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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at B.

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Speaker 2: And now Man in the Garden this Easter weekend. As

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Speaker 2: Rude climb pass. Good morning, Serve, A very good morning

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Speaker 2: to you. Jack. We always think of you as our

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Speaker 2: cultured European, so no doubt you're here talking es cargo

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Speaker 2: this morning. Yes, the Frenchman year, it's a dirego. Well no,

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Speaker 2: actually I started I started reading some of this literature,

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Speaker 2: you know, on all sorts of bits and pieces. And

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Speaker 2: when I read that we had fourteen hundred different species

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Speaker 2: of snails in o tro Yet, fourteen hundred different types,

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Speaker 2: that's amazing, amazing. Yeah, it's unbelievable. And and you know

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Speaker 2: they go, they're doing all sorts of stuff. They're going

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Speaker 2: to forests into liquid habitats and all that sort of

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Speaker 2: nonzes and three trunks and in your because they can

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Speaker 2: do quite a bit of damage. Actually yeah, but first

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Speaker 2: of all, let me talk about it. The native snails. First,

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Speaker 2: they are really not a big deal. They consume dead

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Speaker 2: and decaying leaves and all that sort of fungy and algae,

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Speaker 2: so they're not really yet worried about everything else. So

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Speaker 2: I thought let's talk about some of these fourteen hundred

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Speaker 2: species that I think are really cool. And the first

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Speaker 2: one is the leaf veined slug because it looks like

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Speaker 2: it has the veins of a leaf on the back.

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Speaker 2: You can see it quite.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you've sent us to a photo. It does

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Speaker 1: look a bit like that.

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Speaker 2: It's really nice and they go really quick, by the way.

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Speaker 2: But the best thing they do is they go outside

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Speaker 2: on your outdoor furniture and things like that and they

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Speaker 2: clean the surfaces.

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Speaker 1: Because they eat all of the algae and that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff that gathers all that kind of musty stuff

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Speaker 1: on the furniture, right.

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Speaker 2: You got it, And they leave trails. That's why I

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Speaker 2: always call them the wet and forget slug because it

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Speaker 2: looks like that. That's exactly what they do. It's really cool.

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Speaker 2: So you find them a lot if you go out

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Speaker 2: of site with a little torch of course. Yeah. So

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Speaker 2: that was number one. Number two Perry Fanta, which is

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Speaker 2: big bugger. That's the coldie snail, the largest one we've got,

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Speaker 2: about eighty millimeters diameter. It occurs all the way from

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Speaker 2: Kaitaia down to north of Auckland. But then again I

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Speaker 2: remember that. When I lived in Titirangi or in Langholm rather,

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Speaker 2: I used to have them literally in my garden right

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Speaker 2: and every evening or afternoon when I do the mowing

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Speaker 2: of the lawn, I had to take them away from

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Speaker 2: the lawn otherwise they would die. The poor things. There,

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Speaker 2: really beautiful things. But here comes the nicest thing. They

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Speaker 2: eat worms, and they do that by having their body

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Speaker 2: going over the soil, if you like, and if they

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Speaker 2: find a hole with the worm and they go and

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Speaker 2: they suck the whole worm up as if it costs nothing.

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Speaker 2: It is really amazed through the hole like spaghetti. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: do you know how you get once there? You go? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: that's a great there's limits. You can see that at

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Speaker 2: night when you've got them in Northland. Just just have

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Speaker 2: a look at it. It is fabulous. That is That

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Speaker 2: is my second wonderful one. Then the third one I've

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Speaker 2: got jack is Limax maximus, which literally means the largest slug.

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Speaker 2: I don't I think it's an introduced one, but it's

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Speaker 2: a really nice one. But here comes here comes the thing.

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Speaker 2: When you've got cats, for instance, these things go under

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Speaker 2: the door and they find the milk and then they

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Speaker 2: go and it wakes up everybody, including neighbors. It's brill

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Speaker 2: you the slurp stuff up. It's wonderful, it's good, amazing.

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Speaker 2: Is the last one is the one? The last one

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Speaker 2: is the one you already alluded to. This the one

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Speaker 2: that is about having escago. It's Contarius aspersus. It's the

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Speaker 2: brown garden snail. Originally it came from Africa. The French

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Speaker 2: put it into France. They decided that is good eating,

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Speaker 2: and that is now in France one of the two

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Speaker 2: major ones that they eat esc I go, So what

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Speaker 2: do we have to do without the people in New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: get them, cook them and use them as escago. We

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Speaker 2: instead of poisoning them and doing all this stupid stuff,

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Speaker 2: why don't we start a real esc igo team here

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: I love it. I'm into it. I mean we might

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Speaker 1: have to ramp up production.

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Speaker 2: The problem with your risk cargo is you need you need.

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Speaker 1: To fear them out to have a full meal, don't you.

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Speaker 1: But no, I'm into it. Road.

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Speaker 2: I think that could It could be a dragon's den

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Speaker 2: million dollar idea.

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