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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp

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Speaker 1: from News Talk SEDB.

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Speaker 2: Right over a little bit early, but let's jump into

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Speaker 2: the garden because things are starting to happen in the garden.

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Speaker 2: I've noticed new growth. I've certainly noticed the weeds have

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Speaker 2: have come away with a gusto and it's starting to

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Speaker 2: happen out there.

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Speaker 3: Good, good morning, Good morning, Peter. Yes, it is not

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Speaker 3: going to happen, can you hear me?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, OK, Yes, it is starting to happen. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: What's what's going on these last couple of days or

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Speaker 3: actually last weeks. It's in Auckland, as you know, but

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Speaker 3: also here in Grossier has gone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah we are Yeah, Hey, so you're back home.

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Speaker 3: I'm back home after three weeks on the road basically.

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Speaker 2: Reichy and working with the teachers. How's that going?

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Speaker 3: That was fabulous. We had two groups about thirty teachers

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Speaker 3: and they've been you know, basically we've been doing all

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Speaker 3: sorts of stuff. They learned everything about the environment, about

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Speaker 3: creepy crawlies, about birds, about whatever. And they loved it

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Speaker 3: and so did I. Fantastic Blake Inspire. It's called for

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Speaker 3: next year teachers, if you're thinking about it, Blake inspire.

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Speaker 3: That's it for teachers, Sir, Peter Blake.

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Speaker 2: Trust great, And you know, hats off to the teachers

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Speaker 2: that kind of give up their holidays for this professional development. Yes,

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Speaker 2: they could be sweaning about at home, but I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying that they are before I get a thousand texts

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Speaker 2: saying no, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You just don't you know, No, they don't swine a tom.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 2: It could be at home, or you could be out

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Speaker 2: increasing your ecological literacy, which is awesome.

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Speaker 3: That's it. Yeah, that's exactly right. So we went it

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Speaker 3: tough for Annui, for instance, where we saw of settlebacks

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Speaker 3: and all these other rare things, just just unbelievable stuff.

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Speaker 3: But also we did stuff in terms of water quality.

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Speaker 3: You know, how do you get your water back in order?

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Speaker 3: How do you how do you measure that? Et cetera,

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Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. No, it's fabulous, awesome, they're great.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, No, it sounds awesome, all right, And Blake inspires.

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Speaker 2: So it's what do you do as a teacher?

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Speaker 4: Apply?

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Speaker 3: And yeah, of course you nothing, okay, all you need

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Speaker 3: all you need to literally pay for is if you

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Speaker 3: need to fly to Auckland Sea. Sure, that's all of this.

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Speaker 3: The rest is all done. Are you staying in a

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Speaker 3: which actually they don't know, but that's making no difference

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Speaker 3: at all because they basically work till ten eleven.

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Speaker 2: And at six they're too tired to enjoy it. That's fair, inxastic, fantastic. Right,

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Speaker 2: let's get a boxstat folks, if you've got a question

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Speaker 2: for it, you should call right now. Oh eight hundred

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Speaker 2: My daughter has two small magnolia trees approximately one and

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Speaker 2: a half meters high that are struggling. They have a

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Speaker 2: covered in lichen. Could you please advise what she could

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Speaker 2: give them to boost and does she need to remove

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Speaker 2: the lichen from Jodi and.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't get rid of the lichen because they often

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Speaker 3: have like and anyway, that's Magnolias is quite a good

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Speaker 3: plant that attracts that and it's really not that bad.

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Speaker 3: But what you need is balanced fertilizer, a good slow

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Speaker 3: release fertilizer. If you like, and sometimes I think it

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Speaker 3: would pay to give you asset loving plants fertilizers stuff

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Speaker 3: did you get for azaleas and camelias and things like

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Speaker 3: will do well. That's what it's about, I must say.

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Speaker 3: Julie asked me the same question about a magnolia. So

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Speaker 3: we're actually working on the same gig at home at

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Speaker 3: a moment, and Jill's was Jill's hates that the like

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Speaker 3: it because it goes I like, it's the like, it's

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Speaker 3: Don't worry about the like.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, now talking about lichen but not on a

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Speaker 2: natural surface. What can I use to get rid of?

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm, it is. It is a nature type question actually,

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Speaker 3: And i'd like to say if I hope dan Venash

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Speaker 3: out of no doubt, and I've got fabulous photos of it.

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Speaker 3: So okay. So what Lichan does, Yes, it's actually not

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Speaker 3: three things. It's usually fungy. The fungi are the materials

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Speaker 3: that you see coming up, but is actually the heart stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's not hot, but I mean it's the physical stuff. Yes, fungy,

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Speaker 3: And there is algae. Algae is the green stuff of

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Speaker 3: the gray green stuff that grows on the fungus. Now

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Speaker 3: here comes the thing Peter. The fungie can make if

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Speaker 3: like that. But the green stuff, the algae, is the

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Speaker 3: material that can do photosynthesis. It actually it actually takes

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Speaker 3: bit of the water from from from the wherever it lives.

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Speaker 3: And it could be on a plant. It could be

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Speaker 3: on a plant, it could be on a tree, It

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Speaker 3: could be on as you just hurt on magnolia. But

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Speaker 3: it could also be on glass, the glass of your car,

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Speaker 3: for instance. And here comes the thing that the algae,

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Speaker 3: of course, cannot keep more. That's how they collaborate with

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Speaker 3: other one does that it keeps the moisture, and together

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Speaker 3: they work and become a lichen. By the way, lichens

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Speaker 3: are six hundred million years old. They were on the

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Speaker 3: the land. Lichen was already there. Isn't that amazing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is incredible. So again I'm thinking, you know,

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Just well no, And also just you know, I got

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Speaker 2: it's it's several things working together together.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Wow, Wet and forget. That was why Rod

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Speaker 3: Jenden invented wet and forget, for your roof, for your windows,

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Speaker 3: and for everything else where. Your likens. Now, it's not

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Speaker 3: so that is a brilliant place the thing to spray

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't put it directly over plants, because you need

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Speaker 3: when forget wood, for instance, take mosses and lichens out

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Speaker 3: do it half speed, half half half strength.

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Speaker 2: Okay, awesome, awesome, that's brilliant, right right.

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Speaker 3: One more, one more likening, and one more like it.

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Speaker 3: This is bloody brilliant. I'm like, I'm liking the liking

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Speaker 3: There's on the on ashfeltast. It's funny, yes, okay. And

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Speaker 3: and and that is called sexy pavement lichen.

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Speaker 2: That's its official scientific term.

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Speaker 3: but everybody knows it as sexy pavement.

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Speaker 3: And here comes the thing. The Chinese have worked out

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Speaker 3: the same material that is the active ingredient of viagra.

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Speaker 3: Are you getting it?

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Speaker 2: I was waiting for that. Somehow I figured that this

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Speaker 2: is the path we were on.

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Speaker 3: That's the party. Party. Here comes the thing. If you

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Speaker 3: you also scrape off a lot of other stuff that

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Speaker 3: you don't. So please love the joke, love the idea,

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Speaker 3: love the name and or the but don't, for crying

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Speaker 3: out loud, swallow it because it must be so much.

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Speaker 2: Right, there will be a whole lot of unintended consequences,

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Speaker 2: right he Oh, you can give us a call right now. Oh,

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Speaker 2: eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.

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Speaker 2: A couple of other texts recommendations for fast growing trees

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Speaker 2: to give some privacy from the new apartments next door

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Speaker 2: to us. This is a Auckland story, of course.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine because it's yeah, okay, wet feet though, yes,

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Speaker 2: So we've done the lik and we've done that, We've

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Speaker 2: done the magnolia trees. Ah, good morning. I bought a

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Speaker 2: south Otaga kraky That's a huge question.

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Speaker 3: Mmm south Okay, No, No, that's okay, go to go

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Speaker 3: and have a look at some of the places arounderneath.

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Speaker 3: And because they have apart from the fact that Benen Peninsula,

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Speaker 3: also do it in the areas where you are living.

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Speaker 3: Go for a walk and you find things that people

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Speaker 3: have in their garden. You might not know what it is.

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Speaker 3: All you need to do is knock on the door

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Speaker 3: and say hello, we love your plants, can you can

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Speaker 2: Cutting Yeah, perfect, perfect, excellent. Right, I will take a

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Speaker 2: short break. If you've got a question for it, you

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Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, excellent, right now talking about things inside that

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Speaker 6: Morning, to be good Hi Gay, Yes, Hi, route I am.

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Speaker 6: For the last two years, I've nearly gone crazy. I

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Speaker 6: Nobody else seems to be getting them like I do.

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Speaker 3: Oh still where First of all, whereabouts do you live?

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Speaker 3: Right? Do you have your windows open?

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Speaker 3: Can you tell? Can you have you well, it's hard

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Speaker 6: There's the ordinary little house flies. But then it's kind

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Speaker 6: The trouble is, I'm pretty protected everywhere, because you know

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Speaker 2: But can I ask a rather delicate question which comes

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Speaker 6: I don't think so, because my dogs don't crap in

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Speaker 6: Side, Okay, I will do that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that might be the one that stops them from

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Speaker 2: Let's really know how you get on. Thank you, gay,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. There are some of those wonderful Borx

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Speaker 2: Fantastic, right, you know, we'll take short break. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: up nine minutes away from nine o'clock. Michael, Good morning, Yes, Hello,

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Speaker 2: How I am Michael?

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Speaker 4: Pretty good?

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Speaker 7: Pretty good?

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Speaker 3: Am I am? I.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you're the only one having trouble with that.

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Speaker 2: We might see whether we can get a bit of line.

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Speaker 2: Do we actually have two mites in New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got a couple of species. We've got native

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Speaker 2: Because you know, just in terms of building, I know,

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Speaker 3: Yes there is, ah, yes there is. We have calor

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Speaker 3: turmish brunei, which is the drywood termite here, the native one,

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Speaker 7: Our sun boord us some forward a couple of years

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Speaker 7: a firewood stump. I wonder what we can do.

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Speaker 3: Do you see that these termites have wings at times

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Speaker 7: I hadn't noticed that, but apparently yeah.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you looked at it obviously, okay, because that's the

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Speaker 3: And they and as I said, they go to dead wood.

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Speaker 3: All right. The best thing to do in this case

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Speaker 3: to a place called safe works. One word safe works

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Speaker 3: with an X at the end. Safe works. Okay, And

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Speaker 3: they have fabulous, fabulous material that you can spray on

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Speaker 7: Their duty, and we'll let the trunk sort of thing.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely lovely, Michael, No, they better not the good one boy,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. Someone on the West Coast same issues

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Speaker 2: even though through the winter every cell in the house

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Speaker 2: for figuring this out.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, and you have to remember we have we

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Speaker 3: have clusterflies, especially in the South Island. Clusterflies are yeah,

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Speaker 3: about the size of of of house flies, a bit bigger,

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Speaker 3: I suppose, but they got wonderful golden hairs on their back.

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Speaker 3: And these guys are at the moment going or are

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Speaker 3: normally going into houses, into houses where it's nice and dry, quiet,

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Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And when you try

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Speaker 3: to remove them, you may basically squashed them a bit.

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Speaker 3: And that is that stinks and it leaves in nasty

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Speaker 3: and you can have the guy, your your painting guy

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Speaker 3: up to tell them how to get rid of it,

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Speaker 3: because it's awful, awful?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, really quick one from you, Tony. How are

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Speaker 2: you sir?

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Speaker 4: Good morning? How are you? We've got a row of

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Speaker 4: to the sporums that are it's best, simply part meters long,

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Speaker 4: and they block out the neighbor about three meters by,

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Speaker 4: and quite a number of them are turning woody, and

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Speaker 4: the trunks are turning back and you can see starting

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Speaker 4: to see through them now and with a sort of

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Speaker 4: loss growing on them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, are they still alive though? Are they? Tony? Can

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Speaker 3: you hear me?

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Speaker 4: Hello?

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Speaker 2: Tony?

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Speaker 4: Sorry?

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Speaker 3: Are you are you still there? Can you? Can you

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Speaker 3: hear me?

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Speaker 4: Yes? I can? Sorry?

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Speaker 3: Okay, good good, that's all right, Yeah, I can hear

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Speaker 3: you know, listen, so you say can you can you?

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Speaker 3: You say it's black? Is there something?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I think I've gone black on you know,

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Speaker 4: four or five of them and you can speak through

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Speaker 4: them now, and they're losing their leaves and.

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Speaker 3: There seems to be there seems to be something wrong

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Speaker 3: with them. If they're turning black. They might be apherts

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Speaker 3: and mealy bugs and all these sort of things that

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Speaker 3: suck the juices out of the plant and basically drop

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Speaker 3: the honeyjew onto the foliage and onto the plant below,

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Speaker 3: onto the branches below, and that that becomes black sooty mold.

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Speaker 3: In the end, that in itself means that you need

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Speaker 3: to control the little insects that are actually making a

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Speaker 3: mess of your plant on the leaves. Okay, So there

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Speaker 3: could be all sorts of things that would put them

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Speaker 3: back into health. So that is an important way to go,

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Speaker 3: all right, Yes, okay, some insect sight will do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And I found that Pato's after you know, twenty

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Speaker 2: five thirty years, they're pretty much into life kind of yes, okay,

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Speaker 2: so that might be a factor as well.

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Speaker 3: That could be another one. Yeah, especially if they're three

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Speaker 3: meters tall and they've already been going for decades.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're probably right, Yeah, because I've got a couple

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Speaker 2: of those on another place, and yeah, they're just starting

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Speaker 2: to look a bit old and scraggly and one day

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Speaker 2: they'll be firewood.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know if I would.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hey mate, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: I have a great week.

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Speaker 2: Take care you too, buddy. Thank you, and we'll be

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Speaker 2: back with you again next Sunday here at News Talks.

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Speaker 2: He'd be have a great week. Enjoy the longer days,

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Speaker 2: Let's hope we can get outside and get some things done.

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Speaker 2: Take care, have an awesome week.

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