want
to set the agenda to night, you are more than welcome.
I'll chuck some things that you chuck some things at me.
We'll see whill we end up. No doubt there'll be
minor quakes and road interruptions there are every night. I

(01:15):
will keep you updated of those. There probably also will
be fires. It seems to be the fire season. So
if there's the information you've got for us, phone that
through and if you want to set the agenda tonight,
that's great.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
I know before Christmas people get stressed because they've told
to provide things for the Christmas dinner, like you provide
the salad or something. There might be ingredients you're struggle
to get. We can help you out for people. I
know this time of year, quite often Christmas fruitments was unavailable.
We do help people if they've got things I need
to find. There's the service I provide at this time
of the year. There might be someone you're buying a

(01:52):
present for a gift hard to buy for person. You
might be able to buy something. You might have found
something that will hang on what's that? Where's that? I
promise them I'd get this. They're no longer available. We
will help you out with that, either through Google or
someone having one. So you might want to talk about
that also tonight, but basically for the next three hours
fifty it's a bit of everything. So yeah, you might

(02:14):
want to talk about the shortened Street cliffhanger. I didn't
see it, mind, you haven't seen Shorten Street for probably
twenty years. But these are things that you want to
mention to discuss, text that through if you want to,
or just phone it in. You might be doing something
interesting tonight. I've just sort of come from probably one
of what is one of my only what is my

(02:36):
only Christmas end of year things I've been to? I've
been to sort of a council event, and what was
big for me is I didn't do the Irish goodbye,
actually said farewell to people, which other that was quite good,
just a sort of a lighthearted bit of a thing,

(02:57):
and myself so coke and that was it anyway. So yeah,
Christmas carols were playing for felt quite christmasy. When the
supermarket Christmas carols were playing, Everyone's buying those damn chocolates
are right, And one of those chocolates are the balls,
and everyone's buying those, aren't they everywhere? When do they
kind of take over? I think there's two types of

(03:18):
chocolates that are wrapped as balls. Anyway that it used
to be around. Now they're everywhere. It's a good thing
or a bad thing. I think the scorched almonds are
on the back burn and now people got sick of those.
I think one of them is called lint. You get
cheesecake flavored ones. Every time I see Linda, I think
it's something that's left in the dryer. So I struggle
with that. Isn't that lint? I think that's lint that's

(03:40):
in your drara or your belly button. But anyway, that's
the chocolate everyone seems to want. But the people in
the aisle seem happy with what they've got their trolley,
and I guess that's to think some of them might
be cashing in their Christmas club cards or whatever they're doing.
But anyway, but if you've got something you can't seem
to find for Christmas, or if there's some recipe you're

(04:02):
looking for for Christmas that you can't that you're struggling
to find a good one for I will do and
help you with that. I am doing a Christmas baking.
I am doing a dish that is named after a
mountain in Europe. Grom has been the quiz that one

(04:22):
couldn't it, Dan, We've had a quiz question for a while.
But that's what I am doing, be questioned number fifty three.
So yeah, and I think it's gonna be fairly easy
to make. It's a cherry carputka named after the Carpathian Mountains.
I think because the shoe pastry rises up and looks

(04:43):
like a mountain range. Just looks fantastic. The mountain range
runs from the Czech Republic to Romania, visually dramatic, a
lot of shoe pastry giving way to a creamy, custard filling. Yeah,
I'm putting cherries in mine. It's got the bright hit

(05:03):
of fruit flavormit'st The rich is making us a total
sh show stopper. It's gonna be much better than a trial.
I'm not really a trifle person. I think probably for
a lot of us, well I shouldn't say for a
lot of us. I think for some of us. I
think for some of us the sherry in the trifle
as a bit of a red alert and also has

(05:26):
probably not the best taste anyway. But yeah, that's me
the cherry Carpatka and Muri looking at the more committed
I'm getting to that free long recipe. It takes an
hour forty five to cock. Well, that's me off the
hot for the Christmas Eve as well, I would think anyway,
now text if you want to otherwise, I'll just rap

(05:48):
it on about things most of the night tonight. That's
the way. That's kind of my journey for the last week, Marcus.
It was the last work of the year for me.
By three pm, the drinks were flowing. We are on holiday.
Tomorrow was everyone's safe travels, Marcus. You can tell when
it's coming to the city season. You get your groceries
delivered as I can't get out and about and I

(06:09):
got my ordered tonight sixteen items missing. What does that mean?
Does that mean that there's that the the peck is
a drunk or what? Squilled with excitement when I saw
Rachel was returning to Ferndale. I hope the show is
going to get funny, get it lost its humor the
last couple of years. I just watched the doco movie

(06:31):
on UFO Disclosure on Prime reinsightful interested. Others have watched
South and Time subscribers must have been surprised to get
the eighth December issue delivered today unless it was just
me and no, it hasn't been lying on my garden

(06:52):
for eight days, even though it is a game of
underseek most days. I didn't, however, find the second January
twenty twenty five edition lodged in the flex boysh last week.
Good evening, Marcus, I'm wondering if all your fellows this
is be able to help me. I'm looking for a
track of the twenty three Days of Christmas or twelve
Calls of Christmas that Layton Smith would play every year

(07:13):
just before Christmas when he hosted the morning talk show.
It would become part of my Christmas family tradition to
listen to this, and it may always made us laugh.
Thus is the first Christmas without my late husband, and
it'll bring back some happy memories for me. This is
a bit I like says thank you and nerdy Christmas

(07:33):
n eert y, which I think is just Mary typed
in a hurry dirty Christmas. Really enjoy your show. Great
company for my evening. Now I'm a widow Lorraine Lorraine,
Lorraine Loree. Well, I don't know what that song would be,
but someone will know have great memories. When it comes
to oh they are late and always played this, They'll say, oh,

(07:55):
late and always played this, or you must have that,
They'll say, check in your record record Cobnant cabinet. They
will say the twelve Calls of Christmas or the twenty
three Days Christmas. I've got no idea if anyone knows
what song Christmas song Layton played. I could ring my boss,
not my boss, but my boss boss head. No, but

(08:18):
he's probably at Scouts or something. But I'll find out
for you tomorrow. If I can't find out today, If
chet j chat a, I won't answer me. I'm struggling,
But yeah, I'll find out for you tomorrow. I'll get
on to Jason. He's the boss Boss. He will know

(08:38):
probably follow the emperor return. But who wants to start
the whole discussion tonight? Who want to be first on here?
I'd love to hear from you. Other questions I've got
for you on the back of all these people with.
Here's something for you as a question that might give
you something to talk about tonight. What is the most
how can I phrase this? What is the best and
most unique thing you have in your backyard? On the

(09:01):
back of this person that's selling a roller coaster in
their backyard, if you got an answer to that, the
best or most unique thing you have in your backyard
is that house out out East Aukland that's got a
meg fighter, I think in their backyard. But you might
be a handy type person. That's something we're putting out

(09:21):
there being touched people here till twelve. Mineamers Marcus, good evening,
Good evening, thirty years since how bizarre, OMC, there we go.
Been some good writing about that. I've been reading today. Yeah, Mike,
wide ranging, Mike, good evening, It's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
How are you good?

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Thank you? Mike. How's yourself?

Speaker 6 (09:46):
Yeah? Good things? As always loved you and loved the show. Yeah,
otherwise I wouldn't call up no fair enough Yeah, yeah,
but yeah no. Christmas, Christmas food, Christmas lunch, sam So
and our family the way our family's made up. We
like to get together. But a whole lot of us

(10:09):
on one side of the family. We always miss out
on Christmas Day because our relations and their partners seem
to take priority on Christmas Day, so we do it
the next day.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Great idea, fantastic, practical, sensible and realistic.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Yeah yeah, it was nice to chop and change from
year to year. But anyway, we don't complain. That's how
it is. But we still get together and have a
good time. But what I've noticed is normally my uncle's
place we go to and his wife's a Filipino and
the food's delicious. But what I've noticed, and I'm always

(10:51):
looking around noticing things, but the delicious Filipino spring rolls
come out.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
First, Jeep, is the big good I'd look forward to
those all year.

Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah, they're big and they're delicious and nutritious. And
then the sea seafood, finger food comes out and things.
And by the time for the you know, for the
first hour before lunchtime, when that's all come out, you

(11:22):
notice that the host don't actually need to produce a
huge amount of food for the main meal because you're
already stuffed full of the spring rolls.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
And you do food, Mike, your challenge will be to
pace yourself this year, I reckon.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
Yeah, yes, difficult, but I think it's isn't a bit
of a restaurant trick. You know, you put out the
the cheap but delicious garlic bread first, would you?

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Why would you carve up to begin with? That's what
I don't know what people do that with the garlic
bread because it's because then once you know, because you're starving,
when you get there, munch munch mons of the garlic bread.
Then the meal comes and you're full.

Speaker 6 (12:05):
Yeah, however, it's a cunning plan because if your customer
has topped up first on garlic bread, then when the
mains comes, the restaurant manager doesn't have to spend so
much money producing a large plate of really well, I

(12:26):
don't know, but it could be a cunning plan.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
If you ask me, I'll visit that further. Mike, thanks
for starting the whole ball rolling that is wide ranging
MIC twenty past eight, eight hundred and eighty each straight on,
get on, get didn't get off. That's the motto for
tonight Hot Talk before twelve, Get on, get didn't get off.
It's the motto. I've got a damn poplar tree behind
the house. It's one forty foot tall that'd be expended

(12:54):
to drop down. My neighbor has a working steam traction
engine runs a home built sawmill. I don't know what.
No one knows what's latent song is but the best
someone so I squealed with excitement, and I saw Rachel
was returning to Ferndale. Someone said, there's also something called
the tart. The Alps. Marcus have been rumors doing the

(13:17):
rounds and a Christmas bonus was going to be played
to supernuitants this year. According to Google, it's a hoax.
Have you heard of the rumor? I have heard of
the rumor, and it is a hoax. It's a miserable
hoax too. So yes, there's no money in the kitta
according to Nichola Willis. But certainly they won't be paying
a bonus. That's not how they roll. But no, there

(13:40):
is none. Okay, Marcus, We're to book a two day
break with the granddaughters ten and seven years in Lower
South Island mid January. Alex always Alex. Faulty theory. Everyone
orders a full meal before the garlic bread comes out. Yes,
I think it's a faulty meal, a faulty tactic. I've

(14:02):
been the kids from the garlic bread never works anyway.
Twenty three past eight. Interesting things in backyards, latent song
and difficult to buy foth ingredients that you can't find?
Or does anyone cook anything challenging this Christmas? Which wants
advice from me about I'm doing the dish? I can

(14:25):
ever remember the name of the kitchka, and I think
I'll put photos of that up the cherry car putka.
I guess a few people will lose their one out
of three predictions in the new year. Congratulations Tick van
Dyke for one hundredth birthday. Don't forget the story some
years ago when it was apparently drowning and dolphins saved

(14:48):
him from the sharks. Interesting things in the backyard. I
used to live in a police house where old jail
cells adjacent to the garage. Never heard that Dick van
Dykes saved by dolphins. Feels like a joke, doesn't it?
Quite a name? May it's true? Dick van Dyke feared

(15:12):
death after falling asleep on a surfboard, but apparently sea
creatures pushed him to shore. He was eighty four at
the time he fell asleep on a surfboard. I woke
up out of sight of land, the eighty four year
old seed. I started paddling with the swells. I started
seeing fin swimming around me. I thought I was dead.
They turned out to be porpoises, and they pushed me

(15:35):
all the way to shore. The article says the porpoises
were unavailable for comment. Yeah, and a Guardian article, so
it's that. I think it takes quite an incredulous attitude
towards Dick van Dyke being saved by porpoises. Pretty amazing story,

(15:55):
because you remember something like that, his surfing and then
fell asleep on the surfboard, but saved by Bottlenolds, bell
Bottlenolds nosed dolphins. It's a good story, and thank you
for texting that through. I've enjoyed that greatly. In fact,

(16:17):
Susan Ullion from The New Yorker it said, this is
one of those news stories so rich in cookiness that
it's an impossible to your fingers on what part is
the kookiest. Is it the fact that Dick van Dyke serfs,
the fact that an eighty four year old serfs, or
is it the simple and slightly surprising andheartening fact that
Dick van Dyke is still alive, or just the notion
that any sensing creature would fall asleep on a surfboard

(16:40):
in open water. She's not wrong. Good story that never
knew I thought I was good with by trivia that
could even make the quiz. I can't think out how
to phrase it though. Anyway. I think you've got to
google if you want Layton song twelve Days of Christmas
Irish style. Just don't google Christmas song. Kevin Wilson's not

(17:06):
the one you want. Where's my bike anyway comes through
if you want to be on here tonight. That's the
that's the that's the drill. That's the basic premise. Interesting
things in your backyard, well, the most interesting thing in
your backyard, and that's of interest to me, and I'm
sure of you. I'll keep you up to date with

(17:27):
breaking news throughout the evening tonight, two people. I'll do
what I can.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
text of course, the Heralds still getting milds out of
Oprah Windenfrey climbing Mount Eden. We know there has been
a crash to an amount Victoria Tunnel State Hi. I
won the amount. Victoria closed after the crash serious summon

(17:54):
State hospital in a serious condition. That's just news that's
through and keep you up to date with it. That people,
But you get in touch if you want to talk. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty, there's been, there's still there's more.
So have you got a severe thunder report?

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Dan?

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Just come through now?

Speaker 7 (18:14):
Has it?

Speaker 4 (18:14):
There's a new one met service issue to severe thunders
still fresh being Timadou and Mackenzie District down until eight fifteen.
That's just pasted. I guess have you've been, if you've
had that, if you had the tempest there the Timadoo tempest,
let us know. It feels like the pretty similar one
that happened yesterday or last Friday. I think it was
with the team. It wasn't yesterday, was it. But it

(18:36):
seems like that system, the precious stem is still kind
of cranking them out. Marcus. The Shortened Street finale was
a disaster. I felt so let down. I'm an avid
follow of Shorten Street. I was so disciplined in the ending.
It was lame as what did you think? I didn't
watch it? Dick Van Dyke would make a good subject.
Strange places to fall asleep? We could do that too.

(19:00):
No short of topics in the Golden Week, Marcus, we
think you just got I'd have believed it happened, happening
to any random maty four year old, just a bit unbelievable.
Happened to Dick van Dyke. Is Dick van Dyke still
big thunder rumbles and timidoo Marcus. We've upon in our
backyard filled with thousands of tadpoles. Pretty sure they're whistling frogs, Marcus.

(19:24):
Gardening sheds are the best thing for the back lawn.
What do people out there think about putting up zincloom sheds.
We've got a guy that does them for a living
that listens to the show. He puts the sheds up
for you, which I think is a great service. Haven't
heard from him for a while, but that's what his
job is. So that's worth because it's not good putting

(19:46):
up a shed on your own if you don't want
to do it. There's a big market for it. I
wouldn't be surprised before too long if people don't set
up services where they set up and put together ikea
furniture for you. Oh, by the way, how is all
that going? People? You are happy with the IKEA stuff.
I see there were some situations where they were having
trouble with their distribution, so you might be getting it.

(20:09):
But let us know if you want to talk about.
I care as well how that's worked out for you.
But as I suggested, if you want to be on
air tonight, there'll be now's your chance. People make you move,
You pay your money and you take your chance. Get
in touch. If you want to be on air, I'll
do what I can to keep it going. But if
you've got something you want to talk about, anyone else

(20:29):
made my dessert yet? The cherry carpetka. It's Polish, very
excited about it. Not often I get motivated to make
something that looks as delicious as that, But yeah, that's
what we're about. And if you are, if you are
thinking of doing something interesting for Christmas to cook and

(20:51):
want advice on that, there's no shortage of people with
advice for you. If you just want to bring up
and let us know about that, there you go. I'll
even take and I even might play requests for carols tonight.
I might I see how Christmas I'm feeding by eleven o'clock.

(21:11):
But I think would either be The fairy Tale of
New York or Drummer Boy. I don't feel the love
for the others yet, but you never know, I could
probably be persuaded. So that's the situation. So get in
touch people if that you want. Oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty, some of the other stuff I can

(21:33):
tend that's going on tonight. It has chocolate covered anything Day.
That is also Stupid Toy Day and this day. In
two thousand and nine, Avatar was released internationally. I remember
seeing that well by one on Experience with the World
of Cantmeyer where Averutar was, but that's where I remember
watching it. Yeah, and Chawn Street's gone off heir until

(21:56):
twenty sixteen. They had their Cliffhanger. I don't fully know
what happened, but it's become a bit of a thing.
The cliff Hager looks like there was some sort of
looking at the photos, there was some sort of disaster
or pandemic or something. I don't know much more, but
good on them for getting another year out of the way.

(22:17):
So remarkably long. Drifting show must be our second longest
running showever. Would it be? Feels like it is twenty
four to nine I'll check out road closures too, but
avoid the tunnel and Mount Victoria. Yes, Victoria, there's been
excellent there, so just that bearing that in mind, oh

(22:42):
way eight hundred and eighty strange things in your backyard
and falling asleep in strange places like Dick van Dyke
falling must have been a good sleep.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
dB.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
This is Marcus welcome quite falling asleep.

Speaker 7 (22:59):
So I'm sitting in a sun drenched, warm cockpit of
my glider on a yeah somewhere above why can I?
And I thought this is quite nice, because you know
it's very quiet in a glider cockport. I might try
to close my eyes and I did, and it lasted

(23:21):
five seconds. When I suddenly opened them again. Thought I
could fall asleep. My next landing will be short but deep.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Have you not got a dead man's break?

Speaker 9 (23:34):
No?

Speaker 7 (23:36):
Yes, yes, it's called to you.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
And you're in the world of the gliding community.

Speaker 10 (23:45):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Is that something that because it sounds to be quite riskful.
Is that something that happens.

Speaker 7 (23:50):
I've never heard anybody actively trying to do it. No,
I'm not going to happen.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
I suppose Nurcalypsey had been a glider. Are not good combination. No, not.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
To remain flying. It requires a fair bit of personal
interaction with the elements.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Oh, I thought it was pretty straightforward.

Speaker 11 (24:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
I used to tell people it was brain powered flight.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
That's good.

Speaker 7 (24:24):
So but yes, I suddenly thought if I noded off,
it's a no wooden situation.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
When did your last glide?

Speaker 6 (24:34):
dB?

Speaker 7 (24:38):
Three years ago? I tried it again. I was going
to get back into it, but my size has now
got to the point that I can get into a glider,
but it requires a foe coist to get me out.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
A good answered, Doebe. Thanks so much that twenty two
to nine Here till twelve, nineteen to nine, Steve, this
is Marcus. Good evening, Oh, good.

Speaker 12 (25:02):
Evening, Marcus. Marcus you did early. We are about Dick
van Dyke having a rescue bite on porpoises. Now bear
with me on this. I'll try and the brief and
give you a short version of this story years ago
when I was young. I was thirty forty years ago

(25:23):
surfing off a little place called Holiga Bay, just north
of Gisiness, and I got caught in a rip. Now
what you do is don't panic and try and fight it.
You just go with it and it'll take you out
and bring you back. Now, I got right out, was
really deep, and I looked down and I could see

(25:43):
these little black and white things darting around and I
saw cheers a dolphins and what they were. Now, there
are two species in New Zealand. There's the Hectors dolphin
that lives in the South Island and the Maruis dolphin
that lives on the west coast between Wellington and Taranaki
in their bite area. And I was telling the story

(26:07):
to a Gill that's an expert on it at mess
the University, and he said, well, no, that's impossible. They
don't range on the east coast of the North Island.
And I did know they do because I actually they
were like swimming around me and underneath me, and they
were coming up and they were looking at me like
they were like sitting being there was what they were

(26:29):
trying to, like, you know, sort of communicate like clays
with you, like you know, come and come and play
with us kind of things. They were like having a
laugh kind of you know what I mean. And anyway
ended up having a big argument with his But long
story short, I believe Dick Vandy like what he said,

(26:49):
I can pretty much say yep if he said that,
hipn I believe this because of what they were like
to me. They were friendly, they weren't a pray. Yes,
I believe this.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
And the hector and then you know them because they're short,
aren't They see them quite often in Southland round towards
and there they'd be the size of a of a
of a six year old boy, wouldn't they They're not big.

Speaker 12 (27:14):
No, they weren't big.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
M it'll be them.

Speaker 12 (27:21):
Yeah, No, But apparently according to the experts, they don't
range anywhere. They've never been sighted out of the cook
Straight area. And I said, well, yes, stay here by me.
But I'm I'm an outlier. Apparently nobody else has seeing them.
So unless I, oh men, who knows? Maybe I just

(27:42):
women hallucinated, some women spiritual insists, you know, menifesting themselves,
you know, to come and be with me, you know,
guide me to safety or some blomen nonsense. God I
don't know, but no, I swear to God on my
mother's grave. Those were Hickses or Marwi Sultan. I don't
know which one. But yeah, that's a true story.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Marcus.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Believe you, Steve, Thank you so much for that a
great story. Text if you can, or email I'll wait
one hundred and eighty ten eighty or nine two nine
two to text. Of course, the first number was the
phone number. Oh what was the name of the Polish dessert? Yeah,

(28:25):
it's a really good question. Cheery. First word is cheery, capatka,
it's going off. Mark's have a large hedgehog in my
gardens and even know how to get rid of it? Please,
it's a really good question. How to get rid of
a hedgehog? There are people who will put your flat
peck together for a fee. That is their income jeepers.

(28:49):
But how they working out could be saved many a
family over Christmas fifteen to nine. Strange things in your backyard,
weird places to fall asleep. Someone says, why would anyone
get rid of a hedgehog? They are wonderful creatures. I
don't think they are. I think a hedgehogs are bad news.
I think the bair news when it comes to the
light of Flora, the thrill killers. That's my understanding. If

(29:14):
people trip for hitchhogs, yep, they're an invasive predator or
pre data. Yeah, they pose a serious threat to the
new Zealand native use in an ecosystem ecoist neil As Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Good evening to you, Marcus. Thank you for letting me ring. Marcus.
I am a very happy and grateful New Zealand retiree presidents.
I embraced this country very much, but I'm very old.
And there's two things that along for and miss and

(29:56):
I wonder if any of your esteemed listeners know where
I could get it them the two things Marcus, it
would be f Rosen, but Haddock. I long for a
couple of Phillips.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Of Captain Haddock.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, and also Aberdeen Kippers. I mean, I love New Zealand.
I'll have everything here.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
It's good to long the taste of home. Good on
you for coming through with it now with a kipper
and everything kipper right? Is it smoked, brined or fresh?

Speaker 8 (30:34):
Oaks?

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Smoked? Marcus? Oaks smoked?

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Thought it might be. I wondered would you catch them
and smoked them yourself?

Speaker 3 (30:43):
And I have none people who do it, but there's
there's lots of smokehouses, particularly where I come from.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
Sure, yeah yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Do you know I dream of a dream of a
fillet of haddock mashed potato white sauce and fresh peas
with me.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
And with the old Mikey headache. What's it taste like?
Would it be comparable to a car whire, or to
a snapper or to a cod?

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Has it got to compare the nearest thing? And I'm
not to sleep down, but the nearest thing is blue cod?

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, thought it because it looks like when it sees
a flaky white flesh. I'm thinking blue cod neil. Yeah, okay, yeah,
blue cod. Well, gosh chevny bucks of quilo now, but
still delicious. Nice to hear from here. We'll see if
you find out from got some headdock ten away from nine,
there we go Ozzie's call for Bondo Beach here to
be named Australia of the Year after heave Braves out. Well,

(31:43):
that'd be a no brainer, wouldn't it cheapest? You wouldn't
need to say that. I don't know I have an
Australia the Year. He's certainly it, there's no doubt about that.
I see if now alb and Easy's they're winning them
and to have the photograph taken with them? What alb
and Easy's in there now? Yeah, Jacket's Marcus welcome Marcus
ho A. You doing good, Jack, thank you.

Speaker 13 (32:05):
I'm just such an hedgehog text you got. Yes, I'm
very pro conservation, very anti pest. I don't doubt that
hedgehogs aren't great creatures outside of New Zealand. But the
only way to get rid of it is trapping them.
And there's a lot of predator free groups around New
Zealand that you can search up on Google or Facebook.

(32:28):
I'm local to you, and I'm sure they'll happily set
up a Dot two hundred trap to get rid of it.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Peanut butter or cat food.

Speaker 13 (32:36):
Everall I find cat food works the best, especially in
a rat trap. A rat trap can also work well
if you don't have a local group. Yeah, I great creatures.
I've had them outside of New Zealand seen them outside
of New Zealand. Lovely little creatures, but they have no
place here.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
If you have had if you have kept chickens within
your house, which we have done, and that hedgehogs have
attacked them and pulled them off the roost and killed them,
it's a grim scene. They look slow where they locked benign,
but they are a thrill killer.

Speaker 13 (33:08):
I've seen them take out baby to a tara and
native lizards where they're not a friendly creature when it
comes to them, and it's the same as possums when
they come to birds ness, you know, but be doing
what they need to do to survive. But at the
end of the day, it's New Zealand. They need to
be gone from here.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
It's nearly that brought them here that you've got to
look longing let but they're long gone. But still it's
kind of crazy. And I presume they're quite wide spread.
Are there's a population static increasing or decreasing any idea?

Speaker 13 (33:36):
I have no idea. By knowing Wellington, it's certainly decreasing.
The four predator freebit's going on, especially around Merrima and
Perhat Belly and whatnot. There's a lot of them being caught,
so I'll hopefully say the decreasing instead of increasing.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
You see key we in Wellington and your travels now
because they're everywhere, now are they they are?

Speaker 13 (33:58):
I've seen quite a few ram attack Forest Park might
have been the same one over a few nights, but
I've seen one, well, i'll say few, stack for As
Park a couple of times, so it's pretty impressive. Yeah,
they're amazing little creatures. Amazing and you're not as clear
as cuddly as they look. I've handled them, I've worked

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through them through conservation and in nasty little creatures, but
they're cute. Definitely, definitely great to have around though.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Nice to hear from Jack, Thanks so much so just
coming up to nine people, four to nine, Hea till twelve.
Be in touch if you want to be you can
be on here if that's your if that's your thing.
Marcus is a small supermarket at the Boundary in Henderson
called Reduced to Clear. They have frozen kippers boil in
the bag. They're salty but good. I too, would love

(34:49):
to have some haddock and mashed potato and a filet
of place. Hedgehogs carry and spread wing ring worm. Marcus,
I know, different subject, but did you hear how the
latest dairy auction went today? I hear another downturn? When
will our local market reflect this goodness? And then someone says,
why would anyone want to get rid of a hedgehog?

(35:11):
Hedge hog? They don't need a different name, don't you.
It's a weird name. There must be alternate names for that,
aren't they. Hey, if you want to talk. That's what
we're about. Hedge peg or a furs pig, or a
lap cactus, which I quite like. Actually a lap cactus

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five different or seventeen different species, none native in Australia
and no living species native to Americas. So there you go.
They don't have them there. I don't know that. I
don't know if they're in Australia now either, which is
pretty interesting. There you go, oh, eight hundred and eighty

(35:52):
ten eighty and nine to nine to de texts you
want to talk about that pretty interesting Wikipedia page. They
can suffer from balloon syndrome, which causes the animal to inflate. Goodness,
we are helping people with their chris us requests. If
there's food and things they want, we're trying to help
those people get those food. Neil wants headack. I would

(36:13):
imagine though, if you had a haddocke and us in
them by the time it got here, wouldn't taste like
the headock from home. Yeah, I don't know if I've
had headache. He also wants kippers. Everything kippers. That's one
of the discussions. Or the weirdest place you've fallen asleep,

(36:34):
or the strangest thing you've got in your backyard. Those
were a little bit of Christmas. So there's Christmas questions
you've got get in touch. We're also talking about hedgehogs.
Marcus in the mid nineties. In the mid eighties had
dolphins chasing my wild water skiing at takamatur Bay Akaroa,

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and when I lived at Kadaki Beach, I had dolphins
sharing a wavery while surfing magical. The dairy auction is overnight,
might stay up for it. Hedgehogs are notorious disease carriers,
particularly TV. When we were trying to eradicate TV from
coat of the eighties with the Ministary Agriculture, we're told

(37:18):
then the problem with the hedgehogs. Marcus, I don't mind
the old lap cactus, but my dog Diesel and old
Jack Russell hated them with a passion. He'd get a
certain sound in his bart because he just knew that
missing with him came with it down punishment. He was
not tolerant with stoakes or ferrets either. He had many
a battle with those feisty beasts. Yeah, so someone said,

(37:43):
my dad is here from England the first time ever,
summed up usaid in five words, then the text to stop.
What are those five words? Kind of curious what that
might be, but get in touch if you want to be.
My name is Marcus Welcome. Auckland's not going ahead with
fortnightly rubbish collection. The trial didn't go well. They tried

(38:05):
it seventy percent reposed. Might go smaller bins there today
because there's not a perfect science collecting rubbish, is it.
That's what we're on about tonight. They're not rubbish. Head
chogs and falling asleep ten past nine? Come on. You
might have a strange Christmas request. There might be some

(38:27):
recipe you're trying to track down. You might have thought,
I'm going to cook this for Christmas? Who can help me?
So yet you want to talk about that. That's what
we're about tonight. Strange places you've fallen asleep, yep, and
surprising things you have in your backyard. Yeah, there's much.

(38:50):
I won't say that just yet. I'm going to save
that for later on.

Speaker 11 (38:54):
People.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
But if you want to be a part of the show,
that's the plan for ball You light me up, chance
to get them before the end of the year. I'll
be away on Thursday. I'll be here on Tuesday, which
is today. Are we here on Wednesday which is tomorrow?
And I'll be here for Thursday, which is a Thursday
free for all yep, so a couple more nights after
tonight for me, Helen. This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (39:22):
Hello, hi Helen.

Speaker 14 (39:25):
Interesting subject. When I was at the stone Cutts at
the Chathams in the middle of the night, I heard
this trook screaming like it was being murdered, and I
went and had a look and there was the hedgehog
eating the back of it by its backside, alive. So
I donned it and another one did the same.

Speaker 15 (39:45):
And then.

Speaker 14 (39:47):
I was talking to Air Chathams. I asked the woman
that works there what the ryan was doing going lower
up and down over the beach, and she told me.
And then I said to her, by the way, do
you know how a hedgehog was mate? She said, I'll
bring me back in a half half and down or
down load and and find out, because I thought, here

(40:10):
the hell did they mate in anyhow? The female eyes
with its legs played out at the side, and the
pickles lay down, so they are something interesting.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
How did you imagine they did it?

Speaker 14 (40:24):
What would be pretty of a job wouldn't it.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
How introduce them to the chair? Well, that's interesting. Was
she the only person that had the Internet?

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (40:33):
I know, but I just happened to be talking to her.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
Okay, do you know how they done? Do you know
how they got to the Chettams? It's crazy, just like possums.

Speaker 14 (40:43):
Somebody took them down there to get to make money
out of the through or something.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
Are they possums on the Chatams?

Speaker 14 (40:50):
Yes? I shot them Evie night and when I came
up here a couple of years ago, it was strange
going to the toilet in the middle of the night
with out the rifle. Wow, Oh, you's so notorious. They're
up on top of the two storied room fevere nights,
and up trees and yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
It's a miserable sort of animal that would consume a
chicken when it's still alive, That takes a particular form
of That's a particular form of evil, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (41:18):
I didn't think hedgehogs would do they.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
No, they've got no no, no, no compassion.

Speaker 14 (41:26):
I know that they eat eggs, take eggs.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Did the chicken them? Did the chicken survive?

Speaker 14 (41:34):
The chalky? I got through it before the hedgehogs do
much damage. It acted just like a wild pig. They
related to pregnice.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
On sure, or does say whole hog of the hedge,
but that could be more alliteration. The old lap cacktus. Yeah, okay,
well that's a good story, Helen. Thank you. Tremendous nickname
lap cack, isn't it. I mean, that's that that makes
them sound nicer. Lapccktus fourteen past nine and this is

(42:03):
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (42:05):
Hello.

Speaker 17 (42:05):
I thought I tell you this. I was more or
less an only child because my brother was ten years
older than me, and he went to boarding school and whatnot,
But so he didn't when I was about in ten
or something. He was not always at home in the weekends,
and he met me at school or somewhere else. And

(42:26):
anyway I am. I was refused to have father Christmas
come in to the house. I didn't want him to
come up to my bedroom and fill my stocking with anything.
So it was this big old farmhouse, and so my
parents had to put a drink for him and some
food for him in the outside door. He opened it

(42:49):
and it came into a little hall, and then there
was another door that closed it and he was only
allowed to leave my presence in there. I can't believe
the fact.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Wise, I guess it probably it sounds quite sensible.

Speaker 17 (43:06):
Well, I'm wasn't used to people coming into the house,
particularly upstairs, you know, because the big old farmhouses that
you got in those days, and really old farmhouses freezing cold.
We used to have ice on the inside of the
windows in the winter. So glad I came to New
zeal And.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
Where about in England?

Speaker 18 (43:27):
Was it?

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Because it will mean something to.

Speaker 18 (43:28):
Some people East angel Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Okay, I might know a bit about East Anglia. What
would I know about that?

Speaker 17 (43:38):
My older brother went to oh to think. I went
to grammar school in housed and then cultures do I
played hockey colches with the big It had a sort
of you went down into the dungeons and they've had

(43:59):
all these cruelty things they used to do to people
and pull their backbones. What's awful. I still keep in
touch with my best friend that we've been friends since
we were four, and I still keep in touch with
her from she came to New Zealand like me, and
I came with my husband, my late husband. But she

(44:20):
she's gone back again. They did a different thing and
so she had to go back at a certain time.
They're still keep in touch with her.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
But what would east Anglia be famous for? What would
what Eastlier famous for?

Speaker 17 (44:38):
They like their fishing.

Speaker 8 (44:42):
General.

Speaker 17 (44:45):
It's it's just that it's a very much a farming
country while it was then. I haven't. I've been back
a few times, but not recently that everything's changed because
I've talked to people. But they're still got Hovis Mill.
I don't know whether you heard of Hove's Bread, which
was lovely bread, and its Hovis mill was near us,

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so we would go down and buy one that's just
been cooked and it was just delicious.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Oh that sounds like a nice taste, memory hoverspreed.

Speaker 17 (45:17):
Yes, it was very good. No, it was a nice place.
But it looks cold in winter.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
It might have been the style of the house. I mean,
it's not that far normalth is it I means south
of London.

Speaker 17 (45:29):
Oh, it's a long way out more towards the sea.
I remember what clearly, when I was a young teenager
going outside and it was so cold that night the
birds had frozen to death and they were still gripping
on the fence. It was horrible, and I used to

(45:53):
just put my gum boots on and skate down the streams.
They were long and narrow, and I would go up
there and I'd skid down the streams with the dogs,
and I have a wonderful time out there. I don't
think I've enjoyed much now.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Nice to hear from your end.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Of course there's grim stories about animals. Today you can
buy kippered hokey froze at the supermarket. The strangest thing
in my backyard is a blackbird with lucasm. What means
it's got that lack of pigment, so it's white. Apparently

(46:33):
they've taken the rakaia fish down for a repaint. Will
words have John westm Kippers Filets and Brian very tasty.
I bet they are eighteen past nine. How are you welcome?
Be in touch if you want to be Oh eight

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hundred and eighty ten eighty you are having KFC for
Christmas dinner. I think they're open, just asking random questions
as I do. But get in touch if you want
to partake tonight people, Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine nine to text you want to come

(47:17):
through got any breaking news that I start. The breaking
news is be good to hear from you, m or
anything else you want to mention. Our apparently has transported
the Rakaya salmon has been transported to Christ safe and sound.
What a hilarious sight seeing the big fish on a

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big truck on the motorway.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Let's be hearing from your twenty past nine. Hello Janet's Marcus.
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 19 (47:51):
Have you got a spare boat up there where you're wet?
Where and tomorrow? Where you have had rain? We have
never ever seen rain like it. Wow, it is bucketing down.

Speaker 5 (48:05):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (48:08):
We had one dose about oh two three o'clock this
afternoon and it's sort of cleared up and it started
again about a half an hour ago. We got our
spouting all damaged in the hail a couple of weeks ago.
There's some holes in it. That hasn't put it one
of those big plastic buckets.

Speaker 9 (48:25):
It was.

Speaker 19 (48:26):
It was full overflowing in a couple of minutes. It's
it's fair hosing down, thunder and lightning, so I don't
know who's next for it.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
So it's not is it ponding on the streets or anything.

Speaker 19 (48:38):
Oh but well, we on our ire on a bit
of a slope and the neighbors. The water is going
down a drive. You could go down it in a boat.
It's absolutely shocking.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
So there might be some worries there. There might be
some flooding.

Speaker 20 (48:54):
Well, I would be.

Speaker 19 (48:54):
Very surprised if there's not flooding somewhere. Okay, we're on
a rise, so we're right, we're right, but some but
we will be getting our garage flood because the spouting's
all from the hail two weeks ago. Yeah, sure, with
hail like ping pong balls and they bust the plastic

(49:15):
spouting and they haven't been a fixer yet. But never mind,
but just sort of tell you. When we were eating
our tea, they said something about the storm was heading
for Ashburton. So whether they are getting it.

Speaker 8 (49:28):
Yet or not, I think I think it was.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
Yeah, it was you got it seven fifteen, did you,
I think about an hour an hour and a half ago.

Speaker 19 (49:34):
About an hour ago, yeah, okay, yeah, And they did
say hail, but I don't think there was any hailstones
And when'ter the rain was that hat on the wonders.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
You couldn't tell how unbelieved because it seems like a
strange time for that sort of weather us it because
didn't you have a big well what's your hobby?

Speaker 18 (49:50):
Saying?

Speaker 19 (49:52):
Martin said, it's the heaviest reign I've ever seen. Wow, anywhere.

Speaker 4 (49:57):
It talks a lot to me anywhere.

Speaker 19 (50:00):
Yes, he dealt with irrigation and all that.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
Of course he knows the stuff. Yeah, I rate them. Ye,
he's good. Yeah, Okay, he knows the stuff. Great report, jam.
So there we go. There'll be the headline tomorrow ifveryone's
got an more information about that hest he's ever seen
and he's irrigation, So everyone's got more updates than Timid.
Let us know, Ah, Marcus muscles are cheap feed at

(50:34):
the moment, Donna Marie, thank you, Donna Marie. Powers out
here and way mate due to a rain storm, thank you,
raining like hell here and Timido, thunder and lightning, some
power cutouts here, So we've got to we've got a
timid tempest. So she's she's she's doing it, throwing it down.
So have you got any more updates about that? Welcome?

(50:59):
So get in touch if you want to talk about this.
Been fitty good with it. Down south. I have been
stuck inside most of the day. Issue, not most of
the day, most of the afternoon. But the roads looked
wet when I came out. Now, if you want to
be a part of the show, we are talking about
everything strange place. It's fall asleep Marcus. In the United States,

(51:22):
KFC do turkey for Thanksgiving. H they should do something
special KFC for Christmas Day. I don't know they do turkey,
but they should do lamb. Probably just mix it up
a bit. They really do turkey Christmas Day. You know
how i'd feel about that. I don't know what turkey
you'd be like in KFC. Probably quite good. I'm not

(51:43):
a huge fan of turkey. I know that brets the
posh BRIT's like a goose for Christmas, don't That's quite
the flesh thing to a Christmas goose? Anyone doing a goose?
Could you buy a goose? Where would you buy a goose?

Speaker 21 (51:56):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (51:56):
I feel like I could have a topic pivot here.
Anyone doing a Christmas goose? I suppose you do a
Canada goose, couldn't you? What do they call those sky
rabbits ear rabbits? Sky rabbits ear rabbits? What were the
nickname for that? What are the sky rabbits? Ear rabbits?

(52:20):
Try of things? Google means your memory goes. What is
a nickname for Canada? Goose camp?

Speaker 6 (52:29):
Robber?

Speaker 4 (52:31):
Anyway? Oh wait a one hundred eighty ten eighty nine
nine to text? Do you want to come through? Text two?
If you've got those Great news for Ashburt new bike

(52:54):
park named tarbott and Ride Smart Park. Marcus of her
husband worked in narragation. He's probably the worst person to
know about rain. It's a good point. I guess irrigation
is for areas with there's not much rain to thre
a good point. He knows what about rainy works irrigation? Well,
I doesn't know anything about rain anyway. I see what

(53:16):
your point is. Save and well made, Peter Marcus.

Speaker 5 (53:19):
Good evening, God, here a we go.

Speaker 22 (53:23):
You you're talking about people falling asleep in a funny place.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
Yes, yep, yeah, My just my.

Speaker 22 (53:35):
Wife and I took my mother and my auntie on
a cruise recently and we'd had a meal. My mother's
eighty three, by the way. We'd had a meal and
we're in the list. We're going from level nine down
to level six, and we all climbed out of the
lift and then turned around and Mom gone. Mom had

(53:58):
fallen asleep in the lift and ended up on a
different different.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Level as she's falling asleep. Verot clear, she lay down
and as she was.

Speaker 22 (54:08):
Standing up, must have just closed your eyes for a
few moments. And the lit stopped and we all got out,
and she didn't Did you think you're allowed your dy three?

Speaker 15 (54:21):
Did you?

Speaker 4 (54:22):
Did you give her a hard time or did you
just ignore it? Did you tell her?

Speaker 8 (54:26):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (54:26):
Yeah, well we had to find that a cruise up,
but she hadn't been on her own, so we didn't. Yeah,
we So we waited there and she finally came back
to the same place.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
Great story, Peter, thanks for it like that a lot
Marcus wed thunder lightning and bloody heavy rain in Dneed earlier,
so they must be going up the country. Great show.
Heavy Christmas to you and your family. Could you do
a Christmas swan plenty down Saint hell Is and Choey
Beach at the moment where wire the Swans come and go?

(55:00):
District plan? Probably so big floods and I can't finally
news about that. I don't even know we're going to
go looking for news about that. Now, would it be
where would there be that dan flooding and tempera. Would
it be Fends in the South Island. Yeah, but but
Fiends would send if there was flooding that they might
seend the emergencies, mightn't they I'm just trying to think

(55:20):
where else would get the alert should sound like this.
I think it was pretty full on. I' don't know
a quick Google search or anything as mentioning as those
poor people as I mean, that's the big news story
for the year from Timbulau is the Christmas Tree? Is
this Christmas tree seal light too? Because that does seem
to be a particularly to set, like to the giant
Christmas Tree at Caroline Bay, seems to be a particularly

(55:42):
if you are looking for a story to sum up
the anti spirit of Christmas, it would be that, wouldn't it.
There's be nothing much you could do that would be
worse than that, apart from stealing the or the presence
from the orphans Christmas. But anyway, so that's what keeps
coming up, and all the stories about Timulhu is when
the Christmas Tree. That the story that's gone around the world.

(56:03):
But yes, forever on the map now because the older
at Christmas grint show. That was the kai call he
Christmas Parade, wasn't it when they had to bend it
because everyone threw things at center? Marcus, I want kippers too.

(56:23):
I'm a New Zealand kiw who used to work for
early gentlemen from Norwich in the UK. Once I tried kippers,
I sold on them. Can eat them anytime, Julie Napier,
I've had kippers, I've had hearings. Can't taste it, but
the same those all the little fish, don't they and
they're all God but they're pretty samey, samey. You don't

(56:45):
know that I'm going to get all kind of worked
up around not having kippers for Christmas. Oh this is
Christmas twenty five to ten. If you want to be
a part of it, welcome. My name is Marcus hddled twelve.
What was that about sixty percent now for mobility card. Yes,
that was particularly something particularly mean spirited from our government.

(57:06):
So elderly, if you were elderly or disabled, you are
eligible for seventy five percent discount on your transport. Now
that has been reduced to sixty percent. So why they've
done that? It just seems such a mean spirited thing
to do, and I'll find that particular story for that

(57:30):
so I can read you more about that. It says
it's gone from seventy five to sixty five percent. I
heard in that story with seventy five to sixty percent,
so I better get clarification on that. It's called the
Total Mobility Scheme. It provides discounted taxis and public transport
fees for those with long term impayments. Labored put the
scheme up from fifty percent twenty twenty two, but did

(57:54):
not account for increased demand, so fiscal cliff and all that. Yep,
so that's the situation. That's a new story. They're twenty
four to ten and be a part of the show.
If you want to be a part of the show.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty if you want to
call nine two nine to to text people, not to

(58:16):
text to text common people. But that's what we're about.
If there's other stuff, good, let's be hearing from you.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to
nine two to text if you want to come through
From Australia, one of the alleged shooters has come out
of the Coma and in Australian single mother, she has

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been called tone deaf first starting a gofund me to
phraise money to pay for a new handbag because one
of hers was stolen during the Chaos and Bondo Beach.
The comment she's received online is mainly no words, that's
what you say and no words.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
And some of the.

Speaker 4 (58:59):
Australian commentators have waited in and said the reason there
was a thing is because the gunen laws are too
strict Yep, that's the firearm right to people the n A. Yeah,
there's all stuff we can talk about. Well, actually I'd
rather talk about the falling asleep somewhere weird. Actually yes,

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so be a part of it if you want to talk.
As I say, hit til midnight tonight, oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine nine to text. It seems
like Bunnings in Australia have put out mystery boxes. You know,
when you buy things you don't know what I've gotten
in them. After La Booboos, they're putting out mini beers.
Mystery figurines are ridiculous. I'm sure they're not being made

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and well I shouldn't say that, but you I mentioned
how where those things have been made. It is nineteen
to ten high guy, it's Marcus. Welcome Marcus again. Good
thanks guy.

Speaker 23 (59:57):
Yeah, I was just so listen to you talking about
funny places to fall asleep. We went to the Kyle
Army Formula one Grand Prix when it was in South Africa,
and I'm not really much of a petrol head, so
they thought would just go along having noisy. But we've
had a huge night the night before and in the
in the grandstanding and you got to stick your earplugs

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and some noise, you say, you can't talk to anyone.
And we watched the cars take off, which is quite exciting,
and it just got quite boring because we were just
watching cars go past. We didn't really know what was
going on. So and my friend fell asleep in the
grand stand, just lying on the The funny thing was,
I remember him in a dream about how much I
loved chicken. I was going, oh, I love chicken. And

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what happened is we've given some lunch and it was
a chicken lunch, and the plates were on the gress
and and I rolled over and my face was in
a plate of chicken, and I could.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Just wow, that's that's quite the wait.

Speaker 23 (01:00:58):
Wow, I wake up with all this chickenstack to my
face going on. That explains the odd dream. But it
was the noisiest place ever, and and it was. It
was just I realized I don't want a petrol head
at all. But it didn't interest me in the slightest.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
No, I reckon, I'll be surprised. What year at Karl Army.

Speaker 23 (01:01:16):
I think it was only there once. It must have
been in the early nineties. No one crashed, and it
just no overtaking. Petrol heads will probably think it's blessed
for me, but it just wasn't my game. It was
and we were very hungover, so they didn't help very much. So,
but it was a very odd place to fall asleep,
being so noisy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Three Would that be what it was?

Speaker 23 (01:01:40):
Yeah, he'd be around about then.

Speaker 9 (01:01:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
I think it's going back there too, a.

Speaker 23 (01:01:45):
Bit more interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
The son.

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
Good on?

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
Yea, yeah, I'll fall asleep on here this year. It's
my highlight. What was he talking about when I fell asleep?
It wasn't good, was it?

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Then?

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
What was he talking about? It was something us prota
be about parking if we have a parking I think
it was about parking outside Burger King. Just just just
you know, you try and find that you're going to
I'm going to stay awake, but your resolve goes. I
just gotta I just I just got to go. I'm

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sure most broadcasters are falling asleep. Bruce Russell fell asleep,
but taking the nighttime shot. Jannet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:02:33):
Oh hi, Marcus. Guess who is my best friend at
the Homers?

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
Got no idea?

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Here?

Speaker 9 (01:02:41):
And er and he knows I've got chicken in the fridge.
Oh that's the Ginger boy. He's my pierce friend at
the moment. He loves chicken.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
Anyway, how many chickens you got the fridge?

Speaker 9 (01:02:57):
Two? I put a little of meat off, put it
in the freezer and bags and then boil up all
the bones and make a lovely soup. So that's what
tomorrow's job is.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
What do they call them on the bones? You call
them the frames? What do you call a chicken skeleton?
Do you call it a frame?

Speaker 9 (01:03:20):
I don't say the bones?

Speaker 5 (01:03:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
Fair enough?

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Are you home?

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Is it home? Kill?

Speaker 17 (01:03:26):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:03:27):
Good?

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
Great?

Speaker 9 (01:03:28):
I wouldn't kill anything.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
Interesting question?

Speaker 9 (01:03:33):
No, No, I did have chicken. They got the sack.
I had took them to the bet to the Youth
and they put a little mask out and give them
some gat How adorable.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
Yeah, a little mask for the lastic around the back
of the head. What a little mask or the lastic
around the back of the comb.

Speaker 9 (01:03:55):
Yeah, they're terrible, bad Betty, Betty hit to the youth
and Jojo died of a broken heart.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
You todize one, the other one just taps out on
the elevator.

Speaker 9 (01:04:10):
Well, yeah, I took all here ees offer was collecting
them in the bushes. Baes that they weren't fertilized, and
oh yeah, I'd explain to her that we haven't got
a rooster and I never turned into chicks that she
thought it would anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
With sleep with Your Fall Asleep, Jennet's cut to the chase.

Speaker 9 (01:04:39):
Years ago, when I was going out with a boyfriend
from Victoria University, I used to go up to his
room and a group of us would sit and listen
to the doors. You remember that group. And I found

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it so sleep inducing, and of course I couldn't hold back.
I fell asleep leaning against my boyfriend. Was absolutely wonderful
that I would fall asleep in his arms and I've
always thought, well, I can't help it. I'm tired, and

(01:05:22):
I'm not things for the doors and sleep, because.

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
Also the doors always had that sort of the waves
crashing sound and the rainfall, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:05:32):
Yeah, And it was all sort of lightning.

Speaker 24 (01:05:34):
It's sort of moody youth books and the doors.

Speaker 9 (01:05:39):
Anymore, nye. Every time I hear it, never do but
when I do hear it, I remember that. And he
just thought that was wonderful. I was very embarrassed, and
I should be so easy and falling asleep like that terrible.

(01:06:00):
But anyway, my mother is never found out, so that's good.
Now we hit that storm go through here. Oh, I
didn't keep windy, and I was down at the gate
unlocking it so I could hit the grocery groceries to
be delivered, and the wind gusts blew the gate open.

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Now he knocked me over, and I thought, gee, I
could if I had an umbrella, I could fly. It
was so strong, scary.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
What what are we talking tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:06:39):
Today middayish? Yeah, terrible frightening wind and it blew all
the things down the driveway, those containers and plants falling
out of pops. Very dramatic goodness.

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
Okay, Jen thinks I've done a lot of texts coming through.
Keep those going, have those next twelve away from ten? Well,
Jane's perked up. Her resurrection might be the Christmas miracle
and I'm here till twelve. You want to come through
after the news? No, actually live it up the news time.
It's ten away from ten. Strange places you have fallen asleep?

Speaker 18 (01:07:17):
Yeah, or.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
Christmas advice. You're looking for a recipe you want to execute.
You might think what I want to do, I just
going to use an example as a lame example. But
you might think this show I'm going to do to Durkin,
which the turkey starts for the duck stuff with the chicken.
To me, that's disrespectful of animals to you anyway. But
there might be some questions you want to ask our
audience with culinary advice. Mark's my best mate. Sean Sewn

(01:07:48):
m fell asleep on the train in Germney after the
October Fest. Mister stop end up walking into our high
school karaoke fundraising night Steel very drunk. He's also falling
as sleep upside down a pumpkin patch, missing one shoe
off the cemetery circuit, motorbike racing and huang Nui. That's
Mark fell asleep in the trunk of a car. So

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the real topic with legs is where you've fallen asleep.
Got no idea how he got onto that. Oh, Dick
Van Dyke fell asleep on a surfboard at eighty four
years age off the coast of California. He was surfing,
fell asleep, couldn't see the shore, and dolphins pushed him
towards the coast. He's out there, probably woke up doing

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his quite chim chimney chim chimmery chim chim juu, and
they nudged him forward towards the land. Interesting, I reckon
chim chim juru, still a hundred. There weren't many articles
about him celebrating his birthday that I could a certain

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or see. I don't know if Trump gave him a
phone call and a Trump's a big fan of Dick
Van Dyke, probably threatened by him. Old Dick van Dyke
a saveral wife from teen. Now, dam it's Marcus, A
long evening.

Speaker 25 (01:09:14):
Hi, Marcus. I just want to tell you I wasn't
feeling well and I a swear headache, and I asked
someone to give me some medication. So I took the medication.
And I'm a Muslim, so I went to Most for
prayer and I wasn't feeling well, and I in the

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middle of the piray, I just slept and I was
snoring like a dog, and everybody was disturbed, but they
couldn't say anything to me. But when the prayer finished,
my friend waked me up and he said, what the
hell are you doing. You're snoring was disturbing everybody. So
for the last one month I couldn't go to the
mosque because I was so embarrassed, and everybody knew me,

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So that was really embarrassing situation.

Speaker 24 (01:10:01):
I went through.

Speaker 25 (01:10:02):
So because in a mosque you have to be very quiet.
When the prayer is green on, everybody is very quiet
as a pind of silence. But the medication knocked me off,
so I was very embarrassed to be To be honest
with you, I shouldn't have gone to the Most Cooper
when I wasn't feeling well.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
Very good story, Idan, thank you for that. Hell later
it's Marcus, Hello, good, thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:10:32):
I still thinking on a bastel.

Speaker 5 (01:10:35):
I don't my own.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
True and I sell, Oh what a bastel on your Yeah,
we're what pub?

Speaker 15 (01:10:43):
Was it? And one question?

Speaker 26 (01:10:50):
No I didn't.

Speaker 15 (01:10:51):
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:10:53):
It's funny.

Speaker 11 (01:10:54):
Somebody helped me out.

Speaker 10 (01:10:56):
What the hell am I doing?

Speaker 20 (01:10:58):
You?

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
Did you spill your drink?

Speaker 22 (01:11:01):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:11:02):
I didn't drink.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Yes, did you get kicked out there?

Speaker 12 (01:11:11):
Do they call you?

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
Did they call you a taxi?

Speaker 11 (01:11:14):
Why they didn't?

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
It's bad, It's not host responsibility. Helena threw away from
ten had a mate that used to tell Yan about
falling asleep playing spotlight on school camp. He laid down
on the grass and fell asleep. He said. He woke
a few hours later, went from the dew and cold,
stood up, walk back to camp. He said. The really
sad thing was no one noticed he was missing or
looking for him. Marcus, funny all you're talking about headhogs.

(01:11:39):
We haven't seen them on our pad for ages until tonight.
Just spotted one by our pubshit behind the house. Dave
on your dave, hit'll twelve here till twelve looking forward
to your imput Yeah, that's right, get in touch if
you want to. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
do you want to email that to Marcus? At newstalk
z'b dot co dot Nz. Tim Beverige along from twelve Davy.

(01:12:00):
Good evening, it's Marcus, welcome you're there, Davy.

Speaker 27 (01:12:06):
Oh Marcus, A.

Speaker 28 (01:12:09):
Merry Christmas, my friend.

Speaker 27 (01:12:13):
You are talking about Chitty Chitty Bang Bank Earlier. I
wasn't sure whether you were aware that the actual vehicle
now resides in New Zealand. At the last time I
saw it was at Wellington Airport in Peter Jackson's personal

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aircraft hanger.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Wow, I was I was not aware of that, and
that's that's pretty and I imagined he'd be the sort
of guy that would buy it.

Speaker 8 (01:12:47):
Well he he.

Speaker 27 (01:12:48):
He is a collector of a movie memorabilia and he
has a private studio or or hanger set up acent
to the airport on a residential address, which is actually

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open to the public if if they wish to phone
and ask for a tour. It's like a bit of
a museum where he makes all the World War One
aircraft and replicas or or or they don't like that word,

(01:13:32):
they make them too.

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
Yeah, what what do they what do they call it?
Are the recreations? So quite righty? There isn't there?

Speaker 27 (01:13:39):
Yeah, I can't think of the right word. But they
they're they're constructed to the exact recipe, with the exact
design and using the exact techniques. In any case, it's
it's they make more World War One aircraft than anywhere
else in the world. And they assemble them and then

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they make them to water, and then they completely disassemble
them once they've been constructed, send them over to Masterson Airport,
reassemble them and then test fly them, and then disassemble
them again and send them after whoever the customer was
that brought them. And these are every variety you can imagine,

(01:14:28):
but in that same original hangar where they do all
this construction, to the designs and what have you. Out
the back of it as his stock of memorabilia now
now Chilly Chitty bang Bank actually sat in his aircraft

(01:14:49):
hangar at Wellington Airport, so it was never at this location.
I saw it there three or four times in my passings.
But out the back he's got stuff from other movie sets,
tanks and whatever. You raiders of the Lost art, you

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know that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
I think he's gonna put He's gonna he's got to
open a film, a film memorability, a museum. I think
I think that's the plan. Has it ever got that right?

Speaker 12 (01:15:19):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:15:20):
You must be right, because why would you connect all
that stuff?

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
And I'm looking at the carrots. Seems like it's part
of its wooden part of it telemnium, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
What's the front of it? The chessis?

Speaker 27 (01:15:29):
Oh no, it's it's the full Well. I don't know
what vehicle type it was, to be honest, but that
it would like one of those big German vehicles from
the nineteen fifties. Fantastic and then you you drop a
lever and the wings come out and just fascinating and

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you're just sick and you're in it. You feel like
you could back watching the film, you know, and over
the Palace of Measurement style or whatever.

Speaker 18 (01:16:03):
You and.

Speaker 27 (01:16:07):
Yeah, it's it's and.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Knowing him, it will still be rode Worthy one.

Speaker 27 (01:16:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah absolutely, And but it you know,
it just sat in the corner of the hangar with
a tarp over it like it was nothing, and you know,
there's a big cold stream jet build the hanger and

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it was just my my mates who were the pilots
of that jets, all coming out of this day and
whipped the cover off him bucking me.

Speaker 18 (01:16:43):
It's ditty diddy bang bucky David.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
Thanks so much for that, Laurie. Welcome Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:16:50):
Yeah, hi Marcus. You're talking about things that might make
you drop off to sleep. And I remember hearing an
interview some years ago with the scientists whose job it
was the count squashed hedgehogs on the road. I just
I went back and I googled up and there's a

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scientific study that they were. These guys they would drive
from Wellington to North Auckland and back, counting squashed hedgehogs
and squash possums.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
Well, it's scientifically regorous, is it, because you could tell
where the populations are increasing or decreasing by the number
you'd find. I would imagine, yeah, but.

Speaker 18 (01:17:35):
What's sixteen sixteen hundred and sixty kilometer squash quitter rally?
One would drive and the other had a notebook. Bosily.
They did it in nineteur ninety ninety four, in two
thousand and five, that long haul, supposedly, and they published
in the Journal of Zoogy. But they've hooked back into

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because there was another study that had been done around
Wellington whether it actually given the same route, or nearly
one hundred times. I think it went round from the
Hut Valley up towards north of waike and I, and
there was a regular route that was done by studying.
That interesting thing was the apparently they had figures going

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back to nineteen forty nine. But now here we are,
the hedgehog population has nosed died since since the nineteen fifties.
There used to be forty times more or they used
to be forty times more abundant here than any other
place in the world. Now they're about as abundant as

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the United Kingdom. So supposedly here on those trips they
got back to I think possibly they're doing possims as well.
But the numbers two thousand and five they showed a
recent drop and hedgehog numbers were just twenty one founds

(01:19:01):
compared with one hundred and twelve found in nineteen eighty four.
That so, yeah, they extrepolate the numbers and on population
there's probably you say this, but I mean it's forty
times more. The numbers must have been extreme back in

(01:19:23):
the nineties.

Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 18 (01:19:24):
Unbelievable, Yeah, and both be they're outnumbered anywhere else in
the world that they must have, but something that has
come along.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
And what will they be eating? Witters and stokes and
witters and geckos and skinks.

Speaker 18 (01:19:41):
And yeah, yeah, they must have hoovered up so much stuff.
And then yeah, but supposedly they reckon they could travel
along at reasonable speed in somebody the notebook, they could
get to recognize the different because I think they were
logging rabbits and pukeckos as well. Occasionally they might have
to stop, come back and then speak the characters to

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see exactly what it was. But but I'm notorious for
dozing off at certain things, and I could see it
wouldn't be a job for me, not the hedgehog accounting anyway,
I appreciate that in the daytime though, did they Yeah, yeah,
and it was done in daytime. And also they didn't
do it and wet weather apparently if it'd been rained,

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they thought that the road kills harder to recognize. But yeah,
the guy the interview I heard was quite quite humorous.
It might have been on radio in New Zealand once
point a time. The scientists involved as the guy, Richard
Sadley and Bob Brocky, either one of those ones was

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the original one I heard, but it does pop up
when you when you when you as you know, google it,
there's quite a bit of coverage.

Speaker 5 (01:20:58):
Should well.

Speaker 4 (01:20:59):
I hope the populations still are at that lower level.
I hope they haven't bound. I haven't sort of. Yeah,
I haven't really got any figures myself, but I'll be curious.

Speaker 18 (01:21:07):
I can remember seeing a lot more around, you know,
when I was, you know, in the sixteen when we're
doing more surveying on the roads and stuff. None of
these figures relate to the South Island saw North Island
information that. But I mean they're still a few hugging around.
Parmy her daughters. They come around her place a cage
and she's got a little dog that goes bonkers when

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they get around and she gets he hated to get up,
and she usually six them in a bucket and drives
out of town.

Speaker 8 (01:21:33):
And drops them off.

Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
It's the cowards. Why isn't it sticky with that? Laurie,
thank you Movit's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:21:43):
I'm Marcus. I've got a bit of a character of
a dog. He's a Jack Russell cross and he's a
hedgehole catcher.

Speaker 8 (01:21:51):
Oh god, he's coming up, coming up.

Speaker 11 (01:21:53):
Nine and from I don't know, one year old. I've
got a curve for him at night. Now he actually
brings them inside to show them off to me. So
I've got a lovely neighbor and she hears just looking
frantically as oh no, you've got no hedgehog. I'll be over.
So it takes two people to get the hedgehog off.

Speaker 10 (01:22:12):
Jerry, can you believe it, Jerry?

Speaker 4 (01:22:17):
He doesn't eat try to eat them, No, it's just
about killing.

Speaker 11 (01:22:20):
He picked them up it of mouth and he just
he just he just baits them. He's a country boy.
I rehumed him when he was eight months old from
a hooker. So he takes hedgehogs, the rabbits, possibly, I know.
So finally we retrieve the hedgehog. My lovely neighbor takes
them back to her big property. So she's got all
my hedgehogs and her guard and like, no kids, no dogs,

(01:22:44):
it's good. So what I'm saying is that, so I
finally bring him inside and he's got all this blood
around his blinking mouth because the pickles, of course don't
they of course he's a nutcake, his Irish like me. Anyway,
he's signed that because I just lock him in the night.
No going out at night, and no more headgehogs coming in,

(01:23:05):
because I feel one night I won't be long. One
night here she got one. I thought that she killed it.
I put it in the red ben because I've been
told not the green ben, obviously, and when I dropped
it down, Marcus, I could hear scuttling around, and in
the morning it was dead. Start of shock obviously. Anyway,

(01:23:29):
So heat chogs and another story across my neighbors. Her
friend used to have chickens, and they're nasty little things here.
Chogs with chickens.

Speaker 4 (01:23:37):
They did really nasty, really nasty.

Speaker 11 (01:23:40):
Horrible, horrible. I don't like heat chogs, but I know
they've got their job.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
What is the what is the job?

Speaker 11 (01:23:46):
Oh no, they eat all the horrible nasties from the garden.
It killed your plants.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
Oh, but it was one heat chog found and they
had turned seventy three wet leagues in it systems. They
had a lot of native native creatures.

Speaker 11 (01:24:00):
Oh, they do very And your last cooler was very interesting,
by the way, Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
My interview, we're getting some of the interesting what one
through Thank you nineteen past ten ten, ten ten, get
in touch. If you want to be a part of
the fray people wanting to f KFC's open Christmas Day,
it should be mind you want the workers to have
a holiday. Marcus. Years ago in the nineteen eighties, I
went with a work made to see the brand new
movie Kramer Versus Kramer the Feet.

Speaker 8 (01:24:27):
It was full.

Speaker 4 (01:24:28):
I fell asleep with the opening credits. My head fell
onto her shoulder, and I woke with the closing credits.
I still haven't seen it. It was a big movie
in stature at Kramer versus Kramer. It was sort of
like a custodial battle Dustin Hoffman member Merrilstre. Don't know
who the cast was. I never saw it. I was
young Kramer versus Kramer. Probably some sort of sentimental claptrap.

(01:24:53):
Was it cussody battle Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Street?

Speaker 5 (01:24:58):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
By the way. Dick Van Dyke trivia. Dick van Dyke
was offered the role the lead role in the Omen.
Yeah going again to type?

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
Know about that?

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
Dick Van Dyke, don't we save rescued by dolphins? And
asked offered the role of the Omen? Do you go
any other? Dick van Dyke trivia yep all very interesting.
It's full name. I think his full name was Richard
Wayne van Dyke. I think twenty one past ten when

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Dick van Dyke was eighty six. The same year he
got rescued by the dolphins, he married his wife. She
was forty, so it's been a long time for her,
long wait for the payout. But Jeep has creeper is.
It's a big age. It's forty six years. Always seem
very happy together and you're doing the same things. I
think twenty five past ten mark is still twelve. A

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bit of a slight pivot. We're on to headhogs and
strange places to fall asleep. That's the major topics for tonight.
In the bit of traction. For that, I can tell
you which KFC's are open on Christmas Day. Fang are
Albany Lincoln Road, New Lynn, Key Street, Central Auckland, Botany Downs,
East Auckland. Six open in South Auckland, Mangari, Central Monaco,
Manaeua or Tahuhu, Auckland National Airport and Karaka waikat.

Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
Or North Mall.

Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
Lower North isnan Hastings, Lower hut Ricketton Road, Upper South Island, Nelson,
christ Church, Eastgate, Hornby Willington, Kent Terrace and Porty Dour,
Bay of Peddy, mounta Mong and to none south of
christ Church. It's the KFC dry zone. Don't know what
popeye'es is doing. Pepper into this sort of stuff. This

(01:26:46):
year we're doing it differently. We're going to only over
between eleven and seven. It'll be for the work. Is
only the chance to go out, go home, do their thing,
yaddy yady yady YadA.

Speaker 21 (01:26:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:26:57):
Now hmm, it's interesting and looking at trade me antics
and collectibles, there's still a category for phone cards, even
though they're now getting rid of all the phone boxes.
It's interesting, isn't It's gonna be a mug to collect those.
There's a massive collection for sale of four hundred dollars.

(01:27:19):
Doesn't look that messive to me. Honors big one first
day folders, so yep. So they're all selling them at
fire sale prices. Large phone card collected over a thousand,
one hundred ready bucks, so the market's clearly fallen out
of those, I would say, no more will we made?

(01:27:42):
Can'ts are hand seen that coming?

Speaker 24 (01:27:44):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:27:45):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
I The joy of collecting is in the collecting, not
in the value. That's what I've always said. I continue
to say it. Dustin Hoffmann was brilliant. And meet the parents.
Robert Denier are every who was Barbara Streiss and his wife.
I like, meet the parents. He's pretty keen to get
kicked many to work called de Niro, wasn't he just

(01:28:09):
without squishing snails? We had a warm rain in the
white they'll blow me down. There's a lamp. There's a
damn lamp. Cactus eating the cat biscuits or sorry lepkectus.
So it's all on here. Would have one hundred plus sonurs,
but there's three to one slugs versus snails. Marcus, we
had to head chogs running outside the bushes by my bedroom.
They a horrendous noise. It's all happening out there. Nature,

(01:28:33):
isn't it nature? The old leap cactus twenty haut past ten.
We didn't find out Dick Vandyke had come to New Zealand,
did we? Good evening, Mike, This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:28:51):
Hey, Mike, Yeah you're there. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:28:56):
Look.

Speaker 8 (01:28:57):
I spoke to whatever it was a few minutes ago
to say that I couldn't get a telephone number for
TV three. No, and goodness, I'm nearly eighty and I'm

(01:29:19):
not up with all this bloody bullshit stuff. But what
I'm saying is an old girlfriend of mine who is
came over and she spent half an hour, I mean
half the afternoon trying to get a telephone number during
TV three.

Speaker 4 (01:29:35):
Goodness. Well, she's got patience, isn't she.

Speaker 8 (01:29:38):
Yeah, yeah she has, and she's putting up with me.
She had to have a lot. But the reason being
that a couple of days ago and they have the wheeler,
the one that comes up, and then.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
They have the.

Speaker 8 (01:29:56):
The thing for the two or three days down the line,
and on two or three of those occasions they cut
it off before they got to halfway down the South Island.

Speaker 4 (01:30:06):
You would be relying on TV three for your weather, though,
would you.

Speaker 26 (01:30:10):
No.

Speaker 8 (01:30:10):
I was relying on them to see what the weather
was for the next two or three days, which.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
Just get you just got to get on your phone
or so get on the internet.

Speaker 8 (01:30:21):
I just told you I don't know how to do
all that in me eighty power. I'm not runny.

Speaker 4 (01:30:26):
Yeah, Mike, the internet didn't come wrong yesday. The internet
has been around for like forty years. You can't say
you can't have it now when you're eighty. You could
have done it when you're forty. Hang on there, So
were you going to complain about the weather? Were about
the not doing the weather properly?

Speaker 8 (01:30:42):
Okay, Well, well we'll move on from there.

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
Pal Okay, Well you sound a bit politic, you sound
a bit belligerent.

Speaker 8 (01:30:51):
Well, no, I just want to move on from there.

Speaker 4 (01:30:54):
Okay, Yeah, but I haven't kind of resolved the story.
Did you actually get in touch with TV three?

Speaker 8 (01:31:00):
No, they didn't have a phone number, or they have.

Speaker 4 (01:31:03):
A phone number. They're going to what do they get
breaking news? If people want to there breaking news, you've
got to be on.

Speaker 8 (01:31:08):
All this computer stuff, which I am not on. Okay, anyway,
forget that for a moment.

Speaker 3 (01:31:16):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:31:16):
What I want to talk about, which is far more pertinent,
is the fact that, uh, there's been a lot of
tub something about IKEA arriving in New Zealand. Okay, you're there,
ye yeah. Now what hasn't been said was that they
have bought, taken over, or whatever, half a dozen farms

(01:31:41):
on the east coast of the North Island. Farms, two
plant pine forest.

Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
Okay, that's that's and that's had a lot of coverage.

Speaker 8 (01:31:56):
No had any coverage, Mike, Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:31:59):
It's been in all the news bulletins about Ike buying
the forest. That's been everywhere.

Speaker 8 (01:32:03):
Okay, well, yet that may well be the case. There's
the what I am saying. What I am saying is
that that will take twenty five see years for that
to actually produce any income from those farms, which are
already contributing to the economy. And when those farms are

(01:32:27):
when those trees are cut down, they will be exported
to somewhere else to tune into somewhere the furniture to
bring back from New Zealand and New Zuma will get absolutely,
buddy nothing from it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:42):
We'll pay for the will pay for the well the
farm that sells the trees to sell the farm to Ike.
He gets money, she gets money. The workers planting the
trees will get some coin too, won't they.

Speaker 8 (01:32:55):
Yeah, twenty five years down the chain, who the hell
is going to get anything?

Speaker 4 (01:32:58):
They're the logging companies that carry them to the money
in there for people.

Speaker 8 (01:33:02):
Yeah, Okay, look, I can't be bothered. Okay, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
He's still there. You're still there, Mike, Mike, Let ask
him what I feel that if you're falling the mike,
have you fallen asleep anywhere? Interesting?

Speaker 8 (01:33:21):
Listen, those farms were producing income now okay.

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
Yeah, but the farm but the farmers have any right
to sell their land to whoever they want. The farmers
just want to get the top dollar. You can't tell
people who who to sell their land.

Speaker 8 (01:33:36):
I am not disputing that. What I am saying is
those fires who are producing income. Okay, Now, that's going
to take twenty five bloody years before those trees produce anything.
And when they do, they will get cut down. They
will be sent overseas to be bloody well tuned into furniture,

(01:34:00):
and they will come back to New Zealand and New
Zerod people will say thank you God. And what if
New Zealand achieved from us?

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
It's probably quite marginal land though, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:34:11):
Well it's just marginally Why are they filing it?

Speaker 4 (01:34:14):
Well, they're planting trees in it.

Speaker 8 (01:34:17):
All right, you have it your way. I can't be
more tools here.

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
You stayed on though. You came back for a second ago,
didn't you. And if your guy that's been all afternoon
trying to find TV three's number you're probably up for
a bit of a chat about this, Mike. But that's
not Worri. I wonder if he was just one of
those guys that calls cold trigger brought a phone card

(01:34:41):
for one hundred dollars, almost cleaned out my savings trying
to ford it the next day the bubble burst. I
still have that card worth today ten cents.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
What was on it?

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
We love phone call. You felt powerful with a phone
card on your wallet. You got any phone in the
world and make it for any phone was in to
make a phone call. Marcus can't use age anymore for
computer ignorance. There were forty or fifty year olds who
chose not to engage. To a now elder, the age
is not the problem, d Tod. What if it'd been
to Ikea, Well, I think they had got quite a

(01:35:14):
bit aublicity about Ikea and the buying of Maybe it
was the sound because they've got they brought a lot
down south, other than whether's some around the Kitland or something.
But you know, you can't just say you can't. You're eighty,
you're not into computers. That's that's that's that's just not true.

(01:35:37):
Twenty four away from eleven if you want to partake
here Tel twelve, good evening and welcome eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine to nine two detext looking forward
to what you want to say. The strange places you've
fallen asleep one of the time is also too interesting.

(01:35:59):
Christmas recipes you're hoping to achieve you might need some
sragitions for it, or just some encouragement. Anyone cooking a
goose here it'll twelve be in touch, so Mike. The
number four Sky TV for sorry for TV three, which
is now Sky TV is O nine five two five

(01:36:20):
five five five five O nine five two five five
five five that's O nine five too, followed by five
fives the water, sorry the power and one matter is
back on brilliant Margot, it's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus, Margo.

(01:36:42):
That's Melanie Melanie. Sorry, my apologies and Dan's apology. Apologies too,
Hi Melanie.

Speaker 20 (01:36:48):
Oh that's all right, Marcus. I know numerous people who
are in their eighties and that who don't understand computers.
In fact, I even know somebody who's fifty seven who
doesn't like or understand computers.

Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
But that's a choice there, that's a choice they've made.
It's not someone that comes to eighty and decides they
can't they can't use computers because of their age. They
don't know how to use computers because they've chosen not
to use them or to how to use them.

Speaker 20 (01:37:20):
And it's all all a lot of it's to do
with the age as well.

Speaker 4 (01:37:24):
Yeah, but yeah, but they've they've made it, they've made
a choice not to be, not to not to engage
with difficult.

Speaker 7 (01:37:33):
They find it difficult, Well, they.

Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
Find it difficult. They find it difficult now because it's
hard to learn stuff when you're eighty, isn't it. But
if they when they're fifty, then they would all I'm
saying it's you can't just say, oh, well I don't
know how to use computers. You've chosen not to use that. Well,
that's all right, it's fine, But you can't grizzle and say,

(01:37:58):
you know, if it's like if you if you choose
not to drive, you can't complain that you've got to
walk everywhere.

Speaker 20 (01:38:05):
Oh well, no, I don't know anybody who does say it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
Oh'll be plenty of people like that.

Speaker 20 (01:38:12):
Well, I don't know anybody like that, and I know
heaps of people.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
Marcus I fell asleep at the cinema watching the Matrix
was in a cinema and a Polish backwater town, and
fool as you didn't realize the movie was in Polish
boring as in a sleep in minutes. The general contact
number for the company Operate Sky is oh. I think
so that oh nine nine to eight nine thousand. Took
me two seconds to google it. I was concerned you'd

(01:38:39):
put that woman all afternoon and doing them and that
sounds like a hell goose? Has anyone had sworn for Christmas?
What's it like? Someone said to get a phone numbering
oh one eight directory assistance eighteen to eleven Hewitt's Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
Welcome Marcus, I amsolutely love your show. No right, it's
just hilarious everybody.

Speaker 10 (01:39:06):
It's terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
Sue Raley tonight to be that rabbit shot inside. Then
my workshop shout me up a red cleaver. It's a
very old and tip cleaver, which didn't hear a straight
blade that I started a straight blade now and mctually
sharp enough because I've got blood career on my right hand,
so clearly I just nicked each of the thing with

(01:39:29):
my finger when I was filing and said.

Speaker 21 (01:39:30):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
That sharp enough hedgehogs, let's just till about headehogs. So
as a piskytrol shoot, I'm actually I see heatghogs around
quite a bat Hedgehogs are obviously on the pissed register,
and all the people who do piscy trail are really
happy when they killer a hedgehog because they they eat
the eggs and they eat the young, et cetera. The

(01:39:55):
greatest thing I've ever seen to do with the hedgehog,
and I'm going to tell you what that was. Much
before shots and rovers came back around, the pladder had
given back to where the rabbit was, and there's a
hedgehog chewing on the dead rabbit and eating the dead rabbit.
And it was kind of great testue. It was kind
of like something from the dinosaur age, you know, like
a crocodile or something eating this rabbit. Yeah, that's horrible,

(01:40:19):
So I shot of the course. Obviously that's what you do.
I do shoot them because they are predators. But on
the other side of the coin, some people like to
have them on their pasture because they're one of the
biggest eats of grass grub. Now they'll go out there
and they'll just eat grass grub all night long. And
if you have grass grub and your paddicks, of course

(01:40:41):
you have those bad spotches with, you know, like little
mouse of dirt on there where the grass grows, borrowing
down and coming back up again. So if the hedgehogs
are out there, the grass grubs come out at night
onto the service. Hedgehogs are out there at night eating
the grass grubs. So there is a positive to having
grass grubs on your property. That's what it was, a

(01:41:01):
positive having hedgehogs on your property to eat the grass grubs.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
Have you ever eaten headgshogs?

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
No, but I understand the gypsies over in England, and
you rolled it in mud and you throw it in
the embassy.

Speaker 4 (01:41:13):
You cook it up, that's right, cook it and clay cooking, and.

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
Clay peel the clay off. All the spikes come off
with that. We had a little in there living in
a house that was got a big passing up during
poorly lit We were going out of the path one night,
you know, as children like I would have been five,
my sister Woodman two years old than that.

Speaker 15 (01:41:34):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
We're putting out cups of deer off the ground and
chucking them, you know, just for the hell of it,
as you do. From the slap face where it came
down by the path, my sister bat down picked up
a clump of dirt turned out to be a heat
shog screaming, and there were fingers in the power of
her hand, like you're going to grab this big lump
of clay and chuck it, probably at a brother and

(01:41:58):
tell me if she's screaming. Got these Yeah, But I've
seen heatghogs up trees and we're very edge. They go
up a tree and they climb up on a tree
and open. We were seeing a hitchhog running across the
top wire by a number eight wire fence like a
trapiz artist. You know, we're going to tell And I

(01:42:19):
wouldn't have throd a bulky, chunky little animal that could
balance on a piece of number eight wire, but they
dont it and climb as well as rats. It's quite remarkable.

Speaker 4 (01:42:29):
Lovely to talk to you. You keep going with your
old cleaver, nice to talk. Fourteen to eleven. Thanks you
haven't we twelve away from eleven Hit onl Midnight tim
beverage along from midnight. Hello Julie, this is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
Welcome Marcus in a.

Speaker 15 (01:42:44):
Very very good evening to you, and before you you
say good night to me, I wish you all the
best for you and your family for Christmas in the
new year. Yeah, the last guy was absolutely hilarious. Absolutely
thought right flats might be finished, but he certainly revived
it again.

Speaker 4 (01:43:05):
Well, yes, yeah, I appreciate it. Yeah he did seem
he did seem. Yeah, he seemed antagonistic from the get go.
But anyway, that's fine.

Speaker 15 (01:43:12):
He was proactive, he was sharpening. As far as internet
is concern, it is my choice not to have it. One.
I couldn't really afford it where I live. I had
to spend about two grand to put it up there.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
For what.

Speaker 15 (01:43:32):
I don't trust it. I don't trust the banking system.
I don't. It's just my choice. I don't trust it.
And all I have is a cell phone. This is
what I'm talking to you now, is a landline. And
I just love my landline and my cell phone I
just use for emergencies and Texas only. If I want

(01:43:56):
to do any banking, I do telephone banking and or
I pop into the Westpact in Fielding when I go
in there. But it's it's for me. It's a matter
of spending all that money installing that, or I could
just put a little bit of effort into helping my
grandkids itself. So that's where I am at it. But

(01:44:19):
Marcus Hues, I already.

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
Like love to hear from you, Thanks so much for that.
Nine away from eleven o'clock seven from eleven, Hello, Judy,
this is Marcus. Welcome Hi.

Speaker 16 (01:44:31):
You know, just because it's what you see. I've got
on my window a piece of cardboard and it's eliminated,
and it's got our top, our top preasure, and underneath
it's got us. And they're always carrying on about they
wanted to get New Zealand free, predator free. Humans are

(01:44:55):
the biggest press are out. Predator out? Who brought the
hedgehogs here in the first place, who put the weasels
in the stoves and the deer and that they bring
all these things in because I think they're so smart.
That's humans, I mean, And it's if it's not huge hogs,
it's cats. And if it's not catch its heagehogs. I mean,

(01:45:17):
hedgehogs didn't swim from England to New Zealand. They were
brought here.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
Yeah, I think people know that that they were that
the English would try to recreate the kind of their Yeah,
all the animals from back home when they came across
he hadn't they They brought them all sorts of things.

Speaker 5 (01:45:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:45:35):
But you know, I just get overly peed off with
people carrying on with either cats or dogs or either,
And it's always humans that bring them here.

Speaker 4 (01:45:47):
And only are people going on about dogs much? I
mean the dogs out in the bush. Are they destroying everything?

Speaker 29 (01:45:53):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:45:54):
But I mean there again, and and we has got
any cat start again? Hedgehogs, cats and dogs, they've got
a right to eat things themselves and survive. I mean,
they don't know what they're doing this wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:46:10):
No, but you can't let them run. You can't let
them run out of control.

Speaker 21 (01:46:15):
No.

Speaker 18 (01:46:16):
Well okay, yeah I shouldn't.

Speaker 16 (01:46:18):
I shouldn't tell you this. But I've got huge hogs
at my place and I feed them every night.

Speaker 4 (01:46:23):
Good pits.

Speaker 16 (01:46:25):
Oh, I've got to tray. It's a plastic tray, and
I run it down up and down the concrete, and
I put food on the tray, and I go inside
and sho shine the torch out the window and every night,
these either one or another of them out there feeding away.
And I think just at the moment it's actually absolutely pouring,

(01:46:47):
and Christ shoots because I'm sure I could hear the rain.

Speaker 4 (01:46:51):
But when you say you run up and down, they
can hear the sound, can they?

Speaker 8 (01:46:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:46:56):
What is?

Speaker 4 (01:46:57):
Can you see that?

Speaker 6 (01:46:58):
It'll lease?

Speaker 9 (01:46:59):
Yep?

Speaker 6 (01:47:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:47:01):
I love the little only little rubbery note a sniffle
and staffle and happen carry on. But anyway, that's all
I have got to say.

Speaker 4 (01:47:12):
Okay, appreciate that, Judy. Think a text keep those going.
A cheap cell phone plan gives you free calling to
news in it. In Australia, these old people holding onto
their landlines are costing themselves money. Cure Marcus, the good
nature is departed. Two heat shogs in the backyard. Forget
heatgehogs for grass grub, get some prills and get rid

(01:47:34):
of the headgehogs vicious wee things. I don't know what
prills are. Eighty eight and computers are easy for me
because my work background is clerical. Some people do find
difficult to deal with that type of thing, just as
I find difficult to deal with manual tasks. The thing
I think probably I was really confounded by Mike about
was that he's relying on the TV reports for the weather.

(01:47:57):
There's sory, fantastic sources for weather forecasting now because the
weather forecast on TV is such a broad and and
unspecific kind of an update. I really needs to empower
himself to get better sources of information doing it the
very old school way by waiting for the weather report

(01:48:18):
and then and I don't know why it would have
been cocked out, Why didn't get the full ball? And
that does sound surprising. Do come through if you want
to talk. I hang on there forget you as soon
as we can. The number is eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two to text. Extremely
heavy heavy rain in the last two hours in Timuru.

(01:48:42):
We have predicted flooding, me and the woman that called
and her husband who's worked in irrigation. So you've got
any updates from that or any stories of flooding or
report so you've heard, let us know. That's INTIMIDU also
going to Ashburt in those sorts of places. We'll be
back after the news to talk more. Welcome people. Hittil
midnight midnight, fifty three minutes away. Tim Bevera John from twelve.

(01:49:05):
We're took interesting places You've gone to sleep all sort
of about hdgehogs. I've got no idea how we've gotten
about hdgehogs with ron about Someone will have mentioned hdgehogs
earlier tonight, and it's interesting how some topics kind of beden.
If you want to any of these things, feel free
to come through. Allison Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 26 (01:49:24):
I've hardly seen any hot hedgehog. Was last year that
chap that comes on the bug man rude. He's very
anti hedgehogs. I won't tell you what he says if
he finds one that's involved getting out of spade. But
I won't be doing that. If I find one, a
baby one. I have run up the hedgehog rescue and
they are very good. They come around and pick up
the hedgehog and take it all this is little baby

(01:49:46):
ones will take them away and try and save them.
As what I'd say, so I would be No, I'm
not rescue myself, but I would never get rid of
one full of that way. I'm just going to say
about this Rob Ryaner, I think he was a very
good actor and I paid the character and all in
the family meet here. But that's a character and if

(01:50:07):
something want to refer them. And I think it's the
rude of the of the President of America to callt
him deranged because he was a very good actor. I
think that's very poor of him to cause him that.

Speaker 22 (01:50:17):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:50:17):
And Andy was a fantastic writer and director and producer.
And if you've watched that program The Bear, No I
haven't no, no, I was on the Share and he
was on that that were and he was amazing acting
and that that was I just saw that two weeks ago.
He was unbelievable on that.

Speaker 26 (01:50:35):
He's a very very good actor. I just want to say,
I've got a prediction, Marcus, that you won't know the
answer to this next question. I'm going to ask you, now,
how old do you think Dick Van Dyke's wife is?
Without looking it up, she would be second wife.

Speaker 4 (01:50:57):
Third is that she would be fifty four?

Speaker 26 (01:51:02):
You've looked up, yes, you know, I haven't you.

Speaker 4 (01:51:05):
Know, No, I haven't looked. I have looked at that
word too. About when he was eighty six he married
her and she was forty.

Speaker 26 (01:51:11):
He reckoned that she's kept him young, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 8 (01:51:15):
Young?

Speaker 26 (01:51:15):
And then it makes them lafe every day or something.
And that's the secret that his long life. That's what
I read it. That wasn't the new idea or that
what one of the magazines I read.

Speaker 4 (01:51:24):
Yeah, that's a fitty big age gap.

Speaker 26 (01:51:27):
Quite big, isn't it. Yeah, could be as great that
his granddaughters to be well.

Speaker 8 (01:51:32):
You know what I mean that.

Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
I don't think it would be anyway. It's nice to
talk Allison. Thank you, Hello, Dell.

Speaker 8 (01:51:43):
Oh hi and Mark, and see you're doing good.

Speaker 5 (01:51:45):
Dell.

Speaker 4 (01:51:45):
How are you doing all right?

Speaker 30 (01:51:46):
It's been a while, not too bad things you nice
to hear you.

Speaker 8 (01:51:51):
Yeah, you too.

Speaker 30 (01:51:54):
About these hedgehogs, I'm not too happy. They are a
biological pissed control. They eat slugs and those grass grubs.
They lead all sorts of bugs around your plants, and
it's just not fair. But called a friend of the garden,

(01:52:16):
and I'm not happy about the brutal mess murder of
these poor hedgehogs. They're like a cat will eat mice.

Speaker 4 (01:52:25):
Do you have many on your land?

Speaker 30 (01:52:30):
I haven't seen any hedgehogs. I haven't seen any snails
for around around for a while. But if you're using
those filthy horrible chemicals. You'll you'll lose all that biological
activity in your gardens.

Speaker 4 (01:52:45):
I don't know why the snails would not be around.

Speaker 30 (01:52:49):
Well, they've all died, probably because of all the chem
trailing and whatnot. Who knows, I mean, I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
Or the kim trailing.

Speaker 30 (01:52:59):
Chem trailing and all the chemical use.

Speaker 8 (01:53:02):
It's just killing you.

Speaker 4 (01:53:03):
What's kim trailing?

Speaker 30 (01:53:05):
It's probably monst toss But.

Speaker 4 (01:53:07):
What what what's kim trailing mean?

Speaker 28 (01:53:10):
Well, it's the.

Speaker 30 (01:53:11):
Sky just gets covering chem trails. It's from these planes.
Some of them are unmarked and they're just all over
the sky. Some days you can smell the chemicals in
the air, the stuff filtering down from the sky. It's
not rainal, it's like a dusty ash.

Speaker 4 (01:53:27):
You can taste it, dell respectfully. I don't think kim
trails happens. I don't think that's a thing.

Speaker 30 (01:53:35):
They do markers because some planes don't have chem trails,
and you can see the feathery shapes to them.

Speaker 4 (01:53:42):
It's just water moisture. But you and I'll have to
I don't want to get an argument about you before
Christmas because no, but yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not something
that I think that's made to feel that go on
about that. But I shouldn't say the word man. That's
because it sounds.

Speaker 30 (01:53:57):
I witness it on a daily basis. And then it rains.

Speaker 4 (01:54:01):
Well, you see something that your mind tells you was
Kim trails.

Speaker 30 (01:54:05):
But well, I'm in the middle of the West coast, Parker,
so I can see all the satellites going over in
the thick cloud of low cloud of King trails, and
they're not proper clouds and dirty, filthy clouds, and they're
covering your head of up.

Speaker 4 (01:54:20):
Okay, take care of yourself, Dale, Thank you, evening wreck.

Speaker 5 (01:54:25):
Good day mark Us. There you're going mad on the
subject of I don't want to get onto kim trois
because it's a but heavy. But hedgehogs, oh oh, family
that are farming people and burn true, you know, and

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I thought I wouldn't might have been a farmer. I'll
be your hedgehog farmer, A great thing. I'll forget the
electric fences, but you have to keep the grass from
john the outside. Their electric fences work roughly, you know.
We only look in a bit of two war that's

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about six inches high.

Speaker 4 (01:55:09):
Oh what would you find out for food?

Speaker 8 (01:55:14):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:55:14):
No, I was going to sell them to Aucklanders for
organic peace control. But the thing was, I was going
to set up these little electric fences, but I couldn't
quite figure out the rectating once and had to make
a molting milking machine small enough to entertain their rectating,

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because I figure, so what would you want to you?

Speaker 4 (01:55:42):
Would you want to milk a heat shog?

Speaker 5 (01:55:45):
Well you could sell them to anybody that looks exotic
stuff because it'll be worth a fortune, wouldn't it who
else has got hitgehogs?

Speaker 4 (01:55:54):
It would be unique, wouldn't it a corner the market?

Speaker 5 (01:55:58):
But apart from the milk machine, I can't invent you.
I thought the little electric thing would be a go
and we could send them to Auckland US for organic
piss control because I do do do a good job.
They won't be ugly and you shouldn't kick him down
the road like a soccer ball or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (01:56:22):
I'll tell you what you got there. Country Calendar would
definitely be into filming that.

Speaker 5 (01:56:28):
Well. I've just got of the theory. It's it's nothing.
It's in pretty, but I need breeding pers to start with.

Speaker 4 (01:56:38):
Hey, that'd be there'd be a start for right. Good
luck for that j sixteen party. Eleven Hittle twelve Welcome
m Someone said, not sure what the hedgehog ladies on.
It's not raunning in christ Church. Heavy fist of season
to you ed your team.

Speaker 3 (01:57:00):
It's funny.

Speaker 4 (01:57:00):
People say it's ruining other people. That's won't raining. It's
not funny. How Yeah, I can't work that one out.
I was look at man, interesting places you fell asleep,
But that is something you want to mention talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:57:12):
Call and.

Speaker 4 (01:57:17):
If you've got breaking news, if you're coming home from
the Christmas party, if you want to talk on it.

Speaker 18 (01:57:25):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:57:26):
All these things are a good idea. Seven in past
eleven I met. This is Marcus. Welcome, Hello, evening evening.

Speaker 28 (01:57:38):
I'm turning about falling asleep in weird places. I used
to work for a roading company and we were making
a new road in Nappier. I was driving the roller
and I fell asleep while driving the roller.

Speaker 8 (01:57:54):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:57:57):
Yes, And does that have ad Does that have a
dead man break? Or did you have to have you
follow the accelerator it kept going once you're asleep.

Speaker 28 (01:58:05):
No, no, oh, you take your foot off the excelerator
and it stopped.

Speaker 4 (01:58:09):
Yeah, that's a pleasing.

Speaker 28 (01:58:11):
It was Yes, it's such a lovely day, so.

Speaker 4 (01:58:15):
He didn't head off into the into the No, don't
be good. Okay, how long was it before you're woken up?
Or you wouldn't know. I suppose.

Speaker 28 (01:58:26):
It would have been about thirty seconds.

Speaker 4 (01:58:30):
To keep your job. Nos, do you lose that?

Speaker 28 (01:58:35):
Yeah? A lot, because I fell asleep during the meeting.

Speaker 4 (01:58:39):
Nice to talk, Matt, Thank you, evening.

Speaker 2 (01:58:42):
Mary.

Speaker 4 (01:58:42):
This is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
Welcome him, Marcus, thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:58:46):
I'm just got we tail about what hegehogs are capable of,
or what they set their mind to it that we
prickly mind. I had a friend who's had a two
storage house with a long concrete veranda in front and
at the back it was grass and fens and everything,

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and anyway, every now and again this hedgehog would come
to visit and you could hear him scraping up, clawing.

Speaker 18 (01:59:15):
His way up.

Speaker 21 (01:59:16):
There were five back concrete steps around the side of
the house, and you could hear him coming. And then
he would come right along the veranda to the dog
bowl that have been put out with dog biscuits in
this and get stuck into those. And he used to
do that because he knew Dan well. They were there,

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so there we are you like that one.

Speaker 4 (01:59:40):
They're pretty amazing, aren't they. There were things that E
would do anything. They sit around, but they're pretty quick
movies when they need to be nice to talk Mary,
thanks for that. Twenty seven past eleven you, Mike, It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:59:54):
Hi Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:59:56):
Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:59:56):
I've just run up about you talking about going to
street and funny places. Yeah, yeah, okay, Well I watched
a game of soccer on Sunday, okay, and to be
quite honest, I was hoping to fall asleep. I had
to watch. It's one of the worst, one of the
worst sporting teams I've ever seen come out of New Zealand. Okay,

(02:00:18):
and I'm talking about the so called Phoenix soccer team. Sure,
they are absolutely shocking. I really can't say that.

Speaker 4 (02:00:29):
I really can't what happened to them.

Speaker 24 (02:00:32):
I'll tell you what what happens to them. I tell
you what. They play like ten year olds, not like
grown men that get.

Speaker 3 (02:00:39):
Paid to play.

Speaker 24 (02:00:40):
And as far as the coach is consume mate. Now,
if he was coaching the other sport in the other country,
he would get the sack very very quickly.

Speaker 4 (02:00:49):
But didn't he have an extremely successful first season.

Speaker 24 (02:00:56):
When you come to think about it, mate, they were
getting through it and no more.

Speaker 3 (02:01:02):
Now you've got one.

Speaker 4 (02:01:03):
You couldn't they go through? Didn't they go through unbeaten?

Speaker 9 (02:01:06):
No?

Speaker 24 (02:01:07):
Never, No, I'm talking about the Phoenix here, mate.

Speaker 4 (02:01:11):
Yeah, but there's season two years ago.

Speaker 24 (02:01:14):
It's two years ago, Marcus, I'm talking about now.

Speaker 3 (02:01:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:01:18):
But it's the same coach, it's the same kettle here.

Speaker 24 (02:01:22):
I'm telling you now, mate, after two years, I don't
think you should get better.

Speaker 4 (02:01:27):
Well, I don't know there salary cap in the in
the league.

Speaker 24 (02:01:31):
Well, I really don't know when it comes to soccer, mate.

Speaker 4 (02:01:34):
But well, why are you watching? Why are you watching them?

Speaker 24 (02:01:38):
Because I'm a kili, mate, and I want to see
improvement and I live in the wines in the area. Okay, okay,
they are absolutely paths. They can't trafable, they can't pass
the ball, they can't score goals, okay, and they're the

(02:01:58):
best team on the planet for passing the ball to
the opposition, so to me, okay, when they went out
on the football field, they should all be wearing the
same opposition jersey so they don't get mixed up who
they're passing the wall to.

Speaker 4 (02:02:15):
You probably need to support a different team. It sounds
like you lost the love for them. Well you never
had it.

Speaker 24 (02:02:21):
That's shocking, mate, Honest, I'd rather go and watch a
ten year olds play football, be mate. They at more school,
are go and have a bit more pastient.

Speaker 4 (02:02:29):
But what do you watch then?

Speaker 24 (02:02:32):
Because I love getting crucified, mate, I'm always hoping.

Speaker 4 (02:02:39):
Think that's twenty twenty three season was the pick of
them finished second?

Speaker 24 (02:02:44):
There's two years ago, Marcus. Yeah, I'm talking about I'm
talking about it now. We're talking about the future, not
the past.

Speaker 4 (02:02:52):
Okay, fair enough, Mike, thank you. Nineteen to twelve. Good
on them, not happy Evan, Hello.

Speaker 6 (02:03:05):
Yes, good evening, evening even.

Speaker 4 (02:03:09):
Love and light, Love and light.

Speaker 10 (02:03:11):
There's there's an aeroplane in the backyard roundy is there?

Speaker 5 (02:03:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (02:03:17):
Quite interesting at the crane and then.

Speaker 4 (02:03:20):
Oh yeah there is two so you see it on
Google maps? Oh yeah, ok where is that? And Buckham's
Beach or Pacolanga or somewhere, oh, just on.

Speaker 10 (02:03:30):
The cliffs sort of just not far from the cargory there. Yeah,
it might be a different might be a different line. No,
I think it is a got a couple of artifacts
in the backyard. And an aeroplane.

Speaker 4 (02:03:46):
I think I saw some news story about it not
so long off on Google Maps. Okay, hang, I just
tad me it as well. Well I got you there
where you say, where where is it? Is it north
of marina or south of the marina?

Speaker 28 (02:03:58):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (02:03:59):
Sort of ska west of the marina? Yeah, yes, south,
I suppose.

Speaker 4 (02:04:05):
And so it's on one of the houses right on
the cliff top.

Speaker 5 (02:04:08):
Is it on the yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:04:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well I found it.

Speaker 10 (02:04:13):
Maybe it's a sea.

Speaker 4 (02:04:17):
It's a sea?

Speaker 3 (02:04:17):
How heer jet it says, oh yep, yep, yeah.

Speaker 10 (02:04:21):
Interesting. It almost got a thing to have in your backyard.

Speaker 4 (02:04:24):
And it's on Clyde's side. Air number eighteen. See the
sections must go right down to the waterfront. There they
got long sections.

Speaker 10 (02:04:33):
Yeah yeah, pretty pretty young flash.

Speaker 4 (02:04:36):
We're all flash places. Oh well the title get them. Ultimately,
nice to hear from you and you take care. Thank you.
Seventeen to twelve here till twelve that any feedback on
Haddock or Aberdeen Kippers. You are my last hope. That's Neil.
He wants Headick for Christmas. I'll google up and see

(02:04:57):
Headock for sale in New Zealand. Headick, New Zealand can
only be frozen, wouldn't it.

Speaker 11 (02:05:06):
For sale?

Speaker 4 (02:05:07):
New Zealand. Let me look at that. I'm not seeing
much or any No, head, it's not something I'm seeing Marcus.
I use a similar analogy of the worst things to

(02:05:27):
happen to kats as dogs. The worst thing happened to
Willington f C is Auckland f C Akland FC ever
come to anything. Yeah, Sometimes your team starts with all
the luck in the world and all the backing, it
never actually comes through. I suspect they will come. I

(02:05:50):
suspect they will win ultimately the championship, but you never know.
Those big money people sometimes move on people with money.
They haven't got much patience. Joe, this is Marcus welcoming.
Good evening. Hi Joe.

Speaker 29 (02:06:08):
Hey, I just thoughtn't ring up about hedghogs.

Speaker 4 (02:06:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (02:06:12):
I had the pleasure this summer of actually seeing mister
and missus Headhog doing the mating dance. Yes, and they
make a hell of a racket with all their snuffling,
and it goes on the boar and the sow. They
circle each other for hours on end. I wasn't going
to hang around for the actual deed, but and then

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mister hedgehog has disappeared, and missus hedgehog is still roaming
my garden and I'm leaving her all the nectarines that
drop from the trees and peaches, and I throw out
some of my meal on the lawn and she eat
it up. But they're very fast runners. A cat came
on the property from the next door and she just

(02:06:55):
took off, lifted her egg, lifted her body off the ground,
and just took off like if you've seen rhinos running
really fast.

Speaker 4 (02:07:03):
Yes, yes, unlikely, they're really fast. It's not to get elevated.
The leagues are fully extended, are they.

Speaker 29 (02:07:12):
Yeah, Well, it gets into my womb and I've got
a couple of worm bums, and if I leave the
lid off, she'll actually stretch right up and help herself
into the watermelon or the whatever veggie scraps I've got
in the wombons. So she's she's actually not out tonight
because it's dropped temperature, and she'll be having her babies

(02:07:34):
probably they're thirty five days thirty five to forty days
since they mate. So I've got fourth generation hairhogs in
my garden, and they've got a wonderful nest behind the garage.
With it, no predators can get there at all. And
if you see these tari di stalls, I have these
dark black square tari stools, and that's how you know

(02:07:58):
you've got a healthy garden. As if you've got hair
chogs in your garden.

Speaker 4 (02:08:03):
It sounds like a nice spot you've got.

Speaker 17 (02:08:04):
Where are you.

Speaker 29 (02:08:06):
I'm in Napier. I've got a well established garden. But
they'd like to knock my house down for three houses,
I'm sure all three two you know, apartments and all that,
but there aren't many places for headhogs and suburbia anymore.
So you know, I'm all for the birds and all

(02:08:26):
the natural way of life and do my best to
look after the birds and the animals in my garden.

Speaker 4 (02:08:34):
You talked about watermelon and your worm burn, right, yeah,
you're growing? Are you growing? What are you buying it?

Speaker 28 (02:08:42):
No?

Speaker 18 (02:08:42):
No, I buy it.

Speaker 29 (02:08:43):
And then I put the chopped the skins and put
the water the skins and the worm burn. I put
avocado pets. Any vegetable scraps go into my wombone just
no meat, so they're pretty full. And I feed the blackbirds.
There was a baby blackbird that had fallen out of
the nest, and I went up with all my worms,

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and of parents knew that I was helping out, and
I put them in certain areas in the garden and
I actually fed the baby a couple of wombs too.
So so my wormbin's come really in handy with feeding
all these animals that need a good feed to so
they can fly and get away from cats. So yeah,

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and so the birds actually are probably six generation blackbirds
and my property too, so they trust me and they're
all very tame as well.

Speaker 4 (02:09:34):
Love you to talk, Joe, Thank you for that. Six
to twelve A Texter Max says, I bought a leg
of lamb today. It was eight dollars cheaper than the
kilo of mints. I'm not moaning, just an observation. Here's
another benefits and many way jurnas that normally get paid
on Thursday, we're getting paid on Wednesday of both Christmas
Eve and New Year's Eve. It might pay to go

(02:09:56):
shopping early. It will be chaos.

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