What about the whole of the South Island (7 March 2025)

Marcus talks about having chickens (because eggs aren't getting any cheaper!), and learns about NZ's inaugural slot race at Ellerslie.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be great and welcome. Hope you've got it's eight
past eight, Well it's got seven past date. No, actually,
by the time i've seen here this what's coming through
to lay it will be eight past date. Ipe. It's
good where you are people, I've got sport and stuff on.
I'll keep you advised about that throughout the evening. Also,
help you are good. You will have heard of the
news about Bribe Island just recently. We have talked about that.

(00:33):
That's where that young student was taken by the shark,
taken by the shark, killed by the shark. I guess
you'd say this is just off well, just off north
of Brisbane, but that's where they're going door to door
around this cyclone that's so slow moving. We're supposed to touch
down on Thursday, but it's been slow down further now.

(00:58):
The due date is tomorrow morning. But these things go
back and forward. And even though the winds are quite slow, well,
even though the winds are quite quick within it, it
moves a walking place. Isn't that amazing. I guess it's
the jet streams that tell it where it's going to go.
So look, I don't know if there's anyone listening that's

(01:20):
affected by that. I've seen some TikTok videos, yes, I've
said TikTok of some people at a surf club at
a beach off Brisbane and the waves came and it
was completely cut off. Was kind of extraordinary. The live
update I'm seeing on the nine News website says cyclone
expected to weaken before hitting Brisbane. Although they're expecting rain

(01:40):
fall up to half a meter three hundred to five
hundred millimeters expected, there's still category two. It's probably most
likely to arrive between cool and Ghetta and Noosa. We'll
get already done a bit of damage. So if you
ask someone that's listing from australia's got an update on that,

(02:02):
let me know what's happening. It's been a long long wait.
It's been a wait long than I know of that
the weight is being anyway you might want to mention
talk about that. I can tell you something. I've got
an email here. I think it's just come through Glenn

(02:24):
from Byron Bay, ex Wellington. Who do you want a
first hand update? Alfred is getting pretty spicy down here
very squaally palm bending winds and sideways rain. Hunker down
for what may be a long night, depending on its

(02:46):
track and its speed. Sounds like Lismore is going to
cop flooding rain again. Still have power, touch wood ragou
on the stove to pass time. Ask me what a
ragu is. I don't think i'd know a ragu. Liz
Moore is a but it's in Limber at Donna River.

(03:10):
We've spoken to people that live in Lismore. It's actually
on two rivers. It's on the intersection of two rivers
and that's not good. There's levees and things, but that's flooded.
The river's threatened to break. The Lismore Levy be a

(03:33):
good stage name, wouldn't it Lismore Levy anyway, Ben Marcus welcome,
good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
He I'm I'm not sure if this is a three
Friday or not. But went to the Wanaka Fish School today.
There a MP show and it's absolutely mess of the
lovely day.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Did you have an interest in going there? We were
a stallholder.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
No, I'm not a stareholder. We just decided to go there.
We're staying in Queen South the weekend, and.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
It was a lovely day over there.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Today it's a week isn't it.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
So it's today and tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Okay, So what's the going for two days?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
What was it like?

Speaker 3 (04:13):
The MP show? I'll give it a ten out, Absolutely fantastic.
He there must have been hundreds and hundreds of stores
I had the radio. It was great, mate, you know,
beautiful food. The only tissue I had was probably the traffic.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
What was the standout stall or food?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Probably a hot dog.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, old school. Nothing new about the hot dogs, the
old school one.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's not really something you can get in town, you know.
It's it was a yeah, different kind of hot dog.
The tomato sauces, like a tomato chatney sauce.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
I don't know where they get it from, but you
can't buy it in town.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
So is this a sausage and a bun or is
this a deep fried sausage that's bettered.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
That's a deep fried sausage that's bettered on a stick
tomato chatney sauce.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
So what seems new is the tomato chutney sauce. I
haven't seen that because you can't get those of the
fish and chip shop, can't you. But it's just staying
in irons.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah. This was as like an onion sausage and there,
so it's not like a normal sausage.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
So are we talking? Are we talking like quite a
gourmet sort of a food caravan that they've said that,
it's something a bit different, is it?

Speaker 3 (05:28):
I've seen a similar hot bugs. They sell them at
the night and days.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
All you want it at a night and day store?

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, yeah, And I think I think the Tomatow chutney
sauce might have been that woodstock tomato chutney sauce, you
get it? So for market was similar to that, but
not quite the same.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
So we're talking five dollars or nine dollars.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
These were four bucks.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Cheapers creepers with onion in that gourmet chutney.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
So they just they've got a big containers, dip it
in there and handed tea with a set.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I got a wooden stick, yeah, wow, old skill.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah, there's something different. It was nice my son.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
That last time I was at the Warner Kaamp show.
There are a lot of wood fired sparkles. Are those
people still doing the rounds?

Speaker 3 (06:24):
There was some sparkles the O didn't see the wood
fired once. But we didn't go around the whole lot
because you know, you've got you've got both sides of
the road. You got a road in the middle, but
that's bopped off. But Ei, the traffic was horrendous. It
took us about probably forty minutes to find a park.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Wow, out have part further away and walked. Did you
with their animals?

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:48):
There was animals. There was horses, There was sheep.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Was there fox terrier racing?

Speaker 3 (06:58):
There was dogs there. I didn't I I'm not sure
if they were racing or not.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
You didn't see Jack Russell racing, did you?

Speaker 7 (07:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I think there was some. There were some smaller dogs.
I'm not sure what they called. But they're doing different
shows and stuff. So yeah, so the hot it was
great show.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
What else did you? But you it's hard to get
information from you. I'm kind of struggling to get I
really want to hear, like, what the best things we know?
That's right? What was the best things that you saw?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Probably a lot of gypsy stuff, a lot of different
necklaces and jewelry here made jewelry in it, got some
from my partner and then also a lot of baby clothes. Wow,
so we we just got a new bold.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
You would think they'd be A and P show stuff,
would you? Would you be baby clothes?

Speaker 8 (07:43):
But wow?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Be well made everything there?

Speaker 7 (07:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, nice messod stuff like winter stuff and.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
That did you a Josey?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
No, I didn't know. I got my daughter some stuff
for your four months old. So okay, you any wonderful time?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Did you go any rides?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
No? No for that mocus.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Would it be called Frankfurt Hot Dog Incorporated?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
No, I think it was. It was called Wayne Zoos.
They call it Waynezo's. It's right down the end. It's
with some rides. They've got like some ferris wheel and
a few other rides there and there. Yeah, that he's
got a hot he does hot dogs, he does steaks, sandwiches, chips,

(08:34):
a few other bits and pieces.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's not called it's not it's called Wayne Zo's.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, Wayne's.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I can't see him in the old vendor list. Nice
to hear from you anyway, there, Ben, Thank you for that.
Sex and Old West Tigers across the Newcastle. They are
leading that at the stage. Here's something I will ask
that started all going with my discussions. First up, how
are your chickens. You know how eggs are through the roof.
And a while during COVID everyone went and got chicken.

(09:06):
Has anyone got chickens still? And how's that working out
for them? Because you don't hear people going on about
the chickens like they used to be, but now that
the eggs are more pricey. I just wonder how your
flock's going herd flock? Have you got chickens? If you
ring me up and tell me the finances of it,
how much is spending on mash and week and how
it's working out for you. Yeah, So that would be

(09:34):
good to hear from you if you want to talk
about chickens eight hundred eighty eight twenty nine to nine
to detext or hens. So yep, that'd be great to
hear from you. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine two nine two to text. You might be able

(09:56):
to mention the klohaka, but you get in touch with
are talking chickens or hens? There is other stuff to
talk about also, like it between a stew and a ragoo.
I think one's just a French word. NICKI, it's Marcus.
Thanks for calling in. Good evening, Good.

Speaker 9 (10:13):
Evening, Marcus, how are you doing tonight?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
You're all good yourself? NICKI. You've got chickens.

Speaker 9 (10:18):
I do, I do, honestly. Chickens are the best animals
has in my opinion, Wow.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Not good.

Speaker 9 (10:26):
They were. My partner and I bought a lifestyle block
about six months ago and we are aiming towards the
self sufficient lifestyle. So we've got six laying hens. We've
also got four years and three lands. So our chickens

(10:48):
are so well looked after. They are living their best life.
And I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
They produced about eight eggs a day, so some produced too,
Is that right? You've got six? Did you say?

Speaker 10 (10:59):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (11:00):
So I've got six and I get on average about
eight a day.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Where did you get your laying hens.

Speaker 9 (11:08):
There's a place in Livin that's got them, so we
got them from there, the sort a friend of ours.
So they cost us nothing. We spent about I think
it was eight hundred dollars off someone on trade me
to get a coop for them, a brand new coops,

(11:28):
and we feed them just laying organic laying palettes that
cost us about forty five for a b a twenty
kilo bag of them, and then we just feed them.
They love watermelon. Watermelons are being cheaps, so we've been
given them that. And then just whatever up vegetables and

(11:49):
stuff that we keep from our garden and that we
have left over. We've got some lettuce that's going going
yack or mescaline. They really like that. We just chop
it up for them and google it. So trick and
fight us. Yep, chop it.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
So many, so many, so many questions, Nikki, I'm going
to start. You know how there's a place in the
vin that does the laying ends. Why were they free?

Speaker 9 (12:18):
It's not what you know, it's who.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay, they're not normally free. Okay. Now
the person on trade me was that one coop they've made,
or is that they're business making coops?

Speaker 9 (12:29):
So it was actually a young fellow, like a teenager. Wow,
I think I was up in the Hawk's Bay somewhere.
My partner organized it and him and his dad went
up to get it. And there was a young fellow
who's building them and then selling.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Them for pocket money up as creepers. Well he's a
self started good on him. Okay, Now is it the
is it that with the watermelon? Is it the redbit
or the skin they're eating, or all.

Speaker 9 (12:53):
Of it, just the red bits into like a third
or and chuck it out there and they just pick
it until it's gone.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Okay, So it's you're buying them. Measure whatever you've spent
the coup you probably are making your money back. And
the eggs probably have a bitter yoke, don't they They
taste better.

Speaker 9 (13:15):
One hundred percent. And I like, I do a lot
of cooking and make a lot of food from scratch,
and so on a Sunday, I'll be making food for
us for the week and for my lunches. And if
I've got a whole bunch of eggs there, I can
make fritata, cheese, baking, an eggs pie, whatever, And then

(13:37):
I've got all my lunches taking care of for the week.
And it cost me. Say, I probably spend about twenty
bucks a week on baking stuff so.

Speaker 11 (13:47):
That I can make takeow make a lot of people
my stuff.

Speaker 9 (13:51):
And then you know, you think, on a Friday's buy
my lunch Day, and I'll spend twenty bucks in one
day on buy my lunch Day, So you imagine how
much money I'm saving during the week.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yes, just you for Tata.

Speaker 9 (14:07):
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 12 (14:08):
And honestly, like screw giving the supermarkets my money, exactly,
I want to I'd rather go and help some kid who's,
you know, trying to make make some pocket money and
give him some money towards his coupe so that I
can raise my own eggs. At least I know that
they're fresh.

Speaker 9 (14:26):
Who knows you know you're looking at well, at least
a couple of weeks lead time on those eggs in
the supermarket.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Yes, yes, this is good.

Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yeah, Tim Bucks, for a dozen of eggs in the
in the Superman.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
They'd be Easter eggs, though, are they? Are they the
chocolate ones that you know?

Speaker 9 (14:46):
Like a dozen size six caged eggs at the warehouse
for Tim Bucks?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Well? Okay, Now have you given your chickens names?

Speaker 9 (14:56):
No, you can't tell them apart?

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Okay, okay, Well I thought, yeah, I didn't know. I
thought they might have been banded from the living place.
The other question I've got for you too, woul your
self sufficiency? Ten acres?

Speaker 13 (15:10):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (15:10):
No, I've got five?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well, okay, and you got chickens and you've got sheep.
Will you will you kill? Will you kill the sheep? Yourself.
There's a home killed person. It will come around.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
My uncle's going to do them for us. So they're
actually getting done in three weeks. We've just got our
in two weeks. We've just got our free. The other
day and one of my friends who we got them off,
he said, I should who came around the other day,
He's like, man, those lands are looking good, mate, I
reckon you'll get steady steatyish kilos of meat out of

(15:41):
each of them. So I have about one hundred kilos
of lamb and they've cost me three hundred dollars so far.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Brilliant. Oh, this is brilliant. Okay are the chicks? Are
the chickens white or brown?

Speaker 9 (15:55):
They're just your standard, your standard brown girls.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, will you get more?

Speaker 9 (16:02):
Well, apparently you can't just go get more and produce
them to your group, if you know what I mean.
Like you've kind of maybe get one or two more,
you'll be all right. But at the moment, I don't.

Speaker 12 (16:16):
Really need anymore.

Speaker 9 (16:17):
I'll end up with too much wastage, I think. And yeah,
we've bonded to would have thought cotton chickens.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Like you would the dog, if you if you would
another sex and they'd go to war Wood. They would
be six versus six. Is that what's happening?

Speaker 9 (16:38):
I just don't need chicken scratch?

Speaker 2 (16:40):
No, no, no, kids. Look, I appreciate all your I mean, gosh,
you've got to getting information across. I found that fascinating,
all of it, the guy in Hawk's Bay, the livin place,
all of it, the watermelon. We're talking chickens. Who's got them?
Who's got them? And got sick of them? Because everyone
in a while back got chickens. I'm curious about this.
Oh eight, I've got texts. I'll get to texts now.

(17:03):
They fixed the texts texts, so already we've got chickens.
The Warnica show. Oh did anyone go and see that
squash at the theater? The Isaacs, the Isaac Hayes, the
Isaac Royal Theater in christ Church. They put the squash
court on the stage and it was a really good idea.

(17:24):
They're to strengthen the stage, but it's got it's got
four glass walls, perhaps five glass walls. So you sit
in the theater as though you're going to see the
Irish Rovers, but what you're doing is you're watching someone
play squash. I'm not quat sure if they're facing you

(17:45):
or they're backs to you. Will they face you? But
it's brilliant Love Squash. Never played it, never watched it,
but loved the fact that they can build a stage
out of glass. Marcus. I went to watch the squatch
at the Squash at the Eyes Royale on Wednesday was brilliant.

(18:08):
One experience, Dan, you with the magic fingers? Can you
test them? Text them back and ask them if they
are looking at the back of the players or the
front of the plays? And how do the players not
get distracted by the audience. What would you imagine, Dan,
they have the becks to the audience or the front
of the audience. Yeah, I don't know if that's true.

(18:32):
The warehouse sells trays of twenty size six eggs for
ten dollars thirty kilograms of meat per lamb. Cry face,
cry face, cry face, Try eight to ten sweetheart. Oh
my god, Marcus, I had tricks all my life. The

(18:53):
maximum you get is one egg per day per laying
in a surprised about that. I wonder if she was
counting a double yocre as two eggs, Marcus. The sparrows
in Central Auckland have gone spect deliberate mass poisoning or
bird flu. Marcus, I have two chocks. They have attracted

(19:15):
coop so I can move them to fresh ground every
few days. Cost me twenty a month for laying pellets.
They are free range most of the day. Unfortunately, get
one egger day. I don't know which of the two
is a free loader. Cheers Joe from Weewaka. Until about chickens.

(19:37):
Have you got your own chickens? If so, why so?
If not? Why not? I always think about getting chickens,
and I always hear terrible stories about stoats. I always like, well, actually,
it always terrifies me that something would come in there
and pull them off their roost. I wouldn't want to
face chicken carnage in the morning. See have you heard

(20:04):
a man has clinging to a tree and washed away
trapped in his four wheel drive vehicle at a bridge
at Derigo. You look at the back of their squash
players as we thought.

Speaker 14 (20:25):
I did not.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
I thought they'd be the front of them. They'd be
more interesting. You have to have a two way mirror.
The back is perfect. Squash is easy to follow from behind. Marcus.
I wonder how long a twenty four kilogram of chip
feed lasts her and where she gets the organic one
from wonderful call so good. Well, I thought she was good.

(20:51):
I thought maybe one day we could have a show
that were not on this show, but there might be
a show that a special ask a chicken expert person
because she had all the answers, the coop, the laying hens,
the frattata, the keishe buy a lunchdown a Friday that's

(21:13):
as expensive as the other four days all put together.
It's allever we went until you get sick of eggs.
I suppose you can barter them with your neighbors for venison,
salami or something. That would be my take on that. Marcus.
We're at the Warnakers show today, and what that guy
was talking about is correct. Wanisos is the food truck

(21:35):
in the kids carnival area. Here's five road rides and
a food truck that serves lovely food. Oneisos. It's a
great name. He's not on the internet. I'll tell you
that for nothing might have a wire in there. It

(21:57):
might be Waynezohs. Wouldn't be one Eisos would it? Can't
find it for love nor money. By the way, I
see that counselor, and Topol has resigned. She was caught
over the limit eight o'clock in the morning was her
fourth time, and she's gone because if you get a
conviction that could lead to two years in jail, you

(22:19):
can no longer be on the council. I think she
was going to get something for her weed eater busy life. Yeah,
I can't see. In the second story about the weed,

(22:40):
I remember reaing that earlier she'd be on the vodkas
the night wine and vodka sodas the night before. I
was on my way to pick up a hedge trimmer,
So do get in touched Macisto. Gosh, all those music concerts.
You wouldn't want to buy a ticket to a music concert,
would you? After Drake No Good? And now Bonnie? Who

(23:03):
wouldn't want to see Bonnie Tyler and boy George? How
could that go bad? So I don't know. Yeah, I've
got no idea why those go bad. But you know
it's going to be hard for people to get them
because if you're promoting, you need the money to get
the whole thing rolling. So I don't know what's going
to happen there. Apart from Electric Avenue that's the one

(23:25):
that's the christ chich one that seems to go from
strength to strength. Mind you, it seems though all kind
of events go until they don't go into the and
then the promoters go broke. Don't even a matter of time, Marcus,
Upper Hut Bogans declared themselves the capital Bogan Town by
building a monument slab totel all in Sundry. So what

(23:45):
happened in west Auckland, Hamilton and Palms North, Guest, we
know where all the Johnny Cume latelies live. What about
the whole of the South Island, Marcus. I saw a
phone from the Gold Coast. Some people brought their chickens
and put them in their shower cabinet with straw nesting box,
et cetera. Saved from Alfred. I suppose it's very easy

(24:05):
for you keep to fly away. Yeah, there'd be my take.
Yet to be careful about that. When that's almost happens
quite often, you know, the storm comes through and they
spend the next week looking for your chickens. Marcus. We
were retired couple for thirty years, had five chocks while
raising our family. Always lots of eggs for baking meals.

(24:28):
Et cetera. Now retired in the city. We still have
two chicks in our garden. We enjoy their lovely clucking,
sad and friendly nature and good eggs supply Marcus. For
the chicken lovers, The CUMU Show Poultry Expo is on
tomorrow from ten am. It will be clucking awesome. We
were there last year. I think the CUMU Show is

(24:51):
the pick of the shows. Not only that, but as
we're leaving, Dell and Latini's Lesnik was there with his family.
That was exciting for the kids. The best thing was
the Little Pigs, very good show. What do I Eat?
Good food choices there too. Actually, in fact, I wish

(25:12):
I was up there. Love the COMEU Show. But you're
quite right, get in touch with our talking chickens. Your
one A show versus COMEU Show. I got to say,
I think the COMEU Show is better. That'd be my
take from that, Marcus. Do you know why chicken coops

(25:34):
have four doors? Marcus? Do you know why chicken coops
have two doors? Because if they had four doors, they
would be chicken sedans. And people keep telling me the
onion sausage is made by a company called Pacific Sea Products.
Really they're an Invoicago. I've never seen an onion sausage,

(25:58):
and why would it be a sea product if it's
got an onion in them? Anyway, I'll find out more
about that evening, Kevin. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 15 (26:07):
How are you?

Speaker 14 (26:08):
Marcus?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Ten out of ten Kevin, good, thank you.

Speaker 14 (26:11):
Good on you. This is a little story you can
tell the kids. Chickens into a library, hops up on
the counter and the librarian comes over, can I help you?
And the chicken goes book book. So the librarian gets
two books down off the shelf and puts them under
his wing. Off he goes, and he's back that afternoon

(26:34):
dropping the books off. Anyway, this goes on for about
a week. So the library and thinks, well, I'm going
to follow this chicken and see what he's up to.
So anyway, chicken came back in the shop and book book.
So the library and put two books under his wings,
and off the chicken went. So followed it, and he
went down the road, crossed over down by the river,

(26:57):
and there was a log, and the chicken walked out
on the log, and sitting on the end of the
log was a frog. And the chicken went book book
his wings books dropped off his off his wings under
the log, and the five looked down and said, read it, read.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
It extremely good, and fare well told Kevin, I like
it a lot. Always very nervous as a talkback host
when someone brings up with a joke and I've explained
this before. Am I the nervous that they're going to
be adult and nature or I'm nervous that I'm not

(27:34):
going to get it? Have to pretend that I find
it funny and not re understand it. I think it's
safe to say, with that joke, was it to adult
and that we all got it. Textas says the COMMU
show is better than the one show because I have
at McDonald's. For a good point. Someone said the QMU
show is no good after heavy rain. I expect that's true.

(27:57):
Too flood prone. The initial set up costs and then
ongoing costs can make chickens and therefore eggs quite expensive.
Long if you're selling the eggs, the ROI is fairly neutral.
There's also a fairly steep learning curve, plus the animal
welfare issue recommendation. Find a good neighbor who sells the
eggs and supports them is it just me? Or do

(28:19):
you see a lot of places cropping up where they're
selling eggs at their farm gate and they've got no chickens.
What's that about? I've even been on Google Maps and
I can't see any chickens. Is that some scam from
country folk? They buy those cheap ones at the warehouse

(28:40):
and repackage them and sell them at the gate. I've
often wondered about that, Marcus, Chickens are great to have.
Just a tip from me. The lady feeding lettuce the
chicken should be a where letters can make them go
off the lay. And as a real big he has
never feed them any parts of the avocado. It'll kill them.
Why would evocados kill them? I'd like to hear more

(29:02):
about that. I don't know that something you'd kind of
be tempted to do, wouldn't you, Ellen, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, get a Marcus, just a quick one for you tonight, mate,
daylight saving this Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
I don't think so it is. I'll be about a
month away, wouldn't it.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
No, it's today, it's just Sunday night.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
I had no idea that it'd be later on.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Yeah, I was thinking that too, until I was adjusting
some clocks and so on, and that's what came up.
So I thought, well, i'll just eat a check with
my friend Marcus. I'll see what he comes up with.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
So it's Sunday morning. We've changed the clocks forward.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
Apparently, So that's the way I understand it, Okay.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
I had no idea. Normally we get a warning.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
Absolutely we do get a favorite of a comment on
the radio as well. Maybe just check out that my
old blind eyes are not playing tricks on me, if
you wouldn't mind, and just double check my fact. But
I understand that's the case.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Okay, Well you seem to a pretty good awareness of
the facts. But I'll go with that.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
Cheers my man.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
When when do we switch it back again the other end?

Speaker 5 (30:16):
Pardon?

Speaker 2 (30:17):
When to change again at the other end?

Speaker 5 (30:22):
September? I think, okay, I think.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I appreciate that. And don't know what's gonnacept it's going
to be a short weekend or a long weekend an
hour longer?

Speaker 16 (30:32):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Spring four? And I can't remember?

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah, I guess we all up, but we'll just it
seems got time.

Speaker 16 (30:39):
Have you got time to google it at the moment
or get someone someone let us know.

Speaker 5 (30:44):
Lovely, thanks buddy.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Not a bad time. I mean, I other eye should
use their own daylight savings anyway, but yeah, get us
so let us know about that. If you want to
come through. Oh eight hundred and eighty to nine text yep,
let's be having it. Tim pass nine eating Pete up.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Yeah. No, no, that daylight Satman not till the beginning
of April.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, I thought it was so.

Speaker 9 (31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (31:19):
No, it's about the first or second of April.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
I wonder what he might be reading an American time
or something. They have done it same as America.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
I don't know. Well, I'm not really sure, but that considered, Yeah,
if somebody says that, yeah, yeah, it can be a
bit of a yeah people hear it.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
God might okay something, Okay, can you text us that
you've got there? All I know on your disappointments, Johnny Marcus,
welcome you.

Speaker 10 (31:53):
Gey. We've got a house over at Bana Waters on
the Gold Coast. Moment Dad looked there for three that's
been flooding a couple of times in the last twenty years.
I can record it. Yeah, it's been flooded maybe twice.

(32:14):
And I just had to check today that the insurance
was all up to date, which it is.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Johnny, is anyone in it?

Speaker 17 (32:26):
Nah?

Speaker 10 (32:26):
Like both my parents died in August and November, and
so we're going through probate, okay, And yeah, so the
neighbors looking after it and yeah, funny funny story of that,
but never mind. Yeah, so it is it is, I
should and we're just hoping to be what suburbsident Bana
Waters that's b in o w b A, which is

(32:50):
just out of surface hitting in land a little bit. Yeah,
and we're disregarding the avocado you mentioned. Avocado has now
flaughted it. That's toxic to dogs, to chickens, to rabbits,
to a lot of different animals. So yeah, there's compounds

(33:12):
and avocado that. Yeah. Just I've had quite a few
pets and animals over the years and when chicking what
they can eat, were always coming up with avocado. It's
been something that they shouldn't have.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
So Banoah Waters, right, Is this your mum and dare
were in the mum and stepfather. Is it one that's
on one of those canals?

Speaker 10 (33:32):
No, No, Ken LOCKEV doesn't have a canal behind it,
but there are very very close to those canal areas,
and my dad used to sell those blue Ribbon lottery
tickets out.

Speaker 17 (33:45):
It came out.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, they wouldn't win in.

Speaker 10 (33:48):
The house and the boat, the canal all that.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Do they win it?

Speaker 10 (33:51):
And no, like he was the salesperson. So they'd have
like Peter Brooks racing car and yes.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
They want to do to Yeah I remember that well.

Speaker 10 (34:00):
Yeah, and so Dad and Pauling did that from nineteen
eighty four through tall I don't know, twenty and ten.
So like you, I used to get the tickets in
the mail all the time. I never won anything, of course,
but yeah you could win gold bars and stuff. And
I remember getting.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Hang on, Johnny because we've got topic creep here. So
your dad sold the tickets. How did they end up
with a place there?

Speaker 6 (34:26):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (34:26):
So they had this house down in Alix Street and
mcago number three on the corner of dan Allis. It
was one of those nineteen thirty places and Dad bought it.
It was the most roughest place. They had like ivy
growing inside it, and he did it up, sold it
in nineteen eighty one and moved over there and started
working for the Return Serviceman's League, which is like the

(34:47):
Aussie version of the RISA for Boystown Charity and Boystown
Charity are the ones that made all those tickets, all
those lotteries, and the money from those profits goes into
helping the children affected by Agent Orange from Vietnam. So
it's quite a story to it, but that's what the
Boystown Charity is for part one and so that's what

(35:08):
they did.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
So they brought but they brought a house and Banoa waters.
But they came back to New Zealand to sell those
lottery tickets.

Speaker 9 (35:15):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Have I got it right?

Speaker 10 (35:17):
They moved over to Ozzie, never came back and they've
been all their careers selling those lottery tickets outside. Came
out at Pacific's.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Here in Australia.

Speaker 16 (35:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, what was the what was the commission on selling those?

Speaker 10 (35:33):
I'm not pretty sure, but yeah they didn't know any
text when they died, which was good.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Okay, So are you are you waiting to sell that house?

Speaker 8 (35:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (35:44):
The house is on the market and yeah there's there's
one of those probate wars between the siblings and stuff,
but just trying to get it sold. It's worth a
couple of million and it's got a beautiful pool and
gardens and you know, all tiled and it's nice and pool,
so pretty good neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
You won't be you won't be going over.

Speaker 10 (36:03):
No, no, no, no, I won't be going over there.
I've got a law from over there, and hopefully we'll
get it sold soon. And yeah, they maybe buy something
over here.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Are you looking at the webcams to see if there's
water flooding into it?

Speaker 10 (36:18):
No, And I've got the neighbors, have got my phone number,
and not that as much I can do from over here.
But yeah, we've got the insurance company's number and it's
all paid up.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
So but just looking at that, just looking at that
diagram you've alluded to me, I mean there's a lot
of waterways. If there's title surges there, there's no limit
to how much. I mean, it's like Venus, isn't it.
I mean there's a lot of places on those canals,
just like in those lotteries exactly.

Speaker 10 (36:43):
And you know, one of the great things about the
places that most people in that street where my parents live,
despite a lot of the winging bombs, that are really
good people.

Speaker 16 (36:56):
Yeah, sorry about that.

Speaker 10 (36:58):
The other side of the family speaking up.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
That's right. I let it go. But thank you nice
saying sorry to me other the dog, Bruce, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 13 (37:08):
Good evening. I don't know where that guy got his
information from. It Daylight Saving finishes in New Zealand this
year on the sixth of April?

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Is that this weekend?

Speaker 13 (37:20):
I google it? No April, Yeah, this year on Sunday,
the sixth of April. That's furnish it.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Did you get a fright when he said that?

Speaker 13 (37:33):
Yes, because I knew he was wrong, so I went
to my diaries and had a look.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
I think he said he was blind.

Speaker 13 (37:40):
Bruce, Oh, did he really? I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
That's fine. So maybe he's got a clock. But it
might be when he said he's got a clock, I
don't know what sort of clock blind people have, but
it might be an American one with American software that
tells you that it might be a talking clock.

Speaker 13 (37:56):
Oh yeah, right, but he knows.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
I hope he's not someone just rang the show. I
hope he's listening as well.

Speaker 8 (38:05):
Right, Yes, I wouldn't want to.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
I wouldn't want him to start missing appointments on Monday
because he's turned his clock. I don't even know if
you turned it forward, what time would you turn it
in the would you turn it forward a bit? Who
knows what you do with it?

Speaker 13 (38:17):
You have to turn it forward really yeah yeah because.

Speaker 6 (38:24):
Of time?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Full full forward, spring back.

Speaker 13 (38:28):
Yeah yeah, you take an hour out of time in
the in the springtime.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
And there we go, full forward. Eight six West Tigers
over Newcastle who won the rugby Union. Then oh a
buzzer be twenty one twenty blumbyes. Brummy's gotta like kick
in there. So boy, it's not looking good for the coach.
But that's three, that's three one out of four cheapest.

(38:57):
They were the champs Brumbies. Goodness, Oh wait eight turny,
we are talking chickens e Theraicle League. It is Vinkard
of the Blues coach. My name's Marcus, welcome HITDT twelve o'clock.
I had a driving instructor and he won one of

(39:19):
those raffles. When was that like the nineties? Amazing raffles.
You get the house, you get the boat, you get
the HSV. So there must be whole communities of people
that have won raffles. Make for an interesting pot luck,

(39:41):
wouldn't it. Although Johnny was saying a lot of them
were from England. You might have some experience in one
of those canal houses. It's pretty amazing. It's like kind
of parowernui on steroids, if there's such a thing. By
the way, about twelve hours from touchdown for the cyclone,

(40:02):
but it kind of oscillates to go back. And it's
all to do with the jet streams and the yet streams.
With the global warming are becoming less predictable. Yep, everything's
becoming less predictable. Unbecoming less predictable. How many people do
you think texted through about spring Ford fallback? As I

(40:24):
always say, spring Ford autumn back. Real trigger point for
people Daylight Savings, isn't it, Marcus? Daylight Savings finishes the
first week in April. Chickens are a pain and urban areas.
I tried to talk to my neighbors about all the noise.
They weren't prepared to shift as the keep facing the

(40:45):
bedroom windows count till are involved now as by laws
are being broken. Cannot be a nuisance to neighbors by
frequent noise. Cheers like you show. Apart from the chicken talk, Marcus,
I've got a question for those operating honesty boxes for
whatever the purpose. How long have you run the honesty box?
Are their cameras on them? How often to take people

(41:07):
without take products without playing. I don't think you're worry
they're taking the product. I think you're worry they're taking
the product and all the money. But I reckon a
lot of those eggs, those community egg shops are just
buying them in and seeing them as that's my take.
Now here's one thing I love about talkback. Right, So

(41:28):
that guy rings up what was his name? What was
his front name? Allen? He says Daylight Savings finishes this week,
which clearly is wrong because it's the middle of autumn.
And then no, and then someone has texted googled it.

(41:48):
Yes he's right, cheers Joan. So s only he was wrong, blessed,
but someone there's God and googled it and also came
with the wrong information, so you wouldn't trust your Google
or Joan. But no, Joan, it's not this weekend. So
as everyone now know, it's not this weekend, not this weekend,

(42:10):
not this weekend. Haven't seen as many texts quickly like
this since Heather's text pole just about to stop the
radio station. In fact, the text have only just stopped
coming in from Heather's text pole, famous in radio history.

(42:35):
I think some of you might know what I'm talking about.
This is the Brumbies first win at the Park of
the Ead and Eden Park, Cabbagetory Swamp since twenty thirteen.
How many people were there? If you want, if you're
driving home or in the training us, know how the
match was. I didn't get to see much of it,

(43:02):
but get in touch by names. Marcus Hittle twelve were
talking about keeping chickens. Why not? And can I say
people that all this remembering special little puzzles for daylight
savings and the like. Fortunately, I don't spend or use

(43:24):
any of my mind ram or slots to remember things
for daylight savings, because if you've got a cell phone,
it all just happens automatically. These days, you wake up,
daylight savings happen. You don't even realize because your cell
phone's just adjusted for it automatically. The kids will be
a bit touchy for a week and they know they'll

(43:45):
be daylight savings, but you are not going to bother
remember or anything like that. It's one of the great
things of the cell phone. I just switch it forward
mine and my cell phone stuffed that I got a
crack on my screen, and I got my screen replaced.
I don't know why they've done it. It's a very

(44:06):
poor job. Now it hardly works at all when I
touch it, so I don't know how long I'll persevere
with this before I just throw out my arms in desperation.
But yeah, they say they can repair the screen, but
not every time. And it was not like an approved dealer.
Was someone at a holiday resort. We say resort. That

(44:28):
makes me sound like I'm a holiday resort person. It
was someone where we were on holiday. Wasn't a resort
with a holiday place, Marcus. I fly domestically in Australia
a lot, and I'm amazed by how many pilots say
and if you like to reset your watch, the time
in Queensland is xxxx. How many people actually twiddle the

(44:48):
thing on an old school watch these days? None, I
would think. But what else did pilot say? I don't
even know why pilots always say the temperature. I just
think it's probably a code so the cabin crew know
they're still alive, because they always say the most inane stuff.
But I think it's a code. Well they're not slurring

(45:12):
on the hip flask, that would be my take. But yeah,
always it's a temperature, oh lovely day and crowst you
to the temperature of eight degrees. Well that to all
on the phone. Quite a small crowd at the Rugby tonight,
just me and my son and a couple from Canada
who thought they'd brought tickets to a blues festival. I
think they enjoyed the game. My son and I didn't.

(45:33):
That's quite funny, of course you would think yet the
blues festival. Wow. Oh the other topic too. I was
trying to going to chuck into the mix. Harry, just
read this text. Funny thing cycling Alfred when it hits
the coast and cool and get her and tweedheads just
down the coast over the hill. It will happen an

(45:55):
hour early on the Gold Coast because New South Wales
has Daylight Savings, but Queensland doesn't. Hope you understand that text,
Oh yes I do. That's a good point. So it'll
be in two different time frames because Queensland, because of
Joe BYLK. Peterson, I think they thought that Daylight Savings
was the devil's work. I'quite sure what Joe. Why Joe

(46:17):
was opposed to daylight savings. Maybe someone's got some information
about that, but I think they don't. They don't do it.
They think it's no good. So if anyone's got the
information about what was, I gonna mention, Oh, yes, hanging
out holy horses. Yeah, I don't know why he was
opposed daylight saving. I don't know if it's daylight saving

(46:37):
or daylight savings these days. Confuse myself on that one.
Joe by OK. Peterson said queens and didn't want daylight
savings and people would be going to work in the dark.
So there we go. That's his That was his great campaign,

(47:01):
wasn't a fan?

Speaker 5 (47:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yes, the question I was going to say too. Let
me just bring up my emails people, eight hundred and
eighty to twenty one of us, Marcus welcome, looking forward
to hearing from you. He's what's going to tell you people. Oh,
by the way, it was this day in nineteen eighty
eight that cyclone bowlers struct the Hawks, struck the Hawk's bay.

(47:28):
There you go, nineteen eighty eight, thirty seven years ago.
Here's what's going to tell you is that DVDs are back. Yeah,
vinyl's been a big thing, but now it's DVDs yep,

(47:56):
So that's what people are into. It has a lot
to do with comfort, someone said, rewatching them, the nostalgia factor,
and especially the fact that no one can take them
away from me. So here's a question for you. How
many DVDs you got your collection? Anyone out there with
more than one hundred, I'll be curious to know who
out there has got DVDs and why they like them.

(48:17):
I guess you've got a DVD library, it might be said,
and I guess you probably picked them up quite easily.
So the DVDs is what we are talking about also tonight,
as well as chickens two topic night, let's call it that.
And Raymond, it's Marcus. Welcome, good a.

Speaker 18 (48:33):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (48:34):
Raymond, it's good.

Speaker 18 (48:36):
A long time since I've had a chat with you
in about three years. I think.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
You're explain You're going to explain slot racers to me,
are you.

Speaker 18 (48:45):
I'll not explain it. I just happen to be a
shareholder of one of the horses in it. You have
to excuse my speech. I had to stroke three years ago.
That's why I haven't rang back. Yeah, anyway, it's races.

(49:06):
The Auckland thorough of Red Racing sells slots to Those
slots go between seven hundred thousand and nine hundred thousand
dollars each and it's brought by trains and racing entities
in New Zealand and Australia. And then they go about

(49:26):
choosing a horse in three year old so it's only
the horse has to be three years old to be
illvisual for it. So it's the cream of the crop
from New Zealand and Australia. Really in the state money's
four point five million dollars. That's good bit of it.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
I'm just trying to work out. So it's true. How
long before the race happens do the slots get sold?

Speaker 4 (49:57):
That was sold?

Speaker 17 (49:58):
I believe.

Speaker 18 (49:59):
I've just followed it since it's induction, since its intention about.
Oh they started talking about it six months ago, okay,
I believe the slots have been sold over that time.
The last slots were sold I think about three months ago,
and the horses have been picked and released. Theirs have

(50:21):
been picked and fortunately for me, there was a scratching
in the race and a horse called deal with a
pulled a muscle and was pulled out. So there was
four emergencies and the slot holder chose our horse. So
we're in that she's only had two starts, so she's

(50:45):
a bit of a dark horse.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Yeah, and tell me something, Raymond, I don't want you
to say anything that you can't say. So the guy,
the trainer that paid for the slot seven hundred thousand dollars, right, Yeah,
do you negotiate with that trainer how much of the
steaks you will get as the owner of the horse.

Speaker 18 (51:07):
Yes, exactly, bang on that you hit the nail on the.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Head and that just and that could be quite long winded.
Someone could ring up you and say, I'll tell you what,
we'll give you fifty verstine if we can run your
So there's there's a bit of horse training, so.

Speaker 18 (51:19):
To speak, I think so, I think most of them
will be about the fifty percent mark. The obviously, obviously
the slot holders bought the slot as an investment. The
stakes go pretty deep in the race, so it's not
just the first three that get money. But of course

(51:39):
you want to get us.

Speaker 6 (51:42):
By the list.

Speaker 18 (51:43):
Is possible to make a bit of a profit out
of it as well, So I believe when it gets just.

Speaker 7 (51:48):
Over to mil.

Speaker 18 (51:50):
So that'll be nice. That'll be a new bathroom.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Hey, when you get your slot, do you get a
lane with that as well?

Speaker 18 (51:59):
No, the draw happened on Wednesday night. The draws were
there was a bit of a at the Leslie and
our horse drew number five. That's a perfect drawer for
sixteen hundred. She'll get hopefully a nice midfield position with

(52:23):
a bit of cover.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Why is a three year old only had two starts?

Speaker 18 (52:29):
She's a late bloomer. She's really big Philly and she's
the first start she ran six and the discovered she
had a crook, thought she had a stone bruise and
a ball of pass in it. But she ran six.
And then she ran Sunday at Pukakoi just about two

(52:53):
weeks ago on the Sunday and one convincent going away
over fourteen hundred. So she's well bred and the training
Roger James has got a high hope.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Serrs.

Speaker 18 (53:10):
She's gone to Ozzie in the autumn, so she's after
Brisbane or Sydney about six weeks time.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
And what's the what's paying on the tab?

Speaker 18 (53:26):
When it opened she was paying forty one dollars and
then today she's shortened at thirty five and again to
thirty one. So there's a been a few betspot on it.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Okay.

Speaker 18 (53:38):
Yeah, So I'd like to put a shout out to
Melissa and the Freight Club Fric. She's the lady that
organizes it. She does a really good job and it's
a really affordable way for Joe Blogs to be a
part of something pretty exciting.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
That's exciting ravend. Will you get to Ellerslie tomorrow?

Speaker 18 (54:03):
Yes, I'm presently om's outside the pew poo toilets.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Okay, Oh so you're not You're not an Auckland.

Speaker 18 (54:12):
No, I'm bringing a load of cr identic fluid from
I transport that from Copony in South TARANIKEI up to
a rail in Hamilton. Yeah, and so I'm on my
way back to Carpony now to load and then they'll
finish about two o'clock in the morning, get a bit

(54:33):
of sleep and.

Speaker 13 (54:33):
Then go up.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
What's cairogene fluid?

Speaker 18 (54:37):
We transport CO two and I understand.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Okay, Hey Raymond, so this has been a learning coupe
for you as well as me. Have we never had
slot races before? Is this a brand new thing in
New Zealand. Is there international president or anything for this?

Speaker 18 (54:53):
Yes, you might have heard of race and I was.
He called Everest. Yep, it's a sprint rates over twelve
hundred meters. That's the first one in Australasia and I
think there's a couple morning in aus and this is
the first one in New Zealand. It's been New Zealand's

(55:13):
richest race.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
It's gonna take me some time to think about it.
I guess it enables them to have quite a high
stakes because the stakes aren't coming from the tab The
stakes are coming from the people that buy the slots.
So I guess it's a more sustainable way to get
high stakes.

Speaker 18 (55:28):
Yes, yes, it's a really good way to promote racing,
and even more so for people that can't afford to
like fourk out half a million dollars for a quality
animal and then all the ongoing expenses. So in the
frack club you buy a share and that share includes

(55:53):
the trains fees. Okay, it's a one outlay job, if
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
There's no lung costs.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
So you're outside the talks of pup there. You're going
back down to Capoony and driving back up.

Speaker 18 (56:10):
I'm going down to Capouony. I'm going to load. I've
got a loftyle block in Eltham. I'll go back home
to Eltham, get a get a few hours sleep and
then take a little French heed to the dog kennels
and then I'll be after Auckland for the night.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
But the race is tomorrow, isn't it.

Speaker 18 (56:30):
Yeah, yeah, so I was one of one of the
fortunate people to get tickets to the gig. Basically got
the run of the place, tickers to the afterparty and
all that sort of stuff. So it should be a
big night.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Tons of like lovely to talk to you, Raymond really
enjoyed that. Thank you so much for so generous with
your information. That's brilliant. I had no idea that was
how it worked. Alistair It's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 17 (56:59):
I texted it earlier about airline pilot announcements. Yes, I
haven't to be one myself. Yes, so yeah, they can
go good, they can go very good, or they can
be just the most nuisance thing to listen to.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
I don't know why they do it. Do they think
they get you? Think they enjoy it? Or do you
think that's civil? It's it's important for them.

Speaker 17 (57:20):
It's a difficult one. Some some guys prefer not to
because passengers these days can they tend to get bombarded
with announcements from the camera crew, you know what I mean.
And every time we make an announcement, the movie stops,
and any entertainment stops, and the free screens freeze up

(57:42):
and what have you. Yeah, So personally, I only tend
to you know, a welcome, welcome aboard the aircraft is good,
and you know what flight time we can expect, and
conditions on route and anything they might get to see
but wants to rear born.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
You want to be careful with conditions because you don't
want to actually freak people out if it's marginal.

Speaker 8 (58:03):
Either, do you that's right?

Speaker 17 (58:05):
Yeah, yep. And and I remember years ago getting taught
that you can expect on every flight you've got three people,
the world's most nervous passenger, your grandmother or here to
do Plasy Allen. And and if you can keep those
three people happy and quiet, but the flight will go well.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
So how do you keep how do you keep here
to do Flassy Allen happy? What's the what's the inference there.

Speaker 17 (58:35):
Oh, that's a tricky one. That's a tricky one. But yeah,
you basically don't want to do anything throughout the flight
that puts you either in the newspapers or in hospital.
I guess, yes, stay out, stay out of the newspapers.
But but yeah, we talked early about resetting your watches.
You know who does that these days? You know, by
the time you land to your phone back on, Yeah, exactly,

(58:57):
it resets itself, resets your watch temperature. Were people can,
they'll find out what the temperature is when the door opens, exactly.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
I'll tell here the else to thank you, Pel, it's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 19 (59:09):
Oh hi, hi Marcus. I actually just found a nice
hoping maybe I could, hoping to cure you of your
You're reverting back to daylight savings, was an essue.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
I wonder why you get annoyed by that. That's what
I find.

Speaker 19 (59:30):
It's because it's just wrong.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
I think it's become I think if I if I
google daylight saving, right, Yeah, And then I googled daylight savings,
and I saw how many results were for each Oh, really,
there would be more for there would be more if
I google daylight savings. I doesn't tell me how many.

(59:54):
I just just see because it normally tells you how many. Yeah,
I can't.

Speaker 20 (59:59):
What I sort of thought of was.

Speaker 19 (01:00:04):
People say daylight saving, but and the words. What that
we're saying is the saving of daylight, not the savings
of daylight. It's the saving of daylight.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
But you put all those together and you've got a
lot of You've got savings, haven't you.

Speaker 19 (01:00:20):
No, it's the saving of daylight singular, like an action
that is saving daylight, not the savings of daylight. It's
not a whole bunch.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Of every day it's every day though every.

Speaker 16 (01:00:36):
Day for it's not you, but it's not.

Speaker 19 (01:00:38):
It's not happening.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
No, no, no, But I won't. I won't love each
to their own. But yeah, thank you, Pamela Evening Marcus.
When was Hercules Flat named? I've been speaking drum of
people who've lived in Roxburg for ten years before the
railway closed, and another I never heard it called that name.
Hercules fat is the place where the railway terminal was,
that I is where we lived. Oh, okay, fair enough

(01:01:02):
to question. I'll see if anyone answers that. So bizarre
that I've got the rail across the river there isn't it?
Always find that kind of disappointing though it's all underground now,
But you think I'll try and look into that. Hey,
we are talking the slot race at Elleslie. There must
be a lot of pressure on the trainer that buys
the slot to go and find a horse for it. Yeah,

(01:01:29):
not thinking of buying one. By the way, Marcus have
a friend that lives in tweed Head now about twelve
minutes from Cooling Get Airport in Queensland. His TV station's
coming from Queensland, so he runs on their time. They
don't have daylight savings, as you know. When I stay
with him, it does my head and the New South

(01:01:52):
Wales clocks are on queens and time etc. I'd say
to him, where do we going to the club? He'd
say our time or their time? Oh fair enough, I
thought you're going to tell me about the update. If
anyone is listening for Queensland or New South Wales orlways
in touch with family there, let us know what's happening
with the weather. Matthew, it's Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:02:10):
Good evening, Yeah, Mark the horses I'm doing the guy about.
I never got the names the name of the horse
and that race? Do yes, what was the name of
the horse?

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Look, I don't know, but what's the race called?

Speaker 8 (01:02:28):
Well, you said it's a some some sort of drawing it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Yeah, no, I'm just trying to I can look up
the field I just won. Even what the race was called.

Speaker 8 (01:02:43):
No, no, I know as well as it was playing
paying thirty one dollars the projected tab you might get
it that way the tad things figures.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Yeah, it's called the insid It's called the n z
B Kiwi race. That's what it's going on. What in
B stands for? But hold your horses? Is that what
you've rung up about?

Speaker 8 (01:03:07):
No? No, no, no, other day I'll throw a question.
And the thing that said it is a calculation. If
you if you got a calculator's one hundred and thirty
plus one hundred and ten and modified by.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Five two forty times five twelve hundred yep.

Speaker 8 (01:03:31):
On your coculator on your one thirty three, and then
do one hundred and ten plus one thirty times five.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
To forty answer. Okay, I'm just trying to get you.
Just hit me on the horse first for the form
for this. Yeah, no, I can't find the damn field.
So tell me, tell me, tell me this again.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
What's the some of you?

Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
You cock it on your phone?

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
I'll do it in my head. Yep, it on the phone.

Speaker 8 (01:04:07):
It is, it's easier. You can't get do it twice?

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
No, I can handle you.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
One.

Speaker 8 (01:04:11):
Do you go? One thirty plus one ten?

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Yeah? Two forty times five twelve hundred?

Speaker 8 (01:04:20):
If you don't want you to calculator, no you haven't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
You haven't got a calculator.

Speaker 8 (01:04:24):
On your phone.

Speaker 13 (01:04:24):
You have?

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Oh yeah, what's the other one?

Speaker 8 (01:04:30):
And then they don't do a hundred and then do
one hundred and ten plus one thirty to forty worth
its times five on your calculator and you get a
different answer.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
No, I don't think it would.

Speaker 17 (01:04:42):
It's okay, we do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
Okay, want yeah, you go, and I just find what
what your horse is called? Z all meller. I think
someone said, ah z O I m E L l A.

Speaker 17 (01:05:05):
You said.

Speaker 8 (01:05:09):
Jumala zumala. Yeah, okay, all right, you will try that
calculation on your phone and you'll scarce what the answer is.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Who's told you? Who's told you this?

Speaker 8 (01:05:25):
But we're just on on on Facebook. If you tried it, yeah,
if you just get on your calculator, because because you
know you're supposed to do it multiply, you're modificating first.
That's the thing about mathematics.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Oh, I see what you're saying. It's like I see
what you're saying. Okay, but but I don't. That's so
I'll assume you Okay, I'll get my calculator out. Yeah, yep,
give it to me.

Speaker 8 (01:05:57):
Now, okay. One thirty yep, US one t yep, time five.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Twelve hundred yep, four yep, and the.

Speaker 8 (01:06:16):
One ten plus one plus one things? Are you doing
the opposite time?

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
Slive?

Speaker 8 (01:06:24):
What's your answer?

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Twelve hundred.

Speaker 8 (01:06:28):
You know on the gagator?

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Yeah, that's again, No I'm not but I I edited
them before I multiplied them.

Speaker 8 (01:06:40):
Yeah, so you haven't got to calculate it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:45):
You haven't got to, you know you do.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
I do want to calculate that, but I think what
your experience, what you're experiencing. Yeah, I kind of even go there.
Maybe I just I'll get too. But you've got that.
How much would you put on Zomela.

Speaker 8 (01:07:03):
Matthew if paying that for the money, but probably a
hundred of.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Jay. Really, I think it's paying thirty one. I think
he said, didn't.

Speaker 8 (01:07:12):
He Yeah, it was saying forty. But but do you
if you get an early bet, if you better early,
you'll you'll be a be a good dividend.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Will you go for a one or a place?

Speaker 13 (01:07:27):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:07:27):
Probably each way? Oh it was paying that one for
one and probably paying eight nine dollars for a place.
So they comes second or third, it's going to get
nine nine hundred back, aren't it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Or lose it all or lose it all?

Speaker 8 (01:07:46):
True, Zuma.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
I think it's what he's I'm pretty sure that's what
he see. But I can't see where the lanes are.

Speaker 11 (01:07:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
I don't even know where the lanes are.

Speaker 8 (01:08:01):
So it's the score. The in zid be in zid,
breeders in the breeders race, Yep, that will be.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
To you're good on your phone. Yeah, New Zealand bloodstock.
That's what charges. But thanks Matthew, cheapest creepers fourteen past ten.
Who's got chickens? How they're working out for you? Everyone's
with the price of eggs is it's something people have
got involved with the good things and the bad things

(01:08:39):
about having chickens that we want to talk about. Matthew
will be a Winston voter for sure, millions for the one.
I'm right anyway I get in touch screepers, Marcus, how
would anyone say? Why of the chicken across the road? Yeah?
Yet thirty nine years this week since dive straight to
and through New Zealand Orlwind and christ Church. I was

(01:09:01):
at the now long gone Lancaster Park nineteen eighty six,
thirty nine years ago. Today bomb from World War two
found on the railway and Paris today, no train's going, Marcus.
Fun airline fact. The new South Wales Queensland border runs

(01:09:26):
across the Gold Coast Airport runway during daylight saving and
depending on which way the wind blows, either takes an
hour to roll down the runway on takeoff or you
get to the far end before you land. Very good.
By the way Alfred's moving at seven climenty is an hour.
It's at a light jogging pace now, Marcus. From my

(01:09:48):
mate and Brisbane one minute ago, Yes, all good and
Brisbane so far. I'll hit us in the head tomorrow
from about six am to twelve am. It's been calm here,
weird feeling. I enjoyed, Matthew, but I can't quite work out. Oh,
I don't know. I don't know what I can't work
out for him? Peter Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:10:09):
Yeah, I just rang it. Do you know how to
spot right works?

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
The guy beforehand explained it to me that six months
ago trainers bought the slots for between six and seven
hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 16 (01:10:21):
Then they go train anybody to.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Buy anybody, that's right, Yeah, anybody.

Speaker 11 (01:10:26):
There's only two trainers bought them.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Who bought the rest of them?

Speaker 16 (01:10:32):
Different groups of people?

Speaker 11 (01:10:34):
Okay, Cambridge stud bought one of Memon and Joe Lindsay
bought one and Tiaka Stables bought one and they put
their own horses into them.

Speaker 16 (01:10:47):
Okay, and they must be they must be sold. The
horse must be a three year old and sold at
the sale.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Here I understand. And then you do the deal with
the owner about how much of the of the states
you're going to give them. Is that correct?

Speaker 8 (01:11:04):
Yep?

Speaker 16 (01:11:04):
That's how they do it. They got one in a Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
It's a ten million dollar It's quite exciting.

Speaker 16 (01:11:11):
Yeah. Well, I'm going up with a couple of mates.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
Are you, Peter, are you a punter?

Speaker 4 (01:11:17):
Yep?

Speaker 16 (01:11:18):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Would you can? I'm just gonna ask you some questions.
You can tell me if they're stupid. Okay, if you
had if you had a slot, would you leave it
as late as possible to find your horse to get
one that's in the best possible form?

Speaker 16 (01:11:32):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
So when did people find their horses? That happened in
the last week or two? Has it?

Speaker 16 (01:11:38):
Ah, they've filled it in the last three or four. Yeah.
The last which I think the number two horse.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Wins public Yeah okay, yep.

Speaker 16 (01:11:51):
And he was one of the last of the He's
owned an Australia by a wealthy man and raises a
lot of horses. Yeah, and and buys them from here
and maybe the day probably last Thursday. What's that horse

(01:12:13):
called Peter public attention?

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Okay, thank you for that.

Speaker 16 (01:12:18):
Can I but that that's worth three point five? Yeah?
It's our biggest race there there's eight and a half
million dollars in stakes for the.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
Day and.

Speaker 16 (01:12:34):
It's the biggest race in his illustory race Mabe.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Would you say that it's the biggest race, but also
would you say it's the biggest it's the best field
of three year olds compiled?

Speaker 16 (01:12:44):
Could you say that, well, there's two three year old
races there tomorrow. There's the New Zealand Derby which is
worth one I think it's worth a million, and that race,
and there's a couple that I think should be they

(01:13:06):
should have gone to the slot that they've chased again
that instead.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Okay, oh, there'll be a good crowd there.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
On some.

Speaker 16 (01:13:18):
There's only places for general admission where the corporate area
is all sold out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Just looking at the website. You know how they got
the horses? You said, it's number two. What are they
in the order of what's the number in front of them?
That's not the that's not the the what what's that?
How's that organized?

Speaker 16 (01:13:36):
Well, that's the way they came out of the box. Okay,
the way they were drawn out, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
Yeah, a big day.

Speaker 16 (01:13:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'll give you another one out there. Yeah.
And the bone Crusher you would remember him.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
Yep, orchestral brilliant.

Speaker 16 (01:14:02):
Related she's a four year olds.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Thanks very much, better, good luck, Soundra Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:14:10):
Oh yeah, hi Marcus. I just had a light story
about chickens if you've got the time.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Absolutely, we.

Speaker 20 (01:14:21):
Had chickens all the time, but we stopped having them
for a wee. Well, so I had an empty chicken
house of the cope, and our neighbors decided they wanted
to get some chickens, but they didn't have a hen house,
so they are stuff if they could borrow ours for
a couple of weeks. I've get they've been after a
whole lot of chickens because they use our hen house

(01:14:42):
in the interim until they built bills there's and we thought, oh,
no worry, so we said yeah. So they got the
chickens and they put them in our hen house. We
didn't take any notice because we were away and we
got waken up at five in the morning. The twenty
chickens they got, we're all roosters. They didn't last well.

(01:15:09):
I told them they had to go on the pot
because they can't have roosters on the city limits. Somewhere
back in the middle of a they got duped. He
didn't notice.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
For the brilliant it's a good story, so un right.
It's amazing that people dump so many roosters. I think
that's what happens when they dump them at roundabouts and things,
isn't it. They're just sick of them, sick of the noise. Marcus,
I have four chucks. I get four beautiful eggs every morning.
I have an omelet or poached eggs on vogels or
scramble eggs every day. Pay fifty five every five months

(01:15:40):
for two big bags chop feed, supplemented by food scraps,
easy love by chocks. Marcus. I asked the sister in
law to wring you from Sunshine Coast, but she sent
me a message instead. It reads, there's not a breeze here,
but that's all going to change tomorrow. Everyone is sick

(01:16:01):
of waiting for alfree alfie roll out of food and treats,
and if stars to be given, Marcus, I have ten
lovely chickens. They get ten eggs a day, but sparrows
getting in the small entrance and eating their mesh in
their hair. Nolster listens have any idea of how to
get rid of sparrows from eating all the chickens food.

(01:16:26):
I have four shave of chickens. They have about an
eighth of an acre to roam freely. They have twenty
four seven food and water, and lots of trees for shelter.
I sell a dozen eggs per week, and that pays
for their food.

Speaker 16 (01:16:41):
Of spare.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
I give them to friends who give us fruit or veggies.
My neighbors don't hear them, so I'm happy about that
because I do make a noise after laying an egg.
They taste so much nice than shop bought eggs cheese.
Wendy Marcus. We currently have eight free range chickens, but
we started with six, grew to nine, then one died.

(01:17:03):
It's been a wonderful experience collecting fresh eggs and cleaning
up the cooper, becoming family with our poultry friends. The
only downside is when they find their way up the
hell and onto the house where they love to lay
their droppings and hang out with our lovely doggie named
Boston Kevin from Already Point to Auckland. Your chickens love
to hang out in the back porch. They love to

(01:17:24):
find the house, don't they's the warm concrete. I don't
know what it is. So it's chickens and horse racing
the slot race to the other see tomorrow. Even I'm
quite excited about that now, Patty, good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:17:42):
Yeah, Hi, am Mark. I've still got a couple of things.
My sister who lives in the Gold Coast Jesus in
hospital at the moment to make and well she's in
the safest place. Really. She had a heart a little
operation and she's through that, and the nurses have to

(01:18:04):
stay at the hospital, the doctors in the hospital, she
has to stay there. The hospital is actually shut. And
she said, it is really really ramping up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Now she got a cell phone and you talk to her.

Speaker 21 (01:18:20):
Yeah, I took. Yeah, she's back up and running so
she can train me about a half an hour ago.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Tell me where about said is Petty? Is it in
Brisbane or the Gold Coast?

Speaker 21 (01:18:30):
The Gold Coast hospital is up when you're going to
run Away Bay now it's it's up by that. It's
probably before that self Port. It's called Self Thought and
it's by the university.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Well, she's really ramping out and she's in a hospital
building and she must be able set out there. It
must that must really be something if you can hear that.

Speaker 21 (01:18:52):
Yeah, wow, she said, is really really it's really getting
really ugly now really ugly. And also I just want
to know macause I just happened to hear on the
Breakfast show on one of the high Reckie Breakfast shar

(01:19:12):
I don't listen to it normally, but they did this
imitation song. I don't know if you've heard it about
McDonald's going into Wannaca the.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Guys I had, I had heard that. What was the
tune of it was quite clever Africa Africa. Yes, that's right,
that's right. It was Toto Africa.

Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
Yep.

Speaker 21 (01:19:31):
Lovely. Wasn't it fabulous?

Speaker 17 (01:19:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:19:35):
It was cool. Okay, thanks Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
Always like it, you love it. I was stocking station
of music radio breakfast Radio love a song triviat. I
thought it was great. Keith Marcus, Hello.

Speaker 7 (01:19:49):
Hello Marcus. What I'm wringing about is the Slove race tomorrow.
My my daughter in law, she was at when they
sold the slots, you know, and she went in with
a a kind of a syndicate to buy it. I

(01:20:10):
think it was about seven or eight hundred thousand, you know.
And what the slot is that they have it for
three years and when the race comes up, they negotiate
with the trainer for if they've got a good horse,

(01:20:32):
they negotiate terms with it, you know, for the race.

Speaker 9 (01:20:37):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:20:40):
Kerry had was at the drawer on Tuesday night where
they had all the barrier drawers in easter eggs, and
what they did was they somebody picked out the name
of the horse and then they picked out an easter
egg and broke it and the barrier draw wasn't Kerry

(01:21:04):
was fortunate enough to get number five. That she was
unlucky in lots of ways because she had a good
horse from Roger James, so they had but it got
injured in the panic. So she's got a replacement, you know.
I think it's really or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
No, we've spoken funnily enough, Keith. We've spoken to a
man tonight that is a part owner of that horse
that's just had the late replacement in lane five. Yes,
and it's a horse that's only raced once. It's only
raced twice. It came sixth in its first outing, but

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they found it had a pass and blister in its foot,
and the second outing it won the race quite convincing.
I think he said a book a gohe So he's
a truck driver and he's coming up from Harward or
Alpham so he's really excited. So we spoke to that
guy earlier today. So it's a coincidence.

Speaker 16 (01:22:08):
Isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
And I think the name yeah, it's.

Speaker 7 (01:22:14):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
Or Meller is the name of the horse. So paying
thirty one dollars and six dollars fifty.

Speaker 7 (01:22:22):
Oh it's playing a good price. Yeah, I'll I'll put
a bob on it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
But so is your is your daughter involved your Is
your daughter involved in a syndicate that bought the slot?
Is that the way it works?

Speaker 7 (01:22:36):
Yes? Yes, yes, she was at when they were selling them.
They they sold off the fourteen slots and people bought them.
You know, I don't know what she paid for it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
It was you know, as I said, is she a
horse racing person?

Speaker 7 (01:22:53):
Yes, yes, she's got a bloodstock business. She buys horses.

Speaker 13 (01:22:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Hey, can you are you a racing person? Keith?

Speaker 7 (01:23:04):
Well, I used to go with my mother to the
races when I was about thirteen. You know, you was
used to go the races. And I came from a
farm where.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
He said, because someone's asked, someone's asked me about the
whole handicap nature of the race. Do you know anything
about that?

Speaker 7 (01:23:26):
Do you mean they handicap them?

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Where how some races are handicapped is not. There's nothing
tricky with this race. It's just anyone is no you
just how does it work?

Speaker 7 (01:23:38):
Well, I would think that that the phillies had get
left in the cult, so I would think, but I'm
not sure. But the horses have come from Australia have
a lot of likes of Evaporate. Now he's a champion horse,

(01:23:59):
but he's been unlucky with the drawer soe he got
twelve and the other Australian horse, Scott for fourteen, so
they were a bit unlucky really. You know, if that
draw an inside the New Zealand horses wouldn't have beaten them,
but the New Zealand noses and now I've got a
show of beating them.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
So okay, I'll see we can find more about the handicaps.
But thank you, Keith. Good evening, Roberts, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
Hey Marcus, hi, rob good good. Look these slot racers
are quite interesting. I'm not that interested, but mainly because
they've got no history, so it's only a recent they're
only a recent sort of initiative bought about by trying

(01:24:47):
to entice young people to the racers. So it's all
tied up with you know, they have music on the day,
fashion food and all of that sort of stuff. I
think it was instigated by the Australian Turf cl CEO
Peter VELANDI.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
Of course he's involved in the League two.

Speaker 4 (01:25:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah in Sydney now I think there one's
worth about twenty million or some outrageous outrageous yeah you
know number and the winner gets like ten million dollars.
But also there's one in Western Australian Perth called the Quaker. Yeah,

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and that's that's a slot race. Now. I think it's
been run and won twice and the next New Zealand
trainers won one at both times Beyond Baker and he
grew up in Woodville and his dad was a very

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very good trainer out of New Zealand, Murray Baker, and
that race I think's worth about five six million, So yeah,
that they're interesting. I think here in New Zealand, uh
En Tain who have who have taken over the Totalized

(01:26:18):
Asia Agency Board, have pumped a whole lot of money
into New Zealand racing and I think it's about a
billion dollars over five years. Yeah, I think that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Get they get hard to take or something you've seen.
Why do you think that. Why does the style of
racing I'm just trying to think wide appeals to young people.
Is it because the purse is so much bigger? Is
it the thinking of why is it that this appeals
to people?

Speaker 4 (01:26:48):
Well, I think they tie up a whole lot of
entertainment with it. And I think traditional traditional racing or
thoroughbred people that they're more traditionals. So these racers have
got no history about them. Yeah, you know you talking
about the Moultourn Cup, the Sydney Cup, the Australian Oaks,

(01:27:10):
the Australian Derby. You know they are one hundred and
fifty years old, those racers. So so it's more you know,
the traditional racing people intend to go for those races
and right you sorry, you keep going. Yeah, the the
young people, you know, it's to entice young people back

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to the to the race tracks. Basically it's a foundering
industry with on course attendance. Yes, and this is you know,
they tie a whole lot of entertainment up. I mean
the slot the slot draws themselves are huge, the huge
knights where where they have a whole I think that

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the the Everest run in Sydney, you know, they had
a whole lot of circus acts to do all the
draws and all of that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
Hey, Rob, just people about me, Questions about the handicap
or the situation like that because because I know that
there's all different sorts of categories for races. Can you
tell me about can you tell about the slot race?
What what the criteria? I know you've got to be
a three year old, but what else can you tell
me about that?

Speaker 12 (01:28:20):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:28:20):
Well, I think the three year olds have an advantage
because they get in at minimum weights. Okay, because they're
a young horse. And I guess I guess the more
well performed a horse, it has a higher rating overall
world rating. So I guess they get they get bigger

(01:28:41):
weights because they have one more price money, and.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
So there's still an element element of handicapping with that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
Okay, look, I'm not entirely sure, but but I'm sure
there'd be some uh some uh yeah, formula worked out.

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
Is that the only way the only way to keep
it like relatively competitive? Is that what you are saying?

Speaker 4 (01:29:08):
Well, i'd say so. Obviously, a three year old could
be a weaker horse, but if it's carrying a minimum weight,
that's where it's advantages. Whereas if you get a horse
at the top of the handicap that that's maybe raced
at the top level for two or three years and
as a hardened handicapper. You know he's got the advantage

(01:29:32):
for share experience. I'm money guessing here.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
I'll try and find out tonight. Someone. Will you have
a punt on it?

Speaker 16 (01:29:39):
Rob?

Speaker 4 (01:29:40):
Look, I wasn't planning to because I'm sort of I've
got a business now and I'm right out of the loop. Yes,
and I wouldn't even know who's racing in it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:56):
Okay, nice to hear from you, Rob, Thank you, good evening.
Jim AT's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:30:01):
Oh hi, I can give you the criteria for the
handicapping of the slob race tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Oh thank you, because I've got I've got. I've always
been really sketchy on all of how that works, so
if you could tell me that, that would be great.

Speaker 15 (01:30:13):
Sure.

Speaker 8 (01:30:14):
Well.

Speaker 15 (01:30:15):
The type of race is set weight and penalties. Now
Coltan Galdings normally get fifty seven k's and phillies get
a two kilo grounds fifty five. Now, that's the basis
they work from in that type of race. For three
or our set weights and penalies. Now the penalties if
the horses won a Group one races gets a three

(01:30:37):
k penalty, it's won a Group two race, second tier
race two K two k penalty or Group three one
k penalty. Now there's also if they've won three races,
they get a one kilo penally. Well, if they've won
two races, they get half the kilo. Now there's a

(01:30:58):
handicapper in New Zealand called Bruce Sherwin. He organizes all
those those weights and the idea of handicapped is that
all horses should finish in the same place. Yeah, of
course that's the possible. Yeah, because you know track conditions, draws,
all that sort of thing happened. So returned to that

(01:31:19):
race that set weights and penalties was th year old.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Jimmy, Jimmy, you've made that very clear.

Speaker 15 (01:31:28):
Oh good, Yeah, it was a normals three year old race.
Colton Gelings would get fifty seven and Philly's fifty five kilograms.
But this one's different. Setweights and penalties applied.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Okay, so tell me. So they weigh the jockey, and
the jockeys would normally be below fifty seven kilograms and
they give them the weights to make them up to that.

Speaker 15 (01:31:50):
Is that right exactly? Well, I've operate it's the top way.
He's got fifty nine because he's got a couple of penalties.
Applied to him. Now Michdeakim jockey's riding him, but he's
been riding in Victoria in the last couple of years.
He's come over to ride their horse, so he you know,
he weighs in before the race and fifty nine kilos

(01:32:11):
you know, with the saddle and the towels and all
the rest of us. So the second way horses fifty
eight and a half kilos. Those two Australian entries have
got the top waves. The top weight of most of
New Zealanders is alls called Checkmate, and he's won three races,
so he gets a one and a half kilo penalty,

(01:32:32):
you know, above the fifty seven. And they've been so
on down. Now what the previous calls alluded to. Each
horse has got a rating now evaporators rated rated at
ninety eight. Our poor roles are mellow. She's only rated
at sixty three. So I'm on paper, you know, vaprated

(01:32:53):
should easily beats all mellow. Yeah, but you know, as
I say, the idea of handicapping is to give every
horse a chance of winning.

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
Some races.

Speaker 15 (01:33:04):
The race like that tomorrow, they'll put you about a
fifteen length margin between first and.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
Last someone did ask the question of our text about
the jockeys, But there'd been no I mean it would
be up for that, there'd be nothing. There'd be nothing
the slot. Would the people that had the slot have
any input on the jockeys, No, there would be that.
It would be not at all.

Speaker 15 (01:33:25):
Between the owners of the horse and the trainers. There's
about five Australian based riders coming over fake sins. One
who's stopped rider Matt cart right uh here, So all
the top riders will be amongst the fourteen fourteen horses
going around. So it'll be a hell of a race,

(01:33:47):
a good race not to have a bet on as
my open.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
Do you think it's a Do you think it's a
good development for racing?

Speaker 15 (01:33:55):
Oh? Yes, yes, created a lot of interest and you
know it could be a lot of food, Well not
a lot, but some first time race goes there, you know,
just to just out of interest.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
And with racing over that distance like that, Is it
a situation where you could compare the times and this
could be a record time because the field is so good.
Is that a situation they'll be looking at a record time?
Was that all depended on the surface and stuff like that.

Speaker 15 (01:34:24):
Yeah, well, it'll be a good pour what they call
a good poor or good track tomorrow. And the distance
is fifteen hundred meters. I don't know what the track
report is is that distance through Elsli because it's an
unusual distance most okays are over sixteen hundred meters. But no, no,
they coulden's on the pace of the race.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
Would have they Why would have they gone for a
shorter distance than normal to make it more exciting?

Speaker 15 (01:34:48):
Oh, I'm must be sure?

Speaker 9 (01:34:50):
Really?

Speaker 5 (01:34:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:34:53):
Well, usually for sixteen hundred they can run into about
one thirty six, one thirty five, so take twelve off
that they should be able to run. Well, say they'll
run one thirty five, take twelve, they'll be at one point.
Oh my figures wrong once and before they should run
it in about one Yes, as you said, what can

(01:35:17):
well be a track record?

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
Okay? Are you an owner or a jockey or.

Speaker 15 (01:35:22):
Yeah, a long time owner. I was actually at Tierra
racist today.

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
Okay, they're running? Were they talking about it? What you're saying?

Speaker 13 (01:35:33):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
What we're saying.

Speaker 15 (01:35:35):
I went to Tierra Racers today. It's one of the
best courses in New Zealand under the mountain. Then they've
got a lot of palm trees there. But the type
of horse eye race usually races for eighteen and a
half thousand dollars, not three and a half million.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
Were they talking about the races today? Were they talking
about Ellerslie?

Speaker 15 (01:35:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, a little bit of interest there, yeah, yeah,
but there are only small fields here. Just a midweg
sort of minor meeting, but you you know, huge crowd.
It's Elsie Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
Nice to talk Jim. Thanks so much for kind with
your answers. I appreciate that. Nineteen past eleven head on
midnight we talked about the slot race at Allerslie. Gosh,
I've become the promotional arm for this all right, because
I find it quite interesting. Yeah, I never and I
got the race is quite often, but I've always kind
of glazed over with handing it all that. But I
probably should have always kind of bothered to listen to
it because it's actually probably quite straightforward. It just seems

(01:36:29):
complicated horse racing, horse racing. I could raise a horse,
no worries, cheers. Marcus started chickens not long after COVID,
with no idea whatsoever. Have a humble flock of sixty
and have found it to be the most uncomplicated livestock
to maintain, and we never tire of eating eggs. Thought
about setting them outside with an honesty box, but decided

(01:36:52):
in steared to pop a tray of thirty on our
bar for fifteen dollars and the locals just love it.
They always comment on the quality of the yolk and
that is incredibly satisfying. Feed them peck and lay chok
food and all scraps except ovocado from tonight silver Beat
seems to be their favorite. Also part owned some racesources

(01:37:15):
which run in a lost every imaginable way, but they
are great for road trips. Cheers Emma from Whedon's Brilliant. Well,
it's nice to hear from you, Emma. Hello Kate, it's Marcus.
Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:37:26):
Hi there.

Speaker 23 (01:37:28):
I'm just thinking about my time in Wa. I'm from
New Zealand and I was working in the mines in
the Pilbara region and my goodness us our cyclone and
we were in the mines and we were all sentenced

(01:37:50):
to our dollar as we weren't allowed to leave. And
of course back then I was a smoker, so I
stood on the toilet seat in my little dollar and
smoked out the window. But it was serious and there
were trees coming down and they did come down on

(01:38:10):
one dog and fortunately the person that was in that
doga was at work and it would.

Speaker 21 (01:38:17):
Have just.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
I always thought the dongers were just like containers. Are
they anchored down?

Speaker 23 (01:38:24):
Yes, they are to the ground and with chains, so
they are anchored down.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
By the way Kate shout out to giving up smoking,
Well done.

Speaker 14 (01:38:33):
You for that.

Speaker 23 (01:38:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's pretty good. But anyway, anyway,
it was Yeah, it was pretty amazing some of those weather,
weather events that come through and you know, you just
had a little whee room and your each on and

(01:38:58):
you just got on with that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
But how many cyclones? How many years were in Australia
and how many cyclones did you get?

Speaker 23 (01:39:06):
I was in the minds of four years and I
had two cyclones and there was one particular one and
we were in a really really yeary which is the
hottest part of Australia, and it was New Year's Eve
or New Year's and because there's quite a few rivers

(01:39:29):
that go out to the east the West Coast, we
were flooded and we had to stay there and you know,
at the time, I was in my forties and there
was a whole lot of young girls or our young
kids that were early twenties, and they had paid hundreds
of dollars for events to go to these concerts and

(01:39:51):
whatever in Perith, and we couldn't get out. And I've
got to say they were the nicest kids for either
they didn't complain, they didn't and they missed out. And
that's a big thing when you go into start.

Speaker 21 (01:40:06):
Look like that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
Nice to talk to you, Katy, Thanks so much. It's
ruve to get the others, but lovely to talk Jane, Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:40:11):
Welcome, good a Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
How are you going?

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
Good? Take you Jane, How are you going?

Speaker 5 (01:40:16):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:40:17):
Yep?

Speaker 20 (01:40:18):
Good?

Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
Interesting.

Speaker 15 (01:40:20):
I've enjoyed tonight.

Speaker 22 (01:40:21):
Actually it's been been very good.

Speaker 14 (01:40:24):
Hey.

Speaker 22 (01:40:25):
We had a cafe in Templeton and we had some
residential neighbors who moved out and left some chickens behind,
so we sort of adopted them, or they kind of
moved in.

Speaker 6 (01:40:38):
With us.

Speaker 22 (01:40:39):
And there were some big trees up the back, and
there were there were two roosters originally we called them
Mars Elvin Pierre, and the roosters used to go up
and sleep in the trees at night, not in the
we sort of chuck house that we bought them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
It's adorable, isn't it. The headshogs probably so the.

Speaker 22 (01:41:01):
Chickens, they were very sort of popular with the kids,
and the cost and stuff. The eggs were great. So
when we sold up the cafe about five years later,
we re honed all of them and my brother and
sister in law actually took We had one rooster leaf
at that stage per year. He only died last year,
and your show made me google up. I thought, how
long does the roost of it? It was about five

(01:41:24):
to eight years, and so he must have been ten
years plus.

Speaker 21 (01:41:27):
So he had a good rip.

Speaker 15 (01:41:29):
So that was quite cool.

Speaker 22 (01:41:30):
And then suddenly we also had a shaft at that
cafe who used to make his own onion sausages, not
one of yours?

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Is it meat air onion? Is that what they are?

Speaker 6 (01:41:41):
Yep?

Speaker 22 (01:41:41):
So sausage meat. So what he used to do, and
his family had come from dned Nus had apparently quite
a famous fish and chip shop down in Dunedin. But
so he used to like get sausage meat. He'd cook
off the onions and then the sausage meat sort of
squash it all down flat into a big baking tray
and freeze it. Then he'd get this baking tray out

(01:42:05):
so like work it upside down on a big bench.
And they need to cut those sausages if you like,
we'll cut them into sort of strips. And then of course,
because then they'd be much easier to better because they
were frozen, so like sort of like a nice block
if you like.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
Okay, And and tell me something, Jane, did the chickens
lay up in the tree?

Speaker 13 (01:42:31):
No?

Speaker 22 (01:42:32):
No, so that the girls all slept in the little
just the roosters go up on the tree.

Speaker 21 (01:42:38):
Yeah, they loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
Makes perfect sense, Jennim glen I asked, thank you so
much for that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:42):
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