Everything seems like a good idea, doesn't it (24 March 2025)

Something pretty significant happened on this day four years ago, something very significant happened at Eden Park tonight, and Marcus talks about knives for a bit.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News Talks.
It'd be it'll twelve. Welcome with evening Marcus here. I
hope it's good. Were you are welcome to Monday. I
think this might be the last Monday for March. Am
I right? I guess? So welcome eight hundred oh yeah,
oh eight, one hundred and eighty eight, ten eighty nine nine,
two ticks if you do want to come through looking

(00:27):
forward to what you've got to say. Obviously, I'll keep
you updated with the score at the football the FIFA
final for the Oceana qualifier. Yes, I don't know why.
Halftime it's become so long and all sports strives be crazy.
But for a while, I'm sure they stayed on the
panic and there was no commercials. But now it seems
like there's breaks and they come back for the round robin,
the replay and they're back. Gee. Anyway, that's fine. I

(00:53):
don't know what the halftime entertainment will be at the park.
Might have the Kesh capsule. Remember that in the real
the radio station as a cash capsule, you got to
grab the Kesh. It's done it to day. Actually, well
cash has done it to day is that you can't
really have a cash grab with bitcoin? Can you get

(01:14):
schemed off you on the way home? Anyway? Welcome here
on midnight tonight. Oh interesting enough. Here's a question for
you which hadn't thought about today. Four years ago today,
something very special happened. Don't google it. I don't know
if you know if you can google it?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Do you see? Why?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Know what happened four years ago today? Have a guess?
Are the wild? I guess the better? Four years ago today?
What happened? I'm not quite sure it's today on what happened?
But yeah, today, four years ago you haven't got any
ideas about that? And once you remember you oh of
course we've all forgotten. But once you remember it, boy,

(01:56):
will you remember it? Four years ago today? I wait
one hundred and eighty to Taddy and nine to nine
to de text. If you can tell me, I'd love
to hear from you about that one on this very
day in twenty twenty one. I'll need phone book up there,
old Denimal. Here they seem to be coming. Good crowd,

(02:19):
very good crowd there at the Who's that's Ricky Hubert?
Forgotten about him?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
He was one of the great servants of the game
and what the you might need you might know this,
and you might want to know this, and you might
need to know this. But this game is free to wear.
Tv N did two. So yeah, that's the shortened street channel.
So I'm surprised about that. So that it looks like
there's a good crowd, although I think probably they'd want

(02:46):
to get a goal on board because this could be
one of the great upsets if they managed to work
this one out. Four years ago today, it wasn't just
cinder ar Don didn't resign. Rose Marcus welcome, Hi Rose,
I just haven't got my button your Rose Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Oh hi Marcus.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
Was it COVID?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Which part of COVID first, pert or the second part
when we went to lockdown? It was the first part.
The first part I think was five years ago, because
COVID was a twenty twenty thing. Was twenty nineteen, then
twenty twenty. Yeah, I'm talking about four years. I'm talking
about four years ago. Okay, but you know, and I

(03:36):
think COVID was exactly five years ago today. Oh okay,
So yeah, it has gone quickly. When this thing that
I'm asking you about, when it happened. If you asked
me when it happened, I would have said it was
two years or three years ago. But once I tell you,
you think, oh of course I remember that. Well, then
I got the other guesses. It wasn't lockdown again, and

(03:57):
it wasn't just in the ardor and resigning.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Phosh.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Let me know if you think you know eight with
eighty gosh. Aucklands is an Auckland, isn't it. The football
year has become an Auckland's become a football town, hasn't it.
Suddenly here they come out for the second half. I presume, well,
I shouldn't say that, but there are a lot of
the crowd are and white. By the way, the hype

(04:30):
got the better of me. I did watch the Grand
Prix last night.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
It was.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Gee. They go on a lot about the tires, don't
they hard tires, medium tires? Jeep at creepers do all
about the tires, do about the tires? And how hot?
How hot it is? Well, temperature dropped eight degree since
they've been racing. Man, and all those people in alongline
looking at their screens, I don't know what they're doing.

(04:59):
Look at the tires. I guess But anyway, four years
ago today, what happened? Anyone can guess? You can't google it?
Well you can, but I prefer if you didn't. I
can't see in your house to see if you're googling
or not. This day in twenty twenty one, something happened
and the world was never the same. That's not quite right.

(05:22):
I just wonder how on twit you are eight hundred
and eighty tendy protat have other stuff to talk about,
and I'm going to do this for four hours. I
couldn't bear it. Thirteen past eight. Yeah, no, as I say, yes,
I'm very interesting. Watching the Grand Prix, I almost felt
you need to have your own one. I'm sure some
of you got down almost you needed to be able

(05:44):
to go from screen to screen yourself. Marcus. Was it
when all the protesters went to Parliament Kent?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
No? I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
No, it wasn't, And it wasn't when Heather did that
text pole which destroyed our text machines. A siren's Marcus,
good evening, it's Marcus, welcome, tell marn tell you yeah good.
How's yourself?

Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (06:17):
Very good?

Speaker 7 (06:18):
Very good?

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Four years ago?

Speaker 8 (06:22):
Was it the.

Speaker 7 (06:24):
Was it the insurrection? On the Capitol Building in the US.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, I think that what were they called that January
the sixth for a reason. Oh, yes, it was the January.
I don't know how to say that more politely, but
it was the It wasn't January the sixth Insurrection. I
think I think that's what they call it. Jan six Uh, Belnderance,

(06:49):
Marcus welcome. Hello, Hi belnder It's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (06:53):
Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
Off.

Speaker 9 (06:57):
I'm in the car.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, I think it's fine. I can't even hear radio.
It must be a pretty I can't hear it at all. Okay,
can you hear it?

Speaker 9 (07:07):
Well maybe because I'm in the car, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, well as your radio on in the car.

Speaker 9 (07:14):
Oh no, because I'm talking to you.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Actually, it must have gone off.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh my goodness. It's interesting, isn't it what happened then?
But no, because you'd hear yourself in the background, and
I could hear I could hear old the old me,
so would you'd be freaked out? No, it's fine, Okay,
there's no prize.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
By the way, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
No.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Good. What do you think what do you think happened
to go four years ago?

Speaker 9 (07:40):
I think they opened up the border.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay, and I don't know the dates on that, but
that's and that could well be right, Blinda, but that's
not what I've got in mind. I think that was
probably I don't know when they opened up the borders
and it wasn't White Island eruption that someone' sticked it to.
If you do know, let me know. I know, but
I want I want you to know and see if
you do know, because I saw this through doomscroll, I thought, gee,

(08:02):
that's interesting. I took a screenshot that I thought. I
had no idea. Get that ball in the net there, please,
all whites, cock go go go, go, go across. You's
got to kick it across. Chriss wad get it. Oh,
that's out anyway, if there is a goal, I'll commentate it.
Of the joys of commenting the fifteen hundred no one mile.
Let me get that one right. They're peppering the goal

(08:25):
the all Whites. They've come out with the second half
with a New zeal And commitment. Good evening. Bennett's Marcus,
welcome Marcus America's Cup win. Oh which one.

Speaker 10 (08:46):
The one in New Zeland.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
I can't remember what year that was where were we
closer and weren't we? I remember it now with Rawd
and Christy and everyone out there. Yeah, no, I can
remember that now, but yes, no, it wasn't that year.
Funny what memory does Taylor? It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 11 (09:09):
Today, Marcus. My guess is the military who in memo?

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Wow? And I can't even remember that? Isn't that terrible?
Because was that something that we all?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I know?

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Is it was in March of twenty twenty one?

Speaker 11 (09:23):
I think so? Yeah, twenty twenty one.

Speaker 12 (09:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
I kind of always thought there were so many cups.
I'd forgot which they were because it was first of all,
the leader got arrested. Was Is that how the whole
thing rolled out?

Speaker 11 (09:35):
Yeah, it was the release of their leader. I forgot
the name, and because I knew there were reports and
protests afterwards. I mean, this was ages ago. This was
twenty twenty one. I don't really know.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I think it was too. I think that was February.
I think it was February the first I think when
that happened, Ungstung she was arrested by she Is it
the way it worked?

Speaker 11 (09:59):
I think so?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I believe so.

Speaker 11 (10:01):
I think I think it was the arrest and then
there was butness, I actually can't recall from the top
of my head. There was the arrest, and then there
was the demonstrators which were calling for the restoration of democracy,
which was the release of the leader. And what that

(10:23):
meant was that the that there was there was kind
of like a crackdown on the protest that happened, and
that that's what I heard about. I am again four
years ago. You'd have to you'd have to shake me
answers out of my head.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't ever know what Yeah, okay, a kudo tar
morning of first February twenty twenty three one and democratically
leader leabers of the ruling party were deposed, so quite
far off, you know, only a month Ang Sung souyu
were arrested on charges. I don't know what's happened to her.
Is she under her arrest or she seems to have

(11:01):
spent it half a life under arrest. Anyway, do get
in touch. By the way, Chris Wood had a blinder.
I think I'm pretty sure it was an attempted goal
that just the goalkeeper was luckily in the right place
and he appears to be down injured. Now Chris would
so I'll keep you updated on that. We're just trying

(11:22):
to work out what happened this day in twenty twenty one, Marcus,
is it to who he a trained launched between Auckland Hamilton.
I think that was earlier than that, Marcus. I know
it's when the Hudson Hall stage play made it staboo.
That's not quite right. If you do know, I know,
you know, let us know. Just to go back to

(11:43):
the World Cup qualified even park between the New Caledonia
and New Zealand, Chris Wood had an attempt on goal
of diving. He appeared to have got injured and quite
a bit of attention. They sprayed him and he took
some pills, sprayed him with a I guess he got
a stinger and he walked around and wasn't quite sure
if he was going to go off or not. But
he's come back on.

Speaker 11 (12:01):
So that was.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Great applause from the crowd. Tremendously recognizable. Looking for a
unit crystal if we win this hip, look good on
a coin or something. He's got that good profile anyway,
now get in touch. By the way, this day four
years ago, here's what happened. The ship went into the
side of the sewer's canal the ever Given. That's right.

(12:26):
It blocked the canal and they took for a rever
to get it off, and there was an amazing shot
of that tiny little bulldozer trying to remove it. And
then we couldn't buy anything in the shops for years
because of The ship was blocked for six days by
the ever Given. I'm not entirely sure why it happened.

(12:48):
I remember reading reports at the time. Was it wind
or was it the bribery of the pilots. I don't know.
I think there was a wind that came up in
the desert and shafted its sideways. Ships are unwielding things
with all that surface area on the side. Bit about
this to complex and of very high risk operation. Wooden

(13:12):
gusts will cause the stack containers to act like a sale. Yeah,
and world shipping stopped so as this day it went aground.
I think it was one of those news stories that
started quite small but became big. If you understand what

(13:34):
I'm saying, was like, oh, that's not going to be
a problem. But it was there for a long long time.
I don't know who went to jail, but prices and
inflation were happy because of it. Also to it caused
a huge number of Internet memes and numerous jokes. There

(13:57):
was even a website called ever Given Everywhere, a web
app that allowed users to place that ever given anywhere
in the world. Remember that anyway, that's the ship. In

(14:18):
an April full story published by the Guardian claiming plans
to build a second canal in Egypt gained traction in
Turkish media before it was marked as a full at
noon by the Guardian. False rooms also spread blaming the
grounding on the first Egyptian female ship Captain. Yeah, well

(14:40):
there's no surprises there, eh. Anyway, you get in touch
twenty five past eight. If you want to watch this football,
I suggest you do.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
It's on.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's free to wear on TV. We always call it
TV too. Someone said, Chris Wood is off. I think
he's back on. For the person that texted me he
went off and he came back on. I's gone off again?
Has he it's gone off again? That it did? Look
he's moving painfully. Thank you for that. It's hard for

(15:12):
you to watch sport and I'm doing I don't. I
really want to concernt on the radio around but it
is important, I tell you people if you're stuck at work,
because this will be the most exciting game since the
last time we qualified. I think that was we went
to the Football World Cup in South Africa, and I
think that was the one where we learnt that word
that we never ever heard of before, and that word

(15:34):
was vovou zeila and everyone had those plastic vuv and
we've never had them again since. It was just a
peculiar South African thing that they just want to endlessly
blow those noisy plastic trumpets. It was like a vovo zeilarathon.
How you're going, people, feel free to get in touched.

(15:55):
My name is Marcus Welcome Headed twelve oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty. They're ever given those amazing aerial
shots that giant cruise ship just angled into the wall
of the Sewers Canal. I don't know how much inflation
it caused, but it seemed to be every time we
went to Spotlight looking for more fabric that they ever
given you love Spotlight, I get in touched. By name

(16:18):
is Marcus Hittle twelve. By the way, did anyone go
to Western Springs on Saturday night for the last year event.
I saw quite a few people posting on Facebook about that,
and I'm just curious, And I think Barry brings to
LAP the motoring legends, so quite what happened this weekend

(16:40):
and motoring and stuff, So that might be something you
went to. You could tell us what the atmosphere was
like at that for the people. I saw the shots.
I so it looked like it was quite a big deal.
Looked like people loved it.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
So there we go.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's exciting. It's the real sport. I don't think Formula
one is the real sport. Too much depends on the tires.
And how come with red Bull? Like they've got Red Bull?
They've got two cars and one car is so bad
all that money's spent. I don't fully understand it, but
it's fine. It's like following any new sport. Takes you
a while to get the handle on it, and after

(17:14):
a while, things that seemed incredibly complicated seemed like second nature.

Speaker 9 (17:19):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I remember sitting down there with the Internet trying to
work out trying to understand baseball with all the different metrics,
and that took a while, but now it's all second
nature to me. The score is, oh, have we got
a goal? Hang on? We've got a goal. Oh jeepus creeper. Sorry,
just look at that. It's come from a corner. Yeah,
and beautifully placed corner shot land about a foot from

(17:43):
the goal, back of the goal. Number five headed it
in and it was only a matter of time. So
your crowd look ecstatic. I'm ecstatic. That's exciting. So one
nil to New Zealand. That's one all. That's the second half.
About ten minutes into its scorer was just looking at
his back. Handle begins with B like box All. It
might be as in fact, box All, that's the person

(18:03):
the cameras on. You'd clarify that Dan, there'd be or
angling event. Yeah, I think it's Boxel. Brendan Marcus, welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 8 (18:12):
Who are you man?

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, good thanks Brendon living the dream may living.

Speaker 13 (18:17):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
It's a good thing to say, living in the dream.

Speaker 7 (18:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (18:21):
No. Western Springs was a brilliant night the other night.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
So you talk me through and how many were there
and how did it proceed? What were the events?

Speaker 8 (18:30):
We can all guesstimate sort of how many people were there,
but I haven't seen the bank on Western Springs. That pack,
you know, for a motorsport event since you know, in
the early eighties.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Fantastic.

Speaker 8 (18:50):
Yeah, like everybody used to go. Kids are sliding down
the hill on the bits of cardboard they got from
the caterers or whatever, you know, being normal kids, not
on their phones, you know, And that's that's what it's
really about, you know, like their dad's and dad and
the pets, and theyre trying to get their son into

(19:13):
it and everything. They've got the little quarter midgets and
everything out there, and you know, which are for the kids,
you know, and then you got the t q's which
you know, bigger and stuff, and then you get the
fullhouse midgets and sprint cars, and it's just why why
are we doing this? You know, we need to get

(19:34):
people more out of their homes and going to this stuff,
you know. And the people that build the cars. Yeah,
the industry for New Zealand building cars down here is
we've got some of the best car builders in the world.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
I don't know. I don't know. This former might have
support that well, but I can imagine there's nowhere quite
as suitable for that sort of racing anywhere in the world.
The people must love it to come across for it.

Speaker 8 (20:02):
Oh the yeah, A lot the Yanks come down here
and stuff like that. You don't down the head because
you want it, you get invited. Yeah yeah, and it's
the history of the place is just phenomenal.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Was the fact that it was the last night? Was
that acknowledged in any way?

Speaker 8 (20:20):
Oh? In every way by people turning up?

Speaker 9 (20:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, good answer.

Speaker 8 (20:26):
Well, yeah, like people turned up because one, yes, we
all are and hope that it's not the last one,
but we were there to see the last one, if
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
You know, but there's a there's a finality about it,
isn't there.

Speaker 8 (20:42):
Yeah, yeah, there is. But it's yeah, it's just like
you know, in no matter which way we turn, speedway,
it's always been something that's been quite contentious for the
counsel and stuff. It's like, yeah, it's you know, eleven
million dollars spent on White Cracker part. Well that's twenty
two speed humps, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yep? And you're not.

Speaker 8 (21:06):
You know, much at what Cracord Park for eleven mil?

Speaker 2 (21:11):
No?

Speaker 8 (21:13):
Yeah, Like the current promoter has already got his fence
on online and it's probably more than what he paid
for it. But yeah, okay, it's just yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Record park, Brenda, what time it finish?

Speaker 5 (21:30):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (21:30):
I think it was about ten to thirty eleven or
whatever you are, And good on them. If if it
was a little bit late, who cares?

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Who cares?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (21:39):
Yeah, like if it was a little bit late, it
was ninety six years of history. You know, we don't
care about your noise, mate.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
You know, did you send to a lot of people
that weren't normally speedway people just turning up to be
a part of history?

Speaker 8 (21:53):
Damn straight? You know there was people down on the
fence looking back at the crowd and taking photos of
the crowd, because that hasn't happened since the early eighties.
You know, I.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Just then, you know that barbarusis I think is scored again.
I think that was so tell to Nil and Newsy
letter up now I beck with you. Will you go
to Wykerreca Park?

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (22:22):
When I was a kid, mate, I was brought up
in Mangaro and we used to walk across the old
Mangary Bridge and go to wiker Eca Park. But it's
not conducent to open wheel racing. Mate. There the catch
fence and everything is two meters back from the concrete wall,
whereas the catch fence at Western Springs and the ring
was bored. But there's the antitheater of Western Springs is

(22:47):
just nuts. And for people to say it's not a
multi featers venue but a lot of rubbish. We've had
concancy and and the promoter, whoever it might be, can do,
you know, not just speedboat but he can do concerts
and stuff. You have festivals. They have it on the

(23:08):
outer fields, you know where everybody parks for Western Springs
you go to speedback. So it is a multi purpose
venue and you just don't get that anywhere else in
the world where it's just like an arena.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, okay, did I see something?

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Barry?

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Was he Barry Briggs there?

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Right?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Did I read that?

Speaker 7 (23:31):
Right?

Speaker 8 (23:32):
He rode around in a later model bike.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
But he he's a speedway guys is and he not
so yeah okay, So do you know.

Speaker 8 (23:42):
He's a motorbike guy because they had the motorbikes there,
They had the sidecast they had the solos, they had
the Island majors there. Everybody you don't.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Look, do you know how that came about?

Speaker 8 (23:55):
Well, he obviously got asked to go and do a
ride around Spring. Wouldn't It's a ninety year old that whatever.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
He lives, does he live at New Zealand?

Speaker 8 (24:05):
Now, I'm not sure, to be honest, I don't know. Yeah,
Like I'm just getting it, don't.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
I don't want to throw every question at you, Brendan,
because you're the guy that called. But I think he
is ninety, so you're right about that, and I think
I don think. I think he doesn't have in California.
But that's that's a great.

Speaker 8 (24:21):
That's a great on the motorbike.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
Yeah, everybody cheered him because he decided to do a
second leap between attractors and stuff that we're working.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
People did people did the did the did the the
ground announcer announce who it was or or people just
could recognize him?

Speaker 8 (24:42):
Oh everybody stood up. You know, yeah that's you.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, good on your ol bugger.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
But on you.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
I like you, Brenda. You called it like it was
two's up. You said it over New Caledonia. It was
zero zero at halftime. It's been an eventful first eighty minutes.
The second half, Chris Wood went off after a diving
attempt at a goal which should have paid off, but
then the the ian him to and Barbarissa schooled and

(25:12):
old box a Viva He scored as well too, So yeah,
it's all happening now. A roof is on, So this
is exciting. Do we know where the world cover is?
Dan or my North America? Trumpo Land?

Speaker 7 (25:26):
Is it o?

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Mexico? America, Canada?

Speaker 11 (25:29):
Chi chie.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Everything seems like a good idea, doesn't it. It's simple.
We've got the Olympics with Trumpo too, cheapers, but we
are talking about the ever given. Oh, by the way,
someone stolen oysters from the Juvoy Steakhouse. Were they Bluff oysters?
I don't know, No, they weren't. Just reading that now anyway,

(26:04):
do come through if you don want to talk, I
will keep you update with use the next three hours.
Oh here's something I didn't mean to ask about. It's
tangential to one of the topics I was going to
go with and the topic I was going to. Oh hi, Shari,
too nice to hear your email about visiting Bluff. That's nice.
It's been a beautiful summer. So I was just curious

(26:29):
about reading an article about the search for a perfect
kitchen knife, and then I thought I would ask you
people out of curiosity. Does anyone bother sharpening their knives anymore,
because I don't think we do. I think we've become
a nation that we buy knives and we have them

(26:49):
in our knife block, and then they get a bit
scuzy and we get new ones, or we just keep
using them. I don't know if anyone that takes their
knives to be sharpened. And once upon a time, I'm
sure people would come around and sharpen knives would drop them,
and I just don't hear any people. Maybe knives don't
need to be sharpen anymore. I'll be curious to hear
you talk about that knife shop. Mean, garriyet's Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 13 (27:11):
Good evening, Yes, good evening, Marcus. How are you good?

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Gary? Ten out of tenness end?

Speaker 13 (27:18):
Yeah, mate, I just rang up to say that I
went to the protest march about Wesdom Springs on Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yes, Where did they march to?

Speaker 13 (27:29):
They walked from Stadium Road, which is the little road
that leaves some great morph up to the stadium itself,
and we went up to as far as where the
zoo roads we go down to the zoo and turned around.
I think it was meant to go further. At the
point she had shops. But the council told everybody that

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where we were parked inside the car park at Western
Springs there that if we went back by called a
party leven, they would have pulled them cow trucks and
told everyone's.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Call God help us.

Speaker 13 (28:04):
Okay, yes, we just did this circle. But it was
really good, and you know, we got a lot of
support from people going past and everything, and even the
steamhouse at Motech, the guy where it was deep in
this horn with the truck going past. You know, they
were long musical horns. But the actual meeting was absolutely fantastic.

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A lot of people who have rung up and said
about the size of the crowd, now, I reckon you
would have got there would have been twenty five to
thirty thousand there. I don't know how you can prove
that number, but that was my observation of it. I'm
going back to nineteen seventy nine to seventy eight season

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where they quoted saying they had thirty five thousand there,
and this crowd was even as much bigger or whatever
that on Saturday might as what it was back in.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Thank you Gary, you said that you might be serious
studier of the sport do you know what sort of
crowds they get overseas.

Speaker 13 (29:19):
I nothing like Western's friends. Okay, they get big crowds
and different sorts of tracks. But as all the Yanks
that come down here in race, they say they're lucky
if they get three to four thousand people at most
of their meetings, and they can't believe the source of

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the crowds here.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
So it's a really important part of Auckland's culture. It's
something that we do that we do uniquely, that we
lead the world. And the people turning up for that event, hey,
that's amazing.

Speaker 13 (29:50):
Yeah, it's been class by Americans and Nazis and a
lot of the speedway riders overseas and there is the
best speedway track in the room. Now, when you get
that sort of thing, you know, people saying that you
can't live go into an icon of a venue around
the world that's recognized, you know. So we just the

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emotion they're upset, they're not. You could feel it in
people really, you know, thinking oh, I hope this does
it the end, you know.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
And most things it's quite complicated, but it seems as
though it is the end. Is that right? I know
a lot of people ring up and say different things.
But I get a sense that that's the end.

Speaker 13 (30:30):
Is that your idea, because I'm and hope that it'll
stay there for another ninety six years and we've got
a bit of a process to go through, but I'm
feeling pretty confident we can secure it for another ninety
six years.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
How what needs to happen, just what.

Speaker 13 (30:51):
They're saying about. They've got a lot of people that
are going to this case where they've got to be
heard and we'll go from there. And it's looking quite
positive within.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Very nice to talk. Thanks so much that twelve ten
nine Elijah Justice just scored three nil. That's looking good.
He's a young looking, fresh faced guy, a tremendous shot.
There we go three nil.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Read this letter. This letter says something about the because
I don't know too much about the Speedway. New Zealand
Herald Letter of the week, Save Speedway Seal Eden Park instead.
While the cat's accidentally out of the bag, The real
hidden a gender as to why Aukland Council want the
Westies and black Tachers out of Western Springs Speedway. The
billionaires want to take over and play with their new toys.
Here is my observation. Auckland Council vote eleven to wait

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not to renew tenure at as Speedway on fraudulently altered
documents table to a hastily added item to the monthly meeting.
These documents are currently with the Serious Fraud Office under investigation.
Speedway does not wish to relocate this venues today to
the people for a speedway which is just short of
one hundred years of rich history, generations of families who

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had years and years of enjoyment with us from this facility.
It's a world it is world famous as one of
the best speedways on the planet. Speedway does not wish
to relocate to Waikaraka Park, a toxic wastelin which is
totally in fear. Round suited football, soccer or whatever you
wish to call it can be played anywhere Eden Park
Mounts about North Harbor, Wahiki or anywhere you like, Speedway cannot.

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Should the council be looking to consolidate sports grounds and
save the rate payers money, May I suggest relocating the
All Blacks to mount Smart Stadium and sell Eden Park
to the billionaires. They can develop it for luxury housing
complete with helipad. You can't give up on history. They
could be huge for tourism if they promoted it right,

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if they got reliability of the events and the promoters there,
and that would happen if they had security a venue.
Be like bull fighter. You won't like bullfighting as an example.
Be like bull fighting to Seville. Just something you do,
taste a bit of the culture. Eight away from nine
Marcus till midnight, three nil and you do. And over

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New Caledonia We're going to the USA. It's all on. Marcus.
My cousin's grandson won the last ever key We race
at Western Springs on Saturday night. Fingers crossed. It's not
the last, though, well done. Jaden sard Licks sad Lick
cadlech sardelitch. I bet it is real family of fear

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and bonding for life experience. Thanks Sean, appreciate that, Sean.
Thanks for the photos too well. That like a classic
classic racing family. Brilliant crane panel beaters. That's the way.
Just to confirm the football has finished, the new candid
only players are looking disappointed. Key was looking elated and

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as they should be, of remarkable second half to score
three goals, but the UKNID on atam extraordinary in that
first half to keep them down that situation, Chris, what's
back on the field, they're doing the shaken howdies walking gingerly,
still affect very gingerly. So there we go. We are
after the World Cup. So now we await the drawer.

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I suppose I don't know too much about it, but
I'll find something out about that for you, because now
we can talk about without Jinx in it. Twenty twenty
six feet for World Cup. We the twenty third edition
of the tournament. It's been going almost one hundred years.

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What's that ninety two years. I'm just bringing up the information.
So that's a situation, and I've got the website, but
it's Tay. Can we down different things? So the key

(34:59):
details twenty twenty six were the first time it's in
three countries and for the food is time with forty
eight teams such a much bigger event. That's that shorter

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as well. It's an extremely complicated draw. There matches Vancouver, Seattle,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterey, Houston, Dallas,
Kansas City, Atlanto, Miami, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey,
So we wanted to buy tickets for that. That's where
the group matches are. I don't know how many groups

(35:41):
through our some will tell us the things about it anyway,
Garyot's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (35:51):
Hey, say mate, Hi Gary?

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Hi Gary, welcome. Hello, Hello Hi Gary, It's Marcus. Good evening.
Can you hear me really clearly?

Speaker 12 (36:08):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Sweet?

Speaker 1 (36:12):
What did you want to talk about?

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Gary?

Speaker 12 (36:14):
I want to talk about the Western Springs closing down?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Sure? Will you just start talking and we'll see how
we go.

Speaker 14 (36:24):
Eh, well, Dad, are you gonna talk?

Speaker 12 (36:36):
Oh ye? So well, the Western Springs closing down. It's
not it's not a good thing that's happening around here
in Auckland. It's the somebody that where you've go to
every Saturday or when it was on. It's just it's
just not you know, my kids have raced at this
and have had so much fun watching it, racing in

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it and watching it close down is just not good.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Down Gary, we're there on Saturday, Yeah, I was on there.

Speaker 9 (37:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Because the thing is, I mean, there's never going to
be that many. There won't be that many again, that
was probably the biggest crowd ever, So it does seem
to be a sport where the crowd numbers are down, though,
doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (37:18):
Yeah, I mean totally yeah. I mean I've been there
going there for the past twenty years, and not more
more than twenty years. I've definitely seen a decrease in
the crowd going down. But I mean, if we can
get the crowds back up, maybe it should stay around.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
How much of the fact the crowd's going down is
because it's been uncertain that it's going to be there?
Is that what it's about?

Speaker 8 (37:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (37:42):
Wacking? Yeah, maybe it is that the crowd. Yeah, I
mean it's a hard thing to say. I mean, I
would just love to stay it around. You know, I
think most people work.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Okay, cap wellive it there, But thanks for that. Twelve
past nine, keep us ticks through nine to nine. Do
speed weils? Want to talk about sharpening knives? Who gets the
knives sharpened? Or the new knives not need to be sharpened.
I'm kind of curious about knife sharp I don't know
why I've never talked about this before, Marcus. Looking forward
to your discussion on knives. I'm tired of buying crap knives.

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Would love to hear any recommendations from any chiefs on
a knife I can buy that does the job not
too expensive? Please look forward to listening. By the way,
I suspect knife blocks are terrible for knives and must
blunten them. Am I right? Because every time you're in
the kitchen the sheefs, the chefs love there are sharpening
eye and but I'm never that comfortable using one. Feels

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like you've got to do a YouTube seminar and how
to sharpen your life. But we want to know about knives.
When do you get good knives? How to keep your
knives sharpened? Do you go and get them sharpened commercially?
Does the guy come around with a van with a
grinding wheel? I feel they used to do that. Now
knock on your door and say can I sharpen your knives?
The footballers look extended. They're all smiling, huge smiles. This

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is good for Barbarusis too, because he was too young
last time he's been a serving of the game. He's
thirty five. I think they've got t shirts on that
say qualified all whites ninety two, All Whites two thousand
and four. I can't read of it. All Whites twenty
twenty six, Marcus, does anyone still teach the kids how
to use a steel rod to sharpen knives? Most people

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I know have a stone to sharpen knives and always
has a special place where it's kept, sometimes rubbed in
a muslin cloth. Berry Briggs used to work for Scar
in the UK, commenting on the British speedway leg I
knew him quite well. I remember once when a fan asked,
I've had the expert tips on running speedway year count
up to four and turn left. Love to give it

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a go, Jim, AT's Marcus Good? Evening?

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Marcus at suber Jim, how are you to?

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Not very good? Thank you, Jim Good.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
I sharpen my knives all the time.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Go you Now, what have you got? What are you packing?

Speaker 3 (40:02):
I can't remember what it's called.

Speaker 8 (40:04):
I think it's.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
Scan ten es the a n T an.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
With metal handles with all in one pieces that. Yeah,
I'm getting a vibe on what your knives look like.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
With a little handle, yeah, a little handle and then
you hold on to and it's got three slots in it,
a wide, a medium, and a narrow. And you start
on the wide, and then do the medium, and then
do the narrow, keeps a perfect bed on your knife
and keeps.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Hang on, hang on, hang on. You lost me there.
I was talking about what do you sharpen them on?

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Like thettle device?

Speaker 7 (40:37):
I think google it.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
It's just google up the knife sharpener. It's like you
hold it on the bench with one hand and then
you run the knife through. It's got three little slots
on it. You run your knife through the first slot,
which just cleans the edge, and then run.

Speaker 8 (40:57):
It through the.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Ninety nine at Briscoes.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
That's the one.

Speaker 8 (41:04):
Is it called scan pant?

Speaker 1 (41:06):
He got two slots the one I can see. You
might have imagined three, have you?

Speaker 3 (41:09):
That's the budget. That's a budget, mate, Okay. And they
worked brilliantly sortally recommend them because.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
You'd be of the generation everyone had a stay sharp,
a wool chirt sharp knife that when it's little housing.
They were good, I thought, But you don't see them in.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
What about the electric knife? One of those?

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Wow, they were good for cutting the bread.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
If you've got a bread making, do any one of
those electric knives? Otherwise you just demed up with fat.
Butits of dough. Crap everywhere exactly, just crap everywhere. I
love those two blades that go back and forward. A
clumsy looking but it works. Oh, would have a good knife.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
And the old day here we go back in the
old days. Yes, back in the old days when we
had black and white TV. He was a guy that
he was like a handyman and he used to come around.
I remember that. I remember we had a little van. Yeah,
and he traveled around the neighbor it and he's up
and knights, she do tools, he do spades. Uh, what

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do you call those things? Heads? All that sort of things.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Now, why would have they got out? Because if someone
came knocking, I'd say, here you go fill your boats.
Here's then here's the chainsaws. I've got that much stuff
that needs to be sharpening. He could be there all day.
I wouldn't be grudging at all.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
But people don't want to do that sort of crap.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Now what do you mean? Why don't you don't? More
would be more satisfying than uba, wouldn't it.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
Yeah, but you don't see the sights doing that, mate.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
You'd be in people's houses. Cup of teacher, Yeah, I would.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Would you like some brands a sideline? You've got a
lot of freak time during How do you know, I don't. Well,
that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Chimney sweeping I've got. I've got to fill chimney sweeping
kit too.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Have you really yeah, well seriously have you ever done it?

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, but only for myself?

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Yeah yeah, but you've actually put the thing up the chimney.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Down it we do. Yeah, I'll tell you where. It's
a math. I think I'll tell you what they reckon.
And most people say that a big bit of iron
chained almost as good. You raddle that around, it knocks
everything out. But you know, jimney sweeping is quite satisfying.

Speaker 8 (43:34):
I'm sure it would be.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah. No, but I might do that Lushy's knife sharpening
chimney sweeping, But then you'd find one of those two
story houses that would terrify you. He's I t see
what Chris Wood looks. Elated is sitting next to standing
to barbarusas And now the new Caledonian team are wandering
around the field clipping and getting good support too. There, Hello, June,

(43:58):
it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Hell yeah, I just had the mister Sharp come around.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Mister Sharp, what a coincidence that that's his name when
he sharpens.

Speaker 6 (44:13):
Knives and he did all my gardening stuff, all my
scissors and all my knives. It's just a brilliant, brilliant
way to do it, especially some of the gardening equipment,
because you know things like secreateers, spades, hang shovels. You

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never think about giving those an edge, but it makes
just such a big difference.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
I've never heard of mister Sharp. Where about are you?
What city?

Speaker 6 (44:46):
I'm in Auckland.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Well I never heard of him.

Speaker 6 (44:49):
Yeah, you just google him up and he's there. I
think he is. He will sometimes be at the markets
as well, and so he was here. He just does
it in the driveway, you know, doing it because he
needs sunlight so he can check the edge with a
good light. And I think think I had. I've got

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some extra gardening equipment because I do some volunteer gardening.
So he was here for a couple of hours and
I think it's the brilliant service. I highly recommend it.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
And he's got a grinding wheel.

Speaker 6 (45:23):
Yeah I think he has. I presume he has. I
wasn't watching what he was doing. That it's fantastic. I
also haven't got I've got a really good set of
kitchen knives, but I don't put them into a block.
I've got a block, but it's got a whole lot
of like plastic or that's sort of very fine pastick

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sort of hand arms armed type things, or fronds that
just yeah, you're not you're not stuff in the edge.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Because I've never worked in a kitchen. We they've had
a knife block. I imagine that. They said as the
devil's work.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
Yeah, yeah, mister sharp, excellent, mister sharp.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
And he does your dressmaking scissors, does all the scissors
in the house.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
Yes, he does that. He does the dressmaking, and he
will do you know, your proning stores which might have
the fine teeth on them, he will. It's a bit
hard to get into them, but he can just give
them a bit of an edge. And I think one
of the best things is the secrets, because secrets go

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out of They love the sharpness quite quickly because you
are using them ten pears and when you're in the garden,
so that that's where I particularly like like what he
does there. But you know, when you get a shovel
out and it's got a good edge on it, and
then you're especially at the moment when the soil is.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
So hard, Yeah, well I've got I've got, but I've
got I've got a bastard file I used for the
edges for the medic and the and the thing to
get the get there because it makes a lot easier.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (47:05):
No, he he's actually quite good. He'll give you a
ring too, or he'll give you an email to say
I'm in the area, you know, or once a year
you'll just you know, follow up like that. And I
think it's one of those old style homes service which
is just very nice to have and very very very convenient.

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So I when he emailed me the week before and
I said, well give me a week, I'll collect everything up.
And you know, there was a couple of hours works
fun to make it worth while. But he's I think
he's pretty busy.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Nice to hear you, and thinks I had no idea
that those things still existed. That's exciting. That's given me
read I mean in a changing world. That's hope to
get your knives sharp, and that's exciting. And Fancy's name
being mister Sharpe, what are the chances the butcher mister
sausages just to see to a few of the postmatch interviews,
the football make no mistakes these guys are ecstatic custom

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bar Bruce's five attempts, five world coup attempts over fifteen
years to go there, and he's, well, I presume he'll
be chosen, but he's that it came on for a
skipper and scored unbelievable. George, it's Marcus could even then welcome.

Speaker 5 (48:12):
Yeah, your program is like a smaller ward of interesting stuff, dragging.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Back memories of sport, practical advice, and how to sharpen
your knives.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Yeah, so I want to talk about box cut on
knife blades. But before I do, your mister Sharp brings
back memories of being a kid. And I used to
push the lawnmower, the manual lawnmower around, you know, with
the two wheels and the spinning blade no motor for
those that don't know what I'm talking about, and those

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things invariably got blunt, and these guys like mister Sharp
would turn up down the road with their bell or
whatever it was. And then you take your lawnmower out,
and I mean, you disassemble this thing and you'd sharpen
up all those five spinning blades, and then you pull
the bass plate out and then sharpen that up and
get tole square again reassembled it. You had to pay
them for it, and then you go to both the lawn.

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This things sung. It's you know, just there's a beautiful
sound of the glass. The grass just flew out the back.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
When I was also of the belief that those things,
those old pushmawers, were also supposed to be self sharpening
to a certain amount of true.

Speaker 5 (49:22):
No, No, we always care to keeping blades up. You know,
you've got stones or nails or bits of you know
why or whatever it goes to, someone's going to touch
it up. Yeah. But anyway, the other thing is box
cutter blades pain in the butt. They just get blunts
so quick. I don't know if you find that, you know,
the blades that slide out of that little handle.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Always thought a bit funny about box cutters after nine
to eleven.

Speaker 5 (49:49):
Well exclude all that, I mean, but.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
You know there's always a grim side. I don't like
when you've got to snap the blade off too. I
always find that a bit scarty. Yeah, but what I'm
going to do, you what, George, what do you use
a box cutter for?

Speaker 5 (50:01):
Oh, all sorts of stuff you can even use in
the garden for pruning. If you get this, you know,
if the twigs aren't too big, you just go down sideways,
not across, and it just slides it off. But basically
opening things, cutting things, cutting tape or whatever. But the
thing is, the blades get They just made a stainless
steel mainly, and they get blood so easy. And I

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get slacked off having a via of these blades. So
one day I got my wilch This is where coming
to now, because you'll program my Wiltshire knife sharpener. Okay,
I got that out. I took the middle out of it,
so I just had the knife sharpened part of itself,
lifted the top up, and then ran the blade down
at throat. My blocks cut of four or five times

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and the whole thing came sharp again. I'm just saying
you can resharpen them on those Wiltshires, and probably any
of those knife sharpeners that you get in the two
dollar shop would probably do the same thing. The V
shaped ones, they just got two titanium bits of blades
or seper you know, hard pieces of metal in there

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on a V shape, and you pull the blade across
it and it just strips it off and makes it
all sharp again.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
So here's here's a question. Why did we give up
on those Wolfshire stay sharp knives because we got better
knives or because it would just blunt them or what happened?

Speaker 5 (51:24):
Ah, I think there's probably more trendy knives turn up,
you know. It's one of those fashion things, that's not
I've got several here that I've got. I've got long
one that I keep exclusively for chopping roasts and that's
the only time I use it. And that thing just
slices through so nicely. It's a long one, it's about

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a foot long, and that's a lot.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
That's a wool chair one, yes.

Speaker 5 (51:51):
And I've got a small I've got the short one
which you use for vegetables and so on. And I've
got the fork that when you poke it and it
sharpens the end so that it comes out it's got
a plenty you know, that's really sharp on end. And
those things for the nineteen seventies.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
I was going to say, you don't see them around,
so I must it must have lasted your while.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
Oh yeah, but if you go to second hand shops
or you know, the hospital shops and all that everything again,
you might spot one, or Salvation Army, you know, or
garage sales as on. People don't understand what they are
and actually how good they are, and they will sharpen
any knife, but don't forget as you draw it through,

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it's peeling metal off. So if you do that lots,
you end up with a curved blade, you know, because
it's wearing it down. But of course when it gets
to the handle, it didn't go that far up, so
your blade ends up slightly curved, a bit of sharp,
but you're basically wrecking your knife. Instead of using a stone,
I've got a I've got a couple. I've got two

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or three stones I use on my other knives for
honing them for my kitchen knives. So I've got one
that's about a two and a half thousand grit and
that's really really fine for those that don't know. But
it puts a razor blade edge on my knife that
I use for vegetables and things. Just flush it through,
it just keeps it. There's nothing worse than watching a

(53:14):
cooking show. Then they get the knives out and they're useless.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
George, how often the ever roast?

Speaker 5 (53:23):
Every now and again when the wind when the wind blows.
You find them on special. You know, I've had legs
of roast that I bought last Christmas of eight dollars.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
You know, I remember that when the cheap roasts were
all out, there was phenomenal one of the eight dollars
roast cheapers. Well you have, we have our own roast
slam this summer. That's right. That's all things going to
plan anyway, get in touch. My name is Marcus Hill,
twelve Glennis. Hello, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 15 (53:51):
Hi, Mike is hello? Are you my friend? I've still
got the old bread knife my parents had in nineteen
fifty three, pretty old day. Yeah, still rest on it?

Speaker 1 (54:02):
You still sharpen it?

Speaker 15 (54:04):
Yes, no, you don't have to sharpen it. Still sharp
and it's got no rest on it at all. And
it's called Regal stainless Steward by Marty and One Board
it in nineteen fifty three.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
It's a good knife. That seventy years it's a long time,
that's right.

Speaker 15 (54:19):
And it's still it's still got it. It's stainless steel
the way it was back in the fifties, without a blake,
without an incorporate rest on it. My parents looked after
this stuff.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Do you know, I mean, as I'm thinking about, I
don't think you're sharper. I don't think you're sharp and.

Speaker 15 (54:35):
Uh no you don't know them. But it's it's just
pretty old though. A with the wooden handle.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
No, no, that's a that's a that's a collector side
of it.

Speaker 15 (54:42):
Cheap, it's an antik. Yeah, it's a memory of my dad.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Good.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Okay, I appreciate that we might got interesting knives, the
oldest knife twenty eight to ten to ten to ten.
I've got text and got a lot of those. Tug
get these out of the way. Why I can cheap
is I go about forty knive texts. Someone wants to
hear from Shifts on the best knives to buy Marcus.

(55:13):
The World's Speedway Champs was usually had a will be
stand in the UK you didn't ride a Berry Briggs
and Ivan Major. We're usually in the finals. So over
ninety thousands spigtails would be their chos. John going to
Japan and September can't wait to go knife shopping. Apparently,
even the ones they sell the souper market are amazing.
Shifts get the best were their money, the more expensive,
the better. Fury are good if you are aye and

(55:36):
wast off, get them professionally done someone as I got
my knife from Timu altogether out of course you did, Marcus.
The Ahoka market and North Kendby as a knife sharpener
on a Friday morning trash. That's a useful market. A
lot of us to go to markets would give our
bottom dollar for a knife sharpener and everyone endless people

(55:59):
doing donuts Marcus. Years ago, my mother used the Ittric
knife for cutting a sponge without squeezing the cream out
of it. Fantastic. Not at Western Springs and on Saturday and
going for for fifty years. You do you know it
is broadcast live in the USA. Didn't know that that's interesting.
It is world famous and open wheeled dirt track racing,

(56:21):
older than the FIFA World Cup. Everyone looks after each other.
No police are ever needed there as there is no trouble.
I can leave my seat and belongings, look around the
pits and know that it's all safe. A very special
place in Orkan history that needs to live on in
future generations. Ivan, I agree. So often we get rid
of the best things that we've got and wonder why

(56:44):
we're all a little bit ordinary. Oh we never should
have got rid of that windmill and Simon Street. Don't
get me started, Marcus. I use mister Sharpe twice a year.
Is anything that needs to sharp and lances exit and
well priced to enjoy the show chairs tarby Auckland, Marcus,
I put my knives upside down on the wooden knife block.

(57:05):
That way they stay sharp. Is Dave have a German
steel washed half knife cost two seven into neden, dropped
on the floor at broken half. Brought a cheaper model
back here and he's in for one sixty sharpen on
my oilstone that I wrap in muslin and hone the
edge when carving on a steel rod. Marcus's name isn't

(57:27):
mister sharp, It's a franchise and Palmi as well. Oh
is that right? Marcus? Talking about mobile service, I had
a mobile vet come to my house to check my
free nervous cat. Such wonderful carrying vet. Nurses didn't know
there's a mobile vet. Marcus. Knife sharpening is a guy

(57:49):
that goes around chrost git sharpening anything. Calls himself old
school sharping service. I've found to offer great service regards Mark,
But what about the Wolfsha knives? Why did they die
a death as you'd stick that, you'd mount them on
the wall, wouldn't you just beside the oven? You'd be

(58:09):
your knife up there, put it out like Excalibur. It's
knives and the knives to what're on about tonight? What
are you we going to know from tim? And would
be like probably made in the same factory. You're not

(58:32):
supposed to buy yourself a knife that you got to
get given one? Is that right? Am I right? Maybe
not if you're a chef? How are people welcome hit'll
twelve mine of us? Marcus good evening, oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty comprehensive victory to say, I mean that's

(58:58):
it seems to be a bit of an easy I mean,
I hate to say it, but it seems to be
a bit of an easy journey of the World Cup
for us. Don't put knie in a dishwasher if you
want to keep them sharp longer. Peter Pettance texted Marcus,
who heard the lady talk about mister sharp who does
her tools? Think she means secretars, not secret tour secreteurs

(59:21):
not secretars, and spades not shovels. There's a guy who
parks up with his mobile workshop here in Cambridge Main
Street by the cricket pitch every day, no rental shops overheads,
and he's busy. They tell me he's good and he's cheap. Well,
don't think we've got that down at my neck of
the woods. Marcus the listener who said mister sharp as

(59:45):
a franchise must be pretty sharp. Marcus, How well do
you think he's any will performing the FIFA World Cup
after this game tonight? Well, we've never gone to the
second stage. I think in nineteen eighty two we played Brazil,
Scotland and Russia. Something happened with the goalkeeper the goal

(01:00:06):
when all the way without any goal, and he didn't
go to the World Cup, or something happened there. There
is some mystery. In eighty two then we went to
the World Cup in South Africa with the Vovo Zeilas
and we didn't lose a game, but we didn't win
one either. If I'm right, how do you think we'll go, Well,
we've got Chris Wood. Look, I don't know, the players

(01:00:30):
look pretty good. I don't know what we'll be waiting
for the draw now, I guess, And I don't even
know how a forty eight team structure works. I went
to the website was too complicated. Would there be four
pools of twelve or six pools of eight? I don't know,

(01:00:51):
or the eight pools of six. I don't even know
how it would work. It seems like a complicated thing.
Someone's texted, I love lux and with a passion? What
that means? Although text every show with that. I've got

(01:01:20):
the drawer of the Rugby World Cup for you. The
teams will be split into twelve groups of four teams,
with the top two of each group and the eight
third best teams progressing to a new round of thirty two. Wow.

(01:01:50):
The total number of games played will increase from sixty
four to one hundred and four, and the number of
games played by teams reaching the final four increase from
seven to eight. The tournament will last thirty nine days
and increase from thirty two days to twenty fourteen to eighteen.
So then when you got the final a new round
of thirty two. I don't know how many there would

(01:02:12):
be in that thirty two? How many? How many?

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
What? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
I don't know how many rounds? How many different pools?
He would be in that?

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
I see, I see I see, I see, I see,
I see. So when they come to thirty two, it's
sixteen matches and it's a win. It's it's a it's
a final sixteen, Final eight quarter CMO. That's well, that's brutal.
That is brutal. So you gotta win. You gotta win
Final thirty two, Final sixteen, Final eight, Final four, Final two.

(01:02:49):
You gotta win five matches or six. It's a lot
of matches to win in a row. Five matches, you
gotta win an arrow to get through to win that
you go to finish your pool won five matches in
a row. Well, that's brutal. Well, England might be winning

(01:03:12):
there for sure. All the I'll go through and they'll
go out. That's what it seems to God always happens.
We're talking sharpening knives and football knives, knives knives, Oh eight,
one hundred and eighty to tirty sixteen to ten. If
there's any other break and news, I'll bring that to you.
But removing scenes at football at Eden Park, the players
seem genuinely ecstatic. I've just got reading Michael Burgess from

(01:03:39):
the New Zealand Herald. If you're going to make history,
this is the way to do it on home soil,
plenty of tension, of shock, injury to the most important player,
brave opposition in a rollicking finish. Since nineteen thirty, across
twenty two editions of the World FIFA World Cup, only
New Zealand teams have featured on the biggest football Only
two New Zealand teams have featured on the biggest football stage.
Now there will be three. The All Whites have blocked

(01:03:59):
their ticket to book their ticket to North America next
year following a three zero win over New Colording tonight.
It was a Newby evening much more than expect did
as La Cargo Lacker goal put up a tremendous fight.
Well Captain David Wood limpdoff injured early in the second half,
but the All Whites got the job done. Defender Michael
Boxle broke the deadlock just after the hour with its

(01:04:20):
first international goal, before cost of Barbarusis extended the lead
five minutes later. A neat finish from Elijah Just made
the game safeties and could celebrate qualification. It's been a
long time, five thousand, six hundred and ten days since
the All Whites bet bah Rain and Wellington to qualify
last time November two thousand and nine. The roots may

(01:04:43):
be different this time round, along with the expectation that
it's no less important a vital moment for the sport
in this country. The All Whites had to battle for
the result, unable to break down the well organized visitors,
but that somehow felt right for the occasion. The first
goal was always going to be crucial, but took a
long time to arrive. Before that, there were plenty of
chances without the Polish, but their superior qualities showed through
by the end. Their midfield improved as the game progressed

(01:05:05):
to the sub institute, especially Francois Devrie made a violent
packed as the game opened up. There was almost a
word charged down from the kickoff as the All Whites
wind on the hunt, but you can only quickly settle
to their shape five four one without the ball. With
a good defensive structure, they were also physical, not holding back.
After Sarpi Sing was up ended, the All Whites had

(01:05:25):
their first free kick. The ball fell to mcgarbett who
shot was blocked before some other desperate clearances. This set
the tone for the half as the Physic's defended superbly
while the all whites lack precision and a bit of luck.
Great report, Great report. So there we go, and yeah,

(01:05:50):
do you want to go to America? How's the dollar?
But we're off it's going to be in America and
Canada and Mexico. You know, if you want to talk
about that eight hundred and eighty teddy and knife sharpening
and the rules of your knives, and with that, I
mean kind of you know, I imagine people don't sharpen them anymore.

(01:06:14):
They just buy cheap ones because you get them at Briscoes.
Is that right? And ot of knives these days seem okay.
When that set with cheaper trays, you get cheap exported knives,
and they probably most of the time they're fine. Marcus,
I drove the Desert road on Friday and again on

(01:06:36):
Monday today. I think you need to take Simeon Brown
and walk at Katahi to task two months closed to
my expectations whether a peer work would be completed. There
were vast sections of road lines with cones speed restriction
of twenty thirty k's and much work still to complete.
Talk about third world. They have turned part to State

(01:06:56):
High One into a gravel road. David the Mountain day.
I thought it was always going to be done on
two tranches. I think that's to be expected. I think
they said there was going to be one, but then
moved to the other bit. I think this is as planned. Marcus.
So easy to sharpen your own knives with a steel.
Cindy Joy's a boss movief. You're having dinner and then

(01:07:17):
you get out the knife. Marcus is a company in
Auckland called Victory Knives. They supply throughout New Zealand. Great
knives also for hunting. Stone is better than a steel.
Marcus knives are so cheap now I hardly bother sharpening
them exactly. I wonder if that's the way people have gone.

(01:07:42):
That's right, four years today since they ever given went
to the son of the Suez Canal, that amazing iconic
funt of that tiny digger trying to remove it. They
did it. The job though, to forward out took a week?
Did it? It took a long long time. I thought
they'd make a movie of that. They haven't guess to
be quite a short movie. Can that much happens anyway?
Get in touch. My name is Marcus. Welcome oh eight

(01:08:03):
hundred and eighty we're talking knives. Is there a sense
that people don't sharpen them anymore because the your knives
are cheap and don't need sharpening. Because I never sharpen
a knife, it seems to do the job. There is
a steal in our knive set. But to be honest,

(01:08:30):
I don't even know how it works. I wouldn't. I
think you've got to have a second nature to know
the angle, and I don't have that nature. Something I
could learn, probably get obsessed with it. So we are

(01:08:54):
talking knives, someone said, because the shifts are again to us,
the best knives to buy. It's another thing you get
obsessed about. People to get knive people to get obsessed
with knives, a Japanese knives and things. I mean, let's
face it, there's not much stuff you can't cut us there.

(01:09:17):
And do you want your knives too sharp anyway? I
don't know. But the wiltshare knives, those knives you would
use to sharpen themselves, they seem to fall down. I
don't know that you even buy yourself sharpening knife anymore.
And the electric knives, they seem to be No one
talks about those anymore. They're quite good. I mean if
you have a bread make you already do need an

(01:09:38):
electric knife, otherwise nothing will cut. So otherwise your bread
it will all just collapse as you go to cut it.
The electric knife, you can almost do it with no
downward pressure, because downward pressure turns your life into a pancake.
That's what we're about tonight. Get in touch also too,
if you at the football or at Western Springs. We

(01:09:58):
are talking about that also tonight. It'd be nice to
hear from you something else you want to mention. Not
a problem, brilliant going to go to football, to the
World Cup. To book your tickets. I guess it's going
to be hard to book a ticket, so you know
the drawer because some of it's in Canada and some

(01:10:18):
of it's in Mexico and someone's in the US of A.
So I think it's probably something A fair amount of
Kiwis will go to English speaking country. Easy to get around,
hire a car, get a train. Be good. Hello, Ross,

(01:10:41):
it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Yeah, Marcus, So I was just listening to you talking
about sharpening knives. I eighty seven and I can remember
a guy coming to the door with a strip a
grindstone shrap to his chest and sharpening knives at the
house from a mother.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
Wow, would he walk? Would he walk? Or beyond a bike?

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Now he walked. I was a very young child at
the time, but I remember him and he sort of
propped himself up against the wall and cranked the handle
and sharpened knives, probably for thrip and so six months.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
So it was a hand cranked sharp little on his chest.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Yep, he had he had it stripped to his chest.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
So it's amazing visuals. Do you do you now think
back and that surprises you, it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Does now, But I mean he was he was an
old fellow anyway, an amazing thing to do. He's probably
as old as I am now. So, but you know
they were tough in those days.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
What area of the country in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
In sending him as a matter of.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Fact, And what was his name? Did you say?

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
I didn't get his name. No, he just came to
the door. He probably did the whole street. And I
wanted to know if we wanted any knives sharpened?

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Could It'd be quite a skill because you have to
crank the handle with one hand and then do you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Well, that's right there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
But I'd like to see that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Oh you won't see it now. I was very very
young at the time.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
Did the sharpening stone Did it rotate vertically or horizontally?

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
No? No, I was no vertically.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
I imagine it would be vertical. Okay, well, I.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Can remember cranking the handle, and I think I had
something else that sort of propped up against the house
of supporting him. As I say, it's a long, long
while ago.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
I wonder if that was something he invented, or all
the knife sharpeners then in those days would have it
stripped to the chairs.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Because there's still wasn't because of those days. So I
guess there was a bit of work there for him
if we wanted to go around sharpening knives.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
Goodness, Okay, wow, yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you for
coming through us. I find that very very interesting. Why
would you so? You never could have imagined that make
a nice kind of tableau in a film. Marcus got
a quality German chift and I've had it for years.
Get it sharpened once a year, then use a steel

(01:13:24):
to keep an edge. We'll cut anything. Cheers, Baz. My
late husband went on a knife making course on the
West Coast and made three great sets for our three children.
He imputed the blades. They are still very sharp after
ten years. Cheers Nikki. Marcus, Canada is boring as hell
and no football culture. Us say, no football culture. You

(01:13:47):
need to go to Mexico will be a brilliant experience.
That's right, You're quite right. Mexico's where it will happen.
I presume they'll qualify as been the hosts. Go to
that place, that taco place that got the Mitcheland stars
that looked good. Marcus, our knife block has the sharp
and I flick it through each time prior to you, says,

(01:14:09):
we just chucked them in the dishwaster each night. Marcus,
you need a carbon steel knife and a stone. Western
Springs was fantastic on Saturday. Quite bittersweet though always burn sweed. Marcus.
We're off to the Mediterranean and the Oceana allure in August.
But nervous, Nieces, we are stopping an istanbul. Any advice appreciated.

(01:14:34):
It'll sort itself out. Yeah, Hi, Harry, Mark's welcome here. Right,
you're good, Harry good.

Speaker 7 (01:14:42):
The best way to keep your knives sharp is not
let your wife near them.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
That's a good bit of advice.

Speaker 7 (01:14:47):
All right, it's don't put them in the dish. Don't
put them in.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
What does your wife do with them? Harry slag of?

Speaker 7 (01:14:56):
But every time she uses by black sharpen them because
I like sort of thing fish properly.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
If you're fish for.

Speaker 7 (01:15:06):
Knives.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Yeah, what is the funny knife? I've seen those people.
They've got like a plastic handle, haven't they a white
plastic handle and a curve to them. Is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:15:15):
Yeah? That's right, a long, thin blade, you know, and
not a lot of surface theory on the blade, so
you don't get get friction when you're pulling it through
the frost. And yeah that's better. Yeah, you know, it's
it's a lost skill way And I never got talt

(01:15:35):
to sharper knives, but I've picked it up myself just
watching people and then and then talking to a few people,
and it's sort of it's all about the thickness of
the blade. And you can get a knife and if
it hasn't been ground for a long time. When the
old the old butchers and the you know in the
in the freezing rooks, they were experts in it. You know,

(01:15:57):
they could get them down and they wouldn't let anyone
else touch their knives, you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
Know, real would never never mean your life knife, your chainsaw,
you're sleeping bag do you have?

Speaker 7 (01:16:07):
Are you still in Ocean beach down Bluffy?

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
Yeah, I am, yeah, yeah, Because.

Speaker 7 (01:16:12):
The ocean beach then there was some good knives down there.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
I can imagine, I can imagine. I can imagine still
with them Bluff, there'd be a lot of great, great
people that are still great at knives because most people,
most people seem to work at the beach, and now
they're fishermen as well, so a lot of people work
in the fish fish processing area.

Speaker 7 (01:16:30):
Tell you a good story about Bluff. Some beach just quickly.
I used to catch sheep in there, and you'd download
them in rather than chase them. They had everything had
to go through sort of a spray wash, you know.
They washed the round one with the water sprays down
on them to watch them and the sheep wouldn't run
into it. So they trained up some old weathers and

(01:16:53):
they were called Jonah sheep and they'd walk off the
wreck and they go and they'd walk around the outside
and they'd duck out quickly before the sheep had shut
the door. And they what they'd given them for a treat,
they'd give them a cigarette, you know, and they'd eat
the cigarette.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Hey, Harry, I don't want to be the guy that
corrects you. I think they're called a Judas sheep because
they portray the others. Yeah, yeah, that's got the gist
of it, Harry. Have you been to Ocean Beach lately,
because it's still there, right, and some Auckland has bought

(01:17:30):
it and they've all developed into like growing power and
stuff like that. Because if you grow because because all
the water tanks where, there's big water tanks, so you
get the resource for good water. So they're farming power, right.
And because they're farming them, are not getting them wild.

(01:17:51):
You can sell them when they're a lot smaller, so
they're selling them as a pippy side. I think the
shells quite different. It's quite a big market for it,
so it's become quite a I don't know how successful
it is, but it's become quite a sort of focus
for aquaculture. So it's the building are still there.

Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
That's good to hear their buildings still being youday, Well.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
Yeah, because it was a big building. Yeah, But I've
never I've read books about the freezing works there. But
I've never heard anyone say because anywhere any animal get
addicted to nicotine, won't it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:24):
I suppose it was just a treat. But they used
to laugh if then of the sheep passed them off,
they'd chat the door before he got out. And they
used to really annoy the sheep that they had to
go around and get washed with their mates.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
But they would give the sheep would eat a cigarette.

Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
Yeah, they'd give them a cigarette when they come out.
They'd kill away on it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
So the Judas sheep portrayed that the Judas sheep would
lead all the other sheep to their death right and
then they would they would, and that they were trained
to do that right.

Speaker 8 (01:18:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:18:51):
Yeah, They just walked in and front of the other sheep,
and the other sheep would follow them, and then that
go and then the old sheepherd would give it a
bit of a the reddle or red, and all the
dogs would back up and and the old the old
Judish sheep walk right round the outside and just quickly
duck out before they shut the gate. And you're stand
there looking at them staying, you're looking at them waiting

(01:19:11):
for his cigarette. Quite clear, you know. The Ocean Beach's.
You know, there's quite a few islanders and the Macagon
there some long living and they came through the Ocean Beach.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
And funny people. Funny enough, when they went to recruit
them in the sixties or whenever it was, they didn't
go to Rara Tongue and they went to another island,
I think it was called Mangaia or another one, and
they got and they just got heaps of people from
there and there's almost no one living in that island now,
but heaps of them moved to Bluff and heaps of
them are still there.

Speaker 7 (01:19:46):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I remember when I see and
there was a lot of the lot of island. This
this was in the oh we want to be seven
East and seven East and they actually all went to
I'm trying to think of the rugby club they used
to follow, and that was always a tough team to play.
Star or no no not and no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Pioneer, no not Pirates.

Speaker 7 (01:20:15):
Pirates It might have been the Pirates, Yeah they were,
but they were unreliable. Sometimes have twenty twenty in the
team and the old times I have too because somebody
who died and they're all the Tony for the week.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
Who did you play for?

Speaker 7 (01:20:33):
I've played for Toku in the Star with the.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
Is that way? Is that the way they?

Speaker 15 (01:20:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:20:39):
I played with the Dermodies. Yeah yeah yeah. Let's drive
out the fight and drink. They were great days, mate,
they're oh fest you're not allowed to do what we
used to do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
No good reason. Now, well you're feeding sheep cigarettes. That's
probably enough that we need to You gotta you've got
to steal for your knife.

Speaker 7 (01:21:01):
You sharpen it, right, yeah, yeah, I just do it. Well,
I've got a stone in the steel.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
What's a stone?

Speaker 8 (01:21:09):
A stone?

Speaker 7 (01:21:09):
Just an allstone, you know, Yeah, as long you buy
them buy there's different different qualities of ever. Think now,
if you want a good knife, you want to keep
it shot. Don't go and buy the bloody cheap one
that's on special with three bits of nylon and you know,
go and buy a decent gown to a decent hardware shop.
O us, you've got the good ones, Hayes and so

(01:21:31):
they used to have good knives, but we didn't have
to buy them in the odd because the boys the
works were given to us.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
Of course they would, you know, but.

Speaker 7 (01:21:40):
Slip one in the gun boot. The knives win in
the right gun boots and the bloody sweetbreads when in
the left gun boots away they go home.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
Lovely talking every Thanks very much, that's very funny.

Speaker 5 (01:21:53):
I liked all of that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
It's brilliant. Thank you, Marcus. We used to sharpen our
carving knives on the back doorstep before Mum used it
to cut the Sunday roasted did make a difference, Marcus.
It's a fellacy the you don't want your knives too sharp.
You are far more likely to slip and cut yourself
with a blunt knife. I keep an edge on mine,
as it's a hobby of mine sharping tools and knives

(01:22:14):
for family and friends. I still use the carving knife
my parents got for a wedding present in thirty nine, Marcus.
Interesting about the knife sharpening man. My brother was talking
about a man who came around the Nabor with sharpening knives.
It was christ Chitch in the early seventies. I thought
he was talking through a hold in his head, but

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my parents confirmed it. I thought that was pretty cool.
Hadn't heard another story about that until this evening. Cheers Julie.
But this is the email and get this for surprising
from Sharon Marcus. I'm in my fifties. As a child,
I remember a blind gentleman coming around a neighborhood sharpening knives.

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He had a bag and pulled a wheelstone out of
his bag and set it up on the table. That
was a new brighton back of the nineteen seventies. Me
and my sisters were hide behind the door as he
scared us, but he was friendly enough mone would give
him two dollars, which was a lot back then. Thanks
for the memory. It does sound like something of a
horror movie, doesn't it, Hi Marcus. Dad got a six

(01:23:23):
inch nail, bent it into a crook shape, sharpened the
pointing in on the concrete level off the point. Surprise,
as screwdriver. We didn't have a screwed either. The handy
at the time. The crook at the nail head was
the handle. I was young at the time and thought
Dad was a real mcguiver. It's not really a knife story.
It's how to make a screwed over out of a nail.
But good on you, Thank you a friendly See what's happening?

(01:23:46):
How we go with our predictions?

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Dan?

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
There's nothing really It's all about unpredictable the moment, isn't it.
Anyone predicted that Tiger Woods would end up going out
with Donald Trump's ex daughter in law, predicted that there'd
be a fair straight fire. That's a fairly surprising thing. Anyway,
I don't think anyone did dead. I think I'd remember

(01:24:08):
it by asking you that rhetorically or facetiously, I think
that the right word for that one. Yeah, Hi, Bill
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:24:19):
Yeah, Hello is it me?

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
Yes, good evening, Bill welcome?

Speaker 9 (01:24:22):
Yeah, sorry mate, Hi, Yeah, Shorty Knights. Something I learned
just recently, teacup or a coffee cup once it hasn't
been with a ring at the bottom of it, if
it hasn't been fired.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Someone else mentioned that.

Speaker 9 (01:24:40):
Yeah, absolutely, I learned from a German guy three or
four weeks ago, and a lot of people are associated
with I never heard of it. I've tried it with
a few knives here, and it's something brilliant.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
And are there a lot of cups like that? Bill?

Speaker 8 (01:24:59):
There?

Speaker 9 (01:24:59):
There's you'll find that at least fifty percent of them
haven't been fired on bottom ring. You're just knock at
it and you see it's dull, So it's perfectly perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
For short, and you just you just go round and
round and back and forward on that flat area, right.

Speaker 9 (01:25:17):
Yeah, you just you can just use it to drag
it across and use it like you would. You're using
this diamond steel or something like that to shart when I.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
So it's a ceramic, fine abrasive surface.

Speaker 9 (01:25:32):
A yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Okay, appreciate that.

Speaker 12 (01:25:35):
Bill.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
That's good to tell, Thank you, makes sense, doesn't it.
As soon as he said that, it makes sense. Oh,
by the way, that's the other surprising thing I saw
on the weekend. I don't know how to describe what
I saw. Golf clubs that you don't need to swing

(01:26:04):
that they just you put an X blows of device
and they just propelled. The boy wouldn't see those. Is
it a new thing?

Speaker 9 (01:26:13):
Anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
I don't even know why I'm saying that, because as
soon as I started saying it, I thought, that's weird.
I'm not going to be able to work out how
to Yeah, but I'll see if I can find the video. Marcus.
I grew up in Fiji, and during a celebration in
our holy month, our extended family would come together and celebrate.
Everyone would bring the sharpest knives and butcher the meat

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into pecks. As an eight year old, our cousins and
my siblings would play around the big yard while adults
got to business. We had a bus company. Eventually we
kids found a knife and my cousin cracked it over
my head because we were bragging about whose dad had
the best bus. Of course my dad owned the buses,
and the fact her dad worked for my dad crack

(01:26:56):
right over my skull. I still remember that day and
going to the medical center with my uncle. Anyway, good
show regards to Dee, what a story someone cracking the
head of your the knife over your head, Marcus, We
take our knives to the local butcher to sharpen. But

(01:27:17):
my husband is a damn hand with a steel ches
is that common would steal? Would butcher's welcome sharpening knives?
Marcus r Ip Gris Wiley and George Foreman. I grew
up watching both. Thank you for that. The farewell song

(01:27:37):
for Western Springs Elvis memories pressed between the pages of
my mind. Thanks Marcus. The ram at Mardi were freezing
works was named Judas he did the same job as
the other caller was sayingly liked lion red cheers. Hubbard
and North. And someone says that USA won the first

(01:28:05):
Football World Cup, I might fact check that one. Marcus
Wooden handles brass rivets and on blade stamped Green River.
Best of all, BINDI the oldies will be dancing the
street next week. They get a three percent increase in

(01:28:25):
the pension. What a joke. That's the costant of adjustment.
That's done by law anyway, isn't it who won the
first Football World Cup? So yes, I suspect the person's

(01:28:46):
wrong with that. I think probably what they are what
they are have got confused with and that's why I
was suspicious. Oh that sounds suspicious. Came out, we'd suspicious.
The defending champions of Olympic rugby are the USA because

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they won it the last time that it was at
the Olympics, which was about nineteen thirty. I think that's
the probably the fact you're getting it confused with. But
Uruguay won the inaugural Football World Cup in nineteen thirty.
I don't know who they played in the final. No
I can tell you exactly who they played, because it's
of interest to me and probably interested Dan and probably

(01:29:31):
interested you. There weren't many teams. There were only Japan
Withdrew and Siam with This is a good story actually,
so this is the inaugural Football World Cup soccer for
those that need to know, Japan Withdrew, Siam Withdrew. Egypt

(01:30:01):
missed the ship probably run into the Canal. Mexico and
the United States were there. From North America. South America
was Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Europe

(01:30:21):
had Belgium, France, Romania and a country called Yugoslavia. All
matches took place in monte Video. It's an amazing Wikipedia
entry for this one, and the final saw Uruguay play

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Argentina and because of a dispute, a different ball was
used in each half, one chosen by each team. Argentina's
ball was used for the first half and Uruguay's ball
was used for the second half. Very different looking bulls.
Tremendous Wikipedia entry for that. In fact, the only European

(01:31:10):
team to make the final four was Yugoslavia. Hang on,
I've got something else to see here. It's also a movie,

(01:31:31):
Could See You in Monte Video, which is a twenty
fourteen Serbian comedy film and it's about the Yugoslavia national
team preparing to go to the FIFA World Cup in
montevid hour of nineteen thirty. Yeah, it's a feel good
sporting story because they get to the semifinals. Marcus news

(01:31:56):
in soccer gets seventeen million for making the World Cup.
The players share forty percent. Could explain why the players
were rehappy. Cheers Barry and the announcement for the stadium.
It's not Some people thought was that's Thursday, But I
think that could well be delayed because it seems to
be complaints and I wouldn't be surprised that's not taken

(01:32:18):
to a greater authority. So I think the people think
that the land was given to Auckland by the Motions
family the specific purpose of motor racing at Western Spring,
so to not do that would be in the breach
of the way they have the land, although I think

(01:32:40):
councils probably wouldn't care about that if they're determined to
a pair modern and progressive, which they want to do
and in the thrall of the new shiny thing, if

(01:33:01):
we could put it that way. Dave Marcus, welcome Highday program.

Speaker 16 (01:33:09):
I don't know if you've seen it forged.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
In Fire, Is it like a reality show?

Speaker 16 (01:33:15):
Well, it's a competition where forgers are put placed against
each other three and sometimes four forges to make the
type of knife that is required, a up to the
given parameters to work with and different types of knife markers.
It's a fantastic program and a series like Forged and Fire.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
I think I might have said it, but tell us
what channel you'd find that on.

Speaker 16 (01:33:42):
Well good, I used to get it on Sky. I
don't have it, can't get it any more. It's no
longer on, but it's several series of and sometimes it's
in one of those hand cranked forges, so it's not
all a forged year with charcoal like and cold well

(01:34:04):
worth a watchmate and very addictive.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
I like that because I think the people took it
quite seriously, which I like.

Speaker 17 (01:34:09):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
I like really showing they take it seriously.

Speaker 8 (01:34:13):
Oh absolutely, very serious.

Speaker 16 (01:34:15):
And then they go they're giving back to their home
forges if they make it through to make a specialty
type of a weapon like a war X or something
like that, and they go like, you know, there's two
competing against each other who have made it through, and
I find it fascinating Marcus, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:34:35):
Amazing what makes a good reality show and everything cooking
would work. But that seems to work well on the
TV too, So look fortune fire right, Yes, appre shore
that Dave, Thank you, Marcus. Never put your knives in
the dishwasher at Blunts and we get them sharper through
the butcher and ellerslie. The cutler comes there to collect them.
I didn't know that was the worst that the cutler

(01:34:56):
must be, Marcus. My husband worked many years at the
freezing works. Their knives are only thought sharp enough when
they could run it up their arm and cut the
hair off. They use additional steel to sharpen them. Vic
are the works, oh Berrytown, the West Coast, the knife
making the you go Barrytown just Someone was mentioning earlier

(01:35:21):
about the announcement for the stadiums in Auckland, and there
was an element of truth to the question they're asking.
The council was supposed to announce their preferred option today.
They're announcing it tomorrow morning. There preferred stadium option and
they'll be a vote for council on Thursday. That's where
it's going to happen.

Speaker 14 (01:35:47):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:35:49):
Someone has said that the best knives are made from
pre atomic steel. Isn't one know any more about that?
I know that people do try and go looking for
recks of old steel warships that were pre atomic. I
don't quite know why the steel has better. Maybe someone

(01:36:09):
could explain that to me. Marcus, I text you about
the knife attacks on my skull and Fiji and how
my uncle took me to the medical center. What I
forgot to add was he was in the middle of
painting one of our buses in red and she had
heard the screams. He dropped everything to attend to my

(01:36:30):
situation with a bleeding head. He was already covered in
red paint everywhere and first on the scene, followed by
my mother almost phoned at the spot with all the red.
I'm now fifty and laughing how it must have looked
to my mother. I still have the scar visible more
now as I'm losing my hair. Regards d thank you
that forging show was so good. Strict safety rules for safety, Rosie.

(01:36:56):
Someone texts pre atomic steel steel produced prior to the
first atomic test of superior surgeon equipment made from pre
atomic steel for the ability to be sharper. Pre atomic
steel scrap pirates make big money, salvaging sunken chips, modern lives,
knives lose their edge. We're talking knives in the football.

(01:37:16):
What was people think anyone at that football? So I
think we need to talk about that. And are we
I mean, I don't know where we rank in the world,
but are we good enough now to go there and
go beyond the group stage to the final thirty two?

(01:37:39):
I mean because basically when we went in eighty two
and in twenty ten, the final was getting there, if
you know what I'm saying, when we ever expected to proceed.
So if you want to comment on that, because we

(01:38:00):
are going now to the World Cup and I'm excited
about that. But if you want to talk more about that,
let's hear from you. Very strong victory over you know,
phairly fiery performance from New Caledonia. But we are clearly
the biggest nation in Oceania and let's hope this continues.

(01:38:21):
We go there every four years. I presumably be great
for New Zealand football. Probably great for a financial point
of view, because you do get some of them. It's
a big tournament and you do get some of the spoils. Joel,
It's Marcus welcome evening.

Speaker 18 (01:38:38):
Oh hey, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
Hi, Yeah, good Joe, what do you got.

Speaker 18 (01:38:42):
I'm just gonna talk about the football qualification that we
made it to.

Speaker 3 (01:38:47):
The World Cup. That's great, thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:38:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:38:50):
But I think with modern football, I think we need
a lot of work, especially we we only like like
have our tournaments in the Pacific. It would be great
if we join Asia and have like a bit of
exposure to the Japanese team, Australian team and North South

(01:39:12):
Korean team.

Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
Yes.

Speaker 18 (01:39:14):
Yeah, so nothing impossible when it comes to football, but
you know it's modern football, it's no longer. But like
individual skills and how it used to be back in
the days where like you could have a player that
can carry out the teams, like the a France football

(01:39:36):
team in two thousand and six they had z d
Z Dad. Yes they did have a good selection of players,
but like it was all centered around him. Like if
you watch a few games that competition, you'll see every
second bar was given to him to find a solution.

(01:39:58):
I mean, we got the we got a good name,
not going to deny it, but in terms of experience,
we need more experience to sort.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
Of so we need Joel, We need more matches, but
also to it almost seems as though with and I'm
always hardened that Chris Wood always travels around the world.
But I don't know how it works. But don't we
at the grace of the EPL teams to release those
players and they don't want to because they've paid millions
for them?

Speaker 4 (01:40:24):
Oh definitely, Like well, hey, I'm a big fan of
football and I follow football day today.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
Yes, put it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
This way mate, if you pay, let's say five hundred
K a week for your player, you don't want your
player to go out to your to their national team
and get injured.

Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
And then which is exactly what happened to Chris Wood tonight,
isn't it exactly?

Speaker 4 (01:40:49):
This is what I was going to get onto later
on as well. So it's just in terms of in
terms of releasing the players. The good thing when the
World Cup round, they will be like into a club break,
club football break. But the players are exhausted. They're playing
a long season. Let's talk about European football, like if

(01:41:13):
let's say the Premier League, the top teams, they're having
three games a week, that's minimum, and that's for a
season long and then like you get the World Cup
immediately after the season like ends, so the players are exhausted.
They will be fit, they can provide, but it comes

(01:41:35):
to experience. Experience is very important when performing in like
biggest stage. Like I'll give you an example of Ghana.
Ghana in twenty ten, they had a wonderful team, they
just couldn't put it together as a team when it
came to experience playing against Uruguay. So like little things

(01:41:59):
make difference. So we can't say we're gonna rely on
wood in the tournament, so we have to play as
a team.

Speaker 7 (01:42:08):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:42:09):
And like see some games when you're like having to
defend for extensive time, you need to lift a pressure
from the defense and have ball control for sometimes because
constant pressure will make little mistakes and those mistakes are

(01:42:30):
really bad in football, Like you can't afford them and
it could lead to like a bad performance overall in
the in any given game.

Speaker 8 (01:42:41):
But in terms of.

Speaker 4 (01:42:43):
Where whether we can proceed from the group stage to
the next stage, yes we can. We we can't do that,
but it comes down to the preparation from now until
the tournament. Like, uh, players are busy, we might need
to look at having some sort of a reserve team

(01:43:04):
there like you can pick and choose from them, because
it's not guaranteed when it comes to the to the
tournament that your players are stored at their tour performance
or one of them or two aren't injured. Football is
not predictable. And when I hear people saying, oh, we're

(01:43:26):
going to play against Brazil or we're going to play
against Spain or those top teams, I mean you shouldn't
look at an en. You should be thinking of, hey,
we've got eleven men on the field. They've got eleven
men on the field. We can do easy. It's a
matter of putting it together.

Speaker 11 (01:43:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:43:45):
Probably. One of what I see is one of the
positives is that now that it's changed and there's forty
eight teams, we should probably look to be going there
every four years, which gives us great certainty. So once
we get there in twenty twenty six, the player numbers
will go up because people that always happens. It'll be
great for the sport and more people want to play,
and you know, it gives us the basis for the

(01:44:08):
game to really grow in this country. Now, if we're
going there every four years, it will really give the
sport momentum in this country plast We've got the two
teams in the AUSO League, which seems to be going well.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
Hey listen, for a country of four million population, we're
doing great and this is not our national sport. Rugby
comes first, So I moving like for the future, moving forward,
I'm more positive that we're going to make it every
four years.

Speaker 13 (01:44:40):
It's a matter of.

Speaker 4 (01:44:41):
Building on it. It would be great to be out
there and bring something back home. It's not difficult when
it comes to football. It's not difficult. It's no longer
like before where you have teams are stacked with individual
highly skilled players Brazil two thousand and two, or you

(01:45:03):
look at us Pain twenty ten all the way through
to twenty fourteen, and then you got like Netherland they
just run out of locks when they get to the finals.
You just need to put a team together, have some
self belief we can do well.

Speaker 1 (01:45:25):
I live at there, Joel, thanks for that. Nineteen past
eleven texts. Talking of concerts, I saw the one that
was at Victoria Park about three weeks ago. Online forgot
the artist, but well, what a great content and arena
will shut no and Noel Kaipra Marcus was a football
game showing on TV is TV two. Let's talk about
knives that need to be sharp. Thank you, Marcus. Have faith.
Our team is a lot better our last if a

(01:45:46):
lot of players of overseas experience and now play there.
I'm fully aware of all this. Look look, I'm not
saying I have faith, but I don't think. I mean,
if you look at our ranks, we're lucky to get there.
I think we've been very kind with Oceania because we

(01:46:09):
are amongst the minnows. Got a text on formula one,
which is great. Thanks for the person that took the
effort to send that through. Because yeah, I was interested
in all that stuff about the tires. Maybe someone else
can explain. I can ask some questions to them. High Marcus,
I follow formula one a bit. I thought the Shanghai
race was reboring. The obsession with the tires at the

(01:46:30):
moment is due to Paridi last year struggling with consistency
of tires and having significant differences between the different grades.
At Shanghai, Perarilliu instructured tires to be inflated to twenty
seven point five psi instead of twenty six, the first
time for such a high pressure. Incredibly, cars were able

(01:46:51):
to pit only once instead of the usual two pit stops.
Race analysis and commodats didn't expect that to be possible. Suddenly,
the tires are playing a much bigger part of commentary
as everyone, including race engineers, comes to grips with new information.
Pretty boring, really, So if the tires are inflated more,

(01:47:17):
why does that mean they don't need to change them
as often. I haven't quite worked that connection yet. Maybe
someone could explain that the text says we were unbeaten
in twenty ten, one of the very few numbers of
countries to ever be unbeaten in the World Cup. Yeah,
that's right, But it's not about going unbeaten, is it.

(01:47:38):
You got to win matches to go through from the group,
So you can't just focus on attack, you can't just
focus on defense. So yeah, I don't even know that.
I know at the time we made a big deal
of that, but really I wonder if they thought probably
they should have done things a bit differently. Evening Savanna's

(01:47:58):
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:48:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:48:01):
Hey, I did a sit in the risk last Friday.
Really wow, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:48:07):
Tell me, tell me talk me through it.

Speaker 17 (01:48:09):
Sure, sure, I was about to go in and I
saw these two two people went over the trolley on
the road, loving their head golf. I just thought they
were just taking the trolley home. Next I saw three
stuff chasing them, but this tree. Three stuff couldn't catch
up to them, and me, being a bit of a runner,
I'll do our own seven days a week and I'll
do sprinting, so I'll cut up to them. And then

(01:48:30):
then lucky the cops were so the lights and the
cops came and took them away.

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
So were there three of them?

Speaker 17 (01:48:35):
Did you say three three stuffs were chasing them? There
was two people?

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
Uh?

Speaker 17 (01:48:41):
Yeah, two people stealing and three stuffs were chasing them,
but the stuff couldn't catch them.

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
Did you tackle them or did you restrain them?

Speaker 7 (01:48:50):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:48:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:48:51):
What happened was yeah one of them one one was
just whistling them down, but I saw the other parties
put me onto the truck and the lights. Lucky the
truck didn't and then then just lucky the cop was there.
There was cops. Just happened to me with the tropical
lights and then the cop came and helped me and
handcuffed them.

Speaker 1 (01:49:08):
Was that were the cops appreciative.

Speaker 17 (01:49:11):
Oh yeah, but but the owner of the store, let
me say, thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:49:15):
What store was it?

Speaker 8 (01:49:17):
Why not?

Speaker 17 (01:49:19):
What what they they called?

Speaker 8 (01:49:20):
Why not?

Speaker 17 (01:49:21):
It's shop. It's like reduced to clear. They're sort of
stuff closed to expiry and the stomachy otawer.

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
Well that's bad form, isn't it. Yeah, so it sounds
like a good shop, why not?

Speaker 12 (01:49:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:49:38):
Yeah, yeah, they're not quite You get some good baggains, Yeah,
that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:49:41):
Well those people did or didn't, as the case may be.
Oh yeah, okay, and that police actually headcuffs old school
cuff them straight away? Yeah, well did they? Because because
I think the whole the whole lawa around citizens arrest
is slightly sketchy, isn't it. But if they are being

(01:50:02):
pursued and you jumped in, I mean that seems fine,
doesn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:50:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:50:06):
Okay, nice to hear from your savant. Thank you, Johnny Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:50:11):
Oh I see your photo on email. There's a guy
in King's Cross on a motorbike and he's got an
angle a grinder on the back of it, sharpeney knives.
Really yeah, did you see the phone? I sent it
to you on your email address? Ah, it might not
have come true.

Speaker 1 (01:50:30):
Sorry, mate, Yeah, I can't see. It works on his motorbike.

Speaker 10 (01:50:37):
Yeah yeah, it's on the back of his motorbike. And
he gets off the bike and he's he's got his
ape for none and he goes around to the shops
and he shut his people's knives.

Speaker 1 (01:50:45):
Seems like a great idea to me.

Speaker 4 (01:50:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:50:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:50:48):
And on the side of the bike is a little box.
It must be his, like a little generator in there
that works. To Grinder said, oh, sorry, you go. I've
got a boy. He works for the Aussie butcher and
new Lynd but they have he's a full time butcher there.
But he they have knife shopping there. You take your

(01:51:09):
knives and they shopping them for you.

Speaker 1 (01:51:10):
It's a great thing to do. I've never heard of that,
but all butchers should do that.

Speaker 10 (01:51:15):
Yeah yeah, Oussie Bush is pretty good to you.

Speaker 1 (01:51:18):
And and is that just like a pr thing. They
an't charge for it.

Speaker 17 (01:51:21):
I don't think they do.

Speaker 10 (01:51:23):
I haven't heard if they do or not. I have
to ask my boy. But I work in Sydney, so
I don't know. I don't come back until Easter.

Speaker 1 (01:51:28):
So it's a great It's a great way to get
people out of going to getting their meat from the
supermarket and going to the butcher. That's a great thing
to do.

Speaker 10 (01:51:35):
Oh great butcher shop, that one that's really good meat
enumerate and great guys too good butchers.

Speaker 1 (01:51:41):
Where's that.

Speaker 10 (01:51:43):
Ossie butcher?

Speaker 5 (01:51:43):
New Loo?

Speaker 1 (01:51:44):
Okay cool? How's how how's Sydney working out for you? Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:51:49):
Great place made? I love it over here. The work
here is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:51:53):
Is that much work?

Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:51:55):
Yeah, it's a good place.

Speaker 1 (01:51:57):
And what field are you work? What are you working in?

Speaker 10 (01:52:01):
I've got a cower crane operator. Yes, I work for
a company called mars Can Instruction. They operate pick to
our crane, you know, the one that was on the convention,
sent a great big red one up there.

Speaker 1 (01:52:12):
In Auckland with another bird down.

Speaker 10 (01:52:13):
Yeah, yep, yeah, yeah, there's a great big one. I
had mar written on it, so I always operated there.

Speaker 1 (01:52:20):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:52:21):
So now and now I'm back in Sydney again.

Speaker 1 (01:52:24):
So are you just contract or is it where you'll
be forever?

Speaker 2 (01:52:27):
Now?

Speaker 10 (01:52:28):
I'm full time. But the only reason I came out here,
there's Marcus, is that this is just a spinner condition
spinner money better over it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
And you'd be boom and Buster is there. Always worked
for Cranes, did he Construction?

Speaker 10 (01:52:43):
I started in nineteen eighty two on the Gold Coast
when my parents moved to Aussie from christ Church.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:52:51):
Yeah, so I never looked back.

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
So I've been back and forwards to.

Speaker 10 (01:52:54):
The New Zealand Australia in the last twenty to thirty years.

Speaker 1 (01:53:00):
And I imagine you can even go further afield because
they're quite transferable skills, aren't they.

Speaker 10 (01:53:05):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:53:07):
Now.

Speaker 10 (01:53:07):
I'm we're probably retiring in a couple of years on.

Speaker 1 (01:53:10):
Ye here yeah sound yeah, okay, yeah, where will you
retire to?

Speaker 10 (01:53:15):
I'll probably go back to the New Zealand.

Speaker 8 (01:53:18):
I've got to have them.

Speaker 2 (01:53:18):
I've got to have them.

Speaker 10 (01:53:19):
Todering still and my wife the more tod two boys and.

Speaker 8 (01:53:23):
And a daughter.

Speaker 1 (01:53:24):
Oh I see, So you really are just across there
on your own.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
Yeah, and my wife will come later on stay with me.
We'll go back and towards the sort of thing. So
they're pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:53:33):
Seems perfect. But Sidney, so you know more about anything
but Sydney construction's booming.

Speaker 7 (01:53:38):
Is it?

Speaker 8 (01:53:39):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
The tunnel systems Unbelievable's got that new Badgeries Creek airport.
There's just big motorways going there. It's just unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:53:47):
But that's not that's not crane stuff though, is it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
The big tower cranes are on the side of the
book boxes where they've put the new stations and there.
Oh yeah, they put out the big tunnel boy machines.
They just use the big tower cranes.

Speaker 4 (01:54:03):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
Yes, unbelievable. Do you google it a lot?

Speaker 6 (01:54:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:54:09):
No, I've got a lot of time for Sydney. But
you know, it's pretty tempting to move there, isn't it.
I mean it seems to be. It's it's pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:54:17):
Just the transport, isn't it. I mean it's a good
big city.

Speaker 10 (01:54:20):
Oh the great the trains. I don't even have a carrying.
I just jump on a train. It's just unbelievable. The
system that got over here, it's just leaves us dealing all.

Speaker 1 (01:54:30):
How's how's that new? How's the new under the Harbor
train system? That it's it comes from Chatswood down deliver
that that's that's all up and running now, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:42):
I think I haven't been under the yet look at
it and never look at it, and I want.

Speaker 11 (01:54:47):
To go on it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:48):
I'm going to get across. Hey, but Johnny, try that
email Marcus. That news talk, but I'd like to see that.
It would be good to hear from you. But you're
nice to talk. I'm going to run for more from
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