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Speaker 1: Hi Walie morning, Luke. How are you well?

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Speaker 2: This time last week we were you were sparing a

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Speaker 2: thought for us in the face of this red wind warning,

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Speaker 2: and if listeners aren't already aware, you're based down in

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Speaker 2: southbound so here we are sparing a thought for you.

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Speaker 2: Have you got the power back on yet?

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, Ruia Street was pretty lucky. We actually did

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Speaker 1: not lose the power at all. But there are still

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Speaker 1: I think about four or five thousand homes around the

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Speaker 1: district that haven't got pad. There's no parrot out at

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Speaker 1: the farm yet, and like this, it's just the destruction

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Speaker 1: and devastation was huge. I mean we've been farming over

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Speaker 1: one hundred years out there. Our pioneer settlers came to

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Speaker 1: the Churchy district when they came to New Zealand, and

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Speaker 1: Roy's great grandfather came down board our farm in ninety

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Speaker 1: oh nine, so you know, some of those trees would

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Speaker 1: have been planted over one hundred years ago and they

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Speaker 1: just toppled over like coming. It was just, Ah, the

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Speaker 1: devastation is unbelievable. And yes, have had no power out

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Speaker 1: there for a week now, so they'll be learning what

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Speaker 1: it's like to be pioneers.

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Speaker 2: What sort of clean up mission is that because the

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Speaker 2: casual towning lot myself since the going oh a few

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Speaker 2: trees have fallen over that that's no drama, that's just fire.

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Speaker 2: Would for the next season, isn't that?

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Speaker 1: Well, no, it's not just fire. I mean you could

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Speaker 1: say every cloud is a silver line, but no, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be that much fire that we had

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Speaker 1: gloves on fire. Would Like I think I sent you

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Speaker 1: some photos. Some of the trees are so big, like

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Speaker 1: to manhandle them. I mean, Todd has a digger out

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Speaker 1: there and they've got a bulldozer and things, but they've

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Speaker 1: had to get in some heavy artillery to shift the

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Speaker 1: stuff around. And that's another cost. And you know, like

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just there's no insurance on that sort

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Speaker 1: of thing, or it's just and some farmers have, you know,

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Speaker 1: had to clear tracks to get to their house or

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Speaker 1: their sheds or whatever. It's just yeah, it's been horrific. Really,

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Speaker 1: I just yeah, I can't explain it. Having trouble for

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Speaker 1: finding the words to explain it.

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Speaker 2: Jeez. Well, maybe a bit of light escape something else there.

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Speaker 2: So I spotted on your social media earlier in the week,

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Speaker 2: You've got a rubber bend conundrum. What's going on here?

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Speaker 1: Well, the southand Times comes with somebody, and I hope

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Speaker 1: they get more than a grain of salt, for it

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Speaker 1: wraps up our thousand times. It goes in a plastic bag,

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Speaker 1: it's sealed, and then it gets rolled up in a

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Speaker 1: rubber band, gets put round it. I have no idea

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Speaker 1: who's doing that, but they do a great job, and

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Speaker 1: so I can't throw things away on a tidy hoarder.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I have now helped cost a hole. But

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Speaker 1: if there was a good result for that, I've had

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Speaker 1: two or three people message me saying, definitely keep your

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Speaker 1: rubber bands for me. So now I'm on the lookout

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Speaker 1: for more.

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Speaker 2: Oh, so you've found a home for your How out

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Speaker 2: of control was the rubber band's collection getting, Well.

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Speaker 1: It was getting way out of control. I've got a

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Speaker 1: week picture half of baseball and that was only the

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Speaker 1: small that was the tip of the iceberg. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I've got bags of them, bags of them.

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Speaker 2: I might need to see some of that across our page.

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Speaker 2: I geez, what what newspaper even comes rolled up for

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Speaker 2: us here in mckennery these days? Maybe the Press, certainly

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Speaker 2: not the Guardian.

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Speaker 1: Our courier, our OGT has glad red ros.

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Speaker 2: Oh. Yes, yeah, that.

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Speaker 1: Can be quite frustrating for people who are blind and

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Speaker 1: can't find the end of it. But we do manage

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Speaker 1: to get through that every morning. But you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a little Southland Times is rolled up neatly and placed

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Speaker 1: it with a rubber man.

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Speaker 2: I hope it's some young kid after school, one of

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Speaker 2: those glory jobs and not some machine. Yeah. I can

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Speaker 2: understand you're not bringing yourself to get rid of them.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit like old batteries and that drawer of

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Speaker 2: stuff in the kitchen. You've worked hard to build that collection.

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Speaker 1: For most deft at least, so no, but anyway, I

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Speaker 1: just yes, I had have a good result with that.

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Speaker 1: I do use a few myself to tie down my deafidels.

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Speaker 1: People used to put knots in them that I'm not that,

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Speaker 1: so I do use a few of them for that.

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Speaker 1: But we'll get rid of a few more. And and

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Speaker 1: I hear you're eating chilli on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Are you going to feel the heat at the AMP show?

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Speaker 1: Oh? I don't know who you used to be putting

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Speaker 1: your hand up for that, mate, that's not going to

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Speaker 1: be like normal spicy food that'll be hot.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing a lot of that reaction, but I'm quietly

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Speaker 2: confident given some of the trials that we had this week,

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Speaker 2: and it's a lot different to the sharing last year.

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Speaker 2: I knew, even though I'm from a sheep background, I

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Speaker 2: knew it was going to be hapless with the sharing.

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Speaker 2: But I don't mind spicy food. So you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: feeling okay to this confidence that could well be misplaced

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Speaker 2: when the competition starts.

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Speaker 1: Where have you been having the trial? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Here in the studio. We've been trying some of this

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Speaker 2: lethal stuff that Jay gave me.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but they'll have a surprise for you on

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Speaker 1: the day, mate. We've been guarantee that