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Cuz Chat 47 - Home Sweet Home
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Black Magee, JRD and Rod join forces this week, after a holiday size break I might add, to delight your earholes and keep you (somewhat) up to date. Tune in as we dive into Lawn care, busted pipes and dead pussies and more!
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Podcast Returns: Recap & Catch Up
00:00:36
Speaker
breathers welcome back to the cast chat podcast you'll hear with Black Mickey and my cousins joining us this week towards the ruthless deception donning a wonderfully red hat yep good to be back had a couple of weeks to you but
00:00:55
Speaker
We've had a bit of lawn care, we've had a bit of home maintenance, and we've had a bit of extreme sports, so we can't get back on those topics. Lots to get into, lots to get into. And also joining us this week, rotters with... Rocking the day out, evening cough coughs there, there rotters. Yeah, evening, you mad bastards, you're a sick son of a beast.
00:01:19
Speaker
Welcome. Yeah, good to be back. You haven't been on for a while. Yes. Yeah. Rocking a cough cough time of the day and doesn't affect the sleeping mate. Just not fully addicted. Yeah. And like you said, nine for the baby or potentially now I slept in because I bit hangover. So I'm probably, it's probably any more fifth.
00:01:44
Speaker
not a bad run rate there, not a bad run rate. So yes, we're headed to obviously pleasure up your air holes with some lovely chats about all the sort of shenanigans we'll be getting up.
Holiday Experiences and Climate Adjustment
00:01:56
Speaker
It's been a few weeks between podcasts, obviously
00:02:01
Speaker
There's a bit of a holiday in there, the Christmas season, holiday season. So we'll get into that. Got some updates on the Extreme Sports side of things. We've got some blowing up to some main cables in there, some track to talk, lawn chat, we got it all. And maybe a bit of poor form sprinkled in there as well. So for, yeah, like, man, how is everyone? Like, I'm fully relaxed after the holiday. Got snapped back to reality now, been a couple of weeks back at work and
00:02:31
Speaker
Oh boy, walking back into this heat after having labami, you know, 25 to 27 degrees in Altair or coming back to fucking 37 was a bit of a shock. But how is everyone else doing with the back to work blues? Not good. Yep. Don't like it. Because of the last two weeks or two going back to work. Teats.
00:03:01
Speaker
Yeah. Was that just because of the break or just the fun head over the break or? Just because it's hot, muggy, can't be fucked,
Back to Work & School Challenges
00:03:11
Speaker
you know? Yeah, pretty much. It's a attitude problem. Working out. It's not cracked up. It's not as good as they say it's cracked up to be, I reckon. What about you, Rodders?
00:03:25
Speaker
Yeah, I finished week two on Thursday. It took Friday off trying to make the most of these long weekends. I got a few annuals up my sleeve. Nice.
00:03:40
Speaker
Yeah, not too bad. It's pretty crazy anyway. At the moment, not a lot of activity for me. What have you got for you? Mid-fib, probably. Mid-fib, but it just goes from zero to a handy, like within a day. Yeah, right. So you know, nothing, nothing, nothing. Then it's just full on, eh?
00:04:05
Speaker
It's geared to calm before the storm, mate. Once the schools go back, that's me until bloody end of November, basically. Yeah. Are the schools in New Zealand back here, or they would be back by now, wouldn't they? Or they go back next week? Next week. Oh, hey, fuck, that's bad, eh?
00:04:25
Speaker
It's a niggly because they're going to go back for a couple of days and then Wai Tungi falls in and out and then obviously this long weekend. So what's the long weekend you got? I thought there's Wai Tungi. What else is there? I was talking anniversary this weekend. Oh, okay. Yeah. Does that extend down to you fellows or do you just observe it anyway as a public holiday?
00:04:51
Speaker
It's the northern area, right? Through to... I'm not sure where it cuts off. Oh, yeah. Pretty much total, right? Because once a year down through the next one down, it's like 1-2 anniversary. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, they might actually go on Wellington anniversary, I think. Yes. And then the Hawkes Bay have their own one, too. Yeah, nice.
New Zealand Trip & Family Reflections
00:05:13
Speaker
All this beer and all the holidays over here, public holidays are stacked in the first half of the year, too.
00:05:19
Speaker
I think there's a like every year I do check this out I don't know if you guys do as well over the Easter period because there's so many public holidays sprinkled in around weekends and then there's like Anzac Day in there as well I think if you take like four days off four days annual leave you'll get like two weeks
00:05:39
Speaker
because you just take those days off in between all those public holidays and that. So yeah, there's a pro tip for anyone out there looking to take two weeks off in April. It'll only cost you about four annual leave days. That's what I've explored because the last few years I'm a martyr, I don't fucking take any days off. So I thought, no, I think I'll take days off either side of these long weekends.
00:06:05
Speaker
including Ann's Ex on a Thursday this year, mind our Lord's birthday. So you might as well have the Friday off. Yes. That's magnificent. All of a sudden you've got a heap of days off. Sorry. Speaking of annual leave.
00:06:22
Speaker
The wife, because she's been in her job for over 10 years, she gets long service leave. And she totaled up all her annual leave and her long service leave. And it comes out at something like 16 weeks of leave that she's got.
00:06:40
Speaker
I'm like, fuck, can we cash that out or what? Use it or lose it, probably. Well, I don't think there's any way that she can, you know, it should be a week at a time here and there, but, you know, she's probably accumulating it as well, you know, taking it that slow. That's like me. I've had three weeks over Christmas, New Year, and I've still got like something like 160 hours.
00:07:08
Speaker
No, that's Primo. Oh, a shot there, New Zealand Labor Laws. Good on ya. Yeah, so here we are, another potty. Yeah, I wanted to kick it off with that break in New Zealand and new followers have probably got a few stories to share because they did hang out a bit. Actually, it was the day after we got there. We all kind of congregated at Rodshouse and the beers were flowing.
00:07:32
Speaker
the green was on fire and yeah there's a bit of action happening on the washer box front as well so i don't know what do you guys recall of that that sort of first foray into the holidays
00:07:46
Speaker
I haven't had a hangover like that for years. I actually said to the missus at one stage, I heard like I was hovering over my body saying, take me to the hospital. Did you have an out of body experience there? Because I was a croc man. I was a croc man, bro. So she said, no, no, let's we're just going to work instead. So once I started working and had a cough cough,
00:08:14
Speaker
at this random book a batch, so I come right. That's four poles crooked. That's right, because you shut up to Coromandel at some point as well, didn't you? We're in Russia? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Up north, a couple of weeks ago. Last year, the other week. Yeah, we're up north, play here. Scrap Russell. Wait, why Tony? Yep, yep.
00:08:39
Speaker
Did you get away at all after, were you just hanging in around the area? I went on that timber trail bike ride and all that. I've just been over to Watahe, the Sleek Hands. But no, I didn't really care to get away for a big trip. You know, just done day trips and stuff like that this year so far. Just didn't really have the time, eh, this summer.
00:09:07
Speaker
Yeah, well we packed as much as we could do in that three weeks that we were there. Absolutely loved every minute of it too.
Sports Mishaps & Lawn Care Adventures
00:09:15
Speaker
The weather was good, you know, anytime it got a bit too hot to go and jump into the river or the lake or mum's pool. It wasn't too far away from water the whole time as well. Even got down the line, even got down to Wakare Moana and explored down there, the old homestead, the Hem homestead down there.
00:09:37
Speaker
Aunty Maureen's got a house on a bit of land down there that she's cleared out. Most picturesque view you could ever want down in those ways. Close to the river as well. Got to hear a bit of the local lore and history of the final growing up there.
00:09:57
Speaker
had a swim in the Awa and local swimming hole that they used to as well. So yeah, for me, that was probably one of the highlights. Went for a few bit of bushwalking there as well. Heaps of fun. I showed Jordan where it was. Do you know where I was talking about, Ross? Yeah, yeah, I got a bit of an idea. Yeah. So I guess Fraser Town is probably the closest, like,
00:10:22
Speaker
like if you can even call it a town because it's like got a pub and a shop and some closed down buildings is about all it's got there in the main centre. But no, awesome trip. I think there was probably about 19 of us that went down there, all the whānau and kids and all that sort of stuff and campervans and tents and just pitched up on our auntie's land there.
00:10:47
Speaker
Most magnificent tour that I've ever had the pleasure of dropping a Doosan. No windows, no doors. Look straight out into the bush. It's like a primo. I didn't get a hold of that. I've got to say, I've got to give a shout out to the bro here. He was really, really concerned about poop management while we were down there.
00:11:15
Speaker
You should be. And he was quite excited to partake in a bit of a scenic. And then, yeah, trotted off to, you know, christen the toilet and apparently got a bit of performance anxiety. Could it make it happen on the command? He sort of felt a bit deflated after that. Is this a bit too much hype? That is the best of us.
00:11:44
Speaker
Yeah, well, let's see if we can...
00:11:49
Speaker
get you back in the swing of things and have some curries or something like that and you'll go straight through you mate, you'll be fine. Yeah, not enough fuckoffs, that'll go as good as we go in. True, true. Yeah, so got a nice tan, fucking spend some really good quality time with heaps of whanau, 10 out of 10 will do it again. So much so that I am 60-40 about making the transition back home at some stage.
00:12:16
Speaker
So yeah, there's any jobs going out there if I know you want to employ me in and around Topol area, hit us up on the podcast or wherever you can get hold of us. But yeah, it was, yeah. I'd even go as far to say it is life changing. That's how much I enjoyed it. Yeah. Did the old lady point the direction where the actual
00:12:44
Speaker
The grandmother's model in that is down there as well. I know he's went to the Hema side. Yeah, we apparently it's not there anymore, but she did kind of point it out to us. I think another trip is in order and I want to spend a bit more time in Waiter. Because that's where it's got it. Yeah, probably her mum's side of the family a bit more.
00:13:06
Speaker
Yeah, crazy town in Waddow. Yeah, yeah, all through there. Even, yeah, Waddow, especially, there was an old moray there that got moved or, you know, it was in disrepair, something like that. And yeah, she's been there and got a bit of metal from it and a bit of wood from that moray as it was being, you know, relocated or moved from its original site.
00:13:34
Speaker
But yeah, that'll be the next one. Rod is, I think, going to be in a bit of time in Napier and Waiter. If I go back. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, all the time. We should do a count or a trip down there. Oh, yes. Don't see where. Oh, that's lovely. We almost brought up, you know? Let's do it. I'm keen. Let's try and organize it for, you know, whenever we can. Because, yeah, we took
00:14:01
Speaker
I think got a big shout out to mum and dad for hiring some campervans for us to take down there. And Kev as well. Kev had a fucking main setup. Was the old pop-up trailer tent generator and all that sort of stuff. Even though he slept in the caravan. He was good to have all that stuff down there. So yeah, I reckon a big equal like that would be primo with all the cuzzies. Go and visit some different sites and talk to some people and be primo.
00:14:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:14:36
Speaker
We are so we go we ended up in so we did dear topor to I or what kind of mana and then Shot over to the mount for a few days as well Yeah, I like for me just swimming in all the rivers lakes oceans. I mean fit no fear of sharks fucking crocodiles spiders what have you over here fuck it's just crystal clear water and the biggest thing you work got to worry about is getting mud on your fucking feet and shit
00:15:08
Speaker
There you go, Tourism New Zealand. You can take as many snippets of that as you want and use it for your promotional stuff. Cheers. We did hang out with you fellas quite a bit though, which was cool.
00:15:21
Speaker
I think you had a bit to sort of bring up as well, George, about some of the shenanigans that we got up to while we were there. Good to get back into a little bit of competition and rivalries. Yeah, we got into a bit of washer box and we played some up at Rota's house and then we had a few games on Kibi's birthday. But me and Mitch actually went undefeated, I think. Basically cleared out the division of everyone there.
00:15:50
Speaker
It was very one-sided that whole session that no one could get a traction hold at all. We lost a couple of games here and there, but it was matches. Still gave you a match, so just once you've found out form, pretty unstoppable. I've got to call out the fresh game of washerbox that we had at Ryder's house. I think you and I were on a team there at Ryder's at one stage.
00:16:17
Speaker
I think it was you and I. Yeah, we done all right, didn't we? I think we did. I think Jordan cost over that part where we made a clean sweep as well. I thought me and Rodder were on the team. I can't remember. Who was I playing with then? No, me and Rodder were on the same end. That's right. No, me and Rodder were on the same end. That's right. Yeah, Jordan was the Anzacs. Yeah, and... No, it was me and Keith, wasn't it? I think so. Yeah. Yeah, he was quite good.
00:16:45
Speaker
Well, I thought I was going to say Keith was quite average, but. He's being carried. He's being carried. Yeah. But now it's always good to finally, um, but you got a primo set up there on us with the old, um, leaners and the old gazebo and extended out on the old garage there.
00:17:06
Speaker
You're not seeing many a party or shared and being through a few gazebos over the years. That whole area area out the front lens itself, you know, good little driveway with a bit of grassy area as well and freed trees for a bit of shade. Yep. Well, gazebos are fragile beasts at times, aren't they? Yeah, wow.
00:17:29
Speaker
Yeah, you wouldn't want to have them this way at the moment. They'll gust the wind, bro, and they just laugh. One minute, you're plotting a gazebo. Next minute, you do not have a gazebo. I think you can chalk this theory up to a poor form, but when we went to the mount, the bird's nieces had one of those gazebos that you had sides for. Oh, you never have sides. They were trying to put it up, bro, and the wind was quite blustery.
00:17:58
Speaker
as soon as you gave it any bit of length, you know, it starts to fold and you can see it really buffeting against the wind. And I was like, I mean, it'd be the best idea, but they had little babies and they were worried about the wind getting at the babies. I was like, people were worried about that gazebo fucking clocking them or something after it flies away. So, and they had no pigs.
00:18:19
Speaker
So they were just trying to hold it. I was like, this is not going to work. I don't know what he's trying to do. So, yeah, I had to. We did use it subsequent days. So I went and got some pigs from fucking Kmart for them just to fly away. You're going to lose this gazebo. Yeah. So dangerous apparatus of not used correctly. No, no, just trying to tell them as well. But, you know, one dude against
00:18:49
Speaker
a gaggle of females. I wasn't really fancy my chances.
Extreme Sports Stories
00:18:53
Speaker
Yeah, it's hard to get any common sense here at that point. No, no. And I yeah, I have a history of rocking the boat in that sense anyway. So I'm trying to trying to work on that. Because I would have done my Nana. Yeah, I just would have been off off the rails at them. I don't know what the fuck he's doing. I'll chuck that up to your DB McGee.
00:19:15
Speaker
because he used to launch into some of those charades as well. As you well know, Ron, as you well know, been a... Yeah, I've mentioned on the old cos bloody snap chat a few hours ago. I'll tell you, I've got a bit of poor form if that comes up later on as well that I just remembered trying to... Yeah, we can wait.
00:19:37
Speaker
Yeah, if it works itself in, don't forget it. That's all good, that's all good. Yeah, so Washerbox was a bit of fun. That was the second day that we got there and we went to that Lecurrence concert.
00:19:54
Speaker
So you were on the on the turbs. I think I was just had a you know, oh, one thing I did want to mention is I actually took over some additional from Australia to New Zealand. But in the. But it goes. Oh, get me out there because I'm I'll just continue on chat.
00:20:17
Speaker
Yeah, so I bought about, I don't know how many grams, but a little bit of a punnet of buds over with me. Went to clear them as plant material and the lady kind of just had a look at them. I was like, ah, yeah, it's actually got a class as medicine, so you need to go customs. So sent me around there. He kind of had a look at it. I opened it up in the middle of the airport, bro, and he's like,
00:20:39
Speaker
You know, as they have to, I guess. I was just like, it's pretty, it's pretty potent. It's a pretty strong smell. But you know, they didn't seem to be too fussed about it. And they're like, oh no, as long as you've got all the right documentation, you're fine. Sweet as. So yeah, made it through customs, a bit of smoke and then
00:20:58
Speaker
Yeah, drinks and smoke on the, for the, uh, the currents that was back in primo, primo data, primo way to start like an awesome holiday. So cheers for the riders. You set the tone really well. Dan, I was bloody. It's a great day.
00:21:16
Speaker
Thoroughly enjoyed it. You like to see plenty of drinks. The old head wasn't great. The next day, cool. I was fucking hungry. I was running out of my life. Because you stayed there. I went home early. But there was shots going around at one stage, wasn't there? There's all sorts. I mean, I'm lightweight when it comes to drinking. But yeah, I know it's the house rules. When you get the house rules, you've got to abide by them, I guess.
00:21:49
Speaker
But I guess more recent times, now that we're all back to work and fucking back to the daily grind and that sort of stuff, still trying to find a bit of enjoyment here and there. And as you mentioned, Lord, you're kind of getting into a bit of venture action sports. You're showing us when we got there, your pup as well, kind of follow along.
00:22:14
Speaker
on the old mountain bike. But yeah, I heard you had a bit of a, well, what did you explain what happened more recently with the old mountain biking shenanigans? Oh, pretty much. I've just come up, gone to go around the old burn and just completely missed it. And then fell off straight onto my hip and shoulder, face into the dirt.
00:22:41
Speaker
I sort of sent the video through to the kuzzies and you can hear me spitting all the dirt out once I stand up. Yeah, it was a pretty significant impact because you hear that. Yeah, it was straight to hard dirt and fuck I didn't fly to nothing. And then, yeah, I can stood up and I'm like, fuck, it's going to be sore. It was all on my hip. All of my fucking thing was I woke up the next day and it was actually, do you know, like,
00:23:10
Speaker
If you get kicked in the nuts and you sort of like get pain in your top of your groin. It felt like I woke up and someone kicked me in the nuts. It was a rough day, it worked. Internal was a bit sloshed around. Yeah, maybe my nuts got fucking bounced onto the
00:23:43
Speaker
I was having period pains or something.
00:23:53
Speaker
That's why I sleep with a pillow under my guts when I sleep on my sides. It keeps my internals straight. So I don't wake up with a sore gut as well. But yeah, I know what you mean. It's not a nice game again. I'll show you pain lords. What's that? These are the old groin injuries.
00:24:21
Speaker
Fucking no good or right, I'm still recovering from one from touch a few weeks ago. Oh, yeah. You're not all good. It's not great. I'll be getting little twinges every now and then. I don't know what from it because I don't really do that much to extravagant, but you know.
00:24:38
Speaker
Just taking a, you know, moving in a different direction or, you know, changing angles and stuff like that. And every now and then, it's just get a big fucking twinge up the old groin. It's great. No, that's me too. Too tight. More stretching, eh? More stretching. I guess so. Any other shenanigans you'd be giving up to? Josh or Lorde? With the body? No, I was going to say I'm bloody.
00:25:08
Speaker
Yeah, I'd done my groin real bad. It was only a couple of weeks before Christmas, plain touch. I was that same feeling, Lord. I thought I actually got need in the nuts at the time. But I'd gone down. I could die for a try and my knee kind of just got stuck in the dirt and the whole hundred kilo body weight just went straight.
00:25:27
Speaker
into the throwing and blowing abdomen area. And I tweaked it again on Thursday night, but yeah, shit, the old, the old meat and two veg were black and blueberry for about 10 days. So I can exactly hear what you're saying. It's probably just this yelling and swelling into that area.
00:25:52
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And then I played on Thursday night and tweaked it again. We played. We played last week. First break back after Christmas. And just tweaked it again. So initial movements when you're rolling around in bed, you know, the old quick, fast movements that you don't kind of think about doing. Yeah. See you into it. That was strange. I didn't even get a bruise from that.
00:26:20
Speaker
mountain biking accident. On your hip, yet? Nah. So I don't know what the story is there. Fuckin' strange. I fuckin' definitely fell to it when I hit the ground in the video. It wasn't going slow.
00:26:37
Speaker
It was a good clip too, like pretty clear and you could tell exactly what happened without any explanation. He's like, oh yeah, there's a berm coming up. Oh, he's a bit white. Oh, nah, he's fucked. Yeah, it all happened so far. At the time I had no idea what had fucking happened. I was like, what have I done? Fuck it. And it wasn't until I went back and watched the footage and go, oh, I see what's happened. You were looking where you wanted to go and not where the tyre was going then, you reckon?
00:27:07
Speaker
Yeah, because there's that corner, there's another sharp corner that comes straight after it. So I was got a bit greedy and thought I could grab a bit extra of that berm and then be able to hit the next turn with a bit of pace. And also the brain epitome had fallen off and I'd sort of like done a bit of a glance up. Oh, what's he up to? Yeah. And that clip you can hear him say, did I put you off?
00:27:37
Speaker
So yeah, no, hopefully no lasting injuries there because you can... No, I'm all good now. But yeah, another sort of story here about blowing up a mains cable. What's all that about? Yeah, so I had a bit of a water leak under my driveway. And right back, I actually had the bloody bearing the cat on Tuesday.
00:28:03
Speaker
Um, try to take it to the beach in the morning and then, uh, to make it to the train tracks. Sorry to bring that up again. It could be a bit of a sore spot for you. When I bloody, uh, come home and go, Oh fuck, there's a leak under the driveway or fucking or jump under the house and check the, um, check what fittings I need to replace the pipe, the mains pipe.
00:28:31
Speaker
So I fucking jump under the house and what do you know? The fucking pipe off my kitchen sink and popped off and all the fucking dish, water and shit was just draining out onto the ground. For how long either? No, I didn't know how long it'd been like that. So I was like, Oh my God. And then I'm getting some like an agricultural line and just throwing that all under the air on top of it all and then fixing that up on the Wednesday.
00:29:00
Speaker
And then, yeah, Sabet comes around, teed up one of my mates to come in with the digger, and I've gone in with the old table locator and all that, and located where the mains was, and hand dug all around the fence where it was going. And then, fuck, there was a big slab of concrete footing where the original fence to the house was. I hadn't removed it when they put the new fence in, but it was fucking big.
00:29:29
Speaker
And I was like, oh, I don't want my mains pipe to be rubbing on it, you know? So I was like, fucking trying to get rid of it, trying to get rid of it, smashing it with this fucking steel breaker bar and shit. Fuck, still gotta get it, still gonna get it. Fuck, why wouldn't this come out? You know, it was all loose and that. You know what, we got the fucking digger into it, started lifting it, and fucking, oh, oh, fucking the mains cable had been concreted into that.
00:29:56
Speaker
into there. Um, Paul, you know, fucking rough. Can't say it was poor form from whoever put that concrete in. Cause they must have dug down, seen the mains and just gone, Oh, fuck it. The mains power. Is that what you're talking about? So the, what the fuck? So like on the corner of my gate there,
00:30:19
Speaker
is where there was a concrete pile for the original fence and yeah the mains cable was inside that concrete and then we ripped it up and I just ripped the mains cable out of the ground well you know snapped it so that didn't actually blow the fuse surprisingly so to go pull I just went and pulled it out of the pillar box and then um fixed it up because I happen to have the work band and home and all that
00:30:44
Speaker
Something like that probably would have cost someone else $1,000 easy. Yeah. Cause they would have to call out a fault man. B call out a Sparky and the Sparky led to come back doing it all up. Yeah. So yeah, it wasn't a good, wasn't a good week.
00:31:12
Speaker
Sometimes you wish you didn't have the skills knowledge and somebody else was dealing with all that.
Pet Loss & Home Chaos
00:31:17
Speaker
Fair enough. And at the same time, you had to deal with putting the old nidoo down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Poor little bugger. You've been attacked by a dog. And I wasn't sure if it was my dog. Yeah, it took four months and it's like four days.
00:31:38
Speaker
It was a long drawn out process and it ended up in a heart attack in the car. Oh no. That last bit of the trip, if I can probably just push it over the edge in terms of its fear and anxiousness and just being a cat, I guess, is freaking out. No, I think you were going to die anyway.
00:32:05
Speaker
He'd sort of been in the bedroom because I wasn't going to pay him some money to get him sorted. But I thought I know when he was that fucked, I would have got him put down. But I made a city out of brick work. And yeah, it sounds like he had internal injuries. So yeah, the cameras are sitting in the back corner of the one of the rooms. You know, we had a little box in that form in there. So he wouldn't go running around in that. But that morning he was out waiting by the door.
00:32:31
Speaker
So it was trying to get out. It must have been trying to get outside to go die outside. Yeah, right. It was a fucking too good. And that other kid comes into the hallway and she's like. Really? Give me an answer to that. Holy shit. Give it up for the last fucking few moments of the fucking poor cat's life. Fucking fucking get picked up, put on the car. I have my fucking rib.
00:33:02
Speaker
Oh shit, he's dead. I had the box open and I was looking at him and he fucking stood up and he was... I seen his pupils go real big and then they went real slow and then they fucking died. Oh shit, that's pretty graphic. Holy fuck.
00:33:32
Speaker
Oh fuck yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
00:33:46
Speaker
There's no sympathy on the old test yet though, eh? Like, one of my first things was to drop them off at A at ear. They'll take away. They're probably taken too.
00:34:03
Speaker
Oh, fuck yeah. Is everything all right now, though? Because, yeah, that was a good one. The power's back on. I also went through the internet cable during that whole fucking scenario. Can't melt first, dig with the digger. Took the internet out. Went down to the house and was like, oh, Ollie, by the way, the internet's out. He's like, yeah, no.
00:34:26
Speaker
The last digger was taking the power out. I was taking the power out. You got lunch finished, do we? Don't they have like 0800dig or something there? You mean to ring up to just check where all your lines are and shit like that? Like I said, I knew where it was, but I didn't know it was in the concrete pile, you know?
00:34:53
Speaker
In the concrete, fucking footing to the fence. It wouldn't have mattered, but that 0800 dig sort of thing is more for council shit. Like I said, I've got this one on our local street. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Fucking hell. No trouble, is that your funny rotters apart from the lawn getting a bit fucking trashed?
00:35:20
Speaker
Nah, yeah, a bit of animal chat. As we mentioned, we went up north a couple of weekends ago, which was an awesome holiday. You got back to a $200 fine, or sage running around on the road. Fucking bastards.
00:35:37
Speaker
Ranges will do, but she's in a bit of a, where we are. She just runs around, hey, you know, like this whole area is a yard and it's just peepy, peepy fucking dog ranges, but she's actually out there.
00:35:54
Speaker
is right out the front on the main road. So they're like, well, one, it's dangerous. And she could cause an accident. Not only can she get hit, but tricking class out of accident. So yeah, the bloody bitch. Yeah. And just my boys being boys, having parties while we're gone.
00:36:14
Speaker
Yeah, you do have the facilities. Yeah, not too hard to transition into party mode when you got it all set up by that. But that's good. No, no, you didn't have to bury Sage, but underneath the house either. Sage is okay. Not yet. Actually carries on getting fined. It's not her first bloody rodeo, either the bitch.
00:36:42
Speaker
A couple of niggly dog ranges. Did she get locked up? Did she just put it back into the house? She knows, bro. As soon as they pull up, man, she hightails it back inside.
00:37:01
Speaker
It does literally, we've been home and she's flying and flowing inside and then about 30 seconds later knock on the door.
Lawn Care Tips & Hangover Remedies
00:37:10
Speaker
Oh classic, oh as long as she's all good, that's all right. Yeah, you fucking bloody mole.
00:37:19
Speaker
But I guess what has been popping up lately in the old cash chat as well is the old lawn chat has been intensifying after everyone's got back from holiday as well. Everybody's lawns are in a better state by the looks of it. Anyone care to give their rundown of current lawn situations? I think it's been better than it has been in years. But actually, touching on the lawn chat,
00:37:49
Speaker
Just sort of going to run the question of how do you fellas go about if you're going to clean underneath your lawnmower? If you're going to tip it up and get under there? Yes. Which way do you go about it? You mean versus on the side or on the tip, tipping it up that way? Yeah, which way do you prefer to tip? Wheelie. Wheelie backwards wheelie.
00:38:16
Speaker
back up there, so your handles back onto your handles. So you're not going to lose all your oil and fucking shit like that. I actually heard that from the bloke at the mower shop. You said when you clean your mower, push it back. Yeah. That's supposed to be the best way to lift it. But if you want to get right in under there, I saw a technique of doing it.
00:38:45
Speaker
and you what you got to do is you got to pull the the um the cord until it gets hard so it's right on the compression stroke and then you turn it you can flip it to the exhaust side and then
00:39:06
Speaker
So what does that do? Does it hold all the fluids in place? Is that what that's for? It brings the piston right up. So if any oil gets in there, it's only going to be a little bit and then the valves are closed too. So there's no way for it to go. I can flip mine totally upside down because it's electric.
00:39:27
Speaker
A bit tricky, yeah. That's if I do get around to cleaning it. But yeah, I usually just do it with the blower. Just give it a bit of a blow down and then just kind of lift up the flap and blow it all out there. But yeah, oh, that's probably due for another sharpen and a bit of a clean though. I was trying to mulch my lawn two days ago and I see it hadn't even been raining, but it was clogging with wet grass because it was so muggy.
00:39:56
Speaker
Yeah, right, just that much moisture in the air. As soon as I should have just opened back that like what you did the other day, that's what I should have done. Yeah, just pop the back open and just let it all fly out. Yeah. Spread it out over the lawn. Got a little bungee called for that. I don't have a smart shot on mine. Oh, yeah, yeah. A little bungee, yeah. What rate had no air? It's been quite fucking heavy.
00:40:25
Speaker
Yeah, the old moisture tends to hold a bit, I suppose. The old classic when it rained with oil. The ground will hold water a lot more when it's wet, hey? Or will drain cook, I guess, when it's wet. It's never truly dried out here, hey? Like, it's fucked up. You got a lot of trees in that around?
00:40:50
Speaker
for shade and stuff. It might be all right. Doesn't get a chance to get a good session in the sun. But yeah, it's a launch. It's good to see the state of the launch. In some cases, it makes me feel better about mine because it's absolutely trash to know that the kazis are looking after their lawns pretty well. It's a full-time job sometimes.
00:41:17
Speaker
Yeah, well that's three weeks away, coming back to, you know, the longest there've ever been. And when we were away, the weather in Australia was just like, yeah, tropical cyclone type weather, just raining and humid the whole time. So perfect growing conditions for all sorts of fucking, not only grass, but the fucking weeds as well. Yeah. Terrible. That's my mission tomorrow, weeds.
00:41:47
Speaker
Yeah. Do you spray them waters or do you dig them out? I'm a sprayer, mate. I love my Roundup. Yep. Pull up a knapsack and just do the old edges and weeds. I quite like the old yellow-brown look around the borders of your
00:42:14
Speaker
Yeah, the brown look on my lawn is from all those fucking foreign objects falling into my yard. So I need to cut all those trees back from the neighbors to try before I can do any restoration. Was there even a dog shoot on your lawn today? Who's mine?
00:42:33
Speaker
Yeah. No, that was that was Riley. Fucking spewing up mate. We'll get into that and pull for me. Well, it's that segue to that. That was some launch. We went and picked up the young fella today because it was Australia Day yesterday. We went to a mate's house and they got on the piss. They have triple J100 countdown on that day as well. So they all stare and just listen to sounds and stuff. So he had a box of Corona's. He took down and but it was so humid yesterday and drinking in that sort of heat.
00:43:01
Speaker
obviously got dehydrated, didn't sleep well, probably didn't drink enough water. So he ran out. Yeah, Crook was a dog. We went and picked him up this morning. And got him a pie and a red Powerade.
00:43:17
Speaker
And then we went and visited Buddha's brother who lived about 10, 15 minutes away. So he was like, we thought, oh, we'll get you into a nice cool house. And it turns out they don't have aircon either. Well, they didn't have it on.
00:43:32
Speaker
So he's sitting there still just, you know, when you get sick and you're getting hot, you just get those waves of fucking just nausea that go over your stomach. Clam he is. So he was just pretty much just dozing on the couch the whole time we were there. So made him sit there for probably another hour.
00:43:50
Speaker
You know, before we hit the road and then not five minutes down the road, he goes, Oh, can you pull over? And then you pulled over the side of the road. Someone's fucking nice lawn there. And he's out there just fucking bringing all that shit back up.
00:44:03
Speaker
and whatever was left over from the night before. So yeah, we had a bit of a, yeah, it was this big red patch on someone's front lawn with fucking chunks of mince pie in the air and yeah. Yeah, he was not good. But yeah, I think he still crashed out now actually. But yeah, that's the line for leisure. Nothing worse. Yeah, he was in deeper. I'm going to have to spray it up the next day. I've never really been able to do it.
00:44:31
Speaker
I'll hold it until 10 o'clock that night. Yeah. That's happened to me. I'm fucked. I bet. 100%. I'm the opposite Lord. Soon as I awake and I can feel that hangover was on the 28th after the occurrence. I'm just fucking putting fingers, toothbrushes down my throat.
00:44:59
Speaker
That's what the wife was saying. Just put your fingers down your throat. Put your fingers down your throat. I was like, oh fuck that. That's a bit ruckus. That's what I should do. He was at the stage where he wasn't sure which end it was going to come out of as well. So that's how how on DP was.
00:45:21
Speaker
Yeah, I hear, I think years of rugby and exhaustion. Yeah, I've got issues with the old bearing, the old ass bearing. If I spin too much, next thing you know, it's coming out the other end. Yeah, right. Certain bears for sure for me, it's just, it causes fucking havoc. Absolute havoc.
00:45:47
Speaker
Yep. Any other poor form stories that kuzzies want to share? I think writers may have had one lined up if it fits with the scenario. Yeah, not as disgusting as spearing up, but probably going back to the old gazebo chat. Had the old wedding anniversary on New Year's Eve.
00:46:14
Speaker
And it was the old 10 years. So, you know, normally people probably come and celebrate and cook you a feed, but not in the South, she'd cook the big feed, put a big hanger on. And it was all good in the morning, like New Year's Eve, if you can remember in New Zealand. Congratulations for the 10 years anyway there, because it should be, yeah, definitely celebrated for sure. Yeah, so we just had our own little celebration, had the old grabbed Kevvie Steamer,
00:46:44
Speaker
And the morning was sweet, hey, like it was pretty nice and fine. So I had the old steamer going outside just on the side of the shed there and then things started to get a bit wet and fucking next thing you know, it was like torrential in the afternoon. And I'd must've moved the old steamer about three times, bro.
00:47:02
Speaker
like, you know, so I put the gazebo up like, you know, like we did for the currents. Yeah. So head yells under the air, but then the air like Lord said, it's a bit of a flash when it gets so wet and windy. Moral of the story, just put the fucking thing in the shed from the start. So what did you have on the steamer? Did it get cooked or was it all the constant moving fucking
00:47:28
Speaker
She was cooking, but, you know, I had the old gloves on to fucking carry her on and getting burnt and moving burning. Getting rained on. All in all, it was a magnificent feed and yeah, sat in the shed and got dressed and brought the New Year's in. We normally, if it's fine, we normally go and visit Stacey and Taff and sit on the lake there at the Oudipa and watch what I thought.
00:47:58
Speaker
Yes. But the winner was KK.
00:48:03
Speaker
We just sat in our shed and was pretty low key, but it's all good. Stay well clear of town, fuck that. Yeah, we're at Mums. We could see the fireworks from up there, so we just sort of stood out on their driveway, which is pretty low.
Nostalgia & Family Connections
00:48:17
Speaker
Yeah, I think, I don't know if the boys know, I think they even went into town themselves. I was encouraging them to just go and check it out, man, see what it's like. Yeah. I can always hear. My lot did when they went into town.
00:48:33
Speaker
but it was pretty they all got back some safe and sound so it's good yeah my boys are pretty low key they were just happy to sit around and drink at mom's place so um they're loving the the long whites um yeah people still freak out when i tell them that you can buy alcohol in the supermarket in new zealand
00:48:51
Speaker
Like he just cruise around doing your shopping and get a six pack or a box as well. This is part of your shopping. It's like it's like an awesome. Yeah, not that I had a big drinker. Yeah, I might wait now. But yeah, that was like the 10 pack was like in like less than 20 bucks or something. It's crazy. Yeah. Good stuff. Yeah.
00:49:19
Speaker
What about you, Lorda, are you in any position to talk yet, or are you on the run, mate? Or you're on mute for starters. I'm just driving now. I'm coming through. Got to head round for the brakes. What the fuck is that? Oh, no. Here we go. Yeah, yeah. All good.
00:49:48
Speaker
What about in the States though? They can just buy hard liquor in the fucking supermarket. Yeah, they can, yeah. I've seen a few of those. Have they been, too? Yeah, are they all stores? Like, all sort of supermarkets? Or are they gonna have, like, is it like the drug stores where they sell all that sort of stuff? I know they sell guns and hard liquor at Walmart. Oh, just fucking with it, you go. Yeah. America!
00:50:17
Speaker
Fuck that. Just buying guns over the counter is a bit scary, eh? I'm not into that. I mean, there's people who are idiots. Fuck, I couldn't imagine some of them getting access to high-powered weaponry as well. Fucking dangerous as shit.
00:50:47
Speaker
The whole way, everyone's kind of, it looks to be in between things at the moment. Big shout out to the cuz of the bro Kevi for his time over the holiday that we had. Actually was awesome connecting and bonding with the bro because we sort of haven't had that chance. Like obviously me and Kelz are the closest in age so we're kind of, you know, we've had a lot of time to do that. And with Mitch living over here,
00:51:15
Speaker
We've had a lot of time to bond as well, but yeah, I'll give you day. We haven't had too many opportunities to do that, but we stay there for, you know, good week or so with him. Um, so thanks for the hospitality and more recently, um, yeah, crazy shenanigans, uh, his place, um, awesome to catch up with Joe and Danny in that as well. And Kelly, um, but yeah, his latest, um, entry into the coast chat was quite, um,
00:51:45
Speaker
Quite interesting with one of Joe's mates turning up and a full blown tractor just in suburban Topol just cruised on up there and then got video of him cruising off and heading into town. Those roads and the new roads in town and that are quite small so I wonder how he got on but
00:52:12
Speaker
I think there's quite a power move, eh? What do you reckon, driving a tractor through the middle of town? I think you'd be surprised the place you could take a tractor. Not only rural, but urban. Yeah. Because all of them will be registered and warranted to be on the road as well. Yeah, well, there's no law against it.
00:52:40
Speaker
You'll be a necessary thing on most roads getting from one paddock to another or one farm to another and all that sort of stuff. But it was quite, yeah, it was a bit of a hoot seeing that just cruising down the road on the normal street. So we didn't say who that was. It was one of Joe's mates, but it didn't really say who that was. So speculations are about there for sure.
00:53:07
Speaker
I was quite, I'd love to just have a drive of a tractor at the moment or something like that, or a fucking horse or something. Pretty sure they still ride horses through town, right? Some towns. Yeah. The classic ones when you see someone on an egg, the old farm bike in town, farm bike in the city.
00:53:30
Speaker
Yeah. With all the fucking, yeah, sheet dags hanging on your back or half the farm again with them. Yeah. Oh, that's what I love about New Zealand. It's still, there's still pockets of that happening all around the place. And like going down to Toi, it's all dirt roads and shit. So, you know, it's, you, do you feel like you're stepping back in time sometimes?
00:53:56
Speaker
That's one of my favorite parts of my job is just jumping on those dirt roads and just fucking banging out the van. Yeah. Like the bottom of the field, we've seen some of the maneuvers that get made in it. Yeah, we're shaking bakes as well. There's a few shaking bakes in there. A lot of shaking baking.
Conclusion & Listener Interaction
00:54:12
Speaker
Yeah, we do love those snaps for sure.
00:54:21
Speaker
Yeah, so all in all, really, really good trip for me. Awesome catching up with the Cuzzys. I'd really love to come back soon. Buddy Bird has begun going back in a couple of weeks to Mum's 70th. So she's going to go back for five days to celebrate that. But yeah, loved it. Loved it. I want to get back there and just, I think just spend time with the Cuzzys again, eh? I get so isolated over here. It's hard to
00:55:09
Speaker
each other very often, but I suppose the comfort is a dash down the road, right? Yeah, it's probably a lot of it too. It's all easy access, so only do it when you really need to, I guess. There just always seems to be more time, you know, but that is what it is. Nothing ever remains the same, but it's good we could catch up on here.
00:55:11
Speaker
Do anything because you just don't want to go out and sweat. Put in your length of time.
00:55:34
Speaker
Yeah, the reason for it is that we do stay connected. But I'll tell you what, if we, you know, if anyone wants to, you know, help me, I guess, plan a bit of a trip back down to Napier, might or not, I will be keen. Organize and find a time that's not going to impact everyone else's stuff as well.
00:56:01
Speaker
and that sort of thing. But yeah, that sounds like a fucking amazing idea. Yeah, we should get some tents and all that, eh? And it's like a tent up, you know, like all my time days. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's, that's, yeah. We find a good spot. Since losing that, we have sort of got nowhere to park up. Oh, go away. Yeah. Because that was the thing when we had that. There was just be like, we'll go without saying, you know, who's going to be there when, you know? Yeah, just a matter of.
00:56:30
Speaker
It was just a matter of when, not at what time, not if the people were going or not. Yeah, you might miss someone, but you'll catch someone else or something, because they'll be turning up on that thing. Are you going over, but now it's like, oh, nobody's going anywhere. Everyone's doing their own thing. Yeah. I mean, that happens. I think, sorry, what were you going to say, Chris? Well, I mean, Tans were talking about that when we're doing our roadie the other week up north, like,
00:56:59
Speaker
Yeah, now that we can't go to Matataa, that's quite sad because I don't get to take my kids or my mukhors now. It was like what we done. It was just, it was a, you know, you need a trip to the beach. That's like a three month plan or a year booking in advance. That's the biggest thing, getting accommodation for everybody.
00:57:25
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And, um, yeah, it costs you fucking bucks to go. We can now stick with. Yeah. That set up that, um, that was as old as I got Karen and Greg. That's the perfect set up as well. Fuckin. And that's the sort of thing you can just roll up to if you just suss it out with them. Yeah. That's not a bad idea. Like we could do that. Um, find someone to go around and even, um,
00:57:55
Speaker
What is it? Because Donald got a place up near Coromandel now or somewhere around there, don't they? Team Zoom. Oh, where? Oh, we got no thing either. No audio, no video. But yeah, fucking.
00:58:14
Speaker
Yeah, somewhere we can all communally go and just pitch a tent, say, you know, just bring your own accommodation sort of thing or a caravan or camper van or whatever. That's what it's like there because it's just grass and then they've just got a toilet block. Yeah. For a little sink in the kitchen and shower and toilet. Yeah. Easy. Because I remember that one time we
00:58:39
Speaker
I don't know if it was everybody, but we went to Kakaho and camped there next to the river for a couple of days. Yep, that's a nice spot too. That was primo. In fact, that was years ago, eh? Yep, yep. That was a new brain. Yeah, I think so, yeah. New Year's Eve, I think. Yeah.
00:59:03
Speaker
But even that's not that far up the road either. It was only, you know, probably an hour or so away, you know, all up. Well, I don't know, but yeah, didn't seem that far anyway. Yeah. Well, it's not, it's not far from Topol or Mango. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:26
Speaker
Yeah, we'll wrap it up there then. We'll cut it short, nice and sweet. Well, it's actually quite a long podcast. So once again, thank you for the kuzzies coming in and spearing your Sunday evening, talking about the holiday stuff. And yeah, look, there's cats aside, a lot of positives to take out of today's chat as well. So yeah,
00:59:52
Speaker
Hit us up on Facebook, Kuzzies. We've still got an email address. I haven't checked it in a while, but Kuzz chat podcast at gmail.com. Feel free to send any questions, topics, or, you know, any advice about how to care for our lawn. Because you know, that's what it's all about, eh, Kuzz? Fucking A. Fucking A. Cheers, Kuzzies.