1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:13,133 Speaker 1: from news Talks at b OH. 3 00:00:13,293 --> 00:00:15,493 Speaker 2: Gay's not having it this morning. On the text, he says, 4 00:00:15,493 --> 00:00:19,173 Speaker 2: designed to share, designed to share. Anyone dare pinch my 5 00:00:19,293 --> 00:00:23,813 Speaker 2: chips gets their fingers cut right off. Jack, You're right, 6 00:00:23,933 --> 00:00:27,973 Speaker 2: fancy restaurants are a special experience, a rear treat in 7 00:00:27,973 --> 00:00:30,853 Speaker 2: our house. But like you, it's an experience. That's the thing. 8 00:00:30,893 --> 00:00:33,813 Speaker 2: You're not going for the meal, You're going for the experience. Yeah, 9 00:00:33,853 --> 00:00:38,773 Speaker 2: I mean, look, yeah, personally, I'm quite happy just having 10 00:00:38,813 --> 00:00:42,853 Speaker 2: the more relaxed, the more relaxed dining experience generally speaking. 11 00:00:43,053 --> 00:00:45,333 Speaker 2: But yeah, well once in a blue moon and like 12 00:00:45,653 --> 00:00:48,293 Speaker 2: every five years or something. Maybe, right, it's a very 13 00:00:48,373 --> 00:00:51,533 Speaker 2: very special treat. Two is our text number this morning. 14 00:00:51,613 --> 00:00:53,333 Speaker 2: Jacket newstalks hed be dot co dot and he said, 15 00:00:53,333 --> 00:00:55,373 Speaker 2: you know what I actually remember about leaving Madison Park 16 00:00:55,973 --> 00:00:59,613 Speaker 2: as well as the bladder obviously, because we did that. 17 00:00:59,653 --> 00:01:01,693 Speaker 2: I did that terrible mistake where we did a wine 18 00:01:01,773 --> 00:01:07,333 Speaker 2: match and I am not someone known for its great 19 00:01:07,773 --> 00:01:10,973 Speaker 2: drinking capacity at the best of times, not a big drinker, 20 00:01:11,013 --> 00:01:12,933 Speaker 2: and so we did the wine match and so by 21 00:01:12,973 --> 00:01:15,053 Speaker 2: the end of the night it was I was sort 22 00:01:15,053 --> 00:01:17,533 Speaker 2: of in a little bit of a sideway state, and 23 00:01:17,613 --> 00:01:19,733 Speaker 2: I remember going home in the taxi and the last 24 00:01:19,773 --> 00:01:21,653 Speaker 2: thing that did at the restaurant is they gave you 25 00:01:21,733 --> 00:01:24,813 Speaker 2: a jar of granola, so a jar of cereal to 26 00:01:24,893 --> 00:01:27,253 Speaker 2: take home with you, so that the next day, when 27 00:01:27,253 --> 00:01:28,693 Speaker 2: you woke up, you could go back and you could 28 00:01:28,693 --> 00:01:30,173 Speaker 2: look at the menu and think, oh, those are all 29 00:01:30,173 --> 00:01:32,173 Speaker 2: the things we had last night, and here's some cereal 30 00:01:32,253 --> 00:01:34,733 Speaker 2: to start the day. And as I made my way 31 00:01:34,773 --> 00:01:38,093 Speaker 2: home in the taxi, feeling a little bit wobbly, I 32 00:01:38,253 --> 00:01:44,413 Speaker 2: ate the granola. So there you go, most expensive dinner 33 00:01:44,453 --> 00:01:47,093 Speaker 2: of my life, and I left hungry. I'll get to 34 00:01:47,133 --> 00:01:49,453 Speaker 2: bore your feedback in a few minutes. Kevin Milner is 35 00:01:49,493 --> 00:01:51,573 Speaker 2: here with us this morning to kick the morning off together. 36 00:01:51,653 --> 00:01:55,493 Speaker 3: Get Kevin, get a jack funny story. Funny story. 37 00:01:55,653 --> 00:01:58,653 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a nice idea. 38 00:01:58,733 --> 00:02:00,933 Speaker 3: Actually, they give you a granola and you think about 39 00:02:00,933 --> 00:02:03,453 Speaker 3: the place again in the morning. Yeah, that's if you've 40 00:02:03,493 --> 00:02:04,293 Speaker 3: held out that long. 41 00:02:04,373 --> 00:02:06,653 Speaker 2: Well that's the thing, isn't it. It's only if you 42 00:02:06,693 --> 00:02:09,293 Speaker 2: hold out that long, And apparently I didn't on that occasion. 43 00:02:09,333 --> 00:02:12,213 Speaker 2: It was it was kind of beautifully It was, you know, 44 00:02:12,373 --> 00:02:16,093 Speaker 2: beautifully presented, like it was this lovely jar. Yeah, and 45 00:02:16,133 --> 00:02:17,813 Speaker 2: they you know, they had like a little ribbon tied 46 00:02:17,853 --> 00:02:19,453 Speaker 2: around it and everything, And I thought, this is going 47 00:02:19,493 --> 00:02:22,493 Speaker 2: to look great tomorrow morning if we can get there. Ah, 48 00:02:22,533 --> 00:02:24,933 Speaker 2: and we're not going to get there. I'm just a 49 00:02:24,973 --> 00:02:26,453 Speaker 2: little bit peckish. But never mind. 50 00:02:27,213 --> 00:02:31,013 Speaker 3: The only mitchellam place that I've eaten and was quite recently. 51 00:02:31,253 --> 00:02:34,493 Speaker 3: And then Hong Kong, right Cam's Roast Goose. 52 00:02:34,773 --> 00:02:37,293 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I saw there was one. 53 00:02:37,373 --> 00:02:43,813 Speaker 3: Yeah, the goose was fantastic, but the everything else was 54 00:02:43,893 --> 00:02:47,093 Speaker 3: so wrong because it had a Mitchell and stay yet 55 00:02:47,173 --> 00:02:50,413 Speaker 3: the queue ab outside before we get for at least 56 00:02:50,453 --> 00:02:54,213 Speaker 3: twenty forty minutes they said in the book an hour, 57 00:02:54,293 --> 00:02:57,253 Speaker 3: but we got in a bit longer than that. And 58 00:02:57,453 --> 00:03:01,933 Speaker 3: the service was really average. And you shared that you 59 00:03:02,093 --> 00:03:05,453 Speaker 3: shared tables with everybody else, which I don't like much. 60 00:03:08,253 --> 00:03:10,573 Speaker 3: If I were to say, what were the best meals 61 00:03:10,653 --> 00:03:13,653 Speaker 3: ever had they were actually around there? Do you remember 62 00:03:14,173 --> 00:03:18,013 Speaker 3: a guy at TV in there called Mike Valentine. Yeah, 63 00:03:18,093 --> 00:03:23,293 Speaker 3: well Mikey is a superb cook. And go round to 64 00:03:23,373 --> 00:03:27,453 Speaker 3: him and Caroline men Ye's place for a meal, and 65 00:03:27,493 --> 00:03:29,653 Speaker 3: you'll be still going out to any restaurant. 66 00:03:29,813 --> 00:03:32,613 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, that's it. Like I say, though, I mean fundamentally, 67 00:03:32,693 --> 00:03:35,133 Speaker 2: it is people who make the best experiences, the best 68 00:03:35,173 --> 00:03:38,213 Speaker 2: dining experiences, as far as I'm concerned. No matter how 69 00:03:38,253 --> 00:03:40,373 Speaker 2: good the food is, it is the people that make it. 70 00:03:41,253 --> 00:03:43,613 Speaker 2: But Kevin, anyway, this morning, you have been turning your 71 00:03:43,613 --> 00:03:46,413 Speaker 2: attention to the warming weather and to clothes lines. 72 00:03:47,813 --> 00:03:50,413 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's sort of. I don't know whether we're 73 00:03:50,413 --> 00:03:53,093 Speaker 3: getting into an early silly season, Jack, but it turns 74 00:03:53,133 --> 00:03:58,013 Speaker 3: out I'm a fan of clothes pegs. Last year I 75 00:03:58,093 --> 00:04:02,373 Speaker 3: got quite excited about these wonderfully colored plastic pegs called 76 00:04:02,453 --> 00:04:04,293 Speaker 3: mister Peg and the Peg family. 77 00:04:04,493 --> 00:04:07,173 Speaker 2: Do you know, I'm Jack, I don't give it. It's 78 00:04:07,213 --> 00:04:08,893 Speaker 2: not something I usually give a lot of attention to. 79 00:04:08,933 --> 00:04:09,573 Speaker 2: E him on us. 80 00:04:09,733 --> 00:04:13,533 Speaker 3: There's no need to be snobby about it, Jack. Their 81 00:04:13,573 --> 00:04:16,613 Speaker 3: pegs were smiling faces on them, right. I believe they 82 00:04:16,693 --> 00:04:19,573 Speaker 3: used to turn up at the bottom of laundry powder packets. 83 00:04:20,133 --> 00:04:23,213 Speaker 3: Sort of. Maybe they still do now you can buy 84 00:04:23,253 --> 00:04:29,133 Speaker 3: them online as it were. Anyway, we had one of 85 00:04:29,173 --> 00:04:31,973 Speaker 3: these pegs in our kitchen for years. If any of 86 00:04:31,973 --> 00:04:35,013 Speaker 3: the kids got grumpy, Linda would bring out mister Peg. 87 00:04:35,653 --> 00:04:38,493 Speaker 3: Her little lecture went along the lines of if mister 88 00:04:38,533 --> 00:04:42,253 Speaker 3: Peg can maintain a smile despite being an old peg 89 00:04:42,373 --> 00:04:45,853 Speaker 3: hung out to dry every day, then surely we all can. 90 00:04:46,733 --> 00:04:49,693 Speaker 3: And it worked. You couldn't look at mister PEG's smile 91 00:04:50,093 --> 00:04:53,493 Speaker 3: without your spirits lifting. But now I've found some other 92 00:04:53,573 --> 00:04:58,493 Speaker 3: pegs that make me smile. They're the original classic Kiwi 93 00:04:58,853 --> 00:05:04,613 Speaker 3: Sunshine spring pegs in bright yellow, one hundred recycled plastic, 94 00:05:04,893 --> 00:05:09,253 Speaker 3: made in Hamilton. This PEG's been around since nineteen sixty 95 00:05:09,333 --> 00:05:14,133 Speaker 3: three apparently, but it's been repackaged in an extremely cheerful, 96 00:05:14,173 --> 00:05:16,893 Speaker 3: bright yellow pack. And what I like about the new 97 00:05:17,013 --> 00:05:20,893 Speaker 3: pack is it says on top still made here in 98 00:05:21,253 --> 00:05:26,293 Speaker 3: n Z by a good bloke named Brian. In the 99 00:05:26,333 --> 00:05:29,693 Speaker 3: small print, it tells us Brian's been making his well 100 00:05:29,733 --> 00:05:32,973 Speaker 3: loved pegs since he was a teenager. He did his 101 00:05:33,053 --> 00:05:38,013 Speaker 3: apprenticeship manufacturing pegs back in the early nineteen eighties, and 102 00:05:38,093 --> 00:05:41,893 Speaker 3: over forty years later he's still making them. I rang 103 00:05:42,013 --> 00:05:43,773 Speaker 3: up and asked him if he is still doing it, 104 00:05:44,053 --> 00:05:47,133 Speaker 3: and they confirmed yes he is. Jack. I love a 105 00:05:47,213 --> 00:05:51,013 Speaker 3: product that brings a bit of humanity to its production. 106 00:05:52,893 --> 00:05:55,773 Speaker 3: I'm not here to sell pegs, but I say, on 107 00:05:55,973 --> 00:06:00,293 Speaker 3: your Brian good boy. Good on your sunshine for helping 108 00:06:00,373 --> 00:06:03,333 Speaker 3: us keep our laundry on the line, especially here in 109 00:06:04,373 --> 00:06:05,333 Speaker 3: windy old Wellington. 110 00:06:05,493 --> 00:06:08,413 Speaker 2: Yeah, so good, Kevin, so good. I want to I 111 00:06:08,413 --> 00:06:09,773 Speaker 2: want to. I'd love to know a bit more about 112 00:06:09,773 --> 00:06:12,373 Speaker 2: Brian's story. How you got into pigs in the first place. 113 00:06:13,533 --> 00:06:15,733 Speaker 2: Maybe just maybe you just saw a saw a you know, 114 00:06:15,813 --> 00:06:17,693 Speaker 2: I saw an opportunity in the market, Kevin. 115 00:06:19,293 --> 00:06:23,533 Speaker 3: Yeh, that's right. No, they're good. I mean they mister 116 00:06:23,573 --> 00:06:25,973 Speaker 3: Peg and Pig family. I ended up buying a whole 117 00:06:25,973 --> 00:06:28,693 Speaker 3: bunch to them, and they're one of the toys I 118 00:06:28,733 --> 00:06:32,573 Speaker 3: play with my grandchildren with because they come in two sizes. 119 00:06:32,693 --> 00:06:35,893 Speaker 3: There's mister and missus Beg they're large, and then the 120 00:06:35,933 --> 00:06:39,253 Speaker 3: Peg children they're half sized ones. Yeah right, they all 121 00:06:39,253 --> 00:06:41,893 Speaker 3: look the same, but they have all got smiles on 122 00:06:41,933 --> 00:06:45,093 Speaker 3: their faces and they're all lovely colors and a joy 123 00:06:45,213 --> 00:06:45,773 Speaker 3: to play with. 124 00:06:46,013 --> 00:06:52,013 Speaker 2: Ah. Very good. Well, you've opened my You've you've furthered 125 00:06:52,013 --> 00:06:54,653 Speaker 2: my horizons this morning, given in a way that I 126 00:06:54,693 --> 00:06:56,213 Speaker 2: wasn't anticipating necessarily. 127 00:06:57,813 --> 00:06:59,773 Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you keep your clothes on the line? 128 00:06:59,773 --> 00:07:00,973 Speaker 3: On that case? You must have? 129 00:07:01,733 --> 00:07:06,333 Speaker 2: This is okay, hang on, all steal yourself with Kevin, Yeah, 130 00:07:06,653 --> 00:07:08,693 Speaker 2: we don't hang clothes on the washing line. 131 00:07:09,813 --> 00:07:13,533 Speaker 3: Oh no, for goodness sake, you don't find you don't 132 00:07:13,573 --> 00:07:16,893 Speaker 3: find the practice. 133 00:07:16,653 --> 00:07:18,933 Speaker 2: We have we have. I've got a clothes horse. I 134 00:07:19,013 --> 00:07:22,053 Speaker 2: use the clothes horse. And and we've got and I've 135 00:07:22,053 --> 00:07:27,173 Speaker 2: got a dryer. Yes, because my wife says that if 136 00:07:27,173 --> 00:07:29,493 Speaker 2: we hang the towels on the on the washing line, 137 00:07:29,613 --> 00:07:32,813 Speaker 2: that they get all crunchy, and she doesn't like crunchy towels. 138 00:07:32,933 --> 00:07:33,133 Speaker 3: You know. 139 00:07:33,253 --> 00:07:35,893 Speaker 2: Okay, it's not as obviously not good for your clothes 140 00:07:35,973 --> 00:07:37,693 Speaker 2: or for the environmental for anyone. Really, I've got a 141 00:07:37,773 --> 00:07:40,293 Speaker 2: very efficient dryer, but we still use the dryer. 142 00:07:40,453 --> 00:07:44,213 Speaker 3: So I reckon. I reckon a good old clothes line, 143 00:07:44,293 --> 00:07:47,653 Speaker 3: particularly a rotary clothes line, says the world. There are 144 00:07:47,733 --> 00:07:48,853 Speaker 3: people living in here. 145 00:07:50,013 --> 00:07:53,133 Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. That's absolutely true. No I do. 146 00:07:53,293 --> 00:07:55,413 Speaker 2: I I agree with you. Is it a key we thing, 147 00:07:55,493 --> 00:07:56,493 Speaker 2: the rotary clothes line? 148 00:07:56,533 --> 00:07:57,813 Speaker 3: Yeah, well it might be probably. 149 00:07:57,973 --> 00:07:59,493 Speaker 2: I feel like that feels like the sort of thing 150 00:07:59,533 --> 00:08:02,133 Speaker 2: is going to be a New Zealand invention. Anyway, Kevin, 151 00:08:02,173 --> 00:08:04,133 Speaker 2: we will let you go and enjoy the weekend. Thank 152 00:08:04,133 --> 00:08:06,253 Speaker 2: you so much. That's that's so good. Here you go, 153 00:08:06,773 --> 00:08:09,493 Speaker 2: Gilly's messages us to say, Jack Kevin, they are the 154 00:08:09,533 --> 00:08:11,773 Speaker 2: only clothes pegs I've ever bought. I'm just sad that 155 00:08:11,813 --> 00:08:14,693 Speaker 2: you can't get the colded ones anymore. Brilliant Sunshine Pigs 156 00:08:14,773 --> 00:08:17,853 Speaker 2: is Gilly, So there you go. Josh reckons that vogals 157 00:08:17,853 --> 00:08:20,853 Speaker 2: peanut butter granola clusters deserve a couple of Michelin Stars, 158 00:08:21,533 --> 00:08:24,053 Speaker 2: and someone on the text is Jack. When it comes 159 00:08:24,053 --> 00:08:26,813 Speaker 2: to Michelin Star restaurants, it's important to get the balance right. 160 00:08:26,893 --> 00:08:30,213 Speaker 2: We went to one in Santiago as a special birthday treat. 161 00:08:30,613 --> 00:08:33,253 Speaker 2: It was all theater and honestly, some of the food 162 00:08:33,373 --> 00:08:36,693 Speaker 2: was awful, but like Emperor's New Clothes, everyone was just 163 00:08:36,733 --> 00:08:39,893 Speaker 2: saying loudly how wonderful it was. It was a memorable 164 00:08:40,013 --> 00:08:41,893 Speaker 2: night and we still laugh about it. 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