Bugger the Temu (18 November 2024)

Marcus has a bird problem, he's broken his phone, and he has questions about streetlights.

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
There's been another goal on the football tal it's now
three Milton us in and over Sarma. I'll keep you
updated with that one. Thirty six minutes have gone in
the FH first half, so all across that got that
up there, FIFA X if you want to watch that
FIFA dot com. It's free and it's good watch. So
there we go. It felt like a lot of sport
this weekend, by the way. A couple of things to say,
couple of things. Let's get this out of the way.

(00:34):
I enjoyed the boxing. No one else did. I thought
it was great. There was most of Saturday gone. I watched,
I watched. I watched it buffered look like Minecraft there
for a while. That was fine. It was free, it
was on Netflix. Not a problem in this story. What
of Mona's about things? Aren't there anyway? Then I watched
the rugby. I thought that was good. I'll tell you what.
I also watched the other rugby that was I can't
remember what it was, Cood Island Players, Ireland, Argentina. I

(01:01):
don't I don't want to say. I don't want to
outrage anyone. But I watched Argentina Ireland. I thought the
commentary was better. It was more talking to the adults
in the room. I thought, I don't normally get it, yeah,
and it just I don't normally dislike the I'm not

(01:23):
one that dislikes the TV comedies. But I listened to
it and the Irish and I just thought it was
It seemed to be a more reason commentary on the match. Anyway,
that's sport, out of the way. Habit's going well for you.
People have got a lot to say in a long time.
To say it here until ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve
o'clock to night, about twenty five degrees down south. You
wouldn't believe it so an extraordinary day. Although I tell

(01:47):
you something that happened to me in the weekend, right,
it's not that interesting. This is not, oh my god,
what happened to me? This is not but only because
I've got the talking stick, and it's more than I
can't Where had I've been. I've been out, I've been
doing some scrub cutting. I came home and the gum
boots and T shirt and my jeans while jeans jeans

(02:12):
sort of a jeans like a work, like a work.
I wouldn't call them jeans like a pockety pant, not
a cargo pant, but even I want to call them
like a work pant from the rights and Store or
RD one or one of those shops. Anyway, so that happened.
So anyway, I get home and family are at the pool.

(02:36):
So I parked the car, and boy, the tides low.
The tide was unbelievably low with the full moon, like
unbelievably low, like as low as I was seeing. I said,
I'll go out and get a couple of power No
rahui or nothing on. So I actually think, oh, well,

(02:57):
let's just check on my phone. The tide's just about
to turn. I'll be out there way back in five
minutes ago, rushing out there. Kind of dusky. It's not
really dusk, but dusky ish. So go racing out there
across the rocks to get a couple of par before
the tide turns. And wow, boy did I get a
wake up call because it was unbelievably slippery and gum boots.

(03:24):
I never thought of that, And boy o, boy did
I come a cropper. The legs went from under me,
and yeah, it was almost ended up in the tide.
Almost banged my head and end up in the tide.
It was that it just was one of those one
of those split second things, not thinking, didn't have a

(03:45):
witch about me in gum boots, which was impractical running
out there, and boy, I nearly kind of saw my
end of days. Anyway, trouser leg covered in water, gum
boot full of water, got my way back to the house,
bruised but not bleeding, hadn't punctured the skin, so you

(04:10):
gave himself a rbe. Anyway, the cell phones rooted total
screen is completely broken, so I do want to explore
that little but that's not the initial problem. I just
thought that would be a beistatic don't get into the day.
So yes, totally destroyed my phone. There was a great
weekend until then, and then the desire to get the

(04:30):
power had gone. Yeah, so that was my farm lands
where I got the pans from. Anyway, so that was
a situation of my Sunday evening. So later on I
want to talk about cell phones and replacing screens because
I've never had an authoritative answer about when's the right
three prong question is cell phone insurance worthwhile what's the

(04:52):
payoff for replacing a screen or buying a new phone.
I want to discuss that later on with some of
your propeller heads that are into phones. But my first
question to you, and if there is breaking news, I'll
bring that to you. I realize there's a lot happening
around the world, so I will cover off that. But
here's the wish to the other question for you, right
that has perplexed me today. I've parked my car in

(05:15):
the same place at home for ten years. It's just
across the road and it's a good place, and you
know it's a situation. I've parked my car. However, what
has happened in the last three days is the seagulls
have discovered it. And I can't quite work out why

(05:37):
they would have discovered it, But every time I got
to the car, there's a hole of seagulls on top
of it. And I've tried throwing things at them, not
to kill them too that I've tried sitting in the
car and when they land on the car too in
the horn. I've tried everything, and they're making a real
mess of the car and I've got no idea how

(05:58):
to get rid of them. Firstly, I've got no idea
why they're there. I hope no one's been baiting them there,
like putting bread on the roof of the car. I
don't suspect that to be the case. I've got no
idea how to get rid of seagulls from roosting on
your car. And what I'm thinking also, because I don't
know if an in a cargol, if we have any
car washers either, I think we just have those ones.

(06:20):
We are given this spray thing and you go, and
I can't be bother doing that on the roof. I
just want to go through where these rollers, but I
think there are only one with rollers closed down. So
I want to rid the car of the seagulls. I've
got no idea how to do it. Maybe then you
savoy the wahit Tomo's got a drive through it. I'm

(06:43):
not entirely convinced about that, but there we go. So
what do you think the suggestion would be? How would
you stop seagulls partying on the roof of your car.
I can't put barbed wire in there or stuff. I
can't put his structure on it. What would the solution
be if anyone knows, would it be an app I
can get that goes in the car, that makes a
noise that would deter them? If you always got any

(07:06):
solution to that, that's a start a question for tonight.
And you see, I thought this would be a problem
that a lot of people have experienced. I'm looking at
the calm bank of calls. I'm not so sure. So
if you haven't got some information about this, how to
stop a and they're wrecking the car? It's just got
Now what's the euphemism for this? It's got bird always

(07:32):
a bit funny about it's got bird excrement. I'd like
a better word than that coming down the side of
the car. Yeah, I look for a synonym of that
words we don't say it again. We've got no idea
how to fix it, no idea at all. So if
anyone's got some information about that bird waste, bird excrement,

(07:54):
guano excretor coming down the car, I've looked up euphemisms,
and one of the euphemisms is meadow muffin, which is
a good euphemism, isn't it. So there's meadow muffins coming
down the side of the car, the front, the back,
all it looks like it's been a car looks like
it's been abandoned anyway, So if you've got some solutions

(08:17):
for that. The meadow muffins coming down the side of
the car, let me know what I can do about those.
Oh wait, one hundred and eight. That's for first discussion,
and then we'll move on to cell phone. So you
get in touch if you can. I'd like some out
of the or any suggestions. Actually I could park at home,
but there's not enough room for the cars. Makes me

(08:39):
sound like a pretty carry person, which I'm not. Yes,
still stiffed though from the fall onto one of those
each rocks. There might be some product I could buy,
not wit and forget, but seagull Away or something. I

(09:04):
haven't done the interneting on it. I probably should. I
think this would be a good topic. I think I
could be full boarded on this for I play my
cards right. Seagull Away would bet there's something like they
could be. I could fly a kite I thought I
got to make. It's a hard core birder. He comes
down quite often to look at the birds. I can
ask him, but you've got to be quite specific with

(09:24):
your bird questions for this guy's no nonsense. It's not
bird of the air, it's annoyer of the Roger Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Hello. I've got a suggestion here. Now. I've tried it
on plants and everything, and it does keep birds away.
It's some cove blood oil. It must be cove blood oil,
not clove oil, but cove bud oil and dinosis or
make it very strong. It's spread it over the top

(09:56):
of the car. It keeps seems sicky animals away. Dogs
don't like it. Insects don't like us.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
What the difference is been clove will and clove budd oil?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Ah you okay? Cloth oil is not a strong This
is clove budd oil.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
And must come from the absolute end of the clothes,
does it.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think it comes from the bud of the cloth
before it flowers.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh okay, okay, that makes sense. That's a really good examination.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I used to the home and all sorts of things,
and when peace come through, I sway that all on
it and it keeps the person picking the peas.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Okay, where'd you get it? Roger?

Speaker 3 (10:40):
It gives us a kim squarehouse.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Close association with them. I appreciate that clove buds. Thank you, Roger.
That's excellent. Stephen Marcus, welcome here are good boye Stephen. Congratulations.
What can you tell me?

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well, I'll tell you all. I've got a workshop in
wang ga At and we had a bit of trouble
with birds and what have you, and we got some.
You know how they have decoys for ducks and whatever.
You get yourself one of those birds of prey type
plastic models if you like him. Whilst I guess when
you hop out you get to chuck it on the
roof or something.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's a idea like a plastic bird that goes on
the roof. Yeah, yeah, well, and I just check it
on a strings too. So if I drove off, we
just dragged behind the car and a.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
Pack and side well, I just spread its wings and
little far along above the roofline. No, I think, Well,
it seemed to work for me anyway. So we ended
up with some kind of l with really bright eyes.
And they don't seem to like it to pray. There's
a natural a sort of a rivalry if you like.
They want to survive, and so who knows the plastic
might eat them?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is it a past it's not something. It's not a
kite that can just sit on the roof of the car.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
No, just just a plastic model, Marcus is all it is,
just a plastic bird.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Where'd you get it?

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Well, I got I think I've got mine off. Trade
me just just do a bit of reading about it.
I mean that road, but it all sounds great.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Who knows.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
That might be fine, But this is a little more
extreme trade.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
You're supposed to say, I got it off, Tim Steve.
And that's the way it's all going. The old school,
they old trade me bugg of the team. Good on
your Stephen, great voice, j Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
Good Marcus.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
TJ.

Speaker 6 (12:22):
Had I got the same solution as TJ. As a decoy.
You might be able to get one at hunting and
fishing or something.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
I've got a good relationship with hunting and fishing.

Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Mind you go out there and you say you just
want to get seagulls off the car. It's not like
you're getting ready for the raw, is it.

Speaker 8 (12:42):
No?

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Well not really, but they they might have. I had
a used to drive past why Carrio Estree and Tower
and there was launches in the baby and there was
one the old style launchers on the mornings, and a
fellow had an owl, quite a big owl sitting up
on the on the back of the boat. Decoy obviously

(13:03):
or mold. And I never saw any seagulls on. Well,
it might might be a go for you, and we shid.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
That is good. I tell you what. You guys got
your No one's meaching Timmy get apart from me. You
got good advice. Every time I go to Wamadou, there's
all those boats in the harbor, and man, they're just
covered in the meadow muffins. They've got all sorts of
things nets over them and the whole shebang meta muffin.
I keep it going. No Canada geese, they're just gulls

(13:32):
and turns. We've got a lot of turns outside our place.
The hardcore birds come there with their big lenses. Three
and a half time in the footy, Steve Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (13:44):
Yeah, your painter's gone dull. They can't see themselves in it.
What you need is to get in a rep coatgreat finisher.
It's like a polish. Give it a good polish. The
Maguire's also puts a barrier on it against the guano

(14:05):
sticking well, if they can see themselves in it, they
won't go near it.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, I think it's someone else. Yeah, man, you get
the crows.

Speaker 10 (14:15):
The crows.

Speaker 9 (14:16):
The paint has gone dull and they can't see themselves,
and they'll they'll work well over it.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
It's good advice. So that happens to all cars after
about three years, does it?

Speaker 9 (14:25):
Yeah, they just lose that nice shine. I I when
I washed mine every a couple of months and I
go the REPCO got it.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
McGuire's this is extremely good. I'll tell you what bang
bang bang bang bang.

Speaker 10 (14:42):
Talk.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Bek's not good at everything. When they've got it a
clove oil al the urrant. McGuire's boom boom, boom boom, Marcus,
I've never brought anything from Tim. Bugger, What did the
guys say? Bugger the team who never brought anything from Tim.
But they have some great birds, skewing options, predator birds

(15:03):
on a wire that swing around you could stick down
on the roof of the car twenty nine to ninety
five hour with solar eye from minu ten to fifteen
inches tall. You can't just put a al on your roof.
You'd lose it. Had the same problem with golds on
my roof. When I moved to Manga Pi, I used
tank water from my roof, so the meadow muffin flavored

(15:26):
water was a no go. A lifelike wooden cat and
two black cat silhouettes cut from a urene ply have
scared them off. Regard Dino. I googled it in. One
suggestion is to get a rubber snake. Wouldn't zend and
seagulls be scared of snakes? Would it be genetic? Know

(15:48):
they would have experienced snakes? Would they? Marcus? I mixed
up some oil of clothes and a plastic measuring cupet
melted the plastic be where it may damage the car paint.
Several people have suggested pictures of politicians. One is Jenny
Ship and one is David Seymour, different numbers. Marcus, the

(16:12):
droppings will etch the paint and the only solution would
be a bird net and drape it over the roof.
Thank you lucky stars. It's not turkeys. Could be Canada geese. Marcus.
Peck and save teams and a few others have their
roof sprayed with something that stops the seagulls landing. I
don't know what it is, but one of the cafes
here gets a pest they put in their trees. Looks

(16:33):
like it's going to be quite a big problem. Marcus,
take all the exercise equipment of boxes of junk you
might never use one day out of your garage and
park your car and there as it were designed after
cleaning it. We don't have a garage. We had one
of those garages. It was like, it looks like weather
boards but it's pressed tin. But being so close to

(16:55):
the sea that had disintegrated. I need solutions. We're talking
about keeping seagulls off the roof of your car. Someone says,
apparently seagulls stay clear of a dead gull, So take
a dead bird to your car. You're welcome. Duncan fake

(17:20):
our with realistic eyes or a car cover in suggestions
would be greatly appreciated. Marcus. Canterbury UNI employs a part
time falconer. Marcus asked mister Nicole Nra McKee for her
expert advice on dispose of annoying stuff. I'm sure she

(17:42):
could produce one of her many favorite sub machine guns
that would be effective with seagulls. Marcus, get yourself in
this and leaf no chicks are going to go anywhere
near you. Cheers Robbie, very good, keep it going if

(18:02):
you've got some suggestions about that good crowd at the
football too. By the way, three and a half time
home Oceana qualifies road to twenty twenty six. I guess
that's the real World Cup in twenty it's a football
World Cup twenty thirty six. I think i'll google that up. Actually,

(18:22):
Oha eight hundred and eighty Tenadian nineteen nine text or
good start strong, start from Monday Birds, bird deterrents Canada, Canada,
Mexico and USA is the oh go? I guess was
he trumpo?

Speaker 11 (18:38):
There?

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Won't we Fliphitania? It's Marcus, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 12 (18:47):
Arm Bed droppings removed from a car very easy with
the damp cloth, sprinkle baking soda onto. It comes off amazingly.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Tany. The situation is not to get removed that, but
it is to stop them being there.

Speaker 12 (19:04):
I didn't hear that the bird are living.

Speaker 7 (19:06):
On the car.

Speaker 12 (19:09):
When I thought you were wanting to remove John No.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
I just know I want to stop the birds. I
want to stop the birds being on there, and and
to stop that ultimately, well, I want to I want
to have the problem and the bud.

Speaker 13 (19:26):
Rush you go.

Speaker 12 (19:27):
Yes, but if that ever happens when you're out driving,
it is hard to remove normally. But just remember a
damp cough, a wet cough, and sprinkle baking. So the
no problem.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
You know, I don't have a problem. I MEAs I
just go through the the the rubber dub dub, the
drive the drive through.

Speaker 12 (19:52):
Yeah, I don't know if that works well. Where I live.
We don't have the luxury of one of those.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Goodness, where are you Powa, no drive? I see everyone's
moving to Pyloa. Did you see that a herald? All
the Orclanders are moving there Sydney and yeah, I know,
cheap to live, cheap for now they'll be in going
about how much they got for their house, how many

(20:20):
cars they've.

Speaker 12 (20:21):
Got, exactly exactly it's beginning to tell. Actually, yeah, but
that explains why the people are lovely. It's one of
the loveliest, friendliest places you could ever live.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Help me live there, Oh gosh, I would never clue.
Will it be five thousand? I don't think it's even
You've got a warehouse, yes, and Kym's not not in.
Are you got a McDonald's.

Speaker 12 (20:57):
No, I'm sorry, I'm not kidding me. Clear my phone's
playing out.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Okay, it's just pretty inane stuff I'm saying. I'm just
trying to work at how big is five thousand? That
was my guest, four thousand, six hundred and forty. It's
pretty good. It's a pretty good guess, Marcus. The only
solution is to stripping old fishing, tucking under the wipers
and drabbed over the roof, stopping cars, stopping gulls living

(21:24):
on your car? Is he people saying a hang? Redictive
materials like CDs or aluminum foil, avoid parking under trees
or near feeding areas where seagulls congregate. Was Ai? I'm
sick at AI already, Marcus. I haven't seen the parrot

(21:49):
flying over the neighbor's trees. I guess they're breeding and
selling them. Marcus. We use the fishing now on the
launch down at tat South. Nothing else works. What channel
is the football on? Please? Question Mark Carroll? What do
we say you've got to go to football? Can you
just go on to fee for dot com? I tell
you what. Chris Woody has got a bead jersey because

(22:11):
the d's not clear enough. It just looks on the
beckcause Jersey. It looks like whoo, which is weird? Second
house about to start wicky looking ball. I don't like it.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
Whoo.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Get in touch if you want to talk. It's all
about the seagulls and birds are touring birds by the way,
we don't want to do anything cruel to birds. We're
a bird friendly show. When I say I threw things
at them, well, I tried to throw rocks, but I
didn't want to smash the car, so I threw bits
of watermelon skin. I wasn't trying to damage the gulls,

(22:46):
but money has scared us to uncut. I was going
to check a rock through the window of the car.
I couldn't be bother riding the insurance claim for that.
How did you break the window with a rock? Why
are we're throwing a rock at the car to get
the seagulls off the roof. I'd already gone through that conversation, Marcus.

(23:07):
I will get my missus to come down and growl
at those seagulls. You'll never see them again. Shares the
form shares form for growling at a red traffic light,
and it turns green. It's good. Texts Birds on Cars,
Birds on Cars, How to get rid of birds on cars? Gavin, Hello, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Hey Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Gav Hey.

Speaker 14 (23:28):
Recently they had exactly what you're talking about. I think
it was on the Discovery Channel. It was an enormous
dump in Los Angeles and they said they had so
many seagulls they couldn't see the sky and this place
was just acres and acres. So they hired a guy
that sets crows to fly into the seagulls and they

(23:55):
basically just disappear. They just get the hell out out
of the way.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Are they remote controlled crows or real crows?

Speaker 15 (24:02):
Know?

Speaker 16 (24:03):
The real deal?

Speaker 14 (24:03):
He had two of them. And what I'm thinking you
I would get an imitation crow and probably hang it
off an aeriel or a couple with each corner of
the car made.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Why might I get a crow drone off? Timu.

Speaker 14 (24:18):
Yeah, but you could get an imitation crow and just
hang it near the vehicle. I think it can scer
them away. But hang it off, Oh yeah, you'd have to.
You'd have to set something up on you know, like
a I don't know, one of those advertising sort of
prongs they hang stuff off, hang on.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
I like the idea of it. What about one of
those things outside gas stations with that guy with the
long arms, that tube guy, I love him.

Speaker 14 (24:46):
Get one on each corner of the car.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
For Where do you buy those tube guys?

Speaker 14 (24:51):
I don't know. I don't know. They won't be too
hard to find.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
No, No, anyway, I don't think that's tube guy. I
think I need I need a drone or something that
can dive them. Give them their own medicine.

Speaker 14 (25:02):
Give it to them.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
But do you think it's because I've stopped the car?
Isn't there the paint's leed, it's lost its luster.

Speaker 14 (25:10):
I don't I don't really know. I yeah, I don't
know what the attraction is.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
No, I don't know. It's it's like night and days,
there's never any any gals, and now suddenly they found
it and they're never not there.

Speaker 16 (25:22):
Mmmm.

Speaker 14 (25:23):
I would attempt to fly something or hang something off,
like like a imitation crow, and I think that would work.
I've done the CD thing, and that's that's follows.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Where do you get a CD these days? Exactly? You know,
maybe some of the fellow hosts might have some CDs
you're nice to talk. Thank you, Gavin. Gavin again. Yeah,
there we go, birds, birds, birds and deterrents. I kind
of part of my parentoil thought someone has been luring

(25:54):
the because they just were not there and then they
were sudden here. That's why I think that Stephen's probably
right about the pink. The paint lacking, lacking, lacking luster.
It's lost its lustra three l still half an hour
lift being bitter some more on the second half. From

(26:15):
what I can say, this is football. If we saw off,
we play time too, and now we're all in against
some more. Juliet's Marcus, Hello, good evening him.

Speaker 8 (26:27):
Marcus. Spray the top of your car with CRC or
WD forty and that'll do it. Would they know you're
shine to the top of your car and it would
be so slippery they can't stand on it.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Have you tried it?

Speaker 13 (26:40):
All? Right?

Speaker 8 (26:41):
Well, I've got an aluminium railing around the top of
my black deck and thick, and I spray that just
to make it look nice and shiny, and it stops
the beards. They can't stand on it. They just slide.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Well, I hadn't thought of that, and it won't hurt
your car.

Speaker 8 (27:01):
Because if you read on the can on the w
D forty, it tells you it's all was in a bot.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
In a can.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Well, will it hurt the birds?

Speaker 13 (27:12):
No?

Speaker 8 (27:12):
No, it's harmless, is it?

Speaker 5 (27:14):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (27:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Favous last words, it's harmless. I thought the birds have
died in oil slicks. But thank you, Ray Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (27:25):
Yeah, evening evening.

Speaker 13 (27:28):
Ray.

Speaker 7 (27:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (27:30):
Hey, listen, you haven't upset the neighbors at all.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
No putting bread.

Speaker 17 (27:34):
Crumbs on the roof.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
I haven't noticed.

Speaker 17 (27:37):
Okay, listen the solution.

Speaker 7 (27:39):
What I use?

Speaker 17 (27:40):
I have rain water in the house, and everything is
none of my vehicles went birds land. And what I
got from the Mega shop is a tube of hotfoot.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Hang on, hang on, can you start what you're saying
at the beginning again? Tell you about rainwater?

Speaker 17 (27:57):
Oh no, around my house, I have rainwater. So I
don't want.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
Birds on the house.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yes, understand.

Speaker 17 (28:03):
On the vehicles that park up under the trees anywhere
on birds land on them. So I've got a tube
of hot foot from the megashop.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
What's the Mega shop? Yep, what's the megashop?

Speaker 17 (28:16):
The Mega might have ten or from your body.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
We've got a might a teen. And how do people
find out about the stuff? Did you ask?

Speaker 7 (28:25):
Ah?

Speaker 17 (28:25):
Someone told me about two years ago.

Speaker 18 (28:28):
And so what you do.

Speaker 17 (28:29):
You don't need to plaster it over your roof. You
just put a few spots around the gutering on your car.
You don't have to put over the roof, just the
odd spot. It won't wash off in the rain and
the last six or eight months and a bird just
don't go near it. It doesn't hurt the birds. They
just don't like it.

Speaker 19 (28:47):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Try it and it comes in like okay, tube, a
little tube.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
It's called hotfoot.

Speaker 17 (28:59):
And yet like in a big house, you only got
put a few spots just around your gullery, not around
the whole house.

Speaker 20 (29:05):
And once it's there, the.

Speaker 17 (29:06):
Birds won't land on your roof or anything. They just
won't go near a vehicle with it around guttering, you know,
just just just a few drops and it won't wash
off from the rain.

Speaker 13 (29:15):
Come.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
I've never seen advertise it looks like good stuff.

Speaker 17 (29:19):
That's just good stuff.

Speaker 18 (29:20):
I care if you've looked it up.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, you're always looking up stuff. As people talk ideals.
Airports use it.

Speaker 10 (29:31):
Oh okay, Well you get.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Your birds striking the planes out of the sky in it.

Speaker 18 (29:37):
Yep, you try it.

Speaker 17 (29:38):
Just a few drops. You don't have to plaster your roof,
and it just the true drops around the guttering. You
know you won't even see it there, but it will
not land on your roof.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, I love the one. What's in it?

Speaker 17 (29:50):
Don't I've never read that instructions. But it doesn't hurt birds,
you know, it made to not hurt the birds.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Hot Foot, hot foot, hot foot, it's a good name
to Yeah, I like in that brilliant right, Has ever
been a more informative hour of talkback? I doubt it? Hotfoot?
Ry Marcus welcome.

Speaker 21 (30:17):
You know, Marcus. Look, there's a lady that come up
with a good idea. She actually painted a seagull on
the concrete. They had a swimming pool and a big
roof that they sometimes landed on. But they certainly didn't
like seeing a bird painted out flat. So it's dead
with its wings out and a big black, black and

(30:41):
white gal that is one of the big ones. And
she didn't have a problem after that, So I paint.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
A bird on the roof of the car. Yes like
that too, Dave Marcus welcome.

Speaker 22 (30:55):
Ye're good make and good day. First off, hot foot
be bugging if the seagulls come down and gun boots.
Don't you anyway, why rather than all these.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Dave have you heard? Dave, have you ever heard of
hot foot?

Speaker 22 (31:14):
Well there's one they have in England for the pigeons,
and I don't know what it was called, whether it's
the same stuff or not, but it used to burn
their bloody feet off. And there are pigeons everywhere over
there with only one leg you know.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Oh yeah, that sounds cruel.

Speaker 22 (31:31):
I don't know whether it's the same stuff. I couldn't
say that.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
In fact, I wouldn't know.

Speaker 22 (31:35):
But why don't you just simply go to Bummings and
buy a gazebo and pack your Karen the gazebo.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
It always blows about a hundred knots where I live.

Speaker 22 (31:46):
I'll put some some legs on it. Jimmy right.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I don't even like the word gazebo, but thank you, Dave.
Hot hot foot, hot foot, hot foot five on the
footy New Zealand versus Samoa, Jim Ats Marcus, Welcome, good evening,
Hi Jim, Hi.

Speaker 23 (32:02):
Yeah, this hot foot it's been around for years. I
remember the farmers used to use it in their cowsheds
when the birds used to come in and fly in that.
And we had a problem with birds on the clothesline frame,

(32:23):
and we got hold of someone used it on that.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
It worked good as gol never heard of it if
I've been around for ages. It's amazing because I never
heard of it.

Speaker 23 (32:32):
This would have been I would think twenty years ago.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
And I thought I knew my products. I thought I
knew what was going on in the world of products,
but never heard of blackfoot? Was it not blackfoot? Hotfoot?

Speaker 23 (32:47):
Hotfoot here?

Speaker 13 (32:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (32:49):
No, it's been around. Yeah, I don't know how when. Well,
it was well used by I'm pretty sure we heard
about it from farmers in their cowsheds and they must
have been using it for a while.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Oh, well you've had any hot foot yourself?

Speaker 23 (33:10):
No, I don't purge around.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Good on you, Jim, Thank you, Pat, Marcus welcome, Yeah,
Hi Marcus, how are you good? Thanks Pet?

Speaker 18 (33:21):
Great? I think about the answer the question is called
a magpie oliver here and cry tris markers, and it
would have been pre used quite probably fifteen years ago.
The Polytech in Morehouse has brought a big three story
new complex and it was all colored white and the
bourtue to discreet. I think I'll sit on the edgement

(33:42):
to screen all down the side. So I don't know
who decided how to do this, but they got a
magpie decoy and the fact one on each corner and
one in the middle was pulled them all the way
around and it solved the problem. Well, I forget. If
you get a magpie with one of those sucker things
and sit down the roof.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Of your car, have they got suction caps on them?

Speaker 18 (34:05):
And I did the one on top of the Politics
and markets I think there must have been on them
at top of spiral could win the wind blows I
used to move, which also see all the way.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
I'd like to be able to drive to work and
still be in there.

Speaker 18 (34:22):
Well yeah, yeah, what a heavy magnet or something?

Speaker 14 (34:25):
Markets?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Oh maybe it would be a good idea, wouldn't It.

Speaker 18 (34:29):
Might work? Is the building?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Is the building still there? Was it a victim of
the quake? Pet?

Speaker 3 (34:36):
No?

Speaker 18 (34:36):
No, no, the buildings are still there, But I'm not
too sure that magpiles are still there. Actually, to be honest, Market, I.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Was curious, years are the plastic magpie still there?

Speaker 14 (34:48):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (34:48):
The YEP yep, I think it's gorn on one in
the middle.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, six to you and the football and news in
and over summer breaking news on the hot foot band.
Might A ten have dropped it following pressure? So yeah,
I wondried about that. Animal rights sectivists celebrated the decision
and if you and dangerous, it's bird glue. Hotfoot is
a polyputane based gel which is meant to give birds

(35:11):
unpleasant sticky sensation on their feet, causing them to roost
el swear, but reality can cause burns on contact and
even glue smaller birds to buildings. Hot Foot is not
fort We're talking about getting birds away from the roof
of your car. And it's been most interesting. It's been
one of the most informative hours. Although people were saying

(35:35):
hot foot, but it's not foot because it's not good
at all. Thanks for the person that texted me that
did the research for me. Yes, brilliant, so yes, so
maybe maybe there is hope, Dave hotfoot no one, I
hadn't heard of it. It's banned. Sounds terrible. How to

(36:00):
get rid of birds from the roofs of cars, but
not in a dangerous I don't want to stick birds
to buildings, be terrible Marcus rather than a god. Have
the kids blow up balloons and pop them just as
the gulls come into land. I heard a farmer once
explaining usus smith to get rid of roasting sparrows at

(36:21):
dusk with a quiet We did this with a quiet
wind in hand to discourage a new pigeon family too
entertaining at least chairs Cindy in otherwise perfect Palmerston has
trouble with birds and her washing lying clothes. Someone says,
look like you have the best advice, hotfoot, Now move on.

(36:43):
How wrong you were? Hotfoot is merely a deviation in
the discussion because hotfoot sticky birds to the buildings. I
love the seagulls. W D forty will be absorbed by
the feet of the seagulls. Any other birds naughty julye.

(37:07):
Someone said Jennet has only one eye says she knows
how squinty the seagull feels like someone's shaming their partner,
are they? I squinty the seagulls a children's book. Someone
wants to five I won the Magpies. What have you

(37:30):
got to say? People all about getting rid of birds
from the roofs of cars. But I think the best
idea is giving me it a good polish, which is
the same word as polish, isn't it. You ever wondered
about that polish and polish being the same word? Are they?
That was a powerful hour, Johnny Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (37:52):
Yeah, gooda. Some of the behavior of the gulls has
come to note in the media over the years. With
the gulls are around price and cornwall, attacking people's pets
and all sorts of stuff like stealing food off children.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
And are we talking Brighton and Cornwall in England?

Speaker 13 (38:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the excel gullies, the massive seagulls, well,
I think a lot of pelegic birds my car, the petrols,
and that they don't have any sort of reputation for
their behavior. But the gulls another thing. I've got a
massive pit bull bulldogs thing in the back of my
car and we were having fish and chips at the

(38:35):
park and it was raining, so we aim in the
car and the birds were hanging around the car and
just got to heat out the window trying to catch
a seagull. They're sort of hovering around and yeah, that
sort of put them off.

Speaker 10 (38:49):
A little bit.

Speaker 13 (38:52):
Interesting thing was just after the rain one of my
cars was completely covered and it's my old bomb, my
old CenTra, and it's painted with a brush and the
car was covered and pup, just the bonnet and all
over the blood and the grill. Nothing else has touched
In the other car, not a mark on it. They're

(39:16):
both parked in the same drive.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
It might have been because it's hand painter can't get
the sine. If they can see themselves, they might get away.

Speaker 13 (39:23):
Maybe it's interesting the things that we've come to believe
about birds and then something else comes out. I'll give
you a little example. People thought that birds would avoid cyclones,
like tropical cyclones, and that they would like petrols. And
in the northern hemisphere, in the North Atlantic, there's one

(39:46):
bird that actually flies uses the cyclone, exploits the dynamic
condition for their own benefit. And it was in the
Science Daily dot com is an article that you're on
these petrels, which are a wide ranging seabird, and they've
got an interesting foraging behavior during hurricane seasons. Contrary to

(40:07):
other seabirds, they don't afford the hurricanes. They go into
them real.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Good until Johnny, thank you shoot Marcus.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
Good evening, Marcus, the bird's on the car. Okay, So
I'm a professional piss shooter. I shoot animals. I shoot
a lot of animals. Every now and again, I get
an inquiry to shoot pigeons, because pigeons get into sheds
and everything, all over the director, over the farmer, froments,

(40:37):
over the car and the caravan, the pope. So I
go around and shoot them. I also shoot rabbits and possums,
goats and hares and deer and like that pickock. But
of course you can't shoot black gulls because there are
a protected species and so you can't shoot them. So

(40:58):
I'm not recommending that at all. But I eat the
pigeons that I shoot. Does that surprise your Marcus? And
I did that because of Rick Stein and Jamie Oliver
and people like that. You know, in England, they eat
they eat pigeons. I wouldn't eat the pigeons that are

(41:20):
in the city because they're like fueral rats and they're
pretty scrawny. But in the country where I raped some things,
the pigeons are pretty healthy because eating frop you know,
And so you can shoot a figion or two, dress them,
leg them, put them in a pie, put them in
a shoe, put them on a cancerole. Delicious this week

(41:41):
and this weekend just gone. On Saturday night I had
Goose Canada goose cooking a delicious casserole. And on Sunday
I had duck. The duck wasn't that good, to be
quite honest, it was a bad recipe.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Do you eat much strom that? Do you eat many
peacock's hue.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
Around Kapity Coast area where I'll you from now, we
don't have a lot of problem with peacocks because they
seem to be further up north. There is a place
in te Horry that has peacocks, but they are pet
peacocks mostly. She's got about like early fifty of them, Yes,
and they ship everywhere. But up been Bokes Bay Rode

(42:26):
a place that I think they've got more peacocks up there.
And I can't see any reason why peacock wouldn't be
perfectly good to eat. In fact, Marcus, I'm saying, anything
that fliers runs, got.

Speaker 4 (42:40):
Fiend, will fear and a heart beat.

Speaker 5 (42:43):
It's got to be good to eat, and I eat
most of it.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Is there anything you've eaten that you thought hang on
that was probably a mistake.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
Oh yeah, that goes back to when I was in
my twenties and we're in a hut in the bush
somewhere and we've all got a bit of shit face
on a bit of alcohol. There's not a good looks
out to hold on guns. But I mean we're now
there's impossile shooting. We shot a possum with some brilliant
idiot decide it was a good idea to cook and
possum up and eat it.

Speaker 13 (43:08):
So I.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
That wasn't very successful. It wasn't a particularly nice possum.
It was tough, like a piece of leather. Food off
your soul. It's already your boot, you know. But that's
only because the Golden rule worth eating any game animal
is the agent for at least a week.

Speaker 24 (43:28):
And so we didn't age.

Speaker 14 (43:29):
We were just too drunk.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
And so I would without any hesitation at all, eat
a possum if it was correctly prepped and nicely shot,
because they're basically on the vores, so they don't really
herban wars, but.

Speaker 10 (43:49):
They eat birds eggs, and they eat birds.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
The flesh on a possum it's almost identical to the
flesh or a rabbit. So you could actually serve up
possum to someone and say this is a rabbit's stew,
and they would scoff it down thinking that it was fine.
But then if you said to them, after they finish eating,
you've just in the possum, they're probably going to chunder
it up again. Friend of mine did that.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
We never had a couple of we ate possums, and
I've never Yeah, it's yeah, I've never had. It's probably
slightly game. Yes, a red meat.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Yeah, it's very similar and a very similar muscle structure.
And a friend of mine, I gave him some here
to try, and so you cook this up, tell your
family it's venison. It's a he cooked up here now,
a rabbit and a possum, a white meat you would
cooking the sable as you would cook chicken or fish
or pretty similar on that white lion white meat area.

(44:46):
But your red meats are you here? Your goats, your geese,
and you're venison. And so I gave him a mate
who's a very good hunter and a very keen and
he has in the southern outs and stuff like that.
But I gave him some here to cook up, and
he took it home, cooked it up fit to family

(45:06):
and told his family it was benefit And I'll tell
you what you actually character.

Speaker 10 (45:11):
Intry idiot here and eating Zerson.

Speaker 14 (45:13):
It's so similar.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
But as to what I went and chund of that
up because you didn't.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Want to eat it here, Okay, I've got a quick
I've got a question for you. Okay, it's quite a
serious question. And pause a bit before you answer it. Okay,
and think about it for five seconds. H Is it
Is it ethically correct to cook a type of less

(45:41):
conventional meat and feed it to someone but not tell
them what it is?

Speaker 5 (45:54):
Is it ethically correct?

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Would you do it?

Speaker 5 (46:02):
Thanking thinking? Have I done that?

Speaker 4 (46:07):
The answer to that.

Speaker 5 (46:13):
Is I have not done it. I'm pretty up front
with my family about what they're eating. I don't know
hesitation at all. My family have grown up, although I've
got one that's a vegetarian, one that tried to be
a vega.

Speaker 7 (46:27):
For a while.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
I think you're eating eggs because of the protein deficiency,
and that was just Carnival.

Speaker 16 (46:35):
It's like the rest of us.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
But I've never seed up anything to my family and
not told them what it was, and they've definitely eaten
it without too much hesitation.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Okay, I often wonder about that. If it's feed income
to say I try this and having it wrong.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
Yeah, it's it's more like not a question of well
it is. Possibly he could consider the question of ethics,
but he could also look at it as being a
bit of a bad you know, play a bit of
a choke on somebody and humor not evebody gets it,
Suto Gimmer.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
But also because I'd say, I'd say.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
It was a no no, Yeah, I'm crydle with you
on that, Marcus. And but I could also see that
people have psygress and manic reactions to food. If you
said that was, for example, a rabbit, they go, oh,
I saw a warship downs. I can't stand any of

(47:37):
a rabbit. I'll get really, I'm so upset. And I
get hate like that on Facebook all the time under
my trade name co Hunter's, a tailor. Hunters said, I
I get hates because I put up recipes. I mean, dad,
I put up a recipe from Andelongnee something a rather
who listened to the South. I'm a famous chef, like

(47:59):
Mischief mitchellin Star Chef put out three or four bucks
on game cooking. So I photographs this picture of Canada
geese and the recipe and put it up and I
showed them the finished meal that I was eating on
my plate, you know, before I started. And also in
the food preparation area and the caser old area, and
people put up big red face crying and Maje's like,

(48:21):
oh you're eating an Animals are terrible, you know, like
what the hell? People get over?

Speaker 2 (48:25):
You wonder why they're on your You do wonder why
they're on your page. But I think a lot of
people on Facebook now are just looking for a fight.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
That's right, that's right. So I had a funny fighter
a while ago. Got possums, you know, if people were
going possums don't eat eggs and bits? Okay, what the hell?
And say this woman, this person was a woman or man.
This person goes, have.

Speaker 10 (48:52):
You got any proof?

Speaker 5 (48:54):
There's any have you ever said it? Have you got
any proof? And like this stacks of sex of proof
all over the indient And I went up saying, you know,
I don't.

Speaker 22 (49:04):
Need to prove it.

Speaker 5 (49:05):
It's all over the indt and other people put up
links to various things. Women's Department of Conservation. This guy
writes those eggs and the poll Carco nest up north,
which is a fit one of the first ones ever
recorded by Doc in about nineteen eighty six or eighty
eight or something. And they had a video camera set
up on a cold Corco nest and a possum came

(49:26):
at night and eighty eggs. They never knew up till
then that they ate eggs. And he wrote, Oh, Doc
smothered those eggs with peanut butter to entrice the possum.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
And no, you want you want to walk away? You
want to walk away from those sort of Facebook discussions.
That's crazy.

Speaker 7 (49:42):
No, no, what you do? Do you do this?

Speaker 5 (49:45):
I wrote back to this young person, I said, thank
you very much for you put really appreciate it. I
want you to hold on to that belief and I
don't ever want you to change your mind that Bostons
do not eat eat or checks. Because you are the
baseline by which we judge how well we're getting the
message across the people. And as long as you hold

(50:06):
on that sort, we know we've still up more work
to do.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Appreciate your calls. You're going to run it. Thank you,
High Trevor, it's Marcus welcome. How are you going good, Trevor,
thank you.

Speaker 25 (50:17):
Has anybody mentioned wingo beg your pardon? Yeah, no, I'm
on the dairy farm and I use it on my
on my tractor. You can buy it from I've just
I've just googled it. You can buy it from like
farm Sauce Bunnings that got it might attend even got
it with your opposition there, okay, But it's actually it

(50:40):
comes in the tube which you can and just pump
around and it's it's what have we got here. It's
it's got a pepper base to it so that once
they get the taste of it they don't like it
and the smell of cynamyon. But you put it on
the entrance way where the birds are coming in. I
stick it under the tractor, you know, in the engine
areas to stop them going in there, because I've got

(51:03):
starlings which can put a nest in there within about
an hour.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Cause a fire.

Speaker 13 (51:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (51:08):
So that's actually it's got on the back of I'm
just holding a tube at the moment, passed by a
grey quality I should yes, So it's got all the
right ticks on it. So if you google it, wingo repellent.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Sounds perfect trivor thank you for coming through with that.
I'll google up Wingo sounds much better than the other thing,
doesn't it. Wingo. I'm up for that. Well, keep going.
We're sort of getting more information as everything goes on.
So if you've got something else to say, get in touch.
Marcus just burd to tourists, it's basically we're on about.
For me, it's the car. They've just found the roof

(51:44):
of the car and they're there the whole time. They're
never not there, and I don't know what's going on
for them, mind you, the candidate that not the Canada geese,
the Paradise geese have just had eight gorgeous little ducklings.
I wanted it. I thought they were late this year.
But they're walking outside the house the whole time. They'll go.
They'll all be taken. Within a month, there'll be none

(52:05):
of them. But man, they're del like for looking things.
Eight No, a lot of They've had a lot of
extra time in this match. It's ninety eight minutes. It's
gone for it's almost at one hundred minutes. Fear to
say that New Zealand as well. I was just finished
now actually as we speak, so there we go eight nol,
New Zealand over Samoa. Robbie, it's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Robbie

(52:26):
giving Marcus.

Speaker 11 (52:27):
How are you good things Robbie?

Speaker 26 (52:29):
Of course, sure, so am I Marc. I said about
disguising meat. I've rung you before exporture, but disguising meat
and you know, an animal or whatever, serve up to someone.
I've done it for years because people have always told

(52:52):
me I really hate that. But once I've cooked it
and served it to them, I said, don that's ox time.
They go, really or that's ox tail. They go, oh
my god, So I have done that. I just heard
you with an early earlier call.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
It's that's That's what I'm curious about, because people have
I have done. People have crazy misconceptions. Don't think that
meat's going to be horrible. That's beautiful, but they just from.

Speaker 26 (53:24):
From you know, being a butcher for forty years, from
one end to the other. You go, oh my god.
But if you can understand, if you can, if you
don't tell them, of course they're not going to know.
And once you've served it. I did it twice to
my well unfortunately ex wife. Now that there nothing to

(53:47):
do with that, but I've got she said, Oh my god,
it's lovely, and of course it is.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Was she angry were saving her ox time?

Speaker 18 (53:57):
And then.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Was she angry though when she found out?

Speaker 26 (54:02):
Yes, but that's because I deceived her, so did I.
I disagree with not telling anyone before you serve it,
because if you haven't tried anything in your life and
then you try it and you don't know what it is,
isn't that a great experience in life? That's that's my opea.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
But it's not your job to give them that experience.
That's the mean. Specifically, I don't think i'd want anyone
to do it to me. But I'm up for I'm
up to eat anything. It doesn't worry me.

Speaker 26 (54:37):
The other thing, you're talking about birds, and I now
work in an orchard and I also have a little
caravan thing that I where I'm working. I live in anyway, rats,
And you were talking about tests birds I think earlier, yes,

(54:58):
about you know and Genine wrung up a farmer. I
think it was just surly saying about he used petmunt
or he bought something with peppermint. Isn't it some sort
of shore y yep? Okay, So the thing about pepmint,
and I'm talking pure peppermint. It's very expensive. I use

(55:21):
it here my little caravan when I'm not here for
a month or two. Pure pint. Water it down slightly
with a bit of water, and it will deter rats, birds, cats, dogs, anything.

Speaker 7 (55:41):
It works.

Speaker 26 (55:44):
I don't know what it is, but it just deters them.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Well, that's why the plants have developed that property, is
to develop predators pipmint trees. I guess that's the whole
thing with those.

Speaker 26 (55:53):
Yeah, so that gentleman was right. But you don't have
to buy a chemic whatever a product. You just buy
pure peppermint. I think you get it from health shops.
That's where I get my I'm from. And it's quite expensive.
But you just ort her down slightly, spail around your
caravan or your house or what if it you won't there,

(56:16):
rent a mouse, a fly of cockroach, nothing.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
Wow.

Speaker 27 (56:24):
And the story and if you work that out, it's
quite cheap.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, it wouldn't work on koalas that I
loved them, and don't to where there was up the
gum trees. Idie Marcus, welcome, Micaus Idi.

Speaker 24 (56:40):
Yeah, I beg you both. Michaeus was the first pie.
We were rug anybody and I listened to your program
both there's some crazy things to want listen though, took
me about getting with the birds.

Speaker 19 (56:58):
Yep, Okay.

Speaker 24 (57:00):
My wife has got wickers here were She feeds them
on the dick in a dish. Now the wackers come
in the eighth and she loves their wickers. When the
wakers take over all little birds in the trees, they're waiting, Marcus.
Next thing they hit hundreds of the little bugs shit
on the deck on the railing. My muchal one day said,

(57:23):
why don't you put CDs up? What are you talking about? Said?
She got the string from post to post and hung
the CDs all open.

Speaker 7 (57:36):
Tell me what.

Speaker 24 (57:37):
Those birds won't even come and land on them. They
don't make the CDs shining in the sun. Wow, yeah,
i'mkudy Marcus. It works because I know my wife had
to clean out bunny railings and the he go stick
inside of it. Do not learn on them?

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Now?

Speaker 24 (57:57):
Then they don't land on my deck.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Do the wickers still come?

Speaker 24 (58:01):
Whoever? Wickeds love her. The wickers are not scared. Their
marble birds are very intelligent.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Birds, very intelligent. Ok.

Speaker 24 (58:10):
But my little birds the sparrows, all those what they
don't like these things flicking up in the many Now
we put them their mail back around the bottom. And
the rats and mouse don't like the magazine. Other note,
I'm not being stupid male, No, no, but when you

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hang the one you're saying a deck of the raving
says about pike from fire food. You just hang them
down about three or four and you put your CDs
on them. Are till you what those little birds don't
like it? When I hear a farmer say, oh, put
them in the truck, and the truck and the lanes

(58:53):
on the same thing with the car. Mouse, if you're
going to carry outside, put a long figure a tree
to tree, hang these many things on, child. You what
seagulls lead laying on? Those birds are then on the car.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
Really appreciate any Thank you so much for coming through. Marcus.
I've never rung you. I've never rung anyone. That's the
best thing I've ever heard. Wow, how moving is that?
For his phone call nineteen to ten. My name is Marcus.
Good even thank you Eddie Marc's old news. Now, however,

(59:27):
I just want to say that Coldplay was epic and
the crowd baby was great, and also that the train
going to and from was reorderly. We made it onto
the second train. Well day, atelers. What about all those
boomers in the paper that were getting taxis. No one
gets taxis. You get an nuber. They quote the fee

(59:51):
like the nineteen eighties called they want their mode of
transport back. Oh, for goodness sake, did you read all
those stories in the weekend. Couldn't believe it? Yeah, you
got to get a quote. You had a quote. You
can't just jumping in the old taxi. It literally looked

(01:00:15):
like people shouldn't be flying to walking to go to
concepts of that's what they're going to do. The model
is broken. Being Marcus welcome market has a hang. Thanks
being here. Robin.

Speaker 7 (01:00:27):
Oh, that's awesome, it's awesome. We're at work, I said,
problems with kids like they just absolutely ripped the wagon
about and ripped your window wipers and rip your rubbers
off off your work wagon by the end of the day.
So one of the boys, we're heading ideas. But I

(01:00:49):
started using a bit of veseline and canol on paper.
You mix that up and then you put that around
at last for what they don't like it gets too
hot and they're just like, no bug of that. But
it just doesn't last that long. You know, it lasts
two or three days and then it's off. You've got
put it on again.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
So what's what what's your recipe?

Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
Caneine pepper in besseline and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
You mix the canine on the vestling together.

Speaker 7 (01:01:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it makes like a gel and then
just splash it around, you know, just put a bit
here and there, fish and the butts like you know,
the wind, the wipers, the net with the kids like
now into you know, your rubbers, with your.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Plastics and that are you are you high country.

Speaker 7 (01:01:35):
Where I've been working my head. Yeah, yeah, it's a
while back now. But they came and go. But what
I did because like I was, there was a mother
I called a poo bar and she had stephen babies
you're a year old, and so they all had different
things they used to go for. Like one one he
used to go for the old spray cands because there

(01:01:57):
was always a different color each day in the front
of him, and the mothers would be like different plastics.
Some would be like two measles and the mom would
just cruise around. It was the best fun should take over.
But what I did was I was an old bait
bean can put a halt through the end that and
then put like a what why I wrote used for

(01:02:18):
fishing of braid. But that on there, having about two
meters long. I tied that to the tobull and that's
seen all day seven of them trying to pull that
tin can off that toball and they didn't have a chance.
That was the only only to flection I could get,
because otherwise I know the Longing crew out of the

(01:02:38):
years where they got one hundred thousand dollars with the
damage from the keys. And then Dot Dot wanted to
come up there and put a little plate play pin
up there and put little toys in there for them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
And I think, because I think keys are now quite
a endangered bird, I think they picked all the lead
nails off the huts and killed themselves.

Speaker 7 (01:03:00):
Oh you're right, yeah, yeah, there a few. I mean
I'm in the Nowntain area. I'd see it, of course,
but you know, at the right time of year, of course,
there's quart a few around the place.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Marcus, I think the numbers are well down, but anyway,
it's okay. Canine, pepper and vesseline.

Speaker 7 (01:03:20):
That's it, mate.

Speaker 24 (01:03:24):
Again.

Speaker 7 (01:03:24):
I just think I think it probably worked for other
birds too. Probably it's just hot.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
You know, Okay, okay, appreciate that, Ben, Thank you, Marcus.
There are some paradise dut checks where I go for
my run. In the space for a week, they have
so big in the space of time. It's like their
different birds every time. It's remarkable. It is remarkable how
quickly they grow. I saw them almost when they must
have just been out of the nest. They just sit

(01:03:53):
outside our house across the road. They're always there. And
then the birds were born I think was on Friday.
They've lost none, but soon there will be none. They
weren't get to adulthood. But I can't go and do
I can't. Who am I? I'm not the interventionist. I

(01:04:16):
can't go in and take them all? Can I? I
could relocate them. Also, one of the topics I wouldn't
mind talking about.

Speaker 18 (01:04:28):
Is the.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Economics of broken cell phone screens. When do you update
your phone? And what about phone insurance? Yeah, I wouldn't
mind where people are with that whole discussion. I'm not

(01:04:51):
going to change the screen myself. I think people say
you can do it, but that might be something you
want to mention. Also tonight Marcus till twelve oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two
to text. I would have been good that guy, last

(01:05:14):
guy for the at Houar eight nillion news in and
over summer on the football that has just finished was
a long match, went ninety went to one hundred minutes
almost with extra time. You don't know what that was about.
But do get in touch if you want to talk.

(01:05:35):
As I say here till twelve, you got something else
you want to talk about. Good on you, as I've
said here till midnight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine two to text. We've covered most
of the stuff done. I've only we were talking about
birds and Bood Deterrent's hand, every every interesting been, every

(01:05:56):
high caliber of callers. Well you said they should be
on a Monday. Everyone's rested after the weekend and the
great sport. I hope people enjoyed the fight to the boxing.
Never get that afternoon back. It was a very long session. Anyhow.

(01:06:22):
The other topic, potentially, potentially, it's a potential topic. God
they go gangbusters or die on the vine. This one.
It's got me even more curious about it. Gangbusters will
die on the vine. How are you happy with your

(01:06:45):
street lights? Yeah, because a lot of people reckon with
counselors and funding. Their street lights aren't good of the
bulbs aren't changed or they're being dimmed. So I don't
know if that's happening here. Street lights as you imagined

(01:07:07):
they would be, as they good and they've always been,
or as they dimmed them. They've got all those led ones,
and how are they working out for you? I've never
had a night on street lamps. You know, often see
people replacing them, do you. That's also a potential topic
for tonight. Someone's got a grizzle about street lamps. I'm

(01:07:30):
sure they will have. Yes, it's not something I've discussed.
If you missed the boxing, by the way, you didn't
miss much. My dyus in a wheelchair three years ago,
wasn't he old? Tyson?

Speaker 7 (01:07:47):
This day?

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
In nineteen sixty three, push button phones were used for
the first time. I think they probably took twenty years
to get to New Zealand. Good evening, Martin, it's Marcus.

Speaker 28 (01:07:58):
Welcome, Good evening, Marcus. It's about the birds. My sister's
ex husband had a used to have a frozen seagull
and he had on a fishing rod and you throw

(01:08:20):
it onto the roof and then the other seagulls would
come along and he would shoot the other seagulls with
his twenty two.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
And then the frozen seagull go back in the fridge.

Speaker 28 (01:08:32):
Yeah, it was laid out like a like it was
flying and because they were sitting all over his roof of.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
His house, sounds like it sounds like a an overkill.

Speaker 28 (01:08:42):
It was definitely an overkill. And on the street lights
down in Wanaka recently in Wanaka last year, the new subdivisions,
the street lights are very dull.

Speaker 13 (01:08:55):
You know.

Speaker 28 (01:08:56):
I think it's all the year light pollution problems.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
I think.

Speaker 28 (01:09:02):
So they have the very dull, very dull is it? Well, wow,
you've got you got enough. And those modern subdivisions have
got very good roads and paving and foot paths, I guess.
And you don't need them for your car because it's
enough to see a corner in the section, but if

(01:09:23):
you're walking along it's you know, pretty dark between them.
But yeah, they're very dull. I noticed that last year,
very dull period.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
What's the point of street lights, because no one walks
much anymore, do they?

Speaker 28 (01:09:34):
And they do down there, it's pretty yeah, p hat
around the beach front, you know about the beach front.
On every other bend there'd be there's a it's a
street light. And I noticed that other other day now
that there's one particular street light that's extremely bright.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
Which is what are those ones at HUM?

Speaker 28 (01:10:04):
I don't know about the home ones, some of them haven't.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
We might talk more about that, Martin. Thank you. Eighteen
past ten, Adam Marcus, Hello.

Speaker 29 (01:10:13):
OHI how's it going good?

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
Thank you? Adam.

Speaker 29 (01:10:16):
Hey, I'm on cell phones. I'm I'm trying and keep
my cell phones as long as possible. My last my
phone that I've got at the moment, I've had it
for about five years. But I just find that now
these days.

Speaker 27 (01:10:34):
Like that, just.

Speaker 29 (01:10:38):
All those software updates, you can't really hold on to
a phone.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
They slammed down, they play, they miss with you.

Speaker 29 (01:10:46):
Yeah on my phone at the moment, I'm considering upgrading
now because it's almost unusable because it's just you know,
there's there's no power to it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 29 (01:11:01):
And another thing, so on the on the street lights,
when I was living up in Auckland, we used to
have the street light outside of the house that was
like a hyper bright ali ed light, but for some
reason it just kept on dying. Counseled coming back and
changing the light, but it was just so bright it

(01:11:23):
was absolutely crazy.

Speaker 7 (01:11:25):
I don't really.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Sometimes I can walk kind of street lights and they
go off. You've had that happen, that's weird.

Speaker 29 (01:11:33):
Yeah, I've heard somewhere that that's got to do with overheating. Okay,
that's why they're changing them all to Ali Dan's, but
because they kind of stops it from happening, the Ali Dans.
But you know, I've never really seen a dull street
light before, so I'm a little bit surprise that that's

(01:11:56):
that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
I think it's an English thing too, if some of
them been wound right down the double We talk more
about that, and that's a good start for the topic. Marcus.
Rolliston have recently changed streetlights to LED and they are
much brighter than we used to have the light. They
light up the roads and footpaths pretty well and only
face down there, preventing the glare of sky pollution. Though

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when I was in Rollister, I didn't see anyone else walking.
I walked quite a long way because the bus dropped
me way off. I don't know where I was. I
walked to the center. I walked for about an hour,
but not there was no other person anywhere. Felt quite deserted,
felt like I was a John Wyndham novel. But thank you, Marcus.

(01:12:47):
Streetlights then throw street. They are all replaced because the
skylights and stars, so they are more visible. Lumens are
same or better for LED versus fluoresca different color light
some interpreters less bright, but just perception. Also all l

(01:13:08):
ed's part of Internet network, so faulty lights identified easy
old system need to drive around. LED saves slots of
electricity competed to fluorescent. Also, dimming US is even less
as just enough has used eye less at dusk for

(01:13:28):
a good question that number and he must be a he,
she must be a something that works on lights. Spark
texted me they need to get a new phone before
November next year. How dare they? Connorance Marcus, good evening
and welcome Hi Connor.

Speaker 10 (01:13:46):
Yester evening Marcus. Yeah, I'm calling from Taranaki already enjoying.
You know the coastline always have you know, we've got
some pretty mean and it's aotsome the birds. The seagulls

(01:14:08):
have just really become They've become such a bloody pain
because you know, you can't even pack up any of
these spots anyway now and you just get infiltrated by seagulls.
And yeah, quite a few of us have had to

(01:14:32):
be taken out of our hands, you know, when you're
sitting down on the beach and or in one of
these spots and getting really aggressive, and they're just Yeah,
it's a big change from twenty years ago. You know,
we used to do the same thing as citizen and

(01:14:54):
swimming and whatever, but when you had that problem. But
I don't know what it is. I think the walkway
has been brilliant for your plus but yeah, it's a
food source for the seagulls, so maybe that is the reason.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
They become scavengers.

Speaker 5 (01:15:17):
Yeah, and people love.

Speaker 10 (01:15:20):
You know, we all love to go to the beach
and look at the sea, and that's what we're all doing.
But the seagulls know this, and honestly, it's so unpleasant
that I just can't do it anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:15:35):
Just how bad it's.

Speaker 10 (01:15:35):
God, Yeah, but I'm just recently retired farming. So but
I've always you know, had a great affinity with New
Plymouth and the benches and the great hangout spots. And
but that became really unpleasant because of the seagulls, the

(01:16:02):
real scavengers. Now they never used to be twenty years ago.
It wasn't like, you know, this wasn't we didn't have
the walkway. The walkway has been here for you know,
nearly twenty years I think now, and it's brilliant, it is.
It's just it's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
Have you heard any discussion about why there are so
many seagulls?

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
Oh no, no, well just.

Speaker 14 (01:16:32):
Just so attracted to the food.

Speaker 10 (01:16:35):
Yeah, because the rubbishmans are getting sold and they just.

Speaker 5 (01:16:41):
They smell of them.

Speaker 10 (01:16:43):
It's just so unpleasant.

Speaker 24 (01:16:45):
I used to.

Speaker 10 (01:16:45):
Always really love, you know, the isolation.

Speaker 14 (01:16:51):
Of New Pumps, and here we.

Speaker 10 (01:16:56):
It's like we've attracted the seagulls and to just be
scavengers there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Oh you're already down there, you're already you're already down
on the munshoe.

Speaker 21 (01:17:05):
Oh.

Speaker 10 (01:17:06):
People must be feeding them. So all the good spots
and you put us now where we used to go
and hang out as skids, and you know in my twenties.
You know, I'm fifty four today. Yeah, cheers.

Speaker 7 (01:17:24):
And uh huh.

Speaker 10 (01:17:26):
Yeah, there's a lot of people think the same. There's
a big difference. You know, at the moment, it's not
going away. For the beers ain't going away. They're just
getting more and more as a scavenger, They're becoming more

(01:17:48):
and more. What's the liberal in their way? They never
used to take a chip out of your hand when
you're putting a chip in your mouth, and that's what
happened to me. Oh, I was about three weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Because all you all the news is saying that the
seagulls are under dramatic decline.

Speaker 10 (01:18:11):
No, I'm not a new Thomas. Yeah no, they're absolutely.
They are abundant everywhere, and they even if you tried
to hide somewhere in a spot where you think, oh,
I mean here said you know, see he is going

(01:18:32):
to the spot, and it's just they smell the food
and they just come in and are really aggressive and
totally different.

Speaker 13 (01:18:42):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:18:44):
I think it's just the terrorism and the walkway has
been so popular and it's a food force, so obviously
they're coming into their food force.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
Y we'll talk more about it. Cont Yeah, I appreciate
that kind of thank you. Keep those texts coming through.
Venus will be the bright dot in the sky. Marcus
one using up to know good non one using routers
stopped working last week. One options to try and change
sheddings which took me hours, or upgrade and paint extra

(01:19:18):
five bucks a month. Who the heck? Peels potatoes four
percent protein and potato skins brushed with a dishbrush or
Scotch bright get a life, street lights and he was
down on the seagulls. Wasn't he for his birthday? I
don't know if I read out of things to say
to that guy because he was. I love chappers. He's

(01:19:38):
not giving them power.

Speaker 7 (01:19:43):
Oh win.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
Every time I've been to the sea for at the
waterfront at I've never seen the seagulls that many have
never been hassled by them. We're in the alarm of
the year. Walked around the waterfront. The most annoying thing
was loudly on ee bikes ringing their bells, really loudlyhin
ding ding ding coming through. I think the scariest news

(01:20:07):
story today, which I wasn't expecting, is that Donald Trump
his ma alago resort.

Speaker 12 (01:20:18):
Has been.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
Patrolled by robodogs, and the robodogs look terrifying.

Speaker 7 (01:20:29):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
I don't know why they look so terrifying, but yeah,
Welcome to the future. Welcome to the future. Another text,
Trump will go bananas for a team called the All
Whites at the World Cup if he hasn't lost his
marbles by then. Marcus. I don't think i'd be too

(01:20:49):
worried if I found out. I'd have been fed rabbit
or possum or octang, especially if I enjoyed it. But
it was a bit of putting seeing all the ingredients
of McDonald's fries. Marcus, our eldest son. This is me,
our eldest son. A truck driver, drove all shifts. He
often saw street lights flicker ahead of him. Then on

(01:21:12):
approach you noticed that the light would turn off and
the rearview mirror the street was on again. He believes
it was away from his heavenly grandmother. His firstborn has
her name Marcus. Yes, it's correct. The seagulls are menace,
and you plymouth Carlie to pinehot chaps without getting sworn

(01:21:33):
by seagulls. Collins. Correct, good evening, Steve, It's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:21:40):
Welcome high, good evening there, Marcus. Several years ago, I
was skiing in Mount Hut.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
Wow, look at you out there skiing several years ago.
Go you yep.

Speaker 11 (01:21:53):
Well, I'm knocking on the door of ninety now give
me another week. Yeah, And I've been scary for as
long as years. And I saw a homemade windmill, and
besides curious because there's a lot of kears of one
thing another down there, and they can pick all the

(01:22:13):
rubbers off your windscreen wipers, and your rubbers around your
windscreen themselves that other thing, and these keears or mountain paris,
they can and are very destructive. So what this guy
had done, he had bought the rubber suption thid to

(01:22:37):
Goodbye from the hardware store to block unblock a toilet
or a sink or something. He had drilled a whole
two holes through the handle and put plastic rods with
the plastic ribbons hanging down. And the wind caught these

(01:23:04):
ribbons and blew the when we'll looking attentions around to
fight the keres off.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Oh wow, okay, I surprise. I googled before. There's only
four thousand cares between four thousand keys left, so they
really are endangered, so you're going to turn them, but
you said you can't damage them. But thank you for that.
Nice to hear from you. Text, As says, and I
read the text, Marcus, have a nice fish and chip
meal at the beach. Take frozen chips with you and

(01:23:35):
put Tabasco sauce on them, then feed them to the seagulls.
They'll soon leave. Now you can eat your dinner in peace.
Oh boy, love the keys. Such characters and a pleasure
to watch. Marcus watched seagulls nesting in the same place

(01:23:55):
on my commercial roof in pettny Esplanade last three years.
Same pair they have the chicks about now takes its
first flight about February March. As soon as it's flying,
the parents don't seem to want to know them anymore.
They're on their own. They stay that brown, juvenile color.

(01:24:16):
Two to three years. When I went to clean the gunners,
they would squawk like man, and then about ten and
then about ten or twenty trying to dive bo Me
had to do something about it. In the end, chairs Tim,
very good. Thank you for that, Marcus. We had our
tractor gone five three weeks ago when my son was

(01:24:37):
spreading fertilizer with it because of birds being our tractor.
Luckily he could put it out, but it done a
lot of damage. This is a real problem for farmers
as they nest under the cabs and tractors and love
making nests from the hay and twigs on farms. I
got an awesome bird scarer from Timou which we now

(01:25:01):
put on the track when packing the shed. It's working.
No more birds, this thing in the track and joyous.
He took back Trish go team away for the bird scarer. Marcus,
my friend has problems with pigeons making a mess old
meadow muffins on his machinery in his barn. I made

(01:25:25):
a device that plays loud noise every few minutes, such
as pigeon distress, calls, dog barking and others. They worked
for a few days, but then they were back. I
don't think birds hear ultrasonics. A dead pigeon and rows
of seeds didn't work. I will try some wingos spread around.

(01:25:48):
Another farmer said loud music kept the starlings away, but
his wife didn't like the noise. David, Yes, don't even
know one other music you could play to get rid
of the Starlings. Remember the musical cats Ie me, it's
Marcus welcome you get it mate?

Speaker 6 (01:26:07):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
Thanks?

Speaker 16 (01:26:09):
Awesome? I just talked opos a bit of seagulls and stuff,
shooting down the beach day and of it done. There
are two times I walked down the beaches of it seagulls.
But you're tacking me, really, yeah, dive bombing me.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
What were you doing different What we're doing differently?

Speaker 16 (01:26:27):
Nothing, just walking to the beach mote and then the
bloody seagulls you're shooting just dive bombing me. You know,
maybe it's my.

Speaker 18 (01:26:34):
Head to I was wearing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
It was the heat, was it not?

Speaker 16 (01:26:38):
Just one of those bloody big straw hat sort of things,
you know?

Speaker 30 (01:26:43):
Crazy?

Speaker 16 (01:26:43):
But and the other thing was there this has done
street lights, These led street lights therese are bloody horrible
for the oys. The boody depressing is it's a bad
light of me, it's it's a horrible light. The old
light used to be a more of a lockdown natural light.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
The warmer line. The old light was a warmer light.

Speaker 7 (01:27:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:27:06):
And I'm noticed it with like beans when you go
watch beans as well, they've got the new LED lights
as well, and it's it's quite dull and it's quite yeah,
it's just I don't know, it's quite I find it
quite quite a pleasing horrible LFE. Actually, you've got to be.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
Honest about time you move to the country.

Speaker 16 (01:27:23):
Well, I sort they aim out in the country, but
but you know, you can't get away from these boody
LED streetlights everywhere. And what's and what's up with the
what's the like the mess network Mission network? Do you
know anything about the MISS network for the LED street lights?

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
No, I've never heard that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
What is that.

Speaker 16 (01:27:42):
MESH network. It's like it's like the Interneer of things,
where with the LED street slights talk to people's cell
phones and like it's all connected together, you know, the
Internet of Things. You would have heard it before it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Yeah, I don't know about the street lights being connected.
Do they just go on? Are they just turning on
when people are nearby?

Speaker 16 (01:28:01):
Well, it's like because they're they're they're going to be
five g P soon I think as well. So basically
your cell pH only be talking to the street lambs,
and the street lambs will be talking to your fridge,
and your fridge will be talking to the car and
you know what I mean, that's the mess network. And
you're talking about the robot dogs and.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Stuff break out because we could be a tech by
a robot dog. They might be placing our streets one day.

Speaker 16 (01:28:25):
Oh mate, if they're uploading all the data, I mean
once once we've got all the data, well they can
do with the data once, once they've got all their data.
That he might they just galloaded into their little Tesla bots.

Speaker 20 (01:28:36):
And the where they go.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Do you reckon? The robot dogs would have a kill switch?

Speaker 13 (01:28:42):
Ah?

Speaker 16 (01:28:42):
Well you left to talk to Ali about that, won't you?

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
You need a kill switch to tune it off? Simon, Hello, I.

Speaker 30 (01:28:51):
Can tell you good?

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
Thank you, Simon?

Speaker 30 (01:28:53):
Oh good. What's the thinking of as a good solar
operated fans?

Speaker 19 (01:29:02):
This is such things?

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
It would be a good idea, wouldn't going across?

Speaker 30 (01:29:07):
Yeah, just like those you know, almost like those ones
that they have at eating places, Like there's little battery ones,
but the used to be you know, surround by solar
of you know, sort of something and just put them
probably hit.

Speaker 16 (01:29:21):
It some here.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Are you buying stuff on? Are you buying stuff on? Tim?

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
No, I'm sure no.

Speaker 19 (01:29:29):
I just just came to my mind, is this is
something that it feels such thing is as a fan
your solar fane, and I'll look into it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
Simon, Thank you, Britt Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:29:42):
Welcome seagulls.

Speaker 20 (01:29:46):
It seems like they're being shelved up from somewhere else
and they're fitted on your car. You need to cover
your car with a cheap car cover for five days,
meet them bind somewhere else.

Speaker 29 (01:29:55):
You don't cover your car, who would you the car cover?

Speaker 10 (01:29:59):
Well?

Speaker 20 (01:29:59):
Anyway, might have they got cheap ones.

Speaker 18 (01:30:01):
Kids contain a big kettle it Do you tie them
under the wheel?

Speaker 20 (01:30:05):
You got five? Yeah, they've got a stretchy around them.
They'll just go under the bumpers they're using silver.

Speaker 2 (01:30:15):
I always think people are bit up tight with a
car cover.

Speaker 20 (01:30:18):
Only five days. Just all the bird problems they find
somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
I think that. I think there's beds. I think there's
birds have made their choice.

Speaker 20 (01:30:28):
Harmless otherwise firecrackers.

Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
They hate that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
The car horn didn't work.

Speaker 20 (01:30:39):
Now they're probably used to that being too all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
It's a very good point you've made. Bread. That's an
extremely good point. When did birds learn how to judge
car speed because their ancestors wouldn't have had any cars.
They know exist buggers me, but bugs me.

Speaker 20 (01:30:57):
Miners are the worst.

Speaker 17 (01:30:59):
Yeah, they just walk off very.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
Slow and they just we don't have miners in the
South Island. Did you know that?

Speaker 13 (01:31:07):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
I think there might be some occasionally in christ but
they're not here. It's too cold for them.

Speaker 16 (01:31:13):
Yep.

Speaker 20 (01:31:14):
I noticed on a motibike miners were giving the deep
boats where swampy areas, because you know, on a motorbike
you feel the bug and it's always we're.

Speaker 18 (01:31:23):
Swampers or a wether yep.

Speaker 20 (01:31:25):
And miners running out and eat the bugs that you
have to work. Cars hit and they fall on the road.
I noticed it when you watch miners, that's what they're
doing when they run out the deep bugs.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
They don't seem to be south of about.

Speaker 7 (01:31:41):
What they know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
It's all in the North Island.

Speaker 10 (01:31:44):
Yeah, is it where you are?

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
I suppose yes.

Speaker 20 (01:31:48):
And then's for those flickering lights. I drove trucks Senilton
every night and yeah, those jvd's I can name three
lights that would flicker and you're look in the mirror
and they come back on. I think they're wiring.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Is it your energy?

Speaker 13 (01:32:03):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:32:03):
Post truck?

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
Oh here here's the way of the truck.

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
Wait for the track.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Yeah, it's not you giving them the heb gbs. No, no,
it must be the vibration for the vibration or something.

Speaker 20 (01:32:18):
Yeah, yeah, no, definitely. Will you have a good night, Marcus?

Speaker 7 (01:32:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
Are at working out, Brett?

Speaker 20 (01:32:27):
No, no, I'm perfectly sitting them the men.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
It's been a please to talk to you. Britt and
your man shed.

Speaker 10 (01:32:33):
What's this?

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
This world is me and hiding in their men sheds.
Reclaim the house. Heavenly it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 31 (01:32:43):
Hey Marcus, a long time listening, first time.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Call it nice to hear from you.

Speaker 31 (01:32:50):
He's got a random one today. Came back from Arotona
and got filled out the online decoration form. But did
it online. I don't know if it's a new thing.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Had I think it is. There's that card to say
you're not carrying money or got all those tics kind
of an orange Yeah I know that one.

Speaker 31 (01:33:14):
Yes, Yeah, so this Sime that was We've got told
to do it online, which was cool, be streamlined. And
then we get to the place where you get checked
by customs and they only had two people logged in
to do that part for the online people, there's a
bit of a weight. It was actually quicker running back

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and filling out the film's manual.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
That's crazy. Okay, do you do you do?

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
Do you just show them your screen? Or do you
airwave it to them? What's that called?

Speaker 31 (01:33:50):
I think it gets sent to a website and then
only two of them could log in out of the
team people. So I think it's just teething issues. But
I think it was worth the mention.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
Did people need you download an app?

Speaker 31 (01:34:07):
Nah, it's just online? Okay, yeah in the declaration. Okay,
maybe it might bring it up on Google, but it's
probably real new. It didn't work well today.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
So how long did it take you to get that
sort of out because you don't want that pilava because
no one's going to bring bad stuff back from there anyway.
I don't think.

Speaker 31 (01:34:29):
Nah, nah, it just it took you probably went in
the line for thirty or forty minutes and it was
moving and it's crazy to the front. That's when we
found out that there wasn't enough people that could take
the online.

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
Is the old school form still there if you want it?

Speaker 7 (01:34:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 31 (01:34:51):
So we ran back, got that folded out, and then
we managed to get through. But if we had no
one will probably just stick to the people next time.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
Yeah, I would. How things are to where they recovered
from COVID and everything is booming.

Speaker 31 (01:35:06):
Yeah, I thought it was booming. Good weather, good food,
great food.

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
Ye're good.

Speaker 31 (01:35:13):
Yeah, managed to get ten.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
And it was pretty buzzy.

Speaker 7 (01:35:19):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
Yeah, I want to hear have any nice to talk
to you?

Speaker 7 (01:35:23):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
How past eleven? Phil Marcus, Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:35:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:35:29):
I'm going to try and not be too hateful of
the seagulls, but coastal town, I mean, I find them
to be utterly annoying, but you know, I'd never be
cruel to them, and I don't think anyone should be cruel.
But the thing that annoys me nice is and it's
out of town people coming with their kids, get the

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fish and chips and sit on the wharf, and the
kids will feed the seagulls and it just brings more
seagulls around, and then you know, they go back to
the city property and they don't have to worry about
it anymore. But you know, we get the seagulls end
up being more dependent and more aggressive and scavenger like,

(01:36:13):
because you any animal will go to the more convenient food. Sauce,
and a lot of our food that we eat is
you'd probably agree, is kind of designed to be not
quite addictive, but you know, the salt in the in
the chips and all that kind of stuff, it's kind

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of flavored to keep us wanting more. And I think
the seagull, you know, the smaller animals, are probably even
more prone to sugar kicks and you know, the salt
and all that kind of stuff that we feel it,
but they, I'm sure they must feel it more agreed,
considering their size. And I'd really really like to see

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a band on feeding seagulls.

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
Yeah, I don't have a tough thing. That'd be hard
to be hard to cut it in half, it would
be hard to enforce.

Speaker 27 (01:37:04):
Well, just just a few of it, this would be good.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
Why are people throwing a I don't think the chippy
is the giving away too many?

Speaker 17 (01:37:11):
Are they?

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
Are they heading out too many chips?

Speaker 27 (01:37:14):
I you pretty much guarantee ninety percent of the time
when I see young families, like kids under about the
age of seven, they can't help themselves.

Speaker 21 (01:37:24):
And I think you.

Speaker 27 (01:37:25):
Probably do it as a kid.

Speaker 28 (01:37:26):
I'm sure I do it.

Speaker 27 (01:37:27):
As a kid, you know, you try a chip to
a seagull and you know it's watching run for it,
but it's it's not you know when you got up
to realize that, thinking any kind of wild animal is
not good. I mean, you've got to manage it really carefully.
I think, don't putting up towy feeders stuff like that.
That's okay, but you know, most animals we shouldn't wild animals.

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We should not be giving your food.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
There are signs saying don't feed the birds aren't there,
but doesn't really work.

Speaker 27 (01:37:58):
I haven't ever seen any signs things.

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
Haven't you. I'm thinking probably that fish shop way up
north mong and Nui.

Speaker 18 (01:38:12):
And possibly I know there's.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
A fish shop at Calculta for fish and chips of
fish shop there and they've got netting that on an
outside porch right, yeah, where the tables are with fishing
netting above it. And you feed the birds there and
all the seagulls get caught in the netting. It's not
a good site. But you're right, people need to stop
doing it.

Speaker 6 (01:38:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:38:34):
I just I just like the noise, you know. I
walked down to the wharf and I was quiet, quiet,
and there's just you know, it's like they're just vicious.
The sound of a seagull when when there's a hundred
of them sitting on the wharf and there's merely a
square foot of the wharf that isn't covered with white
dotted the poop, and they're just at each other. You know,

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it's just a nasty kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
What what what what are you in film.

Speaker 6 (01:39:05):
Banks?

Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, yeah, it would be pretty seagull.
It would be pretty seagully there, wouldn't it.

Speaker 27 (01:39:13):
It's actually not the worst. Some of the worst I've
had was around gyms anywhere that had a rubbish tip.
There's you know, like only hunger used to be pretty
horrible for seagulls. Gyms, Perrimandal, the times can be quite bad.
Anything that's got a you know, a small fishing fleet,

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fish and chip shop and a rubbish tip nearby, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
Just just the trifector, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:39:41):
That is?

Speaker 27 (01:39:42):
Yeah, yeah, so they could they're not that bad, but
it's it's kind of it is kind of annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
It's amazing to remember those today's remember those old dump
sites have the trectors going back around over to and
there's just thousands of seagulls. They was grim and.

Speaker 27 (01:40:01):
Just quickly the cafe is around. I think if you
ask any cafe and as they have outside seating you,
they will tell you they have had guts for sparrows
really and it's they're they're yeah big, and they're getting vicious.
I've seen sparrows attack blackbirds like you know, blackbirds eating

(01:40:23):
something and eating a bit of something, a bit of
fruit on a tree or something. Sparrow comes along, it
jumps up on the on the back of the lady
blackbird and kicks it like like a real aggressive sort
of shove. And I've seen sparrows sparrows fight, like about
five or six sparrows fighting like really vicious ecking and

(01:40:44):
and yeah, quite I think we need a bit of
like you know that needs a bit of a think
about how to deal with them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
But I've never heard anyone ever go at sparrows but
go yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:40:57):
Wow, yeah, They'll they'll call yeah, I got you, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
No, brilliant, there we go sparrows.

Speaker 13 (01:41:06):
Yeah for.

Speaker 2 (01:41:08):
If won't be too grim about those. Honest guy, though,
Toddles is town, David's Marcus good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:41:19):
Hey, yeah, just just a couple of quick things. The
Mongaui I did a I got a job singing up
there or wedding a couple of years ago. So men,
the missus made a holiday out of it, and we
did like four days up there. And anyway, are you
are you talking about the cafe where they actually have
because we had a meal there. There's the there's the
waterfront place. Does the you know, the very famous fishing chips, but.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
Yeah, the famous stuff with the fish and chips over
over the other.

Speaker 16 (01:41:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:41:47):
So there's a cafe just back sort of around with
the shotter and we had a meal there one day
because we were staying just down the road from it,
and they had the same problem there. And they have
water pistols at every table and they and we're we'd
a blast. You're sitting there eating your meal and you
here suiting the gold and the gannets all the rest
of them with water pisces.

Speaker 18 (01:42:06):
Sexually, it works quite does it does?

Speaker 2 (01:42:10):
It doesn't keep the boods away, that does it?

Speaker 11 (01:42:11):
Long ter?

Speaker 29 (01:42:13):
Well, it doesn't.

Speaker 15 (01:42:14):
It keeps them off your meal for the time that
you're eating it. You know, it's a it's a good
effect of immediate management process plan Secondly, just just going
way back to early in the night, I heard you
mention gazebos yep, and and it just sparks sparks a
like this weekend. I'm always on the hunt from a

(01:42:35):
good for a good band name. And me and my
partner we were looking at fixing our one or replacing it,
because we've got one. It's but it's spilled weather damaged.
And my partner mentioned that she'd seen somewhere online cheap gazebos,
and she cares I'm talking, and I was just quite
taken of that. I thought, what a brilliant fand name.
And I mentioned it too, and she just thought I

(01:42:56):
was an idiot. But then because I thought it had
a very good ring to it. But then I thought, actually,
it's makes me something familiar. And I had a bit
of a trace through my memory. And remember that Dave
McCartney when he when he left Hello Sola, he actually
formed a band called the Pink Flamingos.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
So yeah, so you think you think Pink Flamingos and
Cheap Gazebos are too similar?

Speaker 15 (01:43:22):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. And and and actually they
even had a song called You're a Pink Formeno.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
But yeah, I just just just is your is your
is your current band name? Weathered and Damaged.

Speaker 15 (01:43:39):
No, I'm not currently in a permanent band. I currently
go solo, but I'm always you know, I mean.

Speaker 22 (01:43:44):
It pays to be prepared. It pays to be prepared
for that time.

Speaker 15 (01:43:48):
It comes along, and and and every now and then
you just get some inspiration and it's usually in the
most strangest form, just in mid conversation. But you know,
just those two words, cheap gazebos. I could I could
hear that being announced ladies hearing live tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
I don't mind. I don't mind it because you just
got gazebos. Wow. He hasn't got the same ring, has it.

Speaker 13 (01:44:12):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:44:12):
No, gazebos alone doesn't stand out like cheap gazebos.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
Yeah, what are the band named generators?

Speaker 18 (01:44:26):
Do?

Speaker 22 (01:44:29):
Is that a question for me?

Speaker 7 (01:44:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
You tried to generate it?

Speaker 15 (01:44:35):
No, Like I'll tell you. I years ago, I ended
up in a band and they were called I was
the ringing guy. They fired the last guy because he
kept getting drunk, and so I answered the ads and
they were called Silverfish. And the last time I've ever
led anybody else. Just decide the name of the band
without me having a hand of that, because it was

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they didn't even realize what a silverfish was. It was
just disturbing. Of course, silver chair were a huge thing
at the time.

Speaker 29 (01:45:04):
It's mid nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:45:08):
Yeah, I don't know where you go with gazebo because
this is a good word. It's got good letters, isn't it.

Speaker 15 (01:45:15):
Yeah, And it's got that nice you know, multiple syllable
that all sort of just run along collectively and and
and fall nice on the air.

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
You want a too syllable word? Can you put a
word after gazebo?

Speaker 10 (01:45:30):
What about? What about?

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
What about gazebo? Police? Sounds a bit frivolous, doesn't it,
or something like that.

Speaker 15 (01:45:36):
Look, I I don't I didn't major in English, I
didn't go past the form high school. But but I
know what I know, and I know phonetically it sounds
good to finish on that gazebo.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
You just you're right, You're right, you know, But anything's
going to be too close to flamingo for you, isn't it.

Speaker 15 (01:45:56):
And that and that that total disassociation of the two things,
you know, like Cold Chisel, Deep Purple was it was
big back in the day that it was. It was
a kind of thought out system and you know, the
the hard and the colorful. And I mean not that
I'm tended for that, but these words just came out
of a partner's mouth. But I jumped on it and thought,

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great band name.

Speaker 24 (01:46:21):
One day.

Speaker 15 (01:46:23):
You never know, one day in the near future you
may see big things from a band called Cheap Gazebo
fronted by a guy who used to be in a
breakdancing crew from tarant Old called the Rapidelic Rockers.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
What I like about you, Dave is you're more focused
on the name than forming the band.

Speaker 20 (01:46:42):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 15 (01:46:43):
Yeah, I'm the guy that goes and buys four tires
before they buy a car.

Speaker 4 (01:46:46):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
Good on you come on your cheap Gazebos.

Speaker 23 (01:46:49):
What do you got?

Speaker 2 (01:46:50):
What do you got for the final for Lurry Stuart's
Marcus good evening?

Speaker 32 (01:46:55):
Okay, Macus, Can I just add a quick one in
for your friends there with the gazebo? Yeah yeah, I
work in the events in the street and the perfect
name for the a zebo band is called Broken Gazebo
because they're always breaking.

Speaker 6 (01:47:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:14):
Every time you think with Gazebo, you think it is
something that's going to get blind away.

Speaker 13 (01:47:17):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
A gazebo is just what it's like a It's not
a tent. Is it a tent without sides?

Speaker 32 (01:47:24):
Yeah, you can't put sides on them as well, but
you know you either have to peg them into the
ground or use weights on them. They used a lot
in the events in the street. You know, they will
pop up three by three gazebo, very very useful in
the event and you see them a lot at the
markets and places like that. But yeah, any gust of
wind or I mean the legs on them, unless you

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pay a lot of money for them, they break.

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
You see the touch rugby tournaments, everyone brings their own
gazebo and chucks the teams and the people love them,
don't they.

Speaker 32 (01:47:55):
Oh, absolutely absolutely. They're a great form of shelter and
protection from the wind.

Speaker 7 (01:47:59):
In the rain.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
Last broken gazebo, isn't it?

Speaker 7 (01:48:06):
I thought?

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Nice stuff, Stuart, Thank you, Marcus. How about flying Gazebo's
twelve foot gazebos Stormy gazegos. Stormy gazebo quite like stormy gazebo.
It's more sounds like you find your adult entertainment name
best band name ever was Free Bear. People came overwhere
to see them. Unfortunately they were terrible. Here's a question,

(01:48:31):
will you can a great band survive a terrible name?
What's the best band? I should have thought there was
hours ago. I should have saved this for another night.
Great band, terrible name. I think you two's are pretty

(01:48:55):
till wouldn't say they're a great band either. Dire straits
dumb name for band. I agree, great band, terrible name.
The Grateful Dead, I agree, Hoodie and the Blowfish Gosh.

Speaker 14 (01:49:08):
Gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
Now listen to you In the Blowfish terrible name. Someone
says the shady gazebos is the good name for the band?
Or storm in a gazebo? Here you go without looking?
What language you reckon? The word gazebo comes from dreams
Arabic or we would it be? What language?

Speaker 10 (01:49:31):
Would it be?

Speaker 2 (01:49:31):
Indian? It would be Turkish. I think it might be Italian.
Oh it's Latin for ice shell gaze. There you go.

(01:49:52):
Should have got that, should have been able to back
work that one out. All of us have studied Latin.
I'd tell you why gazebos are interesting. So I remember
we had a census the last census, they asked how
many people had a gazebo, and no one could work
out why. They asked us how many gazebos we had,
and while there all the talk was about gazebos. Unless

(01:50:16):
the censer seems like a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (01:50:20):
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