September 14, 2025 • 22 mins
So on the pod today a listener text through to ask about previous jobs that Jerry and Manaia have had, and we got deep on milk bottles and dry cleaning!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Ready did not get that. I did not ready now
I did not hear that. Please repeat it after the tone.
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Beepp goodbye Bee.
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I love that and like goodbye.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
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get on with the podcast. Welcome along to the podcast. Monday,
(01:14):
the fifteenth of September twenty twenty five. Good news you run.
We are halfway through September? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We are flying? We are screaming through the year, aren't we.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Ever it's less than six days when I until the twenty.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
First night of September.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Love is changing the minds of pretenders or chasing the
clouds away, and then it's going to.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Be on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Sunday, Remember on Friday, Remember on Friday when we had
that positive thing of hey, the Worries might be playing
it that day.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, I remember those days.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Actually discussing if you're not to bring up the black
fins just then not good enough for better. But what
I was going to say is a text that's come
through on three four eighty three for the podcast question
for the party, can we get a CV or rizz
you may camp for the fellows and zowhere mah he
dog And I surely got the most. If we're talking
about a number of jobs, maybe perhaps.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, but come here.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But I don't think that's a good thing. I think
that's a I'd rather not have had all.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Those jobs, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How many jobs have you had? How many are we talking?
I don't know, just a rough count. Uh, what was
your first job? Fish and chip shop?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And where many? And I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You're doing it at the fish and chip shop? Burgers?
Were you cooking burgers? Or you're just taking orders and
putting the fish in the newspapers.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And so I started off actually where I started off,
jury was just organizing the paper so that when the
when the rush came in, all the papers are laid
out and ready to ready to be wrapped. Then I
moved my way from there up to the till, and
then I moved from the till to the burgers. Yep,
I never got onto the fry. But our boss, I
(03:03):
want her name, but her brother owned the pub in town,
or the one of the pubs the way many hotel.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
She would.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We had one burg fuck off burger that you could
make that had every single ingredient and it took like
fifteen minutes to make it. And one day I got
a phone call from my boss, well from a woman
turned out as my boss, and she's like, oh, can
I get fifteen of the big fuck off Cohoona burgers?
And I was like, oh yeah, and she goes, how
long will that be? I was like, to be honest,
(03:32):
is probably gonna take us like an hour to make
all of those burgers. She goes, that's not good enough.
I need it sooner, and then hung up and I
was like, what the fuck? Then the phone rang again.
She outs, Oh, yeah, it's me. She's up at the pub.
She's calling me from the pub just as a stitch up.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That was this stitch up.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That was this stitch up was to tell me that
to order like a bunch of burgers that she knew
I could have made.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's not a stitch up. Well, but also that's not
a stitch up.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's one of those classics, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And then it's just.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Wasting your time joking not joking.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah I know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But the thing is that's my boss who had rung
me and she had also left to go to the
pub to then call and stitched me up.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
What.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, that's powerful stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
No wonder he didn't name her. Yeah, yeah, no wonder.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But if you're from who met, you'll know exactly I'm
talking about it. So that was that was my first one.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Then, No, honestly, by the time I was like twenty one,
it was so many, about three dairy farms, a couple
of wool sheds, A my father used to drive a
recycling truck around chrishch and in the back of the
recycling trucks back then, I think still now they've got
a sorter. So the bin gets dumped into the back
of the truck, and then you saw green glass, white,
(04:40):
clear glass, brown glass, plastics paper.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You're actually in the truck.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I'm in the truck. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
And if it was raining, the paper shoot would get stuck.
I'd have to climb in there and then push all
the wet papers to the back of it. One day,
a bloody gas canister exploded in the back of that thing.
I just passed out. There was one famous cu sac
that would put nappies in their recycling bin. That was disgusting.
And then where I made a name for myself was
(05:07):
there was a sixteen bin could de sect right at
the end. There were all sixteen bins from this one
giant apartment building, and I got.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
All sixteen of those dumped im in.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I didn't get what's referred to in the business as buried, buried,
as when you have to stop the truck because you're
moving the whole time you're doing this, and if you
have to stop the truck, obviously that's not good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And I I think I was only at sixteen years old,
and I got sixteen bins and I didn't get buried.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And it got around the yard really yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Someone kid's got someone, someone's got a future, and waste management.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Can rubbish can manage.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You should say a spell man, and they would have
lost all the respect of all you were.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh you can read.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, but yeah, someone brought it up to me at
Smogo the next day in the yard.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Is sorry about about?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So with all these jobs that you've had, like I
think probably more than anyone else possibly combined. If you
had lots of those jobs because you just can't stick
to anything, or you're not being very good at those things,
or you just were looking for the ideal job and
you just weren't finding it, yeah, I think it'd be
a dissatisfaction syndrome.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah. I think it's all of those things.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Some of them are seasonal, you know, sharing and milking,
and some of those were summer jobs in between school
and some who jobs.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So there's a lot of that stuff as well. I've
been fired a.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Few times, have you from this station and.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
COVID and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, like I said, I would weigh right,
And then the other thing is well, So my theory
has always been how you spend your working days, how
you spend your life, and if you hate your job,
then you hate your life and that's no way to live.
And so, yeah, I've always wanted a job that I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You can't hate. You don't want to be hating usual a.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Lot of people do.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's really.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
More people hate their jobs than like and even feel
indifferent about their jobs.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I think, because there's something to be said as well
for doing a job that like. You know, some people
go for the cool job and try and get a career.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That's cool, Oh yeah yeah, but if you don't actually
like doing the work, then what's the point.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, Or you just think that you're going to find
the ideal cool job at some stage and then that
never comes.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, or it comes and then you get sacked. But
like I said, I would way rather have. Well, the
other thing is, I think I did always want to
work in radio. I don't think I knew that. But
then also, how the hell you grow up a bump
funck nowhere? It's like, how do you get into a
radio show?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
You know what I mean? Where do they even make
radio shows?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, back in the day, I suppose they used to
have regional lots of regional stations.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, yeah, you go along, Yeah, that was all I
ever wanted to do is work on Portyving, oh Man,
live local and loving it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
This is like my this is my dream job. But
like when I was a kid growing up, I just
dream I just imagine being a radio host. Yeah, imagine
being a TV host. Yeah, that would be that would
be amazing. I ever thought that would even happen.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I remember when I became away that they were actually
even people. You know, because when you're a kid, you're
like there's someone on the on the box, on the
TV or whatever, and you can hear someone coming through
the radio. But then you're like, Mom was just like, yeah, no,
that guy lives in tomorrow and he's in a room
right now and tomorrow broadcasting.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I was like, what, Yeah is his job, that's his job. Stoping,
What can I do that?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
No? No, puck up this room and mop up.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Get into a rubbers truck truck like someone does it?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It ain't you, mate, So again the get down the
fucking milking pit and shut up. You're lucky you're listening
to the radio.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I started in a dry cleaner. That was my first
proper job.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I've never understood how dry lanning works.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, I can tell you something real interesting. How do
they not dry? I knew this went all the way
to that it's not dry, So that's a lie. It's
weird why they call it dry cleaning. I think because
the chemicals that they use. I don't even know why
they do call it dry cleaning. It's not dry. You
don't you close end up in a vat with all
(09:19):
everyone else's clothes washing machine. Yeah, these giant washing machines. Right, yep.
Did you think it was dry?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I thought it was some kind they put them up
on a rack, and then I thought it was some
kind of chemical of sprayed on it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Sort of steam or how is it going to going
to come out? No wizard. No, it all goes and
goes in big vats. They're like big washing machines. And
then but the chemicals they use are really expensive. I
think that's that's the big part of it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
That's what you're paying for.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, you're paying for the for the chemicals. They're really
gentlelong clothes, but at the same time, brutal get stains
out and stuff. And then what happens is it all
goes into a vat with everyone else's clothes, so like
everyone else's and then it comes out and then it's
steam and it's pressed by presses. But the presses are
real fast and they have these like big pressing machines
(10:08):
that can press close really really quick rather than ironing the.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Press And is it called drug cleaning because they dry
it and clean it?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Should it be called clean drawing? Would that be?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I always feel like it's something to do with the
fact that the chemical is Is it like a I
don't know, Actually, I don't know why they call it
dry cleaning anyway, it's not. It's just it's just normal cleaning.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's just a marketing ploy to make you feel like
they're doing some sort of magic trick on your clothes.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
It's very expensive, yeah, real expensive way to clean your clothes.
But the other thing is to get a suit, yeah
clean to wash your suit and your and your at
home and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
It's it's hard.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It is hard, and you know it's a wool. You
got to be super careful.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Whole wash.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, got a cold wash with wool.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Then you got to iron it. Most people don't have
an iron. I don't have an iron. You got an iron?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, I've got an iron and an ironing board hanging
up in our laundry.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
If you get irons here, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, you
go nine hard.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So is there a line of demarcation with an iron.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It's a that's a tax bracket.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I think, all right, thirty five. I feel like I
always had an.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Iron, had nine sense, probably about twenty years old.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I think it's an age thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It also depends on the type of joby doing. If
you if you did like a white collar you know,
dress in a bloody suit type of job, or dress shit.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
White collar crime, or if you're a soldier in the
New Zealand Defense Force. My father was vicious on the
end of an iron. He had the bar of soap out.
He was doing all sorts. I'd go back to school
and my uniform it looked like I was ready to
present at a military press.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Clean fucking line, seams down the pants, down the front,
down the front of the pants, and I would try
and do them again afterwards.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Then I'd give them back to Dare. Nah.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So you've got tram lines here, and tram lines is
when you've got two Yeah, and he knows.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
How to do it. It's I love ironing, but I
never iron. But I love ironing. I hate getting the
board out, getting the ironing board out, that's that. That sucks.
I hate that. But but if there was an ironing
board with an iron, my my mom and dad have
got this one that comes out of the wall and
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it's got the iron that sits there and it all
comes out to all that is you just pull a
thing down and down comes the ironing board. There's heaps
of space and then the irons are ready to go,
and away you go. It's a real pleasure to iron
in that situation.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, there's a lot of admin though. The iron it is.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It totally is. And if you're not very good at it. Man,
my mum when I was growing up, she's spent Like
I just felt like she was always ironing sheets. My
mom and sheets. She's still iron sheets. I'm not ironing sheets,
socks anddies sheets. Oh yeah, she's still iron sheets. She
still ironing.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, isn't that nuts? Iron lady? She doesn't. It doesn't
like getting into a bed unless the sheets they're pressed.
Who does that?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I feel like that the tolerance for administration is way
lower these days. Back in the day, it was, like,
you know, because even a generation or two before your
appearance we'll probably still riding horses around, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
And so they were they were okay with all of
the admin that come with all of that kind of stuff.
Like back in the day, doing anything, you had like
fifteen layers of edmund And now we're just like, I
want to touch my phone in such a way that
someone delivers hand pressed sheets.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
To my fucking door, and I'm not willing to do anything.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, groceries is come full skar because back in the
day you used to go to the shop and audio
grow or you call up on the phone and yeah,
my mum, that was my mum's first job used to
be on a bike and she would deliver groceries from
the dairy, from the grocery stores, grocery store in those days,
and yeah, she'd deliver it to people saying, so they'd
call up heights, missus Jenkins here from forty one, blah
(14:01):
blah blah blah, Well could I get half about a
pound of butter some flour, and you know, it's pretty
basic shirt. There wasn't much to juice from some potatoes. Yeah,
and she she had the bike with the big thing
on the front of the basket and deliver it, so
that that's come full circle.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yeah. What other old school things do we need to
bring back?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That's it? Yeah? What else is there?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Question?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What was there? There was a milkman, milk now that
was good man, that was good.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Changed.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Do you remember the.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Milk Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Bowe wouldn't remember milk.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I think we know what the hell of milkman is.
I think.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I don't even I don't even think she knows her.
I think WAYMDI was one of the last places that
still had it. I think remember when they were phasing
it out. I think we were one of the last
glass bottles.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
The glass bottles were so good.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I remember when coins were in there.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, and then it went to the tokens, yep, and
the tokens of various different colors. And I remember watching
and the milkman driving around on the back of the truck.
Think that looks like a fun job, just flying up
and down the streets.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
When I was a kid, milk was one of those
must have been a was it a pint a court?
Was it a quarter pint? I think it was six
hundred miles anyway, whatever that was, it's a court. It
was the milk bottles were a court and they were
twenty cents each, and so for twenty cents she was
cheap in these days. And so we'd normally get three
(15:26):
bottles of milk and a little metal, yes like tray
core carrier. I used to put those out for five
point thirty. The milkman used to come around. It was
always at night. Milkman came around at night. The milk run,
and the milk run was you did a paper. Your
jobs were as a kid in those days. You could
either deliver papers or do a milk run, or do circulars,
(15:50):
which circulars out of covers, so you wanted to be
if you're a milk milk boy. They were a little
bit older, and that was a highly high level sort
of operation. A paper run.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I reckon nowadays with oh and stuff, I reckon, they
wouldn't be that keen on kids jumping off the back
of moving.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That and people used to smash themselves people often there
are lots of cuts milkman, milk boys. No milkman's here.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Allegedly I had.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
A mate, let me take a quick.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah, speaking of the milk bottles, I allegedly had a
mate back in the day who had a four pack
of milk bottles with the bottoms cut off, all of
the milk bottles, the glass milk bottles, so that he
could put that in the freezer and then when he
was doing spots he would have an ice cold funnel
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's a good technique. We used to have the same thing,
but with a Galiano bottle long one. The issue is
that what happens is because it's cold, it does it
down and it's a bit of definitely a bit of
your lungs less tar. But the issue is that the
knives go cold fast, so when you put them in there,
they don't hold there. You've got to really make sure
you nail it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And so to counter that, he also had one a
single burner gas like camping stove thing because the gas
would eat the knives up way quicker.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We had a great I used did a lot of
spots back in the day. We had a system because
when you spot with certain people, they always look and
they go, okay, choose you, you know, choose your spot.
And what you do is you'd pack the are like
kite of big spot, but you'd really square it right
down load so make it so little ones and so
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these guys would always be like, I just have that
little one. Then it's not and then when it goes,
and it goes and it goes, and it's like, oh yeah,
coughing your ring, Yeah got you, yeah, your.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Bar Smoking weed never and again, but smoking it never
feels like drugs until you're doing spots and then all
of a sudden you're like, oh, I am definitely doing drugs. Allegedly,
Joe Jurry allegedly tells this story about being in a
flat and christ Church and the oven was right in
front of a window and they were all over there.
(18:17):
He was self serving himself and.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
He looks up.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
His dad's at the wine and they've been knocking on
the door and the front door for ages. It couldn't
get a response, and he came around the side of
the house and it's just, all of a sudden, face
the face of his father.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You should be able to do. I've seen those ones
where you're the glass but was cut out of the
bottom and it would sit down you put your mouth
over time. I saw those self service Yeah, it's like
how desperate. Although apparently spots is a uniquely New Zealand thing.
I've heard this yeah, but if you want to make
culture last a long time, it's such a great way
of making stuff lash.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But that was the problem with the glass milk bottles.
Gave you a false sense of confidence because all of
a sudden, you you can take heroic doses because you
don't feel anything because it's ice cold by the time
it gets into your lung.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah. Then I think the I think the allegedly just
the standard bong is the probably they way to go
about it, because I think it cools it down. I
think the bong calls it I'm told anyway, the bond
calls it down.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
List Yeah, I'd just like to thank you guys for
doing research on the internet and looking all the stuff
up so obviously you haven't been doing it yourself to
just get all that knowledge to make sure our listeners
know what's going on. Thanks guys.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, I appreciate the encouraging people to do it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Although I'll tell you what, you give a stone a
bit of nothing the smoke of with and you've just
given birth to a physicist, they will all of a
sudden understand Newton's theories. They understand quantum science. Check that
little gatoroad bottle there outside, Cut the end off that
guy's hose, Give me a just juice bottle, cut a
hole on the thing. In fact, give me that apple
(19:53):
and a pin and I'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, made me want to go and have some spots,
but I just think there after me, it's just not
not worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Would let's say, theoretically, it's never really a good time
for you though, dear, especially during the week.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh yeah, there could not be anything worse than all
of a sudden like that's my worst.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Not the light entertainment show, Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
My god, the Dutch even just the thought of that
because me anxiety a million boomers watching you, I'd be
calling in sick. I'll definitely be calling in sick. But
it's the other part of it. I was like the
ritual more than I like the end result, you know,
like the fun that is standing around and all of that.
But that's fun the admins Rachel's heaps are fun. But
(20:39):
the after effects, like analyzing your entire life. Yeah, should
I say that, what I did not say that? Maybe
that might have been.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Should I say did I say that?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Did they hear that? Or did I think that's sixty
eight different filters that you're applying to everything, and then
we got snowed in one one year and allegedly played
Monopoly on the fucking manos.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
We thought this would be hilarious. We'll all be so
locked down. All it was was about four hours of wait.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Whose turn is it?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Man? So?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Was it my turn? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
But it worked out quite well because if someone wasn't
paying attention, and so say, for example, Rudy, you've just
landed on Jeremy's property and you now owe him three
thousand dollars or whatever, But Jerry's not paying attention because
he's two blaze and he's looking off, and so then
I go, Ruder, give me half of what you owe Jerry.
Otherwise I'll tell him you've just landed on his thing.
(21:32):
So we started blackmailing each other and it became this
real mafia version of monopoly that actually was quite fun.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Risk. Risk is a good one, oh yeah, because risk
is a good one for days, yeah, days and days?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All right, all right, got to some spot, right, yeah,
all right, all right, vone to recover
Ready there, ready now ready now pretty end wait to
say if you're ready, so ready now ready now sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ready did not get that. I did not ready now
I did not hear that. Please repeat it after the tone.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Say ready now ready now, No, I did not get that.
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
I love that and like goodbye.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Get a it's deary here from the Heartachey Breakfast. Just
letting you know that if you're listening to the podcast
but didn't know that we also do a live radio show.
We do. And if you're wondering how to find out
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get on with the podcast. Welcome along to the podcast. Monday,
(01:14):
the fifteenth of September twenty twenty five. Good news you run.
We are halfway through September? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
We are flying? We are screaming through the year, aren't we.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Ever it's less than six days when I until the twenty.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
First night of September.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Love is changing the minds of pretenders or chasing the
clouds away, and then it's going to.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Be on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Sunday, Remember on Friday, Remember on Friday when we had
that positive thing of hey, the Worries might be playing
it that day.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, I remember those days.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Actually discussing if you're not to bring up the black
fins just then not good enough for better. But what
I was going to say is a text that's come
through on three four eighty three for the podcast question
for the party, can we get a CV or rizz
you may camp for the fellows and zowhere mah he
dog And I surely got the most. If we're talking
about a number of jobs, maybe perhaps.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, but come here.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But I don't think that's a good thing. I think
that's a I'd rather not have had all.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Those jobs, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How many jobs have you had? How many are we talking?
I don't know, just a rough count. Uh, what was
your first job? Fish and chip shop?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And where many? And I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You're doing it at the fish and chip shop? Burgers?
Were you cooking burgers? Or you're just taking orders and
putting the fish in the newspapers.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And so I started off actually where I started off,
jury was just organizing the paper so that when the
when the rush came in, all the papers are laid
out and ready to ready to be wrapped. Then I
moved my way from there up to the till, and
then I moved from the till to the burgers. Yep,
I never got onto the fry. But our boss, I
(03:03):
want her name, but her brother owned the pub in town,
or the one of the pubs the way many hotel.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
She would.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
We had one burg fuck off burger that you could
make that had every single ingredient and it took like
fifteen minutes to make it. And one day I got
a phone call from my boss, well from a woman
turned out as my boss, and she's like, oh, can
I get fifteen of the big fuck off Cohoona burgers?
And I was like, oh yeah, and she goes, how
long will that be? I was like, to be honest,
(03:32):
is probably gonna take us like an hour to make
all of those burgers. She goes, that's not good enough.
I need it sooner, and then hung up and I
was like, what the fuck? Then the phone rang again.
She outs, Oh, yeah, it's me. She's up at the pub.
She's calling me from the pub just as a stitch up.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That was this stitch up.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That was this stitch up was to tell me that
to order like a bunch of burgers that she knew
I could have made.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
That's not a stitch up. Well, but also that's not
a stitch up.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's one of those classics, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And then it's just.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Wasting your time joking not joking.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah I know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But the thing is that's my boss who had rung
me and she had also left to go to the
pub to then call and stitched me up.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
What.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah, that's powerful stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
No wonder he didn't name her. Yeah, yeah, no wonder.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But if you're from who met, you'll know exactly I'm
talking about it. So that was that was my first one.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Then, No, honestly, by the time I was like twenty one,
it was so many, about three dairy farms, a couple
of wool sheds, A my father used to drive a
recycling truck around chrishch and in the back of the
recycling trucks back then, I think still now they've got
a sorter. So the bin gets dumped into the back
of the truck, and then you saw green glass, white,
(04:40):
clear glass, brown glass, plastics paper.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You're actually in the truck.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I'm in the truck. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
And if it was raining, the paper shoot would get stuck.
I'd have to climb in there and then push all
the wet papers to the back of it. One day,
a bloody gas canister exploded in the back of that thing.
I just passed out. There was one famous cu sac
that would put nappies in their recycling bin. That was disgusting.
And then where I made a name for myself was
(05:07):
there was a sixteen bin could de sect right at
the end. There were all sixteen bins from this one
giant apartment building, and I got.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
All sixteen of those dumped im in.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I didn't get what's referred to in the business as buried, buried,
as when you have to stop the truck because you're
moving the whole time you're doing this, and if you
have to stop the truck, obviously that's not good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And I I think I was only at sixteen years old,
and I got sixteen bins and I didn't get buried.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And it got around the yard really yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Someone kid's got someone, someone's got a future, and waste management.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Can rubbish can manage.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You should say a spell man, and they would have
lost all the respect of all you were.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh you can read.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, but yeah, someone brought it up to me at
Smogo the next day in the yard.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Is sorry about about?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So with all these jobs that you've had, like I
think probably more than anyone else possibly combined. If you
had lots of those jobs because you just can't stick
to anything, or you're not being very good at those things,
or you just were looking for the ideal job and
you just weren't finding it, yeah, I think it'd be
a dissatisfaction syndrome.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah. I think it's all of those things.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Some of them are seasonal, you know, sharing and milking,
and some of those were summer jobs in between school
and some who jobs.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So there's a lot of that stuff as well. I've
been fired a.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Few times, have you from this station and.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
COVID and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, like I said, I would weigh right,
And then the other thing is well, So my theory
has always been how you spend your working days, how
you spend your life, and if you hate your job,
then you hate your life and that's no way to live.
And so, yeah, I've always wanted a job that I enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You can't hate. You don't want to be hating usual a.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Lot of people do.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's really.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
More people hate their jobs than like and even feel
indifferent about their jobs.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I think, because there's something to be said as well
for doing a job that like. You know, some people
go for the cool job and try and get a career.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
That's cool, Oh yeah yeah, but if you don't actually
like doing the work, then what's the point.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, Or you just think that you're going to find
the ideal cool job at some stage and then that
never comes.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, or it comes and then you get sacked. But
like I said, I would way rather have. Well, the
other thing is, I think I did always want to
work in radio. I don't think I knew that. But
then also, how the hell you grow up a bump
funck nowhere? It's like, how do you get into a
radio show?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
You know what I mean? Where do they even make
radio shows?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, back in the day, I suppose they used to
have regional lots of regional stations.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, yeah, you go along, Yeah, that was all I
ever wanted to do is work on Portyving, oh Man,
live local and loving it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
This is like my this is my dream job. But
like when I was a kid growing up, I just
dream I just imagine being a radio host. Yeah, imagine
being a TV host. Yeah, that would be that would
be amazing. I ever thought that would even happen.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I remember when I became away that they were actually
even people. You know, because when you're a kid, you're
like there's someone on the on the box, on the
TV or whatever, and you can hear someone coming through
the radio. But then you're like, Mom was just like, yeah, no,
that guy lives in tomorrow and he's in a room
right now and tomorrow broadcasting.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I was like, what, Yeah is his job, that's his job. Stoping,
What can I do that?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
No? No, puck up this room and mop up.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Get into a rubbers truck truck like someone does it?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It ain't you, mate, So again the get down the
fucking milking pit and shut up. You're lucky you're listening
to the radio.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I started in a dry cleaner. That was my first
proper job.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I've never understood how dry lanning works.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Well, I can tell you something real interesting. How do
they not dry? I knew this went all the way
to that it's not dry, So that's a lie. It's
weird why they call it dry cleaning. I think because
the chemicals that they use. I don't even know why
they do call it dry cleaning. It's not dry. You
don't you close end up in a vat with all
(09:19):
everyone else's clothes washing machine. Yeah, these giant washing machines. Right, yep.
Did you think it was dry?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I thought it was some kind they put them up
on a rack, and then I thought it was some
kind of chemical of sprayed on it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Sort of steam or how is it going to going
to come out? No wizard. No, it all goes and
goes in big vats. They're like big washing machines. And
then but the chemicals they use are really expensive. I
think that's that's the big part of it.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
That's what you're paying for.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, you're paying for the for the chemicals. They're really
gentlelong clothes, but at the same time, brutal get stains
out and stuff. And then what happens is it all
goes into a vat with everyone else's clothes, so like
everyone else's and then it comes out and then it's
steam and it's pressed by presses. But the presses are
real fast and they have these like big pressing machines
(10:08):
that can press close really really quick rather than ironing the.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Press And is it called drug cleaning because they dry
it and clean it?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Should it be called clean drawing? Would that be?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I always feel like it's something to do with the
fact that the chemical is Is it like a I
don't know, Actually, I don't know why they call it
dry cleaning anyway, it's not. It's just it's just normal cleaning.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's just a marketing ploy to make you feel like
they're doing some sort of magic trick on your clothes.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
It's very expensive, yeah, real expensive way to clean your clothes.
But the other thing is to get a suit, yeah
clean to wash your suit and your and your at
home and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
It's it's hard.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It is hard, and you know it's a wool. You
got to be super careful.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Whole wash.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah, got a cold wash with wool.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Then you got to iron it. Most people don't have
an iron. I don't have an iron. You got an iron?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, I've got an iron and an ironing board hanging
up in our laundry.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
If you get irons here, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, you
go nine hard.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So is there a line of demarcation with an iron.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It's a that's a tax bracket.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I think, all right, thirty five. I feel like I
always had an.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Iron, had nine sense, probably about twenty years old.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I think it's an age thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It also depends on the type of joby doing. If
you if you did like a white collar you know,
dress in a bloody suit type of job, or dress shit.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
White collar crime, or if you're a soldier in the
New Zealand Defense Force. My father was vicious on the
end of an iron. He had the bar of soap out.
He was doing all sorts. I'd go back to school
and my uniform it looked like I was ready to
present at a military press.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Clean fucking line, seams down the pants, down the front,
down the front of the pants, and I would try
and do them again afterwards.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Then I'd give them back to Dare. Nah.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
So you've got tram lines here, and tram lines is
when you've got two Yeah, and he knows.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
How to do it. It's I love ironing, but I
never iron. But I love ironing. I hate getting the
board out, getting the ironing board out, that's that. That sucks.
I hate that. But but if there was an ironing
board with an iron, my my mom and dad have
got this one that comes out of the wall and
(12:22):
it's got the iron that sits there and it all
comes out to all that is you just pull a
thing down and down comes the ironing board. There's heaps
of space and then the irons are ready to go,
and away you go. It's a real pleasure to iron
in that situation.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, there's a lot of admin though. The iron it is.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It totally is. And if you're not very good at it. Man,
my mum when I was growing up, she's spent Like
I just felt like she was always ironing sheets. My
mom and sheets. She's still iron sheets. I'm not ironing sheets,
socks anddies sheets. Oh yeah, she's still iron sheets. She
still ironing.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, isn't that nuts? Iron lady? She doesn't. It doesn't
like getting into a bed unless the sheets they're pressed.
Who does that?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I feel like that the tolerance for administration is way
lower these days. Back in the day, it was, like,
you know, because even a generation or two before your
appearance we'll probably still riding horses around, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
And so they were they were okay with all of
the admin that come with all of that kind of stuff.
Like back in the day, doing anything, you had like
fifteen layers of edmund And now we're just like, I
want to touch my phone in such a way that
someone delivers hand pressed sheets.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
To my fucking door, and I'm not willing to do anything.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, groceries is come full skar because back in the
day you used to go to the shop and audio
grow or you call up on the phone and yeah,
my mum, that was my mum's first job used to
be on a bike and she would deliver groceries from
the dairy, from the grocery stores, grocery store in those days,
and yeah, she'd deliver it to people saying, so they'd
call up heights, missus Jenkins here from forty one, blah
(14:01):
blah blah blah, Well could I get half about a
pound of butter some flour, and you know, it's pretty
basic shirt. There wasn't much to juice from some potatoes. Yeah,
and she she had the bike with the big thing
on the front of the basket and deliver it, so
that that's come full circle.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yeah. What other old school things do we need to
bring back?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That's it? Yeah? What else is there?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Question?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
What was there? There was a milkman, milk now that
was good man, that was good.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Changed.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Do you remember the.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Milk Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Bowe wouldn't remember milk.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I think we know what the hell of milkman is.
I think.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I don't even I don't even think she knows her.
I think WAYMDI was one of the last places that
still had it. I think remember when they were phasing
it out. I think we were one of the last
glass bottles.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
The glass bottles were so good.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I remember when coins were in there.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, and then it went to the tokens, yep, and
the tokens of various different colors. And I remember watching
and the milkman driving around on the back of the truck.
Think that looks like a fun job, just flying up
and down the streets.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
When I was a kid, milk was one of those
must have been a was it a pint a court?
Was it a quarter pint? I think it was six
hundred miles anyway, whatever that was, it's a court. It
was the milk bottles were a court and they were
twenty cents each, and so for twenty cents she was
cheap in these days. And so we'd normally get three
(15:26):
bottles of milk and a little metal, yes like tray
core carrier. I used to put those out for five
point thirty. The milkman used to come around. It was
always at night. Milkman came around at night. The milk run,
and the milk run was you did a paper. Your
jobs were as a kid in those days. You could
either deliver papers or do a milk run, or do circulars,
(15:50):
which circulars out of covers, so you wanted to be
if you're a milk milk boy. They were a little
bit older, and that was a highly high level sort
of operation. A paper run.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I reckon nowadays with oh and stuff, I reckon, they
wouldn't be that keen on kids jumping off the back
of moving.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
That and people used to smash themselves people often there
are lots of cuts milkman, milk boys. No milkman's here.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Allegedly I had.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
A mate, let me take a quick.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah, speaking of the milk bottles, I allegedly had a
mate back in the day who had a four pack
of milk bottles with the bottoms cut off, all of
the milk bottles, the glass milk bottles, so that he
could put that in the freezer and then when he
was doing spots he would have an ice cold funnel
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's a good technique. We used to have the same thing,
but with a Galiano bottle long one. The issue is
that what happens is because it's cold, it does it
down and it's a bit of definitely a bit of
your lungs less tar. But the issue is that the
knives go cold fast, so when you put them in there,
they don't hold there. You've got to really make sure
you nail it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And so to counter that, he also had one a
single burner gas like camping stove thing because the gas
would eat the knives up way quicker.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
We had a great I used did a lot of
spots back in the day. We had a system because
when you spot with certain people, they always look and
they go, okay, choose you, you know, choose your spot.
And what you do is you'd pack the are like
kite of big spot, but you'd really square it right
down load so make it so little ones and so
(17:40):
these guys would always be like, I just have that
little one. Then it's not and then when it goes,
and it goes and it goes, and it's like, oh yeah,
coughing your ring, Yeah got you, yeah, your.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Bar Smoking weed never and again, but smoking it never
feels like drugs until you're doing spots and then all
of a sudden you're like, oh, I am definitely doing drugs. Allegedly,
Joe Jurry allegedly tells this story about being in a
flat and christ Church and the oven was right in
front of a window and they were all over there.
(18:17):
He was self serving himself and.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
He looks up.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
His dad's at the wine and they've been knocking on
the door and the front door for ages. It couldn't
get a response, and he came around the side of
the house and it's just, all of a sudden, face
the face of his father.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You should be able to do. I've seen those ones
where you're the glass but was cut out of the
bottom and it would sit down you put your mouth
over time. I saw those self service Yeah, it's like
how desperate. Although apparently spots is a uniquely New Zealand thing.
I've heard this yeah, but if you want to make
culture last a long time, it's such a great way
of making stuff lash.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
But that was the problem with the glass milk bottles.
Gave you a false sense of confidence because all of
a sudden, you you can take heroic doses because you
don't feel anything because it's ice cold by the time
it gets into your lung.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah. Then I think the I think the allegedly just
the standard bong is the probably they way to go
about it, because I think it cools it down. I
think the bong calls it I'm told anyway, the bond
calls it down.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
List Yeah, I'd just like to thank you guys for
doing research on the internet and looking all the stuff
up so obviously you haven't been doing it yourself to
just get all that knowledge to make sure our listeners
know what's going on. Thanks guys.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, I appreciate the encouraging people to do it.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Although I'll tell you what, you give a stone a
bit of nothing the smoke of with and you've just
given birth to a physicist, they will all of a
sudden understand Newton's theories. They understand quantum science. Check that
little gatoroad bottle there outside, Cut the end off that
guy's hose, Give me a just juice bottle, cut a
hole on the thing. In fact, give me that apple
(19:53):
and a pin and I'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yeah, made me want to go and have some spots,
but I just think there after me, it's just not
not worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Would let's say, theoretically, it's never really a good time
for you though, dear, especially during the week.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh yeah, there could not be anything worse than all
of a sudden like that's my worst.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Not the light entertainment show, Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
My god, the Dutch even just the thought of that
because me anxiety a million boomers watching you, I'd be
calling in sick. I'll definitely be calling in sick. But
it's the other part of it. I was like the
ritual more than I like the end result, you know,
like the fun that is standing around and all of that.
But that's fun the admins Rachel's heaps are fun. But
(20:39):
the after effects, like analyzing your entire life. Yeah, should
I say that, what I did not say that? Maybe
that might have been.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Should I say did I say that?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Did they hear that? Or did I think that's sixty
eight different filters that you're applying to everything, and then
we got snowed in one one year and allegedly played
Monopoly on the fucking manos.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
We thought this would be hilarious. We'll all be so
locked down. All it was was about four hours of wait.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Whose turn is it?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Man? So?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Was it my turn? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
But it worked out quite well because if someone wasn't
paying attention, and so say, for example, Rudy, you've just
landed on Jeremy's property and you now owe him three
thousand dollars or whatever, But Jerry's not paying attention because
he's two blaze and he's looking off, and so then
I go, Ruder, give me half of what you owe Jerry.
Otherwise I'll tell him you've just landed on his thing.
(21:32):
So we started blackmailing each other and it became this
real mafia version of monopoly that actually was quite fun.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Risk. Risk is a good one, oh yeah, because risk
is a good one for days, yeah, days and days?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
All right, all right, got to some spot, right, yeah,
all right, all right, vone to recover
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