Dream interpreter then the lawn guy (4 February 2025)

Marcus talks mowing lawns, wicker baskets, and Bribie Island.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
First things first people. I was in ver Cargoll early
this morning, well at half past ten, ten forty five,
and the three Hercules flew over in formation. Look fantastic,
quite moving, glad I saw it. Who the noise, thought gee,
what is that and looked up and then they all were,
the three of them, brilliant are going in a northeast

(00:34):
direction that was moving. So yeah, there we go. So
I hope you enjoyed good shots of it. I don't
know if there's much more to say about that. They flew,
they flew in formation. I don't know how many people
were on it. You think in some ways since it
was the last flight of the Hercules, they would have
got some of the former people that had pilots. It
will worked on the I heart they put it to

(00:56):
good use. To shame we didn't see if we've got
a minister of who's the armed forces anyway? If they were,
who cares. But it's a shame that we haven't heard
more stories about the people that are on the planes.
But that's yet. I thought they did well. I thought
good on them for sending those off sixty years without
an incident or without a crash. So that's goodbye to the hercules.

(01:18):
Do some more flyvers tomorrow. That's said about it for them.
But Osreevy pleased to see it. I thought it was
quite a special moment. We won't talk so much about
that tonight because we gave it a fairy good go
around last night. Even got in sales talking about the fijianku.
Not entirely sure how he got to that. It was
a topic adjacent type situation. I want a question tonight.

(01:40):
I'm not entirely sure how to frame it. I think
it's a goodie. I think it's a fairly good discussion
point because it's one that I've thought about, and it's
one I'm sure that you've thought about, and it's one
that I think affects most people. And I want to
know your reasoning and the question, And particularly at this

(02:02):
time of the year with the grass growing so well,
what do you reckon is the best thing to do
to mow your lawns or to get someone to do it?
And I think probably the pendulum has swung back to

(02:24):
more and more people doing their own lawns. You don't
see the big franchises around like you used to. I
think probably for a while there everyone started a lawn
mowing round then, and for that, in fact, they got
taken over and there were franchise rounds and it became
a big deal. Then I think probably the price of
that went up, and people got obsessed with lawns and
obsessed with lawn mowers, and I think probably more and

(02:46):
more people do their own lawn now. So I wondering
you in your circumstance as far as the size of
your lawn, as far as the money, as far as
the convenience, do you pay someone to do it or
do you do it yourself because you enjoy it and
like to save the money by doing it yourself, Because
I'd imagine the price to get a lown done these
days is probably not really cheap, and nor should it be,

(03:16):
because the people having to drive to your property to
brow your lawns or to pay for the mower, and
pay for the guests and the likes of that, so
you know they're providing a service. So I just want
to in your sense where you are on the pendulum,
you might be someone that gets your lawns done commercial
because it looks better. You might be someone that mows
the lawns yourself because it looks better. But these are

(03:37):
the angles I want to explore it up. I wouldn't
mind doing a lawnmowing round. I've often thought it would
be quite an enjoyable way to spend the days. I
particularly like the pill that the commercial lawn mowing rounds
and have those things over their socks always makes you
look quite no nonsense, doesn't it. So that's what I

(04:00):
want to talk about tonight. And yeah, just the cost
and the way you've worked out in the way of
justified to yourself, either way of having them done or
doing them yourself. Also to battery operated, I'm sick of
our battery mower. It was good for three years, but
now the battery is so slow to recharge. I'll go

(04:22):
it sound and was around for twenty minutes and it's
two hours back on the charger. Way, did you get
some more charge to go back out? That's not a
right balance for me. For me, it needs to be
like at least half an hour to charge and then
I'll be back out to go again. So that's what
I want to talk about tonight. Your journey with your
gardens and the mowing of your lawns. We might speak

(04:45):
to people that are lawnmowers today or people that have
actually employed people all that sort of stuff. So I
think for a while they're people are outsourcing much more stuff.
But I think the as I've said, the pingelum has
gone the other way. Marcus would love to know what
the beckstra to your interest song is. Is there a

(05:06):
lot number to a Wikipedia page or some such thing.
What's that even mean? Marcus? The houcules coming to christ Church?
We thought we'd saw them. Did they break down? I
think they're over christ Church today today. My my own
small law never considered the cost running Makita battery power
and out of their garden equipment. One battery for all
the tools, both garden would working ones, et cetera. How's

(05:30):
it going for you? Do you consider it like you
and do you consider it would be disrespectful to actually
get someone into mal your lawns? It would be like
you'd kind of be yeah, that's what I want to
go on about. Tonight fourteen passed eight o'clock, Marcus, those
hercules flew directly over our cowshed on the Hodaki planes.
I could have thrown a rock at them. They were
that low, spook the cows in the yard to stampede

(05:52):
to one side, rolled the ball over in the process.
It was ten things. Then my father, who goes to
the yard to get the cows and the bail would
have been crushed to death, was pissed off, to say
the least. Cheer Steve. I don't think it was today
that they went across Hodak. It was it used today, Marcus,
I'm a commercial lawn keptric. Can I call for a check?
Of course you can. I'm up for anyone about this.

(06:14):
This is probably once every five years will do a
lawn mowing show.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I want to know.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
How much you're spending a month to get your lords
done as it stack up, Marcus, are you taking a
long weekend? What do you think?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
I think everyone's here on Friday apart from Matt and Tyler. Yeah,
there you go. Yep, Marc, is stopping so lazy and
mow your own lawn and save yourself forty dollars? Zach.
I know I've always mowed the lawn. I think you've
actually read something into that. I've never said that I

(07:00):
don't mow my own lawn. Quite endure it quote. Although
I am tempted to go a robot lawnmower, but only
because I quite like the technology. Marcus, get two new
batteries and while using one, the other will beyond charge.
Ready to go, cheers, Wayne Marcus. How many professional lordlawing
operators use battery electric lawnmowers? Not many stick to petrol bob.

(07:24):
I'm sure they will be converting to battery, probably arrive
in a hybrid carm Are you lawned with battery? Ouvary?

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Good?

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Plant some trees to mitigate climate change. I've got a
problem with how people do it. I always thought for
a while to be fun to start a lawn mowing
round that uses the old push mowers. I'm sure some
people would get a kick out of seeing people with
those old push mowers mowing the lawn and every uptate
tightway sixteen past eight hit till midnight. That's my job

(07:56):
with much privilege. I am here, James, it's Marcus. Welcome,
good evening, Good evening. What's happening?

Speaker 6 (08:06):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Years now and Claire James lovely lawns? Oh god, go brilliant?

Speaker 7 (08:13):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Okay, yep.

Speaker 8 (08:17):
My take on it is that we provide a service.
We do a great job. We leave the lawns looking
amazing and really three people's time up.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Do you think more people are getting the lawns mode
than twenty years ago or less?

Speaker 8 (08:35):
Well, I've been doing it for about twenty years yes,
plus yeah, I've gone from about twenty something now up
to one hundred.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Okay, and you can do all of those yourself.

Speaker 8 (08:47):
I've got two guys that give me a hand, and
I've got about on hondy k with a gear.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Wow, which would be what trailers.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
And mowers, multiple trailers, six different lawnmowers, and then that's
right on, four push mowers, a whole heap of all
of it.

Speaker 8 (09:08):
Some bobs that go with creating a great lawn space.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Okay. And you've got weed eats and things that go
around as well.

Speaker 8 (09:15):
Yeah, absolutely, you know that's one of our things. Rather
than just dumbing a whole of the spray around the edges,
we weed eat. You know, we make it look nice.
And I'd like to say that, you know, when we've
come and done your lawn, it looks fantastic. People can
sit on the addict her and go, you know, to
keep drinking their general, their wine and go look at

(09:35):
these boys.

Speaker 9 (09:36):
Go.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
So what's the challenge with running a lawn mowering system?
I imagine as long as you don't cause anything for
the people to be unhappy with, they'll just keep going
with you. Is that the case?

Speaker 8 (09:48):
Yes, that's correct. Yeah, just make sure you're regular, You
turn up when you say you're going to turn up.

Speaker 10 (09:53):
You do a great job.

Speaker 8 (09:55):
Take the clippings away. If they want to take them away,
you know, you just you do what you say you're
going to do.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
What do you do with the grass I've got?

Speaker 8 (10:04):
Luckily, I've got quite a big landholding myself, and you
know I use it for mulch on my garden beds.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
And yeah, and could you sell your lord mode when
you grow too old for it? Would you sell that?

Speaker 11 (10:18):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (10:18):
I would?

Speaker 8 (10:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
And how did you get your new customers?

Speaker 8 (10:24):
I've never advertised, it's just rude of mouth. And you know,
a big thing is actually going out on Saturdays. I
live in a tourist town and a lot of the
properties here are you know, the people that have places
on booker bats and they just want when their clients
turn up once to look nice. And if you go
out on a weekend and people see your moaning and
the amount of times I've actually had people come up

(10:46):
to me and say, oh where do they say, do your.

Speaker 13 (10:50):
My own lawns?

Speaker 8 (10:51):
And there was two ride ons and a trailer and
a yep and you give them your details and next thing,
you've got another job.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Have you got a sign written van?

Speaker 7 (11:03):
No? Not even okay?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
And can you tell can you tell me how much
the average price you charge for.

Speaker 8 (11:10):
Lawn would be, like you think, like your standard sort
of Kiwi quarter acre, it sort of forty to sixty bucks.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Okay, that's fair, And that's what it would have been
twenty dollars ten twenty dollars twenty years ago when you
first started that one.

Speaker 8 (11:25):
Yeah, pretty much. And you know some of the bigger
properties I do, I charge up to tree hundred bucks,
but that they are substantial. You know, a couple of
acres and it takes you a little bit of time.
But for me, it's it's all about having the right
equipment to do the job and make it look nice.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
And tell me how often, James Demolon, is it once
a week for the summer and then once every three
weeks in the winter. Have you got a formula like that.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
Yeah, it's it's mostly every two weeks and then luckily
I'm somewhere that's quite cold, so you know, it basically
drops off, you know, sort of June July August and
you start monion in September.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
And so June July August like once month.

Speaker 8 (12:07):
Oh actually no, don't need to mollak hm.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
So you go away to the northern hemisphere. What do
you do for those months?

Speaker 8 (12:15):
I've just got something else I do. I go skiing?

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Are you fat?

Speaker 4 (12:22):
No?

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Because you've got ride on no.

Speaker 12 (12:24):
Very I'm very fit.

Speaker 8 (12:26):
If people often ask me what I do for exercise
and they say, I do the money okay?

Speaker 3 (12:30):
And do you listen to radio or podcast through a
thing when you're doing it? Or you like to just
listen to the birds and the mowers?

Speaker 14 (12:36):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (12:36):
Now, I've got one of one of my relevations is
I bought a really nice pair of headphone, like a
proper commercial protective headphones, but you know, with the sound,
and I actually listened to ZB most of the time.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Sure it's a worry brilliant okay. And you do you
cap it at a hundred because it's your limit, or
you could grow and grow and grow, but then you're
not doing the lawns and then you're relying on staff.
Is it the way it works?

Speaker 8 (13:02):
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I'm quite I'm quite happy with
where I am.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
That's so many quick for you. Do people buy you
present at Christmas? Or do you buy the people present
at Christmas?

Speaker 8 (13:12):
No, they buy me presents.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Okay, like what bottle of wine and stuff? There you go,
there you go, James, thanks for good We have a
bottle of wine that they've been given. Anyway, That is
it how it works?

Speaker 8 (13:21):
Yeah pretty much. Yeah, they're just happy that.

Speaker 10 (13:23):
You know.

Speaker 8 (13:24):
I think the main thing is you turn up and
do the.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Job and you take the clippings.

Speaker 8 (13:29):
Who he said that, Yeah, it depends like some people
that they're not too worried about that. Then you know,
they realize that the place is just too big to
do that, and you know, they'd be basically paying a
hell of a lot more. But you know, I've got
the gear, Who've got the trailers and can take the
clippings away.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Most of the time, you do your own lawns.

Speaker 8 (13:49):
Yes, I've actually got three acres.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Oh well okay, Well, the funny.

Speaker 8 (13:53):
Thing is that by being a commercial lawnwar. It allows
me to have some really great gear to do my place.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
So it's weird incredibly Well did you just get into
it gradually or are you thinking of starting the whole thing?

Speaker 8 (14:05):
No, just gradually, just you know, people learned that you
had a ride on and mixing you. They're saying, can
you know, can you come around to our place and
do our place? And it's just built and built and built.
It's taken a number of years, but it's good, chet
really well.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
So I don't think you hear I mean, I know
you're in a smaller place, but you don't know as
much about the franchises that you want to hear about,
do you. Is that right? Is that's my impression? Is
that just because I live in the South.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
It's a little bit you know, it's only so many
lawns and it's only so many people can do them.
And I think they're franchises. You know, they split it
up and split it up and split it up, and
it's just got to a point where everyone's you know,
fighting over it's small territory.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, I look nice to hear from me, James. That's
a lot of a question to thank you so much
that twenty seven past a Chris Marcus. Welcome, Hi, nice
good Chris.

Speaker 11 (14:54):
Just a bit of a different perspectives on a seventy
two year old super anner. And for the first time
in my life, I'm getting someone into my mind lawn.
I've just got to the point where I can't do it.
I actually rent so the honest on me is to

(15:15):
keep the place rocking, meat and tidy.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (15:20):
So I have a lawnmower. Guy comes in once a
fortnite for the price of forty five dollars. Yep, yep,
absolutely fantastic. My lawn isn't easy. It's full of kai
kuya and all sorts of other things. And when he's

(15:41):
been he has it looking like a bowling green. He
brings a weird easier with him. He does the edges,
and I guess, like a lot of seniors, it's just
nice sometimes when you know that sometimes coming around and
it's sometimes someone else to talk to. Yeah, he comes around.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
He tell me, when did you stop morowing your lawns yourself?

Speaker 11 (16:07):
I started renting this place in August of last year. Okay,
so that what has been the last time I was
trying to mow lawns? Myself, and at first I thought
I was going to and my daughter, who came and
mowed them for the first time for me. He said, Mom,
you never know, You're never going to.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Do this, So yeah, I was just curious to know
what you did with your moer.

Speaker 11 (16:36):
I didn't have him. Yeah, no, I borrowed my daughter's
mar Okay.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Okay, that makes sense to me, Chris, thank you hey
for that guy, James. That was one before someone wants
to know what moas you use? What brand of ride
does he use? James, So already people are hanging on
your every word Skieze all winter to make a country
calendar episode about He's not really a farmer, though, was he?

(17:02):
But it's pretty interesting yourself. Some professional headphones tourist Towne
who's not stuck in traffic the whole way, so I
reckon it works out pretty well for him. It's all
about the mind of the lawns people. Three retired gentlemen
live down my street within fifty meters of one another.
I swear every month they try and out do each other,

(17:23):
who can mow their lawns the most. It's comical to
watch mac Mark some I'm seventy six and I'm half
an acre with electric morror, a lot of pushing. Not
a flat lord. Pat Textus says, good chat. I'm a
lawn contractor. The challenge is the weather. If it rains,
you don't get paid eighty to one hundred lawns per lawn.

(17:47):
Don't do anything under forty lull. I reckon that last guy, though,
I reckon the weather. It be pretty good. He sounded
like he'd being Cromwell or Warnica or Queenstown. I reckon,
so you don't get a lot of rain there. He's
got the sweet spot.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
That guy.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
What a unit? What a unit? One hundred grand? Cheapers?
A lot of lawns wouldn't fit the ride on a
or to any obstacles. Jake Marcus evening, Welcome, Hi Jake.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
He sold a few mowers and a few parts and
all that sort of thing. But some guys like sitting
on moas. They find it quite relaxing during their their
are the lawns. Put some headphones on doing their own lawns.
I should say we had a We sold a machine
to the guy. It's about twenty thousand bucks, but he

(18:44):
he could mowers all of his for a hillside property
in about an hour with it, so they yes, he
could have probably got it done cheaper with a contract.
Some guys enjoy the break, you know, the time spend
Away had a god A had one client once he

(19:04):
had been the police prosecute and he took a year off,
put a lawnmowing around, took a year off to pushing mala,
basically to get his head straight after the job we've
been going and to get fit for triathlons. So different
different ways of doing it.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
So you sell the do you sell them?

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Jake did? Yeah, don't any longer, but yeah it did.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
If you've got a big ride on. If you've got
a big ride on Moa right your three acre three
hector farm and it breaks down, how do you get
it to the dealer?

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well, most of those people have got might come out.
You'll judge you for it. Most of those people have
got a trailer because they're at three acres, they're catting firewood.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
And they've got a couple of planks to get it
up on the trailer.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you buy some aluminium ramps or something's.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Got to super cheap. Buy a couple of those, check
them on. Look like the man King of the hell up.
You get a couple of tie it down off to
a mate. She's not going so well.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
But you wouldn't those three acres. You'd get a you'd
get some sheep, or you'd normally have a horse or yeah,
or you'd let them not open the fence to the
neighbor and let yeah, let them have a go at it.
So it can be relaxing. It can be a bloody chore,
but it can. Yeah, I think really good.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Older you get more fixated on your lawns because you
realize actually it's best. You finally learn it's best just
to maintain them and to keep them really orderly, and
that does give you peace of mind. But you can
get a bit obsessed about American.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah, if you go to the States, so for twenty
odd years, they've spent a lot of money on like irrigation, fertilizer,
and we don't do that. I think we still discourage
growing grass because we don't like it. Where in the
US they pump the water and pump the fertilizer, grow
a high. It all looks wonderful.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
So are there are they more obsessed with the lawn
are they?

Speaker 10 (20:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (20:59):
I think it's just just what you're used to. They
want the lawn to look green all year round. So
when a development's done, motel's housing, accommodation, whatever, irrigation automatically
goes and and they've got people or my experience series,
they had guys who did everything. They did the weed

(21:22):
eating and mowing, the fertilizing, keep the irrigation going. The
aim is to make the place look green.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, I reckon. Once you get into fertilizing and spot
getting rid of weeds and stuff like that, you could
go forever, couldn't you, Because there's your lawn care products
you could buy.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yeah, But if you want it to look good, if
you want your lawns to look good and green, that's
that's what you've got to do. You can't if you've
got a drought and the lawn all dies off. The
weeds are the first things that grow back again. So
if you want it to look good, that's yeah, that's
one of the things you have to do.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Okay, Jake, nice to talk, Thank you. Twenty five tonight
it's all about lawns, lawns, lawns, lawns. Mark has just
made a booboo I was made with done it at
ninety ninety one from a storm only a bay view
north of na If you remember our Fabriagaye Tobby, how
about my own my lawn talk about snowball effect thirty
five and no time at eighty seven. Now cut down
to two lawns, Marcus. Could we get James a regular

(22:20):
stot on your show? Could listen to him talk about
mowing all night? Cheers want to know about regular slots.
You can't do them. You see. What happens with people
with regular slots is that some people be into it,
but some people would hate it. Oh no, not the
lawn guy again. Oh got listen to Classic Cats. That's
what happens. You put a regular kells the talk the

(22:41):
regular slot. People think it's funny, get a talkback Sho'll
fill it with regular slots. Next thing you know, Oh god,
it's the dream interpreter, followed by the lawn guy. Then
we've got the young guy talking about finances. People go
screaming from the room. But this way you even know
what's going to be next. That's my theory. Anyway, didn't
the book all about the lawns? What would you do

(23:05):
with the lawns? Good evening, Tony Marcus.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
Welcome, good evening motown knowing here.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
It's no time.

Speaker 9 (23:14):
How many clients I've got twenty?

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Now?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Say do you want some more?

Speaker 9 (23:20):
I want tons more? We want tons more?

Speaker 3 (23:23):
How do you how do you get them? Are you
on marketplace or anything?

Speaker 10 (23:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (23:27):
My marketplace trade me. I was just actually registered actually,
so I've got my own website. Yeah, so bought a van.
I was looked on the one that was looking for
the mets of the bond. I found one, done, a
real good one. So yeah, we've just registered. We're a
family lawn care business based in South Auckland and white Book,

(23:50):
an area.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
You're gonna take. You're going to take the boondo yourself.

Speaker 10 (23:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (23:56):
No, she's getting she's getting fined beshtally tomorrow, so you
might knowing it's mosions look out for us. We'll be
driving around.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Over cap over capitalized. I'm surprised you've just got twenty clients.

Speaker 9 (24:11):
Well, I mean I do all my lawns myself and
my daughter and my nephew, colseling part time here and there.
When I get the big jobs, you know, mainly I
do all the redidentials myself.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Is it quite straightforward? Quoting your job pretty much.

Speaker 9 (24:26):
Yeah, you want to be you want to be generous
because you know, most people are generous themselves. So you know,
I mainly as they they do a two week contract
fortnightly contract cat. You get it at a cheaper rate.
Your lawns look like Eden Park every day. And also

(24:48):
you get your first cat free. So and I always
I always cut my clients a lot of them. I'll
try to do a cheap one or three one during
the Christmas period, you know. Okay, so you try. You're
trying to just you know, be nice for people, and
they'll be nice, like most of them. See, you do
a good job, and most people are pretty heavy.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Do you even mulch and put the clippings back into
the lawn like sometimes you've got that attachment.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
We don't use that yeah.

Speaker 9 (25:16):
Yeah, no, yeah, I've got a mulcha'. So yeah, they're
good for the short lawns, you see. They they need
for catching most of the time when you're doing it
fortnately because you keep them the lawn at the minimum,
you know. Yeah yeah, yeah, so it makes them cleaner.
Cat to a nicer cap for me, I reckon because
you know, if you if you keep catching it especially

(25:38):
in the summer, you can actually burn your grass. That's
how you grassed and brown and you start getting patches
here and there. Their patchures here and there. You want
to try and keep it nice and a rush a screen,
keep it to a certain height. You want to cut
it too short. It's also good the environment to heav
your grass a little bit longer.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
You know what do do the itches with?

Speaker 9 (26:02):
With a weed from it?

Speaker 10 (26:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (26:05):
It was just with a with just with a nylon string.

Speaker 9 (26:09):
Yeah, you've got a plastic a plastic four wheel based
traumor would go along with the edge of the patio
that any concrete.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
You enjoy it?

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Oh, here, we love it.

Speaker 9 (26:26):
Yeah, we love doing lawns. That's all we do all day,
every day, lawns.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Lawns want much traveling time between the lawns. You've got
a system.

Speaker 9 (26:35):
You try and you try and work it out. So
you know you're going to manbring customers for here or
you know, then you get your peppertoes. You know, you
try and try not to drive to too much of
a circle. You know, you do your customers come home
and I mean I work, I just work about five
hours every four days a week.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Where do you go for your lunch there, Tony, give
it the back of the back of the bongo.

Speaker 10 (27:00):
Or what do you do with that?

Speaker 9 (27:01):
No? No, no, no breakfast. That keeps me going through
the day. And then I'll come home and never an
afternoon for you ever, Nat and then wake up and
cooking up with a wife.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Wow, she's one loto with you.

Speaker 9 (27:16):
Oh. I wouldn't say that, mate, I wouldn't say that.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
We won't go there.

Speaker 9 (27:19):
But yet we're we're getting here. We're getting there, Marca.
So if anyone wants their lawns done and gardens cleared
out cal Motown Mowing, we'll find us on the website
and on marketplace.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
I'd better check out the website. Works for you Motown
pretty good. He should be playing Mowtown music Motown.

Speaker 9 (27:44):
Oh yeah, we played on We played on the bench.
Do you Why are you Michael Jackson, Moman.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Gay all Motown lawns? Is that where it is? On Facebook?

Speaker 9 (27:57):
Motown Mowing yet and find the lawns under lawns you'll
find us. And so key that's pushing the mower.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, I've got I've got one on you, but I
can't work out where I'll put the Motown mowering, and
I can't sah, did you mean is it m O
T o w n. That's for one, No, it's not
in your Plymouth. It's in South Ork's in Monaco. I
don't reckon your website works that well. I can't find

(28:25):
it yet.

Speaker 9 (28:27):
I probably need to be a tweaking. We've only just
joined up, so we're getting out there. I lets to
speak to my secretary.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Where is your webs Is it m O w t
o w n or m O t o w n.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
I'm sure it m O T A w I mean
we won't go there.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Okay, Well, you just know if you want build to
get in touch with the Tony founder. But hard for me,
twenty four or sixteen away from nine, it's all about mowing.
I mustn't do for lawn today, mustn't He was doing
twenty a week or four day week, five a day.
I guess it's something very relaxing about being your own boss, Marcus.

(29:17):
Apparently half of all lawn mowers sold are sold in
the US of A. Probably half of the world don't
even have lawns. Well, I think I Australia the giving
up on lawns because environmentally they're terrible things, the amount
of water they use, and all other sorts of reasons too. Marcus,
I've a pushed my best thing overhead to my my lawns,

(29:38):
brought it five years ago, no maintenance, no gas, self sharpens.
We're still trying to work out what brand James is. Marcus,
are married to my lawn guy. He loves rowing the
lawns and uses a real moe. He brought a few
off trade me and refurbishes them. He mows the lawn diagon.
He looks very smart and he uses one of those

(30:00):
old fashion He just at a round sharp disc and
you push it along. Gilly. The terrible things to use
about lawns. What's the what if it inside to mom
yourself or get the other guy to do then that's
the whole question for me, and I don't quite know
how the numbers work for most people. Is it something
you enjoy doing or something you enjoy not doing? I
guess that's the question, because if you're doing your own lawns,

(30:25):
you need a system. You just go out and do it.
You need to have a system the way you're going
to do it because and you've got to do it
in one go. I think you can't just do it piecemeal,
otherwise they're going to rob you of your life. I'm
High Egan. What they're calling me Egan? High Egan? What's

(30:48):
the letters from Egan? Close to on? The might be
high again? I don't know, High Egan. I'm sixty four
and are not well at all after having made your
brain surgery from extent. I retire next year and we'll
lose half my income, but I hope to start a
lawnmown business to keep my head above water. Acc should

(31:10):
run longer than sixty five for ones like myself. Craig
from christ Church, love my atom. Lorninger obviously in the
most striped timber edge to work. Wife, always stoked with
a crisp edge on the lawn. Tristan, I quite like
to use the spade on the edges and kind of

(31:32):
dig it away a bit. Marcus is the old blue
mess Port cast iron based still the best. I don't know.
I'm about to buy a new lawn mower tomorrow. I'm
not quite sure what to get. Wink mow as you
get five years for them. The services cost too much,

(31:55):
but I go hard.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
On a moer.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
What was the last thing I did that was terrible
to Oh, I know what I did. It wasn't good.
In fact, what did happen? It wasn't good. Oh that's right.

(32:20):
Sometimes i'm mowing the lawns, I think, well, actually that's
kidding a bit boring. Maybe I should do this. It
never ends. Well, yeah, hi, Judith, it's Marcus.

Speaker 15 (32:35):
Welcome august In Marcus. Now, when I was I left
boarding school and went in loved with my mom and
step dad, and they had a really long front lawn
and I'm talking about a cricket page anyway. I was
preleased for you know those old roller.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Mowers, yes, to roll on the back, yes.

Speaker 15 (33:02):
And they had a clutching everything. Well, I know, the
perfect lawn.

Speaker 10 (33:10):
Really yeah.

Speaker 15 (33:12):
And my stepfather said to me, how do you do
it to this?

Speaker 9 (33:15):
And I.

Speaker 15 (33:17):
Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to
kill you, is it right?

Speaker 3 (33:21):
I wonder if you're going to say that, how old
are you, Judas, I'm seventy one in April seventy.

Speaker 15 (33:30):
Yes, but I tell you what. My chist came old
roller lawn mower with the custro on the front and
there still.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
That's still a petrol I proated one. They used the
green peak keeper.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yes, Petrol, Yeah, I know they're quite hard to quite
hard to adjust, aren't they.

Speaker 15 (33:55):
No? No, No, I got my stepfather to six that figuring.
Do you know what, Judith? You know the most perfect lawn?

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Is that it?

Speaker 15 (34:12):
And what I'm doing now where I live and some
Central Stoke. My neighbor's got a bit of a lawn
and it's got a bit of a problem. So I'm
going to sit to that my way with nightel foscar
and bird seed and a rake and get the perfect

(34:34):
lawn again. Okay, It's on my bucket list.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Brilliant. I love a lawn bucket list. I brought a
new moil this year from N to ten and mess
Port black Vibevery Happy Always starts six Undy. Marcus have
a husk Vana automatic lawnmower has its own charging station.
We use Viking hand mowers for the small lawn to
the walk a ride on for the larger ones. We
had eighty lawn's husband and wife team Trish Marcus. When

(35:05):
camping at Christmas, people from Bluff commented on your lawn,
how you have square parts that aren't mode? I said,
it's probably for the bees. God to look after the bees.
Much talk about that lawn hasn't come up on Google
Maps yet. I can't wait for that. Oh it's been

(35:26):
in magazines. The lawn, no doubt about that. Looking forward
to your contra robrution people. Marcus still twelve loved seeing
the hercules today. Didn't bring a tear to my eye.
But I was more move than I thought I would be.
The sound is quite primal.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Show.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
The noise I made was a helicopter. Come on Google
Maps update, it's Tuesday. It's all about mowers. What do
you got to say about that? The best mother, the worst,
your love and hates of life, and take it. The
edge is good. I was pleased to hear it's on here.
How many times would your mowl it your lawn a year?

(36:12):
Every two weeks? He said, didn't this, but not June, July, August, September.
So for eight months it's every two weeks. What's that
four and a half times eight thirty two thirty six.
It's probably only eighteen times a year, which isn't bad,
I suppose, because it's also eighteen times a year, eighteen

(36:33):
times forty well thirty six seven twenty dollars. Because you're
also got to compare it with the price of your
mower and the maintenance of your morro are and fuel.
So I wonder how that works out. And what did
people do before people had lawn mowing rounds.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
I think a lot of people used to get school
children to mow their lawns. I did a little bit
of that, a little bit of that as a child,
first year. Pick up the cabbage tree leaves, don't it
in your start the murrow around you go. Oh, you
get yourself in a system, don't you. It's almost like
proost in the Madlands, you know where around the memories

(37:14):
you have at that. But I can still remember, I
can still remember sections of a lawn that I'm fifty
years ago. Oh that's right. You went around that tree
there to a circle around that and you go up,
you go anyway. The bad thing about mowing the lawns
at this time of the year is, I don't know,
there's quite lot of grass even made them for a while.
And the catcher, the catcher ever seems to work that

(37:35):
well all it doesn't seem to like the grass gets
thrown back hard enough. I kind of think there's still
a better moa out there to be designed. I don't
know what it is, so it's everything about MOA's kind
of MOA adjacent to night. Also, if you've got workmates
that take Friday off, what do you think of those people?

(37:56):
Do you think they're just opportunists? If you're working in
the company and people decide not to come to work
on a Friday, is it any of your business? Because
I'd like to say to you it probably is none
of your business. However, I always feel a bit judgmental
of people that take Friday. I think, well, goodness me,

(38:17):
what are you about? You're about working about gaming the system? Anyway?

Speaker 10 (38:22):
That's just me.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
I can see myself in a parallel world doing it
myself if I was more organized. Marcus, I live on
a quarter, so I pay twenty nine bucks more than
my neighbor because I have a bigger boom. Marcus have
had many lawnmowers buy News and I made the Lawnmaster

(38:47):
eight fifty is so superior to any other brand and
beautiful to use and should be for many years. Dave,
I don't think any lawnmowers are made locally now. I
think they're all made in China. I have a small
lawn and use in old at goat petrol maw for
the last few years to leave the male running for
about two hours before I can start mowing the lawns.

(39:07):
That's too smoky, Marcus. I still use a push bark
keeps me fit. It's kept sharp and makes a great job.
Tracy with an eye in the cargo m hm in vacagole. Shame.

(39:27):
There's no I's gonna say shame. There is that. I
realized was I gonna say? It was stupid? So stopped
lawn mowering. Tuesday feels like Wednesday. It's a funny old
short week. What's the state of mind going to be
on Thursday?

Speaker 7 (39:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
What I'm gonna feel like? It's not gonna feel like
a holiday is I don't even know what to do.
Will the escape room be open? That's pretty much all
I think about. Sure it will be. Oh wonder they
might have something at the local Mara that was always

(40:04):
got on a white thing. I'd forgoten about that anyway, Beck,
catch you, Kevin Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
Because how are you good?

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Kevin? Thank you good.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
I've got the answer to your lawnmne problem.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Yeah, actually, what is my problem?

Speaker 10 (40:20):
Well?

Speaker 5 (40:20):
You need a lawnmark for starters.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, I'm getting rid and you I'm giving up on
the better yep.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
But I can solve your problem straight away. You don't
need to buy a lawnmark at all.

Speaker 12 (40:35):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
I've invented a new grass seed. It's called Whiskey grass seed.
So all you need to do is pay your lawn
and kill the lawn that's there already and wait for
it to cure. And then you apply this whiskey grass seed.
And you know what happens here there?

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yep?

Speaker 16 (41:03):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Do you know what happens when you put this grass
seed them? This whiskey grass.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Seed, I imagine it just grows all kind of tight
and in a little kind of a bunch, so you
don't need to mark anymore.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
No, it grows half cut.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
I thought you were serious, but I think while you
haven't vented the grass. Ah, very good? Had I fall
for that? Goodness? That's like as something I take of
the kids. It might ring the kids. Now, it's quite
a good one, Bob. It's Marcus, good evening and a Marcus.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Before I got stuck in the bakery, I had I
bought a lawn mowing round and Raananger on the west
coast off the church pastor and I had twenty five lawns.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
Hang on, hang on, how long ago?

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Good years ago?

Speaker 3 (42:00):
In the church past I had the lawnmowering round.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah, and I bought our firm. I paid a thousand
marks for elm shirt. Pastor.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
We were in his flog.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Well I have never been in anyone's flock, but yeah,
we used to go there every now and again.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Okay, well, not a bad place to go if you
managed to buy his lawn mowing. Because one thousand dollars
seat you wonder away by the charging you at all,
it seemed such a neither here nor there amount.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Well, if you knew him, you know he'd chances you
for anything.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Well, goodness, it was sound sounded like a fair price
to me.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
I just want to bring out it was a good
It was a good price because I a couple of
mothers and that you know so. But it was in Rahmanga,
yep on the west coast, and of course it rained
quite a bit of times. It's been all good. But
I found the most the thing wrong that was that
the Rahananga Club used to open at three o'clock yep,

(42:57):
So at three o'clock. I used to knock off and
go over to the club. And by the time I
got home and the wife would say, how much did
you make today? Now, I might have might have made
a one hundred and fifty dollars, but it'd only be
sixty or seventy dollars a bit left.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
But yeah, but it's thirsty work.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Oh, thirsty work. Indeed it was. I love it.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
So twenty five twenty five lawns you.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Did, yeah, an average of twenty five dollars a.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Lawn, okay, and that would be all week.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Yep. Yeah, And that was a full time job at
that stage. But my boy's got a big room mowing
round now, and hate nape. I won't give him his name,
but he's got quite a big one up there.

Speaker 15 (43:33):
Now.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yeah, they did, and all sorts of things. I've got
lasers of chopped trees down and you know, all the
big flash year and now they charged about seventy dollars,
seventy dollars for a lawn, which you know, obviously I
don't know how that would compee with implation on that,
but someone was going to chart me seventy dollars. I
definitely mean on my own.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Do anything exciting happen your days in the running a
lawn mowing round?

Speaker 10 (43:58):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Not really, no, No, The only problem was I was
sad the wet weather because I went to a lady's
house and made her lawns, and of course it had
been raining, but she insisted that I do them, and
it left tiremax in her lawn and then she went
up a tray at me because I had made a
mess of her lawn, according to her, but she insisted
I do them, so I'd done them.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
It's a sweet town. It's a sweet town Ranana.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Oh it was good. We used to live there a
long time ago, but I quite enjoyed it. And it's
quite a peaceful thing. No one annoying your own boss,
majing that you turned up and did a good job.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Would you always mow the lawn exactly the same way
or one way? Would you do it anti clockwise or
would you mix it up or always? Would you get
in a pattern?

Speaker 10 (44:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (44:45):
I just made them pretty well the same way all
the time.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Do the cabbage tree leaves first?

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Yeah? But there was two sisters lived in Rhananga, and
one sister I used to go there first because she'd
throw a glass of water out on the on the doorstep,
and her other sister would make cucumber sandwiches and strawberries
and all sorts of things. Wow, used to be an
outstanding jokes. You'd say, I suppose you've been to my
sisters first.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Yeah, tell me about that.

Speaker 10 (45:12):
I enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
And they're running a club is like a pub. But
that's the workingmen club.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (45:17):
That's the one. That's the one. Yeah, And what to me?

Speaker 3 (45:20):
You arrived there at three o'clock.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
And then go home about five o'clock.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Would there be many there at three?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Well, you be surprised that, yes, that you still number three,
because a lot of them over there and didn't work
for I think they didn't have any jobs. But yeah,
it seemed to be quite a few in the club
all the time.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Hang on, would you have I got this fantasy right?
When you go to the club, the running a workingmen's club?
Would there be coal miners there?

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Yeah, not at that time of the day. Later on
in the evening, the coal miners would turn up.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Oh so it was the real deal. There'd be real
people working in the mines that would come there.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Oh, yes, that's quite quite a few of the coal
miners over there, because a lot of a lot of
the coal mines on the West Coast are privately owned.
They're not a great big what one do you know?
Would my boys got a lawnmong business?

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah, I know about that with a laser cut? Would
you get people give you a free coal.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
On the rear occasion? We used to get it dumped
out in front of our house, but then we were
over in that's when I was over in Nobson.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Okay, knowing right? People and did anyone pay you in contra?

Speaker 17 (46:32):
Like?

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Was it all cash?

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Or was there any people I couldn't divulge that couldn't
evolge that market?

Speaker 3 (46:39):
So it would people give you like a cattle beast
or hunter would give you.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
A vedicine or a lot of cashes in those days market?

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yet I expected that, Yeah, I enjoyed it. How many years?

Speaker 10 (46:54):
To do it?

Speaker 2 (46:54):
For a couple of years when it's when I first
moved over to the coast before in baking did.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
You sell it back to the part did you sell
it back to the PASTA.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I actually gave it to a guy that's looking for
work and he didn't have any today. So if you
do a good job now other people will.

Speaker 10 (47:10):
Keep you on.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
How did you meet him at the club?

Speaker 2 (47:14):
No, no, no, no, I just knew him, knew him
through the church again.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Between the club and it's between the between the club
and the church, it's pretty much rnunga sort of did
you know if you made a good go of it?

Speaker 2 (47:27):
I didn't know he was still going. Last I heard
he was falling around. But it's pretty awkward over there
because of the rain. You can only do about twenty lawns.
Because everyone expects the day that it suddenly becomes fine
that you go to the house, but they forget about
the people that you couldn't mote.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
The week before.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Oh okay, so that rains most of the time. Well, range,
that waterfall's nice, That cold creek one, you go down
that walk, that's beautiful. Surprised, How that's a beautiful waterfall.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Yeah, it's not not too far a walk off the
mat and you know, you.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Get right amongst it, you know that. Yeah, I was
quite impressed with that. Look, Bob. I've enjoyed talking about
Naga more than you could believe. What a real deal
town that is, what a real who came from who
was the person that came from Runanga, Bob.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Oh, I don't know. We rented the old policeman's house
right down by. It was the last house going out
of Runner down by the Ruby rugby league team club
down there. Yeah, I didn't didn't know a great deal
about it, but I liked it.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
It's a great town. Someone some well known person came
from there. Always remembered was it the Was it the
runner Dave McKenzie, he was from them, might have seen
a profile about him or something like that. Won the
Boston Marathon in sixty seven. I think that's the guy
I remember reading about him from Rehnanga or done Ollie.
I think it's kind of the same town, great league town.

(48:48):
Two Well, Marcus George Menzies, he's in a rugby league
first five eight and coach came from Runanga. I think
he's using's greatest first five, isn't he? Is that right?
He's in your dream team. He's one of the best,
one of the greats.

Speaker 11 (49:04):
Now.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
I think there's still NRL players come from the coast.
Always obsessed about NRL color players from the West Coast,
but I'm pretty sure they still are breeding them. There
was one recently. I remember reading about George Menzi two
thousand and eight was named Rugby Leaves the greatest rugby
league five eight seasons ever produced. It's a good story

(49:33):
that It's a really good story. Captain the Kiwis in
fifty six tour for Australia coached Hard and Maurumba New
South Wales country team coach the West Coast coach of
the Kiwi seventy four to seventy five. Take them the
seventy five World Cup? Is that interesting as to me?

(49:59):
Team of the century. Looking forward to the the NRL
starting looking forward to see how the Warriors go against Cranulla. Yeah, interest,
see how Carnoli goes this year too, because old Niko
wasn't so good last year, got the yips after State
of Origin. I don't quite know what goes on with him.

(50:21):
It's good when he's on anyway. I'm not expecting great
things for the Warriors. As long as they build and grow,
it's enough for me. Twenty five past nine, Hello, Joan,
it's Marcus. Welcome. Tell me Joan. Tell me you've forgot
a lawnmowing round, have you?

Speaker 18 (50:40):
No, I'm too old for that. Never too old for
mowing round who's very good to me, and he mows
my lawns because I got the moade this morning, because
I have the berm and the front.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
And that's what you said at the beginning. Say it again.

Speaker 18 (50:55):
What do I say at the beginning?

Speaker 2 (50:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I missed it.

Speaker 18 (50:57):
Oh, I don't think you were there. I said, I'm
too old to my lawns. And I never did it.
My husband always did the lawns. But I have this man,
Glen mows my lawns and he's very good. And he
come this morning and made my lawns.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Tell me about then, straight up, that's the edges good.

Speaker 18 (51:14):
He's good to me, and I'm good to him. And
he's going to come back next week and trim some
lower shrubs that Pie says get on the way in
the way on the lawn, which they do. I do
a bit of light trimming. I can't do so much
now I've got to pay for myself. But anyway, it's
all good. But I pay forty five dollars. He's very quick.
He's just on a pension there and forty five dollars

(51:36):
and it wizard around half an hour, does a good job.
And I'm very happy.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Do you pay him cash? And do you pay him
cash and envelope during that time? Imagine it's done.

Speaker 18 (51:46):
Give him cash.

Speaker 9 (51:47):
I just give him cash, not an envelope.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
You're just like two twenties and five yep?

Speaker 18 (51:53):
Usually yes, yes, or today was a twenty two teens
and a five sheep is mixing?

Speaker 3 (51:58):
Okay, Okay, I'm glad I asked that. That means a
lot to me because I'm going to be a tempting
for him to make it fifty dollars? Would I could
be fifteen dollars by next year fifty dollars.

Speaker 18 (52:07):
Probably probably because it was forty up until last year
for a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, okay, nice to talk Joanes, Thank you, Brian Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Good Marcus, welcome to you a year.

Speaker 10 (52:20):
Lawns.

Speaker 7 (52:21):
We don't need lawn mowers in the White Shadow Rocket
now it hasn't rained here for weeks or months, but
I do have a green one which I can push.
I've had like three or four husk fan a ride Ons,
and they're awesome, but they don't know in the wet,

(52:41):
so I'm not a great fan of ride On.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
But then my son had just bought.

Speaker 7 (52:46):
A John dea and it doesn't have a catcher, doesn't
have nothing. It's got a big motor on it. And
that whip frown his lawn and my lawn no problem
at all.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Hey, tell me something, Tell me something. Are you and Hamilton?

Speaker 7 (52:58):
I just out of hamiltonutpoo the main.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Good people in Cambridge. Brian tell me, I think this
time about six What do you say that about six
years ago?

Speaker 4 (53:13):
Right?

Speaker 3 (53:13):
It was a summer like this. It was really dry
in Hamilton, and at this time of the year, the
cricket's really kicked in. Have you got them this year?

Speaker 7 (53:21):
Not yet?

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Not yet. We haven't even got mosquitoes yet.

Speaker 7 (53:24):
I reckon where they're all gone.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Must be just too dry.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
I reckon the crickets are going to kick in, because
it was unbelievable the sound everyone that called from there.
You just could hear crickets.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Oh no, no, not not yet. I think I think
we're a bit upmarket for have crickets in this area.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
What do I think you're up whe'd you say you are?

Speaker 2 (53:43):
How Tappoo, which is just on the north side of Cambridge.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
I think it's that that market, is it?

Speaker 10 (53:48):
Oh my god?

Speaker 7 (53:49):
Yeah, we got the factory factory here, which produces a
whole lot of money for New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Oh yeah, you're on the old money tree.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Ah yeah, the old cows. My son, my cows cows here.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
You're on a farmer though, are you?

Speaker 9 (54:02):
No?

Speaker 7 (54:02):
No, not now, not now. I've been one of them things.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Yep, brilliant. How many hearing bone?

Speaker 7 (54:09):
Yes, yes, yes, eighteene.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
That'd be big in your day, wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Yes, it would have been, Yes, very big, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Always enjoy a hearing bone discussion. This time of the night,
it's all about who's had a lawn mowing round? I
reckon we've under celebrated lord mowing rounds. When was a
lawn mowing round ever featured in New Zealand literature or
film or TV. Be a good plot device for something,
wouldn't it. I'm sure plenty of people have been lawnmowers

(54:42):
or done a lawn mowing round. But for a while,
there was all the franchises. Wasn't that There were green
acres that's right everywhere. I don't know if that's still
a thing. Then they're mowing your lawns and ironing your
clothes and doing everything there for a bit because of
course you build up alawn mowing round then you can
sell it, or one thousand dollars for the part. Good

(55:06):
for the part. I can see the pastor and the
elm church and Runang are going around around and saying, oh, yeah,
how things are. Yeah, you've got to tell you what's
a bit bolg over that?

Speaker 4 (55:15):
But you know.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Might come back next week and cut down some branches
and even thought about Jesus. And you do all that
goodn't ye? When you mow the lawns get them stuck
in their house? Quite like the sounds of that. I've
never heard of a preacher doing a lawnmowing around before.
That's new material for me from a novel. Get in
Touch Marcus till Midnight twenty eight to ten would be

(55:39):
a brilliant place to set a movie. Runanga with the
cloud and the smug rolling in one of the great spots. Anyhow,
if you want to talk about lawnmowing, that's and also too,
what about the people that take Friday off? How do
I build a bridge there? What do I do about that?

(56:06):
I probably should have taken the day off. I'll come
to work on Friday, and god, what would the topics be?

Speaker 4 (56:13):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Yeah, how was your white any day? Well, what about
a short week?

Speaker 15 (56:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (56:17):
Yeah, yeah, it'll be insufferable, but that's the way of
the world. I'd like no public holidays, just take it
when you are. But that's just me and I might
be softening that stance, Marcus. I have sixteen lawns to
mow tomorrow around Teawanga and Hamauana Hawks Bay, filling five
feedgeres would be only one this time last year, very

(56:42):
green out there Heath. There was a movie called lawnmower Man.
Didn't quite help the industry. But what's it about lornmoer Man? Oh,
there we go. Marcus Griffith Neen plays for North Queens
and Cowboys, currently in the Kiwi's from Graymouth and a
classic Ginger.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
I liked him. He looked tough. Yeah, you're right. Etch
I might put him on a fantasy I'm still working
on a fantasy team. I didn't do very well last year,
but I picked too many Warriors and I didn't pick
Now I know a lot more of the players, and
I'm going for a few more hard men. Oh he's
a classic read, it isn't he?

Speaker 4 (57:23):
Oh he's my team.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
Goodness. Played as junior rugby League for Suburbs Rugby League
club Greymouth attended Greymouth High. That's what we want. How
did you go to the NRL last year? Seven twenty
six games for North Queensland? They didn't finish Firth? Did
they finish that high? Brilliant? Might go see a North

(57:56):
Queensland game this year. Looking for a rugby league trip.
I might go and do the Brisbane some of the
Brisbane some of the Queensland parks. What I'm saying, you know,
the old between the rugby league and the trains could
be quite a good break actually. Anyway, Oh eight hundred

(58:19):
and eighty ten eight nine, How tall is He's a
big unit? Six foot five is tall timber, six foot
four sixteen stone, tenant pounds cheapest, Greg, it's Marcus. Welcome, Okay,
how you going?

Speaker 7 (58:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (58:35):
Greg?

Speaker 3 (58:35):
I'm going all right?

Speaker 10 (58:36):
How are you going?

Speaker 2 (58:36):
All right?

Speaker 16 (58:38):
You're there?

Speaker 7 (58:38):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (58:39):
Crap?

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Greg, I can hear you?

Speaker 16 (58:43):
You're there?

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Yeah, Greg, I can hear you. Can you hear me?
Can you just talk to him Dan? Because all I
said is shipping crap. We'll get him back because seem quatic. Greg, Marcus,
can you hear me?

Speaker 16 (59:02):
I kid now, I just do have my bloody talked up?

Speaker 3 (59:08):
What did you have hooked up to your speaker or
not on speaker or something.

Speaker 16 (59:12):
Yeah, hey, I'll just take you off.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Up there.

Speaker 19 (59:16):
Yeah, yeah, I'm driving. Fill it in time.

Speaker 16 (59:20):
Listen to listening again. Now I'm hearing a hooked up
I did and want them to ye okay, modern technology. Yeah,
my own grass.

Speaker 12 (59:28):
Love it.

Speaker 16 (59:29):
The best drive in the world.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Oh, I mean you do it for a living, not
just your own house.

Speaker 7 (59:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (59:35):
I did it in Central Otago for about seven years,
which was the worst place in the world to my
grass because it never grows okay, too dry, But no,
I love it. It's the best drive in the world.
I'm going to do it again soon too.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
So where are you going to do it this time?
Greg can't.

Speaker 19 (59:54):
Down and.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
In the closer area, So you'll just start a little
mowing around, will you?

Speaker 16 (01:00:01):
Yep yep to start it and take a year to
get going. But I've got the gift from when I
did it before, so yeah, it's great. It's blood. You
get to have a good look around and you meet
people and talk a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
And how do you start like that? Would you put
notes in people's letterbox or how would you start Uh.

Speaker 16 (01:00:21):
Nowadays you just go on social media and leave a
few notes at the local shops and things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
I love I love a thing in the dairy window,
lawn mowing, dune, get us a call. That's what you
one day people tell people.

Speaker 16 (01:00:35):
Yep, exactly, that's all you need to do. You don't
have to buy the franchises or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Could you give us, could you give a finder's feet?
Could you say, like, if you get me another client,
or do your lawns for a month for free? Have
you ever thought of doing something like that?

Speaker 16 (01:00:50):
No, you don't need to. You seriously don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
You've done it. You're the man that's done it.

Speaker 11 (01:00:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:00:55):
You just do a good job and if you know,
you just make sure everyone's happy. That's the big, the
big thing. You know, you're always going to get some
unhappy clients, how yours is a few people around like that.
But on the whole, you just do a good job
and you keep people happy. You you don't charge like
a wounded ball for a lot of people do Yeah,

(01:01:15):
and you just off. You know, you do other jobs
as well, like I do spraying and stuff like that.
But yeah, just yeah, you're everyone's friend. And you're just
that's the easiest way in the world to make it
not a bad dollar. Actually, is it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Much hassle with connecting the money or stuff? I just
give you the money each time you mon Is it
how it works?

Speaker 16 (01:01:37):
Well, basically if people don't pay, you don't go back.
And that's quite I've only had one one client in
seven years where it took me two years to get
the money off them.

Speaker 19 (01:01:48):
And yeah, I got it.

Speaker 16 (01:01:51):
I'm pretty persistent. Like it's involved bringing up at sort
of six in the morning and saying, oh, that money
you promised you were going to see and didn't come through.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
That's pretty low not to play the lawnmarer, isn't it?
That really? Is he still expecting you to come around?

Speaker 16 (01:02:06):
No, No, I stopped doing I do. I was doing like,
you know, not just lawns. I do sort of big
areas as well, so you know, small lifestyle blocks and
vineyards and things like that.

Speaker 10 (01:02:19):
Ye.

Speaker 16 (01:02:20):
So, but yeah, like Friday was a local day in
the local town I lived in, and that was Friday
night was a good night of the pub. So you
didn't have to take any money.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
No, how do you price? How do you price the lawn?

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
How long it.

Speaker 16 (01:02:36):
Takes basically you just you know, you know how much
money you want to make it now, so you just
work it out from there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Okay, so do you do it first and then work
out the price.

Speaker 16 (01:02:47):
No, you're just a bit of experience, and you know
you'll know an average an average lawn will take me
but eighteen or fifteen minutes, you know, with with the
right on with as aerotoon I've got because they quick.
Yeah and yeah, so if you'll make you know, you
Chadge like Muster Green will go around and charge fifty

(01:03:08):
sixty seventy dollars on a sort of reasonable size lawn
and I can just go in there because I don't
have to pay Bees or all that other shit. You're
just going and charge them twenty dollars less and everyone's happy,
you know so, and it's worth of mouth. That's probably
the best advertising you can actually ever, do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:03:29):
And I'd recommend it to anyone that wants to have
a go and earn some money.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Nice to hear from a Greg, appreciate your positivity. Twenty
away from ten Marcus till twelve being Marcus evening, I.

Speaker 10 (01:03:40):
Have parks but hanging tonight alright, I.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Don't think you're being not bad at all.

Speaker 10 (01:03:45):
I've got a couple of times for you'd be gag
my inferences her Auntie were pinging as ma'am.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
Oh yeah yeah from the coast.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Yeah yeah, it's right.

Speaker 10 (01:03:58):
He hasted about the size of me and you put together,
and I'm one hundred and forty kilos. He was a
big boy. He was a big boy. He and and
he's got a brother, Brandon, and a sister Meghan. Brandan
used to play for the New zeal Talk Back.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
He's a basketball and a broadcaster too. I think there
for a while.

Speaker 10 (01:04:19):
Yeah yeah, but don't don't look at him where he's
wearing jendles. His toes are just all like buckle teeth, right, yeah,
and knowing I'm partner. We call it lawn edict in
New Zealand club and I'll tell you what it's. It's

(01:04:44):
actually when you get into it, it's actually a bit
of science to it. To get a club.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
Do you belong to ben uh?

Speaker 10 (01:04:52):
I can't sat missing thecurity teeth lawn lawn edict?

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
Is it like a proper club?

Speaker 10 (01:05:00):
It's a Facebook club that's a proper yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Yeah, Which.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
Which part of the country are you in.

Speaker 10 (01:05:11):
I'm an ountain where everything gets burnt by the sun. Yep,
it's really good advice, Marcus, Like it tells.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
You what to do.

Speaker 9 (01:05:21):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
Oh no, hang on, So this is actually a proper
thing using in lawn edicts.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Is that right?

Speaker 10 (01:05:26):
Yeah, that's correct.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
I'll join that.

Speaker 10 (01:05:31):
Yeah, it's look I'm telling you because you can look
up different times of pross. I explained it all to you.
Just go through all the posts haven't read and then
they tell the proper stuff. You can get the proper
seed because when I've done my little on last year,
we got some seed from the local one of those
ones where they grow it and they put it down

(01:05:52):
my carpet. Ye, and I went and got some seed
off him that was pre and that that was actually
starting to sprout after about five days quick. But then
I got onto the inside here and this is like
kicks level good some real show ponies in the New Markers.
But I tell you it's worth it. But hey, if

(01:06:15):
you really want to get a going and going to
YouTube and look up like Friday Mode days on YouTube
where professionals go to places and they do it for free,
like you might have an old girl down the road
around the corner who's got a real kick of a
train wreck kitchen gown on and down there and marred

(01:06:35):
all and trim it all for free.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
And they'll do a good job. They'll do a good job,
will they?

Speaker 10 (01:06:41):
Oh, well, look like a train wreck. You couldn't even
see anyone standing in it. They get in their mode
all down and they put it on fast forward so
you don't have to spend hours watch it. But it
makes you feel like you've mowed your launch. You don't
get a sweet up though, but it's worth it. It's
good fun watching it. But yeah, definitely go to Edison.

Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
I have applied to it. It's pending for me.

Speaker 10 (01:07:03):
I don't know about you, Marcus. They might turn you away.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Or they'd be mugs too. Anyway, I have a good
hang Hang on, Ben, what's your tactics?

Speaker 7 (01:07:13):
What have you learned?

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
How do you go at your lawn?

Speaker 10 (01:07:18):
Well, I've got plenty of water for one. Two is
I follow their steps. Used to proper chemicals, used the
proper seed, because they say in there like if you
go to bang and get seed, probably about two or
three years hold him, you probably get like a forty
strike rate if you get the real seed. From the

(01:07:38):
professionals got to get about eighty to ninety strike rate.
But yeah, just follow their steps different. I think the
main thing, Marcus is working our area to what type
of grass you're going to get. You might get a
real pretty grasp that might like. And my cape doesn't
like droughts. You've got plenty of rain down there, so

(01:08:02):
you might want to get something.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
But bend to be fair and take Actually, the weather
has been spectacular in the last four weeks. I think
it's been the pick of the country. It's been like
twenty two twenty three. Every day it's the weather has
been you know, I call it when it's been terrible,
But the weather for the last month has been best
in the country.

Speaker 10 (01:08:20):
Oh, there you go, there you go. So that that's
that's another key for you. What you've got in your ground.
Not so much chemicals, but what fertilizers. No, grass likes nitrogen,
so a lot of nitrogen, especially when it's starting off
from seed nights during phosphorus potentive, all that sort of stuff,
but mainly night. So yeah, but go through that side

(01:08:44):
and pick out what you just pick outs and pieces
and just add all up. But another thing I've done
my neighbors wan for him last year, and I said
to him, I says, get a calendar right down, and
you know your date, your plant, and every time you
do work to put on it or whatever, put it
on your calendar so you know that way. If you're

(01:09:05):
not sure, you think, God, when was all last time
for a bit of fertilizer or I knew a lot,
a bit of line or whatever, you can go back
to your calendar and go, oh, yeah, I've gone at
three months ago yet to do for it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
Shortly, war How are you're supposed to fertilize your lawn there? Ben,
that's probably a step beyond for most people.

Speaker 10 (01:09:22):
A look, I Benson, you saw Marcus. If you've got
craps ail, you probably have to do it quite regular.
I think you're line at once once a year or
once every couple of years. But if your saws good, yeah, line,
and probably every three four months, give it a wee
bit of fertilizer.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Are you pecking? Are you pecking a quarter acre?

Speaker 7 (01:09:44):
Ben?

Speaker 10 (01:09:46):
Nah? Well, mine's just a difficult town in section. I
suppose yeah, I suppose it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Would be yeah, okay, thanks for the recommendation of the
Facebook page. I'm loving that pending of course, come on, guys,
slip me in. Oh welcome Elvin and to Marcus good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:10:06):
Station.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
So I had yeah, hi, Alva slow. The button was
a bit worden on you, but welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
Oh thanks, Yeah, I was saying, I got on the
tail end of the conversation. So you reminded me of my.

Speaker 12 (01:10:21):
Lorn mind.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
Career that started.

Speaker 12 (01:10:25):
I mean, I'm not doing it today because I'm certainly one.
But when I was about twenty six in the mid seventies,
I had a mortgage and I had to do four
jobs a day to pay it off, and those days
were charging about ten dollars for a lawnmow. But I
did voluntary work for one of the churches in Takapuna

(01:10:46):
with the VP station is today in Tarada was a
Pation View road or somewhere here, and Bob the memories.
The grass was really tall and I had a box
of twenty two shells, and luckily I had a catcher
on it, and you should have seen what happened. I mean,

(01:11:09):
I'm lucky to be alive. I shredded the aluminium case
and it blew the blue of the back off the moor.
And I wasn't actually in jendles. I never got anything.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
Why why would have the box of bullets been there?

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
No idea.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
There was a patch.

Speaker 12 (01:11:30):
I was mowing it every couple of weeks. Then there
was this patch which looked like it had a lot
of rubbish in it, so I avoided it. And then
one day I thought, bad to hell, so I ran
the mile through it and boom boom. Mean the twenty
two shells across the room fire. So as the blade

(01:11:51):
was around it, it fired them, all of them off.
And I saw these shells everywhere, and God knows where
the bullets. But anyway, that was frightening experience.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
But it's a great story. Ill and thank you for
you very much. That's a that's a ripper, thank you.
I'll tell you what. Everyone's back at school now. It
seems soon, over about two weeks. It was quite stagger
at the starting for school. But both my boys are
now back. I don't know why I'm telling you that,
just long holidays. Now I've got my days back to

(01:12:25):
myself again. I can't wait. But yeah, becomes quite a
big deal. Anyway. It's all about lawnmowing technic strategies. We
tried the sheep in the backyard, but noisy. Actually, I
think the neighbors probably. I didn't say anything, but I
was worried about that. Also was worried about dogs getting in,

(01:12:46):
but I don't know that they would have. It's no
different from the farm really, but yeah, I just thought
they'd be a bit grim for the kids if there's
some sort of dog attack out there. But I don't
know that there would have. We don't really have any
free ranging dogs really in Bluff, but we've got a
big section I've round our house. It's like it's it's
probably I don't know, it's certainly a flat quarter acre,

(01:13:08):
maybe even a bit more than that, but a lot
of grass, a lot of grass, and you come back
from a five week break and there's probably but I
think I'm exaggerated to say there's probably twenty or thirty
catches full of grass. Hard to know what to do

(01:13:29):
with all of it. Also, so yeah, I was kind
of thinking there for a while I should put in
a tennis court. There was that much land for it.
I haven't played tennis since at about nine, and never
very good at it. Could never work out the serve anyway,
because not so much wanting a pool or a tennis court.

(01:13:50):
It's all about having something else to use the flat
land for. Probably should put all it back into plants.
It was still a casually played a lot of rugby
kicks out at the back of there. Anyway, that's what
we're on about tonight. So if you want to talk
about that, then good, you're right on topic because tomorrow

(01:14:13):
is going to be most people heading off to their cribs,
isn't it, Because that's going to be the start of
the long weekend. Because you know the way it goes now,
people take a Friday, I think it's there right. Well, Wednesday,
what they'll be saying is I'll walk till midday, work
till midday. Yep, yep, that's what will happen. Anyway. Marks

(01:14:38):
interesting to hear from the listeners yourself about the best
tire pressure to run for lawn mowing lawns one I
won turfix and spring and autumn, fertilizer, spring and autumn
after turfix, bye, good quales stories fertilizer mo often never
mow too low. Marcus just tuned in at the end
of that bloke talking about grass. What was the Facebook

(01:15:00):
side He mentioned great question. It will be in my pendings.
Oh no, I'm welcome, Hey, Marcus, welcomed to New Zealand
lawn Addicts. It's been a good experience for me. Actually
there was New Zealand Lawn Addicts. I think there might

(01:15:21):
be a commercial vibe. I'm not entirely sure, but it
seems like a very well run group, no nonsense, and
what I like about the group. Rather than posting a question,
you've got to go through and see if that's questions
already been asked, because there's nothing worse than a joining
a group and asking a dumb question that people have
talked about for about the last ten years. Eden finitam.

(01:15:43):
I've made that mistake myself. Actually had apologized for it
because no one wants that, Marcus. Another nung legiend was
Ray Bexendale, who played for the Kiwis for many years
at the same time as Tony Cole, who was born
in Graymouth and as a squash was Paul Cole's uncle.

(01:16:08):
I just think there's something quite special about the Coast
because they do well. It's sport, you know, I'm sure
those Griffin and those players. You know, you're playing rugby
league for the coast. You're probably playing in the Canterbury competition,
so you're doing a lot of travel, and you know
you're probably in the minds all day and then playing
in the weekend. Just kind of seems to be the

(01:16:31):
spirit of this case. I love it. It just kind
of yeah, I'm into that robot lawnmowers are taking off.
Do you think possibly hacking into your neighbors mother or
vice versa could be an issue? Marcus, I unfortunately had

(01:16:53):
cause to put a polite protest billboard on my burm
this after in my cul de Sac name so for
a place in Parklands and Chrost Church. Someone removed it
very quickly. Could you ask the thief to return it? Thanks, Debrah.
I had to buy all the components and can't possibly
afford to make another. What did the protest billboard say?

(01:17:13):
Might have been offensive? You says what it said? What
were you protesting against? Catch or not to catch? I
prefer catching myself looks tighter and grows back slower. Marc

(01:17:34):
is just wondering, with your recent travels around the country
of the holiday's break, if you found an cool country
pubs of Noteworth visiting, you could mention Scottie Hey, look,
I didn't really I'm not really a drinker, and I've
got kids. I don't drink. I'm just trying to think
where we would have gone that would be considered a

(01:17:56):
pub on the holiday. I'm imagining as I've gone up
the country. No, not really. I thought the rsat Wahiki
was pretty good, great meal, great raffles, did the ode.
I'm just trying. I think if we went to any sport. No,

(01:18:17):
I don't think that was really our I'm just don't
think where else were. No, we didn't really get into
any Oh, we're at o'akra, but we didn't go to
the pub there or that I have spent some time
there in the past. I thought that burger place in
the railway carriage was very good, and they had a
place in town. Also thought they were great, very simple burger,

(01:18:39):
not too much rubbish on it. Pretty much actually perfect
for how I like it. I'll tell you what it
was called, because I thought it was great, and they
got a place in town just where we were staying. Yeah,
that would be the highlight for me of my the
burger place, and then of course the toasta damage and
picked in. It's called Cereal Griller I thought it was great.

(01:19:01):
And look, I went to the one in New Plymouth
before to the one in Oakra and yeah, and you
know you probably thought I'd enjoy the one in the
railway carriage, blakesh I think I preferred the one in town.
But you know, I'm not opposed to a railway carriage.
To a burger plates at a railway carriage, I think
that to where it had started. But yeah, I thought
that was pretty good, by the way. But no, I

(01:19:23):
don't think we went to any country pubs. I'm just
trying to Some might come back to me as I
can recall some. But look, if you want to talk
on there fourteen past ten, I reckon it's topical, go
again too. So don't don't be embarrassed for me that
when when he calls at the moment, because it's one
of those ones, probably some more people come through. Are

(01:19:45):
you aware of some life jackets being recalled? Do you
know what the brands are?

Speaker 14 (01:19:49):
And why?

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Thank you?

Speaker 10 (01:19:50):
No, no, no, and no.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
But I reckon if you google that up you could
probably find out. I mean, why would a life jacket
be banned recalled? This is one off, TIMU. So that's
what we are discussing tonight. It's all about the lawn
mowing and if you want to be a part of that, great.

(01:20:16):
I think we're going to have some big fires soon.
I see in South and now there's a fireband because
it's been so dry. I think that's happening in the
West Coast. Also so hottest ever so and for those
climate people here's something to think. January is the hottest

(01:20:41):
ever January. And also this January is the coldest it's
ever going to be in January, so probably something we're
thinking about. It is twenty one year birthday of Facebook.
For me, it seems like it's been around for longer.

(01:21:08):
Today is National Wicker Day, a celebration of the art
and craft of wicker weaving. Anyone do anything with a wicker?
I think probably in primary school we made something out
of wicker, but not so much since. Just mentioning that
there might be some wicker obsessives out there, let me

(01:21:34):
think what else is good. There's going to be a
remake of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That's a series I've
always meant to watch but never got around to it,

(01:21:55):
so I don't really know much about the remix. They're
releasing versions of the SIMS video game. They were big
in the day. It was one where you were in
an amusement park, which is always quite good. It's mentionable.
Also tonight, do you want to have a discussion on oils?

(01:22:20):
I feel a bit triggered about discussion discussing oils because
some people bit phonetical about oils. Nicola, it's Marcus. Good evening,
Good evening, Hi, Nicola. What can you tell me?

Speaker 7 (01:22:34):
Well?

Speaker 17 (01:22:34):
I hope that you were wanting to speak to somebody
about wicker and I have a company called Go Willow
which is all about willow, and willow is probably the
original material that was called wicker. Wicko is mainly a

(01:22:55):
Scandinavian name and covers lots of different materials that you
can weave with. But willow is the modern word for
any sort of weaving like that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:09):
So do you use willow as a willow that we
use locally good stuff to do? Do I say weave worker?
Is that what it's called weaving? Or workerrect?

Speaker 17 (01:23:16):
Yeah? Yeah, we've you weave willow and it's a beautiful material.
It can be grown in New Zealand. I have a
willow grove where I live, which is Golden Bay in
the South Island. And really the most normal place for

(01:23:37):
willow to be grown is in colder areas. So it
started in Scandinavia. And the areas which grow most willow
would be northern Germany, northern France, England, and you know,
to a certain extent, the northern areas of America. And

(01:23:58):
I'm an English person and I learned to weave willow,
and I planted a grove.

Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
Here in gold And that's different from what we know
is the weeping willow, right, This is more like the
willow you find along the sides of rivers. Will that
be right in Southland.

Speaker 17 (01:24:16):
Weeping willow is a different sort of product, and no
weaving really takes place with weaving with weeping willow, okay.
And you know there's willows that you can make cricket
bats out of. There's weeping willows. There are sort of

(01:24:37):
strong willows which are used to help the banks of
rivers stay stable, and there's also basketry willows, which are
what I would weave is okay.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
So it's a separate kind of willow. It's different from
the willows you'd see alongside rivers.

Speaker 17 (01:24:55):
The varieties that you see alongside. Rivers are not easy
to weave with. They are more like cast iron.

Speaker 3 (01:25:07):
And once you've got your willow trees, is it easy
to prepare? You just chop them off and then do
you need to dry the branches or the willows to
make them pliable enough to do the weaving with.

Speaker 17 (01:25:19):
Well, yes, you've got the basics idea exactly right. You
wait until winter and then the sap drops when the
temperature drops, and the leaves fall off. And when you've
done that do you harvest them? You cut them back,
you know to the sort of tallest.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Nodule and Nicole, I'm just gonna go to ahadines. Just
hang on, they don't go. I just want to come
and ask you a couple of questions. Do it because
I'm interested in it, So just don't go away. I
just don't be about twenty seconds away. I'll come back
to you. So, Nicholas, what did you say your company
was called with your businesses called Hello.

Speaker 17 (01:25:56):
Yes, it's called go Willow, and I have a website
it's called go Willow dot co dot nz.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
I'm just going to look at that. So you lit
the dry and then you get it sort out and
then you can do your stuff.

Speaker 17 (01:26:09):
Well, what happens is that you have to drive out
so that it goes from a live thing essentially to
a dead thing, and then after it has dried, you
then soak it back up and depending on the variety
of willow, depending on how hot or cold water is,

(01:26:31):
something like a six foot willow could take up to
eighteen days to soak. And then when it is soaked
you can then weave pretty much anything that you can
think of.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
Wow, there's some beautiful baskets on your website. And I
guess do you do workshops? I suppose you do all
those sorts of things, don't you.

Speaker 10 (01:26:52):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 17 (01:26:54):
I have courses in the place where I live, which
is Collingwood, Golden Bay. Yes, and I organize weaving events
where I bring together different tutors who teach different sorts
of weaving with natural material. So there would be rattan

(01:27:16):
or with copper or with flax, and you know that's
in the middle of April. But I would say the
things that I do most as well as the basket
is I may I weave coffins.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
Yes, I saw that. I'm a bit freaked out by that,
so that's not for me.

Speaker 17 (01:27:32):
But and well, we've just started to weave what we're
calling a dream canoe.

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
That's like a coffin without a letter. It looks like
a canoe, but you do you fly it like a
Viking funeral or you that's you're in a shroud. I
suppose are you?

Speaker 17 (01:27:52):
You are you're in a shroud and it does look
a bit like a Viking canoe. You're absolutely right, and yes,
it's it's a beautiful beauty material. They're probably one hundred
and fifty varieties overall. I have four, and they grow

(01:28:13):
extraordinarily well.

Speaker 3 (01:28:16):
And I would imagine too, looking at the website Nicla
and then from what the little I know about it,
when I have done that sort of thing, I imagine
it would be a reforgiving medium to work with that
nometta your level of skill, you would come up with
something that you could use as a laundry basket and
would last for a while, and you would be quite
happy with it. Will that be correct?

Speaker 17 (01:28:36):
You will be right. I think the most critical thing
is actually the soaking of the material, so that you
may have a variety of sizes that you're going to
use to make this basket. You know, you might have
a five foot that would you know been the main
upright rods, and then you'll have smaller willows at the base,

(01:28:59):
going round and around, and the aim is to soak
all the willows in some sort of order so that
they all are soaked perfectly at one time, and then
you weave them.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
Wow. I think the baby baskets not quite lovely to
an't there can image to be quite a lot of
there'll be quite a lot of uptake for those, because
the best nets and stuff look beautiful.

Speaker 17 (01:29:24):
Oh thank you. I mean I make my make baskets
to order. So people look at the website and then
they say, or i'd like a large tray. I've got
a huge array of apples which I like to have
on my table. Or they say I want a laundry

(01:29:44):
basket or a bike basket, so all sorts of different
different things.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
Yeah, love you talk Nicolet's go. We'll ask you on
to look at the website. Go willow. I've gone from
lawns to willow and I'm happy with that. You might
want to talk about that. I don't like if ane
that happens to be on the drive home. I don't
want to be in a cane cough, and I don't
like the looks of it. It's freaking me out. But
that's just me. That's me about my journey with death.
I'm quite particular about that. I don't know why I'm

(01:30:14):
so strong, but just when I look at it, it
looks I'm looking at that. As soon as I saw coffins,
I looked at those, I thought, oh, it just looks
a little bit as if in some Shakespearean I don't
quite know why. It's freaked me out, and I certainly
want to want to make wouldn't want to make my
own coffin. I'm not a big fan of that at all.

(01:30:38):
I don't think anyone else should be either. But yeah,
I think probably in some Scaninavian countries the dream canoe
or the dream beer probably quite a big deal with that.
I mean, give me a laundry basket or something for
you far would real happy with that, quite like In fact,
I could see myself being quite good with Willow based

(01:30:58):
on nothing. Actually it could be dreadful anyway. Lines for
you want to talk about Willow and about the lawns,
we've gone a bit quite the lawns. That's fine, but
give that a bit of a rejig tonight. There is
something I don't know what That woman's billboard that got
stolen as yet too, that might be something had to
mention Marcus. I had to trouble bypass and prostate cancer

(01:31:23):
two years ago. Wins pays me just allowance of forty
five or fortnite to pay a lawn contractor. He does
a fantastic job and gives me a hand to cut
my ivy hedge last weekend free of charge. keV Marcus.
The lady who leaves the willow weaves the willows. Does
she make coffins? Cheers? Diane, you bet you get lovely?

(01:31:45):
Who got buried recently? And I think it was I
think Taliana Tudia. I think I saw her on the
Flinoi River on a whaka, and I think she was
in a wicker coffin. I'm pretty sure that was right.

(01:32:06):
Bad thing to get wrong if I was wrong about that,
But yeah, I don't think so. I think I'm pretty
sure that was the case. It just happened just after,
just before we got a foging. We now, Marcus I
had put a tenancy tribunal application, but hearing the date
was stolen, the mail tried for rehearing and also prevented.
Received a call trying to bribe not to go to call.

(01:32:28):
I declined and see justice more importance and made a billboard. Ah,
so it was about a tenancy tribunal application. Yes, that
keep me out of that. That sounds like a neighborhood battle.
Green long blades of grass looked so much nicer blowing
in the wind. We are too obsessed with keeping the
grass short. Let it grow, Matt, Let it grow. Marcus

(01:32:48):
talking about camping disasters, Jackie Marcus, did you happen to
go and see the lights of Pokakuta Park while you're
in New Plymouth? We went trice. We thought it was fantastic,
absolutely loved it, without a doubt. The greatest park in
the country, without a doubt, the greatest festival in the country.
We went along, We went to the lake. We didn't

(01:33:10):
hire a boat because you hadn't boked. We walked right
around the lake. We went back and then we went
to the movies on the lawn. What do you know,
It was Back to the Future. So we watched that,
then went back. The next night. The kids played on
the playground for about four hours and there was a
band playing that was quite good. Loved it, loved it,
loved it, loved it, loved it, and it made me

(01:33:32):
realize how bad they did that one at Queenstown when
they did that Queenstown Light Festival thing, which was so
sort of drunken and boozy.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
There's something about Pokokuta Park. It is beautiful. So he's free,
happy to be there anyway, but thank you for that text. Marcus,
go to the SPCA, get two rabbits and no time.
We have fifty rabbits and no grass, all for free, Marcus.
How fantastic is all LEFTC doing the A League? Bloody brilliant.
You're not my team. I'm Phoenix. You'd hate me. I

(01:34:06):
have taken Tomorrow and Friday off work. I hate you, Marcus.
I'm seventeen, a good quite rental tenant but having a
bad time at plus a few other metters that decided,
oh this is the billboard person. Yes, good luck with you,
but yeah, Billboard's a pretty provocative thing to put in
your front lawn. Anyway. My name is Marcus. Welcome, Hi,

(01:34:32):
Juliet's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:34:33):
Welcome, and good evening in a very good evening to
you too, Marcus. And what a brilliant program last night was.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
Oh you like the planes? I thought it was good.

Speaker 14 (01:34:43):
I worked for the Air Force years ago and actually
got to fly to Australia twye.

Speaker 10 (01:34:47):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (01:34:48):
Oh not one of those. You got cold going up
and you got rained on coming down because of condensation Malcot.
It was a good trip. I've got an update. I
spoke to you about Sky a week or so ago.
How much trouble I was having.

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
Oh you're in a valley. You can't get the internet, right,
that's me, that's me. Sometimes your son you signed a
truck driver or something you told you I remember, But.

Speaker 14 (01:35:16):
A mechanic. Yeah, he's runs the workshop for Mangui. So anyway,
the Sky it started around Christmas time. I had a
delightful man who I can't really tell you who he is,
but I suggest to people if they're wanting to get

(01:35:37):
some kind of service, first of all, get your job number,
drop that down and you ring anybody in the Yellow
Pages that's maybe a Sky an aerial technician. Yep, that's
what I did, and the man arrived. He told me

(01:35:57):
that the Sky staff that you ring in the Philippines
are told to tell everybody, they're coming on a Saturday.
But that's a lie because there's nobody available on a Saturday.
So that was what I kept getting told, that it
was a Saturday. They'll be there on a Saturday. They'll
be there on a Saturday. So anyway, he was here

(01:36:19):
a whole sum total of thirty minutes. And that's because
I looked after him a bit and made him very
welcome and looked after his coffees and things.

Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
This country hospitality. That's what he'd expected, the word I
was looking for.

Speaker 14 (01:36:36):
Gave him a couple of hours and some eggs and
seeing him on his way, and I couldn't believe how
quick he got my TV going right. And it all
came down to the fact that the ladies who gave me,
they gave me some test numbers to punch him through
my sky remote and it made it worse, and that

(01:36:57):
was the crux of the problem. So yeah, so I
waited nearly two months. But that's the secret is.

Speaker 3 (01:37:06):
To get to And how where where did you say
he came from? Is that where he came from.

Speaker 14 (01:37:11):
I'm not sure exactly where he came from, but he
was from the men or too somewhere, and.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
Except eggs and payment. We build you as well.

Speaker 14 (01:37:18):
No, he build the sky he yep, he got because
he had the job number. He went back through downer
and got permission. And yeah, the bill goes the sky.

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
Oh wow, okay, and they will pay him. I guess
will they?

Speaker 14 (01:37:37):
Well, I hope so, for I wouldn't have mind paying him.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
He was so professional, and it was and your boxer
was up on the roof.

Speaker 14 (01:37:46):
It was a little bit of a combination, of course
it was. But most of it was the numbers that
they gave me, the crunch and from the Philippines. The
ladies gave me.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
We're tough on the We're tough on the Philippines, aren't we. Yeah, okay,
they gave you the wrong number now and okay.

Speaker 14 (01:38:02):
Yep, give me the wrong numbers to put in through
the sky. Remote just made it worse.

Speaker 10 (01:38:08):
So but that was.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
Julia. I appreciate that update. Now the big question is any,
if if anything worth watching on Sky.

Speaker 14 (01:38:19):
Well, I've been still listening to you, so.

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
I want to hear Judy.

Speaker 10 (01:38:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:38:25):
I apologize I'm making all sorts of mistakes about coffins
and Wika and thanks for the picks that texts me,
and of course Toddy and a Tudio got well, I'll
read the article. The Funo of Dame Turdy and a
Tulio have revived an ancient tongue hunger practice, saying the
late kahalang you didn't want to be laid to rest

(01:38:45):
in a coffin, but instead to be wrapped in hadakiki
using the process of cahueddy. The practice, which is based
on tikung A Maori, uses a walker or trends sport
of mate a natural ward rather than a coffin. The
body is also wrapped in a core pucky mat, which
is made from hadakiki, so certainly not a woven willow casket.
I think there was some politician that was buried in

(01:39:07):
a It wasn't Rob Donald. I think he was an
unadorned pine one. It might have you Meanette Jeanette fits
and some of them will know, But every time I've
seen them, I thought, well, not for me. The old
wicker ones. Greetings and welcome. My name is Marcus. Good evening.
I hope the evening is treating you well. I'm just
reading about Bribe Island. I didn't know about that. This
is obviously where that shark that fatal terrible shark attack

(01:39:31):
was that literally seems to be an island, a sand island,
Bribe Island. There's a number of those, and that's one
of three. Although when you say it's an island, doesn't
really look like an island, because it looks almost like
it's more like a peninsula with rivers on it. But look,
some of you would have been there. There's about sixteen
thousand people living on it. A sand island. Looking at

(01:39:54):
it from Google Maps, looks pretty interesting with a big
township on it. Yeah, looks like this sort of canal
places a bit like Fittyanger there as well. You where
you can live Bribe Island. I'm not quite sure how
it's going to go when the sea level comes up,
but that's half away from Brisbane. It would be just

(01:40:17):
have a looking them out. Not far out of Brisbane,
there's three islands sand islands, North Stradbrook Island, Morton Island
and Bribeye Island. That's where the shark attack was. Five
in the year or something. Is it seems like it's
concerning Marcus, do you already of your list? Does know
the houcles did the fly with treenthro around one twenty eight.

(01:40:39):
I was outsiber didn't here, see I think they did.

Speaker 11 (01:40:42):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:40:42):
I want to talk to someone that's been to Benks
the island. I might be saying that wrong. I think
actually Bribe Island bri I b i e the smallest
and most northy of three major sand islands forming the coastlines,
sharing the northern part of Morton Bay, thirty four kilimeters long,

(01:41:09):
seven kilimeters wide, eighteen thousand people who lived there. I
imagine its industry is tourism, although it doesn't say there
is a bridge. That'd be right in a newspaper in

(01:41:32):
a show called The Hothouse was filmed their reality TV show.
I think you got voted off by the way. Plenty
of people be watching that four hour Star Wars YouTube
video that's worth watching. dB. It's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
What do you think.

Speaker 13 (01:41:52):
Along the lines of your flight radar to watch the
aeroplanes and the other day you mentioned marine tracker to
watch boats? Have I got a new one for you?

Speaker 10 (01:42:06):
On YouTube?

Speaker 13 (01:42:07):
There is a slight called Global Quake and it checks
earthquakes around the world in real time.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
Wow it is.

Speaker 13 (01:42:21):
It's stuck it on my lounge Big Lounge TV and
just left it running all day and you'll hear it
probably go off of the background if we have any
more earthquakes.

Speaker 11 (01:42:31):
But you.

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
Said it's YouTube, Yes, and what's it called.

Speaker 13 (01:42:40):
Global quake? So when an earthquake goes off.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
They should have they should have it at the pub
behind the bar. Oh, there you go, there's a big one.

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:42:57):
So at the moment Santorini.

Speaker 3 (01:42:59):
Has heads today, they reckon.

Speaker 13 (01:43:05):
Yes, the the locals are leaving in droves or ships anyway,
So they've got the Centorini or the grease size of
the graph in the bottom left hand corner. All other
earthquakes the world will rotate to where the earthquake is located.
So in the last four hours, it's got to be

(01:43:26):
veiling three times and there is one being rotated in.
Now it's looks.

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:43:35):
Now it's not working time, it's not. It's not working
for me just yet. Every sound, alarm and globe. Now
I think I might have got on the wrong one.
Where do I click onto it? I just go global quake.

Speaker 13 (01:43:48):
There is one, yeah, and it'll it's just live.

Speaker 3 (01:43:53):
I'm going to watch an I'm going to watch an ad.

Speaker 4 (01:43:56):
Okay, been good?

Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
No, hang on, no, no, my I'm gonna watch it. No,
this is not like I'm seeing it now. Okay, yeah, yeah,
it's going off at So you're you're like, yeah, you've
got some So you're watching Santerini now.

Speaker 13 (01:44:10):
Well, Santorini has just come up. I'm not watching Santa Reni, but.

Speaker 3 (01:44:15):
I'm I'm just trying to make sure I'm in real time.
So you've got You've got Santerini up now. Okay, And of.

Speaker 13 (01:44:23):
Course now they won't be the quakes for the next
three years, because.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
Well that would happen quite often. Is there a is
there a trigger? A trigger point?

Speaker 5 (01:44:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:44:37):
I think it's three or better.

Speaker 3 (01:44:43):
What's that? What's that down to the what's that down below?
Saudi Arabia? Can you see something down there? Testing? It's testing.
It's twisting. Well, America is gone, has it? Texas?

Speaker 13 (01:45:04):
My one's not. My one's not twisted. I must must
be different.

Speaker 12 (01:45:07):
Oh well, we're on time delay.

Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
So I just had Texas inspect to Sanerini. It's twisting, dB,
it'spect to Texas. There's a there's a are you seeing
that one in Texas?

Speaker 13 (01:45:21):
There I go, I'm just off to Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
Now you'll be under the Okay, now it's coming to
there's something in South America.

Speaker 10 (01:45:28):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (01:45:29):
So I've got that now in the lounge when I'm
not watching anything else and just plays in the background.

Speaker 3 (01:45:36):
Back to Santorini. It's gonna intually what your dreams are like.
I wonder who runs it all. It's a nice bit
of kid. It's twisted. Back to Western Texas. There's been
a quake in Western Texas. Can you see what I said?
Can you see what scale that is?

Speaker 4 (01:45:52):
Yes, you go, there's been four times.

Speaker 13 (01:45:55):
It's gone to New Zealand and so I've then got
to New Zealand that just to check its validity. And yes,
we our side of grass jumped.

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
It's amazing how many ones happening in Santerini. A.

Speaker 13 (01:46:11):
It's the place is trembling like a.

Speaker 4 (01:46:14):
Wet dog.

Speaker 3 (01:46:16):
So you have your ship spotty, your plane spotty, your
earthquake thing. I mean, basically, we live in golden times,
don't we.

Speaker 13 (01:46:23):
We we live in an information rich society.

Speaker 3 (01:46:28):
I imagine if you parlad this against the stock market
or something, you can do all sorts of things. Oh yeah,
to center, back to Santerini.

Speaker 13 (01:46:44):
If we go back to Texas. So Texas has got
a bit of a swarm going.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
How big are the ones in Texas? Where can I
see this earthquake scale? Where's the size of it?

Speaker 13 (01:46:53):
It's on the right hand side, next to one another
postal spread.

Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
Okay, but.

Speaker 13 (01:47:00):
Each alarm, Yes, we'll have it's Oh, it's written in.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
Foreign language, so it's called global quake for those that
don't need to know global. I mean those are Argentina. Okay,
that's brilliant. Okay, dB, you've so it's called global quake
YouTube and you're onto it, aren't you. That's where it is.

Speaker 13 (01:47:23):
That's where it is. And we'll start to see it now.
And that's a beating club.

Speaker 4 (01:47:28):
It is down origin blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 13 (01:47:32):
I can't see the ripping number.

Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
How do you discover something like that? dB?

Speaker 13 (01:47:36):
By this one came up completely by excellent because I
have a such a wide lot of interests. It was
just this might interest you.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
Okay, they got the algorithm right for you and for me. dB.
I've got to move on because I've asked about Bribey Island.
But nice to talk to you. I appreciate that. Once
again Global Quake on YouTube. Yere My show is going
to change with that on the background. You found that Dan?
Oh yeah, then cocker hope you got springing a step

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Hi and it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:48:13):
Hello, Hi, Yes, I used to live.

Speaker 3 (01:48:16):
On Okay, tell me what did you know about the sharks?
Were the shark tekes when you were there?

Speaker 11 (01:48:23):
I I heard about it yesterday. But very sad really
because apparently she's a very lovely local guril too. That's
the first that I've known of that it's been killed on,
you know, around the island itself, because most of the
people live on the southern end of the island and

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the rest of it's sort of pretty much while bush
and all the rest of it old animals.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
And you could drive, could you drive? You drive under?
There's roads to go the whole length of it. As
there you go to this beach is the whole way down,
isn't there?

Speaker 11 (01:48:58):
Pretty much? But you can't drive all the way down?

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
No, okay, you can.

Speaker 11 (01:49:03):
You can if you've got a four wheel drive. You
can get out onto the ocean side and go right
up to Calumbra.

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
Oh okay, So tell me about your place were you
were you in the built up area like Bella or Bongaree, yes, Bongaree.
Oh yeah, it looks like it's a little town sort
of on the side of that island. Is that right?

Speaker 19 (01:49:26):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:49:26):
And there's banks here beach. We lived there on one
of the canals as well.

Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
Oh wow. And would you work would you drive? Would
you work there or were you retired or would.

Speaker 11 (01:49:35):
You go and retired? But were you were retired? But
we did work there as well, part time, little job,
just for a while, for a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
How did you come across it? How did you find it?

Speaker 11 (01:49:48):
Well, we had some teawis it used to come over
there and my husband played golf with them and they said,
have you ever been to buy the island? And they
used to go over for about four months every winter. Yeah,
because it's lovely. And we said no, we've been over
many times to the you know, Sunshine Coast, et cetera.
It's at the beginning of the Sunshine Coast. And so

(01:50:10):
the next time we went over, we went and had
a look and as soon as I saw it, I said,
come on, I live here.

Speaker 5 (01:50:15):
It was so lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
It looks really lovely and quite flat.

Speaker 11 (01:50:20):
Yes, no hills on it. Really. I don't know what
had happened if you've got a what do you call it?

Speaker 3 (01:50:26):
A tsunami? I worried about that about too. And there's
just that one bridge across to the mainlanders there.

Speaker 11 (01:50:33):
Yes, there's quite a difference on that side too. There's
quite a bit of water there which is all calm, yeah,
and good fishing. And then on the other side of
the island is the ocean side. But the breakers aren't
very big. They're just fairly small breakers. How many years
were you there for, Anne, Oh, about seventeen eighteen.

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
Were you there for a long time? And is it
just recently that it's grown, because it all looks like
quite a recently development or has it been that about
eighteen thousand people for a while?

Speaker 11 (01:51:05):
It's when we went there, there was fourteen thousand.

Speaker 3 (01:51:08):
People, okay, okay.

Speaker 11 (01:51:10):
And there's about two or three different shopping centers and
supermarkets and rolling greens and picture theaters and all that
sort of stuff. Schools, lots of schools.

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
It looks like when you look at all those canal
a lot of people must have their own private boats,
because they all seem to have jetties on the end
of all those all those peers.

Speaker 11 (01:51:29):
That's right, a jety in the boat and you could
just buzz out to the sea and over to Morton
Bay and Morton, Ireland and all the other places. Sounds
it's a lovely place.

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
Sounds fantastic. Not too many Australians.

Speaker 11 (01:51:44):
A lot of Kiwis live there, okay, okay, I thought
they must be. Yeah, a lot of Kiwi's.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
And if you wanted to drive to Brisbane, how long
would that take?

Speaker 5 (01:51:54):
Better?

Speaker 10 (01:51:54):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:51:55):
Oh, is there not that far away? It's quite It's
almost like it's almost like an audioork or somewhere like that.

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
Om all.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
Lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:52:07):
I really appreciate you coming through about that, and I
find that very interesting, so thank you for that. Twenty
three past eleven, Marcus, my husband and I went to
Bribery Island to play golf. The fairways were surrounded by
water and there were crocs coming up out of the water.
My husband lost a couple of balls. No way you'd
want to recover them. Big prawn business in Brynie Island.

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Someone says, there you go, yeah, Hi Roberts, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:52:40):
Good evening, Marcus. She I spent a week on Bribie
Island doing sorry, doing.

Speaker 10 (01:52:50):
Well.

Speaker 19 (01:52:50):
My my niece, my brother's daughter, got married at the
sense but a state there's it's like a hotel, conference center,
wedding venue, and it's just it's on the mainland right
next to the bridge.

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
Now yep.

Speaker 19 (01:53:10):
Yeah, they had big concerts there. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
like you know, famous and popular singers. Yeah, they have
concerts there. Yeah, she got married there. I spent a week.
Yeah that I'd walk across the bridge every day, is true.

Speaker 3 (01:53:28):
Well, that would be like a a kilometer across. It's
quite a big bridge, is it.

Speaker 19 (01:53:35):
Yeah, there's, it is a fair distance. See beautiful sun
sets on that there. So I was at a B
and b on the on the on the sandspit side
on on the mainland, and then i'd get up earlier
in the morning, beautiful warm, the weather was fantastic. I'd
go to a bottle store and i'd buy a one

(01:53:56):
point five liter bottle of either sparkling wine or or
wine or save. I'd go to the local supermarket because
it fresh fruit or seasonal fruits. I'd get geese, crackers, bread,
and I'd go sit down just near or under the bridge,
just on on the little little bays and sandy beaches,

(01:54:18):
and I'd just sit there all day.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
This is is that the sandspit or across at Bribe Island.

Speaker 19 (01:54:25):
Across at Briby Wow, wow.

Speaker 17 (01:54:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
You have your knife and your cheese, and your fruits,
your mango.

Speaker 19 (01:54:32):
And watermelon, great, the whole lot. And I'd sit there
for the whole day, chat to the locals. I'd be fishing,
and then i'd walk back over because it gets dark
quite quickly in Australia and especially up in Cleeveland, and
I'd walk across the bridge and the sunset was just magnificent,
and I'd walk back to my airbnb, and you know,

(01:54:55):
I spent a week, a week there, then I caught
the train from the train station on the Main Man
back to Brisbane, stayed in Brisbane a night and then
near Flue.

Speaker 10 (01:55:04):
Aren't it's a lot like?

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
I like that you devoted a week to your niece's wedding.

Speaker 19 (01:55:10):
Yeah, she's well worth it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
And I love that you went there. You didn't really
know anyone, but you just found your wine, you found
your fruit, you found what you wanted to do. You've
got to cross. They found your spot, made it your own,
no grizzling, no complaints. Loved it.

Speaker 11 (01:55:28):
I loved that, Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:55:29):
It was very relaxing, and yeah, it's a great place.

Speaker 10 (01:55:33):
Look.

Speaker 19 (01:55:33):
I love Australia and I love all.

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
I'm surprised you came back from look well.

Speaker 19 (01:55:39):
A couple of years ago Marcus, when I had a
not a midlife crisis, but I went to work in
Sydney in the in the Rocks at a fine dining restaurant,
and I was welcomed there so much. They didn't want
me to come home.

Speaker 3 (01:55:57):
Ozzie is a great company. You don't talk too much
to them about everything, but they can always find a
laugh and they're remarkably relaxed as the people.

Speaker 19 (01:56:05):
They're great people, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:56:07):
Yes, nice getting.

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
Did you did you have a glass that we're drinking
it from the bottle?

Speaker 9 (01:56:16):
No?

Speaker 19 (01:56:16):
Well, I went to the supermarket so that was the coals.
It was a coal supermarket and they have these plastic
come flutes and I was familiar with those because when
I was in Sydney, i'd said under the Bridge with
friends from New Zealand and got the same flutes and
we said under the Sydney Harbor Bridge, looking back across

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the Circular Key and the Opera House and sipping wine
under the bridge.

Speaker 4 (01:56:44):
Beautiful is your is your?

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
Niece living there.

Speaker 19 (01:56:48):
Yes, her husband's got a finance company and they he
finances uh like contractors, diggers, bulldozers, tractors and and Len's
here Es he's a broker and he's done very well.

Speaker 3 (01:57:06):
Jimmy Barnes, Susie Quattrie joan jet.

Speaker 11 (01:57:11):
Brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:57:12):
I'm just trying to think what bands played this and
it's quite a big deal.

Speaker 19 (01:57:14):
There isn't It just looks it's a magnificent facility, very
fine dining. They've got numerous restaurants here, mainly seafood and yeah,
and they really know how to great customer service in Australia.

Speaker 4 (01:57:29):
I really look after you.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
Any other adventures on Bribey Island while you're there.

Speaker 19 (01:57:35):
Yeah, we played golf, You went to a resort, Yeah,
it's look. Look, I just can't say enough about Australia
and that area.

Speaker 3 (01:57:46):
I just love Australian real destination wedding that has spent
the whole week there with the resort.

Speaker 19 (01:57:52):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
Did you go to the Butterfly House?

Speaker 19 (01:57:57):
No, No, I didn't go to the Butterfly House, but
I stayed in the airbnb with the lovely well, you know,
an elderly lady who who was renting her room out
and she had a swimming pool there. She was away
for a few intermittently and I'd get in the pool naked.

(01:58:19):
I loved it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:23):
And is it and don't take this the wrong way,
but is there a footpath on the bridge?

Speaker 16 (01:58:29):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (01:58:31):
Yes, and was there one way?

Speaker 13 (01:58:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:58:33):
I think the same footpath there and back was on
the one side.

Speaker 3 (01:58:37):
I think you might be right according to Google.

Speaker 19 (01:58:39):
Yeah, yeah, if I recall, it was twenty eighteen that
I was there.

Speaker 4 (01:58:43):
Yeah, so yeah, I look it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:45):
And they're still together. Sorry, they're still together.

Speaker 19 (01:58:50):
With the financial yes, yes, yes, very successful.

Speaker 4 (01:58:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:58:54):
He moved to Melbourne a few They moved to Melbourne
a few years ago and he really got has got
his business going. Now they're back up into up and
up back up in the Brizee where they had their home,
and yeah, they're doing really well. And so you can
see why New Zealanders are moving near Marcus, Oh can't you.

Speaker 3 (01:59:15):
Yeah, you're just looking at you know, he has to
imagine it apart from the sharks eating the people.

Speaker 4 (01:59:20):
Right yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, what are.

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
Your chances but the people, you know, But you know,
when you look at the weather, and there's you with
your cheap wine. And when you see the fruit. You
got your mangoes for fifty cents each, and your giant
there you are. And yeah, what cheese like an imman towel, or.

Speaker 19 (01:59:40):
I've got stilton, and then I got I got a yeah,
and then I got a Tasmanian cheese made. Oh the island,
there's an island just off Hobart. Yeah, looks at you.

Speaker 10 (01:59:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:59:56):
I bought one of the cheeses because I was familiar,
familiar with it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:59):
You're into the You're into the final things in life,
aren't you.

Speaker 19 (02:00:02):
Look Look, Marcus, it took me a long time to
you want good, good quality cheese.

Speaker 11 (02:00:09):
You know.

Speaker 19 (02:00:10):
I used to used to buy the piece. But when
you buy quality, you know it, and then you get quality.

Speaker 3 (02:00:18):
You should do a lifestyle podcast, Rob, You've got it
all going on lovely to talk. I appreciate that greatly.
Twenty six to twelve, I still aim on earthquake watch
on this new website, just Santorini going off all the time.
But yeah, that's a good website to that one. There's

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some comments down the side which are but conspiratorial, but
that's Hey, that's the Internet now, isn't it, Let's face it,
the Internet's grain of salt territory right.

Speaker 1 (02:00:55):
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