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Speaker: Uh, breathers, welcome back to the Cuzz Chat Podcast. You're here once again with Black McGee and my cousin. This week, joining us on the potty, we have George, the Ruthless Deception.
Speaker: Karakew Mitch, also chiming in. And a bit later on, you'll hear from Kev from NSYNC. Good potty for you this week. We got our first two emails from our listener, so hopefully you enjoy those as well. But for now, sit back, relax, and enjoy the potty.
Speaker: can't really remember ever seeing Clink punch darts. Oh, I definitely can. Yeah, I can. Yeah. I'm pretty sure she was smoking when me we we we moved to Auckland. She was still smoking fucking well into the peace, bro. Like, Aunty Les would have given up before Clink.
Speaker: Yeah, I think so. Way before. So I remember when Shorans and Clink used to live across the road from each other. Yeah, Clink was smoking then, bro. When you're smoking then? Yeah, right. Yeah, it went up until fucking Shones started chucking it in, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker: And even after that, we were still going for a little bit. It's probably Les, Shones, Clink, but we'll never find out. Yeah. ah know I know, obviously, Malx was fucking sold her. Because she used to grow the shit out of me, bro.
Speaker: Yeah. When I started smoking in that fucking, I'd go around to their house and then just walk out onto the balcony and, you know, spark up a ciggy. She'd be fucking into me for smoking outside.
Speaker: Yeah. You little cub, get your ass in here and smoke. You're like, nah. Yeah, that's Sitting at your marble table punching darts. I think it was close enough to the ranch lighter, eh?
Speaker: She's probably just hoofing them out there. With ashtray and that to fucking punch dogs in the house, Mitchell, you rude bastard. Well, yeah, I mean, she didn't vacuum three times a day for you not to punch fucking dogs in the house.
Speaker: I actually went through some vacuums too. They're facilitating it. I mean, the... for For a house that like got punched, darts smoked on on the inside all the time, bro, it never really smelled bad. but say Well, this was a topic that came up as well, because we'll get into Sean's funeral, but Kivy on the darts now.
Speaker: Which, I mean, he's not here to defend himself at the moment, so... It just got me like every time they'd pull one out, there would be someone in the background going, ah, can't be still punching darts.
Speaker: There was like commentary, full on commentary on his dart punching, no matter where he was.
Speaker: think you might have just joined the chat. so I mean, it just see in real time the addiction hold that nicotine can have on you.
Speaker: yeah i one Yeah, I heard like like you just watch the euphoria just wash all over him.
Speaker: Wanda no longer. Because he's here. Just talking ETH about me, eh? Well, darts, bro. Actually, we're just talking about your darts. Smoking darts. Are you still going?
Speaker: but oh I finished the last pack about else three hours ago. Have nice bath, bro. Yeah, it was like fantastic.
Speaker: Excellent. It was fantastic. I had to do a bit of staff administration this afternoon. Yeah, get my shit organised. Are we good now?
Speaker: Oh, yeah, start a new hair that a new job, eh, on Monday? Yeah, yes, yes. have to be on my best behaviour. he they ah would Are they a dart smoking culture?
Speaker: No, he's quite against it. Smoke free. Smoke free NZ. Yeah. They had like cessation support next to do you smoke?
Speaker: Oh, true. I was like, no. so I need support? but I'm good. I won't smoke anymore. It was a good trip though.
Speaker: Good short trip. for, yeah, obviously see the reason for for the trip, not the greatest, but it was still good time ahead. That's the first time I've probably... Pretty much exactly how hoped it would, in all honesty.
Speaker: Well, yeah, considering you never told anyone we were coming back. Yes. It was... um Yeah, that was there was a little bit of selfish enjoyment, I pledge.
Speaker: You know, seeing the look on everyone's faces and shit like that. and started off Kiwi, you know, watching that lip hit the floor, and then quickly followed by my lip.
Speaker: Yeah. No, it was Dog, bro. As soon as we seen Dog, it was all over. Before we even walked in the room, Dog was standing outside. Yes, he was too, whimpering. Yeah.
Speaker: Oh. They're getting yelled at by the old lady. Yeah, she just walks straight past us two, a No acknowledgement.
Speaker: And then you got growled. Not often do I call her mum. Yeah. You all right, Mum? For number one Number one son at that point?
Speaker: Oh.
Speaker: bar remember absolute Far from far from it. But to be fair, bro, the first answer was to tune, so... Is your own mum? No, i'm not!
Speaker: I'm not giving you answer, bro. Just tuning. Is that tuning out of the smoking? Nah, it's tuning because... because it's me, mate.
Speaker: Is that true? You're you're the closest pro by proximity. Just tuning. He's having a bad head there, boys.
Speaker: all right. It's not a video podcast where you're safe. It's fine. But yet anyway.
Speaker: But yeah, so Aunty Shones, I still don't know what to call it, ah what what she elected to do. ah given that she was in the very late stages of cancer.
Speaker: But she elected to take control of the situation and through a series of injections ah departed this world. Assisted departure.
Speaker: Yeah. The term is. Oh, okay. Yeah, rightio. The guy called it assisted dying. I mean, you could call it euthanasia. whatever you want to. Yeah, I guess, oh yeah, is it is that the right term, euthanasia?
Speaker: But let's do normally if they're already on, like life support and stuff like that, eh? suppose you're just switching the machine off.
Speaker: Touches next to being put down. Yeah. um Yeah, well, is that first off the stuff that Michael Jackson was on? That's the glaucoma one.
Speaker: Oh, wow. I don't know.
Speaker: Yeah, heard was a, or like a, ah relaxant was the first one and then ah a coma inducing and then one that stops the heart. That's kind of what I was told. um yeah But before that, apparently there's a bit of brandy going around.
Speaker: yeah some Some shots of brandy and darts. So that's where I think you picked up the ha habit, Kev. Oh, yes. but As you were signing in, bro, Jordan was talking about the you know seeing firsthand the the whole the control that nicotine has and just seeing that that euphoria just wash all over you bro the only way i can explain it bro it felt like um it felt like i transformed into optimus prime from this truck i just fucking hell
Speaker: see Just a rush, eh? Just a rush of... Bare choices. rush of bare choices. Oh...
Speaker: I was going to say, it's not a good poppy, bro. It's a double down on a go-get-you-packy straight after that. Yes. That is great form, or is it poor form?
Speaker: are They happen on Sunday. They happen on Sunday, bro. Between then and I think, so we're thought we are on next Sunday again now. been seven days, yeah. It's been seven days.
Speaker: yeah So how many packs did you go through between Sunday to Wednesday, sort of Wednesday to Sunday?
Speaker: oh
Speaker: look want to say three. Yeah. Right. Jeez. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Speaker: twenty twenty five s or twenty s Yes, now, 25th. Yeah, 25th. Yeah. 25th. And, yeah, so that was Monday, Monday through to today.
Speaker: What cracked me up, Paris, when you're like, actually, the last time I was on the darts, I was the fittest I've ever been, I was the skinniest I've ever been. He was, like, singing his praises. Yeah.
Speaker: that
Speaker: Oh, it had me reminiscing, boy. had me And you've been quit for, what, 17 years, did you say? no, it might have been a bit bit less, actually. I was kind of messing it up the other day. It was about 14 years.
Speaker: Joe was almost, almost ready to go to school. Yeah. yeah so He's like, shit. 14 years. of holy
Speaker: but been years but
Speaker: you know that's it she's gone now I carry on I totally understand 150 bucks worth of dance you would have gone through just this week yeah and the rest of the headaches nah was actually feeling quite good most days to be fair yeah was it was it like go goodby did you Did you leave the olds with their barbecue lighter too? That's what I was going to bring up as well because as hell you were liking them. The barbecue lighter.
Speaker: Those look goofy as hell. Funny thing is I took a barbecue lighter around there too. think took a barbecue lighter golf. What the hell?
Speaker: there yeah easy until Actually, a good way to light your dark side is barbecue lighters there. Just a sweet little trigger there.
Speaker: Yeah, bro. Oh, those lighters now pretty flesh. And they had a flexible thing on it too, bro. So I'll do the straight standard just to... No, no, straight one. I could bow it. So actually quite good form.
Speaker: I said it bent up. I was very...
Speaker: in Convenient. Well, and you could, you know, buy some cheap-ass barbecue lighters and then rebrand them as, you know, for lighting people's smokes and that. Oh, I'd call them, have it your way. Hey. Oh.
Speaker: a
Speaker: But yeah, was awesome did I totally understand though, bro, like having, adopting those vices when someone close to you like theirs passes away. It's obviously left a huge void as well.
Speaker: But it was a pretty well attended service, which was was cool to see. Caught up with heaps of people and
Speaker: Yeah, I guess. Yeah, think one of ongoing jokes was fucking there'd be no one in Mango that day because they're all there. Yeah, that's true. yeah Yeah, I've seen so. I only got misidentified like four times.
Speaker: Bro, to be honest. aye But, yeah, so as tough as that was, you know, the family rallied around. it was good to see all the support. And and from what I've seen of the thanks and that coming out, like, yeah, just made it a little bit easier to get through for everybody with all the family being there and supporting each other.
Speaker: So, yeah, kind of miss Andy Jones, but better they're better than living with that disease, I reckon. Yeah. ah be I don't think he would have lived that much longer with it.
Speaker: Yeah. And the quality would have been pretty poor, so quality of life. Yeah. Definitely rather trade those last few weeks for that, you know?
Speaker: Yeah. And I think Miles was the first one to realise that I said it that it was an awesome gift she gave everyone. um which I heard multiple times throughout those few days we were there. It was like, man, it was actually kind of cool to be there before it all went down and say what you needed to say and yeah all that sort of thing and and you know not be a surprise and be tragic and and that.
Speaker: Everyone kind of had a chance to accept it, which is cool. Yeah. Still heart-wrenching being there, seeing it for ourselves, especially when you know those close to her were had to deal with it on the on the day of and leading up to the funeral as well. That's the hardest part to watch, isn't it? know Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, and obviously it's it's not going to get any easier, I guess, for the next however long, than having to sort of, yeah, move on.
Speaker: But it's a part of life, I guess, so everyone's got to face it sooner or later.
Speaker: One thing I think, as well, as good as a service was... was
Speaker: There was a bit of a musical interlude that was presented by John Truman and his band, Jam Doctor, which, um beautiful song. I don't know what that song, that first song was, but, you know, acoustic, pretty heartfelt, and I'm sure...
Speaker: you know ah a few Not many dry eyes in the and the um and the place. um The second song, however, ah probably could have either not been done or maybe just a bit more thought given given to
Speaker: To what those lyrics were going on about So it was, wow, 660 it was, eh? Yeah, only to be Only to be, yeah And like anything, with ah with what we sort of look at When you put your form on fleek, you've got to be open to critique Yes, definitely And being quite a musical musically talented family There were some critiques For sure um If those that don't know That song I
Speaker: guess the chorus Is probably the big part Yeah I'm left just turning pages Yes Yeah We know that it's worth the Ain't it good to be alive So When I heard that I was like
Speaker: And singing it to the coffin, probably not the best way to send someone off. Just mocking them. like of the fight say Put a mocking tone there, you but potentially.
Speaker: I think you nailed it, bro. if If Shones told him to sing this and picked this song, then fine. Great call, Shones. that was my counterpart to it.
Speaker: Do you think she did choose the song? I reckon probably. I think it's genius. If she chose that song, it's fucking genius. Yeah. But yeah, going in not knowing either way was a bit, it was like, what? And musically, they had three or two, so three two acoustic guitars and electric bass.
Speaker: Yeah. And electric bass.
Speaker: And say what some part of that song they weren't playing the same chords, all I'll say.
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, they weren't they weren't the only ones making a few stuff ups. um The old man gets up on his eulogy and um straight off the bat says that he's child number four. Yeah.
Speaker: I didn't fuck that up. an next external la I was like, that's wrong. sure yeah That's wrong. Your four sisters that were boom born before you might take offense to that. This ain't news to you.
Speaker: but faint news to you it' just if the it ah yeah And it was good to see him, you know, take the time to prepare ah and then probably misorder his notes and forget where he was. yeah they're Probably where he fucked up, by too much preparation. Overprepared, eh? Yeah.
Speaker: Just a surface level preparation.
Speaker: yeah, well, then he was like, I'm waffling now. and carried on the wall to waffle for a little bit and reiterate several points he'd already made yeah but I do I do appreciate it taking the time to work out you know a bit of a timeline where of Shones' life yeah
Speaker: yeah it just didn't quite all fit together seamlessly in his delivery yeah he um He closes it off well, I thought. I mean, he, you know, that part was pretty heartfelt.
Speaker: um But sometimes it's like, you know, my favourite time when when I go fishing on the boat is just it's when we come back, you know, when it's over. Yeah.
Speaker: You're there for a good time, not a long time. Yep. Once you've got limits, you cruise back. Sometimes even before. Yeah.
Speaker: But, yeah, so 45 minutes was dedicated to the eulogy. I don't know if that's an average time for... that how long it was up there? Yeah, 45 minutes. 45 minutes there. It did well.
Speaker: Far out. I don't even think I've ever been able to speak that long. Everything. ah you
Speaker: Someone told me about a 45-minute speech. Holy. hey Like two episodes of The Simpsons. Yeah. It felt like that anyway. It was live stream, so I'm sure those people that couldn't make it there tuned in. I know Bertha did.
Speaker: But yeah, she felt they would probably went a little bit too long. So there's different points of critique. Yeah. yeah But yeah, what do you guys think of it, ah that the whole service?
Speaker: Oh, I was into it, bro. Melissa cracked me up, but she hit some nuts to get up there. I was thinking, fuck, oh, I should get up and say something. Oh, yeah.
Speaker: ah But I was thinking, sected her. Yeah, I sort of thought the same Kibbe. was like, oh, yeah, but I think we're out of time. Everyone wants to wrap it up, yeah. I think Chainsaw was like a crack up to hear from him.
Speaker: few things that he was saying. um Kelly was like sitting next to me. She was pissing herself. I think she related a lot to what he was saying in his copper days and things like that because I know he gave her some special treatment here and there.
Speaker: Rides home and whatnot. Yeah, I got got a couple of rides home when he was in Taupo. um But he also, yeah, caught me red-handed once, which was my greatest moment.
Speaker: But yeah beat like you said, 35 years he's been kind of woven into the the family So he he obviously hit definitely had a a you know a lot to kind of comment on And yeah I remember few the times we around Aunty Shane actually Him and Sandy would rock up with a whole bunch of confiscated fireworks for us to let off It was good stuff Those double happies and everything. Roman candles.
Speaker: I don't remember him doing that. Shoneses back in the day, turning up. It was mean. Yeah. Fire rockets. Yeah, bro. I had a scarred dogs that going bonanzas.
Speaker: Yeah. Fires everywhere. Oh, Jesus. It's like, holy shit. Let's just be kidding. Skyrocketing and getting some PTSD. Yeah.
Speaker: There's multiple memories there, cars, good and bad. With the old fucking fireworks. A lot of which, you know, would always end with, told you so, and then quickly followed up by, fuck up, Rob.
Speaker: I wish Jay was here to re-enact his warm welcome he gave Rob at the service to. Fucking hell. Fucking hell. That was hilarious, though. It was crack up.
Speaker: like I'm pretty sure you said something else. I could only remember a couple of things because I was just i was just quite shocked, actually. they You call someone to their face, not their first name, just penis. Yeah.
Speaker: And then proceed to just savagely roast them just for looking like who they look like. oh On the way out of the service, eh? On the way out of the service. The door on the hearse hadn't even been closed yet.
Speaker: And he was just like, fuck, you've shrunk. You've gotten smaller. And you look so shriveled. Did someone leave you in the bath too long? Yeah. yeah Rob was just standing there just like, you couldn't say anything. Fucking hell.
Speaker: was shocking, bro. I'm pretty sure he fucking rattled off another one, but yeah, I couldn't remember what it was. Fuck it, those are off the... Man, that's hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker: Fucking hell. I know he seemed to be enjoying himself too much at that funeral, old Kate. He ah Never let an opportunity yeah slide roast or say something. come on I think he's, like you say, he's been spending a bit of time in Aussie, but in Perth, and they do a lot of roasting over there, eh?
Speaker: The term of endearment. Yeah, I think it is. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. um mean I mean, we all know K-boys just love Rob so much, you know?
Speaker: ah kid tell you Yeah, anyone else want to add to the day? I applaud Lionheart for his fucking speech, bro. I don't think I could have willed up the courage to be able to do that, you know, for my siblings.
Speaker: it's a Well, not not not with the amount of grace and poise that he had anyway. Yeah, yeah i think he did a good job. I commend him for that, bro. Yeah. good And yetd he got throw in a few slight jabs here and there, you know, digs and whatnot, what we all love him for. Yeah, it was more Adam self, really, which, ah you know, is about what you can do, you know.
Speaker: Yeah. he Especially the Staten Post, he done bloody well. Yeah, yeah. There was times where he could have gone and lost it a bit, but he held ah up. and Yeah, which is, yeah.
Speaker: it's It's hard to do. Yeah, hard to do. you yeah like Yeah.
Speaker: John Truman being the MC and then the others that spoke and Wickall finishing it off were... It was all well done. and you Can you speak anything to what he spoke about there, Mitch?
Speaker: We're cool. Yeah. It's all a bit of a blur. I know that he he he also mentioned bits and pieces of the Bible in that too, certain chapters and whatnot.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. On 316. Yeah. I was waiting for glass to shut up and Stone Cold come running out. Yeah, well, Austin 316 said I just whooped your ass. 100%. That's all I've done. That's exactly what I thought too.
Speaker: Yeah, good to have a chance to go back and have few beers with everyone. and Yeah, or even the, I didn't expect there to be a spread put on at the venue as well. Like, that was pretty cool. Like, cup of tea, bar of rolls some party pies and club sandwiches.
Speaker: It was one of the best um one of the best funeral spreads I've had, just on one of those little Sammy and Sabre ones, eh? It's quite nice. Yeah.
Speaker: As I've been to too many, but I love a good asparagus roll. Yep. And they were double bangers too. Two fingers in there. Two fingers readies.
Speaker: That was classy, boy. Tell you what, the cup of tea was great. It calmed the nerves quite well, a cup of tea. Yep. very good, very much appreciated. And being across from the cemetery as well, we went over and seen a couple of the whanau there, alan oil Alex's Nan, Uncle Arnold, Munzees.
Speaker: its on months easier Yeah, so that was cool. And then, yeah, back to the Cozzy Club for the wake, which was banned.
Speaker: We can use a guy who'll get sort of buried, or you're going to go for a good old death? Yeah, that question came up actually, Kaz, and I've never given it much thought.
Speaker: I think um maybe cremation. I don't know where I'd want to be buried, to be honest, if that was the case. Yeah, I'll be getting burned up. Yeah.
Speaker: well
Speaker: On a roast? you Yeah, well, if I can go wherever then, you know, you get buried in that place and then you've got to duck around with a headstone and all that. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.
Speaker: We were talking about this the other day, like we're from, like, man, cows and... we look at our grandparents on the old boys' side, Mabel and Wano, there's a physical place where we can go to see them, you know, and pay our respects in that sort of regard, whereas with Bryce and Nola, we don't have that.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Which, you know, we thought, you know, if anything, you know, even if we do choose to go down the route of cremation, have somewhere for people to go. Yeah, think they have, because I think Dad and Kelsey were talking about it when we were at the cemetery, about having a plaque at the cemetery. It's not a grave site. It's it's just on a bit of sort of, or the edging of the the gardens, essentially. There were all these plaques there that people had been cremated, and i don't know if the ashes were there. I don't think they were, but it was more just of a place you could go.
Speaker: Well, speaking of the Truman Whanau, they had their hura koatu unveiling for Nani Wei. Oh, yes, that was this weekend, tomorrow, yesterday? we Yeah.
Speaker: And they took her ashes back to Waiwao and had them buried there.
Speaker: Weren't Nola and Bryce, didn't they have their ashes scattered at the beach? You know, think, wasn't it? Pogahina.
Speaker: Yeah, Pogahina. Oh, No, that's right, bro. It was a Pogahina. Yeah, right. Yeah, I mean, I suppose you could just go there, but sometimes it's like, is you know, if you want to talk about talking to the people in the spirit realm, like it's eternal, you can do it almost anywhere, can't you? Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. Yes. But you do have to think of the man. Sometimes I think if you go and look at something, it probably does trigger that. Maybe if you just go somewhere, anywhere to think of it,
Speaker: people Well, signed something for them at your own house even. Well, was going to say, you guys got the service brochure or whatever it was, I forget the name for it, with Antichar's photo on it, which I forgot to grab. But, yeah, and we have other people that have passed on their photos here as well, which is always a good way to honour them, I guess, or remember them.
Speaker: So there's always that. Yeah. Which makes me wonder about, you know, if you could turn ashes into ink and then print using that ink a photo or something or, you know, use a bit of technology to incorporate your essence or your whatever's left of you into a physical object.
Speaker: Yeah. Or something like that.
Speaker: Yeah, that'd be sweet.
Speaker: Well, I think that's it for the funeral chat. I don't know if he's going to add anything to that. It was was a great send-off and particularly the wake. I enjoyed that for sure.
Speaker: will leave you with one thing that happened while we were at the party at Joshie's and Lord be all over this because it was your question.
Speaker: Would you prefer to be short but strong or tall and weak?
Speaker: Asking the big questions. yeah well This was a big question. There was a couple of them actually. So this was one that stuck out for me. Would you rather be short? Short.
Speaker: Short. And strong. and and strong And I'm eating like five foot sort of short, or at least be, you know, six and a half foot tall, but weak. How weak?
Speaker: Very weak. like but Like can't open a jar weak or? A woman, week weak woman.
Speaker: Piss weak. like we Can't even open up that jar of fucking peanut butter weak. Yeah, pretty weak. As weak as the other dude is, short anyway.
Speaker: Being short has major disadvantages, I reckon.
Speaker: did Yeah. Stepladders and stuff to reach things. People don't look at you as an authority figure. Yeah, you can't stand over people. I mean, you can fake being strong.
Speaker: You can't fake being strong. ah careful you get those shoes and that, you know. inch lift. Some pump.
Speaker: And if you're tall and weak, you can still get strong. But if you're short and strong, you can't get taller without assistance. Yeah, well.
Speaker: That's my two cents. Yeah.
Speaker: yeah But you'd have to stay weak, though, because your mind would be weak, you know?
Speaker: You're tall and you're weak, bro. It's just all-round weakness. Your mind that's weak, you know?
Speaker: Yeah. You could get a job as the standing out. I'd rather be short and strong. I'd rather be short and strong. Personally.
Speaker: what Me and Monborough, we didn't hesitate. We both were tall and weak.
Speaker: Yep. Well, the other question I was asking was, would you rather be dumb, weak, or slow?
Speaker: What? Dumb, weak, or slow? Oh, one of those three. Yeah, so if you' if you if you choose dumb, then you get to be strong and fast. choose i think being dumb has it advantages.
Speaker: you'd probably be a lot happier. Yep. If you're dumb, you don't know you're dumb. Yeah, exactly. if yeah yeah I'll probably know a few dudes that are dumb too, to be fair. Yep. Not any of the other three that are on the score. Yeah.
Speaker: i fus see We went and played golf. And then Al's saying that he's like going, his eyes are going short. One's got, know, different vision than the other one.
Speaker: And then he walked away and he was going, oh, yeah, I got told my hearing's going as well. was like, oh, left arm blind. Yeah.
Speaker: So am I going to get our thoughts on our new roommate? boy Yes, well, that's a good segue to ah you having a new roommate, oh Uncle Alex. Yeah, bro. It's moved over to, well, I guess you and yourself have moved from Gladie to Adelaide in the last couple of weeks or months, and now you have another roommate and Uncle Alex joining you down there for the same project as well. Thank great you, bro. Yeah, yeah. Yep.
Speaker: us So have you have you given him any rules, any new roommate etiquette that he has to follow so far? In all honesty, I think he'd probably be more likely to give me rules. well But no, I was out golfing today when he landed, so Sky would have picked him up from the airport.
Speaker: was fucking only just around the corner, about seven minutes there, seven minutes back sort of thing. Oh, sweet. And when I got home from golf, he and I went out. a We rang them obviously yesterday and said, oh, we're just going to go and get your fellas a bed, get your bed sorted. No, no, no, no, no. I'll sort that out when I get here.
Speaker: So, yeah, sure enough, when he got here, he fucking lined up a bed off Facebook Marketplace just up the road. So we went and picked that up and brought it back. Pretty sweet fucking deal, to be honest.
Speaker: and i got that back here. He reckons it's the best bed he's had in the last fucking, he had pretty much a few flimsy, flimsy fucking squabbed on a few slats in Melbourne.
Speaker: So he's already winning. And yeah, we just fucking went and got some dinner and went for cruise around the beach and sort of just had a little bit of a drive around the area. um but You know, the bro gets all inducted from Tuesday onwards, Monday, or tomorrow being a public holiday and in Adelaide, so... Oh, true.
Speaker: We're all just I know George's got a sort of story about roommate etiquette, but I'll jump in here because I've got a story about Uncle Alex, actually, when we moved to Sydney, which involves a bed as well, and... um Yeah, they had this this bed for us after me and Birda and the boys moved there.
Speaker: Double bed, middle frame. um And the first night we slept in there, was all good. And then Uncle Alex, excited, young, excited fella as he was back in those days.
Speaker: Thought he'd come and surprise us by, you know, running and jumping on the bed. You know, sort of a welcome hug sort of thing. And he came running in, bro, while i was still in bed, jumped on the bed, and the whole thing just crumbled.
Speaker: Just actually felt a bit. So he had to go. He was like, oh, I'll get you the new bed. That bed was right off. but availabl there Yeah, just a bit of poor form there. I'm not going to Alex as well, but, you know.
Speaker: No, you'd be good with him staying with you, but he's all good to live with. ah We stayed with him for number years as well. but He's already trying to line up a car and shit like that so he can fucking get to and from.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. Go and line up inductions on che all day Tuesdays.
Speaker: yes but anyone else got any roommate etiquette they want to share what what the pitfalls of having roommates my mates had sort of um broken up with his missus you know long long term missus and um anyway she moved out so he was sort of on an apprentice wage so he decided to get a bit of a roommate in sort of posted up on Facebook.
Speaker: Some sort of fucking Craigslist type fucking setup. And some guy from Wellington um needed a room to stay. i was doing some work at the courthouse and took like registrar or some shit like that.
Speaker: Anyway, fucking first day in the place. And um so they the guy must have been in his bedroom. And um so the bro's gone and looked and seen if he wanted something to eat, you know, because he obviously cooked up the feed and that.
Speaker: And as he's pushed the door open, the dude's fully butt naked on the porno, on the on top of the bed, bro. It's like first night and first day. It's still daylight.
Speaker: Holy
Speaker: moly. Bro. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Did you make knock? I think he kind of knocked and pushed it open at the same time. So, I mean, yeah. In the middle of the day, you just expect to, you know, to be, you know, just chilling. Yeah, you don't expect someone to be sort of beating it out first night in the house. We're trying to mark his territory. Yeah.
Speaker: yeah Yeah. Oh. That's night too. Wow. Yep. Whose etiquette was um was being judged, you know, his awful monocle.
Speaker: books I mean, both at that point, you know, there's more liquid on both sides, in my opinion. Especially butt naked fully on top of the bed in that too, like, you know, like, holy cow, man. At least get a blank, I mean, you know, especially if there's no lock on the door even, you know.
Speaker: I don't know if I should ask this, but it'd be interesting. but Did he want to get caught? like That's pretty blatant of being exposing yourself during daylight. It was a bit a weed. Oh, gosh. He's very much...
Speaker: because he's he
Speaker: much Not much left to the imagination after that. yeah well ah yeah Hopefully that doesn't happen to you, Mitch. um
Speaker: Either way. If it does, I'll let you know.
Speaker: Oh, jeez. Oh, crickle. um sure you would have ran things like that Kibby in your room meeting days nah I just had a roommate that used to piss everywhere piss on things and fucking get too wasted or had a few people would try to break in actually but nah fucking I just had one flatmate bro it was just a shocker for pissing on things pissed on the couch, stood up one night and just pissed where you were standing. You're standing in the middle of the lounge.
Speaker: Awake or sleepwalking? Oh, just boozed. Basically sleepwalking at that point, aren't you? Yeah, of us ever found yourselves in that predicament before?
Speaker: What? That you've just pissed somewhere? That you're not supposed to be pissing? Yeah, just two booths and you're just pissing somewhere you shouldn't be. Yeah, I've given a yeah, I've definitely done it.
Speaker: And probably in public places, that's probably about it. That's where you shouldn't be pissing.
Speaker: I've got up in the middle of life and I try to go piss on someone else, like and completely i'm in control of it.
Speaker: thought I was in a toilet, you know, like you're dreaming, you're actually dreaming, you think you're out in the toilet and then you go to start pissing and then someone's like, what are you doing? but What does it look like? What does it look like?
Speaker: I'm surprised I've had to like a dream where I'm hard out pissing in my dream and I wake up and fucking freak out like fuck have I just pissed myself but surprisingly not. we was like fuck It felt a lot like I was having to piss right then.
Speaker: As a young man's father in Matataa We went out and drank at Sky's auntie and uncle's house one night for the first time. We'd met them sort of thing, and we played King's Cup.
Speaker: And the last thing i remember was losing King's Cup, and in the middle was a bottle of wine. arm remember with the wine touching my lips, and then the next minute i'm waking up in my own bed on the other side of Matata the very next day.
Speaker: And I roll over and say good morning to Skye, and she sort of just brushes me off. Fuck off, you idiot. I was like, ooh, what have I done here? And yeah, come to find out, I'd gotten up halfway through the night and just opened the window and just flopped it out and just pissed all over the window and all over myself. I mean, that's how I got back in bed. Like nothing had happened and fell asleep. Oh, fuck, it would have stunk too. Yeah, fuck. Oh, there would have been a smelly room.
Speaker: Yeah, don't know. I think I got at least 70% of it outside.
Speaker: But yeah, it was 30% that they could have went away with. On that one, apparently I am accidentally got up and sort of walked into the laundry and just pissed all over my Mrs Crocs one time as well.
Speaker: That's what Crocs deserve, bro, in my opinion.
Speaker: fuck.
Speaker: Yeah, she's never let me live it down. Like, yeah, it's up there with the 150 pumps thing. Always comes up every now and then. Crocs are amphibious though, aren't they?
Speaker: Yeah, exactly, bro. Wash them off. Just wash them down, it'll be sweet. Yep. 100%.
Speaker: hundred seen
Speaker: um Anything else happening you fellas want to bring up before we jump into emails?
Speaker: Timeline on the weekend weekend, I suppose we could talk about the golf on Sunday.
Speaker: Yeah, first head out for me in probably six months. Thursday, sorry. Tuesday. Yeah, it's the first time I've held a club, and yeah or my clubs and as is long.
Speaker: so I actually surprised myself with some of the consistency. I had one shithole that just destroyed me. go You got your steps in. Of course, yeah.
Speaker: and and I had, um obviously, being a hemer, we've all got that competitive streak, and I thought I was, you know, sort of neck and neck with fear for bit. um until that fucking par three number five where I'd hit it up to the left and rolled down the hill.
Speaker: So I tried to chip on up and then fucking chipped it right over the top of it, down on the right-hand side, and then proceeded to do it again, um which, you know, this is quite an elevated green, and it just, yeah. Then you you scuffed it another couple of shots just trying to get it on the green, didn't you? Yeah, bro. Yeah, it was fucking, it was bad.
Speaker: I sort of just picked it up and saved myself a little bit of, you know, pride, but no. Need to finish it. Yeah, it came in touch to very next hole. You know, I think you and I had some fucking good tee shots straight after that.
Speaker: Yeah. Kev had a bit of a wayward one on that hole as well. ah But a great recovery. Great good can you ah recovery. recovery. And did well to miss the the golf bags that had been left in the line of the the pin.
Speaker: Oh, was that one? It got god in my head, bro. Bro, it got in my head. Oh, is that the downhill one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. When Alex fucking... With his... Oh, yeah. I was in the backswing, bro. He opened a fresh crack of L&P.
Speaker: This is a mighty... Right the top of the yeah Evil bro, evil.
Speaker: Evil just cracked up too, which made it even funnier. Yeah. Just rattled me. Yeah, so rattled me. And then scuffed him along the ground. Yeah, he scuffed the next one, yeah. And then it rolled onto the green, like, just about, didn't it? Buck was pretty much on the green, but probably i finished up, but it was a shocker.
Speaker: Yeah, it was shocker, right? Yeah. Still tapped in for part, so that's all right? There's no pictures on his rule card, so... Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, it was a good round, though. I usually think i got a bit burnt out there, too, walking around. Yeah, felt warm. Yeah, I wasn't expecting it to be so close at the end.
Speaker: Yeah, we were within one or two shots. I thought you were running ahead of us, too, weren't you, Mitch? Yeah. Yeah. But then we had a complete mirror on that last one, eh, Matty? Fucking, yeah, tits up on that last one.
Speaker: Both into the bushes. Yeah. Fuck.
Speaker: yeah Yeah, I think that was the the pressure that came on after we knew how close we were. It's just like... Get me every time. Get me Suck yourself out.
Speaker: It was good, and then a primo feed after that. Thanks to Mama Les. Yeah. Big old feed. That was so good. Boys, I might have to sneak off for an earthquake and then I've got to pick my shit for tomorrow.
Speaker: Sweet. No worries. Good luck. You'll have to listen to the rest of the party to hear these emails that we got sent, but yeah. They're a crack up.
Speaker: Bye, boys. Bye, bro. True. Hit me off for a dart.
Speaker: force
Speaker: But it does typically bring on a ice escape too. All right, let's get into some emails then, and then we'll we'll wrap it up from there.
Speaker: No one else has any other business to to bring up. That email, if you want to get in touch with us and get your email or read out on the potty, that email is cuzchatpodcast at gmail.com. That is cuzchatpodcast at gmail.com.
Speaker: So yeah, cuzchat, C-U-Z, don't C-U-S, which I think some people might try and spell it. So yeah, send them in, we'll read them out We'll discuss them, we'll critique them And you'll be thankful for it The first one here is from
Speaker: ah I'll just call him why he caught what we put here from Peter. Peter writes in, Hey lads, Peter, the Shalankin Boilermaker file here.
Speaker: Love the potty. Been a boilie for about 22 years now. Good trade to be in. Helps me feed my family of 17. I've recently received an email from an optometrist telling me I was due for a checkup.
Speaker: Got fuck all time for that shit, so I ignored it. Well, fuck me. Two days later, these cunts send me another email saying the exact same shit, but in larger font. Tell me, are they likely bullying my reading capabilities, or is this just a typo?
Speaker: P.S. Chris Lennon from said optometrist, if you're hearing this, fuck you for insinuating that I can't read. Love the curry, fellas. Peter Fowle, out.
Speaker: Thank you, Peter, for your email. Um... Yeah, that's that's the I reckon that is sort of like bullying as well or um intimidation. Great marketing on their behalf.
Speaker: Well, we're talking about it,
Speaker: Do you think if a Sri Lankan they might be pronounced Peter Feele? Feele? yeah it was
Speaker: Pedophile sounds a lot lot funnier though. but
Speaker: Yeah, as someone who wears glasses, i i have received emails like this, which I have ignored as well.
Speaker: And now I think they are slightly bullying after hearing someone else comment on it. Is this like a spam email that's coming through or is it? No, you've you got to get your eyes tested every now and then or every six months they they normally do it.
Speaker: um It's free. oh It doesn't cost you anything. But they'll generally want you to get new glasses to update your prescription, that sort of stuff.
Speaker: I just ignore them, to be honest, and do it when I'm ready to do it. When it's starting to piss you off. So your eyes, are you slowly getting changing with your lenses? that's something Yeah, oh probably since I've been wearing glasses, I've had to update my script probably four times.
Speaker: as As you get older, the eyes change. But now even like reading on a computer is fine, but if my phone's up near my face, i have to take my glasses off to read because my eyes have changed.
Speaker: And I that have to get a a different pair of glasses to read at that distance or get those ones with the little, don't know, what is it? Bifocals. Like picture-in-picture kind of setup. Yeah, bifocal lenses. by Bifocal. Yeah, where you've got to look kind of look down to read.
Speaker: But yeah, they look goofy as hell, so I'll just take them off. We got to see you reading that letter out from Nana the other day too, and that and that cursive writing. Oh, yeah, that's right.
Speaker: And I had take the glasses off to that, and cursives was pretty, or her cursive anyway, was pretty hard to read. Yep, old school. But yeah, I'd forgotten that we used to write letters to each other before emails was a thing.
Speaker: Just to handwrite letters to each other. Maybe that's what Peter needs to do with the optometrist. Yeah. Handwrite a letter. Handwrite a letter. Yeah.
Speaker: In cursive?
Speaker: you could read i mean maybe you can't read that you could you'd probably get that name changed
Speaker: Yeah, optometrists. I mean, surely a boilermaker knows when to get his bloody prescription sorted. Hey, they're going to be looking pretty hard while they're welding up and all that. Yeah.
Speaker: Surely as an employer, that would be something that you would be, you know, edging your guys onto to doing.
Speaker: Making sure looking after their eye flashes. They're surrounded by i bright flashes and sparks and shit that can fix their eyes. You'd think an eye check-up would be quite a something that would happen quite on the rig.
Speaker: Peter, go and discuss your EAP or your employment system program with your company, mate, see what you can get out of that. very Even if they do pay you to go and get your eyes checked.
Speaker: I think at the start of that email, c you said it doesn't go time for that shit. Yeah. Is that what it says? Yeah, I don't got time for that. But I thought that's actually different to what I thought the email was going to be about. Like, having it in larger font doesn't necessarily mean you can't read. It's been like, you yeah, you it's that your eyesight's that bad that you can't read. So maybe you you just didn't know. They're throwing you a bit of a bone here, bro. It's like, let's just print it in larger font so this motherfucker can read it.
Speaker: yeah okay
Speaker: um maybe maybe Maybe he did reply, you know, to them first. ain't got time for this shit. I can't read this. It's like those no-reply emails.
Speaker: Unless you get a self-addressed envelope that you know you're fucked against. Yeah, well, you got that stamp and the for the return letter back to Nana there too, didn't you, Matty?
Speaker: Yes, oh one of the the first letters, got two letters, the first one was contained a self-addressed envelope so I could write back, which apparently I did because the second letter referred to it. um Yeah.
Speaker: And then we went to describe of of some people um building houses in Maratā, I think it was. um And she even drew a little diagram of the shape of the house as well, this little dome house in the letter, because it was classic.
Speaker: But yeah, it was 1993, I think August and September 1993. That would have been... Fuck, how was that? 18. July, wasn't it? Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, July, july august July and August 1993. um ninety three So was probably living in Taupo by then. Yes, because it was addressed to Woodward Street, which was the first house I lived in in Taupo, top of the hill there.
Speaker: You must have, did you move back to Mango after that at some point though? Because I do remember you living out in that outside of room.
Speaker: Dan, were you the street too? Well, I still had that, but while I was living in Taupo. So I'd go back to mum and dad's, and that's kind of where I'd... But know after a while, I think Kelly claimed it, I think.
Speaker: Yeah, probably. um
Speaker: But yeah, at Woodward Street, we were only there to do a... um Polytech course So there was a few of us living in that house And then yeah probably moved back for a little bit Before moving back over to Taupo And then Well actually I think that's when mum and them Moved back to Taupo Like they moved to Taupo themselves And we were staying in Regents Yeah, it was 97, 98. I think we moved to Topol.
Speaker: Yeah, okay. So we... Oh, no, because I lived in a couple of other places before moving back in with them. Where was that, like, two-story place you used to live in Topol? It was, like, 21 Regents Grove, Jackson Heights. No, no, the one that Matty lived in.
Speaker: There was Robert Street. Robert Street. opposite The fire station. might have been up. Yeah. Yeah, like you lived the one on the left or something, and Gully lived the one on the right. Yeah, way yeah but the other way, yeah, just a difference or different years, yeah.
Speaker: that That warehouse was out the gate, I remember. Yeah, I was working at United Video then, so it was only a short walk down the road. um But I used to wake up and there'd be people that didn't live there there in the kitchen.
Speaker: That's not very good. With the knives on. Yeah. Well, they had the knives on. Well, there it is. That was, yeah. Waking up to that, that was breakfast. And then going to work. Yeah, walking distance to the pubs was, yeah, pretty good, actually.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Especially at that age.
Speaker: can bring a lot home from the part too. Because Woodward Street's that one when you first come in, like if you come from Poipi Road, eh? Like from Mango, Woodward Street's like in by that area? yeah Yeah, they blocked it off after a while.
Speaker: it um Just as you come over the control gate bridge, isn't it, you go left to head up towards Nukahoe, to your first right, Woodward Street. Yeah, that's the bottom of Woodward Street, yeah, yeah. Yep.
Speaker: it was me, Dave, Wallace, Krona, Elaine, Tauranga and Shannon Sinclair. Are still over there?
Speaker: So I'm pretty sure we were all doing the same course.
Speaker: What was the course?
Speaker: Well, for Shannon and Dave, intercourse, I think. Yeah.
Speaker: thank you I think it was like a tourism tourism slash hospitality course. All right.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Learn much from that? tool Yeah, guess I guess so. It's like good in customer service bullshit and tourism. and I did a few tourism jobs after that, so too bad.
Speaker: But... um
Speaker: How do we get on talking to this? Oh, the letters, that's right. Yeah. we've got another email there. Oh, yeah. So this one is titled Racism. ah yes so this one is titled racism
Speaker: We are all closet racists within. My wife recently gave birth to our debatable, parentheses, first child. I was immediately sent to the doghouse, though, for calling my newborn a racist slur within approximately eight seconds him being born.
Speaker: I want to know, what's the worst thing you've called your kids, and what are the some of the outlandish things your dad called you? I feel like this wasn't even my best work, and when we have our next, I could definitely call it something way worse.
Speaker: Keep raising warriors. Chocolate Nesquik 6000.
Speaker: Was that what you called your child? Chocolate Nesquik 6000?
Speaker: That's quite creative. june Yeah, mine and mine are not that creative at all. I dropped the n-word to my kids all the time and I actually followed up on this one day being out in Rockhampton at a pub and there was a whole lot US Marines walked in and you know there was a mixture black, Hispanic and
Speaker: Somehow we got to talking in there and I just said to them, look bro, look, here's an honest question. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but um how do you feel about other ethnic groups around the world using, you know, the word ****?
Speaker: And he looked at me, looked at his bro, looked back at me and like put his hand down and goes, what's up my ****? I was like, nice. So ever since then I've found a little bit of power to say yes, empowered to say that I can say that word.
Speaker: So yeah, that's me. I fucking probably a daily call both my kids fucking, what the fuck you doing um doing?
Speaker: It's not creative, but it's probably the worst you can fucking do. Yeah, have to bleep that out, eh? It's bad, boy. It is bad. and so
Speaker: the that's bad boy bad
Speaker: I don't know. You got anything to it? I'm pretty sure the old man wasn't that like hard on the old racist slews that I can remember. Old man obviously wasn't pulling any racist slews.
Speaker: um
Speaker: But, you know, he would have weird names like Eric. He'd just call you Eric. You know, like... It's probably someone doesn't like it. I think for me, it's more the... Because we're in Australia, we're the...
Speaker: yeah like for for me it's more the because we are in australia be the A lot of the boys' mates, well, not a lot of them, but some of them are, and particularly growing up younger, well even now, actually, they're predominantly Aussies, white Aussies.
Speaker: So my boys, i and I call them the token brown boys because they they hang out. They're the only brown fella that's in their friend group. um That's a pretty much the most common one that I use.
Speaker: or you know, spot the brownfella. Yeah, token. Other other than that, you know, there's always the common term that you might hear in any sort of Maori family is your black hua.
Speaker: Sort shit out your black hua. I've heard that quite a lot, even in the script game.
Speaker: Or more modernly, you're a hua of a kid. Yeah. Bloody hua. Bloody hua. I also think we get, and and I have been,
Speaker: guess, racially profiled as a curry muncher. I love the types. ah So I guess that's it's not from ah family members, but that's from the general public.
Speaker: um Because of the complexion and, and I don't know. The hairy face, maybe.
Speaker: But um yeah, I think racism is as um for a minority group, you do get to share in that, in those comments and not have, because you're kind of taking the power away from it, right? From that, by you using it, you're taking the power away from anyone else using it against you.
Speaker: So it's kind of, yeah, that's where that where you said that using that N-word is is probably more of gone from what it used to mean to what it means now.
Speaker: But no. We had a fucking good chat with those U.S. Marines. They were actually more offended that I, when they said, oh, we're Marines, I said, oh, so you're the Army. They were actually more offended that I had fucking mistaken them for Army brat, that actual Marine, than, you know, me asking if I could use the N-word.
Speaker: um You reckon, like, eventually then, Māoris might be just doing their hua, please.
Speaker: That's hoary, isn't I think you've got something going there, bro. Fucking hua, please. Ah hua. Yeah.
Speaker: um who be What's ma'hua? That's not Can I get on some of that, ma'hua?
Speaker: Well,
Speaker: it used to be, it's a yeah, because it was ma'amori, eh? What's up, ma'amori? thermal more Yeah, that's that's got, yeah, it doesn't have the quite derogatory connotation that hua has.
Speaker: Well, who has got anything else you want to add to this potting machine?
Speaker: And there is our podcast title. Who please? Who will please?
Speaker: I knew find one eventually. Thank Well, just for Peter's sake, Peter's from Sri Lanka, pedophile, given an explanation of what a hua means.
Speaker: The ship being inside of a shellfish essentially is what a hua is.
Speaker: And was it ever used as a Yeah, because I remember, oh, your dirty hua. Your dirty hua, yeah. Would it be called that? I've been told stories that Nanny Mabel hated that, that Dad would call Kelly like a little hua and she would go off. Actually, yes, he did, yeah. There it is.
Speaker: There's the casual racism. Yeah.
Speaker: this
Speaker: Dad used to swear in Māori, to all of us, I think, actually, now that I think about it. Yeah, he did. Pōkōhū. Pōkōhū was the phrase, eh? Oh, boy, the aunties used to get rolled up when you'd hear them say that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Go boil your head in the pot. Yeah. Which I think is is probably the only slur in Māori, isn't it? That and Poko Tifa, I think, is the other one.
Speaker: What is it? Poko Tifa. Poko Tifa. Yeah, I was told that's like combining every single um English swear word into one.
Speaker: and then fucking blasting it like a big kamao male wave. Yeah, bro. Like spirit bombing, gathering all the curse words into one and just... boom Yeah, yeah, that's it, bro. Blasting it.
Speaker: Oh, there we go. So many splitters. We've definitely had ah in an education today.
Speaker: On lots of things And thank you for sending in those emails there Petafile and was it? Nesquik 6000 Chocolate Nesquik 6000 And um and thank you everyone for listening for this week ah We'll try and get on another one soon trying rip more of the Kuzzy's in but yeah thanks to George Roofless Deception and karakia Mitch for joining us and Kev from NSYNC love you Kuzzy love you my bro because you know that's what it is all about eh Kuzzy
