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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: I'd be eight to eleven nine News Talks.

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Speaker 3: He'd be here. He is the hero of the hour.

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Speaker 3: Rude climb past our man in the garden. Go and

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Speaker 3: get a bird feeder, he said, it'll perk you up.

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Speaker 3: My goodness, has it added a bit of a bit

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Speaker 3: of life to my backyard?

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Speaker 4: I know this. It was absolutely lovely to hear you.

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Speaker 4: It was so gorgeous because this is what I do

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Speaker 4: with the kids as well as school, and it is

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Speaker 4: exactly what it's about.

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Speaker 3: I love. My wife is she's got she's become concerned

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Speaker 3: that there's too much. There are too many birds, like

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Speaker 3: they're all squabbling to be over there the whole time.

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Speaker 3: So the silver eyes will come down. There'll be like

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Speaker 3: six or eight of them, you know, all on the

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Speaker 3: little platform, and then a couple of two you will

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Speaker 3: sweep down and push them out of the way. And

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Speaker 3: then she's concerned that there are you know that it's

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Speaker 3: kind of standing room only for the silver eyes and

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Speaker 3: they can you know, there are a couple who are

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Speaker 3: getting squeezed off to the sides the runts of the

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Speaker 3: of the flock perhaps aren't getting a feed. It's that popular.

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Speaker 4: As my point, and I've got I've got a very

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Speaker 4: quick idea for you're here. Instead of giving the silver

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Speaker 4: eyes that particular sweet stuff, get a ball from the

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Speaker 4: mad butcher, a big meat ball. Hang that up just

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Speaker 4: a bit further up and the toois won't eat that,

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Speaker 4: but the silver ice won't have their own. Good. There

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Speaker 4: you go, good and something else that's really cool. You

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Speaker 4: were talking about the aggression of Toui. Well, Gerald and

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Speaker 4: Katie and they're in great Berry. They've got a market

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Speaker 4: garden there. They've got trouble with kraka.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 4: Eating eat, you know, pushing everything away. But Toui when

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Speaker 4: they when they get Toui there with flex, for instance,

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Speaker 4: they will chase the kraka away. Do not underestimate the

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Speaker 4: Teish sense of humor. They go through your skin and

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Speaker 4: it hurts.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing. We will take out the kraka.

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Speaker 3: Yep. I've got a real soft spot for caraca because

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Speaker 3: I think that they are the most dinosaury of New

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Speaker 3: Zealand birds. They just look the way they There's something

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Speaker 3: about their posture and the way, especially when when they're

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Speaker 3: on the hudder, kickie. You know, they just they can't

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Speaker 3: of and the way if they spin around one hundred

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Speaker 3: and eighty degrees at a time when the standard gun.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, we are talking about disruptors this morning.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, disruptors. Well, look, my sister sent me a wonderful

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Speaker 4: photograph of a big slug coming out of her robotic

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Speaker 4: lawn mower, which she named Elbetta's, probably after my brother

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Speaker 4: or our brother, but that's another story. And it came

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Speaker 4: out there and it sort of showed itself there that

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Speaker 4: was amazing. And and she immediately linked this to a

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Speaker 4: disaster because when she came back from holiday in South

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Speaker 4: I think South Francis was something Albetta's had not mowed

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Speaker 4: a blade of grass, and so yeah, she thought the

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Speaker 4: slugs had been you know, I don't know, done something, sister, yeah,

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Speaker 4: taken over. And then she says, and then so so,

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Speaker 4: because she's a handy little little girl, she is, or

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Speaker 4: old girl really, but anyway, handy girls, she had a

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Speaker 4: look and she found that inside the thing were not

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Speaker 4: just slugs, but also amazing amounts of ants. They had

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Speaker 4: literally it literally made a nest there. Yeah, absolutely, and

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Speaker 4: so she's she basically got rid of these ants, and

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Speaker 4: the thing winked again, and that reminded me of a

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Speaker 4: little trick that ants play sometimes, and I've headed a

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Speaker 4: couple of times myself, and that ants go inside your

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Speaker 4: house and sometimes crawl into let's say a light switch

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Speaker 4: and when yeah, that happens, that happens quite a lot,

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Speaker 4: and these things then basically they do calistenics or something.

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Speaker 4: They do this I don't know whatever, and they actually

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Speaker 4: short cut the whole light switch by going from the

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Speaker 4: positive to the negative pole. And as soon as you

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Speaker 4: like just switched the lights on you and the spikes everywhere.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing.

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Speaker 3: But then they then they because they released their scenes

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Speaker 3: when they're freaking out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's right, the asset and that means help me,

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Speaker 4: help me, so all the other.

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Speaker 2: Reaction.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just want to say, this is what happens

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Speaker 4: in the wind, to be careful for ants in your switchbox.

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Speaker 2: That is a little bit of advice. I didn't know that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they do you get everywhere.

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Speaker 3: They're one of those like I always look at ants

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Speaker 3: and just go, man, you are so incredibly well adapted.

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Speaker 2: You would remarkably well adapted, and yet so annoying, so annoying. Hey,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much, rude, and go well, I love,

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Speaker 2: I love.

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Speaker 4: The story is brilliant.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much for the for the bird

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Speaker 3: feeder recommendation that has been amazing. And of course the

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Speaker 3: Great Bird Survey Household bird Survey is currently underway at

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Speaker 3: the moment, So if you want to take a little

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Speaker 3: bit of time in your afternoon go count the native

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Speaker 3: birds at your place. That would be a wonderful thing

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Speaker 3: to help our biodiversity.

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