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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at me.

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Speaker 2: Right now, it's nine minutes to live and our men

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Speaker 2: in the garden is rude line pass Yoda.

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Speaker 3: Hey cre Jack. Are you all well?

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Speaker 2: I'm very very well, thank you. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 3: I'm good.

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Speaker 4: I've just come back out of the Marlborough Sounds where

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Speaker 4: I was working on school and also stayed in the

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Speaker 4: middle of nowhere with our Wi Fi, which was just

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Speaker 4: wonderful nice.

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Speaker 2: How was that excellent?

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Speaker 3: And you know what I did with the kids?

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Speaker 2: You went outside? This is the gifts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one guess.

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Speaker 4: And the second thing is I got some seeds of missletoe.

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Speaker 3: We oh okay, And I taught them how to put

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Speaker 3: the mistletoe seeds on the trees.

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Speaker 2: Oh very good. You think when you put the seeds

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Speaker 2: on the trees.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well you know mistletoe, don't you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, that's that is really important if you want

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Speaker 3: to be kissed at Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Do you know that too? Did you have it?

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that, but you need my parents. My

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Speaker 2: parents have got a couple of mistletoe cuttings, and so

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Speaker 2: they got mistletoe cutting. So they can. They can pull

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Speaker 2: them out on the twenty fifth of December every year.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but they're not real missiletoe cuttings. They've probably

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Speaker 3: been dead, I suppose, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the point.

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Speaker 3: But no, But the point is we.

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Speaker 2: Sorry that they've got like a pot plant of mistletoe

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Speaker 2: that they grew from a cutting. So it's still gone work.

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Speaker 2: Well I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Nor do I because I thought then they're no, they

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Speaker 3: need to grow on other trees.

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Speaker 2: Oh dear, I've got that, I think. Okay, I'll kick

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Speaker 2: some mom now, find out what the dealers's all about it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, okay.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, last week or a week or so ago, I

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Speaker 3: got a wonderful kid's book. I'll talk about that later

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Speaker 3: actually in springtime from Rachel Weston, which is a book

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Speaker 3: about native bees in just a little Native bees. We

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Speaker 3: you know, and I've really never really properly dealt with

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Speaker 3: it with you because they're so important. But that was

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Speaker 3: not the point.

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Speaker 2: I'll do that later anyway.

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Speaker 3: But yes, on page twenty one, page twenty of the book,

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Speaker 3: which was called Kiwi Bees have Tiny Knees. I like

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Speaker 3: that anyway, there was a pace only on there there

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Speaker 3: was this thing that grabbed my attention, and it was

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Speaker 3: about basically missiletoe. How bees, those little bees pollinate mistletoe.

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Speaker 3: Now I did not know that. I thought it was

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Speaker 3: birds like Belbert's and Dewey who did that, right, So

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Speaker 3: I started That became last week a complete missiletoe week

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Speaker 3: for me because I learned everything of us to know

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Speaker 3: about mistletoe. We've got eight species, the ninth one is

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Speaker 3: now extinct, and they're not doing too well, et cetera,

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Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. And because they're parasitic, we need

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Speaker 3: to get seeds onto their host plants. Now, first of

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Speaker 3: all the plants that I've got around here, I needed

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Speaker 3: to know what their host plants were. But he comes

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Speaker 3: to thing these things. I have seeds that have got

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Speaker 3: really sticky fruit, if you like, around the seed. And

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Speaker 3: so when a bird wants to eat the seed, like

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Speaker 3: a bell bird or a toy they eat, they try

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Speaker 3: to get that seed out of the fruit, but because

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Speaker 3: it's so sticky, the seed sticks to their beak and

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Speaker 3: what they then do is they wipe their beak on

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Speaker 3: the plant. Right, Some birds actually eat the seeds and

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Speaker 3: they get a really sticky poop and they have to

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Speaker 3: wipe their bum with the seed. You tell kids there

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Speaker 3: that they go.

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Speaker 2: Like, no, yes, that's how.

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Speaker 3: It works, So here you go. So the seeds then

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Speaker 3: get stuck by the bird on the plant, and in

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Speaker 3: the next year that seed slows. It's making little roots

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Speaker 3: that go into the host plant and that literally let

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Speaker 3: them grow on that plant. It's actually pair of without

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Speaker 3: really damaging the plants. Now, possums love missile toes, mistletoes

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Speaker 3: seriously in trouble. Some species are not very common at all,

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Speaker 3: So it would be really nice to actually get this

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Speaker 3: missiletoe back in our various habitats in New Zealand, of course,

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Speaker 3: which is our to put the school. And that was

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Speaker 3: exactly what the whole thing was about. These kids learned

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Speaker 3: to use that very slippery so that's very sticky sort

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Speaker 3: of stuff. They learned where to put it on the

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Speaker 3: tree in the little nooks where the branches come off

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Speaker 3: the main trunk, and then make sure that it's all

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Speaker 3: stuck there, and then a little tie around it with

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Speaker 3: a little piece of wool so that they can always

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Speaker 3: find which brands that they put the missilete on. Years later,

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Speaker 3: when they're still at school, they have their own missile

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Speaker 3: toes in their own trees, and I think that this

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Speaker 3: such a cool thing.

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Speaker 2: To do with Yeah. Yeah, that's amazing. It really is. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's incredible. Okay, well look I'm going to text mom.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to text Mom and say, just just send

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Speaker 2: us a photo of your missiletoe so I can see

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Speaker 2: what it's living off. At the moment, I hadn't hadn't realized.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 2: You learned something every Saturday Morning on the show. Have

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Speaker 2: not realized that it's so thank you very much, Ruthe.

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