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Speaker 2: A great story in the Herald about humongous fungus or

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Speaker 2: fun guy. So a woman in the Bay of Plenty,

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Speaker 2: her name is Julie Gallagher. She stumbled across two a

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Speaker 2: massive mushrooms measuring thirty centimeters plus across the cap on

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Speaker 2: a neighbor's Kiwi fruit block and Julie is on the

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Speaker 2: phone right now and joins us, Julie, very very good

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Speaker 2: afternoon to you.

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Speaker 3: Afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Hi, well, congratulations on the fine I think that's the

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Speaker 2: right way to say it. Where it was clearly that's

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Speaker 2: the biggest mushroom that you've ever ever found.

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Speaker 3: Ever seen?

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Speaker 4: Yes, is it find as keepers when it comes to

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Speaker 4: a mushroom, because you found it, is it yours?

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess so I just couldn't leave it there.

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Speaker 3: It was already over mature, so I have heard. So

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Speaker 3: it just needed to be picked and it needed to

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Speaker 3: be shown because it's just so unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: So just to give a sort of a visual, you know,

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Speaker 4: and so people can sort of get their head around

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Speaker 4: at what what kind of object? Would you say? It's

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Speaker 4: the size of.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, well it's bigger than a dinner plate.

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Speaker 4: Bigger than a bigger than a dinner.

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Speaker 3: I can't think a small trampoline.

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Speaker 4: Maybe bigger than a dinner plate, and about the size

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Speaker 4: of a small trampoline.

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Speaker 2: It is a big mushroom inside.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, what you're saying, so that the stem is

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Speaker 4: the dinner plate, and then the wider bit, the umbrella bit,

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Speaker 4: for the want of a better term, is the size

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Speaker 4: of a small trampoline.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're probably more a small umbrella. Now you mentioned

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Speaker 3: an umbrella, Okay, yea, as I say, thirty centimeters across

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Speaker 3: in one point two kilogram. So it was quite a

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Speaker 3: mission to carry the both of them home, I bet

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Speaker 3: it was.

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Speaker 2: And were they side by side or were they in

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Speaker 2: different parts of your neighbor's property?

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Speaker 3: No, side by side, and the smaller one had another

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Speaker 3: smaller one starting to grow from the stem, so it

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Speaker 3: might have got humongous as well. But I picked them

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Speaker 3: because I just couldn't believe it and couldn't leave them there.

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Speaker 3: And it's gone rather viral.

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Speaker 4: And it's an exciting fine. What happens with a fine

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Speaker 4: like this? Where does it go from? Now? Do you,

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Speaker 4: I don't know, varnish it up and keep it for

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Speaker 4: all eternity, or do you chop it up and eat it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Well, the reporter I first spoke to, he contacted land

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Speaker 3: Care Research and we were told it was it either

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Speaker 3: a horse mushroom or a krocodulinus, which is a crocodile mushroom.

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Speaker 3: They weren't sure, but they did not recommend. They didn't

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Speaker 3: advise that we eat it right, And I think being

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Speaker 3: over mature as they said it was, it might have

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Speaker 3: been tough. And so what I did was I popped

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Speaker 3: it up because after a couple of days of keeping it,

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Speaker 3: it started to go a bit moldy. So I chopped

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Speaker 3: it up and I sprinkled it back along our driveway

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Speaker 3: in the hopes that maybe more will grow.

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Speaker 4: Wow it with those uber sized jeans in there, maybe

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Speaker 4: you would just get a hole a whole driveway of them. Yes,

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Speaker 4: maybe it's my oap And then you can you can

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Speaker 4: hop between them, just bounce across them when you go

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Speaker 4: up your driveway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: True, i'd picked them while I was still edible. I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't let them get that. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh well, how good?

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Speaker 2: And what did your neighbors think, Julie, you're obviously on

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Speaker 2: their property. Were they a bit gutted they didn't find

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Speaker 2: these super sized fung Guy, No.

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Speaker 3: He said, up, I don't care. He said, take a

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Speaker 3: photo of it with your grandchildren. He wasn't particularly worried.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, because I often walk around the orchard, I

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Speaker 3: can't walk out on the road because we're on a

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Speaker 3: main road. And yeah, he was happy about it.

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Speaker 4: Well, good on you, and thanks for sharing your story with.

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Speaker 2: Us, Julie, all the best. That is Julie Gallagher out

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Speaker 2: of the Bay of Plenty, who has gone viral for

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Speaker 2: finding some pretty incredibly sized mushrooms.

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Speaker 4: Now I feel like as a society we aren't celebrating

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Speaker 4: our giant produce as much as we once were. I

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Speaker 4: don't hear these stories. The last thing I heard was

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Speaker 4: dug the spud, dug the spud, that then it was

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Speaker 4: giant spud, and then a got sort of knocked down

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Speaker 4: as and the accusations that it was in a spud,

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Speaker 4: that it was a what is that tuba?

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Speaker 2: Apparently, but that was controversial, you know, as you say,

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Speaker 2: dug the spud, he put his head above the parapet

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Speaker 2: and anders finder Colin I think his name was, and

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Speaker 2: then for the Guinness Well Records to come along and say, nah,

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Speaker 2: there's not a potato. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, we've got so many, many, thousands of texts and

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Speaker 4: that I've come through and I'm trying to scroll back.

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Speaker 4: Someone sent me through some information around a particularly massive

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Speaker 4: pumpkin that they were running.

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Speaker 2: I did see that ticks come through and I can't

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Speaker 2: remember how big it was, but I remember seeing that

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Speaker 2: and thinking, that's a massive pumpkin.

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Speaker 4: See I think it was eighty five kg's So that's

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Speaker 4: why I'm scrolling through these thousands of chicks texts because

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Speaker 4: i'd been an eighty five kg pumpkin? Is that big

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Speaker 4: people that grow pumpkins? Is an eighty five kg pumpkin?

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Speaker 4: Unheard of? Yeah, I've grown an eighty five kg son.

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Speaker 1: That's a good effort.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well done.

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Speaker 4: That's a good effort.

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Speaker 2: That's a good effort.

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Speaker 4: But that seems quite doable to grow an eighty five

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Speaker 4: kg son. I've also got a I've got a ninety

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Speaker 4: five kg son as well, now I think about it.

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Speaker 4: So I've grown some pretty big sons.

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Speaker 2: You're successful growing sons, but I.

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Speaker 4: Think feel like eighty five kg's for a pumpkin. Maybe

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Speaker 4: someone will know I'm a vigable grower, and I say

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Speaker 4: we should. I know this is a different thing. Actually

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Speaker 4: I've found the wrong I thought that might be a no,

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Speaker 4: that's on a for an issue. That one.

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Speaker 2: We're going to find that pumpkin ticks. We are going

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Speaker 2: to treat it down. So many blood ticks that have

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Speaker 2: come through.

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