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Cuz Chat 54 - ERT
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For our last poddy of 2024 we bring in the big guns. BM is joined by Kev, JRD Karakia Mitch and newest poddy member Kelz. We reflect on 2024, where we are heading in 2025 and all the usual shenanigans.
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Family and Introductions
00:00:46
Speaker
today. Holy moly. We've got a special episode for you tonight. Cuz East, we've got um siblings in the house. We've got cousins in the house. They're coming out of the woodwork today and we'll let you know why in a little bit. But first, let me introduce everybody. You're here once again with Black McGee and my bro. Welcome back to the potty. Dear Kev.
00:01:06
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chi Thanks for having us on this great afternoon. Just been having a few primers with the bro and catching up so I'm glad to be here. You're loving it. Winging it again once as usual and dialing in from Parts Unknown. Well we know where but we won't say. Lord the Ruthless Deception. Welcome back Kazee.
Excitement and Acronym Fun
00:01:30
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Yeah, cheers Cozzie. I'm feeling a bit under the weather us today. Had a bit of a big yeah big day yesterday. But yeah, here excited for this last New Zealand based podcast. Yeah, yeah, awesome. Thanks for joining us, Cozzie. And from across the ditch, my bro Mitch. He's coming here with the OPC, I'd like to say. OPC? Well, what's your definition of OPC?
00:02:04
Speaker
I thought we were saying outdoor pursuit centre. Out of the three of
Life Changes and Career Moves
00:02:08
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us, bro, I know, I ain't been doing no outdoor pursuiting in the wrong group. No, I can't quite, can't quite, all good. And um yeah, and in spirit, but not in um noise. We've got the sis here as well. Say hello. Got it. I'm just here for the gym. Excellent. um So yeah, I just wanted to have a catch-up with the kuzzies. I'm flying back to Brizzy on the 24th to move back to Brisbane and take up a new position on the 6th Jan there. My time in with Total Pathways has come to an end. And um yeah, so we we can get into that. We can can get into how
00:02:51
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how the year was for everybody. um We've got a ah few wrap-ups to look at first, though, as well, ah from the most recent Coach chat. um which yeah I'm thankful that we've got much in here because we've got a quite a big levelling up situation to to talk about. um And yeah, there's some other large machinery operations happening in the cuz chat as well. We're going to get into um some food chat. Since we've got Kevy here, he's
Work, Weather, and Leisure
00:03:22
Speaker
going to weigh in on a bit of steak resting time. And poor form if we've got any poor form, we'll we'll get into that as well.
00:03:29
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So how is everyone? Do you want to kind of jump in with what they're up to? You all finished work, I presume now? Yep, I'm done. Finished on Friday.
00:03:42
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a been enjoying this hot weather in Topol mate it has been a cracker I went for a swim last door the other day and I tell you what my chest has not seen the sun since last February and it is white boy yeah it's it doesn't take long to get get the colour though hey you reckon like it doesn't take me long to get backed up nah it doesn't either bro but Yeah, you can see why they call me coloured, because black, white and yellow, it's crazy. Did you get burnt up kid? Nah bro, just turned up. But nah, I burnt up. I learnt my lesson a few years ago when I was whimpering like a little kid after getting burnt.
00:04:31
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the andbra been on one river float and just got absolutely taned up You don't realise how fucking cooked you get on those, eh? Yeah, bro. Cos you're not only getting hit by the sun, but the reflection of the water as well, I reckon, is cutting into you. And because you're cool, you true don't feel it. No. Exactly. So, Mitch, you've come off nights, haven't you, on holiday night? I've got everything seen these last few weeks, bro, finishing up.
00:04:59
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I'm tidying up all the loose ends before
Culinary Skills and Economic Impacts
00:05:01
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the end of the year bro but yeah jumping back and forth from nights to days and like we did one night there bro where ERT wouldn't even let us inside the tank so we just sat on site for eight hours, we went home. And came back and told me we needed help. What's the ERT? What's the ERT stand for?
00:05:22
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ah emergency response team. That's what I was about to do. That was my go-to. What was yours? I would love to hear what you were thinking. I'll just start with erectile and look at that. Something was getting erect. Maybe I'll hit it off crayons. Reaction No reaction team. I'm concerned if they're not letting you on site to be thin.
00:05:51
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hell we got an erection there sorry liger and good yeah that's it That's actually, that still works for scaffolding though, doesn't it? He just scaffolded, why would I know? Emergency. We'll come up with some other classics before the end of the the potty for the ERT. We've got two acronyms now, ERT and what was the other one? oh OPC. OPC, we're in acronym city around here.
00:06:21
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If I were to say an ERT, of course you'd say a reptile. Yes. Workshop it. Workshop it. Yes. Yeah, so you've got three weeks off now, Mitch. Yeah, it's similar to, just a little bit shorter than that, two and a half, back on the Same with me. Yeah, I've learned all over again, bro, but this year's going to pose a bit of a challenge, I suppose, for me in particular. So I've been offered a a role in health and safety within the company
00:06:54
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starting next year to sort of see it accumulatm it so far and put it into so position as a national health and safety manager. Is that because of all your life experiences bro? How did that? Is that because you felt there was probably people within the company, the company's been going for about 20 like in the company that long and they' probably
00:07:27
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behind him to do it but he was saying
Year Reflections and Parenting Tales
00:07:29
Speaker
it's more so the way that i and like people i can get down on the level of the boys and be like che bro this is and i could sit in front of board members of that and explain and
00:07:43
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so professional sense as well ah to be a bit of a challenge by you studying, get back into school and... So that sounds like you're getting further off the tools. Yes bro, yes. Yes. And that's a welcome change? Getting less erections. Yeah, big round less erections. Oh, that's just old age.
00:08:10
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Yeah, you end up flying around the country because we've got divisions all over South East Queensland and that. So, right down to South Australia as well. so You would have been part of a health and safety team at Kinley, Thorlord. Hey,
Home Improvements and Personal Growth
00:08:24
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you'd have been all over that, yeah. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Dog was under that until a bit of that. Oh, aye. It's right until... That was a good trip for Leite. Yeah, nah, that was a good meeting. Good LTI, LTI measure.
00:08:41
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yeah yeah
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Can actually put on, can we chat as a topic to talk about later? It is a bit of a hot topic. Very hot topic. But that's cool, Bro Health and Safety, that's something you can be cost ah across different industries. That's a transferable skill set for sure. What an awesome opportunity. level up like yeah say you know you go from a job to a career which is pretty exciting to be honest yeah actually what to do Do you think falling through the roof helped your run chances in securing that position? I'm a practical learner, bro. I can say that I've been through all of that sort of side of things when it comes to definitely public health or private health. it you make life I know what I do now.
00:09:37
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state of the way that i did it but you know i could try and coach people through that Yes. Lived experiences count for a lot. Lived experiences both count for a lot. You know, health and safety officer and alcohol counsellor adds to discipline. I want to be a police officer next. You'd be a good cop. Yeah, I reckon too.
00:10:05
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I don't know, they'll be screaming out for people like that in New Zealand, like, especially if he can, you know, in the Māori economy, right? If you can call it a Māori as well, looking for health and safety people in that space. Yeah, all containes, Rob. With those, I'm taking a call with difficulties here. We've lost Mitch temporarily. Oh, I did. Oh, a video. No, you still there, Mitch? Oh, yeah, bro. Oh, OK. Cool.
00:10:33
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Yeah. Pretty cool opportunity, there bro. That's awesome.
Community Reflections and Festive Wrap-Up
00:10:37
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Yeah, congratulations, bro. So is that is that in the works for next year, is it? Yeah, it is. I've set my advanced first aid, I think it's around the 16th of January, and then get enrolled to do my Cert 4 in health and safety.
00:10:55
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Yeah. And then go from there, bro. Premo. And then just to be involved, let's the company down and places like canberra melbourne adelaide brisbane
00:11:08
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Would you consider doing like some sort of a moving into your own heights training business or something like that? Moving into that side of it? That was going to be my original plan. just you know as you know the three years it's a teaching degree now take try and put those two together to become a trainer and see so and i'm old and had enough of it and just you knowt do that but doubtly this role has presented itself you know might just put me on another path Mate, fuck, we should start a bizzo. I do the training and assess, I'll teach them how to be a chef.
00:11:43
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um my my My plan to create a whanau RTO is coming together. Mate, I used to be registered training assessor, but I used to do warehousing logistics we assessing and verifying too, so... For real? Yeah, it could... That sounds like a good concept, bro.
00:12:03
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Okay, I've got an idea, but I'll share that outside of the podcast in case someone claims it. I've got a good idea. Well, the registered assessor with primary ah ITO for a number of years, magnificent. That's a good business to get into, I think, like considering that, you know, um upskilling people in certain areas and and that sort of stuff, there's always going to be a need for it. Especially when you're legally obliged to do these courses that like, you know,
00:12:34
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Corporate wise, if you can get into the corporate scene, you know, you get, you know, a 12 month refresher almost every year. I can speak to you of Mitchell for a deal of boards and stuff. I'd just like to be the dude playing on toys and showing people how to fuck it up. Admin superstars over here. just um folklift and now dogging under my fire wait Yep, that's it. I've done one of those golf courses, right? I'm like, yep, yep, fire it up, you know? And the dude in the crane was like, nah, I'm not going to lift it.
00:13:17
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So is the opportunity as the last say, eh? Yeah, wow, yeah, in this situation. It was a training course, you know? Yeah. Obviously, I've been able to actually pay attention.
00:13:29
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Talking about courses, how much of you actually pay attention in the courses um intently? Because you know you're just going to get achieved at the end of it. So do you actually give your full time to it? I'm really good at looking like I'm paying attention.
00:13:45
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ah type I'll bob and hit my head up and down at the right times. yeah But if I don't have a cough cough. Yeah bro. They're one thirty two o'clock funk when you want to start bombing for apples. I don't know if that's a thing but it's for me. What about you fellas? Do you intently listen at day courses? Depends on the course hey. I actually love a good first aid course. I love a good electrical freshers. What's the attraction for the first aid course?
00:14:20
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Oh you know just in case you do have to do that. Oh so the actual learning. I thought I'd just like getting to play with the like splints and the different bandages. I thought it might have been the CPR session and the other. I was leading up to the old training dummies. Oh your CPR. Yeah that's always fun too you know. I've only been to a couple of first aides but there's always one person that's like Just takes it a bit too fast, starts hitting on the dummy and being all dramatic and stuff. ah The one I went to, they had the rhythm of matt staying alive, those things there, the biggies. Yeah. yeah So yeah when you're doing your compressions, you're doing it to the beat of that. You're doing it in your headache. Which beat are you talking about? That's a change to what, Baby Shark? That's a bit hardcore, isn't it? Baby Shark's a bit hardcore. Is Baby Shark quick?
00:15:16
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What's the BPM going on? You can actually use another one, why it's the dust too. Oh no. That sounds a bit weird. yeah that sounds
00:15:26
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Actually, has anyone ever used it in real life or seen it being used in real life? No. I've never had to put them into practice. No. No, I haven't had to do it in real life. I'm not into it either. I'll probably only do the compressions to be honest.
00:15:41
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Yeah, I've seen it in real life and I've only done the compressions and then I jumped right out of it. I was house keyed. So you didn't do the whole mouth-on-mouth action? No, it's stinky, it's brief, save someone's life?
00:16:02
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No, there was like two other people there, bro, so... Oh, my God, I told her, I was like, ooh, that stinky breath. Sorry, I just had garlic for lunch, getting somebody else to do this. No, the lady had stinky breath. And she was giggling, too, like, making a wedding. She was like... You know, it was like, it was deep hair's hair. And to be fair, bro, like, I've seen her a few months later when she came in. And when she was down the lane, I didn't even, like, I thought I'd never seen her before.
00:16:29
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but then when she came in to say thank you to the co-worker who brought her back to life I was asking that lady heaps but bro when she was down and dead she locked away different yeah scary boy was that because she was like losing connection with like life yeah bro yeah just like yeah the body doesn't like that hey
00:16:55
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And I fucked it. Oh, that's pretty dark. Oh, that was dark, bro. I was a cracker. She had her stink hair's breath cackling away and the doodles just pumping on her chest. I actually started laughing at one point because this lady from down the road, bro, started running down there to zip up, pull up, shit. And as she was running, she was taking it off like Superman. I was cracking up. She was running over to do fuck all. I was like, oh, Jesus, idiot. She's running over for no reason.
00:17:23
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and And she had a bald head too bro, so any girl with a bald head running over, you know, she's going to try and dominate shit. But yeah, but you've, um, since we've gone on, on your, your cordial right now, um, talking about leveling up, you've, uh,
00:17:53
Speaker
acquired a, um, a lawnmower. Well, well, yeah, that, that is, yeah, definitely kind of leveled you up in the, in the, the lawn chat stakes, but just in, in adopting as well. It was absolutely the deal of a century that could not be turned downward. How so? You're going to have to start from the start.
00:18:21
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few months ago i let it be known to the boys boy that i was actually keen to look at right on one ah the boy sort of like you know jokingly said so Jeff, you're moving the camera, bro. What are you going to do with your rider? Can I ask a quick question? Yeah. Is Jeff a moment? I'm going to give it to my mum. I said, ah, no. Be cool, bro. Well, fuck me, bro. About a month ago, his mum passed away. Cool. And so it's up to Greg. And then he brings me up afterwards. And he's like, hey, mate, are you still looking for a rider normal?
00:19:01
Speaker
Oh, yeah, you have one. So I'll be nominated as the capitalist. Capitalist. No, no, no. All right, we're doing some of Yeah, that's your cause.
00:19:21
Speaker
Yeah, I'm sure there is a word. All we need to do is take his mum out. a What's in there for CBR? Be careful bro, they're going to use this as an example for how to spot a psychopath. You'll be the cure taker. Yeah, I'll end it up with this Victor VX4 ride-on lawnmower, bro, that works the treat. Look like a good sign for your lawn, eh? Oh, fuck yeah. It sort of goes around, chop it all down, bro. It doesn't have a bag, so I do have to do a bit of raking up afterwards, but...
00:20:01
Speaker
fucking So you say it was the steal of the century, what did it actually sting you? And I only asked this because my next question is going to be directed at Lorde. I mean, how much he paid for his one? So what I had to do was, there was the boys basketball carnival that weekend. He said, well, you can have it, but I just need it gone by this weekend. So I knowingly told the boss, all these boys but for the day
00:20:32
Speaker
i and tied the scaffold up the I feel good. Meanwhile I've loaded them up with a ute in the trailer and sent them down to Harvard Bay to go back to the small borough. Excellent. Double dipping. Great use of resources. Great double dipping, yeah. Yes. So, you know, I've given them 500 bucks for it, you know, yes. OK. I can clear my conscience a little bit, but yeah.
00:21:00
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no one bell ah apparently until that was fun
00:21:08
Speaker
Yeah, we but we won't give too much away. There might be an investigation pending on her early demise.
00:21:18
Speaker
um How does that compare to your lemon of a lawnmower, Lord? Yeah, hold the colour of a lemon rose is yellow, green,
00:21:29
Speaker
a thousand bucks and blades are seized nothing you know right and i see long thing like from my experience much you did get the deal of a century isn that it the be yeah online box end up and actual see yeah seen but up i gonna hold the motion Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, take me there, because I've missed a few stories here. So, Gev has missed a few parties, so he's missed the story of your lawnmower, Lord. You want to give him a quick refresh? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. And for the benefit of the listeners, listen to that. Yeah, I bought it off the Kizzie, the Kizzie corn shot. Oh. Yeah, it ran like a dream, but I had to put a new battery in it and a new spark plug.
00:22:26
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and fired it up. My ears bleed, I'm gonna have to go a drop this bastard into my back lawn and get some outdoor pursuits going. And then just went to drop the blades in and it just stalled out. It's completely stalled. Yeah, that's when I realized the blades are stuck. So I had to get the old push mile back out that day. But ch yeah.
00:22:52
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I think Mitch has definitely got the deal of the century there. Yeah, absolutely. For a top-notch working right on lawnmower. um And yeah, seems to be a pretty good nick. You didn't have to ah buy anything or get anything to get it up and running. but start Not at all, bro. The only thing that did happen was the belt came off
00:23:15
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morfaz i was using it the first time
00:23:19
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usually there's a mirror there a particular way that they have to go back on and that there was no diagram for me to follow. It took a little while to figure it out. I don't know if that works. It's a week. So what's the make, bro? What's the make of your ride on? The Victor VRX. Cool Victor. V-I-C-T-A. That's quite an older brand, too, eh? Yeah. Victor Miles, brother. That's my very first one. I was a Victor. You don't often see them in blue, eh? Mm, it's an odd color. It's an odd bullbar. Yep, bullbar.
00:23:53
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ah boys The boys lost the cover on the drive back from Harvey B. Oh, good save. Oh, yeah, off on the deck of the truck, eh? Yeah, they're having a box trailer, so I don't know what they did with it. Bro, you haven't had good.
00:24:09
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even different levels of mowing who oh yeah five speed for This is it so just for cows benefit here. This is the kind of dudes like watching porn is it' the same same energy. Yeah, so if we make it so you yeah, so we're talking about a more faith that if we're talking about a broad victor's a bit of an older one. So more same energy. energy both
00:24:42
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um Before we get off the lawn mower check, I just want to check another story in there. You think you've lost the plot here. I the Oz loans the other day and thought, i'll fuck I'll give it a bit of a clean, you know.
00:25:01
Speaker
Fucking got underneath and and started cleaning the blades and that. And then hollow, there's a whole bunch of steel wool wrapped around the blades and the fucking main shaft as well. I was like, oh, fuck, no wonder it's not cutting. Where did that come from? I don't know. It wasn't like those funky angels at Mummy's as well. Probably, but it might have make the cut.
00:25:32
Speaker
the last thing you want to steal whole reter on your shark benru Oh yeah, very very abrasive. In both contexts. say is 100%. But I wanted to quickly pivot then from while we we're on the chair of machinery to pivot to Lord's joint in a digger, if I'm not mistaken Lord. Yeah, yeah, just fucking doing some of the top offs so I decided to fill out trenching with the big bigger. Oh nice.
00:26:03
Speaker
ah on the farm there pretty pretty fast on the controls actually. But yeah, got it done anyway. Looks fun there. Where did the goggles come from, with those that haven't seen the video? Standard of issue safety. Standard of health and safety regulation. Did you see all the spider webs in that?
00:26:30
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he's spot wave out Yeah, no, no, the reason I was wearing the goggles was, you know, it was obviously very dusty and very windy that day. It's a bit windy over in Topol. Yes. Yeah, bro. Yeah, yeah, so it was just getting me in the eye, so I always carried my snowboard goggles in the end to protect from that. I probably didn't need to be wearing them inside the bigger. So I was trying to understand. I was a magnificent move, move. I was like, oh, that's classy. Must be a classy thing if you were hearing goggles. Yeah, I thought I would create a few questions, but people would always focus on the spiderwebs to be here. No, I was like, so let's have a good apparel. I think we just had your, you know, number one safety in mind.
00:27:22
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and This is the theme for the podcast really, health and safety, since Mitch is... like Yeah, are those ISA standard goggles? Yeah, what would the well you Would you have to write those up, Mitch? You reckon? Or would they be acceptable in that situation? But they compromise... only on in australia sort invest story that'd be very dangerous in australia Yeah,
00:27:44
Speaker
yeah you'd have to obviously pick your right PPE at the beginning of the job. Do a risk analysis, hey? Risk analysis or...? a pta should have been the answer instead of getting rid of this spter waves want just the dust on like five y root cools analysis we're talking hierarch controls by You might have to put some PPE on to eliminate sometimes early, so then you'll circle back to there. We're going to have to eliminate this hazard, but then we're going to have to minimize.
00:28:24
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at the same time. Yeah, I love it. I love it, Cuzzys. It's, you know, it's good to see he's getting out there, getting in amongst it. Just to kind of quickly go through the other happenings on the Cuzz Chat as well. um I think ah I've got a couple of topics here, but I really want to sort of get Kev's input on the old steak resting.
00:28:45
Speaker
because there was ah there was a post about a steak being cooked and the resting time that was ah insinuated with that steak, which I think, yeah, I don't think was, well, what was said in the video was it was rested for a minute, but we've got some critique on that and probably best practices that should be followed.
00:29:09
Speaker
Yeah, so ah you know this is this is just what I've been told over the years, but hey, first of all, Magnificent Steak had the right type of char in on the outside, I reckon. um It would have locked in a lot of flavour of the air in room temperature. Even just to do that is something that not a lot of people do these days.
00:29:29
Speaker
What that means is bringing your steak up to room temperature so don't cook it straight from the fridge. Let it sit on the bench while you have a couple of beers or something's cooking.
00:29:40
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um Whoa! Yeah, that's another debate too. Do you rest it? Because it draws out the salt? Well, do you season with just salt and not pepper in these different type of peppers? Why the white pepper, cracked pepper, ground pepper, so New York pepper. okay So there's a lot of different stuff. I prefer New York pepper. It's kind of like a blanched black pepper. And where are you at on basting bro?
00:30:08
Speaker
ah Depends on the steak, bro. If we're gonna baste it. um ah like so but we go We're going down a rabbit hole now. yeah well bring it I'll bring it back. that' right i'll bring It back to that depends on the scotch or if it's a porterhouse or sirloin a. um If we're using like a scotchy. But rule of thumb bro is what I was told. ah Resting is is probably as long as your cooking. So if it cooks your five to seven minutes then let it rest five to seven minutes. i Let those juices lock into that steak.
00:30:42
Speaker
And that that was the interesting thing that you mentioned, is that the giveaway that it wasn't rested long enough was there was a lot of juice left on the plate. Yeah, that had an absorb back into the meaties, so I was watching it stay cooked.
00:30:58
Speaker
like i was was a stay cooking the other day and now resting in between flips in all that too like put it on mr and then weck it back on the and is that something that you Gee, that's ah as long as you've got a high heat, a hot air pan going, ah that pan goes down. There's a difference between searing and um Boiling, so you want to have, you know, you want to have your steak searing, but basting is good, bro. If you can control it, like put extra butter and flavours in there and you're basting it, ah but the heat's got to be high too. So as a rule of thumb, I i'd ah don't often baste, but I'll just season it up. But resting is key, bro. Resting is probably the just as important as the cooking part.
00:31:46
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so So shout out to the Kuzzy that the presented that steak. And look, keep keep it coming. I hope you want to share your steak cooking techniques and you know how you like your steak, share it with us. um But yeah, just wanted to, you know, we don't want to people out there eating raw steak or you know steak that's not optimal.
00:32:07
Speaker
I'll even put on a Steak Syrian video up on the old cuz chat and I'll put myself out for but a bit of critique you know. open it at No point in trying to give pee feedback when you're not going to put your nuts out there to give it a crack. and right you know yeah I'll put my money where my mouth is. and <unk> Excellent. I'm just sad I won't be here to eat it. boy
00:32:32
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There was always on Smokey when he would have been cooking that steak up there, so you know might have been he might have been strapped for time. So that all comes into account, too eh bro? Yeah. When you're looking at trying to get the perfect steak? Yeah. By the time you had a nice char on it bro, it would have been a nice tasty steak. Yeah. Why yeah.
00:32:54
Speaker
You know, he's actually a pretty well rounded cook or was it? Yeah. Doesn't often fuck it up, you know, on the bar or stuff like that. Yeah, that steak was a good, it was probably about an eight out of 10, I reckon. Which is friggin high, Rose. Hey, it looked good Yep. Good. Nice and tender in the middle. Would you say a steak is going to look better on a like a black plate with darker plate? It's going to be more visually appealing.
00:33:28
Speaker
I think that comes down to your your restaurant. Are you at a black plate restaurant? or you It depends on the cut too, I reckon. So what's your three main cuts? You normally have an eye fillet, which is lean as fuck. Then you've got your sirloin, which depends on what end of the sirloin it's from. If it's in the middle, then you're going to have a pretty good nice sear. But then you go to a scotchy bro, and that thing can be a bit blacker because it's got a little more fat in it. so Yeah, you want drawing that greened out too, don't you? Yeah, so it depends on the type of cut you have.
00:33:59
Speaker
Then if you're going to go for like a minute steak, I actually get into those too, bro, or topside. If you can cook it, but then topside and stuff, you've got to cook to at least medium. Anything outside of that, it's just fucking tough with boots. rubber Yeah, it. Yeah, it depends on... I do love a good... Oh, fuck, what's the other one? Rump? A good rump, bro, a nice big rump? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get that bad boy medium, bro, or just over, just between like the medium, rare, medium.
00:34:28
Speaker
Fuck, that thing is tasty boy. cause shit yeah we We do have a- I normally get and I go to a restaurant now because, um you know, it just comes out a little bit warmer sometimes. Yeah. cho Yeah. And they can, it there it's a lot of misfires with medium-rears, eh? Yep. I'm um'm judge as fuck on steaks, bro.
00:34:51
Speaker
but we've got it we've got a killing bucket teeth We've got a few of the cousins out there that that do like cooked meat. Miles is one of them. He likes a good steak and slow cooked meats as well. So yeah, there's a bit of but a knowledge dropped for the cousins. Rest your steaks.
00:35:13
Speaker
There you go. All right, well, I think we wanted to to, I don't know, do a little bit more of a serious tone, but I say that, but it's probably going to go off the rails anyway. But, some and I thought we'd bring in some local knowledge into this topic as well. Lord, sort of throwing this kind of towards you, I guess, to start us off or give us some background on um the the happenings and goings on with Kinleith.
00:35:43
Speaker
Can you speak to that at all? fourteen Yeah, it's sort of been a chain reaction of a few um pulp and, like you know, pulp mills around the country and stuff like that. The one in Kooni went down as well. And then, yeah, this one is making a lot of losses. I think the power prices are quite high.
00:36:04
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and
00:36:06
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but they're not, ch they reckon, well, Winston Peters come to town the other day, actually, and said he was gonna go and to bat for them, but I don't know how they'll figure that out. That was all just rhetoric, though, eh? So from what I understand, it's owned by a Japanese company, and they're, was it consolidating, is that the right word, or or just focusing on pulp?
00:36:34
Speaker
Yeah, they came rid of the paper mill. The paper mill is actually the newer, faster, more productive plant, but they must not be getting the price. Not financially, yeah, that's what I sort of summarized as well. And then, yeah, so they're going to shut that half down. Which is going to effectively leave a lot of people without employment leading into it. There's 230 jobs there.
00:37:00
Speaker
Yeah, and um yeah, I mean there is a rumor that maybe that OG just bought the customers and we're just sort of letting the little run down and then just kind of... Oh, right. Take the client. Yeah, they've got another got another year they've got another place in Malaysia.
00:37:20
Speaker
that um yeah Which from a business decision perspective is not a bad decision to make if you've already got a bad tactic. If you're already producing enough pulp to service those clients, why do you need another facility? They're talking about moving the packaging operations to somewhere else, really. they butlaysia Malaysia. oh really So still got the same output from somewhere else. and If it's going to go to Malaysia and it's they can do just the same amount of volume to the existing customer base at a cheaper rate, they're going to have a higher profit margin. So just drop that place in. That's my thought.
00:38:04
Speaker
Yeah okay, so who are they cutting out there with the distribution or the... Well no, they're still being able to manufacture as much as their demand is. So they've got the demand to still make it, but they can make the same amount going through one less place. So if they can just do that out of Malaysia like Walawde has seen. Is that is they right Lord? To be fair, I'm not too sure on the detail of what that's what I do bro.
00:38:30
Speaker
yes Essentially, if I had demand for 20 oranges, and i could and it and I only had to grow those out of one place, not two, I'd move it to that one place if they could handle it. Didn't affect your production. Yeah, I don't know if that's got an allergy.
00:38:47
Speaker
Can leaf is a pretty old plant now a lot compared to some of these places that Yeah, over andeatsia where they do do the stuff you so one older plant a Lord what you'd have to start replacing Equipment is it gets older yeah so that it becomes it a cost maintenance costs well replace. Yeah asset cost Yeah, and I think that might have you know on top of that it might have actually got them a little bit of access into our logs too possibly quite possibly Oh, really? a major export in New Zealand, is it? Forestry? It's one of our big But it's... I know that you're screwed for them, because if they don't fully fill the trucks as completely high as they can go, they don't make money. two If you take a half load, you've just lost money. well But it's the overseas markets as well though, eh?
00:39:49
Speaker
Because China, we used to export a lot to China. But I think yeah from what I've been told in as far as I know, the overseas um production of logs is picking up. So places like Russia and the rivers are frozen. So they can move a lot of logs down the rivers and that now. So they're filling that need for ah our international customers. So we're not selling to them as much anymore as well.
00:40:20
Speaker
So that demand's not there. And they got massive land there, eh? We haven't got so much. Yeah. And you don't you don't want more pine forests to be fair in New Zealand? Like, we should just stick to native forests. Oh yeah, I think so too. I don't know why, I couldn't tell you why, but it just sounds like a good idea.
00:40:40
Speaker
Oh, it just builds a better ecosystem for our soils, you know, the things that are here, you know, all the different bacteria and bugs and all that that need to survive on New Zealand soils. So pine was never that important? It's not a native... Canada? Canadian pine? Is there a white lord? No, I wouldn't know. What's that? The pine that we have in New Zealand. Was it introduced from a Canadian species?
00:41:10
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Fucking, uh, Pinus Radiata. I don't know. Yeah, I fucking hate it. I don't even know either, bro. I'm going to get to you. I'm going to get to you. I'm going to get to you. Just, just a disclaimer. Any actual info shared on the CuzTep podcast has not been vertical verified. a Zero research. We've said that from the start. So do not take it as CuzTep. That's why.
00:41:36
Speaker
Our plan's actually been heavily Geneva modified as well, because like you'll see the ones that are out there now, they've got real skinny branches. So they they um modified them so they're easy to... clear The 38, 25, 35? Yeah.
00:41:56
Speaker
Alright.
00:41:59
Speaker
You'll notice even the older pine trees around New Zealand will have, like, bigger branches. and You know, they've still got big branches. Like, you know, there's ones that used to be down there to our old lady's house. Oh, yeah. Whereas, like, you look at the pine trees now, and they're just straight up and down. Genetically engineered trees. Yeah. Yeah, so... They got a good turn around as well, eh, as far as trees are concerned. I had 20 hands full for the adult tree. Yeah.
00:42:30
Speaker
and That kind of situation combined with the loss of um trees, for lack of a better word, during the um cyclone, where a lot of that forestry was kind of bulldozed, you know, with the weather. Yeah, it's not looking good for a New Zealand timber, is it?
00:42:55
Speaker
Yeah, and industry in general, there still seems to be a lot of money in farming now.
00:43:02
Speaker
that lot of advice There's a lot of money being spent in all all the places that I'm going out and looking at. Yeah, so dairy farms, yeah ah dairy is doing all right. Dry stocks down. I think sheep and beef are down. Yeah, it's just the pay up of milk has gone up heaps at the moment.
00:43:19
Speaker
So I think on years gone by, it might've been as low as seven or eight bucks. Might've been lower than that eight, Lorde, probably sitting about $9, $9 to $10 per kg of milk solid. So it's large. That's the highest it's been in like seven or eight years or some shit. Hard to let go of that industry when you've been in it so long. I don't know what any of that means. Buzzwords.
00:43:46
Speaker
ah i'm I'm glad we got the opportunity to talk about that because I mean, you know, it's ah It's a real thing that's happening locally that you probably should sort of highlight. um But I don't don't want to dwell on that sort of stuff for too long. It's not what we're best at and not on this podcast. But if anyone does want to share any stories or reach out to us with their perspective on things, kuzchatpodcastatgmail.com is the email address you need to use to send us through some comms. Bro, it's just nice to know what will happen there in the next sort of six months when we're doing another potty. you know just
00:44:20
Speaker
Fuck, we talked about it back then and went about our production there. That's right. It's got four, so yeah I could be cool to review it. Creating future content. Cool. Yeah, that's kind of all I had there. I was um willing to spend a bit of a time just sort of reflecting on, because we were we coming up to Christmas, you know just reflecting on the year that you had, the good, the bad, the ugly, um and and what sort of things The future may hold for you. And we kind of touched on that a little bit with Mitch and him potentially moving into a different role or different scope of work, that sort of stuff. For me, it's about, yeah, just sort of transitioning back to Australia, to Brisbane. I start my new job on the 6th of January there. Looking forward to that.
00:45:14
Speaker
um Yeah, but how else is the cousin feeling about 2024 so far? And ah do you want to weigh in on any any good bed and other stuff that's been happening? There's some parenting stuff, bro, good and bad. I do have one story this year and I'd like your opinion on it. Oh, well, yeah, let's go. Let's go. We've got Uncle Shane here too, bro. So he might jump in at some stage.
00:45:43
Speaker
baed as boy went to a birthday party couple of weeks ago the last thing ill see to him was roll boy like good choices it come time bro with fucking heckey all over po i don't What's the problem what's the problem he's like two to that's that bus was came in it was like so and e hes on dick
00:46:12
Speaker
That was my first tour was high for us. Depends where the hickies are, eh bro? They just, you know, for where they, whew, magnificent. It gets riskier the lower they get. it But the other thing is too, and I'm gonna say this, and I'll take it how you want it, but who gave the hickies? So girlfriend's a good start, my books.
00:46:40
Speaker
have a question another girl because age goess to school together she's got a job down the local cafe in town oh well we a gaming hi
00:46:52
Speaker
um um with a few lump whites the yeah yaologist he's been on a very short leash ever since How young is too young for hickies? and that's what i want to get to that's that's really the question
00:47:08
Speaker
According to his mother, he's far too young. but te Teenagers, though, eh? He's a teenager. 13, yes. Oh, that's Open Season, mate. When was her first hickey, bro?
00:47:23
Speaker
When was first hickey? Grew up in too longy. Hey, was that right? Grew up in too longy?
00:47:32
Speaker
hey just it to twice eighty was the exactly and aric can good on him high five them and buy that man a beer ah
00:47:47
Speaker
we we ah We should get a female perspective here. I'm a bad parenting 101 though, so don't ask me or I'm all for it. So that's one end of the the extreme. Well, the other one, so Jaco's come home with hickies from ah from a party at 13. What's your... I would cry if Evelyn did that. Gave a dude hickies or came home with hickies? If Alex came home at 13 with hickies. I'd be mad. Why? I don't know. Cos they're so They're just babies.
00:48:19
Speaker
You're a dude, so you'll think it's like, oh, look at my boy, so cool. I think there there's a level of concern that needs to be had there, because that's kind of young to be face sucking someone else's neck or whatever. They're getting a little more on him than just a bit of a patch. But then take yourself back to bedding. There's a little bit of ERT happening there.
00:48:46
Speaker
Watch out when they start making chains around the Nickles. Start linking those hickies together, you reckon, mate? Is that a rocker home final session? Yeah, it's Central. Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central, Central,
00:49:04
Speaker
but yeah yeah yeah hit you nicholas If at 13, Hickey's was all we had to worry about, it'd be all good to say. I think we're actually trying to achieve. like That's what we we're trying to get. This is like trying to get some Hickey's poo. Is that all you're worried about from that point? Is that a downward slope? Well, it's not a gateway. Hickey's not a gateway. Hickey's not a gateway. He grew up a mango.
00:49:35
Speaker
think they are but they are just because he was conceived when i was fucking eighteen doesn't mean he has to follow suit wow you sit the bar yeah brain so back she pretty low called on on my book wack into it And to know that it's a female with a job and she's and they seem that it's I didn't you know, I do agree it is a slippery slope though because I
00:50:09
Speaker
While those mouths were engaged in whatever they were engaged in, what were the hands doing? In other parts. In other parts. Yeah, because I'll tell you what, at 13, it wasn't just hickies we were having. I don't think Bubba really wants to think about it too much. Oh, he brought it up. He's the one that wanted a feedback on it. That's gross. Your sister reckons it's gross.
00:50:35
Speaker
and have no control about what the hands are up to at that point yeah yeah see this is slippery slope mate i don't even want to go there to be honest like let's let's let's pull back from this because it could go wrong very quickly i reckon i have some some joeys at least that's what he said to do slippery slope mate i'm telling you i was gonna go that far I bought, I bought, I E-R-T, E-R-T. E-R-T. You do need some sort of response team there, I think Mitch. Maybe they're the Rictile Response Team. It's the right one, bro. Stop, stop, stop.
00:51:26
Speaker
yeah Oh, oh and that's awesome. Thank you for sharing that. I hope we have an update in the future as well. Oh, you know, he's he's ah he's an interesting. Okay. Now we have another question. Would you still think it's cool if it was Evelyn? No, no. That was your daughter. Yeah. same down and i can be that the convict that
00:51:55
Speaker
To be fair, though, I think they've managed to... Like, obviously... Tiako's the one that received the HIKI, so... No, but you haven't seen the girl she might have received. Well, yeah, we don't know that, do we? Yeah, well, what's she doing, like... Cos then, yeah, you might have someone... Maybe she's only in the central necklace. No, you put your eye on the necklace and it records, nah, nah. I've done it then.
00:52:23
Speaker
so you just thought the receiving on that Did you ever a lie to your man, bro? He might have trumped it. Oh,
00:52:44
Speaker
dude. Oh, yeah, what a, what a conundrum there. That's, uh, Something, yeah, I guess a lot of parents have to deal with it some stage. Yeah, that's not good, actually. I need to be fair. I think they're back. Maybe I should just get them one of those. What's that, Lord Drifprite? Right, yeah, this is what I've been working on over the last week. Oh, my Lord. Make this a lecture gift card. Oh, my goodness. So, Lord, you've got a show and tell here. We've got code around for all my
00:53:22
Speaker
Is that what that right one ended up being? Oh, quite. Well, how do you lead with electric drifts? Can you say electric? So, at work, we run like one of these chili bins, but we do that pub golf thing every year, and last year, one of the boys used the electric chili bin, and he stacked it, knocked himself out, had to go to, like, a hospital CT scan and all that in the brain. Oh, shit.
00:53:52
Speaker
The chilli bin was ruined but I got the wheel in there all off of it and a battery speed controller and went into this drift truck that I went and got off of. Oh, tiffy gift. Tiffy gift? Oh my goodness. I paid for the hawks a little bit then I turned the chilli bin into a trailer for it.
00:54:23
Speaker
brought me a big direction Does it go right? Yeah, yeah, it does go right. Yeah, so he fucked it up. Anyway, he was riding a chilly bin. We're coming down a bit of a hill. And he's sort of leaned in too early. And the chilly bin got a little wobbly back there. A lot of two people. And he stacked it straight onto the road. Nice. That was hard when the competition was finished. But yeah, there was a bit of work in it.
00:55:13
Speaker
reinforcement da shoulderda shouldn't make the battery purchase <unk> patent world mayor because were the latest just kind miss but really makes you strong yes be fun by when you've got the triffres on like she keep along five forward okay Yeah, that's up to you.
00:55:38
Speaker
yeah it's pretty sweet
00:55:44
Speaker
We'd like to send us some photos card so I can chuck it as a thumbnail or something on the on the potty. In some videos of inaction. Yeah maybe you have to get out there on the driveway or something you can start doing some doughies. Yeah. Cool yeah we'll start kind of heading towards the the end of the the potty here. um I don't want to kind of see if anyone had any poor form stories they wanted to share at this stage. I got one.
00:56:12
Speaker
All right, let's get into it. It was probably probably the funniest story I've heard this year. But when we went on that stag, two of the boys ended up having a sort of share of bed and all that. And they were pretty on the place until about four in the morning, the first night we landed. And i'll during the course of the night, or possibly early hours of the morning, one of the boys says,
00:56:39
Speaker
all sort of been asleep but obviously thought he was in bed with a bit of a lady. There's a dream mode and started feeling up the other boat in the bed there. And the other boat has also been in a bit of a dream state. Thought that he was getting something going on. and sort of getting into it by trying to reach back and my boat's sort of getting a little bit involved and then one of the other boys said, just suck it, just suck it.
00:57:19
Speaker
Then he realized what was going on. and then
00:57:28
Speaker
Well, that's that's that's very very touchy territory to start going to Completely straight and they both woke up and realized what was going on when it did like yeah I don't know if you heard but you guys have ever had that before we are sort of send me asleep and No, the cows have a headache, mate. But I like the dominant. not and Not with someone from the same sex, let's just say that. No, no, they were they didn't know. They were asleep. They were like it's like sleepwalking.
00:58:06
Speaker
Sleep pumps. I say, bro, I admire his dominance. He can't tell me, have you ever not woken up at like halfway through the night with, you know, your significant other things? And you still have...
00:58:19
Speaker
Not realize you've got him into it. ah It's happened to me yes once. Yes, it was however.
00:58:30
Speaker
So was this... um ah I don't really want to ask this question, but I'm going to anyway. Was this um ah their word for it? Is that they their interpretation of it?
00:58:47
Speaker
Or what I'm trying to say is that the is that the story that everybody bought? Well, nobody would have found out if they didn't tell anyone. Oh, that's true. Yeah, then you got a boy there. No, the thing is, they were both guilty. like Nobody would have known. him Yeah, they came out with the story, so yeah.
00:59:07
Speaker
now One of them's like one one of them is like a 60-year-old man, bro, and one of them is like a 33-year-old man.
00:59:19
Speaker
How do I take it that back? What age is it? 50 and 30. One of the days is 50. So what does the 50 do there? The 50 I'll do there? Does he put it in your mouth or something? Just suck it already. The 50 I was the one that said just suck it. Yeah, that's dominant. Yeah, I could dare. I can relate to that.
00:59:43
Speaker
Just straight dominance. No Muslim. Just a little bit more or less fucks to give. Yeah, exactly. No fucking around. Just so good. It's going to be the best two minutes of your life. well the Zero key victory. Just absolute zero key victory. Ah, just a second. So fucking around.
01:00:07
Speaker
I don't have many have many of these left. His pump count would have dwindled out.
01:00:19
Speaker
Yeah, significantly less pumps required. Fuck pack it. Fuck it. Oh, amazing. What a great story. Fuck, do we do 2024 award ceremony for Kuzz Chat? For top stories and stuff? Oh, we can, yeah. Let's kind of, we'll chuck out some nominees then. Really got no poor form story of the year.
01:00:44
Speaker
Oh, Mitch, Mitch has interlocked. Interlock. Wow, Mitch has got, I think Mitch has got the top three. He's got to have the top three. Falling asleep, falling asleep at a traffic stop. For an undetermined amount of time, was my highlight on that. Interlock is up there. We're going to have a cast chat. We're going in the the month, the 31st of December. I'll have a cast chat awards.
01:01:11
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, shit, yeah. Even if it's just announcements, not an actual podcast. Yeah, just announcements. I'll have to go through some some of the previous episodes and and pull some of those out. um Yeah, well we'd have some fucking doozies in there, that's for sure. When did winded Cave ended up with that nugget on his floor? Was that this year?
01:01:36
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know, yeah. That was poor schools. Something in the perineum, that's fucking inquisitive. Yes. Something in the perineum. That was Jay again, wasn't it?
01:01:52
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah, well, that'll be our... That was 54 more days till I get my licence back. How long? many four days seventy four days ah That's not long actually. 30 couple of months.
01:02:22
Speaker
so driving you around what was the driving experience like one being shitfi being or magnificent you one way two terify oh we other two five
01:02:35
Speaker
What's the scale? What's the scale, bitch? Can one being shit, five being magnificent? Yeah, probably 1.7. Not even confident enough to give it a a full two. Yeah, give it a half. Absolutely terrifying, right? And what was the terrifying part, bro? You know, Zik when you should have zagged, maybe not ziggy at all. Zik when you should have tacked.
01:03:05
Speaker
Whose fault was it? It was both our car and my my work yet. aye so um but much Do you remember that time when we were young that we were on Topor and Auntie Les just randomly started following this police car around? you did So we see how far we can follow and we followed them until they'd done a U-turn like they fucking had to do a random U-turn on the street to lose us. I do recall that.
01:03:40
Speaker
Even if I can shout out to the last pod of you and you to share
01:03:48
Speaker
And we'll get around asking people how loose this is. are Fucked out with a stitch-up weekend for you, David. He had to drive this old hole in my head. And I fucked the seat on it, though. And he had to drive it. It couldn't even sit upright in the can. Oh, shouldn't see that word, sorry. Oh, that was a good weekend. Good times.
01:04:17
Speaker
I'll put a governing body together and assess our poor form stories to get a top three or top five out of it. So yeah, we might do an end of year wrapped. For Coast Town Podcasts, everyone else is getting on the old wrapped bandwagon. We might as well as well. I can tell you what, we've done an absolute rabbit hole talking about 2024 highlights.
01:04:49
Speaker
I don't know if everyone got their highlights out. For this year, who did we start? What was your highlights for the year? Media.
01:05:03
Speaker
Ooh, that's a good question. Highlights for the year. Well, I could do it from a reflection point of view, reflecting on on the last first eight months of coming back to New Zealand and Topol specifically. um Absolutely love it. and Was so happy to have the opportunity. Fuck, New Zealand's expensive. That's my takeaway of all this. Like, man, you pay for everything.
01:05:33
Speaker
you rubbish yep You gotta pay for your rubbish, put your rubbish out. ah It's not just included in your your council kind of... Oh, that's on our council though. they're they're there They charge us. Yeah, but no, it's expensive all over, right? I think Topol's probably but the higher end of the expense scale. It's one of the... Topol is one of the two jewels of the country though. Topol and Queenstown.
01:06:04
Speaker
It's like domestic tourist thing to live here, it's fucking expensive. Infrastructure wise though, no, I would not say that. Nah, nah, nah, the roading's terrible. Yeah. terrible. Yeah, I don't even have Kmart either. Gah, yeah, how much? So many things. Bro, you know how much my life would be better off if we ever came out? My muscles would fuck off the air most weekends. I'd be big. It wouldn't be great because you'd have no money left. Ah, it's cheap as chips anyway. you you did You'd allow for that, eh, the old K-Mutt tax? Yeah, to come back with fuck all useful, good for the stuff that I would never use, but I'd keep it happy and out of my grill. so
01:06:48
Speaker
yeah And then you just end up having to pay to put it out in the rubbish.
01:06:57
Speaker
Fuck it, the vicious cycle. Absolute vicious cycle. I mean, it was a beautiful place, like you said. One of the probably the top spots in New Zealand. um But yeah, my my time has has lapsed here. i've got And I definitely think I was here for a reason, not only for myself, but for the people that I impacted as well, um as short as that was. um So for yeah, for me, the takeaways is that, hey, I actually found out a lot about myself. I found out a lot about my skill set and how I can apply that in other ways. And met some pretty cool people as well.
01:07:34
Speaker
um
01:07:37
Speaker
Yeah, got to got do like a few fucking out of it things too, which is cool. Yeah, like
01:07:54
Speaker
yeah like i said I think there was a reason, though there's reasons for me being here, but there's reasons ah and for me um Impacting, I mean, that's a strong word, and impacting. But just being, you know, engaging with people here and kind of getting a good lot of feedback, but also being able to contribute um to, yeah, in some way, to the youth and the Rangatahi of Topol. Yep. Yeah, fuck yeah. God, they're hard work, though. These kids are hard work. They're fucking hard work, these kids.
01:08:31
Speaker
yeah We've got the CIS CALS here too. what's What do you reckon here? What's your highlights? What's your highlights CALS?
01:08:41
Speaker
well we'll come back We'll come back to CALS, have a think about it. What about your year like your home highlights for your own personal year? Obviously garage getting bo The garage debacle is finally, is it over? Hang on, is it over? There has been no return of I'll check back in 2025 if he's even looked at the work that Jordan and his mates done.
01:09:14
Speaker
Oh, he's probably dead, but... I think he's... I think he's washed his hands of his face. Well, he did flee the country, yeah so... He's got his cash and he ran. He signed it off. He signed it off and got it signed off. Yeah, the only way you'll get through now is litigation. It's a... it's a treaty way. Make no money on comebacks.
01:09:43
Speaker
Do if you're not the one coming back! oh Yeah, that was a huge one. Yeah, no, I don't explain to him what work had to be sorted out, but yeah. I mean, right now it's such sweet as it's safe. You better forgive me.
01:10:03
Speaker
right ah Yeah, had a few changes. in a New job, new career path. Yeah, had a few challenges in that. Lost the bottom line about three or four months in. Probably about four or five months in to be honest. Yeah, I love the change.
01:10:19
Speaker
um It's a challenge, between a challenge. Between a challenge, yeah, completely different environment. They go from kind of warehousing, manufacturing into sports. What do you call it? Organization.
01:10:37
Speaker
hey um yes provincial provincial wgie space union Yeah, Yeah, hell of a change. Lots of learnings. I guess the biggest thing I was talking about on the when I was talking to Mattie before this was quite a bit of confidence, a confidence in ability.
01:10:53
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It was probably the big thing. To be honest, because I doubted myself before I got into the role, I thought, it might be a bit more... I think I've got a bit more than I can chew, if that makes sense. But I think I've got the ability and rightly so. I think I lack a bit of confidence now and then. It's nice to be able to sit in here, relax and we've actually done some stuff. It's pretty good, bro. Pretty good. Yeah, no, it's been a big it's good to have that change and then and then you have a new perspective on things as well. Oh, yeah. You know, but now it's been a year of actually and to touch on that, I've fucking hella enjoyed being part of that wave, I guess, you know, because it was I got picked up in the wave and I got carried along with it all the way to the finals. Amazing. Yeah. And just fun, fun. And bro, you were there while we got one of the boys got Sky Sports fans try of the year. Yes. Yeah. And that was a topal too. So that was in the final. Oh no, that was it. No, that was it. Take Woody. Yeah, right. Yeah. Sounds pretty cool. That try was Akion, right in the corner there. Nearly took out the photographer lady, Sophia, and got the slow clap award from old George's. In the background there, the old slow clap. Nah, it's a good try.
01:12:30
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Yeah, so that was pretty cool bro for some of that sort of stuff and had some cool opportunity through it. so Yeah, if you haven't seen it, you guys posted a really awesome video on the Kin Country um Facebook page or YouTube as well. I think it's on there. Go and check it out. It's a fucking great wrap up kind of video to a real successful season that Kin Country had.
01:12:55
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Yeah, go check it out. but A lot of takeaways for you to to on this being like, fuck yeah, that was a can a moment in time, or a milestone that was achieved that impacted you know the community kind of thing. Yeah, exactly, bro. And it was pretty cool to be part of the journey, you know? so Yeah. Oh, fuck, here's the young folks. Oh, we got the riff-raff coming in now. Oh, fuck yeah. The overstayers. Hey, yeah, we're coming to an end here. Does anyone else want to have their moment to reflect on 2024?
01:13:28
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for i'm just the only thing i inspire safely i going to achieve this year it just to keep my license three years theck Again, another low bar. we you You can do it, bro. You can do it. I believe.
01:13:43
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01:13:46
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is the next Yeah, I believe too, Mitch. I went back and looked through all my total Demerit points and all that the other day. Have you got a total figure, have you? All time, all time total, yeah.
01:14:05
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635. 635. Are those rookie numbers, Mitch? Are those rookie numbers? Oh, the point system's different. Well, I think what we would have to go up against is the total cost value of all time points, you know? What do you mean? Like, not not monetary value? Or are you talking? Monetary value. Because the point system here is different. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah.
01:14:34
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So we you said 500, did you say? 631? 635, yeah. 635? And is that at all time? prison is gonna Yeah. Yep, all time. So basically, if you do 100, 110, you get 20 demerits. But they want to give me the actual monetary fines on their fund.
01:15:05
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but another news i got actually all one um clean slated which is advice thank seven years yeah clean select protocol yeah but that's only they employers can't um see a but Is that what that means so you you get it you get all your points back and nothing on your record Yeah adjusted my general criminal record you know it was driving charges yeah Clean slate protocol. Is that a national government thing? not' speed out for a wall or yeah it could could be a run for its money seems being made Well here's to 2025 being the merit free year for you both. but you't think it's sixty points
01:15:53
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Oh, I think we've um yeah we we're starting to kick on here. um So we might sort of wrap it up there in terms of the recorded podcast. so I'll just quick shout out to Mason and Joe who just walked on in playing a bit of pool. Yeah, and there's that as well. They just walked in and started playing pool in our podcast area. No respect, these young fellas. I'd love to hear their thoughts on 13-year-old hickies.
01:16:20
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We're going to open that up again? no yeah Maybe that might be the yeah they're the closest to being 13. That'll be the paid version. i think pay There's a paywall for that one. But thank you very much, Kuzzies, for joining us this late in the year for another podcast. It's always a pleasure, as I've always said, to reconnect with you fellas and have a good chat.