1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Now, after almost forty years in business, the much loved 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: owners of the Funny Bay Supermarket are retiring. Manuel and 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: Nitza Kosas have no doubt witnessed so much in their 4 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: time with customers, and well they've they've got a big family, 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: and I know their own kids as well, have worked 6 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: in the supermarket over the years and grown up inside 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: that store. Now joining me on the line is Manuel. 8 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: Good morning, Manuel, morning Katie. 9 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 2: How are you, Oh. 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: Mate, I'm good. I don't know what it's going to 11 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 1: be like going to Fanny Bay without seeing you there. 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard. I'm sad to be leaving, but 13 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 2: excited for the next chapter of my life after forty years. 14 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: I've got to sort of plan a new life. Yep, 15 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 2: you know, forty years wreaking up every morning, seven days 16 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 2: a week, coming to work. I've got a plant something else. 17 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: I've got to start getting used to my wife. I've 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 2: got a wife. Yeah, I'm wonderful about that. He's very excited. 19 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 2: It's going to be hard to a war miss Ony 20 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 2: Bay Civil Market, very very much lovely people who made 21 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 2: a lot of friends. It's got a big family, yeah 22 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: it is. I mean, young kids getting married, and bringing 23 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 2: their kid for me. It's just been beautiful. 24 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: Wasn't like you see people grow up manual like you. You. 25 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: You know, you're somebody who we all see as part 26 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: of our lives very regularly. And you know, yesterday we 27 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: were talking about this with Laurie Zio and I said, 28 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: you know, some saturdays I go in and you say 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: to me, Katie, have you eaten? I'll make you a sandwich, 30 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: and you made me a sandwich. You send me out 31 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: with extra food that I don't need. You know, one 32 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: year I was organizing the phone run and You're like, 33 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: have you got this? Have you got that? And you 34 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: know you treat everybody with that love and care, and 35 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: that's what has made the Funny Bay Supermarket such a 36 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: wonderful place. 37 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 2: Well, Trady, it's going to be hard because you know, 38 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 2: you go back forty years ago when I first started 39 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 2: in the supermarket business, being a Momi mechanic by trade. 40 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 2: My wife Ntche sent me to the markets gone by 41 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 2: salary and I said to my wife, what is salary? 42 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 2: I not knew what salary was, and she drew a 43 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: picture of celery and I went to the market and 44 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 2: I said to the owner, I said, what is this? 45 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: And the man said, are you stupid or are you brave? 46 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: I said, I already don't now. I just told my 47 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 2: my wife to come and buy salary. 48 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: Made. 49 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 2: Man he said, he said, you must be crazy, and 50 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: I said to him, I said, Jim, take me inside 51 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 2: and teach me, and he did. 52 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: Sounds like it's been a step Yeah. 53 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 2: My first experience in a super market. 54 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: It sounds like it's been a steep learning curve for 55 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: your manual. 56 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: That was very hard. From martam mechanic to running a 57 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 2: super market. It's a lot of difference. 58 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, So what's it been like over the forty years? 59 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: Tell me about you know, I know there's been plenty 60 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: of wonderful moments. There's been some difficult moments as well, 61 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: and I've had you on the show on numerous occasions, 62 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: you know, for some of those difficult moments. But what's 63 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: it been like over the years. 64 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, you can write, I can write a whole book 65 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: about it, really, but they'm token, you know, the good 66 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 2: time they drowned the bad times because there's simply the 67 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 2: good times we're so huge and there's still very huge 68 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 2: that the bad times we just we just write them off. Yeah, really, 69 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: you know, and thanks to you. You know, we've always 70 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 2: said you to talk to and having you on the 71 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: show is like having someone who get out frustration and 72 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: our and of her chest and you just listen to us. 73 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 2: And that's worth millions of dollars. Yeah, I'm very lucky 74 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: to have you now with the family. You know, my 75 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: wife did her. Yeah, she worked very hard in the supermarket. 76 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 2: She's a legend and she is she's a beautiful cream 77 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 2: rise and all the recipes of the sellers belong to her. 78 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 2: Then the kids come along. I've got a beautiful three 79 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: kids and ten grandkids and a great grandson of a 80 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 2: forty years. The kids, the kids grew up in a supermarket. 81 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 2: We were taught about her work and be honest and 82 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: to respect the community. Which did that do all my 83 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 2: very successful I'm very proud of you and uh and 84 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 2: my custin is not just beautiful, there's yeah. Maybe you 85 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 2: know what do you say? You know what I'm saying is, yeah, 86 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 2: I'm not calm because it's Ober. Yeah, this is not 87 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: a goodbye because I've look when we are living down 88 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 2: down with your heart. Yeah, you're saying that people see 89 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 2: you later and at the age of seventy six. I 90 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 2: believe I'm never too old to set another goal or 91 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 2: dream in my life. 92 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: Oh you're spot on, and you're and you know and 93 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: you're also it's good. It'll be so nice for you 94 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: and it's a to not for you to not have 95 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: to be operating at that one hundred percent, you know, 96 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: every single day. And I know that. You know. I've 97 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: gone in there on numerous occasions. And the staff. You 98 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: guys treat your staff like their family as well. So 99 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: many staff members there have been there well from what 100 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: I can see, for such a long period of time. 101 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 2: Yes, many years. You know. I love them my stuff 102 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: like a big family. They're lovely people that love, they 103 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 2: love the customers. And the good thing is they all 104 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 2: stand behind the new owner. If you're working with the 105 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 2: new with Rug and Jay there taken out of them 106 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 2: and hopefully they keep the people on and hopefully they 107 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 2: be your good job, which I believe they will. Yeah, 108 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: I believe they'll do all right. 109 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and make you like you've done a phenomenal 110 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: job over the years, as I said, being such a 111 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: huge part of the community. But what I want to 112 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: know is what are you and Knits are going to 113 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: get up to in retirement. Any trips ahead, what do 114 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: you got planned? 115 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 2: Well, the thirst thing, I've got to do your pay, 116 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: and the thing is I've got to get staying all 117 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 2: they have met. That's not going to be easy. She 118 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,119 Speaker 2: probably killed me. I kill there. I think you've probably 119 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 2: killed me, to be honest. 120 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: She might have some jobs for you to do around 121 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: the house, manual, but I. 122 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: Don't know how to do house. I would have done 123 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 2: this in my life. Be a problem. 124 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: She can draw a picture for you like she did 125 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: with the salary, she'll be I. 126 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 2: Think you might have to give me a list of 127 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 2: my duties. I don't know. But on the twenty clips 128 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,559 Speaker 2: of August, we are leaving. I'm taking my lovely wife 129 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 2: to Greece and to Germany for four weeks breaking yep, 130 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,239 Speaker 2: which was I enjoy very much. Sit back and relax 131 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 2: and try to, you know, enjoy each other's company again. Yeah, 132 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,239 Speaker 2: come back to Darwin and set your life. 133 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: Oh mate, Well, you know what, like you've as you've 134 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: spoken about, You've got beautiful children, you've got beautiful grandchildren, 135 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: You've got your beautiful wife. You know, it says a 136 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: lot about the type of man that you are. That 137 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: you've got such a wonderful family around you, and the 138 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: way that the community loves you as well. It says 139 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: a lot about you as a huge and the way 140 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: that you've traded other people, and of that you should 141 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: be so proud of that legacy, which I'm sure you are. Mate, 142 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: you deserve a sleeping as well. Surely, what time do 143 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: you get. 144 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 2: Up every day seven days a week. I get up 145 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 2: at six o'clock in the morning, yep, and by six 146 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 2: thirty seven I'm at work yep. And I thinks about 147 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 2: eight o'clock at night. I love doing it. I don't 148 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 2: get me wrong. 149 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 3: I enjoy my job, yep. 150 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 2: I really enjoy the working. I'm a workaholic. I love 151 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 2: I love talking to people. Yeah, you know, we're a 152 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 2: few argument then there, which kept the blood boiling. It's rolling. 153 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: It good. But at the end of the day, you know, 154 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 2: the biggest thing in my life is I've got a 155 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 2: very good family. Yeah. And the other thing is they're 156 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 2: all successful, or my kids are very successful right now yep. Alexi, 157 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 2: my son has got his own business. He wants you 158 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: to go and help it. Yeah, I'm not working for 159 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 2: no one. I've retired. That's in my working days are 160 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 2: robot but you'll have to get used to it. 161 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: I bet you I see you there in a couple 162 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: of months. I've got a message, you know. 163 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 2: I love to express my gratitude to my staff, to 164 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 2: my family, you know, to the media, to you looking 165 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 2: after all these years and Mitchell beautiful voice, and you 166 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 2: know everyone that comes here. It's it's said, like I said, 167 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: someone to be leaving. But on the other hand, I've 168 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 2: got to start in your life. I've got to see 169 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 2: what's outside of the four wards. 170 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: I reckon, you're spot on. You have well and truly 171 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: earned your retirement. A quick message that's just come through 172 00:09:53,800 --> 00:10:00,479 Speaker 1: from Eileen Brufer X and Paul on Mitchell Street. She said, Katie, yeah, 173 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: she said, please wish Manual and Knitza and the family 174 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: all the best for the future. Lots of love and 175 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: and you know these others coming through as well, people 176 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: just expressing their gratitude, you know, for you just being 177 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,199 Speaker 1: a lovely bloke when they go in there, and and 178 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: you know on behalf of the community. We think you all. 179 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: You do deserve your retirement, mate, you deserve some sleeping, 180 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: you deserve some time with your wife, and I love 181 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: going in there and seeing you, but I think that 182 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: you know that absolutely it's time for you to have 183 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: a break. 184 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 3: Yes, good Manuel. 185 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for all your time over the years. 186 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: Thank you for your generosity as well, and you know 187 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: for all that like you've treated my little family like 188 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 1: we're part of your family and I appreciate that. 189 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 2: Beautiful. Yeah, okay, I love to say thanks to Laura last. 190 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 2: She did a great job. She's just beautiful and she 191 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 2: worked very hard. Yeah, and made my retiring much much 192 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 2: more easier and more colorful to be answer. 193 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: You good stuff. Well, a big thanks to Laurie for that. 194 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:17,239 Speaker 2: Yeah. 195 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: Absolutely, well, Manuel, mate, good luck, I'll see I'll still 196 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: see you around anyway. Yeah, for sure. 197 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 2: I'm good on your money. 198 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. I'll talk to you soon. 199 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 2: Thank you yourself too, Yeah, doing all the work and 200 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 2: giving me the program of life. 201 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, no worries at all. Good on your Manuel, I'll 202 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: talk to you soon.